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      - NlTrOKF BElSrE ITT S 6 C IE T Y , ' ' 'EHronia / ponnant ^^ te . statnteSfli ana 10 th "Victoria , c . 2 r . ¦ ' ' rTEE ABOVE SOCIETY , * as amended and legalised , -was . formerly known as . the X NATIONAL CO-OPEBATIYBBBNEFIT S 0 CIETT . ; the managersofffbicQ hate long seen tho neeensityfof Isgal protection for the security of its memhers . In warning me new rules , care lias heeri taken to equalise the expenffiiurt with the receipts , so that the permanent success of the Society should he ^ jond all douhts . ; : Th « society is divided into three sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes of mechanics , and lriHwrers , from eighteen years of age to ferty . SHE JTCIIOWIKO IS TUB S 0 H . E OF FEES TO BE PUD IT WEEKM AUOWASCE IS BieSSBSS . KTEAXCE : — s . d . Age . lstsectinn . . Sndsectwn . 3 ndsecHon . First Section 15 0 s-d . s . d . s . d . Second Section W 0 From 18 to 21 .... 3 0 .... 2 0 .... 1 0 Third Section 5 0 _ 2 t—27-.... G 0 .... 4 0 .... 2 0 — 27—SO *; ... 9 O .... 6 0 .... 3 O mkmbhb death . wife ' s death . — SO—33 .... 12 0 .... 8 0 .... 4 0 £ s . d . JE s . d . — 33—36 ..., 15 o ,, „ iq o , „ , 5 o First Section .... 15 0 0 ... 7 10 o - ^ 36-33 .... is o .... 12 o .... 6 0 Second Section .. 10 0 0 d ° ° n — 33—40 .... 21 0 .... 14 0 .... 7 0 Third Section .... 5 0 0 .... . .. 3 « ° __ _ MOXTHET COXXBIBtmoNS . Krst Section , 3 s . 6 a . SecoBd Section , 2 s . 4 d . Third Section , Is . 2 d . The Society meets evety . Monday evening , at the TWO Chairmen , Wardour-street , Solio , Middlesex , where erei-y lnfol--s » atien . can oehad , and members enrolled . Country friends , applying for rules , can have them forwarded , by enclosing ioar - iWtelagc-stamps . . . 3 Kmt * rsofthe late Co-operative Benefit Society , who have paid all dnes and demands up to the 25 th December , 1819 , c ; ui atuice be transferred to either section ef the National Benefit Society , without any extra charge . - Agents and sub-secretarfc-s of the late National Co-operative Benefit Society , are requested to immediately lnlorm the Gene :-., ] Secretary of the number of tnemVrs likelyto transfer to the National Benefit Society ; and parties wishing ; to becoc * .- Jgencs , ortoform branches of the new society , can be supplied with every information , on application to . the Secretary , by encl osing a postage-stamp for an answer . jAjSsGBis ^ r , General gecrefcuy , 9 C , Eegent-streeMamheth .

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      THE CHEAPEST EomoN EV £ B TOBIiSHED . Price Is . 64 ., A new an ^ degant edition , wife Steel Plate of the * ¦ ••• ' ¦¦ Author , of ftAWESS ; POLITICAL WORKS . : - Xpw lien-lv . a New Edition ot Ma . G % 0 tiSOfl S ' WORK OH SMALL FARMS Soiu By J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row , Lo ' ndon >; -A . Deyirood , Oldham-streetf Manchester , end ] -mfe and Co ., 5 , Xclson-street , Glasgow . > . iM bvall Booljf ^ llers in Towa and Conntry . : 2 JATIO 2 fAl CHARTER LEAGUE . J TIIE riEST PUBLIC MEETING , convened by the Council of this body , will he held at illE NATIONAL HALL , 242 , HOLBOHN , i- OnTnsdneiday . JSfojlstj lSoO . ? hair to be taken at Eight o'clock precisely . O £ jce ] ofthe league . No . 5 , Snow-hill , City .

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      - PROC ^ AMATIOS . TO ' r ; nE SOCIAL REFORMERS OP GREAT -. BRITAIN AND IRELAND . WHEREAS , by a resolution of the "SOclAt KEFOKM LEAGUE . " at a meeting held in ZcrnQroJcn the 31 st of October , 1849 , it was agreed that a CuNCHESS- should be called together in the month of May . 33 | 6 . ' ¦ Sow Wfi . ihe Executive Committee of the alwve League , in pursuance of the foregoing , give notice , that the said ConiM-fss is hereby convened to meet at the Fabmkgdox Hall , Snow HOT , London , on Mosdat , the 13 th of Mat ensuig . at tie hour ot'H o ' clock , A . M ., then and there to rtceive the report « f the Executive Committee for the past rear , anS to deliberate thereon , and consider such other measures ' as may be necessary for future operations Representatives are invited from all bodies organised for propriagtilEt or practical co-operative purposes , and from publtc meetings specially convened to consider tie question of the Organisation of Lubour . All Delegates will be required to bring credentials of their appointment .

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      ., TO THE EMBARRASSED . jpHERE . are $ iousands of persons who haye X long struggled " against the force of misfortune , but few are awiui e that ,, by very recent Acts , all small traders owin £ deb'fs riot exceeding £ 300 , farmers , private and professiuaa \ gt ' nflenieu , ami all others , owing to any amount ( tbe ! - * : % . inihont any pubiicitj ) , can tie entirely raised from Their . difficulties at small expense , and ivithout im > priM > nment or bankruptcy . All such Jlr . Xfsszos begs will apply toT ' bim at 6 , Essex-street , Strand , by letter , or personally ' . . ' Ofiice hours from 10 till 2 , and 6 till S . N . B . —The above Acts stay all Palace Court , County Court , and other proceedings . Clergymen need not submit to sequestrations . '

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      BEADTlFDL HAUL WHISKERS . &c , versus BALD . KBSft WEAK axd GREY HAIR .

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      BROTHER CHARTISTS ! DO NOT BE BEGUILED . RCPirjRES : RUPTURES ! RUPTURES ! DR . DE BOOS' astonishing success in the treatment i . nd cure of « very variety of RUPTURE is ample pn » of of the unfailin- efficacy « f his discovery , viich must ere long entirely banish a complaint liitherto so prevalent . All persons so afflicted should , without delay , write , or pay a visit to Dr . DE R . who maj be consulted dai ) j from 10 till 1 j and i till 8 , ( Sundays excepted . ) This remedy is perfectly free from danger , pain , or Inconvenience , may bo used without confinement , is applicable to male and female , of any age , aHd will be sent free , tvith full instructions , &c , &c , rendering iailure impossible , on receipt of 7 s . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holborn office , A great number of Trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which will be readily given to any one reqniring them after one trlul of it Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps . Address , Walter Do . Roof . 35 , E ! jr-place , fiolborn-hill , Xondon . In every case a cure is guaranteed .

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      BRITISH COLLEGE OP HEALTH , JSew Road , Loxdon . ARSENIC IN CHOLEUAS !! OH ! OH ! OH ! FEEH > w-CouxTBTHi 2 i . — What to do think of this i Arsenic in cholera ! Oh ! Oh ! Well , if yon will take the trouble of looking into the Medical Times , you will find p rinted in large letters , ' Case of Asiatic Choleba suc-CESSFBLLS TREATED WITH AssESlC . ' A doctor positively advising arsenic in cholera—the case is also reported at length in the S 9 th number of the Mggeist , to be had at the office , 3 SS , Strand , pries Id . or 2 d . by post Well , can you ¦ be surprised , my ftiends , that we should have so many cases of felonious prisoning throughout the country by

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      A PUBLIC MEETING , nOlSTVENED BY the Provisional Com-\ J raittee of the National Charter Association , will be held at the SOUTH LONDON C 1 IARTIST HALL , Webberstreet , Blackfriars-road , on Monday Evening , April 22 nd , when the following persons will attend and address the Meeting : — G . W . M . Reynolds , G . J . Barney , Ruffey Ridley , G , Massey , W . 3 . Vernon . Chair to be takes at Eight o'clock . ADMISSION FREE .

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      POLITICAL VICTIMS . A PUBLIC MEETING , convened by the JCJL Provisional Committee of the National Charter Association , will be held in the Hall of the Literary and Scientific Institution , John Street , Tottenham Court Road , on Tuesday evening next , April 28 rd , for thepurpose of adopting a memortal calling on her Majesty's government to release Ernest Jones , and other incarcerated Patriots . G . W . M . Reynolds , G . J . Harney , Walter Cooper , Bronterre O'Brien , and other friends to justice and humanity , trill attend and address the meeting . Chair taken at Eight O'ClocIc Admission Free .

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      LAND AND COTTAGES NEAR LONDON , The property of a wealthy gentleman . DUPERIOR AGRICULTURAL LAO BOURERS may have TWO OR MORE ACRES OF FIRST-RATE LAND , at 31 . per acre , and 31 . for each room , with immediate possession , on producing i good character for sobriety and honesty , and proving that they have the means of cropping the land , and of maintaining themselves till harvest There is a capital opening for small working builders ( men who can do the bricklaying and slating as well as the carpenters' work ) , and for BnicKJiAXEflS and pottehs as wclL as this estate contains hundreds of thousands of yards of superior clay , within two feet of the surface , and magnificent sites for cottages , along the turnpike road , and the London and York Railway , a station of which will be opened next September , close to tMs estate .

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      THE HONESTY FUND . Received by w . Rider . —W , Tennant , Gilling , near Rich , mond 6 d—W . Sutcliffe , Luddendenfoot , near Halifax 3 d—XTroughton , Dewsbury Is 6 d—Blakey Hartley , Colue 2 a—Worcester , per J . Harding If Is lOd—Codriorpark , Derby , shire , per J . Gregory 83 6 d—a Democrat , Dowlais , Mcrth ) C lid—Derby Chartists ( second subscription ) per W , Chandler 2 J-E . Self , Great CbeverH 16 d—Norwich , perj . Hurrell 6 s —Lye Waste , per S . ' Welch 7 s 3 d . —Received by D . Sherrington , Glasgow—J . Lang's book 7 s 3 d—J . M'Laren ' s book 7 s Id—J . Dunn and others 5 s—a Friend 8 d . —Received from Braintree—J . Howe Is—Mr . Knopp lsIGd—Mr . Russell Is—Mr . Linsell ls-Nottingham , per J . Sweet ls-G . Hemmin , Coventry 10 s—Parkhead , Shelteston , and Tollcross , per W . Muirhead 317 s—J . Hunter , Dublin Is—J . Hardiment , Norwich 2 s—Cheltenham per J . Hemmin 4 s Id—Friends at Ban-head , 8 s 6 d—Friends at Nitshell , per David Stewart 2 s Gd .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER LEAGUE . The Council held its third meeting on Monday svening last , at which were present P . M'Gratb , w . Dixon , J . Hobden , W . AUnutt , A . Fail-child , h . NTobbe , R . Side , W . Tapp , and the secr etary , J . Clark . , , TT . The Secretary reported that the National iwii was taken for the first public meeting of the League , on Wednesday , May 1 st . „„ * Letters approving of the League , and its P «» PM «« modus operandi , were read from W . Lovett , London , Dr . Bowkett , Limehouse ; and J , ** to * , on * efa The letters were ordered to b&wserted upon tn * m ^ Secretary was instructed to communicate S » S 5 sarfwssa ! tt

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      ArbroAth .-Thk Tun Hours Bih ..-O » » J 5 day evening last a meeting was held in the Uniw « Presbyterian Church , Park-street . Mr . D . Rawer in the chair . ' Resolutions and- » pettion ^ tfew adopted in favour of a definitive Ten Hours BUU Tto pefitiou is to be prwenfed l > r Lord Ashley .

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      Codxob Fare , Debbyshbe . —J . Gregory acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith : —Wives and Families of Victims . —The Chartists of Codnor Park 2 s Gd . HbxEsrc Fond . —The Chartists of Codnor Park 3 s 3 d ; a Friend , Swanwickls ; a Carrier , Alfreton Is ; a Publican , Swanvnck Is ; W . White Is : G . H ., Swanwick 6 d ; 6 . Walters , Swanwick 3 d . NoiTLsonAH . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob the Hones-it Fbsd . —Mrs . Burbage , Gd . Ifr . E . Fabkell , Uxbridge . —The sum of six shillings was received for thi Honesty Fund , yet , inconsequence of an error of the printer , six pence was only acknowledged in onr last ¦ Mr . IUthias , Ratcliffe-cross . —The 17 s . Cd . was acknowledged in our first edition puolished on the 9 th ult . An accident occurred whereby the entire page was rendered one confused mass , and time would only allow of giving the total amount received in the two subsequent editions . Mr . T . Waleeb , Monk Wearmouth . —The saine answer as the one to Mr . Mathias . The 3 s . Gd . « ame to hand . Mr . A . Smith , Eandbridge , near Chester . —We do not know the charge . Write to Mr . J . Watson , Queen ' s Head

      Passage , Paternoster Row . Basijsgdex . — Julian Harney cannot engage to visit Hasllngden when at Padiham , but will do so if possible . Ho . vESTr Fond . — The following sums reeeived by Julian Harney , were paid over to Mr . Rider , and acknowledged in his list in last Saturday ' s Star ; Manchester , hy J . Alcock , 8 s id ; Rochdale Female Chartists , 10 s ; A Fe < r Friendi , near Kochdale , per B ., Ss . J . H . has also rereceived , and paid over to Mr . Rider , from Bairhead , per David Stewart , 11 s . : The Victims . —Julian Harney has rtceivcd , and paid over to Mr . John Arnott , from Dundee , per Mr . James Graham , for Mrs . Jones , 15 s ; for Mrs . Fussell , 15 s ; and for Airs . M'Douall . 15 s . J . Habdimest . Norwich , intimates that he will place at the disposal of Mr . O'Connor , two , four , and one , two acre scrips , to prore his confidence in that gentleman . "Wm . Mciehead , Parkhead . —Next week . Leigh Glave . —Tfe are sorry we- cannot give your letter this week , it shall appear in our next . Edwabd CiATTON , Hnddersfield .-Yes , a few months ago at Aylesbnry . J . Bboadbead , Tilh ' coultry ; Geoege Brown , Wakefield ; and David Stewaut , Barrhead . —No room .

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      ^ STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . Mr . W . P . Roberts will be at Hanley thi 3 day ( Saturday ) , the 20 th of April .

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      THE HOBTHEBN STAR SATURDAY , APBIIj 30 , 1850 .

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      THE DREAD OF TYRANTS . "Let there be light . "—Holy Bible . Whenever the people have achieved political freedom the press is also free . In proportion as they are politically enslaved , the press is subject to restrictions , graduating from the fiscal obstructions imposed by high duties , to the rigorous supervision of a hostile censorship . The oppressors of mankind in all countries , " love darkness better than light , their deeds being evil . " With the establishment of the Republic at Rome under the illustrious Mazzini , a flood of intellectual light was thrown upon that city . A bold , unfettered , newspaper

      press , sprang into existence as suddenly as did the fabled full grown Minerva from the head of Jove . The Triumvirs , as long as they held power , never interfered with th <* papers opposed to them . They were free to say what they pleased of their acts , and the principles of the Government . Those who rule for the benefit of the people , not of themselves or exclusive and privileged classes , have no fear of full and free discussion . The moment the bigotted , intolerant , truth-hating , and tyrannical domination of the Cardinals was re-established at Rome , the press was extinguished , and th e dungeons of the " Holy Inquisition'' once more . thrown open for the reception of victims .

      The proclamation of a free and unfettered press was contemporaneous with the proclamation of the Provisional Government of the French Republic in 1848 . Nobly and consistently did that Government , while surrounded on all sides by the elements of anarchy , and a convulsive excitement , such as has rarely been chronicled in the history of nations , adhere to the fundamental doctrines , the ancient tradition

      of all democracy— "Full , free , unfettered discussion , liberty for every man to speak , write , and publish his opinions on all matters effecting the interests of humanity . " They well knew that they were surrounded upon all sides by plotting and scheming conspirators , who had nominally accepted the Republic , only the more certainly to undermine and destroy it ; they knew also that those very conspirators were practised veterans in Newspaper Literature , skilful in all the arts of appealing

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      to , andworking-uppn , public opinion j bufc ; in the greatness p&their ; magnaniniit yyi < the . Proi visional Governmentcould not stbop > to repres * sive , i or-- eveniregulating ^ 'rneasurescupon fa matter which th ' ey ^ beliey ^ airV '• They were not , afraid ; to . let ; truth and falsehood > grapple , Jfor . they , had' faith with glorious , John- Milton , that truth never fails in a fair and open encounter . : When , ' by the vacillation and weakness of

      some of its members , the treachery of others , and the carefully prepared r schemes < of the enemies of the Republic , the reactionary party obtained possession of power , the unrestricted and open expression of public opinion was at once assailed . From that time to the present , there has been an incessant war waged against the popular press , increasin g in stringency , oppressiveness , injustice , and vindictiveness , as the designs of the party in power have become more reactionary and despotic .

      Yei , despite the fines , proscriptions , imprisonments , and other violent and arbitrary measures which have been resorted to for the purpose of silencing the Press in . France , it is still powerful enough to beat the Government with all the means of corruption and all the organised machinery at its back—as well a 3 the combined factions who for the moment fraternise for . the purpose of destroying tbe

      Republic , only to clear tue way for an after struggle between themselves , as to who shall have the power to plunder and oppress the people . No more conclusive or decisivo proof of the immense value and wide-spread influence of the democratic Press can be offered , than that the reactionary party are now engaged in an attempt to place the journals of France under the same fiscal burdens and

      restrictions as those which , in . this country , have proved so effectual in limiting the diffusion of political education , and reduced , vast masses of the people to the condition of contented or helpless—because ignorant—serfs . That a Free Press is an indispensable and necessary element of Democracy , is " conclusively shown by the examplo : of the United States . No obstacle whatever to the publication of opinions , either in the shape of stamps on newspapers , duties on paper or advertisements , or security and caution money , have ever existed , or . even been proposed , in any of the Free States of the Federation . In that

      great Republic the conviction is deep seated in the minds of all parties , that Democracy , in order to be successful , must be intelligent , and that whatever hinders the diffusion of knowledge among all classes of its citizens , is a public , universal , and heavy calamity , which endangers the prosperity and permanency of the commonwealth . The consequence is , that a Newspaper and Printing Press is an invariable adjunct of American , civilisation . Wherever a village springs up—by the side of a river—among the wide and far-spreading undulations of the Prairies—or deep in the recesses

      of the Back Woods , the Newspaper makes it appearance . It is the one great bond that knits society together , the common utterance of the whole people . When the discovery of the gold places which lie between the westward slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the Pacific , first attracted tho lnighjy rush of population which has since set in towards California , not a single Newspaper existed in a country which , far 200 years , had been under the dominion of Spain , and the Friars . With the appearance of the Americans there came also the never-failing agents of civilisation—the

      Printing Press and the Newspaper . In a country , the population of which was composed of the most heterogeneous and unpromising materials , and surrounded by the most extraordinary incitements to plunge into anarchy and lawlessness , the Press , to a great extent , kept society together in its incip ient stages , and at length gave birth to a Convenion , which has framed a Constitution for the New State , infinitely in advance of any Constitution ever yet proposed for the govern- ; ment of any community , either ancient or modern . . ; :

      Contrast these facts with the relentless and remorseless cruelty of the despotic and quasi-Liberal Governments of Europe , / which persist in dooming their subjects to mental blindness , See the results in the bitter antagonism , the deep degradation , the merciless oppression , and the wide-spreading evils of poverty , discontent , and crime , which characterise the peoples thus infamously

      condemned to ignorance—and say whether " the Unlicensed Liberty of Printing , " contended for so powerfully and unanswerably by the immortal Secretary to the Protector of the English Commonwealth , two hundred years ago , is not one of the most important constituents of genuine freedom—the only guarantee for tho peaceful , rapid , and beneficial developement of individual energies and

      national resources . Yet our rulers at home are nearly as much afraid of a Free Press as the veriest despots on the Continent ; while , by an ingeniouslywoven net of fiscal burdens and restrictions , they have contrived to make what is the Press of a powerful section of the community apparently unrestricted . They virtually make Newspapers the property of capitalists—sworn to uphold the monopol y and the predominance of Capital ; and they thus stifle the voice of its parent—Labour . Hence it is that , upon all really fundamental and important questions of a social , educational , and organic character ,

      the Press of this country is centuries behind those in which the intellect of a people is allowed to utter its own inspirations , unwarped by such influences . The " say is all on on 9 side . " The doctrines , theories , and discussions , which are in accordance with the interests of landlords , capitalists , usurers , merchants , manufacturers , traders , and profitmongers of all descriptions , find the fullest possible representation in the Press—because each section is powerful enough to support an organ—tho "unattached" Press—which does not directly espouse any particular party , yet caters for the interests and selfishness of

      Capital and capitalists , in all their various shapes and modifications . The wealthy journals are huge , monopolising corporations , which' buy up the talent , and corrupt the honesty of those who might otherwise enlighten and benefit society and while an " active , almost omnipotent , and decidedly unscrupulous agency , is thus incessantly at work to prop up the supremacy of the wealthy and the profit-mongering classes , the poor , the laborious—upon whose toils they all subsist—from whose exertions they wring all the conveniences , comforts , and luxuries of life—are not permitted to speak , either in Parliament , or through the Press .

      The last statement may appear too strong , but it is true . If by chance , earnest , honest , 8 e ] f-saerificing men eontriv © to set on foot a faithful , determined , and enlightened advocate of Social and democratic principles , it is quietly but not the less effectuall y tabooed . The advertising public will have nothing to de with it . The ordinary press never notice it , except to misrepresent or calumniate it ; and the publishers—that is the influential and res * pectable publishers—keep it out of all chance

      of circulation in those quarters -where it is important that the opinions of the toiling and struggling masses should be heard . Thus it happens that a great gulf yawns between tho producing and the wealthy classes , that they are—as Mr . Disraeli has strongl y but not too strongly described— " Two Nations " living upon one soil , wholly ignorant of each other ' s real feelings , sentiments , and motives 7 and growing daily more and more estranged from , and hostile to , each other .

      If the formidable and dexterously devised obstacles which prevent the establishment of a really free Press in England , were removed , ; it would do more to place affairs on a right footing than any single measure that can be named . Talent would be liberated from the thraldom of Capital and speak out its own

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      honest thoughts . ' Geniutafrduld 'Utter its own lofty'inspirations instead , of y being' 'dependent upon the ^ lthyjcapitalists , ;! who ' iiow ^ make them itheir . exponent and i ; their ? dr-udges , at pnces'V . h'pH areVas ' ecantyahd ; tuiremuiierative , relatively ; speaking as those' awarded to the ? inaribai labourer' by the same' clashes . ' fiiterary men ybuld be enabled to . become proprietors of joui-nals ' themselves—they would be freed from a debasing dependence which is not more injurious to themaelves , than it is hurtful to the best interests of' , the country .

      Newspapers and periodicals with . higher objGcts , purer principles , and a healthier tone , would make their appearance in every part of the country . We should no longer be » truck with the anomaly of Huddersfield with nearly thirty thousand inhabitants , being without a loca newspaper , and a collection of rude shanties in the backwoods , with three hundred inhabitants / possseBBing that article . Apart altogether from the purely political , social , or intellectual aspects of the question in its lowest —tho commercial and material point of viewthe abolition of all restrictions on the Press ,

      commends itself to the true statesman as a measure of primary and paramount importance . It would open up ne w 1 markets for industry , release an important manufacture from the galling and . absurd restrictions of the Excise , stimulate enterprise , and increase employment at tho same time that it educated the ignorant , and incited the intelligent to act in accordance with , higher views of social and self-interest , than those b y which they are now actuated .

      One of the most touching and sorrowful of laments written by an eminent living poetess , is entitled " We might have been . " It is indeed saddening to contrast what -we might have been in this respect—what we might beand then remeniember that all the evils we have glanced at , are inflicted ostensibly to raise taxes -which are afterwards squandered in maintaining extravagant and useless establishments , or in keeping up the physical force required to perpetuate the oppression of rulers , and the degradation of the people .

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      We observe that the members of the bar on the Western Circuit , are getting up an address to the Judge , by way , of rejoinder to the almost unanimous condemnation of his conduct by the Press , in the case of the Birds . They intend to justify that conduct , on the ground that it was strictly legal . Now , as we remarked at the time ' of the trial , if it was legal , it was high time the law should be altered , which permitted so gross an outrage on the moral feeling of the whole community . But unfortunately for Mr . Justice Talfourd and

      LEGAL INFORMATION FOR IGNO RANT JUDGES AND LAWYERS ;

      his legal defenders , he has not even a leg to stand upon here either , and must be convicted of ignorance of the law , and of his duties as Judge , when he summed up the case in such a manner to let loose two murderers upon society . As it would appear that the members of the Westem Circuit are as ignorant of the law as the Judge , we shall , for their special benefit , teach them what the * law really is in such cases . It is so clearly and unequivocally laid down , that not one of them , -with all the subtlety of the lawyer-intellect arid power of quibbling , can get over it .

      In the 7 th of William the TV ., and 1 st Victoria , cap . 85 , sect . 11 , there is the following clause !—' Be it enacted , that on tho trial of any perion for any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned or for any felony whatever , wliere ( he crime charged sKctll include any assault against the person , it shall be lawful for the jury to acquit of the felony and to find n . verdict of ' guilty of auault againit the perso ' n indicted , if the evidence shall warrant such finding ; and 'when such verdict shall be found , the Court shall have powsi 1 to imprison the person so found guilty of an assault for any term not exceeding three years .

      Now , if the Judge ' s statutes had been worked up as they ought to have , he could not have committed such a legal blunder as directing the jury to acquit the Birds . The evidence might not sustain the charge of murder , and the indictment did not charge the inferior crime of manslaughter by an unpardonable blunder on the part of the person who drew it up . But Mr . Justice Talfourd was clearly bound , under the clause wo have quoted , to direct a verdict of guilty of assault ,

      and therefore sentence each of the prisoners to a year ' s imprisonment . The felony with which they were charged , and which in the judgment of the court was not legally brought home to them , most certainly did include " an assault against the person" of their unfortunate and brutally maltreated victim , and the Judge ought to nave Tcnown that the law was in existence , and had been acted upon in other courts . No less than nineteen cases having occurred in which this law has been applied .

      The conduct of the judge is therefore as indefensible in law , as it was in morals ; and the " learned gentlemen" on the Western Circuit , will do well not to proclaim their own ignorance of law , by asserting that hie summing up was legal , or in accordance with the sta * tutes by which he ought to have been guided in such a case .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . OVER-GORGED BISHOPS —THE BROKENDOWN BUDGET—TORY WHIGGISM—IGNORANCE PERPETUATED — EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS—COMMITTEE OX WORKING CLASS INVESTMENTS . Lord John Russell ' s motion for a Select Committee on Public Salaries was made the occasion of a great party fight . Mr . Diskaeli , with considerable tact , proposed an amendment to the effect , that as the Ministers and the House were already in possession of all the information necessary for Legislation , the

      appointment of a Committee was a waste of time , and that a Bill on the subject should be introduced forthwith . The truth of the statement , as to the capability of Ministers and the House to legislate immediately on the subject , was not disputed , and it is difficult to understand why the so-called Financial Reformers should , with tho exception of Mr . Hume , have voted in a body against the proposal of the leader of the opposition . Mr . Disraeli showed far more honesty and public spirit on Tuesday night , when he both spoke and voted in favour of the first of Mr . Milkeb

      Gibson ' s four resolutions for the abolition of the Taxes on Knowledge . From the guarded language of the Pbemieb , it is very doubtful whether any reduction in the Salaries of the parties enumerated in the resolution is really contemplated . It would appear rather as if the Select Committ ee , was intended principally for two objects , namely : to postpone tho question for as long a time as possible , and to get up a Report whitewashing ^ the present system . If any actual and active measures are taken in consequence , they will probably have only a prospective operation , and thus

      the Whigs will save their own Salaries , whatever may come of their successors in office . Mr . Horsman took advantage of the occasion to make an exposition of extravagant and unjustifiable salaries paid to the bishops , which , for force and terseness , has rarely , if ever , been surpassed in that House . He proved that , if there was any ground whatever for inquiring into the salaries of Ministers , public officers , judges , ambassadors , and consuls , there were tenfold greater reasons for inquiring

      into Ecclesiastical Salaries . Comparing the income and the duties of the Ministers of State , judges , and ambassadors , with those performed by bishops , ho demonstrated that the latter are monstrously over-paid . There is , besides , this essential difference between these classes of civil , judicial ; and diplomatic functionaries , and bishops , that their duties require men in the very p rime of life and vigour . Inthecase of the judges , a remunerative , profession has generally to be g iven up by the person elevated , o the Bench . High o % o is generally the

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      temporary' reward ^ ¦ a Jrf 0 dK active ; p 61 itical service , ^ m ^ iheJatiae ^^ ciia e ^*? " . ft $ F ? tb ^ uiidergo / aVlog ^^^ theyiare ^ rewarded with ' permanenti'place ' ' and pay . [ But bishops , are prtoftote ' d frorii' eufth'aetiVe services as rectors ' , and , ^^ ! college . dignKaries everiperform , to a life of" comparative repose ' .. They . are ! appointed ifor , life ; and long after age ; has totally unfitted 7 them for the active performance of any duty whatever , ; they continue to receive the enormous incomes attached

      to their sees . The salary of a Prime Minister—with all the unquestionable hard work and i anxiety attached to the office—is onl y one-third of the Parliamentary income of an archbishop , and one-half that of the Bishop of London — the Parliamentary income , be it l'omeinbei ' ed , being ; vGry considorably below the amount actually received , and the prelates having besides , palaces provided for their residence . Contrasting the Episcopal Bench with'any of the Public Boards entrusted with tho administration of the National business , tho same

      desparity is observable . The whole Board of Admiralty , consisting of six Lords , do not receive as much as a single primate . Yet they are entrusted with the management of our large navy and dockyards . The two Boards of Customs and Excise , through whose hands the largest proportion of the annual revenue passes , are not paid so much money as two bishops . The salaries of the whole of the thirty-three ambassadors and chargi d' affaires do not come within fifty percent , of the sum annually divided among the Bench of Bishops . Forty-three Governors of Colonies

      do B •> receive as much as twenty-seven Bishops ; and thirty-three Judges in England and Scotland are paid less money annually than the Members of the Episcopal Bench ! Truly " Godliness ^ in their cam , ' " is profitable both for ' this life ; and that which is to come ! " The scandal and disgrace of the whole affair is j that while the dignitaries of the Church receive these monstrous salaries , the poor curates and haridworking parsons are paid , in numerous instances , far lower salaries

      than the Coachmen who drive the Bi » hops about in their luxurious carriages . Of course there were plenty of defenders found for the well-paid highly-worked prelates ^ and Mi " . Horsman vituperated for having made a most unfair attack on the Church , by Members who seem to be of opinion that Christianity consists in pound ' s , shillings , and pence , ' and that unless we paid Bishops extravagantly we should all become . Pagans or Atheists . It need scarcely be added , the House refused to meddle with these favourites of Parliament

      and Providence—the gentlemen in lawn , though every thousand pounds that was cut from their salaries should have been applied to the dimunition of that ignorance aad irrelig ion which some of the friends of the Bishops are in the habit of bewailing .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . OFFICES , 14 , SOUTHAMPTON STREET , STRANTD , LONDON . The Provisional Committee of tht NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION hereby give notice , That those friends who are desirous of Arming localities can be supplied with Cards of Membership and Rules , by applying to the General Secretary , John Arnott , as ahove , from nine to two o ' clock , daily ( Sundays excepted ) , and on Monday evenings from seven to nine o ' clock : if by letter , prepaid . All applications by letter will receive the most prompt attention . Notice is also given that all the receipts for the Cards issued , must be forwarded monthly , per Post Office Order , made payable to John Arnott . at the Post Office , Strand , and addressed to him at die Office of the Association , U , Southampton-street , Strand , London . 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . April 16 th , 1830 . Signed , on liohalf of the Committee , John Arsott , General Secretary .

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      Mr . - Slaney , wonderful to tell , has at length succeeded in extorting from the present Government a Committee to inquire into a matter connected with the welfare of the working classes . The scope of its inquiry is certainly a united one , and that we presume was one reason why Mi . Labouchebe did not oppose it . It is to consider and suggest means of removing obstacles and giving facilities for investing the savings of the middle and working classes . A second object , the original motion , of much greater importance , was struck out , namely , to " afford them the means of forming societies to insure themselves against coming evils frequently recurring . " Mr .

      Slaney very properly reprobated the existing laws of partenership in this Country as a great obstacle to the co-operation of the working classes in any practical effort to improve their own condition , and of his Committee for tha effect of amending the law in this respect , and giving the industrious classes the protection and benefit of the law in any associative endeavours , it will confer a great boon . For tlia want of such legal protection and security many a well intended and noble enterprise has failed .

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      power . The Prime Minister becomes daily more reactionary . There was a time in the history of this country when he mig ht have claimedwith some degree of truth—the title of a Reformer , and a Liberal . There is not now on the Tory benches a more inveterate opponent of all progress , whether political , social , or educational . Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed Mr . Gibson ' s motion for the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , by the ancient threadbare argument of Chancellors , that he could not afford the money ; but Lorp

      John took up a position based on different grounds . He opposes a cheap Press upon princip le . He thinks it good that the people should be kept ignorant ; and , therefore , he not only opposed the motion of Mr . Gibson on Tuesday ni ght , but Mr . Fox ' s Bill for Educating the People , on "Wednesday . His Lordship refuses political enfranchisement ; he denounces a cheap Press as synonimous with revolution ; and he opposes ., Secular , Education , on the ground that it would make the people irreligious . "What worse than this could the most bigotted High Church

      Tory party do if they were in power ? And yet the mail who does all this has the transcendent impudence to call himself a "liberal . " From such liberals " Good Lord deliver us . " It is enough to excite the indignation of the whole country , to see the vicious circle in which our rulers move and reason . When they are asked to enfranchise the people , they object , because the great body of the people they say , are not sufficiently enlightened to exercise the franchise properly . When they are asked to give the people a cheap Press , in order that they may acquire the political

      knowledge of which it is averred they are deficient , they refuse to do so , because a cheap Press might be abused , and because also , it might make the people more discontented under misgovernment , than they now are in their partially enli ghtened state . "When they are asked to educate the rising generation in a knowledge of reading , writing , arithmetic , and such other branches of secular instruction as may enable them to perform the ordinary business of life in a creditable and efficient manner , up start Roman Catholics , Churchmen , and

      Dissenters , and bawl in chorus , " lrrehgion , infidelity , atheism . " They are terribly afraid of light being let in upon the flaws and crevices either of our political or ecclesiastical institutions . Does the fact not prove their own innate consciousness of their unsoundness , weakness , and indefensible charaoter ? They know that their only chance of perpetuating the as * cendanoyofthe aristocracy and the parsons , is to keep the people ignorant , and they take good care to do bo as far as their corporate legialative , and ^ administrative influence tends . Such GoVerxunent ia a / corae to the OQunwy ,

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      &rid cannot fail to end in / severa ^ nd he ' fnljution on the parties wh q ~ th us sacrifi ^ **" the great and permanent ^ te ' re&fcs of « tbithe selfish aggrandisement of a smaH ^ ! vilegedclass . ,.., ; :.. " .,. l Pri »

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      ' . ' ' \ T ^ long-eipect ^ -,. Int ermenJ has , at ; length ^ ade ft ^ S ance , and , with ¦ ¦ ¦ few exceptions ; - seemsTT well adapted for the object in yieV , Th . system of burial Is propbsedto 'be reffulnS ? Act ; of . Parliament ,, and the undertaker * vented from fleecing poor widows and ornh at the time when affliction renders a hril ' prey to the employers of those who ** s ' Let out their bodies by the hour To mimic sorrow when the heart ' s not snd

      Existing CG . motoriGS , and bui'yi as-g ™ ,. ^ are to be purchased on terms fixed in tha * dinary manner , by awards of juries-sonL ^ the cemeteries being made , perhaps , ^[ under the . new system , and the others *]** * under regulations deemed more conducive t public health and advantage . Public burvin ? grounds are to be instituted in certain git carefully selected , within suitable distant from tho Metropolisandafter the

      ; , lapse of certain time , interment in these ground s is + be compulsory—no . funeral , except u Jl license , being permitted to take place elt where . The management of these buryJnT grinds , and the arr angement 8 conDe < £ with funerals , are to be entrusted to the Gen ral Board of Health , and its officers ; and n fresh houses are to be erected within a p { J , distance of the cemeteries . .

      The objectionable feature of the arrange raents in these public cemeteries to us , g ee to be forced on the framers of the measure bv the bigotry and antipathies which separata one denomination of Christians from another One ; would think , that it would be suffi eieni for these followers of the " meek and lowlv Jesus , " to hate and live apart from , each other during their lives , without insisting that even in their graves the line of separation

      shall be strongly drawn between them . The cemeteries are to be divided into two portions consecrated and unconsecrated . In the one the dust of the children of the Church \ nll mingle together , while in the other , the ashea of Disaentera will repose , uncontaminatod by any admixture with their fellow Christians I What odd ideas these people must hare of religion who , even in death , contrive elaborately , schemes to perpetuate such senseless , if not blasphemous , divisions !

      The existing rights of incumbents and parishes are dul y provided for in the bill ; and though the plan is a vast one , it does nof appear that it will involve any expense to the public , which will gain largely in health , by the abolition of one of the most disgusting , deadly , and objectionable practices of modern times .

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      4 . . THE NQ RTB&ftiNET STU ) Bf . -3 H T _^ Apbij ^ q , flSfia ^

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      Sir . Charles Wood ' s Budget this year , bids fair to be aa unfortunate ashis last year ' s production . The proposed alteration in the Stamp Duties when looked into , turned out to be an addition instead of a diminution of taxation ; , and , besides , was intended to subject many transactions to taxation which are now exempt from it . The threatening attitude assumed by the baukera , the mercantile world , and the legal profession with reference to some of the items in the Bill , frightened the poor Chancellor , and accordingly he submitted a

      second edition of the Budget to the Committee on Monday night . . But even then he failed . He was asked in vain for the data on which he legislated , and at last the House divided against him in a most essential principle of his measure , leaving him in a minority of 29 . He proposed that the stamp on securities for money under £ 50 should be 2 s 6 d . The House decided that it should be only Is ., whereupon Sir Charles declined to proceed further that night , and asked time to consider what he should do next . "We by no means regret these frequent defeats of the Ministry ,

      The Whigs are like stockfish , all the better for being beaten . But the marvel is the equanimity and meekness with which they submit to these repeated proofs , that they hare ceased to have any hold on ike confidence or respect of the House of Commons . It must now be evident , even to themselves , that they are only tolerated in power , becauie from the accidental state of parties , no one is strong enough at the present moment , to sustain himself in office . As we have already said , the

      whole Budget is one of the most flagrant financial blunders that ever was perpetrated . A surplus of nearly two millions in the hands of a capable and shrewd Minister of Finance , would have been the means for effecting either a large and immediately perceptible reduction of some pressing public burden , or of reducing the permanent expenditure upon the debt . But Sir Charles Wood has frittered it away in driblets , and with a perverse ingenuity , has contrived to do the least possible amount of good that such a large surplus put in his

      Monies Received For The "Week Ending Thcbsdat, April 18, 1850.

      MONIES RECEIVED For the "Week Ending Thcbsdat , April 18 , 1850 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1570/page/4/