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      : . - ^ Tra ^^ wui ^ caEEifc :, Z ~ ; j .. fZ ; Ifimes arid dollars \} dollars ami * dimes ! ' ~" : f An empty pocket's the worst of crimes ! " -:: If anwa ' 8 down ,-, give ; lnmathrast—; .. : ¦• ¦ Trample the l ^ g garintothe dust ! s ; : r Presumptions poverty ' s quite appalling- — Knock him over ! kick him for faffing i If a man ' s iipi oh ! lift him higher ! Your sod ' s for sale , and he ' s a bnyet ! Dimes and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! . An empty pocket ' s the worst of crimes !

      I know a poor but worthy youth , ; \ -: . Whose hopes are built on a maiden ' s truth ; Bat the maiden will break her vow with ease , For a wooer cometh whose claims are these : A hollow heart and an empty head ; A f ace well tinged with the brandy ' s red ; A soul well-tram'd in villany ' s school , > And cash , sweet cash , be knoweth the role-Dimes and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! An empty pocket ' s the Worst of crimes ! .

      I know a bold and honest roan , Who strives to lire on a Christian plan ; But poor he is , and poor will be , A scorn'd and hated thing is he ; At home he meeteth a starring wife , Abroad he leadeth a leper ' s life—They straggle against a fearful odds . Who will not bow to the people ' s gods ! ' Dime * and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! An empty pocket ' s the worst of crimes !

      So get ye wealth , no matter how !' So question ' s ask d of the rich I trow ! Steal by night , and steal by day ( Doing ' itall in a legal way ); Join the Church and never forsake her ; Learn to cant and insult your Maker ; Be hypocrite , liar , knave , and fool , But don't be poor—remember the rule : Dimes and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! An empty pocket ' s the worst of crimes ! American Paper . rfc

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      THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , AND LITERATURE . Edited by G . Julian Habney . No . 12 . May . London : J . "W atson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . A mere enumeration of the articles contained in this number of the Democratic Review will suffice to show the variety and interesting character of its contents . The Editor ' s Letter to

      the Working Glasses , devoted to a review of the late motion made by Mr . Miner Gibson for the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , completes the series of articles pronounced by the Irishman as being " decidedly the clearest exposition that has yet appeared of thewrongs to which the millions are subjected by the taxes imposed on popular publications . " "Rural Slavery *' is briefly , but forcibly , described in a letter from a workman in the

      county of Sent The third article is a continuation of the able defence of " Democracy , " in reply to the " latter-day " animadversions of Thoma 3 Carlyle . We give the following extract : —

      DEMOCRATIC MAKTTR 3 . Our opponents say to us : — " You are a small contemptible faction of proletarian ? , led by a few designing demagogues , and yet yon pretend to change the face of the civilised world ! You set yourselves in opposition to v » ; to the governments of Europe , with their standing armies ; to the aristocracy , with its vast territorial possessions and its feudal privileges ; to the state churches , with their immense wealth ; and to the bourgeoisie , with its competitive system , its sordid , grasping , avaricious spirit , so completely opposed to all generous impulses , all noble aspirations ! " We answer , " Yes , 0 wi 3 e men ( of Gotham )! We are not only so mad as to do this very thing , but we go the insane length of

      looking calmly forward to the timewhea you and your system of atrocious lies , will he swept into outer darkness , into the domain of the father of lies —whereto , in fact , you properly belong . " All experience is against us , it is said . I think one of the most astonishing "experiences" in the history of humanity , was the appearance of the democratic idea in the person of a poor despised Jewish proletarian , the Galilean carpenter ' s son , who worked—probably at his father ' s trade—till he was thirty years of age , and then began to teach this idea , wrapped in parables and figures—to other working men ; chiefly fishermen , it is said , who listened to him while thev mended their nets , or

      cast them into the lake of Gennesaret . What matter , though in order to elaborate the democratic wea , the soul has required eighteen centuries of labour , and agony , and bloody sweat—continued through a never-failing succession of organs—from that 3 gony , in Gethsemane , of its first organ for the expression of the idea that God and man aTe one ? The anticipation of this ultimate fact has now become a reality ; and faith has been transfigHred into knowledge . Men die , but thought , the absolute—exists for ever . Ontward phenomena , its manifestations , its modes of expression—are evanescent . Yet never has there been a lack of organs ftr the soul , from that thorn-crowned martyr on talvary , and his early disciples , scourged , tortured , torn in pieces by the wild beasts of the Roman

      ampaitheatres , branded as the "enemies of order and the human race "—down to the noble martyrs , who , in our days , have joined the sacred band , the great cloud of witnesses , " for the divine idea of love and freedom , first taught by our elder brot her , the crucified Sazarean proletarian . The blood of our martyra saturates the soil of Europe ; they languish m dungeons ; they pine in exile ; they have joyfully sacrificed their holiest affections on the altar of liberty ; they have often endured loorte than crucifixion , m seeing their defenceless wives and daughters given up to the brutalitv of a savage and licentious soldiery . Yet we do not weep for the sufferings of our beloved brothers . We rejoice for these heroe 3 of humanity , " who have fought the good fight , and endured to the end . "

      "Universal Suffrage and the Ordermongers , " is the title of an article chiefly consisting of extracts from the April number of the ft ouvtau Monde . Thus comraenteth Lonis Blanc on the COXSriEACT OF THE O £ DERMOXOERS AOAIS 3 I

      TOITEESiX SUFFRAGE . The ultra-reactionists are mad enough to dream of the abolition of Universal Suffrage . They say to the peasant : " We will take from you the right or electing those who—through Socialist institutions—would saye you " from the demon of Usury . " io the proletarian : " We will prevent you from inscribing among | jj e laWS _\ , y means of your dele-Swe * -that society owes all its members the rights 01 weadand oflabour . " . To the small trader : We « iU deprive you of the right to plead , your cause S ^ st'the oligarchy of the great bankers , and the wawlenggers ot the Stock Bxehanee , " To the

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      irfth ^ National-Assembly-by the ' choice of your comra 4 esi-side ; b y Bidei with . your colonel . " M a ¦ word . Jiheyjsay tftall zlff , WejwiU strip youof thaT KfPfr * . i « e % 7 whichwas giveiyou by the revo-, ln . of February . ' ! 'But aniong - the ' thirty-six mimons composing the popHlation ' of France , ; there are twenty-fivemillionsi " of-peasants * - -the proleta ^ . nans and small traders -form an * immense majority mtfce ratieB . ; and the bayonets of patriotic soldiers can be numbered by tens , by hundreds , of thousands J .... ~ ,. What ;! gentlemen—Universal Suffragehas hitherto given you a majority , yet you fear it ! You loudly proclaim yourselves to be the defenders , the saviours of societv : its renresesentanniflirr- "WnwilTri 7 nri ^

      thes par excellence , yet you fear Universal Suffrage , that sublime voice uttering the will , of society ! If popular ignorance has favoured the continuance of your dark and mysterious supremacy , it must be allowed , you have doho everything to perpetuate this ignorance and to abuse it . You have persecuted the press ; you have revived confiscation in the form of fines ; you have forbidden the vending of Republican journals--you have even gone the length of hindering ^ their being sent to private houses ; you have changed prefects and mayors into censors , gendarmes into spies ; you have made a tyrannical law regarding the opinions of the teachers in primary schools ; you have spent about a million in propagating calumnies ; you have placed five depar tments in a state of siege , and tried to prevent the admission of Thought there ; as if it were a

      prohibited piece of merchandise;—and yet you are afraid of Universal Suffrage ! ..... The reactionists are judged . JSo , those who long to snatch these pacific balls from the hands of the people , knowing that they must be replaced sooner or later , by the s"ffwa % -are not the defenders of order . Those who wish to deprive the proletarian of a voice in the making of those laws which affect the well-being of his children , are not the defenders of domestic ties . Those who nourish : the . wild hope of erasing the names of twenty-five millions of small , landholders from the list of electors , are not ' . the defenders of property . ; In conclusion , there are only two paths open to us : the one conducts to the peaceful and legal triumph of Socialism , by means of Universal Suffrage ; the other leads directly to a terrible social convulsion , by means of a civil war . We must choose between these paths . ,

      A continuation of Dr . Marx ' s " Two Tears of a Revolution" is followed by an interesting notice of "DeFlotte , Vidal , and Caraot ; " a report of f * A Festival in Commemoration of the birth of Maximilian Robespierre ; " a review of Louis Blanc's "Historic Pages from the French Revolution of 1848 , " &c ., &c . This month ' s "Letter from France" ib of more than usual interest . This number completing the first volume , a title-page ( with dedication ) , and index thereto , are given . In the course , of an address to . his readers , ' the Editor makes the following announcement and comments : — '

      On the first of June will be published No . 1 of the Second Volume . While it will be my study to extend and perfect the improvements which , dictated by experience , I have , in some measure effected , 1 consider it unnecessary to pledge myself to any specific course . The commencement of a new volume will give a favourable opportunity to my democratic friends to obtain the patronage of new subscribers . The increased means , resulting from such additional patronage , would afford me the power of carrying out my original intentions , and enable me to make the Democratic [ Review the efficient representative of the democratic party . The time which has elapsed since the publication of the first number of this publication has been a term of disaster and suffering to the soldiers of

      democracy . The destruction of the Roman Republic , the downfall of Yenice , the subjugation of Sicily , the betrayal of Hungary , the defeat of the Rhenish democrats , the proscription of the Italian republicans and their French brethren of the '•• Thirteenth of June , " the massacre of the Hungarian chiefs , ' the cold-blooded murder of the Baden prisoners ; and , at home , the loss of Henry Fletherington , the prisonkilling of the Chartists . Williams and Sharp , and the sufferings of Ernest Jones , Dr . M'Douall and their ' comrades in captivity — recorded in this volume—have cast a gloom over its pages . The picture is not , however , all dark . It contains gleams of brightness , giving assurance of the fast coming time" When king , pope , lord , and bourgeois alike shall pass away , And morn shall break , and man awake in the light of a fairer day . "

      The Pope has returned to Rome , but the voice of Mazzini is pealing through Italy , precursory to the roar of popular revolt . " Order reigns in Hungary ; " but Eossuth yet lives , and the Magyar banner will be again unfurled . Nicholas has gathered his Cossack " savages arid Bashkir hordes , to the number of 160 , 000 , on the frontiers of Prussia , and strong reinforcements are marching up . Good ! Let them come ; their carcases , will serve to manure the soil of Germany—the destined battlefield of the two great principles of Democracy and Despotism . The German people are ready for action , and wait but the signal from the Seine . There the march of social democracy is steadily onward . The moment the red flag flies from the Tuilleries , farewell—rfjastfarewell—throughout Europe , to the reign of kingcraft and usury . VIVE LA 11 EPUBLIQUE UNIVERSELLE DEMOCRATIQUE ET SOCIALE ! "

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      UNREPRESENTED LABOUR , —— * * '' . Among the many important things which deeply affect the interests ' of the working classes , which advances their social position , which makes their comforts more ample , and surrounds them with all the necessities they require—among the many important things which is neglected and lost sight of , is that of not being represented in parliament ; and if tie rights of men are not embodied in a man who is in the abstract formed and moulded in the occupations , ttie wants , the privations , and the labour of the poor , how is it even possible that thenmisery can be in any degree modified ? If capitalists identify themselves with the interests of the classes who transmute themselves into gold at any particular time , it ie only done so by a figure of speech . It is only done on pompous occasions when popularity is to be gained by a forensic display of humanity in the House of Commons . It is the means to an end , and when the end is gained , the artizan—the -labourer of whom they'have spoken , is allowed to pass into an oblivion darker than that which traditionally surrounded , the dark

      ages . . The anomaly consists in the producer , the worker , the transputer- of valueless iron-stone into marvels of art by which the banker ' s book of the capitalist exhibits a Croesus-like amount of treasure , and the artizen dies daily , a haggard wife by his side , losing the human beauty that God gave her , and which touched the young heart of the man years back , and made the solemn yearnings of his love akin to those of the angels—by children with thin pale lips , colourless cheeks , and * shrunken frames—these are not the modifications of his fate ; they are the conditions , of his existence . Besides all this , there is a disgust engendered by ' a labour that is unappreciated by a work which becomes mere slavery , by an exhibition of skill , latent genius , what you will , which is quietly passed over—the astute * ; master

      saying , "What are you about ? , Going , to praise my . workman ' s skill ? Why , that will " spell the man . He will consider himself a somebody , who is absolutely necessary to me . To do this , 13 to subvert the order of things , and if you wish to preserve the existing order of things ; if you dislike innovations ; if you wish to preserve classes in their entu-ety-thatisto say—if you would retain that line of demarcation which exists / and ought to exist between the employer and employed , you will leave him alone . " So says the capitalist : "You wishiorepresent /««»? . Dal . ! What a crotchet I What : a sublime absurdity . ! The workman ! Well he has merely hands and brain , let him be . He has not twenty , forty , sixty , or a hundred thousand pounds to speculate with . " Thus he proceeds and now believes his argument conclusive ^ -. ¦

      And then , if men will say , "Have , we not representatives of every trading , manufacturing , and commercial town in England ? " We reply in admitting such to be the case by a question , " What interest do they represent V ' ¦ - - ¦ / . ; ' :. ¦ We do not want delegates from towns and : cities to embody their civic dignities *; We want trades , and labours , and classes , to send their . capacitated men to . speak for their . ^ brothers ' . ; , they are soon found , and there are plenty ' of them . ' Counties and boroughs are things belonging to the doomsday book . . and fe wjUaoV asJi for colliery , mining ,

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      PP . ™? . ? ' wea , v ! n &f and agricultural divisions of tb 5 people , " tiecaulsBtge ' nhhaptJy | iirib'gfo ( £ : iis '; a ;< ire » 1 $ tt&Stfi columnE ; o £ st ^ di ^^ e , ^ or irrelevant nonsense which we . ^ Sannotre ^ T | hey " are weary ^ ing—so much from the ; pnrpos ^ . ' .: --,: ¦ i Who talktj about-colliera ffi-Uhe'Housei of Comm 9 " 8 j ,. about famiShied ; weay' ^' -and' blinded needlerinakers ? ' , 'Wlib represents ' - beggary , , cruno , . and famine ? The chiffonier , ' the ! rag-picker , he who . rakes his living from the dust and ; offal flung into , the street , should have one to be the pxponent of the interests of his class ; It would certainly be a very remarkable sight ; but ' -remarkable sights , f necessary , ought to exist . These would be . much letter than hanging exhibitions arid" " chambers of horror . " rTi rr

      _ A miserable , but well-informed ; weaver of Spitalfields , says to the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle that " the primary cause of the depression ° l o E " ^ among the , weavers was the want of « i buff i " S - We consider , " he logically argues , fftotfadour is unrepresented in theSiuse of Commons , and being unrepresented , the capitalist : and ' the landlord have it all their own way . " These words , unstudied , but apropos , are very significant , not of what unUbej simply , but of what must be . It is the pretest of thousands of men ; and if you were to jut it to the vote , to a show of hands , you would md that the existing order of things is sanctioned i .- u meane 8 t Possible minority . The ill odour which surroundsthe false and stinted conventionality

      reeks around us . Every acre of inhabited land in Lngland hasthere a humau voice which utters its unheeded protest . v .... . . . :.. .. By and bye this protest will gather into a . thunuer . Are the paupers who receive short weight in food represented ? " What absurdity ! " people will cry ; " what next , I wonder ? " Why , the next thing will be that this absurdity , will receive grave contemplation , and absurdities far more colossal will be entertained . ' , , , . ' Without troubling ourselves' with statistics , we ask our readers to calculate , roughly , and to contrast the amount of labour which makes this country rich with the landed , the mercantile , the sneculatine

      interests represented in parliament , and we say ttiat it does not amount to ¦ one-fourth ¦ the value . There is not an article of English produce , saving corn and garden stuffs , which . without ' labour and skill of workmen is worth as much as its weight i | i copper . It is the worker who gives value to the amorphous iron-stone , and makes the shapeless multiply its value in a ratio that puts geometrical proportions in the shade . To represent England proi perly is to represent its working and suflerihg classes . When this is done we shall hope to behold the advent of a brighter day . —Reynolds ' s Political Instructor . ¦ ¦ ,.. '¦ ¦ . . ¦

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      THE TEN HOURS ACT . Bradford , , Yokkshibk . —In consequence of the appearance of a letter in the Times of Thursday , April 25 , on this subject , signed ' A Manufacturer , " the Ten nours Bill Committee of the 'West Riding of Yorkshire have met in their several localities . At Leeds , on thejSame ^ night a meeting , previously called for the purpose of transacting local business , was held , and after considering the letter purporting to be from "A . Manufacturer , " suggesting the propriety of the operatives sacrificing two hours per week of that leisure which has been conceded to the youthful and female . portion of pur manufacturing population by largo , majorities of both Houses of Parliament , and made the law of the land , that meeting most solemnly and indignantly protested against it" as a mean and shabby proposition , and

      one which the writer himself is evidently ashamed of , or he might have given bis ^ real name , as the propounder of so important a proposition . , On Friday night , A pril 26 th , a meeting was held at Huddersfield ,. at which a similar resolution or protest was unanimously - adopted . At Halifax a similar meeting was held , and which resulted in a condemnation equally strong of the proposition of "AManufacturer . *' . A large public meeting was also held at Queenshead , near Halifax , wherea very strong and unanimous protest ' against the proposition referred to was adopted . -At Bradford , also , the local committee assembled and unanimously adopted a similar resolution and protest ,, and this day ( Saturday , ) . at noon , a special general meeting of the central committee was held at their room in

      Hustler ' s-buildings , Bradford , which was presided over by the Rev . J . Burnett , LL . D ., vicar , who , in opening the proceedings , stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of considering the letter , which appeared in the Times of Thursday , signed "A Manufacturer ; " upon which he would not then give an opinion until it had been considered by the meeting ; at the same time he could not but express his admiration at the simultaneous manner in which the local committees had expressed themselves in reference to this letter , as appeared from the correspondence of the secretary , Mr . JJalme . Considerable deliberation then followed , which resulted in the unanimous adoption of an address to the Times , protesting against the proposal contained in the letter , signed " A Manufacturer . "

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      GREAT DELEGATE MEETING IN MANCHESTER . ¦ MiNOHESTER , MoxDAY . —The article which appeared in the Times of Thursday week upon the sub . ject of a letter which appeared in that journal , signed "A Manufacturer , " created the greatest sensation in the manufacturing districts . The loeal committees in almost every town were immediately called together to consider the apparent compromise proposed , and the result was a universal determination never to yield a single moment of the leisure time which they had obtained by . the act of 1817 The Lancashire Central Committee met on thesame night on which the letter appeared , and at once determined to call a delegate meeting , which was accordingly held yesterday at the Cotton Tree Tavern Great Ancoats-street . .. , .

      Mr . H . Green , of Manchester , was unanimously called to the chair . In opening the business of the meeting he ' said he regretted the necessity of the delegates being again called together , but there was no alternative if they remained firm in contending for an efficient Ten Hours Act . . The meeting h » d been hurriedly called together in consequence of the appearance in the Times of Thursday week of a letter , signed "A Manufacturer , " suggesting a compromise in respect to the hours of work in factories and that the operatives should be employed sixtv ^ rZ ^}^ * ™^'** VroMied by the Ten Hours Act the

      . In same paper there was a leading article on the subject , the chairman also stated that a letter had been received that mornine from Lord Ashley which would be brought" under the consideration of the meeting . Or behalf of a number of operatives he had to say that the proposition off A Manufacturer" had been considered by them , and . that if it had been offered some time since they might have been induced to agree to it but it had come too late ; and the ' operatives were ' determined not to give up one minute of the time which had been conceded to them by the Ten Hours Act ; 1 ' .

      The names of the delegates present were then called over , when it appeared that the following were present : —Stockport , 2 ; Waterhead Mill' 2 - Preston , 2 ; Hyde , 1 ; Ashton , 1 ; Hindley , 1 ; ciior ' ley , 1 ; Padiham , 1 ; Droylsden , 1 . ; Middleton , 2 Blackburn , 1 ; Prestolee . 2 ; Dukinfield , 1 ; Belmont 1 ; Dewsbury , 1 ; Bolton , 1 ; Enfield , 1 ; Macclesfield , 4 ; Gorton , 2 ; Hazelgrove , 1 ; Newton-moor 1 ; Astley-bridge , 1 ; D ' ukinfield-hall , 1 ; Manchester , fine-spinners , ' - -I ; card-room , 1 ; Overlookers ' Association , 2 ; power-loom overlookers , 2 ; local committee , 2 ; central committee , 2 ; Salford spinners , 1 ; andRendleton , . 1 . . :. . ., '; ,,. ' \ ¦; - ¦

      The SKCEEiAnT having read the circular convening the meeting , ' and a letter irom Mr . Grant , regretting his'inability to be present at the meeting , and solemnly protesting against any compromise , said , when he worked in a cotton mill he ^ thought ten hours work a-day was quite sufficient , nojbi only for women and young persons , but for every ( one employed in the mill ( hear ); in fact , he . wasi satisfied that ten hours a-day was quite long enough for anybody either in or out of a mill , ( llear . ) He would never lend himself in the slightest way to any departure from the Ten ; Hours- Act ; for which they ¦ ¦

      had so long contended ^ . ( Uear . ) ' . ...:. '• The . letter signed ' : " A ' Manufacturer , " whioh appeared in the Times of Thursday , and the leading article upon it , ' were then read . " ¦ A Delegate from the locali , ; committee ; asked if there were any letters from London as Co who " A Manufacturer " was ? whether the letter \ fns really written by a manufacturer ? The writer might be " A Manufccturer " for anything they knew at present . -. ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ "'• The Delegate from Blackburn said , he believed the letter was written by a manufacturer , and he could guess who it ' was . ¦ . '

      : The Delegate from Manchester said , it struck him that it mattered little who made' the proposition , whether the author was a manufacturer or not -the proposition had been made—that was sufficient ; and it had been made in a paper which hud stood by the factory operatives in their struggles for the Ten Hours Act . The leading article in tho Times threw out a suggestion as to . whether there was a possibility of coming to an arrangement or not . The question was , would , they- repudiate the proposition of " , A Manufacturer , " or agree to it ? ( Hear . ) , The Secbbiart , having read . two or three lettew from the delegates in London , calling attention to the . lett ' er and the leading article , read the following letter from Lord Ashley , which had been received that ( Sunday ) morning : — " : ¦ , •' . =. ... . .. ; ,. , ¦ " j ; London , April 27 .

      , , Sib , —It is desirable that the operatives should learn , as soon as possible ; the' position of the Factory Bill , Various attempts have been made to draw an effective ' clause for the prohibition of relays , but without success . A conference has lately been held between Mr ! Cobfett and his friends and the solicitor who drew the bill . ? hey toolc the advice of the : ablest - counsel , and the result was a very powerful and sanjeieirt clause for the attainment of . the purpose ; It oWHto , iwreTer , much new matter fiif thQiresulatlon of

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      ' ~*^" , '" J" J > ' :. l .- ~ lt . ' .., f , | . ' .. ll » l .,.... H-...: > i « J « , n * ' '"»' M ^ 5 % l « n . e » , and exposes us to these difficulties : nr > 'V « . » 5 ^!!^ AMT « tatemeirt ini i | le *( Bo u 8 e { tbat I worn a »» «« erye b y a nair ' sbrfiadlh '" to ' thefigKt ' hand or to the left . Wit simply touch" wHat was disputed ; second ^ - it wo uld P'eTwe to much debate arid opposition ; thirdly , it would aetach ; from me many members who are ready to fulfil Jhe ; f "Pigments of Parliament ; but not to go one step , beyond « w ^ P . ^ then , is this : to urge a clause whioh . SK ™ be'jalueless ( the claule in ; the present bill ) , and wmch might prqbaHjbe \ ioldtea iminediately after it had received theKoyal assent , seems absurd in itself ahd'ii waste of tune " ; to adopt thc ! clau ' se proposed atthe conference would , I fear ; involvVthe postponement of : tho me £ sure to anptiher session-it must certainly be preceded'by an explanation . -Which of tWese hazards do you prefer !'' " ~— "" J - ¦ ' - - .......... ... ,- « -, »>¦««

      . I am ; Sir , your obedient servant , • ' "' T \ , nr \ ' r ' ' \ '! . ' ¦¦ ¦ l- '!' i '" - ' : ^ V : ^ i - . ¦ : ! AsntET ; r ^ :: io Mr . Mawdsley , Secretary of the Central Short . ¦¦¦ . lime Committee , Lancashire . __ Two : or . three Delegates were of opinion that the mil of LordvAshley , m . its present shape , did not provide against relays . : : ,: The Delegates from . Gorton understood ithatlthe sole object of Lord AsWey ^ s bill was to prevent relays and shifts . . ,. .,.,.. .,,.-. ; . , ,., . . , ; The SECRETAUT said , in ^ the opinion of some facto operatives , the . bill , of Lord Ashley was not sumdient to prevent relays and shifts . The Delegate from Manchester said , there were out few who were not ' satisfied that Lord Ashley ' s bill would , not ,: be effective ., It was certainly intended to

      put it eut of the power , of manufacturers w follow out the system of relays and shifts . Now , trom a conversation whioh had takenplace amongst the operatives it ; was clear that the bill would do no such thing '; it would put ah end to' shifts , ! and not to relays . ( Hear . ) Now , they wanted an ! effeotive . > en Hours Act . If the bill of Lord Ashley would not , if carried , effeet the object in view , they must ; ne would say , introduce nWma'tter- ; ' let them risk S W ng . « n effective bill this ' session , in preference to gettmga non-effective bill ( -hear , hearj- ^ for if they went on with Lord ' Ashley ' s bill it would not F ? ? . effective , measure , ' and that would place the operatives in this position—that they must apply to . Parliamehtnext ' year for an effective bill . And . in such circumstances what would be said of

      them by Parliament , by the country , arid ! by their irienasr . It would be said , "You are' never satislied ; you got the bill you wanted . "' But let them tell the government and Lord Ashley that they considered the . bill now before Parliament not effective , that they were determined to have ' an effeotive bill —( hear , - hear)—and he believed the new matter might easily be introduced without Lord Ashley putting himself in . a disagree able position with the house . Lord Ashley'bould state that his bill , as at present framed , would not Be an ' effective one without the introduction of . hew matter , and he niight ask . the house , permission ; to . withdraw 'his promis . ot " . *? ¦ ' introduce new matter ; Their object was , and ought to be , to have an effective act or run the risk of losing it ! J

      A Delegate of the local . committee thought ¦ they had better decide the question to consider which they had been called together , and then they mi"ht consider tho letter of Lord Ashley . ( Hear , heim ) A Delegate from Blackburn , thought if Lord Ashley felt himself in a position that he cbuld not with honour introduce phew matter some other member , of the house might- do so . ( Cheers . ) He was of opinion that there ought to be a clause in the bill specifying the meal hours . j . The Delegate from B oltp h ' said , he was instructed by his constituents to discouhtehah ' ce ; the proposition of the letter in the Times , ; ' and to ' , support any clause that would do away with relays and shifts altogether , and that would give to the factory workers a bill of fiftyi eight hours a week—ten

      hours' a day for five daysaud eight'hours on Saturday , ( llear . )! ... ' ' ' - . ¦ > ¦ ¦¦ -. ¦ : ¦ The Delegate from Blackburn moved the first resolution :-r- " That this meeting having been rendered necessary by a letter which ^ appeared in the Times of Thursday last , signed 'A Manufacturer , ' suggesting to the operatives tho propriety of surrendering two ' hoars . per week—the proposition being put in . such a ' way as to call for a prompt and decisive ' answer from the factory operatives throughout the country—we , the delegates here assembled , avail ourselves of the present opportunity to declare to the government , the legislature , and the British public , both for ourselves and those whom we represent , that we never- will submit to anything involving in the slightest degree a

      departure from the . principles of the Ten Hours Act , for which we , the factory workers , have , at an enormous experise . struggled so many years . " The committee at Blackburn were quite astonished on receiving the circular convening that meeting , as they were not prepared-for . such a proposition as that contained in the letter of ' < A Manufacturer . " The object of the letter was to create a division amongst the operatives . ( Hear . ) But let not such a proposition as that , causei any division in their ranks . The Blackburn committee said the proposition was not worthy of consideration at all ; that they would not lose one minute of what had been conceded , but that they would stick to the Ten Hours Act . ( Hear . ) They must not have division , but unity ;' and he was sure that the universal feeling of the factory

      operatives—men , women , and children—was in favour of the Ten Hours Act . ( Hear . ) He should not wonder if Sir George > Grey or Lord John Russell , ' or some other member of the government , had employed some one—for Whigs were always meanto write this letter . ( A laugh . ) The Delegate from Bolton said ,, he believed ' tho letter had been published in the Times with tho view of causing a division amongst the operatives , who were now contending for a bill to do . awny with relays and shifs . lie believed the individual who wrote the letter in , the Times was dishonest , inasmuch as he had notgiven his name . The editor of the ' ' limes had in his leading article made a most

      just comment , but he did not know the parties he had to deal with ; , the operatives , however , knew with whom they had to . deal . ( Hear . ) : The operatives of Bolton had como to a determination to stick to the Ten Hours Act , and to a clauso for doing away with the relay and shift system .. . Another delegate from' Bolton , ' two . delegates from the local committee ,, and Trom Dewsbury , Stockport , Preston , ' Chorley , Ashton-under-Lyne , Droylsden , Middleton , Enfield , Hindley ; Macclosfield , Preston , Gorton , Prestolee , ' and Hyde , ; all stated that they were instructed by their constituents to declare their determination to stick to an efficient Ten Hours Act , and "ho surrendor . "

      Thercsolntion was then carried unanimously .. \ The delegate from Chorley moved the second resolution , which wa 8 , as follows : — " That the delegates from the factory workers of Lancashire , Yorkshire , and the adjoining counties , deeply rbgret the necessity for calling this meeting , -to attend which I hey have , at . considerable expense and inconvenience , been obliged to leave their respective districts once more to reiterate their approval of the Ten Hours Apt ; and their determination and that of their constituents never to . rest ' satisned until that act is fully . and , -fairly carried out according to the intentions of the Legislature 'Which passed it in , 1817 . " ¦ ¦ = ¦ = The delegate from Prestpn seconded the resolution , ; which was carried unaiiimoiisly . , ., ' The delegates then . adjourned for an hoiii ' -and a half for refreshment . . ; - i

      ; On re-assembling , the letter * of Lord Ashley , received that mornings was again read by'the ' secretary , ht » d after some discuBsioR . the following resolution was carried unanimously : — "That Lord Ashley be respectfully requested to introduce the clauses agreed to at the -Conference ( mentioned in Lord Ashley ' s letter ) , or such , other matter as will put an end to the relay anil shift system : ind ! secure to women arid young persons an efficient Ten Hours A 0 t « 'W .. . "¦ ,. :... ¦ •¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ -. ¦ . ; " . "' ' - •¦ ¦ ¦ , .. After'the transaction of some routine business tho meeting broke up . .- . •; . ¦ >• . .. ¦¦¦ .. - •• :.-.,. •¦ . ; ;; Similar resolutions were adopted at a meetiug . of factory workers held atTodihbrdcn ^ ' - ¦

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      Mctton from "America . —A vessel which has arrived from New . York , has brought fifty-eight barrels of mutton , as n portion of . her cargo consigned , the produce of the United States of America . No previous importation of this description of animal food has taken place from the United States , either in a fresh or salted condition , if we accept some small importations , at uncertain ' 'intervals , . ofhams made from mutton legs ,, and- termed " mutton , ) ianis , arid which , n . ot being , smoked and entirely prepared for use as hams , according to . the common acceptation of the term ; have boeu admitted duty free , i The present importation of mutton from America is . therefore of some interest and importance .: •; ' .. '¦ ' , ,

      " RdTAi PAucEs . '—An interesting Parliamentary paper has lately , been . printed in . the . shape of a return of the sums of money already voted for the different royal palaces for the last three years , and tbo amount due . In'the year 1847 , 48 ' there . \ vas ^ . QOlvoted . ' ahd in that yeai < £ 44 , 8 ir 3 s . 2 d . was oxpqnded ; in 184 S-49 , ; £ 45 , 057 , was voted , and £ 35 , 331 Cs . 2 d . . expended ; . . whilst : in 1849-50 , ' £ 43 , 595 . ffas voted , and £ 22 , 172 15 s . 5 d . expcrideil ; - The-atnountdue to the 10 th of April inst . could not bo ascertained with acpuvacy , b ' » t '' the / sums . voted to the 31 st ' ' 6 f March last wqrVexpected to be suffix cie'rit to . complete the : contcinplated oxp&nsns to that period , mid the total amount voted will , it was believed , fully cover the total expenditure . JVith respect to ¦" . Buckingham / Pi > lnce enlargement arid improvement ;" , the sum . of £ 50 , 00 . 0 was voted ,, and as mueli' as £ 53 , 010 , ' : % " . Id .. expended in . 1847-4 S ; in 1848-411 , £ 30 , 000 was voted / and £ 35 , 85318 s . lid .

      expended ; and in 1849-50 ; £ 14 , 200 was voted , and £ 13 , 344 : 153 . Od . expended . ; Already £ 150 , 000 has boen voted'for the enlargemont and improvement of Buckingham Palace , ' and tliere will be ii furthev sum . pf ^ lo . OTO i iSs ; lid . requived fpv that pwpose . TbES IK'THB / iOoUIlT : OP ; . C 0 J 1 M 0 N :. PleAS . — On Monday the amended bU \ . to regulato ¦ the receipt and ' amdunt cf fees receivbd' by certain-officers in the Court '' of Common Plbhs , ' wn ^ s ' panted : Pees are to . be entered in a : bo , pk > nnQ ' aq . c oun ^ cd for to the Treasury . Oi \ vacancy , ¦ insiHe '' o ' fficb of " Senior Master , 'they . maybo reduced . ; , ' Compensation tnav be granted to person * nffepted by ' the aot , ¦¦ ¦ - * ; : i /¦'

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      witrieWMsdeei . ' devotibh ' " te " hie ? t ffit ^ S'vS kneel at ^^ tike briy of ; SbSeS both of m . ; ah 9 r ; with , alp 6 k ( , that . S [ nSHn adamantine' rock ie-. pity , to beg . me to take- compassion , on aw dteaoral sufferings j arid then iwant him to end bf » weari » g toblow his- brains out on the spot if I do : not coapassioriaWhismiseries ; *'' Paris has no- leas than three thousand female professors ' of music-. • ' ' ¦ ; ;

      Smiihkrs say »; he ean't see that 'fresh air does him any good . ; For thelast week he has slept with his window open reg ' jifarly every night , and yet his cough . isjust as bad aa ever it was . Sniithers begin * to look upon ventilation aa » a hura , notwithstanding it is so lauded by the doetors . ' ¦¦ : ¦ - .: Masy cunious objects for the archaeologist have been discovered in dragging the bed of the Seine , at Paris : arms of all kinds , all epochs , medals , vases , &o . 'having been found . '' . ; . " : " , H 6 w Beauiifui ,, ! ' said . a lady , "the face of nature looks after undergoing a shower ? "Yes , madam , and so would yours , after undergoing a similar process ; " ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦" . ; .

      \ Bepi , ection op a LoNDoif SitiHi-SKEB . ~ I wbuldri ' t give twopence to see St . Paul ' s—if the Dean and Chapter didn ' t make me . —Punch . ¦ : ¦ >¦¦ A Sub . Contiuctob on the railway was last week summoned before the magistrates * at Ulverstone , for refusing to pay wages . One of the complainants handed ma book of the time he had worked , and said the magistrates would vei-y likely not-be able to read his writing .: He said , " You see , sir ; I am only a poor writer , and when I have made a whole day I make wliat I call a h orso box , thus ri ; for three-quarters of a day . ^; : for half a . day , ^; and fora quarter of a day ,-. " This statement excited considerable laughter in tho court , and ultimately the wanes were paid .. ' ¦ ' ; .- '(

      Tub RoTAt , " or-Victoria Tower , at the the southwest angle of the New Palace of Parliament , ' at Westminster , is seventy-five feet square , and will rise 340 feet ; the entrance archway is sixty feet in height . Mr . Barry considers that this stately tower should not proceed , on / account of . its great height , and the danger of settlements , at a greater rate than thirty feet per year .

      CHAPS AND FELLOWS . ¦' Why , Celia , ' look so grave when S pring His genial warmth vouchsafes to bring . ^ o all the smiling land ? Relieved from chill can you deplore ¦¦ .,. ' . The numerous chaps are new no more ¦ "Which claim'd your lipand hand ? . ¦¦ ' ¦ •' "No , '' cried , the pretty n . a ' g , though bold ' ¦'¦ ' ¦ Those chaps , Ithought them all too cold , ¦¦' . ' . And yon can hardly doubt ; < ¦ Spring ' s welcome and tho le ' ngth'riing day , Since while old chap s are driven awayj Young fellows are brought out . " H . T .

      Mahomet ' s father is said to . have been so surprisingly handsome that the Say , he was married two hundred virgins of-the tribe of KoreUh died of broken hearts . —Irving ' s life of Mahomet . ' ¦ ^ '¦'''¦' ¦ '¦¦' An'Elderlt lady , telling her age , rern&rked that she w » 8 born on the 22 nd of April . Herh&sband , who was present / observed , "I always thought you were born on the first of April . ' "' People might well judge so , " responded . ' the : matroh , " in the choice I made of ' a liusbahdi" " . " ., ' ,. ' , " "A gentleman remarking that he . had lost his watch through the carelessness of a servant , in leaving the house unguarded , concluded by saying , "However it was a poor one . " Miss B . replied , " why , sir , a gentleman , like you , should have kept a letter watch . "

      SONG . OF THE DECANTER . There was an old decanter , and its mouth was 'gapingwide ; the rosy wine had . . ebbed away ' . ¦ an ' dleft its crys-. tal tide : ¦ . ¦ and the wind . ... weht . humming' humming , .: , iipand down the wind it / e « i , . and through the reed-like hollow neck the wildest note it [ ' blew ' . ' . I placed it in the window , where the blast was ¦ blowing freely , and fancied that its pale mouth sang the queerest strains to me . " They tell me—puny conquerors I the Plague has slain his' " ten , and War his hundred thousand 8 of tho very best of men ; but I "—' twas thus the-Bottlespake— " but I have conquered .. more than all your famous conquerors , so feared and famed of yore . Then come , ye youths and maidens all , como drink from out my cup , the beverage that dulls the ' , brainandDurhsthespint 8 up ; thatput 8 to shame your conquerors that slay their scores below ; for this has deluged millions withtlielavatideofu'oc . Tho ' in the path of battles darkest streams of blood may ' roll ; yet while I kill-.: " . ¦ ¦ ; the body ,-J have damned the yo-< py spul . The cholera , the plague , . '; ' the a word , such ruin ne ' erWo ' f , , as I , in mirth or malice , on the : .. ., innocent have Irought . And , ' : still 1 . breathe upon them ,. and they shrink before my . . . breatlt , and year by year my thousands tread the dustv way of death .

      Why are young ladies like arrows ?—Because they are all in a quiver , when the beaus come . ; Why is a talkative young riiari like a young pig ? —Because , if he lives , lie is very likely to become a great bore . ., ' ¦ - A man boasting in a company of ladies that lie had a very luxurious head of hair , a lady present remarked that it was ; altogethcr owing to the mellowness of tho soil . . : . - . . Bkloe ,: in his-anecdotes ,: gives a good punning epitaph on Wijliam Lawes , the musicul composer , who . was killed by : the Rodndheads : — . ' -. . ; Concordis conquer'd ! , In ; his urnthere lies

      The master of great music ' s mysteries ; And init is a riddle ; lilie the cause , ' : Will Lawes was slain , by men whoao 'Wills were .. ¦ . ebws . " : ..:,.:. •;; . ¦ ¦ , .... ; .. ; :. ' ¦' - . >¦ ' , ' Thksk is now in . ! the possession of Mr . Thomas Darby , ' Walshani-le-Willows , a . gosling with three legs and four feet , two feet being attached to one leg . ¦ . -. .- ' ,.. ¦ ¦¦ ; . - . . \ : ¦ ,. - ,. -. : - . > : J ' ' ; - ' iMiss Maria Somers , an actress , obtained a , verdict of £ 40 damages ; against the London and North-Western Railway Company , at the late Liverpool assizes , for the loss of a trunk containing theatrical dresses , &c .

      4 , " said a miscliievous wag to a lady acquaintance of ah aristocratic caste , " I perceive you have been learning a trade . " " Learning a trade , " replied the lady , indignantly , " you are vcry _ . m . uch mistaken . " "Oh , I thought by the looks of your cheeks you had turned painter . " The lajly waxed wrathy , and the wag sloped . " ,.... < .-,. ' : ¦¦' .: ¦ : ' The , Two Smiths —A gentleman . with the same Christian and surname took ; lodgings in the same house with Ji » me 8 Smith . The oonsequenco-was , eternal fconfusionr of calls -anti' letters . —Indeed , the postman had no . alternative , ; but to . share the letters equally ^ between the two . - " This is quite in

      tolerable , ' sir / . ' . said pur friend , '' and you mu 9 tquit . !' . Why aih I to quitjnore thaiiybu ? " --BecattSQ you arc James the Secondj and mnslaldkate . ' * ' ; Wrinkles . —A fair correspondent . ' of the Lady ' s Newspaper inquires for a remedy for wrinkles .. .-, The editor says , in reply , •' 'VTo can only s ; vy ( whoever should be so fortunate to discovev a specific fov defacing . ' pr destroying these enemies to-the female countenance would . infallibly , secure ^ the gratitude of the ; whole sei . The insidious approaches of ag . e may be hidden or disguished when they approach : in any othev ^ fovmi bvxt the- , avpeavauce of j-wvinkjes tells : 1 an ower true tale . ' To remove them when

      once formed , wo behove is impossible ; but to postpone the evil to the . latest periodj we recom ' aiend eavly rising , moderate exerciso ; but , above . all ,, cheerfulness , good temper , and ' a contented iaind . DR ^ BETitDNa writes to the- iuijci « -5 octcr ,-that , on reading , one . morning ., a i | 9 port ; .: of .-a discourse pre . ichedby iiim ; the . day ! . before , hefosadthe veremarkj .. ' . ' aad the adversary came nmoeg them and sawed trees " instead of ' -sowedtares" , ¦ j / EnDKxe-Es of FEELisOi-iBut oh I howj I detest yoursenlimcntal pebpIs , who pretegfl to ; bo full of feeling j who will cry © vey a worn , and yet troat real' . misfortune withneglecK . i . T&ro are | yourJho ladioathat I have sesn in a dinirvg-room , and when , by an accident , an « drwig has ' cwtie out of a peach , ' after , havinc bees half killed in onmiin ' it it : i she

      would exclaim , " - ' Oh' ; poor thing "!' you h : iv * broken its baclu-do-spare it ; \ can ' t bear . to seeevensui . mspet suffer . Ob . thovo , my lord , how % ow hurt it ; let . ine open the window and put' it out . And then the huBbarid drawls ' out , " My wife is . qiiito remarkable for b ' er . sensibility :, I marrie ^ her purely for that . " And tho wife cries ; ;" Oh ,, tiow my lord , you are too , good to say that : if 1 had not W a gwn of feeing , " I should have learUfc it froin . yon . And so theyrgoon , praiaing ea ' chothor , arid perhaps , the next morning , when she is-getting into her-carriage , a poor woman , with aohild at herbreast ; and so starved that -she basfndt , a-drop / of milk . beg 3 charity of her : ahdshb draws , u ' p . thegla'S , ; ami tells " the footman ariother time jiiot . to , l et ^ . tho ^ e disgusting people stand - at the im ^ Lad y ¦ mtw--St < m ¦ hope ^ .:. i- ' ^ . i . -- ^ 'i ~^ ' ^ - ' ¦¦¦¦ ' •'¦ ' • :- - '

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      THE SOLDIER TO THE SUNBURST . The shadowy gloom of silent ni ght Is fled , and morning ' s roseate light Flin . ss o ' er thy folds its sunshine bright . My banner free—hurrah ! And warriors crowd thy standard round , Their charges shake the battle ground , Exulting hi the trumpet sound That calls to death—hurrah ! . While floating o ' er the field of war , Thy folds the wild wind fans afar The warriors * pride , my battle star , I worship thee—hurrah ! Xead in the van , the noble band . That draws the sword for fatherland , O ' er serried line , and phalanx grand , "Wave thy broad folds—hurrah . ! For Gaelic hearths , and Gaelic laws , We tread the mountain fern , nor pause v 'Till triumph crowns " the good old cause .. , : With deathless wreaths—hnrrah !

      And if that glorious cause be lost , If vanquished falls the Gaelic hosts , We both , shall bear , tho' tempest tossed . The battle ' s brunt—hurrah ! , And o ' er the dead and dying brave , Who , fighting , found the warrior ' s grave , Thy folds shall fierce defiance wave Unconquered still—hurrah ! . There , floating fearless , brave , and free , My fainting arms will cling to thee , Gaze o ' er the war-field ' s bloody lea , And sink in death—hurrah ! There , wrapt within his cold embrace , ^ Sb shame shall stain thy glorious face , Hot tyrants step , unhallowed , trace The freemen ' s grave—hurrah !

      But while such hearts as our ' s is here , Xo brow will blench with coward fear , There ' s triumph in our Irish cheer , Erin , aboo—hurrah ! On , on , the Shamrock ' s dewy head Is bending , ' neaththe foeman ' s tread , It ' s verdant wreath shall dress our bed If we shall fall—hurrah ! The Irishman . J . M . D .

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      The Hand-Book of Registration , fyc , fye . London : Watson . This small , but truly valuable , hand-book was published some time last year , by the National Kegistration and Election Committee . It contains a compilation of the Keform and Eegistration Acts ; and persons coming ^ vithin the operation of those laws , and desirous of becoming electors , will find it an efficient and trustworthy guide . There is no likelihood of the present Parliament lasting seven years ; hence the greater necessity for this useful work being placed in the hands of all who have it in their power to make good their claim to be registered . "We understand that the price of this hand-book has been reduced from threepence , to twopence . Chartist committees should see to its circulation . :

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 4, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1572/page/3/