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      SATIOUAIi CHARTEU ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-gtreet , Strand . rTHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X herebyannouncethefollovfinBmeetinBs : — On Sundaj nexr , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , w » d Mr . Pattinson , thesub-aecretarj , « rillbeiu attendance Jto enrol members . On Sunday efening next at the Princess Royal , Circus , street , Marylebone—Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same eTening , at the Bricklayers' Arm * . Tonbridge-street , New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening at the Woodman Tavern , White .

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      . . . — POBLISHISfS EVERY SATUEDAY , - - '" MOTES TO THE PEOPLE . *» AiiewPeriodica \ , "toreflecttheadvaucedmindofth » go , and prepare tfieTpeople for the advent of popular J > oiver , tcontaining forty , cblumnj' of close print ( beside ) wrapper ) ro » twopbsce .

      By ERNEST JONES , Of the Middle Temple , Barrister at Law . The following articles have appeared already : — The Poems composed by Ebnest Jomu in prison . A Lettek on Co-operation , showing the fatal errors of the pretent movement , and the remedy . Letiees ox the Chaxtist Pkogmhhk , giving the reasoni for each clause , and au * weringthe Tima , etc . The Middle Cuss Fbaxchibe Measdbe—why will it injure thePeople ? The Currency Question—The History of Florence—Reward in the Army—Panslavism—The Superstitions of ilaa , land [ I , etc . A Democratic Rohakce , compiled from the Journal of a Democrat , the Confession of a Demagogue , and the Minutes of a Spy .

      „ No . T . ( this day ) , Contains , besides Continuation of the Romance—The History—The Letters on the Programme , etc . Ook Lasd—its Lords and Serfs—A toast for Laborers and Farmers—and other matter . Articles in immediate preparation for this magazine : — Ota Coionies—their climate , soil , produce , andEmlgranti . —No . L the Cape ; No . n . Australia . The Constctotioh op Eobope , and the position of its Democracy . —Ne . I . The Constitution of France , with : an appendix : The Game of Napoleon ; No . II . The Constitution of Prussia , vrith the Game of Frederick William . These papers will be the only authentie version of European government yet published , and are lupplied by leading continental democrats . A series of Democratic Song 3 , to popular airs , or to on . gmal melodies , with the music annexed . Published by R . Pavey , 47 , Holy well-street , Strand , . London , and to be had through all Booksellers .

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      A . M'Leod , Newcastle—Reports should be written only on one side of the paper , and the speakers should follow in regular succession . , The FJtiEND trlw forwarded the petitions from Huddersfi-ld , Holm 6 rtb . and llonley will oblige by forthwith sending his address to John Arnott , 14 , Southampton , street , Strand , London . < T . Ksow . tfs list . —Cambridge , perMurrelllOs—Welchman 6 d—Wardour-street , Wilson ' s Tinmen 7 s 9 d—Mr . Iteels —Chapman . tjd—Lemon Land Carbine 4 s 5 d—Shoredicth Is 6 d—Sweatings Is—Messrs . Back and Hunnarch , Brush-makers £ 2 10 s—Mr . Ilufford , Cubit's 2 s—W . Cut ting . Carvers , New Houses of Parliament £ 1 8 s G < 1—Smith ' s Workmen 2 s lid-Mr . Abbott Cd-Michdeski , one of the Refugees employed 3 s . H . S ., Bristol-road , Birmingham . —Sixteen motrths . 11 . UitiEELT . Haslii'sden . ' —A pressure of other matter pre vents our doing justice to your letter this week .

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      THE'ld . iTIEll ' ITll . SATURDAY , MAY 3 £ , 1851

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      PRISON REVELATIONS . Lord Dudley Stuart Lag prcseiited , and tlie -House of Commons printed , a petition which demands not only the serious attention of the Legislature , but the people of this country . It involves questions of the greatest moment and importance to all classes of the community , and records facts which are disgraceful in the'hi ghest degree to the adminis tration of tKelaw in this country , and the Government" under . whose sanction such infamous conduct was perpetrated . . .

      If there be any distinction more obvious than another , it is the difference between persons sentenced to imprisonment for political , and those for personal or criminal offences . Political non-conformity ,, ih&y be inconvenient to the Government for . the time being , but it is' not a crime . On the contrary ; the history of the world proves it to have been hitherto the highest virtue . ' It is the secret of all progress . The political heresy of to-day becomes the recognised popular creed to-morrow , and the foundation -of new and beneficial institutions . Whether Governments are ever justified in depriving persons of liberty for the mere publication of opinions adverse to exists

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      ing " institutions is a question w . e "shall j adt stay to argue now . But , ; at ; all ° SiventB ;; every one-will concede ,, . that all . bjeyond . jiKe ' prebautions necessary for . the safe custody : of politic cal prisoners ,. is the wanton and unjustifiable gratification of party hatred . The law and the administrative function ^ are perverted from their leg itimate purposes into instrument for wreaking the vengeance of the powerful upon the weak combatants in the field of political strife .

      Mr . Ebnest Jones , in his petition . to the House of Commons , has enabled u ( s to judge of the present administration in this respect . His prison revelations . disclose an amount of petty penecution , malignant hostility , and systematic abuse of inordinate power on the part of both Government and its subordinate tools , such as we could scarcely have credited . The presentation of the petition may be taken as the best guarantee of its truth , because no one m his senses would have made such grave statements public , and called for inquiry into their , truth , unless lie was prepared to substantiate them . -

      Mr . Jones was sentenced to be imprisoned for two years and one week , for the delivery of a speech in June , 1848 . His offence was technically that of a misdemeanour of the first class , and the sentence was simple imprisonment , without any further aggravation or punishment . The law simply intended , and the sentence embraced , nothing beyoud the deprivation of liberty ; and Mr . Jones was assured , while in the dock , that he would receive lenient and considerate treatment ,

      But the Government , and the subordinates who manage the gaols , have a mode of violating the law of their own exclusive manufac : ture . Anew philosophy of prison discipline and classification has been invented , which is so exceedingly gross that it cannot adapt itself to details . - It makes no difference between the political lecturer and the pickpocket—the open advocate of Parliamentary , Reform through the Charter , and the burglar who breaks into your house at midni ght . Whatever fish are caught in the net of the law are treated as if they were all of the same species . The Procrustean system is indiscriminate in its application , and the prison law may , at the discretion of the authorities , overide the

      common law . Hence , Mr . Jokes was treated in the same manner as if he had been a criminal , instead of a misdemeanant . During the two years and one week he was confined in Tothill-fields Prison he was kept , m separate confinement , on the silent systemj . enforced with such rigour that even reading the Bible to himself , in a scarcely audible voice , was followed by a severe reprimand . He was compelled to wear the same'habiliments as culprits guilty : of heinous offences—marched about the prison with common felons- —required to pick oakum ~ the "hard labour " which is added by special sentence to . punish with severity grievous offenders , or to pay weekly to be exempted—and placed on such diet aa seriously injured Mb health .. ¦

      It would seem , indeed , that a malevolent ingenuity had been at . work ; to devise every possible way . of tormenting and injuring him . During the most inclement portion of the first winter , ho was kept without fire , and with the lame clothing as in the height of summer , ; in a cell open to the winds of heaven ! His sleeping place was equally , exposed ; and such was the damp , and fog in tfieIcells ,- tliat Mr . Jones frequently brushed-the dew .. off h'is blanket in' the morning . . '• '¦' ; ' ' $ '¦ * - ; ¦ ' ¦

      The effects of thiscrueland most unjustifiable severity soon became apparent . Tio , doloreux and rheumatism almost deprived him of the use of his limbs , but his cell was not changed . ; For five winter months , though afflicted by an aggravated attack of neuralgia , ho was , com - polled to . rise at a quarter past six o'clock ; and , even in the midst of rain and snowy , to walk through two yards ; and wash and dress

      m the open air . The result was ,. the loa ^ ^ of sixteen pounds weight in seven weeks , ' and a frame so shattered that he was ordered into the infirmary , where he sta yed under medical treatment for nineteen weeks . Upon' leaving it , the old , harsh , and murderous discipline was resumed , which , at the . close of a fortnight , sent him back to the dootor in a more dangerous state ; than before .

      Under these circumstances ,, and believing that his death would ensue' from this new mode of slow murder , his ' . wife petitioned that his own medical man might be allowed to see him . That request was refused . Mr . Waklev ; . a member of parliament , applied in that capacity , and . also as a medical man , to see Mr . Jones , and was refused ;'' No interview was granted with friends or relatives , of more than twenty minutes duration , and then only four ' times in the yearin

      , the presence of a turnkey . He was not allowed , to write , even to his wife , more than , once a quarter , and for the first nineteen ihonths of his imprisonment denied the nseof writing materials . Even when the cholera was spreading its ravages both within arid without the prison , the permiaion to hear . from his ; family was refused ; and when lying in danger of his own life , no communication was allowed to be made other than the prescribed quarterly letter .

      Tame patient acquiescence under such treatment would , have been a crime , and not a virtue . Mr . Jones accordingly bethought himself of ascertaining from the judge who sentenced him , whether his . punishment was in accordance with that sentence , and the assurances , of lenient treatment which followed it . He was refused permission to make such inquiries , and threatened with additional

      severity and indignities for -his contumacy , in daring to make such a request . The application to see the prison rules , under which alone such" severities could be inflicted , was met with a denial . ' Leave'to communicate with a solicitor , to . petition Parliament , or to see Messrs . " O'Connor ,. Wakley , and G . Thompson , at the ns ' ual period for seeing visitors , was refused ; . The Board refused

      even to answer his questions , or to admit him to the weekly meetings of the visiting justices , though both the Act and the Prison rules specify that to-be thought of prisoners . Nothing seems . to have alarmed these Tothill-fields Inquisitors more than the chance of the torture they were subjecting their victim to , becoming known . The ' Governor added a paragraph with his own hand , to a letter written by Air . Jones to hia wife , asking for an interview with the three gentlemen we have named , in which Mrs . Jones " was warned not to write to " them , at tlie peril of beinoherself forbidden to see her husband for a few minutes , every three , months in the presence of a turnkey . » . ¦ . - ¦ -.

      The money which exempted him from picking oakum having fallen in arrears for one week , Mr . Jones Avas ordered to perform forced labour , and on refusing to do so unless he was allowed to . write to . his judge , or to petition Eirliamont , both the ; laws of the country audltho rules of the prison were set aside . The . arbitrary will of the Governor was substituted ' for both , and the prisoner was locked up in a refractory cell , put upon bread and water , and kept without books for as lone as the Governor " chose . "

      Sharp and Williams , two of his follow prisoners , perished Vmder thiriUegal and atrocious treatment . Mr . Jones . e 3 caped . with a shattered constitution , and the conviction that had he continued longer under the tender mercies of the . Whig Government , he never would have quitted the prison with life . ¦ Mr . . Jones now places these facts before the Bouse of Commons , and prays that it may institute ; -an investi gation of the treatment to whichho wa 3 subjected . His charges are , that the authority of the judge Was superseded ^—the rules of the prison violated—the laws of the country broken—his own healtli

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      irreparably damaged-T-audhis life imperilled "; and for the . sake of preventing . Blrnilar cruelr ties being ; perpetrated . upon , other prisoners in future , he claims a full inquiry into-these charges . ' " . ; . _ . ' . ' . < ; Comment upon the facts now stated is unnecessary . The heart of every reader will have instinctively prompted indignant detestation of the parties who were guilty of such cowardly

      conduct . The allegations do not stop with the subordinates ? the Home Minister is distinctly and sp ecifically implicated in the statement of Mr . Jones ; and we trust he will be brought to the bar of public opinion , for thus abusing the powers of his high office , and perverting them to gratify the hostile and revengeful feelings of a partizau against a political opponent . . of Ernest

      Contrast the treatment Jones , the Chartist , with that of Captain Somerset , the Guardsman . . Both of them gentlemen by birth and education . The one stepped over the narrow and exclusive limits of a class training , and devoted himself to the advocacy of reforms which would enfranchise the masses . For this offence against the oligarchy he was doomed to the indignities , suffering , and deliberately-inflicted tortures , both bodily and mentally , we have described . His long and dreary imprisonment was uncheered by tho countenance or voices of friends , except at long intervals ; and the utmost stringency was exercised during such brief and limited

      interviews as were permitted . The other having wilfully and openly broken the law , and assaulted the police in the execution of their duty , was sentenced to a few days' imprisonment in the House of . Correction , but the Visiting Justices had no objection to his short confinement being relieved by the visits of friends . A succession of carriages drove up to the prison door , and the cell of the Captain was converted into a levee , or drawing room , daily .. He was not guilty of Chartism . He merely broke the law , and the severities which attended the avowal of unfashionable political opinions , wero mitigated when they came to deal with gross and palpable overt acts , in defiance of tha st&tute law .

      Among all the misdeeds which will make the present Ministry infamous in history , their treatment of the Political Prisoners of 1848 will not be tho least damning .

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      holder of the Little Charter , " - is a proof of thO' truth , pf , rthe \ observation—wh y should ejtheivhe or , ; those with whom . he isto act in futur ? stop -there ? - > Why-not follow their own premises ... * ^ a ^ g itimate . c onclusion , and enfranchise ' au citizens , on the broad ground that taxation arid representation ought to be co-equal ? - Should Mr . Hume find an opportunity of bringing on his motion again this year it is the intention of Mr . DunoombE to move , as an amendment , a resolution , pledging the House to take" the question up next Session , with the view of extending the Suffrage . The hon . Member for Finsbury had placed a notice on the paper to that effect , for the day of the "NoHouse , " when the " Little Charter" wai

      to have come on . Some of the metropolitan journals have accused himof inconsistency and hostility to Parliamentary Reform , for having taken that course ; whereas , in the present state of public business and of parties , it is decidedly the very best that could" be adopted . There is not the slightest chance of carrying Mr . Hume ' s motion ; but the amendment of Mr , DuiXCOMBE would test tlie sincerity of the Ministerial promise . Mr . Hume would , in all probability , withdraw his . motion in favour of the amendment ; and if the Ministerialists and " independent Liberals" voted in favour

      of the latter , the advantage would be gained of distinctly pledging the House to deal with the question . How they should do so . is , as Mr . Cobden says—and as we have repeatedly urged—a question for the people . Public men are , after all , but the instruments by which the public will is carried into effect ; and , as we have seen Mr . Cobden impelled so far forward this week , there is every reason for supposing that a hearty and determined agitation out of doors , during the period that must intervene between this time and the meeting of Parliament next year , would induce our legislators to go a great deal farther than they now dream of .

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      PARLIAMENTARY . The Ceylon job is a very black one . It exhibits , in perfection , all the vices of . Whig government , . from family interest . pushing " a relative " into a position for which he was totally unfitted , and then having recourse to the basest subterfuges , and trickery to cover up the misdeeds of their protegee , and evade the responsibility which ought to attach to his mis-government . Apparently this crooked policy will succeed . The Ministry will escape the vote of censure , which otherwise would have driven them from office ; not bec ause the

      censure is unmerited , but because they have created so much delay that , in the meantime , new combinations of circumstances have arisen of a more pressing and immediate interest , and people , in political matters , always are more affected , by the immediate than the remote . Besides , practically , the labours of the Committee have had their fruition in the dismissal of Lord Torrington from the office of Governor , and in the withdrawal of Sir Emerson Tennent , the Secretary , and other officials connected with the tyrannical and blood-thirsty treatment of the : Cingalese . Lord

      Torrington s notions of government were fitter for Russia - or a Turkish Pashalic , than a British " 'Colony . ' He first drove the people into a state of insubordination ,::. by the imposition " , of intolerable ) ' . taxes , ? > and , then caused the soldiers to slaughter them almost without provocation . When the riot or " row , " for it was nothing more , was summarily quelled , his "lordship " exhibited an extraordinary ferocity , and continued in cold blood to murder the natives by means of courts martial . These are rude and rough weapons in the hands of authority at all times

      , but Lord Torrington was more than usually oblivious of the distinctions between innocence and guilt . Had the motion been brought on last year , while the interest was still fresh —had it even been . introduced last Session when Mr . Baillie / the Chairman , first propounded it , and when the publication of fresh evidence had revived the sub ject , the discuslion would havebeen a lively one , and the vote would have had important political results . But the Whigs ar . e lucky . The sham ••

      resignation , ' . ' early in the Session proved that no other Government is practicable at present . Since then , the interminable debates , and inextricable confusion arising out of the Anti-Papal Bill , has made the Stanley party by no means anxious to take office until it is disposed of . We expect , therefore , that the upshot of the debate will be an agreement to " let bygones be bygones . " The matter will be hushed up , and the Colonial Office escape richly merited condemnation .

      Since tha above was written , the division has taken place , and verified our anticipation . Ministers are whitewashed by a majority of eighty . ¦ •> ' The only other question of importance before tho Commons this week . has been the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill—which is just where it was last week . The farther the question is explored , the more bewildered all parties become ., The lawyers differ as to tlie nature and the extent of the clauses . The "Irish brigade" keep up , with great ' spirit and pertiuacity , their obstructive policy , and considerable portions of each night are thus

      consumed in divisions . The result is , no progress is made . The Irish members are threatened with day as wellas night sittings if they persevere in this course ' . But they-tauntingly respond- " Try it , and see who will soonest tire . " They have the majority in a very pretty " fix , " , though the termination is hardly doubtful .- The -Fabian policy of delay will not avail against the overwhelming majorities recorded in favour , of the ^ me asure . The . House of Lords still dawdles ' for . want of something to do .. . By . way of making a show oc casionally , sth . ey ; getupa . talkBow and then . But it is ' mere talk .- One was ' of a rather

      curious description the other night . A Bill for Regulating Public-liouses in Scotland was the topic ; and it was singular to hour the revelations of three Scotch "dukes , " two Scottish Ci earls , " a ' ud one Scotch "baron , " respecting ; . ^ th' o state of society iu moral , and . religio , | iB [' ,. Scotland . Accordin |\ 'to ' ' ! the . ¦^ n pBt | V ! Jfo \ 'itnosses who •• gave evidence against theirnative country , it is the most drunken , debauched ; and immoral part

      of tho empire . Whisky is' the ruin of the country ; " and if there , can onl y be restrictions enough placed on its sale . to reduce its consumption two thirds , it would quite satisfy the lordly Legislators But tho question - arises , how would the Chancellor of tho Exchp quer like that ? We suspect not at all ' Our society is . so badly constructed , that it ' thrivos by the demoralisation and the wretchedness of those who are its victims .

      DOMESTIC . . . havh £ ° f Wight Md Hanvich cle ° ti ° n * have given an accession of two Members to tho Free Trade : party . The return S , m \ £ borough » of no political value or si J £ tion \ f er ; but that the Isle of Wigh should tKm 7 T " PrOtectiou ^ sasTgntf the times , which may arrest the attention of phUosophers at the Oarltan and Conservative S J y feeVin S seems t 0 h » ve >•«» very high , and one gentleman lost his life iu consequence of the excitement .

      , lamworth has been the scene of an a'ltiorea ( l tax riot . Following up the policy of tne irotectionist party , which consists in having dinners all over tho country , at which the viands and wines are seasoned with lugubrious accounts of the ruin already caused ° or impending the Protectionists of tho Tumworth district , dined in the Town Hall on Tuesday . The place was assailed by the town's people , the windows smashed , % nd the company com-

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      pelled to bej ; t a retreat to an inn ^ T ^ way there a hanC ^ o hand fight took plaC which . jmany . ipersdiis * wer . eriousi y wound-. !? This is but a Bpecimsn of ? hat niay be look i for shoulu- 'the Protectb » ists he insane enoSl to attempt re-enacting a' cojrn tax ; s Divisions multiply ' amoijg " tlie cle r * Even within the diocese : of Exet& its Di and . charitable bishop finds it impossibleT maintain the seeming of unanimity , h diocesan-synod will be a maimed one seeiT that upwards of forty of his clergy have JJ ? licl y protested against it . Bnt his « ' lordahin' > will no doubt proceed . He is too eager L

      nery a . controversialist to be easily turZI aside from his object , ' and he will a 0 donS succeed in keeping the embers of strife « j dissension alive . Poor Established Churcli which is thus rent and torn by intestin e d > 7 sions both on doctrines and disci pline ' i I for the loaves and fishes . " . Oh ! what a Hi would be there , my countrymen !" It is confidentl y stated that the Pope hi formall y condemned- the lately- establish ^ Queen ' s Colleges in Ireland . The cW 2 put the screw on , and the Catholic laity will of course be compelled to withdraw their children from them . It is certainly nct c culated _ to raise , the ! Papal" Church in nnhl ^

      estimation , to find its dignitariesithus mL *\ Z the diffusion of sound knowledge , and ff growthof that- kindly , and unsect arian feeling which ought to be the distinguishing chart , teristic of a Christian people . In the mean ! time , ravaged alike by the harpies of land ! lordismand priestcraft , Ireland : becomes daily more and more desert and depopulated . Tho people fly by thousands from a land richl y ondowed by Providence , but which' man has cursed by his ignorance his . prejudices , and misdirected passions . ¦ -

      FOREIGN , -. ' i . : -. The parliamentary war in the French Chamber grows more unparliamentary , and more warlike , as the time for actual conflict approaches . New symptoms of social di sorganisation make tlieir appearance in-the pro . vinces . Iu the department of the Cher the peasants have assembled armed with Bcythes and other rude implements , and actually stormed several of the chateaux of tho pro . prietary class . This Jacquerie has caused great alarm in the metropolis , and adds anew element to the . troubles that already gather black and portentously over the French soidisant Republic .

      In Italy things go from bad to worse . The French have a sorry time of it in Rome . Assassination makes short work of the soldiers of the fratricidal republic , wherever it has a chance . The citizens have found out an effec tual method of enfeeblingthe tyrants that domineer over them . The tax on tobacco forms in Rome , as it does here , a large item of revenue . The Romans have cut off the supplies-Smoking has been universally abandoned , and the Papal Exchequer , low enough before , h » 3

      beon entirel y cleared out by thia stroke of policy . The authorities / maddened by a resistance which cannot be directly grappled with retaliate in the most irritating and annoying manner—the cut of the hair or the beard , tho shape of the coat , or the colour of the dress are all subject to revision and summary correction , according to the arbitrary tasteof the sbirri and their employers . How all this will end we need riot say . The tyrants could not play a better game for the people . " Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad . "

      With respect to Germany and the northern parts of the continent we have nothing novel or important to note , and the colonial and American news are equally unsuggestive .

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      MONIES RECEIVED For thk Week Esdi . vo Thursday , May 29 th , 1851 . .. WIBING-UP OF THE LAUD COMPANY . BECEIVED . BT W . KIDEK . From . Birmingham-E . " Hughes 0 0 6 J . Follows .. ' . ; . 0 ft fi I ' Best .. "' 006 J . Winters .. .. , X 0 0 6 ¦ ¦ l £ 0 KBCE 1 VED AT LAND OFF 1 CK . "" . \ ™^ MI FromEccles-W . llarley .. .. Ola J . Hibert .. ,, n i n j . iiriiniow - .. • .. . ;; o i o •¦ T . Wortliington .. : n 1 il a . Patter .. ' n i ft T , Crooks .. ' " Mr . Burnett . ; .. . " I [ j

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      LATEST FOREIGN . DENMARK Rank Despotism . —Tho introduction of the Danish language into the German districts has provoked a good deal of ilUblood , but tho late edict published on the subject of tho salutes with which the people are compelled to honour Danish soldiers and officials seems expressly calculated to exasperate the popular feeliug against the Danish government , All the inhabitants in Schleswig , from schoolboys up to the highest' ranks , . ire . ' ordered by the edict referred to ' to . tiike off thoir liats to all Danish officers and officials , and to salute the common soldier with ii . bow without taking off the hat . This outward respect , forcibly imposed , can only excite and entertain hatred . In no country , civilised or barbarous was over such edict heard of .

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      , THE STRAW MOVING . In the midst of the prevailing political apathy it is gratifying to observe that the franchise question makeB headway . Those who have watched the proceedings of Sir Joshua Walmsley ' s association are aware that hitherto Mr . Cobden ' has fought ver ; shy of it . His support has been exceedingly abstemious , and may be said to have been limited to an annual contribution to its funds . , TJp to a recent period the Freehold Land Societies enjoyed the benefit of his active

      assistance , as the best and most effectual method of extending , the suffrage . Other members of the so-called Radical party in the House of Commons were equally coy . -When the question was brought on by Mr . Hume , they voted in its favour , but there their cooperation ceased . ' They felt no real interest in the subject ; and even . when Mr . Bkight and Air . Milner Gibsou at length attended a meeting of the Association iii Manchester , it was clearly more with a view to' take . the sense of the people ot , that , city on their cori-l duct with-reference to the . Papal Bill , than

      fori the sake of Parliamentary Reform . A change has come over " the spir it of their dream . " Frankly owning his past neglect , Mr . Cobden has , this week , tHrown himself fairl y into the franchise movement . The declaration of Lord : John Russell . that he will be prepared to introduce a " measure of reform next session , has brought the member for the West Riding to the conclusion , that the . franchise question "is " now the " most practical question ; that politicians" have to do . -with . " Claiming the' title , of a practical politician , and referring to his ' past public career in

      justification of that claim , Mi . Cobden adopts tho franchise movement , originated arid kept in life by others ; as the next ^ question for practical legislation . His accession will , undoubtedly , greatly- add to the " strength and influence of the middle class movement . Cobden is the model politician of that class ] and , though their confidence in him may be somewhat shaken by his extreme policy on the Peace Question , and by some of the results of Free Trade , yet the name of no other

      public man has the same prestige with them at present . The sagacity displayed in conducting the Anti-Corn Law agitation to a successful issue , if ; honestl y applied to the furtherance of the franchise movement , will , undoubtedly , soon place the question in the prominent position it ought to occupy ; and though we think-that any settlement short of manhood suffrage must be unsatisfactory , still . we must express our gratification at any event which promises to accelerate the pace towardsthat goal .

      A short time ago , as we have said , Mr . Cobden confined his exertions within the narrow limits of the Freehold Societies . At the 'first meeting of the National Freehold Land Society he : stated the reasons why he did bo . First , he held that the onl y way of getting a reform of-Parliament was for reformers to devote themselves exclusively to the manufacture , of forty shilling freeholders , and thus do'for themselves whattheLegislature

      would refuse- ; ^ second , that the days were gone by when any great popular agitation could be ' got Aip on the suffrage question . Mr . CoBDENiis not ; very successful in his prophecies ,-the ' movement has progressed in spite of his abstinence ; events have ripened , and driven both Whigs and " independent liberals" to the conclusion that an organic reform' is absolutely necessary . Mr . Cobden in his speech at the London Tavern on Mon .

      doy , puts the exact position of affairs in his usual forciblo style ; though , our readers will see that he is but repeating what we have been : endeavouring to press upon their attentive for months past . They had a promise of a proposal to he made next year by the head of the government .. He did not mind wliethur Lord John Kussell was in power next . year or not ; still , his 'd-cmvation that Hid time was come , when a no » v Reform Bill might be proposed b . y the Head of-tha government totally changed the character of tlieir ' - position as a practical questinn before the country . ; Ho cared not whether ho went out of offico or remain « d in , tliey 4 iiid a very largo

      party co-operating with . them fur . a , measure of reform and it would . depend ; upon the people oat of doors what that measure should be . ( Hear , hear . ) Sbnie reform was absolutely indispensable ; for they had como to such a dead lock in the House of Commons . that thej could not go on withoutit . lhey should be obliged ; o come to tuo people out of doors to ve-aojnst the balance ,, so as to throw a preponderance into . one scale ; for at present , no one knew on which side it would be on any other question sub-Hutted to the house . All the existing parties had gone to decay , andfallen . to rums , ; and had become mere ruts in the way of political progress . ( Hear , henr . ) There must be reform ot parliament to enable any party to soveru at all . ( Cheers . ) ¦

      He proceeded to ask " what that reform was to be ? " and auswered , the measure proposed by Mr . Humu , in favour of which he delivered a very telling speech . He has abandoned the plan of purchasing what is in itself a right , and now apparently takes his stand upon the principle , thafirrespectivo of political results the suffrage naturally helongs to the people simply on the ground of citizenship . We say apparently , because it is not certain how far either Mr . Hume or

      any of the "Little Charter" men recognise that principle . If tliey did so frankl y , they would advocate mauhood instead of household suffrage ; and we hope that iu the progress of events they will be driven from the expediency they now substitute for a plain and just principle . "In these causes of great truths and of great necessities" it has been remarked ,, " all men may aid , and no man can . retard . " The conversion of Mr Cobden from being the advocato of the Free ' . hold Land achouio iato the determined up .

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      SURREY SESSIONS . Removing' Uaiiavay' Danger Signals . —Jwe s Crawford , a voung nian connected with a family of some distinction , residing at Norwivid , was charged with rrrnoVihg and throwing two danger signals attached to a railway train on the London and South Coast Railway , thereb y endangering tho lives of the public . —The prisoner pl « aded Guilty , and was sentenced to he imprisoned in Brixton House of Correction for nine months , wiili hard labour . The sentence seemed to greatly . surprise ihe ! prisoner ami his friends , w :. o confidently relitd on a penaltv being ii flirted .

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      TijK / fftMmfraM states that , the Islo of Slsyo , ° of . the . 'liobriilos , has furnished , since tlie Peninsular war , no tower than twenty-one lieutenant-jrefcOttUi and major-general ? , forty-eight lieutenant-colonel COO majors , captains , ' and subalterns , 10 , 000 foot soldiers , ' 120 pipers , four governors of British colonie .- - , oho- goviTiiov-geiieriil , ono atljutai ) t-ge < ie p one chief baron of England , and one judge oi tM Court of Session . ¦ " '

      l ) KPAmunE of TnE Pacific—On Wednesday mbruiiig , at half-past nine , the United States man SStenm-ship Pacirie , C ; ipti » in Sye , left the MevscV . with the usual mails , for the ' Unitetl States » i » British America . Sbe had on board about serenty passengers , and a good general cargo of iiierc bandise . Great anxiety is expressed relative to tUfl non-arrival of tho new screw steam-ship Lafa . vel . Wi duo for seme days past , having left Philadelp hia on the 11 th inst .

      ^ atreii GAVAzzr gave his twenty-first oration ob Sunday at the Princess ' s Concert-ball , aud wm vigorous and effective as usual . A veufect Cure of Dkovsy by Holloway's ^' ' : "" V ! t r . nmbort , of Swan-street , Newcastle , liud enjoyed the f , nf health until the meridian of life . At that critical pen * - 6 he wus attacked with dropsy ,- attended by a very trouwj some cough . The medical ' aid of several v ^ ry eini' «» practitioncr . s n-ua procured , but thoir . efforts fu ! " •' removti , « r uven abate , the rigour of the disease . i » water in her body nntl Ices increased so rapidly ^) ™ L were entei turned that she cou'd riot long surme . At i-JJ cri 3 i » she cmnmenctd taking Holloway's 1 'iils , which i «^ so powerfull y on her complaint , that its progress «* lmuiediatelj arrested , aud i a the course of twp niotttnm " euro wai complete .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER . FUND . Jw 1 ! W" ! ARNOTT . -Limehouse and Ratclifie Locality , per T . Shephard 11 s-Worcester , per J . Harding 16 s K '^ tt | Jmi \? J-J - Mewi 8 > St . Pnncrasfid-Col . ected at St . Pancras Vestry room 9 s 7 d-W . Smith , WUlmhall Is—Ketteririg , per G . J . llarney ls-W . Z . Bowley , Malmensbury , per ditto ls _ A . Trevelyn lJ-Clmrlston Paisley , pUr ll . Hunter lls 9 d-Mr . Williams ls-Devon ! port , per J . Rogers 7 s Loughborough , perE . . Thompson . Leicester 5 s 2 d-Mr . Lines , Birmingham Gd-ifr . Sheppard ditto Cd—iMr . Rider , as rer Slar is . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Received by W . Kider . -G . ff . ls-A Chartist Gd . REFUGEES AT LIVERPOOL . Received by John AitNorr . -Mr . RudhalC Birmingham 64 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1628/page/4/