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      EMlGRiTIOX TO NORTH ^ B ^ . W TAPSCOTT AND CO ., SHIPPING and Emigration Agents , Liverpool , continue to despatch First Class Ships—To NSW TORK-every Five Days . ToKEW OHLEAXS ^ rerj TcnDays . To BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA—every Pifteen Days . And occasiisiaUy to BALTIMORE , CHARLESTON , SAVANNAH , QUEBEC , and St JOHNS . Drafts for any amonnt , at sight , on Sew York , payable ia any part ofthe United States . Tapscotfs "Emigrant ' s Guide" sent free , on receipt of Four Postage Stamps . ^ 7 = About twenty-eight thousand persons sailed for the Kew World , inTanscott ' sliiie of American Pactets . in 1849 .

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      TJEAFXESS A 5 D SINGING IN THE EARS ESSTANTLY CURED 'WITHOUT PAIN OR OPERATION . a ^ HE APPLICATIONS OF DR . PEAR-• SON'S wonderful discovered remedy m all [ coses of Deafness enables sufferers of either sex , even an want or most aged persons , to hear a watch Uck at arms length and general conTersation , although having been aM : ted with dea & ess for . thirty or forty years , without the nse of any instrument , or possibility of causui ? pam or dancer to a child many of whom boni < Jeaf , vnth persons of aU ages whose cases had been , by the old treatment , pronounced incurable , after tlie ase of Uus new discovery have had their hearing perfectly restored . Dr . Charles Pearson , Consnlting Surgeon ofthe Ear In . firmary for the care of Deafness , begs to offer this valuable remedv to the public from benevolence rather than gain , and will forwarf it to any part free on receipt of a letter enclosing five shillings and sixpence in postage stamps or monj order , to Charles Pearson , 2 L 1 > ., 41 , Sand Pitts , Birmingham . Dr . Pearson daily applies bis new remedy , and has cured thousands of most inveterate cases at the Ear Infirmary and in Private practice , in the presenc 3 of the mostcminentof the Faculty who have been utterly astonished at the cures effected .

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      DEAFNESS . —Important Notice . — Mr . FRANCIS , the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the most astonishing cores in all those inveterate cases which have long been considered hopeless , and of thirty or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear a whisper , withontpain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in the head , and aU diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daily from 10 until 6 , at bis consulting rooms , fi , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , IiOndon . Persons at a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from 6 till 8 in the evening-.

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      THE BI . OOD . Our bodies have been entirely formed , art now forming , and will conHnne to be built up during- Life from the Blood . This being the case , the grand object is to leep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for without this purity , disease will show itself in some way or the other . ft is universally admitted that this Medicine will parify Vie Mood better than any oilier , and will conquer Disease . Copy of a letter addressed to Mr . Drary , Bookseller , Lincoln . Sir , —I , Charles Foster , ground-keeper to Henry Sheppherd , Esq ., do this day , October 5 . 1 S 17 , attest to the following statement : 'Bavins : been iU a long time , proceeding from pain in my body , attended with considerable fever , very faint , siek ' in the morning , without bein j able to discharge anything from the stomach , and no appetite what ever , with masy other disagreeable symptoms all over a mere medical man was able to benefit me ,, and I hecame reduced in strength so much as to prevent my attending to my usual avocations . Hearing tbe many benefits derived from old Paex's Pnxs , I decided at on < e to K » ve them a trial and pnrchased a fcox at your shop , near tie Stone Bow , Lincoln , and it affords me great pleasure to inform yon chat the one bo £ entirely cured me , and I am now entirely restored in health ; bnt whenever I feel le : s active , and not so lively as usual , I immediately have r » ceurse to old Pahs , and a couple of his pills bring me right . The astonishing effect Pjuai's Pius have had upon me is such that I can scarcely believe that I am the some man I was a few months ago : I felt then as though , my life was nearly ended ; now , I feel liearty , rnd able to undertake any description of work and exertion , without feeling tbat excessivefatigue I did previous to taking them . It is really and truly n ' ev life to nic : I have given this statement volun . tary , far the beaeSt of those of my fellow creatures who know nothing ol old Past ' s wonderful pills . " Iremaia , sir , yours respectfully , Coisles Posies . —Lincoln , October 5 th , 1817 . . :...,. To the Proprietors of Parr ' s life Pills . Sirs , —The above case has been given me this day from the lips of ifr-. Charles Foster , who came for nvo bases , and who was not disposed to go away without sending yon word for the benefit he has received . I remain , yours , 4 c , Jiazs Dacsr . _ * In order to protect the public from imitations , the Hon . Commissioners of Stamps ordered the words "PAKK'S LIFE PILLS" to be engraved on the Goverament Stamp , which is pasted round the sides of each box , in White LEirsson aBEoGaonsD . Without this mark of authenticity , they are spurious . Sole Proprietors , T . Boberts , and Co ., Crane-conrt , Fleet-street , London ; and sold "Wholesale by their appointment , by E . Edwards , 67 , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; also by Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-street ; and Sutton and Co ., Bow Church-yard : and retail by at least one agent in every town in the United Eingdom , and by most ofthe respectable dealers in medi dne . Pri-e is . lid , 2 s . Sd ., and family boxes lis . , each ,. TheLife and Times of Thomas Parr , ' may be had gratis , of all agents , both in tawn or cOunfcry .

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      RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED- WITHOUT A TRUSS . THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED . Beware of copies of them by knavish quacks , who assame the name of eminent medical men , aud resort to every conceivable mode of swindling the public and damaging the character of long standing practitioners . DE . DE GBANGE'S BEMEDY has teen entirely successful in curing many thousands of cases of Single and Doable Kuptnres , of every variety ; and has long been recognised by the whole of the medical profession" as the only remedy ever discovered for this alarming complaint . All sufferers are earnestly invited to write , or pay Dr . UE G . a visit , as in everycasehe guarantees a cure bj his peculiar mode of treatment . The remedy is equally applicable to male or female of any age , and is easy and painless in use , causing no inconvenience or confinement , & c Sent post free on receipt of 5 s . by post-office order , cash , or postage stamps , by EUSTACE DE GHAXGE , JLD ., 12 , Djgh-su-eet , Bloomsbnry , London , where he maybe consulted daily ; Sundays excepted . Post-office orders to be made paxdbie at the Bloomsbury Office . Ilur . oreds of trusses have been left behind hy persons cured , as troj > hie > of the immense success of this remedy , which Dr . DE Gil AXGE will willingly ijive to any re-quiring them after a trial of it ; Dr . i ) £ GRAXGE wishes it to be distinctly understood , that his mode of treating Ruptures is known only by himself , and tbat his remedy can only be procured direct from the establishment , as above . IMPoBItXT ACIHESTIC lESTtMOSIitS . * In the five cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectly succeeded ; send me another for a case of Scrota ) Hernia . ' —John Armstrong , Savy Surgeon . * We have witnessed the cure offeree cases of Rupture by Dr . De Grange ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those Hiffering from Hernia . ' —Medical Journal . " ' Your remedy has cored my llupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its coming doirn . '—Miss Symmonds , Baysvater . 'A fair time has elapsed since I used your remedy , and moreover I have been examined by a surgeon , who declares it is quite cured . '—Mr . Pctts , Bath . ' 11 > 2 £ to acknowledge the receipt of your letters , and thankyon for your land attention . Yonr remedy lias cured my Uupture . '—Mrs . Farren , Wobnrn . ' Jiany thanks for your remedy ; I have thrown away my truss , gfcul uiocgh to get rid ofthe torture of it '—G * Denrys , Chepstow . - 'Hy Ituprure being twentv-eight years old , I really never cipecled so Dei fett a cu : e . '—Hr . Eldredj Grocer , Longthorpc . ' 'Mis . Sims br- ^ rs to inform Dr . Do Grange that his remedr Jias been saccessfuL" —fYillesdea , jliud ' esex . ' It is now ten months since I used your remedy for Uupture , : ; ad I am glad to say lhave gone through every sort of eserti-jn , without the least appearance of it '—J . Masters , Mili-siresi , Dcdfjid .

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      FJIAJ 1 PT 02 TS PILL OF HEALTH . Trie 6 Is . Hi . per Box . THIS excellent Famil y PILL is a Medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels , tlie common symptoms of which are costiveness . Satulency , spasms , loss of appetite , sick head ache , giddiness , sense of fulness after meals , dizziness ofthe eyes , drowsiness , and pains in the stomach and bowlrs , indigestion , produdn » a torpid taste of the liver , aud-a constant inactivity of the bowels , causing a disorgunisation of ererr function of the frame ml ] , in this most excellent preparation , by a little perseverance , be en ' ectnaflv removed . Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effests . The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action ofthe liver , bowels , and Indneys will rapidly takeplace ; and instead of listlessnesSjheat , pain , and jaundiced appearance , strength , activiiy . and renewed health , will be the" qnick result of taking this medicine , according to the directions accompanying each box . " ¦ ¦ These pills are particularly efficacious for stomach , COTyiss , coHs , agues , shortness of areaflth , and all Destructions ofthe urinary passages ; and , if taken after too free an indulgence at table , they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose . Pei'sons of aFULLUABrr , whoaresubject to head-ache , giddiness , drowsiness , and singiug in the ears , arising from too £ reat a fio w of blood to the head , should never be without them as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use . For FEMALES , these pills are most truly exceUeni , remcringall obstrueSons , the distressing head . ache so very prevalent with the sex , depression of spirits , dulneso of slight , nervous affections , blotches , pimples , and sallow-¦ ncss of the skin , and gives a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion . To MOTHERS they are confidently rcccommendcd as the best medicine that can betaken during pregnancy ; and for children of all ages they are nneqnalcd . As a pleasant safe , and easy aperient , they unite the reccommendatiou of a mild operation with the most successful effect , and require no restraint of diet , or confinerosnt during their use . By regulating , the dose according to the age and strength of the . patient , they become suitable for crerv cise , in either sex , that can be required ; and for Ef-DSULl" PEOPLE they will be found to he the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared . Sold by T . Prout , 229 , Strand , London . Price Is . lid . and 2 s . 9 i per box ; and by the Vendors of Medicine generally throughout the Kingdom . .. v Askfor FBAMPTOX'S FILL OF HEALTH , and observe ihe name and address of "Thomas Prout , 229 , Strand , London , " on the « ovemiaeat Stamn .

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      Education for the Millions . THIS MY IS PUBLISHED , ' : No . XIII . or li MMAJ ^ MTRBCm " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Feaiwbs O'Cokkob , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived by the Government" Taxes oa Knowledge . " In addition to a serial history of the " Life and Adventures of Fatuous O ' Conxob from his Boyhood , " it will contain Essays by the best writers on all the leading Questions of the day , written in an earnest , honest , and impartial spirit ; Tales and Sketches , illustrative of the working of onr present Social and Political System ; Reviews and abstracts of Sew Books of a useful and instructive character , and Miscellaneous Information , suited alike for the amusement and instruction ofthe fireside . As "THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR" is designed to improve and elevate the Political and Social Condition of the Working Classes , its columns will be opened for fair and temperate discussion upon all the questions affectinff their welfare , and it will thus become a truthful and living exponent of public opinion . SIXTEEN LAKGE OCTAVO PAGES , Pr ice One Penny . CONTESTS OF Ho . XIII . - The Individual System . The Serfs Revenue . . Life and Adventures of Feargus 0 ' Connor . Historical Episodes . The Secret . Gleanings . Now Ready , THE THIRD MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Price Fourpence . COHTENTS OF PART IH . Antagonism of Machinery and Manual Labour . The Secret . ( Continued . ) life and Adventures of Feargus 0 ' Connor , Esq ., M . P . ( Continued . ) Louis Kossuth . A Biography . Thoughts for Time . Gleanings . The Labour Movement in tho United States . Louis Blanc . A Biography . Adolphe Boyer . Physical Force Revolutions . The Bound Towers of Ireland . Social and Educational Condition of the Labouring Classes on the Continent . ' Continental Peasant Proprietors . ' A Day in the Highlands . The Venetian Republic of 184 S ; SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 PENCE . ' Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed to the office ofthe SortJiern Star , London ; or . to . A ., Heywood , Manchester ; W . Love , and G . Adams , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . . . The "National LvsiBPcron" will be supplied bj all the London Booksellers and News-agents ....

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      THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVEB FCBilSHED , Pricels . 6 d / , ; A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plato of the Auther , of - PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS .

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      Now Ready , a Aew Edition ot Hr . Q'COMKQB'S WORK OH SnlALL FA 11 W 8 Sold by J . Watson , Queen's Head Passage , Paternoster row , London ; A . Heywood , Oldhara-street , lilanchester , und Love and Co ., 5 , ISelson-street , Glasgow . And b \ all Booksellers in Town and Country .

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      WORKS IN PREPARATION , Br ERNEST JONES , ' OfifteMddleTemple , Barrister-ai-Law . , . " To be published , uniform irith the Magazines , ' on' the 1 st of September , " - TH E' . N ; , E TP TV 0 B h D .., A Political Poem , dedicated to thepeoploof THE TOTTED QUEENDOM , > : and of . ' : . THE UNITED STATES , With copious notes , addressed especially to the Working Classes . On the 1 st of October , BEIDAGON CHURCH , ¦ A Helicons Poem , dedicated to TBE PEOPLE OP HALIFAX , ' ¦ ¦ _ ¦ . AXD . ¦ v 7 EST 5 lI > STER PRISOX : Dedicated to the Exiles and Prisoners of 1818 . On the 1 st of November , rriHE PAINTER OF FLORENCE ; i A Domestic Poem . , On the 1 st of December , THE BLACK JTJ R . Y ; OB , ' THE JUDGMENT OF EUROPE . A Political Poem , dedicated to ¦ ' THE HOUSE'OF COMMONS . With an Address to THE SPEAKER . My CotJXiRYHEX ' . —Thomas Carlyle , as I am told , in one of his pamphlets , congratulated me on my imprisonment , because TothiU fields was just the place to write a book in . . The authorities took every means to render that impracticable , since I vf as denied the usb of pen , ink , and paper , until October 1 S 49 , and then writing materials were conceded under such restrictions , as rendered original composition almost impossible . Nevertheless ' , ' I have written four books with the aid of blood arid memory , the evidence of which I gave to tbe Executive , when they welcomed ihe outofinygaol . . \ Duringtwo years of solitary confinement on the silent system , I have partly employed myself in these lighter labours , but more in forming plans for the future ,. and fitting myself to fill a useful and a worthy position : n the ranks •' of Democracy . At the very time when I was immured in a cell on bread and water ; vnth even the Bible taken , away ' from me ,-1 spent my hours in writing the gospel of liberty , and , although I may have clothed it in humble language , . you will , at least , find it tuned to the harp of truth . ' . ' " Whatever may . be ' the fate of the works announced above , though they may draw down fresh persecti 1 tions on my head ; or fail in enlisting the sympathy of tie people ; upon them I stake my reputation as an author , and my character as a man , and they will , at least ; remain a lasting monument of what the nations have undergone in the Past , of what they suffer in the Present , of what they demand for tbe Future , and of what they' will achieve , " if they are true to . their own cause . .. - •• These will , ' probably , be among the last of my poetical works ; for harder and sterner toils now call me to the -field . Tlie age has passed , when nations ean . be suxc into liberty : perhaps it is well —for enthusiasm is the child of an hour—conviction is the father of centuries . ' ' . "'' - I willatso take this opportunity of requesting that no law cases ' may , in future be submitted to me , since all my time will be devoted to one great cause —thatof ; - " .-.. ; : ¦ The People VEitsos their OppnEssons , :: in which I have the honour to bo one of the * people ' s humble advocates . ERNEST JONES . :

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , li , Southampton-street , Strand , t \\ HE . EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X herebyannounce . tlie following meetings : On . Sunday afternoon , August' 18 th , The Metropolitan Delegate Couneilwill meet at 26 , Golden-lane , Barbican . Chair to be taken at three o ' clock . On Tuesday evening , August 20 th , a public meeting will be held at the Literary and Scientific Institution . Johnstreet , Tottenham-court-road , Messrs . G . Julian Harney , S . M . Kydd , and other friends to Democratic and Social Progress are expected to ' atteiid and address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o'clock . Admisnen Free . \ On Wednesday evening , August 21 st , a Public Meeting will be held at the Institution . -Littlc Dean-street , Soho . N B . —The Tract on ' Chartism . ' may now be had by application to the Secretary , at 14 , Southampton-street , Strand ,. Loniloh . Trice Twopence per Dozen , or Orifi Shilling per Hundred . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , '• ' ' Jons Ausott , Sesretavy .

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      TE 1 GNM 0 UTH BRANCH OF THE LAND COMPANY . —At a meeting of Ibis Branch ,, it was derided by the members present , that an order be made through tlie medium of tlie Nokthebx STAnnewspaper , that each paid-up member of that Dranch' do immediately pay . up all arrears of levies due , together with the sum of Sixpence as bis or her share of the expense of winding up the affairs of the Company , not later than the 30 th of August , or forfeit all claim on the Company . All payments to be sent to the Secretary , Mr . James Edwaeds , Hat Manufacturer , Teigmnouth .

      Raiuunea La Ot Gold Fousd Is Jamaica.-.We (Standardj State With Much Satisfaction That We Have Just Seen And

      raiuunea la ot Gold fousd is JAMAicA .-. We ( StandardJ state with much satisfaction that we have just seen and

      A Rge Lump Auriferous Rock Or Stone, Jus...

      a rge lump auriferous rock or stone , just arrived from tbe neighbourhood of Annatto Hay , Jamaica . Split open , it appears almost one compact mass of gold and silver , the pure silver ore laying in small lumps , thickly interspersed : with gold particles . This lump will yield about seventy per cent , of the precious metals . This' is considerably richer than many of the Califoraiaa specimens .

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      A LECTURE will bo Delivered B T— - ... FEABGUS O'CONNOR , EsfL , M .. -. . , / . . . ... ; - . AT THK . -. ,.:. ¦¦ - I ¦ ¦¦ . Liikrart . and Scientific Insiitution , ; Jonu-. " Street , Fitzboy-Square . On Monday Night , August 19 th , 1850 . John Fossell , late a Liberated Political Victim , in the Chair . , The proceeds of the Lecture will bo given to Mrs . Lacy , to enable her and her children to rejoin William Lact , a Victim of the !!* Powell Plot , " and now undergoing sentence of transportation for life in Australia . , Chair to be taken at Eight ' o'clock . Admission to the body of the Hall , id . ; Gallery , 2 d . ; Platform , 3 d . H . WitKS , Secretary .

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      portraits of fcrtofe » The readers of the " Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a re-issue . of : the various Steel engravings lately distributed with the " Northern Star . " They consist of Kossuth , Meagher , Louis Blanc , MircnEL , Ernest Jones , Smith O'Brien , Richard Oasileb , John Fnosr . These Engravings have excited the admiration of everyone who has seen'them . ' " iiThey are faithful portraits ,- and are ' executed in the most brilliant style . Price Fourpence each . There has also been a reprint of the ' undermentioned porti'aits ; wbicb have been given away at different times with the "Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner-r Andrew Marvel , William Cobbett , ,, Arthur O'Connor , Hemri Hunt , Patrick O'Higgins , F . O'Connqi , BnoNTERRE O'Brien , W . P . Roberts . J ; It . Stephens ' , ' •'•' : ' ' " There ia also a re-isa \ ie of the 'two large „ . , prints , ' '¦; . ' . ''' , / , '; , ' .. ' ' ! ........ ' «• ' THE NATl 6 NAL ; . 0 pNVENTI ^ 1830 . " " THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL ¦ -: PETITION , by Mb . BUNCOMBE , in 1842 . ' < To be had of J . Payey , Holywell-streeti

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      PORTRAIT OF 'W ^ TML } This admirable likeness of the' Great Statesman ^ is now \ ready , atfd may be had of any of the--A : gents ,- price the samp as the' previously published Portraits . ' •' : '' London Agent , Mr , Pavey , Holywell-street , Strand . " ' ; v f " '' . "I " . ' . " ^ ;' / '; " "

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      POETRAITS OF , THE . AMERICAN - ;/" : \ PSEMKr ; . ;^; .: J ;;;; This truly ' . Magnificent Historical Engraving of all the Portraits ; of . the American Presidents , from Washington . ' ^ to . Zachaby Taylor ( just deceased ) , being twelve . in number , and which has been many months preparing , is now being worked , at . ' pi-ess ^ and will be ready for delivery . to . pur ,.-subscribers on the 31 st instant . The plate is being printed on a ; whple , 8 heet ,. andi in : consequence of ; the immense expense attending its . publication , must bee-charged to subscribers , 6 d . ; and to the ipublic generally at 5 s . : per copy . Subscribers are particularly requested to forward at once their orders to their respective ' agents ; London agent— 'Mr . Pavey , Holy well-street , Strand .

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      ' . ' THE . LAGEY'kWD ^ .- " > ' . ¦ ¦ ¦— . . 1 , - . - ¦ . . . > -j . 1 Mr . O'Connor will deliver a lecture in aid of the subscriptions being raised . to -enable Mrs . LaCEY to join her husband , on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , attho Literary and Scientific Institution , Jolin-streeVl'itzrdysquare . " ; . ¦ . •¦ ? . ¦ -.. ''• ' -. ; " •'• ¦

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      2 S- To the Secretaries or ' the YAr ' ious Branches of tub Land SocietYj' and of the Chartist Association . — -We cannot in future announce ' any forthcoming meetings , or events to take , place , although embodied in resolutions , unless the advertisement duty ( Is . M . ) is sent witJi such communications . The evasion is detected at the Stamp Office-, and tht proprietor is compelled to pay it , , The Land and Chartist members will , henceforth , understand the reason why future meetings are not announced in our columns ' . ¦ ¦• • . ; "; - ' ¦ ' ¦ ' " Nottingham Mr . J . Sweet begs tov acknowledge the receipt of the " following sums ( sent herewith ) , viz . : — For Winding-up Fvsd : —Mr . G . IlcusUaw 6 d—Ann Henshaw 3 d— W . Bacon Sd ^ -W . Heushaw O'd—Jtr . Daltoh Id , —Mr . Down Gd-W . Brorttf fls-Mr . ' Bates Cd-Mr .

      Burrows Gd—C . P . Gd—Mrs . M . Robinson Gd . . - .:,. Pousn Refugee Fond—K . Tillyer 12 s—Mrt i Peaicey , 2 s fld —Shoemakers , ' Calendar-yard , per ' T . ' Brown 4 s Id—A Friend ; at the M & rquis of Hastings ^ per T , Bvown' 2 s—Proceeds of Excursion to Alperton , per T . Broiva 11—Mrs . Wood , per Styles 2 s—Miss Mprell , per Styles ISC' BurgesV book ' 5 s- Cd—Mr . MoringV book 10 d—Mr . Thompson ' s book 2 s—Mr . Buddie's book 9 s 2 d ^ -T . Brown 2 s—11 . Clough , Ashford , per Moring ls-G . Gill . Is—S . Abbott Cd—II . Strubbs , Wiiittington and Cat Gd—Smith . Barber Is—Shoemakers , Calendar-yard , per T . Brown 3 s 7 Jd—II . Gale Is—Sunderland , per William Oviiigton 13 s ld-CoUectcd at Alperton , by Mr .. Styles : ll 7 s 2 d-C . Hillyer per Mr . Styles Gd—Mr . Millers book Is—Mr . Arnold , on aceount 2 s 5 d—part proceeds of Concert iit tlie Old Dolphin , per Mr . Moring 9 s Gd . ' '• ' ¦<' " " - •'• ' • • The . Lacs , Fund—The following : sums , have been

      received : —From Mr . Prcbble and . Friends 4 s—Mr . kohlev 2 s Gd-iNew Radford , ' per ' Lunders 3 s Gd—Mr ! Rider , as per Star 3 s 4 d—Mr . Bell , Southwarlt 2 s Gd—Wh ' ittingtOn and Cat 2 s 2 d—Collected at Jobn . srtcct , iAug . 6 th 4 s OJd '•—aFriend , Alcester , second half of a five pound , " aote , I , Bbow . v ;—Head the ' first notice to corespondents . A DEsiocaAT , Glasgow ;—Fourpcnce each .- '• ' - ' ' Blickburx Short Time Cojimitieb . —The paper alluded to has not reached this office . ; . ¦ ... ; * ' .,, ,, •¦ . ¦ . KTationah Reforsi League . — Many inquiries having been made concerning the seven propositions of the National . ' . ' . Reform League , and as a-general desire is manifested that they should be adequately explained in the various ChartistlobaUties , weafercqucstcdtostate , tfiattHemein . bers the ofleague . and especially the Council , ' will hold . themselves at . the : disposal of any locality requiring their attendance for this purpose . ; Any Applications to the Secretary , addressed to tile care ofMr . _ Truelovo ,

      Johnstreet Institution , will ensure the ' attendance ofsb'meof .. fllCjmemhersj whowillfeelgre . it- pleasure in answering . any questions ,, concerning these propositions ,: and the means of realising them . ¦ „ „ ., .. .. .. ¦ > ... ;;„ Mr ; E . Veaus , Wapping , ' Bristol . —Portrait ' s cightppiice , : postage fourpence . - ¦ ¦ ' - ' : ' " ¦ ' ¦''' Mr . J . IIabms , Leeds . —The papero were posted . We do not know the reason . It shall bo'inauVvlght . " "" ifr . R . Eva . vs , Carmarthen . — Yes : we received it , on the ; Gth'uhV ' ' . ::- ' <•; ' »¦ ¦ ' : ¦ " ¦ ¦ - "' * - ¦ ¦ "V / ! -i ,: S . GKiiUM , Bangnlev HUl . —To whom'did MriTie ' estfaiisrmt the order ? It did not reach this office ; neither did his blotter of inquiry . ¦ ¦•; -.... ; - . ;> . " . ;'• ' ¦ '; ¦ . ; . ¦ < , ¦ . ? , ,, * - ;¦ ..,: ; JosEPu ~ MbnoAS , Deptford . —l \' e , hav 0 i . no ,, vopni ^ foVj the address . "" ] ' .. . , ' ,. ' , ' . ;' " ' - ¦' . ' ;' . G . ; Ramsey , " Birstnl . —Apply to J . Cook , 07 , ' Meadow-lane , opposite the'Dewsbury new road , Leeds . ' ' *" ¦ - - C . Williams , Tutbury . —lVe cannot toll . : .. '•' , '¦ " ' ' ¦

      The Mimit. Urn ' Satrsedaiv'attgust .. 17, Is5ft '' " ' . ' .

      the mimit . urn ' SATrseDAiV'AtTGUST .. 17 , IS 5 ft '' " ' . ' .

      The Land,Company;; Its -Plunderers And'd...

      THE LAND , COMPANY ;; ITS -PLUNDERERS AND'DETRACTORS . i ... . .. ¦ •¦ :-.:.. > •¦ : ¦ ¦ :: •¦ . ; ... . - ¦ : ' ; . \< i-, ' , n . ;; . ¦ •• • ¦ There is scarcely' a / single : device' / which / the opponents of the . Rational Land ; Company have not had recourse . to , ; -with the object of damaging it , : and its principal '¦ pr omoter- 'in public estimation . Unfortunately , tho strong political prejudices \ vhich existed among : the

      aristocratical and' profifcihongering ) -classes against Mr . " O'Connor , has . powerfully contributed to aid that object ; and'the consequence , is , . that even bur judges '' and . magistrates lose sight ; of the most ordinary principles of justice and fair play , whenever ; anything connected with . that Society , is . brought under their notice . An increasing hostility has been excited against a gentleman whoso every act , from the beginning of tho Company to the present moment , has been marked by the rarest generosity and disinterestedness .

      From tho gigantic frauds of GeOuGE Hudson , down to the pettier swindles of the promoters of smaller bubble companies , tho public have , of late , had ample proof of the vast extent and the comparative impunity to which they may be plundered by cunning and selfish knaves , even under the provisions of special acts of Incorporation . ' The well organised machinery of highly paid directors , auditors , ' secretaries / and clerks ' , : ' together with the check of publicity at , ' regularly recurring meetings of the , shareholders , failed

      The Land,Company;; Its -Plunderers And'd...

      to prevent them from . being , fleeced—in man )' cases ruined—by the " respectable' ! parties , who " cooked accounts to make things . pleasant ; '' They have caused wide-spread misery throughout , tlie country , arid yet . have . been permitted to escape almost uncensuredi : The storm of reproach which burst forth at the first disclosure of these enormous frauds , has passed away almost as suddenly ' : as . it arose . HUDSON , and more like him , sit unquestioned and unceasureed in Parliament , and strong in their faith of the power of gold in this "Mammon-worshiping agelook forward , to the

      re-, storation of their influence , and the renewed cringing of the crowds who used to fawn upon , and flatter them , in the hey-day of their power . ' ¦' ¦ '' ' ' „ How different the treatment of Mr . O'CONnor ! From Mr . Hayter , on the Ministerial benches , down to Mr . Humphrey Brown , every lickspittle in the House thinks it fine sport to attack him , in a . spirit and manner which impl y that he has acted dishonestly towards the Land Company . In the , teeth of a Report of their own House , wrung , from' a Select Committee adverse to Mr . O ' Connor ,

      and presided over by a chairman , whose conduct throughout was of the " ' most shamelessly partial and partisan character , they perist . hi treating the Member for Nottingham as though he had benefitted by tho , establishment of the Company at the cost of others . Now , the fact cannot be too often repeated that , after a-full and searchinginvestigation , during which every document connected with the proceedings and progress of the . Company were frankly and fearlessly placed at the disposal of the Committee , ¦ the ' result was a solemn declaration of

      thecoriviction of its members , that its affairs had been carried on in good faith , whatever irregularities there might have ai'isen through the inexperience of the parties concerned ; and above all , that these irregularities had , so far from benefitting Mr . ' . O'Connor , . entailed ,.. upon him serious loss—as , independent of his large personal expenditure in the service of . the Company , it owed him at that period between three and . four thousand pounds , which he had advanced from his ! own funds . Not one

      single farthing of the money subscribed . by its members had ever found its way ^ into . his pockets , even to defray the charges which , ' ' as its managing director , he had incurred ; in discharging tlie onerous and trying , duties of that position during several , years ; ; i Not one single farthing was unaccounted for , or proved to have been ' misappropriated to other than / the objects for which it was subscribed :, . and we doubt whether ; the annals of tlie country can produce a single instance of so large a fund having been expended so honestly for the purposes in view , at so small a per eentage' upon the total amonnt .

      If , the Company , failed to realise its objects , , it was not owing-either ; to < the want ; of integrity on the part of the directors , or of unparalleled disinterestedness : and' unpaid personal' exertions . on the part of Mr ., O'Connor ... It was mainly to the want of that . . Legislative machinery and protection which'Parliament readily granted to railway speculators and bubble companies , but obstinately refused to a Plan which ' was meant to give the honest , . hardworking labourers of this ; country a home and a homestead of their o \ vnjV whereon they might labour , and live in comfort and independence . If ; the Land Company had possessed such favours / it could have enforced payment of the stipulated / instalments from all who applied for its shares , -

      and had them allotted . ; or failing the due payment of these instalments ) at any time ] it could have declared the shares forfeited , " arid confiscated to its own use all previous payments upon them . The works commenced , and the engagements entered ^ into , would , therefore , not have been suddenly stopped by any unreasoning ¦ panic , fomented by , crafty , insidious , arid bitter enemies to the movement , and its originator . Stead y perseverance , under the sanction of the law , and with the power to enforce its own corporate' rights , as well as to protect its corporate funds and pro- ' perty , would have enabled it to ' succeed ; , and success would have . been tho best answer to all detraction and opposition ; -

      By being deprived of that sanction and protection , through the determined and ' , unjust hostility of the Government and its officials ; riot only has the Company been unable to compel its members to fulfil theii' share of the engagements into which all parties mutually enteredat thei commeiicemenfc of the proceedings , but it hivs actually been exposed to plunder by these very parties . Ex parte . cases have been trumped up against Mr ? O'Connor

      in Police Courts , because the ' parties knew very well . that' they' had . riot a leg to stand upon in any court of law ; and others have even trusted , to the . prevailing , ignorance and prejudice , so far as to add to the violation of their own engagements to the Company , the infamous attempt to plunder through the medium of the County . Courts , a gentleman whom they knew to have expended thousands of his own nioney in promoting the objects of that Company . ' ; ' • • ¦ > - ' ¦< . ¦ ¦¦ : ¦ ><

      : The last notable example of this detestible systeiri of plunder and slanderous , detraction , is that of the " poor old woman , " whosocase recently made such a flaming appearance in all the police reports of ; the , daily press !' . The very fact ofsuch a statemeriji . being made in -a PoHce Court at all , clearly showed the animus of the parties who ; concocted : -the : affair . The lawyer who undertook the dirty task of being mouthpiece oil the . occasion , " mii't ^ if hebeaiawyei—kuow very well , that if there was any chiim : on the part of his client , against cither the Company orMivO'CoNNOR ^ itwas ono'that-could only bo decided' by a ' civil

      action ^ No-police magistrate Avhatever , coufd adj udicate upon , ' tho ' . facts set forth , ] ' whether true or false . The . sole and . evident ; object , was to assist in the disreputable and discreditable attempt to injure -Mr . O'Connor's character as , a man of honour and . integrity . ; and in the base of any other individual , ] we are not sure that a charge of-conspiracy cou'd not bo very successfully sustained against , the parties who made that . statcmehk ; After the experience we have had . of . the kind of justice moted out ; to . ^ Mr . O'Connor from the Court of Queen ' s Bench , down to the Nottingham County Court , wo certainly cannot tvdvise ; him tb tako that course , , ...

      • . - Mr . Wiiheleivs tunel y . and explicit letter last week has , however , ' thbroughly ^' exposed the untenable nature of this " poor bid woman ' s " , claim , aud has bUowu that , however largely ' the • Company .. may have cost Mi-. O'Connor , whom she . now' seeks to plunder still further , she , at' all events , has found it a " lucky lottery " for her . "We really ' think that , a . prize of '^ 180 , iii return for the few shillings she paid , might have contented her . 'VExcess of appetite , " however , in her case , as that of others in such affairs , seems to have " grown by that it fed on . " The handling of the gold ,, gathered from the . California oi O'Cpuuoryille , only made her eager to clutch at that which might be got out of the > "dicrgiugs" of Lowbands or Snig ' s End . '

      A moment ' s reflection will ' show , that her demand , at the present moment , is an impudent attempt at extortion . Owing to tho refusal of tho allottees to pay rent , the non-payment of contributions b y the members , and tho obstruction s thrown in its path by the Government , and its opponents generally , the Company is stranded , and all but shipwrecked : as a Company . Proceedings have been commenced for winding-up itsaflairs as speedily as possible , and for paying to air parties interested , from the proceeds of the sold estates , whatever sums may be fairly . due to them after deducting their fair proportion of the expense and loss incurred in carrying on , and closing the affairs bf , the Company , To pay either th 0 "poor old wo . |

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      man /^ or ; any ; one else in her situation , ' one shilling , under these , ' circumstances , would amou nt'in fact toa fraudulent preference . ; The bona fide external ,, creditors of , the Company , whoever they may be , are first entitled ! to . be , paid their demands in full ; and afterwards the members , who are in equity , if not in law , partners , ' , must , share the remaining funds prorata , ; and bear 4 tie loss , if any , in the same proportion . ¦ : ¦« : ¦¦'•

      These are the principles applicable to all other companies and partnerships ; and taking our stand upon the honourable verdict of the Select Committee of the House of . Commons , as to the integrity and good faith with which the affairs of the Land Company have been conducted from the beginning , we demand that the same justice and fair play shall be done to it , and to its Director , as to all other bodies placed in the same position .

      In resisting such : monstrous and untenable claims as ,. those we have alluded to , Mr . O'Connor is , in , fact , preventing the creditors and members of the Company from being plundered by a set of , harpies , whose only object is , to . live by . preying upon the Company , or to act the part of " wreckers , " and make the misfortunes of others a source of gain to themselves . We earnestly trust he will continue to defend the honest members of the Company against the machinations and the plunder of such wretches .,

      V Great Cry 1 And Little Wool." "With A ...

      V GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL . " "With a greater expenditure of power , our legislative machinery grows yearly less productive . » What is the cause of this mortifying and singular result ? , An inquiry into the subject is peculiarly' binding upon those who hold up ' ithe representative system , of Government as the , best for mankind . : It is necessary either that . they , should show the defect ia not inherentin that system , and arises from forces extrihsib tp ? it , ' or ; -thai . / they should cease to claim supenprityfor it , and to call for the . ' extension . . of :-principles of government which are in themselves essentially erroneous and insufficient for the purposes in view .

      . At' the commencement , we are ready to admit that / a / popular represontativo system cannot . compete with a / despotic one in . the promptitude , and unity , of ; . its . operations . Where one mind and will is supreme , and the whole of the executive -and administrative force of the / nation exists merely to carry out ' tbVhjchesls , of , that mind ,. uniformity and rapidity of execution are the natural consequences ^ : On the other / lian d / we need not point out in detail the evils necessarily inherent , in this mode of government . Their results , may be summed ' up in , onb sentence ; they ; demoralise the rulers—they corrupt and

      debase the rilled . V-Under a representative system , power is generated throughout the whole body politic , " , and communicates itself to the centre / from all points of the circumference . Each individual counts for a unit in the political system . The vitality of citizenship , ' thereforei ' , permeates its ' remotest ramifications In purely / monarchical governments , on the contrary , / the , power flows from the centre through a thousand corrupt channels , growing feebler inproportion to its distance ; and-its only prominent effect is to destroy all individuality of actiou ^ to . ' reduce , as' far as possible , all to one comirionleyel of passive and unreflecting submission to the powers that be .

      Between the two systems no sane person will hesitateas to a choice , no matter how high the price that may have to be paid for popular government , through the medium of Parliamentary majorities . But there is no . reason why we ; should pay any more than the real price . Delay there ' must be ; in order to ascertain what public opinion really is , but there ought to be no unnecessary obstacles to its being parried into , effect , as soon , as that is ascertained . Is that the case , even under- our present imperfect representative system ? And —as they ask in the Court ' of Chahcery ~ "if not ^/ why hot ? " /

      Whatever / may be the abstract theory ofthe British Constitution , as to the exact position and duties of the advisers and servants of the Sovereign in Parliament * it is evident , . that of late years , "the rapid and extending ^ growth , of . immense and : varied interests , has rendered it necessary for them to take the initiative in all great ' administrative , financial , and legal questions . In the eye of the ; law they' may be merely the Queen ' s servants , entrusted with the expenditure of the money granted to her to carry , on her government , and accountable

      to'Parliament , for the manner in which it is expended ; practically and de facto , they ' are selected ; by the majority , in . Parliament to be the Government of the country . From their greater administrative experience , 'the command they necessarily have over every available source of information , aiid-the responsibilities inseparable from their , position ,, it is . expected that they will , at the riatiohail expense , cause to be prepared , introduced ,, and carried , all such measures as may , in their opinion , be requisite to the good government ofthe people . ' . Failing to dp this ; they fail in even . the : rudimentary qualifications and duties of a government .

      The admmistrationof the late Sir Robert Peee was cohducte'd / oti this principle . That eminent statesman , whether right or wrong in his opinions , accepted frankly , and , discharged Ubuestly , all the : responsibilities of the situaatipn : . of . head of -the Government . There ^¦ e no . " / open questions" in his ' cabinet . He claimed to lay down a clear . and , definite principle , of . action , andall the heads-of departments were-vrequired to make their departments work that principle out efficiently and consistently in / their . several spheres . ° 116

      called / to his / assistance experienced and clever menj . hut he originated the , policy they had to carry out in detail ; and under his watchful and vi gilant superintendence , the . whole business of the nation was conducted uniforml y and' ^ vigorously . The history of the ' British Parliament can' scarcely ' : show , a / parallel at any . period , to tho ^ series , of . important measures , introduced and carried by that minister , during the four or five years that he last held / office . The unity of his administration ^ and the business . talent comprised in his cabinet , Was the great secret of his success .

      But there was another cause which largely contributed to his influence' over Parliament . All his measures were / carefull y prepared , and introduced into the Legislature in . the / shape he intended them to pass , ^ h ' e interests , arid the questions at issue , had been carefully looked at in every possible point of view , and the . best compromise and adjustmerifc effected for the time being , with an inherent arid selfacting capacit y for the ^ urther development of the new principles' introduced into action . Peel never moved till it was absolutely

      needful . It required public opinion to be fully matured , ; and uumistakcablyin earnest , before heactodupon it ; butjW . hon he did take any work in hand , ho set about it in a workmanlike style . I -. ' Amateur . legislators had little chance of finding flaws , cither in tho outline or the details of liis bills ; they / were" complete at all points . Above all , when he once introduced a bill , Parliament knew that he reall y meant to carry it through , and that knowledge of itself materially smoothed its passage , and contributed to its being ; finall y passed mto

      alaw , . .. Since tho summerof 1846 Ave have indeed ' fallen upon evil days . " By : a most unprincipled and factious combination of the Whig and ^ Tory forces , Lord JOHN RusSKLL sue ceeded in driving Sir Kobem Peel from power , and in seating himself , the Greys Eluotxs , and other collateral branches of the "Family Compact , " ' on : the Treasury benches . We well remember the feeling we expenenced on the first night / of their taking tlieirplaces there , It wft tbat of a sudden

      : descent from the compain ' onship of men of ^ V- ^ ^ ^ 3 there , : my countr ^' By reviewing the : policy and conduct of the = Whig party , . during the ten years they ^ e " e lasyn office , and its disastrous results , we tben endeavoured to show how mischievous and in , jurious their renewed power orer the affairs ' of the nation would prove . Our antici pations have been realised . Year after year , public opinion has , been outraged by , the manner of conducting public business . The absence of

      anything like a definite , comprehensive , ot consistent policy on tho part of the head of the Government , and the irredeemable incompetency ofthe subordinate heads of departments , have combined to render the Legislature almost a nullity , as respects useful measures . Its only power has been for evil . Scarcely a single measure—whether important or unimportant—has been introduced by the present

      Ministry , in such a shape as to warrant the Legislature in passing it . / Tbe consequence is , they have been withdrawn again and again > to be patched , cobbled , and tinkered , and the end has been , either that they have been botched at last , when turned out ofthe Legislative workshop , or slain at the close of the Session , along with the other portions of the hecatomb of "innocents , '' annually sacrificed at the shrine of Whig incapacity .

      Here , then , is the immediate and active cause of'the ' barren Session—which has just closed—as of other Sessions that have preceded it . Here is the solution of the modern riddle , which converts both branches of the Legislature into a species of Parliamentary treadmills , in which , at the end of months upon months of interminable wearisome and exhausting toil , the labourers find they have been merely churning the air .

      But though this is the immediate , it is not tho proximate origin of this lamentable state of things . Because it is the duty of the Ministry , for tho time being , to originate , prepare , and carry through such public measures as may be required by public opinion , and the exigencies of the time , independent and individual Members of Parliament are not thereby released from the anterior , and overruling duty of taking care that we shall have men in office capable of doing this , well and truly . It is in this respect that Parliament has sinned along with the Government , and mustbe prepared to share in its condemnation . It is of little use

      to point to the fact , that the House of Commons has sat some hundred hours or more this Session than it did last . What good has come of it ? What have they . done by sitting on an average ten hours and a-half every day since the commencement of the Session on the 1 st of February ? They have resolved that in future the factory operative ' s day shall be precisely that , length ; but we should like to ask Friend Bright , or any other millowner in the House , if they would be content with such a beggarly and miserable account of the result of the industry of their " hands , " as that-which Parliament has to submit to the country this year ? ' ¦ ¦

      The so-called ? ' Liberal Party " are especially to blame for . the continuance of this discreditable state of things . By their want of unity , and their foolish arid petty divisions , they have most effectuall y played the game of the combined ' factions . They have given ample time and opportunity to the severed portions of the' Tory party to re-unite themselves in a compact and determined resistance to popular reforms . They have supported the Whi gs in a policy which has maintained , intact , all the entrenchments , and supplied the ammunition , by means of which obstructive Governments keep the people ia subjection . Fear lest their Commercial system should be interfered with if a Protectionist

      Government had been formed , has induced them to shirk their duty on higher political and social questions . Had we half the faith in Free Trade they profess to have , or half the confidence in the disposition of the majority of the people , to uphold it , they say they possess , we should not have hesitated to allow the Protectionist party to dare their worst in office , on that head . / ' But , in truth ,. it was a flimsy pretext . The Whigs , / proper in opposition , are always outand-out "Liberals , " and pledged as they are , with the more prominent Peelixes to

      the maintenance of a Free Trade policy , there was no t the slightest chance of a retrogressive policy being adopted by Parliament as at present constituted . If the Protectionist Cabinet had appealed to the country , and got a Protectionist majority , why then , we ask our " Liberal " members , whether they advocate the supremacy of the minority of the people ? . It was , and is , in ; the power of the eighty members in the Lower House , who have voted with ifr . Cobden and / Mr . Hume on financial and representative reforms , to have compelled

      good , efficient , and economical government at any period of this session . It was onl y needful that they should act in . concert , and refuse supplies by all the means at their command , until grievances were redressed . Instead of throwing themselves between a-feeble ministry with a rickety and ' distracted party , and their opponents , they ought to have allowed the rival factions to fi ght their own battles out , fully assured , by all past experience , that that course has ever been the best for the country at largo . "When rogues fall out , honest men come by . their own . " ''

      , We are happy to , observe , by sundryJndications , that this par tyis at lengthawakening to a sense of its right position and proper duties in the present state of affairs . The unwholesome stagnation which has so long pervaded the political atmosphere is stirring ; political partiea are beginning oiicc niore to assume their natural attitudes towards each other ; and if , in the coming ¦ session , the first result of their encounter is to drive from office a set of the most contemptible and incapable tricksters that over were entrusted , avith power , it will be tho best thing that could possibly happen for the country . The expulsion ofthe Whigs from the Treasury benches , is an indispensable preliminary to all real , tangible , and beneficial progress .

      Murder By Starvation.. Happily, The Exam...

      MURDER BY STARVATION .. Happily , the example of Mr . Justice TaxrouRD , in the case of the Birds at Exeter , has not proved contagious on the Bench . We have , still Judges who possess enough of legal learning and common sense to inform jurors , that when life has been taken by a series of wilful and deliberate cruel acts , the offence amounts to . murder or manslaughter , according to the accompanying circumstances . A . case , exhibiting , the . m ost fiend-like atrocity , has this week beeu tried at Gloucester before

      Mr .-Justice Williams , in which , had aa equally culpable i gnorance and leniency been shown , ' public opinon would have been onca more shocked and outraged by the escape of a person who was not only morally guilty o £ murder , but murder , of the most aggravated and atrocious character . A woman named Bubb was indicted for : the murder oc manslaughter of a child named Maria hook . We see no essential difierence

      in the case of the Birds and that of Bubr , except that the one bruised and beat her apprentice to death , and that tho other , besides heating her deceased sister ' s child , systematicall y starved it . Both of them saw tha child they wero killing sink before their eyes , day after day , without a pang' of remorse for the murder they were surely committing , or the agony they inflicted—both of them being guilty of the same crime ought to have suf « ifeittd tta man puuisliuwut - vWm ti » vW

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 17, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17081850/page/4/