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TWO ACRES OF LAND. Among other instances...
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THE WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-HO...
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The Freehold Land Movement. In The Midst...
progress . We have this week to report the formal taking possession of two of their estates . On Monday a special train from the Waterloo terminus conveyed a number of the leading members of the Westminster Freehold Land Society to Hampton-court , within a mile of which place , at East Moulsey , an estate has been recently purchased by the society . A procession , accompanied with a hand of music , and preceded by several flags , marched terminuto the estate
from the Hampton s , which consists of some thirty acres , and cost about £ 4700 . The ceremony of parading the entire circuit of the land was then performed , a large flag waving meanwhile from one of the trees to indicate the arrival of the party . It is proposed to parcel out this estate into about 260 allotments , giving , of course , that number of votes ; and while the amount paid by each allottee will be from £ 25 to £ 35 per acre , it is expected that the average return upon their property will be £ 3
per annum . At two o ' clock nearly 200 persons sat down to a substantial dinner , provided under a spacious tent erected on the ground . The chair was taken by Mr . George Thompson , M . P ., and the following ladies and gentlemen -were among the company : —Mr . Thompson , Mr . Norton ( late Chief Justice of Newfoundland ) , Mr . James Taylor , of Birmingham , Mr . Dennis M'Donnell , Mrs . M ' Donnell , Mr . George Wilson , Mr . John Reynolds , Mr . G . E . Dennis , Mr . Wm , Cox , Mr . W . Geesin , and Mr . Nelson . The health of the Queen and Royal Family having been drunk ,
Mr . Haggett , the secretary of the society , read letters from Mr . C . Lushington , M . P ., the president , Sir J . Walmsley , M . P ., and other gentlemen , expressing regret at their inability to attend ; also a letter from Mr . Hume , expressive of sympathy with the objects of the society , and denouncing the present state of taxation . In proposing the health of Mr . James Taylor , of Birmingham , the chairman warmly congratulated the members of the society on their position , and on the achievement which they were assembled to celebrate . Their brief history had furnished another proof of the wonder-working power of cooperation . As a child of one year ' s growth , the of robustness and
society exhibited signs precocious extraordinary promise . Previous to the Reform . Act Surrey was an undivided county constituency , and sent two members to the House of Commons . It was now divided into East and West divisions ; and with the latter they had that day connected themselves . The qualification which they proposed to obtain and confer was the forty shilling freehold q ualification , which was of very ancient date , and rested on an act of Henry VI . He ( Mr . Thompson ) thought that an extract which he would read from % he preamble that introduced this statute ought to be printed as a placard and widely circulated : —
" Statute nf Henry VI ., chapter 7- —Whereas the elections of knights of shires to come to the Parliaments of our Lord the King , in many counties of the realm of England , have now of late been made by very great , outrageous , and excessive number of ppople dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England , of the which most part was of people of small substance , and of no value , whereof every one ( of them ) pretended a voice equivalent , as to such elections to be made , with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties , whereby manslaughters , divisions the and
riots , batteries , and among gentlemen other people of the same counties shall very likely rise and be { laughter ) , unless convenient and due remedy be provided in this behalf . 2 . Our Sovereign Lord the King , considering the premises , hath provided , ordained , and established , by authority of this present Parliament , that the knights of the shires to be chosen within the said realm of England , to come to the Parliaments of our Lord the King , hereafter to be holden , shall be chosen in every county of the realm of England , by people dwelling and resident in the same counties , whereof every one of them shall have free land or tenement to the value of forty
shillings by the year at the least , above all charges . " Such was the four hundred years' old foundation of their friend James Taylor ' s great social and political movement . ( Cheers . ) The honourable gentleman then laid before his hearers statistics demonstrating the alarming fact that the county constituencics of England were rapidly declining i and pointed out tho necessity for the infusion of new blood into that , at present , unhealthy portion of tho body politic . This could only be done by the enlargement of the constituencies , not with the automaton voters called tenunts-at-vvill , but with such free and intelligent voters us the Westminster Freehold Land Society hud succeeded in enfranchising .
Another festival was held on the same day tit Uxbrirtgo to celebrate tho hiking possession of tho first of a series of freehold estates , in course of purchase by the Uxbridge branch of tlio society , with a view to the increase of the 10 s . franchise . The estate , which is to be called Wulmsley-terrace , abuts on tho property of Mr . Nowili-gato , M . l \ , within sound und Bight of whose mansion the proceedings took place . Mr . G . Thompson , M . P ., Mr . Dennis McDonnell , and Mr . Serlr , attended as a deputation from tho National He form Association ; Mr . E . Clarke und Mr . II . Ellsington , from the National Freehold Land Society ; and Mr , J . Taylor , from the Birmingham
Association . The chair was taken by Mr . Newton ; and , after appropriate speeches from Mr . Clarke , Mr . Serle , and Mr . James Taylor , Mr . George Thompson addressed the meeting , and concluded an excellent discourse as follows : — " Suffer me , in the most friendly spirit , and after what I have said I cannot think it possible that I should be supposed having any other than the most warm attachment to the work in which you are engaged—suffer me to remind you , that while it is at once your interest and your duty to advance this course , you must not neglect the equally important duty of calling upon the Legislature of the country for an act of general justice to the unvote
enfranchised masses . The right of the man to a should not , after all , be made to depend on a 40 s . freehold . That is a thing of accident , inclination , occupation , health , and many other circumstances . Your fellow-subject is entitled to the vote because he is a man ; because he bears the burdens of the state ; because it is his constitutional right ; and because the poorer he is , the more he needs the vote as a shield against those impositions which his condition makes intolerable . I cannot hold the Legislature excused for depriving millions of a right as much theirs as it is that of the wealthiest man in the House of Commons . ( Loudcheers . ) Use the present and all other practicable
means of acquiring the franchise . Get the vote in the borough if you can , and a vote in the county besides , and stimulate all around you to tread in your steps ; but let every vote obtained be used in behalf of the yet unenfranchised millions , and hasten the day when the constitutional rights of the people of this country shall be restored . ( Cheers . ) When I was a humble advocate of freedom for the West Indian slave I set my face against the principle of self-redemption , as proposed by the Legislature . My cry was , « Let the oppressed go free ! I slave his freedom
did not , of course , object to the buying , if he had no other way to obtain it ; but I said to the tyrant who took the money , * Thy money perish with tliee , because thou hast added injustice to injustice , by making the man purchase that of which thou hadst first robbed him . ' While we have a Legislature deaf to the claims of the mpritorious working classes of this country , let every man , by every honest means , seek to win the franchise through his own exertions ; but let him not cease at the same time to knock at the door of Parliament , crying , * Pay my brother what you owe him . ' "
Another meeting was announced to take place on Thursday , the 26 th of " Sept ., at the Public-rooms , TJxbridge , for the pupose of forming an auxiliary to the National Reform Association , the name of whose president ( Sir Joshua Walmsley ) had that day been given to the newly-acquired estate .
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Two Acres Of Land. Among Other Instances...
TWO ACRES OF LAND . Among other instances of the attention which the newspaper press is now bestowing on the land question , we have been much pleased with an article on the subject in a late number of the Weekly Dispatch . After some judicious remarks on the wretched condition of the agricultural population , and the means of improving it , our contemporary gives tho following graphic and striking account of what has been accomplished by one man on two acres of land : — " John Sillett tells us that he was bred a grocer and draper at Saxmundham , in Suffolk . He was afterwards a shopman in London and Birmingham—and set up as a general shopkeeper in a country village , losing money for six years in that pursuit . He was a draper in London for some time , and afterwards carried on business at Kelsalc without any better success . Such were an education and habits as much opposed , as it is easy to conceive , to agricultural pursuits . No other noviciate than this had he for the apparently desperate experiment of buying two acres of land at the large price of £ 125 per acre , equal to £ 6 5 s . of annual rent , and maintaining a town-bred family by the spade . Previous , ' observes he , * to my beginning my operations on this piece of land I had never dug a rood of ground before in my life ; indeed , I was so entirely ignorant of all matters relative to husbandry that I did not even know the various seeds . ' He details honestly and faithfully his whole plan of operation . Nothing was done in a corner . Thousands went to see the living incarnation of a great industrial truth . * The following , ' he continues , ' is a correct estimate of the produce sold after family ' s consumption , keeping two cows , fattening one calf and rearing one , and fattening two pigs , besides reserving seeds for next year ' s cropping . The calf that I fatted weighed 9 stone , of 14 Ib . to the stone , at 7 weeks old , which I had killed in the house , and sold among my friends and neighbours . The price I made of it was 7 d . per pound , or 8 s . 2 d . per stone of 14 lb . Sold 1 ' rouuck of tub Ye . vu 1817 . Produce of two cows , al ' tm- family ' s consumption , fattrninu <> no calf , and weaning one £ 2 i ) 12 0 One calf flitted , i ) stone , at 8 s . 2 d £ 3 12 6 Skin , head , J ' oet , & c 0 Hi 0 ————— 4 8 C One-year old heifer 5 9 9 One I ' sit pi } f of 8 Btnnn , at 8 s . p « r stone o 4 0 at ) sacks ol ' potatoes , ut « s 8 0 0 12 bushels early ditto , at 0 s J 0 0 7000 cubbiijjos , lit ijd '•* H ° 12 peeks of onions , at Is " 12 0 Various seeds , vegetables , & c « J 15 0 £ 11 3 8 Deduct rent of two aeies , at 5 per cent ., on purehaae-inoney A' 12 10 0 Kent of house ** 0 0 Kates , taxes , & r 8 1- 0 Net profit for tho year .. A'Sl 1 8 Now here is tho question practically worked out . All the
pet prices ; but y own on acres of land to contribute £ 51 per annum to the manufactures and taxation of the country , after amply supplying his whole family from the surplus produced . Calculating the land of these islands cultivated and cultivable at sixty millions of acres , and giving to each family two and a half times as much as honest John Sillett ' s share , or five acres each , there would be ample provision for twelve millions of families or sixty millions of souls , capable of producing a net profit income of £ 612 , 000 , 000 per annum . "
is enabled bhis labour two sneers of bastard economists at the results of O'Connorville and Snigg ' s End cannot laugh sturdy industry out of the obvious conclusions to which this precious experiment should legitimately lead . Here is a plain , persevering , but wholly uninitiated man , who , out of two acres of land very highly rented , feeds his whole family abundantly , pays all outgoings , including heavy house rent , rates and taxes , and nets a profit of £ 51 Is . 2 d . per annum . Observe , he does not live near a large town , he possesses no extraordinary advantages , commands no
The War Between Denmark And Schleswig-Ho...
THE WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN . The continual skirmishing of the two belligerent armies was succeeded by a more serious operation on the 12 th and 2 3 th instant . On the 12 th the Holsteiners took the offensive and attacked the whole Danish line . The contest , which was very fierce , began in the town of Eckernforde , which was taken by the Holstein vanguard , commanded by Colonel Grerhardt , amounting to about 5000 men . The Danes then opened a tremendous fire on that town from their men-of-war stationed in its harbour . The
Holsteiners , however , turned some heavy guns against the bombarding ships , which compelled them to abandon their station . The Danes had a stronglyentrenched camp before Eckernforde , which the Holstein infantry carried by the bayonet . The carnage was frightful , and many victims covered the ground both around and in the entrenchments . The next morning , 13 th instant , before the day had scarcely dawned , the contest was most furiously renewed . An attempt of the Holstein troops upon Missunde , to force the passage of the river Schlei ,
was repelled by the Danes , who assaulted them in the forest of Cosel . The Holsteiners retired in perfect order behind Eekernforde , which they abandoned after having destroyed the camp by fire , and resumed the same position they occupied on the previous day . The attack upon Missunde , which was most sanguinary , cost them , it is stated , a loss of 170 dead , wounded , and missing ; but they made 50 Danish prisoners . The loss of the Danes , during this sanguinary conflict of the 12 th and 13 th instant , is not known .
It is confidently believed in political circles at Berlin that no intervention will take place in Schleswig-Holstein before spring .
Prussia And Austria. Bonn, Sept. 17.—-Pr...
PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA . Bonn , Sept . 17 . — -Prussia has spoken its last word and retired upon the innermost line of the various positions it took since 1848 . It will send no delegate to the " closer " or restricted council of the Diet summoned by Austria after the failure of the Plenum ; it will have nothing to do with the old Diet assembled in '' Plenum" or in " closer council . " It will not . So the Government has declared officially before the face of Germany ; and the King has , with his own mouth , assured " his dear Berliners " that this is his' " eigenste Meinung , " most
peculiarly his personal view of the matter . Moreover , considering that the position now taken up is merely a negative one , it will probably be adhered to . But , alas ! how have the mighty promises and declarations " before the face of Germany" come down since his Majesty , grasping the ancient standard of the empire , consecrated himself to the championship of Germany ; then the unity was promised , and " Prussia was to be absorbed by Germany !" Agnin , when the representatives of the whole German people , assembled in parliament at Frankfort , took the King by his word and voted the Imperial Crown to him
and his heirs , he—letting "I dare not wait upon I would , and weakly miscalculating to get from the Princes and the force of circumstances what he had not the greatness of heart to accept at first hand from Providence and the people—declined the generous offer . He somewhat pacified the indignation and impatience of his own subjects , and of patriotic men all over Germany , by the solemn assurance that henceforth it would be his sacred duty to procure to the people of Germany such a constitution us that decided on by the Parliament , with a unitary head and popular representation . Then the " Three Kings ' and
Union" was formed , including all North Germany part of the South ; in fact , the whole of Germany with the exception of Bavaria , Wurtemberg , and Austria ; and General von Radowitz , the personal friend of the Kim ; and exponent of his German policy , in his own grand manner , manliness dwelling on his brow and mystic idealism shining from his eyes , in solemn , melodious tones spoke significant words— " inhaltsschwer" — full of high promises and " beautiful sentiments ;" amongst others this sentiment , " That great things could only be accomplished by great sacrifices and self-denying endurance . " He spoke this in the name
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 21, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21091850/page/4/
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