Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Saturday 17 April 1852, page 1


To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.

Melb" in march out of eleven wintry liespit is in Inn is red bad in others and vexatious which arise front a cure apparently quite inmovable, it we may so si t .! of an evil so purely negative, named , time is no provision to the acre is md necessary expenditurestime is neither a stipulated 1101 a probable source of sit j play possessing or pre nding au adequately with these over ions I propose, therefore that that class of our population took

whose beat it these est blishments ire man turned contribute, while in health, towards the a support of institutions which are to receive and

relieve them in sickness

the amount to be ] ud annually, calculated it 10s to every Line and domestic servant not belonging to benefit societies, would exceed £15,000, with gifts, this in 1 hospital fees, and the whole being doubled by the public to carry, would produce funds equal to the assistance r -owned by persons not, in a condition to ] secure other than the services of pi o fit to be a

cheap clean v item is, a, tested by experience, " eespeeii'h suspended for persons who have not

got under 1 the extent to which ill i ! issues of the

co immunity are interested in the support and efficiency of these institution in, its sure recordcan Rd-interests even ling beyond the s ripelines of a common nature to the every day by mess of life Of the principles embraced by the measure the most conspicuous is that which greets a writ nil centre to prepare, while possessed of the mc ma, for the personal infirmities of age and casualty Trust in Proud nee dum" is not only compatible with that precept, but the same Providence teaches; emphatically the twofold lesson in the extremes

of health and disease, was met and over-abundance.

Five hundred families were abandoned at one time to the charges of the inhabitants of Sydney, because so many husbands and inches chose to become gold-diggers. This reliance upon the benevolence of the settled and upper classes of the community, however, (i eli table to these, goes to falsify abilities bestowed for the fulfilment of the great duties of social life , mel my neighbour has no more right to increase my burthens time very thin to put his hard in my pocket. A law to authorise the retention by the employer of 2s. 6d per quarter from the w ages of servants and laborers would not only secure a refuge for the afflicted, but with it, the reflection that he owed these advantages partly

at least to himself. This wholesome and elevating reflection bespeaks another principle, advocated by the measure proposed, and agreedsary to the improvement and the happiness of

the humbler but not therefore the less useful members

of society.

-I remain, sir, yours faithfully,

GEORGE BROOKS.

Newcastle, April, 1852.

PoliTicAL EFFECTS or Tir FREEHOLD LAND SOCILTILS - At a meeting of the Freehold Union, on Monday, it was stated that there are actually at this moment in England and Wales 100 freehold 1 and societies Southampton being the seat

of the most southern and Carlisle of the most note in among them Two of unions have been described by the members of these societies for the purchase of freeholds , £400,000 has actually been paid up, 150 estates purcb istd, aid 12,000

allotments made The influence of the east. freehold

land societies is not simply of future no, orto ice They are at this moment a real power in some counties, and will forthwith be made so in others, they have already increased the num-it is of more than one constituency, and altered its composition, to an extent that has in the ely deranged the caught one of jobbery in elections, and will baffle the utmost endeavours of such pests to reaping their corrupt weba.-Atlas, 29th

November.

As OLD OFFICER Lieutenant Du Sautov, Barrack-master at Taunton, kept his 93 h birth-day at Taunton, last week. He is the oldest commissioned officer in the British army, his commission being dated Nov. 14th, 1775 * For the last 40 years he has been a hard kick master. He is still able to do his duty, and writes his letters. Leeds 'Mercury, Dec. 13.

THE PUT in TRADE For many years past the foreign pictures imported into the United Kingdom have averaged above ten thousand annually A few are original worker modern artists, but the vast proportion the copies of old masters, manufactured for the English connoisseur. How many are sold as originals would be a curious additional fact, if it could be ascertained. The Art Journal gives the following list of the number imported during the past year -Hanseatic towns, 1,100 , Holland, 1,518, Belgium, 2226, France, 2,933, It the Duchy of Tuscany, 1,045, other parts of Italy, 362 , Portugal, 147 Spain, 197 , Malta, 251 , all other countries, 1,340 total, 11,217. Presuming that two-thirds are retained in England, this ought to be rush above all countries of the world in "personal treasures "-Atlas, Nov. 29.

WISMSCS OF RACERS teddington has won £7165 during the past season, Nancy, £6471 and the Goodwood Cup, Heinuidez, £3436, Ins, £4,800 and Aphrodite, £2075-Neus of the World, Dec. 7.