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Octobbe 4,1856.] THE XUDEE. 915
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market © four Southern States to an Englishman . With the majority of out respectable population in New Eng- land , these articles are considered as pertaining only to the department of medical practice , and , if we have them in our houses at all , it is with the same precaution and Watchfulness that we use other medicines . " When -we see how they are publicly obtruded on the eye here every night , with all the attractions of brilliant lights and splendid shops , we wonder that there are any who escape such temptations . But let us hope that our two countries are both on the eve of new and better things , It is our . hope that the cause of liberty in America is about to triumph—that the wise and good , who too long have slumbered and slept , are awaking in good earnest to wipe out the disgrace of past remissness by placing in our highest national seat a President who shall eonsis- tently uphold the principles of freedom . " Mrs . Stowe will not get many persons in England , outside the narrow limits of teetotalism , to agree with her in think- ing that poverty would vanish from these island 3-6 n the importation of the Maine Liquor Law . This opinion is no doubt very agreeable to noble lords and large landed proprietors ; but it will not be ratified by the masses , However , there is no question that drunkenness is one of our national sins , and the sooner we get rid of it the better . —A long correspondence between Lord Stanley and Mr . Samuel Pope , Hon . Sec . of the United Kingdom Alliance for the suppression of the liquor traffic , with reference to the temperance question , has been published It arose out of a request made by the society to his lordship that he would attend the annual meeting Lord Stanley declined , and drew up a statement of his reasons against legislative suppression of drunkenness . To these Mr . Pope replies , Lord Stanley again defends his opinions , and the secretary makes another rejoinder with which the correspondence closes . The documents are too voluminous for analyzation within our limits and our readers are already acquainted with the argu ments on both side 3 of the general question . The International Frbe Trade Congress . —The farewell banquet to wind up the business of tne Con gress came off , on the evening of Friday week ; in the Gothic-hall of the Hotel de Ville , under the presidency of Count C . Arrivabene . . From two hundred , to two hundred and fifty gentlemen sat down to dinner , and the banqu « t-hall was decorated with the flags of divers nations . Among the company were the Count John Arrivabene ( Professor of the London University College and adherent member of the Congress ); MM . Corr Van dermaeren , De Molinari , Garnier , Pascal Diiprat , Scia loja ( delegate from Sardinia ) , Hertz ( Hamburg" Masson , De Cocquiel , Ciersy Kowaki , De Beaulieu Lesoime , Campan , Ackersdyk ; Mr . Oliveira , M . P Mr . " Winkwortb , Mr . C . Lawson , Mr . E . Chadwick Sec . Several toasts were drunk and speeches delivere appropriate to the occasion . The toast of " tlie Dele gates from Holland , " proposed by M . CouvreuT ( a Bel gian ) , was received with the utmost enthusiasm , several Belgian members rushing round the hall , and striking their glasses against those of their Dutch friends with great emphasis and cordiality . II . Lesoime excited some merriment by proposing " Our Auxiliaries , Protectionists , " whom he said M . Pascal Duprat had handled too roughly . By their predictions of ruin native industry from competition—to which experience invariably gave the lie—the Protectionists did wonder ful though unwilling service to the cause of free trade Mr . Oliveira , M . P ., took occasion to thank the Belg authorities for their kindness in throwing open museums , & c , to foreigners , and ventured to promise similar courtesy to them when they should visit Eng land . — " The Conference of 1856 , " says the Times porter , " is now dissolved ; but its work is intended be taken up by a permanent international association ramifying the civilized world with its multip branches . Great activity has been shown by the com mittoo of the local body , who on the very first day the resolution to create a standing organization passed , met and formed the nucleus of the projected Free Trade League . Such energy and promptitude augur well for the future . Svnday Bands . —A Parliamentary return has issued , showing the number of memorials to the Queen for the stoppage of the Sunday bands . It appears there were 111 , 309 signatured to 542 memorials , only of which came from public meetings , and but t from " associations . " From different varieties of in Scotland , assembly , free , synod , scccder , and byter , there were 26 memorials . While the Wesleyan Methodists sent no less than 98 memorials , the Primitive Methodists sent but one . The Church seems unrepre sented in tho list , unless that be done by two memorials from " clergy ; " and from " clergy and others , " 28 morials . The " femalo inhabitants" of various p sent 377 different momoriala . London , it might be posed , would be largely represented , but 28 memorials with under 8000 signatures out of tho 111 , 309 , are that stand to the account of the metropolis . The shows that 42 memorials , while asking for tho stoppage of the military music on Sunday , ask also that museums and Crystal Palace may bo keep closed . only of those 42 memorials come from London and neighbourhood , and two out of the five are described from " mothers at Cainborwcll . " There aro some meiooriuls which pray her Majesty not only to withhold Jior sanction from tho Sunday opening of the Museum
& c , higli day . Hyc Deri 20 i fron : for 1 the fron com J < fluei to c Par ned hop amd toe ticu vari pan clia nee J ma ha \ ren , ace ska . Pa : bee Pit Pa , wi < Pa ; tra - ne Pa to - « u ! ga Ti sti / be ( ss , th - lie - wj ) , hi , to ., cl , g ; d , T - as - 01 tl si n ; a the G a : to n c : - j , t ian a the a a s - i re- s to t 1 lied i - i after ¦ was : been that seven wo kirks pres- - melaces sup- , nil report the Five its ns 27 , & c , but also " to put a stop to the assemblage of t"he con higher classes in their equipages in the parls on Sun- 11 < day . " For some unexplained reason , the " drive" in sou Hyde-park seems peculiarly interesting to the county of pla Derby ; for , of the 27 memorials on the subject , above me 20 are from various places , in that county ; the rest are the from Scotland . Only 34 memorials add to -their prayer so i for the stoppage of military bands on Sunday one for riti the closing of Kew Gardens , and two of these emanate mo from Bath , one with 3639 signatures ; the 32 others hex come from all parts of Suffolk . At John Macgregor , M . P . — Some of the most in- the fluential of the liberal electors of Glasgow h ave resolved thi to call upon Mr . John Macgregor to resign his seat in doi Parliament . The reason assigned , of coirrse , is con- tha nected with the failure of the Royal British Bank . We ah ( hope the Glasgow Liberals will not act with precipitation , as amd condemn Mr . Macgregor unheard . It would be wiser bel to elicit from the ingenious John , a full , true , and par- fro ticular account of his profits and losses in connexion with we various projects , from the Eastern Archipelago Com- cip pany , that monumental corporation which forfeited its hai charter , to the Royal British Bank , the latest example of ha neediness treading along the edge of legality . sti The Parks . — -Various improvements are now being jus made in the parks . The pieces of ornamental water have ^ been cleansed , deodorized , and , in some instances , " en rendered shallower , in order to prevent those numerous na accidents from drowning which are common in the skating season . The new entrance into St . James ' s th Park from Pall-mall i 3 completed ; fresh gates have Tl i been added to the Green Park in three places along the in Piccadilly line ; the walks and carriage-ways in Hyde of i Park , close to the bridge over the Serpentine , have been tv , -widened ; new plantations have been made in Victoria ai i Park , where other improvements are effected ; the en- G ; trances to the Regent ' s Park have been -widened , and oi - new footways are being laid down , as in the Green , Si Park ; and in all these public grounds a large addition tl 3 to the number of seats has been made . The perpendi- pi - eular bars have been removed from the foot-passenger ti b . gates ; and cows are henceforth to be excluded from the si 7 . Victoria and Regent ' s Parks , where , however , sheep rnay ai d still be pastured . ni e London Mission of the Agapemone .. —Two mem- st s bers of the '' A gapemone , '' near Bridgewater , appeared m a ( says a daily contemporary ) on Friday week , at oi s , the Hanover- ' square Rooms , for tho purpose of pub- c < - licly making known their tenets . The ; large room d - was densely crowded . Two respectably dressed men , G ) , having nothing peculiar in tbeir appearance , spoke tl l , to the meeting , one after another , an . d urged the t ., claims of their leader , " Brother Prince , " to be- re- s s ., garded as the inspired author of a new revelation , t 3 , They observed that " some persons had been . so foolish r s- as to say that his followers regarded Mr . Prince as God , t 1- or as the Messiah , or the Holy Ghost ; but God forbid c al that any one , either in foolishness or In wickedness , < ig should ever say such a thing . Brother Prince was by £ ; h nature a child of wrath , but he had been made by grace s id a vessel of mercy . Some eleven years ago , the Holy 1 le Ghost fulfilled in Brother Prince all that he came to be id and to do . " The audience at this statement evinced i to ' much disapprobation and disgust , and some persons ] ce cried out that it was gross blasphemy , and worse than i r- Mormonism . The speaker , who seemed quite imperle . turbable , and who calmly surveyed the meeting through in a single glass stuck jauntily in one eye , proceeded to he allude to a second spiritual manifestation which , he s a said , occurred at the Agapemone about fire years ago , g- in which case the phenomenon was exhibited in the perre- son of a -woman—a prophetess— " not privately , but in to the presence of us all . " Some of the expressions used by on the speaker in describing this transactimi were probably ied misunderstood by many of his hearers , for they interin- ruptcd him indi gnantly , and at last stopped him with a ter very general howl of execration . The two strange 1 " ! \ ras who preserved their impassive demeanour , then retired ted from the room ; upon which Mr . Newman , apparently a ide working man , rose and denounced the doctrines and practices of the Agapemone as impious . He movod , as een a resolution , " that tho statements which had been made een by tho two persons from ^ tho platform that evening were hat contrary to common sense , degrading to humanity , and ren blasphemous towards God . " The resolution was carried ; wo with acclamation and amid vociferous cheers . A scrrka geant of police then stepped forward and good-humourres- edly said , "Now , gentlemen , the meeting is over , " and pan tho proceedings terminated . tive The Bishop of London ' s Fabewhu ,, —An address , ire- signed by a largo body of mctropolitnn clergymen , was ials presented to tho Bishop of London ( it Fulhnm Palace me- last Saturday . In reply to the expressions of regret aces and esteem thus conveyed , tlio retiring prelate made sup- some observations , in tho couTse of whicli , after thanking inls , the clergymen for their affection nncl good will , his : nil Lordship said : —" An net of Parliament has been passed port ennbling mo to resign my bishopric . For the provisions ) ago of that act I have groat cause to be thankful ; though I the must confess that I would rather have seen a general Five measure applicable , with certain safeguards , to tfco discs I its of all bishops of our Church disabled by ngc or infirmity id ns from the active dischargo of their duties I nm 3 27 not conscious of having over allowed any difference ol hold opinion upon matters not affecting tlie foundation or ? um , I essential doctrines of our lioly faith , to influence my I I souls p the so ritual more her At the this done tha and as from we cip han hand justl . ; j » 3 the 3 b e of i a . - I of a . , i - p r 3 sit y - . t of - a i , e ie 3- n . ; h d , id is , } ce ] y [ jo ed ns an ¦ r- rrh to be i-o , ' r- " in l > y , lv ef- k a ^ rs red y a ind as ado rerc and ried ser- mr- and ess was lace grct inde anir his sscd ions rh I ieral macs roity [ am co of n or , my
conduct towards any individual of iny clergy , but that looked only to his faithfulness and diligence in winning to Christ . . . . Nothing-can adequately supply the lace of a zealous and active body of parochial clergy-, carrying the truths and consolations of religion to homes of tlieir neighbours , especially -the poor , and awakening them by degrees to a sense of their spiwants , and exciting in them a longing for the solemn and authoritative teaching of the Church in offkes , and in the public preaching of God ' s Word . present , there is little prospect of such an increase in number of parochial clergymen as may fully supply need : but I am thankful for what has already been in the way of Church extension , and earnestly hope t the work may go forward with increasing energy success , and it is one which I heartily recommend deserving of 3 'our cordial co-operation and support . I believe we may look for assistance and encouragement the Christian community , so long as they see that are faithful to our ministerial trust , and to the prinles of our Reformed Church ; combating , on the one d , infidelity , ignorance , and vice ; and , on the other , guarding our flocks against the errors and superstitions of Rome , by whom the Church of England is y legarded as the firmest "bulwark of Protestantism . " . The New Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol was enthroned , on Saturday in the cathedral of the last named city . The New Public Offices . —The specifications for new ; , public offices were delivered on Wednesday . The Chief Commissioner of "Works ( says the Observer ) invites the preparation of designs for tlie concentration the principal Government offices on the site lying between . Whitehall and the New Palace of Westminster ; and tlie other two designs are for buildings which the Government has determined to erect forthwith , as parts the general scheme—one for the department of the Secretar 3 ' of State for Foreign Affairs , and the other for the Secretary of State for War . The general or block lans are intended . to show the best mode of conceutrating the principal Government offices on the site uated between Downing-street , Westminster Abbey , ' and St . James ' s Park and the Thames . The proposed new War and Foreign Offices are to le in Downingstreet , on the vacant space of ground which the Government already possesses in tliat locality . The situation the new Westminster-bridge must be considered iu connexion with the designs . The prizes for the- bedt designs are—for the two best designs for the Foreign Office and AVar Department , two premiums of 800 ? . ; lor the second best , two premiums of 5007 , ; for the third , two premiums of 300 Z . ; and . for the fifth , sixth , and seventh best , there are two premiums of 1001 . each . If the architect to whom a premium may be awarded in respect of the designs , or any of them , shall be employed to superintend the execution of the work , he will not be entitled to receive such premium , but he will be paid ii commission at the rate of five per cent , on the outlay , such commission to include all expenses for measuring , superintendence , & c , except the salaries of the clerks of the works . Guildhall , Improvements . — The improvements and alterations at the Guildhall are rapidly progressing , and principally comprehend two new law courts , with their necessary appendages , and the appropriation of a portion of the ancient crypt of the building for the purposes of a kitchen . — Building News . Swsi'KNSiou of a Goods Traffic Managed—In consequence of some irregularities in his department , Mr . Samuel Salt , goods manager of the London and North Western Itailway Company ( north-eastern division ) at Munchestcr , has been for tho pretcnt susponded . This ¦ Harvest ; in tiikNoktu of Scotland . —A week of -very bad weather has seriously interrupted harvest operations in the north of Scotland . Heavy rains have ' fallen ,- and a good deal of the unewt corn has been hopelessly laid , but , as a cliangc for the better has taken place in the weather , it is expected that most of tho grain will be secured . The Womah-Floggixg in Mauylebonb workhovse . — A feud is now raging between the parochial directors and guardians of Marylebonc , on the one hoiul , and the Poor-law Board , on the other , with respect to tlie recent flogging of women in the workhouse . The latter body , having instituted on inquiry into the fact 3 of the ense , called upon the directors and guardians to dismiss the master , but made no reference to the portcra , Green and Brown being understood to hav e resigned . Tho directors and guardians , howovor , determined on setting the Board at defiance . Tho Board peremptorily insisted on its order bcingacarricd into effect : but tie parish authorities are rosolvcd to contest the point in tlio law courts . ,. Tins Crystal Palaci :- — The last display tins season of tlio groat fountains at the Sydenham Palace took place last Saturday . Literary Union . — Mr . John Foreter , lato editor of ( be Examiner , and Mrs . Colburn , widow of tho lato eminent publisher , wcro married on Thursday weok . 1 lio ceremony was performed by _ the Kcv . Wbitwcll lilwyn , editor of tho Quarterly Review . New Zealand . —There has been some fighting among tlio native tribes , but it does not appear that any of the Europeans have been killed . . , . .-Parliawbntary Statistics . — . Tho Adrainlatrativo
Octobbe 4,1856.] The Xudee. 915
Octobbe 4 , 1856 . ] THE XUDEE . 915
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101856/page/9/
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