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several Bhort compositions by Stemdale Bennet , Heller , Mendelssohn , and himself . Miss Hayes and Madame Macfarren were the vocalists . The room was filled .
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OUT-DOOR AMUSEMENTS . Never were out-door amusements in such demand as this season . At the Surrey Zoological Gardens on Monday , Jullien took his benefit . The musical arrangements were excellent , the programme including his most popular compositions . The fireworks were of the most magnificent description . The gardens were crammed , not less than 15 , 000 persons being present . At the Cremorne Gardens on Monday , a new aspirant for aeronautic honours appeared in the presence of about 10 , 000 spectators . Guiseppe Lemardini , who
is stated to have made several successful ascents m Spain , is amongst those who propose to guide the balloon through the air . The Signor having left the gardens accompanied by two gentlemen , the company participated in the varied amusements until a late hour . Vauxhall Gardens ( which are Tnightly crowded ) on Tuesday presented a novel and interesting spectacle . The walls were decorated with the choicest floweringplants , in all the perfection and profusion of blossom , which modern floriculture is so successful in producing . The artificial light was exceedingly
well managed ; but the effect is very inferior to the appearance of the same flowers by day . Some of the bouquets of cut flowers were exceedingly splendid . On Wednesday the Bal Masque in honour of- the Queen ' s visit to the City , Was as brilliant as any that have taken place . English , French , Italians , Germans , and Americans wandered about in genuine fraternity . Several bands were stationed in various parts of the gardens . The night was magnificently fine , and the masquerade may be considered altogether the most successful of the season .
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The Executive of the National Charter Association met on Wednesday evening last . Present—Messrs . Arnott , Grasby , Jones , and Milne . Messrs . Harney and Reynolds being in the country were absent , Messrs . Holyoake ( compelled to attend other committees ) , Hunt ( from indisposition ) , and O'Connor , were also abaent . The discussion on the necessity of inviting the trades to concentrate their energies for the purpose of obtaining their political and social rights , adjourned from the last meeting , was then resumed , and it was resolved that the concluding paragraph from " The address of the Executive Committee to the trades of the United Kingdom , " issued in March last , be reprinted as follows : —
" We now invite you to join in the task of regenerating and emancipating industry . Detail your grievancespropound your remedies . Chartist organization will give weight to your demands . From every part of the country the cry for your rights shall roll upwards to the Government . All your several trades have their several grievances—now , they go Bingly before the Legislature , from isolated bodies— and , therefore , are disregarded . We will make of each a National Demand , and back it by a national agitation . The complaint of the weaver , or the shoemaker , shall not be his alone—but it ehall be the complaint of the Chartist body throughout the empire , pervading all trades and all localities . To the work , then , men of the trades ! Unite ! unite ! unite ! The Conventions of the People must be the Parliament of Labour ! The Executive the Ministry of the
Unenfranchised ! On the motion of Messrs . Arnott and Grassby , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That the Executive Committee put themselves into communication with the scvcrul trades , in order to obtain an embodiment of their grievances-and their demands , and that a series of public meetings bo held , to which the trades be specially invited , each meeting to consider the wrongs of the trade addressed , and the requisite reform demanded by their body ; and that the Chartist councils throughout the country be requested to adopt the same course . "
[ In accordance with the above , the Q en oral boorotary w solicitous of receiving communications from the several trades , and at tho same time assuring them , that such communications ahall meet with prompt attention . J Tho Secretary was instructed to state ; , in reply to several friends , that the publication of the Monthly Circular was postponed until August 1 , in order that the Committee may ascertain the amount of support that will be afforded to them in the publication thereof . Agents , uub-oe ^ retariefl , and other friends are , therefore , solicited to use their utmost energies relative thereto , and communicate with the Grenural Secretary . The Committee then adjourned to Wcdn «» d » y evening , July H . Signed on behalf of tho Committee , John Awnoxt , General Secretary .
Robert Owen's Petition To The Hot/Se Of ...
ROBERT OWEN'S PETITION TO THE HOT / SE OF LORDS . [ Presented by Lord Brougham on July 3 rd . ] To the Bight Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The Petition of Robert Owen , Showeth , —That your Petitioner has devoted a long life , under most favourable opportunities , to investigate the causes which produce and through succeeding ages reproduce the miseries of the human race . That through the knowledge of the new and all important science of " the . influence of circumstances for good or evil to man , " he has discovered the causes of those evils , and the means by which those causes may be removed and in future prevented .
That , this discovery having been made , the longer continuance of ignorance , disunion , poverty , vice , crime , and all their attendant miseries , will depend upon the will of the authorities who possess the direction of the physical and mental powers of society . That your petitioner is fully prepared to develope this new science , and the practice which will necessarily emanate from it , to scientific and experienced men of business in the various great departments of life , who are competent to unite combinedobjects upon an extensive scale , to produce great and extraordinary valuable resiilts .
That there is nothing wild , visionary , or impracticable , in any part of the statement now made ; but , on the contrary , these results have been carefully deduced from facts unknown to change , and several of them have been confirmed by long practice and an experience among all classes in many countries / such as has seldom been acquired under equal advantages . Therefore , your petitioner , for the continuance of peace and the immediate and future interest of all classes , from the highest to the lowest in this empire , earnestly intreats your right honourable House to appoint a select committee , to investigate , and report to your right honourable House on the measures which he will explain to this committee to accomplish these results , without disorder or loss to any parties , but most beneficially for all . And your petitioner will for ever pray , & c , Robert Owen .
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ROBERT OWEN'S PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . [ Presented by T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., on June 16 . ] To the Honourable the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The Petition of Robert Owen Showeth , —That your petitioner , after mueh study and long experience , under singularly favourable circumstances , has perfected a mental discovery which is calculated to produce the most important and lasting benefits to the present generation and to all future generations . That this discovery is immediately applicable to all nations and people ; and will , in the shortest time practicable , and in the most peaceable and orderly manner , relieve them gradually from poverty , crime , and bad habits ; and will give them health , wealth , knowledge , wisdom , good habits , union , and happiness , —all of which willincrea & e through every succeeding generation . That in this statement there is nothing wild , visionary , or impracticable ; but , on the contrary , that the principles on which the discovery is made are unchanging laws of nature , and the practice the most simple that the human mind can well imagine , and easily to be executed by the population of the world as soon as it shall be explained to them . That this discovery , which appears to be Providential , or in the due order of nature aa to time , is necessary to calm men ' s minds from their present irrational excitement on religions , morals , laws , governments , cornmere , education , and the peace of all nations and cordial union of all individuals .
That' that which without this discovery appears to be as impracticable—and before its discovery , is as impracticable— -as it was before the means had been discovered , that two persons should be enabled to communicate their thoughts to each other in a second of time when thousands of miles apart , will be ascertained to be a science equally perfect as that of the electrical telegraphic communication ; and , like the laws of nature when fully comprehended , easy and beautiful for practice . That , as your petitioner is now of advanced age , and cannot , expect a much longer extension of vigorous and of Jife itselfhe earnestl ¦
useful faculties , or , indeed , , — y entreats your honourable House to appoint a committee or commission , or to devise some better mode , thoroughly to investigate the principles and practices of tho scienco which he will disclose to parties bo appointed—a science which will effect more for the permanent prosperity and well-doing of the human race , than all other sciences united ; for , without the knowledge of this new mental discovery , but a comparatively small portion of benefit enn be obtained from tho physical scieiicen which have been discovered ; because this new science can alono give union and abundance of wealth , and insure , by the moBt
simple practical process , a valuable and good character and permanent happiness to nil nations and peoples . And your petitioner will over pray . ItOllHlLT OWKN .
8vmn.Au Education.—At A Public Meeting H...
8 vmn . AU Education . —At a public meeting held at the Lecture Room , Vauxhall-bridgo-road , on the 2 nd instant , and by adjournment at the Clarendon Hotel , Warwick-street , St . George ' s-road , 1 'imlico , on Saturday eTcntng , July 5 , the first presided over by L . Hcyworth , Ksq ., M . P ., and the latter by Mr . J . Nottogo , it haa httn resolved , to form a Peoples' Institute Association , in Bhurca of one pound each , payable by instalments of
not less than threepence per week for the above nnr poses . C . Lushington , M . P ., L . Heyworth , M . P . \» a "W . J . Fox , M . P-., are nominated as trustees . "' Th honourable * member for Westminster has volunteered a subscription in behalf of the object . Many shares have been already taken up . The next meeting is proposed to be held at the Lecture Rooms , Vauxhall-brid ge-rDad on Saturday evening next ; the 12 th instant . The institute is proposed to be built on land the propertv ^ f the Pimlico working builders . —E . S . * - *¦* First General Delegate Meeting or the Uni verbal Anti-Truck Societt , at Derby . —On Tuesday last , a delegate meeting was held in Derb y to form a Universal Anti-Truck Society . The deligates prese nt were , Mr . Thomas Winters , from London ; Josenh
. Limrey , from Staffordshire ; ueorge Jiendal , fro m Sutton-in-Ashfield ; Henry Parker , from 56 , Burton * road , Derby ; Samuel Blackwell , of Bulwell ; Thomag Greaves , of Leicester ; John Faithfull , from Stranorand several others from the weavers and others . Mr ! Jeremiah Briggs was called to the chair , when it was " Resolved , —That a society be formed , to be c alled the Universal Anti-Truck Society ; " , Secondly , — " That a committee be formed to draw up a code of laws and regulations . " The reason of these proceedings is the desirability that the entire amount of all wages , the earnings of labour , shall be actually and positively paid in the current coin of the realm , without any deduction or stoppage whatever . Labour is an element of itself , nnected with the
to be paid for by itself , unco property or machinery of the employer . By stopping any part of his wages , a workman is not paid for his labour . The stocking manufacturer employs a man to work in a frame , and then charges him for the frame t o work in , and stops the amount from his wages ; so that , in slack work , the poor stockinger actually gets nothing for his labour—by reason that the labour is taken from him to pay the master for the employment given . The Anti-Truck Society is formed for the purpose of petitioning both Houses of Parliament , and obtaining the Universal Anti-Truck Law to be more fully established by a positive act of Parliament ; it being the law of the land , that all workmen should be paid their wages without any deduction of any kind whatever . The act of Parliament 1 and 2 Wm . IV ., c . 37 , called the * ' Truck Act , " is
considered defective , inasmuch as it does not sufficiently prevent stoppages from wages . Every week stoppages are taken from the labour of the working-man , whether they earn as much or not ; and very often the workman is brought in debtor to * his master after working the greater portion of the week , the wages being so low to begin with ; and that is not sufficient , for the master stops the said wages for frame-rent and other charges , so that it very frequently occurs that the poor workman has nothing to receive or live upon , although he has been at work , or waiting for work , the greater part of the week . Printed appeals are being forwarded to all the members of Parliament , for subscriptions , to obtain an act of Parliament for carrying out the objects of this institution . The proposed act ( which only contains six clauses ) is to prohibit the stoppage of any portion of a workman ' s wages , under any pretence whatever .
Redemption Society . — We trust that no zeal will be wanting for the fourteen days' propagandism . If every member add one or two to the ranks , it will prove that we have the power of doubling our numbers at pleasure . Hence , the successful working of this effort may be the prelude to an immense movement . Moneys received : — Leeds , £ 1 Ms . 9 d . ; Huddersfield , . per Mr . France , 4 a . 6 ( 1 ; Plymouth , per Mr . Bottomlv , 8 s . 8 d . ; Kendal , 6 d . ; Newcastle , per Mr . Johnson , 13 s . lOd . Communal Building Fund : —Huddersfield , per Mr . France , 4 s . 6 d . ; Plymouth , per Mr . Bottomly , 6 s .
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ENOKMOUS COST OF THE ltEMOVAL OF THE POO . lt . 7 , ¦ John-street , New-road , London , July '•> . 185 |' Sin , —Some months bnck tho feelings of Englw ' i humanity wore outraged by tho heartless conduct <^ some Irish authorities , in wending over vast numoe of their native poor to England , whom they inda * £ , to coino by giving a glowing , and therefore fa" 10 ' scription of advantages to bo derived ; at the fll time putting their luuida in their pockets and R *^^ tho enormous fore of two jjhillingB per . head . At
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071851/page/20/
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