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Royal Literary Fund Dinner. Tim Annivers...
the Hon . W , F . Campbell , M . P ., Mr * G . Hindley M . P . ; the Bev . A . P . Stanley ; Mr . Thackeray ; Mr C . Baldwin j Sir H . Ellis ; Professor Creasy * Dr . Haggard j Mr . J . Murray ; Mr . Bentley ; altogether about one hundred arid twenty gentlemen . The usual loyal toasts were drunk ; "Prosperity to the Royal Iiiterary Fund , " following the " Army and Navy /' Mr . Justice Talfourd proposed " Lord Campbell , ^ arid he in return proposed " The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli ; " Mr . Monckton Milnes gave " Professor Creasy and the Historians ; " Mr , Whiteside , " The Reverend A . Stanley and the Biographers ; " and the Honourable W . F . Campbell , " -Mr * Thackeray and the Novelists . "
Mr . Thackeray ( who sat at the lower end of the room ) said that the company at the chairman ' s table were the great " stars" whom the managers of these festivals procured to act the chief parts upon these
occasions . " They were the Macbeths and Hamlets , while he and those about him were the Rosencrantzes and Guilden-Bterns , and resembled an individual of his acquaintance who , as Banquo , had at Drury-lane shaken his gory locks at half-a-dozen Macbeths . ( A laugh . ) They we ' re like the humble individual in plush at the opera , whose humble office it was to water the stage , amid the applause of the gallery , for the Taglioni and Lihd of the night . ( A laugh . ) Many of those about him , like himself , knew what it was to receive at the beginning of every season a basketful of tickets inviting hita to meet the patrons of some charit y like the present , to rap upon the table , and applaud that particular virtue with which the chairman
for the night wished to indoctrinate his audience . Still there was a silent almoner who issued from such meetings after they were over , and by whose charitable ministrations they were sanctified as by a grace after meat . ( Cheers . ) His calling would be the longest to last , for , long after the present generation was dead , there must be kindness , and generosity , and folly , and fidelity , and love , and heroism , and humbug in the world ( laughter ) , and as long as these continued , Ms successors , and the successors of the novelists who came after them , Would have plenty to do , and no
want of subjects to write upon . When universal peace Was established there would be nobody wanted to write the Decisive Battles of the World . ( A laugh . ) He did not know whether the Court of Chancery would survive the assaults Which it had been sustaining for three months in the Bleak Souse ( a laugh ) , but there might come a time when that ancient and mouldy institution might disappear , and then the historians of the Lives of the Lords Chancellors would have no calling . ( A laugh . ) But could a novelist have a more exciting and heroic story than the wreck of the Birkenhead ? He knew of no more
sublime victory ever achieved by British valour . ( Cheers . ) Or could a romance writer in after years have a better or more wondrous hero than that of the individual who at twenty years of age wrote Vivian Grey , and a little while afterwards The Wondrous Tale of Alroi /; who then explained to a breathless and listening world the mystery of the great Caucasian theory ( a laugh ); who then went into politics , faced , fought , and conquered , the great political giant of these days , and who subsequently led Thanes and Earls to battle , whilo he caused reluctant squires to carry his lance . What a hero would not that bo for some future novelist , and what a magnificent climax for the third volume of his story , when he led him , in his gold coat 0 f office , to kiss the Queen ' s hand as the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Other toasts were then proposed and drank , and the party broke up .
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PROGRESS OF ASSOCIATION . MB . DISBAELI AND THE AMALGAMATED
ENGINE EBB . We direct the attention of our readers to the following report of an important meeting of Trades' Delegates , which took placo at the Bell Inn , Old Bailey , oh Wednesday night , to hear a report from a deputation who had , according to appointment , waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer , at his official residence , in Downintj-streot , on Saturday last , to call his attention to the recent conduct of employers of operative -engineers . _ . . _ „ Conference
Mr . J . Pettie , secretary to the Trades' , ^ reported that the deputation had boon courteously received by Mr . Disraeli , to whom it was stated that ithoy waited on him as a leading minister of a cabinot which had professed its wish to protect , as far as possible , tlio interests of British industry , and to do justice to all parties . They had pointed out the / advantages connected with the oxistonco of Trades ' . "SocietAes , the Act of Parliament which gave thorn a leg > L existence , and the mode in which they conceived & 40 wiasfcer engineers had subverted thai ; Act , by requiring men in thoir employment formally to ronpunco
* H connexion with Trades' Societies by signing a declaration to that effect , a copy of which was supplied iby the deputation . The doputation stated further , ffchat intense anxiety was felt throughout the Trades ' ' Societies of the country gonoraTly in rofcronco to tins i matter , it being feared that the " declaration" might 1 he adopted by employers in other trades , ho as to strike at the existence of Trades' Societies at largo . Tho . deputation , in conclusion , laid before the Chancellor of ; the Exchequer a copy of ft petition . which ie about fa
be presented to the House of Commons > praying for inquiry into the conduct of the master engineers , to which they reqiiested his suppbrt , and that of his colleagues in the Government , and his influence with the House of Commons . . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , in reply , admitted that the conduct of the master engineers was subversive of the spirit of the law , and that-the deputation , in their petition , had adopted the right course of procedure . He should himself have proposed something of the kind . He would give the petition his most serious attention , and when presented to the House , consider it both as a member of the House and a
minister j for the deputation were right in supposing that he and his colleagues in the Government intended to protect the interests of the British workmen , and to do justice to all classes . The report was received without discussion . NADAUD , THE MASON BEPBESENTATIVE TO THE
FRENCH ASSEMBLY . We readily insert the following address to the masons of the United Kingdom , which has been forwarded to us by the Committee : —• Eeliov Woekmek , —We need not offer an apology for bringing the present address before you . The object in which we are engaged is . one in which we truly think every mason in the United Kingdom ought to feel interested . As the heading of our remarks announce Nadaud , the mason representative , it is on his behalf We wish to enlist your warmest sympathy—not merely the sympathy of condoling words ,, but that noble and more enduring sympathy which resolves itself into generous actions- —actions which live through all time ; and which imprint never to be effaced impressions on the minds of both recipients and donors .
The name of him for whom we plead is spread world ' wide ; amongst the operatives of France his name has become a household word in conjunction with those principles which will eventuall y revolutionize the _ world ; place labour in its true position ^ and man in his true social state . Nadaud , an operative mason , by industry and sobriety was enabled , prior to 1848 , to become proprietor of one of the largest eating-houses in Paris frequented by the working classes , and after the revolution in February of that year thousands of working men were thrown idle , and all the masons nearly of Paris amongst the number . Did Nadaud' withdraw , as it were , within himself , for he had capital at command P No , no ; not so . He did an act
which should enshrine his name and memory in the minds of all those who live by toil—he generously gave all he had , and that was no small sum , to " feed the hungry and clothe the naked ; " they , in return , whatever they could become honestly possessed of , brought into the one exchequer , and they had all things in common , and , by his zeal and honesty , thousands were kept from starving . Acts so nobly performed raised him in the estimation of his fellow-men , and , as a proof of the feelings which animated them , they elected him a representative to the National Assembly of France . Well did he merit the distinction they had placed upon him , and honestly did he perform the duties of a representative of the people ; but a more
f loomy day was in store for France , and her noblest sons , aving committed no crime except contending for the rights of man ( if that be a crime ) , some were most brutally massacred , others banished to the wild wastes of Lambissa or the swamps of Cayenne without having had the chanco of a trial . This is done by Louis Napoleon and tho moneyed class of France to prevent the working classes from justly organizing labour . Nadaud was amongst tho latter number , banished for life to Cayenne ; but they sold tho hido before they skinned the bear—he slipped through their fingers , crossed tho frontiors into Belgium , from thonco to England , and ho is now amongst us a stranger in a strange land , an exile from tho home of his fathers ,
perhaps i \ evor more to return . When kings , princes , and fallen statesmen seek the shores of England aa an asylum from the vengoance that is pursuing thorn , does not the king-class and the aristocracy of this country giyo thorn a cordial welcome ? Can we do loss with one of our own class P Wo think not . But apart from anything like political sympathy , on the broad grounds of humanity we have a right to assist him ; ho is one of our own craft , and is it not a patent fact , that no profession in tho world , irrespective of creed or climo , have such fratornal feelings as mosonB ! Lot us not , on tho present occasion , forfeit such , a noble principle Thoro is a committee formed for getting up a subscription for this patriotic oxilo , and wo wish it not to bo confined to London , or any one portion of tho cduntry , but
that each and all in connexion with tho trade should have an opportunity of expressing thoir deepest sympathy with true nobility in misfortune . Tho committee aro desirous that tlio patriotic toolings of tho trado shall bo drawn forth on tho present occasion . Tho committee sit every Friday evening , at tho " Oravon Hoaa , " JDniry-lano , to . which place all communications niuut bo addressed . Subscriptions from tho country aro to bo eont oithpr in Post-oflico orders or postage stamps , jnado payable at tho Lamboth Post-office , to Josurn Tubnjqb , Secretary . 18 , Wftlcot ^ Bquaro , Kennington-roiul , Lamboth . ( By ordor of tho Committoo ) SAMUJCii Jonhs , Chairman . , Tosi ; i'U TirKtfBR , Secretary . HnjfiiY OiiA-PHii , Treasurer .
CO-OPEBATIVJS J ^ AGUl 8 OI 1 IJ 5 IB . At the soiree of the Cooperative Jjcagtie in tho Craven Hotel , on Tuesday , Dr . Travis presiding , the . paper of tho evening w ^ h fey Mr , Charjtoj jjBjrav , who came
' over from 1 Ce ^ entfy read . The ^ bject was ' * ¦ Mind in connexion with Ofganization , and Character in relation to ^ riititutions . " The author took as his basis the main doctrines of phrenology ; showing that the development of character depended on the cultivation , moral and physical j which ; in ' -. the progress of mankind ; has been noted to modify the actual conformation of the head , by the enlargetnent of the intellectual and moral organs . At the present day , the larger number of mankind are too little cultivated as to the superior faculties , too much under the dominion
of selfish instincts , for full union in apy complete social system ; hence the failure of past experiments . Hence too ; the undue value attached to wealth and worldly prosperity , rather than to worth , and to a true sesthetical happiness . But , besides the general advance of science and art . Association itself , carried out * in any degree at present practicable , affords an admirable school for cultivating the unselfish faculties . In spite of a temporary indisposition , Mr . Bray expounded his doctrine in a way highly impressive . In the discussion which , ensued , Mr . Vansittart Neale showed , with much
clearly expressed elaboration , how Mr . Bray seemed to him to have unduly slighted the practical and material portion of the subject , and had underrated the results of the efforts hitherto made . The Same feeling seemed to pervade the other speakers in an animated discus , sion—Mr . Lloyd Jones , Mr . Corss , Mr . Thornton Hunt , and Mr . W . H . Ashurst . But , in reply , Mr . Bray showed that the impression was derived chiefly from the incompleteness which the necessary brevity had given to his exposition . The room was filled with an excellent audience , including several ladies , and all evinced an active interest in the discussion .
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BLEN 31 Y MAYHEW AND THE SILK WEAVERS . OvriKG to an oversight , we omitted to notice in out last a meeting of silk weavers , which took place last , week in Spitalfields . It was convened by the Trade Society for the Protection of Native Industry . We recur to it for the sake of the following speech , whi ch our readers will be glad to see delivered by Mr . Henry Mayhew , and which was as follows : — GrEBTTLEisfEir , —I meant to have spoken to you at some length this evening , but time will not permit me to do so now ; but it is my duty to learn , as well as to hope to teach . I have heard enough to know that every man who wishes well to this country must nail his colours to the mast . I commenced my inquiries into the state of the working classes , being at the time an inveterate Freetrader . I began those inquiries among men who gave mo the first shock ( hear , hear ) . The conclusion I arrive at is , that there ia a system which degenerates the working classes from their natural position . I find that the bootmaking trade is cut up , that men are starving , and that from the same reason—the foreign boots are largely imported ; and the system involves this—that that work is wrested from the English workmen which they have a right to expect to have ! Then I go to the cabinetmakers . Here I find a greater state of destitution . 1 find tho man labouring from early morn to the last gleaming of light . I speak of those who are called " slop cabinet-Trmlrfirs " who wiftko the fancv writing-desks , and who aro
brought into competition with tho French trader . 1 see ovory Saturday some poor follow with his load upon his back , carrying it to what is most significantly called tuo slaughter-house . " I know this was brought about by tho unrestricted importation of foreign labour . Again , 1 saw too case of the needlewomen . I now come , and will conic agaui , to moke it out to the working classes that if they choose to give an opinion , that they aro for the unrestricted importation of foreign labour , or for unlimited license—it mo working classes ore for that , they must expect to be snipped out of tho country , as live ballast—as mon whoso free emigration is tho only hope for you . Now what aro tho statistics of tho working classes P How many aro theror According to my calculation thore aro at tho P ™ ™ moment \ 600 , 06 o people who work for thoir » vellI )? ° « T ; living upon wages . Thus , out of the people , amoimUng to 21 , 000 , 000 , there are only 8 , 000 , 000 occupied ; the remainder of tho population consists of tho wives and other per afma tirhn An not , miirsuo nmnlovmonts , and who aro not in
turned in the connus . ThV tliero aro 4 , 500 , 000 m *»" cowitry who have to work for their livelihood . Is w » oi , I oik , eufficiont labour in tho country to employtl 10 ™" of thoso ? tho facts of tho case are thoso-thoug hi oro aro no ponitive or definite returns to go upon , «> J ; U"j " is only Hufllcionfc work at this time to ^""^^ " ^ S ono-third , or only 1 , 500 , 000 ; another ono-tlnrd is " » F otily half of thoir time ; and tho other f ™ ' **™* 1 , 600 , 000 , got no work at nil , oxcopt occamonal oinij ° ^" . . from tho sioknosH or tho abaonco of tho otliora . My » " » fully bear out this fact ; yot tho Freo traders toll you iw you are in a state of extreme prospority , and 11 mi > j . havo boon bo for two or tliroo yoare . It « only * v ¦> throe yoarfl since I began my wiauiry , ancl no J ? T £ ting
rif tailors , lot Oobdon , if ho has a soul , acfompuny » o , » 1 will take him to a place whero I will tear it ^ iw I will show him such aconcs of misery as »\» ; P «^"" " . appeal to the alleged cheap bread and tho in ? rofi ; o ^ lioro sumption . I will show him those ciwos ot wi » J » J * cfl tho moanH of oxiatonco is morcly dry broad ft"' 1 wn ' i () t 9 ' from year to Tortr . People woro vroririnff «* oc ««> , troueer-, at % L per pair . Will ho Bay that ^ LtaSi ^ thQUStmda doing Wo < d «« ly , cl ^ plto of * W * v ! hm ^
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051852/page/8/
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