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ANOTHER SUNDAY MEETING I N HYDE PARK. Th...
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LOUIS BLANC'S REPLY TO THE " TRIUMVIRATE...
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Public Meetings. Mb. 8. G. Osborne On Bt...
S ^^ l ^ Maj ^ tv'Naamy 4 b ,--Afte ? another short address = frdm MrvSidncjy : Herbert , the meeting > sejjafoted . ; j / vi ' K v ,. . ¦ . ; . . ; . . . .,, ¦ ••; . / . . • ¦; ¦ : ¦• .-« jr ' " ' ^ llR . OliAttMSONK ON OOtONlflATION * ) " " lie late-Chancellor of the Exchequer h ^ us been addressing > i numberof working men , constituting the tommittefe of ; ar-liiierary ; institution at Hawarden , ISbrth Wales , on tte subject of our colonies . Haying ^ called attention to the fact that , in the fifteen years following * he ctose ^ of the last war , the average of emigration rose from 20 , 000 to 80 , 000 a year , while . in 185 * alone the emigration from these ; shores Teaehed the astounding number of 323 , 000 * declining again co nsiderably during the nine months of the present year-shaving , moreover , premised that the
entire area of our colonial possessions is set down at £ , © 00 , 000 square miles , only one-third of the population in . which-cart "be said to be British— -Mr . Giad-Btone examined the true utility of colonies , which * he conceived to lie , not in the fact of their offering sources of revenue , or of their extending our material dominion ,, and consequently enhancing our prestige , but in their providing a vent for our surplus population . The speaker remarked upon the infatuation which people have for gold mines—an ironstone mine not exciting their imaginations half so much , though gold only represents value , while ironstone is the value itself . He denounced the system of monopoly by which , in former times , the mother
country oppressed her rising colonies , out of a selfish fear of competition ; and ridiculed the dread which some entertain that , should the colonies be allowed to govern themselves and collect their own revenue , they might tax articles which we require as-food . Neither did he agree with the opinion that , if England were stripped of her colonies , she would inevitably fall . England ' s greatness depends , not upon the number or the extent of her foreign possessions , but rather upon her internal resources . Colonisation is of inestimable advantage in easing the pressure on the home labour market . Those who remain behind are thus enabled to obtain better wages ; and , as the interests of capital and labour are reciprocal , the capitalist also is benefited :
" By colonisation , we make sure markets for our manufactured goods , increase the demand for ships for the transport of those goods , arid , of course , improve the shipping trade . .... The Greeks were the first , and probably the lest , colonisers ; for they might be said almost to carry the colonies with them * These people used quietly to settle wherever they wished , and the home State rarely took farther notice of them ; and yet some of the colonies established in this primitive manner grew in all the requisites that constitute great States , until they became equal in many particulars , to the mother country , and were her best support . The
Romans , in their day , pursued a different policy . Their colonisation was conquest , and perhaps England may be said to have followed too much the example of ancient Borne in this particular . It maybe right , however , to exclude the colonial policy of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II . from this remark , for the system pursued by them was less tyrannous and bore with less hardship upon the colonist than the policy adopted by this country during the last sixty years . " Mr . Gladstone concluded by glancing at the unjust treatment of Canada which led to the insurrection of 1837 , and by expressing a hope that the future colonial policy of England will be candid , honest , and wise .
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Mr . BRACBBBtrxHB , who has recently returned from Scutari , has' delivered an address at St . Mary ' Hall , Coventry , on his experiences in the English hospitals in the East . His narrative confirmed the accounts already derived from newspaper correspondents and from the evidence before the Sebastopol Committee respecting the fearful condition of those establishments at the early period of the war . The Tenant League . —A meeting of the " Tenant League" was held on Tuesday , at Dublin , for the purpose , as set forth , " of adopting an address to the people of Ireland , and considering the steps that should be taken fof the more active and vigorous promotion of the tenant right cause . " The Very Rev . Dr . Kearney , parish
priest ; Kilkenny " West , presided ; and tho principal speakers were—Mr . Maguire , M . P ., Mr . G . H . Moore , M . P ., Mr . Tristan * Kennedy , M . P ., Mr . P . O'Brien , M . P ., Dr . Gray , Mr . Cantwell , Rev . Mr . Mullen , & c . The address was agreed to One of its main objects was to widen the basis of the Tenant-right agitation , and to make it include a reference to the church grievance question , and tho emancipation of Ireland from the 'burden of tho Established Church . ' ¦ '¦ ' Fbbe Trade and the Wokkinq Classes . —Mr . T ? Q . Tuck , a magistrate of Norfolk , recently stated at an agricultural meeting that one of the evil results of free trada might be seen in the reckless expenditure it had encouraged among the working olasacs !
Lord Stanley presided on Tuesday evoning at the opening of the now premises of the Bolton Mechanics ' * Mtlttttti > n , and addressed tho meeting on the subject of Vutoi phytlcal and intellectual improvements which aro *« qulred t > y all large towns such as Bolton .
, SirJahes Kay Shdttxoeworth , onMonday evening , addressed a tea party atPadiham , Lancashire , assembled to inaugurate the reopening of the -schools , which had been clewed forthe sake of making extensive alterations . The speaker , spoke highly of the good effects of Sundayschools , and , with respect to Government grants , observed : —¦ " The question bad been raised in Parliament as to how the principle of local management could be brought to bear , and that had raised the question of a . public rate ., It had beei * discussed , in various forms ,
and at present it had not been received with much favour . His impression as to tbe . difliculty of discussing this question was , t hat i $ , had . not arisen from that which had been the . ' prominent question out of doorsnamely , tftat the sciioplsjwere . io . be under the control of the religious communities , " while , the rate must be confided to the civil powe . r-r-somucii . jas . from this ,, that he did not think , ' with respect to the . great portion of the community , the subject had come to be thoroughly understood , or had had that interest excited in it which it deseryed , "
Waliham Agbicitlturai- Society , t— This society had : its annual dinner on "Wednesday ; the . Marquis of Granby in the chair . On the . subject nearest to the hearts of his listeners , the chairman observed : — "He believed that the harvest for the present yearinEngland was barely an average one , and on the continent it was rather under' the average ; but he was glad , to say that in America it had been abundant . At the present moment , the wants of France , affected . the corn-market in this country to a very , considerable extent . They there required over 2 , 0 . 00 , 000 quarters of wheat , and the effect upon . our market , was by no means lessened by the fact that the Government of France had stepped in , and had undertaken to find some means of supplying the deficiency which
existed . " , Referring to the -war , the Marquis expressed his . dissent . fromthe opinion of its . justice or necessity , and said- that France and England , who had always beaten the Russians , had nothing to fear from the Czar . He believed that the war had been precipitated by the submarine telegraph , without which we should never have rushed into hostilities . " War , however , had broken out , and . the Allied , armies had behaved most nobly . Negotiations for peace , it was true , had taken place , one of the principal objects of which was the limitation of the Black Sea fleet . In his opinion , any treaty which might be framed the Emperor of Russia would not scruple to run an express train through . Did they not suppose that he would cause new ships of war to be built , and have a magnificent fleet equipped before we could
know anything at all about it ? The Black Sea fleet was limited now ; but how far had they advanced towards its permanent limitation ? .... They might fight for forty years , and each year gain battles equal to the Alma , but all would be of no avail , unless they came to some definite agreement with the Austrian Empire as to the limitation of Russian power , and they must hope for peace rather upon their own conviction of their power to resist Russia , and upon Russia ' s knowledge of that power , than upon any treaty which they could make . " After what the Marquis had previously said , this was rather a strange -admission of the justice and necessity of the war . The speaker alluded to Sir Archibald Alison ' s recent remarks on free trade' and agr icultural emigration , and signified his entire agreement with them .
Chukchi of England Central Association . —A meeting , having for its object the establishment of a Central Association for the advancement of the great religious societies of the Church of England , was held at Honiton on Tuesday . It was addressed by Mr . Justice Coleridge , Mr . Justice Patteson , and several other gentlemen .
Another Sunday Meeting I N Hyde Park. Th...
ANOTHER SUNDAY MEETING I N HYDE PARK . The Sunday gatherings in tho course of last July for the purpose of opposing Lord Robert Grosvenor ' a Sabbatarian Bill seem to have taught the working classes a practical use for the parks ; for on last Sunday we had a renewal of those rough assemblages which three months ago kept the West End in a state of excitement and alarm for several successive weeks . The occasion , however , was different , tho object this time being to consult upon the present high price of bread , and to take measures for bringing about a change . At two o ' clock , largo bodies of working men , including several memberu of that order which looks to every popular demonstration for tho moans of mischief , made their way to the park ; and by three o ' clock it is supported that some five thousand porsons had collected . A largo police force was present ; but tho ofllccrs did not interfere . Two immense rings having been formed by tho people , a bearded individual , described as a carpenter , occupied the centre of one of them , and addressed the crowd , lie said ho was a hard-working man , and that it was no vain desiro for popularity that had induced him to leave his largo family on tho Sabbath for the purpose of meeting hiu fellows in Hydo Park ; it was because he believed Iio had it in his power to help his fellow-countrymen to a right understanding of tho purpose for which they had assembled . After two of the most plenteous harvests
that ever-blessed the earth , bread was at famine prices . The war was set forth as the cause of thl & >• It was -no such thing . There was plenty of corn in Turkey , ' which covdd be imported at 20 s . a-quarter ; andyet Busalan corn at 73 s , per quarter was permitted to be brought over . But the abundance wlich Providence had-been pleased to grant us was intercepted by a combination sbf farmers , who artificially kept up the price of wheatf ' and , by throwing the poor on parish relief , enhanced the taxation of the ratepayers . > l The next speaker was a journeyman baker , who described himself as a friend of the working-classes , but who defended the master' bakers by stating that ' * he
high price charged by the millers for flour obliged the former to use potatoes and what is technically' called " stuff , " which is highly injurious . Having incautiously stated that , if he were a master baker , he should be obliged to dd the same in self-defence , since he could not otherwise obtain a profit , he was met with cries of " Down with him ! he wants to poison us ; " and a rush was made at him by a number of lads with sticks in their hands . Struck with a panic , the man turned and fled , pursued by the mob . He first ran towards Grosvenor Gate ; but Mr . Inspector Dargan advised him to make for the Marble Arch , which he did with all speed . After a hard run , he managed to get clear off , thoug h , in the course of his flight he was tripped up several
times . This disturbance being at an end , another speaker held forth , and Stated his opinion that the Government was as much to blame as the miller or the farmer . The simple fact , he said , was this—the Government had not been able to raise 76 , 000 extra militiamen , and they had induced the farmers to keep up the price of wheat , so that the labouring classes were half-starved , and , in order to get a bellyful of food , they were glad to enlist in the militia or go for regular soldiers . He maintained
that it was a positive fact , and , when they met again , if it was desired , he could prove it . Mr . Cobden , who at one time had done a great deal of good , has since insulted the working classes by neglecting them ; and free trade , as at present carried out , was of no value to tne " po' $ r » The speaker concluded by congratulating the meeting on the success of their Sunday demonstrations against the Sabbath Trading Bill , & c , and anticipated a similar result for their present agitation . —Finally , a resolution was carried , pledging those present to another gathering on the ensuing Sunday ( to-morrow ) .
Louis Blanc's Reply To The " Triumvirate...
LOUIS BLANC'S REPLY TO THE " TRIUMVIRATE . " The anticipated reply of Louis Blanc to the manifesto put forth by Kossutli , Ledru Rollin , and Mazzini has appeared . The great French Socialist dissents from the views advocated in that document on tho ground that they do not allow sufficiently for previous discussion , but call for immediate action without first insuring unity of opinion among Republicans , and thac they too confidently assume that " the triumvirate" represent all the doctrines and aspirations of the Republican mind of Europe . High
praise is given to Mazzini for his efforts in behalf of Italian freedom ; but Louis Blanc reminds his readers that , three years ago , Mnzzini published " the most violent attack ever made" upon the Socialists and their ideas . The prudence of publicly calling on the peoples to rise , and thus putting the Governments on their guard , is questioned j and the writer laments that the manifesto should contain language which will enable the enemies of democracy to say that the Republican cause , by its own showing , " has no organisation—that it is exhausting its energy in unconnected and wandering efforts—that it lacks money , and is reduced to go in quest of a flag . "
Louis Blanc quotes tho following from the manifesto of Kossuth , & c , as indicating the chief points from which he dissents : —¦ . " It is urgent that the party should have a recognised centre of action , a chest , a watchword common to all " The centre of action lies in uh ( c ' eaC noua ") , or in any one else , provided they inspiro confidence to the partyin a few pure men who may understand and represent the great European nationalities , who love each other , and love the cause of all , who aro ready to stand in the first rank in the day of battle , and in tho last in the day of victory " Tho watchword is , ' Liberty for all ! Association of all ! ' . . . .
" Tho definite object , tho common object , is tho Republican form of Government , established by tho people and for the people u The means aro , not the actual liberty of individuals , nor discuesion ; but the association , tho work In concord , the order ( la discipline ) , tho aelf-denial of flacriflce . ^ The most important passages in Louia Blanco reply are as follows ;—¦• Now , I * . * I . « h » « , »»• • r"V " , ;" . r 'i'i 1 a &«* - st -ax- "; - ™~ m
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20101855/page/5/
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