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1244s THE LEABIB. [No. 452, November 20,...
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acknowledge Roman Catholic . baptism . ; " and she told the priest plainly that " no priest or nun should ever get a child of hers . " The children were p laced at a Protestant school . In the course ot time both the father autl mother died , the six orphans were seized upon as lawful spoil by representatives of the " true" Church , and there is now a tremendous struggle going on for the possession of these six poor little souls—a struggle which , must
be carried , on until the aggressive insolence of these priests , who arc forgetting the terms on which , they are permitted to practise their religion in this country , has been thoroughly put down . With the filibusters of America Mr . Buchanan lias come to a very complete understanding . He has issued a proclamation enjoining all the civil and military officers of the Government to be upon their guard to prevent the fruition of 'Walker ' s third expedition to Nicaragua , of which that redoubtable chieftain has made no secret .
The Bishop of London ' s charge to the clergy of his diocese will be highly satisfactory to the great body of those who wish well for the Established Church ; it is in the broadest sense a popular charge , and calls upon the clergy simply to do their own duty , and not to look to constantly to legislation for the remedv for church-rate and other
difficulties . Eobert Owen , who has passed away at the age of eight-v-nhie , was a striking example of a man witli one idea . His oue idea was a great and good one > being ; nothing less than the perfectibility of the human , kind . His life was devoted to the working out of his idea , and his life was a . failure ¦ as a whole , though the world has been a gainer by his unsuccessful labours , and will honour his memory more highly , perhaps , in the time to come than it is prepared to do at present .
Robert Owen was the founder of infant schools in this country , and his success was striking and complete ; but he failed when he came to apply the same principles to the education of -men and ' women . ; then it . appeared that the docility , the orderliness , the " like views and like wants , " engendered by his system , were results'incompatible' with the free development of the free man , making of him a mental and moral mechanism , or , in other words , and what , I © Robert Owen was abhorrent , a slave , or the ready victim of a tyrant , 'if not a tyrant himself .
1244s The Leabib. [No. 452, November 20,...
1244 s THE LEABIB . [ No . 452 , November 20 , 1858 .
The English And The Fatxcii At Rome.—A L...
The English and the Fatxcii at Rome . —A letter from Rome says : — " As I write , the hardy little troopers of the Empire tramp past the street-end to the sound of their clear-blown trumpets , and an old organ-woman is grinding " God save the Queen" below the window . There are Roman troops here , certainly ; fine-looking dragoons , of the sort one sees in French engravings mercilessly pistolling picturesque brigands . Infantrythere also are , of no very martial or cleanly aspect , and Swiss in French uniforms , and Papal Body Guards in black ¦ and yellow stbekings , something between Rigoletto and a beefeater . But these are merely to make up a show . See , on St . Peter ' s Piazza , the
men of action , the true masters of the situation , in their grey coats and red trousers , smart , active , and soldierly . There exist persons , worthy of credit , who assert that some parts of Rome are still inhabited by Romans . It may be so , but little is known of those remote quarters . The crown of the causeway , the pick , of the street , is for John Bull , to whom has adjoined himself , in some force , his brother Jonathan . English is spoken in the hotels , English inscriptions are on the shops , English goods within them ; it is an even bet that every third well-dressed man or woman you meet on the Corso is English , as are , certainly , nine out of ten of those hard-working persons who industriously perambulate ruins , galleries , und studios , counting
statues , and " doing" Rome . On the Pincinn Hill a French band plays to an English audience , arid if now and then a Cardinal drives by , hia scarlet gown looks like an , intrusion among the crowd of British paletots . We are told of a Pope , but we believe in a General , and tho priestly frock gives tlio wall to the soldier ' s tunic . " The vAt-UBi of Advkutising . — - Stephen Girard says : — " I have always considered advertising , liberally and long , to bo the great medium of success in business . And I have made it an invariable rule , to advertise in tho dullest times , long experience having taught ina that money thus spent is well laid out . On this tho
New Orleans Bulletin remarks : " Some people , however , by their conduct , appear to think that Stephen Girard didn't know how to make a fortune , and think that . their stores are enough known , already ; those people" will continue to jog along at a snail ' s pace , and are soon distanced by their competitors . There is skUl in advertising aa in everything else . Advertisements should ho changed often , and thoir phraseology' altered , or they will Ijo considered as out of date . This is the age of lightning and fltenm presses . Sleepers must wako up , or they -will bo left behind . "
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POLITICAL FORESH ADO WINGS . Mr . Berkeley , M . P . —The Hon . F . AV . Berkeley made a speech at Bristol on Saturday . He said , during the twenty-one years for which he had served in Parliament , he had from time to time heard a cry about Tory progress , but he had always found that progress to be just " a sufficient move to prevent them from going backwards . Would any man tell him that they intended to do away with the influence of the aristocracy , to get rid of the " pot boroughs ? They would do no such thing . They might tell him that Lord Stanley had an inclination to be liberal . ^ He replied that Lord Derby was once liberal , and evinced the same tendency as Lord s ^ nlnv rf ' irf now-. lie would believe Lord Stanley to
be a Reformer when he found him so but never before . Thev would find the Government liberal so long as they were too powerless to be illiberal ; but when in a condition to throw off the mask , they would find that they were Tories . He considered it an uiiMise thing that any individual , even an individual of Mr . Bright ' s great and acknowledged talent , should attempt to carry such a measure forward . He knew the House of Commons well , and believed that any Reform Eill to be successful must command Government support . . Mr . Berkeley then remarked on Mr . Bright ' s two speeches , expressing his admiration of the first , but stating the second to be so visionary , wild , and , unsafe , that lie was unable to accord it anv praise at all .
Mr . Wise , M . P . —At a public banquet at Stafford , Mr . "Wise , M . P ., said that he would never consent to make the fleeting interests of a party of more importance than the enduring interests of a nation- He should like to see a Reform Bill before he volunteered to express an opinion oil any of its details . Unfavourable to hasty legislation , to dreamy theories , or to exalted impossibilities , and bearing in mind that we had a mixed constitution of King , Lords , and Commons , he was anxious that the varied interests of all classes in the country should be equally represented . That intelligence and industry , capital and labour , property and character , should " each be elements in creating a good representative institution . There were many questions which must soon , force themselves on the attention of Parliament . He might refer to our administrative-. departments , where extravagance existed , and supervision was needful , iso less a sum than 25 , 000 , 00-0 / . was spent annually to keep up the army and navy . He believed that sum to be far in excess of what was really required to keep the whole force in a state of high efficiency . Mr . Ciieetha'M , M . P . —At the annual meeting of the Athenaeum , at Lees , near Oldham , Mr . Cheetham , member for South Lancashire , said it was quite evident there would be a wide extension of the suffrage at no very distant date . His experience of the institutions of this country and of those abroad had shown him that our institutions were of a character with which no other land was blessed . Therefore he did , with anxiety and with great hope , knowing the character of his fellowcountrymen , look to the extension of the suffrage , and whatever extension it migh t be , they , as English men , would make it their great duty not to destroy , but to maintain the liberties and institutions under which they dwelt . It was often said that the institutions of Kngland were not equal to the American , but there was no American so free as an Englishman . He did not deny the advantages which the American institutions had within themselves ; but what did he see there and here ? Ho saw in this land that every
Englishman might , in private or in public , by pea or mouth , state the honest convictions of his mind without fear of the Government or of his fellow-countrymen . That could not bo done in America . Cot them try amongst slaveholders to denounce Blavcry . In this country they could denounce the Cvown , tho Parliament , or individual members , and were perpetually doing it , yet there was no fault found . He wished them to contrast the freedom of other nations with that of this country . There was no country in Europe in which property was better preserved , or in which there was more individual freedom . That was the continual cry of every foreigner . Look at our religious freedom ; every man was free to form his own religious opinions ; and wo tolerated even the Mormons , on < l justly so , so long as they obeyed ( ho law . We had no persecutions here for religious or political opinions .
Mn . Gordon Rebow , M . P . —On Monday this gentleman addressed his constituents at CploUeator . Ho adverted to the mutiny in India , and proceeded to discuss tho policy of tho transfer of the government from tho East India Company to tho Crown . After touching on the proceeding * consequent upon tho introduction of tho Conspiracy Mill , and to the probability of a Church Itato Abolition Bill being passed in the ensuing session , ho came to the question , of Parliamentary Reform , Ho said no doubt the Government intended to bring forward a mousuro on tho subject , and t waa not diflloult to infer that its drift was to give
increased power to what was called the « territ - ~ i party" in the country ; there was no doubt as to th ? object . Many boroughs would no doubt be nlac rfthe disfranchising Schedule A , and the difficulty «„„ !!! be to determine to what new constituencies the memhT for the boroughs tlius disfranchised should be transferr ? He trusted the country would firml y resist any attend to diminish the number of members which the com cial party now possessed . Two other points mUSf ?" considered , be included in a Reform Bill to make ' t satisfactory measure . The first was an extension of tha suffrage—and , secondly , if an extension of the suflW was given , it must be protected by the ballot "
Manchester—A monster meeting , numbering seven thousand men , has been held in the Free-trade Hall and unanimously voted for a resolution in favour of man hood suffrage , triennial Parliaments , electoral districts " and the Ballot . This demonstration presented the an ' pearance Of a union between the middle and working classes of Manchester on the Reform question and while speeches were made by those who represented the operatives , sucli men as Mr . Bazley and Mr . Gcwe Wilson addressed the vast assembly as representatives
of the other class . It . was urged upon the meeting that it should go for less than manhood suffrage , in order to warrant success , and indeed an amendment was moved which would virtually have announced a compromise on the suffrage question , but it does not appear to have been pressed . Loud , cheers saluted the names of Messrs . Cobden , Bright , Gibson , and Bazley . Mr . Bright has accepted the invitation to the Manchester banquet for the 10 th of December . Mr . Buzley was elected oa Wednesdav without opposition .
Fiksbuuv . —On Tuesday night a meeting-was held in the Cooper-street . School-rooms . The assembly adopted resolutions in favour of iiumhoiul suffrage , vote l > y ballot , electoral districts , and triennial parliaments . On . the suffrage question , Mr . Dan by Seymour spoke of certain limitations which might fairly be enacted , but the meeting opposed his suggestions , and Mr . Ernest Jones , spoke against them . An open air meeting was held-on Sunday last in Britannia Fields , Iloxton , which was addressed by Mr . E . Jones and other democrats , and at which similar resolutions were -carried : Tin-: Dkke of -. Aikiyli . ox India . —At a religious meeting at Edinburgh , the-Duke said : —" I remember at the time of the lirst riiVcMssirais which took }) 7 . ice recently in Parliament , reading with some care the evidence which was taken before the courts-marti . il with
regard to the first iiiovcments of this rebellion , and I must say that I rc . ^ e from the perusal of these papers with a full conviction that the panic with regard to the loss of caste , which' panic could not have arisen if caste had not been refO ^ niseJ , was one of the real and main causes of the rebellion . 1 believe it arose in a real panic on the part of the Iiigh-caste . Indians that something had been done or was about to be done which would sacrifice their caste . We ought not to have an army subject to such panics . We-ouyht , if possible , to avoid having our forces raised on such a principle and under such conditions as to > make them liable to fears and to dangers of this kind . "
Kossuth on ITu . NCiAur . — On Monday evening M . Kossuth delivered a lecture on " Hungary , in connexion with the condition and general interests of Eurapo , in presence of a numerous audience , in the Miiaic-hall , Edinburgh , lie said : — " Nine years of woo , torture , « nd misery have rolled Ly sinco Hungary , deprived yf her freedom , constitution , and national existence , lies prostrate on the cold stone of political slavery . It is the third time now during a history of a -thousand years . Tho first time it was under Leopold I ., in the sevouteciuli century . The second time it was under Joseph II ., m the eighteenth century . Both times under tho llapsburgs , of course . I cannot help deriving hope nnd confidence from the fact that on each of these occasions the
lawless prostration of my country did not hist longer than exactly ten years . I trust the spirit of our fathers has not so departed from our generation as to ullow the present degradation to last much longer ; only that this time the making up-of tho accounts will bu dillcront , ot course . Our fathers tried compromi . se , and were deceived . You could aa soon wash a blackamoor vlnto as make Hapsburgs true to any sworn pledge of duty nuU honesty . Tho romody of royal oath was tried over ami over again . Each new oath brought ten now pcrjunos . Tho thread of conlidonco is broken , and no | ovvr cm earth will knit it again . That ' s over now , but tho
onnnous ton years are not over yet . <> Thou who ru H-st tho destinies of nations , and—loiig-forboariiig but justwoighost tho tears of tho oppressed in tlio balance in retribution , look down in mercy on my native U \\ m Grant , oh grant us but a wink of a favourable « lTl > r " tunny ! A wink of opportunity is all wo prny fur ; i » wo shall know to pro lit by it bo may our doiiiiy lie Towards tho condition of a lengthened lecture M . ivo * . sutli expressed groat oonudonco for tho future iw if uio aide on which Britain ' s syiDpttthicrt would bo »»""'• from tho increase of tlia independent Liberal puny » tho House of Commonsllo « l « o emphatically waniui
, England against tho clangors of mi Austrian ullian <; ° ' SuNJoanLAND . —A requisition is in course of eltf "" " ™ requesting tho Mayor to call a public nioolliitf < " ' , '' inhabitante to coaaiUor tho subject of Parliamentary i ^'
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20111858/page/4/
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