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Ho. 453, November 27, 1858.] THE LEADER,...
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now seized upon the pillars of the constitution , to hur l : them , with his giant strength , at the lords temporal and the lords spiritual . He advocated the municipal qualification . It might be thrown on one side ; . The first principle he ( Mr . Akroyd ) would adopt would be the 51 . rating franchise as one . The next was one to which no one would object ; he was willing to transfer the 40 s . franchise to boroughs . He alluded to the ballot and the duration of parliaments , and then came to the subject of electoral districts . He was in favour of that principle . Huddersfield had now one member , and great injustice I was done them . He thought they should have two members , and at the same time , an extension of the borough . I Islington .-t-A . Reform meeting was held on Thurs- I day , with M > . Cox , M . P ., in the chair , and at which , as I the custom now appears to be , the assembly appended I manhood suffrage to their demand for Reform . Mr . I Cox gave in his adherence to this principle , and was I careful to explain that he had not become one of those f who accepted the peace-at-any price doctrines . I url md 1 a- rst ; he : ch Os . he of le . ce vo I he I I s- I as J id I r . I is I se | j
Ho. 453, November 27, 1858.] The Leader,...
Ho . 453 , November 27 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER , 1277
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THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT . The Bishop of Manchester . —On Monday evening public meeting in promotion of the objects of the Droy Is den Educational Institute was held . The Bishop of Manchester presided . The right rev . chairman said in dwelling upon the objects of this institution , he would entreat and implore the working men to be particularly careful and painstaking in mastering the elementary portions of instruction . It had been a mistake that could not be too much deprecated—a folly that could not be too much condemned—for the sake of mere transient applause , to delude the student by leading him into the Temple of Knowledge , without making him pause long enough to contemplate and to master its elements at its portals . Unless good reading and legible writing were acquired—without the beauty of being able to enunciate with fluency and expression the great thoughts of the great masters of thought , as handed down in their works —there was neglected one of the most choice parts of the superstructure upon which was afterward s to be erected the whole fabric of the reasoning- powers . He would particularly recommend to students ia-that institution , the study of geometry , as a general rule , in preference to that of arithmetic . And # > r this reason : the study of geometry required , if properly carried on , that every step should be accurately depicted and re- presented in the mind of the learner " He could assure his hearers that none who rightly entered upon the study of geometry would ever be * disappointed . These things ( he said ) brought out the reason as well as exercised I the memory ; and making the one ancillary to the other , I it raised the possessor in the ' enjoyment not only of in- I tellectual pleasures , but higher still in the reasoning I powers and faculties . Why should not working men I enjoy those things ? They had like abilities , like in- terests at stake . These were points for which tliov I ought , to contend ; and if they contended—as they were doing , and rightly—for an increased share in the poli- tical power of the country , they were bound—nay , they were traitors otherwise to their country—to contend for increased knowledge and power of opinion . Loki > Ward . —A meeting in connexion with the progress of industrial art was held at Worcester , on Mon- day , at which his lordship said , with regard to tho Wor- coster school of design , that if ho had any doubt of the excellence of the institution ,, he would , on visiting the schoolrooms , have been obliged to dismiss it , for lie found there an atmosphere of art , and he considered it a fair model for tho other schools of design in the kingdom . It was tho artisan class these schools were in- tended to teach , and he was sure that they would not fail to value the benefit which hnd been done them in having their liands strengthened by that intellectual culture which enabled them to compete with foreign artificers in every branch of industry , and also maclo thqm bettor and move moral men , It was not tho artisan only wlio was benefited by such teaching , for it told on tho community in general . They wore . in foot ; doing tho paramount work of tho day , about winch so much was said , but of which so little waa « ono . They were providing for the education of tho masses , and , as far as art was concerned , they hoped to bo able to turn those who wero now only lookers-on and censors into adherents and partisans . KntortSn " g those views , ho hoped soon to see the School of I > 3 self-supportingj but ho would not part with tho « i from Government , because ho . thought tho Govornmon inspect ion most valuable , as , w « ra they left tHhom solves they might bo content with a U & £ . ta ^ jlS of merit than would satisfy a stranger . " *« Mura 01 '
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TRIAL OF THIS COMTE DE MONTALEMBERT . Tup , trial of Coin to tie Montalembcrt and U . Douniol of tlio Correspondent * , charged with having published a seditions libel entitled "A ' Debate on India in the Ens-I lish Parliament , " took place on Wednesday . At five minutes before twelve , Coin-to do JMontalembort entered tlio court , accompanied by the Due de Broelie and M . Odilon Barrot . Tlio President , M . Borthclin , called on tlio defendant Douniol , who said merely that he was the responsible editor of the Corresjwndant , and that he had no observations to offer . M . do Montalombort , after the usual preliminary questions , anaworod all the questions put to him with ( . lie greatest frankness and tlio most perfect wng-froid never for a moment shrinking from the responsibility of anything ho had said in hia article , and never failing to detect tho import of any inaidioussuggostion m « de by the President . Ho admitted that ho admired the proaent political institutiona of Jingland , and regretted that l « ranco had lost them 5 but lie donicd that ho had •« attackod' Fronch institutions in any sense forbidden by tho law . He admitted that when ho apoko of his joy a temporary oscapo in Jiugland from « pestiforous miasma and corrupt atmosphoro , " ho alluded to miasma na atmoflphoro in France , but ha totally denied that ho moant to say that he ami his Monde alone were honest ; men , and that tho eight millions of Fronchnion who had ' vojea ror the Emperor wero cowards . llie Prpouroiir Imperial M . Oordouon ' s eneech for lookai i , "Auff ° ' " IVocurour GOntfral Imperial , " looked vexed bevoml moasuro at tho poor exhibition ,., »" ° - } . f ., ) enit f an ' , ^ , e dlt < tl 0 n J Y 108 tho rtevc l J ( loto < l > r 08 i ? " Fl ftll taclvi
\ which his inferior officer made . M . Cordouen accused M . de Montalembert of having praised England for the express purpose of disparaging France by contrast . No Englishman , he said , would have been capable of drawing . any such contrast to the disparagement of his own country . He indulged in a few common-places about parliamentary government having broken ' down in France , the immense popularity of the Emperor , and the necessity of a strong Government . No yOung tfvnasty had ever been so liberal , so moderate , so indulgent as that of Napoleon III . France , although not parliamentary , had representative institutions , which constituted a free government . He concluded by apostrophisingM . de Afoiitalembert as a man having lost the feelings of a Frenchman , and said : —" You have laid France prostrate at the feet of England ; you have struck France in the face ; yes , struck her in the facenworthily struck her in the face . " This he repeated three times , " Vous l ' avez frappe ' e au visage , frappe ' visage , indignement frappe ' e au visage . " M . Berryer , who defended the Count , described the prosecution as " unjust , unfounded , ill-advised , and , he was going to say—rash . " The spirit of the article , he said , was not an attack upon anything French , but a genuine admiration of English free institutions , produced by hearing a splendid debate in the English Par-Hament on one of the grandest questions which ever occupied a deliberative assemblj-. He here pronounced most loquent eulogium on the English Parliament nation , and said that M . de Montalembert , whose whole life had been passed in parliamentary struggles religion and liberty , as he understood them , must naturally look back with regret to institutions which France had but very recently lost . On M . Berryer saying that to affirm that France did t now possess liberty was not an attack upon the Government , . but merely the assertion of a notorious undeniable fact , he was interrupted by the Presi-, who said : " Maitre Berryer , you are now going far ; you are repeating at the bar the very offence which M . de Montalembert stands charged ; and cannot be permitted . " M . Berryer . —" Miist I then throw up my brief ? -I lost my reason and conscience ? Do I underwhat the court means ? Can it be that a counsel to be construed , as attacking the Government because will not say that black is white ? Why , it is the of the Government that it has bartered liberty for —and it Jias done so , it says , with the consent of French people ; and that I am not here to deny . , France has repudiated her own libertv . It is not nal to hold it an offence in any one ' to state the fact that liberty does not now exist . " . Berryer then examined the heads of the accusation , argued that no one of them was borne out by the . Coming to the most important count in the indictment , that of an attack on " the rights of the Emperor under the constitution and the principle of niversal suffrage , " he Avould prove to demonstration there was no scrnp of law to support it . This acusation was entirely based upon a liiw of 1849 , passed protect from attacks and insults the constitution of republic with a president for four years . Howthat law be . applicable to the empire ! In 1848 a was passed for the protection of the constitution : when , in 18-19 , the form of goyernment was again anged , though not in any such radical manner as it subsequently in 1852 , another law was passed to the circumstance . If the present government had neglected to renew that low , it was their own fault ; but that was no reason why they should dispense with all Jaw , and , acting upon purely arbitrary principles , condemn a man merely because ho wa $ obnoxious . He ¦ concluded by a brilliant and impassionate peroration , ami sat down amidst loud and simultaneous cries of " Bravo . " Tho Procureur I ; npcJi itU ' s reply was oven loss effective than hia opening speech . Ho scarcely touched the specific charges of the prosecution or tlio powerful answer that had boon mndo to them . Ho reiterated his assertion that French institutions wore bettor than English ones , and that it was anti-French to say tho contrary . M . Dufaure , after a few words of excuse for M . Douniol ( a mere working tradesman , who was lately a compositor ) , 011 tho / . ' . round of hia good oharaeter and uetmil ignorance- of iho article for which ho was responsible , aovoroly reproved tho Procureur Imperial for the levity and incoinplutcncflg of his speeches for the prosecution . Ho could find nothing in thorn seriously deserving of an answer . Ho recapitulated ami roinforcod with crushing logic tlio arguments of JU . lierryor , showing that tho law of 1849 could not bo applicable to tlio present imperial constitution . « e referred with humour to tho capricious imturo of universal suffrage , which in tho ouurso oC a very fovr years had sanctioned a ropublio with a aovoroign ohambor , a ropublio with a cliauthor and a president for four years with concurrent powora , a modified ropublic with a president for ton yonn , and lluiilly Iho present ouipiro . Mo observed thiit thcro w « d not a word in , ' tlio article sontrary to tlio 'Kmporojr ' d policy as regards Kugland . Ilia rogrot that thorn waa not a groator approach to similarity in tho institutions of tho two countrios only ihowod that ho wished to sou tho alliance established PA 1 lusting basis . So fur from hid being nutl-Frouoh , In * ¦
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ecte 1 in- nded Kcv . itish has St . > wed hich I at sso- and md . cal , pen u eri- in ,-en » rn rth ; hc jor of tee ) r . a nd and ir- tte for be he 1 . id ] to no je I lie and m dent too > with r- that n n Have e I stand " is _ he ! I boast e order 3 the 5 les 3 ratio simple i M . and . article ! u that c to the could law and ch was meet a I - I ; I I I ; I ] I ( ^ I ] I T c I n J r o I tt u tl r € b « A pt Cq pr I ne I sti j n Be tie < jo Coi Wa ter COI the the ftftl a r pre Hi ] im / i I the Bishop , public attention has been very'much directed I to its operations , and it is anticipated that with an in-I creased income its usefulness will be greatly extended I in the thickly populated portions of the metropolis . I British Columbia . —The consecration of the Rev . George Hills , the newly-appointed Bishop of British Columbia , will not take place before Christmas ; he has I announced his retirement from tho ministry of St . Nicholas , Great Yarmouth-. Miss Burdett Coutts ' endowed this bishopric with 15 , 0001 ., a munificent act which I probably led to the erection of the see . The Confessioxal . —A meeting has been held at Norwich to consider the propriety of forming an association to resist the introduction of the confessional and other Romanising practices into the Church of England , The names of one hundred gentlemen , lay and clerical , were enrolled . . St . Paul ' s . —The Dean and Chapter propose to open the cathedral for special evening services , as an experiment , from Advent Sunday , November 28 , to Easter in the following year . The service will commence at seven J o ' clock . . The public will be admitted at the two western j side doors from the area facing Ludgate-hill . The north j door will be closed , in order to give a fair trial to the a warming process , not yet completed . The south door - I will be open to the Lord Mayor and the authorities of f the city , the clergy of the cathedral , and the committee 1 1 with tickets . oc ij The Church-Rate Question . —On Tuesdaj' Dr . a t J Lusbington gave judgment in the case"Medlacd and ai ' I Brown v . Payne , " a suit , instituted by the churehivar- w t J dens of St . Neot ' s to enforce payment of a church rate fo 11 which had been refused by one of the parishioners . The i « t learned judge pointed out various informalities in th ' eJ ' JPi ' mode of assessing the rate in question , which he said | n was a difficult matter at all times , and though sorrv to j nc I disturb a rate which had been approved of by a large J Gi I 1 majority , and which was small in proportion to the I a " I rental , he was compelled to pronounce against the claim de of the churchwardens , with costs . to < I Schism , —Some of the leading members of the Tracr j wi tarian party have intimated their intention , of withdraw- thi ing from the "London Union on Church Matters , " on the ground that it " has not been sufficiently active in I Ha repelling the aggressions which have from time to time s * a been made on the rights and liberties of the Church . " i is t A large amount of money was subscribed for the pur-I ue poses of this " Union , " but all it ' s proceedings have been °° conducted with secrecy , and the rigid exclusion of the I ord press has always been one of its fundamental rules . The tlle new society which is to be established will adopt a more Yes straightforward course , and will conduct their proceedings rati in the full light of day . sim The Rev . Alfred Pooi . e . —In tho Court of Queen ' s * Bench a motion has been made on behalf of this gen- and tleinan , who has been dismissed by the Bishop of Lon- arti < don from the stipendiary curacy of St . Barnabas , in indJ consequence of his confessional practices . The motion ¦ £ »>] was for a rule nisi , calling upon , the Archbishop of Can- W w terbury to show cause why he refused to hear Mr . Poole ' s that complaint against the Bishop of London , founded upon CUS £ 1 the Church Discipline Act of 1 S 39 . Mr . Bovill stated to P the case , amid bench interruptions , for Mr . Poole ; and tlie nfter referring to several authorities , it was decided that co " a rule should bo granted . Tho Lord Chief Justice was ¦» «' present , supported by Justices Wightuiau , Earle , and and Hill . Their determination appeared to have been clla » unanimously formed , and without any difficulty . was nippl-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/5/
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