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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The French Assembly have been engaged in reenacting the law forbidding clubs . A moderate proposition , made by M . Sainte Beuve , that electoral meetings should be allowed for three months previous to the general election of the National Assembly or the President of the Bepublic , has been rejected by a large majority . The petitions presented by M . Bucos on Friday ¦ week in favour of revision bear 23 , 757 , those presented by M . Laurent against the law of May , 20 , 767 , signatures of the citizens of Paris . This is a sufficient indication of the state of feeling in the capital .
The Revision Commission have met three times since our last . At these meetings the propositions of MM . Larabit , Creton , Bouhier de l'Ecluse , and Payer , were severally considered and rejected . The last upon which the Commission deliberated and decided was that of M . de Broglie , drawn up and put forward by the celebrated club in the Rue des Pyramides . M . de Broglie declared , in developing his proposition , that necessity demanded the revision of the Constitution—an instrument which might have been concocted at the Lunatic Asylum at Charenton . M . de Broglie foresaw the reelection of Lou-is Napoleon ; he admitted the legality of a resolution of the Assembly , which should refuse to confirm an unconstitutional election . But it ¦ was not sufficient that
a resolution should be legal in order to be capable of execution . The resolution would be annulled beforehand by the country . M . de Tocqueville deemed revision the sole means of salvation for France ; but he thought that their determination to make the constitution respected ought to be expressed in the report . If he was to believe what he heard , the initiative of the petition movement had come from the Government . If the administration had exceeded its duties in this respect , that also ought to be mentioned in the report . The report ought likewise to contain a declaration in favour of the
maintenance of the Bepublic , and a public assertion of their belief that at present it was impossible to think of reestablishing the monarchy . M . Odilon Barrot said that the two propositions of MM . Creton and Bouhier de l'Ecluse , which opened the question between monarchy and the republic , were revolutionary , and for that reason he rejected them . Counter-revolutions were effected only by arms . The proposition of the Rue des Pyramides was ultimately rejected , and M . de Broglie then proposed the following : —" The Assembly sees article 111 of the constitution , and declares that the
constitution may be revised conformably to this article . " This resolution was adopted by 8 to 7 votes . Who should be reporter ? This question , so much canvassed , and so differently decided by the publicists of France , has been determined . It is not M . de Broglie , who was thought some time ago to stand so good a chance . It is not M . Odilon Barrot , the next favourite . But M . Tocqueville , the least reactionary of the three , and said to be in favour of revision only on condition that the law of May is repealed . The" numbers were—De Tocqueville , 8 ; de Broglie , 5 ; Barrot , 2 .
no chance of reeleotion except by a coup de main . His reelection will give no security or chance to com . merce , because there will equally be the Orleanist , Legitimist , and Republican minorities — the two former openly intriguing for a return to monarchy ; whereas the election of any other candidate will silence presidential ambition , for none other will pretend to a continuation of power . The party of order are afraid to meet the country retaining the Electoral Law of the 31 st of May . They are very savage , but very much afraid , and the real petitioning goes on very actively . With all the
Government influence the Revisionists have not got a million of signatures , and the ' employes' and those under the bureaucratic influence equal that number . " The German Diet are busy making arrangements for that prodigious failure , the federal fleet . A great agitation is going on in Wurtemburg and the Hesses , to bring about a return to a feudal system of Church government by the Roman Catholics . The revival of the Prussian Provincial Diets is still disputed inch by inch with the Government , and it is clear that the obnoxious decree must be withdrawn .
Private correspondence from Constantinople informs us that " Hungary continues to be governed by the sword , or rather by the stick of the Austrian corporal , The greatest obstacles are put in the way of persons wishing to travel , or to remove from one place to another ; from one comitat to another . If , on the one hand , there is a dreadful scarcity of money in Hungary , on the other , taxes and Austrian gendarmes , whom you can see wherever you turn your eye , are plentiful enough ; but they cannot venture to perambulate about the country individually , for the peasants kill them . The prisons are overflowing
with victims . In spite of that , the spirit of the people continues to improve , especially amongst the peasantry and the burghers . Kossuth is everywhere the idol of the people . " Twenty-seven Poles , who fought in the ranks of the Polish-Hungarian Legion , and who still remain in Turkey , have petitioned her Government to be sent to France or England . As yet no answer has been given , but it transpired that the Turkish Government desires them to remain in the country till next September , viz ., to the promised liberation of Kossuth , and the other prisoners from Kutcvah ^'
The Papal Government is " indulging" its subjects with a little Christian punishment in the way of woman flogging . An account of a scene of this kind appears in the Giomale di Roma of the 13 th inst . : — " Mary Biazi , of the city of Castello , was convicted by sworn evidence of having insulted in that city some persons who were peaceably smoking cigars , and upon such proof was condemned to receive 20 lashes from a whip ( Colpi difrustra )—the punishment assigned to such disturbers of public order . It was carried into effect on the 9 th current in Perugia . "
Meanwhile , the President has been reviewing the troops to the cries of " Vive Napoleon I" followed by deafening shouts of ' Vive la Republique ! " The Assembly , besieged by petitions for und against revision , and for the repeal of the electoral law , feels itself persecuted . It is said that sixty thousand 41 crosses and other symbols" have been counted at the foot of petitions ior revision . So great is the agitation about these petitions that we find a man like Emile de Girardin attacking the right of petition , and denouncing it as counter-revolutionary ! lie asserted that it is an engine so admirably fitted for the use of prefects , sub-prelects , and officials of all kinds , that no reliance can be placed on any of its manifestations .
lhe gerants [ managers ] of the Parisian Associations are , we learn , from authentic sources , busy composing such a constitution as will be likely to be universal . This is very necessary before legislation upon the subject . The workers in arm-chairs , n flourishing association , distribute the profits accordto the amount of work done during the year . This is a wine measure , because it prevents the workman satisfying himself with a bare subsistence during the year , and then claiming an amount of profits , the
result of the superior industry of the other associates . This principle is being adopted by the majority of the associations , and for the present , at all events , is the fairest method , and the one most likely to be attractive to the greater number . The number of hours of work for the man in health in f ) 5 hours during the week : lens than this subjects the defauter , unless producing a good reason for his omission , to a line ; gradually increasing and continued absence subjects him to dismissal .
A strong ieeling on the right to gratuitous and compulsory education exists . Great patience and confidence in the vitality of the Republican form of Government perviulo the working clashes . " The more one sees of them hero the more they inspire respect and admiration , " nays a correspondent in Paris . And he continues , " LouisNapoleon stands
Meetings Of The Week. The Past Week Has ...
MEETINGS OF THE WEEK . The past week has been distinguished by the numerous meetings for . public and charitable purposes which have been held . The Metropolitan Branch of the National Public School Association held a meeting at the Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle-street on AVednesday evening . Mr . Samuel Lucas presided . He said : — " The association proposed four kinds of schools , day , infant , evening , and industrial schools—the latter for that large class in London , estimated by Lord Ashley at 50 , 000 , who knew not how they should get a living from day to day . The schools would be managed by committees ; in each county a normal school would be established to insure a supply of properly-qualified teachers , who should undergo examination . Great objections had been made to what was called Government education . This the association did not propose , but only asked the Government to put into the hands of the people the means of educating themselves—an object in which the rich were as deeply interested as the poor . " Mr . Vaughan , after contrasting the continental sj'stems of education with our own , and contending that our system was limited , and not such as tended to awaken the curiosity or excite the reasoning of our children , said : — " This had been rashly designated an irreligious system ; on the contrary , its direct tendency was to excite the mind to religious feelings . During a certain number of hours every week , these schools were to be closed to give the pupils an opportunity of attending the religious instruction of their several pastors . Was this an irreligious principle ? The books and discipline of the schools were to be , egulated by the county boards a « fIf l 1 , ^ i againt a " «' ctari « n tenets being introduced , lhe Bible was not to be excluded wherever it could be introduced without doing prejudice to the consciences of any . { Hear , hear . ) Nothing consistent with the teaching of natural religion would be excluded ; the existence of a feupremo JJe . ng would be held »„ to the children to Si , " " !» ' " ' V- ' '! " habitH of l ^ V »«
for the promotion of education by any part f " J 7 " countrymen . But it was impossible to assen tiT voluntaryism had been adequate to the removal \ l ignorance from the country : and in a we »?» i , , highly-civilized country like England , it Was ^ T creditable thing that we should have so great art « ciency of the means of even elemental edueatJ now existed . He was therefore prepared J ^ k aS discouraging existing efforts for the education " of' S ?' people , to support the establishment of a system r national education , supported by local rates a managed by local boards . Now , the education siv
i ? - » mi *¦* r » a / in * " » j- » 1 ct w \ - «*<*« lirfv n A * t « i 1 n . w ah J _ . _ _ . ¦ . O dl in such schools must be secular and unsectarian f with our present religious divisions , and looking ^ the strong feeling which prevailed against chiLh rates , it seemed little short of madness to attempt to support denominational schools out of local rates At the same time he did not say , nor did the association that the children who received secular ins truction in the schools should not , at another time and place receive religious instruction ; but the two were quite distinct from each other .
" Let each adhere to his own duty ; the clergyman and the schoolmaster had each important duties of their own and by keeping these distinct the result would be not only a greater degree of secular knowledge , but a higher standard of morals and stronger attachment to their respective religious creeds among the great mass of the population . { Cheers . )" Mr . J . H . Palmer , as a Churchman , though formerly an advocate for combined religious and secular instruction , was now convinced that the combination was impracticable as a Bystem . He advocated secular instruction for the people .
The second conference of the Metropolitan Church Reform Association was held on Wednesday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern . The chair wa s occupied by Mr . J . Sullivan . He stated that the object of the association was to prevent the Church from being undermined : — u It sought in . the first instance a revision of the liturgy and the canons , some portions of which did , undoubtedly , sanction Romish doctrines , in order that Dr . Pusey and his adherents might have no handle furnished to them for preaching up the errors of the Papacy within the bosom of a Protestant Church . ( Cheers . )" The business " f the meeting was to receive a long report , which was read by the Reverend Mr . Stoddart , upon what had been done since the conference last met .
Ultimately a resolution was agreed to , expressing their " firm conviction that a reform is requisite in the constitution , discipline , formularies , and also in the patronage and the appropriation of property in the national church "; and proposing the appointment of a commission of clergy and laity in equal numbers , and that the recommendations of such commissioners could take effect upon being ratified by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commoners in Parliament assembled . They would specially indicate to such a commission a revision of the Prayer Book , with a reform of public worship , and the restoration of the laity to their proper weight and influence in church government , and in the care of each parish ( by a select and respected body of trustees or churchwardens periodically elected ) , as the amendments that are primarily and most palpably needed .
A meeting of tenant-farmers , and others interested in agriculture , was held at Stowmarket ( being the central market town in the county ) , on the 19 th , to discuss the measures required to mitigate the unequal pressure under which the farming body is suffering . After some discussion , in which all present expressed their decided sense of the uselessness of agitating for the re-imposition of protection , an association was formally organized for the purpose of agitating the county in favour of the objects in view , viz ., the exercise of the strictest economy in all the private and public expenses to which the farmer is liable . Another fundamental principle was the promomotion of the objects of the National Parliamentary
and 1 ' inancial Reform Association , in the hope that that association would assist the free-trade portion of the agriculturists in their efforts to obtain fair and nnexclusive justice . The following resolutions were unanimousl y agreed to : — " 1 . That this meeting cordially concurs in the sentiments expressed in the memorial which has been read , and is desirous that an association be formed for the purpose of obtaining relief from the burdens which press peculiarly upon agriculture , and also of inviting the cooperation of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association . 2 . That an association be forthwith formed , to be called the Suffolk Agricultural Relief Association , and that a minimum subscription of 2 s . per annum shall entitle any person to become
a member . 3 . That the following be the objects of the Suffolk Agricultural Relief Association : —1 . The repeal of the malt tax . 2 . The alteration of the present unjust tithe system . 3 . An equitable measure of tenant right . 4 . A thorough revision of the present mode of manag ing the county expenditure . 6 . The abolition of the game laws . G . That the restrictions upon the growth of excise articles be removed . " A committee was appointed to manage the business of the association , consisting of sixteen gentlemen , of whom twelve arc bonu fide farmers . It is the intention of the association to set to work immediately towards advancing their agitation , and it in earnestly hoped that their efforts will be encouraged by the Reformers of influence .
Tho centenary festival of St . Luke ' s Hospital took place on Wednesday . Tho Speaker of the House of Commons , Mr . Shaw Lefevre , occupied the chair . Tho hoHpitul was opened on the ' of July , 1761 , and out of 19 , 021 ) patients admitttod since that time 8389 had beeu discharged cured . The amount of ( subscriptions received was £ 2500 .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28061851/page/4/
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