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_ 1130 THE LEADER. [No. 349, Sattjrday ,
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line of its plan of action , and has necessarily excited great interest at once . The Huddersfield . . Mechanics ' -Institution displays a more engaging side of the manufacturing character tlian in the case « f Cos-VEHWEjiL neraus SiDBBOTToar , in the Court of Queen ' s Benj # a . At Huddersfield , we see employers * professional men , and public men like Lord GoD & Bxcn and Sir Jams P akikgtojt , exert iog thew ^ seJv « ffi to sqppoit tihe
mechanics and younrg ' nien of the town w % o are training themselves by the pux'suit of intellectual studies . The Institution teaches everything , from reading to logic ; and Lord Goderich was the distributor of prizes to those -who had shown decided ability and zeal in pursuit of attainments ; ¦ who were , in fact , whatever may be the rent of their house , or the price of their coat , rendering themselves , in the highest sense of the word , gentlemen .
Jja the Court of Queen ' s Bench , a manufacturer , ¦ who is rendering himself- —well , we will not discuss that part of the subject . The statement of the facts will "be quite enough . Mr . Sii > ebottom was theheir of a manitfacturer , the successor to the factory , and apparently a man of great wealth . Since 1847 , he lias come up to town at various times to recreate himself . Amongst his recreations was a visit to the Berkeley Hotel , in Albemarle-street , where he Imd the pleasure of playing at hazard , and the advantage of meeting with a kind of gentleman 3
who is called a 'bonnet , and who plays with dice that are loaded , or such as are called * despatches , ' that is , dice witli double-fours , double-fives , and double-sises . In these innocent recreations the * gent' lost , at various times , the gross amount of 25 , 000 / . But at last he turns . He refuses payment of his own acceptance—of a bill which he had given , and which is found in the hands of Mr . CuiiVERWEiiL ,. Sir . Culverweix is a tailor ; he
has nothing to do with the gambling-house—oh , no ! nothing ! Yet the jury somehow come to the conclusion that Mr . Sidebottoji is not legally , any-more than morally , hound to pay this bill . He had already paid enough for the privilege of exhibiting to the public that phase of the roanufecturing character . Perhaps even a SirmnoTTOxi might , just at tils moment , think himself a richer man if lie had given the 25 , 000 / . to a Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution .
_ 1130 The Leader. [No. 349, Sattjrday ,
_ 1130 THE LEADER . [ No . 349 , Sattjrday ,
Public Meetings. Tiie Sundatf League At ...
PUBLIC MEETINGS . TIIE SUNDATf LEAGUE AT CANTERBURY . A meeting convened by the agents of the London Sunday league was held , at the Music I Tall , Canterbury , one evening last week . Messrs . Loaden , J . B . Langley , " William Tuxley , and Jones , attended as a deputation from the League , and supported a resolution , in favour of opening certain places of amusement and instruction on the Sabbath , and of performing music publicly on the same day . The arguments advanced were of the usual character ; and there was the usual amount of uproar and noisy opposition on the part of the Sabbatarian advocates . An amendment to the effect that the Sabbath
is of Divine origin , and that to open places of worldly amusement and pleasure on that day , -would be detrimental to the best interests of society , as well as to the cause of religion , was proposed by Mr . W . J . Cooper , and secondelby Mr . Bryant , a working man of London . On this being submitted to the meeting , it was declared by the chairman to be carried by a majority of three to one . The assemblage then dispersed in the midst of a great deal of exulting- clamour from the Sabbatarians . In the course of Mr . Loaden ' s speech in favour of the objects of tho League , a great deal of uproar was ccasioned
o by that gentleman declaring that " it "was related in the Gospels that our blessed Lord -was a Sabbath-breaker . " At this , several dissenting ministers , who were present in great force , started to their feet , and vehemently protested by signs against the speaker being allowed to make any further remarks . Several cries were hoard of " Turn him out ! " " Blasphemy 1 " & c . At length Mr . Loaden was allowed to resume , when ho explained that it was tho Jewish Sabbath ^ hich Jcswb broke , and he added that our Snn < lny cannot l ) o hold to be sacred , because it is observed on the first day of tho week , instead of the seventh .
'TM - SOXmi ^ LONDON » IIOE 1 II > ACIC SOCIETY . * hcT ^! - ! Cl 0 ty leld its second anniversary meeting on ™ JT 8 £ F riday vck , in tho National School-STSJJS ? " * < MA ' Prom thc r ( W ° appeared that St « Sff I' ™«« wsi «« favourably , but that it ia not Sd £ 1 « X 22 F' l arg 0 r > morlio ^ of tho expenses iff SL ™ T ? ™* ° ^ P ^ ate pnrse of tho Her . rmhlS f h' . •? 2 Pp ViUJ t ^ ereforo made to tho public of the vicinity tot pecuniary help . After tho delivery of eevcral speeches , a hemdsomo family Bible
purchased of < the savings of the boys , was presented to Mr . Joyce , m a testimony « ff the esteem and gratitude of the donors , t & o desired thus to manifest their sense of the efforts Ja » de by the recipient to instruct and train them for Aeir start in life . . . - Pxiaw aaedals were awarahsft ito the two boatUwjain the society and , as a proof itf tftieir 4 o 4 ustr ^& k thfc public servjoet , one was reported tto twve earned 571 . i * . IQd ., and placed WL 7 s . 8 d . 2 n < he smvings hank , asA the other bad earned 24 / . 16 b . < 6 d ., aftA placed 6 / . 11 * . 4 d . in the hank . Who total auMwmt lodged by th « bays in the savings % » rik this yewwas 1 WL , -while in * t 854 it was only 68 ? . At half-past nine o ' clock the meeting broke up with the singing of the Doxology . A collection was made & t the doors .
MR . ETINEST JONES S SOIREES . Mr . Ernest Jones ' s third political soiree toolc place on Tuesday night in St . Martin ' s HalL when the lecturer selected for the subject of his address— - " The State Church ; its revenues how derived ; its political aud social influence on English history ; its precepts and its practices . " Mr . Jones observed : — " There are two objects ia this world often identified , but as often widely different : the one is Religion , the other is the Church . He who attacks the latter is denounced as religion ' s enemy by the very enemy of that religion ; for he is religion ' s greatest foe who throws the name of God around the dealings of a sordid craft . No battle is more
dangerous than that with priestcraft , because no foe is so unscrupulous , so treacherous , so merciless , as the priest . If I chaTge the latter with inconsistency and crime , he answers by calling me an infidel , an Atheist . Sirs , I am neither ; for I believe , if real Christianity were practised on this . earth , not a tyrant would be trampling on a slave , and not a slave be cringiug to a tyrant . I . am no infidel , I am no Atheist ; I try to be a Christian , but 1 like to get my religion at first hand , and I prefer living always in a church instead of visiting it merely once a week . - My church is my house , my congregation is my family , my altar is my own fire ^ side . "
The lecturer thus concluded : —" State Churchmen what shall I say to you ? Restore the enormous robbery of church lands to the people . Remove the golden calf from the temple of the Eternal God . Pay your schoolmasters more and your parsons less . Look less to the priest and more to the Deity . Fear less and love more . Look more at heaven and less at hell . Christianity is not a shadow , but a substance ; Christianity is not the religion of the Future only , but of the Present
too . Paradise , you say , has been on earth ; then Paradise can be on earth again . It is you , priests ! wlio prevent it . You darken the sky with your own shadow , and say ' God created tho gloom . ' But your reign of terror is nearly over . You drag-chains of the world ! your links are breaking . Onward aud upward is the march of nations . " Iu the course of the evening , there -was vocal and instrumental music ; and two new odes , the compositioa o ; Mr . Ernest Jones , were sung .
THE RUGBY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION . The annual meeting of the ltugby Agricultural Association took , place on "Wednesday afternoon at llughy . The show of stock in the morning was extremely go > od , and , notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather , the show-yard was visited by a very numerous company of the principal landowners and farmers of tho county . In the evening , the members of the association , with their friends , dined together at thc Eagle Hotel , under the presidency of Lord John Scott , who was supported by Messrs . Newdegatc and Spooner , the county members . After a speech full of dreary witticisms from tho chairman , which , ho-wevor , had tho eft ' ect of producing roars of laughter , Messrs . Newdegate and Spooner favoured the company with an exposition of their opinions on pu"blic affairs . These opinions were of the usual Protestant and Protectionist character .
Income-Tax Agitation. An Agitation Is Be...
INCOME-TAX AGITATION . An agitation is being got up ngainst the oppressive and unfair manner in which tho income-tax ia imposed . A deputation from Gloucester , headed by tho town member ( Mr . Price ) and the Mayor , and arising out of the lato meeting in that city , lms waited upon Mr . Wilson , Secretary of tho Treasury , for tho purposo of presenting thc memorial . The Mayor said that , tho new surveyor had commenced his career by a reckless and unscrupulous surcharge upon all classes , coupled with the requirement , on appeal , of n number of returns , more vexatious and detailed than any previously demanded . Mr . Prico , M . P ., produced one of these precepts , and pointed out
the difficulty ofcomplyingwith it . lor mstnncc , during the late war his firm held in the various Russian Baltic ports several thousand pounds worth of timber which had been paid for , a part of which had been destroyed by the allied fleets , and tho residue was every day liable to tho same fate . By what rale , or upon what basiH , ho naked , coxild ho protend to value in his assets such property as this ? Ho added , that his firm had had thoir cliarges yearly increased until thoy would submit no longer , and had determined to appeal . Mr . Kimterly followed , Btnthig , from his own experience , that in many bankrupt or insolvent estates tlio defaulters had , during tlie period of their loss in trade , continued to pay incometax , and oven after th 6 y had called together their
ofeditarvMr . Wilson , having heard each member * t fhedefutafiow , said that of course it was impossibU w W ^ uaaters a ^ ays control the indiscreet z £ n their subarffinates , but it must be borne in mind that some instances wry great advantages had been takorifc parties - ^ to had been left to assess themselves ariX tmerftidneathe case of a firm who had returned thPir ; come tit 150 01 , but who had , upon information IZ . charges 15 ,-000 / ., and eventually offered to comnounrt ^ 18 , WMSL » 5 « ar . He assured them that proS Xn 4 km s & ouldke paid to that representations , and prom , 7 a to communicate with some of the heads of denartmor u , to which the subject referred . tf ^ ments
A public -meeting , called by the association recent ^ formed for the reduction of this tax from ltfd . 7 d the pound , was held on Monday evening at the London Tavern , Sir James Duke , M . P ., presiding . The larfft room was densely crowded during the proceedinn-s TV first motion , -which was to the effect that the present wir charge of 16 d . in the pound should cease next April that being the time originally proposed by Government ' but afterwards altered , was proposed , by Mr . Alderman Sydney , who gave a history of the tax , and was seconded by Mr . T . S- Goring , who accused tlie Government of taking advantage of " a miserable quibble "in
extending the enhanced tax to April , 1848 , the agreement being that it should be reduced a year after ° the conclusion of peace , " aud , had it not happened that Russia and Turkey are so far apart , the ratifications would have been exchanged long before they Vere . " " lit . Goringhowever , contended that the moment the Trenty of Paris ' was signed , it took effect . Dr . John Watts , while agreeing that the income-tax was very unfairly levied , thought it would be wise to continue it , in order that the people might be further relieved from indirect taxes , which are much more onerous and expensive in the collection . The
remarks of this gentleman , however , were received with such disapprobation that he could scarcely " obtain a hearing . A great deal of discussion then ensued , the speakers taking widely different views as to the expediency of the total repeal of the tax ; but at length the rcgolutioinvas carried unanimously , as was another , proposed by Mr . W . Cole , denouncing the levying of the tax in the same way on property and income , and the inquisitorial nature of the mode of collection . Resolutions were then agreed to , with a view of preparing concurrent petitions to Parliament , and forming district associations in connesioa with the present in all the large .-towns of England . Mr . Alderihan Sydney was elected treasurer of tlie society , and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceediugs .
Consecration Of Bishops. The Very Rev. D...
CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS . The Very Rev . Dr . Archibald Campbell Tait , Bishop elect of the diocese of London , was consecrated lust Sunday morning by his Grace the Lord Primate , ia the Chapel Royal , Whitehall , occasion beinir taken at the same time to ordain tho Rev . Henry Oottcrill , -M . A ., to the Colonial Bishopric of Graham's Town , in succession to the Rev . Dr . Armstrong , deceased . There was a very large congregation , which resulted in some unseemly crowding ; but thc police speedily set matters to rights . Various ceremonies having been gone through , a sermon was preached by the Rev . G . Cotton , Master of 3 Iarlborough College . In this discourse , after remarking iu effect that there was no alternative between submission to Papal authority and mutual toleration in nou-essentials , tho preacher continued : —
" The traces of compromise and a desire of comprehension are visible in thc foundation , the constitution , and the services of our Clmrch . While we sing the praises of God which Ambrose ami Augustin chanted in thc Basilica of Milan , and can trace our collects to the prayers and liturgies of tlic great Popes Gregory and Leo , we can } -et refer other parts of our services to the influence , not only of English , but even of foreign Protestants . Yet , iu spite of those undeniable facts , our present practice bears few t-igns of toleration and forbearance . Thc harmonious action of the Chiirel ) — -its warfare against wickedness and unbelief— is interrupted by unseemly disputes on forms and decorations . and doctrinal subtleties , and doubtful points of disputacontested
tion are recklessly mooted and acrimoniously . No doubt it is said that this is but a sign of the earnest activity to which God in His mercy has roused W Church from tho torpor of the last century , ana mat because men care more for faith and duty , therefore tuc ) arc so much at variance among themselves . 1 ^ . " ! wo , then , acquiesce in thc conclusion that V " ,, ' earncstnesa is imcompatiblo with Chrirttiim chanty , our Lord's prayor for His followers can never bo acco 1 " plished , that their unity is a fantastic dream . « melancholy and disheartening if in curing one cvu must rusli into its opposite , and can never combine ^ i rant forbearance with truo pitity and cntliu-siasuo ««• tion . " Having stated there wero many iioints ol ( oc " nnri ritnni f . 1 > sr . rvnnnn oti which a divcrCfiUCC IlU o " . ...
be tolerated , Mr . Cotton proceeded : — " Wliilc woi iw ™ Ood for every now syinpton of increuaed nctivnjt cannot but lament that less interest aiid ^ exciton > shown in tho struggle againat positive wicliUlluC : i jnony , in eomo disputes about n cross , a vestment , or n cere It is well for us to bo mindful of the utter infidelity w » is gradually spreading among tlio working classes in ^ cities , of tho speculations of secularists , us tll ° *
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29111856/page/2/
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