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News of the "Wbbk— l * a S e School ..... 653 Garden Husbandry 658 Letters on TJnitarianism .......... 661 The Tenant-Bight Movement 650 The Catholics and the Queen ' s Col- Ploughing too Much 658 Litbratukb—; The Workhouse Industrial System leges 653 Justice to Ireland 658 Sidney Smith ' s Mother Country .... 6 B-J of Ireland 650 A Survey of European Industry .... 653 Social Reform—XI . —Industry : Its St . John ' s Columbus 663 The Arctic Expedition 650 The Wreck of the Superb 653 Bondage . 658 Books on our Table 063 The Overland Mail 651 A Greek Virago 654 Open Council- Tub Arts—Destruction of Friedrichstadt 651 A Theatrical Suicide 654 H ungarian Refugees in Turkey .... 660 Opening of the Princess ' s Theatre .. 666 Austria and Prussia 651 Associative Progress— The Church of England 660 Macbeth at Sadler's Wells 666 The Lind Mania 651 Working Associations of Paris .... 656 Prize Essay 660 Portfolio—Military Debauchery 651 Public Affairs— Charles Bray on the Formation of Lecture on Roman History .. 667 A French Desperado 652 Cork Industrial Workhouse 657 Character 660 Song 669 An Extortionate Publican 652 The School Scandal at Woolwich and Reply to Mr . Barton and Mr . Neale 660 Peter Folger 669 Burglary and Murder 652 Caruhalton 657 Free Will and Necessity 661 Commercial Affairs—Woolwich Academy and Carshalton Iron and Cotton—A Full Stop 658 Robert Owen ' s First Principle .... 661 Markets , Gazettes , &c 670-72
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No . 28 . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 5 , 1850 . Price 6 d .
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"The one Idea whicli History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea ot Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Reks ? ion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of owe spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Industry and land are the great questions that almost monopolize public activity just now , while politics flag ana Indian mails are eventless ; but they do it so extensively and in such various shapes that they leave no want of other matter for agitation . The tenant-right movement , for example , which has had its demonstration in Monaghan , is spreading to other counties , and bids fair to engage the energies of the whole people as generally as the Repeal agitation . Every allusion to a union of the people , without distinction of creeds or
parties , was very cordially applauded . Englishmen are aware that in this agitation the land question takes the form of " fixity of tenure "—the movement being one to establish a sort of base tenure like the copyhold which is going out of use with us . But the special nature of the measure demanded is not of first-rate importance i the important fact is , that attention in Ireland is fastened upon the great source of all produce ; for special opinion may be modified , and is the more likely to be corrected in proportion as the basis of the movement is practical and substantial .
venient in helping the Danish Monarch to back out of his untenable positionj but clear sincerity and perfectly honest purpose are scarcely to be expected from a Prince who has already behaved so ill . Whatever the result of these coquettings , it is a startling fact that , after the leading diplomatists of Europe have tried , it would seem vainl y ^ revive an Absolutist conspiracy against the Duchies , they are forced , at least in semblance , to defer to the opinion and volunteer office of an English corn-merchant and an American blacksmith .
the W eekly Dispatch already bears so signal a part . Before discussions and agitations of this vast nature the petty intrigues of Governments sink into insignificance , and the struggle for personal ambition going on in France becomes doubly odious . While English poor-law guardians , Irish agitators , and London journalists are exploring and debating one of the questions that most vitally interest mankind , Denmark is coquetting with the Peace Association , which may prove very
con-A new charge is brought against President Louis Napoleon—that of systematically seeking to corrupt the army by regales of -sausages and champagne ! Certain it is that those viands have been distributed to French soldiers , and it is averred that Prince Louis Napoleon has avowed his criminal intention ; but , even if it were true , there is something so absurd in the notion of winning over the army by donations of sausage and wine , in very moderate quantities , that no awe can be felt towards the quasi-royal manceuvrer .
The particular industrial attempts , such as the enterprize of the Irish Amelioration Society , or the industrial workhouse at Cork , will help to throw new lights on the main question , and to instil vitality into the movement . . The vast enterprize of the Morning Chronicle , to make a survey of industry , especially of agriculture , in Europe and America , will give to the same subject a very comprehensive extension . The journal professes a present suspension of judgment on the points raised by the enquiry , with a
willing-Occurrences nearer home suggest very painful reflections concerning our own army . The immoralities detected among the military pupils at Woolwich and Carshalton are alarming in their nature and extent . It would seem that two Government schools are working so that we run the chance of seeing our army supplied with demoralized and degenerate officers ; those officers to be the guides and controllers of the uneducated soldiery ! Of course , the severe penalties that have been inflicted on individuals at
ness to draw the requisite conclusions at the close . We have not yet had from that authority any general conclusions on the evidence already collected ; but " we can wait ; " and the larger the data the larger the inferences are likely to be . For the candour and honesty of the Chronicle we vouch with the utmost satisfaction ; to the immense utilitv of the enquiry the whole country testifies ; and whatever the specific conclusion of the journalist may be , we have no doubt that his readers will draw their own inferences . Indeed , we hold that the Chronicle has contributed in a very effective manner to the striking and rapid development of opinion on subthe
Woolwich and Carshalton , will be followed by measures to improve the system , —not only , we should say , in the school routine or in the personal staff of officers , but also generally in the management of the young . We have treated this subject , however , in a separate paper . Crimes of violence have been unusually rife , and in two instances they have been the more startling from the peaceful character and retired abode of
such thieves may be said never to break into houses where there is not some valuable plunder , that can be easily carried off ; and where such goods are , proper precautions should bei taken-to keep out intruders—so long ^ a ^^ e ^ ess ^ l ^ eiltw ^ lities of wealth , the oppressiea' ^ tat ^ of ^ Iab ^^* i pangs of want , ' supply the motives for violently snatching at the good things which happen to be in the hands of others * Mr . Vidal made a trial of
which the thieves entered both houses , and the art with which in Mr . Hollest ' s they arranged ? for their own escape , b y setting all the doors open , suggest a very considerable development of ther burglarious profession , amongst us ; far ' more ' than accords with the general indifference to . tjjff ; chances of midnight invasion . In fact , however ";
the influence to be obtained by threatening one of the thieves , who saw himself safe from immediate annoyance , with his sentence and retribution ' 'in " the other world "; but it did not appear that the criminal had any sufficient belief in the refhbte contingency to make him forego the present plunder . Mr . Vidal must have conceived practical doubts whe-. ther , after all , the chaplain can be effective as the sole " moral policeman " of society ; whether jbl little secular education might not have taught this robber to use his energies better , and not to employ them in a thriftless trade , always visited , even in this world , with some practical retribution .
The search for Sir John Franklin has at last come upon traces of his vessels , and in the very spot where it was thought likely that the first traces might be found . The North Star brings home a rumour that Sir John ' s party had had an encounter with the native Esquimaux , and had all been murdered . This statement rests on a circuitous narrative , derived in the first instance from an Esquimau connected with one of the searching parties , and by him passed to a Danish interpreter ; which interpreter represents that in repetition the story was so altered as to be incredible : and it does seem
probable that it was based on some casual meeting between the Natives and the North Star itselfwhich is quite safe . But Sir John Ross insists that the Esquimau lias been overborne by the Danish interpreter , who purposely browbeat and misrepresented the man . It is subsequently to this that traces of the Erebus and Terror have beep found , though not in such position as to discredit the story of the murder . At the worst , however , that story rests on the doubtful authority of
Esquijects of oeconomy , industry , and land , during last year j and the sequel is beyond the controul of any journal or party . The Chronicle might take the lead among the daily press in representing the new opinion which is now struggling to deyelope itself ; or the journalist may waive the magnificent opportunity offered to him : but the subject itself is fairly in the grasp of the public , and will not be dropped . At no distant day , we suspect , the English farmers and labourers will join in the movement ; and then it will not be long before journalists of all parties are forced to join in the discussion , in which [ Town Edition . !
maux , strangers to those whom Sir John . Ross ' s party had met . The search is still prosecuted , and there seems every reason to hope that it will not be given up till the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions has been positively ascertained . That he should , as itwere , huve'dodgedtho several searches , by going round to Bchring ' s Straits , very slowly , is rendered improbable , since he had scarcely provision enough to support exertions so protracted ; but he may still be quiescent and ( economizing in the depths of the icy regions .
those whom they have visited . The Reverend Mr . Holiest , a country clergymen , is waked in the night , with his wife , by two masked ruffians , who try to prevent their raising an alarm . They eventually succeed , and the robbers depart ; but not before they have mortally wounded Mr . Holiest . The attack on the Reverend Mr . Vidal is of the same sort , although his more ready yielding induced the robbers not to kill him . The ease with
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 5, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1855/page/1/
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