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violence ; but independent , high-spirited , hating tyranny , and resorting to the musket or the pike only ¦ when the maddening stings of misery and oppression become intolerable . Amongst themselves there is a perfect equality of condition—none is the servant or hireling of another ; but each gains his bread by labour , and none waste their hours and days at the cstaminet , the dance , the gambling-table , or the other resorts of the idle and profli < $ ate ; for such houses are not to be found in the quarter—they are all removed to the barrieres . 'Twere well if some more fashionable faubourgs were equally free from immoral contagion . Such is the real character of the inhabitants of this terrible faubourg , who may be seen every day , at stated hours , going peaceably to their ateliers , and
returning quietly home when their work is finished . After traversing various narrow streets of this famous quarter , where women might be seen at their usual domestic employments , we entered the Rue de Char onne , and at No . 7 turned into a spacious court ; it is the Court of St . Joseph ( the carpenter , and father of Him who first preached the great doctrines of equality and fraternity ) ; the din of saws , hammers , " planes , &c , mingling with the hum of human voices , and songs in chorus , from every side saluted our ears . On looking round more attentively we observed that the sounds proceeded from an extensive range of buildings five stories high , nearly surrounding the court , and occupied by three Fraternal Associations of Workingmen : —The Cabinetmakers ; the Chairmakers ; the Upholsterers .
The Cabinet-ma 7 cers are situated in that wing which immediately faces the entrance to the court , and may be recognized by a painting over their door of the Society ' s emblem and the medal they obtained at the last exhibition of national industry , for their truly magnificent book-case , which we examined and admired at their warehouse in the Grande Rue , 50 , where it still remains for inspection .
This rich , handsome , and unique piece of furniture was made by the members at their leisure hours without remuneration , in order to show what working men might accomplish by themselves , and at the exhibition of national industry in 1849 it gained for them a medal of honourable distinction . It is now on sale for GOOOfr . ( £ 240 ) , though a similar one could scarcely be obtained at the fashionable shops under 10 , 000 fr . ( £ 400 ) .
This association , now ranking as one of the first establishments of its kind in Paris , had , like the others , to struggle through difficulties at the beginning , but it was aided by a part of the Government grant , and has grown up under a skilful and enlightened management . The members are paid by the piece , elect their own officers annually , and live together in that perfect concord , and with that mutual esteem and affection which arises from the intercourse of enlightened and well-regulated minds . Their conversation is agreeable and instructive , their manners modest and unassuming , and their whole deportment is calculated to impress a stranger with the conviction that they are endowed with superior intelligence and true dignity of character . —J . E . S .
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National Charter and Social Reform : Union .- — The delegates of the John-street Conference met again on Sunday last . Mr . George Hooper was called to the chair . A letter was read from the secretary of the National Reform Leagxie , conveying the official information that the council had recalled its delegates to the Conference . It was resolved that Mr . Swift , one of the recalled delegates present , should be invited to resume his seat . The rules were then discussed at great length , and with some modifications , adopted . An additional rule was added , providing that the council should consist of three members elected by each of the delegating societies respectively . TheConference adjourned until Sunday next , when the report , as amended , will be brought up and discussed .
The Redemption Society wg are glad to have to state this week shows new signs of animation . The meetings at Hyde and Manchester have been , upon the whole , very satisfactory . Two lectures are to be given in the Christian Brethren ' s Rooms , Huddersfield , next Sunday . It is proposed to have a soiree on behalf of the Society in Halifax , on the 25 th of November . A meeting of the Leeds members takes place on Wednesday next in favour of the Communal Buildings . Circulars in furtherance of this object are being distributed to the members in all parts of th <> country . Moneys received for the week , ending October 28 : —Lerds , £ 3 Is . lOJd . ; London , Mr . Corfield , Gs . ; Coventry , per Mr . Shufflebotham , £ 1 ya . : Manchester , per tracts , 3 a . 2 d . ; Dng-Fund 14
K liniSlon , 3 s . Communal Uuilding : —LeeUs , s . ; L'mdon , per Mr . Corfield , 3 s ., Manchester , from the M . S . S , os . ; per Mr . Juinson , 2 s Gd . ; York , Mr . I uke , Is . ; DrWmgton , £ 1 7 « . —David Giikkn . District Mkkting , MA . xciiKSTnit .--A conference of tlolegat . es was held in the Social Institution , Garrattroad , Manchester , on Sunday , October 20 , to consider thebest ' mcans of organizing the district . Representatives were present from Stockport , Rochdale , Paddiham , Hyde , Ilurnloy , Liverpool , and Oldham . A lengthened discussion ensued upon the desirability of keeping up a rcgrlar staff of lectures , and by this means fixing public attention constantly on the Society ' s objects . All the delegates expressed their willingness to cooperate in organizing the district , and to assist the Manchester Committee i i their labours . It was agreed to hold another conference on the first Sunday in December . — John M'Kknzik , Secretary .
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A meeting of the friends of the National Public School Association was held in Manchester Corn Exchange on Thursday evening , over which Mr . Hickson , editor of the Westminster Review , presided . He said it was particularly gratifying to him to know that it was to the men of . Lancashire they were indebted for the opportunity of uniting in another common effort for the good of their country . They had not yet the great and the noble of the land with
them , but did not despair of seeing a Cabinet Minister , or even the Premier , taking the chair at some such meeting as the present , for the promotion of secular education on the broadest basis . The Reverend William M'Kerrow announced that Mr . Mark Phillips had subscribed £ 100 ; Mr . Henry , M . P ., £ 100 ; Mr . Richard Gardner , £ 50 ; and Mr . "William Brown , M . P ., £ 20 , in aid of the funds of the association . It was subsequently stated that Mr . Edward Lombe , of Norfolk , had given a donation of £ 500 .
The meeting was then addressed by several gentlemen , but the great speech of the evening was that of Mr . Cobden . He disposed of the current objections which have been made to the Lancashire scheme in the most able and felicitous style . The argument that a secular system of education is injurious to religion he met by pointing to New England , where such a system has been in operation : — " Compared with all the Protestant states of Europe , New England was par excellence a religious community . ( Applause . ) Test it as you please . Are there many places of worship in New England ? They had more in
proportion to population than we had . How is the Sabbath observed there ? Why , when he was in New England he saw chains placed across the streets to prevent vehicles moving , lest they should disturb public worship . Was respect paid to the ministers of religion ? In no country in Europe was greater deference paid to the ministers of religion . Why , if we had been in New England the proceedings this evening would have commenced with prayer . ( Applause . ) Their courts of law are never opened without the offering up of prayer . Take what test you please , and it will be
apparent that the people of New England , where the system the National Education Society seeks to establish prevails , are more religious than any Protestant community that exists in Europe . The town from which Dr . Bacon comes in New England has only 20 , 000 inhabitants , and yet it supports three daily papers . The facts he had stated showed that activity of mind and intelligence do not impair religious feeling . Why , then , should- not Old England be as well educated a 3 New England ? ( Applause . )'
Public schools were required in this country to purify the moral atmosphere and to elevate the mental condition of the people . He wished to see national schools established in this country for the reasons which a great American , statesman—Mr . Daniel Webster—had assigned in these words : — ' We regard our free schools as a wise and liberal system of police , by which property and life and the peace of society are secured . We hope for security beyond the law and above the law , in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment . We hope to continue and prolong the time when , in the villages and farms and houses of New England , there may be undisturbed sleep within unbarred doors . ( Cheers . ) "
The meeting was addressed by several other speakers , and the following resolutions were passed : " That the schools ought to be supported by local rates , and managed by local authorities specially elected by the ratepayers for that purpose . " " That this system is eminently practicable , and , steering clear of all conscientious scruples , would be easy of adoption , and beneficial in results . "
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The result of the conferences at Warsaw soems likely to be favourable to Austria . A telegraphic despatch in the Cologne ( lazetle , dated Berlin , October 30 , says That , according to despatches received on the previous day from Warsaw , the Prussian proposals are refused . Denmark will scarcely accept the proposed joint commission . " The same policy which dictate * thin decision has , it is said , led to the return from Vienna of an evasive answer in reply to the despatch in which Prustua proposes a commission , ad hoc , fur settling the affairs of Schleswitf-Holsteirt . A letter from Berlin of Oct . 29
sayS : —" Reports are heard , according to which the hmri personages now met in conference at Warsaw are unablt to agree . Diplomatists , on the other hand , believe thai a settled plan will issue from these deliberations . All reports of threatened intervention are premature , as Perni ^ ny ' H prrseTicy here proves , He has intimated thai France cherishes sympathies for Prussia . One question divides the two Cabinets—that of Sehloswig HolatHn The French Minister is to endeavour to remove this cause of difference ; Prussia will reply that it has done all iu it * power to bung about a pence between Dcninarl and the Duchies . "
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wished to express his entire concurrence in its principles . It was so important , however , that he would rather abstain at present from making any formal reply . A deputation of the clergy and laity of Liverpool and its neighbourhood waited on the Reverend Dr . M'Neile in the early part of this week , and asked his opinion as to the propriety of having a great public demonstation of Protestant feeling * in Liverpool , calling upon the Government to prevent the Roman ecclesiastics from styling Neile
themselves after English sees . Dr . M' expressed himself highly indignant at the attempt of the Pope to establish a Roman hierarchy in England ; but he conceived such a demonstration as the deputation mentioned should emanate . from Archdeacon Brookes and the Reverend A . Campbell , the rectors of Liverpool , and that it should not alone comprehend Liverpool and its immediate district , but the entire north of England . The deputation subsequently waited upon the reverend rectors , but their decision has not been made known .
A meeting of the clergy of the deanery of Leeds will be held in the vestry of the parish church on Monday , " to take into consideration the propriety of addressing the Lord Bishop of the diocese upon the insult offered to the Church and State of England by the intolerable pride and tyranny of a foreign prince and potentate , wha neither hath , nor ought to have any jurisdiction , power * superiority , pre-eminence , or authority , ecclesiastical or spiritual , within this realm . " The Gloucester Church Uaion met on Thursday , and , passed a series of mild Puseyite resolutions against " tb 6 Bishop of Rome , " for his invasion of the rights of tbe Bishops of the English Church . " A meeting of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Coventry is to be held in that city on Wednesday next , " to deliberate on the steps to be : taken in consequence of the intrusion into that diocese of a Roman Catholic Bishop
of Birmingham . " In answer to a gentleman writing from Exeter , Lord John Russell instructs his secretary to say that " the creation of the Popish bishoprics , and the appointments thereto , have not received the sanction and approbation of her Majesty ' Ministers ; " and further to state ** that Lord Minto , when in Rome , was not consulted » n thia measure , and nfeyer gave any countenance to it . " Lord Rancliffe , who was at one time member for Nottingham , died yesterday morning , at Bunny-hall , Nottinghamshire , in his 66 th year . In early life he held the appointment of equetry to the Prince of Wales , aha was the intimate associate of the Prince , of Fox , Sheridan , and others of that jovial crew . He has left no issue ,
consequently the title is extinct . A daring burglary was committed on the premises of the West Surrey Bank , Epsom , on Friday morning . The apartments occupied as the bank are a front office and one small room behind , which latter is lighted by a window looking into the next yard . This window was fixed upon by the burglars as their point of entrance , in effecting which they adopted very similar means to the Frimley robbers . The window alluded to was an ordinary sash , strengthened on the inside by three iron bars . The men first cut away and removed the sash , which they deposited very carefully in an outhouse in the yard , and then , loosening the fastenings of one of the bars , they
forced it inwards , and , bending it up , obtained room to admit a man ' s body . Having thus secured an entrance , they struck a light , and commenced ransacking the place . While thus engaged they were seen by Mr . Holland , a gentleman living ' within view of the bank . He having called his wife to the window , they both stood for some minutes watching two individuals , whom they clearly saw in the little back office of the bank busily engaged in ransacking the place , one of them holding a lighted candle on his hat , and the other armed with a cliibel or screwdriver forcing cupboards and drawers open . Mr . Holland ' s first impulse was to open the window of his bedroom and give an alarm , and with that view he threw up the sash and called out as loud as he could , Is that youMr . Moore ? " The burglars heard him call , and
, instantly decamped , having first put out their light . Mr . Holland hastened to put on his clothes , and in a very few minutes was on his way to the police-station . He had scarcely arrived there when two men were brought in by the police , on suspicion of having stolen property in their possession . An examination of the bank premises was then made , when it was found that the burglars had not been very successful , the iron safe having resisted all their efforts to break it open . The only articles missed were a great coat and some silver spoons . These were both found on the prisoners , as well as the broken piece of a " jemmy , " the other part of which had been left in the iron safe . The prisoners , whose names are Roberts and Dowe , are to be brought up for examination on Monday .
A meeting of the parishioners of St . Anne ' s , Limehouse , was held in the Town-hall , Church-lane , yesterday , " to take into consideration the alarming measures already adopted and further contemplated by the Pope of Rome . " The meeting was addressed by ministers of the Established , Independent , and . WesIeyan Churches , all of whom spoke strongly against the doctrinal errors of the Church of Rome . The Reverend S . Bailey , an Independent minister , after stating that he had studied the doctrines of the Catholic Church in the pages of Liguori , said he there found it taught
" That a . man might ' equivocate' fur the intercuts of the church—that it was not wrong to fnrswtmr oneself— that it was not wronsj to commit adultury—that it was not wrong to commit murder ii' the church was to be served . lie aflirnritid that he had a rijrht—that all Kn li . shinen had a uplit—to hunt down the man , vi at armis . wlfo taught or would teach such doctrines . \ l < oadch tiers . ) Tho man who would drag his family into such filth drstTviifl to lie kicKcl out of doors . TJic otnissaiicB of Uorne wore abroad —one thousand priests , and many others
bosides , without lixod missions—m « u who- were rwuJy to hounnio butlt-rs , or M'cnititric-s , or feoldiers—( A voice : ' Or titerguincH oj Ihf ! Church nj England /') — were abroad . Let , then , Kuylishmen , bestir iliumi-ehim . ( Cheers . )" Another speaker said he thought the Church of England was a good dual to blame for the present state of things . The prevailing opinion was , however , one of indignation at the attempt to take possession of England ns a dependency of Homo . Resolutions in accordance with the object uf the meeting were curried unanimously .
A deputation from the clergy of the city of London waited upon the Bishop of London at London-house-, St . James ' s , yesterday , for the purpose of presenting a memorial from tho clergy of the Archdeaconry of London on the subject of the recent Papal aggressions . Ihc Bishop ol" London said that , having read tho memorial presented to him by the clergy of the city of London , he
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Nov . 2 , 1850 . ] © ft * it 0 &&er * 755
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 2, 1850, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1857/page/11/
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