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• when they were called on to resign it . But lie was prepared to go further , and to assert for every man of full age , unstained by crime , the right of the franchise . Mr . Le Blond then went on to develope his argument at much length , which he supported by various facts and figures , principall y derived , as he stated , from the tracts of the association , and concluded a very impressive address amidst the applause of the meeting .
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TESTIMONY IN FAVOUR OF SECULAR EDUCATION . * At the late Educational Conference at Manchester Mr . Gr . J . Holyoake , delegate from the John-street Institution , London , and two other places , sought an opportunity of explaining the views of secular education entertained by those whom he principally represented . Such an opportunity not occurring , he has given in the Reasoner the remarks he wished to make . We quote them as representing the opinions of a party of a different character from what the public expect : —
* ' Gentlemen , —Your secretary , the Reverend Mr . McKerrow , has laid it down that they who have a right to speak here ' are those who have travelled far to be with you and are friendly to your objects . ' I have both these qualifications . Moreover , I can give you an assurance , which you all profess to need , with which to answer your enemies , and which no one else among you can give . I observe you only propose to extend the great benefit of public instruction to the religious sects among you . Although you exclude my friends , I yet rejoice that fraternity is so far developed among you to enable
you to do justice to each other . Though you may not give education to us , yet I will help you to give it to yourselves . You all fear infidelity . You have all said so . Yet I do not fear religion ; and though , if we should propose to make national instruction Atheistic , you would have none of it ; yet , if you even propose to make it religious , yet would we accept it ; for we value knowledge so much , and have so much confidence in the instruction of the intellect , that we will pay any price for it , even that of all your creeds , if they must be mixed up with it . So much for my friendliness to this cause of national instruction . And here let me say that ,
if all infidelity , as you confidently believe , originates m antagonism , how know you that , were you generous enough to concede schools in which the child of the Atheist could be taught , you might not one day boast of temples in which the ' child of the Atheist might worship ? My assurance is this , that your fears are utterly , ridiculously groundless that secular instruction will be Infidel . When I think of the public progress , I wish instruction to be secular ; when I think of the present progress of my party , I pray that it may be still mixed up with
religion . I have looked where the majority of our converts come from , and I find that they are furnished from the ranks of religious teaching . If any man among you will be the friend of Infidel progress , give us religion in abundance , mixed up with scholastic teaching . When I hour the religious standing up contending for Biblical and Credal teaching in all our common schools , I rejoice over his folly , so far as defeating him is concerned . One whom you call your Master told you to render to Cocsar the things which arc Caesar ' s , and to
God the things which are God ' s ; but you seize upon the undeveloped soul of the young child , and nxix up before him the things of the world with the things of Heaven , till ho does not know which is which , and he grows up in disregard of both . His perceptions blunted , his taste destroyed , he grows up indifferent to things sacred or secular . He is of no good to the Church , of no good to progress ; he is a blot upon society , and a scandal to his teachers . Yet this man I can win , though ho is hard to restore to duty and life , because he is accessible . The purely religious man is exclusive , and he will not hear ; but the indifferent can be readied , and those we can reach we can win . You
make the indifferent by your mixed teaching , and thus you help us . The wisest and fairest of modern Christians has told you that the soul is that sido of our nature which comes in contact with infinite . But this can only be developed by pure cultivation . In political economy you have a division of labour , and you know its advantages ; in your colleges you have adopted an independent study of philosophy , and you know the profit thereof . When will you act as wisely with regard to religion ? Every professor tells you , you cannot learn two things at once ; yet you will persist in teaching two things ^ at once . What is the consequence ? you tell us that God is the name of that ineffable Being who sits on his throne of stars , the Mighty Arbiter of human destiny . Yet you prostitute that great name to common purposes . You
spout it on platforms , you parade it in lectures ; it is the word of the-hour in every newspaper ; it is the catchword of every tract ; every man hastens to hoist it as the budge of his respectability ; it is abandoned to the mob ; it is the war-cry of factions , the shuttlecock of parties , and , that it may nowhere escape , the contempt which familiarity over brreds , you condemn it to be the task word of your schools , Then you conic down with t ) : e cry that the people have no reverence , and that the Atheist has taken it away . When the Atheist is religious , he will have si religion which ho can trust . When he believes in Clod he will not trout him so . Accept , therefore , Ihe disinterested warning of one you consider an L'Mcniy , and make instruction secular if you wish to save yourselves . "
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ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION . We know not what wages colliers earn generally , but they ought to be paid liberally , considering the risks they run . Another explosion of fire damp has taken place this week , by which twenty-six persons have lost their lives . The scene of this melancholy catastrophe was the Houghton pit , near Newbottle , in the county of Durham . At the time of the explosion , there were 150 men and boys in the pit , engaged in the various workings . The explosion was sudden . A loud report was heard , which reverberated through all the workings , and was soon indicated at bank—a term applied to the entrance of the shaft . Most of the persons who perished lost their lives , by attempting to get through the choke damp towards
the shaft . Several were burnt . Some were found without heads , others without legs or arms ; portions of the same body were found in different and distant places , showing the great violence of the fire . It is impossible to tell with certainty where the fire originated , so great is the havoc made in its vicinity , and the men working near it were blown to a great distance . One of the overmen was in the pit at the time , and on hearing the explosion he ran in the direction whence the noise proceeded , in order to ascertain the cause , when he met the rush of ( ire , which carried him along in its scorching embrace till death terminated his agony . His body was found a calcined mass . The event has created a deep sensation throughout the district , and thousands have visited the locality from a distance , making enquiries .
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SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN . The Reverend Robert Abercrombie Johnstone , rector of West Horndon , who was charged a few weeks since , on the information of Mary Anne Doe , a younggirl living under his roof in the capacity of a domestic servant , with having committed a criminal assault upon her on the morning of the 8 th ultimo , and who has been remanded from time to time by the bench of magistrates at this place , in consequence of the . absence of the complainant , surrendered on Thursday , for the purpose of meeting the charge . The proceedings excited considerable interest , and a very full bench attended . In consequence of undue been exerted to the out of
influence having keep parties the way , the case was again remanded till next Thursday , but at a later hour " a telegraphic message arrived , stating that the girl and her parents had been found , the magistrates proceeded with the case . The parties who had brought the complaint and afterwards absconded , were apprehended in the neighbourhood of Islington . As soon as Airs . Doe saw her daughter in custody , she ran towards her , and , grasping her hand , said , " Now mind , my child , you tell the gentlemen that it was all wrong what you told them before ; and , if they ask you how vou came to tell such a tale , say you wasn ' your fight mind , and you didn ' t know what you said . "
Before the examination began , all the witnesses having been ordered out of court , the mother of the girl , who had been sitting beside her , rose to leave the room . As she was doing so , it was observed that she held up her linger in a threatening manner to her daughter . The result was , the girl flatly denied all her former statement . When pressed upon any point in her previous deposition , she invariably sheltered herself by remarking that she did not know what she said when she laid tlie complaint , and that she was sorry for having done so . After some discussion , in the course of which Mr . Lewis , a magistrate , mentioned that the mother of the girl liad complained to him , in his private capacity , of the treatment her daughter had suffered from Mr .
Johnstone , and entreated his interference . The Chairman said they had two affidavits made by the complainant now before them . One of them , which had been sworn in his absence , seriously affected the character of the defendant . That which had been sworn in his presence entirely rebutted the other . How the complainant had been induced thus to vary her statement did not appear ; but , i > s the facts stood , there were certainly no grounds for detaining the defendant in custody . The ease was therefore dismissed . Mr . Johnstone then retired , and the court was presently cleared . After the proceedings had terminated , the bench gave instructions to Mr . Lewis to preA r a bill of indictment for perjury against Mary Anno Doc ,
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen held a Privy Council on Wednesday , at Windsor Castle , which was attended by Ministers , who travelled from town by the Great Western Railway . The Queen held a Court afterwards , at which Mr . Baron Martin was presented , and kissed hands on being appointed a Baron of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer . The Queen was pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon him . Mr . Charles Locke Eastlake , President of the Royal Academy , was also presented to the Queen by Sir George Grey , and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by her Majesty . Luncheon was served to the noblemen and gentlemen present at the Queen ' s Court .
Prince Albert attended at the Town-hall , Windsor , on Wednesday morning , at eleven o ' clock , and was sworn in as a freeman , and as the High Steward of the borough of Windsor . The Mayor , Recorder , and Town Council were present . Prince Albert arrived at the new palace at Westminster at a quarter before twelve o ' clock on . Thursday , and went to inspect Mr . Dyce ' s fresco in her Majesty ' s robingroom . He afterwards presided at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations to be held in the year 1851 , and returned to Windsor soon after three o ' clock .
In celebration of the birth-day of the Prince of Wales , which fell on the 9 th inst ., the Royal Horse Guards , under the command of Colonel Bouverie , and the first battalion of the Coldstream Guards , under the command of Colonel Codrington , paraded on the eastern terrace of the Castle in the presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert , who were accompanied , by the Prince of Wales , Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , and the Princess Alice , and were attended byr the equerries in waiting . The troops fired a feu de joi in honour of the day . Mr . Roberts , Welsh harper to the Prince of Wales , attended in the evening , and had the honour of performing before her Majesty and the Court .
The Countess de Neuilly , with the Duchess of Orleans , the Count de Paris , and the Duke de Chartres , the Prince and Princess de Joinville , and the Duke and Duchess d ' Aumale , visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Wednesday afternoon .
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The statement which appeared in the Standard , that the Duke of Norfolk would preside at a dinner to be given in honour of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England is flatly contradicted . The letter dated Liverpool , purporting to be from the Duke of Atholi , and giving a novel version of the famous encounter between that nobleman and the two Cambridge students , turns out to have been a forgery . The Perth Courier denies its authenticity " upon authority , " and affirms that the Duke has not been out of Scotland for some time . To the honour of the freemasons of Aberdeen , a numerously signed petition has been got up , praying that the Duke of Atholi may be relieved of the Grand Mastership .
The Bishop of Winchester has appointed his son , the Reverend George Sumner , to the living of Old Alresford ; and the Reverend — Pigou to the living of New Airesford ; both vacant by the resignation of the Reverend the Earl of Guildford . His lordship has not as yet filled up the living of Medsted , vacant fro n the same cause . Mr . George Arbuthnot has been appointed to the Auditorship of the Civil List , one of the most important offices in the Treasury . Mr . Stephenson , one of the private secretaries especially referred to by Sir li . Peel , will succeed Mr . Arbuthnot as private secretary to Sir Charles Wood . —Times .
Several Roman Catholic families of distinction intend to take up their residence at Tunbridge Wells during the winter . The Reverend Dr . Wiseman , Archbishop of Westminster , has taken No . 1 G , Calverley-park , and Mr . Wilberforce , brother to Archdeacon Wilberforce and the Bishop of Oxford , two houses recently erected in Mount Ephraina-road . The announcement in the evening papers of Monday of the sudden and unexpected arrival of Cardinal Wiseman in the metropolis occasioned considerable interest among the Catholics and Protestants , and , at an early hour on Tuesday , a large number of respectably-attired , persons , of both persuasions , assembled round St . George ' Chapel , in the expectation of catching a glimpse of the newly-created Archbishop , and many , anticipating that he would officiate during the early morning service , entered the edifice ; but they were doomed to disappointment , as the Cardinal not only did not attend the service , but had not arrived at his temporary residence up to the departure of those who were induced by curiosity to attend . Exactly at eleven o ' clock , however , a private carriage , drawn by a pair of greys , was driven to the entrance of the clergyman ' s residence attached to St . George ' s Chapel , from which the Cardinal alighted , attended by his chaplain , who carried a small leather portmanteau and a large packet of letters . His Eminence , who appeared in excellent health , was enveloped in a large blue cloak , aud had a superblybound llornan missal in his hand . On Wednesday he commenced his duties in London , by performing the eight o ' clock mass at the Roman Catholic Cathedral , St . GcorgeVm-tiie-Fiulds , which it is said ho will continue to do throughout the week . The congregation was very small .
We have much satisfaction iu stating that the canvass for Lord Palmers ton is now progressing most satisfactorily , and that little doubt is entertained of his triumphant return us lord rector . If our townsmen but join witlithu students in their course , Glasgow , wetrust , will soon have the proud satisfaction of seeing and healing one of the . most effective oiators and distinguished statemen of this or any age . —Xurth British Mail . Mr . Baron . Martin , iu announcing his « ' unsolicited "
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AX AFI'AUl OF UONOUll . A hostile inoi'tinj ; - to > k place about half-past six / clock on Sutunlay innnuii ^ , at iho Fifteen Aitos , n the IMuuuix-pnvk , Dublin , bulweun the Marquis ot Jligo and Mr , Ousely lliggins , M . I , for Mayo . The
noble Marquis was attended by Mr . Moore , M . P . for Mayo , as his second , and Captain Oakes , of the 17 th Lancers , acted as the friend of Mr . Higgins . The parties had been placed on the ground , when the second of one of them squibbed a pistol prior to loading it . The noise alarmed a policeman stationed in the vicinity of the Viceregal Lodge , who came up , and all the parties were taken into custody . In the course of the forenoon they were brought before Mr . O'Callaghan , the presiding magistrate at Henrystreet Police-office , who required the principals and their seconds to enter into securities _ to keep the peace , each of them in personal recognizances to the amount of £ 200 , and two sureties of £ 100 each . The that the
parties were then discharged . It appears cause of quarrel arose at a meeting of the Poor-law Guardians of the Union of Westport , where the Marquis of Sligo made some objections to Mr . Ousely Higgins , respecting his qualification as an ex ojficio guardian . That gentleman was not then present , but his father , Captain "Fitzgerald Higgins , defended the qualification . Subsequently , Mr . Ousely Higgins forwarded a letter to Lord Sligo , containing language whieh was considered offensive . The result was a hostile message from the noble Marquis , conveyed through Mr . Moore , M . P ., and a meeting was fixed to take place , whieh was , however , interrupted before any damage had been done .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 16, 1850, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1859/page/6/
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