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POSTSCRIPT. Saturday, Nov. 23.
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N . B . —Each person will be entitled to nominate and vote for nine candidates ; but all nominations or votes received after the above dates will be null and void . * ^ * A detailed balance sheet will be printed , and a copy sent to every locality throughout the country .
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The Icakians . —By letters received at the Icarian Committee-rooms , 13 , Newman-street , Oxford-street , from Mr . Oborne , English representative at Nauvoo , we have received intelligence from the colony to the 6 th of October . The following is an extract : — " The weather latterly has been very mysterious . * Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant' it has not been so changeable ; it has , I am sorry to say , had a corresponding effect upon the health and lives of our members , and the inhabitants generally of the country . We have , since I have been here , lost five persons from cholera , among whom , we have to lament Bourg , the general secretary ; we have also lost six others ( mostly young
infants ) from various causes . I , as you have no doubt heard , have not been exempt from sickness , but am now quite hearty , and , notwithstanding what has recently taken place , I am still of opinion , from the accounts of the Americans , that the spot is very healthy . The weather seems now thoroughly changed , it is at present very fine and agreeable . M . Cabet has latterly been engaged in having our constitution translated into English , preparatory to his having the Society incorporated with the laws of Illinois and America ; lawyers have been consulted in the matter , and , for my part , I think the step very necessary : he has also been taking measures for having all the property purchased in his name made
over to the Society We have in all thirteen acres of land , chiefly cultivated as garden ground ; we have the ruined temple , which , if never restored , will , nevertheless , make a good hall for meetings , &e . ; we have a spacious stone building , originally the Mormon arsenal , now used as an engineer ' s shop on the basement , and as a cabinetmaker ' s and joiner ' s in the upper stories . "We have also a cooper ' s shop in a wooden house purchased by us ; we have an excellent printing-press and English , types—the steam-mills , saw-mills , and distillery . The steam-mills are a profitable speculation , as we can , by buying grain , grinding it , and selling it as flour , supply the community with bread from the profits : we have already sent cargoes of flour to St . Louis . We have 15 cows , 20 sheep , 200 pigs , and 12 horses . Our society
amounts to 350 ; 120 male adults , and 85 females ; the remainder children , of which the females exceed the males . Many will , no doubt , be surprised that we have so little land ; but it must be remembered that Nauvoo is merely intended as a preliminary residence , consequently it would be unnecessary to purchase land , particularly as we rent two considerable farms , which answer our purpose very well for the present . We should have to pay rather dear for an improved farm in the neighbourhood of Nauvoo , as much as from 30 s . to £ 2 per acre , farm buildings included ; while we can hire land , which is here exceedingly prolific , at from one to two dollars per cultivated acre . ... It is the opinion of the Americans here that we shall be very successful and prosperous—some of them even want to join us . Nauvoo is a strange place ; it would be almost impossible
to give you a description of it . There are two townstin . ' upper and the lower . The lower is more regular and closer built than the upper . We live in the upper , the views from which are exceedingly beautiful ; the houses are of all descriptions , from the stone-built house to the log-hut . The upper town is a straggling sort of place , hilly and romantic : a great many of the houses are of brick , partly framed and weather boarded . The people
generally take it very easy : there is not much thought for tlie ? morrow , and not much occasion for it . The number of inhabitants here is between 3000 and 4000 . A great many have left and are preparing to leave for Oregon and California : 2000 or 3000 miles is not thought much of here , even when the country is to be crossed with teams . Land is cheaper and better here than in the neighbouring states ( I speak of improved farms ); and you will , no doubt , be surprised , as I was , to learn that it is preferable to hire than to buy a farm . here . —T . G .
G . vLAsnim / s CooPEJtATiVJi Store . — A quarterly meeting has just been held , and the report as formerly encouraging . The sales effected during the quarter amounted to £ 1813 10 s ., the clear profit on which is £ « Jl ys . 4 d . The baking establishment in connection ¦ with this store is found tube a useful and profitable auxiliary . In the quarter just ended there have been baked in it 19 , 000 41 b . loaves , besides small bread to the value of £ 2 G . New shares arc deposited weekly , and the butcher-moat department , which was commenced but a few weeks iigo , has already given indications of complete success , The private butchers here , notwithstanding the occasional rise and fall in the price of stock , had hitherto steadily kept their retail price at Gd . per pound , but when the store company took up the trade , the butchers reduced the price to 5 d ., and are now selling
at 41 d . In answer to many enquiries we may state that tliis company is not enrolled . Enrolment would prevent the sale of goods to non-members , which is considered a greater advantage than enrolment with its many formalities and restrictions . To those who contemplate forming similar associations to this , and propose taking our rules as the basis of operation , we may inform them that , having seen the importance of a sunk or reserve fund , it was agreed at the last annual meeting that , in order to facilitate tue extension of our operations to other branches of industry , the sunk fund should be cnercased from a tenth , and the profits to a fifth : with thisi compensation to thosu who may have to leave , they are to have returned to them 75 per cent , of their share , in that fund , which per centagc is to be takenfrorn the ' reserved" pvoiit of the yoar in which they retire . In is is to prevent " lKiiiic , " and will save the committee from being taken unawares , should the sunk fund , or its equivalent not bo at the moment convertible into cash .
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a letter to the clergy of the diocese , in reply to their recent address . He speaks very strongly against Puseyism . in the following passage : — " Ten years have elapsed since I thought it necessary to warn the clergy of another diocese against the danger of adopting principles which , when carried out , tend naturally to those Romish errors , against which our fore fathers protested , and which were renounced by the Anglican Church . The result has proved that this judgment was not harsh or the warning premature ; on the contrary ,
that , while so much was said about the enemies who had attacked the citadel from without , they ought not to forget that there was treachery within . A protest against Puseyite principles and practices was ultimately carried , and also the original address slightly altered .
certain of our clergy , professing to follow up those principles , have proceeded onward from one Romish tenet and one Romish practice to another , till , in some congregations , all that is distinctive in Protestant doctrine or Protestant worship has disappeared . Our first duty , in the present crisis , is to retrace our steps wherever they have tended towards Romish doctrine or Romish superstition ; and , whilst we appeal to the Legislature to protect our Church from foreign invasion , to be especially careful that we are not betrayed by enemies within . "
A great county meeting to protest against the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England , was held in the Castle-yard at York yesterday . The meeting was called on a requisition signed by about three hundred noblemen and gentlemen , and , notwithstanding the wetness of the day , not less than 7000 or 8000 people were present . There was also a large attendance of the noblemen and gentry of the county . Earl Fitzwilliam was the first speaker . He was as desirous as ever he had been to assist in placing the Roman Catholics on an equal footing with Protestants as regards their civil rights , but still he was desirous to check the progress of Catholicism by every legitimate means . He did not view the question at present as one merely between the Church of England and the Church of Rome : —
" I engage in no such question . I do not ask you to join with me in the resolution which I am about to propose to you on any ground of this kind . { Loud cheers . ) This is no question between the Church of Rome and the Church of England . ( Cries of ' no , no , ' and ' , yes . ' ) This is no dispute between the Bishop of Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury . That is not the question . The question is between the doctrines and the powers of the Church of Rome and the Reformation itself . I Cheers . ) That Reformation not exhibited and not
displayed in the Church of England alone , for the Church of England is but one of the many sects— ( laughter , and cries of no ' ) which have grown out of the Reformation —one of those numerous bodies which have been the fruitful offspring of the Reformation —( cheers);—in all of which I venture to say , churchman as I am , that vital Christianity is to be found . ( Loud cheers ) I claim no more for that portion of the Reformation to which I belong , than I am willing to concede to all Dissenters . I therefore ask you , on this occasion , to express an opinion in favour of the Reformation , not in favour specifically of the Church of England . ( Cheers . ) ' *
Earl Fitzwilliam concluded by moving the adoption of an address to the Queen , expressing a determination to uphold her Majesty ' s rights and prerogatives , and to preserve the purity of the Reformed Church . The address was seconded by the Earl of Harewood , and opposed at great length by the Honourable Charles Langdale , who moved the following
amendment : — " That this meeting is of opinion that any interference with the doctrine or discip line of the religion or religious opinions of any of her Majesty ' s subjects would be a violation of the rights of conscience , against which this meeting protests . " About 150 hands were held up for the amendment , after which the address was carried amidst immense cheering .
A meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Oxford was held in that city yesterday , at which 1000 ministers were present , " for tho purpose of protesting against the partition of England into dioceses by tho . Bishop of Rome . Tho chief speaker was tho Bishop of Oxford , who strongly urged the importance of union , which meant that they should all join with him in a mere Puswyito protest against the * schismatical Church of Rome . '' Several clergymen found fault with the protest , on account of the word achismatical being used . At the period of the Reformation , England separated from Rome , not because the latter was sohipmtitical , but because it was Anti-Christ . Other speakers thought
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The Gazette of last night contains an announcement that " the Queen has been pleased to appoint Alfred Tennyson , Esq ., to be Poet Laureate in Ordinary to her Majesty , in the room of William Wordsworth , Esq ., deceased . " Sir George Grey , Bart ., in pursuance of an act passed last Ression , appointed Messrs . J . K . Blackwell , J . Dickinson , Matthias Dunn , aud Charles Morton , to be inspectors of coal mines . It is stated that the Government have determined to extend the metropolitan police to a circuit of twenty miles from the metropolis , and the commissioners are now effecting the necessary arrangements for such
extension . It is understood that Sir John Hersche * will succeed Mr . Sheil as Master of the Mint . This appointment will no longer be held by a member of Parliament , and the salary will be reduced to £ 1500 a-year . The Right Honourable Richard LaJor Shiel , after having had several interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer , on the subject of the contemplated Mint
reforms , left town for Ireland , for the purpose of vtsUinR his property in that country prior to his departure for Tuscany . He is expected to return before the close of next week , and will in all probability leave for the scene of his diplomatic services about the 5 th of December . We may with some confidence state that in him , and chiefly owing to his representations , the valuable sinecure of the Mastership of the Mint expires . The public will also be glad to know that the doom of the monejer * is on the point of being sealed . —Globe .
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The Prussian Chambers were opened on Thursday by the King . The essential passages of the royal speech were as follows : — " My intention of procuring for the German nation , a constitution corresponding to its necessities remains a « yet unrealized . I nave held fast the idea which has laid at the root of all my hitherto endeavours in hop * of the future : I can resume the work of effectuating my designs only when the future configuration of the Gerthat the
manic confederation has been settled . I hope negotiations now in progress for that purpose will attain to a prosperous result . 1 hope that our rising ( erhebung ) is contributing satisfactorily for the protection of our rights ; if this be attained , that movement will be without danger to the peace of Europe , for my people is not less wise than powerful . We do not seek war : we wish to abridge no man ' s rights , but we desire a constitution of the collective fatherland becoming the position of Prussia . "
The speech from the throne is said to have greatly strengthened the war spirit . It is confirmed that Prussia proposes to support Brunswick in its protest against the passage of troops of the Diet through its territories . The overthrow of the Mauteuffel Cabinet is considered as certain . Hanover has decreed tho mobilization of its federal contingent . The Hanoverian Cabinet has declared that it ceases to oppose the passage of a federal army through Hanover to Holstein .
The Berlin Abend Reform , of the 19 th instant , states that Baron Prokesch had declared the strong desire of his government for peace , and intimated that Prince Schwarzenberg is disposed to suspend its proceeding in Hesse and Holstem until after the termination of the free conferences ; to admit the right of Prussia to form alliances less intimate than those of the union ; and , further , to keep the Diet in abeyance until the reconstitution of the
confede-. At Hamburg tho funds went down on the 19 th , owing to a rumour that a change would take place in the Prussian Ministry , and that M . Vincke would be at the head of the new administration . M . Vincke belongs to the school of Baron Stein , the founder of the New Prussian" party , and is a great admirer of English institutions . The Deutsche Reform , in one of its semi-official paragraphs , says : —•• We hear that despatches have arrived from the Russian Cabinet which lead to tho expectation that it will not use its influence over Austria to the disadvantage of Prussia on the German question . "
The Moniteur dn Soir having stated that General Cavaignuc had declared that , in the event of Louis Napoleon being reflected as President of the . Republic , he ( General Cavuignac ) " would submit with respect to the will of the nation , and place his affections anti his sword at the disposal of the country and its executive representative ' General Cavaignac has published a letter in the journals , in which he denies having ever used language from which it could he inferred ?• that he had said either diructly or indirectly , that he was ever disposed to place his affections and his sword at the service of the person who > having sworn to the observation of the constitution of the country , would accept a candidature and an election which are forbidden by that constitution . "
M . Godard , the aeronaut , on effecting his descent on the 18 th near Marseilles , was thrown violently out of the car against some rocks . His companions escaped destruction by cutting the ropes . The balloon floated away and lit in a field below , where it was consumed by nie .
Postscript. Saturday, Nov. 23.
POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Nov . 23 .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . " G . C . "—It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press o matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . " S . C . "—Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it encreases the difficulty of finding- space for them . In answer to several enquiries we have to say , that the Stampoffice will not permit the price of a book to be given with a review of it .
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Nov . 23 , 1850 . ] ® f ) I & £ && *?? 827
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 827, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/11/
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