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"to order . " As a refutation it is characterized by a readiness in the use of metaphysical commonplaces turned against the atheistic positions , but it does not strike home . Our own differences with Mr . Atkinson and Miss Martineau are—as the readers of the Leader know—both numerous and essential ; but it is one thing to differ from these writers , and another to agree with Dr . Bushnan ! The Law as to the Exemption of Scientific and Literary Societies from Parish and other Local Hates , &c . By George Tayler , Esq ., of the Inner Temple . Crockford , Essex-street . "this small volume is intended as well for the general as for the professional reader ; so that secretaries and managers , or committee-men , of the societies to which it refers , saay understand it . Mr . Tayler has admirably succeeded in his two-fold object of rendering the book useful to the lawyer , and intelligible to the
general reader . On the one hand , the former has everything that he can desire , namely , the statutes cheating the exemption , 6 and 7 Viet .. c . 36 , complete ; a digest of all the cases which hare been decided on the construction of that statute , and a Verbatim report of the two recent and very important cuses relating to the Royal Manchester Institution and the Manchester Concert Hall ; on the other , the latter will find practical directions to enable societies to claim the exemption from rateability , forms of every kind , together with remarks on the policy of the statute . Many of the societies are deprived of the privilege of exemption in consequence of their letting their hall or theatre for public meetings and O » ther purposes ; but the following remarks by Mr . ? Fayler on this point , may be well worthy of the att ; -ention of the managers and members of such socie- ,
ties : — "A still more important point ( which has not yet been publicly mooted ) , is whether a Bociety may not occupy , within the statute , a part of its prex nises , and therefore be entitled to a partial exemption . . As the letting is very frequently only of the lecture laall or theatre , this point may , in some cases , be well vrorth testing . It is clear that such societies are not ontitled wholly to exemption : but the statute does not
i seem to prevent their claiming and having the exemption as to all the remainder of their premises . Perhaps the Court will be inclined to hold that the exemption is , * is it were , personal to the society , and that , therefore , it must be wholly exempt , or liable , for all the property . 'Che language of the statute does not make such a construction necessary ; and if a partial exemption were fillowed , it would benefit to that extent many societies now wholly excluded . " ( P . 27 . )
In a note , p . 44 , the writer says : — "I would suggest to Mechanics'Institutes , and such . institutions , not as a lawyer , but as a friend , the importance of a class , or classes , for the Btudy of history . Our working-classes are commonly greatly " deficient in this Tespect , as compared with their other knowledge ; and , indeed , in the education of all classes perhaps too little attention is paid to history . Among the working classes , however , there are large numbers of men who are keen and clever controversialists in
moralspoliticsmeta-, , physics , and theology , if they are not far seeing and profound , and many of them have read extensively on these subjects ; but I fear that it is rarely that an intimate knowledge of history c : m be found among them ; ; and this is the more to be regretted , as it is the element < that is most wanting to complete their knowledge and Itheir ability on the subjects I have mentioned ; for to ^ rect a sound education of these , history is an ever requis ite measuring-rod , ifit is not the great plumb line ; and in political speculation it is the only chart . "
With these remarks we entirely concur ; for , ns Cicero has it , " Not to know what hns been transacted in former times is to continue always a child . " If no use is made of the labours of past ages , the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge . Tho Expositor , A weekly recorder of inventions , designd , nnrl artmanufactures , is a repertory also of art-illustrations , combining every object of public and present interest in its chosen department . The parts in which it is issued periodically , are elegant and attractive in a high degree . It in , indeed , mi adaptation of scientific imd manufacturing literature to the drawing-room table .
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1 ho Cup and tlie U p . ]( x ttUIa Jt ., , Nowl . y . ltefonuatary for tho Children of Ul « Pe . fohi ,.,, ami D . u ^ rouH UaBHWi . nn , l h > r Juvei . il ,, OfToiulcn , . I 5 y M ,, ry Cari « : iit « r . » Mr l i . **• Ciiipill . l ^ llluiii f V' ^ Fulth ; or » lluli S <"'« WhiHpem from ih ,, Inhibition ol JiHliwlry . K T vVlutlJeld . JIow to tjoe tho Inhibition in l ' our Vibita . Uy W . liluncliiml ' Unultmry and Kviinn . » * ^ "T » ^""" T * P ™ ^ ™ really as anxious that their
children tthould love tiod , mTth . it mey Hhould love them » elvefl , they would une tho sumo rnciuid for exciting thin love ; they would not - « ' i . i , cnl < m : e lt »¦ a d' ^ y that lluHlumld be loved and thanked , a « lend the child to do bo of his own nccord ; they would eu < ienvour that Ho nhould bo wucutod m their minds with every idea of cheerfulxichh tliui enjoyment , and thus lay the foundation for oiXv ? ' ratlun £ » mid efficient refigiouB principle , tho the aw ° 1 P « rmi 4 »«» t ^ Pl Ancan . —JEdttcatiott of t / ltt * eohny 8 > by Charles liray . J
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Gobthb .
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EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE AT A RECENT BAL MASQUE . . EXXRA . OT OF X LETTER TROM . AN EMINENT GERMAN TO A FBIEND AT . London , Jane 22 , 1851 . You must not publish in the paper of our native town what I am going to relate , as it would ill repay the hospitality which I hare received , in consideration less , perhaps , of my own scientific reputation , than of my diplomatic position , and of my father , whom I find to be very popular in England . None of the journals mention the event;—which I must confess interested me more than anything I have encountere ' d in the world of science assembled tere in London .
It would take a more artistic pen than mine to describe to you the brilliancy of those great saloons , or the general splendour of the company . So far as I am a judge , the costume was well revived , —that is to say , the dress ; the moral costume , the manner and spirit , I thought to be less perfectly renewed . The assumption of a costume in such a festival challenges a certain expectation of dramatic harmony which did not result . Although the English have had some good actors on the stage—at least so I have heard my father say , but I am not happy in my
epoch , —in private life these English have less sense of the dramatic than any nation with which I am familiar . They never forget " the realities of life , " by which they mean the bills which they have not paid , or the disappointments which they prefer to cause themselves by teaching to all the little faith they feel ; or they mean the " respectability" which they are charged to bear on their heads without res All the dresses at this ball looked too new : I do believe there was scarcely one person in Charles the Second ' s own Court who would not have creased his
[ dress more , with laughing , and gesture , and sporting , than the responsible gentlemen of the actual time in England would do in a year . Still the aspect was very splendid , and there was some gaiety piercing through the responsible desire of each that he should get through his part properly ; that is , bear out his character without infringing the general constraint . So there was Buckingham made modest , and Rochester on his good behaviour . I could not see Lady Castlemain or Miss Stewart in the whole place ; at least I did not see that any lady put on the outward garb of those celebrated beauties .
If there was some real gaiety , there was , as I could Bee , some real tragedy . 1 noticed one young lady to whose eyes I thought that brilliancy and concourse were bitterness and pain ; and elsewhere I saw a little hurried incident of a note given to a lady , ' which was afterwards explained to me by the discoveries of a jealous husband , of a very extraordinary kind . So that the multitude of policemen outside could not altogether prevent some incidents of that revolution which is always going on
underneath the smoothest part of society ' s surface , And amidst all the splendour—where there was that flood of living colour and of gold , which the flood j > f light made ten times more gorgeous—that iield of precious stones ever sparkling in the light to a perpetual motion—I could notice that the conversation often recurred to "business . " " Bun ' iiess , bun ' ru'ss , " truly Hays Puckler Muskau , is the word ever in an Englishman ' s mouth . It is the Englishman ' s Bottle Imp .
" I am told , wherever I ro , ' ' said the Count de Cirammont , a gentleman with uu exceedingly solemn and businesH-likc countenance , " that trade is very bud ; getting worse every day . " "So I hear , " replied Chi flinch , with , the true Exeter-hall twang and relish of u calamity . "But , perhapb , " interposed Rocheater , with an air of anxiety , " this entertainment , bo admirably planned for tho purpose , may have a beneficial influence on the market . " "And yet , I don ' t know , " rejoined Chiflinch , " how the freak of a night can redeem for Bethnalgreen , or for any other of our dangerous districts , tho mistakes of a century . A court ball in ' good for trade ; ' undoubtedl y ; but I lour it will take something more "—he jmiiHed ; Do G nunmont and Rochester answered him in silence , with faces of Mettled despondency . Before Chiflinch could resume his didactics , their attention , as well aB mine , was drawn to the middle <> f the vast saloon , on which a silence foil , no dead ami sudden , that it smote tho ear with a . senso of Homo uiiusiml event . By n common consent wo moved towards tho spot , through , tho Kay and splendid throng , which seemed to be at once drawn by curiosity m the « ame direction , and yot to shrink lad < Z i " mdc J "K We ; ««« lbythOtimewo the Hudtlenl y deserted centre . A strange spcctaclo was that ! Around was that
gay and splendid throng , packed like a mob gathered to see the Queen , yet driven back by awe , even as the common people are by dragoons ; only this mob was arrayed in every tint of velvet and silkregal purple , flame colour , blue of the brightest sky , through which rose shoulders bri ght as angels ; a mob , all over glittering with preciouB stones , silent , breathless with amazement , and pale ; so silent that you could hear the murmur of the lamp-flameB amid the thousand lustres above .
And in the midst of that circle was a pile so huddled , dim , and unwonted , that the eye could not at first disentangle it . At last you could see that it was a group of human beings . On the ground , haK kneeling , crouched a woman , pale and emaciated , who , from her naked bosom , wae suckling that whic h might be taken for a bundle of rags . The man , short and yet slender , stood by her ; in clothes so faded that you could scarcely define what they were : tha t which once was waistcoat had paled to the unnamed dusty tint to which his linen had darkened . Half behind and half between them , leaning on the
mother ' s shoulder , on the father s hand and arm , were two children , of various ages ; one more sat behind its mother , and leaned against her , overcome in a headache of . feeble sleep . Hungry they all looked , and squalid ; not eager , but rather slow and helpless ; hopeless , submissive , almost indifferent . Not a word escaped them . The woman ' s eyes were bent down , or raised at intervals towards the bystanders , with an alien look . The . man looked constantly onwards . The children alone moved an eye of confessed suffering to the world around ; but cold , without expectation or appeal . Scarcely would you have thought that group human .
Why are they suffered to remain ? Who will stir to drive them forth ? Whence come they ? How got in ? How suffered in that atmosphere of luxury and splendour , of brilliancy and perfume ? What ghostly jest , what hideous masking is this ? Alas I it is no masking . Pah ! What is that hideous consciousness which spreads abroad—that acrid , heavy , loathsome , appalling stench ? It isdo you not know it ?—it is the stench which squalid humanity drags forth with itself from its squalid home ? Suddenly , but with a slow suddenness , the woman rises ; the group gathers itself up for its journey , and passes on . They have gone ! A sigh of relief bursts from the bystanders .
" How did it come there ? " murmured an indignant gentleman , looking around , but not pursuing the phantom to its unknown whither . " I had no idea it was so clos » till you warned me , " whispered a lovely lady , beautiful and splendid , bright and pale . She shuddered . It touched me !" "It touched you . ' " exclaimed Chiffinch , and he chuckled inwardly but harshly : "How do you know that it did not make that very brocade you are wearing ?"
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A N G E L O . If you have not seen Rachel ' s La Tishe , you have yet to divine the full scope of her incomparable powerB , in one of the most supple and sensitive of her creations . You have yet to learn the broad and various range of art , over which she flings , with the disdain of a sorceress , the magio and the mastery of a genius , perhaps the most intense and delicate , sparkling and Bubtle , profound
and passionate , the theatre has ever known . You have seen her clothe with light and warmth the colder and austerergrandeurN of the classical tragedy , and yon have been disposed to forego that M . ' Kugene Scribe was De rActtdfonie Francaise when the dexterous mediocrities of that most skilful and a propos of playwrights assumed a colour and a feeling , and a fancy , at the touch of the Enchanter ' s wand .
Hut from M . Eugene Scribe to Victor Hugo , believe me , the ascent is steep and perilous : from the flaccid and pert prone , the petty artifices , the bourgeois sentimentalities , the jack-in-the-box situations and small surprises of " clever and ingenious fniseur' to the Titan of the romantic drama , inflexible of will , implacable of purpose , reckless of phrase , vast in conception , rough-hewn m vigour of design , sculptural in embodiment . Mark the difference ! that here the artist must rise to the height of the great argument ; there tho meagre , the sketchy , the trivial must be filled up , recreated , informed , sustained by the Actor ' s art . All tho efforts that the imagination of the genius that creates has imposed upon Art that interprets , in one case by tho exigency of strength
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Next day the windows of another great house , but not so great , were veiled with the blinds . Lad y Julia was dead : some said of fright , gome of cholera
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Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1851, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1893/page/17/
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