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likely t hat they will come under the head of " Polish Refugees , " but in the case of a Hungarian requiring relief of whom information is needed , application can be made to Francis Pulszky , St . Petersburgh-place , Bayswater , London , or to Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., 26 , St . James ' s-square , who is the chairman of the Hungarian Committee . Any other modes of identification not included in these , should also be made public by persons possessing proper information . Ion .
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The National Charter Association . — Among the correspondence read at the meeting of the Executive on Wednesday , was the weekly report from Ernest Jones . He wiites a spirited account of his proceedings . He lectured again in Newtown on Tuesday , the 19 th . On the 21 st he was in Birmingham , which he describes as apathetic and inert . Walsall is worse , in his estimation ; for there , though a considerable number desired to be enrolled , notions of " policy " witheld them . It was in the agricultural districts that he found the greatest amount of spirit and willingness . He contrasts Peterborough withWalsall , unfavourably for the latter town ; and he again
points out how desirable it is that a vigorous propaganda should be carriedoutin the agricultural districts . On the motion of Messrs . Arnott and Holyoake , it was agreed : —" That in order effectually to carry out the Tract Propaganda , the following instructions be issued : —1 . That those who have time and talent , and feel disposed to write Tracts , be requested to forthwith forward their names and addresses to the General Secretary . 2 . That the Tracts be brief , plain , and understandable , containing sound , political , and social information , calculated to
instruct the agricultural labourer , miner , sailor , &c , in the principles of Democracy , and to teach them their position as men , and their duties as citizens . 3 . That Tract Committees be formed in every city , town , village , and hamlet throughout the country , on a similar plan to that adopted by the Hoxton locality . " Collecting cards for the Tract Fund are now ready . The next Monthly Circular will be published on September the 1 st , and all agents are requested at once to send their orders for the same . Mr . Lloyd Jones and Mr . Walter Cooper left London on Monday , for a tour in Scotland and the North of England , to expound the Associative principle , and explain the plan and purpose of the Central Cooperative Agency established in London . They will visit especially those places where there are organized stores , and endeavour to promote the establishment of stores where they are still wanted . The working smiths are engaged in establishing an Association . A preliminary meeting was held on the 19 th under the presidence of Mr . Vansittart Neale . It was resolved to hold another meeting on the 2 nd of September . Mr . Field has originated this Association ; and Mr . George Kidd h ;» s been appointed secretary .
Master and Workmen . — The workmen in the employment of Mr . Cubitt , the eminent builder , having some time since requested to be allowed to leave off work at four o ' clock on Saturday afternoons , he has granted the request without making any reduction in their wages , an arrangement found to be of great" advantage to the workmen , upwards of 1500 in number . llrcnKMrTioi * Socikty . — We still meet with opposition ; but it tends to promote our success , by calling the attention of parties to the eociety who would not otherwise notice it ; and examination generally produces a conviction in our favour . A ltcture is announced to be delivered at Hall ' s coffee house , Leeds , by Mr . W . Clark , against the Redemption Society , on Wednesday evening ,
August 20 . At the directors' meeting on Thursday , August 11 , several resolutions were passed respecting the opening of a cooperative store , and the meeting adjourned to Thursday , August 21 , when it is expected * that the entire pcheinc will be ready to lay before the society . Moneys received during last , week : — Leeds : £ 1 His . 7 d . ; Mr . Douthwaite , 2 s . ( jd . ; Hmiley , Staffordshire , 6 s . 2 < J . Building Fund : Leeds , 7 * . ( id . ; Kochdale , Mr . Smithies , 2 s . Gd . Propagandist Fund : Leeds , fii . 10 i < l . ; Ilanley , Is . 4 d . Moneys received for this week : —Leeds , £ 1 19 h . lOd . ; London , per Mr . Kingsbury , 2 s . / id . ; Brighton , per Kilmiustre , £ 1 14 s . ( iJ . Duildiug Fund : Leedn , ' . )* . 6 < 1 . Propagandist Fund , Is . 111 * 1 . « L HiiNDKiisoN , Secretary , 1 ( 52 , lirig ^ ute , Leeds .
Mil . ItOIlKUT OffBN AND TIIH " AT II EN A ' . VM . " — III reply to noiiic very liberal strictures on Mr . Owen ' s plans l * y the Athciurum , the founder of Fjiiglish Socialism has addressed a defence of himself to t hut . journal , which appeared last Saturday . 'I ' wo passages deserve currency . Mr . Owen says : — " Talk of any of the experiments which have been tried being nn experiment to try the truth of the principles which I advocate ! an well may you tulk of giving a specimen of pure water with a compound containing nine-tenths of gross impurities . Those experiments to which you allude in your notice of my
prooeedingn were not my experiments , nor commenced by inc . They were experiments controlled by others , and none of them hud more than a small portion of my views , with a lurge propoition of the old irrational system of society necessarily combined with them , and which was bum ; to destroy Ihein . Talk of failures of experiments on my principles ! Why lhi « is the very earliest period when it would be practicable , in consequence of the prejudices forced into the minds of all , for an attempt to be made to form a common-dense compound of society to constitute a rational community .
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SUPPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN GERMANY . Lower Mount-cottage , Lower-heath , Hampstead , August 2 ( 5 , 1851 . Sir , —The cause of Protestant Germany is closely connected "with the religious freedom of England . You cannot , therefore , avoid feeling the deepest interest in all details relating to the encroachments of Popery on our ancierit religious liberties , and the suppression by the Pope , and the despotic Governments of the new Reformation in Germany . I speak of the " German Catholic Church , " or of the free parishes , '' or , as you would name them , congregations , whose existence is now at stake . The existence of many thousand parishes and schools throughout the whole of Germany . Protestant Prussia having yielded complete submission to Catholic Austria , Popery is overflowing all the Protestant parts of Germany . Under various names , the Jesuits are kindly received by the Governments , and rewarded beforehand for their services , by rich donations of landed property . The King of Prussia , grandson of the philosopher Frederick the Great , is completely in the hand 3 of the Catholic retrograde party . The police , and the army of Prussia , are now the instruments of the dark and bloody policy of Rome . No one in England can form conception of the persecutions to which the Protestant clergy must submit , who scruple to preach from their pulpils in favour of courts martial and perjury , the two favourite measures of the German courts .
In the first line of persecution are the German Catholic parishes , founded since 1841 . Established by successful agitation within the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church , they are of course hated above all by the ruling Jesuits . It was natural for Motternich to declare criminal the members of these congregations , and to banish them from Austria . Since the revolution of 1848 , a great many Gorman Catholic reformed congregations were formed in Austria and Bavaria . Their formation was perfectly legal , for every one of our thirty , four sovereigns solemnly upon his oath guaranteed absolute religious liberty to his subjects . But now , in the course of the counter revolution , a crusade of exteiminatior has been
commenced against these conjugations , which now number about one million of souls . la Austria we are no longer allowed to meet or to worship . The clergymen or churchwardens are imprisoned or driven out of the country . The clergyman of the congregation at Vienna was declared by the Roman Catholic clergy to be insane , and is confined in a madhouse . The Prussian Governments more cowardly , but not . less cruel . In January last the ministry of that chief Protestant country of the Continent held a privy council , when the question was discus .-ed — whether they should at once destroy the " free religious unions , " or kill hereafter by means of force ; . The council decided for the latter course . In this
way does the Government of Protestant Prussia endeavour to pleas *; the I ' ope and t . he Czar . Since ; 1848 numerous marriages have been contracted in thene congregations . The parish registers ami certificates of marriage solemnized i here were ; recognized by the authorities . Now the Government has declared all thrpu marriages to he no better than concubinage . Imagine the confusion and dismay which this diabolical measure ; has suddenly caused to thousands of happy homes . Think of the litigation
it must occasion , and the spoliation of the fortunes of ho many inno ent . children , offspi ing of those marriages if dishonest judge's give force to tins government decree , as a law of the land ; and you may rely on it that they will do s *> - unhappy Germany having now no other Hiiurce of law than the wretched passions of her governors . Not sutislicd with thus destroy ing the aaired home of these unhappy families , they pcr-ecute every member of these coiigrtgatioiiH , from his cradle to his grave . The new-horn infant , if not brought immediatel y to a utate-church clergyman , or to a
Roman Catholic priest , is taken up by the royal gendarme ) ie , carried to a state-church , and there " prepared for the blessings of eternity ; " for such is the command of his Majesty , the grandson , of Frederick the Great . The worship of the larger congregations , having been in existence for more than six years , was not at once prohibited . But there was a police measure in preparation . The Government deprived the congregations of chapels , the use of which had been given by their Protestant fellow-citizens . This happened to the congregations at Berlin and at Breslau . To the smaller congregations the command of prohibition
was at once made . The administration of the Lord ' s Supper has been punished in several towns by imprisonment . It so happened at Kbnigsberg . Public officers who were members of free congregations have been dismissed . Even the support of the poor children of these free parishes is forbidden , and the schools which the congregations had erected are shut up . In Breslau , where there is a free congregation of ten thousand souls , the " Ladies' union" proposed to hold a bazaar for the sale of articles which they
had made for the benefit of the poor children ; but the Berlin Government prohibited it . At Breslau , and at Nondhausen , the children ' s gardens ( Kindergarten ) of the Ladies' union are put down . What think ye are these gardens that they should frighten that warlike Prussian Government ? The Kindergarten were simply play rooms and gardens for young children of ages from three to seven years , where they were educated and amused themselves under the superintendence of members of the Frauen-Terein , or Ladies' union !
The Pope could find no fitter tool for his destructive purposes than this Protestant King and his abominable Government . Think you , Sir , there was no connection between the conversion of the King of Prussia and the Papal invasion of England ? Was the Prime Minister of England without knowledge of facts when he stated in Parliament , that there was a wide-spread conspiracy against all European liberty and religious freedom and enlightenment ? Was it not soon after the Olmutz meeting and the glorious battle of Boonsell for Jesuitic Austrian dominion , that Doctor Wiseman made his appearance in England as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster ? Do you not think , Sir , that the Jesuits will the better accomplish their ends in Great Britain where there are such
powerful superstitions to support them , when they have thoroughly subdued that land which has pro , duced so many great men in art and science , the cradle of the Reformation ? The destinies of all nations are now so closely knit together , that there is left but one general name of humanity . Let the light of the Continent be quenched , and England will soon be covered b y the darkest night . The Free Catholic Church , a result of the scientific progress of Germany , is the most powerful enemy of
Popery and Jesuitism : it takes away from them the people * the families , the children , the schools . Will the free and enlightened Protestant people of England and America sleep while this new reformation in their mother-land of Germany is crushed by redhanded despotism ? Let them raise their powerful cry of just indignation . We ask their sympathy in our struggle for the life or death of human society on the Continent . Do not forget the memorable example of Cromwell when he protected the persecuted Huguenots of Fiance . It is now time to awake and
join us . _ . And now , Sir , I come to a practical proposition . A committee has been formed in London to unite the fiiends of religious freedom who sympathize with their persecuted brethren of Germany . We invite all friends of religious liberty in the European Continent and the United States of America to communicate with our committee , to aid us in the strugg le against Jesuitism and religious oppression , with combined and well-directed force .
The ; United Committee appeal to the sympathy of the English people , they appeal to every man who is a friend to religious liberty and the progress of humanity , to strengthen them in their labours , by uniting in the struggle against the common enemy ot religion and progress . J am , Sir , with great respect , your obedient servant , Jonannks Ronob . 1 \ S . It will afford me pleasure to furnish any information that may be desired , on receipt of letter sent to the above iidrimw . . I am to be found at homo every Friday from 11 a . m . tp 1 r . M .
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CO OPKRATIVK ASSOCIATION and UNIVERSAL 8 U 1 T'KA ( JK viiUHUH MONOPO LY . Kcmptowii , A" ( r » Bt 19 « ' Siu , —An an humble Bti . d » . « nt of Social Economy , which , like every branch of knowledge ; and bciciiw >» is based upon the observation of facts , I would pungo the word " Socialism " fre , m the vocabulary , u te ; rm which has ne > more ) definite meaning tn » Whig , Tory , or Rndical-ism . __ , \\ K \» Tho opponents of cooperative association are a cult to pleuso : they object to cooperation bec * ut * T cannot instantl y create capital and emp loyment , ^ abolish competition ; they deny that it will r
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There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . —Milton .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1851, page 830, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1898/page/18/
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