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StauTSd until the ait is altered nothing effectual can be d ©»«/ " Several amendments of the Truck Act are suggestedTftto experience of Mr . Duignan . They refer to a * extension of power simply , and are included to prevent evasions' of the law .
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PUBLIC OPINION . Commenting on the late meeting of " Defenders " in Dublin , the Norfolk Newt writes thus : — " The new act must be enforced , or its authors will be held up to the ridicule of the civilized world ; and if they attempt to enforce it by consigning John of Tuam to a prison , who will answer for the peace of Ireland , and who ' can composedly contemplate the rancorous religious commotion which will then be occasioned ? * * * ?* Let them who have called up the evil spirits lay them if they can ; the disastrous consequences of this religious strife will fall not on the Catholics , or their hierarchy , but on those weak-minded Protestants who had no confidence in the power of the truth which they professed . « They that take the sword shall perish with the sword ; and so we believe that the attempt , by ill-judged legislation , to extirpate a rival hierarchy , will react on its concoetors , and lead ultimately to the overthrow of their own supremacy . "
The Wakefield Journal estimates the meeting of the association from a different stand-point : — " The aim and objects of this new combination are broadly stated , and unmistakeable in their character , beginning with the repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and terminating in the destruction of our Protestant existence and dwtinctiveness as a nation by the abolition of the coronation oath , which forms our only safeguard from a Papist occupying the throne of these realms . " " On Tuesday , " says the Northern Whig , a Belfast paper , the Catholics " held what they called their aggregate meeting ; and we protest we had rather see a squadron of foreign war-steamers threatening the coast , than such an exhibition as was made that day . " It does not find fault with the meeting except as an appeal to religious discord ; it does not approve of the obnoxious act which has raised the flame .
" The united Legislature was occupied , for six long months , in concocting a legal weapon with which to ward off some apprehended danger that nobody understood . After weary debates and much doubt and wavering , a law was passed , the promoters of which took much trouble to let the world know it should never be suffered to do the mischief people believed it could effect . That statute now lies safely on the shelf , where it is likely to grow worm-eaten for want of handling . Such has been the
issue of some twelve months' legislation—an idle alarm and an inoperative statute !" " Whoever helps to keep alive the flame of sectarian discord in this island , is guilty of a crime against his country ; and if the Roman Catholics , who have had the latest cause to complain , do anything themselves which may tend to mar the peace of creed and party , they must be prepared to forfeit that sympathy which , they have won from all liberal men . * ? * Religion was the dove sent down from heaven with the olive-branch of
peace . We have fought as fiercely round that symbol of rove , as if the odour it exhaled was an intoxicating poison that robbed men of their reason Eighteen hundred years is a long , long time , to jabber the lessons of Christianity with angry fips . When will we plant the living seed of Christian charity in our hearts ?" ' ? The Bishops of the Established Church , " says the Londonderry Standard , " are allowed to convert their sees into surnames , simply because they are Peers of Parliament" : —
" Non-established Bishops of any Church , so styling themselves , merely display a vanity of the most puerile description . We believe that bishops have no business in Parliament—that they never did any good there ; and we heartily sympathize with those Episcopalian gentlemen in England who are commencing an agitation to get them out of it . " The Nottingham Mercury Btands up for Association . " We are aware that for the present they are a good deal "tunned by the blow which they have received from the failure of the land plan , and that their confidence in
»? power of association to assist in raising them as a class to the possension of property is considerably weakened . But let them not despair : ours is the day of association—every thing which is great and good among us derives its strength and efficiency from the union of many parts , judiciously combined , for the purpose of effecting one ultimate benefit : it may be for their own advantage or the good of others—still it is to union—to association—to the power of numbers united together aa a , bai . d of indissoluble links for the securing of one common object that the successful result of their labours is owing . "
The Lincolnthiro Chroniele discusses local p rotectionism ; and backs up George Frederick X oung , fce . &o . The Invcrneta Courier emphatically points out the railway competition raging north of London , but offers no opinion thereon . The Bxtter Flying Po $ t declares that , as thoro is no ^ WoUriMioo , or attempt at intolerance , on the part of Mio -MtgfelAtur * , th « j , idea of a dsfenc * association ia * Ui * OUto / olMW » CUtt . ~ 4 # , M * ^ mm . ¦ — . a ^^ ^ HMM ^ flM ^ 4 k'VflBfllA' ^ MIMa UiM ^^ MAAAft . t ^^ fllfc tft MMU ^ | hA m w w » vw ^^ m i ^ WWW ^ m * J * iM' ^^ B ^ w * m * y
aggressive spirit of Pope Pius ; but for the purposes of dSfence it will be utterl y valueless . That this society is an ajraression admits of no doubt whatever . The JSnglishTarliament has declared that it will not permit a bodv of Romish ecclesiastics to flaunt about this country with titles conferred by a foreign Sovereign ; and then the Romanists , who are such dear sticklers for liberty , raise the cry of intolerance , and organize societies which in the most impudent and contemptuous manner violate the law . " The Wolverhampton Herald has an excellent and well-toned paper on cooperative association , called forth by Mr . Coningham ' s lectures : —
• •« It is true that the principle of cooperation is daily gaining ground amongst us , and marks distinctly enough the progress of our civilisation , but we are not prepared at once to assert that the adoption of the cooperative labour system proposed by Mr . Coningham , and already adopted to a very considerable extent in Paris , would be found either directly suited to the requirements of the labourers in this country , or to effect any vast advantages and improvements in their political and social condition . We do not , on the contrary , assert the negative of this ; but , looking favourably on the subject of associative labour , think that at least a system which promises so much is deserving of a fair trial , when the people is prepared for its reception . We believe this
experiment might be safely made in many agricultural and manufacturing districts of England ; but there are , unhappily , many more , where ignorance , vice , and improvidence would for ever prevent its successful introduction . The schoolmaster and the clergyman are more wanted in the districts we have last referred to , than the political economists ; and the teachings of wisdom , good ness , and providence , than the augmentation of capital and the cooperation of labour . The advantages to be derived from a wise concert and a judicious cooperation in the division of labour amongst men who are capable of understanding their position , and whose aspirations are above the mere enjoyments of sensual gratification and animal indulgence , cannot be doubted for a moment ,
for a thousand facts have demonstrated the truth of this position ; but the particular application of the principle in this country , as laid down by the exponents of this branch of social ceconomy , admits of much argument , and will , doubtless , at present find many opponents . The associations of every Englishman are with the old principle of master and servant , employer and employed , the capitalist and the wageman ; and an attempt to introduce a new principle in which these distinctions should be removed , and men should be placed on a common level , every workman being a copartner in the firm to the extent of his labour ,
capital , and talent , would excite an amount of prejudice and opposition scarcely to be imagined . Yet we think this no good reason for . the nonintroduction of the system ; as the best of things , simply because of their novelty , have met with similar obstructions . We should rather like to see the problem solved in certain districts and under favourable circumstances , and then we might venture on an opinion with certainty and with sufficient data on which to found it . At present , so far as this country is concerned , the system has not to any extent been tried , and our only reasoning must be founded on the statistics gathered from France . "
The Glasgow Chronicle always thought , and has repeatedly said— " that Lord John Russell played into the hand of Cardinal Wiseman by the publication of his Durham Letter and the introduction of his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill" : — " It has little chance of being effective as a prohibitory statute , and the ambitious prelates with the new illegal names , as well as their Irish brethren with the old illegal names , have the doubly pleasing prospect of at once having their vain-glorious longings gratified and public sympathy excited on their behalf . . . . The ridicule of doing nothing where such enormous preparation has been made for doing something , must act powerfully in the way of tempting the Government into action ; nevertheless , the cui bono , we believe , will be strong enough to restrain them , to remain at rest . "
The Scotsman is absorbed in the weather and the crops , and the corn question in general 3 uggeated by the monthly return in the Gazette : — " Whether there are not various circumstances going some considerable way to counterbalance the effects of the fall in the price of grain—whether , in short , rents ought and will or ought not and will not , come downis a point on which we do not enter ; —all we say is , that under the new order of things , the farmer is in a better position than under the old to make u safe and businesslike bargain . " The following paragraph , cut from the Dublin Evening Mail , is either a fooler or a semi-official declaration of Whig tacticM withreBpect to the " Defenders" : —
" The Englitih press , ignorant where the real strength of the oaee lies , in strongly disposed to echo the- populur clamour and requiro an jnnuediule prosecution . l " or our part we do not think it signifies a farthing whether a fine be levied off the violators of the anti-papal act , as long ae it is olear to all good subjects that they have put themselves in the wrong by defying the law . The moral effect of their disobedience will be more injuriouu to the cause , which they are endeavouring by such ineuns to uphold , than any triumph that might bo gained over them by oarrying out the penaUieu of the new aot . "
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NEWS FROM THE EAST . The Overland Mail of this week brings news from India and China . The muil left Uombuy on the 26 th ol July . Tha cUwf point of interest i » , that the
Niaam had another reprieve . General Fraser received , on the 20 th . of June , a despatch from the Governor-General , demanding that the Nizam should give up the management of the Resident territory yielding a revenue of thirty-six lacs a year , to be held by him till the debt to the Company be discharged , and should besides make arrangements satisfactory to the Resident for the future regular payment of the contingent , and appoint a competent Minister . The language of the letter , in adverting to the state of the Nizam ' s dominions , is described as being exceedingly severe . On the 21 st the Resident communicated this despatch to the Nizam , and requested an audience on the 24 th , but the Nizam succeeded in getting a later day , the 1 st of July , fixed for the interview . On the 28 th he appointedSooraj Ool Moolk Minister . of
His project is to avoid the cession territory by paying the Company ' s Government annually in cash , until the debt is discharged , a sum equivalent to the revenue of the territory proposed to be sequestrated . The Nizam , it is said , if he cannot pay the money , will passively resist ceding territory . By the Governor-General ' s despatch time was given him to the 15 th of July , when , in case of his continuing refractory , the Resident is empowered to take militaryoccupation of the districts under requisition . It is reported that , in pursuance with his project , Sooraj Ool Moolk has offered the Resident 18 lacs down , and asked for four or five months' more time for enabling him to make arrangements for securing the payment of the remainder . In any case it is probable that territory will be taken adequate to the future regular payment of the contingent .
Letters received after the above date from Hyderabad state that General Fraser had at last made up his mind regarding Sooraj Ool Moolk ' s overtures for the payment of the debt , and positively declined to accept his terms . It was said that he would have gone beyond his discretionary powers had he accepted them . At the criminal sessions which terminated on the 16 th of July , Dorabjee Hormusja , late ledger-keeper , and Lall-Doss Wittal-Doss , late under cashier in the Oriental Bank , were convicted of having stolen Bombay Bank notes of the value of 95 , 900 rupees from the Oriental Bank , and sentenced to seven years ' transportation each . The former was also found guilty of forgery , and sentenced to 14 years ' transportation .
The following is the latest from Hong Kong on the subject of the Chinese insurrection : —The Tartar Prime Minister , Sai-shang-ha , sent to meet the rebels , has halted on the boders of the Hunan province ( the one adjoining Kwang-si ) , whence he tells his lord and master that he finds himself surrounded by rebels to sovereign authority , whom it is necessary to put down before proceeding further . Tah-tung-ha is said to be ill . Of the other commissioner we hear nothing . Wu-lan-tair , Lieutenant-General of Tartar troopa at Canton , left his garrison about a fortnight ago with the intention of coalescing with the
com-. The pretended emperor is reported to be at present stopping at Sin-chau , a departmental city of Kwangsi , having a water communication with Canton , whence it is distant about 200 miles . In a letter from one of his followers we find it stated that Teen-teh is himself at the head of the rebel forces , whom he led to victory " in the middle term of the third month of the present year " ( about two months ago ) , " when
10 , 000 of the Government troops were destroyed , being hemmed in , in a narrow pathway through a wood in a mountain pass . " Having been duly proclaimed Emperor , Tecn-teh dates the commencement of his reign from the month of September of last year , and has published an almanack , which his emissaries are busy distributing in various parts of the empire . In Kiang-si , the province between Hunan and Fokien , we hear that great demonstrations are made in his favour .
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CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS . We have seen a King of Siam promise his subjects u limited monarch y . The King of the Sandwich Inlands has outstripped him . In the Honolulu pupers of the . 'Hst of May there in the following account of the opening of the Parliament of Sandwich . It is only seventy-threo years since Captain Cook was killed on the beach Hawaii . " The two Houaes of Parliament were formally opened by the King in person on the Oth of May , at the large stone church in Honolulu . Referring to the relations of the Sandwich Islands' Government with France , the
King said that the diplomatic relations had not been fully restored . ' My friendly relations with Great Britain ' uninterrupted , and with the United States ' continue of the most friendly kind . ' After reference to ocrtam treaties and other matters , the King recommends increased attention to agriculture , the markets ot California , Oregon , Vancouver ' s Inland , Ac . a / Fording u profitable outlet for more than the inluiids produce . Sanitary regularions are recommended in view of the revival of the cholera in ports trading with the Sandwich Islands ; and the revenue ia declared to be , though small , more than Hufliciont for the wants of the Government , and it leaves u surplus for purposes of internal improve-
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1851, page 817, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1898/page/5/
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