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rutv of drawing everything that swells with promise to its side . Its college might well become the home of scientific enterprise in many directions and these the deepest and the highest on which the genius of man can run . Profoundly impressed with the desireableneairfor Homoeopathy of such a scheme , and with the signal importance of such an opportunity for the erection of a free scientific institute suited to the wants of an opening new era of research , we beg to urge the proposal upon the attention of the Homoeopathic leaders in the present crisis of medical history .
We speak of Homoeopathy as a veritable power ; because , whether or not its doctrine be a very truth of nature , —which we are far from assuming , — there can be no doubt in any but a medical mind that it is vital at least aa a critical movement ; and every lover of truth and humanity would rejoice to see that vitality embodied , for better for worse , in the form of a liberal educational institution , where it would either speedily expend itself , or else quicken from age to age with successive newness of life , until it should stand approved as one of the proper glories of the present times .
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THE NEW STAB-SPANGLED BANNER . Wb have said that a new star-spangled banner has appeared in the Thames . Not very many days ago , a flag was observed floating Rt the mainmast head of a ship : it was a blue flag ; in a dexter canton was the ensign of England—occupying the corner of the flag next the staff ; on the field of the flag were five stars , for the five Australasian colonies—New South Wales , Victoria , South Australia , Van Diemen ' s Land , and Western Australia .
It floated , we say , at the main ; but it is not far from the main to the gaff . The Imperial ensign was still in a corner of the flag—not yet quite omitted . And probably the master of the ship might have been made to pull it down if he had been fired upon . The policy of firing , indeed , is another question ; and certainly it would not have been worth while to receive the star-spangled banner so roughly on its first appearance in English waters .
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THE GLASSHOUSE AT THE CAPE . Sir Harry Smith makes this startling announcement in his tribulation : — " I expect much from a commando now in the field under Mr . Cole , the Civil Commissioner of Albert . " Is not this a very familiar way of alluding to "Albert , " as though the Prince and tho Governor had been schoolfellows ? No doubt the affront might be significantly avenged by the " Citil Commissioner of Albert "; for , as Mr . Cole is now a Companion of the Bath , he can easily throw cold water on Governor Smith's vagaries . By the by , it would not be a bad plan to have a supplemental display of articles tliat ought to have been in the Exposition , and among them Lord Grey could exhibit his treasures in the article of Colonial Governors : Sir Harry would be a prime specimen—of course , with his real " Stick of Peace . "
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COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND . % Vk have it from a very authentic source , confirmed by personal observation , that commercial matters in Yorkshire look very gloomy , and that a b : id winter is anticipated . Nothing , we are assured , but the Ten Hours Bill hns saved the manufacturers from a glut already . We know that weeks back , indeed we may say some months , manufacturers were beginning to complain in the most proiperous parts of Yorkshire ; but their aUrmJ had not then taken the definite shape which they now wear .
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ODIUM TIIEOLOGICUM . A work has just been advertised , professing to unmask the confesnional of the Roman Church , and displaying a table of contents very likely to attract fast young men whose literature is procured from Holy well-street . It profcsHcs to mako revelations of things which appear to us to be mechanically impossible . For instance , it promises to disclose transactions in the confessional "self , which no one could believe possible who had ever ¦ oen that kind of alcove—commodious only for conversion between persons separated by » partition . But the announcement ouggesta a question—How literature of this kind is to escape that castigatory vinit » - l » on which the Morning Chronicle invokes againfct Holywell-atreet ? Also , how advertisements of the class in
question find their way into journals that would fastidioual y exclude others not more explicit ? The motive to thin unveiling may bo highly Protestant j but we ' K * et to nee any religious xeal take such a form . A s suredl y tlle book will be greedily devoured by tho » . e who have little Protestantism in their thoughts . Tho Societ y f « tho Suppression of Vico might legitimately ponder thea © consideration ..
THE AMERICAN DEFIANCE . The rumour that England and France intended to intervene in Cuban affairs in favour of Spain has drawn forth an energetic intimation from the Wcuhington Republic , official organ of the Government , that America is on the alert . The language used is of the most decisive kind . "The first show of British intervention in Cuban affairs will be the signal for a movement that neither Cuba nor Great Britain , nor all the European Powers combined , caa resist ; for on this point the mind of the American people is made up , and their will in this respect will give the law to American policy and conduct . There is no disposition on the part of the large majority of the American people for the conquest of Cuba , or her forcible annexation to the United States ; and the only security for Cuba is in the protection of the Government of the United States , and the absence of all foreign interference . "
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MR . BENTLEY 8 CHALLENGE . We heartily concur in the propriety of the challenge made by Mr . Bentley , in his letter to Mr . Toulmin Smith , on the Von Beck question ; only we would suggest an extension of its limits . The challenge is as follows : — " I pledge myself before the public , that if Mr . Smith will prove his charge to the satisfaction of two gentlemen , one appointed by himself and another by me , I will thenceforth give up the cause of the baroness . If Mr . Smith does not accept this offer , it will be evident to every one that he has been lending the credit of his name to a gross calumny . "
Now there are three parties , each eminently interested in ferretting out the truth : —Mr . Bentley , who published Von Beck ' s book ; Mr . Pulzsky , with the official party of the Hungarian refugees ; and the gentlemen of Birmingham , whose hospitality had been abused , and who aver that the statements of M . Derra are false . W * are appealed to by all these parties , to publish the facts ; and we are as anxious as any that the truth should be made manifest . What we propose , then , is that gentlemen most interested should meet , and each one speak what he knows , aid the others in sifting the matter entirely to the bottom , and publish the result . We are inclined to think that an investigation thus thoroughgoing , would discover more than the inquirers seek .
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SOCIAL REFORM . " notes of a social ceconomist . " the cooperative associations of england . VI . " Reason is the director of man ' s will , discovering in action what is good ; for the laws of well doing are the dictates of right reason . "—Hookeu . " The word Reason—stands for a faculty in man , that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts , and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them . "—Lockh . " Or que nie le libre examen ? L'nutorit ^ do l'Eglise . Que suppose-t-il ? L ' autorite de la raison . Qu' es ^ -ce que la raison ? Un pacte entre 1 'iiituilion ct l ' expcrience . "—Pkudhon . The venerable octogenarian , Robert Owen , was born ou the 14 th of May , 1771 , at Newtown , Montgomeryshire , North Wales , and at the age of ten , joined his eldest brother , William , in London , where he remained a few months before engaging himself to Mr . James M'GufFog , of Stamford , Lincolnshire . When this , a three years ' engagement , terminated , he returned to London , and entered upon a new one , with the house of Messrs . Flint and Palmer , on the Borough side of old London-bridge . From thence he removed to
the late Mr . John Satterfield ' s , St . Anne ' s-square , Manchester , and for a short period entered into partnership Avith a Mr . Jones , a machine manufacturer , lie then commenced cotton-spinning in Manchester , on his own account , ; but in 1791 was induced , by the late Mr . Drinkwater , of Irwellhouse , Lancashire , to undertake the entire management of the first fine cotton-spinning factory ever established in any part of the world ; and in this
factory , having live hundred men , women , and children workers under his Bole direction , he introduced very important improvements . From the study of the past history and present state of the world , his mind became deeply imbued with the idea , that man had ever been , was , and ever must be , the creature of the circumstances made to exist around him , before and after his birth , ¦ ml that this was the root , from which emanated
all true and valuable ideas respecting humanitythe one idea with which , to be true , all other ideas must be consistent . Acting upon thia jdea , in six months , he had the
five hundred workers in such superior training , that the proprietor of the factory , who then gave him a salary of £ 300 a year , offered , if he would remain , an advance of £ 100 each year until he should become his partner in the business . He continued for four years to manage this establishment , and to direct another , belonging to the same proprietor , at Northwick , in Cheshire , with a daily increasing success , which naturally gave him confidence in the principle on which he acted . At the termination of the fourth year
he'formed a partnership with some young men , and commenced the Chorlton Cotton Twist Company , in the Chorlton Mills , Oxford-street , Manchester . While carrying on this concern , he entered into a new partnership with the late Messrs Borrodails , of London , and the late Messrs . Bartons , of Manchester , and advised them to purchase the New Lanark Mills , then the property of David Dale , of Glasgow . This purchase was completed in 1799 , for the sum of £ 60 , 000 . The mills at
New Lanark had been established in 1784 , by Mr . David Dale and the late Sir Richard Arkwright , who first introduced the new spinning machinery invented by James Hargreaves , which , with Watts ' s improved steam-engine , inaugurated the reign of the manufacturing system . The partnership , from some unknown cause , was of short duration , and after two years Mr . Dale became sole proprietor ; but his time being fully occupied in Glasgow , he committed the management of the mills to others .
The situation of the mills had not been well chosen ; the surrounding country was uncultivated , the inhabitants were poor and few in number , and the roads bad . It was , therefore , necessary to collect a new population to supply the infant establishment with hands , then no easy task , for the shrewd Scotch peasantry disdained the idea of working , early and late , day after day , in cotton mills , and thus giving up superior for inferior occupation . There were only two modes of
obtaining even an inadequate supply of labour ; the one was to procure children fom the public charities of the country , and the other was to induce families to settle around the works . To accommodate the children , a large building was erected , which ultimately contained about 500 of them ( procured chiefly from workhouses and charities ) who were to be fed , clothed , and educated ; and these duties Mr . Dale performed with unwearied benevolence . Houses were also built
and let to families and workers at a low rent ; but these persons , with few exceptions , were destitute either of friends and employment , or of character ; and when they had been taught their business , were no longer agents to be governed contrary to their inclinations . Under these unfavourable circumstances , a community was formed in a very wretched social condition , every man doing that which seemed good in his own eyes , and vice and immorality prevailing to a monstrous extent . The population lived in idleness , poverty , and crime ; consequently , in debt , out , of health , and in misery . But the children ' s boarding-house presented a very different Kcene . The benevolent
proprietor had spared no expense in giving comfort to the poor charity children . Their rooms were spacious , clean , and well ventilated ; their food abundant , and of the best quality ; their clothes neat and useful ; a surgeon was kept to prevent or to cure disease ; instructors were appointed to teach such branches of education as were deemed useful to children in their station ; and proper persons were appointed to superintend all their proceedings . Hut to defray the expenses it was necessary that the children should be
employed in the mills from . v / . « in the mornimj until seven o ' clock in the eveniw / , summer and u inter , and after these hours their education commenced . The directors of tlu > public charities , from mistaken OM-onoiuy refused to -send tin- children under their care to the cotton mills , unless liny wen- received at the ages of si . v , srren , or e ' ujhl ; and Mr . Dale wuh under the necessity of accepting them at those ageK , or of stopping the mills . Many of the children became dwarfs in body and in mind .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 1017, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1906/page/13/
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