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complicity to reciprocate courtesies with one whom you believe to be a wilful criminal . Hence , every man with nn honest doubt , feels that the Bible is an indictment against him , and the Minister ( who commonly believes no trial' necessary ) is the executioner . _ That whatever treatment we have experienced in this discussion is Scriptural we have the further testimony of the British Banner , which last week declared , on the part of the intelligent and numerous body of Evangelical Christians who put Mr . Grant forward , that "ha completely meets their views as to the manner in which this thing ought to be gone about . " True it is that
there are parts of Scripture which counsel more fairness , and a-different temper ; but of what avail are they in a book said to be inspired throughout ? One part is as binding as another ; nor do I see how any honest man can ignore any . And thus it is that the Bible is a double book . The Emperor of Russia may quote it in his Wilna catechism , where the clergy teach his serfs to make no effort for temporal freedom , but " to suffer and- be silent , " for " such was- the example of Christ and his Apostles . " And the Emperor has the
same right so to quote Scripture as the noble Poles to quote it in defence of their valorous struggles against his tyranny . In fine , the idolatry of the Bible is the ruin of the people . It may be made to play fast and loose with humanity . Tn its pages the Catholic is as strong as the Protestant—the tyrant as strong as the patriot . The poor negro cries for deliverance in its language , and his master lashes him in its name . Hence , whether for personal , political , or intellectual freedom , we turn to Secularism , not less for juster , larger , and independent convictions , than for selfdefence . We will not even ask the equality the
Christian has so long refused—wo will learn how to command it . We will live by no sufferance . This world is as much ours as yours . The same Nature teaches us—the same sun shines upon us—the same universal laws speak tons;—God lm not made you his confidants . The secret of the future does not dwell with you . Untried existence has the same sublime interest for all men , whose honest thought has made them
free , and whose honest service has made them , good , Therefore , doubt it not , % ue shall be saved by our own truth . And on our way we will work with you where we can , if you will let us—if not , wo will work by ourselves : but we hope ever with good will , without -which no system is worth anything—ever with moderation , without which progress and alliances are impossible—and ever with that energy which gives dignity to conviction .
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MODEL DWELLINGS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES . ( From Ihc . Xciv York Tribune . ) Wr recently had the pleasure of visiting Ihn scarcely completed Model Dwellings for the Industrial Classes , erecto r ] in Thirty-seventh street , near the Eig hth avenue , by our respected and wealth y fellow citizen , 11 . K . Haight . From the street they have the appearance of substantial private houses of four stories . The block consists of two distinct buildings , each of ( wenty-h ' ve feet front by something less than one hundred feet in depth , of red brick with brown ( done sills and caps , with a . sufficient partition wall between to preserve one in ea .-e the oilier is burned up and constructed in every respect in Uio ino . st thorough
nnd durable manner . Each building contains twenty suites of apartments . ' Kuril suite of apartments consists of a parlour with an alcove lor a bed , a bedroom , a kitchen , a jwinlrv , mid a bin for conl . The rooniH are airy , well lighted and furnished with ventilators ; the parlours are of good size , with ceilings of . suflicient height , with mantelp ieces of niarblei / . ed iron ; eaeli parlour lias a single gasburner placed at the right heig ht to light most advantageously n sewing or I en-table ; each is also provided with two neat nets of shelves for books or other uses . The rooms in each suitu of apart meats open into a ball of their own , tho outer door of which leads into the common passage way of tho cstnbli . dini'Mif . Thus each iipiirtmcnt i . 'i as separate and independent of the others as private
bouses in a block .. A broad and admirably lighted Might of stairs leads from the bottom to the top of the building . Each floor linn Crolon water , a sink for slops , a large pipe to convey dust , ashes , and garbage to a receptacle in the basement , and water closet s . The roof has an arrangement , borrowed , « : n M'e believe , from Oriental houses , and designed in summer to carry tin' air of I ho southern and noutTi-wostern breeze down the broad staircase through nil the stories of the building , keeping it well ventilated and rool . On another purl , of tho roof are amp le conveniences for ban-ring dollies to dry . AI nig ht the . stair-way and
passage-ways are to lie lig hted with gas . () n entering the building you come first , to Iho apartment of the conricrt / c , or kceper . ' nnd through a slidingwindow Hho will answer your inquiries without moving from her sewing-table . . Slid Iihh chargo of tho passage-ways , stair wayH . and other public parts of the establishment , sees that , everything about them is constantly in a state ol nontnetm and order , receives packages , notes , X , c , that may bo left , for any of ihn occupants , shows vacant , apartments to persons who donir « to see them , and in return for these ( UTvicen hns her fn > - | and her apartments rent freo , nnd ulno receiver a sudieimil . salary from the proprietor . She i \ Iko mulvi's lioiuetliinir from ( lie profits of bathing rooms in the basement , for the nun of which Iho tennnffl will pay her a onnnciiHivtion to bo fixed by tho landlord . Tho
ashes , garbage , &c . daily collected in the receptacle in the basement will be removed at a very early hour in the morning by a man who comes with a cart for that purpose . The tenants will use the gas in their parlours or not , as they may deem most expedient , and will pay or not pay accordingly . The lighting of the halls , passage-ways , &c , will be done by the proprietor , and will bo taken into account in the diargo for rent . Whafc that charge , will bo lias not yet been determined , though wo believe that Mr . Haight intends that it shall not exceed 10 per cent upon the cost of the property . What that cost is we are unable to say , though we suppose it would not surpass 15 , 000 dollars for each building ' .
In order still further fco provide for tho comfort of the tenants the proprietor will every summer cause a sufficient stock of coal to be laid in for the whole establishment . Each tenant will pay for bis supply when he comes to require it , receiving it at wholesale cost and charges . For this purpose , in addition to the bins connected with each suite of apartments , there is a large bin in the cellar which holds enough to meet all possible wants of the establishment . These buildings have been erected under 3 fr . Haight ' s personal superintendence . They were not only designed , and their intei'nal distribution planned by him , but lie has himself directed and supervised every detail of their construction . His motive in the enterprise , as we understand from himself , has been to pi * ovido comfortable , convenient , and respectable abodes for tho better class of working
people . This class are rapidly leaving the city to find homes , often with considerable loss and inconvenience to themselves , in the surrounding cities and villages . They are compelled to do this by their inability to pay high rents , and by their justifiable unwillingness to live in what aro called "tenement Louses , " and to expose their children to the contamination and filth which prevail in them . Into these new establishments of Mr . Haight's none but respectable , orderly , and cleanly families will l > o admitted , though , the rent , even while paying a remunerative interest to the proprietor , will not much exceed the cost to their occupants of the kennels now so numerous and so crowded in the city . With respect to these homes of misery and disease ' . ' wo are happy to believe that the reform inaugurated by Mr . Haight ' rnust , if it does not entirely abolish them , at least abolish the exorbitant rents no-w derived by their owners .
We take the liberty to add an extract from a private note in relation to this enterprise , received from Mr . Haight : — "Our city has lost hundreds , ( perhaps a larger figure would be near tho truth ) of the best of our industrial citizens ; and each year adds strength to tho tide which is setting away from us . " It is notorious that hitherto the dwellings they have been obliged to occupy ( for want of something better , ) and the careless and unsystematic arrangements , or rather nonarrangements , of the massive piles of rough , inconvenient buildings yclept ' Tenant-houses , ' wherein are congregated many families , without any design beyond g iving them a mere shelteryet keeping in , view the cardinal point of
, mercenary calculation , not to say rapacity , of getting from tlin helpless the greatest amount of income for the smallest mini mum of expenditure of capital , the proprietor rarely ever troubling himself about his tenements or the denizens thorcof , except when , quarterly , is shown him the ' return ' of tho middlemen who harvest ' for him his prod active fields Though the ' law' prevents his 'farming them out , ' he has but to preserve his incognito undercover of the ' agent , * who , for half a tytlie of the dwelling garner , shields tho recipient from inconvenient importunity , interposing his person between the invisible ' lord of the manor' and the labourer on whom he levies . Let us now leave the ' proprietor' and his professional ' agent , ' and haste to the rescue of tho almost defenceless ' tenant . ' I say defenceless ,
bocause thero is neither security , health , comfort , convenience , nor respectability for him in most caRo ; i , except , in flight . " Wo sincerely congratulate Mr . Knight on liis being tho first to take the lead in this important reform , in which wo can wish him no better fortune than presently to find himself surrounded by numerous co-labourers and competitors . Adjoining tho block of which we bare spoken , he has already laid the foundations for two other buildings , exactly the sumo an tlio present , which will be at onco erected . We doubt not his plan , or some modification of it , will be extensively adopted by other capitalists , who will fii ' wl in this form quite as secure , and profitable an investment , as in other real estate . We also expocli to nee very
much larger establishments erected lor tho mime purpose , which , by their groat extent , will be able to furnish at a cost not much larger , « vcn more comforts , conveniences , ami luxuries than lire supplied in the Model ! louses of Thirty-seventh-strcet . Indeed , we understand from Mr . Knight that he already has in his mind a plan of this sort , nml " mvails only for the present < uilerpris » to provo successful to carry it out . Wo must add that these buildings are not open to general inspection or to the examination of the merely curious . When they nm ready to be rented public notice will be given to such us desire to heroine tenants ; nnd gentlemen of this city , or elsewhere , who may contemplate erecting establishments of the kind will , wo make freo to sny , find Mr . Haight over ready to exhibit Mm drawings aiidevplain the plans and peculiarities of their construction .
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M I SC KI , bAN HO ITS . In order to relieve , the Queen of tho fatiguo attending flint ceremony , lVineu j \ Ibert , at her Majesty ' s desire , held th (! first , leveo of flio season on Wcdiimluy , at St . Jimirs ' . s l ' aluee . liut Queen Victoria has not , kept entirely within doors . She has visited tlio PrincesR ' n Theatre this week , nnd iho picturo gallery at Hridgownfer-hou . sr .
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It Keeni . s that tho Triesto despatch respecting tho affairs of IJurmah was not correct . Poern lias not been
seriously molested . G-eneral Steel was to start on his expedition on the 14 tli of January . The soldiers at Pegu and Prome were suffering dreadfully from sickness . But the striking fact in the overland despatches is the strongly reported story that Ava had revolted , that the king had fled , that his brother had taken tho post , and that hostilities had been ordered to cease .
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It appears that the Government plan for cheap colonial postage is , a sixpenny rate to all the colonies . Tho Reverend John Jackson , well known at tho West End as tho Rector of St . James ' s , and popular in that region , has been appointed Bishop of Lincoln , in the room of Dr . Kaye . The court of common council of the city of London hare unanimously resolved to present Dr . Layard , M . P ., with the freedom of the city in a box worth a hundred guineas . Dr . Rae , one of the boldest of Arctic explorers , arrived in town on Monday , to make preparations for his overland expedition in search of Sir John Franklin . We hear that Mademoiselle Clauss , the pianist , who made such a sensation in town last year , is expected from Paris in a few days .
Dr . Overweg , one of the enterprising travellers employed in determining the boundaries of Lake Tchad , in central Africa , died at Kuka on the 27 th of September . He was only 30 years old . His grave is beside the great central lake which he was the first to navigate . General Sir John Whish , a distinguished Indian officer , died on tho 25 th of February . He was present at the siege of Hatrass and JJhurtpore ; commanded at the famous siege of Mooltan , and performed other gallant exploits . The annual banquet , of the Linendrapers' Institution was celebrated on Saturday at the London Tavern , under the presidence of Lord John Russell . It appears from the report that tho funds have increased , since 1851 , from 20 , 0001 . to 37 , 000 ? . Not less than 4075 ? . were announced as donations during the evening .
Lord Carlisle has been elected Lord Rector of the Aberdeen University by 145 to 45 , over Lord Mansfield , whose name , at the last ; moment , was put up in the place of that of Mr . Disraeli . Tho Times is " enabled to state" that Mr . Disraeli has declined the ofl ' er to be elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen from the beginning . That is possible . The Times is also enabled to state that Mr . Disraeli declined a similar offer from the University of Edinburgh . That is not possible ; for in the University of Edinburgh the students have not , as in the other Scotch Universities , the privilege of electing a rector .
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The Lord Mayor presided over a crowded meeting at Exeter Hall on Tuesday , in favour of the early closing movement , which appears to be progressing favourably . Among the speakers were tho Bishop of Chichester , tho Reverend John Jackson , Lord John Manners , and Mr . Hitchcock of St . Paul ' s Churchyard . The London and North Western , Lancashire and Yorkshiro , East Lancashire , and Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway Compauies have ceased to collect goods in Manchester since March 1 , after eight o ' clock . In fact tho movement is everywhere rapidly making way .
The Conservative members of Ireland , including men like Lord Naas , Mr . Napier , Mr . Hans Hamilton , Lord Donoughmore , Lord Dcsart , Lord Claude Hamilton , and Mr . Wliiteside , have established a " central committee " with a view of controlling tho elections , and obtaining for the Conservatives a fair share in the representation . Their object , without avowing it by name , is to antagonise tho influence of the extreme Irish party , whose strength is in the Tenant League and Religious Equality caiiap .
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On Thursday tho bill " for the relief of her Majesty s subjects professing tho Jewish religion" wau published , consist ing of s i * clausen . Tho words , " on tho truo faith of a Christian , " in tlio oath of abjuration , aro to bo omitted . The Jews aro not to hold certain offices in tho state , nor to adviso in tlio appointment of offices in tho church . At tho county adjourned sessions , Worcester , on Tuesday , Mr . J . rurnphroy , druggist , of Bengeworth , a member of the Society of Friends , was included in tho grand jury panel . Many magistrates wore present , when
the chairman , Mr . T . U . dirtier , requested Mr . Pumplirey to take off his hat when , tho oath was being administered to him . Tho Quaker urged those conscientious scruples elsewhere admitted , but , tlio chairman , not content with this reply , waid he should direct an ollicer to remove the juryman ' s hat , urging that , it , was " irreverent to his Creator" for Mr . I ' uinphrey to make the usual tiflirination with his liend covered . Nome- consultation thereupon took place in court , and the chairman was relieved from the difficulty in which ho had involved himself bv tho services of Mr . rumphrey being dispensed with .
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Hollo way , a surveyor of the New Forest , has obtained 801 . damages from the Iveverend John Craig , incumbent of Burlev . KeportH wcro rife that Craig was not wholly irreproachable in bin moral character . Of two of his oervantu one , it , was alleged , had had a child born in tho parson ' s house , and another had been sent to Salisbury to ho confined , hi IMC * Craig had been suspended for two years bv tho Court of ArohcH . . He was not at all liked in the district , as appears from the fact that , the mob on ono occasion burnt him in ofligy . Hearing that Ilolloway had
iiifuld Homo communication affecting him to Mr . hmlaile , a gentleman residing nrnr , Craig wrote a letter to Mr . Ksduile , accusing iiollowny of perjury . That was tho libel . Maunders , tho bogging ruflian , who murdered Mr . Toller in lbo highway near Ilford , has been convicted at the (' entral Criminal Court , and Hontoncod to death . A plea of insanity wiih put in , but not for n , moment entertained . It wan clearly hIiowii that Ktvundors had n grudgo ngaiiiHt Toller , and that lio had boen haunting fcho ooighbourhood several days .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1853, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1976/page/10/
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