On this page
- Departments (2)
-
Text (7)
-
Untitled Article
-
Mtm nf the Wttk.
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Content*. for
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
VOL . TV . No . 189 . 1 SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 5 , 1853 . [ Pkice Sixpence
Mtm Nf The Wttk.
Mtm nf the Wttk .
Untitled Article
THE latest accounts from Turkey are complicated andunsatisfactory . War has broken out on the Danube , just as renewed negotiations were attempted through Constantinople . It is a double story . It is now reported that in the last Note from St . Petersburg ^ , it was proposed that the dispute should be settled by direct negotiations between Prince Grortschakoff and the Government
of the Sultan;—a proposal which appears to us , in its yery nature , to convey an insult to the mediating Powers . That was , of course , declined ; but it led to the suggestion of a new Note by Prance and England ; which document received the sanction of Austria and Prussia , the acquiescence of Russia , and the adoption of the Porte . The Sultan had resolved upon an
extension of the armistice to the 1 st of November , in order to allow time for completing these new and hopeful negotiations . In the meanwhile , obeying his ehrly instructions , and not having yet received a countermand , Omor Pacha , after the expiration of the armistice , crossed the Danube on the 27 th of October , with a force variously Btated between 20 , 000 and 30 , 000 men , a
moveniont naturally loading to actual hostilities . JNor is that the only scene of conflict . A battle in Asia is reported , and it is clear that Russia has tough work cut out for her in the Caucasus . The Czar might evidently bo reducod to reason , if the Western Powers wore not clogged by Austria and Prussia , or by their own over-nice timidity . No conilict which is proceeding between the Knasians and the Turks , however momentous
its ultimate consequences , can bo half so important to the progress of civilization and the welfare of mankind , as that which is now going on in our own country botween education and . anti-education , botwoon genuine enlightcnod Religion and dark anti - religio \ iB sectarianism . Wnotlior wo look to the advanoea of education n »< science into the light of religion , or to the
Btrufrgloa of sectarian presumption to remain undiaturbod in bigotry , wo equally see causes for RatiHfaction and hope . The Palmerflton lottor on '" « true piety in pestilence-prevention , has not only marked a distinct writ in the progress of rec oguisod opinion , hut lms called forth an oxpros-Niou of concurrence which could scarcely have l > eon foreseen ; whilo the attacks which it has provoked have the felicity of coniirming tho
Untitled Article
'¦¦ - ¦; - . '¦' - [¦¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ : : ..-:. \ ;' : ¦ ' : f ¦ ¦ .: ¦;¦ ¦ . ¦ y , . V " v' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦[ - ¦;¦ —/ / . jiJ ^ . " ' S ¦¦' ' '" ' " ' ' ' - ¦ ' ' ' r -v- —
Untitled Article
philosophy of the letter by the futility of their assault . The expulsion of Professor Maurice from King ' s College , for attempting to impart a more generous construction to the standards of the Church of England , is an act of aggression on the part of a certain " orthodox" sect within the Church , which will also do excellent service in promoting freedom of opinion . It is no disparagement to the admirable discourse delivered
by Dr . JLyon Playfair to the promoters of the People's College , at Sheffield , if we say , that that noble spectacle , of working men assembled to meet a great practical instructor , in the endeavour to improve and promote the education of the people by immediate exertions of their own , is transcended in importance by these great struggles between sectarianism and religion . Ifit had occurred alone , that meeting at Sheffield would have been sufficient to mark our
day as one singularly blessed by the union of science , and labour . It is not because the working promoters . of the People ' s College are content with , a comparatively humble and practical view of education that tho union between science and labour is less expedited by them—but the reverse . Mr . Cobden remarked , at Burnley , that the working classes of the United States , being better educated than our own , threaten us with a
competition that would be fatal to English trade . For our own part , wo feel no rivalry with tho people of tho United States ; but while they possess such magnificent domains to conquer , offering such boundless fields for that industry which is nobler than manufactures as they have hitherto boon pursued—agriculture—we have no desire to
see an American factory-system extinguish tho industry and wealth of this country . It is not only tho prospect of competition with America that ought to incite our working-classes ; they are threatened with another rivalry , which , on tho one hand , they can have no hope of re sisting , but which , on tho other hand , they might convert to ' their own uho , in rendering their
condition infinitely hotter than it is . A very rapid transition is going on from rudo manual labour to machine labour intellectually directed . When railways Buporsoded tho common roads , many old stago-coachproprietors and carriers , many old innkoopors , who stood upon tho old ways , Haw their trailic depart from thorn , and they wore ruined . Others of tho same class converted thomsolvoH into proprietors of railways , into carriers upon railways , or into keepers of inns at railway
stations ; and those men have realized an amount of wealth unknown in their old occupations . Exactly the same alternative is now before the working-man—either to become identified , like the handloom weavers , with an expiring trade , or to become , like many a working engineer , capable of carrying on handiwork with a scientific insight and an intelligence to direct the machinery . But a clown cannot at once understand the language or conceive the ideas of science ; he must be educated in the speech of reason , trained in the faculties of conception ; and it is that primary
education which the People ' s College at Sheffield is enabling itself to introduce amongst the working classes . The necessity for doing so , the method of doing it , the true spirit of disinterested and elevated love of knowledge for its ovm sake , were eloquently and practically explained by Dr . Playfair . With his assistance it is to be hoped that the People ' s College at Sheffield will become a model for imitation in other great towns ; perhaps , also , after tho suggestion ot Farmer Martin , at Tarporley , in the agricultural countiesl
Some few of our readers , though certainly not all , may at first fail to apprehend why we regard as conducive to freedom of opinion the expulsion of Professor Maurice from King ' s College . Ho has been detected in publishing a book , written to show Unitarians that , however erroneous on particular points , they may still regard themselves as essentially belonging to tho Church of England . To us it appears that Professor Maurice was endeavouring to givo tho Church of England a character less oxcluflivo as a sect , and
more proper to a church claiming an apostolical Christianity and professing to be the Church of a nation . Wo boliovo indeed that Mr . Maurice is too far imbued with sectarian prejudices to concur in imparting a truly national character to his church—such a character as would render it th « open Church of tho People of England ; but wo cannot , although wo aro deeply conscious of tho sectarian timidities of tho man , deny Iub
intellectual abilities , or tho generosity of tho attempt . It would eoem , however , that tho Church of England , by its constituted authorities and its orthodox representatives , will not permit itself to be made tho Church of tho People of England . Tho highly orthodox Principal or King ' s College , with tho concurrence of Ju » Council , has arrested tho lectures of the Professor , and has cauaed him to bo dismissed from hja clwur
Content*. For
Content * . for
Untitled Article
" The one Idea Twhich . History ' . exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the ' 'MeaTpf Hvmardty--the nobls endeavour tothro ^ dow ^ i allthe barriers erected ^ et ^ een men ^ prejudice afid one-sided views ; and by setting aszderthe . distortions of Religion . Country , and Colour , to treat the -whole Human race as one / brotherhood , having one great . object—the free development Of our spiritual ? b . aXAXre " ^ Ihtmboldt ' t Cosmos . ¦
Untitled Article
wcwet rtr tHE WEEK— The City Commission ... 1062 The Home Office andthe " Saint 3 " 1068 PORTFOLIONtwsur mt « t ^ ^^ No rfo lk Wor thies : LieutenatttCress- City Pr oposal Obsequies to The Hajtho rne Pap 6 r si—N'o . Vlt . Prince Albert ' s Speech to the well 1062 Pmce _ £ H > ert 1068 The Use of Anthropomorphism ... 1076 Mayors in 1848-9 „ .... 1058 The WiganEiots .... 1062 Russian Serfdom 1069 TH . . „ . Dr J pFayfairataeffieid .. ... ..... 1058 The " Dalhousie" Wreck . 1063 v Ignorance ... 1070 THE ARTSSosJoYthe » ubUnExhibition , 1059 BoUer Explosion ....................... 106 J OPEN COUNCIL- £ « ofthfi L * O 0 am " WL Dismissal of Professor Maurice ...... 1059 Criminal Record ... , 1064 OPEN COUN < CIL Variorum 1077 The Queen at the Crystal Palace ... 1059 Miscellaneous . ' ...... 1064 Free Speech in Coventry 1070 —_— . ^^^^ ¦ - ¦¦ - ¦ - : : : ^ PUBL . C AFFA . RS-- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ r . ^^ SS ^^^ J ^ ZZ : ^! . Healthof ^ ndon *•** «* Week 1077 Sir Charles Shaw on the Turkish Church Anarchy : Dismissal of Pro- Mr . Gough and Humanity 1071 Births , Marriages , andDeaths 1077 Army ... 1061 fessorMaurice .... ; ................... 1065 ^ iitcdatiibc- POMMEBriAL AFFAIR" ? o f i- ' i . Rioiits 1061 The War of Wigan 1066 LITERAj URE— - v * - " « ivifcrfoiAL . Arrftino—¦ Otff Sanitary-State . " ¦' ¦!! " !! ' !!! " !!!!¦!¦ 1061- ' . ' ' . Administration of London Improved Huxley on the Cell-Theory 1073 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Thiwages ^ aestton ; .. ; ..... " . ! ... ! . ! ' ! . 1061 menta .................,:......... .. 1067 The Rewards of Literature .... 1075 tisements , &c ... 1077-1080
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2011/page/1/
-