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lave more or less held the "true principle—who know that increase of wealth , and the mode of rendering it most useful to the community , lie in the combination of labour and the division of employments , with an intelligent concert amongst the combined labourers in their divided employments . It is this good understanding , in lieu of competition between the divided workers of a community , -which enables them best to serve each other , and , through each other , themselves . This is the keystone of the arch of social science . But although many members of the association who are impelled to urge reforms , by their training and perhaps by the bent of their faculties , necessarily treat each branch of the subject in a separate and empirical manner , we have a perfect confidence in the force of the reasoning which is inherent in the whole subject combined . We believe that when men of so much zeal and intellect as those who have been brought together are devoting their minds to the study , they must by degrees work out the principle in a practical form . At present , the Social Parliament is held at Birmingham instead of Westminster : we may remember that our own political Parliament used , in old times , to be held in strange places about the country .
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A LAMENT IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE . The peerage and an admiring country mourn the Lord of Berkeley Castle . Not Howaed , not Wilbebpoece , could from his mortuary urn , have drawn more exalted lamentations tlian have been showered over the coffin of Earl Pitzhabdinge , famous in story . We have no nineteenth century Moscirus , or there would be an elegy calling upon the damsels of Gloucestershire to weep , the dogs to hang their heads , the horses to
be tearful , the castle retinue to wonder "whether ever again there would be such doings at the dining - table , or in the cloistered cabinets . Many places aud many persons have reason to deplore the illustrious departed . "Unhappily , lie was of an order not now common ; for fifty years out of the seventy-five of his life he was a distinguished public character . Town and country were dazzled by his generous dissipations , the marvellous eloquence of his objurgations , the unity and concentration with which he prevented his relatives and dependents from bursting into anarchy . Besides , no fox-hunter rode so boldly with the hounds . Por twenty years ' Colonel Berkeley * was the topic of the club aud green-room , and not seldom of the courts of law , which knew him well on account of the fame lie gathered where coryphsoans congregated , and where gentlemen were accustomed to illustrate what the poets meant when they talked of satyrs . At lirst the noble scion was a persecuted man . The Earldom of Berkeley was withheld from him ; also , the courtesy title of Lord DunsiiEY ; then , after Miss Foote ' s case , in 1825 , society , in one of its uncharitable moods , stared him in the face without speaking ; so to Berkeley Castle he went , and pleasure ran riot at liis board . Many and strange are the legends relating to those mysteries of hospitality . Malice said every banquet was au orgie ; gossip talked of Memphian revels ; but two English sovereigns held up an example to the prudish , and honoured the Cavalier Colonel . Say , was not Cheltenham delighted when ita favourite obtained two peerages in Buccession , aud the Lord-Lieutenancy of his native county ! A Whig of Whiga , he was a prop of the administration , returned his nominees for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire ; and bargained fora reward , Their Lordships had then the pleasure of his company in the Painted Chamber . Herald ically , however ,
but not often personally . It was beneath the Earl to do the duties of a peer . In Gloucestershire was his delight . Justice bewails him there . Morality sighs to think of his heavy affiliation orders on ' heartless villains , ' for thus he discountenanced the impure . Profane language and drinking among the rustics were abominations in liis sight ; the genius of good manners is grieved to reflect that he never more can inflict those
retributive fines . Conviviality , again , is saddened by the loss of one so invariably hospitable . Did he not swear by the nine gods that the great house of Berkeley should feast its friends after a fashion never before conceived ? Was it not , upon that remarkable night when Berkeley Castle blazed with illumination and rang with riot , that a dish with a silver cover five feet six inches long was placed upon the banqueting-table ? It contained— not a marble statue , not a dwarf
under a pie-crust , but such a delicacy as once upon a time was set before the King of Pbttssia when he had grown melancholy . We are bound to say that no murder was committed , and that the guests were not invited to become dainty cannibals . Without the aid of any Ca . lepi . ne , Serena escaped the knife . The lord of the castle had a gentle heart . Did he not appear on the stage at Cheltenham for the benefit of Miss Poote , before Pea-green Hayne , ' was sentenced to 3000 ? . damages in the celebrated action ? These anecdotes
are among the records of patrician benevolence , and entitle the departed Earl to take rank as a benefactor of his species . The places that knew him know him no more . His affable eye will be missed by the farmers ' daughters . In Gloucestershire his name is fragrant . Purveyors of all sorts have to deplore the lost patronage of Berkeley Castle . But for many a day the Earl will be remembered as a sort of tenth-rate Rochester , who , but for his noble birth , might have been a Boots .
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LOUD CANNING AND THE CABINET . We believe that the Cabinet has not withdrawn its confidence from Lord Canning . On the contrary , the fashion is to talk of him as the very man for the crisis . The East India Company , perhaps , holds a different opinion ; but this is not the time , we should think , -which the Court of Directors would choose for coming into violent contact with the Board of . Control . The Company is in need of assistance . The million sterling
borrowed from the Bank will go a very little way towards meeting the demand from India . There is a rumour that the Indian railway deposits will be applied as a temporary accommodation . The Government , we presume , would in that case promise an indemnity . Probably , some arrangement will be made , through Mr . Veknon Smith , with the Treasury . We have reason to think that all the reports in circulation as to the intentions of the Government with respect to Indian
Reform are premature . The question is not one that will yet arise . No doubt it is under general consideration ; indeed , we do not anticipate any obstinate adhesion , against the sense of the country , to the existing form of Anglo-Indian administrntion . Ifc is impossible but that Lord Palmeuston should have recognized tho defects of tho system , ' and addressed himself at least to a review of the
whole subject . But there is no necessity for precipitation . Parliament will not meet before ^ February , according to present arrangements . The question of a Leadenhnll-street Loan may then be raised . This will open the way to a discussion ; but tho utmost that can be expected is that tho party insisting upon Indian Reform may exact a pledge that tho Cabinet will reconsider the problem of a
double or a simplified Government . Meanwhile , Lord Canning retains his post , against the sense of the Anglo-Indian community , and in spite of the most earnest and , as we think solemn and impressive representations . The Court of Directors has now an opportunity of rendering the public a service .
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REFORM AGITATIONS . The lost Reform Bill has not been discovered ; however , we know where the lieformers are . They have nob yet hroken ground ; but they ' have their plans for next session , and we believe that , whatever be the pressure of Indian affairs , Parliament will be challenged vigorously on the subject of the representation . Lord John Hussell has said , " The time has come . " Those are not desultory words . Lord John Russell is taking up a position . He has now before
him the chance of uniting the parliamentary Liberals ; these , again , will have the support of a very large public ; so that Lord Palmeiiston ' s alternative will be to make a move in advance of the Woburn Abbey Whigs , or to take them into his confidence and propose the carrying of a mutual measure . " Whatever the rumours afloat , it is positive that the Premier has not , up to this moment , disclosed any part of "his intentions on the subject . All the writers who are ' enabled to say' what he proposes to do are simply the inventors '
dupes of the jnost empty conjectures . It is true , however , that representations continue to be urged upon the Government , and that some of them have originated among Members of the House of Commons . We cannot yet inform our readers on the progress of the new Manchester Idea . It is altogether in abeyance . The initial league at the Reform Club , of course , has not held a meeting since the prorogation of Parliament . But several local working-class combinations have taken place . The tone of the provincial journals ,
moreover , proves that considerable interest is felt in the question of Representative Reform , the loeal Conservative writers—the most reliable exponents of the party—being engaged in endeavouring to extort explanations from the Government . But the Government maintains a dead silence , and we cannot reasonably complain that Lord Palme rston is afc present devoting his attention almost exclusively to the affairs of Indiakeeping his left hand and eye , of course , upon the diplomacy of Europe .
Health op London . —The total number of deaths registered in London in tho week that ended last Saturday is 993 . In the ten years 1847-5 G , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1007 ; but , ns tho deaths of last week oc - curred in an increased population , it is necessary , with a view to comparison , to raise tho average in proportion to the increase , in which case it will become 1108 . The public health is therefore so far in n satisfactory state that tho number of deaths Ia 3 t week was less by about a hundred than would have occurred under the average rate of mortality as derived from the early part of October in former years . The excess of births over deatlia is 375 . Diarrhoea , which was so prominent during the nurninor , is now reduced nearly within its
ordinary limit . —Last week , the births of C 90 boys and C 78 girla—in all 13 G 8 children—wore registered in London . In tho ten corresponding weeks of the yeara 1817-56 , tho average number va ^ 1397 . — According to an analysis which has been mndo by Dr . Robert Dundas Thomson , at St . Thomas ' s Hospital , tho composition of the Soutliwark Company ' s water , taken from tho stand-pipe at the cab-stand opposite the hospital , was in August 1 G-28 grs . of total impurity per gallon , of which 1 * 08 gr . -was organic matter . On tUe 7 th of Soptombor tho total amount of impurity v » 3 76 ' 56 grs . por gallon , and of this 5-6 G gra . were organic matter . This water , in September , 1867 , was as iirapuro ns the dirty water -which was supplied to the iuhabitants of London in former yeara , when tho witter was taken from tho Thames at Vauxhall . —From tfte Registrar-General ' a Weekly Return . This Livid U'ooi ., Countt Court . — Mr . Josopli Pollock , judge of the Liverpool County Court , been compelled to resign his office , on account of continued iLlhouUh , arising from overwork .
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1000 T HE I . E AP E B ,. [ No . 895 , October 17 , 1857 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 1000, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2214/page/16/
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