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by our , the only effect of the "Voluntary Education Conference will be to create a well-founded distruat of the voluntary principle , both in education and religion . " European aspects afford occasion for much comment . " The Coming Storm" is the topic of the Bedford Mercury . The editor of which concludes an excellent leader in the right spirit : — " It is time we cleared our minds of cant . . For our parts , we have a real horror of war ; but if we are shut up to choose between armed men against unarmed , —a prolonged war in which the weapons of one side are prisons , and wheels , and thumbscrews , whilst the other side has none , and a war which shall give the combatants ' a fair field and no favour , ' then we honestly confess we prefer the latter . "
The Macclesfield Courier gives a fair summary of Palmerston's oration at Tiverton , and asks in reference to his remarks on free-trade : — " If the two classes of landowners and capitalists ( both important feeders of industry ) must be losers , we cannot hope that the final result will be beneficial to the country . £ ? Why are rich men fleeing from the country with their money and goods in spite of the hissings of free-trade ? Why are poor men also fleeing in spite of their alleged greater command over the necessaries and conveniences of life ? The taxes are less than they were before the high tide of emigration began to flow . " The most striking topic in the Leeds Times is " The Education Controversy , " a paper particularly well written .
" What we desire is to see a national provision for the education of the people ; but we do not desire the extinction of the voluntary principle . Our belief is , that the country will be the better for having both agencies in active operation . The one will be a stimulus and an example to the other . The rivalry which may be expected between the voluntary and private schools and the public schools , will serve to keep both up to the mark , and contribute , from separate sources , to keep full and flowing the current of educational improvement . " The feeling of the Liberal provincial press , on the new Reform Bill , is pretty well represented by the following from the Liverpool Albion : —
" We presume that the new Reform Bill , like that of 1832 , will go upon the prinsiple of enfranchising some boroughs which have increased up to a certain mark , and of disfranchising others which have sunk below it . It will also extend the suffrage . It will embody , we take it , Mr . Locke King ' s proposition for giving ten-pound householders the right of voting in counties . And we trust that the protection of the Ballot will likewise be conceded . But all this will , of course , depend upon the attitude of the people . If they remain silent , the
forthcoming measure will be one of miserable crumbs and scraps , which will give no satisfaction to the country , and which will be contemptuously rejected by the Lords ; while , if they speak out , a good bill will be introduced , and the peers , who have marvellous method in their madness , seeing the strength and determination of the popular wishes , will not offer the same resi . stance to a hurricane which they will present to a zephyr or exercise in a calm . In short , the handwriting on the wall must coitu from the country , and then the measure proposed and carried will be a fair copy of it . "
Hie WulverJianipton Herald with its accustomed heartiness , defends the Jioman Republic from the " charge of terrorism ; " decides in favour of secular education as opposed to the Manchester and Salfbrd scheme , and the voluntary system advocated by the Congregationalista ; and supports the programme of the Parliamentary Reform . Association . The Glasgow Chronicle thinks that it is becoming more and more apparent that the people , if true to themselves may obtain " a large and important meanure of reform . "
" lhere will be large biddings for popular favour in reform coin , if the people stand out for a high price ; but if they show themselves willing to sell their favour clieitp , the buyers will only be encouraged t <} drive them down to tin ; lowest possible figure . " The Advocate , of Dublin ( speculates on the great ohanges which steam ploughing will introduce in ugrieulture : — - " The effects of these changes will be to assimilate
agricultural to general manufacturing operations more than they are at present ; and to give increased advantages to the . large holders of land , who alone will be able to take advantage of them . The tendency to the consolidation of farms which now exists will be thereby promoted , on account of the greater difficulty which the small fanner will ( hen experience in holding hi « ground against , the increased competition to which he will be exposed . These are important considerations to he kept ia view in the management of landed nioperty . "
DKATil OK KKNiNIMORK COOPKR . James Kenniinore Cooper , whose name has been , and is , one of the household , words of the century , died at CoopriMlown , his patrimonial estate ; , about one o ' clock on Sunday , the 1 lth of . September . lie hud been gradually declining in health for some months , and left . New York on the Int . of June , hoping thai , change of air and hccho would rtntoit ) Iuh hi length ; but ho only went homo to die . The New York Tribune , of September Hi , contains an affectionate sketch of his life , which we reprint .
41 Mr . Cooper whs born at Burlington , New Jersey , on the l /> th of September , 17 H 9 , and had he lived one day longer , ho would have been sixty-two years of
age . His father , the late Judge Cooper , was a large landholder in Otsego county , in this State , residing alternately at Burlington and Cooperstown , and giving his name to the latter township , which has since been distinguished as the residence of the worldrenowned ^ author . He received the rudiments of a classical education Under a private instructor at Burlington , continued his studies with an accomplished Episcopal clergyman in Albany , and was prepared by him for Yale College , which he entered in 1802 . At this early age , scarcely turned thirteen , he was ill-qualified for the attainment of academic distinction ; still he held a respectable place in his class ;
and in the department of ancient languages is said to have outstripped every competitor . It is certain , however , that he had not yet manifested a vocation for a literary life . No one who then saw the blooming and somewhat reckless youth , who it is understood had already begun to develope the spirit of sturdy independence which afterwards took the shape of wayward obstinacy , could have predicted or suspected the position which he was destined to win among the literary men of his country . A native
passion for the sea , and an unconquerable love of adventure , led him , among other causes , to solicit admission into the American navy , at that time in its most imperfect infancy , and in 1805 he entered the service as a midshipman . He remained in the service for six years . The influence of this period of his life is indelibly stamped upon his subsequent productions . It enabled . him to describe the minutise of nautical affairs with that breadth and boldness of touch which could be commanded by no writer who had not himself been rocked on the giddy mast , and
to whom the taste of salt water was not more familiar than the fountains of Helicon . With the vivid impressions of experience , obtained in the fresh and wondering age of boyhood , with a creative imagination singularly alive to the impulses of external nature , and with , a freedom and energy of delineation which is imparted only by the possession of actual knowledge , he had a store of materials for the production of * tales of the sea , ' which , had he written in no other department of fiction , would have decided his reputation as a consummate master .
"In the year 1810 , Cooper resigned his post in the navy , was married to the lady who survives to mourn his loss , and took up his residence at Westchester , in the vicinity of New York . He remained in this place but a short time , when he removed to his patrimonial estate in Cooperstown , and pursued in earnest his career as a writer of fiction . He had previously published his maiden novel entitled Precaution , a work which gives little promise of the noble creations with which his name has since been so honourably associated . With in fifteen years he successively issued The Spy , The Pioneers , The Pilot , Lionel Lincoln , and The Last of the Mohicans , triumphantly legitimating his claim to the character of an original and powerful novelist .
" boon after the appearance of The Last of the Mohicans , in 182 ( 5 , Mr . Cooper sailed for Europe , where he remained for several years . During this time lie wrote several of his most successful works , including The liravo , The lied Hover , and The Prairie , and soon established a reputation which , witli the robust qualities of his personal character and the dignified frankness of his manner , made him a welcome visitant in the most distinguished European circles .
His most valuable productions after hia return to the TJnited States are , The Pathfinder , The Destroyer , The Two Admirals , and Wing and Wing , all of which display his admirable power of invention , his bold conceptions of character , and hia rare mastery of graphic and impressive portraiture . His more recent performances , in which he endeavours to use the novel an a vehicle for political declamation , are wholly unworthy of his fame , and will only leave a blot on the memory of hie genius . Their general atylo is forced , artificial , and often repulsive ; with little grace of expression
and no dramatic vigour of plot ; showing the exaggerations of a morbid fancy rather than the healthy action of a fertile imagination ; and steeped deep in the bitter prejudices of a partisan , with whom passion gave tlu ; law to reason . In this sphere of composition , it in most charitable to believe that Mr . Cooper was out ; of his element . We certainly find his better self , and , we hope , his truer self , in his earlier productioiiH , which are redolent of the bracing atmosphere of the forest and the ocean , and which breathe a spirit of trust , in humanity mid reverence for ( iie instincts of the universal heart . Destitute of the
wisdom tm ^ gestod by calm and uninipassioiu'd contemplation , remarkably deficient in the power of consecutive reasoning , with no sense of the fine and Bubtle duirriniinntions which are usually essential to the detection of truth , Mr . Cooper should never have forsaken his peculiar province of lictitious creation , to assunio the oHieo of a didactic writer on questions of ethics and politics , and his failure in this attempt was made inure conspicuous by the brilliancy of bin achievements in a more congenial sphere . It i « painful to observe such utter worthlcH . sncHH of endoavour in u mun whose ability had raised him to an ominence which tho most umpiring might < mvy . "
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Personal News And Gossip. The Queen And ...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The Queen and her famil y will leave Balmoral early next week . Great preparations are being marl at Liverpool and Manchester to receive her Mai eat and the latter borough has aspired to the civic dierrit and civic robes . emiy Bloomerism still provokes endless gossip Th escapade of Mrs . Dexter in Finsbury , its ignoble conclusion , and the pluck of the young lady who led the meeting on the occasion , have afforded infinite amusement . Ought not the English phenomenon tn be called Dexter ism ? u Queen Victoria has presented to the Queen's CoIWp Birmingham , a full length portrait of her Maiestv tn if ' placed in the New College-hall . * ' De Prince Albert has sent £ 25 towards payment of tT , « debt upon the Gardens at Aberdeen .
Lord Carlisle is at Balmoral . The Reverend Charles Walter Bagot , rector of Cast ]* Rising , in the county of Norfolk , and one of the sons nf the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells , has been appointed to the office of Chancellor of the diocese , vacant bv the resignation of the Honourable and Reverend William Towry Law . u Joseph Hume received by spontaneous presentation the freedom of the burgh of Inverness on Saturday last The Treasury have consented to advance the su m of £ 1500 to Colonel Rawlinson , to enable him to continue his researches in Assyria .
Lord Calthorpe Expired A Few Days Since ...
Lord Calthorpe expired a few days since at Lyons ia his sixty-fourth year . George Gough Calthorpe was son of the first holder of the first title , by Frances , daughter of General Carpenter . He succeeded his brother Charles the second lord , in 1807 . He never married . He is now succeeded by his brother , the Honourable Frederick Gough , born 1790 , and who married , in 1823 , Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset , daughter of the sixth Duke of Beaufort , by whom he has had issue several children . The family is a junior branch of the old family of Goughhall , in the county of Stafford , of which Richard Gough the celebrated antiquary , was a member .
On Wednesday, According To The Words Of ...
On Wednesday , according to the words of the act , " from and after the 1 st of October , " thepoweraoftheLord Chancellor vested in the new Court of Appeal . Although her Majesty was empowered to appoint two persons on the passing of the act to the office of " Lord Justices , " no appointment has been officially announced . It is , however , known that Lord Cranworth and Sir James Knight Bruce ( with a title ) have been appointed . They have , however , not been sworn in ; and the delay , it is believed , has occurred in consequence of the Vice-Chancellorship . Is is understood that neither the Solicitor-General nor Mr . Bethell will accept the Vice-Chancellorship ; and the appointment , it is expected , will either be given to Mr . Swanston , an able equity man , or to one of the Masters in Chancery . If to the latter , then another vacancy of £ ' 2500 a year will occur . By the act , the Lords Justices must be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor or Master of the ltoll . * .
'1 Lie Emperor Of Austria Visited The La...
' 1 lie Emperor of Austria visited the Lake of Como on the 23 rd , and the Lago Muggiori on the 2 oth . The military evolutions at Somma were to commence on the following day . The Grand Duke of Tuscany nrrived at Monza on the 22 nd , and alighted at the imperial palace . The Bishop of Exeter consecrated a new church at Landscove , on Saturday . Count Batthyani , who arrived at Marseilles in the Mississippi , with Kossuth and the other Hungarian refugees , is at present in Paris , with some members of his family , and purposes residing there . He separated from his companions in misfortune at his own desire .
East India N Ew H . Indian News, -Which ...
EAST INDIA N EW H . Indian news , -which is up to September 1 , and which arrived in London on Wednesday , contains two facts of public interest . Dhost Mohammed , who ia not dead as reported , but particularly vivacious , has taken advantage of the death of Yar Mahomed Khan of Herat ( which took place on the 4 th of June ) , to send his son , Hyder Khan , with a large army , to invade II < rat by the Bulkkill route . It is considered likely that the young Khan will auk for , and probably obtain , the aid of Persia in repelling the invasion . The Bengal Railway Company have advertised for tenders for the construction of the second section of their line—viz , from l ' undova to Itanecgungc , which will complete the experimental undertaking upon which the expenditure of u million sterling was sanctioned by the Court of Directors . An extended survey of the country beyond Burdwan in in contemplation , with the view of nettling the question as to the ultimate direction of the line . The nite for the terminus at . ilowvah has been decided on . In Bombay contracts have been let for the line from Boree-Bundrr to a place called Per . sid I'oint , on tho other sido of tins Tannawater . About ten miles remain to be contracted for to complete the experimental lino Hanctioned by tno Kant India Company . A survey of the proposed extension lines will lu > undertaken next cold season , unlesH Government withholds its sanction .
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T II K I . A T K U A I . i : H . A heavy and drsl . ruct . ive gale set in from the north-enst on Thursday week , and continued without intermission for forty-eight hours . Previous to tho breaking forth <> i this terrible wind the counters were running clo »« un'K'i land . Tho wind suddenly veered , and before they oouia run " out to sea muny of them were driven ashore nnu ( lushed to pieces , while those who managed to run were carried up as far as the Yarmouth Jtouds before tliey oould bo brought to . The sea on tain range of coast was strewed with portions of wreck and cargo , too clearly showing the disastrous results of tho « torm . Serer * l
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101851/page/8/
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