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rSept. 6, 1851.] C!? * Utaittt. 847
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. We regret...
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Saturday, August 30.
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Rsept. 6, 1851.] C!? * Utaittt. 847
rSept . 6 , 1851 . ] C !? * Utaittt . 847
To Readers And Correspondents. We Regret...
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . We regret the letter of so intelligent a reader as Mr . Tiadale , of Kensington . We went along with his-letter , as we read it , heartily adopting- much of his strictures on our own omission ; but the last sentence of his letter precludes us from taking any further notice of it . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , 8 outhampton-street , Strand . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it ia frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellington * street , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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Saturday , August 30 .
The Bishop Of Manchester Presided Over A...
The Bishop of Manchester presided over a meeting of about five hundred gentlemen , in the Townhall of Manchester on Thursday , to hear Mr . William Entwistle read a paper on the' Salford and Manchester educational scheme , the rival of the plan propounded by the National Public School Association . His conclusions were entirely in favour of the former , while he admitted that if it failed the secular educationists would have a right to say that any public system for cornbining religious with secular instruction was indeed impossible . A discussion arose afterwards . The Dean of Manchester said , among other things : —
I have been told repeatedly that I have been acting rather against Church principles in acting in support of a scheme of this kind . I deny it entirely . { Hear , hear . ) I believe that we aTe actually supporting Church principles . { Hear , hear . ) We are supporting them in the best and most effective manner . { Hear , hear . ) We are educating the people for the purpose of enabling them to investigate truth , and if Church principles be not truth , I can have nothing to do with them . { Loud cheers . ) It was also said that they were supporting dissent . I know not in what way that can be applied ; I believe it to be absolutely necessary that every person should have the
fullest liberty to exercise his own judgment in that which concerns himself personally . { Loud applause . ) The object of this bill is not to create dissension between one sect and another , it is not to create greater differences than already exist between what are called Church principles and what are called latitudinarian sentiments ; but it is for the very purpose of making persons inquire diligently for themselves , under proper guidance , in order that they ra-iy be settled down in those things which they shall ultimately find best for their own satisfaction , and shall find agreeable to the word of God as they themstlves can understand it . "
The lloverend Mr . Fletcher , an Independent minister , spoke up for compromise upon minute points of difference ; and he put a difficulty and rid himself of it thus : — " Permit me , gentlemen , to say , that with respect to myself , tlie chief difficulty I felt was on the great point of religious liberty . { Hear , hear . ) A 3 a conscientious Dissenter , I felt that I could not be a party to the erection of what has been called a second religious establishment . You will forgive me—all those who take a different view on that point—for allowing myself to feel this difficulty . { Hear , hear . ) But , on looking at the matter , it appears to me that the rate is applied simply for the secular part of the instruction , and the religious portion ia thus left to the conscience of each parent , or child of each parent . "
Ho arrived at the conclusion that the rate was levied , not for the support of f-choolmastcrs , but wus given to the parents , in fact , to send their children to uchool . The Bishop of Manchester , in his address , having expressed himself Btrongly in favour of combined Hcculur and religious education , said : — "But while I like this , gentlemen , there ia another feature in the present scheme which holdflit no less valuable in my eyes , and thatinthe fact that it provides the largest and moot extended religious toleration . { Applause . ) Nor let any one fear , who in a member of the Church of JKnglund , in thin room , that in . expressing this opinion and advocating these views I feel I am in the slightest detune
pcrillinjj ; that Church in all its purity undull itu integrity . . So deeply am 1 convinced of the truth of her doctrines , ho respectfully and reverentially do I view nil her formularies , thai , I not only never would coiuent to omit them in any education which 1 had to direct myself , but I would never desecrate them by forcing thorn on thotso who could not receive them with u just appreciation of their excellence , {( heat chttcrhiy . ) I thank you , I fully thiuik you , for the Hiitnuer in which you have received that remark —( renewed checriruj ) , for in thiu 1 have been miuundurutood , and misrepresented ; but while I Hay t <» our own people and those of our own faith , 1 never could forego the teaching in all ita fqlnetia whut we believe to be true , I never will be a party to forcing it upon others . { Amtlauue . )
The Reverend Hugh Stowell commended the plan , advocated nchoola whoro the children of all clusaen could mix together , and denied that the plan in question wa » for teaching Churoh doguiaa : —
" What he would say to the secular was , ' Yours is a negative conscience , ours is a positive conscience : now the infringement of a negative conscience is no hardship , but the infringement of a positive conscience is . ' It would be a noble thing to see them getting rid of this negative conscientiousness and joining the present association ; and he could truly say he would then fight as heartily with them as ever he did against them , and it would be a glorious day for Manchester and Salford , for they would have solved the grand problem , and success must attend their object . " { Applause . ) The Reverend George Osborn , a "Wesleyan minister , stigmatised the Public School plan as impracticable .
" He held that it was impossible to teach morality without touching upon the basis of men's religious convictions . In reality he regarded the struggle with the other system as one between Christianity and no Christianity—between Christianity and infidelity ; and he proceeded to speak of a member of the council of the National Public School Association , who , he said , denied the existence of a God . " The usual votes of thanks were proposed , and the Mayor of Manchester took the opportunity of vindicating the gentlemen of the National Public School Association from the utterly uncalled for attack of the Reverend George Osborn .
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The Queen left Holyrood Palace on Friday morning for Balmoral . The journey will be performed by rail as far as Stonehaven , and the remainder posted . A telegraphic despatch from Vienna announces the death of the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg Kohary , elder brother of the King of the Belgians , at six o ' clock on the morning of the 27 th ( Wednesday ) . Frederick , Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha , was born March 28 , 1785 , and was consequently in his sixty-sixth year . He married the Princess Antoinette de Kohary ; he was a general of cavalry in the Austrian service , and colonel of the 8 th
regiment of hussars . He has left issue four children . The eldest , Prince Ferdinand , is the husband of the Queen of Portugal ; the others are Prince Augustus , husband of the Princess Clementine of Orleans ; the Duchess de Nemours ; and Prince Leopold " , major in the late duke ' s hussar regiment . The late duke was brother to the Princess Anna Feodorowna , widow of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia ; to the King of the Belgians , as above stated ; and to the Duchess of Kent ; also uncle to the reigning Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha , and to Prince Albert .
The Times Publishes, From A Private Lett...
The Times publishes , from a private letter , additional particulars relative to the assassination of Miss Brunet , at a public ball in the theatre of Sin Sebastian : —Now that the festivities are over , the only subject of conversation is the wretched young man who poniarded Maria Brunet . He is in custody in the fortress of the town . Those who have been acquainted with him speak favourably of his previous conduct . There is no doubt of jealousy being the cause of the crime . It appears he had been attached to the young lady , and no doubt he considered that he was slighted by her or supplanted . On the night of the ball he considered there was no doubt of the fact . He became exasperated , and committed the crime while his victim was in the act of dancing a polka . He stabbed her twice in the back ; the first blow only grazed her skin , but the second went through the heart . Her death was instantaneous . The act was so sudden that her partner in the dance did not perceive it until she fell at his feet . You
may easily judge of the confusion and the horror which it excited . The doors of the saloon were at once closed , lest the assassin should escape . There was no necessity , however , for these precautions ; he presented himself at once , and told the persons present to give themselves no trouble ; that he , and he only , was the person who committed the crime . You will not be astonished that almost all the ladies who were near the victim fainted . The son of the French Consul had presence of mind enough to draw the poniard from the body , but the moment he did so he fell also senseless . The mother of the young lady uttered the most frantic shrieks , and made desperate efforts to get a sight of her child . She was kept from doing so by her friends , and was taken home by force while the bleeding body of the victim was deposited in an apartment close to the ball room , for the inspection of the magistrates . The funeral took place on Sunday . The assussin is a young officer of engineers . It is said that Home of bin friends wished to furnish
him with the means of destroying himself by his own hand to escape a death of infamy . He has refused , in order , as he says , to die the death of a Christian ; that his life does not belong to him , that he bus taken that of another , and that he will leave Ins to the disposal of Heaven and of his judges . He expresses an earnest desire that his condemnation shall lake place an soon as possible , and Bays that his Bufferings are intense , and that he is weary of life . He continueu to wear two ahirt iituds which the young lady had presented him with . He often tears them from his bosom , kisses them , and uttertt the most frantic expressions of uorruw and remorse . He has refused food of any kind , except course bread and water , and even this in the « mallestquantity . The two or three first days he wan not permitted to communicate
with any one ; he is now allowed to see Home of his brother oflic . eifl , and those who have been with him coino away weeping . He i « only twentyfour years old . His brother officers and cluefn are doing all they can to have hiu life tmved . At all events his mind in gone ; he 1 > ub conlinuully before him liis victim , with whom ho fancies he talks , and hi « complainta and his inounn bring tears from the eyes of all who hear him . The hand of death in on him ; if he die not by the hand of the executioner , he will die of grief before long , lie was an onl y child ; hitj mother had followed him in all his changes of garrison except the preuent . She idolized bun , and all accounts agree that he was an excellent eon . What a destiny
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain , to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of ita creation in eternalprogress . —De . Abnoid .
Austrian Challenge To The Democracy Of T...
AUSTRIAN CHALLENGE TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE WORLD . The Emperor of Austria has released his Ministers from their responsibilities except to himself ; in other words , has revoked to himself the full power of an absolute and irresponsible Monarch . This is a declaration of war against the freedom of Europe . It . is literally a declaration of " war to the knife "; for we in England cannot but hold that a sovereign who repudiates the modern contrivance of a responsible Ministry , retains to himself that accountability which our ancestors enforced in the . case of Charles the First . The
rule holds good even in the most despotic countries ; for the Monarch who denies responsibility to his People and to the laws , leaves no shield for himself against the last inevitable responsibilitythe knife of the assassin . There is no denying , however , that the position of an absolute Monarch , if he has faithful armies , is one of considerable strength and efficiency in a
campaign ; and this is evidently the most overt act of preparation on the part . ' of Austria , for the contemplated campaign between the two great opposing powers of Absolutism and Democracy . The situation of affairs throughout Europe is becoming one of the utmost gravity ; and it is only by comprehending the full character of the crisis that those who are interested in the upholding of freedom can meet it as they ought .
On the first survey of Europe , generally , it presents nothing but complicated affairs and distracted councils . The Governments , frightened into concessions during the revolutionary movements of 1848 , are embarrassed with the rags of the Constitutional toys hastily dressed up at that time . The Peoples , exhausted , after the effort , suffer active men to go on nearly as they will , and seem disposed to carry their supineness to the extent of giving the despots absolute licence . Even France , so often the leader in Republican movements , seems for the moment to acquiesce in the undisguised
intrigues of more than one faction bent on restoring a Monarchy . But this is the aspect only on the surface . If we look a little closer , we see the reactionary party in every quarter taking some kind of active precautions against an organization of the People ; in Italy , Bourbon , Papal , and Austrian , in Germany , in France , we see desperate attacks , either on the body of the People , or on some comparatively insignificant faction , made in the evident hope of striking at the unseen power ; like all random assaults , these sallies fail to do more than betray the fears of the assailants—to prove that , however desperate , their attempts at
penetrating to the power which provokes their fears , are vain . On the other hand , the continuance of any constitutional forms baa become a transparent pretence . However conflicting the interests of different Governments may seem , we explained last week how Diplomacy supplies a middle term for all ; and the mode in which that masonic guild has brought the conflicting and scattered Governments of Kurope , even such as Russia , Naples , and England , back to united action , is one of the most surprising triumphs ever achieved bv the Inner Circle . Austria has thrown oil' the mask , Despotism and Democracy have fairly taken sides , and the winter will be employed in busy preparations .
The ground has been cleared of pretences and fictions . Among the pretences exploded is the delusion that the English Government ia " mediating" between the two extreme purlieu in favour of Constitutionalism , or lias been thiiH mediating at all . The Government that incited the hitrilittiis to declare their independence of Naples , winch even sent a licet on some pretence of succour , and then , like a mischievous boy withdrawing the stool on which a companion is g oing to Bit , withdrew the support , and left Sicily at the mercy of Naples —the Government which protested m favour of
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1851, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091851/page/11/
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