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the 25 th ult . to the 1 st instant , he enrolled upwards of three hundred members , making an addition of 913 during the tour . Victoria Park Fkanchism . —The members of the Victoria Park locality of the National Charter Association have issued an address to their friends and the public on Organization , " signed on behalf of the members by the Secretary , Henry T . Holyoake , which contains the following passages : —" The philosophy and politics of our advocates were , for the most part , unsound and circumscribed . They taught the doctrine of a party instead of universal principles . The Charter should have held up as a political mirrorin which the Government might have behe'd the
, miseries and wrongs of the working-classes , and the * very body and pressure of the times . ' Instead of which , the cause was made the ground on which men delivered speeches more remarkable for promises than practical thought . We imagined Government was the only oppressor , not seeing that if we were able to govern ourselves with wisdom , a tyrannical Government could not exist . Ignorance is the mother of slavery , and before the body can be at liberty the mind must be free . We believe self-education in great social and political principles , and self-discipline in order to use them rightly , are the first important steps to freedom . We seek not the organization of a party only , but of all classes of society . We are anxious to see the day when the rich and the poor
shall be united , working together in the cause of human progress . If the upper and middle classes are our enemies , our duty will be , if we are wise in our policy , to make them our friends as soon as possible . Nature made us all friends , said a modern writer , and it is only false pride which makes us enemies to each other . To beat down this false pride and establish friendship in its place , would be to remove one of the greatest barriers in the path of our progress , and render a valuable service to the cause . One of the principal objections raised by our opponents against granting the Charter is Charter
this , ' that if the working-classes possessed the , they would not know how to use it . ' We think there is some truth in the opinion . To deprive the Government of this ground of objection , and the world of such an opinion , is another important reason why we call upon you to organize . We wish to discuss friendly and earnestly together the great social and political principles of our movement , that we may speedily show to the Government and the world , that we do understand what we demand . This done , the Government will have no alternative but to grant it as an act of justice and humanity , or- withhold it on the grounds of tyranny and state
policy . Mr . Thomas Cooper's Lecturing Tour . —Communications intended to reach Mr . Cooper on Monday or Tuesday next , should be addressed " Care of Mr . Chaloner , 26 , Bilton-street , York ; "" Wednesday or Thursday next , " Care of Mr . Yeats , 96 , Osbornestreet , Hull ; " on Friday , Saturday , or Sunday , the ] 2 th , 13 th , or 14 th instant , " Care of Mr . John Holmes , draper , Neville-street , Leeds ; " after these dates , " Care of Mr Councillor Ironside , Sheffield . "
Mr . Colin Murray Campbell . —On Wednesday evening about thirty friends sat down to tea at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John street ., in respect to Mr . C . M . Campbell , who is leaving England for America . Mr . J . Heed occupied the chair , and spoke as to the esteem in which their departing fellow-worker was held . Messrs . Cramp , Turley , Huffy , Ivory , and others followed to the same effect , and a friendly address was read to Mr . Campbell , who replied , and the evening cordially ended .
CjENTRAIi CoOTERATIVK CoMMITTKE . A meeting was held at the offices of the Central Cooperative Agency , in Charlotte-street , on Tuesday , to consider the beat moans of promoting the establishment of associations for production , or Working Associations , and associations for consumption , or Cooperative Stores , among the several trades of the metropolis . M . JuloH Lechevalier was called to the chair ; among the gentlemen were Mr . Vanaitt irt Neale , Mr . Fleming , Mr . l ' ollard , Mr . Thornton Hunt , Mr . Stephens , and some representatives of the trades . Several suggestions are thrown out for immediately spreading a knowledge of association and its benefits among the organization of the trades , as a preliminary to more collective ! consultation with those bodies ; and a committee , including the gentlemen present , was at once formed to carry on the proce . su .
Lincoln Cooikkativk Cohn jmji . l . -A half-yearly meeting of proprietor was hold on Monday , August 2 , 0 , tho ltoverend K . It . L : irken in the chair , when the accounts for the half year ending August 1 , were paused , and director ** and other oflie . erti elected . During the lust six months about £ 4000 worth of Hour has been sold to tho members at the umall advance of one penny per fttone on the cost , price . From this the direct advantage derived by them through the establishment , of the mill may be calculated , while the public have been , at . the name time , indirectly benefited by the reduction made in the cost of their commodity by the millers and
flourdealers of the city and neighbourhood , with a view to compete witli the low prices of the Cooperative Society . Lincoln Younu Mjcn ' h Hocii . ty . —The opening lecture for the season waa delivered hint week by the Reverend K II . Larken , the subject being "The Influence of Christianity on Civilization . " Mr . C . Ward , Mayor , occupied the chair , and th « room was crowded by both ladies and gentlemen . We are glad to Hud that the . Society is likely to be more than uBiially lntertstniK this yeur , and that Home very necessary and important alteration * ar « likely to be effected in the working of the Society . We wish the members every success , believing an -we do tho dwcuBuions of the various questions of the day
coY / era tfon have y -a progress We have added ten new candidates this week , and amongst them is one well-known in the republic of letters . Moneys received for the week : Hyde , per J . Bradley , 16 s . 7 d . ; Derby , per J . Simwnght 2 s ., Manchester / per W . Bloomer , 5 s . 2 d ; Huddersfield , per C . Gledhill , 12 s . 9 d . Building Fund : Hyde , 9 s . 6 d . ; Derby , Is . 6 d . ; Manchester , 3 s . ; Huddersfield , 7 s . 6 d . Propaeandist Fund : W . Alcock , Derby , Is ; Hyde , 4 d . ; Huddersfield , Is . 8 d . —J . Henderson , Secretary of the Redemption Society .
' alread de considerable must prove of considerable utility to those who join m them . — Lincoln Paper . Faksley Open Air Meeting . — On Sunday last , Mr . D Green , of Leeds , addressed an out-door meeting at Farsley . It being the feast day , the village wasf uNL of visitors and the doctrines of cooperation and brother-Jood were explained to a large and attentive audience Next Sunday Messrs . Green and Henderson are to hold aTopen-air meeting at Pud-ey , where the , princioles of
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THE VIOLENT DISSOLUTION OF THE FREE CONGREGATIONS OF AUSTRIA AND THE FANATICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY AGAINST PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND . Lower Mount Coltag-e , Lowpr-heath , Ilampstcad , Sept . 2 , 1851 . Sir , —I mentioned in my first letter on the religious persecutions in Germany , that Popery and Absolutism would make further encroaehments and commit similar violent persecutions even in
Protestant countries , particularly when it is once clear that Prussia , the principal Protestant power in the centre of Europe , has subjected herself to Catholicism . Ere my first lines could find their way to the press , events occurred which have confirmed my anticipations , and which show the inevitable evil results , when civilized Peoples do not assist each other in upholding the first principles of humanity ; and religious liberty is certainly the first of these . The two most important events of that class are the violent suppression of the Free Congregations in Austria and the incitements to insurrection on the
part of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland against Protestant England , ( supported a . - * these are by Austrian diplomatists and their confederates . At first sight these ; two events appear to be unconnected , but they really flow from the name Houree—from the Bource of religious and political Absolutism . The King of Prussia abandoned the historical mission of bis State by refusing to take the Imperial dignity offered to him in 184 ' . ) ; and tho Prussian Government will , and must , sink lower in its struggle against the progressive tendencies of the age which it lias betrayed ; and to secure a brief respite for the shadow of its power , it must retrograde behind Frederick the Great , and behind the first reformation . It will sink wore and more till it uhortly becomes the mere electorate ; vassal of the House of
llapshurg . An evidence of this may be read in recent occurrences , —¦ that ; men of the so-called " constitutional party" buve been prosecuted because they applied some words of Frederick the Great to the present Htate of affairs ; and that Luther ' s writings on the . duties of princes to their people have been seized by the police . Since PiotcHlunt Prussia has thus become the abject vassal of Austria , and can have no longer rank as a power in ( iermiiay , it proceeds with the strong hand , or with Jesuitical refinement , to annihilate all the points of ProteHtniitimn and itB mental liberty .
Protestantism produced in Germany the great HyHtem of philosophy and Hc . ieiice ; in Kngland it has taken a more practical form and built up constitutional liberty and u commercial power which governs the world . For emancipated mental life assumes peculiar forma in different nations ; each nation become * a peculiar nouree , sending its mental produce into the common sea of humanity . Uonnuu philosophy in our day Iiuh produced its popular fruit ,
a truly humanitarian religion—the Reformation of the nineteenth century . In the sixteenth century the House of Hapsburg oppressed the Reformation and its results , and the consequence was that bv degrees it was pushed away from Germany and was forced to seek support from uncivilized nations . How great , then , must be the hatred of that house , of the humanitarian principles of this new reformation of the nineteenth century ; how great the alarm to see its despotism and the blind obedience and superstitions of its Catholic populations crumble away . It is not to be wondered at that Metternich punish ed the partisans of that reformation in Austria , and
that the Jesuits considered the principles of the " free congregations" more dangerous for them than those of the original Protestant Church . The greater the progress of humanity and the more refined the principles of morals which it engenders , the bri ghter is that genius which takes its stand against barbarism and despotism in church and state , and the more decided is the demand of the nations to use the divine gifts of true Christian love and liberty . The House of Hapsburg has never been at a loss to devise and find the means of oppressing the free Catholic
congregations , considering that there is no dynasty in Europe which is so grey in experience of those cruelties , treacheries , and crime that suppress free thought ; for no dynasty has a past so ominous and dark . The policy of the House of Hapsburg in 1848 shows that it did not shrink from the most atrocious crimes . Need I do more than mention the employment of banditti to assassinate Kossuth ? Only the cesspool of such a diplomacy and Jesuitism as that of Hapsburg could produce a monster like Haynau . One deep stream of blood flows through the whole Government of that house , from the murder of the noble Huss
to our own day . Volumes might be written to give a complete list of their cruelties , perjuries , and assassinations . Every page of their history from the days of the Reformation is spotted with blood . Who can think calmly even now of the heroes of the thirty years ' war which made Germany a waste for a century ? Who can think without a shudder of the atrocities of the Second Ferdinand on the Protestants of Bohemia , where not even a fourth part of the population of
that once prosperous and well-educated people remained after the wholesale murders , persecutions , and banishments of that monarch ? Who can think without the deepest pain of the fatal lot of Styria and Salzburg , countries once almost entirely Protestant , now lingering away again in . the fetters of Popery by nameless persecutions—of the wholesale murder of Protestants at Eperies — of the dragonados in Silesia ? Their diabolical policy will appear clear when the future draws away the veil that partially
covers the crimes of this age . Before the events of 1848 , it was impossible to procure admission for the new Reformation in Austria . Metternich set a price on my head , if I dared to cross the Austrian territory ; and no member of a free congregation in any part of Germany was permitted to travel in Austria . In the month of September , 1848 , I hastened to Vienna , and found free Catholic congregations had been established there and at Gratz , during the short period of freedom . Other congregations were subsequently established . liberal
I had , however , in spite of the more Government of that time , to struggle with the greatest diiheulties ; for the Romish priests incited the more fanatical part of the population against me , especially at Gratz . No inhabitant ventured on that account to let me anyplace for my first lectures , and I was obliged to preach either in the riding school ( which could not be easily set on firej or in the open air . Men full of enthusiasm walked by my side in spite of the threats and curses of the clergy . After the fall of Vienna , in October , 1818 , my reforming eltorw were cut short , and 1 went to Catholic Bavaria , where
I continued them with success . Immediately after the fall of Vienna , the Free Catholic Congregations were forbidden the t-xerciHC of their worship and meeting . The eourt-inai'tiiu authorities of that day declared that they had «<> right , of existence from the Monarchy . The MiniHtei Stadion , ho much praised and held up to the udinm - tion of free England , the author of the fainoufl «»« - Htitutionnow no more , spoke the following reinurknl ) ^ words to the Vorstand of the Free Congregation Vienna : — " Considering the miffirionl number oi r - ligiouu confessions that are tolerated in Austria , »<^ congregations would be a luxury . The me " '' ( im _ these new confirmations may easily reunite ' selvea with those already having u lawful cxihk- - ¦ under the Monarchy , or live without religion j it . *¦ l they ehoose . " A noble hiHtunce this of the tl » w "
faith of an Austrian Minister ! nolve The Free Congregations , however , did not «»•>» j themselves at the hint of the Minister , and a ^ w (|( i persecution was commenced . One clergy '" 1111 . obliged to Have himself by Hi ht . Another , 1 i" [» ^ name , was imprisoned , and afterwards convey * < ^ madhouse , where no one was allowed to np < him , or even to see him . The wardens ol t » o , ^ gregationH were deposed from their office , and . oi ^ the most active of them thrown into prison . ' 2 nd of May , 1 H 45 ) , tho Consistory Court of tho Ji . bishop of Vienna summoned a . member of one oi
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1851, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091851/page/20/
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