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558 THE 1EADER. [sa*iiri)ay,
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METROPOLITAN SANITARY ASSOCIATION. Tnm s...
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THE CAPE TVAR, News from Kafirland reach...
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A WHITECHAPEL ROMANCE. Mahombt Abbaham, ...
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Progress Of Association. The Socialist U...
Abt . XVII . In case of the decease or retirement of one of the three partners , the Society may be continued by the two others , who will have power to take a third . Abt . XVIII . In case of the decease of two of the partners , the undertaking may be continued ' by the survivor , who may take to their number two new associates . . . ¦ ¦ - Abt . XIX . At the expiration of the Society , such sum as , after payment of all debts , may remain in hand , shall be devoted , under joint advice of the council of co-editors and the coimcil of trustees , to an object of general charity or utility . The method of its disposal will be made public . ..
Abt . XX . A special regulation will determine all matters respecting the Journal , the Review , and the council of co-editors . Abt . XXI . The council of trustees is at present composed of Messrs . Edward Vansittart Neale and William Coningham , who have accepted the office . London , May 10 , 1852 .
FBENCH BEFTJGEES . A soiree , the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the French RefugeejFund , was held on Tuesday at the Literary Institution , John - street , Tottenham - court - road . Mr . Robert Le Blonde , having been called to the chair , read a letter from Viscount Goderich , inclosing 10 Z . ; another from M . Mazzini , inclosing 11 ., aa well as letters from Ledru Rollin , and Mr . T . Duncombe , M . P ., explaining the cause of their absence . After some preliminary remarks , and the adoption of a sentiment pledging the meeting to use their efforts for the support of the refugees now in this country , M . Louis Blanc , addressing the meeting in
English for the first time , spoke of the sufferings endured by the French refugees in London , and expressed ! his gratitude for the kindness which they had experienced . He said : — Allow me to remind you of a recent and very striking fact . At the time of the devolution of February , when , in consequence of the foolish alarms spread everywhere by the reactionary party , —when , I say , manufactories were closed , when commerce stopped , when money was hoarded up , it happened that in some places French workmen began—in a very small number , and misguided , alas ! by starvation- —to complain of the competition of the foreign
operatives . But what was , on that occasion , the conduct of the dilegues du Luxembourg , who had been elected by all the corporations in Paris to represent the sacred causo of labour ? They protested indignantly , in the name of the whole body of the people , against this impious complaint ; and it was with their unanimous support that the member of the provisional government who is now speaking issued a proclamation , in which a question was put to the people—Are the foreign workmen your brethren , yes or no ? Yes ! yes ! Such was the moving answer of the people , and an agitation quite incompatible with the genius of France was immediately stifled .
He was followed byJVJ . Pierre Leroux , M . Cabot , and several others . It is no insignificant fact with respect to the progress of Association in this country , to find the subject earnestly taken up by the resident members and ntudents of our universities . We hear that the Oxford Union Debating Society has devoted , lately , three of its weekly meetings to discuss the Associative principle and Christian Socialism . The question opened by the leader of the debate was , that Association is the best remedy for the industrial and social evils of the present time . The controversy was most animated ,
the audience numerous and attentive , and the two parties almost equal ; the supporters of association taking their ground especially from the Christian socialist tracts , and from Mr . Kingaloy ' s works ; the opponents keeping the more easy field of merely negative political economy . Some gentlemen , and thoy were perhaps the more lucid and practical in their argument , took the via media advocated by the Edinburgh Review , namely , that although industrial partnerships between working men may not produco great results , the experiment is worth a fair trial , and should have it . A ridiculous rumour was circulated , that the Vice-chancellor would have forbidden the discussion , but nothing
of the kind occurred ; and it was for the best , for it ih altogether wise and timely that questions having such a lively interest for the public mind , should * bo early and openly considered by young minds in their period of forntation and oxpannion . It is only to bo regretted that the student-advocates of . Association know little of the subject-matter but by hearsay , and so fell into the fallacy of sotting up a subversive opposition between labour und capital , whereas , us wo nro constantly saying , tho proper field lies between two modes of employing capital and labour—tho competitive mode which now prevails , and tho co-oporativc inodo winch is tho now and higher form to which human , society progressively tiHpiroH .
558 The 1eader. [Sa*Iiri)Ay,
558 THE 1 EADER . [ sa * iiri ) ay ,
Metropolitan Sanitary Association. Tnm S...
METROPOLITAN SANITARY ASSOCIATION . Tnm second annivorsary fostival of this association was celebrated on tho 4 th inst ., at tho London Tavern , Btahopsgato-stroot , under tho presidency of tho Enrl of Harrowby . Tho noblo Earl woa supported by tho Earl
of Shaftesbury , Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., Lord James Stuart , M . P ., the Hon . Dudley Fbrtescue , Sir W . C . Ross , Mr , Chadwick , - Mr . F . O . Ward , Mr . Mechi , Mr . Brassey , and about sixty other gentlemen . After the customary loyal toasts , the Chairman proposed " Prosperity to the Metropolitan Sanitery Asspciotion , " in a speech full of : pointy good sense , and public spirit . ¦ "It was , he said , a fact that , although much had been talked about , little had been done . The water supply , the drainage , and sewerage , were in nearly the samestate aa before ^ The stimulus given by the cholera had been speedily extinguishedj and unless some new force was apinflu
plied the same vis inertue would still prevail , JLne - ence of public opinion was transient , but that of vested interests was permanent . The influence of public op inion had in some measure counteracted the latter , andit was the duty as well as the interest of the press and the intelligent portion of the community—of the clerical and medical professions—of the army and navy—to come forward boldly in the matter of sanitary reform , and make it impossible for any interest to withstand them . He proceeded to show that it was a public and not a private matter , and he must say that this institution did good service , and he hoped it would do more still , by showing what ought to be and What might be effected . The association , he was factit not
afraid , would never be popular . In , was an agreeable duty that was required from them , to recapitulate a number of odious facts , which might be wholesome , but were certainly not pleasing . ( Hear , hear . ) He was afraid that the public would be tired of sanitary reform , and say that they were always repeating these odious deta i ls , which they thought had been settled long ago . It required great exertions to keep the matter before the public , and he hoped that the reaction from , the provinces would give increased vitality to their operations in the metropolis . He also referred to the slig ht exertions of the majority of the metropolitan members in promoting the movement -amongst their constituencies , and hoped that bv next year the great powers possessed by the city of
London would not be left inactive , but extended all over the metropolis . In conclusion , he called upon those gentlemen , to whose noble exertions in supporting the many charities for which this city wa ? celebrated they were so much indebted , to unite in lending their assistance . For by this movement the necessity for these charities would be greatly diminished . ( Heap , . hear , hear . ) The evils were rapidly increasing every year with the increase of population , instead of being lessened ; and he drew a fearful picture of the evils resulting from the number of destitute widows and orphans haunting the metropolis . Space was becoming more valuable—rents were higher , and the condition of the great towns was bringing on a ht b in the
state of national deterioration . It mig e seen countenance and physical condition of the urban population—and he instanced the increasing crowded state of Bethnal-green . Strong measures were required , and the Ministry only could deal with it . They themselves could not interfere with vested interests , and it was only by ¦ working upon public opinion and by their co-operation that they could effect any good at all . " Mr . Mechi proposed " The Sanitary Reformers of the House of Lords , " and alluded to the great benefits which would result to agriculture from the application of the sewerage to the soil , and stated the results of his own experiments on the subject .
The Earl of Shaftesbury returned thanks , feelingly and earnestly deploring that " all efforts to elevate the lower orders were in vain so long as their present domiciliary and sanitary condition was left untouched . " Mr . Brassoy then proposed , " The Sanitary Reformers of the House of Commons , " to which Viscount Ebrington responded , rebutting the charges of monopoly and centralization brought against the sanitary party , and declaring that sanitary consolidation increased competition and responsibility , and strengthened , instead of subverting , local self-government .
Mr . Edwin Chadwick proposed " The Literary Supporters of Sanitary Reform , " coupling with tho toast tho names of Mr . Charles Dickons , and Mf . F . O . Ward , whom ho eulogised in connexion with the press of this country generally for the power and independence with which they had attacked tho vested interests opposed to sanitary progress , and spread abroad , not only in Europe , but also in America , tho great snnitary principles of the proventibility of disease , and of sanitary consolidation , which England has had the honour of first originating .
Mr . F . O . Ward , in tho absence of Mr . Charles Dickens , whom ho warmly eulogised as one of tho stnunehest friends of sanitary progress , responded on behalf of the press , and dwelt with gront forco on tho fearful fact , that a rnpid Degradation of Race is taking place in the low crowded towndistrictn of England , by which not only tho physical powers of tho pcoplo are impaired , but thoir susceptibility of lofty aspirations and emotions , thoir love of virtue , and their capacity
for freedom . Ho showed how , by tho combined sanitary and agricultural movements , honcoforth united in ono grand organization , thin great national calamity might bo averted ; and ho appealed to every Englishman who doairod to transmit his race and his blood as puro to his children as ho had received it from liis nncostors , to aid tho sanitary party in putting a , stop to those fonr , ful evils of filth , and consequent crime , misery , and degeneration , which must olso increase
upon us , and destroy at once the elevation of the British character , and the prosperity 6 f the country The subscriptions announced during the evening amounted to between 4002 . and 500 £ .. ^
The Cape Tvar, News From Kafirland Reach...
THE CAPE TVAR , News from Kafirland reached home by the Hellespont which arrived at Plymouth on Sunday afternoon ' General Cathcart has begun to act with great vigour " and Macottio , who had been driven from the Waterkloof by General Somerset , had returned to his old quarters as the troops retired . But the policy of General Cathcart is best described in an address which he issued on the 12 th of April , from King William ' s Town . : " Chiefs , amapakati , and people who dwell between the rivers Kei and Keiskamnfa" Our great and good Queen Victoria has sent me George Cathcart , to be your great chief and governor . ' * I am come among you to dp good to all those who are faithful and true to their word . " Therefore , Pato , Siwani , Toise , IJmkai , and all those chiefs and men of the T'Slambie tribes who have been faithful during this war—I am your ^ ood friend so long as you , your amapakati , and people , will allow me to be so . I will also be the friend of TTmhala , provided that his future conduct be such as to acquire my good opinion .
" But as for SandiUi , and au the Craika cmets and peopfej also the T'Slarnbies Sevolo and ITnafundisi , and their followers , they have rebelled against their Sovereign , Queen Victoria , and have suffered rebel Hottentots and others to join them in fighting against her soldiers . " That is a creat crime , and cannot be forgotten ; therefore , though f wish for peace , and that all bloodshed should cease , Sandilli , and all those who have taken part in this wicked rebellion , must go beyond the Kei , and none of them will ever be suffered to return and live in peace in the country they occupied before the ¦ war . "G eobgb CathCabt , Lieutenant-General , "High Commissioner . "
By general order from head-quarters , dated April 21 , it appears that 500 Minie muskets are in hand . Six of them are to be given to each of the 62 companies pf battalions under General Cathcarfs command . They are to be given to the best marksmen , one of which , and one only , to be a non-commissioned officer ; the present arms to beLplaced in store . No two marksmen are to stand as . front .. - and rear rank relatively to each
other . The selected men at the word of command are to be ready to spring in front , but never to be made a substitute for an advanced guard . When the special service is over the marksmen are , at the sound of the bugle , to return to their respective places . Commanding officers are enjoined to be careful and scrupulous in the selection of marksmen for this important service , which will carry with it high honorary distinction , and entitle those selected to favourable consideration .
Colonel Michel had a brush with the enemy on the 17 th of April , near Fort Cox . The enemy mustered very strong . One company of tho 6 th , and one of the Rifles were on the left flank , well covered by rocks . While the main body were moving to take a fresh position to the right front , the two companies became severely engaged , and for some time no advantage was gained by either side , until a sub-division of the 6 th light company , making a" desperate charge , drove tho enemy with heavy loss from their position . Eight d
were killed by the bayonet , and one man , name Kelly , captured a musket ready capped and loaded by dashing out a Kafir ' s brains with the butt of his piece . During this time the Colonel ordered a company of Rifles into ambush , and to wait till ho ordered them to rise . Tho column moved off , and when the Kafirs thoug ht all was clear , they camo on for the purpose of having a few partial shots ; but , sad to state , upon their arrival within 100 yards of the company of Rifles , they received a volley , which drove them headlong down the chils , leaving some twenty killed , besides others wounded . William
Tho gallows huti been erected at King « Town , and General Cathcnrt has resolved to hang two of tho councillors of Stock and Scyolo who havo been captured . , , Sandilli , as soon ns General C athcurt arrived , sent to Commissioner Brownleo to ask for peace , " as tho land had bcon disturbed long enough . " But tho niesHonger was sent back to say that tho Governor would toiko no notice of the Gaikas on this side of tho Koi ; when no and all his pooplo wore on the other side they migM then ncgotate , but not before .
A Whitechapel Romance. Mahombt Abbaham, ...
A WHITECHAPEL ROMANCE . Mahombt Abbaham , a jot black bcggar-inan , who ib usually led through the stroots by a brown dog , am Eliza , aged 28 , tho daughter of a gentleman wno resides in London , woro brought before tho uow Mayok , by Honry M < gor , an ofllcor of tho Mendicity Society , on Saturday . Abraham is ft very dl »« r < T looking follow from tho " blind beggar of Bet ™ " green . " His head is covered with long m *™^ . r ~ L j and tho rags which do duty for clothing ftro » tw \ . and filthy in an extreme degreo . Tho woman is « n »
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061852/page/10/
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