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Robert Lowe At Kidderminster. In The Dea...
have been notoriously wrong in every principle they ever advocated ( hear , hear ) , and now only seek to repair tbat error by a sordid desertion of those principles fop the mere purpose of retaining place and office . ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hear . ' ) But 1 will go a little further , and say that not only is it not the business of Government to set itself _an-ainst public opinion , even though they should think that tendency of the public mind to be wrong , but I will say that those men are unable to read the signs of the times , unfit to be entrusted with the government of mankind , unfit to be made responsible for anything more than their own paltry existences , who cannot read in the present day that there is , whether for good or for evil , happily or unhappily for the human race , with the inscrutable will of the all-wise Author of the Universe , an unalterable tendency towards democratic equality . " ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hear . ' )
Mr . Lowe showed , in support of his " fact , " that democracy on the continent was only met by brute force ; neither the Jesuits nor any principle being able to stand against it . He was rather hard upon Mr . Disraeli" There was , he observed , a certain class of shabby-genteel persons in the world , who went about thrusting sixpenny pamphlets into people ' s hands , undertaking to pay off the national debt , and make us all happy and rich . ( A laugh . ) There would always be such men as long as the constitution of our nature remained the same , but never till now did that class of persons storm the battlements of office , and instal itself as it was now personified in the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Laughter . ) A supporter of
Ministers told us the other day that he had confidence in a seer who had conjured up in the dim obscure a financial system looming in the distance , and he had no doubt it would hit where the shoe pinched . ( Boars of laughter . ) In that luminous sentence wc had the entire political faith of the Cabinet . They had discarded their principles ; they had not a rag to hold to ; they had taken nothing in exchange ; and they were waiting till it should please the mighty magician , the Chancellor of the Chancellor , to tell them what they were to be . ( Laughter . ) To this pass had a number of the gentlemen of England fallen , that they were waiting for their principles till they should drop from Mr . Disraeli's hand , like manna in the desert ( laughter ) , ready to gather them , up greedily , and ask no questions whatever . ( Laughter . )"
And he represented the Protectionists as "having nothing whatever to steer by except Disraeli ' s head rising above the waves . " Having exhausted politics , Mr . Lowe was instructive and premonitory on emigration : — " A large emigration had taken place to Australia , but he did not believe it would stop here ; we were in ' the heginning of the end . ' It was a most serious thing for all persons employing labour , what the end of that emigration would be . The temptations it held out were so manifest , and the resources of the country so manifold , that it was difficult to anticipate thc extent of that emigration . Already it had begun to raise wages ( hear ) , but it was not
to be supposed that a little alteration would tempt those who contemplated emigration to give it up . The habit of emigration once afloat , it woulel probably continue until wages sheauld be very considerably raised . Ho ( Mr . Lowe ) bebeveel tbat on tho one siele we should sec pauperism , as far as _able-boeiieel persons were concerned , abolished , und labourers never knowing what it was to want the necessaries , or even tho comforts , of life ( hear , hear ) ; but , on the other hand , tho ce . _st of production of those articles on which our traele anel commerce ! elepeneleel woulel be greatly increased , antl all whose success depended em keeping deiwn that cost of preieluctiem ought tei take this intei _sorieius consielcralion . ( Hear . ) He would neit say that they
_cetuld obviate it , but something they could elo . They must inerouse the : _clfie-iene-y of their labour . ( Hear . ) If they hael less eif it , what they hael must elo more . ( Hear . ) In two ways it must _det _meiro ; by _assoeiiuting itself with those natural powers which we hael found means to subject to our will under tho name of machinery , anel by being directeel by a quick , and lively , anel instructed intelligence . ( Hear , hear . ) We must make emr labour more efficient ; anil , tei make it _nteire ) efficient , we must educate it better . ( Near . ) lie was awuro that ho was touching on elehcato greiunti—on controversial teipics . This ejuestion was usually consielereel as a religiems , eir , rather , a sectarian questiem . ( Hear , hour . ) Te > the present . ludienee , in that
_vieiw eif the ! ease , he shoulel say ne , thing whatever ; but he must state that , _bi ! siile ! s its religious aspect , it was alsei an _economical _quostiein ( hear , bear ) , a epiestion which _teiuched the future _heipos anel prospects of this country let the , very epiit-k ( hear , hoar ) , anel upon the solution of whieh , right eir wrong , it efcpemdcel whether this e , eiuntry was to go on in its magnificent course , eir to red _rogroele in the scale of nations . ( Hear , _lienor . ) He woulel use all tho means he , coulel to bring this mutter lie , lore , the , addition of the legislature ( hear ) ; not with the , view of _superse-ding the , religious aspect of tho _question at all , but , eil pointing out
—which eliel not seem _^ sufficiently _uneh-rsteiod - lhat if there weire no geieiel in _so ' ciilnr education , —if ( as was said ) tho moro cultivation of tht , _intellect elid nothing towards reclaiming tho heart , still , for the purposes of manufacturing industry , for the purpose , of ' making both _enela moot , ' of preserving to our manufacturers mid agriculturists any profits at all under the rise in the price , of labour with which wo wore , thrt , atoncel , it was _absedutedy neeessary that tho question should bo efealt with , and that immediate , steps bo taken _teiwarels the , instruction of the , _peetplo of England . ( Loud trios of ' Hoar . ' ) We had not an hour to lose . " _-iHear . )
Lord Ward , nnd other _sjieakcrH , no doubt pretty much amazed at the freedom of fhe new member , feille ) wed , and the company sat lute at tuble . The important feature in tho latter portion of tho _plWjejwlwga wa * a » _uggK # _tiw t _* h * _d WI _honiMi ' ' _IrtWP
Robert Lowe At Kidderminster. In The Dea...
in proposing a fcoaat . He observed that he looked in vain in Kidderminster for a large room like that in which the dinner took place available for concerts , lectures , discussions , and any innocent and rational recreation which might draw the working-classes from coarser indulgences , and raise them in the scale of humanity . He observed that the large assemblage at yesterday ' s dinner had become possible only through
the liberality , of two gentlemen who were fittin g up that room for a different purpose ; but , if that could be done by one firm for purposes of gain , surely all together could provide such a room for the purpose of the progress and enlightenment of their operatives . Tho suggestion was warmly responded to by subsequent speakers , and a hope was expressed by them tbat steps would be taken to carry it into effect .
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Loed Carlisle Lecturing At Morpeth. Sinc...
LOED CARLISLE LECTURING AT MORPETH . Since the Earl of Carlisle lectured to a Mechanics ' Institute , he has had imitators both in his own class aud in classes not of such conventional elevation . But , probably , Lord Carlisle is the most popular of all the aristocratic lecturers ; and the only Cabinet Minister who ever lectured at all . His Leeds lecture , on " The Poetry of Pope , " he has lately delivered to the good folks of Morpeth ; and he made the following speech in reply to a vote of thanks for his lecture : — " Ladies and Gentlemen , —You must allow me , in a few words , to express my very deep sense of the honour I have just received at your hands , in the first place to the mover and seconder of the late resolution which they have so
considerately brought forward and so very kindly as regards myself , and to yourselves for the prompt and cordial manner in which you have received what they proposed . I assure you , when I found that it would be acceptable to the members of the Morpeth Mechanics' Institute and their friends to hear me read a lecture , I felt quite justified in embracing the opportunity which a short visit to this town put in my power to comply with a request so obligingly made . I felt also there was something not wholly inappropriate in a lecture which had been read for the first time among those who witnessed the close of my political life—my old constituents of the West Biding of Yorkshire—being repeated among those who witnessed
the commencement of my political life , my first constituents in the ancient borough of Morpeth . With reference to the lecture itself which . I have had the honour of reading to you , it has been once or twice said to me , ' Ho you think that the audiences you assemble to hear your lectures would be likely to relish a lecture on the poetry of Pope ; and might it not be better to compose a lecture which more directly tended to promote the cause of moral improvement ? ' Now , wdth respect to this matter , I have only to say—first , with regard to any want of sympathy in my audiences , I always feel inclined to helieve that where there is the real presence of beauty or delicacy , or fine and high feeling , it is always sure to strike a responsive cord in all human bosoms , and if I wanted my assurance corroborated on this point , I am certain I should find it in the very attentive and intelligent hearing which you have given to
my lecture this evening . With reference to the other point , as to tho absonce of any direct purpose of moral utility in thc topic I havo chosen , I certainly do not wish to assign to works of fancy or the compositions of poetry any higher place than they really occupy . But as wo _seo in the physical earth on which we tread , among all its abundant stores ot useful and substantial products—its stone , its coal , its iron , unel its loael—there aro also veins of _meiro precious , shining metal , its gold and silver , nnel as even in its _elarkeist recesses and its deepest fissures you will find sparkling gems and precious stones , its diamonds , its rubies , and its garnets , so I believe that among thoso matters which more directly minister both to ejur temporal advancement unel emr spiritual progress , while we give them thoir just anel lawful supremacy , the Supremo Architect of nature , the Founder both of the material anel tho moral world
nreiund us , has wished that we should enjoy and appropriate to ourMclvcs the sparkle and the play ot life—all that is contribuleel by the rich _storeis of fancy , and by the _gorge-ous elreuma of poetry—not in preference ! to , but in ceinj unci ion wil . li tho more grave anel _essential mutters which minister lo our material , intellectual , and spiritual growth . It , is with those feelings that I havo felt nei reluctance to ask you for a little , while to inelulgo in _theiso more light anel _grace ; ful _eibjeefs e > f pursuit , neit wishing to p lace , them above those of nsal importance , but thinking it woulel be not wholly imippropriuto to diversify tho humdrum
occupations ol our dail y _hvess with a little , fancy and a little , poetry . ( Ite : iie ! vve » el choors . ) The ) _auilifmces which I have always wished to draw uround mo are , those _conncctetd with _mcediauicN' _institutieins , the working and laborious portion of tho community , because I rt sally wished to exp _ress my sense , of tho real dignity of labour , anel eif the , important part which it plays both in advancing emr national greatness and tho general amelioration of _iiiuukit . _el . I wisheel to evince my respect for the . se wlie _> contribute , either by the , strength of thoir sinews , en * by their ingenuity anel rououre : o to tho comfort anel wedl-boing of tho communit y , anel by coming aiming thoin , tei show _hetw _muedi 1 feci that wo are all members of tho same
community , anil that we , have , all the , same , _greiat enel before us , that eif contributing , as far as wo can , in emr day anel generation , to tbe , prosperity of our ctiiitmon country , anel to _uelvimctei the , groat work of human _pretgresss . I ant sure , aiming the inslitutiema which iu our day are , distinguishing _tlu-inselves iu this onward course ,, it will always bo a great gratification tei mo tt ) hear of tho prosperity of tho _jnoduinjucu' institute of thiB town . For reason * dating through wot ? . * v & _utur ' m mw , I bare * _rigbt to , jb < 4 fcrongly
Loed Carlisle Lecturing At Morpeth. Sinc...
_intM-ested in thia town ; that interest has been _confirm ! by the _unrformkmdness I have always experienced _S j you , and I wish that both in your ordinary _oeSnSSf * and in the _rational amusements with which you _dwSS your daily lrfe _, you may always pursue t 4 t which £ ' honest , pure , lovely , _onefof good report , ' and that all sueh liberal institutions may flourish among you to the v utmost . I shall not forget the kindness with which v _^ have received me , and I beg nermission to take mv leav * of you with every good wish fbr your happiness and well being , and more especially for the prosperity 0 f vour valuable institution . " ( Loud cheers . ) _^ Lord Carlisle is decidedly a local prophet , not without honour in tbe land of tbe Howards .
Emigration Doings. The Irish Are Swarmin...
EMIGRATION DOINGS . The Irish are swarming forth from their old hive spare English are steammg and sailing away to Aus ! tralia ; Germans and Norwegians go to the backwoods ; New York sends large contingents to _theAustral digging 8 5 and > above all , the Chinese , furnishing the most remarkable fact in this class of subjects , are emigrating by thousands to tbe islands of the Pacific to California , and the western coast of South America , and our Australian colony .
Our own emigration feats have been considerable quite independent of Government assistance , which is rather obstructive , though there is no reason why it should be . But public departments are unaccountable things ; and wherever there is a bureau and bureaucrats there mismanagement , routine , and inefficiency seem inevitable accompaniments . Why , for instance , should not Bristol be a Government emigration port ? Independent emigration has tested its fitness ; and vague rumours of great plans for increasing its business as a port reach us now and then . Emigration will go on , and should be facilitated . Bristol has already sent forth its quota ; and there are now six large first-class vessels Iving in her quays bound for Australia ; and it
is estimated that , beside the 1695 passengers who have already left , the number of emigrants during the present year will be upwards of 4000 . In addition to its own immediate district , a number of emigrants leave the port of Bristol from the Midland Counties , Devon , Cornwall , and South Wales . The following ( from Custom-house authority ) is tbe number of ships with emigrants which have left the port during the last eight years , ending the 31 st of December : 1841 , 10 ships , 159 passengers ; 1845 , 10 ships , 198 passengers ; 1846 , 6 ships , 182 passengers ; 1847 , 12 ships , 623 passengers ; 1848 , 20 ships , 1473 passengers ; 1849 , 24 ships , 1895 passengers ; 1850 , 22 ships , 1920 passengers ; 1851 , 29 ships , 1958 passengers ; and , for the six months euding the 30 th of June , 1852 , 14 ships , 1695
passengers . In connexion with this topic , we observe that tho long-talked-of project for crossing the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean by steam is said to be , at length , in a fair train for consummation . In about a year powerful screw steam-ships will be p laced on the station , to run to and from Panama and Sydney , touching at Tahiti and New Zealand . The Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Company , recently incorporated by Koyal churtcr , are now pressing forward their arrangements for taking up the line , and have contracted for the immediate construction of five iron screw steam-ships of
1560 tenia burden and 300-borse power . The vessels being of iron , it was considered more conducive to harmony of actiem fe _; r the ship and eng ines to be included in erne contract ; accordingly the builders of the ship will also manufacture tbe machinery . The lirst vessel is te ) bo ready in nine month * front the present elate , and will bo ut once elespntched to Sy dney as a pioneer of the line , and thence te > occupy tho Pacific station to Panama . The communication each way is to be monthly _, and the Australasian Company ' s steam-ships will rim in ceirre _. _spemelene-o with the ! direct West India «»» u sle . _'iinier . s _frenn _Chagres to Southamp ton . " < J ; s anl " _^ paled that Sydney will thus be readied in GO to _^ days from Southampton .
Mrs. Ciiisiiolm's Speiocii On Hoard Thi ...
MRS . CIIISIIOLM'S SPEIOCII ON HOARD THI BALLKNGEIOII . [ W _» have been favoured with the mloivsti » _jf . _»» j hitherto unreported speech eif Mrs . _Chinhe . Jm , ( ,, ! " ' . ( i // _j by her at tbe , banquet given on board the _Patlent _/ _i -, lately despatched freim Southamp ton , ftud chart * '' _«• J Ihe enterprise eif Mr . Wyndham Harding- "l ( " _< / . _^ lent spirit eif the uddrcHH must b *! our apology » insertien after _se > leing an interval . J I ri « o , as a wife and a mother , to _^ ° . * ' _*[ _$ ! { _Ju _^ tS * my friend Mr . J larding ban given . Anel J wn ¦ _j . _^ opportunity of mentioning erne e > r two _hu'w ' _']( , \ | _,, > which may bo " mt < : renting , nn showing how _i }> iWJl the , task iii which the , greater part ot that mo passed . , _^ ,, 11 _ii « r ' Tho idea of life being a ta _* k leading , wj W _* ' _^ j ; formed , on to tho inexpressible _happJM _^"' « , _japl * ton * o _» th » _lusw _ofUsh _ButoWW _^ **•» _*
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/8/
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