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lieppoc to make the victory more decided . As connected with the Board of Guardians for three years , this gentleman claimed credit for experience . "As to reproductive labour , did they mean , to say that it had not been tried in Manchester f The ^ question / was raised among the guardians at the end of 1 « 47 , whether thev should not have reproductive labour . An experiment was tried with 20 men in making a road at Swinton , givine them 12 « . a-week , and at the end of six months it was reported by the master that three independent labourers , at 3 s . 6 d . a-day , which was a very high standard , would have accomplished the work much more to their satisfaction , at not more than one-third the cost . The reproductive system , then , had been shown to have failed . There was a class of people whom it was impossible to make work . "
The speech of Mr . Leppoc notwithstanding , the resolution was carried unanimously . Mr . A . Watkin moved , and Dr . Watts seconded , the next resolution , which was carried tinanimously : — " That the present system of Poor Law relief for persons capable of contributing to their own support , whether kept in idleness or set to repulsive and useless taskwork , was at variance with the acknowledged principles of political economy , and inflicted a great evil on the ratepayers , tending to increase pauperism . " Mr . R . S . Sowler moved the third resolution : —
" That the substitution , under proper management , of reproductive labour for idleness and useless tests , together wfth the establishment of a general system of industrial and mainly Belf-supporting pauper schools , is n only right in principle , but calculated , from its proved results , to reduce the evils of pauperism . " Mr . A . Prentice seconded the resolution , and it was agreed to . Mr . S . . Ogden moved the adoption of a petition embodying the resolutions , to be signed by the chairman , and presented to the House of Lords by the Earl of Ellesmere . and to the House of Commons by Mr . J .
Bright , M . P . CHUEeH OP ENGLAND SELF-SUPPOKTING VILLAGE SOCIETY . The annual meeting of the society for establisliing selfsupporting villages forthe benefit of the working-classes , was held on Thursday at Exeter Hall . The Reverend J . E . Keane was in the chair , and contended that the evils of competition in trade were that they bad drawn mankind to the medium of trade—money . Money was of very little advantage as money itself . The
present gold discoveries were proved to be of serious injury ^ The eyes of England were bent on money which begets a spirit of competition , which was injurious to the poor man , amd produced misery . ( Hear , hear . ) The Reverend J . Brown , the Rector of Christchurch , Surrey , and honorary secretary , read letters apologising for the absence of Mr . Brotherton , M . P ., and several other gentlemen , as also from Lord Goderieh , who was to have presided . The report was read and adopted , Mr . M . Morgan , Mr . J . Potter , and other gentlemen addressed the meeting .
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LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XXI . Paris , Tuesday Evening , I 8 tli May , 1852 . Events , which seem to be hurrying us to a catastrophe , are rapidly succeeding each other in France . The imperialist ffite was scarcely ended before public attention was drawn in other directions . Last Saturday a meeting of the Council of Minjsters took place , at which the difficult questions of the interior and exterior were considered . The refusals to take the oath ,
which are becoming general ; the attitude assumed by the Legitimists , between whom and the Government of Louis Bonaparte , the Comto do Chambord has forbidden all intercourse ; the intrigues of the Orloanists in the north ; the republican movements in the southern and central departments ; and lastly , the attitude of the urmy , whose ominous silonco has alarmed the Elyse * o ; were all discussed . It was decided a new initiative should forthwith bo adopted ; that the chiefs and principal adherents of the Legitimist party should bo vigorously swept out of the way ; and the Legitimist and Orleanist dvertissements notices
journals destroyed by a aeries of ( of suspension ); that a razzia should bo made upon the republicans ; and 1800 officers of the army should bo cashiered—1800 out of 12 , 000 ! - —that the army was to bo gained over at any cost , oven by extending the French frontier to the Rhino ; and if the negotiations , which were to bo opened immediately in every channel , to accomplish this purpoBO , failed , to declare- war ; call out 1 , 200 , 000 of the peasantry , to add to the standing army of 400 , 000 men , and prosecute tho war vigorously !
A diplomatic note waa there and then prepared by the Minister for Foreign Afloirs , oddroBsod to tho court of Vienna , praying its good offices between Louis Napoleon and tho Czar . In this note , tho nocossity of the establishment of tho Empire waa clearly laid down ,
an Empire , moreover , surrounded with a prestige ; an Empire extending to the natural boundaries of France . —the Rhine . The note adds , that without this concession from the foreign powers , the government of M . Bonaparte cannot stand its ground much longer ; and that the catastrophe , averted by the act of the 2 nd of December , will infallibly explode , and bury in its ruins the improvident kings . and governments of Europe . An ambassador extraordinary started for Vienna on the same night , the bearer of these propositions . Considering the tenor of the note , are we to act in concert with England ? The intelligence on this subject is contradictory . I hold from a late
secretary of Bonaparte ' s , that it is positively arranged not to separate front England ; but to seek in the evident reconciliation between the Eng lish minister and the Austrian government , the means to . bring England——receiving Egypt as a compensation—to consent to reconstruct the map of Europe ; giving the frontiers of the Rhine to France ; Piedmont and Switzerland , tc , Austria ; Mecklenburg and Saxony to Prussia ; dnd t o Russia , Turkey in Europe , with Constantinople . Jin other quarters , I hear , on the contrary ^ that Lot iis Bonaparte proposes to Austria and Russia not only , to dispense with the concurrence of England , but to act against her . If these negotiations do not succeed , Louis Bonaparte is resolved on . var .
On the same night , Gene ml Vaillant , who constructed the fortifications of ^ Paris , was sent foi . * , and consulted as to the state of f ihe fortifications in Fmrope generally , and in Belgium particularly . As the c ; eneral was coming from this interview , he met an Officer of engineers , with whom ' ne is intimate , and made use of the following words— - " My good friend , we ares on the point of committing tine grande folie . Befit re long Belgium will be in : v : aded !"
AH these circumstances have led to a reaction in the public securities . The fall continues at tbe Bourse . The artificial means , to which recou rse has been had , are insufficient to arrest the fall . Kn vain are large discounting transactions advertised « claily , for the purpose of checking the operations for the fall . In vain the Administration of deposits and en jnsignments invest one million per diem by order of the > Government . In vain the Receivers General are ins structed to buy up stock ; the funds still fall . The mi > veinent this week has been most marked . In truth , t ) ae situation is very serious . The letter of General O mngarnier has been
handed about at the Bourse . Boj japarte , according to the General ' s statement , went s o far as to say he would recal Henry V ., and crown him King of France , if Changarnier would but assist him ( Bonaparte ) to put down the National Assembly y . All these infamies , coming out in the broad light of day , have shocked the public conscience , and the Reeling of indignation is general . Since then we have ? aad the letter of General Lamoriciere , which is beginr ing to circnlate in Parfc by the medium of MS . copiep ,. This letter contains no
revelation , however , regardr ng the events of December The General confines himse" If to refusing , in sufficiently strong terms , to take tho oath . " Proscribed in contempt of the laws , " sa ' ys he , " I should not have thought that I could r . ave been called upon to subscribe an oath of fldo'aty to the man whose power , usurped by violence , c » , n only maintain itself by force ? " " Letters to the same 0 ' ffect are expected from . Generals . Bedcau and Lefld .
The communicati on of the Comte de Chambord to his faithful Legitiir lists , has also affected public opinioKi The Legitimist po « rty are strictly enjoined in this d » r cumont to abstair » from subscribing the oath ; to refasa any appointment necessitating the taking of the oatd *; and to keep completely aloof from the present Govwnment . There is consequently a deluge of rofusals . The Republicans having been for three years virtually . © secluded from all public functions— -functions which * for lack of Bonopartists , who do not exist , have devoJvcd ' on : Orleanists and Legitimists . You may judge of the . porrplexities and per turbation produced in the departmental , and communal administrations , by these refusals- Inaiddition to a crowd of private individuals , whom it . would ! bo impossible to enumerate , Municipal Councils ,.
Tribunals of Commorco , Departomontal Councils , appear , to vie with each other in forwarding their resignations to tho Government . This week , I observe , tho Municipal Councils of Alencon and Bdfort , and the Tribunal of Commorco of Rhodes , have adopted this step .. The learned bodies of the Instituto have boon seized with a noblo emulation to follow , in tlio enmo direction , as they became aware of tho treatment to which M . Arago had boon subjected . MM . Bartheloiny Sai » t Hiluiro , director of tho College of Franco ; Pouillet , the celebrated natural philosopher ; Cauchy , of tho Faculty of Sciences , have sent in thoir resignations , as well a » M . Haureuu , of tho National Library , and M . Chotnel , diroetor of tho Faculty of Modieino . Many other Sava / uts . oxo about to follow thoir excunple . There wore ,
nevertheless , a few wh « ar j Swered the summons of the Minister of the Interior ..-, but instead of taking the bath in the manner presbr' n ^^ they merely raised their hand while passing the 7 jfir iister , before the formula of the ; oath had been re- dd to them , and left Without uttering a single syW cble . This amusing story has been the joke of all Par , * ,. Whilf j these things are going on , * the , official World ig feastin ? : ; and dancing . Since the banquet of the -llth , three others have taken place : one at the Military Schoo j , given to the army delegates ^ whose ironical and flippf ant air at the ceremony of the 10 th , led St . Arn . aud to exclaim , " these feliows look as though they wa ated to make fools of us / ' These delegates were ag ain entertained at the Hotel de Ville ; for a dead-set w as made to win them before their return to their
respective Tegiments . A third banquet has been given ,. but I am unable to say on what account . We are now about to celebrate the marriage of Persigny . Bonaparte lends him Fontainebleau for the = honeymoon ! The committee of the Legislative Body , entrusted with the examination of the budget of 1853 , was = formed on Saturday . The members were unanimously selected from that fraction of the Chamber called the = " Independents , " This significant fact causes much uneasiness at the Elysee . The committee consists of MM . Gouin , banker and ex-Minister of Finance , chairman ; Mbntaleinbert : J . Ouvrard , son of the celebrated
financier ; Louvet ; Chasseloup-Laubat , ex-representative ; De Flavigny ; De Bussieres , ex-Secretary to the Chamber of Deputies ; the Ducd'Uzes ; the Due de Mouchy ; Ancel , merchant , and ex-Mayor of Havre ; Halley-Claparede , ex-Deputy ; Be Belleyme , son of the eminent President of the Tribunal of the Seine j andBaudoing , manufacturer , and ex-Deputy . The first meeting of the committee was held on Monday , and important resolutions were adopted . The committee decided upon demanding , — -1 st , the suppression of the ministry of police ; 2 nd , explanations on the subject of the conversion of the five per cents . ; 3 rd , explanations as to the deficit , which the Government estimates at fifty millioris > but which is in reality a hundred millionsas reckoned by M . Gouin .
, M . Bonaparte had laid a trap for the Legislative Body , by settling beforehand the deficit in the budget , so as to force the Chamber to propose some additional taxes , and thus bring upon themselves the unpopularity of the measure . M . Delamarre ( of the Patrie ) , who obeyed the signal of the Elysee , spoke in the preparatory debate , on the necessity of increasing the income , allowing the expenditure to remain untouched . " We inow all about tftat , " was replied ; " you seek to treat
¦ us like the late National Assembly , and to induce us to enact xinpopular laws , so that you may afterwards claim the merit of abolishing them . But we remember the electoral law of the 31 st of May , and the law for the re-establishment of the duty on liquors . " M . V ^ ron then proposed to levy a tax oh advertisements . " Yes ,. yes , " said the " Independents , " " a taxon advertisement ^ , in . order to put an end to publicity in the newspapers 1 M . Veron ( of the Constitutionnel ) sat down , covered with shame , amidst tho fire of this repartee , to which ;
lie owed his exclusion from the committee . It is expected that in the sittings which are to follow , the committee will decide upon the necessity ot diminishing tho expenses / and propose a reduction ot the army . The attitude of the Legislative Body causes iscrious alarm to Louis Bonaparte . In the meantime , : rigorous measures are being carried on in all directions . This week there have been fifteen notices iserved on the provincial press . One of those journals , the Progre ? die Pas de Calais , has been suppressed . ¦ JNTot even tho Freemasons are exempt from furnislnng igrounds of disquietude ; the Executive , in its fear , flas closed fifty masonic lodges . In Bhort , tho transportations are still going on . Xfetters from Nismes state , rthat a convoy of prisoners recently passed through tna ttown amidst the cries of Vive la KSpublique !
A strange roport circulated at tho Bourso _ to- < wy ! It was eaid , an insurrection had broken out at Maarw , itLat the Spanish ministry had published its oraonmances like ClmrleB X ., and that tho people had eliecR « i revolution , in imitation of that of July , 18301 fJ *
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* This rumour romains unconfirmed . % b &> ftt ptomfttuxo . — -Dp , q £ Leader .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . M . Gbavkbb bu Oabbaonao , the hired bravo of * o iTrench p ^ oBs , the bully of tho Conetitutionnel , W # " lot loose by the Government to bespatter wrtft «"^ j *» d abuso tho Generals ' who have refused to toko tho «¦ With roBpcct to Lamoriciero , he does not "VJJLjiiy , bravery of thegonoral , but he denies the military "jrj' ^ i »> ut on Ohangornier , tho eomotime intimate wcotn ]?" mow the bitterest enemy of the Elyade , he lavwhos au « f insult and contempt . — -
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051852/page/6/
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