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      Three Of The Five Men Nnchtrd For Violat...

      His name to it . He had been staying at Johnny Broome ' s public-house , and the fraternity had gone down to Brighton races at the expense of William Hamp , accompanied by three ladies . John Broome , Charl e s Staden , and John James were yesterday fully committed for trial . ,,, ,. . ., . In May last a young lady , Miss Wyse , died suddenly in the house of a clergyman , Mr . H e le , at Bishopsteignton sear Exeter . Circumstances since occurred whieh aroused the suspicions of her relatives , and a note from Major EUisoa , her uncle , to Mr . Hele , declining to recei v e that gentleman and his wife at the major ' s house ,

      induced Mr . H e l e t o ha v e the b ody e xhumed and examined . The inquest took place on Wednesday and Thursday . The contents of the stomach were submitted to Mr . Herepath , and he found that she had died of prussic acid . One of the servants in the house alleged ill-treatment of Miss Wyse by Mr . and Mrs . Hele . There was no evidence to show that Miss W ys e had b een poisoned . The coroner in summing up said— " In reference to the alleged ill-treatment by Mr . and Mrs . Hele of the deceased , Mr . Hele was a clergyman of the Chureh of England , and could not have gone to such lengths as would have induced the deceased to have committed such

      an act : " and the jury returned the following verdict : — " We find that Jane Wyse came to her death by taking essential oil of almonds ; but whether she took it with the intention of putting an end to her life or not , we cannot say . " . ..

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      The German Agitation Union Op London. A ...

      THE GERMAN AGITATION UNION OP LONDON . A society under the above name has been formed for the purpose of reestablishing the lawful rig hts of the German people which were overthrown by a despotism as barbarous in its cruelty , and more lawless than that of N aples , and crushing with the same iron weight the whole of Italy and Hungary . The society will make use only of means of agitation within the limits of the laws of England . The society is not merely for discuss i on , but preeminentl y for work .

      Each of the members who hare at present acceded to it has undertaken to work in a special department of the business of agitation . To prevent misconception or wilful misrepresentation , the society declares distinctly that it has no pretension whatever to be a secret Government of Germany . The society has entrusted Dr . Karl Tausenau , of Vienna , with its central direction , and has appointed him , with full power , to , be its representative and agent in all its external business and negotiations . London , August 15 , 1851 .

      Si gned in the name of the society , Joseph Fioklek . Johannes RonoJ :. Dr . G"OTTFHtBDFRAaiCK . Arnold Ruge . AmANO GOKGO . FltANZ SlOEL . Daniel Hertle . The G-erman Agitation Union of London approves of the position of Dr . Arnold Ruge in the European Central Committee . L o ndon , Augu s t 15 , 1851 .-

      Signed in the name of the society , Joseph Fickler . Johannes Rongk . Dr . Gottfried Franck . Franz Sioel . Amand Goeoo . Dr . Karl , Tausenau . Daniel Herti , e . By the power entrusted to me b y the German A gitation Union of London , I he r b y invite all friends of the German popular cause in Europe and Americu , to send their communications , suggestions , periodical or oth e r mo ne y contributi o n s , to me by safe means , and free of postuge . Du . Kjuiii Taajhenau . London , August 15 , 1851 . 8 . Barnard's-inn , Holbom .

      Hakmony-Hall Petition. Bheftleld, August...

      HAKMONY-HALL PETITION . Bheftleld , August 13 , 1851 . Siu , —On the 27 th of July n general meeting of the members of the Sheffield Branch of the Rational Society w » 8 hi'lu , at which a petition to Parliament on the aubject of Harmony-hall , Homowhut siinilur to that from the Central Board , which appeared in your coluiniiH was unanimously adopted . , 1 « mt it to our member , Mr . Parker , for presentation , and he has informed me by letter that he duly presented the name . Yours , respectfully , Witf . Lawton , Secretary . To the ftditor of the tender .

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      I'OKTKAIT OK ROHHliTIl . A portruit of Kossuth ia to bo neon in London . We huvc just aeon it in the studio of M . Do ' anai , ltLn countryman , u yaiuttir and scul pt o r . It is a full l * ' -HgtU . ; the Hungarian leader in clothed in hi » usual dresH—one which , . puts < tftt wretched cooturnu to fih ame ; aiwl he appear * to be dolivering n Bp » e £ h Ilia compatriots vouch for the likonesH ; and tho countenance quite comes up to the description of Kossuth , - ^ -bl ending with uinnlmetfB a certain feminine gentlurteafl , whicMia < r beon nottved altxr m Mattmi . ' f

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      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 its creation in eternal progress . —Da . Aknold .

      Catholic, Not Protestant. Protestantism ...

      CATHOLIC , NOT PROTESTANT . Protestantism is rapidly declining in these our days . It has served its purpose ; it has spiritually revolutionized Europe ; it has broken the iron despotism of Rome ; Essentially a state of transition , it has necessarily been attended with the evils of transitional existence , —doubt , indifference , and antagonism . And now it goes on its way towards the things that were .

      All Christian sects have aimed , if not to be Catholic , at least to belong to that which is Catholic . In all " persuasions , " that which is worth anything is not the negative portion , but the positive j and it is the Catholic portion of all faiths which is that positive part ; it is the salt which keeps them sweet ; it is the essential , the governing power . The true Catholic religion , therefore , would be the most perfect spiritual government ; and by this , we do not mean spiritual despotism . Protestantism is , however , the reverse of government—it is revolution ; it is only , it can only be the negation of something else that is false ; and the establishment of the principle of that negation as a substitute for a positive faith . However needful that negation may have bee » , it is still . no more than negation .

      How , then , can Protestantism lead us anywhere but where it'has led—even to domestic contention , anarchy , and spiritual paralysis . Look upon the reli g ious sta te o f E ng land . We see Protestantism in perfection ; it culminates , it is n o w fallin g by its own disruptive power . Practically , t h e C hurch of Eng lan d seems to v i n dic at e i t s own ex i s t ence an d essence , a b ove all th in g s , by denying the Pope ; while a great meeting of freemen , this week , in Dublin , provoked by Whig persecution , sw ea rs b y the Roman image of Absolutism and denies the denier . Dissent denies the authority of the Church of England : and Rationalism denies the foundations of

      Dissent . Pnseyisrn denies Gorhamiam , and Gorhamism flings back the denial in no mincing phrase . Calvinism denies Erastianism , and fervently records its sentence of eternal damnation ; and in more courtl y language Episcopacy damns P resb yterianism . To crown all , the Roman Catholic denies the rig ht of private judgment ; and , as in" * duty hound , private judgment denies everybody else ' s judgment . The great net result of Protestantism , after years of toil , it may be years of bloodshed also , is but the establishment of the negative of the thing impugned—not spiritual freedom , and concord , but sp iritual anarch y and contest .

      This state of things is by no means p leasant wherein to live , move , and have our being . We would fain see the end of it . We would fain have a faith . Now , there is only one way of labouring peaceably and rapidly toward the attainment of the true Catholic faith . Since every sect is the embodiment of one pha se of t ruth , let every sect have freedom to establish what is true in the proposition which it embodies , and to work out a disproof of what is false . A true faith in the ultimate attainment of a Catholic religion would encourage that etclf-developinent , and protect it against reciprocal " antagonism " and repression . And it is in this direction alone that we nee

      signs of land , of Hafaty , of religious peace . We discern in the aspect of the religious world a disposition to approach to a more Catholic sentimentthe true prelude of a Catholic faifth . ' Disordered as it is > the state of England hopefully ilhislidteH this view . Religious activity \ u more wide-spread than it has been for the past two hundred yearn At the same time there is a Htnmg tendency to liberalise cneods , to waive some pointM , ami expluin away other points of mere doctrinal dinswnt . Hide by side wi th this advance of liberalism , and pnrDl y due to ilia prevalence , we find that wide-spread lmJifferentism in the Church of England , a p henomenon not to he looked on without parn ; an indifteirntism which has it » source also m the belief that laxity of discipline conduces to freedom of

      thought and sentiment , whereas it only conduces to laxity of thought and sentiment and belief . The path of escape from this is long and painful . The whole scheme of religious life must have undergone that process of being broken up and reformed , which we have witnessed with too weak a confidence . Sects are splitting into sections-Unitarians , Congregational Dissenters , Baptists , Wesleyans—all , and more , are casting off great pieces of their body , each moving towards some more liberal interpretation of its creed . The Church of England itself seems disposed to divide and fructify ; while Roman Catholics , as we saw by the Irish movement in favour of "the Godless

      colleges , " especially before the stupid Whig scheme of resisting the Papal aggression , tend towards a less politico-theocratic form of that faith . The very demand for diocesan synods and a general Convocation of the Church—a demand purely just in itself—shows that religion is disposed to throw off the tutelage of the state , and obtain for itself an existence and means of self-development unobstructed by Acts of Parliament .

      One thing we must have : the Church—all Churches must be set quite free from this state control—that unhallowed weapon which each in turn has used against the others . We contend , not for toleration , —it is the hope of the bondman , —but for the just and equal recognition of all sects , churches , and relig ions , their freedom and right to self-developement . The state is a temporal power . It is decomposed , and recomposed , at intervals . It may be this year Tory , that Whig ,

      the next day Republican . Its acts are collective and binding , obligatory upon all , per force , or hy convention , wi tho u t compr o mis e o f eternal t ru t h or the search thereof . Sectarian religion , whether of Rome or Canterbury , is not binding upon all : the mere attempt to make it so would create a revolution . State religi o n wi th stat e supremac y is , and can be , nothing more than state politics under the guise of the religious forms of the Church ; and as such it is condemned .

      Every creed is but the fallible human perception of the one truth ; but all seek the one God , who still rules over all ; by his blessing , these contentions shall but lead us to recognize the fact , that in our stumblings we have been only too impatient to approach nearer , to the one trut h which is universally . The interference of the state can only be tyranny ; and it is as much a stro ke at sp iritual freedom when it is aimed at the Romanist as it is when aimed at Protestant or

      Sceptic . Stand we , then , on the broad ground of equal recognition for all , equal defence by each of ri ghts common to aJL

      Seizure Of The Nizam's Territories. As A...

      SEIZURE OF THE NIZAM'S TERRITORIES . As a step in the progress of Indian consolidation , we cannot withhold our approval from the confiscation of the Nizam ' s territories ; but it certainl y has the air of a vast practical burlesque to our direct " dependencies , " when we govern those we have , so ill as to be familiar with murmurs of discontent from every quarter of them . It is the more absurd , since the pretext is the non-payment of subsidy , —and to make that good , we are going to seize an annual deficit ; for such is the perennial aspect of the Nizam's exchequer ; and the Indian Government , which undertakes that seizure , is itself conspicuous among great states for being unable to convert a deficit into a surplus .

      The joke is tripled , when we imdurstanct that the seizure in to be only "' temporary , " which forbids the idea of such real reform as could alone render the finance healthy . Our present purpose in noticing this ' * transaction , " however , is to assist our readers in porceiving the immediate practical effects . The ulterior effects might be of the noblest and most beneficial kind , if our Government intended really to grapple with the reeonntitution of Hindustan ; but the past forbids any such expectation . We find our Ministers positively ma i ntaining the worst inilnonces of the local institutions —• keeping down the Hindu ' s , for instance , as n race , by absurd disqualification of them as professional men , however manifest their faculties and attainments . The primary object of the seizure is to recover the amount of tribute due—arrears to the extent of £ 850 , 000 . The public revenue of the Nizam i . s wairl to bo £ 1 , 000 , 000 ; the expenditure about £ : $ 00 , () 00 more ; and the Kngli . sh Government proposes to seize about £ 350 , 000 ; leaving the Nizam to make good the increased deficit how ho may . The case is something like that of an ordinary " execution" for debt in this country ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1851, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23081851/page/11/