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measure would not have the most salutary effect upon the community at large ? What a mass of iniquity , injustice , and social degradation would be swept away were the Legislature to decide that , after a given number of years , no debt of any kind should be rec ° f 4 r £ ]? ** law Itis a mistake to suppose that this would " destroy credit " : it would separate all sound credit—a knowledge of substantial means or reliance in personal integrityfrom the factitious credit which attains its final flower in bills , its final triumph in the bankruptcies that now agitate our courts with bustle through their multiplicity , and
with wonder through their immensity . Geographical Mobai * . —How miserably inefficient must be that Government which finds it necessary to transport its subjects to keep them out of harm s way . Prevention is indeed said to be better than cure : but the prevention which consists in merely evading consequences can hardly be taken as a case in point . " Resist the devil , and he will flee from you , " was the old dogma j but the new Whig doctrine is not to resist but to flee . Earl Grey , in his despatch to the Cape , remembering " that agricultural labourers tranvaluable accession
sported to New South Wales provea a to the community , " believes " that the Irish convicted of political or agrarian offences , which out of Ireland they would have no temptation to repeat , might be removed to a colony where there exists a great want of labour , with great advantage not only to themselves but to the colony . " Unhappy Ireland ! Is there no want of labour there ? Is it only in colonies that Irishmen may live " with great advantage not only to themselves " ? Lord Grey ' s despatch is a sweeping censure upon the misgovernment which tempts men to offence ; which ( forgetting the truthful sentence of Bacon ) seeks only to remove the seditious , instead of taking away the causes of sedition . Rumours and False News . —Many-tongued , lying Rumour has had a busy time of it in the last few days .
Riots and revolts , marching ** and countermarchings , diplomatic squabbles without end , one would think enough of these were in the world , without recourse to the inventiveness of Rumour . Yet not so easily is she contented ; but must add her particular stories of bullets found in priests' houses ( said to be ^ in the Haute-Marne , ) and the church-doors sealed in consequence ; of riots in Paris by troops stationed at Limoges ; of plots to assassinate the President on his return from Vincennes , the assassins only deterred by the " firm demeanour" of Changamier . The Pope too , says Rumour , has died of poison , administered by the Cardinals , who have predicted that unless he abdicate or retire to a convent , he will never enter Rome alive . But the King of Denmark is e specially favoured by the dusky goddess . He has been seriously ill , has died , has slightly recovered , has suffered from a disease whose " terrible name cannot
be trusted to paper , " and which can " grant him but a short respite upon earth , " has again recovered , is quite well , and has never been even indisposed . So Rumour wags . The following extract from No . 36 of a papallylicensed journal , the Vero Amico del Popolo of Rome , is our last quotation from the same respectable authority : — " London is one of the most populous citie 3 in existence . It is the metropolis of Protestantism . But do you know the number of / r ?«; Protestants it contains ? I will tell you . The true Protestants of London are 271 , 000 , divided into the following classes : 18 , 000 boys systematically brought up to crime , 30 , 000 professed robbers , 6000 receivers of stolen goods , 23 , 000 persons who have vowed to get drunk in taverns every day , 50 , 000 spirit drinkers , 150 , 000 men and women who exercise the trade of and ( left blank by decent Humour— Vero Jlmico del Popolo ) . And the reat of the inhabitants ? The rest are all Catholics , or inclined to Catholicism . "
A Modern Cincinnatus . —Espartero is coming out strong as a wine-dealer . Withdrawn from politics , the Duke of Victory is devoting himself to the cultivation of of vineyards and the manufacture of " wines of the Rioja . " Foiled in developing free institutions , he is seeking the advancement of his country by developing «• Ebro claret . " If less direct , perhaps , his patriotism will not be less effectual . Espartero ' s claret is said to be " a pleasant sort of Bordeaux , " which would be decidedly popular throughout Europe ; and the newly-invented IHr oducc " promises to make the district of Logrono and a Rioja one of the richest in Spain . " Riches bring power , and Espartero may yet win his most fruitful victory in the wine vat .
The Church in Malta . —The churches in Malta , Catholic and Protestant , are at issue . For fifty years that the Anglican Church has been there established , the members of that communion " have amicably consorted with the Roman Church . " Since , however , the Maltese have elected their own representatives in the Council , a change has taken place . The Roman Catholic dignit tuies thus Rent to the Council have been discussing that portion of the code which relates to the punishment of those who should profane or disturb religious ceremonies , and they have managed to alter the projected articles so as to assert the supremacy of the Roman Church , to clans the Anglican with dissenting forms , and , to mark the difference yet more strongly , by increasing the penalties for offences against the Roman Church .
Whereupon the Bishop of Gibraltar protests , arguing that " the supremncy of the English Crown carries with it of necessity the supremacy of the religion of the Queen and of the people of England ; " and that the attempt to make the Church of Rome dominant in Malta is nn attack upon the supremacy of the Crown and the fundamental laws of the empire , and an invasion of Die rights and privileges of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of England . " The Roman Church asserts its rijjht as the religion of the country , the Anglican as the religion ex afticio ; the " Established Church of Scot * and " in Malta is of course beneath the consideration > f either party . This is one of the many church cornnotions now multiplying . It is imitating on a small I calo the old quarrel ao powerfully illustrated in reland , and has at least this value , that it helps to keep ttention alive to a question that everywhere requires jttling , the question of religious freedom .
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Tkere is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . — Milton .
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We find it impossible to insert a considerable number of letters which we have received this week ; the more so as a very large proportion are upon the same class of topics— " the right of subsistence out of the soil , " or the more general subject of commonwork . Letters of this kind we have received from every part of the country , a fact in itself of some significance . Many of them concur closely in their arguments . For some few we may find room next week .
Correspondents who send us letters for our Open Council will very much facilitate our task of selection , and our ability of insertion , if they will contrive to squeeze what they have to say into as short a compass as possible . Compression is difficult , but it never damages solid matter . Those who write for limited space should check the natural tendency to run into " mere remarks , " and should do their best to stick to statements of fact , or argument . And that , indeed , forms the strongest kind of style . To the letter signed " B" we have given insertion , although the length made us hesitate . So able a writer might have made it shorter , and nothing but its length made us hesitate at all .
Wo , have struck a personal reflection out of the letter by " One who has seen Many Communities . " We will not let free discussion in our columns slide into personality or wrangling . Our excellent correspondent did not go beyond a very usual degree of licence ; but perfect freedom of disenssion implies forbearance from whatever may check your antagonist ' s utterance—harsh construction being one check .
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A FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND . Brompton , April 8 , 1850 . Sm , —I perceive from the Times of this morning that a large number of clergymen in the archdeaconry of Totnes , with Archdeacon Froude at their head , have boldly resolved to demand that the Church of England shall no longer remain the slave of the State . In an address to the Bishop of Exeter , expressing their gratitude to him for the way in which he has upheld the doctrines of the Church in the late appeal against the decision of the Court of Arches , they complain of " the palpable unfitness as well as hardship of submitting the Church ' s doctrines to the final judgment of a tribunal neither of her own choosing , nor necessarily composed of her own members . " Now , this is certainly a grievous hardship ,
and one to which no earnest , sincere , consistent Episcopalian can much longer submit . What is the value of a religious creed which can be taken up and altered to any extent by a Council consisting possibly of Infidels , Unitarians , and others to whom such employment is a mere jest ? The clergymen of Totnes express a hope that the present agitation will lead to such an adjustment as shall give to the Church of Englund " the power of determining within herself all questions of doctrine and discipline , a power exercised by every other religious body in the empire . " Yes , but on what condition is it
that all other religious bodies are allowed to exercise that power ? Is it not because they have asserted their independence of the State , and undertaken to support their several religious establishments without asking aid from the State ? If the clergymen of Totnes and those who hold similar opinions are thoroughly in earnest in their wish to possess the power of determining all questions relating to doctrine , within the Church , they must follow the example of the Scottish Presbyterians and form a Free Church of England . Were the Bishop of Exeter to declare himself in favour of such a
movement , lie would soon discover what number of the men who address him are thoroughly consistent and sincere in their profession of attachment to "the Catholic Church . If the agitators are not prepared to go that length , the sooner they give up their meetings and addresses the better . I am , yours truly , T , Montgomery .
ROBERT OWEN : THE GOOD TIME COMING . April , 1850 . Sib , —I suppose the people ought to " follow their Leader , " but to do this usefully the right way must be indicated to them . Will you permit me , havin * long attended to the subject , to lay my views briefly before them ? That which is immediately wanted to relieve all classes from their present difficulties is productive -ns-i-nTa-r » f ¥ i / Miri ^ vr . fPtfd ^< r \ f \ T \ T'TTIT'C nr \ Tkr-r- * 'r ~ .
employment for all the working classes ; and employment so productive that they may be all well fed , clothed , lodged , educated , united , and locally well governed , without charitable aid from any parties . These results may be now attained by plain common sense , arrangements easy of _ practice , provided governments and people can be induced to chang e the false principle on which alone society has been based from the beginning , and now found it upon its true principle . t t
Until this shall be done every atempt o improv e the condition of society , through any political change , must fail . It is this fundamental error that has created the obstruction to all social improvements ; and it will , as long as it shall be maintained by the authorities of the world , continue to prevent the adoption of any permanent measures to rescue mankind from the evils which have been inflicted upon our race , and which have necessarily emanated from that fundamental error .
The question to be tried is , has experience now given to the most advanced portion of mankind sufficient wisdom and moral courage to perceive , and openly acknowledge , that this error is the origin of evil to man * and to publicly abandon it and all its demoralizing and irrational consequences ? If the governments and people of Europe and America have now sufficient strength of mind and moral courage to investigate this subject , they may immediately ascertain the causes of good and evil among men , and the plain common-sense mode by which the causes which continually produce evil may be for ever removed ; and the causes which will for ever produce good may be made to supersede those which hitherto have been allowed to produce
evil . And thus may the tree of knowledge of good and evil , and the means by which to remove the latter and permanently secure the former , be made known to the human race . And this is " the good time that is coming . " " Robert Owen-.
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THE GROWTH AND CULTURE OF MURDER . Sir , —From the strictures in the Leader on the judgment of Justice Talfourd , there is a branch line of argument which will lead to the conclusion that society generally shares the same exquisite refinement—that its conduct is on a parity with the judgment of the Judge . The good people of Bideford are neighbours to all the world ; no one will justly deny the iamily resemblance ; they do as other people do : they saw week after week the barbarities inflicted on the poor girl ; some saw , others heard ; the girl might be tormented , starved , beaten , anything , indeed , short of " the last crowning murderous act "—it was no business of theirs . When the victim has sunk under these
cruelties , is past recall , dead , actually , veritably dead , then it becomes a public affair . The streets are placarded with the familiar fact of " another horrible murder . " Society is a moment startled , exclaims how shocking , is voluble of indignation , turns round , and slumbers again . Is not this the weekly routine ?—as if all murders grew up in a night , like mushrooms , no one knows how ; as if there were no murderousness without the culminating result—Murder ; no death in life , only after it . It is the last pea that kills . Not many weeks previously , we
had the account of a child nearly beaten to death by its father , having been chained up twenty-four hours at a time , starving and half frozen ; not once , but as the neighbours were aware , repeatedly . Now , we have a wife murdered by her husband , who was proved to have been in the constant habit of violently ill-treating her . Here are three cases of the most revolting domestic tyranny — the tyranny of the master over the servant , of the father over the child , of the husband over the wife . Three distinct
relations of social life arc represented , and in each instance of arraignment the final act was only one of a series of habitual and brutal injuries ; well known to be of no mushroom growth in either case . Is not this tho deadliest bane of society , that it is always waiting the irretrievable ? The cholera must come and bid the graveyards yawn before sanitary measures receive any attention . Royalty heeds not any
forewarning ot the gathering hurricane which is to sweep it away . The doctor is paid to cure when disease has prostrated the sufferer ; he has no function for preserving health . The law steps in when the injury is done , brings the offender to justice , passes sentence , and the majesty of the law is vindicated . But where is the reparation ? Is the dead child restored to its mother ? are the bleeding hearts of the orphaned healed by the mockery of retribution ?
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Leader (1850-1860), April 13, 1850, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1840/page/12/
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