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THE NATIONAL CHARTER AND SOCIAL REFORM UNION . The current proceedings of the Democratic Conference , being held at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Fitzroy-square , are worthy of notice on account of the contingent associative influence which may result therefrom . On Sunday the Conference met to receive the report of the Committee appointed to organize the junction of the parties respectively represented . Mr . G . J . Holyoake presided . Four representatives of the trades were received under the certificate of Mr . Delaforce . Mr . Wheeler and two
other gentlemen were introduced to the Conference and elected to take part in its deliberation , viz ., Mr . Thornton Hunt , of the Leader , and Mr . George Hooper , known chiefly as an advocate of Republicanism through the press under the signature of ?« Eugene . " Upon the motions of Mr . Thornton Hunt and Mr . Stallwood , the name finally adopted for the combined Society was that of <* National Charter and Social Reform Union . " Mr . Hunt saying he should object to any name which ' * buried the Charter . " If this Union comes , as it bids fair to do , to exercise influence , the effect must be beneficial on Associative Progress , inasmuch as this is the first
political recognition of the social aspect of agitation among us , and is one which must lead to the widest entertainment of the question by the working classes . It was agreed that the Objects of the National Charter and Social Reform Union should be thus expressed — the words in italics being inserted , on a motion to that effect by Mr . T . Hunt— " To organize a movement of the people in order to obtain the enactment of the measures herein demanded , thereby securing for Great Britain and Ireland a just , wise , and good Government , and such an equitable distribution of the fruits of industry , as may be conducive to the best interests of all the members of the commonwealth . "
This resolution , as brought up by the committee , prescribed the words " to obtain etc . by peaceful and legal means' * On its being put to the vote whether these words should stand , 13 voted for and 13 against the retention , and Mr . Holyoake was called upon for the casting vote . He said , he should decide for the omission of the words . For himself , they knew he should take the side of peace , but to wear the badge of peace was often to make it the sign of war with those who did not comprehend the power of a pacific
policy . Modes of public procedure ought to be open . The Government had no right to assume that they were not peacefully and legally disposed ; therefore , he would not warrant their distrust by considering it necessary to make a profession upon the subject . The characters of those assembled was a sufficient guarantee of their policy . " Letters were read from Mr . C . Shackleton and Mr . W . J . Linton , whose opinions had been requested . The Conference will be resumed next Sunday . Ion .
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PROGRESS OF THE REDEMPTION SOCIETY . The election of members for the community in Wales has taken place , and Mr . John Gray and Mrs . Gray are to be farmer and housekeeper . Mr . James Bentley , shoemaker , and Miss Dennis , housemaid . Mr . Gray has been engaged in farming operations all his life ; he was at Harmony , and little Bentley with Mr . Galpin till the last ; and when he resumed to Yorkshire and offered his services to his old master , he was immediately accepted . Mr . Gray is well acquainted with all the modern ideas on agriculture . Mrs . Gray and Miss Dennis are deemed equally well qualified for their departmen ts . Mr . Jarnes Bentley is a single man , a master shoemaker , of Drigglington , near Leeds , industrious , strong , healthy , a vegetarian , a teetotallerand an anti-tobacconist .
, On the night of his election ho presented the society with £ 5 to the Communal Building Fund . The elected labourers are under no misunderstanding as to the nature of their engagements and their duties . The boiirds have given them as truthful a statement of all the facts known to them . Moneys received up to the week onding Oct . 7 : — I . bbi 1 « X' 8 15 5 Uyclc , per Mr . J . Uradlcy 0 13 0
Communal Building Fund : — Drig-glington , per J . Ilcntlcy £ < i 0 0 T . Clayton « ¦> « Ilunslot , pnr J . Oran « r 0 . > 0 Manchester , per J . Jolliffe Q 2 (> Leeds 0 1 0 Our annual Harvest Home Festival is to be celebrated on Monday . The tickets are going off rapidly . A report of the meeting will be sent to the Leader . D . G .
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The " Banner" ox Mn . Owen . —For many a day Mr . Owen disappeared , but now he turns up again in the eightieth year of his age , once more determined to start a cheap weekly periodical to advocate his principles ' in their purity and to their full extent . " Surely , of all mankind llobert Owen is the most sanguine , persevering , and indomitable . One would have almost thought , that the earnest man had had enough of experiment and enough of mankind ; but there is an enthusiasm which no waters can quench , and when remarkable intellectual
obliquity or moral obtuscness happens to combine with large benevolence , and when to both is added a vigorous frame and a full purse , there is no saying to what lengths men will go . The amiable old man has just addressed a letter to his son in the United States , apprizing him of the length and depth of his own meditations for the world ' s reform . But let us be just to Robert Owrn . Whatever his errors he deserves praise for his zeal . No man can doubt that he acts upon Ins convictions . Up is really an example to a better creed . " — British Banner , September 25 .
Hyde District of the IIkdkmi'Tio . v Society . — Seeing that but half the sum proposed to be raised for the erection of communal buildings on the Society ' s estate in Wales has been paid , we derm it our duty to make an effort to raise the other half . We therefore propose that each member and friend of the Society pays 2 * . We are trying the plan in Hyde with great success . Tho course we have taken is that of an active and personal canvass . We are confident of raisins our quota . We
have not yet met with an objector , lather with a hearty willingness . We know that many members and friends never see tho Lender , consequently will know nothing of this project . We therefore hope that the readers of the Leader will do their utmost to bring this belore the member * and friends of the Society . The lionrd of Directors , if they approve , nii « ht . usefully make this plan known to all the agents of the Society , and urge them to adopt it . — JOKT , lillADLEY .
Set . f-Imj'oskd Taxation . —The letter we have received on this subject in reply to Chnmhers ' s Journal , would necessitate the insertion of a resume of the entire article answered . For this wo have not space . Otlur wise 11 . M . ' s contrast of mechanic life of England with Scotch peasant life would , have found insertion .
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The Queen and Prince Albert , with the rest of the royal party , arrived at Buckingham Palace last evening , at twenty-live minutes to eight o ' clock , having accomplished the journey from Edinburgh to London in little more than eleven hours . The whole progress from Balmoral to Pimlico appears to have beer without an accident . The royal party left Balmoral at eight o ' clock or Thursday morning . The weather was fine , and th < neighbourhood of the Castle was as quiet as if her Majesty and Court had been going out on a mere drive The Queen and Prince Albert , the Prince of Wales , and Prince Alfred , occupied a close carriage ; the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice , with Lady Jocelyn , Ladj Bruce , and Miss Hilyard , occupied a second carriage ; Sir George Grey , Colonel I'hipps , the Honourable
Captain Gordon , the third ; while three other carriages were sent on before with the other members of the royal household . At the various stages from Balmoral to Stonehaven , the Queen was received with a hearty welcome . At Bunchory there was quite a demonstration ; flags flying at every point , and the hotel decorated with evergreens and flowers . The Queen and the rest of the party partook of refreshment here , and remained altogether about a quarter of an hour . After leaving Bunchory the cortege crossed the Dee , and for a short time drove through a fine pastoral country . They then entered what is called " The Slug , " which is a
mountain - pass from six to eight miles in length , and presenting many features of a bold and romantic character . Soon after leaving Rickerton the royal cortege reached Glenury . Nothing can be finer than the view which here bursts upon the traveller from the Slug . The road leads through the bottom of the glen and the fine , pastoral grounds of Ury . On the left the country undulates to a considerable height , and is finely wooded . On the right the fields slope upwards in a high state of cultivation , while in front the German Ocean , which on Thursday was like a sheet of glass , fills up the view . As the Court swept along the old Castle of Ury was passed on the left , where the veteran Captain Barclay had two flags flying from its turrets .
Stonehaven was reached about a quarter past one o'clock , and the royal carriages drove directly to _ the railway station , where an elegant luncheon was provided for her Majesty , Prince Albert , and suite , at the conclusion of which her Majesty was conducted to the royal saloon carriage , which had arrived from London on the previous day . The train , which consisted of six carriages , proceeded at a rapid rate , the only stoppages between Stonehaven and Edinburgh having occurred at Forfar and Perth , at the latter of which stations a considerable crowd had collected to welcome her Majesty .
About ten minutes past six o ' clock a telegraphic message was received by Sheriff Gordon that the royal train had reached Linlithgow , and from that time till its arrival in Edinburgh all was bustle and excitement . Exactly at twenty minutes to seven o ' clock the royal train came in sight , and its progress through what was once called the North Loch to the Meadowbank station was marked by continuous cheering from the crowds of spectators that lined every bridge and eminence commanding a view of it . A gay party of ladies and gentlemen were assembled at Meadowbank to welcome her Majesty .
The Quenn and the P / ince having entered one of the royal carriages which was in attendance , drove off to Holyrood Palace . The appearance of the royal cortege in the Queen ' s Park was the signal for general and enthusiastic cheering . The crowds ou each side of this noble avenue had an excellent view , and greeted the royal party with every demonstration of delight . Her Majesty regarded her reception with evident satisfaction . _ A huge bonfire , which had been erected on the summit of Arthur ' s Seat , had been lighted up , and the night being dark , the light from this immense blazing pile illuminated the horizon for miles around , bringing out to the
^ cat advantage rug < jcd , picturesque outlines of Arthur ' s Scat and the romantic scenery around it . The effect of the variegated lamps was also very picturesque and striking . The brilliancy of the illumination below only served to reveal the dusky grandeur of the heights beyond . Upon the arrival of the royal carriage opposite St . Anthony ' s Chapel , the bonfire on Arthur ' s Seat was fully displayed , lighting up with its lurid flame the crumbling remains of St . Anthony ' s Chapel . The scene , was still further varied by the brilliant ' and variegated flames of the fireworks , displayed from the heights of St . Anthony ' s Chapel , and upon the rising grounds towards Salisbury Crags .
The progress of the royal cortege through the Queen ' s Park was necessarily slow , but a lew minutes served to bring the grey turrets of Holyrood in view . Her Majesty , alter her arrival , did not leave the Palace ; and the dinner party in the evening consisted , in addition to the suite , only of Genera ] Wemys . s and the Honourable Charles Murray . At the usual weekly mooting of the Metropolitan Trades' Delegates , last evening , a discussion tool <
place regarding the now lino of action proposed bj tho Democratic and Social ( J ( n ^ ress . Mr . Delt . f » rcc s del that . several of the Trades' Delegates had attended and tukon part in the discussions of the Conference ; ]> w had not hcon altogether satisfied with the proceedings . Mr . Cunpbell had bern out of to \ v » » O ] he should have attended tho late meeting . Fro ** what hu had heard it appeared that the views ( - the promoters of tho Democratic and Social Conferemi were not of so practical and beneficial a character as
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likely to produce a favourable termination , yet on the whole the weavers' defence has been written and conducted in admirable taste . The following appeal from their eighth report will be read with interest in other quarters , as indicative of the views of the men : — " Ministers of Religion : We have hitherto refrained from trespassing upon your attention , because we know that you are generally averse to engage in secular affairs . But when you perceive the treatment we have receivedthe unnecessary reduction offered us , and the system of persecution resorted to—we hope we do not form too high an estimate of your character when we say that you
will not countenance this conduct , or connive at this injustice . Many of us have been educated in your Sunday Schools , reared under your tutelage , and have listened to your ministrations ; but in no instance have we gleaned from your expositions of the principles of our Great Master that a licence was given to oppression , or that persecution was a chartered privilege . Such conduct we presume is not inculcated in holy writ , or sanctioned by divine authority . On the contrary , it is opposed to the very spirit of Christianity ; and we cannot conceive a more severe caricature on the influence of religion than to see a man profess attachment to its precepts one day in the week and during the other six to set them at open
defiance . As ministers of the gospel can you stand aloof , and see this iniquity practised under your very eye , and not raise your voice against it ? Can you see that religion of which you are the accredited teachers brought into disrepute and not chastise the delinquent ? Are you not sentinels placed upon the watch-towers of society to warn us of impending danger ? When the enemy has already passed the line of demarcation can you look supinely on , while vice strides rampant amongst us , and triumphs in his prowess ? Is it consistent with your sacred calling to look on this struggle with silent indifference—refuse your powerful aid to check inordinate desire and teach well ri
property it has duties to perform as as ghts to expect ? Are you prepared to risk that indifference being construed into hostility to the rights of the poor ? These are questions for your consideration . You call upon us to forward your views in the day of our prosperity , and now in the hour of adversity will you refuse to throw the shield of protection around us ? " Remember , it is the voice of your countrymen that calls upon you , and not the voice of slaves . We erase that foul epithet from our vocabulary . However applicable it may be to our humble occupations in life , it shall not tarnish either our minds or our conduct in this contest . If a motive is wanted to incite you to action , that
privilege is granted , and we expect you to interpose your authority and endeavour to lessen these grievances that afflict us . We envy no man ' s possessions—we covet no man ' s goods . We do not even bear resentment where just provocation has not been given . The limit of our ambition is to earn an honest livelihood by the labour of our hands ; and we endeavour to bear the difficulties of our position with becoming fortitude . But we cannot , we will not , be degraded in our own eyes and in the estimation of our neighbours by accepting prices for our labour below those paid in this district .
" We make this appeal to you in the full confidence that you will respond to our call . We will not dictate the course you ought to pursue on this occasion . But one thing is clear : these base proceedings ought to be denounced ; and whatever influence you possess ought to be thrown into the balance , to arrest these onslaughts on the few remaining privileges of the Factory Operatives . " By order of the Committee . "
APPEAL TO MINISTERS OF RELIGION . Mr . Ilibbort ' s weavers , of Hyde , have not yet , they inform us , been enabled to return to their labour . Their weekly reports have displayed great intelligence , and although the third letter to Mr . Hibbert ( the only one now before us ) is not in language
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POSTSCRIPT . Satukday , Oct . 12 .
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Oct . 12 , 1850 . 1 tRffe H * & ***? 681
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 12, 1850, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1856/page/9/
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