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      all the economical adyantages of the most extensive combination and centralization . Great public works , canals , railways , roads , bridges , conveyances of every kind , national monuments , education , literature , art , all had to be provided for , the multiplication of machinery , the utmost division of labour , and the saving of labour by skilful combinations , all had to be fostered ; hence the necessity for the cultivation of the land in common , the employment of the national capital in common , for labour in common , and in fine for absolute community .

      But the Icarian system of community is based throug hout upon the principle of equality , as founded upon the moral sentiment of fraternity . And it is in this constant appeal to our highest sentiments that lie much of its power and attractiveness . It will hardly be questioned by any that the doctrine of the universal brotherhood of man is the one pervading idea of all those in whom , a . t the present day , the sentiment and the hope of progress are most largely developed . Icarian Communism is but an attempt to work out into a practical system of social life and political organization this one idea of human brotherhood .

      The founder of this system is " ML . Cabet , not one of whose numerous and interesting -works has ever yet appeared in English , at all jeyents on this side of the Atlantic . With many thanks for the heroic attempt you have made to establish in England a really free press , I subscribe myself , a communist ) from conviction , a communist in sentiment , and An Icakian Pbobationeb .

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      Garratt-Road Institution . —On Sunday and Mon * day last Mr . George Hooper delivered three lectures at the above hall . The first on " The Tendency of the Age towards Association , " in which he showed that association was but a legitimate development of social principles already existing in society , that it was those principles which held society together , and that the step onward from painted skins and human sacrifices to the abolition of death punishment and the reformation of the criminal code was not greater than the step forward would be from the injustice of competition to the equity of cooperation . The second and third lectures were on the Italian revolution , showing how the Pope progressed from the people to the kings , and how , in future , the only possible solution of the Italian question was nationality and the Republic .

      Pkofessor Maurice ' s Lecture . — On Wednesday evening Professor Maurice . delivered , a lecture before the Friends of Cooperation , who met by invitation at the London Cooperative Store , 76 , Charlotte-street . The audience may be described a very useful one from the variety of persons it included of the influential classes . The concluding passages of the lecture were marked by that homely saliency of illustration peculiar to collegiate lecturers . After the lecture the company partook of refreshments provided .

      The Redemption Society . —Moneys received for the week ending December 9 th : —Huddersfield , per Mr . Gledhill , 5 s . ; Burnley , per Dr . TJt . tley , for two candidates , Is . Communal Building Fund : —Huddersfield , per Mr . Gledhill , Job Hurst , 10 s . ; William Hinchcliff , 6 d . The fog was so thick on Monday night last in Leeds that several persons were drowned . Cabs ceased to ply . The more venturous went to the Freehold Land Society ' s soiree to hear Mr . Cobden , and so few of our collectors made their appearance that we cannot report fully . Meetings at Horsforth , Birstal , and Huddersfield are fixed . Horsforth on Tuesday , the 17 th , and Huddersfield and Birstal on the 23 rd . Mr . Hole is to go to the last place . Preparations are in progress for the annual meeting at Leeds , January 13 , 1851 , at which Mr . Dawson is to be present .

      Address of the Working Tailors of Newcabtleon-Tyne . —Fellow Workmen !—Our attention has been directed to the principles of Associated Labour , which has commended itself to our judgments ; and , on enquiry , we find that it has been adopted in the metropolis and other large towns , and its results have been so far satisfactory . Upon this principle we have resolved to commence business in Newcastle , and are at present collecting the necessary capital ; and , that no member ol the trade may be excluded from participation in the benefit we seek to realize , we have resolved to raise the

      required amount in shares of £ 1 each , it is our intention ( o open a shop , in February next ( 1851 ) , when we purpose carrying on the ready-made and bespoke systems in every department of our trade . In the meantime we have opened a room in Nelson-street , —the same entrance as the Music-hall , —where we shall execute all orders that may be entrusted to our care . Our manager and trustees will attend there to give information to any lady or gentleman who may feel an interest in our success . We shall be able to produce every article of dress as cheap , and in style and workmanship as satisfactory , as any shop in the town , as we have some of the best workmen in the trade in our Association . Our arrangements

      are such that our customers can have the mo 3 t extensive variety of goods , from which they can make their selections ; and the committee guarantee that there shall be no double dealing , by showing one article and making up another like it in colour , but inferior in quality . I ho lowest price of each article will be fixed by the committee , from which there will be no abatement . The articles we supply will be perfectly free from , all infectious diseases ; and will not be made in the wretched hovels of the sweaters , but on the promises , which are well ventilated , and where long hours ure prohibited and Sabbath working not allowed .

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      The case of Mr . George Sloane , charged with cruelty to his servant girl , was again brought forward at G-uildhall yesterday , and the examination of witnesses continued . Pr , Heale , physician to the Royal Free Hospital , Gray's-inn-road , who had attended the girl , Jane Wilbred , said he could find no symptoms of any disease to account for her attenuated condition . He believed that it was wholly owing to protracted deprivation of food . He had

      had her weighed on Thursday , and he found that she did not weigh more than fifty-nine and a half pounds , whereas a person of her height , in good health , ought to weigh from 110 to 1201 b . One witness , a laundress , said she had seen Mrs . Sloane beat the girl in the most cruel manner , and then drag her out of the room by the hair of the head . Mr . JPontifex , clerk to the West London , having made some remark to the magistrate , —

      Alderman Humphery , addressing Mr . Pontifex , said he thought it was very extraordinary that the union of which he was clerk did not take up the prosecution for the poor girl , who was a daughter of the parish . Mr . Pontifex said that the guardians were willing to prosecute , but were deterred by the expense that would be involved , as the disbursements would not be allowed from the common funds without an order from the Poor * Law Commissioners . The chief clerk informed the court that a similar difficulty nearly caused the abandonment of the charge against Mr . Kenealy , the Commissioners having declined to allow the expenses . Mr . Pontifex said he would be prepared to conduct th * prosecution in its future stages .

      Mr . Parker , master of the West London Union , remembered Mrs . Sloane coming to the establishment for a servant , and his calling in some of the bigger girls into the parlour for her to choose from : — " She selected Jane Wilbred , she said , because she was the healthiest-looking of the whole lot , and that , also , she would prefer her to any of the rest , as she had no friends to come to bother her . Mrs . Sloane said she would rather the girl had no friends , as she wished to bring her up to her own ways . Mrs . Sloane asked me what our terms were , and I told her one shilling per week to begin with . She said , * Very well , she would like to have the girl as early as possible , in a week ' s

      time . ' I sent to the relieving officer and obtained from him money , and I purchased for her two suits of everything in the way of wearing apparel with but one exception . She had only one pair of stays . On Thursday , the 19 th of July , 184 : 9 , I took the girl to Mrs . Sloane ' s . Before I left the house I made the girl Jane Wilbred promise to write to me , and let me know how she got on in her new place . Mrs . Sloane said she would see that the girl did not neglect it , and , further , she promised that the girl should have a holiday at the end of the first month , to come and see me . She did not come , neither did she write to me . She was an industrious girl , and in excellent

      healthvery cleanly in all her domestic habits , and also in her person . She was not all inclined to be lazy , but rose every morning at six o'clock . I never experienced any difficulty in getting her up to her work . She used to serve me as parlour-maid , and nurse to the children . I did not see her again until last Thursday week , when I read the application made by Dr . Marsden and Mr . Phillimore , in the morning papers , and , recollecting the name of J ane Wilbred , I at once proceeded to the hospital and saw her . I did not know her at first , she was so reduced . ( Sensation . ) She burst out crying directly she saw me , and could not be pacified until the nurse threatened to send me away again if she did not keep quiet . She held up her poor bony arms , and begged and implored of me to take her home again . "

      The unfortunate girl was again brought into court , when the evidence she gave on the former day was read over to her , an'l she confirmed what ehe then said in every particular . She is described as not looking any better than when she formerly appeared in court . Her colour is " not in the least degree changed from the sickly hue of a person lingering in the last otage of existence . " It was stated by Mr . Alderman Humphery that a warrant will be issued against Mrs . Sloane , to be put in force as soon as she is fit to leave her bed . Mr . Clarkson , on behalf

      of Mr . Sloane , said he refrained from cross-examining the unfortunate girl at present , on account of the weak state she was in . He would reserve what he had to say for a higher and more important tribunal . Mr . Alderman Humphery stated that as soon as all the necessary evidence had been adduced ho would commit the defendants to the Old liuilcy .

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      The following is the text of the royal edict for the reduction of the Prussian army : — " Whereas , by conventions entered into with the imperial Austrian Government the reasons no longer exist which on the Cth of November occasioned the order for calling out my whole army , I authorize the state administration to discontinue the carrying out of the measures for a war establishment , and gradually to reduce the army to its former strength . " The Beutsche Reichs Zeitung makes the following important announcement : —

      •• In to-day ' s State Gazette an order has appeared for the gradual reduction of the army . A similar order with reference to the reduction of the Austrian army will appear officially in the Vienna Zeitung of the same date . The practical execution of this order with respect to Prussia will be confined to the second conscription . " On Monday last Count Grobcn evacuated the road from Hersfeld to Iiottenburg , on which the troops of the Diet can now march without any hindrance . According to the stipulations of the Olmutz conference these troops will finally occupy Cassel . The Elector will not immediately return there .

      When the Piedmontese Government wished to have its treaty of peace with Austria sanctioned by the Chumbers , one of the present Ministers declared that it contained no secret clauses . From a letter in the Daily News , written by an eyewitness , it appears that this was a deliberate lie . There is a secret clause , by which the Piedmontese authorities are bound to deliver up political delinquents , Hungarian refugees , &c , to Austria . The trial of the parties belonging to the secret Republican Society , called the Nemesis , with the view of connecting all France in societies for a Red Republican

      revolution was brought to a close on Thursday . Iwonamely , De Valory and Henney—arc condemned to two years' imprisonment , 500 f . fine , and interdiction of civil rights for five years ; Corbet to fifteen months' imprisonment , 100 francs fine , and five years' interdiction of civil rights ; Gouffe , Beretta , Broquot , Beraud , Sollenct , Juyct , and Valtier to six months' imprisonment , lOOf . fine , and two years'interdiction ; Gossetand Chancel , on account of extenuating circumstances , to six months ' imprisonment , The prisunciu left the court shouting " Vive la Itepublhiue . "

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      Mr . Superintendent Horg , and the constables of the Hundred of Wurral , under Mr . Palmer , high constable . In addition to this force , about three hundred of the Liverpool police were also present . All passed off quietly ; indeed , the Roman Catholics had been cautioned by the priest not to attend the meeting , and placards to that effect were posted both in Liverpool and Birkenhead . When the meeting opened there were about three thousand persons present ^ but the number gradually encreased till the termination , when there were about seven thousand persons present . An address to the Queen was carried expressing the utmost indignation at the violent attempt of the Pope to invade the royal prerogative .

      Dr . Hugh M'Neile , canon of Chester , and incumbent of St . Paul's , Liverpool , in a sermon last Sunday , referred to the confessional as an organ used for man ' s judgment for his fellow man . He described in glowing terms the evils of the confessional , and wound up by demanding , in the name of justice and religion , the punishment of all priests who wielded so powerful an organ of spiritual tyranny . There might be many modes of punishment suggested , but the only one effectual for the purpose was death . In the evening , the reverend gentleman having been tasked for the utterance of such , a sentiment , ascended the reading-desk and said : •—" My Christian Friends , —I generally address you from another place , but must make an exception on this occasion . I desire to withdraw the atrocious sentiment which i uttered in the morning . I have withdrawn it before God , and now withdraw it before man . Those av&o beard roe in the morning will understand my meaning : those who were not Jiere will please not to trouble themselves about it . "

      A rumour has for some time past prevailed—which we have , however refrained from noticing till now- —that Edmond Rodney Pollexfen Bastard , Esq ., of Kitiey , has gone over to Rome . We believe now that the report is unquestionably true . This is one of the most recent instances of the progress of development which the Puseyites can show . Mr . Bastard has for some time past been devoted to his religious duties . He was At the head of our Church union , and rumour assigned to him the chief proprietorship in a local newspaper , and which was

      understood to have been purchased to advance the cause of Tractartanfsm . Mr . Bastard lately broke up bis establishment at Kitiey , discharged all his servants , and left his home for foreign parts . Since he left his home , we hear from other authority , that he has written a letter to the Reverend Prebendary Oxenham , announcing that he has joined the Church of Rome—or as the Romanists say , " became reconciled to the Church . " Mr . Bastard intends , we hear , to winter in Madeira—but his destination is to Rome ., and it is said that he will be absent for three years . —Plymovth Journal . Florence

      The Milan Gazette , of the 7 th , states from , that Lady Sussex Lennox abjured Protestantism at Fiesole , on the 19 th ultimo , and embraced the Catholic persuasion . The French Ambassador returns forthwith to Paris , on leave of absence from his Government , and will be absent from London for probably two months . M . Soyer , so celebrated for his magic cookery , has taken Gore House , formerly the residence of the l * te Lady Blessington , for the six months of the Great Exhibition , at the rent of £ 000 for that time . It is to be fitted up as an hotel , and the beautiful grounds are to be laid out for entertainments , in the style of those afforded to the public at Cremorne . —Morning Herald .

      A meeting to protest against the Papal aggression was held yesterday , at Birkehhcad , in the market-square , adjoining the Town . hall . The magistrates had made suitable arrangements to repress any attempt at not or disturbance . Special constables selected out of the ratepayers to the number of one thousand were sworn in for the occasion ; they were divided into eight sections , each Rection being undor the command of a captain , and all under the superintendence of W . Pike , Esq ., barristerut-law . A spacious platform was erected in the rear of the Town-hnll , in front , of which the epefiial constables who coninnsf'il tho majority of tho ratepayers wer « stationed ; llic liirkeuueu ' d police , under the commund of

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 14, 1850, page 897, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1862/page/9/