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      The executive committee of the National Charter Association held their usual weekly meeting at their offices , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , on Wednesday evening last . The secretary called the attention of the committee to the letter from the " London correspondent" of the Glasgow Sentinel , inserted in that truly democratic journal of Saturday last , and which contained several mis-statements relative tothe public meeting recently held in St . Pancras . The secretary was instructed to write to the editor of the Glasgow Sentinel , in order to correct the mis-statements alluded to . On the motion of Messrs . Reynolds and Arnott , it was unanimously agreed— " That a great public meeting be held , for the purpoee of calling the attention of the public to the atrocious and inhuman treatment inflicted on the Chartist

      prisoners generally , but more especially to support the case of Ernest Jones , now before the House of Commons ; and that the said meeting be holden on Monday evening , June the 16 th , in the most suitable place that can be engaged for the occasion . " The Chairman reported what he had witnessed of the progress of Democracy during his recent tour in the North . He had lectured on Chartism in Glasgow , Paisley , and other places ; those lectures had been more numerously attended than any he had previously delivered in Scotland . Party and personal antagonism was subsiding ; the Programme issued by the late Convention had inspired the friends to the cause with renewed hope ; and although at present there appeared to be a lull as to active organization , yet he felt convinced that the time was not far distant when we should see a truly

      healthful and progressive agitation . After the transaction of financial and other business , the Committee adjourned to Wednesday evening , June 11 . —Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Arnott , Gen . Sec . At a meeting in the John-street Institution , Tottenham-court-road , on Tuesday evening , a new locality of the National Charter Association was formed , to be called " The John-street Locality . " Discussions are to be held on every Tuesday evening , and the subject for next Tuesday will be " The Relative Merits of Free Trade and Protection , " which Mr . G . J . Holyoakehas consented to open . "

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      LIBERATION OF KOSSUTH . A public meeting , convened by the Chartist locality of the place , was held at Ratcliffe-cross , on Wednesday , to memorialize Lord Palmerston on behalf of Kossuth and his companions captive in Turkey . Mr . Thornton Hunt was called to the chair , and he explained the object of k the meeting , with a brevity justified by the clear apprehension of the subject manifest in the meeting . A resolution to send the memorial was moved by Mr . John Shaw , and seconded by Mr . John Matthias ; the adoption of the memorial was moved by Mr . William Newton , seconded by Mr . Stanton , supported by Mr . Ernest Jones and Dr . Brooks . The speakers of the district handled the subject with mastery and eloquence . The two last speeches were remarkable . Mr . Jones , who was received with loud and repeated bursts of applause , made an animated , stirring , vehement , and fiery speech , prophesying the speedy consummation of Republicanism in France , where the people have learned to know the value of the " mercy" shown at the two laBt revolutions ; and looking beyond to the day when French Republicans should say to Englishmen , " What have you been doing all this while ? " Dr . Brooks spoke with extreme but that

      earnest quiet ; assuring the working men bluster" would not advance their cause ; that their weakness lay in their own selfishness , which divides man from man , and prevents the union that would alone euffico to obtain all they want . Dr . Brooks was received with markod attention , and with repeated cries of " Yes , yes , " " That ' s true , " "Itisso . " The memorial udopted by the meeting was couched in concise and nervous language ; it included a hope that the intervention of the British Minister would strengthen the independence of Turkey , threatened by Austria .

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      Pakmamkntaiiy Rkfokm . - On the evening of the 2 Cth a public meeting was held in the 8 t . Pimcraa veBtryroom , King ' s road , Camden-town , for the purpose of adopting a petition praying for a radical reform in the Commons House of Parliament . < l * orgo Bird , Ksq ., having boon called to the chair , Maid that they had mot toother to protest against the exclusion of at . least livesixths of the men of England from political privilege ^ and to enable them to exercise a wholesome control over the ingenious operations of the Chancellor of the Kxchequerwhen he HihIh bin way tothe workman ' s breech ™

      , pocket Should any one suppose that Lord John KuHsell Was going to do much for the people , he muflt have the bump of credulity unusually developed , and ought to be sent to the Great Exhibition to be stowed aw . iy amoiig the raw material . On thin account th « people should bestir themHelvcii . Mr . I ) . W . Jtu / Fy and Mr . ( i . J . Ilolyoake , residents in the pariah of St . 1 ' ancran , moved the first resolution , which was Hpoken to by Mr . KrneHt Jones and Mr . O . W . M . Reynolds . Mr . O ' Brien offered an amendment , of the wordy and intense order , which wau withdrawn . A petition for the Charter was adopted by the

      meeting , which was addresBed also by Mr . Thornton Hunt , Mr . John Ellis , and others . We abridge this notice from a fuller , one prepared , but unavoidably , omitted in our last number . Mb . Coixet ' s Entertainment . —On Monday evening Mr . Collet gave his second musical entertainment at the Mechanics' Institution , in aid of the funds of the Association for the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , and we must confess to spending a very agreeable evening with our old friends Robin Hood and Little John , Maid Marian and Friar Tuck , with a string of delightful old tales and legends about these worthies . Mr . Ooliet fairly led the imagination of his hearers away into the greenwood shade , and there kept them to the end of the Itory . The music , the song , and the legend were alike redolent of the fresh air and cheerful sunshine of Sherwood Forest , and so completely had the sturdy outlaws and their merry leader dominion over our thoughts that ™ T , nBUivP 1 v fnrc-ot even the Great Exhibition for two

      entire hours . The sweet old English ballads , so seldom heard now-a-day , but which so powerfully touch English hearts whe never they are heard , were selected with taste and iudement . Miss Hincks sang the " Maypole charmingly . The favourite song of the evening was evidently " The Bailiff ' s Daughter of Islington , " which was given by Miss Thornton with so much tenderness and artistic power that , notwithstanding its length ( we think about thirteen verses ) , there was an unmerciful demand for its repetition / which the young lady was goodnatured enough to comply with . The hearty applause which followed told how the simple beauty of the story and the melody had sunk into the hearts of the listeners . We were glad to find , notwithstanding Papal aggression alarms , our old friends " The Barefooted Friar" and (< He of Orders Grey" were as popular as ever .

      Ernest Jones ' s Petition . —Mr . Jones has sent in a petition to the House of Commons , praying for an investigation into the treatment he received in lothillfields prison . The chief points of Mr . Jones s case are well known to our readers . He was obliged to wear the same dress and march in the same files with felons ; _ he lost sixteen pounds in weight ; and throughout his imprisonment he was only allowed to see his wife once a quarter , and then in presence of the turnkey . The petition is published in the morning papers . It is perhaps the worst case of political treatment put on record . It will shortly be the occasion of a public meeting . Address to Mr . Owen . —We are requested by a

      meeting of Mr . Owen ' s friends , assembled in the Lyceumrooms , Stockport , to say that an address has been forwarded to that gentleman , congratulating him on attaining to eighty-one years of age , and of grateful acknowledgment for his eminent services . ftoBEUT Owen is to lecture at the Scientific Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square , on the 7 th of June ( at seven , p . m . ) . Hi ? Lecture will be , " A Discourse addressed to the Delegates who attend the World's Fair . " Redemption- Society . — The first camp meeting ,

      instead of the place before announced , will be on Adwaltonmoor on Sunday , the 15 th of June . Strikes are taking place at Bingley . Things are getting uneasy in the commercial world , and a panic is not impossible . Will nothing teach the working men a little forethought ? They can have no chance of permanent prosperity until they are communal capitalists . If nothing else can make them converts to our cause misery will . Moneys received : —Leeds , £ 3 9 s . 8 £ d . ; Glasgow , per Mr . G . Miller , 14 a . ; Roth well , Leeds , Mr . Alcorn , Is . ; Communal-buildings : —Arthur Trevelyan , Esq ., £ 5 .

      At a meeting of the committee appointed by the Bury Cooperative Conference , held at Rochdale , on the 11 th ultimo , it was resolved to call a conference in Manchester , on the Friday in Whitsun-week . In accordance with that resolution a conference will be held in the Mechanics' Institution , Cooper-street , Manchester , on Friday , the 13 th instant , at ten o ' clock a . m .

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      PROGRESS OF OPINION . Brighton , April 30 , 1851 . Sin , — -There is indeed a rapid change in the Times coming about ; the " leading" journal of the 26 th instant , in one of its main articles , says : — " It is now a plain and fundamental maxim of sanitary economy , social policy , and good government , that the water we use should no more be an article of trade or taxation than the air we breathe , or the light we enjoy . " But , liberal as this admission is , the same journal does not yet see that the same fact may equally , or perhaps more justly , apply to land ; for drain off the water , and of what worth will be the land ? It is , however , quite certain that those who can write and agree with the above , and who can go with Chartism whilst quarrelling with Chartists , will soon open their eyes a little wider to truths that are forcing themselves upon us all . T . W . Muskett .

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      2 JOHN 10 . —INTERPRETATION . 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridg-e , June 2 , 1801 . Sut , —It ie not very surprising that public teachers , whose course of study stretches through a garden of oriental flowers , so rich , beautiful , and abundant as the Hebrew scriptures , should occasionally deem some things to be flowers which , to ordinary readers , appear to be facts as bare as stones . The letter of your correspondent , Mr . Larken , appears to me to be an instance in point . On the authority of " the best commentators , " he states that the word " house" in the above passage means " the place of assembly for public worship , and that " The Elect Lady" is " the figurative denomination ' ' for " the Christian

      Church , or Assembly . " I feel a decided objection to thin mode of interpretation being indiscriminately applied to passages of Scripture ; but more especially when it is attempted to show that the inspired writers purposely enveloped their meaning in mysterious periphrases lor no better reason than is furnished by a supx > osition of cowardly evading the ( lungers to which the Primitive Christians were exposed by a too open profession of thoir opinions . There appears no ground for understanding the word " house' in any other Kense than " dwelling ; " the exhortation , of tho upoHtle does not necesHarily imply any act or course of conduct inconsistent with true Christian charity , when received us addressed to an individual householder , who must bo tmppoHcd to poHHCKM a right of choice ia the selection of visitors ,

      or in giving invitations to Htrangcm . Admit the interpretation of Mr . Larken , however , that the church in thus figuratively enjoined not to receive a . seller forth of strange doctrines , nor to " bid him ( Jod spend ; " and we have at once the incipient principle of purHCisution for tho wake of opinions , placed in a position , of authority exceedingly convenient for tho partiHuns and ininistorfi of any aeet which hiiH become corrupted by worldly patronage , and aggrandized by tho poHflCHBion of worldly power . 1 di > not . object to the ocr . UHioual uue n « liguroH , of terms which art ; found in { Scripture mofebnedly to " point a moral ; " but , I do inoHt HuriouHly object to overy attempt thus to palm off a glaws for the original und true , though concealed , in . cuu . ing of tho writer . Yours . xcHpuctiully , Cj . CujkJuoau » .

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      ( IN THIS DI ' . l'AKTMl ' . NT , AH M . I . OPINIONS , UOWttVI' . Tl KXTIIKMK , ARK AI . I . OWI ' . I ) AN KXI'HKHMION , Till ' . I ' . IIITOU N UOKMMA III l . X I 1 OI . DH H 1 M 8 HXF ltl ' . srONHllILK fOlt NONit . J There l * no learned man but . willconlV'MPi he hnt . li much protlt . ed by rending oont . rovcrHieM , Inn iumscti uwnkened , and hie judgment . Hliarpciied . If , t . hen , it . he profltuhlc for him l . o reinl , why should it . not ., ul . leiuit ,, hu t-olenihU : for Iuh advo . vnn . yy to wril . e . —Milton .

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      T 11 K N 1 SCKS 8 ITY OF WAR . Cork , : > tl » month 12 th , 1851 . I raving taken in thy interesting and ablo paper from the first , I have watched with considerable interest the development of thy own views and principles , nu well as the enunciation of other opinions in the Open Council department ; and , whilst , warmly approving the general conduct of the paper , I have very much regretted to observe tho frequency and *

      a system , appears me to be essentially false , has been advocated in the columns of the Leader , and I am , therefore , desirous to make a few brief remarks on the subject for the consideration of its conductors and readers . I allude to the opinion , -which seems so prevalent at the present time , that the liberties of anoppressed nation may in some circumstances be better promoted by an appeal to arms than in any more pacific manner . This subject ia one of overwhelming importance , and I would earnestly invite all who feel a deep interest in the progress of liberty throughout the world seriously to weigh the matter before adopting a decided opinion , or advocating sentiments which cannot be supported by facts , and which , if extensively accepted , may peril the lives and liberties of thousands of their fellow-men . ^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

      I consider that all who advocate forcible resistance to oppression ought solemnly to pause , and , before they incur the great responsibility of aiding the formation of armies , and inciting to deeds of bloodshed , ask themselves whether they are not greatly mistaken in the means they have chosen for breaking the oppressor ' s yoke . Do the present circumstances of any European state warrant or require an appeal to arms on behalf of the down-trodden peoples ? Can any circumstances arise to make war desirable , or can true liberty be promoted by the sword ?

      Are there any means within our reach , at once practicable , efficient , and unobjectionable , whereby the true liberty of the peoples may be secured , and their progress guaranteed , as rapidly and permanently as the nature of the case will admit , without the employment of military force ? I will not now attempt to reply to these important queries , but I shall gladly do so at an early period , should the subject not be previously taken up by some one better qualified to do it justice than myself . P ABE WELI / .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1851, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1886/page/20/