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      been duly appreciated by , dear sir , yours most respecfully , Thob . Kino , Major-General , Louisa Terrace , Exmouth , August 17 th , 1849 ; ' From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross . . DearSir , —I cannot speak too favourably of the ' Reva-Ienta Arabica . ' Having had an attack of bad fever about three years ago , I have ever since been suffering from its effect * , producing excessive nervousness , pains in my neck , and left arm , and general weakness of constitution ; which have prevented me in a great degree from following my usual avocations ; these sensations , added to restlesss nights , particularly after previous exercise , often rendered my life very miserable ; but I am happy to say that having been' induced to try your Farina about two- months since , T am now almost a stranger to these symptoms which I confidently hope-will be' removed entirely , with the Divine blessing , by tbe continued use of this food . I have an objection that my name should appear in print , which , however , in this instance is overcome , for the sake of suffering humauity . —I am ,- sir , your obedient servant , Auoc . Stoabt , Archdeacon of Ross , Aghadown Glebe , Skibbereen , County Cork , August 22 nd , 1819 .

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      } OOOFEB'B J Q V B-N A : L ; OB , UNFETTERED THINKER , AND PLAIN SPEAKER FOR TRUTH , FREEDOM , AND PROGRESS . ( A Weekly Periodical . Price Onb Pbnnt . Issued also in Monthly Parts . ) ' . I beg to inform the readers of the above-named Periodical that the re-issue will commence with Saturday , the 5 th of October next . The Trade can be supplied on Tuesday , the lstofOetoher . ; I have no promises to make of ' great improvements . ' The intelligent friends who - kindly assisted me with their contributions , before , have intimated their , intention to continue their favours .... The ' Critical Exegesis , ' and other articles , so far as space will allow , ' shall be duly furnished by myself . . Thomas Cooper . 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridge , Sept . 3 rd , 1850 . 0 A P T A I N ~" t ! O B L E R ; . OB , THE LINCOLNSHIRE REBELLION . ,, { An Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII . ) : By Thomas Coopeb , author of the ' Purgatory of Suieidea . ' The re-is 9 ue of this Romance will also commence on Saturday * the 5 th of October . The Trade can be supplied onTuesday , the 1 st of October . Eighteen Penny Num- ; bers ( or three Sixpenny Parts ) are already published . No . 19 will , of course , be the number issued at the beginning ofOctober . —T . C . . Published by James Watson , 8 . Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . ¦ ¦¦ .:. " .-. ¦¦ ¦

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Straiia . 11 HE EXECUTIVE 09 MMITTEE . hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday afternoon , September 22 nd , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet at three o ' clock , in the City Chartist Hall , 26 , Golden-lane , Barbican . ; . On Sunday evening ( aame date ) a lecture will be delivered at the King and Queen , Foley-sJreet , Portland-place . To commence at half-past eight o ' clock . On Mondaj evening , September 23 rd , Mr . Elliott will lecture at the Brunswick Hall , Limehouse . Subject"Society , as it ought to be . " , . On Wednesday evening , September 25 th , a public meeting willbe held at the Literary and Scientific Institution , CarMe-street , Portman-market . Messrs . G . W . M . Reynolds , G . Julian Harney , S . M . Kydd , Ruffey Ridley , and . John Fussell will attend and address the meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Admission free . N . B . —These agents who have not Bent their returns of the number of members enrolled , and also the monies in hand received for cards of membership , are most respect , fully and earnestly solicited to forward the same to the General Secretary , as early as possible . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , John Abnott , General Secretary .

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      m » ^^^ : _ . ¦ 'WE £ KW JOURNALBYidBERt OW £ N _ .,,-On Saturday , the 2 nd of November , - . wjll-be-i published the First ; % mber of ,.,.-, , ROBERT 0 W » WEEKLY MRHll , ¦ ' : ;¦ pRicB ONE PBSiJT . ' - ' ¦ ¦ ' ' " " : ' ¦' A Periodical intended to iiiBtruct all olasses in the principles and practical measures by which alone the poverty , Injustice , and misery of . tbe-. exisfcine system can be peaceably superseded by universal . . ; . ; .-.. wealth , justice , and happiness . To be had Of » H Booksellers in Town and Country . THE RECENT W 0 rS " 0 F ROBERT OWEN Ma y be had of EflBngham Wilson , Royal sExohange ; Watson , Queen ' . s Head-passage ,., Paternoflter-row . ; and Yiokera , HolyweU-8 tree , t , London ...

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      The Lace * Fond . —The following sums have been received , ¦ ' perH . Wilksj-Mr . Roberts ls-Mr . Whitfield 6 d—Mr . Park ' s book 2 s—Mr . Hunt ' s book 2 g' 0 Jd—Messrs . Bees and Paver , per Mr . Phillips 2 s—Mr . Arnold 2 s 6 d—J . 1 Sewell , Esq ., Treasurer 1 J—Mr . Clarke 6 s—K . S . ls . ^~ - Per J . llobirisoh ; BIyth—R . W . 3 d—& B . 'fid—W . Li Gd- ^ - . G . N . 3 d-T . C . 3 d—H . T . 3 d-J . S . Cdi Pomsh Refugee Fund . —Per TV . Davis—Mr . O'Connor ' s Lecture at Cowpor-street 101 11 s Cd—Smith Barber Is—J . Robinson Gd—Mr . Norman 6 d—Mr . Floyd Is—Mr . Cooper 6 d—Mr . Davis . 6 d—Concert . Globe and Friends 3 s —Citizen of the World 2 s—W , Clark Gd—Mr . Fergusson . la a Friend Gd—a Democrat Bold ls Gd—Fraternal Demoerats 10 s—Calendar-yard " , per J . Brown 16 s Ifd—Mr , i lunn . ner J . Brown 5 s Gd—Mr . Hoare . per J . Brown li ~

      a Friend Is—Mrs . Butler Is—Kentish Town , T . M . Is' Norfolk Arms , per Stevens 5 s 4 d—Mr . Buddie's book 5 s-Golden-lane , per Moreing Is 8 $ d—Concert , Old Dolphin , per Moreing 2 s 4 d . " ' '' ' ....... Hungarian and Pohbh Ref 0 oebs . — Collected by T . M , . Wheelor , at Mft O'Connor ' s- Lecture , on Tuesday , Sep . ¦ 17 th , at Cowper-street , several Friends in sums ot 6 d and Is each 158 2 d—Miss B . Is—Mrs . Sturgeon 6 d-Mrs . FussellGd-Mr . Browettfid .. ' . ¦ Accommodation Room foe Rbfcgees . —Per T . M . Wheeler —A Friend , per Mv . Randall ( agift ) 5 s—Mr . Hampden ( a , loan ) 7 s 6 d—Mr . Brook ( a loan ) 5 s . A . B ., Rotherham . —Stars of any date may be sent to Ireland . ¦ . Me . Thomas Almond would oblige Mr . O'Connor by forwarding his address to the Land Office , as ^ he wishes to correspond with him upon a matter of importance . " , Posm . —G . ' B ., is respectfully declined .

      The Lolteek Stak Satukoav, Septembeit : 2ij 1850.

      THE lOlTEEK STAK SATUKOAV , SEPTEMBEit 2 Ij 1850 .

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      'THE WAR OF CAPITAL AGAINST LABOUR . The workmen of Caslon and Fa « G ; Chiswell-street , Finsbury , who are at present out on strike , have published a statement of their case , which embodies much interesting , arid , to the social statist and reformer , much valuable information . The trade of type founding has experienced fewer changes and innovations as to the mode of operation , than almost any other that can be named . . The original processes remain uearly unaltered in number and kind . While

      machinery has been in every other direction encroaching upon the former occupation of the manual labourer , type founding continues to be in all respects a purely handicraft vocation . A machine for manufacturing type , either by hand or steam power , has been invented , and was some time ago exhibited by a French gentleman at one of the soirees of the President of the Royal Society , ; where it was greatly admired and spoken , highly of by the Savims . We have ourselves carefull y examined it , and seen ' it in operation , > and the result is a conviction , that if ever it is brought into use , it will entirely

      revolutionise this particular department of industry , just as machinery has done in so many other branches , of trade and " manufacture . Meanwhile , whatever may be the cause , the art of type founding continues pretty much in its primitive state , and requireB from those who live by its practice , great dexterity in some of the numerous stages through which the article passes before it is fit for use . These two facts would appear at the outset to be sufficient to ensure at least a fair remuneration , but in addition , the trade is peculiarly unhealthy . "Regulas of antimony , " says the statement before us , "is a rank poison , and enters largely into the metal of which types are made . To cast the type this metal must be almost red-hot ' : the head of the caster is within two feet of the crucible containing the metal : the vapour .

      partly poisonous , continually exhaliwr from this red-hot metal , largely ' impregnates the atmosphere he is compelled to breathe ; add to this that he stands not more than from four to sis inches from the cast iron furnace which heats the metal , and it will be easily percieved that his position at work is not very favoura ble to health and longevity . After the type has left the hands of the caster , it must be smoothed by rubbers and dressers before it is fit for the printer . In these processes the roughness and burr incident to casting , throws off a fine but palpable dust , from off the poisonous material , which floats in the air , and is necessarily , inhaled by all in the workshop where these processes are carried on . Besides these unhealthy influences , inseparable from the occupation itself , as at present conducted , the workmen

      state" Many of the shops in which we are compelled to work are dark gloomy places . If the day be dull , we have a difficulty in seeing to work ; and in dark days we are in a murky gloom-no better than the light of a kamschatka winter the ventilation is invariably of the most unscientific character possible to imagine . The subject , properly speaking , appears never to have entered the thoughts of employers when constructing the workshops . There are windows , 'tis true , and they open , —but if there is the slightest chill in the wind it is impossible to open them ¦ without serious injury to some one or other ; to one man the draught gives a stiff neck , to another the toothache , to a third the rheumatism , and so on . Miiny a man has been laid up up for days , and for weeks from the colds ,

      rheumaticTiains , &c , caught in consequence ot this Dau ventilation , which , in addition to the pernicious nature ; of the business , greatly assists to undermine the constitution , and produce almost invariably a premature old age and an early tomb . It is a fact worthy of notice , that we have but few old men ( really so ) among us ; and if there is a business at which men labour for subsistence which requires a larger rate of remuneration than another , surely it is the Letter-founder 1 ¦ " It appears , however , that the low rate of wages paid to Germans , resulted as a consequence of the orig in of the art in Germany ; and that it was not until some time elapsed that they were raised to the level of English necessities . Of late years the tendency has been t o lower prices very considerably . In

      1843 , the masters of both Sheffield and London proposed a severe and sweeping reduction from twenty to seventy-five per cent . Tho Sheffield firms gave way , after a twelve weeks ' contest ; but the Londoners ultimately succeeded in forcing down wages to a rate that would scarcely allow a man to provide even a pauper ' s subsistence . It was impossible this could last long . In 1845 , the result of a fresh contest with the firm of Caslon was to retain from all the London firms a considerable portion of the ground lost in 1843 . The settlement made five years ago , was mutually entered into , and the workmen of Messrs . Fagg and Caslon now simply demand that it shall be adhered to ,

      It is not necessary that , in thisplaco , we should do more than state the substance of the unjust demands which the workmen have resisted by the extreme measure of a strike . The whole of the facts are minutel y and circumstantially described . in ' their well-written and forcible statement , and must leave a strong feeling of indi gnation in the mind of every unbiassed reader .

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      It appears that . the flrn ? . 9 i ,, Caslon ha ? always . been looked up tp atf one of highTespectability ; :: KecefltJ ^ howeveiV | fc ^ W joined by ^ he ^ mdmdual ^ hpw iiiaine stan ds secondhand imwhose anxietykto get a large per centa ' ge on his -capital , "he has originated , or taken advantage of , a series of occurrences , ' -, with the direcUnd avowed View of breaking the ^ ^ ettlementof 1 ! ^^ : largely rejocjng the pricespaid under that agreement . ; Having I nothing in nrospectbut continuedi . and : mdefir , \ . ,, , ., _ n ^_ , fiiarnn

      nite reductions , the type-foundera ^ after ^ submitfcirig . to several glaring infractions ot tbe old system , finding that their employers gained boldnessi ' in , propprtibu ; ' as they ' showed ii desire for peace / became convincedthat . they would be reduced to the condition of slop tailors , if immediate arid general resistance was not offered . ' . They , accordingly ; struck , to the number of ; ninety-six , and still remain out . ¦ In the meantime the firm has had recourse

      to every / p ossible means * they can devise to procure - workmen to fill the vacant places , ' but so far without effect , except to the extent subsequently , stated . The ' Parisian typefoundersi at a ' ' special , convocation , passed . a series of resolutions which do them the utmost Credit , and demonstrate' how rapidly the real fraternity of nationsis progressing . They laid down , broadly that " jn all , the cquutneB in the world the maintenance of wages is a question of primordial principle , '' equally vital to . the' working class population in all I these countries ; and they iiepTecated ' the idea . of the workmenof one ^ country lending their

      aid to lower the wages : and deterrorate the condition of those in'another - country . These resolutions were followed up by others , denouncing , any French workmen' who might depart for London as ,. ^•; un worthy . ' . and false brothers , " and \ piedgihg themselves ! to ' give , besides , such pecuniary aid to the English workmen as their limits , would . permit .,, / We believe ;; these , noble ; resolutions have been nobly acted , upon , and they constitute one ' of the redeeming and hopeful features of the present contest . They v offer to the thoughtful Reformer one out of many inclicjitionsj not to be mistaken , that the past efforts of the proletarian classes and theirfriends-have not been ¦

      fruitless . '" , The workers are everywhere beginning to perceive the identity of their interests '; and , to use the language of the French typefounders , that it is their duty , by all possible m " eahs , ' to exert themselves to bring- closer the bonds which unite them as fellow workmen , and to forget ,. for ever , all those puerile feelings of nationality , which only bring about division amongst ; them , ¦ . while ,. in ., fact , ' . ' they . ; are . all brothers , in the world of labour . "' . There is the germ of a greater : revolution , than any the world has yet witnessed . : ¦ > ^ : ; Despite the cordial understanding between

      the London and Parisian , workmen , the crimps of ilr .. ]? AGG succeeded , " however , in entrapping nine men and two . women ^ who , with a few persons from the conntry , said to be inferior both in practical skill and moral character , are now filling the places of the honourable and intelligent workmen , who simply take their stand upon an agreement mutually entered into by masters and men a few years ago . The manner in which the coutest lias been conducted by the , firm in question ,. has been such as to render any adjustment of differences , on equitable or reasonable terms ,

      impossible . The idea of any intelligent or honourable body of workmen , submitting to such terms as those proposed by the employers to Messrs . EDWABDS and CatCHPOOL , two independent gentlemen , who offered : themselves as mediators , is utterly preposterous . Messrs . Caslon and Fagg insisted ¦ not only on the reduction—in defiance of the agreement of 1845—but would give no guarantee that others would not speedily follow , They demanded the power of selecting and re-employing only a limited number of their old hands ,

      andabove all , beyond all—that those they might condescend to choose ,, " should go to them , one by one , and beg pardon for what they , had done , promising never to offend so any . more !" ¦ The monstrous audacity of such a proposal in this so-called free country throws into the shade even the recent demand of the Dail y Ifews , that railway workmen should be subjected to martial law . Taken together , they show to what extremes the holders of capital are prepared to go , in order to perpetuate arid to deepen the subjugation and slavery of what is mockingly termed " Free Labour . "

      . Truly has Carlyie called Modern Political Economy " the Devil ' s Gospel . " It throws a seeming halo over every violation of the highest , principles which ought to , govern the conduct of individuals and communities . It supplies " respectable" philosophical' nicknames for selfishness , plunder ; meanness , injustice , and oppression ; and under cover of these specious falsehoods and shams , lets loose upon society a set of ravening harpies , who go about seeking whom they can' devour , and who , if society was rightly instituted , would either be compelled to earn an honest living for themselves , or be securely shut up , to prevent them from doing mischief . ¦

      The strike at Wolverhampton is another powerful illustration of , the enthralling , and downward tendencies of our modern productive system , and of the utter impossibility of the workmen having justice done to them while it continues . ; " ' Surely nothing can be more reasonable in itself , or more consonant with the general interests of the community , than that the same price should be paid by all employers for precisely the same amount and description of work upon precisely the same , material . The single master who pays smaller prices inflicts a twofold blow upon the trade with which he is

      connected . He robs the workman of what is his due , and he places himself , by means of that robbery , in an unfairly advantageous position , as respects the just and honourable employers in the same trade . That any general benefit to the community can possibl y arise from such a course we hold to be impossible . Whatever may be the apparent diminution iu the price of the material caused by the competition , it is far more than balanced b y the immorality , pauperism , crime , and consequent public burdens to which it gives birth . The pence saved in such foolish bargains are the capital out of which pounds have to be paid for workhouses and prisons , ! - ¦ .

      In the case of the Wolvevhampton tin-plate workers—as stated in the admirable weekly reports of the secretary to ' the National Association of United Trades , —the value and the necessity of a new and superior organisation of Labour is demonstrativel y shown . All the facts , indeed , connected . with our industrial system , point to the same conclusion . We are happy to observe , in every direction , the growing dishko to have recourse to strikes , and the reliance of the workmen ; in every branch of industry , upon calm . temperate argument and mediation . But they must be prepared to enforce . argument and mediation by some more powerful and cognate weapon . Mere

      violence and intimidation are rightfully and properl y abandoned . Their place must be supplied . For that purpose we certainly see nothing equal to the National Organisation proposed by that Association . Had the whole of the engine drivers in the country been united themselves ^ unit ed with every other grade of railway workers , and these again with all other trades in Great Britain , how different would have been the conclusion of their strike ! Such an Association would become , by its moral and its pecuniary power , the supreme Court of Judicature in all Labour questions , and it miaht invariably ensure obedience to its decrees hv

      tne simple expedient of withdrawing from the Labour market , and ; setting to reproductive employment those . whose Lessees sub 5 them to the temptations of tho employer class and reduce them to the deplore position of

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      being tools for the privation ; ' and degradation of their own . :: _ :: " . We trust thatthelabouring claaaea through out the country will heartil y aid the typ e I founders in their ri ghteous struggle j but we hope , above all , that they will see the para mount and the enduring importance of havinu anefficient , well compacted , and powerful Jfo tipnal Organisation of Industry , by which auch sectional straggles will be prevented , or converted into ' victories for Labour . , . t . onls fnr tha nnnnttAU'ami /?>^<« i j _' i . ¦'

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      ^ i TAXES UPON BRITISH INGENUITY . The din and bustle of preparation for the " Vanity Fair , " projected b y Prince Albert , increases . The preliminary operations have become palpable , in the shape of an immense hoarding in H yde Park ; and the glasa houses and foundries in the provinces , are busily preparing the materials for the construction of the Crystal Palace , in which the products of the world ' s industry are to dg exhibited .

      We have already declared our opinion of the principle on which this exhibition has been planned , and recorded our views as to its probable practical consequences . We had no sympathy with the purely selfish and class objections raised by the Campbells , Broughams , and Cresswells , who saw in the site of the exhibition merely an interference with the exclusiveness of the comforts

      and enjoyments of the aristocratical denizens of that fashionable quarter of London ; but we have all along doubted its utility to the industrious classes of this country . These doubts have nof been dissipated by the composition of the managing body , and the way m which they have set about carrying tho project into effect . However important it may have been in this rank-worBhippjng country to throw around the scheme the

      prestige of high birth , rank , and title , with the influence of a Royal Commission , it must be evident , that these parties could know little or nothing of the actual business connected with such an exhibition . In Paris , where they take place periodically , the body of management is composed of practical men—ma * nufacturers , and tradesmen—who , with a keen knowledge of their respective trades , bring with theni , at the same time , the advantages of a generous enthusiasm to improve and stimulate national industry , ingenuity , and enterprise . j The Royal Commission irv thi& eountry was composed of noblemen and political celebrities j

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      PORTBAIT # ^ fiOKRT Ptt ; This admirable ' ¦ likeness of .: the Great Statesman , is now ready , and may be had of any of the Agents , price the same as the previously published Portraits . •• ¦ London Agent , Mr . Pavey , Holywell-street , Strand . -: :: ' ' '¦ " ' . ; : \ ' ;; ' , : . ' ¦ ¦ . ; s '

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      PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PBESjpTS , r : ; This Magnificent Historical Engraving , printed on a whole Bheet , containing Portraits ' of all the American Presidents , is now read y for delivery . ^ _ Agents who have not furnished the Publisher with a list of the numbers they require , are requested to do so at once , -when th » Prints shall be immediately forwarded .

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      BOBEKT OWEN . ¦; It will be seen , by Mr . Owen ' s "Leiterto his Son , " and by the advertisement which appear * m another portion of our paper , that , in the 80 th year of his age , he is about to com-| mence a cheap weekly periodical , to advocate , as he states , his principles in their purity , and j to their full extent .. For nearl y half a century the veteran philanthrop ist has been conspicu . ously before the public , and untiring in his efforts to convince the world that , hitherto , society has been in error both in principle and practice , throughout the whole of its t > aat rov ..

      ceedings . He has also , during that long I period , been unremitting and earnest in his exposition of the principles and the practical measures by which he conceives that the misery he attributes to the fundamental error of society may be entirel y and permanently removed . No one at all acquainted with the bold uncompromising , and consistent career of this rounder o { Socialism , ' will ibr an instant hesitate to do . honour to the heroic disregard of personal consequences he has evinced

      throughout . ; The knowledge that truth mi ght be unpopular , and was certain to be unpalatable to those who lived by maintaining the opposing falsehood , has never for one moment prevented him from acting upon a motto adopted by him in' the early stages of his arduous career "Truth ,, without mystery ,, mixture of error , or fear of man . " . The strongest and most sweeping condemnations ever passed upon the existing state of society in all its ramifications are to be found in the works of Robert Owen " .

      No living man has done so much to undermine all its existing Institutions ^—no one . has . ever dreamed of a more sweeping radical and total change in its foundation and its structure . We shall , under such circumstances , be curious to learn whether Mr . Owen has anything new to give to the world in his forthcoming publication , or whether it willbe but the repetition , perhaps , in a varied form , of the premises and conclusions to which he attaches so . deep and all-absorbing an importance , and upon which he so largely dwelt in his former works . However it may turn out , the aged patriarch has a powerful claim on the attention of all

      classes of society . He has , truly , " Shunned delights , and lived laborious days 1 " for the disinterested purpose of benefitting his fellow men . He might have achieved station and influence , had he chosen to propound his views with bated breath and whispering humbleness , or rendered them the means of propping up a false and vicious system . He deliberately ,, with open eyes , adopted another course . He has devoted life and an ample fortune to the great . mission of * his life , and not in varo . Socialism , in some of its many aspectshas

      , become the practical creed of the age , and thousands who know little of Robert Owen ' s philosoph y are his unconscious disciples , After the storms of persecution and obloquy through which he has passed , and the ridicule or contempt / with which the literary men of this country have been accustomed to treat his opinions , his time of triumph if it has not yet come , is assuredly not far off . When we read the following conclusion to an admirable Review of "Alton Locke , " in the Athenaum , of the 7 th hist ., we felt that it masked half a

      century of palpable , positive progress in public opinion . r We believe that in ' association' will be found the cure for the miseries produced by competition ' —that 'assoeiahon' is the watchword of the neiv order of things which is beginning . The age of individualism is passing away . Nor was this a mere ephemeral and passing emotion—a slip of the pen in an unguarded moment , which that powerful journal—powerful , because avowedly at the head of our purelyjiterary weekly publications—was willing to let pass for once . In the number for last week ,: we find a review of Mr Owen ' s last work The JR&vohtionin the Mind and Practice of Human Race , written in a spirit which betokens a real and vital change among those who sway opinion among the educated and influential classes . From that review we quote one passage , which , though slightly inaccurate , on one or two points on matters of fact , contains , on the whole , a just and feeling tribute tp the pure , unselfish , and heroic character and labours of a great and good man : — °

      An interesting chapter in the history of social science in England , hereafter to be written , will be , the story of Robert Owen—his ideas , his experiments , his feilures . his untiring devotion to what most men , now that they have ceased to cause , alarm , regard as bis humane crotchets . His schemes ' were the most important offspring in this country—for on the Continent they have been more prolific of fruit , good and bad-of the ideas of Bnethamand nis famous formula . Owen started with ' the greatest happiness to ' thegreatest number' theory . His instruement was education for the masses . . In this respect he was a true reformer ; the good which he was the means of effecting by his plan of infant schools wiU remain for a monument when his name will hare ceased to be remem . bered as the founder of a sect . Ten or a dozen years ago the doctrines of Owen , had numerous diciples . " How they have hardly a follower , because they have been tried and found wanting . The front of this 'National Society' wa 9 at one time imposing : —no town but had its hall of science , its social institute . These , however , were not accepted by the anxious , workman wjio had subscribed his mite to build them as a solution of the great problem of society . Trial was urged—prematurely as it is said—and with trial came failure , lhe scheme exploded at once , and the disciples were scattered to the winds . But these failures , if they brought momentary discouragement to their author , causing him" to abate no jot of heart or hope . His enthusiasm has out-lived alike toil , successes , reverses and neglect . There is something interesting in convictions which keep the heart green in the eve of life , reposing on the hope that springs from faith in the power of truth to conquer all obstacles in the end , and in its own time to atone for and explain all seeming failures by the way

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 21, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1592/page/4/