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found that , in many instances , the names of fhe Bliareholderfl who had signed in favour of ; the appointment of Mr . Aingbb , were written in the same hand ; and he therefore postponed the appointment until Tuesday fortnight , in order to give the solicitor an opportunity of giving a satisfactory explanation of this occurrence . This delay is to be regretted , as nothing can be done until the manager is appointeS . "Wo are informed that it has been caused by secretaries of branches improperly Bgning for members ; and the affidavits of tho parties will be required to prove that they gave
their assent to such signature . We delayed the publication of this article until this week , in tho hope that we should have been able to announce the appointment of a manager , and fee actual commencement of the operations we have described ; and we deeply regret that Buch an occurrence should have caused , not only loss of time , but considerable additional expense , which will , no doubt , ultimately come out of the pockets of the shareholders . It is most important , in future , that strict attention should be paid by the shareholders to all the legal forms requisite to give validity to their acts .
"W « shall Wfttch carefully the progress of the Winding-up , and from time to time report progress , for the information and benefit of the large body * of shareholders who are interested in the Company .
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drove his father from a throne into exile and obscurity , there can be now none The 'Times' contains an eloborate account of an interview at ! Claremont , inspired , if not drawn up , by the hand of Guizot , which places the fact beyond displace , and which at the same time daguerreotypes the Orleans family in a very accurate , ' but by no means flattering manner , Neve ? was so much selfishness and meanness mixed with much Jesuitry and irresolution . By the mouth of the Due de Nemouhb the ( Mean ' s family say they will neither sanction nor disavow any pretensions
or promises put forth in their name . They will take all chances and run none . They will , if they can , foist one of the children of a dethroned monarch into tho President ' s chair , for the avowed purpose of perjuring himself and converting it into a throne again as speedily as possible . Their means of success are hypocrisy , dissimulation , and underhand aianoevures ; their object , the violation of the oaths which they deliberately and solemnly swear to keep , for the purpose of rehabilitating an effete monarchy in theTuilleries . Now . we do not know- exactly what are
pre-Eutced to be the proper qualifications of presideats or kings , nor the ideas which ' royal princes themselves entertain as to what becomes their character and station . Cer-( tainly , however , honourable straightforward truthfulness and sincerity are not among the number of their virtues . To be a prince and aspire to wear a crown , it is by no means necessary to be either an honest man or a gentleman ia tbe beBt sense ef that term . They resort to the meanest of intrigues—habitually indulge in systematic falsehoods—and , in short , -fcave recourse to all the dirty and unscrupulous actions of swindlers and reckless advesturers . If the Prince do JoisYille
ceute by any possibility hoodwink the French people into electing hiin as President -of the Republic , we shoaid have no respect whatever ¦ for « , nation that could evince so lamentable adeficiencyof-cosimonsenseandcommon honesty . But we -do not for one -moment be * lieve that he tshS succeed ia doing so , and instead of aiming at a throne , by means of 'lying trickery and perjury , he-and all other princes had better betake themselves , in the first p lace , 'to tbe ta . sk tff'learning how to act as upright arid honest citizens . They- may ; -depend updn it tho world was made for o ' fche ' ri purposes ' -tbgn to be the viotiEi of royaS thim-i ble-riggcrsj'or the dupes of monarchical humbug .
Theotfcrr Prince , nowirt possession-of the Presidential Chair , who -seeks to be te-elected in defiance of the'Constitution at the expiration df < his present term of office , is equally dynestic in his aspirations—equally-selfish in his motives , and equaliy dishonest in the methods to winch hViias recoerse for the purpose of-obtaining his object . - 'Durrnf ; his Presidency he 'fcas participated ia evt ? py one of -fee tyrannical , 'unconstitutional , and disgraceful acts of a domineering and
unpKncipled'BsajOrity-tn tbe Assembly .-Above all , ' for the * sake of a few thousands Of paltry francs , to meet the-nscessities entaikd upon him by apeing regal-state aa the-President of a'Sepublie , ba eold : ( : he suffrages of trillions ofS ' renchmen whtf-hed voted'for histtwn elew tion . Has he strengthened his position with , tfee contending sections of : the reactionary parties thereby ? -Wot a-whit of it . He feefe this now when it is too late . He has coiaciitted the treason ; -but missed the'reward for which he became-a ; traitor . ' -Too --lute ' trenn
tae words which annihilated . the tilynssty'cf 'Louis » Bhi :. JFJPE . £ In now ^ reposing that - the law of May shall ] be repea , ed , > Louis H&-3 ? 0 IE 0 N will also t and-it'is 'too = iate . ' - 'As far as he is individually > toncesned , all the mischief'fee can doiiasbeen done ,-&nd nothing can ever-re-instate him in the cenfidence ~ of any enlightened -or honest section of . the people ofiFrance . It is , hiMveveiv not & badly conceived movement . . Ifsanyfchiagcould . possiblysgive ^ hiffi a chance of .- securing the prolongation of . power he so ardently - labours , for , it -would -be ; the
proposal by hia ^ -MInistry of-the restoration to every citizen , twenty-one-years of . age , of .-iiis right to . voie at : all-electioas , ^ whether Parliamentary - -or . Presidential . ' . SEhrough ¦ ¦ thei medium of the < Coastitutiomj ©} , ' theiPKESiEBET declares-that it will be his boundea duty ; to cause tbe ? repeal . of the la * ' of the . 3 i 8 t < of May aasocn asifcbeyreassemble— -that time presses , aad . that this , mor € thau-. aay other , ie an urgect expedient . He .-says , farther , that this lav >' , § instead of being .-ajrampart , has beeufoacd-to-ba-ii breach -through which tho frantic , jaob will rush to invade society .
. Now , theuse-ofeuchfermsprorescoaolusivel ; that it is as aa electioneering trick , .-and . not from any sincere or decided conviction that it ieixjght or justs Jthat -weiOiust looi : : at > tkis . proposal . It is , ic . use his own tenq ,. simply ati ' expedient , 'by . which , ifce hopes to ^ eseate . a ttemporary popiiiarity . But , vgvg < he . reelected , aud all « itiaef bankers to &i 8 < rGaimp . : tion of power removed , . what guarantee Jiave . the people of Franee that . Ue would not ; ^ gain ietrayand desert them as . he has done already ? The ibest proof £ kat can be given of . his xeoted . hostility to aBything ,-really republican , ie 4 he ; treat meat of republicans , and his dafaiceus and unscrupulous crusade against itbe press . { Ehs slightest indication of
republicanism sa the . actions or v .-ords of any official ie certain to fba followed i > y dismissal and dis grace . T-be < cry of Vive la Rep&blique under a Republican President aad institutions , is a political crime punishable by jqstaut arrest and imprisonment . The duEgeons are crowded with political ; pdsoners , and with editors of newspaper * . SDbe ordinary tribunals are superseded by CQjirts-martial , and skcere republicans aivj arraagied before such drum ihoad judges , ^ hargfid with couspiracies evidently concocted by police spies , found jffiilty , and condemned to ' expiate the crime of political Jaoueety in the , penal settlements and Jungesns of the Eepablic , whose maintenaHce and defence is the sole oWect of their lives .
While such is the daily policy of Louis NarOLEON- ^ -iv hile he thus hunts down the press , and persecutes and oppresses every honest republican let him not lay the flattering unction to his soul , that tbifl clumsy electioneering trick will receive a single man in France . We should imagine that the people of hat country have had enough of him and of other dynastic pretenders , to be very heartily disposed to aet on the scriptural injunction : 'Put not you ? trust in princes , '
If , to suit his own selfish ends , Louis Nafoxeox does procure the repeal of the Jaw of May , -we trust the power restored to the people will be used to establish a veritable Repnblique Democmtiqae et sociale .
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MONIES REGEIVtO Fob the Week Ending Thursday , Sepibmbeb 4 tu , 1851 . national charter fund . Received by John Abkott . —Hoxton locality , per C . F . Aichols 7 s 2 d—A Republican Is-Torquay , per W . Tope 5 b , ° ^ , orccster " P ° * - Harding « s 8 d-North Shields , per r ' Jl TfT ?? . 2 s Cd-Bolton , per J . Leadbeater , 10 s 8 d-Collected at the Hall , Fmstmry 4 s 8 id . _ Total -El 18 b OJd . TRACT FUND . Rpceiredby Jons ABXoTr . -Torqaaj , per W . Tope 2 « . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . Heceived by V . \ BiDEB—Bristol , per W . Sheehan 5 s , FOR THE WOLVERHAMPTON VICTIM * . Rcceired by tv . iudeb . _ c , Sfagrave Farnham lg .
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, i aw nis Emixenck . —The Morning Advertiser says that wben Dr . Wiseman dines out he appears in iiis church dress—a thing never done even in Rome " and on passing to the dining-room is preceded by M . Searle , bearing two tapers on a velvet cushion , on which is the Cardinal ' s hat . Don Miguel . —A legitimist correspondent from Germany states that Don Miguel ( whom he CilllS King Don Miguel ) is about to marry the Princess de Lowenstem-Rosenberg , a relative of Prince Schwarzenberg , who , although not appertaining to a royal houso . ls still of the very higheet nobility .
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THE ' FAMILY HERALD , " AND " STBANGERS IS LONDON . " E 6 au de-pised his birthright . TO THS EDITOR OF THE NimTttttRN STAR . Mr . Editor , —In that widely-spread and useful periodical called the Family Herald , we find , on the 23 rd August , a leading article , entitled , " StraDgers in London , " the concluding paragraph of which runs thus : ¦—'After all , our visitors are children , and we ourselves are nothing more , ft is to be hoped that we may
mutually receive some useful lessons from one another ; hut we rather suspect that the best _ features of all nations combined into one composite nation , would not produce a model for posterity to follow . There is some radical defect in till nations which aftects the manners and customs , the laws and the faitli , the philosophy . and the literature which is cultivated amongst them ; and that radical defect must be first cured before either imitation or emulation produce the eftVet that is expected from them . Indeed , very few people seem at all disposed to imitate their neighbours , but are rather willing to re-produce their own vicious peculiarities than imitate others which their taste er their judgment condemns . '
The Editor of the Family Herald is doubtless a man of more genius and talent than is often to be met with in these degenerate days . lie has said and written a vast number of good and wise things in his time ; but like the great majority of our public instructors , he is more au fait in pulling down and unsetling the old orrora and practices of society than in putting us into the way of getting into a better condition of life . For example , nothing can interest us more than how to armo at a right conclusion as to whac the " radical defect , " of which he speaks , really is , and ho \ r it is to be eradicated ; but not one word of enlightenment on these points does he give us . Yet the solution of the great problem ho enunciates—embracing us j ( j does the whole field of human effort— -is the most important desideratum of societyv It may not therefore , I trust , be altogether useless to your
readers to offer a few speculations and remarks on the subject . The paragraph quoted commences by assorting that " all our visitors are -children , " and that " wo ourselves are nothing moro ; " —in other words , that tho universal man is yet in his infancy ; a proposition with which I full y agree , albeit , the truth of it will be disputed by many , especially by those who are perpetually deluding themselves and others by that specious wsrd " progress . " ' & . child is known by Ms doings , " says Solomon , '" whether his work : be pure , and whether it be right ; " and , judged % this text , who will > pronoance that the inan'ohild of Humanity has yet -put away childish things , < or that any real change iias ¦ taken place in his prhiciples of action since tlicdays of Adam down ito the present fctme ? Humanity ihas yet givaa no 'proof of matui'&y or manhood teason has never ^ yct governed tbe world .
That a " radical defect" does-arist in tho religious , meral , social , and politicef ! arrangements of our own'country , is evident from tbo fact that no possible improvement in tho m 8 ? e name and form of any ttfthesa'fiepartments'df'society , tfhilo their existing spirit and principle * emain tbosBme t coulc satisfy a firm believer iis -the inherent dignity of human ndture , and of its almost infinite improvementundor tho instrumentality of that divino res-: son -with -Which man has -been 'endowed by 1 & 9 Creotor . ; And what , * sir , is this -radical defect which SSill keeps man-kind in a stabs iff childhood , and prevents any one nation on the fact of the ea * lh from rising un into ' tho dignified -stature and condition <) f manhood' ? .
• To-find-a single womemhodyinpageneralfcntion capable of giving a comprehensive reply to « 'question so-vast , may appoar impossible , yet we' ^ hink- it can be done—it is SLAVERY !; ; Slavery- ! In that single word what a multitude of the elements of evil are condensed 1 . Where v / ould be an end'to the analysis '—tyranny , crufcUy , fGar , hopelessness , deBpair , vice , crimo , misery , Belf-dis- ; honour , blasphemy , "lying , war , rapine , murderj poverty , riches , luxflry , disease ; physiodl , moral , and intellectual detorioratioa ^ and a thousand other secondary cauees destructive of beznan happine 9 s-and improvement , are « omprehonded'in that one fatal term !
Yet—since maDKicd commesced their career 'en earth ,-slavery has ^ een ram pant . ; It-is'prefigiHvsd in the > cacred aliegery of the fall of mnn . Our first parentB ate of the forbiddeniftait in slavish sulj « 3-tion to physical instincts ; and the reflecting Esuus of-posfrdiluviatt society—not looking to future « cn-^ equeBoes , but clutching , at present < £ nd-flee * ing good , - have baseJy-sold their-fcirthrightsaslree-fecrn sons so : ' God for mere messeaof pott 3 g ® ? while' tho caleukting Jacobs have as basely taken advantage of the-cecessitiesfithe ignoTanje ; or . the weakness of their / fellows to-hind then * in the cbaiaa of slavery . As ia ifcbo physical so in the . Bioralwofld—meni-aap what they sow . . 'Eftects follow causes ^ ith as roach certainty in moral as in physical life ; and ii is equally true in both spheres £ . that every effect 4 s in
proportion to Jts cause . ' Our progenitors -sowed slavery broadcast- in society , and tyranny Bpran ^ up . "The humap race increaea and multiply , - ^ nd yet the harmonic law of liberty is stillaadisco-vered or ignosed ; and-e 2 avery , more or less . niodified .- ^ and disguiBed , exists in every . department . of secfety , in every country oa the face / of tbo ear ^ h . This-radical ' dofect has engendered a demoralising system of caste in social llfe .-dastructive of all that is great or djgniSed in ; the human v « harao $ er , making . one , class cringing . anil servile ; . another , haugbty . and-superciliouq ; . and separating , emtry class / byrcpposing iinterest 8 ; and ; contrari « u 8 eymfathies . ' rThese distinctions aro perpetrated :, km mercenary motives . A viciou&Giundyismjin-. whkJti no maaflare stand upon his own mdwiduality .
pKcvaus , andjn whteh non-conformity to a stupid aad galling rGutine ror . c frivolous ffaahion , may subject the non-cosformjng party to social martyrdom ,.. ^' pecuniary sacrifices . Might , usurps rjgkt ; ,. anx then makes , laws tojpsrpetrate the-wrong- unden . ifes false decision of jjustiee , whom he has cunningly blindfolded for the occasion . i 3 ? ear ^ govei'n « va ? " erf- ; srhere instctd . ofjlove . One religious faith- is based « 2 a 8 lavishrf « ar . of ; a presumed in ] plac «» We > JReity . i a ' nevfer-ending hc ) l . ; « ind an . almosS omnipotent Itevj ) . Even : that ; boa 3 ted " order / ' -to whdcfa we point as a proof . of o » r . advancement , jn . civili « atjonj has its origin da fear and slavery . iLrnoraonce of
soc » l rights , TCd tho pressure or itheiear of want , make wages-slaves of the . vulgar herd of our people . ; and . furnishes our . government with 'hired soldiers , and peliee , who foolishly protect their , o « a oppressors in usurped and , wnju& £ privileges , iforgettiDg that ; -they themselves have human nights equally valid . with their masters . The same . diabolical agency supplies our ; espitaliafc 3 , our mercbacts , our inanufactarers , and -owe shopfceepers , with twilling and docile labourers , who stupidly eoagraiulate ^ Lemsel . Y . ec in being allowed . to . wear outAheir lives in unremiKing toil , alite . destructive of health , viriue ., audtappiness , and « ften for pittancesb ^ ely sugcient to . Einiutain a wreiched existeoce .
A cation . is made up of individual *; if tbe indkidualsarechild > en , thenatios cannot hav o arsised at maturity- ; if the individaaja aro slaves , ; tbe nation cannot be free . And before wo can hflr-e any correct opinion as to what a ires * nation otfgbitto be , we © uat define an idea \ of a free man ; for although the realisable actuality may ever fall short of the ideal , it is better to set up a high standard' of excellence whenever sve desiro to approximate W perfection . Our own bcau-ide : vl cf a free man , is a man whose sense of the dignity of his nature , as a son of the living God . is so keen tha . t . as far as his own
existence is concerned , he weald suffer death rather than give up his body or his mind to theJirection acd control of another ; and rho would feel equally disgraced and dishonest m his own conscience , were he to attempt to control any of his fellows against their will , and in opposition to those universal and natural rights an equal share in which he claused for himself . Estimating liberty as the highest blessing © f life , he would scorn to rob a . fellow « r « a-j turo of it . Xibtr ty . ind honour ( that fi ^ nour which springs from a pure sense of duty , and cot from a . fear of the world's loud laugh ) are the Idols of his heart ; and to preserve them untarnished and intact he would saeritiee every other good .
But there jinve been few such temperaments existing in the world . The masBof mankind are mere shams—children assuming the characteristics of men , who have no knowledge of real liberty , or any appreciation of those inalienable social and political rights which belong to them as human beings . Yet , until every institution of sociely shall be reorganised , with the sole riet ? not only of cultivating the appreciation of tho love of liberty , but to ensure to every individual the power to be free , humanity cannot be said to have entered upon the firet year of its majority . And where , in this fifty-ninth century of the history of man , aro to be found the propounders and teachers of these glorious principles of liberty ? Are they to be found among our literati , ournewswritcrs , our reviewers , our novelists , our philoso * phers , our historians , our poets ? Shall we meet
with them among our political economists , our statesmen , our legislators ? Do they rank among our reformers , our demagogues , our systemmongers ? Do we see them among our moralists , our philanthropists , our clergy ? Alas ! all is barren ;; or if a few indications of such teachers do appear , their existence ia not recognised by the majority of their class , and their power is feeble against the Bwelling tide of venality , prejudice , error , and folly which oppces them . Our newspaper press is almost exclusively under tbe domination of upper or middle class interests , and , with rare exception * , inste .-id of teaching true social and political rights and liberties to the people , is daily engaged in the dastardly work of rendering those rights and liberties not onl y more difficult of realization , but even of recognition by the masses . Party squabbles , persona ! jovectives , inune diatribes , and vague ge-
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neralizations on national and international politics , we its Btaple productions . Our reviewers are no better . An effete and antique learning , dilettantism , and a slipshod gOBsip , fill their pages , where the rights of the universal man aro nevor mooted but to be denied , abused , or defamed . Our novelists are merely second-hand flunkies and ladies maids concocting sentimental tales of scandal and intrigue in high life , in which the rights and wrongs of tho poor have no pkee ; or if perchance a Dickens or a Jerrold descends into the workhouse or St , Giles ' s , their pictures serve only to nauseate the truly humane with the details of tho vice and misery consequent upon poverty and opression , or to provide a vicious mental
excitement for the idle and tho careless , but not to point out the causes of the evils they pourtray , or devise remedies . The poor are daguarreotyped and classified by our Mayhews ; and the horrors of the Irish Union houses aro paraded before us by our Osbornes ; but tho real origin of the ulcers and sores of our social system are undiscovered or passed over . So familiar with vice and misery do the people at length become that they cease to be affected by the recital , and are confirmed in that blasphemous fallacy , so curvent among the rich and well-to-do in the world ; and which was recently sanctioned by that deluder and deluded , Sir Robert Peel , that such evils are the unavoidable attendants upon a "high state of civilisation ! " Our philosophers and our men of science are immersed in a soul-killing materialism . Our historians garble the truth ; give us dry and barren facts ; or vapid lucubrations on this or that
piece of diplomatic trickery , performed for the benefit of the upper and middle classes , ignoring the people altogether . Our poets distil little else but namby-pamby ism . Our statesmen are far more anxious to preserve tlieir own personal influences than to improvo humanity . Our legislators are confessedly bought and gold . Our political economists are occupied in thooriosfor cheapening Labour in our own country , or to undermine the interests of the labourer in other countries , to the enrichment of that unholy race of blood-suckers—merchants , traders , and speculators . Our pseudo-refonners are merely agitating for class privileges ; our demagogues are mere declaimers ; and our system-Eaongersaremereenthusiastsand Don Quixotes . Our moralists deluge us with common-place twaddle upon temperance and self-denial among the poor , by which , of course , moro of the good things of this life would remain for the rich to consume in
imgodly luxury . Our philanthropists are busy with schemes for expatriating tbe poor from the land of their birth to make them the slaves of capitalists in the Colonies $ in promoting savings banks ( as if usury could permanently benefit society ); and in other equally temporary and futile expedients ; treating the poor always as poor , and never as beip . gs of the same common nature aa themselves . Ouv clergy are "< Jumb dogs , " wiiich " canuot fairk "" greedy dogs which can never have enough "" shepherds that cannot Understand "—perpetually " vexing themselves with vain and unprofitable questions ; " and turning tho beautiful religion of the 'Gospel into a heartless thing of literature , rites , : Rnd ceremonies : ; giving the people a Btone when they aBk for the bread of life ; and evincing , by their cowardly conformity to worMly anomalies that ( they aro far more the slaves and tools of lantflords and moncylords than the servants of him whom they professes call their master .
• Bat , happily for ns , so wisely are the laws of nature constituted by their omnipotent author , that alUthings -work 'together ultimately for goo < k -and social , and polifcio&l evil , by the-pains and pss ' alties ; it : inflicts upon society , will a't k-ngth forsa man- ' kind into a system of life which shall be ip . unhon with the natural harmonic 'law of tenth atfd ijuatice . In continental Europe many signs of < emorge ? 3 ce from adolescence are evident . What * lorious de-, 'fenders and'missionaries < if 'liberty haslFraiice ' and ; Utaly produced within 'those few gears' ? All honour and : praise to those noble spirits whoiave ; fought , suffered , and 'died in endeavouring to emancipate mankind from the powers of tjTanny ; and despotism ! And-shame to us , who hare done ! so little in aid of'tbiir sublime Cfforte ! And yet in England , besotted and begrkaod as-ehe ia by mammop > vorsbip , animalism , andhereditery privi-1
leges ,-themass of the people begittto see that all tho brilliant discoveries and applications cf scieuce principally benefit the * ipper and middle classes , and rendermanual latrour'less needed , without giving them aay compensation for the loss they thereby sustain . They see that society-is separated / almos ' t literally ; into producers and consumers , they themselves being allowed to fare worsen the more wealttethey create , because tha more wealth there is produced under =. the present system , the more abundant do tho idle loousts > and droees of society become . They begin to perceive , -too , that no refornrwhich will nct . give ttem proptrtyoaff'fe&any reform r to them ; -and , not content with tbe bare , enunciation of the rights > cf man , they hsve the hardilicod to demand a legiclation- 'fcy which those rights-Ehall be securedantiUpveservedtO'them and their fthHdren forever .
'Another cheerhjg-symptom of roali-progress- ' ia England ig the increasing distaste which is " shown for fch © 'atheistical ! principles , and tho enhanced -im ? portswvc 3- attached to tbe ^ Soly Scriptures , whose authority has ?« cn BOWtffiderfuUy , we might Bay miraculously , preserved = < amid all ¦ tho i changes wbichshuman sffiH ? s haveaadergoue . -iThc -Bible 1 Oh ,-wh 3 n -the people ¦ know how fully to vdue an 4 ¦ us er the ; authority which £ hat extraordinary ! book giveslhem , howwill they > prize it Imi how . quickly will the devil of < ld sooiety be traaflformed into aB angel cf light ?— .-Whatifirnaer basis for all the virtues that can elevate ; , { niprove . ar . d mature humanity can be fcuad than is furnished . bj-the B&te ? , a basis eser widening with racreasingiitnowledge , add at all
times-serving : to sustain -such opinions and ideas of teutb , JuBfcice ,-and liberty , as man at any . period of his ; biatorycan ; appreciate and act » p io . Where can wo .-firul more -expressive warnings agafc-st th 6 ins . wluous inroads .. of tyranny than cwt Bible gives us ? It fia the itest text . hock for all refosrnersreligiouf , .-moral , . social , political , governmentaland allvite texts arc illust . r . at « l by the siost . forcible I examples . A celebrated Fresjji democfafc . hr . s said ' [ " GoYeranents arc the secures of God .-iov&spi-• pline the -. world ; " Bead the eighth chapter of irShe first book of -Samuel for . / in illnsteaiiarr , A ijnore celebrated ^ English reformer te-Jle . c sfihat the land , of a . country belongs in right < and . j > U 3 tice to / t&e . . whcSe people ,-cf th ;» t- « 3 i « Btry existing and .-to come ,. and is not nn artic . ' fi for iadi-Visuals to mcisopolise ., any more than is ligiit , a 3 i , or . water . " The earth is the Lord ' s , " . ssys iije iBibl 9 ; and cannotbasold in perpetuity . Oci' ^ liticiUeconomists ^» Dd . st ;( iesraenare eqgaged in wiat the dLfiicult of
theyieall .-subject , adjuating the r . elativ ' e claims of eaipital and labour : our Bible makes no difficulty aboaUt , butjiells us that . tlio labourer ought to be thefirstto partake of the fruits of labour . ! By usury and proikism , : the ill-favoured offspringof asqa ' cee , gold mQney ,: the labourer is . robbed of ' four-fif ^ 3 ofhisea «; ings ;; and a large iporfcion of the community aa-e ihareby-ecabled to avo in comparative idleness , andifaresumptuouslye . vcty day , in direct ^{ xposition to that . wholesome dc&tiae of Scripture , -. which says , if a . . nvm will » ct work , neither should he eat ,- Ml the ^ ordinances . of the Gfospel are fr&oied upon tfaeflatu . r . al equality of . gsan . , kind , and in reference to their . inherent dignity as tko " sons of « od . " " Be ye jiot . called mastors . " said Christ : " > JBut he that is greatest among ^ cu 8 ha 21 be your so-r . vant . " And fui-. tlicr i— " If y % con-• tinue in my word , then are e ® . y disciples indeetl-jj and ye shall know . the trutb , aad the iruth shall make you free . "
Here . then we take . our stand : tketruth . d / . all make « y / we , / And how rapturously will the people embrace Truth , whenever she shall be presented to them in all radiant beauty and loveliness J The kno # ledg £ . o / truth alon « can cure the radical defect of slavery which now poieonsand deforms the whole of socioty . At our creation God willed that we should be freemen —( any other theory d / Bhonours Deity . ind degrades humanity ) . He endowed us with the faculty oi reason by which the truth is
discoverable ; and we have no cause to complain of being left to vork out our owa salvation—even though it may be in fear and trembling—when we know and feel that in Iiis wisdom and beneficence God has so organised us , that we derive our most exalted pleasures from the destruction of evil by our own efforts . Thus evil has been nmde to provide its ounfure ; and in the eternal course of being to which Humanity is destined , wo shall doubtless be compensated for all the sufferings we endure in our unavoidable conflict witti it ,
Let us hope oh , then—hope ever for Humanity . The reign of true liberty , equality , and fraternity , is not far distant—a liberty circumscribed only by the law of justice to all ; an equality in every natural and inalienable right and privilege—ami a fraternity based on tho everlasting reciprocity of duties and interests ' . L'AMI DE IA LlBBIITB . London , 1 st Sep ., 1851 .
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of the lecturein question to attain his attempt , leaving the lecture itself untouched . The lecturo has been delivered to audiences in London , and several large towns and cities ; discussed on platforms , reported and commented on by provincial newspapers , and it had been well if your correspondent ' s depreciating commentary had been accompanied with a few extracts . In the lecture referred to Mr . Ilolyoake described " Catholicism as the unresting opponent of free thought and progress ; and urged that as Catholicism is based on the authority of names in opposition to reason , it was quite impossible for progressionists to hold terms with it—they beinij diametrically opposed to its principles . '
These are sentiments ' not worth Uio purchase of Austria , " certainly . The lecturer described tho professors of Catholicism us striving to maintain , at all hazards , an infallible authority over affairs both temporal and spiritual , and as employing three agents to ensure their primary object—viz ,, Terror , Inquisition , and Persecution . Aii exposition of this kind is not likely to be paid for very liberally by the JeBuita , " One of the Poople " may rest assured . Mr . Ilolyoake said ho would exempt from all persecution those entertaining tho doctrines of the Church of Rome , but recommendod that every f : iir and argumentative means should be takon to counteract the tendency of those doctrines , which he said were '' penucioua and dangerous , and
calculated to create distrust and alarm . " Can it be , that " Ono of tho People" confined his attentions to the mere title of the lecture , as he terms these wise cautions to tho friend of progress " a clumsy apology for Papal tyranny . " Some few months since Mr . Ilolyoake published his examination of Fivtbev Puwpimto'B tWVtiW « work , entitled " Hell opened to Christians , " which had the effect of suppressing the publicity—if not the sale—of that work in London . Surely " Ono of the People " must have lod a life of solitude , or he might ( and it is not expecting too muoh of 0110 who advises the people ) , have loarned something of Mr . Holyoake ' s views , before he entered on their total condemnation .
Mr . Ilolyoake invites discussion after each lecture he delivers , lie has done so after delivering the lecture , " Catholicism the Typo of tho Churches around us , " and has usually found his chief opponents in members of the Roman Catholic Church , who certainly did not mistake tho lecturer for an ally , but as ono opposed to them , and exerted thomsekes to destroy tho influence he had created against their religion . My conclusion sir , is , that any claims Mr . Ilolyoake has to be considered a Democrat are assuredly not invalidated by the lecture questioned by " One of the People . " Yours respectfully , CilRlSTOrilKR .
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION UNITED TRADES . T , 8 , Duncombb , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 1 S 45 . " ? IAX JU 3 TITIA , " " If it were possible for the wsrfctag classes , by combining among themselves , to rnise , "or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly bo "said that this would boa thing not to be punished , but to " ee welcomed and rejoiced at . " Stuart Will .
mmilm We have great pleasure in being able to ipabliab . tfee manly seotixneuts of the President Mi this week ' s Star ,-s \ so an able article from the Weherhampton 'Herald , founded upon tho letter-of Mr . Buncombe , where it will bo seen , that notwithstanding the foal and isdecent attack of the > Ddly Neivs , and their golden friend Mr . Perry , they havettot been able to change th « atmosphere of public opinion in Wolverhasnpton itself . -Phe inhabitants of tJiat town ¦ atilVobstinatel y believe , Shat when
Mr . Periysyoi-e he was deceiving his townsmen , hra v / orfenen , tne delegates , the manufacturers , ¦ anrl his own father , ' that he was telling the tnith . They seem to believo that he ia not only capable-or ' acting fago , but ha is Iagoliiinsslf . That he did deceivo , uo one will-Attempt to gainsay—that he did swear falsely we will leave ^ ijury to decide—tbat lie haftdone' -alU he can to imprison , to impoverish , and to Ateidge-the rights and privileges of the labouring population , no-one will attempt to Seny .
'• With , tiose few 'observations we -will'take the liberty of appending an-able article , from tfes pen of the 'Bditor of the Wolverhampion Herald ,: of Sept ; ' 3 rd ; : — la-E CASB OF-PEKEYi / ems THE TET-PUi . TE ATOIVKmS . The dRo ^/ JVfiUAs has published an artielo on ' , this snpject , ia which it places Mrj'STerry in a- verjr exalted position , as" baying given a check to a . 'huge ¦ unlawfulcombination ^ ruling tyrannically over the 'interests of manufacturers , an organisation >* ' ) iich substantially amounted to a tracle in strikes ' . " We shallgive . coopinionas to tifae correctness of this description of the Trades' As Bocfation , but ' we will * baerve tbet we believe the la . bor . ring classes have a
perfect righ-i to associate for-tfteiprotectionof labour , and . to lawfully combine , in coanaxion -with other ? ,, for an improvement of their ewcid condition . 'What ; fiver th& ' -Daijy iVezus maj tliink of the association , it ; iii quite evi&onb that thepresideci , Mr . Punocmbe ,. M . P ., has , full confidenoe in its .. principles , nnd desires toextond its operations . balie-rinjj that the }/ will-? rove of immsnse advaEtage . to tho labouring tpopu-, iation of thia country . : lt is poeoible that , , in the above caso ,. the associaticn may tave made aj / aux pas , but if it ^ principles are . grounded on right and justice ,. tliis ., ; nay be eocsidered -srather an-orror of those connected with it , tbae of the aBBOcia ^ fcon itself . . vA . man witfc the soundest heart may have but .. an indifferesat , j « dgmpnt , and des ite his £ l
. ^ mpE- principles , may run into excesses ; . and so an association , based on sound principles , may from tho . eri'onegas ¦ jtsdg . m « nfc , unsound . policy , or misconduct of its officers or members , be ? brought icto diswodit wittout an . f fault of its . cwn . Rat wo aro not about to , defend the . Trades' Association- ; our objsct is p-mply todeaUwith the easo before us . OJ-il > e merits ofthe Question at issue between Mr , Peny ftndflhe Tin-plate .-Workers , wehavc already given an opinion ; we thjnl ; that Me . . Perry pvosiily daceivefi and tampered-, with his men , . and that- there lsjatftat circums tance some © Etenuation fcr . the illegaLproceedings which were proved against : the Tin-plate Workers , iln lauding the courage and determjaation of
Mr . : £ erry , and 4 n giving a brief history . ef the conepjraoy , the Daily News aed some Other woi'thy contemporaries pass , o . vc-i- the ext . va-¦ ordinary . fiDd long eoatjnued deception practised by the prosecutor upon his . workmen ami £ he . delegated 91 $ ue asscciation , and . condemn the unfortunatewqrjunen . w Mo . Now , we do think thit there are aome extenuating circumstances in th « case , and whjle so plectifully beprateng the emsloyerand f ^ T ^' lii ' ^ con t ° apo"arios rafcltf ' taw . extended ajittlcsympath y to . too worlureen < and prisoners , aud- «' nothing" have « « xtenuatfU , aor sc& down wifLt , in malico . " Mca do not geaerally combine . or . conspire vyithout eome grounds «» theirj combination and this alono and tho otected rf
unpr condition of the Jaiiourms ; class generally , wlio lives from haad to mcuth , and has no resources to foil back upoc , should entitlo that class to some little consideration and mercy . We are not about to defend the " conspim < ora "—far from it , but we do day let nofcalUhe ayiupatliy bo wasted on the capitaiist-employer , who lias ample resources and immense influoncei but let a portion be given to tho tax-ridden , tempted , tried , poverty-stricken children of labour and toil . The deception practised by the employer in this case is gently termed , by the joarnal from which we haw already quoted , " temporising . " " That , in the captain" boinc •' but a ohoferw word , which , in the soldier , it fiat blasphemy . " We lileo to call things btheir [
y right names , and if the men are to be denounced as conspirators , let the chief occasion of the conspiracy bo equally held up as a deceiver and an entnpptr of the unwary and ignorant workman . It may bo fashionable just now to 'kick those that are down , " for victory nnd success are with some writers invariably the touch-Rtones oi ngnt and meritoriousness , but as we do nofc care to bo jn the fashion , and as we further i dGSll-e . to be moderately honest , and to be always ] found on the sido of tho oppressed , tho weak , and the humble , wo cannot consent to trample on the fallen , nor extol and glorify a man became he IB a grea . t manufacturer , has four or five thousand a-year , and has iuat been a victor in a
process of litigation which may possibly tend to " whittle down" the already too restricted privileges , and more tightly rivet the chains which already too vexatiousle enthral the hands and arms of the labouring population . It is notorious enough that publio sympathy and le » al enactments are over with the employers rattier than the employed . M . Necker , the well-known fiancicr , writing on this subject , has justly observed , that "It is frightful in opejjjlljr thn pnrln Of laws , evm-ywhere to discover the evidence of thia fact . It appears as if a smali number of persons , after having divided tho earth nmone them , had passed laws to secure themselves vun-t tho multitude , as it . were a defenc Sn ! who ammaiB oi the
forest . " And true enough t is that w the civil code the interests of the SK ^ Sv ° Wulntion-have been , if not entirely , to a very considerable extent , for-Rotten , or purposely loft unprotected . K «™? M rf , striction ^ e everywhere to be encouPtcicd with respect to the employed , but there are no penalties , punitive laws , restrictive regulations , or prohibitory clauses , having reference \ o tho employer ? , who were deemed by our
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sapient law-makers perfectly incorruptible ; md right , divinely infallible , for all we can gather -o g tho contrary , from tho results of their unjust a- £ s gislation . The evil , however , will , Me tUoJ ^ -d \\ "that living tore its vitals from its breast , ' v-.-a As troy itself , and will ultimately work its own m' -u \* As intelligence increases , the workmen will l » - . u-ii « ' to woi-k their own strength , and by co-operau- > n |^ and association will not only remove all tlioso £ -, restrictions which now prevent their elevat-ion . m . and chain them down like galley slaves to tbo - • n * - ^ of serfdom and poverty , but will change thu v > . ; y ;| : constitution of tho labour kingdom , and riv . se };' themselves from the condition of servants to u : iD r ; 1 ^ on which human sympathies and human laws h .-e ~ n : { - placed the stam ;> of patented respectability , in '¦«
every pha . se and condition oi Bociety , and w ewvj ; situation and placo , except in his own circle aid , his own class , the unwashed artificer is held U > " 0 an inferior , and it carefully excluded as one . <> a : ' j lower caste than liia bc-jowcllcd and bu-dizrv .-d i ] brother of patrician bload , or a purso-proiir-d T ;'; station . Surely such things should not be ; ev- ' -y mau is a brother , and let his circumstances or ms > occupaiioii , his status or his intelligenee , bu w-ut « it may , he has a fair claim on our sympathy , u \ n \ \ wo are bound to extend to him the court « :.: « js and amenities of lifo . It is only in imiiginaun , that gold , and rank , and glitter , ennobles su . d ; J dignifies— f " The rank is but tho guinea stanop ^ * The mauls the goud for all that ;' and under the rags and tatters , tho povorty a :-d . ' "; . , ;
toil , of the labouring population , beat as wanly h « atte , and ate found as noWe tiaturoa , aud as v . ulv , iutelligcnces , aa beneath the diadem and purple ot \ empire , the coronet and ermine of nobility , or i'io '< gaudy trappings of trade-proud opulence ano tyranny . Let us , then , remember this is our iiif-rcourso with society , and never fear to grasp a i'Cgrimed and horny hand , nor shrink from con' . ace , with a " seedy" garment , for beneath there may ao ^ a soul as puc ' elcsa as the world , and a benevolence \ . as broad and comprehensive as the illimitable : ; inverse . To re , urn , however , from this long , but , we trust , not irrelevant digression , to the Daily & * ivs , r
which , in eulogising Mr . Terry , endeavours t < - 'iomolish tlie Trades' Association , and tries tu bo astonished at Mr . Buncombe for being the yy&sidont of such a dangerous organisation . There i ^ uc necegsity for us to defend thai gentleman , - "id / , therefore wo shall leave him to speak for himujlf . The following letter is from his pun , and will satisfactorily demonstrate that his v ;« ws of the Association ; and its operations aro strongly at varinnoo i with ouv metropolitan contemporary : — 88 , St . Jsimes ' s-strcet , August 30 th , 18 ;> l . Deab Sm .-I duly received your : » bl « account oi me proceedings at Stafford , together with various newsijapers containing cuinmcntB thereon . I shall bo further o biigefl to you to send me the full revort of both trials , as soon ae urintLd ; for if the views of the committee are corwt , l think it is impossible that the matter can or ought to rest ••
where it is . As innocent men , jou acted quite right hi rejeotinir with scorn the contemptible compromise mono ^ u , at tho eleventh hour , by jour . niailins i » roSecixto »> e ; l > ul X 6 : e no reason , because an appeal is pending , «»> tm t . outemplatcd indictment for perjury should not f ™ f- »« - less certain employers are to be pevnutted , not onlj toejinspire with impunity to defraud ihciv worUmcn of U at f *« r day ' s wage' urovcd to be given by their more »« t ""* libena-miuded tawumen , but uUo to pur ; uce tucmsuUes to any extent that may beat suittheir tnuster ol-jec t-. I am sanguine as to the success of an appeal , trom lierusmK the vile attemptB and foul misrcprescntmions of apei l . oa of the press , written evidently with a «<^ of a'ta ^ ng trades' societies and the working clnsfcs generall ) tiom providing those ' sinews of war , ' whereby the btaftord yerdicts will most probably be set aside , such parties « U 1 knnwiiiQthut if those verdicts aro . permitted to pass unuinwu
disturbed aud unquestioned , no violence , no . uu Kdatlon having been used , the praiseworthy mtc tioo of the kgiBlivture , iu vcpealing the combination act , will bo defeated bevondiheiv most wuiBntw hopes andexoect * . Sons . I cannot conclude without expressing my . admiration of the very eloquent and unflinching manner in wiiien Mr Tarry and the other gentlemen , counsel for the de . ft-Sce , maiutuined the rights of the industrious classes , upon an occasion so important to the cause . oi labowr . I remain , dear » Ir , JO »^^ u ' Kcomb E . SecrS JIhSSAssoeiation ofUnitedTrades , ^
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VOLVERHAMPTON CONSPIRACY CASBTHE DEFENCE COMMITTEE AND THE PRESS . At the usual weekly meeting of the Central De-; euce Committee , held on the 28 ih ult ., at the Bell [ nn , Old Bailey , the following resolutions were unanimoBBly adopted : — . . i v " That the thanks of this committee is hereby eiven to the proprietors and editors of the Northern Star , Reynolds ' s Newspaper , Leader , Glasgow Sentinel , and the WoluerhanytoiK Herald , for the valuable assistance rendered by them to the Uefenee Committee and the interests of labour , by their copious reports o ( the recent trials at Stafford , and for so ably vindicating the right of working men to combine for the protection of their iadustry . "
_ . , _ "That this Committee having rea < 3 the unjust statements of the Tinies , Daily News , &C , written with the view of misrepresenting the case of th * defendants in particular , and to annihilate working men ' s associations in general , cannot , but express their disgust and indignation , on witnessing their vile and perfidious effortB to enslave and degrade the working classes . " G . Greenslade , Geni Sec ^ Committee Rooms , Bell Inn , Old Bailey .
A Meeting of delegates from Trades Shops and , factories in and around tho city of Glasgow , was convened in the Kew Chapel , G 8 , Sehon-streot ,. for Friday night , to take into conideration the prp ^ priety of supporting tho Committee of tho Hatioaiu Trades . The meeting w ; i 3-called by .. the cottoij ¦ spinners of Glasgow , in a , very , spirited audfs&s . and we shall giva a . rej ! , or £ ; o £ tbe . proeeDd . iliiipa in our next . " " ' - °
! -A w . -, ggoner named Abraham K 4 d ' i ? ff : ~ ; v . ico of a lady residing near 1 ere . m' x 8 er " aaitted for trial at the next , uS been Com tetvn for uei-illing tho livea of minv n f thl » train on the South cS ltXM ? * c | 18 " ••^ gon and tearJ \» f horae ^ ' oi * g £ iV&Z ?* * which met with the obstruction iMRrhn « tra m seven p . m . one to Portemon h vL . ° quai ' tei" '*» SHShSSH ppssiiii i
~~«™™ a . V mWa , suia everything done to sion tho tram but the distance of tl , e mCI ? ar ^ ritf ^ sssdr ij ^ ^ s ^ zkf ^^ P jfM heaedj it would have come nl t ? becn before tho men could have iiot , u wa « ' - on the gate . Sho officers in c& 0 of Jh /* ° ° I ) encd scribed its Mpape as most f ^ tvl , tra 171 do » arriving at Chi ci ^ tcr , oS or fitST ^? ** - ° Of the aompaBy went in Bcaivh #£ » i m ' ^ BSSrSss ? to make an maple of the deSZt 1 ™? h ting him for trial . All ZStS blTT" ' garded , The bench consulted - > Z fi ? n ? w i 18 rc " = Sf , ttat ui ° ™ si « ffaf . a
. Ooversmekt our OF Tows . —Most of hoi . ™ wmmm ± f ^ r ^ - ^ R jS ^ w aw ^ eJt / O ?* * . SoLD . « --The following is a literal j r 2 f ) . . "" Jpnptwn upon a lombstone in tie " P-msh church Brighton- —" In memory of Phoebe iiesaol , who was born at Stepney , in the TC ^ r Ulti . StlO gei'Vad for many years as a private sol-Oier in the 5 th Hegiment of Foot , iixiifi ' erontpai-tB of Europe , and in theicar 174 Gfoueht under the
Command of the Duke of Cumberland , at the battio of Fontenoy , whero she received a bayonet wound in her arm . Her long life , which commenced in the reign o Queea Anue , extended to tie roiffn of George IV ., by whose munificence she received comfort and support in her latter years . Bho died at Bri # nton , where she had long resided ) December 12 , 1 S 21 , n t'ed 10 S jf .-irs . Kelson ' s Descendant is tiik Xavt . —The H « d .
H . M . Nelson , son of Viscount Kelson , and grenj grand nejihew of the illustrious founder of the name and title , has entered the service as a cadet , . afc in Nelson ' s own fl ; ig-Bbip , the Victory . . jiBM 4 &R
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ABSOLUTISM IN GERMANY . Detpotism is rampant on the Contkent . Every vestige of Constitutional Government is destroyed by the tyrants vho in 1846 swore feafty to the institutions prsffered for their acceptance by too generous and confiding peoples . In Aes&ria an autocracy Sias been openly and audaciously proclaimad . Tbe " young E-MFE 3 S 3 R is reselved to rivsd hia friend and backer , the 'Gzasi . Henceforward , the CcOvernmeBt < yf tbe territories usder his control depesSs solely ' € ii his own -will . His decree is to % e "final , tia will un ^ Gestioned aod supreme . The iflea of tbe people having any Tight or " 9 sice in tho matter beyond obedience , isnottc % e countenanced iwthe
slightest-decree . This ^ authorised and perecptory re-estdblishmeni of unblushing and insolent Absolutism isaofc corificed to Austria . The SiNG-of Prussij * has -also shown -an unmistakeablo determination to reign by ' right divine , " '~ 4 n allows nopariicipation of power with Pd , rliajnentfi —^ -even though they'be sham ones- J « nd to ie'free from even the -shadowy 'control of institutions , -which possessing no Teal •• controHiag power , yet embody the idea 6 f ; popular-asd constitutional participation-in ' leglslationand administration . This thrice perjured jte 'd -blood-stained traitor to his people has opecly proclaimed his determinatidu
tosubstitate'ais own will for tbe institutions he- £ wore so lately to uphold . As a corollary to iizis determination 'he has suppressed the r Press . A ^ ree Press ; and ty ranny are incompatible ; arid Frederick WiluslM , however he may he -accused-of vacillation in other-snatterfl , Las tbe true tyrant ' s : fear and hatred of the power which , in the long run , must destroy all tyrannies , - whether lai ^ e or small . : iEven tbe * moderate irespectable' guarded -sad rigorously respectful jonzaals , are put do- ^ n with the strong hand , and at the mere command of a man who , notlongago washeld-iuptythe li"beral middle class papers in this country as the leader of fcta Qonsistatmnal Movement : in
; Germany , iu opposition to the Absolutism of Austria . Vlhe rulers -of the smaller German States are following ; . the example-of their ^ betters / j Li Saxony , Bavaria , aad even ; lY"iriember . g , : in spite- « f the numerous declarations cf the Monarch of that Kisgdom in = favour of ¦ . Gonstitutiueal Government and liberal principles , the Constitbiions are rirtoally aboMched . ' .-Tfca same may be said -of > tho two Meeklenburghs and other minor states ; and this crusadesagainst every relic of popular Government , w . kich may atiil exist in Germany , is : a . bout to fc 3 consummated by a meeting of the-Germasss Diet atdcchl , at
¦ which the treaty of . vienaa will bajdeclared restored in all its amplitude ; aud > in conformity with tbef . 57 th article ef that ? treaty it trill , ba announced that the entire gorerning powec of the -whols Gennac States isjonitedin the . person of tba .-So-ver ^ n ; and : that . all tlie-cl&cses of the . local « QEstitutions Hi-oppo-. sition-te this fuudatnental principle ofjAbBO-. lutismjEust be abolished , lit is curious , that -Jn this - haughty apd . sweeping onslaught of . despotism , people ' sreyes shoiiJd be turned toour wold bigoted Tory , fiSc Duke .. « f CuuBEaiiLsr * , iSS the-onjj man wIig lias . shos ? n any inclinaiion-to .- < aiTV on MavGoverniEent with some
admixture o £ the |^ p . alar .-eisment . ' 5 ; lie Sag of ; EfeOiOVER absolutely -tscomes wiiite , inicamparigon with the ^ aven bl&ckness of 'lias royal . confreres ; and a jman . wboBe nameiin this . eonritry .-was synonjeiE-o . ns . wifcfc that all w © s hateful 8 jxd , iutolerantf is ^ osiUvel ? looked qp to as . ihercpsssentative ^ if theopposhigprinciple . of local Constittt&wal ' Government Think ^ of ibat , and imagine what { ihe others must be . if . yojican !
It is kiipossible to learn from the German papers taie feeling produced , by this : iafamous conduct of the .-So 7 ereigns , «? hoai ; the , <; lemeucy of their Bebjectsjpreserved froai merited extermination in the great revolutionary inove-£ nents of 18 ^ g and 3 4 t 9 . At ' present : fihere is noi a single jooraal in ^ xersnany that dares . to speak the irelih . -Biey are afraid eves to . qptto any liberal ^ triotares ¦ onithe policy aad proceedinga of their tyrants Irom English Gew-sp&pers , and these
latter < gre almost practicably prohibiiei by au enormously high pcs £ age £ > eiDg charged npon tfceai . But private letter state—as migkt be expected — that not only at Vienna , . but throaghosfe Austria , the'Vc # mal abolition oi the Consfitation by the BjffifiSOK has created great and general discontent . The tyrants and their tools will bind the £ ord bo tight , that it will snap . The very extremity of the re-action will produce a revolution , more Sweeping in its operation than tfae last .
It might have been imagined thai the experience of the ks £ thirty years would have been enough to hare taught the Absolutists and Reactionaries , the folly of attempting to maintain a kind of rule which no longer possesses the confidence or respect of the people , but instead of that its distrust aud hatred , and which must , therefore , inevitably Tweak down before the national will . The very attempt to prop it up by bayonets and cannon can only—in the long run—tend more certainly to ita destruction . Instead of looking around them with the viow of adapting institutions to the actual state of the facts , the i ntelligence , and the wishes of the people , Old
Absolutism , with all its wealth , rank , influence , and power , commanding as it does the assistance of most of the practised and rained intellects of Europe , is engaged in the futile , ignorant , and short-sighted endeavour to maintain in Europe the Government of the Middle Ages , in the nineteenth century . But the vital power has long since departed from it . It may be galvanised into an appearance of life , but it is onl y a Eham after all . Its armies and edicts ^ titleSjrank , and wealth , are but the trappings of a fnneral . Toung and strong , and growing Democracy is the great fact of our age , and will triumph as certainly as tho gun dispela tUs darluiess of night . The day is coming . '
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PRINCELY PRETENDERS . The French people will evidently be in no want of candidates for their ' sweet voices ' at the next Presidential election , Whatever doubts may previously have existed as to the possibility of a son of Louis Phiuppe ' s aspiring to bo the head of a republic which
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MR . H 0 LY 0 AEE AND " 0 SE OF TI 1 E PEOPLE . " TO THE JBDITOn OF THE XOHTHEIIN STAH . Mb . Epitori—Allow mo to state my opinion of G . J , HolyoaUe ' s lecture entitled " Catholicism , the type of all the churches around us , " in answer to " One of the People , " in tho Northern Star , of the 30 th ult . Having heard the lecture on three several occasions , and seen it in M . S ., I assert with confidence that it contained not one passage which could be tortured into a support' of the reflections made by your correspondent . " One of the People" attempts to impross the working classes with tbe notion that Mr . Ilolyoake goes about the country in hia capacity of lecturer , as the " npologist of Papal tyranny , " as tho "tool of Austria or the Jesuits , " only tli . it " lie is not worth tbeir purchase . " " One of the People" giteu the title
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September 6 , 18513 . THE NORTHERN STAR . 5
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 6, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1642/page/5/
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