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      National Charter Association. The Execut...

      be forwarded to the General Secretary , on or before "Wednesday , December 3 , for publication in the democratic journals of December 6 and 7 , when further instructions will be given as to the mode of election ; and it is especially requested that no votes be forwarded until the nominations have been duly published . All nominations received after the time stated will be null and void . - . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , John Arnqtt , General Secretary .

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      Political Conduct Of The Lancashire Work...

      POLITICAL CONDUCT OF THE LANCASHIRE WORKING CLASS TO THE QUEEN . The outcry made by several public journals , because the toast of the Queen was omitted by the President ol the Kossuth Banquet at Highbury-barn , is simply "d'culous . It would have been much more disrespectful to the Queen to have made her health the subject of clamour . A reluctant tribute is an unsatisfactory compliment ; while , in giving the toast of " The People , the Queen is included in it , which is more than takes place in those assemblies where " The Queen" only is given—which toast does not include the people ; for we know that while the political welfare of the people will always include the personal welfare of the Queen , the political welfare of the Queen does not always include the personal welfare of the people .

      Some members of the Provincial and Metropolitan press have discussed the speech made in proposing " Turkey and its Independence , " at the above banquet . The speaker put the case of a dilemma , founded on the policy of the Times , in order to show the advent of Universal Suffrage in Great Britain . " The Times represented , in more than one leading article , that the conduct of the working classes of the North , the men into whose ear every political demagogue from Henry Hunt to Fear ^ us O'Connor had poured the leperous distilment of his Radicalism , proved that they were yet loyal—that their enthusiasm and respectful bearing in the presence of their Queen abundantly proved it . The speaker at Highbury-barn said , if that were so , these men deserved the suffrage on

      account of their loyalty . But if they were not loyal—as he knew they were not—the case was stronger in their favour . For while they had cultivation enough to respect the Queen ' s person , they would , if opportunity was afforded them , give their votes respectfully , thoughtfully , but unequivocally , against the continuance of the Queenly Office , because they knew that the Queen wa 3 the symbol of aristocratic rule always adverse to the liberties of the people . If , therefore , the people could treat with marked respect the person of a political foe , or one whom they considered as such , it was proof that they had attained to a

      cultivation which showed their fitness for the Franchise , as it was ever a higher proof of civilization and refinement to behave courteously to an antagonist than to a partisan . Therefore , whether the Times was right or whether it was wrong , it equally proved the fitness of the working men of the North to exercise Universal Suffrage ; for if they -were ' loyal' they were entitled to it on account of their loyalty , and if they were not loyal they were much more entitled to it on account of their courtesy and refinement , which proved them capable of distinguishing principles and maintaining them without vi ilence or rudeness . "

      The Manchester Guardian , in an article of comment on this speech , is of opinion that a poll taken in Manchester on the question of the Queen ' s office would be in her favour . Be it so ; but then let us hear no more of the " danger " of entrusting Manchester with Universal Suffrage . The Times , as we have seen , has claimed sound allegiance for the working classes of all Lancashire ; and if Lancashire is . sound , any place in her Majesty ' s dominions is sound . The Charter , therefore , is a perfectly " safe" political measure ; and the Queen of these realms might enjoy to-morrow , what no potentate has been able to enjoy for some time—( he distinction of sitting on a throne of the People , elected by Universal Suffrage to that honour . It is very strange that the loyalists do not put the Republicans for ever to liliamo by a process bo flattering to themselves , so easy of adoption , so popular in ith character , so safe in its results , and so conclusive against their opponents .

      Some ground ( very faint , p erhaps ) exists for differing from the ltoyalist organs , in the fact thut the working men of this country are very well aware that if there were no Queen there would soon be no Aristocracy , and were there no Aristocracy there would noon be no ilouse of Lord * , anil were there no llouflo of Lords there would be a freer and much more liberal and genial House of Commons , where the interest of the people would receive much better attention and much more respectful treatment than now It is very well understood Unit the Queen is the small end of the wed ^ e of oligarchical misrule , which in driven into the heart , of the country . The personal nmiablenoHS of the Queen , ; nul the minor public virtues of her Royal Cousin t , will very deservedly

      command for them the respect turn entcein of the nation . But personal regard and political fund ion arc ; very different things , and are no considered by the Republicans of the North . Because they , however , remembered thin , greatly to their honour , on her Majesty ' s recent , vitiit , the Times newspaper denuded their * at . once of their poll tictil integrity ; ami the Manc / tcstt-r Cuardiail tqicakn of them in the offensive terms of " eating the leek of loyally . " Thin in the way your Conservative h , utilize the people , anil altcrwanlH reproach them with feiocity which they

      themselves have taug ht them . If u Chartist or Republican is rude to ihcQueen , he i « very , properly denounced for Iiih conrwm-HB ; but . if he in respectful and courteous jus political faith iH at once denied to him—he is classified with Royalists , and taunted with eat . ng the leek of loyally" If this is not to make rudeneHS nectary to the defence of the political integrity of the people , let the Connervathc uihiwit ? But we truHt and believe that the working men of the North will have too much good Bcnae to be tuu « demoralized , and will neither be

      protowns , people in all ranks of life in an absolute frenzy to know when Kossuth and Mazzini would come among them . Lancashire has now witnessed a welcome to an obscuie Hungarian attorney , surpassing all that the ancient royalty of England could call forth , and that because the untitled Magyar represented Freedom and the Sovereignty of the People . When the Queen went down there , the factories were closed and workmen literally forced into the streets to swell the numbers . In the case of Kossuth , every official obstacle was thrown in the way . If we make the uncourtly comparison it is not our fault—the Conservative journals have themselves to thank for it . In-,

      voked into rudeness nor bantered out of their principles ; and will continue to deserve the suffrage at the hands ot the Government alike whether they are Loyal or Republican . The Times has vaunted the chivalry of feeling excited by the presence of her Majesty , and injudiciously demanded when the simple President of a Republic would be the object of a sublime affection , or shrine of sacred relics . Since then we have seen demonstrations in Birmingham and Manchester , such , as could not have been called forth , had all the kings and queens of Europe been turned at once into the provinces . The speaker whose statement the Manchester Guardian questionshad seen in some twenty Northern

      Redemption Society.—The Directors Have T...

      Redemption Society . —The directors have taken commodious premises in Trinity-street , Leeds , where the business of the Society will be transacted on and after the first week in December . The premises comprise a lecture-room , storeroom , wardroom , and a residence for the storekeeper . Moneys received for the week : —Leeds , £ 5 . 4 s . 2 d . ; London , per Mr . Corfield , 10 s . Building Fund : —J . T ., Leeds , 2 s . 6 d . ; a Christian Minister , 5 s . Propagandist Fund , 6 s . 8 d . —« T . Henderson , Sec . The Working Man ' s Institute , Biughton . —This institute is improving in members , and cordial feeling which lately was unhappily interrupted . The efforts made by the industrious classes to instruct themselves , really deserves more fraternal help from their wealthy

      neighbours than is usually vouchsafed . _ The lectures selected by this institute indicate an anxiety as to personal improvement . The last lecture of which we have a report was upon the " Instructional Systems of Jacotot and Pestalozzi , " delivered in the Townhall by Mr . Holyoakc , of London . The number of ladies present indicite the return of general interest in the welfare ot this Working Man ' s Institute , which was commenced in 1848 , and is held at No . 4 , Windsor-street . The terms are one penny per week , payable three months in advance . The advantages are—a library of circulation—a reading room , open daily from ten till ten , supplied with daily and other newspapers and periodicals . Occasional lectures are provided in addition .

      A Literary Exile . —Mr . Wilhelin Wolf , late editor of the New Rcnish Gazette ( a Democratic paper of Germany , and one that fought the batlle of truth bravely and long ) and Democratic member of the Frankfort Nationaf Assembly , is an exile in this country . He is desirous of employing himself as a teacher , and is qualified to instruct in the Clashes , French , German , Arithmetic , History , and the branches of a sound popular education . Friends of Democracy may serve him by giving or finding him employment in . teaching . His address is 3 , Broad-strcct , Golden-square .

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      Tiih Powk.Lt Of Education. Li'/Ituk Iv. ...

      TIIH POWK . lt OF EDUCATION . Li' / ituk IV . London , November 3 , 1851 . Sin ,-- ! have now to point out the modiiieutioiiH in the ideas , feeling , will , conduct , and diameter ol man , which are produced by the ; supposition that man determines the formation of bin convietioiiH , feelings , will , conduct , and character , by mi independent or '' free" will , — a supposition which I tdiowed in my last letter to be in direct opposition to palpable facte , and therefore , to be demoiiHtrubly false . By attentively observing faets as they occur within uh and around uh ( and especially when our powers of observation have ; been released in Home meuHiire front the impediment , to their right exercise which is occasioned by the 1 ' uIho supposition ) , we discover that , through the influence of thin Buppoaition , mankind arc

      now trained from childhood toreaaon respecting hum ™ nature and human proceedings upon false prerrT to attribute the formation of the convictions feeHrf ' ' will , conduct , and character of their fellow bei and of themselves , to a supposed cause which is rP * the true cause of their formation ; and thus to be blind to the true causes , to seek for those causes in a wron £ direction , to be unable to discover them , and t address their educational measures , their endea voura for the prevention or correction of that which thev deem to be wrong , and for the production of that which they deem to be right , in the thoughts feelings , will , conduct , and character of the individual whom they would educate or influence , immediately

      to the individual , or to his will , which they imagine to be free and to be the primary cause by which his thoughts , feelings , wills , conduct , and character are produced ( while , in fact , it is , as was shown in my last letter , an effect of the internal and external circumstances existing at the time of it s formation ) instead of addressing them to the external circumstances , which are the influential causes by which the natural faculties , qualities , and powers of the individual are originally produced , and are subsequently influenced for good or evil , and made to receive agood or a bad development , producing good or bad qualities and tendencies ; which qualities and

      tendencies become internal causes or circumstances , by which , in combination with the external circumstances of any given time , the thoughts , feelings , will , and conduct of the individual are produced , and the subsequent further development of his character is determined . Failing , * as men invariably do , and as , from the false direction and injurious tendency of their endeavours , they must do , to produce a consistently wise and good character , and corresponding thoughts , feelings , wills , and conduct ; they are thus made to imagine that human nature is intrinsically bad , and is incapable of being made good by any educational means that can be devised ; while the truth is , that ,

      through the misleading of the false supposition , men have always hitherto been made to adopt in education the very means which are directly calculated to produce the unsatisfactory results which have been produced , and which alone can be produced so long as such means shall be employed ; and that , by the employment of proper means , which are now known , and have been most successfully and extensively proved in practice , all who are not originally malformed in the extreme may be caused to acquire a very superior general character , —immensely superior intellectually and morally ( that is to say , in substantial useful knowledge and consistent goodness of feeling ) , to any that can be formed under the influence of the

      false supposition . Educators , legislators , and governors , lay and clerical , and mankind in general , being thus mistaken respecting human nature , and ignorant of the effects of external circumstances upon it , and having themselves , through the influence of the false supposition upon them , inferior and injurious habits of thought and feeling , they are thus filled with ever active internal circumstances highly injurious to . themselves ,

      and they and their general proceedings are consequently , of necessity , ever active injurious external circumstances to those whom they educate ana influence . They are made to blame , to attribute demerit , and to punish vindictively ,-to think , loci , and act with injustice , unkindness , and harshness , not unfrequcntly increasing to the extremes of hatrcu and cruelty , towards those who have had the misioitune to be made bad or inferior , or what they . ™ B ~ aa bad or inferior . While , it is evident that it tnty had known that man does not make his own character ,

      & e ., by an independent power , but that his cnarat t , & c ., aie produced by a natural process ofcau tQ under the control of the laws of God ; and i th y ^ liaa reasoned , felt , and acted consistently with tins know ledge ; and more especially if they had been tidint from their childhood under the i » fl « , . knowledge consistently applied to practict ., t' . ^ disapprobation , their appreciation of badne *>» . feriority , and their treatment of the bod or inlet or rerioriiy , aim meir uttumnii . w * ^*~ -- , t j 1 < 3 nd

      would ' have been considerate , just , a ( . un < influence of the natural instinct of benevolence , w would then have been cultivated and strenj , " *« ¦ instead of having been repressed and weakeu now is through the influence of the false I" 8 ' 1 and its consequences ) compassionate and Km ^ But it is also evident that , oh a V ^^ Si from from the removal of the false supposition , ui ^ the discovery of the causes of K « od and « v l < m ( to which discovery the removal of ™ tl t * " 1 } .. mitiito is an indispensable preliminary , andthe U i iivji ^ wnl out an uneirmf-, t > loiioweu «»

      ^ . :.. , r . , truth , consistently « ....,. " - n would the occasion for forbearance ) uml coinpuHsi ^_ gradually , but not slowly , be ™ " vl !< l j ' , ^ . riwil , nitons legislators , and Governors , lay •»» " , oWand society generally , were l "'^ ^ V nki »< l . ledge of the true causes of goo . and evil * > iHt (! U tiy and had learned to think , feel and l ^^ iuK with thatknowledge . -insteadof per . »» " » " « ° <) r cVil , the external causes of badn , s « or > " <* ™ £ HCH ftl «« , to exist , , throug h these ,, tl . o mtorn » » £ t ,, o and iM'iriK themselves to ull under their «> " ¦" . . n ( J Zlt i luentiul of the external causes of « YiI ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111851/page/18/