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      House Of Commons. The House Had A Mornin...

      visions of the proposed bill . —Mr . Bowveb supported the motion . The SoiiiorrOR-GBNERAt , Lord John Mannebs , Lord Stanley , the A-ttorney-Genebaxi , and Mr . Malinb , continued the discussion , which was closed by Lord Talmerbton , trho strongly urged the House to proceed ¦ with the bill . The House divided , when the numbers were—For the postponement ... ... 130 Against it ... ... ... ... 217 Majority ... 87 Lord Palmekston then consented to postpone the second reading till Thursday next . The House afterwards proceeded with the otherjjorders , and adjourned at twenty minutes to two o ' clock .

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      The Continent. ' The Moniteur Announces ...

      THE CONTINENT . ' The Moniteur announces that the rumour which h as been circulated of the despatch of French troops to China is entirely without foundation . Ferukh Khan , the Persian Ambassador , left on Thursday morning for Brussels with the members of his mission . He will be present at the marriage ceremony of the Princess Charlotte , ' and , before leaving Belgium , will conclude a treaty of commerce with that country in the name of his Sovereign . Count Sartorius , the notorious Spanish minister , has arrived in Paris on his way to the baths of Vichy . M . Bravo MEurillo has likewise arrived in the capital . The harvest has nearly terminated in the south of France , and the result is said to be magnificent .

      The Count and Countess de Montemolin , Don Fernando , and Don Sebastian de Borbon are now at Baden , in Austria , pursuing , it is said , the old phantom of the * fusion . ' It is said—and contradicted—that Count Montemolin positively refuses to recognize Queen Isabella . The Protestants of Vendome , not possessin g a chapel , hired some time ago a room in the town for public worship , and engaged M . Cadier , a Protestant minister of Orleans , to officiate for them . After the second

      celebration of divine service M . Cadier and eighteen members of his congregation were prosecuted bj r the local authorities before tbe Tribunal of Correctional Police of the town , on the charge of having violated the law no associations and public meetings , by not having obtained the authorization of the Government for their meetings . They were all convicted and condemned to pay jointly a fine of 50 fr . Three days ago , they appealed to the Imperial Court of Orleans against this condemnation , and the court quashed it on technical grounds . — Daily New s

      A Parliamentary 'Mot,'—With Respect To T...

      A Parliamentary ' Mot , '—With respect to the King * Arms meeting , at which Mr . Horsman presided , it is currently said ' there was more Horsemanship than statesmanship . ' Conviction for Murder . — George Jackson and Charles Brown have been found Guilty at Stafford of the murder of Mr . Charlesworth , on the highway . Our readers are already acquainted with the facts . The men were sentenced to dcatli . Crystal Palace , — Return of admissions for six days , ending Friday , July 24 , 1857 , including season ticket-holders , 44 , 909 . Tuck Gal way Election . —Mr . G . H . Mooro has retired , and Sir Thomas Redinglon is now the only candidate .

      Attempted Suicidic . — Between eight and nino o ' clock yesterday morning , a respectably-dressed woman , apparently about forty years of age , made an attempt at suicide from a boat on the river . She mounted one of tho seats , and precipitated herself into the water . The pierinan at Westminster-bridge put off , and succeeded in getting her into his boat in an insensiblo stato . She was immediately conveyed to tho nearest surgeon ' s . On recovering her souses , she ajjld , "Why did you not lot mo drown ? " Sho was then given in charge of tho police , and conveyed to tho station-house .

      ExiTENsryE Fire , Yesterday . —A firo , attended with great destruction of property , broke out yostorday morning on the extensive promises of Mr . P . Ing ' s stoatn sawmills and cooperage works , Poplar . Tho foreman inspected tho premises after tho departure of tho workmen , and found everything safe , and tho ilros properly oxtinguisliod . Soon after two o ' clock , the flro was discovered by a policeman on duty . Tho flames mndo such rapid progross that , though a largo body of wator was thrown on thorn , tho promises and contents were consumed .

      Thqy wore not insured . Murdeu in AnicuDicnNSiuitrc . — A pedlar , numod Booth , living in Old Moldrum , Aberdconshiro , has ninrtlorod his mother-in-law . Ho accused his wife of froquont infidelities , and , on hearing positively of nomo new misconduct on her part , ho attempted to Htab her . Sho nod and bid herself In lior mother ' s houso , whoro t ' lio enraged husband followed her , and , mooting bid motherin-law , whom ho accused of abetting IiIh wifu , utabbuil « or to tho heart . Ho hue boon arrested .

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      There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...

      There is no learned man but will confess h . e hath much , profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at leaat . be bolerablefor hisadversary to write?—Milton .

      The Educational Conference And Robert Ow...

      THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE AND ROBERT OWEN . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Sir , —That so good a movement as the National Conference on Education , so admirably inaugurated by the truly noble speech of Prince Albert , should have been marred by the unworthy and paltry means taken to silence the veteran Owen , is indeed much to be lamented . Thanks to you , sir , for your very spirited and proper commentary on this really un-English proceeding . Is it not humiliating to think that this proceeding should have been enacted at a meeting which I observe you report to have been composed chiefly of clergymen ? Arid who was it that was thus silenced ? A patriarch , bordering on ninety years of age , than whom it would be difficult , if not impossible , to find in the Queen ' s dominions a man who has spent so much of his own wealth and personal exertion in promoting the sacred cause which the Conference has taken up , now that it has become inevitable , if not fashionable . To the proof : If I am right , the first public speech which Robert Owen ever made was as president of a public dinner given to Joseph Lancaster , in Glasgow , in 1812 , to forward whose system of education Owen contributed one thousand pounds , and five hundred pounds to the rival plan of the orthodox Dr . Bell , with a promise to double it if the promoters would throw open their doors to aU , without respect of creed : which , however they declined .

      On the 1 st of January , 1816 , Mr . Owen delivered to the inhabitants of New Lanark an address on the opening of the ' Institution for the Formation of Character , ' upon which he had previously expended the princely sum of ten thousand pounds , and in the conduct of which , for many years after , he spent annually twelve hundred pounds . Though more than forty years have elapsed since the delivery of this address , it is as applicable now as then , and is well worth the attentive perusal of any member of the late Conference .

      The admirable results which flowed from these comprehensive measures , and the almost magical effects on the population of New Lanark , -were fully reported upon and published by Dr . McNab , the private physician of the Duke of Kent , who , at the instance of his Royal Highness , undertook this duty . This report , too , tho members of the Conference would do well to consult , for it especially shows that ¦ which to many , if not all its members , appears a puzzle , —how effectively to combine education with work .

      I observe with pleasure that Mr . Baines had the courage to bear testimony to the Conference of what he had himself witnessed in this respect during Mr . Owen ' s rule at New Lanark , in common with tens of thousands of others from all parts of tho -world , and in every grade of Jife , from the king to the peasant . Again , the venerable old man whom the clergy refused to hoar vns the first who limited tho hours of labour for children and young persons in hia own factories , and who laboured hard for years to obtain a legislative enactment on tho subject ; furnishing , so early as 1815 , to tho first Sir Robert Peel the heads of a Bill which ho introduced into the House of Commons for tho regulation of tho employment of children and others in cotton manufactories , and which was intended to limit the time of labour to

      night hours per day . Mr . Owen wan examined before tho Committee on this Bill , and laboured hard , and spent much monoy , in that and nftcr years , in endeavouring to impress the public mind with its vast importance . In pursuance of this , ho iaaued an address ' to British Mnstor Manufacturers , ' and anothor ? to tho Karl of Liverpool , ' then ( 1 S 18 > prime minister , On tho Employment of Children in Manufactories . ' In tiio previous year , 1817 , ho had published ' Observations on tho Iflll ' eeta of the Manufacturing System , with IJiiitH for the Improvement of those Parts of It which arc most Injurious tp Health and Morals .

      Dedicated most respectfully to the British Legislation by Robert , Owen . ' The Conference seemed to be divided in opinion jas to whether the education , which all admitted ought to be given . to the rising generation , should be furnislied from the resources of individuals or from the State . Hubert Owen had successfully tried the one plan , and vigorously advocated the other . Again : the Conference found great difficulty In the way of all educational efforts in consequence off its -complication with the Labour Question . Robert Owen had practically solved this question a . generation since , and was there with his experience of the past and advice for the future . Yet this is the man whom the Conference—not openly , but by an unworthy , tricky device—refused to " hear . . ...

      Why Karl Granville did rot exercise the authority with which i he Conference had that day invested him , and , in his character of chairman , insist on a hearing for Mr . Owen—who , it is reported , was busy writing an amendment when he was jockeyed out of his privilege—is not explained . Bui it is painful to see that the meeting—the majority of whom it is reported were clergymen—so-far forgot their profession of Christians par excellence , as to refuse to a man whose hairs had grown grey in the sacred cause of education which they had met to promote , that fair play' which is the peculiar boast ot Englishmen . Let us , in charity , hope better things in future . I am yours , & c , William Pare . Clontarf , Dublin , June 30 th , 1857 .

      The Hudson's Bay Company. (To The Editor...

      THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) " Cute pellem . " Sharp after the skins . Sir ., —The committee on the Hudson ' s Bay territory is now , I believe , sitting ; and it is well that the public should be aware tlia , t the Hudson ' s Bay Company have , since the time of Charles II ., held an injurious monopoly of the corn-bearing country known by the very indefinite appellation of the ' Hudson's Bay Territory ; ' that , in the gainful pursuit of peltry , this company has lost sight of the main condition on which , even in those days of corruption ,

      the grant was made to the Company of Adventurer * , viz ., the , condition of colonising . Have they colonised ? The Red River Settlement , groaning under the weight of the little finger of this potent corporation , can hardly be considered as anything but a languishing necessity . What is the commercial tariff" imposed on the settlers ? Let this be well investigated . I fancy there is a Mr . Isbister who can give some information on the matter . It is well that the people of England should look thoroughly into this affair . The company have again and again violated their charter , which , by tho way , was renewed in William III . ' s time for a specific period only

      ( se-ven years , I believe ) , so that since that period till very lately they hud no shadow of title * but by sonio means , and mysterious enough , tliey hud obtained of late a sort of renewal of their charter { being long since extinct , be it observed)—a renewal on terms not since tulrilled—witness the » P « get . Sound transaction . Why , sir , the public have to look at the pin sicnl geography ot Vancouver Oregon and see what they are Buffering to lie idle , ami limit lo gnaw their fingers with vexation at the neglect ot a site for cities and fleets-for ouch is tho strait south of Vancouver ; and thi « is the hwt acquisition , I behove ,

      of this absorbing company . look at Lake Superior and the copper works thore , so snugly kept in the background . I luncy he would be u l >«> ld follow who would equal tlwso without tlie leave and license of the ' Cute l < illem Company . ' Why did tho tulenled gentleman they sent out ' as Governor ol Vuneuuver or I ' agut Buund--why did he resign his np ]> o . numnt , but that he felt the whole thing was a sliuiu ? 'Twos u lJaraturmn U wonder tho company have not a wholesome dread of the Bngo advice of tlio Don lo buuvlio before daring to go into it committee .

      I trust , however , tho preas will well work to matter , that , the public will dil . Henlly haunt ho comnnuee-roon . of tho Hudson '* U .. y i " * J V . tulco cure . hat . he whole il . intf he ^ oil ^^ ' ^" iVlt ' reit spite it . ill Hiivour . Our cli . Micn Iihvo » » " £ " »* in tho qiuHiion , :. prenent rluht ol HOttk " " «"« T out bell ! ** aul . jee . e / . to the rule of ilie ^ IMiUry pojjntntcs ; ami 1 believe the thno has oomo to Bt-Ulu their monopoly . ^ ^ ^^ obcdj . servant ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/11/