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Leader (1850-1860), 26th April 1851, Edition Town of 1, Page 399, Untitled Article

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      In the forthcoming Congress , plans will be laid before it , which we believe will both be adopted , and relieve the society of the charge of littleness . A programme of the proposed business of the Congress will be sent to all the branches for their consideration as early as possible ; and we wish all the branches to take immediate steps for sending delegates , and to communicate their intention to the board . Any friends of Communism or cooperation , who may wish to form branches and send delegates , will be supplied with a programme and all necessary information on application . We should like to see the various cooperative stores , corn mill and flour societies , represented in the Congress . Moneys received for the week April 21 , 1851 : —Leeds , £ 1 Is . Id . ;

      Hebdenbridge , per Mr . Pettit , 3 s . 2 d . Communal Building Fund : —Nottingham , per Mr . Smith , 6 s . —Dd . Green . 3 Dr . Lees in Newcastl , e-on-Tyne . —Dr . Lees has been lecturing in Newcastle and Shields on Social Reform , more especially in connection with the Lpeds Redemption Society . On Sunday evening , April 13 , he lectured to a good audience on " Communism in its Relation to Christianity , " in which he showed that the fundamental principles of Christianity cannot be practised under the system of competition , and the profession of religion only a mockery , and that in Communism

      alone can the doctrines of Christianity be practised . On Tuesday evening , the 15 th , he gave a more detailed account of the origin , progress , and present position of the Redemption Society , and on Thursday evening he lectured at Shields to an attentive audience . On Sunday evening , April 20 , he lectured again in Newcastle on " Society as it is , and Society as it ought to be , " in which he showed the evil effects of competition , both physical , mental , and social , on all classes of society , and then pointed to Communism as the only remedy At the conclusion of the lecture names were taken for the Society , and a good branch likely to be organized .

      North Shields . —On Thursday week , Dr . Lees , of L * eds , delivered a lecture , in the handsome Temperance Hall , on the Principles of Association , at the close of which a resolution was passed for forming a District Committee to correspond with the Redemption Society . This week Mr . Walter Cooper has also visi'ed this town . Cooperative Societies in the North . —A conference of deputies from the various cooperative societies of Lancashire , Cheshire , and Yorkshire was held at Bury , Lancashire , on Good Friday , being one of a series of meetings of this kind to derive information and

      counsel for the general good . Upwards of half a day was spent in detailing the principles on which their respective societies were founded , and the extent of their success . The meeting of the delegates ( eighty in number , and representing forty-four societies ) resulted in the following motion : — " That it would be advantageous and beneficial to the various societies if unity of action was established for mercantile transactions , and therefore this society recommends the establishment of a central trading dep 6 t . " A committee was appointed to consider this motion and report to a future meeting .

      A public meeting was held at Dundee on Monday in behalf of the Hungarian Refugees now in Liverpool and London , when a large committee was appointed to raise eubscriptions .

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      CREMATIONS SPIRITUAL . April 23 , 1851 . Sir , —The Leader has been burned at Gainsborough , and by whom , think your By a rampant vicar What an extraordinary thing it is that priests in all ages have dealt in fire ! And yet th ^ ir weapons say they are " not carnal , but spiritual . " The burning of " fingers " and " opinions , " and , as they used to do formerly , of " bodies" is a strange proof that the weapons of priests are " not carnal . " Laymen , in their wrath , deal in swords , pikes , and bayonets ; priests in fire . The sight of bloodshed is bad , but the sight of burning worse . Fire—burning—crackling - what an extraordinary taste for a priest ! We read of a fire called " hell-fire" in the soul that is

      " never quenched . " The constant passion for fire on the part of the priest would look as if his external acts served as a demonstration of his internal state ! Who are so fiery on the magisterial bench as priests ? Who take fire at a difference of opinion so soon as priests ? All men have proved the absurdity of physical force as a means of crushing public or private opinion but priests ! Why are they alone for burning , while all othex men are for reasoning ? The fi < ry impulse that rages in the priesthood is the cause of all their stolidity . A heart filled with fhry passions was never yet united with a cool head . What a pari-hed cinder must th ; tt mind have been which , in burning a single paper , fancied it culd destroy the opinions which that paper liad diffused throughout the millions !

      But the fiery ordeal was had recourse to in order to evidence the opinion whi < h a local vicar entertained of a great public journal . Vain and foolish fanatic ! Who is he that he . should dream that the public would take notice of an infatuated " imbecile , " who came out , not with argument , but with a pitiful exhibition of his own vindictive spirit ? Fire . ' fire . ' Why should priests always deal in fire ? The great source of real Christianity dealt in love , persuasion , and gentleness . Why , while professing the principles , spurn at the dictates of genuine humanity , and come out in nocturnal stolidity , with " candles , lanterns , torches , " and other symptoms of an ungodly and liery disposition ?

      The fact is that the priesthood is destroying itself . Christianity , considered as divine humanity , _ as bland and universal philanthropy , has ceased to exist . _ 'J ' rue it is , that an external organization called the ChriNtiun Church remains , but what is it ? It is a " cage of every unclean bird ; " in other words , a technical and artificial system of ecclesiastical dogmatism and discipline , which has succeeded in extinguishing in its fanatical upholders everything but a burning spirit of fiery intolerance , bent on supporting , under the name of religion , secular wealth and secular power exclusively . No man supposes that the priesthood

      generally sees thin fact , any more than the . Town knew that they were destroying divine trutli . Selfishness , by its crafty suggestions , gradually makes men , in behalf of their own high standing , " believe a lie . " Externals arc now taken for internals , Bignu forthiiifjH signified , earthly for heavenly things . The invisible Creator HCt forth , under the form and character of benign humanity , i » believed to have been a mini , and , therefore , an aniinul . While n virgin people , into whose minds win born , from God , u doctrine of gentle and genuine Immunity , is believed to have been u woinun , or " the mother of Clod !"

      Hut the glorious spirit from heaven is iiguin undergoing a process of resuscitation in certain men . { Scripture ; is » een not to be the counterpart of Hume or ( iibbon , a mere narrative of material facts , but . an history of benign » u » d luminous humanity . We are revolting at the piicnthooil , and perverted tiigiiH and emblems . 1 trend in mill bread , wine is still wine , and a brick or stone- building in not , * ' the ; temple of the Holy ( JhottL . " In short , wo repudiate tho whole external process , wii . li its knee worship and eye Heiviee , as a poor Hub . stitute for u spirit thut " < lorn a . s it would be dono by , " uud worahipn tJod exclusively " in npirit and in truth . " Tmuui 1 1 ijuiuh .

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      There m no learned man bvit , will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , hia senses awakened , and his judgment . sharpened , If , then , it , be profit-able for him to read , why should it . not , itt leaat , be toleruble ior nia adversary to write . —Mii . ton .

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      SUGGESTIONS TO TIIK COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL KEFORM ASSOCIATION . Oambo Morpeth , March ill ) , 1 H !> 1 . S , u —Would you allow me through the medium of the ' Open Council of the Lender to make the following nutritions to the above-named body : — I nipice that our association lms also tuktn up tho promotion of the repeal of the taxes on knowledge ; obtain thut boon , and an additional lover of the irreatem power for forwarding the cause of all other reforms 1 h gained . Never before was the Houw ; of OommoiM in such n proHtrate Htate . Now in tho time for our iiHHociution to Htrike at other political and moral abuses . I wish to call the attention ot our council to another point ( explained in the ; accompanying pamphlet )* . I wish them to attack ihe members of the Government on the grounds ol moral incupacity . On one count alone the unjust warna hey The Moral Lunacy of aw lenuMon JJetHoiutritted . —Lwdou . Wutwn .

      have waged place them on the footing of criminals , an'd we cannot expect the country to be justly governed by them . Moral courage in attacking the injustice of war and capital punishment , is , I regret to say , wanting among most of our reformers . Few of them go far enough for me . And why should any of our reformers shrink from treating the question of the sacredness of human life as I treat it , before which so many other questions sink into insignificance ? But establish the eacrednesa of human life : gain that point , and the disbanding of the body of hired assassins must follow , who will then become unnecessary .

      Another great hindrance to all just reform are the bishops of the law-made church . They should be kept to their spiritual duties , and not be allowed to meddle in politics . Another point the association should take up is the restoration to the people , for educational purposes , of all ecclesiastical and crown property given to laymen by Henry VIII . ; public property given away or sold by crowned criminals should also be claimed for the nation . AltTHUR TREVELYAN .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Saturday . The amount of business done during the week has been comparatively small , o"ing to the spirit of re axation which even at this holiday time reached Shorter s-court . Consols opened at 97 | to 97 ! on Monday morning , " and maintained the same rate until Wednesday , when they closed at 97 j to 96 J and remained throughout Thursday at the same quotations . On Friday evening they closed at 96 | . The fluctuations durinpr the Week have been as follows : —Consols , 971 to 97 £ ; Bank Stock , 210 j to 212 ; Exchequer Bills , 52 s . to 57 s . premium . The Foreign Stock Market has remained dull and prices pretty nearly unaltered . Portuguese Bonds rose 1 per cent , on Tuesday . Yesterday the bargains in the official list comprised Mexican for money . 3-5 | and 4 ; for the account , 35 £ , § and § ; Peruvian Deferred , 39 £ ; Portuguese Five per Cents ., 89 ; Russian Four-and a-Half per Cents ., 99 $ ; Spanish Five ppr Cents ., for the account , 19 fand £ ; Passive , 5 . J , f , and $ ; Spanish Three per Cent ., 394 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents ., 594 and 4 ; and the Four per Cent . Certificates , 90 .

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      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . )

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      Salur . Mond . Tues . Wedn . Thurs . Frid . BankStock 212 21 U 211 3 per Ct . Red .. 9 UA 96 § 96 * 964 96 | 9 oJ 3 p . C . Con . Ans . 973 97 j 97 | 97 § 97 * 97 3 p . C . An . 1726 . - — 3 p . Ct . Con ., Ac . 97 f 975 97 | 97 ] 97 } 97 3 { p . Cent . An . 98 J 98 ^ 98 j 98 97 | 97 | New 5 per Cts . LongAns ,, 18 G 0 . 7 g 7 f 7 | 7 5-1 ( 5 7 | Ind . St . l » p . ct . 2 ( i 4 S 61 260 Ditto Bonds .. 63 p 62 p 62 p 62 p 59 p 60 p Ex . Hills , 10007 . 57 p 56 p 57 p 57 p 54 p 53 p Ditto , 5 nil , .. 57 p 54 p 57 p Ditto , Srna : 57 p 54 p 51 p 54 p 53 p

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      FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening-. ) Austrian 5 per Cents . 95 j Mexican 5 per Ct . Ace . 35 | Belgian Hds ., 4 $ p . Cl . — Small .. .. — Brazilian ft per Cents . — Neapolitan 5 per Cents . — Buenos Ay res 6 p . Cts . — Peruvian 4 1 , per Cents . — Chilian : 5 per Cents .. — Portuguese 5 per Cent . 89 Danish 5 per Cents . .. — 4 per Cts . 34 Dutch 2 ^ per Cents ... 59 $ Annuities — 4 per Cents . .. 'JO Russian , 1822 , 4 . } p . Cts 99 § Ecuador Bonds .. — Span . Actives , f > p . Cts . 19 } French 5 p . C . An . atParis 91 . 55 Passive .. 5 . j 3 p . Cts ., Apr . 25 , 56 . 75 Deterred .. —

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      CORN EXCHANGE . Mark-lane , Friday , April 26—The market opened with moderate supplies of Wheat , the trade continues exceedingly heavy . The supplies of Barley and Oats are short , and both these articles maintain former rates with great firmness . At the principal country markets held during the week the trade has been of a similar character . Arrivals from April 11 to April 15 : — Enirlish . Irish . Foreign . Wheat .. .. 3030 1990 Barley .. .. Ki'iO Oats ' 280 2800 4530 Flour .. .. 1410 8140

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      GRAIN , Mark-lune , April 25 . Wheat It Now 3 Gs . to 3 Ks . h ' , apli : 28 a . to 32 a . Fine 3 s — 4 () White 21 —25 Old ; S 0 40 Hollers 2 f > — 2 (> White 40 — 42 Heiuis , Ticks . .. 23 — 24 Fine 42 — 44 Old 2 f > — 27 Superior New 40 — 4 ' "> Indian Corn .... -H —30 1 { V ,. 24 — 25 Outy , Feed 17 — IS Barley " 20 —22 Fine .... 18 — 19 Maltiii— 25 — 21 ) Poland 11 » —20 Malt , Orel 4 <> - 18 Fine 21 ) —21 Fine 48 — Wi Potat 19 —20 Peas , Hog 20 —28 Fine ' M —21 GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN . Whhk Endin ( . April 19 . Imperial General Weekly Average . Wheat : ! 9 . s . Txl . Ryu . 21 s . 7 d . Harley 24 5 Hrans 20 10 Oatd 17 5 Pea « 2 f > 9 Aggregate Average of tlie Six WeekH . Wheat 3 Hh . 3 d . Ryu ' -Is . 7 d . Harley 2 ;{ 9 Heana 20 0 OatH Hi 11 lVas - ' 5 4

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/19/