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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The French Assembly have been engaged in reenacting the law forbidding clubs . A moderate proposition , made by M . Sainte Beuve , that electoral meetings should be allowed for three months previous to the general election of the National Assembly or the President of che Kepublic , has been rejected by a large majority . The petitions presented by M . Ducos on Friday week in favour of revision hear 23 , 757 , those presented by M . Laurent against the law of May , 20 , 767 , signatures of the citizens of Paris . This is a sufficient indication of the state of feeling in the capital .

      The Revision Commission have met three times since our last . At these meetings the propositions of MM . Larabit , Creton , Bouhier de l'Ecluse , and Paver , were severally considered and rejected . The last upon which the Commission deliberated and decided was that of M . de Broglie , drawn up and put forward by the celebrated club in the Rue des Pyramides . M . de Broglie declared , in developing his proposition , that necessity demanded the revision of the Constitution—an instrument which might have been concocted at the Lunatic Asylum at Charenton . M . de Broglie foresaw the reelection of Louis Napoleon ; he admitted the legality of a resolution of the Assembly , which should refuse to confirm an unconstitutional election . But it was not sufficient that

      a resolution should be legal m order to be capable of execution . The resolution would be annulled btforehand by the country . M . de Tocqueville deemed revision the sole means of salvation for France ; but he thought that their determination to make the con-Btitution respected ought to be expressed in the report . If he was to believe what he heard , the initiative of the petition movement had come from the Government . If the administration had exceeded its duties in this respect , that also ought to be mentioned in the report . The report ought likewise to contain a declaration in favour of the

      maintenance of the Republic , and a public assertion of their belief that at present it was impossible to think of reestablishing the monarchy . M . Odilon Barrot 6 aid that the two propositions of MM .. Creton and Bouhier de rEcluse , which opened the question between monarchy and the republic , were revolutionary , and for that reason he rejected them . Counter-revolutions were effected only by arms . The proposition of the Rue des Pyramides was ultimately rejected , and M . de Broglie then proposed the following : — "The Assembly sees article 111 of the constitution , and declares that the

      constitution may be revised conformably to this article . " This resolution was adopted by 8 to 7 votes . Who should be reporter ? This question , so much canvassed , and so differently decided by the publicists of France , has been determined . It is not M . de Broglie , who was thought some time ago to stand so good a chance . It is not M . Odilon Barrot , the next favourite . But M . Tocqueville , the least reactionary of the three , and said to be in favour of revision only on condition that the law of May is repealed . The numbers were—De Tocqueville , 8 ; de Broglie , 6 : Barrot , 2 .

      Meanwhile , the President has been reviewing the troops to the cries of " Vive Napoleon ! " followed by deafening shouts of " Vive la Republique ! " The Assembly , besieged by petitions for and ngainst revision , and for the repeal of the electoral law , feels itself persecuted . It is said that sixty thousand 41 crosses and other symbols " have been counted at the foot of petitions lor revision . So great is . the agication . about these petitions that we find a man like Emile de Girardin attacking the right of petition , and denouncing it as counter-revolutionary ! Ho asserted that it ia an engine so admirably fitted for the use of prefects , sub-prefects , and officials of all kinds , that no reliance cun be placed on any of its manifestations .

      The gerants [ managers ] of the Parisian Associations are , we learn , Iron * authentic sources , busy Composing such a constitution as will be likely to be universal . This ia very necenHary before legislation upon the subject . The workers in arm-chairs , » flourishing association , distribute the profits accordto the amount of work done" during the year . This is a wise measure , because it prevents the workman satisfying himself with a bare subsistence during the year , and then claiming an amount of profits , the

      result of the superior industry of the other ussociatep . This principle is being Adopted by the majority of the associations , and for the present , nt all events , in the fuirest method , and the one most likely to be attractive to the greuter number . The number of hours of work for the man in health is Of ) hours during the week : less than this subjects the defauter , unless producing u good reason for his omission , to a line ; gradually increasing und continued absence subjectb him to dismissal .

      A strong feeling on the right to gratuitous and compulsory education exists . ( jreut paiieme and confidence in the vitality of the Republican form ol Government pervudo tho woiking cIuhhcb . " The more one seen of them hero thu more they inspire respect und udmirulioii , " Buys a correspondent in Paris . And ho continues , " Louis Napoleon stands

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      no chance of rf election except by a coup de mam . His reelection will give no security or chance to commerce , because there will equally be the Orleanist , Legitimist , and Republican minorities — the two former openly intriguing for a return to monarchy ; whereas the election of any other candidate will silence presidential ambition , for none other will pretend to a continuation of power . The party of order are afraid to meet the country retaining the Electoral Law of the 31 st of May . They are very savage , but very much afraid , and the real

      petitioning goes on very actively . With all the Government influence the Revisionists have not got a million of signatures , and the ' employes' and those under the bureaucratic influence equal that number . " The German Diet are busy making arrangements for that prodigious failure , the federal fleet . A great agitation is going on in Wurtemburg and the Hesses , to bring about a return to a feudal system of Church government by the Roman Catholics . The revival of the Prussian Provincial Diets is still disputed inch by inch , with the Government , and it is clear that the obnoxious decree must be withdrawn .

      Private correspondence from Constantinople informs us that " Hungary continues to be governed by the sword , or rather by the stick of the Austrian corporal . The greatest obstacles are put in the way of persons wishing to travel , or to remove from gone place to another ; from one comitat to another . If , on the one hand , there is a dreadful scarcity of money in Hungary , on the other , taxes and Austrian gendarmes , whom you can see wherever you turn your eye , are plentiful enough ; but they cannot venture to perambulate about the country individually , for the peasants kill them . The prisons are overflowing with victims . In spite of that , thesp ' rit of the people continues to improve , especially amongst the peasantry and the burghers . Kossuth is everywhere the idol of the people .

      ' Twenty-sevenPoles , who fought in the ranks of the Polish-Hungarian Legion , and who still remain in Turkey , have petitioned her Government to be sent to France or England . As yet no answer has been given , but it transpired that the Turkish Government desires them to remain in the country till next September , viz ., to the promised liberation of Kossuth , and the other prisoners from Kutcyah . " The Papal Government is " indulging " its

      subjects with a little Christian punishment in the way of woman flogging . An account of a scene of this kind appears in the Giornale di Roma of the 13 th inst . : — " Mary Biazi , of the city of Castello , was convicted by sworn evidence of having insulted in that city some persons who were peaceably smoking cigars , and upon such proof was condemned to receive 20 lashes from a wh p ( Colpi difrustra )— the punishment assigned to such disturbers of public order . It was carried into effect on the 9 th current in Perugia . "

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      MEETINGS OF THE WEEK . The past week has been distinguished by the numerous meetings for public and charitable purposes which have been held . The Metropolitan Branch of the National Public School Association held a meeting at the Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle-street on Wednesday evening . Mr . Samuel Lucas presided . He said : — " The association proposed four kinds of schools , day , infant , evening , and industrial schools—the latter for that large class in London , estimated by Lord Ashley at 50 , 000 , who knew not how they should get a living from day to day . The schools would be managed by committees ; in each , county a normal school would be established to insure a supply of properly qualified teachers , who should undergo examination . Great objections had been made to what was called Government education . This the association did not propose , but only asked the Government to put into the hands of the people the means of educating themselves—an object in which the rich were as deeply interested as the poor . " Mr . Vaughan , after contrasting the continental fij-sletna of education witli our own , and contending that our system was limited , and not huch as tended to awaken the curiosity or excite the reasoning of our children , said : — " This had been rashly designated an irreligious system ; on the contrary , its direct tendency was to excite the mind to religious feelings . During a certain number of bourn every week , thcHe schools were to be cloned to give the pupils an opportunity of attending the religious instruction of their several pastors . Was this an irreligious principle ? The hooks and discipline of the

      schools were to be leguluted by the county boards , a security againt any sectarian tenets being introduced . The Bible was not to be excluded wherever it could be introduced without , doing prejudice to the consciences of any . ( Hear , hear . ) Nothing consistent with the teaching of natural religion would be excluded ; the existence o ( a Supreme Hemg would be held U ( > to the children to " miniate and confirm them in habits of piety and virtue Jflireii were there no religious , or even moral instruction in the schools , it wou | U bo better to have the education there aiiouh-d thun none at all . ( Hear , hear . )" Mr . Dillon Biipported the minciplen of tho associution . Mr . Milncr Gibson , M . P ., said that he should bo sorry to disparage the efforts which had beon ma 4 o

      managed by local boards . Now , the education g i ven in such schools must be secular and umectaria ' n ; for with our present religious divisions , and looking at the strong feeling which prevailed against church rates , it seemed little short of madness to attempt to support denominational schools out of lo ^ al rates . At the same time he did not say , nor did the association that the children who received secular instruction in the schools should not , at another time and place receive religious instruction ; bui the two were quite distinct from each other .

      for the promotion of education by any part of lr "" countrymen . But it was impossible to assert trt voluntaryism had be * n adequate to tl : e r mov 11 ignorance from the country : and in a wealthy am ? highly-civilized country like England . it was not creditable thing that we should have so great a d fi * ciency of the means of even elemental education a now existed . He was therefore prepared , without discouraging existing efforts for the education of th people , to support the establishment of a system of national education , supported by local rates and

      " Let each adhere to his own duty ; the clergyman and the schoolmaster had each important duties of their own and by keeping these distinct the result would be not only a greater degree of secular knowledge , but a higher standard of morals and stronger attachment to their respective religious creeds among the great mass of the population . { Cheers )" Mr . J . H . Palmer , as a Churchman , though formerly an advocate for combined religious and secular instiuction , was now convinced that the combination was impracticable as a system . He advocated secular instruction for the people .

      The second conference of the Metropolitan Church Reform Association was held on Wednesday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern . The chair was occupied by Mr . J . Sullivan . He stated that the object of the association was to prevent the Church from being undermined : — " It sought in the first instance a revision of th « liturgy and the canons , some poitions of which did , undoubtedly , sanction Romish doctrines , in order that Dt , Pusey and his adherents might have no handle furnished to them for preaching up the errors of the Papacy within the bosom of a Protestant Church . ( Cheers . )"

      The business of the meeting was to receive a long report , which was read by the Reverend Mr . Stoddart , upon what had been done since the conference last met . Ultimately a resolution was agreed to , expressing their " firm conviction that a reform is requisite in the constitution , discipline , formularies , and also in the patronage and the appropriation of property in the national church "; and proposing the appointment of a commission of clergy and laity in equal numbers , and that thi recommendations of such commissioners could take effect

      upon being ratified by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commoners in Parliament assembled . They would specially indicate to such a commission a revision of the Prayer Book , with a reform of public worship , and the restoration of the laity to their proper weight and influence in church government , and in the care of each parish ( by a select and respected body of trustees or churchwardens periodically elected ) , as the amendments that are primarily and most palpably needed .

      A meeting of tenant-farmers , and others interested in agriculture , was held at Stowmarket ( being the central market town in the county ) , on the 19 th , to discuss the measures required to mitigate the unequal pressure under which the fanning body is suffering . After some dimUS * Bion , in which all present expressed their decided senae of the uselessness of agitating for the re-imposition of protection , an association was formally organized for the purpose of agitating the county in favour of the objects in view , viz ., the exercise of the strictest economy in all

      th « private and public expenses to which the farmer liable . Another fundamental principle was the promomotion of the objects of the Rational Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , in the hope that that association would assist the free-trade portion of the agriculturists in their efforts to obtain fair and nnexclusive justice . The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : — ' 1 . That this meeting cordi a lly concurs in the sentiments expressed in thememoiial which has been read , and is desirous that an association be formed lor the purpose of obtaining relief from the b urdens which press peculiarly upon agriculture , and also <> f ' " viting the cooperation of the National Parliaments ya" * Financial Reform Association . 2 . That an assix i ''> ° be foithwith formed , to be called the Suffolk

      Aurieultural Relief Association , and that a minimum subscription of 2 s . per annum shall entitle any person to become a member . 3 . That the following be the objects of the Suffolk Agricultural Relief Association : —1 . The repeal of the malt tax . 2 . The alteration of the present unjust tithe syHtem . 3 . An equitable measure of tenant ngiu . 4 . A thorough revision of the present mode of man gi"K the county expenditure . 6 . The abolition of the gam laws . 6 . That the restrictions upon the growth of excl " articles bo removed . " A committee was appointed ^ manage the business of the association , COHB '* V ' 5 i i 0 Bixteeu g . 'iitlemen , of whom twelve are bontt u farmers . It ia the intention of the association < o set work immediately towards udvancing their agitati 011 - an ^ it is earnestly hoped that their efforts will be

      encouraged by the Reformers of influence . The centenary festival of St . Luke ' s Hosp ital took place on Wednesday . The Speaker of tho House "i ( JomnioiiH , Mr . Shuw Lefevre , ooaupied the chair . *¦ hospital was opened on the 31 « t of July , 17 ^ 1 , »» d ° " ° [ 10 , 02 : 9 patients admittted aince that time 8388 bad been discharged cured . Th * amount of m » b » orip liana i » c » ive <* wa » £ 2600 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1851, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1889/page/4/