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      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 nominati&is have been duly published . All nominations received after the time stated will be null and void . Signed , on behalf of the Committee , John Arnott , General Secretary .

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      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 of the Kossuth Banquet at Highbury-barn , is simply ridiculous . 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 Feareus 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 waa 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 v . olcnce 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 Quern ' 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 Bound 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—the distinction of sitting on a throne of the People ; , elected by Universal Suffrage to that honour . It is very strange that the Royalists do not put the Republicans for ever to shame by a process ko flattering to themselves , soi easy of adoption , so popular ia its character , so safe in its results , and so conclusive against their opponents .

      Some ground ( very faint , perhaps ) exists for differing from the Royalist organs , in the fact that 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 soon be no House of Lords , and were there no House of Lords then ; 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 that the Queen is the small end of the wedge , of oligarchical misrule , which is driven into the heart , of the country . The personal HiniableneHH of the Queen , and the minor public virtues of her Royal ( Joimoit , will very deservedly command for them tlie respect and entoeiu of the nation . . Hut personal regard and political function are very

      different things , and are ko considered by the Republican !) of the North- Because they , however , remembered thiH , greatly to their honour , on her Majenty ' n recent vih . it , the Times newspaper denuded them at once of their )> oli tical integrity ; and the Muncht ' . ste . r ( luurdiaii Hpeakn of them in tin- offensive terms of " eating the leek of loyally . " This in the way your Conner vat iven brutalize , tint people , and afterwards reproach tlmiri with fciov . ily which they themselves have taught them . If a Chartist or Republican is rude to the Queen , he in very properly denounced for bin coarseness ; but if he is respectful and courteous , bin political faith is at once denied to him—he is classiliud with Royalists , and taunted with eating " tin ; leek of loyalty . " If this in not to muke rudeness necessary to the defence of the political integrity of the people , let the Conservative answer ? Hut we trust and bvliovu that the working men of the . North will have too much good BciiBC to lo thus demoralized , and will neither be pro .

      Guardian questions , had seen in some twenty Northern towns , 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 obscure 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 . Ion .

      voked into rudeness nor bantered out of their principles ; and will continue to deserve the suffrage at the hands of the Government alike whether they are Loyal or Kepublican . 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

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      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 . —J . Henderson , Sec . The Working Man ' s Institute , Brighton . —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 . Holyoake , of London . The number of ladies present indicate the return of general interest in the welfare of 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 Neio Itcnish Gazette ( a Democratic paper of Germany , and one that fought the battle of truth bravely and long ) and Democratic member of the Frankfort National Assembly , is an exile in this country . He is desirous of employing himself as a teacher , and is qualified to instruct in the Classics , 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-street , Golden-square .

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      Them in no learned man hut . will eoiife . HH he . hnt . h lruu .-h molit . ril hy reading conl . rovci ' . Mi nj . Ins yeii . 'WM awakened , and ln . vjiic ' l ;( mcjit . : il ' nu |) cnc < l . II , t . hen , it . be proilt . ahlc / or him t . o Vend ' , why should it , not ., n . l . leant ,, be l . olerulile for Inn advemary t , o wnt . e . — Mii . ton .

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      TII . M POW . NR OF EDUCATION . Ll' / ITHll IV . London , November 3 , lH . ) l . Silt ,-- ! have now to point out the modifications in the ideas , feeling , will , conduct , and character of mini , which are produced hy the- ( supposition that mini dctenniiuH the formation of Ium < : onvictionn , feelings , will , conduct ,, and eharaeter , by an independent , or " fret ; " will ,- a supposition which I showed ia m y last letter to be in direct opposition to palpable facts , and therefore ; to be demonstrably false . Hy attentively observing facts uh they occur within us and around , uh ( and especially when our powers of observation have , been released in some , measure from tho impediment to their right cxcrcitui which i . s occiiHumed by tho fulse supposition ) , wo discover that , through tho influcncu of Una suppobition , munkiud uru

      now trained from childhood to reason resnpot ^ u ' nature and human proceedings upon fa ? sen ^ to attribute the formation of the conviction 8 P T \ ' *** > will , conduct , and character of their felW % f - ' and of themselves , to a supposed cause Xhfe the tiue cause of their formation ; and thuT to be DS to the true causes , to seek for those causes in * t ? nd direction to be unable to discover thei ald ? address their educational measures , their enrW for the prevention or correction of ^ JhfcR" * deem to be wrong , and for the production of & which they deem to be right , in the them It feelings will , conduct , and character of the individual whom they would educate or influence , immediatell to the individual or to his will , which ' they imaS o be free and to be the primary cause bwhich 5

      y thoughts , feelings , wills , conduct , and character arf produced ( while , in fact , it is , as was shown in ml last letter , an effect of the internal and external circumstances existing at the time of its formation ) instead of addressing them to the external circurn stances , which are the influential causes by which the natural faculties , qualities , and powers of the indi vidual are originally produced , and are subsequently . influenced for good or evil , and made to receive a good 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 consistentl y 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 imsatisfactory 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 thorn , inferior and injurious habits of thought and feeling , they are thus filled with ever active internal circumstances highly injurious io themselves ,

      and they and their general proceedings are consequently , of necessity , ever active injurious external circumstances to those whom they educate ana influence . They arc made to blame , to ? "" £ " [' demerit , and to punish vindictively , —to think , leei , and act with injustice , unkindness , and harsiinesB , not unfmiuently increasing to the extremes ot haw" * and cruelty , towards those who have had the misiortune to be made bad or inferior , or what ™ ey * e f * " } as bid or inferior . While , it is evident that it JJI had known that man does not make his own charat . it . , & « ., by nn independent power , but that his char at tr , &c , are produced by a natural process of caus . it on , under the control of the laws of God ; and i th ) »«

      reasoned , felt , and acted consistently with tins kh ledge ; and more especially if they had been tra from their childhood under the influence ofjhij knowledge consistently applied to P" ™ - "; " in disapprobation , their appreciation of bauncb . feriority , and their treatment of the bad or ink ^ would huvo been considerate , just , ami ^ u . j influence of the natural instinct « f 1 beu " <) | 1 "" S . ne ( l , would then have been cultivated and Btl " ^ it instead of having been repressed and wcakL * _ { now is through the influence of the false supi » o » and its consequences ) compassionate and kw and its consequences ; compuooiw . " THult nccessiii

      , But it ih also evident that , uh a y ^ from the removal of the false supposition , ^ ^ the ; discovery of the causes of good and < --v H iti () U ( to which iliHOOvery the removal ot tllll \" / ' , )(»» ito is an indispensable preliminary , and tn ' i ( 1 (;) , truth , consistently followed out , an » " ' * " ^ would the occasion for forbearance and cowl >»»' f e ( lu gradually , but not slowly , be removed , ^ . ^ . ^ cators , leL'Uators , and governor * , lay < . kuowr . and Boeiety K enerally , were l >«;»» t ! HH « J ° [ o l nian kin « l , ledge of tho true causes of good and evil t < ; tt ! lltly and had learned to think , feel und uet «» killg with thatknowledf-e ,- ... stead oi per mitt « . « <> r <; Vll > - ^; = ^ : p ' ^ ith ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 1118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1910/page/18/