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    the Hon . W . F . Campbell ; M . P . ; Mr . C . Hindley , M . P . ; the Kev . A . P . Stanley ; Mr . Thackeray ; Mr , C . Baldwin ; Sir H . Ellis ; Professor Creasy ; Dr . Haggard ; Mr . J . Murray ; Mr . Bentley ; altogether about one hundred and twenty gentlemen . The usual loyal toasts were drunk ; " Prosperity to the Royal Literary Fund , " following the " Army and Kavy . " Mr . Justice Talfourd proposed " Lord Campbell , " he in return proposed " The Eight Honourable Benjamin Disraeli ; " Mr . Monckton Milnes gave " Professor Creasy and the Historians ; " 3 tr . Whiteside , " "Reverend A . Stanley and the Biographers ; " the Honourable W . ~ F . Campbell , " Mr . Thackeray and the Novelists . "

    Mr . Thackeray ( who sat at the lower end of the room ) said that the company at the chairman ' table were the great " stars" whom the managers of these festivals procured to act the chief parts upon these

    . " They were the Macbeths and Hamlets , while he and those about him were the Uosencrantzes and Guildensfcerns , and resembled an individual of his acquaintance who , as Banquo , had at Drury-lane shaken , his gory locks at half-a-dozen Macbeths . ( A laugh . ) They were like the humble individual in plush at the opera , whose humble office it was to water the stage , amid the applause of the gallery , for the Taglioni and Xind of the night . ( A laugh . ) Many of those about him , like himself , knew what it was to receive at the beginning of every season a basketful of tickets inviting him to meet the patrons of some charity like the present , to rap upon the table , and

    applaud that particular virtue with which the chan'man for the night wished , to indoctrinate his audience . Still there was a silent almoner who issued from such meetings after they were over , and by whose charitable ministrations they were sanctified as by a grace after meat . ( Cheers . ) His calling would be the longest to last , for , long after the present generation was dead , there must be kindness , and generosity , and folly , and fidelity , and love , and heroism , and humbug in the world ( laughter ) , and as long as these continued , his successors , and the successors of the novelists who came after them , would have plenty to do , and no want of subjects to write upon . When universal peace was established there -would be nobody wanted to write

    the Decisive Battles of the World . ( A laugh . ) He did not know whether the Court of Chancery would survive the assaults which , it had been sustaining for three months in the JBleak Souse ( a laugh ) , but there might come a time when that ancient and mouldy institution might disappear , and then the historians of the Lives of the Lords Chancellors would have no calling . ( A laugh . ) But could a novelist have a more exciting and heroic story than the wreck of the Birkenhead ? He know of no more sublime victory ever achieved by British valour . ( Cheers . ) Or could a romance writer in after years have a better oxmore wondrous hero than that of the individual who at

    twenty years of age wrote Vivian Grreiy , and a little while afterwards The Wondrous Tale of Alroy ; who then explained to a breathless and listening' world the mystery of the great Caucasian theory ( a laugh ); who then went into politics , faced , fought , anil conquered , the great political g iant of these days , and who subsequently led Thanes and Earls to battle , while lie caused reluctant squires to carry his lance . What a hero would not that bo for some future novelist , nnd what a magnificent climax for the third volume of his story , when he led him , in his gold coat of office , to kiss the Qucon ' s hand as tho Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Other toasts were then proposed and drank , and tho party broke up .

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    PROGRESS OF ASSOCIATION . ME . BISKAELI AND THE AMALGAMATED ENGINEERS . We direct tho attention of our readers to tho following report of an important meeting of Trades' Delegates , which took place at tho Boll Inn , Old Bailey , on Wednesday night , to hear a report from a deputation who had , according to appointment , waited upon the Chancellor of tho Exchequer , at his official rcsUloncc , in Downing-sfcreot , on Saturday last , to call his attention to tho rooent conduct of employers of operativo engineers . Mr . J . Pottio , Hccrotary to the Trades' Conference , reported that the deputation had been courteously received by Mr . Disraeli , to whom it was stated that they waited on him as a leading minister of a cabinet which had professed it , H winh to protect , an far hh pos-Hiblo , tho intercuts of British industry , and to do justice to all parties . They luul pointed out tho advantages connected with the existence of Tradow ' ? S 6 ciotic 8 , the Acfc of , Purliainont . which gave thorn a legal existence , and tho mode ii . i which they conceived tho master engineers had subverted that Act , by

    requiring men in their employment formally to renounce all connexion with Trades' Societies by signing a , declaration to that effect , a copy of which was supplied by tho deputation . Tho deputation stated further , that intonao anxiety was felt throughout tho Trades ' ( Societies of tho country generally in roferonco to this matter , it boing feared that tho " declaration" might bo adopted by employers in ofchor trades , so i » h to strike at tho existence of ' Trades' ( Bocioties at largo . Tho deputation , in conclusion , laid boforo tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer a copy of n petition which ie about to

    be presented to the House of Commons , praying for inquiry into the conduct , of the master engineers , to which they requested his support , and that of his colleagues in the Government ; and his influence with the House of Commons . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , in reply , admitted that , the conduct of the master engineers w as subversive of the spirit of the law , and that the deputation , in their petition , had adopted the right course of procedure . He should himself have proposed something of the kind . He would give the petition his most serious attention , and when presented to the House , consider it both as a member of the House and a

    minister ; for the deputation were right in supposing that he and his colleagues in the Government intended to protect the interests of the British workmen , and to do justice to all classes . The report was received without discussion .

    NADATJD , THE MASON EEPKESENTATIVB TO THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY . We readily Insert the following address to the masons of the United Kingdom , which has been forwarded to us by the Committee : — Feilow WoekmeKj—We need not offer an apology for bringing the present address before you . The object in •¦ which we are engaged is one in which we truly think every mason in the United Kingdom ought to reel interested . As the heading of our remarks announce Nadaud , the mason representative , it is on his behalf we wish to enlist your warmest sympathy—not merely the sympathy of condoling words , but that noble arid more enduring sympathy which resolves itself into generous actions—actions which live through all time , and which imprint never to be 'effaced impressions on the minds of both recipients and donors .

    The name of him for whom we plead is spread worldwide ; amongst the operatives of France bis mme has become a household word in conjunction "with those principles which will eventually revolutionize the world , place labour in its true position , and man in his true social state . . Nadaud , an operative mason , by industry and sobriety was enabled , prior to 1848 , to become proprietor of one of the largest eating-houses in Paris frequented by the working classes , and after the revolution in February of that year thousands of working men were thrown idle , and all the masons nearly of Paris amongst the number . Did Nadaud withdraw , as it were , within himself , for he had capital at command ? No , no ; not so . He did an act

    which should enshrine his name and memory in the minds of all those who live by toil—ho generously gave all he had , and that was no small sum , to " feed the hungry and clothe the naked ; " they , in return , whatever they could become honestly possessed of , brought into the one exchequer , and they tad all things in common , and , by his zeal and honesty , thousands were kept from starving . Acts so nobly performed raised him in the estimation of his fellow-men , and , as a proof of the feelings which animated them , they elected him a representative to the National Assembly of France . Well did he merit the distinction they had placed upon him , and honestly did ho perform the duties of a representative of the people ; but a . more gloomy day was in store for Franco , and her noblest sons , having committed no crime oxcept contending for tho rights of man ( if that be a crime ) , some were most brutally

    massacred , others banished to tho wild wastes of Lambissa or the swamps of Cayenne without having Lad the chance of a trial . This is done by Louis Napoleon and tho moneyed class of Franco to prevent tho working classes from justly organizing labour . Nadaud was amongst the latter number , banished for life to C ' aycnno ; but they sold tho hide before they skinned tho bear— -ho slipped through their fingers , crossed tho frontiora into Belg ium , from thenco to . England , and ho is now amongst us a strangor in a strange land , an exile from the homo of his fathors , perhaps never more to return . When kingH , princes , and fallen statesmen seek tho shores of England as an asylum from tho vongeanco that is pursuing them , does not tho king-class and tho aristocracy of this country give them a cordial wolcorno ? Can , wo do loss with ono of our own class P Wo think not .

    But apart from anything like political sympathy , on tho broad grounds of humanity wo hnvo a right to assist him ; ho is ono of our own craft , and is it not a patent fact , that no profession in tho world , irrespective of creed or elimo , havo such fraternal feelings aa masons ! Lot us not , on tho present occasion , forfeit tiucli a noble principle . There is a committee formod for getting up a subscription for thifi patriotic oxilo , and wo wish it not to bo conllned to London , or any ono portion of tho country , but that each and all in connexion with tho trade should havo an opportunity of expressing their doupcut sympathy with ( rue nobility in misfortune Tho committee nro desirous that tho patriotic foolings of the trade ahull bo drawn forth on tlio present occasion .

    Th « committee sit every Friday ovomng , at tho " Craven IToad , " Driu'y-lano , to which place all communications must bo addressed . Subscriptions from tho country are to lie sent oilhor in Post-o / fleo orders or pootngo Ntimips , made payable at tho Lamboth PoHt-o ( Hco / to Jotusi'ii Tijknhr , ' Bccrctary . in , Walcofc-Hqua . ro , Konnington-roud , Lambeth . ( By order of tho Committee ) SAMuiUi . Toner , Chairman . Tosur . it 'IVrnjou , Secretary . . TIiiiNKY Ciiajvuij , Troamiror .

    CO-OPKUATTVW LI AGUE HOI HUTS . At tho fioireo of tho Cooperative Longuo in tho Cravon Hotol , on Tuesday , Dr . Travis presiding , tho paper of tho evoning was by Mr . Charles Bray , who camo

    system ; hence the failure of past experiments . Hence too , the undue value attached to wealth and worldly prosperity , rather than to worth , and to a true sestheticalhappiness . But , besides the general advance of science and art , Association itself , carried out in any degree at present practicable , affords an admirable school for cultivating the unselfish faculties . In " spite of a temporary indisposition , Mr . Bray expounded his doctrine in a way highly impressive . In the discussion which ensued , Mr . Vansittart Neale showed , with much clearly expressed elaboration , how . Mr . Bray seemed to

    over from Coventry to read it . The subject was " Mind in connexion with Organization , and Character in relation to Institutions . " The author took as his basis the main doctrines of phrenology , showing that the development of character depended on the cultivation , moral and physical ; -which , in the progress of mankind , has been noted to modify the actual conformation of the headj by the enlargement of the intellectual and moral organs . At the present day , the larger number of mankind are too little cultivated as to the superior faculties , too much under the dominion , of selfish instincts , for full union in any complete social

    him to have unduly slighted the practical and material portion of the subject , and had underrated the results of the efforts hitherto made . The same . feeling ; seemed to pervade the other speakers in an animated discussion—Mr . Lloyd Jones , Mr . Corss , Mr . Thornton Hunt , and Mr . W . H . Ashurst . But , in reply , Mr . Bray showed that the impression was derived chiefly from the incompleteness which the necessary brevity had given to his exposition . The room was filled with an excellent audience , including several ladies , and all evinced an active interest in the discussion .

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    HENRY MAYHEW AND THE SILK WEAVEKS Owing- to an oversight , we omitted to notice in our last a meeting of silk weavers , which took place last week in Spitalfields . Itwas convened by the Trade Society for the Protection of Native Industry . We recur to it for the sake of the following speech , which our readers will be glad to see delivered by Mr . Henry Mayhew , and which was as follows : —¦ Ge ^ tiemen , —I meant to have spoken to you at some length this evening , but time will not permit me to do so now ; but it is my duty to learn , as well as to hope to teach . I have heard enough to know that every man who

    wishes well to this country must nail his colours to the mast . I commenced my inquiries into the state of tho working classes , being at the time an inveterate Freetrader . I began those inquiries among men who gave mo the first shock ( hear , hear ) . Tho conclusion I arrive at is , that thero is a system which degenerates the working classes from their natural position . I find that the bootmaking trade is cut up , that men are starving , and that from tho same reason—the foreign boots are largely imported ; and the systom involves this—that that work is wrested from tho English workmen which they havo a right to expect to havo ! Then I go to the cabinetright to expect to havo ! Then I go to the cabinetfind

    makers . Hero I find a greater state of destitution . I tho man labouring from early morn to the last gleaming of light . I speak of those who are called " slop cabinetmakers , " who make tho fancy writing-desks , and who are brought into competition with the French trader . I see every Saturday somo poor fellow with his load upon , his back , carrying it to what is most significantly called tfco slaughter-house . " I know this was brought about by tho unrestricted importationof foreign labour . Again , 1 saw tlio case of tho needlewomen . I now come , and will come again , to make it out to tho working classes that if they choose to civo . an opinion , that they are for the unrestricted imporuio

    tation of foreign labour , or for unlimited licenso—it working clasacs arc for that , they must expect to bo slnppcu out of tho country aa live ballast—as mon whoao trco emigration ia tho only hope for you . Now what aro tho statistics of tho working classes ? How many aro tlioro r According to my calculation there aro at tlio pro-sons moment 4 , 500 , 000 peoplo who work for . tlioir livelihood--living upon wages . Thus ; out of tlio people , amounting io 21 , 000 , 000 , thoro are only 8 , 000 , 000 . occupied ; the remaindor of tho population consists of tho wives and otuor poisons who do not pursue employments , ftndwho aro not returned in tho census . Then tlioro nro 4 , 500 , 000 in tuo country who havo to work for thoir livelihood . J » »» ' «» I ask , sunioiont labour in tlio country to omploy tlio wnuw of tlioHoP The facts of tbo case ¦ are ' ^ 8 *—though »*««> nro no ponitivo or dofinito returns to go upon , that wioiu in only Hufliciont work at this time to constantly on ? I »^ ii ! i .., l ^ 1 ,, 1 Klin niV » . nnnllinr rmn . fllird lB CmpH'J '

    only half of their timo ; and the other pno-t hn , » ] , 500 , 000 , got no work at all , except occasional omploy "" from tho Hicknros or the absence of tho others . My J 11 ( lu , ? fully boar out this fact ; yot tho Fred traders toll you urn you aro in a state of ox Ironic prosperity , and umi ¦ y ^ liavo boon ho for two or throo yenm It is only two throo yearn ninco I begun my inquiry , and »<> r TY inir dared to deny what I We stated . 1 taW at tho mcoUnj of tailors , lot Cobden , if ho ha * a bouI , accompany mo , an I will take him to a placo Avhoro 1 will tcnv » t oul ; o i fc I will Hhow him hucIi scones of misery as shall pvovo mu- > appeal to tho alleged olioup bread and Ui 6 mereaflocl ° sumption . I will show him those eased ol mi « ory , vrw tho moans of oxistonoo w moroly dry bi'oa 4 * \ * ' ™ - > from year to your . ¦ P eople were working at conv trou 9 erB , at 2 d . pox pair . Will ho « ay that thoro al « U JJ tUousanda doing tluB daily , dospito of . this abundanco

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 460, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1935/page/8/