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      have been notoriously wrong in every principle they ever advocated ( hear , hoar ) , and now only seek to repair that error by a sordid desertion of those principles for the mere purpose of retaining- place and oOieo . ( Loud cries of ' Hear hear . ' ) But I will go a little further , and say that not only is it not the business of Government to sot itself against' public opinion , even though they should think that tendency of the public mind to be wrong , but I will gay that those . men are . unable to read the signs of the times unfit to be entrusted with the government of

      mankind , unfit to be made responsible ior anything more than their own paltry existences , who cannot read in the present day that there is , whether for good or for evil , happily or unhappily for the human race , with the inscrutable will of the all-wise Author of the Universe , an unalterable tendency towards democratic equality . " ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hear . ' ) Mr . Lowe showed , in support of his " fact , " that democracy on the continent was only met by brute force ; neither the Jesuits nor any principle being able to stand a < rainst it . He was rather hard upon Mr .

      Disraeli" There was , he observed , a certain class of shabby-genteel persons in the world , who went about thrusting sixpenny pamphlets into people ' s hands , undertaking to pay off the national debt , and make us all happy and rich . ( A laugh . ) There would always be such men as long as the constitution of our nature remained the same , but never till now did that class of persons storm the battlements of office , and instal itself as it was now personified in the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Laughter . ) A supporter of Ministers told us the other day that he had confidence in a seer who had conjured up in the dim obscure a financial and he had doubt it

      system looming iii the distance , no would hit where the shoe pinched . ( Hoars of laughter . ) In that luminous sentence we had the entire political faith of the Cabinet . They had discarded their principles ; they had not a rag to hold to ; thoy had taken nothing in exchange ; and they were waiting till it should please the mighty magician , the Chancellor of the Chancellor , to tell them what ^ they were to be . ( Laughter . ) To this pass had a number of the gentlemen of England fallen , that they were waiting for their principles till they should drop from Mr . Disraeli ' s hand , like marmain the desert , ( laughter ) , ready to gather them up greedily , and ask no questions whatever . ( Laughter . )"

      And he represented the Protectionists as " having nothing whatever to steer by except Disraeli's head rising- above the waves . " Having exhausted politics , Mr . Lowe was instructive and premonitory on emigration : — "A large emigration had taken place to Australia , but he did not believe it would slop here ; we were in ' the beginning of the end / It was a most serious thing for all persons employing labour , what the end of that emigration would be . The temptations it held out were so manifest ,

      and the resources of the country so manifold , that it was dillicult to anticipate the extent ( if that , emigration . Already it , had begun to raise wages ( hear ) , but it was not to bo supposed that a little alteration would tempt , those who contemplated emigration to give it up . The habit of emigration once alloat , it would probably continue until wages should be very considerably raised . He ( Mr . Lowe ) believed Mint on ( lie one side we . should see pauperism , as far as able-bodied persons were concerned , abolished , and labourers never knowim' what ; it was to want the

      necessaries , or even the comforts , of life ( hear , hear ) ; but , on the oilier hand , the cos / of production of those articles on which our trade and commerce depended would he greatly increased , ami all whoso success depended on keeping down that cost of product ion ought to lake this into serious consideration . ( I / car . ) lie would not suy t hut they could obviate it , but , soinel liing they could do . They must increase the efficiency of ( heir labour . ( Hear . ) If they had less of if , what they had must do more . ( Hear . ) In two ways it must do more ; by associating itself with those natural powers which we hud found means to subject , to our will under the name of limchiiiery , and by being directed by a quick , mid lively , and instructed intelligence . ( Hear , bear . ) We must make our labour more efficient ;

      and , to make it , more ellicient , we must , educate if better . ( Hear . ) lie was aware I lint , he was touching on delicate ground - — on controversial topics . This question was usually considered as u religious , or , rather , a sectarian question . ( Hear , hear . ) To the present , audience , in that view of the case , he should say nothing whatever ; but , he must state that , besides its religious aspect , it was also an economical question ( hear , hear ) , a question which touched the future hopes and prospects of this country lo the very quick ( hear , hear ) , and upon Ihe solution ol which , rig ht , or wrong , it depended whether this country was lo go on in its magnificent , course , or to retrograde m the . scale ol nations . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho would use all the means be could ( . () bring Ibis mutter before Hie attention of I lie leginlal lire ( hear ) ; not with the view of Hupersediiig the

      religious aspect of the question at all , but . ol pointing out -which did not . seem sullicieiit ly understood Ihaf il there wore no good in secular ei Incut . ion , if ( an was said ) the uiero culti valion of I he intellect did nothing towards reclaiming the heart , still , for the- purposes of 111 u 111 rf 1 t . fi uring industry , for the purpose of ' milking both cikIm meet , ' of preserving lo our manufacturers and agricnll nrisls any profits at ( ill under l . he rise in l . lio price , of hihoiir with which we were Hireiilened , il . was absolutely necessary I bat the quest ion should bo dealt with , mid that , immediate Hteps be taken towards the iiiMtrtiefion of Mm people of I ' . ' .. gland . ( Loud cries of ' Hear . ' ) Wo bud iiol . mi hornto lose . " ( Hear . ) Lord Ward , mid other speakers , no doubf , prefly much aninzed al , l . liti freedom off he new member ,

      followed , uud the company sal late at fuble . The important fenturn in the hitter poi ( ion <> f l . ho proceeding wua u HUL'gewt ion that fell from Mr » Lowu

      in proposing a toast . He observed that he looked in vain in Kidderminster for a large room like that in which the dinner took place available for concerts , lectures , discussions , and any innocent and rational recreation which might draw the working-classes from coarser indulgences , and raise them in the scale of humanity . He observed that the large assemblage at yesterday ' s dinner had become possible only through

      the liberality of two gentlemen who were fitting up that room for a different purpose ; but , if that could be done by one firm for purposes of gain , surely all together could provide such a room for the purpose of the progress and enlightenment of their operatives . The suggestion was warmly responded to by subsequent speakers , and a hope was exp ressed by them that steps would be taken to carry it into effect .

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      LORD CARLISLE LECTURING AT MORPETH . Since the Earl of Carlisle lectured to a Mechanics Institute , he has had imitat ors both in his own class and in classes not of such conventional elevation . Bat , probably , Lord Carlisle is the most popular of . all the aristocratic lecturers ; and the only Cabinet Minister who ever lectured at all . His Leeds lecture , on " The Poetry of Pope , " he has lately delivered to the good folks of Morpeth ; and he made the following speech in reply to a vote of thanks for his lecture : — ' ¦ ' Ladies and Gentlemen , —You must allow me , in a few words , to express my very deep sense of the honour I have Hist received at your hands , hi the first place to the mover and seconder of the late resolution which they have so considerately brought forward and so very kindly as regards myself , and to yourselves for the prompt and cordial manner in which you have received what they proposed . I assure you , when I found that it would be acceptable to the members of the Morpeth Mechanics' Institute and their friends to hear me read a lecture , I felt quite justified in embracing the opportunity which a short visit to this town put in my power to comply with a request so obligingly made . I " felt also there was something not wholly inappropriate in a lecture which had been read for the first time among those who witnessed the close of my political life—my old constituents of the West Riding of Yorkshire—being repeated among those who witnessed the commencement of my political life , my first constituents in the ancient borough of Morpeth . With reference to

      the lecture itself which I have had the honour of reading to you , it has been once or twice said to me , ' Do you think that the audiences you assemble to hear your lectures would be likely to relish a lecture on the poetry of Pope ; and might it not . be better to compose a lecture which more directly tended to promote the cause of moral improvement h' Now , with respect to this matter , I have only to say—first , with regard to any want of sympathy in my audiences , I always feel inclined to believe that where there is the real presence of beauty or delicacy , or fine and high feeling , it is always sure to strike a responsive cord in all human bosoms , and if I wanted my assurance corroborated on this point , I am certain I should find if , in the very attentive and intelligent hearing which you have given to iny lecture this evening . With reference to ( heother point ,

      us to the absence of any direct , purpose of moral utility in ( he topic , L have chosen , I certainly do not wish to assign to works of fancy or the compositions of poelry any higher place t ban they really occupy . Hut as we see in the physical earth on which we tread , among all its abundant , stores of useful and substantial products- —its stone , its coal , its iron , and its lead —there arc also veins of more precious , shining metal , its gold and silver , and as even in its darkest recesses and its deepest fissures you will find sparkling gems and precious stones , its diamonds , its rubies , and its garnets , so \ believe that among those matters which more directly minister both to our temporal advancement and our spiritual progress , while we give them their just mid lawful supremacy , the . Supremo Architect , of nature , the Founder both of the material and ( . lie moral world

      around us , lias wished ( hat , we should enjoy and appropriate to ourselves the spark hi and the play oflifo all that \ h contributed by the rich stores of fancy , and by the gorgeous dreams of " ' poetry -not in preference to , but , in conjunction with the more grave and essential matters which minister to our material , intellectual , and spiritual growth . !( is with these feelings that . I have / elf , no reluctance to ask you for a little while to indulge in those more lig ht , and graceful objects of pursuit , not wishing lo place them above those of real importance , but , thinking it . would bo not wholly inappropriate to diversify Mm humdrum occupations ni ' mir daily lives with a little fancy and a . little

      poelry . ( Renewed cheers . ) The audiences which 1 have always wished to draw around me are those connected with mechanics' insl it . lit ionn , the working and laborious portion of ( lie community , because I really wished to o \ - presM my sense of Mm real dignity of labour , and of Mm important part , which if plays both in advancing our national grealiiesH and the general amelioration of mankind . I wished to evince my respect , for those who contribute either b > I ho strength of their sinews , or by ( heir ingemiily anil resource lo l . lio comfort , and well-being of Iho eonninmil y , and by coming among ( hem , to nho \ v how much 1 I ' eel Mmi wo are nil members of the Hiimo

      community , ii lit I that we have all Mm Hiiinn great end hefore iim , that of conl ribuling , as fur aH we can , in our day and general ion , lo the prosperity of our common country , and lo advance the great work of human progress . I am mire amoiifr the in . sl itufioiiM which in our day are distinguishing Ihemselve . M in Mum onward course , il , will always be a i . » real , gratification to me lo hear of fho prosperity ol the mechanics' iimtilul . e of this town . For roiinoiiH dating through Homo conluriob now , 1 hwvo w right to fool utronyly

      interested in this town ; that interest has been confirm ^ by the uniform kindness I have always experienced amon you , and I wish that both in you * ordinary occupation and in the rational amusements with which you dvvera ' f your daily life , you may always pursue that which « ' honest , pure , lovely , and of good report , ' and that all such liberal institutions may nourish among you to the verv utmost . I shall not forget the kindness with which you have received me , and I beg permission to take my leave of you with every good wish for your happiness and well being , and more especially for the prosperity of yo ur valuable institution . " ( Loud cheers . ) Lord Carlisle is decidedly a local prophet , not without honour in the land of the Howards .

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      EMIGRATION DOINGS . The Irish are swarming forth from their old hive spare English are steaming and sailing away to Australia ; Germans and Norwegians go to the backwoods ; New York sends large contingents to theAustral diggings ; atid , above all , the Chinese , furnishing the most remarkable fact in this class of -subjects , are emigrating by thousands to the islands of the Pacific , to California , and the western coast of South America , and our Australian colony .

      Our own emigration feats have been considerable , quite independent of Government assistance , which is rather obstructive , though there is no reason why it should be . But public departments are unaccountable things ; and wherever there is a bureau and bureaucrats , there mismanagement , routine , and inefficiency seem inevitable accompaniments . Why , for instance , should not Bristol be a Government emigration port ? Independent emigration has tested its fitness ; and vague rumours of great plans for increasing its busines s as a port reach us now and then . Emigration will go on , and should be facilitated . Bristol has already sent forth its quota ; and there are now six large first-class vessels lving in her quays bound for Australia ; and it

      is estimated that , beside the 1695 passengers who have already left , the number of emigrants during the present year will be upwards of 4000 . In addition to its own immediate district , a number of emigrants leave the port of Bristol from the Midland Counties , Devon , Cornwall , and South Wales . The following ( from Custom-house authority ) is the number of ships with emigrants which have left the port during the last eight years , ending the 31 sfc of December : 1844 , 10 ships , 159 passengers ; 1845 , 10 ships , 198 passengers ; 1846 , G ships , 182 passengers ; 184 , 7 , 12 ships , G 23 passengers ; 1848 , 20 ships , 1473 passengers ; 1849 , 24 ships , 1895 passengers ; 1850 , £ 2 ships , 1920 passengers ; 1851 , 29 ships , 1958 passengers ; and , for the six months ending the 30 th of June , 1852 , 14 ships , 1695 passengers . In connexion with this topic , wo observe that the long-talked-of project for crossing the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean by steam is s-aid to be , at length , m a fair train for consummation . In about si . year powerful screw steam-ships will be placed on the station , to run to and from Panama , and Sydney , touching at Tahiti and New Zealand . The Australasian Pacific

      Mail Steam Company , recently incorporated by Royal charter , are now pressing forward their arrangements for taking up the line , and have contracted for the immediate construction of five iron screw steam-ships ol 15 fi () lons burden and 300-horsc power . The vessels being of iron , it , was considered more conducive to harmony of action for the ship and engines to be include the

      in one contract ; accordingly the builders of snip will also manufacture the machinery . The first vesse is to be ready in nine months from the present , imu , and will be at once despatched to Sy dney as a ]>«»»•< of the line , and thence to occupy the Pacific station to Panama . The communication each way is to benionUi y , and tins Australasian Company ' s steam-ships will ru in correspondence with the direct West I """ » " ™ steamers from Cha ^ res to Southamp ton . H , w ''" ' ¦< paled that Sydney will thiiH be reached in •><> '" '' days from Southampton .

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      MI ! S . ClIIHIlObM'S SPHKCII ON IJOAIiP ' 1 '' BALLIONGKICH . I VVio have been favoured with the , inlcresting , >» j hitherto unrepo .-tcd speech of Mrs . Cl . ishohn , < < -Mby her at the banquet , given on board Urn ' {"' ' : '" ' , j ' lately despatched from Southamp ton , and <' lH ' '' ^ j the enterprise of Mr . VVyridbain Harding- I "" «! ; jH lent , spirif , of the address must , be our ail » ' » lo ^ y insertw n jifl . cr no long an interval . | it . I rise , as a wife mid a mother , to '"•' "| w J <' ifJ ] Hike Thin my friend Mr . 11 arding ban given . A »( ' * . ^ ^ 1 H «» , opportunity of mentioning one , or two la , ( ,., ! | . < i which may be intercut ing , as showing How |)( , , ( be task In which the ( jrcalcr part . <•» U » l 1 ' P < The ' idea of lite being a tank leading , "'" f " J . aviX ^ formed , on to the inexpressible happu . *« <• ' y , ur # learnt on the Jtuoa of Lctfh Kichmoml , > vho «

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      892 THE LEADER . [ SA * tm » AY ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 892, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1952/page/8/