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      aoUtber . Ymi must consider your 'duty to your mother , igBd > w % btb « t welL Bat : i £ y 0 * 1 feel t ) Oanfl » a * a datv $ & & < & , toiretnain under Protestant teaching , ure truBt ™> ttTtiay *» ve . 'dta < ength to act < up to your convictions . , .. Again , -we repeat , you ar-e at perfect liberty -to leave us , aad ia order to give you time to decide , and to fcn owwhatyour parent has to say , youcsn , if you wish , lemain with your mother in the adjoining room , to talk over the matter , and if you determine to leave our school j-ou « aaTetarn home with her . " It vras stated by the ladies -who were 'present that , when the paper was Tead over to iher , the "g , in answer to the question , whether she TWHild -go with her mother , distinctly answered " 4 N 0 " , in answer to the question "whether she TTOuia remain , sh « distinctly answered " Yes . "

      The mother and daughter then retired to another room ; and , on coming out , the mother earnestly entreated the ch'iia , ' in presence of the committee , to leave the school . To these solicitations she repeatedly replied : — "Mother , I Can ' t £ 0 ; I will not go . " A letter -written by the girl to &er governess , "Miss Kfartha Hunt , about tEie 7 th of Unit ^ November , is of-interest , as showing the state of the ct iilcfs mind . It ran thus : — ! 3 B [ v dearest Governess , —I love my motBier very much , T ) ut 1 must love Jesus , and must obey Him before I dbey-toy mother . If my mother Comes for me , I ean"Hdt go with her . T will not go to the Homan Catholic school , for if I . do I feel that ! shall be disobeying Jesus . 1 -pill not -how down nor pray to the Virgin . Mary or otier images , instead of . praying to Jesus . I would much

      'father not live with Roman Gatholics . I would -leather live with the Protestants . I hope Mr . Bickerstetk and the ladies will Tceep me here . Mother took me to the jprie 3 t in'the Christmas holidays , and . he . asked , me if I would like to go to his school , and I told him . I would rather " not , that I would rather stay here . I am very sorry that mother has taken the priest ' s advice . I hope my dear 'brother will not go to the Roman Catholic School . I hope . you and Hies Clarke -will not let me go . 3 weitt to the Protestant church when my father was alive , and I should like to do so always , for I tMnk my 'dear -father . w > uld like me to go to the P-rotestant •' church if he was alive . " Will . you be so kind as to ask "Mr . " Sickersteth to let me stay here ? I must conclude ¦ "Wi th much love from your affectionate pupil , ¦ " Alicia Bace . "

      In-answer to these letters , &c , the mother asserted that . the girl ' enaind had been unduly influenced by 'the -Bev .-Mr . Biokersteth and the other -school . authorities , ¦ &nd 4 hat « he " had been persuaded , contrary to the fact , that # ie Roman Catholic Tel igion teaches that the blessed Virgin ., M = ary : and images are to be worshipped in prefertence-to oar Saviour Jesus Christ . " The arguments on the legal point at issue having ¦ be en ieard'last Saturday , judgment was postponed till Wednesday . Ontthatday , Lord Campbell gave judgment in favour of the mother ' s right to remove the child . Mr . O'M alley ( who- appeared for the . stthool ) then applied -that the judgment -should not be immediately executed , on the ound Tthat

      gr the . child had . been constituted a ward 'in Chaneery ; . that an injunction was to ^ be made thnt morning before lVice- » Ghancellor Kindersley , restraining the mother'from taking possession of the daugliter , anti from suing . out any : future writ of habeas corpus ; that -the bill in Chanceiy prayed fonthe appointment of a fit end proper person to be guardian ^ -other than the mother ; and that the mother had beamhettrd to expreas . her intention to . take the ( child away ito Ireland . Lord Campbell sreplied that the . order of tthc iCourt must be at once obeyed . Mr . O'Malley said he was informed that an injunction . had . been : granted , and an undertaking given not to remove the . tshild . from her preBent custody : . to which Lord Campbell rejtoiaed ituatthe Court would ¦ take no motico x > f the injunction .

      The girl was ihen delivered up to hor mother , who received herewith many kisses ; but it is said thnt the child looked pale and excited , and did not reciprocate her mother ' s caresses , 'though she seamed vcrj glad to see her brother .

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      PUBLIC MEETINGS . S ^! .. gPWAR 1 > Btri ; wER 'IiTTTOSr / IEP . , -GI ^ ASGOVf . A ftjblxc dinner was given on I ? ridav week , in the Glasgow Gallery of Art , -to Sir Edward BulwerXytton , in acknowledgment of Ms distinguished literary attainments . The Lord Provost was in -= fhe chair , supported by a brilliant company . His Lordship having -proposed the health of their guest In a highly eulogistic -address , Sit E . B . Lytton replied . Parodyfcngtbe speech tff the Roman Emperor , who said he wished Rome Ma single neck , that he might strike it off -with one blow , he xemnrked that all he wanted to his satisfaction .- was -that ¦ Glasgow should have only one hand , that Tie' might clasp it in one grateful pressure . He regretted "that he had not time to make the acquaintance Of the Glasgow

      operatives , but was determined to visit the town again on some "future day , if only for that purpose . White eulogizing the 'city which'had so magnificently entertained him , and dwelling on its rapid advance from comparative insignificance to the position of the second city of the empire , and one of the greatest seats of commerce , inattstry , and learning in the world , le Temarked that Tie could not , as an Englishman , " desire to inculcate a sentiment of national bigotry , so as to confine the pride of a Scotchman exclusively to his native heather , or to makehim forget that he is also a member of that . great United Empire over wMch extends the sceptre df the British monarch . " Still , he thought the Scottish character a great fact . In Glasgow , scholarship and

      commercial industry were seen side by side ; the result "being that learning is now more distributed among the masses than it was formerly , while , on the other hand , the schools admit more of the knowledge of mankind . " Now , I think that , in these conditions of oirr society , collegiate institutions increase in the value which . to some they seem to lose , because it is in the interest of , all among whom knowledge is diffused jealously to guard those institutions which bring together men who are habitually-guardians oi the standards of theiknowledge actually existing , and the . most-seaxching critics of-every m « th . od by which new knowledge .- can be added tto the old . That you . perfectly appreciate that truth . is shown by the pride , your-citizens take in your scholars . lam

      sure that pride is reciprocal , and that . your-scholars are not less proud of the noble citizens of Glasgow . " Sir Edward concluded by proposing " Prosperity to the City of Glasgow , " to which the Xord Provost briefly replied . The Earl of Elgin , in . proposing the toast of ;; Gur Universities , " dilated , oa the peculiar advantages of cthe Scotch system of classical and scientific education . > He remarked : — "We have been long- in the habit , in < this coaintry , of 'boasting—perhaps sometimes a : little > too freel y—* of what has been effected Ln the general intelligence of the people throug h ' the instrumentality of ; parochial schtfola ; and most assuredly I should little envy

      the feelings of any Scotchman who'would be slow = or reluctant to acknowledge the obligation we oweto . fchese admirable institutions . " ( Loud cheers . ") He pointed out that they are more democratical than the English universities ; that they are open to all classes , and have the effect of fusing them into one homogeneous mass . The result is , that there is less communism than in England , and that , although there is plenty of theological sectarianism in Scotland—indeed , he might say , an excess of it—the people are not at the nncTcy of ignorant religious teacliers , as in the land south of the Tweed . After the delivery of some other speeches , the company partook of coffee , and broke up .

      THE UNEMPLOYED . Another meeting of unemployed artisans -connected with the building trade was hold on Monday . in Smithfield-market , for the purpose of considering their depressed condition , and to acloi > t measures for its melioration . There was a much larger attendance than on the previous occasion , it : bcing computed "that there were not less than 1 G , OOO persons -j > reueat during the proceedings , whicih were conducted , throughout witli the greatest decorum and rgood order . Mr . 'Hugh Pcarcc was again unanimously voted to the chair , and flic proceedings wore opened \> y a . long Bpeech from the chairman , much to the same purport-as 'fhilt delivered 011 the previous "Monday . " Mr . Chnrles 'Murray then moved the following resolution : —" That this meeting-, consisting of operatives unemployed by causes for -which wo aro not responsible , demand of rthe

      authorities tLat tho means of oacistonco bo extended within our reach by . useful and profitable «« iploymont . in » K-riculiuro nnfl niaiml jvniiiro j that until fresh en ^ plqyment bo aflbrdea -wo fall back . upon our ancient and indiaputahlo right to . patodual asaistanco , unaccompanied 'b ythcinsulting , ueba . < iin £ , and ' infamous conditions « t present persisted in . " In auijport of th « motion , Mr . Muvr . ay Bpcke nt great length , comjilainiiDg of tho arbitrary manner in which tho working classes wcro treated by their rulcr . s . The . resolution tvhb . o-arried unanimouHly ; nftar wkloVMr . M ' . liouKli , the ihonomry fleorcrtftry , road a Jong < addj » B < t , calling , on . the employed not to i / ork any . overtime while ono man was out . The oUdrcss wae adapted , uml a resolution iplodgmg the * ncctln £ to « nppatt tho . National AflHOciution of tlio Umetnployod nff ¦ Groat Jiritain waa ulav onrried ; after < whiuh , the mcertih » g adjonrned . Tko BpecohoB wore arnther mono political thma on th « first . occuBion , aud eoverttl of ( those -who nd < If « ftBed tb « meeting denounced the privileged clusacs as tho oppres-

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      ; •< 'salves , he proved that there con 3 d be no reaction of class against class , since all rfafisfis soffered -equally from foreign oppression . In the Italian peninsula , he said , social misery-is not the etfeet x > f any abnormal overgrowth , of the industrial or manufacturing activity of any Teal injustice i ? rom class to class , 3 xut of the wont of space -for the natural growth of this activity Consequently , the eccmomicol problem that we have to -solve is not one of social revolution , but simply of social evolution through national -and political emancipation . He then sketched the state of 9 EeeKng throughout Italy in the years "that preceded 1848 . ; said that the "reforms aad concessions that marked those years were : not gifts -from generous

      sovereigns to their subjects , but conditions wrested by those subjects , at the price of their sovereigns ' thrones ; that it was the people of Komagna wlio created Pius IX ., who imposed on a pope the duty of being liberal . He described ivith earnestness the . great national gathering to the war of' 48 , and told what was . the " Nemesis who stood over the Italian destmies in 4 hose . fleeting days of a \ gohlen opportunity for an everlasting Tedemption . " The man called 'to head the nation ' s war had other than a national aim in view . It was ' Lombardy for himself , ai ' ot 'Italy for the Italians , that Charles -Albert wanted ; and . this dynastic ambition he said it was , leading to 'compromises with Europeandiplomacyyand , later , to tTeacohery

      that cost the nation * her newly- ^ purchased freedom . Me praised i ; he moderation of the republicans , did . justice to Mazziui ' s efforts to induce the people to sacrhice all minor 'considerations for the sake of anity and independence ; told how the Committee of Defence , organized by him , did more in three days than . the Government had done ia . three months . Yet once more , lie said , was ; all this hope and energy prostrated . Gharles Albert entered Milan on the 4 th of August with-40 j 000 men , and took an oath that he and ; his sons and soldiers would defend the city ~ to'the last drop of their blooa . Gnthe -5 tu the surrender of Milan to the Austrians was made known . The King had capitulated > with Radetzky before entering the . city . The

      articles of ithat capitulation -were in his possession " when that solemn , oath was on his lips . . 'WiM , but impotent , was -the people ' s rage . "It was as if Providence intended to sealinto the hearts of Italians the lessons -so earnestly , . and hitherto in vain , inculcated by their greatest leader , that out -of kings and . princes no help can come . By the people ' s own -right arm can Italy ' s ^; salvation alone be achieved . " ( Applause . ) Step : by step he traced the ca-usesrthat led to the Eoman Republic , that did not arise from "the blood ' of Rossi—• who . fell -by the hand of some unknown - assassin—i-but from the Pope ' s desertion of his-principles and his capital . This Horn an Republic , he said , . had afar higher-meaning for the patriots and the people who createdit than that

      only of a form of local rights and a sehiish gratification of freedom . It had / the importance of a great national fact , both in the present struggle of ifcaly for life 'and independence , and herfuture mission oncivilandTeligioua grounds . ( Applause . ) He told how the Republic was preparing to supportLombaTdya second time in her-struggle , ¦ when she fell ; '^ then txune the infamous invasion of the Ifrencb , the Austrians , Neapolitans , and Spaniardswhen all was over for Italy . " Venice . aend Rome could only figlit for the , future , for a moral -teaching -to the nation , not for any actual result . ( Applause . ") -She feltit , 'and shofought . Her leaders well . knew that they must full—still they thought that it was their duty to save the honour of Italy by a noble protest-against

      foreign violence ; to = demonstrate iiow much a national militia , formed of elements . styled irregMUnr , may prove efficient jeven against the beat disciplined troops ; and , : unally ,, to fulfil . a . great national mission , by baptizing the Italian people at ithe font of . Unity ; by . calling iorth . reverence for the future ossanctuary of the Italian -Nationality—( RoniB . ( Applause . ) 60 she fought , and . 80 : ahe fell , ; as glorious in : ter -fall as in a victory . And ( he . continued ) the momory of the man who gave -his heairtond his intellect to direct tho great deed'whose motives andauns are traced outiin what I have now said , speaking of the Jloman peoplo—tho momory . of thnf man iwill remain ; Bhiniog to every Italian imind , now and for ever , on the solid basis of nia ' woll-tfulHUed ¦ mission

      towards his country in tho , glorious defence of tho soul of Italy in Rome ; aritl whether . holive to realize , or die in tho attempt to win an Italy for the Italians , . the jgratitudc of the nation-will , in the first moment of her freedom , raise a monument to those who well deserved of thoir country at ( Rome , and flic first namcthatithefreo Italian mother will teach l > er child to bless will boj that of Joseph UIazzini . (_ EnUmsia&tic applause . ' !) Speaking of the deathless resolve of luo Xtaliatm not to j submit to foreign cloniinntion , and exprjcasuag liis belief that in . the . next struggle tho national [ party would

      jpro-&IG-NOR SAFBI'B LECTURES . Oh Thursday evening SignorSafii ' s second lecture , given -tit ' the request cf the " Italian Emancipation Eund Corn-Jnitteq , " was delivered nt tho IVIarylebone IiitKirary Ilnifltitution to , m numerous uudionce . Inliis first lecture he'had shown tho origm of the evils that afflict Italy , i . e . the temporal power of the Popes , and how tlifi Italian . Governments -wore brought , through its influence , into hopeless antagonism with the nation . Ho had traced back to its source the growth of national life , shown the influence of Toung Italy on the feelings and aims of the nation , and spoke of Mazzini a . B " the groat . patriot to wliom Italy , whon free , -will owe the xoalizdtion of hor aspirations . "

      H& commenced 'his second lecture by answering admirably u » o often repeated question , " Would not a revolution in Italy plungo tho nation in norohy ;? " JDeiining the 0 KiBtin relationB between nwtrtera and ^ workmen , and wmang flic worlcmon

      themvent tlie peoplo from falling a second ± imo into Abo error that . the King of Piedmont , . or anyPqpo or 1 'iiuco could save , tliom ,, 1 io concluded : — " TIm . actual , seal , -and living . thing is that Italy , on « way or . another , will ^ and ^ hi xJl bo an independent member of thojgreatiisaeniblyof the nations , nnd march gloriously again in thegrcat advance of human progrcsa . I may truthfully say oi ' country , in tho faco of ull nctual andiposaible rooetions , what ( julilco said of tho motion of tho eurth bofor « tho Inquisition , ' Eri'UK hi muovju : !'" Signor Safll retired amidst hearty applause .

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      J&srtTABY 24 , 1857 . ] IHE LEAP 1 E , 75

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/3/