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    profit out of others in his dealings-with them as . lie . can , were con ^ iftciit with itself , —the destitute would be left to perish outright- ' for . want of the necessaries of ¦ life . But " : we ¦ answerthat this logical consequence of the system is so revolting as to be . universally , rejected ; , and the humane anomaly of . poor laws and unions has to be resorted to for keeping the system together . Now , the'"relief of distress / ' provided for by the Government , is inadequate to the wants , of the destitute . Another benevolent inconsistency , therefore , in the form of the project specified above , becomes * necessary . We shall not go into the point here , whether the logical consequences of the system i : i question , being what they are , do not amount to a

    frightful , 'i > . itici >\) < vl td-staxh'ht , and' / j ) & . v jo . cto prove the system itself to be essentially and . fundamentally wrong and bad . Oi two things one : —either the institution , proposed above is wanted , or it is not . If it is not wanted , how comes the Times to countenance a project diametrically opposed to the logic of . political economy ? If it is wanted , what becomes of those who tell us that the labour market is not over-stocked ; who tell us that the two hundred thousand persons , who , to use the very words of the Tir , ie ^ find themselves every morning without the means , of obtaining a meal through the day , except by some chance job or crime ,- —might nil be earning g-ood ¦ wages , sleeping in feather beds , and feeding on beef and bread and beer . ' -ad ¦ -libi ' ticri ? . We have no siu-plus

    population , it seem * , if we are to take .. the authority of the Ti m itself ; be it so ; but what then are tlio . multitudes of * ' our perishing iel-low-creati . ii-e ' . s" mentioned' in its columns in the above passage ? "What are the hundreds of thousands who , -un-iiblo to obtain a living by liohest means , are driven to criminalcourses for bread ? It-is ' not . - " because persons tiro able-bodied , or even understand a tiade , that they . can procure work . All the situations in tlieir calling may be filled . There may be other -work-, Lut they cannot do it ; such work is . not accessible to them . How , for instance , can journeymen , tailors or bakers do mariners ' : work ? It is not sutlicient that there should be work in the- abstract , it

    must be woi-k that a man can do . Tailors , shoemakers , bakers , riiight be in demandj and yet the watchmaker or the blacksmith might be without employment and . dying of want . But the generality of minds never think , of these things . Work i . s Avork to them . The French princess wondered vsiiy peoi ;> le should starve for want of bread-r—she would cat cake sooner than starve . . So long as there i . s food in the shops , people seem to ; wonder that there should be-starvation in . the land ; they never reflect that this food is totally inaccessible to those who are without money ; and that to enrn money , there must be accessible work for those -who would earn it . And so -with the land . There arc said to . be fifteen millions

    of acres , -which , would at once give employment to many times the . number of uur whole pauper class in reclaiming and cultivating them ; the only difficulty is that . this land ' . . not available—is not accessible . It exists , for the most part , in the form of parks and pleasiirc-grounds of the liobility , who are not disposed to make any alteration in it . We have to deal with things as they are , and shape our conduct to existing circumstances . How things ought to be , is a very different matter .

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    SPIRITUALISM . WE nro whirled , uurf f / re nous , into the vertex of Spiritualism ; certainly not a a convoi'ts , so far , but as interested inquirers . Up nearly to tho presont . time wo have boon amongst those who have disbelieved without scoffing , Tho somewhat dim and duwky revelations made to tho " Corn Hill " corrosponclont , affected ouv convictions in o . no diroction , vory little more tlmn Punoh ' s \ n'o&Q and pootry on tho same . subject , in anothor . Mr . Howxtt ' w letter , wo think in tho . . 8 / ar , was calm aud manly in its manner 5 aw sober and Horioiw a letter an ovov 'wiw penned by u sensible mim , under a thorough and honost conviction . In it ho positively refutes the charge made in many of tho journals , that tlio seance people hud novor challenged the prosenco of soioutiiic and disintoi'UHtod persons ; ho mention ^ the names of some of tho shrewdest , and best known wen in Knu'land , assorting that they have boon present nt - . soanoos , and lu \\; e noon utterly unublo to nocount for the phenomena which thoy luivo thoro witnoHgod . Ono of our mocfc dimtiuyuishcul and eminoirt nmthomaticinnn is said to bo n thorough convert ; with many this will go far , booaiiHo cool reasoning " , and a demand for demonstration , are g'onoTully supposod tobollio uiatliouiatioinn ' s characteristics . Wo do not think no , necessarily ; indeed , J ) c uAM : > Wtkwakt has . observed , that men uoeuHtuiju ' d mainly to the step by ntoyi procoiswos or posltivo aciojuco , aro often liko children 11 ml tho vulgar , when ( subjected to tho iniluencoH pf iinuyimition- ^—; i faculty with wliieh thoy aro littjo in tho habit of dunlin ie , either in 1 Jto way of oxorciso or oonivol , v « h « i

    quaniiuih , , , ., As for ovii'BulVoi * , wo confowMvo havo boon much Bing-fforod by a communication made to us by n powomkI conneotbn , na oflipoi , ^

    liut . iof \ iviv . -. tii-nl sfiouc-L ' . and anuui oflioiuair ; and , till veiy recently , ji ilioruuu-li ilisbeiiev . ori-n spiritual manifestations . He luis t 4-iveii us . in words , cainnumic-iitioiis made to ¦ 'himself ami liisAvife , when no third ' party : v / as present , and in . loJg-in . ^ s at fho' sea sid ' e , -u-lu ' i-e no ' trick or "maelnnory ' wa < : probable , <> v even possible . There : mw no little liands , no lnag-ii-al plmntasina--oi-i : i of noseiravs ,. &c , hut bv _ . raps 011 the table , with disiiiit-t pauses at . certain letters , iiit ' elli ^ ibk' answers wore given to iiiiportavit ; < xuestions l-espectin" -. his own well-being- and that of his household ' :- ' advices' s ^ iinp . ji-tant . aiul re ' niarkable l-espectiug- the past , that it ied ' ltim to ' make ' an impyrtaiit change in his present urrang-oments . in obedience to-what he de . enis the supernatural injunctions- ; Th-- * messages were all of a . beneiicitil , ami nearly all of a scriptural ! v

    reliLj-ious ch-anicte-r , aud lie declares they have produced a permanent t-ha . l ) & e . for the better in liis own . This gentleman , we repeat , is a man of honour , and holds a most rosprmsible and important ^ scientific public ]) Ost ; lie is not a man easily to be fooled , and is , we are thoroughly convinced , incapable of fuolmg- us , or of giving- us anyiliiu" - but an . lionest record of his . impression . *? . Ho lins not authorised us to give his name , 'indeed , we did not ask him for his permission , not having-, at first , any intention of penning- this article As far-as we are concerned , we solemnly assure , tlie reader that we write in all « -ood faith . Avith ' still a lurking- prejudice against these lnanilcstatumsy ? ov we have not , as yet , luul an . opportunity of bein ^ - present at one of the seances , thoug-h such iui \ opportunity , is promised us at no distant time .

    VV liat . makes us / still disinclined to believe , is the nonsense , and impiety wliieh are mixed up in many ca ^ es wi tli these manifestations —their silly aims , and , sometimes , their utter ai ' mJessriess—find in this feelina ' . and on these grounds , they are objected to by most sensible people in ; En-gland " . ¦ In one 'ia-rnily . and a hig-h one , the children were directed to sing' an old-fasliioueil poimlar song during the whole of a Sunday afternoon , and directions were given as to tlie proper colour for the ribbons in . their bonnets . Another , a noble lady , makes a medium of her inaid :. and consults the spirits as to the success of her husband ' s horses on the race course . What is the nieaniug-of such trash as this ? A ^ ain , Dr . Cjiild , tlie American author of a book at once the most immoral in its tendenciesand silly in its arg-uments that has been foisted on

    , tho public for manv years , is a perfect , pillar of-Spiritualism . Let Mr . lloAViTT , or any of . the respectable spiritualists , tell us wliat is the meaning of this . Has it any meaning ; H Are there g-ood spirits , bad spirits , and utterly nonsensisal spirits ? What is the main moral tendency , if there is any H Our friend ' s only reply is , that the spirits give tlieir answers ' ¦ ' according-. enlircly to tho sinceritv and seriousness with which the questions , arc propounded , that they will . answer profanely to the profane , and mock tho mocker , generally by giving no answer at all . lie speaks ot strong-vibration on the table , of distinct raps , and of a certam of the dancinggalloping

    moderate / movement ,, nono trundling , , , and climbing of furniture , with . which some of the reporU-rs have- familiarised :, us ; all which , rollicking amusements scorn , to have no end beyond that of exciting mere opon-oyed wonder , —that pet passion of the yulgar . Wo hope . th-o question is not disrespectful , but have the spirits on these occasions over done a single useful thing ? Amidst all thoir mahogany-movements have they ever performed a single service so useful or charitablo as to save a poor widow woman , who lets lodgings , tho expense ot a couple of appraiser ' s men ,, -when ' she wanted to mukv a change in the furniture of her first olid second iIoor H

    Wo hope that our readers will see by our iirnr last reniarics that wo are not of a humour to bo trifled with ourselves , or to iranoso upon them , notwitlistamUng -tlio earlier portion ol Una article ; Wo have only to . add , that our friend considers that Mr . Hojuj , ' and somo of the othor professors , ore simply the possessors of some peculiar elpotric . al or magnetic power , not sharod in by tho mass of mankind .

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    A BRITISH PRINCE AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON . THJE Prince of Walbs , travelling under his Scottish titlo of J 3 aron Hknfrpw , is now making- a tour through tho btiitv , u tho American Union . Ho has adopted the . title ol JJ ««» » J doforonco to republican prejudice and in order that tho -1 HI'S 1 |;^\ L and the offlcialn at Washington might l > o ' sparod I ho O" ^ " ^ ^ of addressing him as - His Itoyal Highness .. " Tho pree , {»««««• cmito unnocossary . Tho people and tfio o hoials have equaUv 0 11 title imk » »

    tlionwiilvoa anxioiis to glvo-hun all Iuh *) , rnrnjuo * • - savodhim ncitUor from consideration nor from ninult . * l' 01 "J 11 very juomdnt that ho sot foot on tho soil of tho Union ho was bc > a by ' numerourt crowds of people rudely and unceremoniously V ™™ r upon him , and dinning lm ears with all sorts of vulgar him nuputinont greetings . At Chicago , groat hulking oUowm ^ W 1 ^ 1 upon the BidoB of his carriage to pop their hoadn hi at the * - and tvHk him if ho was q \\ right , and whnt ho thought o L tlu » Mj J country . At Detroit , thoy mado him walk 11 quai'tor oi »;»'" ; . , !" . .. „ ,.,.:. « r » n limf . +. 1 in « iv » 5 r > . 1 i + till lmvn n wnntl look" at lUIIX . At * - ill '"" - - ,

    1 own , while ho was ga / Jnff upon astaiuo of Was in no ton , a » V ' 7 , t round him , and nawUod lum with tho lowont and coarri 0 . stol J " ( iuoss ho whippdcl you Britishorn . " l < Oh , you hko him . ¦ ' vouH- Sartnin / And ho forth . Thin U 11 Very dinni . j . J tnu realisation of tho hriglit ' pioturpH of JA-inorlpun pyinnntliv v , 11 n « uiuthor country , wliich have latoly boon drawn by i ») utiynl lornw JTlio yoarning nftos old nasociatiouH that wore to k ! w » w tho »'"' ; *•' tlio bonds of union that worp to bo drawn closer , t' ^ . l ^ Xl ' llfoundntjion of lovo , and community of uitoroBt that voro to w i "" . how do thoy ftll tMH ' 9 Much whoro thoy did , wo fonoy . ™ ulu

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    S 94 ' . The ' Saturday Analystand Leader . . : [ Oct . 27 , 1860

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1860, page 894, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2371/page/6/