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The morning papers universally wear the stamp of the holydays upon them, in their barrenness of all political news; there is " nothing" in them. Now documents become valuable to the broad sheet; now erup- tions of Vesuvius, described as the recent one is in the Morning Chronicle, prove a blesaingto those at a distance ; and if "the devouring element" can but consume a church, the insatiate reader, with pampered appetite, devours in turn.
At a meeting of the "new Short-time Committee, " yesterday, in Man- chester, a correspondence between Mr. B. B. B. Cobbett, solicitor, and Lord Ashley, was read, feats which it appeared that Lord Ashley's bill is not deemed "sufficiently explicit." A resolution was moved, to the ef- fect that if Lord Ashley refuse to embody the terms which the Conimittee propose, the, matter slibidel be placed in tiie'luaias of some other Member. The Lanceshire .School Association, however, uncognizant of holy- days, keeps up its education movement with vigour. On Thursday it held a public meeting in the immense Free-trade Hall of Manchester; at which good speeches were made by the Chairman Mr. George•Wilson, Mr. Peter Rylandef Warrington, and Mr. George Dawson. Mr. George Wilson maintained that the- ratio of crime in this country is universally proportioned to the amount of education received-
' We shallrbe told that people in superior circumstances, generally, have a superior education, and fife not expo:mato the same temptations that those occupying a lower clase-ure. I grant that to some eatont this is true ; but not by any.means to_the extent they go„. when they seek to draw any.im- -portant 'conclusions froin Why, from' the returns which I have given ,you, you find that only One .dut of 150,000 of the population-have been com- mitted for crimes. I could Slow you 'that out of 8,000,000 females in this -country; a whole' year has passed without irlsingle educated ..female being committed for trial for any offence whatever. But-there are in London, as you well know, a number of, vrelkeldneated—I'll call them gentlemen, or educated pen, if yen•pleasu4wlier liege to struggle,day be day,, and hour by hour, isaimeten aMcnifit-ef irlinfienwhich,. in myr humble, judgment, few people InthiS pert of the country fitiderstand. Vthi shall take" your actors_, your withers„'yonr artists, your menrionnected 'vatichislearned profet- • sions; your teachers, your decayed *tellies, and' thers? of whom 'yen '-httie an enolethonflinass in London, and Pll ehovr you Malin the year 1840, Whilst you had fifteen educated. people committed to prilion in Lancashire, ,in the county of Middlesex, in which London is situated: not one educated person was eommitted,to prison for any offence whatever.' lir....Gcorge Dawson dashed into the. spirit pf the, movement, with cha,
moterkietraits of his own— •
• The,worlang men of this country had a right to demand educatien,, and befere tl,cp they WOW demand it. Thev would ask what baried the, road to it ?n:- he' iralliVrry to think it would be said that it was religion only. Secular' neatibri iGhR enicttO be "godlese; " but he had learnt to know that everything wee '"giidlenin'ieliich' was net according to the little opinion of the man who The Associationat once clearly said; "Ittlit poor lire nut able to 'provide ethication tar themselves„-,we feel it our bounded duty so to tax ourselves that our poor shall get educated at our east." This .was the true sort of Socialism ; and in the hope that it might prove a Chris-
thin sort of Eoeiiilism; supported. this theasued-with all his heart.
He bad heard that once a year 'Abe Tope. washed certain: beggars' feet ; but he had also heard that some fort: of a chamberlain took the worst part .of the dirt off first. The people are dirty enough, God knows—sunk into a state of igneriureei,they have fallen away from religion, scarce knowing the GotiniC 'readmg the New Testament. Now the Association offer to he the Church's' thentheillein; taking; off the worst 'pert of,.the dirt, and leayMg these :potpie to be lavendered and eau-de-cologned- by the Church herself, if she would. (Mere and binghter.) The absence. of English bidders at the mks in the Encumbered Com- mission Court is a 'Subject of very general remark. AlthoUgh; for some weeks after the opening of the Commission., many inquiries. had been made by:the agents .0f English Capitalists respecting estates submitted for sale, not a single English bidder has appeared at any of the sales tip to this tine. It is neee.ssary; however, to remark, that no large or deiumble es- tate has yet iiten placed in the market.--Dublin Corresponcktat of the Morning Chrdkicle.
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