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London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

SUBMARINETHE-- TEL EGI3, ALP H
COUPANY, , •
Securing Exclusive Commutgcation between Great Britain and the
Continent of Europe, unqer Privileges from the French and Beigian
Government 4. •

Capital 150,0001., in 30,000 shares of 51. each, to be paid in full.
Liability of Shareholders limited to the amount of Subscrlption;.
. ,

- - Offices. 39, CornhilE •
• HONORARY. DIRECTORS.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. t -
lITS Excellency the Count Colonno Walewski, Ambassador of.frAnce
His Excellency M. S. Van 'der Weyer, EnVoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of trlgium •
IRS Excellency the Chevalier Buren, EnVoy Extraordinary. -find
Minister Plenipotentiary of Prussia. • •
Ills Excellency the Baron lientitick, Envoy ExtraordinarY4W-....,
nister Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands • •• ;-
His Excellency the .llarriuls D'Azeglio, Envoy Extraordinkry and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Sardinia
His Excellency Signor Isturiz, Envoy Ez.traordiniary- and Minister
Plenipotentiary of Spain
His
the
Plenipotentiary Excellency
eKi:olnl
ieireronr voofyAEusxttrrai2rtdointahrye King 1
01 tho
BeE;ians. '

CHAIRMAN.
_The Lord De lifaeley:

DIRECTORS.
A. AndErson, Esq., M.P Director of the Peninsular and. Oriental
•

Company '
John W. Brett, Esq., 2, Hanover-square
Ernest Bunsen, Esq., Abney Lodge, Reg,ent'spark
Sir James Carmichael, Bart:; Sussex-gartlens
The Hon. Frederick Cadbgan; Hertford-street, May Fair
W. J. Chaplin, Esq., M.P., Ohairman of the London and South-West-
- -

em RaifwaY Company - -
Le Chevalier Drouet, Belgian Embassy
C. cl-,nzer, Esq., Q.C., 31. P., Temple
Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Com-

John Masterman,jun., Esq., Nicolas-lane, Lombard-street.
BANKERS—LONDON.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., Nicolas-lane
Sir Claude Scott and Co., .Cavendish-square.
SOLICITORS. . .

Messrs. Davies, Son, Cainpbell,anrifin d, 17, Warwlek-sfreet, Re-.

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gent-street
Messrs. Hughes, Rearsey, and Co., 17, Bucklersbury.

SEouETAB.Y. •
L. C. Ilertalet, Esq.
In August. ./8:,1, the promoters of the Submarine Telegraph.
formetthemsetSes into a French Company (Societe en Comman-
dite); and established telegraphic comnumicatiori between Dover and
Calais.
On the 13th November last the telegraph was opened to the public;
since which time it has worked without the slightest irregularity
•
or interruption..
A Submarine Telegraphic communication having been thus suc•
cessfully proved, the promoters consider that the time has now ar-
rived to invite the public to c -OPerate with them in developing the
resources, and extending the advantages of this important under-
taking.
The following brief statement Will show the actual position and
prospects of the Sub-r arine Telegraph:—
A royal charter of incorporation was obtained in 1851, but it has
been determined to surrender the same for one of more extended
powers, enabling the Company to establish a . Submarine Telegraphic
Communication with a!1 parts of the Continent of Europe.
The draft or this charter is now before the Board of Trade, and It
is believed that it will be finally granted at the next Privy Council.
The capital of the French Company consists of 75,000 shares of 11.
each.

It is proposed to surrender these shares for shares of a corres-
ponding value in the Company now forming under the aforesaid
extended Royal Charter.
An exclusive concession has also been obtained from the Belgian
Government, and important privileges from other foreign Govern-
ments.

The Charter of Incorporation will unite these different conces-
sions and privileges, thus securing to this Company the exclusive
right of telegraphic coupttnication between Great Britain and the
Continent.
The receipts of the Submarine Telegraph have never been less
than 5 per cent., although it has been severely cramped in its
operations in consequence of its present position, forming, as it
does, only one Hutt in the chain of continental communication ; but,
after allowing an outside margin for works and expenses, and for
laying down a distinct and most complete line from Dover to
London, the returns during the past month have been at the rate of
71. 18s. 31. per cent.
In order to provide for the daily increase of business, and to secure
the telegraphic communication with the Continent against any risk
of interrupti ni, it is proposed to lay down a second cable between
France and England, and also bile between Dover and Ostend, which
will give 16 Telegraphic lines of communication between Great
Britain and the ',Continent, and amply supply the various lines of
France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany.
Responsible parties have undertaken to lay down these lines with a
sufficient number of wires for any amount of traffic that can be
anticipated, for the sum of 70,0001., to include all patent rights,
and all preliminary and other expenses incidental to the Belgian
and other concessions, which will become vested in this Company. ,
The Charter will authorise the raising of a capital of 300,0001. ;
but under the arrangements above referred to, not more than
75,0001. of new capital will be required to carry out the objects in
eontemplation.
The European and American Electric Telegraph Company being
formed under the powers of the Act of Parliament in connection
with this Company, the arrangements for completing the extension
of the Submarine Telegraph to London, Manchester, and Liverpool,
will be immediately concluded, when the French Government have
undertaken to Previde independent wires for the exclusive use Of
the Submarine Telegraph from Calais to the centre of Paris. In the
course of a few months, therefore, the Exchanges of London, Liver-
pool, and Manchester, will be brought into instantaneous communi-
cation with that of Paris ; and the same principle may be carried
into effect with al! the other cities of commercialimportance through-
out the Continent of Europe.
An estimate of the vast extension of business which must follovv
such a development of Telegraphic Communication, under a systein
of moderate charges, may be arrived at by a consideration of the
marvellous results which attended the introduction of the Penny
Postage. The day of experiment with the Submarine Telegraph has
passed, and all, therefore, which now remains is to afford every
facility to the public to avail themselves of an invention which is
evidently destined materially to affect the interests of the Commer-
cial and Political World.
II Applications for the 1,500 Shares may be made to Messrs. Foster
and Braithwaite, Stock Brokers, 68, Old Broad-street, City.

THE EUROPE AN (and AMERICAN)
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 135.
In connexion with the Submarine Telegraph Company.
Capital 200,0001., in 49,00 Shares of 51. each. Deposit 31. per share.
-Offices, 30, Cornhill.
CHAIRMAN.
Lord de Manley, Chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company.
DIRECTORS.
A. Anderson, Esq., M.P., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company
W. J. Chaplin, Esq., M.P,, Chairman of the London and South-
Western Railway Company
Samuel Laing, Esq., Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway
Company
John Masterman, Esq., jun., Director of the Submarine Telegraph
Company
Jon W Brett, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., Director of the Submarine Telegraph
Company
Ernest Bunsen, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company
Rear-Admiral Sir Richard O'Conor, K.C.H., Stanhope-terrace,
Hyde-park.

SECRETARY.
W. M. Shaw, Esq.
BANILERS.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., Nicolas-lane, Lombard-street
' SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Hand, 17, Warw:ck-street,

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gent-street
Messrs. Hughes, Kearny, and Co., 17, Bucklersbury.
This Company is termed for the purpose of supplying what hag
now become an object of first-rate commercial importance—viz.,; a
cheap communication, by Electric Telegraph, between London, Li-
verpool, and Manchester, and an uninterrupted connexion, by means
of the Submarine Telegraph, between those places and the Continent
of Europe.
it is proposed to construct one main line of Electric Velegrairs
from Dover to London and Liverpool, connecting Manchester rid
Birmingham, which will unite with the existing Submarine le-
graph to France, and with that which is about to be laid down i to
Be.giutn, under concessions from the Fren h, Belgian, and ether
foreign Governments, which secure an exclusive and direct corre-
spondence with the telegraphic systems of the Continent, extendilig
at the present year over 10,000 miles.
These lines will be laid underground, under the powers of the Act
of Parliament, according to the most approved modern System, by
which the Telegraph will be secured from interruption by atmos-
pheric or other causes. and the Company guaranteed against all cost
of maintenance for ten years. A sufficient number of wires will be
provided to enable the Company to carry on a large businesi at low
rates, which affords the surest source of profit in an undertaking
where Increase of traffic is not attended by any corresponding in-
crease of working expense.
Responsible contractors have guaranteed to lay down the entire
Ines in question, extending over about 300 miles, complete in
and includh, all preliminary and Parliamentary ex-

every respect, Jug _
penses, purchase 01 patent rights, &c., and also to ensure the main-
tenance and satisfactory working of the lines for ten years after their
completion, for the sum of 112,0001.
The whole expense of the undertaking being thus defined, no
liability can be incurred beyond the amount called on the Shares,
as the Directors will undertake no new lines, and enter into no
farther engagements, without the consent of the Proprietors.
The deposit of 31. per Share will be sufficient to raise the requisite
capital under the proposed contract: and the remaining 21. 'per
Share will be kept in reserve to provide any additional accomino-
dation that may be wanted for a large expansion of traffic—no por-
tion of it being called up without a distinct resolution to that effect
from a General Meeting of the Proprietors.
Arrangements are now making by which, in the course of
a few months, London, Liverpool, and Manchester may. be
placed in direct and instantaneous communication with Paris,
Havre, Marseilles, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Frankfort,
Berlin, Vienna, Trieste, and almost every town of importance
in Europe. Express News Agents in New York and Boston have
undertakenwin to collect Telegraphic Messages throughout the vastly
extended Lines in America ;..these being forwarded by the packets,
, on their arrival at Liverpool, be instantly transmitted through
returning
rLicnriinane:toackaellt.paris of the Continent of Europe, so that answers
may be received in a few minutes in readiness for the departnre of a
it is benoven, Uttneuver. that the introduction of more economical
clhejtYseet!eiGeraomenetala.es ml6rafrucbheua•
and efficient means of transmission must lead' to an eXtensive
United States of America, where upwards of 22,000 miles of
s has been the case in the
isa
' matter pa
reoffinteaebelsesaryopearnatdionh,ahiatnudat
uwsehearsethiet
life. "Ice, In all the transactions of commerce and affairs of daily

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T HE- .BOOKSELLING' TRAIjE.'
On 'Tuesday evening, at the rooms 9( Mr. John Chap-
man, 142, Strand, a number- of gentlemen,. authors, pub-
lishers, and baoksellers, met, convened by. circular; "-to
agree upon such SR expression of opinion" on the ques-
tion of the dispute in theo•boekeelling business " as may
hasten the removal of the 'present trade restrictions on
the commerce 'of literattefeT The circular further- in-
timated that the expediencY of' the Advocates Of free
trade in books seeking tm interview with tord Campba,
Mr. Grote, and Dr. Milman, ".the arbitrate s'3 selected
by the opposing parties, -would be .subnaitted tonon-
sideratioe. z- •
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS- (who. was called upon to act
as chair Man, and who: was- very warmly received), said
that on being requested to take the chair, he, had in the
first instance declined, on the groand that they had met
to discuss what was a bookieller's question, and not ten
author's queetibn. But consideratiorfsuggested that ho
might on that very account.be better qtialified to act as
cheirman; as being necessarily impartial in a
,contention
between different claise.s of- booksellers and publishers.
He was, on principle, most strongly opposed. to any sys-
tem, in any commercial—direction, of exclusion or
restriction.; He held,that-every man, whatever his call-
ing, must be left to the fair and free exercise of his own
honest thrift,and enterprise. Holding that opinion, he
isi-es there tonight to make a protest against parti-
dulatesyeteee of restrietionland he trusted that a setts-
factory result would be obtained.—(Cheers.)
Letiers were read, excusing the absence& the writers,
and expressing appro.val in the purposes of the meeting,
from Mr. Cobden Mr. Thos. Carlyle, Mr. John Stuart
Mill, Professor De. Morgan, Mr; Henry Cole, Mr. James
Wilson, Mr. W. J. Fox, Mr. George Combo, Mr. J.
M'Culloch (of the Stationery-office), Mr. W. E. Glad-
stone, Mr. Robert Chambers, Mr. Leigh Hunt, Mr. Wm.
Weir, Mr. Was. Howitt, Mr. Robert Hunt,- Mr. A. B.
Reach,' and other gentlemen. The letter from Mr. Car-
lyl,e,,Cahi
sehsiegah, lygeliyiar3a,c4ersi2s—tics,
iwr,e_aupnpelutiry I
shall not
be able to attend your meeting on Tuesday evenieg, but
I can have no hesitation in testifying my concurrence
with the object of it, which I understand, in brief,
to bo free trade in books, or the first step in a course
leading straight towards that. Free trade in re-
spect of books, and, indeed, of most other ob-
jects, is by no means the ultimatum one aspires to, or
the perfect condition that will satisfy the world's want
in the matter; very, ler from that in many cases; and in the
case of l:teraturb, farther than in any other whatsoever.
But surely in all cases, and in that of literature too, free
trade is better than trade unjustly crippled by monopolies
which are merely blind and greedy; in present circum-
stances, free' trade were a clear improvement; and more-
over, in the critical disposition of the world, it is a first
stage through which all faulty things must pass, and only
beyond and after trial of which can any progress that:will
prove true and lasting be looked for. For the rest, I fear
there are few branches of htinian industry, and most clearly
literature is not one of them--in which the shopkeeper
spirit (so we may call it for the sake of definition) will
suffice to regulate production and distribution according
to tho world's real want and interest: in regard tio, very
many there'is perpetually, 4,eeded a generous merchant
spirit (which it may be feared free-trade and
active competition will not much tend to develop among
us)—aed ,in regard to some, there is needed a
spirit -higher than any kind of merchandise, and
not looking to profit and loss for advice at
all. Now certainly, beyond all other objects, li-
terature in its higher fornai belongs to 'the latter class ;
to' these two latter classes it. helongi in all ferries of
it velue .to mankind ; for the mere
shopkeeper thathopke have anyeperspir spirit, looking only to the :visible vicinity,
and sharpened into ever greater eagerness for imme-
diate returns, is smitten with eternal. incompetence in
even the finance of literature, and can do no good what-
ever there that would not otherwise be done, and does
immensities of mischief -there which perhaps might
otherwise remain undone. •

" All this is true et e"n of the finance of literature:—
and, alas! literature-has KaAny 'elements besides the finan-
cial, and far more important fait than 'the financial; in
regard to all of which it would so gladly cease to ,in
anarchic, and become: well ordered, and well governed,
if it only could. Truly,- to. consider how society at pre-
sent stands related to literature may well fill the think-
ing man with astonishment, with anxiety, almost with
terror. The duties cf society towards literature in those
new conditions of the. world are becoming great, vital,
inexpressibly intricate, -little capable of being done or
understood, at present; -hut all-important to bo un-
derstood and done, if society will -continue to
exist with it, and it along with society. From
the highest business of spiritual culture and the
most sacred interests of men, down to the lowest
and epheeral concerns where " free prose"
YeealaYl:g itself, with all its move-
odie g orithe'thing it calla
ruledregu
tstue p3raeumdep, :rout society
eesel
trade-al one, will by no
literature, and bound, under incalculable penalties,. to very
many duties in regard to that!--- wich duties, per-
ceive, finance alone,' and free
means be found to beethesame. Bat suchnonsiderations
lie far beyond our present business, and must not. be
more than alluded to-here. •
" What alone concerns us here is to remark that the.
present system of book publishing discharges none of,
these duties, less and less .rnakes. even the appearanCe
of discharging theme and indeed as 'believe is, by the
nature of the case, -incapable of ever in
.any perceptible`
degree, discharging „any of. them in the times that-
now are. A. century ago there was .in thee book-
selling guild—if never- any .royalty of spirit, as how
could such be looked for there-7-.lFt a spirit of
solid merchanthood, welsh had its value in regard to the
prosaic facts of literature, and is ever to be thankfully-
remembered there. Of this -solid merchant- spirit., if. we
take the victualliog .and furnishing of such an enterpriee
as Samuel Johnson's Eoglish Dictionary 'for its Englislh.
feat (es perhaps we justly may),
and many a
moires," °'Enoyclop.ediseßritennica,'?.&9., in this coun-
try and in others for its lower,. we must grateinlly
admit the real usefulness, reipectability, and merit to
the world. But in -later times,
owing to many causes
which have been active, not on the book guild alone,
such spirit has long been diminishing,• and has now
.
as "good us disappeared, without bope of re-
suscitation in that cleaner. The spirit of the book
trade, it is mournfully evident, is that of modern
trade generally, no . better and no worsq a hand-
to-mouth spirit, incapable of _;ever again paying for even
a Johnson's Dictionary I-not_ what I can call a merchant
spirit, but (on the great or on the small scale) a shop-
keeper one. Such •is - the melancholy fact; so far
as my experience end-- observation -have taught me
to form an opinion. If my vote •is inquired of in
the matter, I grieve' to• say, and sin not con-
scious of either anger
.or of,favour: in saying, it
is
authentically this which. loads me—and; indeed, has long
since led me—to infer thatthe publishing guild, taking
large wages for doing ..indispensable. work, and quite
omitting to do it,- is in no sate or Jaeting position before•
the public, and will prove incapable of standing, unless it
can escape being inquired into. If the public itself (as
Iby no means believe; or ever believed)-is adequate, by
free trade' or otherwise; to remunerate literature, the
public ought to have lit least a chance of trying to do
it. The present system, by which above one-half, of
the selling Pri&e,of et......b00k:(` from 5510 65 per maw
including advertisements') is paid , over to , a -man
or set of men, not who "write it or. print it, or bind
it, or make paper for it; but who
-.show ie iterbss
I the counter and draw in the money, remained, to all who
look at it in this point of view, one of the most astonish-
ing ever seen in human commerce, and seems to me,, in
these days, destined to speedy, abrogation when once the
public has got eye on it.
" My own intereSt in the-business, I confess, is not of
a lively nature; nor are my hopes for the world, from
such a revolution, , what they on, ce 'Might have been;
but such is, and has long been, my iievi of the case
now- 'collie in hand. ---- No duty bedog done to litera-
ture but a slaopkeeping one, let us have at least the
eligible kind of shopkeeping—your 55 per cent. reduced
gradually (as we find it in America just now) to 15 or
to 10; with books about half the- price they now bear,
and with 20 times, or 40 times, as many readers to them
as noW—after that, we shall see. *
" In haste, I remain, sir, yours Vey, truly,
-. (Signed) " .CineareE.
" John Chapman, Esq., Publisher, 142,Strand:'
Mr. Joner. CHAPMAN then rose to Make_ .a statement
explanatorynf. the circumstances which had led to, the
meeting, rind descriptive of the position of the contro-
versy'. Ile, 'in the first place, entered into the realona
opsbeellieirs an
Ahasisod _oirio
which had induced him to decline an informal in-
vitation to be present at the deputation of the Book-
sellere Association to Lord Campbell. Since then he had
readk
a letter from Idr. Low, the secretary of the
p.
taidjni: t rinforhadming
e himfixed a day,'tkttforL.
an-
other. Campbell
conference-
was the
itiettio anti asking- if be "could'attend, This
called tredeciden 7160 r -the present ;meeting- had been
which had taken. p.t136 following
was the correspondence
and Lord Campbelr e between himself (MrXhapmari)

_‘ .1.0 the,— `142, Strand; April 24, 1852. •
Rlitghis hlt honourable Lotd•Canapbell.
a he:trilled to hold a meeting at my
•
, rr.
Lboorodks.-
Bearing in, tkifionr the
ePxrpQrnea°steid" w6ilflifngg"-
house abrut•ten-day
ness of your. Lordshiprxr. Grote,d th
tra"deMiny
Paul', to listel to Toy explanatinana. the Dean of St.
who concur. with memay" be prepared to I And those',
the understanding that an interview wiothoffoerr; and with
Lordship
will not commit unto any 'ulterior course, your
tu-
ist probable
that at the meeting about to take place, a dep_t!
eation will
be appointed tO-walt du your Lordship,' for
. tn purpose
of stating the-views we. RPtertain, and tor furnish such
arguments as we believe will prove theii
order that lour Lordship and the ntl correctness, in
ge----ernen associated
with you morbo in pumice of 011, the data necessary

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for the formation of a just opinion; before edvising• the
representatives ,of the Boolttellera' 'Association, who
have bound theinselveS to- 'abide by pent' Lordship's de-
ciaion. I shall be glad to a .r.
an ert whether, in the event
of such a deputation being a et...nted, it will be conve-
nient to yonr Lordship to fealeiti us with an audience,
apart from:the gentlenien villa represent -the Booksellers'
Assoeiatiore They hive already adduced suctnevidenee
as they cosisider :sufficient to ensure .Your Lordship's
judgment in their favour;-nud tie we have no deeire to
enter into a personal discussion with them on the sub-
ken a separate interview would bd more accordant with
our vievess.eol venture to write .befure the meeting above
referred tostaket pit-lc-Dein order to prevent inconvenience
to youat ihderdehip, as I learn- that your Lordship has
already consented to meet the representatives of the
Booksoilers' Association en the 17th of May.—l am, my
Lord, yOur Lordship's obedient servant,
" JOHN CHAPM AN."
''" Stratheden House, April 28, 1852.
" Sir,—'l myself would bo moat happy—and so lam
sure would the Dean of St Paul's and Mr. Grote—to con-
fer wit-Inds° deputation you mention, upon the terms you
propoefeee Bat, instead of yur
coming to us separately, I
strongly advise you to attend here on the 17th of May.
Wo appointed that cluyexpreealy to afford you an oppor-
tunity of meeting us; .and' by no means exclusively for
the association. You luny depend upon it, that from the
proposed arrangement nothing unpleasant to any of the
parties clan occur. _
. - n I remain, your obedient servant,
" John Chapman,
111." '3 "CAMPBELL.
Lord: Campbell fully understanding that while his
opinion-would be respected, his arbitration was not to be
accepted an final or decisive.
The re statement" of Mr.
Chapman -was, in effecte a reproduction of the documents
and arguments with which the
public Wready familiar.
It was liseened to throughout with great interest.
Mr. B.Aj3BAGE moved the first -retehttiont e The prin-
ciples of free trade having now
.been established by ex-
perience-La well as by argument, it% rite opinion of this
meeting teat they ought to be applied to books as to all
other articles of commerce." The principles enunciated
in this resolution he had held all his life, applying them
to the coerimerce of literature as to every other trade.
He was .convinced that the Booksellers' Assodiation
greatly misapprehended both their rights and their in-
terests; and, though there might in some quarters be
some temporary mischief, as the consequence of abolish-
ing artificial regulations and consenting to a natural and
wholesele trade, he was satisfied in the end general bene-
fit even 'so the retail booksellers themselves would be the
result. He did not see why the arrangement for a more
natural suite of things could not be made gradually and
quietly. -.This was a matter in which there need be no
violent hurry. Free trade in this, as in every depart-
ment,. was inevitable; and it was folly to attempt the
maintenance of any artificial regulation of the price of
, such a commodity as a book.
Mr. ROBERT BELL seconded the resolution. Ho re-
garded this indirectly as an author's question, the sale
of ansauthor's book, and being dependent upon the price
of the book. Ho. had some doubts if the expression
" free trade" was discreetly used in the resolution. The
phrase might leave some wrong quasi-political impres-
sions, cud might deter the alliance of some friends; and,
further than, that, he questioned if competition, pro-
perly considered as competition in the ordinary commer-
cial sense., would be regarded as applying to the book
trade. For instance, he could not seo how Mr. Ma-
caulay's e" History," -or any similar distinctly eminent
book, conlci be regarded as being exposed to competi-
tion. In the main principle implied in the resolution he
entirely agreed. The retailer became absolute proprietor
of the copy which he purchased; and it was obviously
his right to , sell that property at whatever price ho
pleased. . .Perhaps there might be unfair underselling, if
all restrictions were removed; and this was to bo avoided
by the publisher diminishing the margin of allowance
between the advertised and the trade price.
Mr...T.- SAUNDERS (bookseller, cf Charing-cross), ad-
dressed the meeting. The gist of his observations was,
that the Booksellers' Association was proceeding upon
the fairest principles of trade, and that the restrictions
which were kept up were necessary for the protection
of the dealer. " Free trade" had nothing to do With the
question. Ho was a free-trader; but he denied that
this question of the regulations of a trade could be set-
tled with reference to the axioms of free trade. Free
trade applied to the taxes on books, and to the import
of books, but not to the terms on which a body of re-
tailers should conduct their business. Mr. Saunders
was supporting the proposition
that the meeting was
unwarrantably attempting to
interfere with the profits of
the retail booksellers, when several gentlemen inter-
rupted him, denying that this was the question, and
The CHAIRMAN Mr suggested to --• Saunders that his
remarks did not apply to the affirmations of the reso-
lution,—(Cheers.)
Mr. SauernEns would then consent to speak simply
to the precise terms of the resolutions. He continued,
however, is the same strain, and became involved in a
dispute with Mr. Bentley as to the former discounts al-
lowed to the trade.
Mr. Novenno replied at length to Mr. Saunders.
Mr. G. Wxy.tmi took the same view as Mr. Saunders,
and altogether denied the right of such a meeting to
meddle in trade arrangements.
Mr. SOTHEReN followed on the same side; and an
angry discussion arose es to the precise points at issue.
[An amendment directly opposed to the resolution was
proposed by Messrs. Willis end Sotheron, and afterwards
withdrawn; and a supplementary discussion was then
provoked as to-the right of Messrs. Saunders, Willis, and
Sotheron being present. Mr. Chapman said the meeting
had been convened for a specific object, gentlemen hold-
ing a particular sot of opinions only oa the question hav-
ing been invited; and he explained that ou handing one
of the circulars to Mr. Saunders, he had taken for granted
that that gentleman would not offer to take part in the
proceedings. He was surprised, therefore, that Mr.
Saunders and his friends should have not only spoken,
but moved an amendment. Hereupon, Messrs. Saunders,
Willis and Sotheron, offered to withdraw; but Mr. Chap-
man begged that they would not do so;
and the chair-
man, with the evident approbation of the meeting ex-
pressed his determination, dissentients being present, to
hear all they had to say, and fairly to put whatever pro-
positions they might think fit to make.]
The resolution, after some further
conversation, was
carried, three hands only being held up against it.
Mr. CABLES KNIGHT proposed, and Mr. Toes TAT-
non seconded, the next resolution:—" That the princi-
ples of the Booksellers' Association are not only op-
posed to those of free trade, but are extremely tyranni-
cal and vexatious in their application, and result in
keeping the prices of books
much higher than they would
otherwise be, thus restricting their sal© to the great
injury of authors, Met
an of public d all connected with
. , ,
literature."
Mr. BUSH (of the firm of Bickers and Bush) spoke
to the resolution. In his opinion, the association which
cone to him to dictate the terms on which he should
deal with his customers might be
properly handed over
to the police.—(Laughter.)
The resolution was carried unanimously, the three dis-
sentients ceasing to offer further opposition.
The third resolution, which
was carried, was proposed
by Professor NEWamAN, and Professor
seconded by
ANSTED:—" This meeting considers the peculiarity of
the book trade—via., that the publisher fixes and adver-
tises the retail price of his Publications—no valid argu-
ment for the maintenance of the present restrictive els-
, tem, and that the less the office of promoting the retail
sale is centralised in the publisher, and the more it de-
volves on the local bookseller, the better for the com-
merce of literature.
Professor OWEN proposed the next resolution—
" That the trade restrictions, falling g as they do with
peculiar severity upon books of a
comparatively limited
,
circulation, greatly retard the spread of the higher
branches of science and philosoph-
y by rendering it un-
profitable, and, indeed, dangerous, to publish works de-
voted to them." lie illustrated th© argument of the re-
solution by referring to his Own experience as an author
of books on scientific subjects. The difficulty of get-
ting &Lich books published had led to combinations of
scientific men, who had turned amateur publishers, and
who made the publications pay by fixing natural instead
of artificial prices on them. The publishing system was
obviously a rotten one, or it would not drive scientific
authors to these resources.
Dr. LANKESTER seconded the resolution; and on
being put it was carried.
Mr. WARD proposed the fifth
repolutioa--4, That ex-
perience haying repeatedly shown
~ that trades with arti-
ficially high profits and
asmall
gain by being
forced into the natural systemna ofl ow profits and a large
' market this meeting is of opinion that the abolition of
• nous, injuring the book-
sellingso far from
the present restrictions,
will greatly benefit it."
business,
Mr. CHAPMAN seconded it; and after a speech from
Mr. SAUNDERS, it was carried.
place
A conversation thou toot;LordCam inll
lrleference to the
suggestion to wait upon Lord
-A. Chapman psheould It was ulti-
mately
decided that
should
wait, on the
his Lordship, and
appointed day, on
the views of the convey to
him the resolutions and
.. meeting. Mr.
te. to Lord
Dickens undertook to
t; virhi ad declined Campbell,t and to
explain that the mees-ngor the
ground thlapeoint a com-
mittee as a deputation, II
tt the only
gentlemen constituting
bellleeting
was to the public, it wouldimplying in itself tohis Lord-
ship to act in a manner
r.
Bush, acceptance
of his definite limp
- irageindividual, he however,
made it
understood that, as an
be Associationshouldcertainly
of Booksellers
attend the deputation of t .
to Stratheden-houtire - h .
brow up after a vote of thanks to
The meeting then
dexercised the most consummate
the Chairman, who ha
edines const I ant y threatening
tact throughout procee. 0
;o take an unruly turn,_ , _

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HOSPITAL ' FOR CoNSUMPTION, BROMPToN.--Ilis
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lord
William Poulett, paid a visit of inspection on Tuesday to the
'above institution, preparatory to his taking the chair yesterday
at the festival to be held in commeniorarion of the east' wing
'His Royal Highness was received by the Rev. Sir H. Foulis,
the chairman of the committee of management, Sir Thomas
Gladstone, G. Wingfield, Esq., Dr. Carsham, the physician
general ;tr.
of the day, and the other officers of the institution. His
Royal Highness spent a considerable time in the inspection,
gratified with the
and expressed himself highly
rangernents.
t ~
: ItATioNAL ExCISE.---What would be a good sub-
stitute for taxes On'knowledge?—Taxes on ignorance; be-
cause, in the present state of popular edUcatiOn, they
--would
CcUii;kli bo muc4 mote prirclactlYkinrioncht

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CHRONICLE.—The long-standing controversy re-
specting the Metropolitan Water Supply seems at last to
'be practically settled. The few remaining defenders of
the Board of Health may perhaps attempt re re-open the
discussion in the House; but there will be little disposi-
tion on the part either of the Gorernraent or of Podia-
ment to overrule the correlations at which the S;,lect
Committee have arrived at the close of its laborious in-
seatigation. The present Bill, as emended, c:ineides in
almost ell respects with the arrangements n hich we have
repeatedly recommended as just and practicable. The
supply-of water to London is still to bo confided to pri-
vate enterprise, but the companies are subjected to va-
rious important restraints and conditions for the protec-
tion of the public. The important question of rates
remains unsettled, in conseqa nee of the judicious
determination of the Committee to deal separately with
the case of every district in the metropolis. The fair
price of water, as of any other commodity, depends on
its cost, and therefore varies greatly molding to local
circametanees. Some of the companies are, up to the
present time, under no legal restriction as regards their
scale of charges,while others, having recently had occasion
to solicit now Parliamentary powers, are subjected to the
provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act. By the
pending Bills a maximum rate will be fixed for every
water district in London; and the Committee will no
doubt take care to provide for future reductions by im-
posing at the same time a limit on the dividends, ac-
cording to ordinary modern practice. The progress of
building in the outskirts of Loudon, and the probable in-
troduction of a water supply into the poorer tenements,
may in a few years afford the means, not only of enrich-
ing the stockholders, but of greatly relieving the present
consumers. The history of the recent struggle affords a
striking proof of the utility of a judicial inquiry in dis-
pelling prejudice, and of the necessity of maintaining the
existing securities for the protection of property. Only
two or three years have elapsed since the Board of
Health took advantage of a popular clamour, founded
on their own frivolous and garbled statistics, to recom-
mend that all the existing water resources of London
should bo at once arbitrarily abandoned. The Thames
and the streams of Hertfordshire were suddenly disco-
vered to be unfit for human consumption; and the
Board determined to bring supplies exclusively from
the Surrey hills, where no water had previously been
known to exist. It seems strange that any Govern-
ment could so far countenance such quackery as to
make that project an excuse for impeding all the schemes
which were actually proposed, either by the present
companies or by rival capitalists, for extending or im-
proving tho water supply. At last, however, the Board
attracted the attention of the Administration by a new
and still more daring eccentricity. An ingenious gen-
tleman was sent into Surrey to collect evidence in fa-
bour of the official " gathering grounds;" and he came
back with a new-fangled project of his own, founded on
a supposed discovery of various springs and streams
which his employers had never heard of. The latter
coolly adopted the sabstituted plan; and they once more
claimed a monopoly for their new device, at the expense
of all the establishments which had, up to that period,
supplied London with water. Their last vagary had the
fortunate effect of enlightening Sir George Grey as to
the true character of his subordinate advisers. A scien-
tific commission was appointed, which afterwards con-
tradicted in detail almost all the propositions respecting
the quality of our supplies which had been long and in-
dustriously circulated in blue books at the public ex-
pense; and a Bill—which, however, was wholly untena-
ble in itself—was submitted to a Committee of the House
of Commons, which has been virtually reappointed in the
present session. The measure of 1851 was framed by
Sir William Clay, under the influence probably of a
temporary alarm. It was understood that he
afterwards abandoned his own proposals, and the
Government which endorsed them never affected to give
them any hearty or sincere support. It was provided by
that abortive scheme that all the companies should be
amalgamated, but no principle was laid down for the
valuation of the stock on which the dividends limited by
the Bill were to be calculated. A power of a most atm•
malous kind was given to the Secretary of State, en-
abling him to direct the Water Company at any time to
resort to any new source of supply. It was evident that
this provision was the result of a remnant of the perni-
cious influence formerly possessed by the Board; of
Health. It was perhaps not intended that so extraor-
dinary a discretion should ever be exercised ; but the
clause would have enabled any obstinate or capricious
Minister to ruin the Water Company at a moment's
notice, and perhaps at the same time to leave London
dry. It would have been almost as reasonable to
give the Secretary of :State power to order the di-
version of the Great Western Railway into any line
which le might deem preferable to its actual course.
In the present year, the same obnoxious provision
was retained, although Lord Seymour had the good
sense to abandon the proposed compulsory amalgama-
tion. When the Dill was that introduced, we explained
the objections which attached to its details, stating our
grounds for believing that a Committee would probably
be able to convert it into a working measure. The
Board of Trade, instead of the Secretary of State, is now
to be invested with a certain power of inspection and
control over the ordinary working of each company, and
over the adoption of new sources of supply. All the
existing establishments are to be compelled to filter their
water—a process hitherto employed only by three or
four companies. Covered reservoirs and water-courses
are to be introduced within those limits to which the
smoke of London may be considered to extend its date-
rioratirg influence. The system of constant supply is
tobec
become universal within a period of five years. The
rates, as we have already stated, are to be regulated ac-
cording to circumstances, under the provisions of spe-
cial Acts; and consequently the most material detail
of the new arrangement still remains to be settled.
One of the most important provisions adopted by the
Committee limits the supply to the waters of the
Thames or of its tributaries, taken above the range
of the tide. But a large portion of the population of
London has no interest in the new regulation. The
New River and the East London Companies supply more
than half the metropolis from the New River and from
the Lea, above the tidal flow. Greenwich and Woolwich,
with the adjoining suburbs, depend on the Ravens-
bourne; and the Lambeth Company has recently opened
its nobleworks at Ditton, some distance above Tedding-
ton Lock. The Grand Junction and the West Middle-
sex Companies will have to retreat from Kew to a point
somewhat higher up the river; and the Chelsea and
Southwark and Vauxhall works must be removed from
their present questionable position in Chelsea Reach.
When these changes shall have been effected, any fu-
ture addition to the water supply—should it ever be
required—will probably be drawn from the chalk
to the north of London. There is, however, no
objection to any contribution which may hereafter
be squeezed out of the arid sands of Farnham.
In a conversation which arose some weeks since
on this subject in the House of Commons, Lord
Ebrington attempted to introduce the general sanitary
question—expressing, at the same time, an apprehension
that the lower districts south of the river might be
swamped by an excessive flow of water. It is desirable
that Parliament should remember that there are two
independent objects to be considered in dealing with
this matter. The present Bill purports to provide pur-
chasers with an unlimited supply of water, of the best
quality and at the cheapest rate which circumstances
may permit. The question of providing a universal dis-
tribution of the supply is an entirely indifferent one. At
this moment the companies would willingly furnish the
poorest lodging-house in London with all the water
which it could use. If the price forms the impediment,
it may be hoped that the present measure will lead to a
reduction in the rates; but the fact is that the poor will
not pay for a comfort which, beyond a certain limit, they
have not yet learned to regard as a necessary of life.
It is for Parliament to decide whether a compulsory
water-rate shall be levied on the owners of houses in-
habited by the poor. In consideration of such an arrange-
ment, the companies might fairly be required to
submit to a reduotion of their ordinary rates. There
are many grounds on which Parliament, on behalf of the
public, is entitled to interfere for the purpose of supply-
ing every dwelling with water. A man has. a right to
be uncomfortable himself, and perhaps to impose annoy-
ances on tenants who may be willing to comply with his
terms; but no one has a right to increase the risks of
fire, or to create a certainty of fever. The advocates of
sanitary improvement will do well to direc
t asel
portion of their energies towards securing a iv
supply
impeded by
of water; and
eainreclamthsetairneeeffettrhtast
there is already will certainly not bae
Wretched lodging-house in London. The water it
that a main, fully charged, within a short distance of thsethmeorset,
and it will run through a service pipe the mom
bargain is made either by law or by
ply to be
It is idle to wait for some other mode of sul2,oitlier
provided by some different management. IN
et water for
municipality nor a Government Board car
neagsonable price
special encontract.
nothing. Let the means of securing
whether the companies aro exorbitant
be provided; and then it will be.
whether
Bev. Mr. Glad-
ADVERTISER.—The case of thet
po
pert'; that of
stone is that of the Reformation agains
atitmheeirtodeimnqanudirse.
divine right, by the
the Protestant clergy
which is now openly assumed as of
Majesty's son-
her
prelates who rebelliously deniedheChurch and it is also
reignty as supreme head of t.
man against the arbitrary power,
g nst both the bishops and
the case of every lay
forf Pt
he
epyairtpe se s
eti and
Tractarians, have entered t
tho Pope. Their ob-
priests of Rome, who,nuandeBhicaltchehaclroeahko
undermining her, and introducingbes is identical with that
jest in regard to the lay
dhotall'eavtetrhehigtihmemiwghast
of Archbishop Laud,
wouldY dare to stand uncovered
be his rank and station,
coming when no En
from the Establishment, nor
shwhoe:b oma sa
digs
belonged to the Christian reli-
iLnetthhoetptrheesseencwe
hoof the mateanest servant of the Church.
even those who never
o not interested, and deeply,
glen,
endingp struggle with Rome,
too, the nefarious disguise
and curates of churches
gio ,
ia imaginethe
is
issue of
hehyo
oafn dhiisthse dishonestpar
r on
, for if' once they got the ascen-
mud chapels o
of religious persecution will again be
dancy, the red arm
shoulders, the fires of Smithfield will again
asesmeerpsaarriiiehs,e9,
bared to the
aves o o already
blaze from morning till night, and a band. of Celtic sa-
vages, the
devoted sl "
her tic andptsh infidelpriests, blood," will
trained and thirsting for
re-enact the horrors another three days and nights of
h erg in the streets of the metropolis and all our
Dart h 9 OM

large towns. The case, nominally " Hodgson v. Glad.
I stone," in the Arches' Court. claims a far more startling
title throughout Protestant Europe, for it is the Pope v.
Christianity; and should the plot succeed in England,
the blood-red flag and the fiery cross will be sent through
01l lands in which the Word of God is revered as the
only rule of fifth, and the Only hope of the Christian,
This case is said, by a legal fictioo, or a limited and tech-
nicsl. use of the word, to be promoted by Hodgson v.
Glwistone, while al the world !movie that it is leeti-
tie:l and carried on by the Bishop of London—by that
prelate Who licensed end suffered several Teacterian priests
to preach uuscriptural and profane doctrines, to prectise
.most offeesive idolatries, and to utter the most re-
volting impieties—all without rebuke. Lfe licensed end
endured, in the same manner, Mr. Bannetto whew
all knew to ha one of the disguised emissaries of Popery,
hr 3117. iooepn erwri. iitths ,di
nraenwt
mhpei
his
oo
ff
licence,deci
vniense s
and did not withhold his licence, until hie mummeries,
h hea
service.d nearly
ea:
Andlyw iet cwah
ch,
tie:neer:l;lli,
in
recommending
this disguised Popish priest to the Popish
holder of the Protestant living of Frome as a proper per-
son
to be incumbent. That priest finding his attempts
at deception no longer practicable, has now acknowledged
his allegiance to the Pope, and yet, for aught we know
to the contrary, still holds the living. Under this nista-
of the Established Church, the following persons have
thrown off the mask in less than six months from the
publication of the last Catholic Directory announcing
what aro falsely called " Clerical Converts to the Catho-
lic (Popish) Faith." The men never belonged to any
other Faith or Church:—
Rev. G. Carey, Curate of Margaret Chapel.
Rev. C. B. Garside, ditto.
Rev. Mr. Bodley, Curate of Archbishop Tennyson's
Chapel.
T. W. Allies, formerly Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of London.
Rev. Henry Bedford, Curate of Christchurch, Hoxton.
Rev. W. Dodsworth, Incumbent of St. Pancras,
London.
Rev. Harper, St. Peter's, Pimlico.
Rev. Joseph Henry Jerrard, D.C.L., Member of the
Senate, and Examiner in Classics and History in the
University of London.
Rev. Vale, 91 Buckingham Palace Chapel.
To these are now to be added the Rev. William J. E.
Bennett, of the notorious St. Barnabas Chapel, Pimlico,
whom Lord John Russell and numbers of the nobility
and gentry patronised, by their constant attendance on
his buffoonery and profane mummeries, assisted by three
or four other Popish priests in disguise. We are
astonished that Protestants have not generally seen
through the shallow device of the Jesuits in intruding
their pupils into the universities and the Church, for the
very purpose of inuring the people to the practice of
idolatry, and then pretending to be reconciled to Rome,
in the hope and expectation of carrying over their flocks
in a mass. Besides Mr. Turnley, in his " Popery in
Power," Mr. Gladstone, in his excellent sermon, " Tree-
tarianism is Popery, and must be expelled," and our-
selves, no one seems to have noticed the artifices. As to
that sermonof Mr. G ladstone's, and another on the famous
text," Speaking lies in hypocrisy," we have very little
doubt that they contain the seeds of that animosity
with which he is persecuted. A Bishop, under whom so
many unchristian tenets and practices are allowed to be
tried, to the intended overthrow of the Church, which
ho is most enormeusly overpaid to serve, and under
whom 80 many " clerical converts" to Popery, swell the
lists of the Catholic Directory, had need of very clean
hands before going into a court to prosecute a clergyman
whose real offence is that ho preached the doctrines held
by the Latimere, Taylors, Stillingfleets, Tillotsons, and
Sherlecks of his church—men before whom the modern
bench of bishops hide their diminished heads. He has
also fearlessly, and in the strictest accordance with his
duty, denounced the insidious practices which well-
known bishops publicly protect and encourage in their
dioceses; and, therefore, he and all such clergymen are
to be put down, if possible, with the forms of courts and
appearances of law, but, at all events, they must be put
down. Who does not see the perfect keeping in fos-
tering Bennett' Allies, and the other disguised priests
in the lists just given; the refusal of the services of such
pious and Protestant clergymen as the celebrated
Merle D'Aubigne, a man with a world's fame for
ever, to the foreign visitors of the Protestant faith;
and the inhibition and persecution of Mr. Gladstone?
The connexion is visible—palpable; gross to every
sense of perception. There are four bishops now pub.
licly notorious as deeply implicated in the Popish plot,
and no stronger proof can possibly be adduced of the
weakness of the State Church, and the defectiveness of
its Government. Where is the power to inhibit and
expel these bishops? Does it conveniently sleep? and
why have they not long ago been, every one of them,
tried, even in ecclesiastical courts? Why should a
bishop have his court, into which he can drag and ruin
an honest clergyman, and neither clergy nor people hav,
a court to punish, in like manner, a traitorous bishop?
If the Church is to stand as a Protestant Establishment

twenty years longer, it must be provided with a remedy
for this glaring defect and absurd inconsistency in its
interanl discipline. With reference to the people, and
such upright clergyman as Mr. Gladstone, wo would
beg them to remember the great movement in the
Church of Scotland a few years ego. Let the former
support those of the clergy, whom the Popish bishops
now in the Establishment displace, and endeavour to
deprive of all n"^r2'33 of subsistence. Their teaching
will be as pure, as holy, and as effectual, in an uncon-
secrated place, as any house made with hands, and
blessed by a bishop. The church, for nearly two cen-
turies and a half, had no such rite as consecration. It
was borrowed from the heathen custom of dedicating
the temples of the mythological deities, and is now as
pure a piece of Popery as processions, tapers, crucifixes,
and dolls. A magistrate's licence is all that is suffi-
cient, and, for any purpose of true religion, it will be
fully as valuable as a bishop's, or anything that a bishop
can grant, confirm, or do. The bishops of apostolical
and primitive tinier were not men exercising authority,
bat elders among elders in each church, which was no-
thing more than a congregation for prayer and mutual
exhortation, and their whole business was to moderate,
and look over, or rather after, the community of goods.
Hence their name. The rest was an encroachment
of the Popes for personal aggrandisement, and bor-
rowed from the sacerdotal usages of the Pagans, as soon
as the Popes divested themselves of Christianity and
professed Mariolatry and the old worship of pictures and
dolls. Let the people abjure all prelatical authority over
their judgment and conscience, and maintain their faith-
ful preachers. A movement of this sort will commence
the second Reformation, which will spread over Europe
like a train of gunpowder. Tho opportunity now pre-
sents itself, and the direct foes of God and man may be
briefly defeated with their own weapons. 0.1 reference
to the proceedings in the Arches' Court on Monday, fit
will be seen that Mr. Gladstone was not allowed to enter
upon those subjects which are alone material to his de-
fence. We do not doubt that the Judge's objection is
strictly technical, but what a farce aro we witnessing,
where a very different person and far heavier 'offences
ought to be the subjects of legal investigation. The
proceedings, without some such timely warnings as the
present, will carry the public mind away from the real
and only important matters at issue.
DAILY NEWS.—The decision of Sir John Dodson,
judge of the Arches' Court, in Mr. Gladstone'saetor estate,
of
another example of the loose and unsatisfactory
rho of the case
of their licensed clergy; whilst the
asi;tent manner in
afford another illustration of the incon
d b its Bishop.
's governe y .
the law regulating the powers of bishopsf and ihe rights
which the diocese of London i .
scarcely necessary
The Mr. Gladstone in question,d
subjects
who occasionally preaches in the
of England in
who is for revolutionising the Church . the
I colonies—who has assumed the care and protection of
to state, is not the right reverend igteninstoluesT:f ocfotmhamtonnasme
in Scotland—and whose
work, episcopal communion
sroonm a ecclesiasticalrkahle
for
anything
and everything but coherency of opinions. The de-
many avnodluemssessy
de-
fendant in this oaso is a 12overend Gentleman who was
already
lately licensed by the Bishop of London to perform di-
vine service in an unconsecrated and proprietary h l
c ape
in Long-acre, where, it seems, he made himself as re •
markable for his low Church opinions as the other Mr.
Gladstone is for his high Church views. Fond as the
Bishop of London is of building new churches, even
where they aro not at all times wanted, he has a! huge
dislike to private proprietary chapel,'. eII was
.always
sorely troubled about the one in John-street, B df
row, where Mr. Baptist Noel preached so l e ord-
ong and so
popularly. Ile still keeps a sharp look
Thorpe and his chapel in Belgravia, where he will not
have fresh curates, however able, pious, or devoted.
was in a proprietary chapel in the Bloomsbury lt
that he, last year, silenced the foreign ministers. district
now in hot water with Mr. Gladstone about his style of
tie
is
preaching in a similar place of worship L
and some of these days we may see hi falli Long-acre;
acre ;
reverend author of "Satan," a Poem, who foul of the
occupies the
Percy-street conventicle. Doubtless p
such as these are makeshifts. Now-a deroprietary chapels
s no one thinks
of resorting to such irregular and
defective means of
Church extension, and the sooner they can be all used np
bishops as district churches the better. Bat should re-
collect their origin; how they were started to supply
great and notorious deficiency of church accommodation,
how in those days the liberality, the means and the
legal facilities of the present time were wanting; how,
the overflow
wanting them, dissent would have received
of the old parish
churches. And recollecting all this
and the supineness, the indifference, and the perverse-
ness of their predecessors, bishops might be excused if
they
treated proprietary chapels, their ministers and
r their cone gati ons, with a little less haughtiness and a
little more respect and consideration than they do. Bdt
so it is—bishops look harshly and unkindly at them;
and no bishop more so than Charles Jews of London.
It must, however, be admitted that their incumbents are
not especially bishop-loving clergy; 'they cannot, of
course, belong to the high church party, for none of its
members would condescend to sacrifice or meditate within
unconsecrated walls; and of the low church party, they
are generally the lowest. They look more to their con-
gregrations than to their diocesans, and have much of the
sturdiness and independence of dissenters. They work
hard, preach with vigour, and lecture frequently. Perhaps,
e in large Otte
we may add, that they love to ace their nem
1 seems to
cards on the walls. Of this sort and scherOnast,
active,
have been Mr. Gladstone, of Long-acre— a
little strong and
decided, and, if we judge correctly, 1

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