The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

GLOCESTER.

The requisition to Sir Maurice F. D. Berkeley,
requesting him to allow himself to be put in nomi-
nation wlienever a vacancy occurs in the represen-
tation, in conjunction with Mr. Price, the Liberal
member, is not yet presented. The requisition has
been set on foot by a Reform club recently esta-
blished in Glocester to counteract the True Blue
Club, consisting of the old Conservative party, who
have now gained the ascendancy in the local govern-
ment. The requisition to Sir 'Maurice has to this
time received about 400 signatures of electors.

TOWN-CLERK OF WESTMINSTER.—His Grace the
Duke of Buselatch, High Steward of Westminster, has ap-
pointed Mr. W. Trollope, solicitor, of Parliament-street, to
the office of town-clerk, vacant by the appointment of Mr.
Robson to the office of Deputy High Steward,

A public dinner was given to Mr. J. A. Turner,
M.P., on Friday evening, in the Free Trade Hall,
as an acknowledgment of his political services, and
as a proof of unchanged principles on the part of
his Manchester supporters. About 1,100 gentlemen
sat down in the body of the hall, and the galleries
were occupied by about 500 others, each of whom
was provided with refreshments in small wicker-
work baskets. The proceedings of the evening were
varied by the performances of the glee singers and
a quadrille band, and the grace was chanted, with
an accompaniment on the organ.
Mr. Oliver Heywood presided, in the absence of
Mr: Alderman Neild ; and among those on the
platform besides Mr. Turner were Mr. W. N.
Massey, M.P., Mr. W. Entwisle, Mr. W. R. Wood,
Mr. T. Eairbairn,Mr.W. Fairbairn, Mr. R. Barnes,
Mr. Heugh, Mr. M. Ross, and Mr. W. R. Callen-
der, jun.
After the toasts of " The Queen," " The Prince
Consort and Royal Family," and " The Army and
Navy," letters were read from many gentlemen
who Were unable to attend, including Mr. Mark
Phili* Mr. W. Brown, M.P. Mr. J. Cheetham,
M.P.,114i. Cardwell, M.P.' Mr. Cardwell, M.P.,
Mr. Walter, M.P., Lord Hartington, M.P., Mr.
C. P. Grenfell, M.P., Colonel Patten, M.P., Mr.
Wickham, M.P. Mr. M. T. Baines, M.P., Mr.'
R. A. Cross, M.P. Mr. W. Garnett, M.P., Mr.
Beecroft, M.P., and Mr. R. H. Greg. Mr. Akroyd,
M.P., had promised to attend, but was detained in
London by a Parliamentary engagement. Mr.
Bazley, M.P., the colleague of Mr. Turner in the
representation of Manchester, had, beenyblike the
other guests, asked to atten,d if he could agree with
the proposed resolutions, and in reply expressed
his great personal respect for Mr. Turner, at the
same time regretting that he could not, " con-
sistently" with his (Mr. Bazley's) position, on the
present occasion ,be their guest. The reading of
these.words was received with laughter and groans.
The cuainataahreferred to the last general elec-
tion, vindicating the conduct of the electors of
Manchester on that occasion in removing two of
their representatives who had ceased to give a fair
expression of the opinions of their constituency.
(Cheers.) When he called to mind the events that
had passed and the words that had been uttered
since that time, when he looked at the friends
around him and those who filled this hall, he was
impelled to the conclusion that Manchester had
then acted, not from an excited impulse, but in a
mood of calmness and sobriety. (Hear, hear.) It
was not to speak of the past, however, that they
were now assembled. He believed it was in the
great speech at Bradford that it had been said no
person could have the reform question at heart who
did not accept the proposal of the bill then sub-
mitted. Now he (Mr. Heywood) submitted that they
(the meeting) were in earnest, and that there was
no truer friend to progress than Mr. Turner.
(Cheers.)
Mr. R. Barnes proposed " The memory of Sir
John Potter," was which drunk in silence, followed
by a dirge on the organ.
Mr. W. ENTWISLE presented to Mr. Turner an
address from his local supporters, expressing their
high sense of the ability, integrity, independence,
and assiduity with which he had represented a
community so extensive that it could not be expected
be should coincide with the political opinions of
every section, while they were all agreed in secur-
ing his return and thanking him for his services.
Mr. Entwisle maintained that Manchester had re-
flected honour on itself at the last general election,
when the gentlemen then elected were returned by
that power of the majority which was so favour-
ably regarded by their opponents. He commented
severely on Mr. Bright's attack on one branch of
the Legislature, in the " notorious speech" at Bir-
mingham. On the question of reform he could not
regard the Government bill as a permanent settle-
ment. (Cheers) But, on the other hand, the
effect of Mr. Bright's bill would be that we should
no longer have a fair representation of all classes.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Turner's health was then drunk, with three
times three cheers.
Mr. TURNER, M.P., was received with enthusias-
tic cheering, which was continued for some time.
After thanking his friends for their flattering testi-
monial, he reminded them of the principles which
he had asserted on his election, and appealed to
them to say whether he had carried them ou t
(Cheers.) lie believed'it was necessary to maintain
our national defences, and that the Government
had only to explain the need of additional grants
-in order to obtain them, because the country was
convinced that the true economy was to keep our-
selves always in such a state that nobody either
dare or had the power to attack us. (Great
cheering.) On the question of reform, he repu-
diated on the one hand the idea of " finality,"
and on the other hand the notion that the well-
, skilled and the intelligent were no more en-
titled to political privileges than the ignorant
and the debased. (Hear, hear.) He had four or
five very decided objections to the Government Re-
form Bill. (Hear, hear.) He thought it monstrous
that men residing within a borough having in it a
bona fide freehold property, and having probably
another qualification to vote for the borongh, should
not be allowed also to exercise a voice in the
county. (Hear, hear.) His next objection was that
freeholders in a borough, wherever residing, might
swamp by their votes those of the resident electors
in the smaller boroughs. A club in London might
buy a property in some snug borough—take Arun •
del for example, as allusion had recently been made
to that borough—(laughter)—and by dividing it
create 50 votes, and the voting papers sent down
from London might turn the election in a consti-
tuency numbering from 300 to 400. (Hear, hear.)
Thus, the election in such places might be deter-
mined by men knowing nothing of the interests of
the borough. (Cheers.) Another objection to the
bill was that it did not go far enough in disfran-
chising. (Hear, hear.) He was by no means in
favour of a sweeping disfranchisement of all the
minor . places, and giving the seats to the large
cities only on account of their wealth and popula-
tion. (Hear, hear.) Numbers alone must not be
considered decisive on the question of the number
of members to be sent to Parliament. Various
interests must be represented, or we should have
in the House of Commons a body most unmanage-
able, working detrimentally to the interests of the
working classes, who would not be so well repre-
sented by a number of men sent in all of one
class, and perhaps much less able to give a valid
opinion on the general interests of the State
than were others who now are in the House
of Commons. (Hear, hear.) Still, there were a
great many boroughs now returning two mem-
bers, which might be deprived of one, and
the seats thus gained might be distributed
among the influential and populous districts which
had risen into importance since the Reform Act.
(Hear, hear.) Again, the Government Bill did not
make sufficient provision for the working men. He.
believed the best class of the labouring population
would give as honest votes as the class immediately
above them, and he should rejoice to see them not
only voting, but having men of their own class in
Parliament, provided they were only there in their
fair proportion. (No, no !) He believed the Go-
vernment Bill must be very much modfied if it was
to make such a settlement as had better be made of
the question of reform—one that would last for
another 30 years. (A Voice—" We want no re-
form.") He thought a more decided change might
be made, but without going the length of a bill that
had been much discussed, and which tended to
hand over the power of the State to the control of
those who, without property of their own, would,
by their numbers, rule all the property of others.
(Loud cheers.) He quite approved of the working
classes having an audible voice in the national
councils, but he could not consent that they should
have an overwhelming power to enable them to
adopt a course which would probably lead to the
ruin of the country. (Hear.) In answer to loud
cries of " The ballot" (from the gallery), Mr. Turner
said he had twice voted in favour of the ballot.
(Cheers and counter cries of "No ballot.") He
should never use thcballot himself, and wished that
every man was independent enough to give his
vote audibly, but there was a great cry for it. (" No
ballot !") He could not deny it to those who said
the want of the ballot deprived them of the power
of voting, though he considered thepower exercised
in an objectionable manner. (Hear, hear.) After
some concluding observations Mr. urner resumed
his seat amid loud cheering.
The meeting was then addressed by Mr. T. Fair-
bairn, Mr. M. Ross, and Mr. Heugh in support of
the following sentiments :
" A foreign policy, seeking to preserve peace, and to
abstain from intervention in the internal affairs of other
nations; but declaring the dttermination and maintaining
the power necessary to sustain in all cases our national
honour, and protect in all seas and countries our national
commerce."
" A home policy, seeking to improve the administration
of existing laws and institutions ; to remove all unnecessary
restrictions on trade and commerce; to extend education,
and by such means, under the blessing of God, to encourage
the industry, increase the intelligence, and promote the
social well-being of the great body of the people."
Constitutional Reform, carrying out the principles of

Mr. W. N. MASSEY, M.P., -rose amid loud ap-
plause. After paying a tribute of respect to Mr.
Turner, he declared his entire concurrence in the
three preceding sentiments. With regard to our
foreign policy, he believed we were stedfastly pur-
posing to abstain from the impending conflict in
Europe. As we had founded our greatness upon
freedom we must extend a moral support to the
nations struggling with despotism, but we should
not be their best friends if we sought to aid them
by a material support. Nations worthy of free
dom had always acquired it for themselves, and
that freedom which was given on the point of a
foreign bayonet lost half its value, and all security
for its permanence. With reference to the Reform
question, he could not say that the cry for Reform
had been a loud one, nor had it originated with the
people. It originated in Parliament and with pub-
lic men, whom it behoved to settle in a satisfactory
manner the agitation which they had created. He
protested against the policy of giving instalments
of Reform, because the constitution was a thing too
grave and sacred to be made the subject of canvass
and discussion from year to year. If it required re-
vision in any of its essential parts, the breaches made
by time or neglect should be honestly and courage-
ously looked at, and the remedy applied vigorously
and promptly. Even the advocates for the most
extensive Reform admitted that the present consti-
tution afforded the most ample scope for free action
that any country ever possessed. But time had
unquestionably produced great defects in the Re-
form Act of 1832. It was now proposed to remedy
those defects on the principles of 1832, which were
the disfranchisement of all small boroughs that had
not sufficient numbers to exercise the franchise
independently, and the extension of the elective
franchise AO all -competent persons. It was the
most anxious wish of that portion of the Liberal
party with which he was most conversant that
Lord Derby should propose such a scheme as
they would be able generally' to support, and he
(Mr. Massey), as a Liberal, required any re-con-
struction of our representation to be founded on the
two great principles he had mentioned. In the bill
now introduced by the Government he found
almost a total disregard to those principles. The
disfranchisement of small boroughs was almost
entirely passed over. The enfranchisement of per-
sons was recognised only in an indirect And oblique
manner. Could any man say that the condition of
the working classes was now the same as it was 30
years ago? (No, no.) Then, on what principle of
justice should their claim to a share in-the represen-
tation be entirely ignored ? (Cheers.) He had
heard some things to-night with which, of course,
he did not agree. He had heard much with which
he cordially agreed, but he had heard some senti-
ments which appeared rather too faint expositions
of what he should call the policy of the liberal party.
He, for one, could be no party to a Reform Bill which
did not recognise to a just extent the claims of
the working classes. He thought it a monstrous
thing, and wholly indefensible, to say that
a borough like Leamington, with 170 voters,
and 7,000 inhabitants, should be left with two
members, while Salford, with nearly 100,000 in-
habitants, and between 4,000 and 5,000 electors,
and an amount of wealth sufficient to buy up 100 of
those little places, should only have one. (During
this portion of his speech Mr. Massey was subjected
to great interruption by the noisy conduct
of the body of the meeting.) He saw they
were impatient to retire, but he could not stand
there without declaring plainly what was his idea
of a satisfactory Reform Bill. He, wanted nothing
immoderate or unreasonable ; but, whatever they
did, he entreated them to be parties to no measure
which would " hang up" this question. They knew
perfctly well that this bill of Lord Derby's could
not settle the question. Then let them tell Lord
Derby what would satisfy them, and if he would
not give it he must give place to men who would
and could sympathise with the people. (Mr.
Massey resumed his seat amid cheering and, ap-
parently, some disapprobation.)
The meeting concluded with drinking the chair-
man's health.

REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE-

PARK.

During-the past week placards were posted in
various parts of the metropolis calling upon all true
Reformers to attend a meeting in Hyde-park yes-
terday, for the purpose of opposing to the utmost
the Government Reform Bill, the time being named
three o'clock in the afternoon. Long before that
hour, however, the park presented a most animated
appearance, the place of meeting being the green
sward at the rear of the Royal Humane Society's
Receiving-house, At two o'clock the crowd greatly
increased, and in about half an hour a man of re-
spectable appearance was hoisted on the shoulders
of two others, and it was considered that the chair
I had been taken. the gentleman thus elevated being
greeted with loud cheers. A great disappoint-
ment, however, awaited the assembly, for the
snpposed chairman (whose name was understood
to be Mr. George Brooker) commenced saying
that those who dared to take part in a political
meeting on the Sabbath would be grossly
offending the Almighty. This announcement
was met by the utmost uproar, and the
greatest confusion followed, the would-be orator
being forced from his position amidst a sharp shower
of orange peel and grass, which it is but fair to state
was thrown by the juveniles, who evidently de-
lighted in the fun. Shortly after 3 o'clock it was
announced that the chair would be taken by Mr.
Shari, and the noisy multitude at once became quiet.
The Chairman having been duly elected.
Mr. BRADLAUGH, a young man well known in
the democratic circles, came forward and addressed
the meeting. He said that they had been brought
together to exercise the just right of Englishmen to
give a free and unbiassed opinion of the so-called
Government Reform Bill. (Cheers.) He would
not ask them if they considered it to be a Reform
Bill, for he was confident no thinking man could by
any possibility give it that title. (Hear, hear.)
The people of England asked for a right which it
was evident the Government did not intend to grant
them, but the people themselves knew that if they
sternly demanded their own they must get it.
(Cheers.) His opinions were that all those who
acted fairly and honestly in the sphere of life in
which they were placed were as well worthy of their
political rights as the greatest lords in the land.
(Cheers.) He trusted they would not be led away
by the Government bill, or by.any other bill that
did not give them their undeniable rights. (Hear.)
He would conclude by urging them to recollect that
they were asking for no favour, but for that which
had too long been uniustly withheld from them.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. MANTELL (of Newcastle), who was greeted
by loud applause, said he had come about 300
miles to establish an institution that was to con-
vert the bishops and to Christianise the whole
clergy. (Cheers and laughter.) The Queen, like
all those who were born, had to live, and she was
kept. Englishmen scorned to be kept—they liked
to keep themselves by their honest labour—but
the fact was that such Government was as
necessar an evil as a clergyman or a bishop.
(Cheers. There was an immense deal made of
1
the establishment of ragged schools, shoe-black
societies, and liveried messengers, but what did
they want with them ? England was rich ;it had
enough for all without charity; it had enough for
the man, his wife, and his children without debasing
them by apparentlyhelping them and making them
grateful for charity. (Loud cheers.) Let them, as
the people assembled, say" We will not be satisfied
with such pitiful help.' Since the Revolution in
1688 the land had been in the hands of the nobles,
and the people had been crushed. One of the Mini-
sters of the Crown had been obliged to admit that
there had been mismanagement. (Hear.) If there
was not a Government to be found who could pro-
perly manage the affairs of the country, the people
could easily find one among themselves. (Cheers.)
He would be bound that, if they reduced the gene-
ral affairs of the nation to pounds, shillings, and
pence, they could get a dozen clerks from the city
who would carry on that portion of Government a
g. seat deal better than it had ever been done.
(Cheers.) There was no Reform Bill at all, and he
called upon them one and all not to adopt the sham
of the Government, but, in the language of Mr.
Bright, to have a good bill or no bill at all.
The CHAIRMAN here asked if such was the opinion
of the meeting, and was replied to by a forest of
hands being held up amidst loud and prolonged
cheering. '
A vote of thanks having been passed to the
chairman, he replied by a few words of thanks,
and begged the assembly to disperse peaceably, and
to recollect that another meeting would be held at
the same spot, of which due notice would be given.
Several other meetings were held in the park,

And so the " Society of Friends" is gradually'
dying out. Year by year the May Meetings show
a scantier attendance—the provincial meeting-
houses display progressively a more "beggarly
account of empty boxes." The broad brim and the
stiff collar are less seen in our streets ; the precise
bonnets, the snow-white linen, the spotless lawn of
the demure beauty, that piques the curiosity by the
glimpse of the peach-bloom of the cheek, half-
revealed half-hidden by the bonnet severe in its
jealous simplicity—all these are seldomer found,
and become daily more scarce. The nether garments
innovate on the old costume; shoes and small clothes
giving way to boots and pantaloons. The brim
becomes less broad—more turned up. At last the
loose fish turn down the collar when they get well
out of their town of residence, and drop the " thee"
and "thou." It is a rule that the society shall
choose who shall marry whom—especially that
matrimony shall be confined to inmates of the
household of faith. But—
Can love be controlled by advice ?
Will Cupid our mothers obey?
Though my heart were as frozen as ice,
At his suit 'twould have melted away !
The bosom, fairer and more spotless than the cam-
bric that conceals it, yet heaves responsive to the
affections from whose power great Nature grants
no exemption of creed or clime ; and the " elective
affinities' assert their supremacy over the very
mandates of religious faith. Quakers and Qua-
keresses have married out of the Society of Friends
—communion with the outer world breaks down
the distinctive habits of the sect—and the uniform
of the spiritual militants disappears from the battle
lf

of life.
This movement among such a body is a startling
sign of the times. It shows the watermark on the
sand of the flow of that tide of progressive thought
that—

Like the Pontic sea,
Ne'er knows retiring ebb, but keeps duo on
To the Propontic, and the Hellespont.
Quakerism has survived everything—social perse-
cution, proscription, the ridicule of the profane, the
abuie of the godly, the martyrdom of Church-rate
seizures, the fines of the militia, the oddities of
dress, speech, and faith in declining to take an oath
—it has maintained all these, borne with and for
them, suffered spoiling of goods, denial of official
preferment, the emoluments of the Church and bar,
the ambitions of political life ; but it cannot bear
up against the progress of thought, the expansion,
the revolution of opinion, the invasion of free
thinking and speaking, the conscientiousness of in-
dependent action. Why say " thee" and " thou,"
when other people say " you ? " Why wear a hat
and coat of one shape, when everybody else adopts
another fashion ? Why marry a Quakeress
only ? Are there no good women that wear
cherry-coloured ribbons, and a low dress ? Why
is this many-:coloured world of God's to be made
a uniform drab of the Society of Friends ? These
questions suggest their corresponding doubts—they
indicate the growing scepticism of the rising gene-
ration of the faithful ; the answer is not very ready,
and so the sibboleth of the sect is gradually dis-
solving into the confused Babel of human univer-
sality. It is true the members still call themselves
a religious sect, they maintain their profession in
essentialibus, they meet and are moved by the
Spirit, protest against war, eschew priests and
creeds, and vain speech and action. But how long
will naked first principles hold out against the in-
novations which have sapped the outworks of the
denomination ? Tenets will fall away like old
Lear's retinue, until, beginning with questioning
the necessity of the livery, malcontents will find
out that there is no great need of the servant who
wore them.
We own to an unfeigned regret at the change.
We like the real English picturesqueness of Qua.
kerdom. It is redolent of the soil—nowhere else
but he the country of Hampden could it rise and
be. The grotesqueness of -peace and principle, the
broad brim and the plain speech, are associated
with our whole lives as a part, somehow, of Eng.
land itself. The tranquil mildness, the sincere
plainness, the strict word, the guarded speech, the
financial scrupulosity, the quiet industry, the clean-
liness and order, sobriety, the taste for the simpli-
cities of nature, the elegancies not of man but of
God, and his plastic providence, the open, healthy-,
well principled expression, the chaste refine-
ment, even of the humblest—society cannot afford
to part with these; we confess our own reluctance to
let them go. Even to these mere husks and shells of
the inner soul, these integuments and uniforms of
the spirit and principle of the sect, this country is
indebted for an ideal that has gifted it with the
best and most regenerative influences. But with
these we fear that something far more precious is
in peril. To us Quakerdom has all the prophetic
foresight of inspiration. Its founders seem as if
they had propounded an absolute revelation. Two
hundred years ago the Quaker Gospel promulgated,
became martyrs to the proclamation of principles
which the rest of society are only beginning now to
discover and acknowledge as the great canons of
social and civil polity. The whole nation has come
round practically to the principles which the So-
ciety of Friends have asserted for a brace of centu-
ries. Fox, Penn, Barclay—why these men seemed
to speak almost with the spirit of divination. When
Presbyterians, Independents, Episcopalians were
all yelping their solos that no leather was like their
leather, that they were Sir Oracle--" And when
they ope'd their mouth let no dor, bark"—that
dory doctrine but theirs respectivelyb should be in-
terdicted—that anything else was heresy, and that
heresy should be punished by the civil magistrate
—that liberty of opinion was intolerable, ad that
it was the opinion of the State, or of the
sect that was strongest, to prohibit and abolish
the development or, promulgation of any other
—the Quakers alone had the sagacity to
assert that a man's religion was his own affair
alone—that priesteraft was an imposture—ecclesi-
astical authority an usurpation of individual liberty
—that a Church was merely a machine for extorting
money and conformity—that a hired prophet was
an anomaly—that a sterreotyped creed produced a
decay of religion and earnest thought, and that
there was no authority entitled to stand between
the human soul and the Holy Spirit. Their doctrine
bf the moving of the Spirit at once emancipates the
conscience from all dictation, even from that of
Bibleism and authoritative interpretations of Scrip-
ture, reducing Scripture merely to one among other
media whereby the Creator works upon the human
soul, and ignoring every interpretation except that
which is supplied by the inward light which the
Spirit sends to each man in the measure of his gifts.
'rho king to them was but the chief ruier, a mortal

,to whom it was profa, render the home,
to God alone. To him icy would not un
although they would be among the best affect Wr
orderly of his subjects, by reason of their ; ___
peace and non-resistance. They would n i4-17ea--ir,)4„.„
b only solemnly affirm. They left ile ''7!.A *.y.07
ce,
superstitious, fanatical, and worldly to ma t ''.--I`.-
vocation to the Deity an instrument of t
government—to raise a distinction between t ---d"..-------__
ligation every man owes to truth, and the fear of lig ii S
own miserable bacon by an incantation called an
oath---to teach men that they might lie as much as
they pleased With impunity,but th att hey must not lie ;
after kissing a book under pain of transportation.
They would not pay tribute for what they regarded
as the interests of untruth and tyranny, and, there-
fore, ever protested against church rates. They
would not sign or assent to what they did not be-
lieve or did not know, and, therefore, they resisted
all those forms of the world which mean something
else than they bear, or mean nothing. They
eschewer uage of the world—that
language not unfold, the thoughts
—those hole, w prows:Th.. s which are uttered with-
out meaning and heard with incredulity—
Mouth honour—breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
We read, at this .day, with wonder, the intuitive
sagacity with which they scout the pretensions to
ascendency and infallibility of the independent
-Presbyterians and Anglican Churchmen, with
which they conclude that by the adoption of their
policy of passive resistance and sincere protest, the
civil war might be prevented, the King saved, and
yet national liberty achieved. We see them ever
on the side of liberty—ever asserting, amid pains
and penalties, religious and civil equality—ever in
advance of the most enlightened progress and intel-
ligence. We see them daring to put their prin-
ciples to the test in the treaty of Penn with the
Indians—in the labours of Clarkson against the
slave-trade--in the profuse, the lavish bounteous-
ness of their humanity in popular distress or famine
in investigating the state of lunatics and prisoners
—in schemes of education. And, day by day as
the world rolls on, it will be proved to society how
right and wise, how intuitively foreseeing the
Quakers are—how, by taking great principles for
their guide, knowing not whither they would lead
them—confounded, often, at the consequences ap-
parently flowing from their application—they yet
have it proved to them that they are in harmony
with the economy of the universe, and that they
turn out to be the best policy, and the most con-
summate expediency. Were Quakers as good as
their principles—if they really intelligently under-
stood and resolutely applied them, it is our opinion
that they would regenerate the world. At the
very moment when events, time, society are coming
to them, we almost grieve to learn that they feel
inclined to fall away from their inexpressibly
exalted theory of religion, their ineffably excellent
system of ethics. The waves of earth, the billows
of worldly life, steal upon them too, and Quakerdom
threatens to abandon its noble battle with the lies,
phantasies, and hollow speciosities of the world.
Let Quakers, however do what they may,
Quakerdom will never die ; nay, it will, in this
critical, subtle, innovating age, have a reaction
set in on its behalf, to which society will do
homage. Men will get sick of calling the rascal .
they long to kick " Dear Sir," and receiving
the assurance that the fellow who is under-
mining them is yet " Yours faithfully." Peti- •
tioners will not " Ever pray" they know not.
what •, " Humbly show" when they feel no humi-
lity. NV omen of sense will regard the empty compli-
ments of a fool as an insult ; and men of sense will
begin to inquire whether plain inoffensiveness of
speech, and sincere-simplicity and naturalness of
manner and utterance, are not, after all, more
expressive, agreeable, rational—aye, even refined,
than the heartless platitudes and hollow euphuisms
in which the intercourse of even the best circles is
carried on. Will .our jurisconsults, also, not at last
discover that the power of truth is weakened in the
popular mind by that wretched quack remedy for
judicial lying called an oath, or formal invocation
to the Deity ?—that swearing on every trivial or
trite occasion would be wisely superseded by the
maxim " Swear not all?" Is it not better in the
graver form of writing to discard unmeaning and
untruthful verbiage, and to refuse to indite any-
thing we do not truly mean ? We do not want a
drab-coloured world in the room of the varied
beauty of that which God has given us ; but are
crinoline and balmorals, fantastic hats, high heels,
short petticoats, peg-tops, all rounds and mediteval
coats, with endless ribbons and jewels, waistcoats
and stocks—addressed not to utility, good taste,
convenience, or grace, but really to the featherhead
vanity, the coquetry, the pruriency, the very ero-
tism of society—are these so very superior to the
sobrieties of Quakerhood that we can afford to ri- .
dicnle the oddness and eccentricity of those who
think that clothes were meant for decency, comfort,
and convenience ? (Jo among Quaker women, mark
their sober cheerfulness, their self-possessed good
sense, their healthy-mindedness, their virtue, their
high pri n ciple--you will find that they are in constant
employment, always industrious, active, not above
the most menial duties of a female, going about
everywhere doing good. Who ever heard of a
Qualer trim. con., the elopement, the clandestine
marriage, the light behaviour of a Friend? By
clearing their heads of the vanities of life they fill
it with its realities—by eschewing Almacks, Vanity
Fairs, and promenades, the insincerities of flirta-
tions, the imprudences of coquetry, the fantasies of
dress and personal display, they become useful
wives, mothers, and citizens, rendering more real
service to society than all the injury inflicted on it
by the entire " Court Guide."
Quakerism means no church rates, no state hier-
archies, no political endowments of exclusive creeds,
no religious or civil disabilities, no artificial distinc-
tions of the orders of society, no oppression, no
persecution ; it means human equality, spiritual
independence,non-intervention,no litigation, peace;
it means temperance, the extension of intelligence,
freedom, truth, punctuality of engagement—in a
word, it means every pod cause with which the
progress of the age is identified. British society
can ill afford to part with the Society of Friends
—at least it would largely profit by the adoption
of their principles.

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SCIENTIFIC JOTTING.

The Clinigne Europeene states, according to Pro-.
fesser Ragsky's analysis, that in cases of death
from hyprophobia the blood is found to be neutral,
while in its normal state it is slightly alkaline ;
that it contains 79.59 of water, instead of 80, and
has only 222 solid parts, instead of 4 42, which it
T
ought to hove when in a healthy stale.e Re-
portoire. do Chimie pure et appliquee gives an ac-
count of a new new method for obtaining. rosolic
acid, due to Mr. R. A. Smith. It consists in treat-
ing creosote with a mixture of caustic soda and
oxyde of manganese at the temperate at which
evaporation commences. The mass thus obtained
is dissolved in water, and the rosolete of soda is
decomposed by an acid. The composition of rosolie
acid is : twelve equivalents of carbon, six of hydro-
gen, and two of oxygen. Attempts are being made
to use it in dyeing, since it gives stuffs,s ta beautiful.
rose-coulour ; unfortunately, thesw_te,akc.. acid, even
the carbonic acid of air, destri‘oT
Ei but
h it bears the
well.
—i
the Auliz.unaz sm discoveredaetda til,),
tahcteioenxiosfteanlkcealoiefs•svaeproyn
aorreWtreakateerodsbNivin.th The fresh hthteuberc es of the plant
tinctureu obtained is
distilled; and the purified alcoholic extract is treated
with yeast, which produces
a
g
after which a new alcoholic solutionreat
s fermentationmade,
which
deposits saponine in small granular crystals.—M.
Pavesi, and subsequently M. Vee, have succeeded
in obtaining the principle of the Kousso plant,
which is a specific against the tape-worm. This
newnine
substance , • which they call Koussine, or
koussor
te
, is obtained by treating 300 gralunes of
with 1,000 grammes of alcohol and 25
grammes of hydrate of lime, at a temperature of
from 60 to '7O degrees centigrade (140 to 158 Fahr.)
The residue is also digested in 600 grammes of
boiling water. The tinctures thus obtained are
then mixed together, fitted, and precipitated by
acetic acid. Koussine is yellow, bitter, insoluble
in alcohol and in alkalies; and does not crystalise.'

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ENDOWED SCHOOLS.—A bill brought in by Mr.
Dillwyn, M.P., Sir R. Bethell, and Mr. Massey enacts that
no endowed school or educational charity shall be deemed
to have been founded for the purpose of affording religious
instruction according to the doctrine of the Church (of
England) exclusively, and that no person shall be disquali-
fied by reason of his dissent from the doctrines or discipline
of the said Church to be a feoffee or trustee of the estates
or personalty of such school or charity, or to be a master or
a scholar therein, unless the will and intention of
the
founder be expressly declared to that effect. .The Act will
not affect the Universities of Oxford and. Cambridge,
so-called " University " of Durham, or the schools the
oef
Westminster, Eton, Harrow, Charter-House, Rugby, or
Winchester.
occurrediirhAemi.
maspoanss 0 day before yester-
day Prieur, on passing
Touzez, heard from the
da
nearyA a asttdreaßepnerwleeelaillfflinea.
bottom of it cries for help,
guished the words, " For ando on listening he distin-
am the father of four children '.94 sake, get me out I I
cured assistance, and a I" He immediately pro-
with cold, was brought man quite wet, and shivering
was a journeyman out.
This man said that he
Ronces, and that h shoemaker living in the Passage aux
had accidentally aving
been drunk he supposed that he
he fancied he hadfallen into the well. Ho further said that
that there been in the well at least two hours, but
having fortunately been a large stone at the bot-
tom, on which he laced his
p foot, he had been able to keep
his head b a ove water. As, however, the co • vering of the
well had been fastened down, the police, who were con-
sulted, are inclined to think that the man must have been
thrown into
the wello and thothy,'ore inaltieg en Woe
tigation

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