Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-21
Editorial Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.
4 Chances at FurOpe-- VI.
British Progress.
London Thursday. Nav Is,

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a London Thursday, May Is, 1851.
Apart from the Great Exhibition. this is q
season of intellectual activity in London. Par
lament is Qangnidly) in session: the Aristoc-
racy, are in town; the Queen is lavishly dis
pensing the magnificent hospitalities of Royal
~ to the privileged caste, who are invited to
share them; and the several Religious and
Philanthropic Societies, whether of the City
or the Kingdom, are generally holding their
Anniversaries, keeping Extex Hall in blast al
most night and day. propose to give first
hasty glance at Intellectual and general pro-
gress in Great Britain, leaving the subject to
be more fully and thoroughly treated after
shall have made myself more conversant with
the facts in the case
/ A spirit of active and generous phiIanthro-
tpy is widely prevalent in this country. While
the British pay more in taxes for the support
of Priests and Paupers than any other people
on earths they at the same time give more for
Religious and Philanthropic purposes Their
muniicence is not always well guided; but on
the whole very much is accomplished by it in
the way of diffusing Christianity and dimin-
ishing Human Misery. But will lgspeak more
specifically. asar ca s d b7sE
The Religious AnniVsrsariss have Inainiy
been held. but few or none Of them are re-
ported--indeed, they are scarcely alluded 70
---in the Daily press, whose Wanted superior
ity oyer American Journals in the matter OF
reporting amounts practically to this-that
the debates in Parliament are here reported
psrbatia. and again presented in condensed
form under the Editorial head Of each paper,
while scarcely anything else ,(beside court do
ings1 is reported at all. / am sure this is con-
sistent neither with reason nor with the public
taste-tha if the Parliamentary debates were
condensed one half, and the space 50 saved
devoted to reports Of the most interesting
Public Meetings, Lectures, DC, after the New
York fashion, the popular interest in the daily
/ papers would become wider and deeper
and their usefulness as aids to General Edu-
cation weuld be largely increased To great
majority of the reading class, even here, polit-
SO triie and so unimportant as those which
mainly engross the attention Of Parliament
are OF quite subordinate interest and thinl
less than one reader IN four ever peruse:
any more Of those debates than is given in. the
/ Editorial Synopsis, leaving the Vor6atins re
port a sheer waste OF costly print aud paper
/ believe, however, that IN the aggregate, chs
collections OF the last year for Religious Pur.
i poses have Just about equaled the average o
the, preceding two or three years: some So
cieties having received loss. others more. ]
think the public interest in comprehensive
Rehgious and Philanthropic efforts does no
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10. pesp4is " tps tssuiN 'afn l 71
But there IS a lion IN the path, IN the shap'
of the Priesthood OF the Established Church
who insist that the children shall be indoc
Itrinated in the dogmas of their creed or ther,
shall be no State system Of Common Schools
and behind these stand the Roman Catholic
Clergy who virtually make similar deu1ant
with regard to children of Catholics The an
reasonableness, as slwell as the ruinous etfect
OF these demands IS already palpable on ou
side OF the Atlantic. II, when our city wa
meditating the Crotonl Water Works the Epis
copal and Catholic Priesthood had each inss
ted that those works should be consecratee
by their own Hierarchy and by none other, o
in default Of this we should have no water
works at all. the case would be substantially
parallel to this. Or if there were a bundret