The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-21
aoa1I.p .eJrArIoN IN ENGLAND.

pULAR AGIFATIo IN ENGLAND
Tho nrooress of the epublican move
mt in England is the subject OF a let az
from Mr.. Bradlaugh, NJ. p, who as &c
,,os 70 he the leader of that move on
81 70 the London correspondent OF P.
q New York World, and IS pubhsheo q
that naDer. At the same time the de- ?
ills are given of Fenian procession \
a meeting of some forty thousand IN L
r1,1a mark on Sunday, the 3D. INST, III
,bicb the speakers berated the govern
cont unite roundly for its course To-
Yards the Fenian prisoners, iorty-'"o
g whom are alleged to be imprisoned
n English iails and subjected TO cfuel
treatment. The proclamation summon
NO the meeting declared its object 70
10 IN demand the release OF these prs
opers. and spoke of Mr.. Gladstone as
..tbe Bourbon of Ireland. At the lase
session of Parliament an act was pi'SSe''
to prevent the holding OF puolc lhee'
ings in the parks of the metropolis o'i.
there seems to have been some doupl
Existing whether the law had yet come
into operation. According to late caDle
one of the speakers ut the
demonstration has been fined for hiring
ing the regulations for the protection
of the public parks, though his counsel
took AN appeal to n higher court, con-
-sl,ea recrulatiOns were not
at Greenwich and Clerkensxeu. al. ,ss,5.azss.
rezofrrtfr5s4.-sFs's
the action of the Government in prose-
cutting the Hyde Park speakers. A no.
ticeable feature of the Hyde Park Fe-
nian meeting was that it was presided
over by an Englishman, and that as
such he offered his hand tosmen of other
nations, shaking hands with an Irish
man, 2 scotchman and German sue
cessively, amid great cheering, though
it is notifying that no American, in the
absence of George Francis Train, had
been employed for the occasion.
The English republican movement, as
Mr. Bradlaugh, in his letter, seeks to
impress upon the public, is not identi-
fed with the international association
of workingmen, and its progress Is
attempted to be shown by the grant of
several corporation halls for the deliv-
cry of his lecture on 1.-THE Impeachment
of the House of Brunswick, " after it had
been denounced as reasonable by
peers in the House of Lords, and by
many members of Parliament He
states that at the last Birmingham cleo
ton, his party threw out the candidate
who refused to allow the royal family TO
be made the subject of impeachment
The reform party contended with riots
instigated by their opponents. Mr.
Bradlaugh says that he had conducted
more than eighty orderly meetings
The press, he declares, is studiously
reticent onthe subject of these meetings,
but they had elected from Mr.. Disraeli
n special defense of monarchy. He con-
siders it perfectly right to GUST the pre-
sent royal family, so it be tried only by
parliamentary men. He has regarded
the land question as the real battle
ground in Great Britain. He hopes
that a republic VIII be postponed by
liberal concessions on the part of the
territorial aristoeracy. He fears the
battle with the royal family viii be
precipitated by the refusal of the landed
nobility to make concessions in time to
avert 1t. He prefers gradual steps, but
there IS one step, the breaking up Of
large landed monopolies, which cannot
bong be postponed without n revolt ON
the part of the agricultural population.
He now proposes to hold q national con-
ference in some of the central towns,
which Will establish a British republican
association affiliating with all the clubs.
Mr.. Bradlaugh declares himself and his
movement to be tolerant in religious
matters; politically, he says: Il hold
the doctrine of free church and free
State" The religious position is taken,
according to the Worlds correspondent,
to disarm the prejudices of many Eng
lish republicans who do not wish to be
led by an infdel.
We have seen no proof as vet that the
great mass of the English people fear
any change in their form of government.
The agricultural question is, however,
one practical and pressing interest.
An iniquitous contract law still exists
there that keeps the agricultural work
ers in condition little above slavery.
The organ of the Laborers' Union states
that some friends of this class are MAX
ing preparations by which at least half
a million of the best farm-workers Will
be offered an immediate and attractive
scheme of emigration to the colonies.
At a recent meeting Stratford, the chair
man, Mr.. Henry Brookes, stated that
there were 800, 900 agricultural laborers
in England, of whom 40, 900 had joined
the Union. Ii a third of the whole
number were to emigrate, it would GER
tainly tend to improve the condition of
the others; and TO emigrate is about the
only step they can take unmolested.
Hardy English peasants, who can plough
and chop wood, are the very class want
ed in Maryland and the Southern States
where an average farm hand can earn
more wages, besides good board, in a
month, than British field laborer re-
ceives in SIX months Such emigration
would, perhaps, be a shorter road to
freedom and republicanism than can be
obtained by Fenian meetings and repub-
iean agitation in England
BEWARE OF GREEN wA1I.-PAPEI.s |
physician in Western Massachusetts,
recently had lady patient who, for
several weeks, had been suffering from
nausea, general prostration and other
symptoms of slow poisoning. Failing
to discover the cause of the symptoms,
says the Hartford COurant, as last re-
sort, the doctor requested her to move
from her chamber, the walls of which
were covered with paper of very light
shade of green, so light indeed, that in
the evening, it could scarcely be dis |
tinguished from white. After leaving
the room the symptoms Immediately |
and the patient rapidly