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The Bee-Hive. — 1872-11-02 (London, England)

EDUCATION.  Mr. Chiebester Fortescue delivered the opening address of the season at the Radstock Working Men's Hall on Monday night. The right hon. gentleman, in urging upon his audience the importance of the cultivation of the intellect, dwelt upon the absolute money value of general intelligence in the working man, down even to the humblest class of manual labourers. The tendency of things at present was, he said, to raise the wages of the working classes aud to increase their leisure by shortening their working hours, and after referring to the enormous sums of money spent by working men upon ,intoxicating drinks, tobacco, and other luxuries' he put it to his hearers whether they would make use of the advantages which they would probably now enjoy, to some degree, at all events, for the purpose of increasing their intelligence and improving their minds, or whether they would use it for the purpose of decreasing those advantages. Speaking on the education question generally, Mr. Forteseue :said he kad wine to the conclusion that it would be neeosaary to take universally, before very long, the -bold step of compelling every parent to have his children educated, so far, of course, as the rudiments of education go, sufficient to save a boy or girl from savagery and to lay the foundation of future improvement. He did not see how else they could break through the barriers of habit and indifference which they haw shown by many people on this subject of education. There were other most difficult problems which the State would have to solve, but he was sure the State and the men who are bent upon forwarding education would have to exhibit great patience and strengh, and regard for the feelings of others. There are (the right hon. gentleman said) such things as short cuts which are the longest way round, and I have no faith in that kind of government which may be described as enlightened and benevolent despotism, but the heat of things', iiieluding the culture of the mind of the people, must not be forced upon them without due regard to their feelings, and especially to their religious feelings.  John Worthington, file cutter, of Sheffield, who was stabbed in a street disturbance by a woman ,named Bishop, died on Tuesday night, andthe coroner's jury on Wednesday returned a verdict of wilful murder against the accused.  At Devenport, a court-martial was held on Wednesday, on board her Majesty's ship Royal Adelaide, when William Sylvester was sentenced to hard labour, for two years for deserting from his ship.  Cholera has crossed the frontier of Prussia and several fatal oases are reported from Johannisburg, in the district of Gumbinnen, nearly at the extreme north-east of the eermatt territory.  Good value for money is desired by all, but with articles that cannot be judged of by aPP'Arance ; careful purchasers rely on the high standing of those with whom they deal. For thirty years, 4orniman's Pure Teas (in packets) boa giv°ll general satisfaction, being ezceedingly strong, of tiniform good quality, and truly cheap. Bold by 4,538 Agents--Ohemista, Confectioners, and Booksellers.
The Bee-Hive. — 1872-10-19 (London, England)

BEE-HIVE. Sin --We arc told that "an Established Church is an endowment for the teaching of the Christian religion to the nation." It is, therefore, the duty of the nation to examine whether the Established Church does teach the Christian religion. As if the nation, through its representative, the State, either could not or would not make this examination, then the endowments might be appropriated by the teachers of an anti-Christian religion who counterfeited Christianity in order to obtain the endowment. But if the State is able to do its duty to the people, it is incumbent on the State to ascertain1. What is the Christian religion? 2, Whether the Established Church teaches it; and 3. To requirp the Established Church either to teach the Christian religion, or to give up the, endowments for the teaching of it. Firstly, therefore, what is the Christian religion? In reply, the Christian religion, as taught by Christ Jesus, is that "God requires mercy, and not sacrifice." So that, as God required not the blood of the sinner to be shed for an atonement, therefore such a merciful God would not require the blood of a righteous man to be shed for an atonement. And it is the very essence of Christianity for those who love and would work for the crucified Jesus, to bear witness  to the world of this glad tidings of God's love and mercy; and to testify, alone if heed be, against the Church that rejects it, us Jesus did. Behold the Cross! Secondly, does the Established Church teach this gospel of Jesus, that "God required mercy, and not sacrifice ?" In reply, the Established Church teaches the very opposite; for whilst the ancient Church invited a mob to crucify Jesus, the preacher of this gospel, as a deceiver, the modern Church calls that murderous cruelfixion a sacrifice, and asserts (in opposition to the gospel of Jesus) that God did require the blood of an innocent and just man to be shed and offered to him as a sacrifice for an atonement. And the modern Churoh, like its predecessor the ancient Church, anathematizes and excommunicates, as deceivers, heretieel infidels, and sceptics, all who resist or refuse to profess belief in this evil doctrine, and it justifies such condu3t in the name of alien as doing. God service. And thus it proves itself to be the Church of the °mufflers and their_ religion, and not the Church of "the  Crucified and his gospel. And the results of teaching such an 061 doctrine are "divisions, anarohy, despotisnly frivolousness, and insubordination, evei! amongst its teachers," as its own principal newspaper (the Guardian, of October 2nd) admits and asserts. Thirdly, as it is evident the Established Church does not teach the Christian religion, anti as it jealously excludes all from its pulpit who will not teach its evil and auti-Christiau doctrine of atonement, therefore it is Waal' bent upon the State to disendow it, if its refuses to reform, and teach the gospel Christ Jesus that God required mercy an net sacrifice. G.
The Bee-Hive. — 1872-05-11 (London, England)

OPERA TIV E. EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION - COMPANY. Ox the sth a May a leeture was-delivered at the hall of the, above Society by F. Wilson, Esq., on the sukjeet of "Co-operative Villages." The lecturer laid down, among others, the following as the basis upon which alone any social community can prove a success, viz. That we have a clear definable notion of the end we wish to attain. That that notion shall be clearly and de& nitely stated and expressed. That the entire plan of action, or modus operandi, shall be fully elaborated and perfected ideally before entering on practical action; and that no awkward or crude attempts, precipitate and undefined procedure, or shifting expedients be on any account undertaken or adopted. That a most careful selection should be made of suitable individuals for members of the now Society—in a practical, intellectual, and moral aspect—that, in fact, a superior system can only be organized by superior men and women. That, being pre-eminently a co-operative association, every member should be imperatively required to work, and that the work of each should be of a nature valuable in its essential products or results—adding to the 00111111011wealth or weal of the whole Society. That each member be appointed to, or allowed to assume that function which be or she has been by ntiture, habit, and culture best suited to efficiently perform. That the primary civil condition of the whole undertaking will be the corporate possession of the land—first and provisionally by the Society, ultimately by the State—and the abnegation of the present nefarious and slave-producing system of " property " in the soil.  In addressing the grand jury at the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, the Deputy-Recorder called attention to the charge of murder against Marguerite niblano, as well as to the accusation of manslaughter against two of the (i Peeuliar People. He expressed his opinion that in each COO it was their duty to find a true bill, so that a full inquiry might take place before a competent tribunal,  Great regret was experieneed on Wednesday by all classes in Liverpool on the announcement of the death of Mr, Behjamin Heywood Jones, one of the partners in tam., old and well-known banking firm of Arthur Heywood and Sons. In polities Ur. Jona was a Liberal, and he was an native partisan of Mr. Gladstone during the South Lancashire elections.  -Aiiinquest was held. on Tuesday upon the body of Letitia Ann Metcalf, who lately died under such circumstances that her husband, was charged at the Clerkenwell police-court on suspicion of having poisoned her. The jury, by their verdict, attributed the death to inflammation of the stomach, accelerated by whom they deal. For thirty years, habits of intemperance. Good value for money is desired by all, but with articles that cannot be judged of by appearance; careful pureliaaors rely on the high standing of those with ho ilorniman's Pure Teas (in packets) has giiin uniform good quality, and truly 2,638 Agents—Chemists, general satisfaction, being exceedingly strong, of cheap, Bold by Cont— lt eotionere, and 800 sellers.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-03-31 (London, England)

MINE EXPLOSION.  The inquest on the men killed in the Tyldesley explosion was returned on Friday last, after a patient, and what appears to be, a careful inquiry. The verdict ran as follows :—" The jury are unanimously of opinion that the deaths were caused by a blownout shot assisted by gas, and they are of opinion that the mine has been badly managed, and that the managers are all to blame for not providing a sufficient staff of men to carry on the works according to Act of Parliament."  This is the deliberate and unanimous opinion of the jury, and we presume the widows and orphans are left to their remedy. But does not the question naturally arise as to what the Mine Inspector was doing? Either the Inspectors have more to do than they can attend to, or they are neglecting their duty. Supply and demand must settle everything, but supply and demand, if they are to do this, must be looked to. Coalowners cannot avoid competing because supply and demand insist on it. And if n this competition the price of coal leaves a loss to the owners instead of a profit, there is no help for it. And if under the pressure of the two great commercial sovereigns wages have to be supplemented by the parish dole, there is nothing for it but to submit. But we cannot go on murdering men in our mines because the cost of coal-getting may be lessened by cheap and therefore bad management.  Tf Acts of Parliament mean anything in our mines, they mean to  stop the needless risk men have to run in mines where cheapness, not safety, is the foremost thing in the minds of the proprietors. And the public, too, may, for aught we know, be delighted to find that the mine owners are doing all they can to save them a penny a ton in the price of their coal. It has always been said when protection for workers in mines has been asked for, "Do you not think the owners of the mines, whose property is at risk, and who are more interested in the safety of their men than mere outsiders can be, know best what to do for the safety of the workers, and are more anxious than anybody else to make everything right?  No, we reply, we do not know this, and we know that it never will be the case till the law compels them to make provision for the widows and orphans, made so by their neglect of duty. There is no use in indulging in roundabout talk on such matters. The occupations of the people in the mines and factories of Great Britain are many of them very dangerous, and this danger is frequently increased by the neglect of their employers; and the most effectual steps possible should be taken to improve this state of things. The working men of the country should take energetic steps to help Mr. Macdonald in forcing his Bill through Parliament for the compensation of persons injured whilst pursuing their ordinary occupations. The evil is a glaring one, and the wrong done and suffered through the present state of the law if we put railway servants in the list side by side with the miners, is absolutely awful to think of.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-09-22 (London, England)

THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH.  WE have all heard a good deal of the "divine right of kings," a principle that has maintained itself for many a year, though now rather under a cloud, the "divine right of democracies" being more in accordance with modern tendencies. Mr. Henry Ellis in his able article shows that the "divine right of  democracies" could not safely or success_fully be put to the tes of practice, and, probably, he looks en the "divine right of kings" with as little favour. And rightly so, for while kings, aristrocrats, demncrats, or communists may be glad enough to get the Bible on their side, the teaching of Christ and his Apostles refuses to be bound to any political system whatever. We are told to honour the king, but we are also told to submit ourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, which would require equal obedience to a republic. The earliest Christians, or many of them, certainly praatised cbminunity of goods, which may ba held as a sanction of communism; but we find, on farther reading, that this was strictly voluntary, and was never enforced as a tenet of the Christian faith.  So far, most people would agree; but Mr. Ellis, and, doubtless, many others, draw from this the conclusion that Christianity is of no use in solving social and political problems. Here I must differ from him entirely. One might well have said that optics would be no use in chemistry, and yet spectrum analysis now gives us one of the most subtle of chemical tests; or, at any rate, that optics would be no use in a police-court, and yet the microscope is a most potent instrument to discover murder, distinguishing as it does between human and animal blood. In the same way, Christianity, while not entering into the details of politics or social science, furnishes a clue by which the most difficult problems may be unravelled. The clue is this: God loves man, therefore, man should love God, and love his neighbour as himself. It is obvious that if this were fully obeyed, any social organisation whatever would yield admirable results; and, in so far as it is obeyed, the faults of any system will be neutralised, and its merits made the most of; but it obviously still leaves it our duty to improve the system under which we live to the utmost of our power, and to use all the lights of science to that end.  1 cannot see what more can be offered by a religion of humanity. Christianity is "neither aristrocratic nor democratic, but sociocratic ; " its ideal society is a body composed of many members. Not only does it inculcate gratitude, but, passing over that lightly, as a matter of course, it commands that men should return love for hate.  "This is very fine theory," it may be objected; "but does it work ? " One might answer, "Would the religion of humanity work any better ? " But I prefer to say that it does work, and I think that most people in the last resort would rather, trust a man whom they knew to be really a Christian than any other.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-04-23 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875.  Sir Joseph Hawley noon.  died  Tuesday  after.  The candidates for Breconshire are Mr. Maitland (Liberal), and Mr. Howell Gwynne (Conservative).  , The summons against Dr. Kenealy for libel on Mr. Wright, of the " Morning Advertiser," was dismissed on Tuesday. The Press Association has authority for contradicting the alarming rumours respecting the health of Cardinal Manning.  Mr. Charles Parnell was elected for Meath by 1,771 votes, Mr. Raper having polled 902. and Mr. Hinds 138. The colliers' strike in the Forest of Dean , has terthinated by the men consenting bo a 5 per cent. reduction. The London correspondent of the "Leeds Mercury " believes that Mn Disraeli was prepared to give up a Government night to Dr. William Tobin, alias Niven, was on Tuesday executed at Cork, for the murder of Johanna Cotton, in August last. A reduction of is. per day has taken place in the wages of the Glasgow ironworkers. The men have submitted, and there will be no strike..  Sir George Campbell, the Liberal candidate, was on Tuesday returned for the Kirckaldy Burghs. He polled 1,811 votes; his opponent, Mr. Harker, polled 1,171. Mr. Kennedy, petty sessions clerk, Riverstone, Cork, and young Cashman, who attacked him in a fit of feverish frenzy, on Saturday, and then cut his own throat, have both died. A commercial traveller named Redfern was on Tuesday sentenced at Dublin to seven years' penal servitude for bigamy, in marrying Miss O'Cleary, of Dublin (who had a fortune of £5,000), while his first wife was still alive.  - - , At a coroner's inquest, at Chatham, on Wednesday, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against George Blamfield for killing his fellow labourer, James Catt, in the Chatham Dockyard. on Friday last. - .  The "Echo du Parlement " says that at Coire a marriage has just taken place where the bride was 103 years old and the bridegroom 60 years of age. The bride has had four husbands besides the present one. A gang of robbers, supposed to be the same who recently attacked four English ladies while walking in the Via Appia, have been pursued by the herdsmen of the Campagna. One of the band was taken prisoner, and another killed.  It is rumoured that a petition will be lodged against the return of Mr. C. S. Parnell for Meath by one or other of the defeated candidates, on the ground that one of the polling stations—Duleen—was not open till half an hour after the appointed time. The Durham joiners have given the masters notice for an advance of wages and the reduction of the working hours. The masters have made offers which the men decline, and they will therefore tender their notices on Saturday. _ _  A fisherman at Cork. named O'Callaghan, after being out drinking with his wife during the day, returned home on 'Wednesday evening. Screams were heard, and immediately afterwards the wife was found lying dead on a bed, having, it is supposed, been kicked to death. Her husband has been arrested.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-11-19 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

ALLEGED MURDER BY A BOATMAN AND HIS PARAMOUR.  At the W.Averhampton County Police Court, on Mou.b.y, Edward Musson, a boatman, and Hannah Maria Haman. who WM, living with him, were charged with the murder of Elizabeth Lowke, a girl seven ! years of age. Mr. Thorne who appeared to prosecute on behalf of the father of the little girl, stated that his client, John Lowke, had lent his little girl to the two prisoners ' for the purpose of attending to their canal boat. On Saturday week last the little girl was found dead in I , the cabin of the canal boat at a place called Aldersley, 'between Teitenlisli and Wolverhampton, under cit.. I cumllano,s which tended to excite grave auspicious that she met her death by ford play. She was very : much cut mud bruised shout the head and back. The ' Coroner's inquest on the body was still pending, and a sitting woald be held the followinz, day. Under I thew e:rcumAtanees he did not propose to offer any I a h,r evidence before the Bench than was sufficient to ju,tify a remand. He would put the police constable in the box who first saw the body, and he believed if there were a remand he Allould be able in a day or two to bring the clearest evidence into Court against both the prisoners. Police—constable Clayton then deposed that he was a pllice-eonstublu stationed at Bashbnry. Had be, n inve,!gating the circumstances of this case, and bell ~ved in a day or two he should be able to bring by orant evidence into Court.  In -reply to the magistrates, who asked to he sup— elisd with some particulars of the case, the constable sail that last 'saiitlay we...k. about Sam.. he received information that a child was dead iu the cabin of a boat at Ald, rsley, of which the prkoaer Musson was in chirge. He went on to the boat, and saw Musson , there. The female prisoner Was with him. She was  I not his wife. Went into the cabin and examined the body of the girl, who was afterwards identified es Elizabeth Lowke. The child was out aud bruised from head to foot—regalarly black. Witness .eked the prisonera how they could account for the cats and braises on theohild'e body, and they said the horse had trodden upon her. The male prisoner was then formally charged with causing the death of the child, but made uo answer. The prisoners had now nothing to say against the remand, and they were accordingly remanded till Wednesday. Musson and Hillman were brought up on remand on Wednesday, at a special sessions of county magistrates, at the Town Hall, Wolverhampton, charged with causing the death of the child. Mr. Thorne appeared on behalf of the father of the deceased. The evidence given at the inquest and reported above was adduced, and the only additional testimony of importance was that of Police-eonstsible Clayton and Frederick Bosley, toll collector to the Birmingham Canal Company, who both described the injuries on Louke after she was found dead in the boat by Clayton. Prisoners were remanded till Saturday.