The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-10-15 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

DUZER & RICHARDS,  SOLE PROPRIETORS. LAN,RATORY 116, THANTTON ROW,  T,CINTI)t)N. W.C.  Sia,—There is not the slightest doubt that we are progressing, is language at any rate. The wise man certainly declared, "There is nothing new under the sun," and students tell no that the utterances of our modern scholars and writers are only the echoes of old philosophical teaching. Don't you think, Mr. Editor, that ideas, whether of ancient or modern times, are pretty much the satne? We wrap them up, in this cultured age, in a better fashion, and therein I indicate just the difference The foregoing reflections are tlie reselt of reading Disraeli's recent speeches. Sad result. Ah, sir, that statesman is a master in the art of adding new colours to the shades of language in which thought is expressed, bnt his ideas are old, sir, very old. He is most at home in playing hide-and-seek with ideas, and loves best of all to conceal thought in a flood of tears. What a disappointment when we bend down over the flowers of Dis,eli's oratory, and 13.-nshing, aside the thickened leaves of his rhetoric, find so 1i..1e fruit. Better go book to the olden ages, of which a poet wrote : ":.Some say that the prim Live tongue Expressed but the simplest affections; . . . that the words said or sung, Were nothing but mere interjections : Oh ! oh was the signal of pain Ha' ha! was the symptom of laughter; oh! pooh! was the sign of disdain, And others came :ollowing aftflr."  The Birmingham Town Hall rung the other night with such denancia.tion. of. Hlavery au carry ne back to Oric i;imes Antecedent to :,he American civil war. The commanding form of lleorge Thompson, quiver  i,,g wi:h intense animation as he pled for the ensla, d African, was absent, nor were the listeners cba,med by Oa, ore,,,ory of the silver tongued Wendell Phillips or of bold Lloyd liarrison : but the old fire of British hated ivrainst slavery was there, and Birmingham stood true to her traditions. Sir, don't you think qur blundering Government had better have a care It is too late in the day now to undo the work of Granville Sharpe, Clarkson, and Wilberforce. We may expect now to hear what that master of sophism, Disraeli, has to say about so enormous a blunders.  It is time that the Unmoral literature which is issued from Loudon, with its murderers, burglars, and li4ghwaymen painted in heroic colours was stamped out. The tendencies to crime are already too great, and the temptations too strong, without this investing of vice with false attractions for the young, by chroniclers of the deeds of Jack Sheppard" and " Blueskin." Standing recently in a London police court, I saw three lads charged with vicious conduct in the streets, and it was easy to see how the criminal ranks are recruited, especially when once the taint of the gaol is imparted. The placing of a healthy literature within the reach of the growing thousands of our School Board Schools is one of the greatest needs of the time.  No question discussed at the Church Congress has more interest to those minds who see and acutely feel the blots on our social system, than the condition of our canal population. Great credit is due to Mr. George Smith. of Coadville, for calling public attention to thcse floating heathens of our watery highways. But it was too much for Anglican toleration to allow him, philanthropist, though, he has proved himself by his labours in connection with this and the brickyard chidren's agitation, to allow him, a Primitive Methodist, to tell Churchmen what their duty was. That was not the lay agency' required, and so Mr. George Smith was politely told that if he was allowed to speak his right to do RO would be challenged. The desire of the unity of the Church of England with other Christians is here shown to be a farce, if by Christians anyone means Methodists. Had Mr. Smith belonged to the Greek or sf me foreign Church, he would have been received with open arms. though he had talked about nothing but Church ceremonies instead of practical Christian ' charity. From two papers that I have before me. wrUten by Mr. Smith, it is clear that it is time that the attention of all really earnest Christians and of practical statesmen also was turned to these voyagers on our canals, who go floating through time neglected and degraded, down to the ocean in which time is lost, gross ignorance and immorality being too general characteristics.