... Birmingham, and our other large towns, amongst which Chartism has never taken root? Does Mr. Faithfull know that a Catholic Socialist is a phenomenon that has not yet been seen ? No, —we fear that it is in the Protestant flock, that the plague-spot of Socialism ...

... when we hear them recommending and practising arson aud murder —when we find them echoing the wretched blasphemies of the Socialists,—as dead to a Christian s hope as to a freeman's honesty, what can we say but that they are slaves of the very lowest and ...

... government to prosecute them. Lord Brougham presented a petition from Mr. Owen, claiming an inquiry into the opinions of the Socialists. He thought their opinions and doctrines so absurd, as to have no fears of their extension, unless they were to be further ...

... THE CHURCH AND THE SOCIALISTS. The Bishop of Exeter's statements in the House of Lords respecting Socialism contain much matter for serious thought; and if they had not been accompanied with side-thrusts at the Government, and demands for the violent ...

... institute such inquiry they thought fit, he should be willing to leave their hands. The Marquess of Lansdowve did not the Socialist colonies with the apprehension that seemed be entertained the right reverend prelate. thought that they were more likeK to ...

... processing themselves to be what they termed Socialists, praying for an inquiry into their principles and doctrines. The Bishop of Exeter thought the Government had neglected their duty in not suppressing the socialist paper called the New Moral World. All ...

... calculated to rend asunder the 1 bonds of Jiociety. did not allude to political opinions but to those which were held by the Socialists, who desired to reduce to one level all ranks of and all degrees of intellect. He did allude to them because they denounced ...

... John o'Groat's house to the Una's End proclaim Great Britain at large What sentences condemnation are not Chartists and Socialists inscribing upon our walls? Nor until recently was there any cry for more churches and chapels heard : at least not in our ...

... regret that at the meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, when Sir Pefer Laurie classed the Dissenters with Infidels ami Socialists as the assailants of the Church, that the slander should have been re. ceived with loud demonstrations of applause; it was ...

... Chureh. When scoffers in igh places were jeering at the evangelical motives of the non- Protestant dissenting clergymen, and socialist preachers, and chartist lecturers were assembled together on the same platform, to take measures for crush- ing the attempt ...

... received ; they had been refused, however, by one who declared that he had better books than those, and who proved to be Socialist; by a second, who blasphemously avowed himself an atheist : and by a third, who affirmed that he had Ijuud new religion, ...

... reverend prelate, was advisable necessary. himself believed that the mischievous and absurd doctrines this sect of Owenites, Socialists, would before Ibis tine have fallen into contempt and oblivion, if it were not for such attempta as those which the right ...