With joyful hearts our views embrace;
The storm subsides, the prospect clears,
And blest Community appears."

JOHN FARN, S. M.

LIST OF PRESENTS RECEIVED AT TYTHERLY.

ture-room at Easter next.

One new alva merino mattrass with white water flock bolsters, dozen and a half knives and forks, with carvers, from a friend in three blankets, and a counterpane, from a friend at Worcester; one Manchester, per Mr. J. Smith; from an anonymous friend at Upper Clapton, near Andover, Hants, 26 quires of writing paper, one dozen and a half desert knives and forks, two dozen black lead pencils, two squares of india rubber, two sticks of indian ink, one vol. Dr. Lard

ner's Steam Engine, one vol. Newton on Vegetable Regimen, two towend irons for fire-place, one fire range, and a sieve. The following books have been brought to the Library by Mr. Clarkson :-one vol. of the Shepherd, by the Rev. J. E. Smith, donor, J. Jowett; Neale's History of the Puritans, and Buchan's Domestic Medicine, donor, James Clarkson; two vols. Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Cobbett's Grammar, Cobbett's Twopenny Trash, and Answers to Godwin's Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy, donor, Joshua Clarkson; (this latter work is principally the composition of our friend Wilkinson, of Bradford); Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary, donor, Joshua Hill; Cowper's Poems, Burns's Poems, 7 vols., Pope's Works, Thompson's Seasons, Beauties of Franklin, and 3 vols. of a Political Novel. The cocks and hens lately announced have been received.

LIST OF ARTICLES WANTED AT TYTHERLY.

LIVERPOOL. In your last number, you have reprinted the following passage, from the Liverpool Albion: "I really think that if Mr. Baylee had not been protected by a number of the Police, that death might have been his portion, instead of "victory!" A thrashing machine, a winnowing do, a straw-cutting do., (this for Many persons, from reading this, might suppose, that horse power) a bone-crushing do. ; a large drill for turnips, wheat, the Socialists of Liverpool, were somewhat similar to &c.; a swing plough, with steel shill boards; dung forks of a good the Christians of Walsall, as described in your last pattern, also, two-pronged do. guillotine and shears for cutting week's leader. Mr. Baylee when he had nothing more forks; an unlimited number of fruit and flower trees, shrubs, &c., with hedges; small rakes for gardening, also, small trowels and weeding to say against Socialism, abused the dissenters of all their respective names; pickaxes and round-mouthed shovels for excadenominations. It was the Christian, not the Social-vating; wheelwrights' tools, glass, paint, oil, lead, &c., for glazing, ist, part of the audience, whose feelings were roused plumbing, and painting; nails, sprigs, and screws, of all descriptions, (a great number of these will be wanted); a tap and thread for making up by Mr. B. against himself. the discussion has joiners' hand and bench screws, and a joiner's cramp; a good turning added twenty to the Branch; caused an increased at-lathe and turning tools; bellows, anvils, vices, and other tools for tendance at our lectures; produced a decidedly favour-blacksmith; whip-saws; pit and other saw files; worsted; lasts, able change in public opinion; and rapidly increased rasps, and other shoemakers' tools; leather; woollen cloth; also, cotton cords, fustians, linen for shirts, bed-sheets, &c. ; neckerchiefs, the subscriptions to our Building Fund. The members worsted-yarn, and stockings; and all sorts of pottery ware. of the Brougham Institute have lately been discussing the question of Community; I have attended, and spoken on several occasions, and was listened to without interuption. The agitation of the question is sure to do good to our cause. Last Sunday morning, Mr. Finch lectured on one of his favourite topics, taking his text from the Bible; in the evening I lectured on the twelve conditions of human happiness. The papers

The preceding list is published as a reply to numerous applications, with a view to ascertain what could be contributed of most service to the Community. The London friends have decided upon subscribing to present something of value, and have written to enquire as above. Various parties have also sent intimation that they are either busy preparing articles for the Community store-house, or are desirous of doing so; and it was, therefore, desirable to draw up a complete list of the Branches and to parties unconnected with the society, but yet the articles wanted, in order that it might serve as a guide at once to friendly to its objects and disposed to aid in carrying them into effect.

both the plans; one that could be made to suit the working class at first; and yet, as they advanced in knowledge, and wealth, and superior manners, could be, without expence, or apparent alteration, made to satisfy the most fastidious, in their ideas of every thing connected with the best mode of producing, distributing, educating, and governing, with the most complete domestic arrangements. We considered, and reconsidered, all our own arrangements over again, and I shall bring with me, the plans of our various steps from the beginning, and our final results." In a subsequent letter Mr. Owen says, "enquire, if you please, for an artist, in Birmingham, who executed the splendid drawing for the store engraving of our superior Community. Mr. Whitwell employed him to do it. We shall want another, but yet one much superior in design, and I shall call upon him when I come, if he is still in Birmingham." This gentleman has been found. Mr. Owen added, "It is desirable that the parties who are to direct the proceedings of the society and Commu nities, should soon meet at the Central Board. The Society is at present a society of the working classes, and our first Community will of consequence, be a working man's Community, and be directed by the ideas of working men." It was mentioned in the New Moral World. of last week, that Mr. Owen is expected in Birmingham, on the 23rd. It is expected that Mr. Finch will meet him. APPOINTMENT OF A MISSIONARY.-On Wednesday, the 11th inst., Mr. William, Spiers having been examined by the Central Board, according to law 105, and unanimously approved of, was appointed a Missionary of the Society. He immediately proceeded to fill the office of Stationed Lecturer at Paisley. It is expected that another

Stutioned Lecturer will shortly be applied for to officiate in the vicinity of Glasgow and Paisley. Persons desirous of appointment should forward their applications and testimonials to the Central Board. From the rapid increase of the society and the everywhere increasing interest in the principles and plans of Social Reform, it is certain that there will be a cantinnally increasing demand for talent. For information as to such appointments, see the laws of the Society. The "Report of Congress" also contains important matter on this subject, and relative to the present rates of salary.

NEW MORAL WORLD.

W. HEBERT will find the article referred to, at our Liverpool Agents. MR FINCH's letter of the 4th. inst. came to hand on the 14th. it shall be attended to. 1

KENNETH MATTHISON, Glasgow, is out of date-we are happy to perceive the progress made in that city.

MR. PAULSON's strictures are just; but the errors alluded to, are more
frequently the result of inadvertence, than positive bud feeling, and
it is difficult for persons who like Mr. P. live out of the influence of
the exciting causes, to conceive the provocation received; their for
bearance is much greater than he has any idea of, and most credita-
ble to the principles of which it is the effect.

ROBERT DALE OWEN and ORIGEN BACHELER, ON THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD AND THE AUTHENTICITY OF
THE BIBLE. Reprinted from the New York Edition, issued under
the superintendence of the Controversialists themselves.

Just Published, Price Sixpence, A LIFE OF PAINE; by the EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL. Illustrated by a fine medallion likeness of PAINE, and a fac-simile of his hand writing. This Life contains a refutation (in part from living witness s) of the falsehoods propagated by Christian teachers and believers against the character of

THOMAS PAINE

Also, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, Price Threepence cach, THE MONTHLY MESSENGER, A Repository of Information; By J. N. BAILEY, Social Missionary.

Also, Price Five Shillings in cloth boards and lettered, THE NATIONAL; a Library for the People. Containing a variety of original matter in prose and verse, with a choice selection of extracts from the writings of good and great men and women of all nations. Illustrated with twenty-seven fine wood engravings.

To be had in Parts and Numbers.
Sold by Hetherington, 126, Strand; Cleave, 1, Shoe Lane, Fleet
Street; Heywood, Manchester; Guest, Birmingham; Hobson, Leeds;
Smith, Liverpool; and all Booksellers.

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ANALYSED.

JUSANALYSIS, or extracts from the Bible, shewing its ContraPUBLISHED, Price 6d. The "HOLY SCRIPTURES" dictions, Absurdities, and Immoralitics. By ROBERT COOPER, of Manchester: Published by James Cooper, Bridge Street, and sold by A. Heywood, Oldham Street, Manchester, and all liberal Booksellers.

THE PORTRAIT OF MR. OWEN.

PAINTED BY BROOKE AND ENGRAVED BY RYALL.

Testimony of

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Impressions of the Size of THE NEW MORAL WORLD, for binding with. it, &c., Price 6d. ; on larger Paper, for framing, 1s.; on India Paper, 1s. 6d.

Orders from the Branches and the Trade to be sent to the Secretary, at 30, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham; or the Publisher of the New Moral World.

Leeds: Printed and Published for the "Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists," by JOSHUA HOBSON, at his Printing and Publishing Office, 5, Market-Street.

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Christmas Gifts and New Year's Offerings to
Tytherly Community

Mr. Brindley in Leeds. (Editorial)
Literary Notice-Herald of the Future

JOHN MILTON, THE REFORMER.

The name of MILTON is one of those which now challenges and receives unquestioned homage and admiration. To confess ignorance of his writings, or want of veneration for his transcendant genius, is considered the climax of literary vandalism. "The Divine MILTON" is a phrase "familiar as a household word." We have occasionally had suspicions in the midst of this ostentatious and loudly paraded veneration, that the real character of MILTON and the peculiar tendency and object of his labours and writings, were but very imperfectly understood; that time which changes all things, had produced some singular changes in the estimation of MILTON's character; and that he now enjoys a high reputation, is quoted as an infallible authority among parties, from whom he would have been the last to expect such a reception.

Perhaps this may be attributed to the fact that by the majority, he is known only as a Poet; and even in that character depends more upon hearsay for his fame than an intimate knowledge of his writings. Comparatively few have any acquaintance with him as a prose writer, and a patriot; one who was, during a considerable period of his life, engaged in an uncompromising warfare against civil, political, and religious tyranny; the dauntless opponent of "thrones, principalities, and powers; of spiritual wickedness in high places." An acceptable and most valuable service has therefore been performed, in giving a cheap and well-executed epitome of the life and times of this extraordinary man,* in which his political character receives that attention which his previous biographers have denied it. The author says the object of the memoir "is to make the popular mind more fully acquainted with the labours of MILTON, in the cause of universal liberty, and more familiar with those unchanging principles of freedom, on which he has demonstrated that the safety of states, and the virtue and happiness of the people, must ever be built." The work is well adapted for the object proposed; and we propose to make it the text-book for a few cursory remarks, which seem applicable at the

present time

The times in which MILTON lived were not dissimilar in many of their leading features, to those in which we find ourselves placed. The institutions of society were fearlessly examined, and their utility scrutinized. Neither kingcraft nor priestcraft were permitted to repose under

"Life and times of Milton," by William Carpenter, pp. 171. Published by Cleave; from whom may also be had cheap reprints of Milton's "Speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing ;" and "The likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church."

the delusive sanctity where with antiquity had wrapped them, and
bent the knees and faculties of men to their unquestioned supremacy.
The chains which bound minds and bodies to regal and sacerdotal
slavery, were, in his times, rudely shaken, and their innate weakness
displayed. Like the bonds which Sampson in his palmy days so
casily snapped asunder, they fell to pieces before the new found
strength of an awakened people; but alas, like the prototype, that
people suffered themselves again to be cheated by the deceptive voice
of Dalilahs; and shorn of their strength, were delivered into the
hands of those enemies to national well-being, from whom they had ob-
tained partial respite and deliverance. The time for full and complete
emancipation had not yet come; but a lesson was read, a step gained,
obstacles surmounted, and the goal approached. In these stirring
times, when all that time had consecrated, when a king--a name in
those days, more awe-inspiring than it is now, was led to the block by
his subjects, and when an established church was subverted; when the
son of a Brewer occupied the palaces and exercised the magisterial
powers of the Tudors and Plantagenets, what were the pursuits of
MILTON; did he pass his life in learned leisure and seclusion, making
sweet verses, or lend the eloquence of his pen to the support of error
and tyranny
? what was MILTON as a man?

Deeply affecting is the contemplation of the blind bard dictating to his daughters the gorgeous conceptions of his unique genius. The picture is associated in our minds with days and nights of ceaseless study and exertion-study and exertion, so prolonged and incessant, that at last it quenched the light of his bright blue eyes, and hid from their loving and impassioned glance, the glories of the circumambient sky, mountain and valley, ocean and streamlet, trees and plants and flowers; all the varied sights wherewith nature gladdens the poet's bosom, and sheds glory and immortality over his song. Did MILTON dare the scaling up of his eyes in hopeless darkness only to gratify an idle and selfish curiosity? Did he become familiar with the sages and pocts of antiquity, merely to re-combine and adapt the fanciful imaginings of the latter into a Christian instead of a Pagan Epic? No! happily for mankind, he studied for a higher object-a more noble end. To his achievements as a poet we have to add the yet higher claims of a reformer and patriot, and to view him in both these characters as far before the age in which he lived, as his natural en_ dowments exalted him above the mass of those by whom he was surrounded. Yes, that very blindness which gives such a mournful interest to his great poem, and excites such a deep and yearning sympathy with the Poet, was hastened consummated by his devotion to one of the tasks which his fervent devotion to liberty and truth

concludes:

"He has gloriously delivered you, the first of nations, from the two greatest mischiefs of this life, and most pernicious to ie, tymny, and superstition; he has endued you with greatness of mind to be the first of mankind, who after having conquered their own king, and having had him delivered into their hands have not scrupled to condemn him judicially, and pursuant to that sentence of condemnation, to put him to death. After the performing so glorious an action as this, von ought to do nothing that is mean and little, not so much as to think of, much less to do, any thing but what is great and sublime, which to attain to this is your only way; as you have subdued your chemies in the field, so to make appear, that unarmed, and in the highest ontward peace and tranquillity, you of all mankind are best able to subdue ambition, avarice, the love of riches, and can best avoid the corruptions that prosperity is apt to introduce (which generally subdue and triumph over other nations) to shew as great justice, temperance, and moderation in the maintaining your liberty, as you have shewn courage in freeing yourselves from slavery. These are the only arguments by which you will be able to evince that you are not such persons as this fellow represents you, Traitors, Roblers, Murderers, Parricides, Madmen: that yon did not put your king to death out of any ambitious design, or a desire of invading the rights of others, nor out of any seditious principles or sinister ends; that it was not an act of fury or madness; but that it was wholly out of love to your liberty, your religion, to justice, virtuc, and your country, that you punished a tyrant."

It may be imagined that those heads which continued decorated with crowns on the Continent, were not very much enamoured of a work which treated so boldly their divine right to do wrong, their displeasure was manifested by ordering his book to be burnt; and upon the restoration of CHARLES II, through the perfidy of MONK, that Monarch failing in his endeavours to get possession of MILTON himself, took vengeance upon his books. The obsequicus House of Commons, by a vote, condemned the "Defence of the People of England," and the “Iconoclastes," and ordered them to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman. It was through no fault of the

• Life and Times of Milton, p. 99. Ibid, p. 100.