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MEN AND MOVEMENTS. Pebsons represent eve...
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COLONIAL REPRESENTATION. Sp ain talks of...
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A KOYAI, " I'DItVKKT' TO TIIK WATHR (,'i...
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A FALSE ALARM. Mr. Shadwell, one of the ...
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SOCIAL REFORM. "NOTES OF A SOCIAL (ECONO...
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A13d-El-Kadeii, Louis Napoleon, And Lond...
xnent of the Monarchy . Lamoriciere himself , who from his own saddlebow wrote the conditions of the capitulation of the Emir , became Minister of War only to affix ineft'aceably the stigma of dishonour to his own and to his country ' s name by an official consecration . It might have been imagined that the recollections of the rebel prisoner of Ham would have served the nobler captive of Amboise ; but how should the systematic betrayer of his own constitutional oaths , the man whose whole tenure of office is a wearing struggle to betray the institutions he has sworn to protect , have time to remember the broken faith of
former Governments ? The very charge of broken faith is to him a personal insult . If he remember the traditions of his uncle , it is to tread in the steps of the man who slowly murdered his ardent admirer , Toussaint L'Ouverture , and more expeditiously , but not treacherously , dispatched the four thousand who laid down their arms in Syria . When the outraged feelings of humanity speak through the voice of England , St . Helena , forsooth !
is thrown in our teeth . We admit the reproach . We expiate it daily in the taxes bequeathed to us by the Holy Alliance , whose footman , George the Fourth , consented to be jailor of the vanquished hero . That hero , indeed , had broken his parole ; which Abd-el-Kader has not . Nor is our wrong the quittance of France . Not to us is she accountable ; but to that unvanquished captive , to history , to men like Londonderry , to her own honour .
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Men And Movements. Pebsons Represent Eve...
MEN AND MOVEMENTS . Pebsons represent events , not only past , but future ; and a play is performing before the world . i While Londonderry , like a brave old Jmight , is pleading stoutly for the captive hero Abd-el-Kader , France is deploring the want of a man to lead her . Yes , France , who most of all needs a man just now , has not one whose heart is so warm , whose conscience is so tender , whose farseeing is so clear , whose courage is so strong , that perforce he would set free that captive foe .
While Metternich has made his insidious way back to Vienna , to preside over the destinies of 1852 , Kossuth is on his way to England ; to pass through cold , apathetic , leaderless England , on to America , that brave republic which has sent a ship to fetch him . While Kossuth was on his way , Lord Palmer ston was boasting at Tivcrfon that he had succeeded in releasing Kossuth . And Ti vert on believed him ! Lord Palmerston " demanded " the release of Kossufh , and went on demanding-. The American Captain / etched him away . And people will not believe in America though they will in that delightful Viscount .
Mr . Abbot Lawrence is touring it in Ireland ; " ofiieina gentium , " as the Times calls it , for the American Republic—breeder of citizens for American consumption . Yes , on the west , of St . George ' s Channel , they breed beef for the British navy and citizens for the United States ; the beef is up to contract standard , and the citizens are trained in the way they should go—that of hatred to England . And travelling there , Abbot Lawrence
who looks at . the univer . se through Lord Rosse ' s telescope , finds that man is sis well in Ireland as in any other part of the world ! " Miserable sheep , those , " cried si Smithfield critic , in the ( lays when George III . was fanner , and Peter Pindar was Poet Laureate Kxtraordinary . " Put on your spectacles , " said Peter . Anil the critic , reading " ( 1 . K . " loyally chalked on the wool , declared that
he" really could turn glutton On . such pretty-looking mutton . " Abbot Lawrence surveys the universe through a Lord ' s telescope , and enters Ireland through Lans-< lowne-hou . se . lie is n . Bostonian—learned people are they of Boston ! He is also wealth y , and much respected in his native town . He is not addicted to low republican company in this country . He views things candidly , from an elevated point of view ; surveys the universe ; through a telescope of tiw best . society ; and discovers that the Irish arc mig hty well oil " . ^ Vbereat the 'limes is charmed at his politeness , and explains it to the British public ; which cannot but ft-d duly obliged to the gentleman .
41 Stick to that , " a cunning Yankee might say , with an eye to keeping up the breed , or to that future annexation of Ireland at which the Now York Herald hints-. But we really believe that Abbot Lawrence meant uo malice of that hurt . It
was nothing but politeness . It only shows how high a standard of flattery he is used to . King Leopold's artist-subjects have been cooperating in the great annual fete to celebrate their independence ; the young Duke of Brabant taking part in that national rejoicing . Belgium keeps up a kind of uneasy but friendly relation with its dear king . On the whole , Belgium is aot the state threatened with the darkest future .
The Emperor of Austria , for instance , has been welcomed by his Italian subjects with the most enthusiastic joy . So the official account says . They rushed forward to embrace him;—only the enormous guard made it difficult to get at him . And their endearments could not , as it were , even shoot him flying ; he was so restless . Butterflies have a very zigzag progress , which makes it difficult for " the sharpest birds to catch them flying : Emperors also are restless and zigzag in their splendid flight . " Butterfly ! " cries the delighted child , cap in hand . Missed him ! But the Butterfly of course feels the compliment .
While Italy rejoices in the presence of its so much beloved Austria , the detested Mazzini reposes in England . Not forgotten . Somehow all Italy looks to that man ; and somehow Austria cannot forget him either . That patriot man , living modestly in the heart of England , is the object of Austrian solicitude ; Austrian policy is shaped to meet his wishes , conjectured by anticipation with more than a mother ' s fondness . Austria ' s only wish is to embrace him , to hug him . In London , he is more potent in Italy than the very Emperor that stands upon the land , and possesses it , with all the vast power of a hundred
. Persons , we say , represents events , past and future . Francis Joseph stands on Italian soilsafely , for he is surrounded by immense armies ; Metternich has gone back to Vienna , to rehabilitate 1815 ; Kossuth is on his way to America ; Mazzini reposes on his placid voyage towards 1852 .
Colonial Representation. Sp Ain Talks Of...
COLONIAL REPRESENTATION . Sp ain talks of extending her Parliamentary franchise to Cuba , whose members will sit in the Cortes at Madrid . Cub l is not so very firm in her allegiance , but what the concession may be useful . French colonies already enjoy a share in the Imperial representation . The same idea has been entertained for English colonies ; but always . scouted b y the clerks in Downing-street ; and Lord Grey will not even allow the colonies to represent themselves to themselves .
Oh , yes ! we beg pardon;—a very tati . sfactory constitution has been given to Canada ; but then Canada had rebelled . Just as the Cape of . Good Hope got rid of the convict shi p by rebelling in its quiet way . It is curious to observe what a . sine mia non colonial Ministers make of that , as a pivlimanary to all concessions : a colony is not thought to have performed its duty in the way of compliments , until it has rebelled . The colonies , both of France and Spain , obtain more consideration than those of England .
A Koyai, " I'Ditvkkt' To Tiik Wathr (,'I...
A KOYAI , " I'DItVKKT' TO TIIK WATHR ( , 'imH . O i ; k right royal friend the King of Prussia , who in his time " plays many partH , " has just come out in an entirely new character . In a revised oflicial copy of his address to the Club of Fealty , he notices the various " hell-born " calumnies and base inventions of the Democratic exiles , which even his integrity of life and manners cannot escape . Int this revised copy he has contrived to slip a reply to the charge that he was " given to excess in wine . " He knows this to be a lie determined upon by the German refugees in London ; and he begs all who hear him , to let the fact , be known . So his Majesty of Prussia , whoso
strange fits of excitement , have lx en often attributed to stronger causes , ia alter all what P . . 1 . Pioudhon has been unei'iingly called , !)) ' the French reactionist journals , a hureitr iVeau . He lias been addicted to liquor—but in the Brewery sense . What a pity thatso august a eonvert should not bo in London in time for the approaching Temperance Festival at . Kxeter hall . It waH only the . other day we bad to misfortune to offend an estimable reader at . Kensington , from our comparative ; inattention to hia very judicious and praiseworthy hobby , the Temperance Cause . Will be forgive uh now if we present him with u Jtoyul Convert , Frederick William of Prussia ? Wo do not despair of T > 2 making thiu water-bibbing and injured Mnicety a Vegetarian !
He Will Learn That The Class Which Would...
He will learn that the class which would be the most willing to concur in rendering him active aid would be precisely the class on which war would entail the , greatest proportion of sacrifice . But the movement of the working class will probably be widely spread and spontaneous , and he can hardly mistake that .
KOSSUTH . Competition is all alive among several cosmopolitan , parties , of London , to . take possession of Kossuth on hia arrival , bodily , politically , and dramatically . He is to be courted by the courtly , approached by the moderate and feasted by the speculative ; that is , if he will dine on party principles . Our advertising columns will show that the working men are astir . He might almost test the sincerity of his friends by their willingness to afford him active aid , or not . He will scarcely be content with " protests" which left Russia to walk over his country ; he will hardl y consider that Notting-hill came half-way to meet him , because it « 4 Leame forward " as far as the turnpike-gate .
A False Alarm. Mr. Shadwell, One Of The ...
A FALSE ALARM . Mr . Shadwell , one of the revising barristers , recently decided against admitting the claims of some persons who had puichased freehold land allotments , because there was no evidence that the said plots of ground were worth forty shillings a year . Some alarm was felt , at first , on reading this decision . But the alarm is groundless . The barrister was perfectly right . There was no evidence . By some oversight the solicitor did not bring into court , until after the first rebuff , the proper persons who could prove the value of the freeholds—the overseers or a surveyor . This must be looked to another time . Meanwhile , the claim to vote for a forty shilling freehold , properly backed , is as valid as ever .
Social Reform. "Notes Of A Social (Econo...
SOCIAL REFORM . " NOTES OF A SOCIAL ( ECONOMIST . " THE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS OF ENGLAND , III . " Can the ( Irish ) landlords rightfully use the lands so as to cause the natives to perish of hunger or of cold ? If they can , then have the landlords the right to kill . "— Couhett ' s Legacy . " Quod quisque popnlus ipse sibi jus constituit , vocatur jus civile . " —Institutes of Justinian . To pursue the history of the struggle hetween the assumed rights of the hereditary feudal aristocracy and " the wants and fears" of the communitythe only true * and natural foundation of society , according to Blackstone—to trace the rise and progress of a thrifty commercial middle-cluss , under the sheltering influence of municipal association , and then to watch the unnatural revival of slavery by Act of Christian Church and State Parliament , would lead me far beyond the limit of newspaper discussion , into the wide field of constitutional history . Instead of grappling with history , I must now take flig ht into the imaginary regions
of Utopia . All the Utopias , or ideal schemes for the organization of society , and the attainment of perfect happiness , may be traced to a common sourcethe philosophy of Pythagoras ( the founder of the first community ca-nofrium —( which embodies the accumulated lore and wisdom of Oriental and classical antiquity : —¦ " Utopian youth 'Town old Italian : "
and the influence of his doctrines may be traced through every subsequent form of relig ion and philosophy , in the Republic of Plato , and in the Utopia of Sir Thomas More . Utopia , or , The Discourses of Raphael Ily thladay , of the best State of a Commonwealt h ^ " written by Sir Thomas More , citizen and tiherill of London , " was printed at Louvain in L > I <> , about the time of Luther ' s first onslaught upon the sale of "indulgences , " and was everywhere
received , except at Koine , with enthusiasm . More is a cbmmuniKt in principle , a reformer in religion , and agriculture is the basis of his system of social organization . With the heathen philosophers , but with singular inconsistency , in " a man of tnc hig hest virtue , integrity , and capacity , ' " <* tolerates slavery in this imaginary colony founded by Utopus . In the first chapter he g ives an nucount of Inn . journey to Flandern , and of 1 » ih nrst meeting with Raphael Hyildoday at Antwerp , » _" company with one Peter ( iiles , to whom Utopia
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101851/page/12/
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