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• "The one Idea which-History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided viewa ; and by setting aside ths distinctions of Kengion Country , and . Cblour . to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ol our spiritual nature . *—ttumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- KaUway Smashing . ' . .. 1050 The Crisis in Tru-key .... 1064 NfcW PAGB Progress of Association 105 ft A Check for Railway Destruction 1064 Opening of Parliament 1054 Miscellaneous 1060 A Clerical Witness to Church Mr . Macaulay ' s Great Speech at Militia Prosecutions . 1060 Anarchy 1064 Edinburgh ' ... : 1054 Health of London during the Week 1061 Sanitary Government 1 W >& The Manchester Free-trade Gather- Births , Marriages , and Deaths . 1061 A Screw for Public Health OiHcers 1065 - ... 1056 Hints to New M . P . ' s 1066 Lettersfrom Paris ......: 1067 POSTSCRIPT .- 1061 Fallacies of Macaulay 1067 Continental Notes ........ ' .. 1057 ' „ .. „ , . _ .. „ . . . Taxation Reduced , to Unity and The lEectric Telegraph Complete PUBLIC'AFFAIRS— Simplicity - 1067 from London to Paris .............. 1058 What will Come out of it All ? 1062 Dessert Banquets for Public Meet-The Launch of the Bengal ............ 105 & Baropcan League against America 1062 ings « V ™ Z The State of Trade ........... ; .. ; 1059 The ^ Profanity of F ^ fe « Sabbath Th » Accuser . _ ........ 1069 Emigration and Colonization .. 1059 ObaerTmert \ vJ 3 Sm *& ..: ; ...-. MX » Tae Clock a la Francaise 1069
Abd-el-Kader and Archdeacon Hale 1069 LITERATUREThackeray ' s New Novel 1071 Butler ' s Analogy versus Modern Unbelief 107 p Books on our Table 1073 THE ARTSTWO Comedies 1074 King Henry the Fifth 1074 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & e . 1074—1076
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THE new Parliament opened on Thursday , and the Commons proceeded at once to the election of Speaker . The forms of that proceeding , and the administration of the oaths to Peers and Members , offer no subject for remark ; except a pleasant reflection at the display of English character in the reelection of the Speaker . The universal recognition of Mr . Shaw Lefevre ' fairness , and the right recognized in him to his post on the score of that quality , agreeably illustrate that the power of the boasted staple in English character
survives in full force . Broadly considered , the speeches and the act are a great political event , and highly calculated to revive the popular reverence for the elective chamber . The whole tone of the proceedings marks national respect and conscious power . The opening of Parliament was harbingered by a great demonstration of the Free-traders in Manchester , intended to be an imposing review of their forces , and to define their position . It appears that they intend to take up a perfectly separate
position ; that without considting the convenience of an y political parties , they intend to force on oti immediate decision upon the question of Freetrade or Protection , unless they be anticipated by a Free-trade declaration in the Queen ' s , speech . Mr . Cobden also seized the occasion to repent his Juimmneement , that lie is as well qualified for office as many gentlemen that obtain it ; and to
express doubts as to the possibility of forming any new party in the House of Commons . The representations are both true ; but the tone in which ' y were uttered implies a considerable coldness ol feeling on the part of Mr . Cobden towards the more political order of Liberals . The muster , bot h of Members of Parliament and of the rcprcwntutivos of towns was great .
Mr Macimlay ' s appearance at Edinburgh is less a political than u personal and local fact . He poke un Mdinburgh Review article ,-of a reserved Jl M-raliani which astonishes his younger admirers , I re'nm » ls liiH older friends of the pre- Reform J - - A model Whig of 1 ( 588 , his own peculiar IutH have been strengthened by the
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is alarming ; and in short , the questions of 1853 are terrible to the politician of 1831 . But the oral essay was a finished and brilliant composition , and was most alluring even to those critics of modem Athens who could not have shared its timidities . The declaration of the ex-Minister that he would never again be tempted to exchange a polished ease for the doubtful honours of
Downing-street , lends to the position of our national historian in Parliament a peculiar dignity and independence , as hi 3 genius sheds a lustre and a grace on any assembly that his name adorns . The pale thin face , the failing energy , and the unflinching courage of the orator , saddened this remarkable occasion ; the suddenness of his peroration had almost the accent of a parting , and the
solemnity of a last farewell . On Irish ground we find our Ministers taking up a position of aggression . The Attorney-General lias filed an information against the Anglo-Celt for a libel on the Thirty-first Regiment respecting the transactions at Six-mile Bridge , and has moved for a rule to show cause why the proceedings
before the Coroner ' inquest , in which the Jury found a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the soldiers , should not be quashed . Few English politicians will blame this decided course , especially when it is coupled with the generally liberal character of Lord Eglinton ' s career ; but it contrasts ominously with the vacillating conduct of Ministers in the matter of Protection , and in
English politics at large . Elsewhere , indeed , our Ministers adhere , if we may trust all present appearances , to their plan of always taking exactly the position which they should not . The Morning Vast bus announced that the Allied Powers have required King Leopold of Belgium to exact from any new Ministry laws restraining the press , " England , " alias Lord Mulmcsbiiry , joining in that " recommendation ; " and this assertion bus not received
the expected contradiction from the avowedly Ministerial papers ; u silence which proclaims eloquently that there must hnve been something in it . We must indeed doubt whether King Leopold would submit to a dictation so grossly violating the national independence of his kingdom ; since not only his character , but his declaration that he would only retain bis throne so long as it should be with the concurrence of his subjects , forbids the idea that he could sacrifice the tlignity of the state to retain a degruded occupancy of the throne .
The notion is also forbidden by the character of M . de Brouckere , moderate Liberal as he is , who has once more formed a Ministry ; and the disbelief is corroborated by the character of M . Piercot , the Prime Minister ' s Radical colleague . Meanwhile the popular party , the free-tariff , and the free press , are safe against the priest party of
Belgium and the intrigues of Paris . If England , therefore , has joined the Allied Powers in coercing Belgium , it is probable that she has been rebuked by the firmness of Queen Victoria ' s uncle . But what says the English public on this uncontradicted prostitution of " England " to the purposes of Lord Malmesburv ' continental friends ?
The position of England in Sardinia is a problem more important than clear . Count Cavour has been beaten , and Count Cesare Balbo has undertaken the attempt to form a Ministry . The Count ' s antecedents mark him as an uncertain Liberal , with a leaning to the priest party ; but his actual position is doubtful . Does England continue her moral support to Sardinia , or has England joined her enemies ? Hail to the manly and truly English declaration of the Times on the subject of Belgium and Sardinia !
But a much more ugly question is suggested by the letter of our Paris correspondent : what reception is " England" giving to the project which Louis Napoleon is said to have put forward for an European League against America ? The story is , that in order to obtain permission to found the Empire , Louis Napoleon bus represented how
desirable it is to establish in Paris a great power for keeping down France ; that he proposes to revise the treaties of 1815 , to yield various little pickings for the great power in exchange for the Rhine as a French boundary , and to purchase the alliance of England by securing to her the fixity of her American boundaries , on the guarantee of the
great European powers , allied for that purpose against the United States of America . It would be quite right , in the coming " war of principles , " to regard the United States as the natural lender of the anti-despotie powers , and to army , against the American republic England , her natural ally ; but will the people of Friglimd be content to accept a position thus chosen in their iiniue by Lord Malnicsbury ? The Paris rumour may turn out to be u mistake : or if true , the alliance of the Northern powers against Louis Napoleon ' s assumption of the imperial title , us " Napoleon the Third , " may break off the negotiation ; but , at any rate ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111852/page/1/
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