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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 views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature : ' *—Humboldt ' b Cosmos .
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News of the Week— Page Social Reform Union 869 ment i 875 Book * on our Table 882 The Anti-Popery Movement 866 A Remarkable Escape from Prison 869 The Example for England . 875 Tub Arts—A Catholic Jubilee 867 Miscellaneous 870 Industrial Education in Ireland . ; .. 8 » 6 The Perfection of Acting £ 82 ] Cnd of the German Melo-drama .... 867 European Democracy— The Glaziers * 8 trike at the Crystal Mind Yonr Stops 882 The Early Closing-Association .... 868 Address of the Italian National Palace ..... 876 « . „_ ,. „ - The National Charter and Social Committee 873 Social Reform — XX . —Le Droit au „ , / „ , T hjm Reform Union 8 G 8 Associativb Progress— Travail . No . 5 ... 877 iheDefeat « MjJ Polish Anniversary 868 Redemption Society 873 Literature— Persecution .. ••« % l ? . The Disturbances at Aleppo 868 Public Affairs— The Ladder of Gold 878 Sketches from Lift 8 SJ An Extraordinary Poisoning-Case .. 868 State of the German Question 874 Popular Law 879 Commercial Affairs—Add ress of the Committee of Obser- Can England aid Foreipn Patriots .. 874 Wilson on Catholicity 880 Markets , Gazettes . Births , Mft £ - vation of the National Charter and Mr . Cobden and the Peace Move- Mrs . Browning ' s Poems 880 riages , & c 8 » o-6 »
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The royal classes of Europe appear to be engaged in trying to hush up German affairs , and to retighten the relaxed fastenings of their own interests ; while they evade too vigilant a notice from the Peoples , ; whos © voice ' and interests they still conspire . % o shut out from the national conference ^ . Frederick William of Prussia , whose vacillations occasionally inclined him- to discern
some community of interest with his People , seems to have been brought back by the other crowned heads to the true discipline of royalty . The sole spirit which princes acknowledge as domineering over their class is the same as that which has prevailed among the illuminati of Germany , the Thugs of India , the buccaneers of America , and the nobles of Venice—a spirit which exacts devotion to the interests of the class as
paramount . Individual princes , whole nations , are sacrificed to it , as Ferdinand of Austria and Hungary were equally sacrificed to the interests of the class interests at stake in the Austrian Emperorship . The public servants who remain most faithful to the royal class , the diplomatists , have been active in an extraordinary degree . King Frederick William's most trusted Minister , General Radowitz , has been sent from Berlin to London , where he has been handsomely entertained by
Prince Albert . Lord Palmerston sends the Tory Earl of Westmoreland , late Ambassador at Berlin , as English Ambassador at Vienna . Baron Mayendorff , late Russian Ambassador at Berlin , now Russian Ambassador at Vienna , has been on a trip from the Austrian capital to Olmiitz , to assist at an interview between Prince Schwarzenburg and Baron Mauteuffell , the Prussian Prime Minister . It is reported that the result of this conference is a complete settlement of all
questions that threatened trouble and war — satisfactory to Austria with all her dread of encroachments on her shattered imperial supremacy , her territory , or her thrice-bankrupt treasury , for Austrian Government paper is at a discount of some fifty per cent . —satisfactory to Prussia , with her rising pretensions , and her people somewhat too ready in obeying the royal summons to risesatisfactory to Denmark , whose claim on
Schleswig-Holstein is ratified—satisfactory to Russia , who has had the settling of all these things—satisfactory , we suppose , to England , who has meddled and does not complain . " England , " we say , " Austria , " and "Prussia , " following the Royal diplomatic slang , which thus uses the names of states , when the things really designated are particular cliques of princes or professional politicians ; for the countries or the Peoples inhabiting them have evidently been left out of the question , and purposely so left . The People of Holstein and Schleswig , for example , their wishes and interests are to be [ Country Edition . ]
entirely overridden in favour of a particular man wearing the crown of Denmark , who is not in any relation of life a model of sagacity or good taste to his fellow-creatures . " Austria" means , not the Peoples collected under that " geographical expression , " but Prince Schwarzenburg , the Russian Baron Mayendorff , and other Viceroys over the young , Emperor Francis Joseph . " England" means Lord Palraerston , whom irumour ^ ep resents for $ * e * time as completely Austriani ^ 6 d vs-it does not at ^ jOf .
mean the People of England , who * if tpey cared at all about the matter , would rather see justice , done to the German Peoples , but not very creditably leaves it to Lord Palmerston to settle all these things at his own pleasure . The secrecy which princes and diplomatists are able to maintain , facilitates their success in arranging matters for their own convenience , and disposing of Peoples like sheep . The union which princes and their servants , the diplomatists , manage to keep up on the essential matters of their own class
interests , enable them to maintain this overwhelming power against the Peoples ; the Peoples not only find such union more difficult on account of their own multitudiriousness , but they have not yet learned to appreciate its value , its absolute necessity . When the democrats of the " several countries have learned to combine for the general interests of democracy , without sacrificing the spirit of nationality , the distinct sentiments or different objects of each race , then the Peoples of Europe will be strong against the Princes of Europe . Then , we should not see conspiracies like that at Olmiitz ,
open in their resort , secret in their contrivings , dispose of nations with a word , a wink , or a stroke of the pen . One good appears likely to come out of the general confusion ; the elector of Hesse-Cassel has gone back , or has been sent back to make the best terms he can with his people ; which is virtually leaving him to make his submission under the rigorous constitutionalism of his subjects . With unprecedented self-possession , throughout the contest with the Elector , the Hessians had managed to refrain from placing themselves in the wrong . To uphold the one stupid brawler against an entire
state behaving with the most cool-headed legality , was an outrage on justice and . common sense , too great for Austrian audacity , or even we suppose for Lord Palmersto ' n , in spite of his practice in Sicily Hungary , and Holstein . The Committee of the French Assembly , on the extraordinary credit for the new army of observation on the Rhine , has made its report through Monsieur de Remusat . The document is a highly moderated version , a safer form , of the Conservatism which reigned in the majority of the committee , and which had been blatant in the mouths of Count Mole , and the Marquis of Dalmatia , the te
latter had spoken of putting down the derman Democracy . " The general drift of the report is to recommend that France should aid in
maintaining the state of Europe as it is against the progress of democracy in other countries I It insists on the necessity of maintaining peace , and by claiming the disposal of peace and war for the Assembl y it deprives the President of that quasi-royal privilege . This is not to be understood as high democracy in the committee , but as a manoeuvre to restrict Prince Louis Napoleon in tjhe resources by which he might promote iihose Wbiirate . personal objects to ^ ufeh > he is
supposed to be devoted * Ijfc ; p ^ portioii ^^ the band of professional ; politician ? . , whp > # eh struggling for power and place . TJle re ^< M ^|^ one among the many sighs of therintense' Selfish- - > ness which rules the present councils of France , of the covert intrigues among the professional politicians which now distract the capital , divert the public servants from their duty , and threaten to deprive the people of all advantage derived from
the revolution . Among the French public , however , the report excites scarcely so much interest as the trial of Madame du Sablon—a case of criminal conversation piquantly blended with murder , attempted suicide , and dramatic failure . The story is , that the Abbe * Gothland , cure of St . Germain , near Angouleme , enjoyed the favours of Madame du Sablon , wife of a physician in the town j that the ecclesiastic poisoned an old female servant who
knew too much , and threatened an exposure , the poison having been stolen from the doctor's stores by the lady , and that , when the doctor learned the risk of public disgrace , he induced his wife to join in a family party , including their son , to inhale the fumes of charcoal , the doctor ' s own heart , however , failing him on seeing the struggles of his child , and he let in the fresh air . The lady walked
to the trial leaning on her husband ' s arm , and the proceedings were enriched b y reading some love fetters of the Abbe * to an elderl y lady in another town . Altogether the case is what we call " very French , " and it is much relished in Paris ; in London , of course , not at all , for though all the papers print it , and everybody is manifestly au fait at all the details , we graver and more moral people feel no interest in such things . _ .
We also read with avidity the particulars of the manner in which Mr . Sloane , an eminent special pleader of the Temple , beat and starved a miserable workhouse servant to the verge of death , and how he has been called to account for it before the magistrates j and we read how George Hacket escaped from Pentonville Prison , by force of the utmost ingenuity aud audacity . But , of course , it is out of no love of excitement , out of no perverse treasure at reading harrowing details , no sympathy
with adventurous daring , that we devour these narratives ; we should be very much ashamed of feelings of that sort , though somehow they seem to be inextinguishably human , and , perhaps , have their useful functions in the social ceconomy j but our sole and exalted motive is public spirit , that we
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 7, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07121850/page/1/
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