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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 oy prejudice and one-sided news ; and ; by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Tinman race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Muwbolai's Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— page Miscellaneous 1172 OPEN COUNCIL— THE ARTS Thp ir .. ..- _ POSTSCRIPT— What shall we Gain by the "War ? .. 1178 Mont Blanc 1184 WarMU ^ UW * Art tT V n ¦ e t > ,,,.. India— I he Subsidiary States .... 1178 The Theatres 1184 War Miscellanea 1168 The Czar ' s Desire for Peace 1174 Aipvnniiflr Hprzpn'i "Exile" 1 !? 8 Victor Emmanuel in England .... J 68 The Eastern Counties Kailway Alexander Herzen s i . xiic .... iu » The Orient . 1169 Disclosures 1174 iitPRAThdP — The Petition of Mr Bates 1169 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- UlitKfllUKt London ttazettc 1185 A Gay Lady 1 IC 9 rUBLIt MhrfllKa- Summary 1179 Our Civilisation 1170 Six New Points 1175 Alacaaulay ' s First and Second The War and the t-anitary Move- The' Court Circular" on lleligion 1175 Volumes ll 80 ment ... 1171 Colonel Turr 1176 Charatera in Little Dorrit 1182 CnMIWIFRCIAl AFF & IR 1-Naval and Military News 1171 Survey of the War 1177 Kobt . lirowning ' s Men and Women vuiviwickuihl Hrr « iKO Continental Notes 1172 The ' Skelton in Every House" of I ( Second Notice ) 1182 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Obituary 1172 Business 1177 ; Pictures of Cuba 1183 vertisemeiits , Sec I 18 S
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rjpHE King of Sardinia lias been the con-JL spicuous object occupying the public sight throughout the first half of the week . There is no class so addicted to si ght-seeing as the princely class , and he has done as much work as the five days would permit . Koyal visitors usually make a
dash at the military sights , and , King Victor Emmanuel is too good an officer to neglect that part of his business . But most assiduous has he been in the receipt of addresses . Englishmen seized him , not to make him tell them what Sardinia is doing , but to tell him what England is doing ; as if the contemplation of his merits—civil , military , and ecclesiastical—called forth an overweening
consciousness of our own merits , and compelled us to chatter corporately . He had scarcely reached the metropolis ere the Young Men ' s Christian Association dashed nt him with a preachment on the subject of civil and religious liberty ; the Young Men were followed up by the Three Denominations ; then " J . B . Cantoau , " and a number of pious persons representing * he religious societies , all told King Victor Emmanuel how they admired him for giving national independence ,
constitutional freedom , and religious liberty to Piedmont ; but how much more they admired themselves for having secured these blessings beforehand . Nevertheless , the demonstrations have not been without a useful influence . If they have exhibited our conceit , they have pledged us more strongly to the principle of liberty , in regard to veligious matters ; and they must have strengthened King Victor Emmanmjicl in the belief that
freedom of any kind is not conducive to civil war or to danger for the Government . lie declared as much in . » i deep bass voice , that resounded through the CJuil'lhall , \ vli « n he sat receiving the City address ; an » although he spoke in the language of Italy , which must have been Greek to most of his audience , there , was a frankness in his manner that deeply impressed thorn . They received , as an Assurance '\ rt be believed , the declaration which he made , that having unsheathed the sword , ho would
not sheathe it again until the Allies should have secured a peace enduring , because honourable . One of the most curious encounters on this soil of free and religious liberty was that between Cardinal Wiseman and the King , whom the Pope has placed under a kind of preliminary excommunication . The Kino attended divine service in the Sardinian chapel ; the chief dignitary of the Roman Church in London had to perform duty ; and it lav with Cardinal Wiseman
either to waive that ceremony and his allegiance to the Pope , or to take the post due to him , and accommodate himself as gracefully as he could to the position . He took the latter course : he welcomed the King to the chapel which the Sardinian Government maintains in England , but said not a word of the excommunication , of the Concordat with Austria , or of those Papal hostilities which have threatened , and may yet again threaten , the power and the life of Victor Emmanuel ..
It is not that Cardinal Wiseman remains passive on the subject of the Concordat . On the contrary , he is endeavouring to stifle public opinion in this country under a feather-bed of explanation . He began a scries of elucidatory addresses in a Roman Csitholic chapel on Sunday last ; and he has so much to say , that during that whole evening he could only make a beginning . We get out of his description but two affirmations —first , that the clauses of the Concordat had been for two yours
under the profound consideration of the Kmimsuor and his advisors , of the : Poi'K and his advisers , and that , therefore , it is not to be judged in a hurry by foreigncrN ; secondly , that it is written in a Latin which is " the peculiar language of ecclesiastical diplomacy , " and is , therefore , unintelligible to the vulgar . The accounts hitherto" given of it , says the Cardinal , are like " a romance—a laughable production ; " but he did not deign to give the Hlightcst explanation to prove this assertion .
It happens , unfortunately for the Cardinai / h assurances , that recent events are * calculated only to discredit them . We have had the IJibleburning case in Ireland lately , where a Russian servant of the Poi'ic has been indicted for burning
the New Testament . Archbishop Cui . len , exulting in the Concordat , makes a slanting allusion to the burning of " wicked books " as a commendable act ; and the fire lighted by the Russian priest has roused a strong anti-Protestant feeling in Ireland . We have lately noticed some encroachments in Bohemia and in Bologna : other encroachments have since been reported . In Lutheran Hungary , schools for Lutheran children have been
suppressed because they have not been licensed by the State , the Concordat having stipulated that the State should consult the bishops on the subject of schools . In Modena the Government has decreed that henceforward civil marriage shall not be necessary , the ecclesiastical marriage sufficing . The trial of Father Petcueuine for Bibleburning has taken place , and Justice Ckampton told the world , through the grand jury , that to burn the Bible is to destroy the very foundation of our law—our common and our statute law ; since Christianity is the basis of our common law , and the , oath taken by public officers and witnesses is the guarantee for the administration of justice . This is to proclaim perjury the only punishable offence , and to hold out the doctrine thut Jews , Quakers , Separatists , Deists , Secularists , and non-Jurors or non-Christians of any denomination , are beyond the pale of the law . How senseless thi account in everybody knows ; the common law rests upon the usage of the country ; the statute unv from the authority of Parliament . Oath itwolf may Vie administered in any form , or diapenscd with altogether . Senseless sih the charge is , if ; will do harm in Ireland , by distracting public opinion on the subject of the law , and K "» to tlic , ( . ' ovenunent and the JiuYw ' mvy thtf appearance of entering into a warfare ivitli I ' kj cukhink , Ciju . kn , and the whole frisli 1 ' apucy . The dissidenccs in the Church < pf ; S « WtfVJVU BV * form and ornament— exponents , in iiu > *& $ ipwr ~ $ f £ Z ; \ diasidences on |> oi » t » <>< ' dootiineAiWe fcrojigW ;¦ ; , . r into high relief by tlio judgment , . itftyjred . b y < Pr > t ' ^ y /* Luhhinuton , in the OoiiHiMiory €# urt , oif }* < nl » , ' , ;/ " / ncsday . Mr . Wkhtickton and Mr ^ pAf / UHUhfli- ^' // ' ^/ crusiule of Bol i via again Nt the \ cfc « 8 iWta and , caniUuiitickH of St . Paul and St . k ^ i ^ A ^ q / f 3 'Y
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08121855/page/1/
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