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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Human : tv—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's Cosmos . ¦
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— _* agb The General Election 646 The Electoral Address of the Society of the Friends of Italy * 653 i \ The Revenue 653 _^ Letters from Paris 654 Continental Notes 655 The Stockport Riots 655 Kaflr War ..,. .... 656 The Wh _^ _esidential Candidate for the United States 656 The Story of an Umbrella 656
Miscellaneous 656 Health of London during the Week 657 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 657 POSTSCRIPT 653 , „ _,, „ PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Political Doctrine of Election 659 The Cheapest Market 659 Schools for Women 660 The Australian _Plutus 660
The Book Wolf 661 The Wisdom of our Ancestors' De- _scendants 661 Notes on the Elections 661 Lineage of Franklin Pierce 662 Adulteration of Beer 662 the Modern Margery Daw 662 OPEN COUNCIL— rn , _„ i 7 , i er > + ' t _«„„ The Value of Outspeaking 662 LITERATURE— Hawthorne ' s New Romance 663
The Conquerors of the New World 664 Notices of Books 665 Books on our Table 665 _oriDTrni in-PORTFOLIO Comte ' s Positive Philosophy 66 * Passages from a Boy _s Epic 660 THE ARTSn . _Mir . fift 7 Otello 607 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , Ac ... 667-668
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The General Election has been going on for four or five days , and a considerable sample of the next House of Cbmmons has by this time been duly elected . If the bulk answer to sample it will not be distinguished amongst Parliaments , either for abilities or for strong convictions . It will be essentially a Parliament representing the middle class . Not only do extreme opinions find no favour , but shining abilities are not appreciated , and popularity , in the broadest sense of the word ,
is a disqualification . To be distinguished for _something has proved to be a dangerous advantage , and the candidate chosen by a show of hands has mostly been rejected by the poll . Spirited contests have been waged nearly everywhere , and in some places with very remarkahle results . In the City , Mr . Masterman , Peelite , supported by all the Liberals , reaches the head of the poll ; Lord John coming in second . Here high respectabilitv was the recommendation .
At Liverpool , bigotry defeats Cardwell and Ewart , and elects a Forbes Mackenzie , Orangeman , Derbyite , Protectionist , and Mr . Turner , a staunch _Freetrader , but nevertheless a Derbyite and Anti-Catholic . The Tories crow mightily over this election . Perhaps the recent Acts for checking Bribery and Corruption may give the right of crowing to the other party . In Greenwich , Government put on . the screw at high pressure , and carried Peter Itolt , ousting Admiral Stewart , and
placing Alderman Salomons lowest on the Poll . By the same influence Sir John Romilly was supplanted at Devonport , and Sir C . Clerk at Dover . As a per contra , Scarborough rejects the notorious George Frederick _* oimg ; Hull returns Mr . Clay '" ul Lord Goilerieh ; Kidderminster , Robert Lowe ; Aylesbury , Mr . Lajnrd and Mr . Bethell ; Halifax _rescues its name from disgrace as a Tory borough
J | . _Y electing Mr . Frank _Crossley as a col league of _^ r Charles Wood ; Carlisle returns Sir James _^ ndinin nt the head of the poll ; Leicester is true to VValmsley and Gardner ; Manchester adheres to Mi - Mih _. er Gibson and John Bright "; Beading _fleets Keating in the place of Stanford ; and _^ _'" ¦ _'flield carries triumphantly Roebuck aud Had field .
_I'hese are notable events enough . But there m some still more notable behind . Lambeth ° « sts the veteran Whig Radical D'Eyncourt , and _^ places him , at a few days' notice , by Mr . Arthur- Wilkinson , who reaches the top of the [ Country Edition . ]
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poll by dmt of the mid-day votes of the workingmen . So far this is a gain . But mark the contrast on the other side of the river . Mr . William Coningham , the Radical candidate for Westminster , decidedly the popular candidate , is defeated ; even a Lord Maidstone brings more voters to the poll . The men , like those who carried Mr . Wilkinson ' s election , in Westminster , were tricked out of their votes by one of the most dastardly of electioneering rascalities . At the time when the Avorkinsr-men
were coming up , the committee of General Evans and Sir John Shelley put out a placard , stating that Mr . Coningham had resigned , and that he " urged his supporters to poll" for these two immaculate gentlemen . The statement was the reverse of the truth , but it answered its purpose : before it could be refuted the men had returned to their work ! But this was not the sole instance of the
rejection of the man chosen by the non-electors , supposing all those who crowd to the nomination to be non-electors . William Newton , candidate for the Tower Hamlets , was supported by thousands of hands and defeated by thousands of votes . Mr . George Thompson and Mr . Ayrton share his fate , and a gentleman noted for his bigotted antagonism to Maynooth heads the poll . In Southwark and Finsbury , it is true , the old members ,
Sir William Molesworth and Mr . Duncombe are elected ; but at Bradford Colonel Thompson , another popular candidate , is driven out by a Freetrade Derbyite ; Oldham ousts l \ _t \ , and Rrightou rejects Trelawny . So much for the value of the constituencies as an index , to the will of the people . As far as the borough elections have gone they tell in favour of Free-trade and Whiggery—but in favour of nothing else . The Liberals at present have absolutely gained a few seats .
Meanwhile , the investigation into the origin of the Stockport riots has been suspended ; the evidence at , present produced telling rather against the Protestants , and not telling at all in favour of the Catholics . The latter , however , have not disgraced themselves by the publication of any such insulting placards as have issued from the other side .
The political atmosphere in 1 'Vance grows more unwholesome , if not more perturbed and threatening , week hy week . The land seems mined with conspiracy , and to meet these secret machinations , tho Government of professed experts in conspiracy , invents plots against its own safety ; and out of a few broken gas-pipes , and a few yurds of canvass , carefully stuffed hy the police with bullets , forges infernal machines against society . Aud to
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save society , once more endangered , the Empire is again announced by petitions , which the chief duty of the prefects consists in organizing . And so the gigantic falsehood waxes , and so , slowly but most surely , it wanes . As to the President , demoralized and morose , he betakes himself away to the retreat of royalty dethroned and
dispossessed , and already aching with lassitude , if not with satiety , begins to find that , in the success of ambition , care outruns content . The dispersed deputies are venting abroad the disaffection they are compelled to stifle in the chamber . The attitude of the army inspires grave anxieties in those who feel that the instrument mav become
the arbiter ; that a two-edged sword cuts botli ways , and that the bayonets that gave can take away . And to secure the devotion of that army for whom the souvenirs of a Name suffice not , the Emperor in petto contemplates a _razzia in Algeria upon Arab women and cattle . But in Africa he will be arrested by the exploits of Lamoriciere , as in Europe he is paralyzed by the name of Napoleon . And it is not through sueh an arch of triumph that he can hope to " reach the stars . " Altogether , Louis Napoleon ' s prospects are not cheering . News has come from Kafirland and the United
States . General Cathcart pursues the tactics of Sir Henry Smith , to some extent . Military promenades continue , with similar successes and reverses . But General Cathcart , continues to refuse to treat , until every hostile Kafir is beyond the Kei . He also vigorously threatens hanging . The gist of the whole is , that the war is not yet ended , nor does sueh a consummation seem likely to happen for some time . From the United States we learn that the Whig convention , has , as we expected , made choice of General Winfiehl Scott as the Presidential
candidate for the party . The Whigs have not managed so cleverly as their antagonists , the Democrats . Like the Whigs , the Democrats had several candidates , all of them men commanding a considerable degree of public favour , but , each of them possessing the favour more especially of a particular section , a fact rendering it somewhat difficult to concentrate the votes of the whole party upou any one of the three .
In this respect , the position of tin : two parties was exactly alike President Fillmore , General Scott , and Daniel Webster , each occupying a prominent place in the public esteem , but being viewed with strong favour , or with strong objection by several sections of the party . The Democrats
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10071852/page/1/
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