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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by pr . eju . dice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat th . e 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 op the ATeek— ' Page Murders and Murderous Assaults ... 150 Society . 156 . ; Arts— • , „ , Parliament 146 Miscellaneous 151 The Education of the People 156 . The Lyric Drama »••••• 16 ,. Protection Meetings 147 Public Affairs— Education . ' ..: . ' 156 -TheDrama 161 Clerical Agitations 148 Progress of the New Reformation ... 153 Adult Education ; 157 Painting in London : The Exhibi-The Arctic Expedition 149 Farmers Revolutionary 153 The Morality of Easy Divorce . » .. 157 tion 162 May Meetings 149 What is our Socialism ? 154 Literature— Portfolio—State of Germany 149 University Reform 154 Laing on ' European Social Life .... 157 Ancient Greek Vase 163 The French Republic 149 Random Statistics 155 Merrivale ' s Roman Empire 158 The Apprenticeship of Life 163 Condition of Rome 150 Open Council— Philip Bailey ' s Angel World ...... 159 Thoughts in Despondency 165 Railway Annoyances to the Public . 150 ' : What is our JReligion 155 Dr . Pickering on the Races of Man . 160 Tendencies 165 St . Albans Succession 150 The Common Labour Principle .... 156 Books on our Table 1 . 61 Commercial Affairs— ( _ TheAgapemone 150 Present State and Prospects of Notes and Extracts ... 161 Markets , Gazettes , & c ib 6-68
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According to reports from very credible quarters , the position of Ministers has assumed a somewhat serious aspect . In two ways . Conscious of their sinking , they have determined to make a stand , and with their usual felicity they selected the Australian Colonies Constitution Bill as the measure by which to stand or fall . In this it is conjectured that the Russell section of the Cabinet has made a very marked sacrifice to the Grey section , or , rather , to the single person of the " crotchety
being" himself . Meanwhile , it is understood that Lord John Russell has been very gravely indisposed ; so much so as to have made a very earnest appeal to one of his independent supporters who had given notice of a motion that might have been troublesome . Not only did Ministers threaten that if their friends were lax in their support they would resign ; but Lord John Russell had also held out the threat that if he were much
harassed he might be driven to a resignation of a more mortal and involuntary character . The effect of these appeals was seen in the result : the independent supporter took his embarrassing motion out of the Premier ' s way ; and to one of the most intelligible propositions , supported by an irresistible array of argument and evidence advanced by Sir William Molesworth , the House of Commons refused to attend—almost to listen .
The sacrifice of sound legislation to party was considerable . The measure before the House , the Australian Colonies Bill , as a piece of legislation is feeble and clumsy as any ever offered in that assembly ; which is saying a great deal . Sir William Molesworth suggested a bodily change upon it , which would altogether have altered its nature . He proposed to distinguish between Imperial and colonial affairs , completely localizing the government in regard to local matters ; transferring , as he expressed it , to the Governor in the colony the
authority now wielded by the Colonial Office through its Governor . The effect of this constitutional change must have been very great and beneficial . Reposing more power in the Governor , it would necessarily have attracted to the post a class of men superior to that which now seeks colonial preferment . Localizing the provincial Government of the colonv it would have set ¦¦ uvtimiiCUU Ul l / UC UUlUIly XV VVUUIU uav (< osn
free the peculiar bent which the English genius derives from geographical varieties of climate and soil , in order to its greatest development in Colonial nationality , and so , by permitting greater freedom of play in the imperial connection , would have postponed , perhaps altogether superseded , that necessity for separation which superficial politicians so readily assume . But these considerations were far too wide and remote for the statesmen of the House of Commons : they were thinking neither of Colonies nor Constitutions
half so much as of Lord John Russell ' s health and his Ministerial position , and they hastened to vote , not on the merits of the proposition , but on the question whether the present Ministry should be disturbed or not . The attitude of Ministers in the debate , the disrespectful manner with which they declined to enter into the discussion at all , and appealed to the pre-arranged impatience of their supporters for the division , is tantamount to a confession of the fact which we allege . It would appear that somewhat similar coercion has been put upon their free ally , Lord Ashley . He has been , obliged to give-up his close adherence to the Short Time * cause : that' adhesion he
transfers to the compromise which , suggested by " A Manufacturer" in the Times , has been rejected by the Short Time leaders of Lancashire and adopted by Ministers . The new arrangement is not without some recommendations , especially in its simplicity and its capacity of self-working ; objects which the manufacturers profess to have solely in view . But it has the ugly feature of circumventing the Short Time Agitators by an indirect process of gaining from them two hours on the Saturday . Lord Ashley intimates , that in the teeth of the Ministerial adoption of that plan , he shall be unable to keep his supporters together ; and he , too , adopts the compromise .
The journeyman bakers , who complained to Parliament , through Lord Robert Grosvenor , of their comfortless condition in the avocations of their trade , were treated with quite as little ceremony . Mr . Bright accused Lord Robert Grosvenor of " Communism" because he asked for inquiry ; and Sir George Grey declared that inquiry was needless . Mr . Bright retorted upon the bakers that they must help themselves : what will he say if they do so by entering into a strict combination ?
By a mercy , as the saying is , it has been discovered that Bowers , the Coloured man who was arrested at Charlestown is not a British subject , but an American citizen ; so that Lord Palmerston is not morally bound to stand up for the man ' s rights , and the United States may do what they like with their own . There is a world of agitation going on still in ecclesiastical affairs , and no master spirit to rule the storm . The Bishops have been meeting many times , but as yet nothing more tangible has resulted than a bill to establish an Episcopal Court , which would assume the authority now reposed for ecclesiastical matters in the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council . Dr . Blomfield tabled his bill in the House of Lords on Monday . The disturbed and shaken authority of the Church in matters of doctrine does not appear to have been directly touched by this restorative measure ; though in process of time , if the Episcopal Court be well administered , the doctrinal authority of the Church might be reestablished within its own sphere . Meanwhile , some of the different forms which the Gorham case has assumed before the lawcourts have
been postponed . Although transferring the subject to-the colonial ground , Mr . Gladstone ' s debate on the proposal to establish a clerical and lay synpd of the Church of England in the Australian colonies virtually belongs to this agitation at home . Mr . Roebuck-saw through that millstone , and sneeringly refused , his assent to placing the Church of England on an equality , with " Jumpers . " In this
debate , also , Ministers evinced the same confident reliance on their own avowed incapactity that they showed in the constitution debate : they left to Mr . Roebuck and their Attorney-General the discussion and argument ; and contenting ; themselves , jvith suggesting difficulties , " regretted " -HjSv V ? MM $ - turn of the debate , ' * and declined really tdvefl ^ er into the discussion ; in fact , they trusted to the
pre-arrangement for the vote . Among the ecclesiastical news of the week may be enumerated the report that the use of the Church Catechism has been stopped in the royal nursery : a rumour that might have been added to the enormities reckoned up by the Protestant Association at its annual meeting this week . Lord Carlisle ' appearance as chairman of the British and Foreign School Society , which ha 3 also had its annual meeting , might be taker * as a type , not very cheering , of the position assumed by the more intelligent and aspiring of " moderate "
just now . Lord Carlisle advocated education , unsectarian education , as the great civilizer ; but in alluding to the religious dissensions which are now so rife and animated , he spoke of the progress of education with unwonted despondency . He did not expressly give up his hopes , but his tone was that of a man in whom they are growing feeble . Lord Carlisle is a hearty and sincere man ; but he has not got the strength of will to master events , and probably he finds his colleagues turning fainthearted . The contest between an Austrian love of ignorance and free education , between Sectarian is too
bigotry and Catholic religion , getting strong for Whig combatants in that field . Mere political activities have been almost monopolized by the Protectionists . They have had a great meeting of delegates to talk rebellion , under the presidency of the Duke of Richmond , at the Crown and Anchor tavern ; andMr . Ferrand has been carrying on his agitation to get up a Wool League . The farmers talk very big , but the Wool League is no more than an individual crochet ; and as to the delegates in London they seem to be destitute of a plan of action ; for their resolutions , deputations to Ministers , protests , and so forth , are toys .
Socially , the aspect of the week ' s news is milder than it has been for some time . Murder has rather paled its ineffectual fire ; and in lieu thereof we have passing before our eyes a few striking illustrations of domestic life arid the laws which govern marriage . A new claimant has appeared to the St . Albans succession , —a gentleman who ought either to wear upon his escocheon a double bar sinister , as the illegitimate son of a noblema n
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Leader (1850-1860), May 11, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11051850/page/1/
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