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•• The one Idea which H . story exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness " the Idea of Humanity-the noble endeavour to tturow down all the barrier ' s erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ;; and , ^ by setting a * ide the a »» J » oto « a 8 of Religion , Country , and Colour to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the tree development of our spiritual nature . "—Hwnboldt ' s Cosmos .
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MINISTERS , Members , and all of us are about to be relieved of the session ; and a certain indifference appears to have crept over the body of the House of Commons in the treatment of the subjects before it . There has been throughout the session a propensity to push forward business , but at present it is left more in the hands of Ministers ,
except when some few are instigated either by great earnestness on particular questions , or by personal objects . Thus , upon the whole , technical subjects are left very much to professional men , and the debates which have taken place on the fraudulent Trustees Bill , or the Wills Bill , have been consigned to lawyers , on reformatory schools to reformatory authorities , or Scotch lunacy to Scotch members—the luaatics . perhaps , not being
actually represented . * One result of this laissez-faire system lias been rather unfavourable to tlie public . The Fraudulent Trustees Bill , for example , is passing through the House of Commons in a manner which renders it dangerous to a large proportion of the non legal public if it should pass , but likely also to be arrested in the Upper House from a stronger perception of its dangerous character . And again , the Wills Bill has beca improved by the insertion of an amendment granting probate
in the local registration courts above the sum of 1500 / ., which had been fixed in the ori ginal bill ; but this improvement so greatly alters the character of the original measure as to have provoked Ministers , apparently , to drop the bill ; so that the public will not obtain the advantage of the new law . This happened not in a narrow House ; but evidently the members did not bestow their thoughts upon the subject , or gave them superficially in favour of ' local self-government , ' without reflecting upon the practical effect of the change on the passing of the moasure .
The debate on the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland was amusing , but oan bo scarcely regarded as a practical discussion . Mr . Roehuck offered a resolution for the abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy ; ho made a very spirited statement of the case on his side , but the strongest speaker on that side was Mr . Magtjire , who made a slashing , dashing , smashing Irish speech , which might have done in ono of the debates of O'Cou neli ^ ' s time , but he wound up with the strange conclusion that he should voto for Mr . Lord Lieutenancy j but in the concrete it did not
ToKB . ENsM CuLi-A . GH ' s amendment— ' the previous question . ' This state of things indicates the temper of the House . In the abstract , it was willing to listen to all kinds of spoken articles , satirizing the desire to enter into any subject of reform this session ; and Mr . M'Cullagh ' s amendment implied simply that that was not the proper time for entertaining the subject . It was carried by 266 to 115 . ' The election committees have been going on , and have had some rather interesting results . There was an amusing announcement quite at the end of 5 r > j 3 I - ;
last week . Mr . Omveira . had petitioned against the return of Mr . " Wood , the member for Pontefract , on tltc ground of bribery and corruption . The case was not proved ; but the committee had discovered that ' Benjamin Oliveira and Emma his wife' had expended something more than 6000 / ., after the last election for Pontefract , for corrupt purposes . So that Benjamin ' s mess was thrown in his owa face , and the effect of the committee was to pronounce that he was not duly elected to the last Parliament , although ' Emma his wife' had so faithfully assisted in both elections .
Mr . Ciiakles Neate , the learned representative of Oxford city , who displaced Mr . Cardwell , has been unseated , because his over-zealous friends took one hundred and fifty voters into their pay in the guise of ' messengers '—an appropriation of votes which more than secured the majority by which Mr . JNeate was returned . It is a curious thing , however , that a man may hire a cab and receive money for his travelling expenses , but he must not hire himself and receive money for his own exertions . He n » ay havo cab-hire , but not self-hire .
The Mayo election has had a sequel in situ . Two of the witnesses who gavo evidence before the committee have been mobbed on their return by the adherents of the petitioners ; and the Government has been obliged to interfere for the protection of tho assailed , and the oxecutiou of justice upon the assailants . We arc awaiting with anxiety tho receipt of further information from India . The question is , whether tho
mutinous revolt has been confined to Delhi or not r lSvcn if it has maintained itself there , tho example might bo vory serious . Not that our Indian Empire oau bo for a moment in dangor ; it is our pockets that are in danger . Every wook that tho struggle is prolonged will be so much moro out of tho pookots of tho English people ; for tho , Indian finance is in a state of chronic inoflioionoy , and ovory increase of expenditure must fall upon us . A further reason why wo should hasten improvements that would
to ask whether it was necessary to continue him as Emperor of the French by the grace of God and the will of the people . This is another reason why the gloom on the Trench money market continues . The movement in Italy has not been such as to be of any service to the Liberal cause . Tho plan appears to have been extensive j but extension brings weakness , unless tho organisation was very perfect , and such was evidently not the case here . The police have smothered anything that was contemplated in Paris . Tho conspirators did not even show themselves in most of the plaoes marked oa
the map of Italy . They' created a panic in the town of Leghorn , and tho guard appears to havo undergone some kind of alarm ; but tho troops proved too many for the rioters . Tho revolutionists landed parties on tho coast of Naples and libomlod some prisoners ; tho most substantial result being , that tho King has armed tho Laswnroui , to tho great terror of his rospeotablo subjects . But tho least sucoossful aot of all wns the attempt to orc $ 9 ft revolt in . Genoa , Goaoa is a highly TopnbUoan ^ Iao ^ '' . ^ ' 5 /• ' V .... J c ? 9 .. ¦ ¦* 'V ' - * ' \ p jJ *• * , /' l / 'I (^ frfi ¦ ' i . - ¦ . ; 'S vV
as well as other Opposition votes in the provinces , prove both that very considerable numbers of the people are adverse to the Government , and that electors and elected are beginning to assume c the courage of their opinions . ' The food question , too , continues to press upon the people of France . Louis Napoleon may hold his place while he seems to be the distributor of-prosperity , but if Jupiter the Third were found incapable of distributing loaves and fishes , the working classes would begin
causes . The speculator class is excessively active just at present to maintain its ground ; and it is a question how long something like a crash can be put off . But independently of that , the very stability of the Government has been called ^ in question . It is not indeed that ten or a dozen Opposition Members in the Corps Legislatif , headed by General Cavaignac , can upset the monarchy ; but it is , that the election of three Opposition candidates in the supplemental elections for Paris ,
prevent the recurrence of those disasters , and render India self-supporting in her finance . The fire in Italy has not spread to other countries , or even in that . The Continent is not disturbed generally ; but a kind of gloom and uneasiness are conspicuously seen in Paris . Notwithstanding the improved state of the Money Market here , the Bourse continues to be depressed , and the feeling of those who attend it is evidently worse than that exhibited in the mere ' quotations . ' This arises from two
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Leader (1850-1860), July 11, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11071857/page/1/
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