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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 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 ofRehe < ion , 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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ifgOT ov thr Wane- Pa <* e Public Opinion 961 Why the Church ' of England is not the Thh Arts—Continental No ^ es < T > I Authentic ? Bloomerism 961 Church of . the People 96 JT Tne Musician in | the Crystal Palace 373 Kossuth 938 PersonalNews and Gossip 96 * London Coal 966 European Democracy 974 AKeflexofthe « v AVr ' icuituraVMiud" 959 The Exposition 932 The Gospel of Temperance 96 V Organization op the Peoplb 975 Oxford and Reform ........ 95 6 " Mad Madge " at Guildhall 962 Von Beck and Derra 967 Open Council-The Famine Debts 960 Miscellaneous 903 Social Reform— " Note * of a Social Ronge on Russian Absolutism au < l Adulteration of French Flour' !' . ' . ' . ' .. 9 K 0 Our Circulation 963 .- ( Economist" 967 Religious Progress in Europe .... 975 Movement for Diocesan Synods .... 960 Public Afka irs— What is Socialism ? : 968 Suggestion of Railway Safety .... 976 Episcopal Salaries .. 960 Koss-ith—bis Friends and Foes 964 Litbratuur— Health of London during the . Week 976 Not the Church of the People ! .... 961 Manchester in the Flower 965 Ellis on Education and Destitution 970 Commercial Affairs—Abd-el-Kader . ' 961 Graham on Aberdeen 965 Philosophy of the Water Cure 971 Markets , . Gazettes , Advertisements , The London Temperance League .... 961 How to Live 965 Books on our Table 973 & c ... , 976-8 W
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ftcEEN Victoria and Kossuth share the public attention Manchester has been wild with excitement , because it was to have a day ' s visit from the Queen ; Southampton is wild with expectation of the illustrious Hungarian . London and many other towns participate in the feelings of Southampton . Endless addresses are adopted . Birmingham keeps its lead in Hungarian affairs ; Southampton does justice to its priority of position ; London means to keep its preponderance in the gigantic ; even Manchester has not forgotten the exile . In the metropolitan movement there is
a disposition to disregard smaller differences , and to unite various parties in the common expression of homage to Kossuth . We hope that this feeling may be carried out in practice ; we know that numerous bodies are in communication with the Central Committee , and we believe that we are speaking the sentiments of the whole committee , when we say that the desire is to avoid anything that can give exclusiveness to its expression , or to divide " the inhabitants of London " in the presence of the exiled patriot . The interest in the subject is very great , and it is growing daily .
The Protectionists do " not excite half so much interest , even amongst themselves . They go on holding dinners , but they do not go on holding to their principles . Instead of " No surrender , " their motto now is , " Surrender all round . " Mr . Disraeli expected not to utter even the word " Protection . " Mr . Henry Drummond , like Mr . Henley , would get what he could . Mr . Robert Palmer has hopes still . The Agricultural Free
1 raders have decidedly the best of it . Mr . Alcock ' s fine phrensy on guano , Mr . W . James ' s dash at the game laws and proposal of " half rents , " the Earl of Wilton ' s call to exertion " together , " and Mr . George Carr Glyn ' s exhortation to selfreliance , exertion , and improvement , on the principles of the hardest ojconomy , were at least effective and telling : the Protectionists could not say anything half so forcible .
And Sir William Page Wood , profiting by the general Katurnalian anarchy of political ideas , recommends to his feasting friends at Oxford , implicit reliance on Lord John Russell ! ltoly on him , O ye Irish , whom he will not suffer *<> " repudiate . " No , the loans on the security of rat ( w muHt be paid . In reply to Lord Lucun ' proposal of repudiating , ho says , that the Earl and jho Iriah must not " set themselves above the law , " «>» it must be subordinate to Treasury morals . The money , he admits , was wasted ; but Ireland must J » iy . Ho had better follow the rate-payers to America . J l > r . Ollivant ' o charge , interpenetrated by a kind oi Hopeful despair , is followed by tU « VJgWOUJJ [ Coug-ntY lSiui'ioN . l
Derby meeting , where the Young England of the Church met to demand her rights and win her freedom . Oh , if the brave words of George Anthony Dehison—the Churchman ' s success is doing his duty—had been the motto of the Church , not now would she justify the assertion of the Bishop of Llandaff ! Straight towards the separation of Church and State , whatever Mr . Merryweather may think , marches the agitation for synods and convocations . And when bishops are called " tyrants" by a reverend canon ; when the relation between the Church and State is pointed at by a man like Mr . Dickinson , as " a shame and a disgrace " at a meeting of clergymen , then we may have hopes that the hour of deliverance is at hand .
M . Louis Napoleon Bonaparte pursues his own degradation with a perverted ingenuity worthy of a better cause . By a sad fatality , not an act , not a tendency , of the French Government , but falsifies every promise and profession of " the prisoner of Ham . " He rose to power on the shoulders of the People ; he is assisted in falling by the intriguers into whose hands he has played his own good faith and the national honour of France . They have compromised him irredeemably with the Democracy : to whom shall he look for gratitude , or admiration , or support , when the hour of resignation has struck ?
Pelf and place , and vain parade of " soldiering , " and mock Imperial airs , are poor substitutes for patriotism and duty . But that the inheritor of a name once the terror of Austro-Russian despotism , should stand openly avowed as the complaisant Minister of the new Unholy Alliance , to do the foul work of impotent hate and terror , and to violate the sacred laws of hospitality to exiles—will the noble French people of February ' 48 forget or pardon such national disgrace as this ? We think not . But the impolicy is as striking as the brutality of the last feat of MM . Baroche and Faucher . Kossuth , as Emile de Girardin says , would have passed
away : his address , noble , simple as his patriot heart , remains a part of history . The abject pronenean to servitude of the Bourgeoisie is not the spirit of French nationality . But it is not enough to spurn the exile : official journals insult misfortune , and stab silent heroism in the dark . Nothing is omitted to ^ stamp ignominy , damning ignominy , upon the Government of denationalized spies and traitors . We had hoped that the contract of France and England might bo complete . But our leading journal treads closely on the heels of the virtuous Constitutionnel ; and the Globe emulates the generosity of La Patrie . Yet in England , as in France , the true People are sound at heart .
' 1 here have been whisperings of the approaching end of the vigorous Ministry who were rash enough to nail the law of the 31 st of May to the mast , forgetting the Budden fits of" personal Government to which your Emperor ' a nephews are liable . " But Odilon Burrot , that 7 m idler of impossible situations , who if ) talked of , Utf thQ Buwessor tQ Faucjjer , wpuld
only propose a modification of that inauspicious law ; unsatisfactory to all parties . Le Docteur Veron ' s new solution is , universal suffrage for the Presidential election , limited suffrage for the election of a new Assembly ; a very " personal" and Bonapartist chicane , designed to lender the future Assembly inferior in origin , and subordinate in authority , to the future Emperor-President . This solution is seen through and exploded by the Republicans and the faction . The Constitution is the legal barricade which nothing but universal suffrage can throw down , and universal suffrage will be the consolidation of the Republic .
M . Louis Bonaparte ' s active life consists mainly in attempts to convert national soldiers into Praetorians . The Emperor of Austria ' s abrupt conclusion of a triumphal progress through his Italian provinces , was more a flight than a departure . A good omen 1 Frederick William of Prussia , it seems , is fullyalive to the necessary conditions of " Divine right , and to the necessary developments of Protestantism . If you believe he is a water drinker , you will not believe that he is what we have reason to know he
is , a Roman Catholic . He will be Pope and Monarch , too , like his Russian patron—only give him rope and time enough . Other potentates are reposing on . Concordats with the Spiritual Head of Despotism . The hereditary piety of " our dear daughter" of Spain " compounds for sins , " & c , as Naples does for massacres and perjuries , and Tuscany for a people sold to servitude—by Concordats ! His Holiness even hints darkly at a convention with our own " distant region . " Many things less likely than a Concordat with Palmeroton
Official Bloomerism stares us in the face from Miss Kelly ' s theatre . Twenty Bloomera visible at once behind the stage lights—rather a startling sight . It indicates clearly enough that Society , the dear old lady , must take up the condition of the petticoat question , as well as the condition of England question , and set her " outer integuments " to rights , as well as put her house in order . A young lady lecturing a masculine audience on the attire of Adam and kve , is certainly transcendant ; but we commend her bravery and simple heart . Meanwhile , Mrs . Dexter has been " starring- it " at Glasgow—with more pleasing results than her . Finsbury escapade .
The Exposition is closed to the general public . It has done its work bravely . It has shown tlio Industry of the World to the World ; it haar taught England that she is supreme in some things , not in all , not unapproachable in any . It has suggested improvements to agriculture : a powerful illustration of its moral effect is given m the fact that tfie agriculturists hardly look at M'Cormack ' s reaping machine , ere they think of improvements on that . Even Austrian police have learned what immense crowds may assemble , in n . tolcrnHy fr « P country , wnliuut , dobger to "order . >*
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101851/page/1/
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