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•• The one Idea which . History exnibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is 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 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 oosmos . ^
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Nhws op the Wnmc- 'f Pn"e A PJan for Relieving the Irish Poor 117 !) En-land 1181 Rise and Fall of the Orchestral The Bonapartist Revolution 1174 Intramural Interment-: 1180 Social lie form . — " Note * of a Social Society " »« Continental Notes 1175 Horrible Agrarian Murder 118 ) ( Economist" 1185 Organizations of the Pkoplb—Robert Walker on the Conspiracy of Public Affairs— Litbhatuub— Jo the Chutists of hn-land 1 ai theDespota ..... ' ... 1176 l ' osilio . i of Affairs in France 1182 Florence Sackville 1187 PmlicoWorkingBmlderf ....... 1191 Shannon Crawford and Rochdale .. 1177 A free Church 118 * The Martyrs of Freedom 187 Halifax Working Men s Cooperative Church Matters 1177 The Austro-Russian Conspiracy .. J 1 S 3 The War in Afghanistan 1188 Society Hi * Archdeacon Denisou and the The Brevet Injustice 1183 Books on our Table 1183 OpenCouncil—National Society 1178 Public Departments 1183 The Arts— International Money-Order Office .. 1183 Voluntary Education ' . " . 1178 18 ir > Improved 1184 Franklin ' s Illustrations of the Commercial Akfaiks-CustoraVneform .:.:.:...:.::.. 1179 "Society is Saved" ! 1181 Parables 1190 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements A Defender of " Law and Order " .. 1179 Political Letters . —II . France and Haydn's beasons 11 U 0 & c iiv _ -iuo
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¦ ' ¦ ' ? Profound and universal disgust is the feeling of Paris , at the hideous paroxysm of lawlessness which it has undergone . The nature of the visitation is now clear to everybody : of many factions that one which is the most unscrupulous , the faction embodied in the single person of Louis Napoleon , has seized the start ; and for the moment France , surprised and held down , must submit to indignity and coercion . There is , indeed , a feeling that the coup d ' etat has saved the country by one
crisis , from another more formidable and less tolerable . The bourgeoisie , the same all over Europe , dislikes to look beyond its nose . The fear of the Red Republicans and the Socialists—generic term for every embodiment of crime and villanyhas been stimulated to a panic , and traded upon by the agents and the press of Government . " Religion—Family—Property" are cant words incessantly chanted by such men as Dr . Veron and Granier de Cassagnac . " We have broken the neck of 1852 " is the cry to catch the middle classes— " ' 52 , the year of universal war , spoliation , massacre , and what not . "
The workmen in general did not budge in the movement . Bewildered and suspected , uncertain for whom or for what to fight , thinking that , perhaps universal suffrage might be restored , their material and immediate interests pressing on them , their republicanism fatigued , though not extinct , with past exertions , they suffered the riot of authority to pass by without their intervention . The few barricades seem to have been raised by agents of the coup d ' etat , or by persons in the easy classes of society . Such is the general report ; and our own inquiries confirm it . The soldiers , p lied with brandy and donatives , revelled in the sack of the atrcets : they fired at random , and it is now ascertained that ' 2700 persons were killed , principally
innocent lookers-on ! In spite of a success in moral terror , as well as military surprise , the Klysce . stands in complete iuolatio ' n . Louis Napoleon has already lost his popularity . The people is silent , afraid to express opinion , but keenly alive to the national degradation . Ah the President , recently so bold , rides through the streets in a close carriage , escorted by a party of Cuirassiers , ho is received in dead silence : there is no cry of any kind , no hat taken oil " , no sign . We do not say this from hearsay , but from our own personal ohscrvation on the spot .
At the election Louis Napoleon may have the majority of those who do vote ; how could it bo otherwise under the existing pressure ? Hut how can hi : found a durable Government ? how can it ii « in him to " octroyer" a constitution , with Bullrngo for himself universal , for the , Chamber limited ? Ilia difficulties are already becoming too [ COUNTRY | £ « lTION . j
apparent for confidence in his position or power . In . the regimes of the Empire , of the Restoration , and of Louis Philippe , compression by bayonets , and press laws , and espionnage has been tried and found wanting : how can he and De Morny succeed in that which has failed the Legitimate Charles Dix and Polignac , or Louis Philippe and Guizot ? Louis Napoleon ' s financial difficulties are appalling : -he must either steal , which would be dangerous in the long run ; or borrow , which
would be less dangerous than difficult ; or create a forced currency of paper money , an attempt which would be amusing : fancy assignats by Louis Napoleon to create confidence ! Still he will have to pay the army , somehow , and \ jii # amuse it—with civil war , or war not civil , without a genuine Bonaparte to lead . He will use himself up in no time . His dash at power is the last stage of Bonapartism ; to be celebrated in history only for the amount of reckless mischief that he may find time to do .
But the elements of resistance lie around , the Reaction is already discerned . His very generals are beginning to dispute the dictatorship among themselves . There are also republican elements even in the army , among its captains and sergeants . The unfortunate excesses in the provinces , although indicative of the general distrust , are not a genuine national insurgency . They are chiefly committed by hungry peasants who attack property ; and Republicanism is charged with the spoliation . The real Republicans , unable to resist the usurper , or to controul the useless rioting , keep aloof and hide . Louis Napoleon cannot last , but his victory is the beginning of terrible days for France ; and the very process of counter-movement will cost her dear .
Meanwhile , the Absolutist Governments are delighted . At first their organs were in ecstasies , and immoderate hi their expression of joy ; but a change has coine over them : Louis Napoleon is too much of a good thing , and they exonerate their legitimate consciences with faint , censure . Our own Government does not wilhold recognition or sympathy : the Marquis of Nornianby attended the reception in the Hlyseo on Monday evening !
Louis Napoleon has not been nine ; to assassinate liberty , as certain folks art ; hoping . Quietists , Diplomatists , and moneyjobberH , are eager , but not keensighted : they never can sec throw / h the Htorin . Tlio real influences of liberty are but beginning to develope themselves . As the true danger to liberty is seen in the conspiracy of Austro-llussiiin barbarism , so the true alliance against it is seen : let the reader mark the concurrence between Louis IManc and Robert John Walker on thin point . Proofs of the growing sympathy between Knglaud proper and America are daily multiplying in our knowledge .
Shannan Crawford balances his account with the men of Rochdale , and prepares to retire ; ia his retirement consistent Radicalism will lose a brave and honest advocate . At the Roohdalc
dinner Mr . Cobden delivered a lecture on flinching . He accused the Radicals in the House of Commons with laxity of purpose , and the Radical constituencies with indifferency in suffering their representatives to be drafted off into the service of the Treasury . Would Mr . Cobden like to know the meaning of the fact he so well describes ? Is it not want of courage and devotion to principles which weakens the Radicals ? The Manchester
Conference , for instance , to which Mr . Cobden adheres —does anybody put faith in its programme ? Has it principles for the triumph of which a party can be found to " organize victory" ? Without faith you have no organization , without an organization you carry no measures . There lies the reason of Radical impotence—indifferency in the mass , produced by want of decision and active courage in the leaders .
The London merchants , banded to resist the tyranny of the Treasury and its unjust steward the Board of Customs , have faced the Premier by deputation , and have brought him to reason . Not indeed to answer—a Minister never can answer a deputation . Frankness is not official . Routine is implicated in so many what shall we call them ? The disingenuous , it is said , should have long memories ; but most especially a corporate disingenuousnesB never knows how it may commit itself unless it refreshes its memory and compares notes with all its witnesses . The deputation demanded a renewal of the select committee of last
year , and a reform of the Customs' administration . Lord John replied with apologies and vague promises , and sent away the deputation delighted with his courteous manner ; but not , we trust , cajoled into taking promises for performances . The merchants do wear an appearance of boldness at present . Side by side in the columns of a morning journal on Wednesday , were three reports of decidedl y notable performances of the day before : London Church Union reporting to itself at St . Martin ' ahall ; Roman Catholicism installing itself in state ,
on Croome-hill , Greenwich ; and Voluntary Kducationists conferring at Crosby-hall . Decidedly the broadest platform of what are called " Church principles " is atlordcd by that report of the Union freedom for the Church , and open , manly , highpriucipled action to obtain that freedom : abstinence from political intrigues , and direct assertion that beyond the bare , legalisation of her legislative assemblies the Church will accept nothing from the Parliament—in fact , synods being authorized , nothing but the Veto left for Parliament . This in definite and practical .
Closely allied wil . h the High-Church movement is that advance of Romanism which ostentatiousl y plants its churches here and there , like this now one at Greenwich dedicated to "Our Lady of the Sea . " The young party of the Church of Kngland demand freedom of ilevelopeineut , and we say , let them have it by all means . Hut here at Greenwich iu the tcinplo of a Church which Uua enjoyed .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121851/page/1/
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