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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea cf Humauity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and b y setting aside ths 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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Ireland .... An Episode NEW S OF THE WEEK— PAGB Tbe American Fishery The Kafir "War ...... Letters from Paris ..... Continental Notes Question 766 766 767 768 768 769 770 770 770 771 771 771 " What's in a Name ?" .. Captain Atcherley Again Cheap Funerals Miscellaneous , Health of London daring " Von Beck "—Additional The Norwood Nunnery ... Evidence Births , Marriages , Emigrant ' s Transit Difficulties .. City Sympathy with the Sufferers Montreal Curious Will Case Agricultural Improvement Bailway Aocidefct .................... at POSTSCRIPT PUBLIC AFFAIRS—* The Impossible War -with _America British _Reaction on the Continent . ssaofXentAc- The Clouded Bky 776 LITERATURE— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS—771 Louis Napoleon ' s Best Friend 777 An American Thinker 781 | Markets , Advertisements , & c ... 787-788 Verdict on the Duchess of Kent Ac czdent 771 772 772 772 772 772 773 773 774 Indications of Beform m Doctors Commons Hints to . New M . P . 's , by an Experienced " Stranger" The Co-operative Movement The Dangers of the Temperance « ' Cause" ... in Town Iiife the Week and Deaths OPEN COUNCILThe Late Co-operativeConference Letter from Mr . E . Vansittart Ton Beck at Birmingham ...... The Province of Toteratidn ... LITERATUREAn American Thinker 775 776 776 777 762 783 784 Are the Stars Inhabited ? Jordan ' s Autobiography , Books on our Table 777 777 778 PORTFOLIOLetters of a Vagabond 784 779 Comte's Positive Philosophy 785 THE ARTSSignor _KTegTini .., Pietro il Grande . Tb * Gold Fields 780 787 787 787 Neale 780 780 of Australia 780 _***«•»•>
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War , possible or actual , is still the subject of the day . The American mail brings more about the Fishery question ; and the Cape mail brings news of more disasters . Mr . Webster has been delivering a speech , professedly intended to moderate tbe American mirid , but really calculated to inflame angry feeling ; a needless labour ; for we believe that Americans will obtain all that they ask of Downing-street , by the help of public opinion in England . The tone of our own
journals proves as much . The organ of the Peel party , that of the Manchester party , with most of the Liberal papers , are adverse to the position assumed by _Ministers ; the Times , which professes to be a reflex of the public , _bas had a series of daily articles , showing that the letter of the law is on our side , the spirit of fairness on the other side , and urging , not the less effectively because temperately , the necessity of revising the Ministerial policy . The organ of Ministers , the Morning Herald , denies that anything new has been done ; on which the Times rejoins , that if nothing new has been done , why make a parade of it to the colonists of the British North American
provinces , who had been led to expect somo new enforcement of protection for their fishing grounds ? Either the colonists have been cajoled , or the United States are assailed . The argument is unanswerable ; but in fact the paper in the Herald is less noticeable as a disclosure of facts , than as an admission that tbe Ministerial position is untenable . How Ministers are _' to back out of their absurd advance does not _} r et appear .
The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is not quite so momentous , but is very discouraging . It is clear that nothing has yet been done to cheek the savages , who still make desperate raids on the border ; that tbey do not yet think <> f submission ; that tbe cession of independence to the Emigrant Fanners of tbe Dutch race under Pretorius is made in a politic desire to conciliate
men whose alliance with the Blacks is feared ; and that General Cathcart confesses the extremity of _lua position , by the desperately confident tone which he assumes in threatening to establish his own bead-quarters in fhe camp of Kreli . He also appeals to the colonists , with a mixture of _msinuated threat and promise ; urging the Burgher [ Country Edition . ]
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guards to come forth , and promising to divide amongst them the re-captured cattle . He has recurred to the old " commando" system—a species of agricultural militia organization . Altogether , the attitude of the Governor Commanderin-chief is deferential and blustering ; no real progress has yet been made in reducing the rebels ; and meanwhile loss of life and property is increasing .
Another colonial subject merits more attention _than it receives from tie public at large . More convicts are sent to Van Diemen _' s Land—to swell the number of runaway convicts who reappear in the gold diggings . The friends and settlers of Van _Diemen's Land protest against this short-sighted policy ; which also exasperates the Australians generally ; but our Government
perseveres . Lord Londonderry is a chivalrous Irish soldier — -at least , such he delights to be thought . Spite of the proceedings in regard to the " Family seat , " he is unquestionably a gentleman—a little indiscreet , perhaps , but still a gentleman . As a soldier and a gentleman , he has , from time to time , endeavoured to prevail on M . Bonaparte to release the gallant Arab from the durance of Amboise . Last year , we printed a correspondence between the Irish soldier and the President of the
Republic ; and then , when his own fate hung trembling in tbe scales , M . Bonaparte said he had done all he could ; that if no more was done , it was because he had not the power to do it : that when 1852 was passed the thing would be easier of accomplishment ; and that , sooner or later , lie desired to set Abd-el-Kader free . Lord Londonderry believed him . In December , we know , tbe would-be liberator of Abd-el-Kader liberated
himself , and enslaved France . Abd-el-Kader and France were both in durance Vile . February came , Lord Londonderry still believing , wrote to remind M . Bonaparte of his promise . The Ides of March were past : 1852 had come ; but the hands of M . Bonaparte were now red with French blood , and how could he sign tbe release of the
Arab chief ? For two months , Lord Londonderry got not even a reply to his letter . In May he wrote again- trusting to the courtesy between gentleman and gentleman—that is , between Lord Londonderry and M . Bonaparte—for an answer . Still no reply . Of course , the " hero" who , in the word * of Londonderry , is " absolute , supreme ,
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omnipotent , accountable to no one but himself ;" the Tiberius of France , shared the fate of his kind —having become a splendid scoundrel , how could he act like a gentleman ? But Lord Londonderry still believed him , and waited for a reply to his second letter . June passed ; July slowly lapsed away ; August arrived—three months , and still no reply . Lord Londonderry finds that " his Prince , " M . Bonaparte , is a violator of solemn pledges ; and he lays the intercessory correspondence before Europe and the world . The world will give the appellant what he asks—admiration for bis credulity , and contempt for his * ' Prince . "
The revival of Bonapartism in France is one continued raise en schte . The people are caressed with dramatic spectacles of past glories to atone for present humiliations . Fete after f _& te cheats the Parisians of their self-respect , and beguiles Frenchmen into forgetfulness of the rights of freemen and the duties of citizens . The solitude and the silence around the electoral urns , however , proclaimed trumpet-tongued the pent up indignation . The very general abstention from voting even in the towns where Louis Napoleon was said to be idolized , makes the isolation of the man the
more glaring , and proves that a country " cannot be ruled in spite of itself . " The President apes the Czar in the suddenness and secrecy of his movements . He goes to the Sologne one _Saturday to visit his new estate , and returns to St . Cloud on Tuesday , the departure being announced in the Moniteur some hours after the return . Niggard and offensive , even clemency sits upon the usurper with an ill-grace : Fifteen exiles , of divers categories , are suffered to return to their country , and to excite their gratitude the official press welcomes them with insulting paragraphs of
contemptuous pity . Victor Hugo ' s burning words are stealing like fire from lip to lip , and from heart to heart , and already begin to rouse his country from the lethargy of indifference to the sense and the shame of a national conscience . Proudbon , tin ; selfdestroying sceptic , is permitted ; Victor Hugo , the fiery denouncer , is pursued as a terror and a scourge .
At home , the news is of mirtdr importance . The Ministerial question is , for the time , absorbed in the fishery affair ; and a general feeling grows up among all parties , that the " difficulty" should not proceed without a consultation in Parliament ; yet
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081852/page/1/
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