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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea ot Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barner 3 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 on © great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . m
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[ News of the Week— Page The German Revolution 243 Grievances of the Tarnier 248 Letters to Chartists 254 Parliament of the Week 238 Th « Uckfleld Burglars 243 Litkkatukh— Oim . n Council—The Continent 239 Punch" Condemned 24 . ' 1 Spencer ' s Social Statics 248 The Polish-Hungarian Exiles in Li-The Polish and Hungarian Exiles in Miscellaneous 243 Rose Douglas S 5 U vei |> "ol 2 " » . Liverpool 210 Public Aifaihs— Mayo ' s Philosophy of Living 251 Duty of the People to be Politicians 2 V > The Kaffir War 240 Why Can't we have a Good Budget ? 24 f > Portfolio— Kxistt-nce of a Deity 2 . >"> Anti-Slarery Disturbances 210 Courting La Belle France" 24 t > Sketches from Life 252 Harriet Martineau and H . G . Atkiu'J he Keal Gold Coast 241- Progress of Assurance 24 l > The Plains of Lombardy 2 '> 3 sun 2 Protestantism and Popery 241 The Palaces of the Poor 247 Tub Akts— ' Macready ' s Farewell 230 A Protectionist Mi eting 242 Grievances of the Sailor 247 Love in a Maze 253 The Wood Pavement 25 < i The London Dock Company 'H 2 Adulteration of Beer 247 Tlie New Tragedian 254 Commercial Affairs—The Chicory Question .. 243 Political Interests of the Soldier 218 Progress of the People— Markets , Gazettes , & c 257-58
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Another defeat of the renovated Ministers is the prominent fact of the week in Parliament ; the occasion of defeat being of secondary importance in a political sense . Lord Duncan has been devoting his spare time to the Window taxes and the New Forest abuses , and has been one of those to rake up a very strong case of neglect and malversation . The scandal had already forced the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests to prepare a bill for the better management of the Forest lands , but Lord Duncan moved a resolution , that the revenue
accruing from the Forests should be paid into the Exchequer . The abuses of the Forest administration are an old story ; Members had no comparative knowledge of Lord Seymour ' s or of Lord Duncan's proposition , the merits of the case having a very slack hold on the attention of any party ; and under ordinary circumstances the House would have supported the head of the department , especially when he
was promising a measure . But , independently of the specific question , independently of any Ministerial crisis , which scarcely anybody in Parliament wishes to renew just now , there is a satisfaction in beating Ministers—because they have been beaten before , because they are down , because repeated beating helpH to make them know their & £ * « Ifc 18 for tlus reabon that Protectionists and Whig-Radicals are found voting with Lord Duncan , who beat Ministers by 120 to 119 .
Ihe defeat has not been regarded as very seriously important , until the pure Whig Globe made « a matter of solemn warning . The Whig journalist admits that Ministers might have done better that Lord John Russell " might have been more communic ative to his supporters , " and that " a more judicious distribution of patronage " might fjaye silenced Lord Duncan ; but it warns the wlug- Radicals , "the mass of the Melbourne majority , « the ballot and household suffrage men of «» e hrst Reformed Parliaments , '' against the consequences of voting by the aide of Protectionists ami Orangemen , of Mr . Cobden and Mr . Bright : they wlU let in Q Stanl ( , « abinet , _
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.. Rumeil JalL ? l ( l morallv impoRBihle for Lord John tons of tie W ? £ throu «* the perplexities and bumftaoi »» e last three weeks ; and that , after a very few L ^ ountry Edition . ]
more such divisions as that on Lord Duncan's motion , he can only be expected to wash his hands of the whole concern . " This is very alarming , as the Globe puts it—Lord John Russell , or a revolution ; for the Globe sees no other alternative . The Morning Post seconds the Whig warning . If the alternative were true , it would be distressing ; but even then there are not a few who might prefer revolution rather than a Russell Cabinet . The revolutionary alternative would holdout a promise of novelty ; besides , it is untried , which the Russell Cabinet is not .
In this enfeebled state , which excites so much anxiety among his friends , Lord John Russell is trying to rub on with his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in its mutilated forrjy but the concession which was intended to disafm objections has failed in that effect , while it has aroused a new class of objectors . The Irish Agitators suspended their operation * while the Russell Ministry was in jeopardy ; but no sooner has Lord John regained strength enough to go on with his fractional bill than the Irishmen , animated by their past success , again advance to confront him . The meeting at the Freemasons Tavern to resist the bill shows that the
Roman Catholic laity of London has awakened from its slumber ; and there is every prospect that the resistance to the measure will increase as the bill advances in ulterior stages . At the same time the Ultra-Protestants are beginning to stir in an agitation against the measure as it is amended by Lord John Russell . The Roman Catholics will continue to opp ose any fraction to which the measure may be reduced ; the Ultra-Protestants will oppose it the more it is reduced to a fraction . Of " the other subjects in Parliament the most practically important arc Mr . Barnes ' s bill for the better protection of parish apprentices , and Mr . Milner Gibson ' s for the establishment of County Financial Hoards .
Mr . Baines ' s bill would prevent thc recurrence of cases like that of Jane Wilbred , and would secure a very needful protection to one of the most unfortunate classes of the community . The County Boards are recommended by many practical considerations : they would add local representation where local taxation has been extended without it ; they would familiarize the People with the practice of local government ; they would create subsidiary local legislatures , to winch might be transferred much of the local and privute business which now overburdens the central Legislature . Mr . Milner Gibson may be obstructed for a time , but his perseverance in sure of ultimate reward .
The meeting on the adulteration of coffee ought to make , an aera in the history of retail commerce . Th « latter clasH of tradesmen , aided by two coin meroial Members of Parliament , Mr . Thomas Buring and Mr . Mollatt , me making a tjtand against adulterations in the grocery trade . According to hints at the meeting , the retail traffic in some articles in almost threatened with extinction by the
increasing trade in spurious substitutes . Were such practices to continue unchecked , all confidence in the dealer would be destroyed , and serious inconveniences would result to the trader as well as the consumer . There can be no doubt , however , that if the respectable dealers persevere in their stand against adulterations they must succeed , not only in arresting the progress of fraud , but in drawing a larger portion of custom to the sound trader . Although the majorities at the meeting were very close , the balance of moral weight lies with the innovators .
The stagnation of affairs inseparable in England from the mock crisis we have just undergone would seem to influence—magnetically , we suppose —the politics of the Continent . Everywhere the same painful state of suspense . Germany sends us notes , memorandums , protests , and protocols without end : " the result of all , a return to the sleepy old Diet of Frankfort . Prussia proposes it in good earnest ; most of the Princes are quite ready to accede to any measure that may be altogether of a negative character . Austria indeed would soar higher , and Schwarzenberg storms and thunders . But Metternich sends in a word of peace and moderation , and he is the man of 1815 .
From France , next to nothing . Louis Napoleon tries to win Parisian hearts by cantering and caracoiing along the Boulevards . His Ministers try to win over the National Guards by affecting to leave them the right of private suffrage to the lust . They wish the French people to see how averse the President is to rob them of a franchise by virtue of which he has attained his exalted station , and by the aid of which hfi U-e \ n aura hn would be enabled to retain
it . There are rumours of an adjournment of the Assembly in April , to afford the Government leisure for sounding the people ' s mind , previously to the presentation of any motion for a revision of the Constitution . The lends of Legitimists and Orleanista run higher than ever , and the breach between them will only cease with extinction of one of the branches . They teach the French to cry , " A plague o' both your Houses 1 " and the ultimate success of the Bonapartists can no longer be matter of serious doubt .
A new turn has been given to the Slavery agitation in the United States . The act of CongreKH authorizing tin ? capture of runaway slaves has been found to conflict with an act of the State Legislature in Massachusetts , and the conflict has been used to facilitate the escape of a captured slave . Here , therefore , we have the general slave question complicated with old disputes about Federal rights and State right . On the one side ia the President issuing proclamations in support of the Federal statute ; on the other side , the State officers are opposing to the Federal statute a certain passive resistance , and the eloquent theologian , Theodore Parker , is helping to Ian the ardour of the Anti-Slavery party .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031851/page/1/
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