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** Tiie one Idea which History exmbits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea Of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down , all the bari'iers 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 sDiritualnature . "—Humboldt ' s Co . sjios .
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News of the Week— Pn ^ e Murder in Marylebono 1085 Social Reform . — " Note 3 of a Social •* " » SciKNCS .. # # .. ^ OH KosstitU ' s Welcome 1078 Police 108 S ( Economist" 1089 Organizations of the PeopCC . .. 1094 Mr O'Connor and the Kojsuth . Miscellaneous 1086 Literature— Open Council—Demonstration 1081 Public Affairs— Progress of Physiology 1091 The Suffrage Agitation—Honesty Coniinental Notes 10 S 2 England has Pronounced 1087 Pridham ' g Kossuth and Magyar the Best Policy 109 i Church Matters . 1 .. 108 J Are we Prosperous ? . . 1087 Land 1091 Refugees and the Times 10 *> The City Masquerade 10 « 3 Our Colonies in the Coming Year .. 1087 Clieever on the Sandwich Islands .. 1092 Homceopathy N >? ii The board of Customs and the Dock Our Street Folk 1088 Books on our Table 1093 Bskuuin , the Russian Martyr .... lOiiff Company ........ 1084 A Lesson from the Lord Mayor ' s The Arts— Commercial Affaiks—• Address from the Peace Society " .. 1084 Show 1088 Jullien at Drury-lane 1094 JMark . et 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , St Alban ' s Commission 1081 A Cheap Defence 1089 Orchestral Society 1094 & c 1096-1100
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The visit of the Governor of Hungary to the North has been like a royal progress . Kossuth was . received in Birmingham with a display rivalling in numbers that at Copenhagen-fields , but riot so nearly limited to the working classes ; on the contrary , Birmingham was fairly represented . It combined Copenhagen-fields and Hanover-square in one . Manchester seems to haye-t * urned outiivyetgreatnunibers . Potter notwithstandiuflf . Potter , in feet ; lias but
served to mark the total failure of resistance to the new spirit of the day . John Bright was present , and made a capital , hearty speech j so did George Wilson . In short , Manchester has pronounced not less forcibly than Birmingham . Kossuth repaid the delighted men of Manchester with one of his finest speeches ; only less fine than the one delivered at Birmingham—only less fine , because each day adding to Kossuth ' s familiarity with our language , gives freer scope to the play of his thought . He has fairly roused the manly spirit of England ; he has fairly shown Manchester that
trade cannot be free while Despotism exists to keep the nations apart ; he has proved that Despotism is chronic war under the name of " order "; he has convinced Birmingham that its own history pledges it to keep a lead in the defence of freedom and of progress . He has stamped himself as by far the greatest orator of our day—the practical , far-sighted Peel , the noble Mazzini , the unadorned Cobden , the accomplished Macaulay , the cunning Thiers , the astute Webster , the poetic Victor Hugo , the statesmanlike Henry Clay , —all lack , severally , many qualities which Kossuth , as an orator , combines . He is a man to speak to nations .
Many who understand not the subject , but rejoice in an " authority" on the side of their blind prejudice , are chuckling at his needless disclaimers against Socialism . Hungary , he says , has nothing to do with doctrines classed under that head , because she does not want them . For , he adds , almost every Hungarian is a landowner , and all may be so . Good . We shall recur to this point ; |> ut the present is not the time for controversy on lfc national independence is the question of tho "a y ; and we , for our part , will not disturb that
great acclaim with theoretical disputation . Set Europe free , and we have no fears for Socialism . . Some upoculation'haH been excited by phamomena in the relations of our Foreign-oflice- Keports that Wd Pulmeraton fjwit an apologetic note to Austria , ® n ffaginjjr to keep down the Kossuth agitation , have »« eu studiousl y contradicted . Reports arc circuculatcd that the Austrian Minister at Washington « : > h conditionall y demanded his passports . An extremel y Ministerial paper is supporting Kossuth : as 8 t || diou 8 l y associating Lord l » ulinerston ' n name with that of tho Hungarian Governor . Thene signs JMtfuapH , and some others , have occasioned a pro-[ Count « y Edition . }
mising murmur that floats in the air , hinting that if such " support" be continued to Lord Palmerston , lie will prove the true leader to give England her due position in the approaching sera of the world ' s history . Some corroboration of the murmur is afforded by the sudden turn of the Morning Chronicle , which has supported Kossuth , but now assails : because , some conjecture , the Chronicle must at all events be anti-Ministerial . We are expressing no opinion on these sigtvs , all too vague to warrant any opinion ; we are only supplying ouat readers with the gojtsip of the hour , such , as it is . The rumours that Palmerston is to be a Chatham of Liberalism stand side by side with the authentic
utterances of the Peace Society , who , through their secretaries , denounce war under any circumstances , and advance what virtually amounts to " passive obedience and nonresistance . " We imagine that these gentlemen , in propounding their theory of the influence of " ideas , " overlook the conditions necessary for the free play of that influence upon affairs . Ideas will never , unaided , drive ltadetzky beyond the Alps , nor Prince Albrecht over the Danube , nor eject the legions of Nicholas from Poland , nor set free the German people . A " sacred principle" is a fine thing when you can get room for it to operate ; but before Archimedes , even , can move the world , he requires a fulcrum for his lever .
Anarchy of anarchies is the " situation at Paris . The war of the Legislative and . Executive becomes internecine . The one is hemmed in between self-destruction and a Parliamentary coup d ' etat ; the other between a bid for popularity and due subserviency to Austro-Russian patronage . Both are doing their best to prove one truth ; that forms of government are nothing , but the morality of governors everything , for the welfare of a nation .
The President is playing an ambiguous game , and his fate may be to fall between two stools at last . To the Republic he oilers the restoration of universal suffrage : to the Reaction he immolates the last remaining liberties . His new Ministry , mere awkward doubleurs of Leon Faucher and Baroche , inaugurate their brief campaign by a razzia against Republican journals and almanacks ; they invade a meeting of an electoral committee ( hitherto inviolable ) with commissaries of police ; they forbid the recitation of a few stanzas written by Victor Hugo for a musical festival , on account of an allusion to Italy , Hungary , and Poland ; they aid and abet priestly domination . Insulted by the majority , whose flag they are come to tour down , they are scouted by the Republicans .
M . Louis Napoleon harangues imperially a few excited officers ; Whereupon the Ministry correct the proof of said speech for the evening papers , and interpolate a Having clause , us if it signified what he Haid , this imperial farceur , hero of Satory sausages and of a hundred corks ! Still if he could only disappear altogether and leave bin name at the ElyseY ' , it might yet be rcclected by
the stupid idolatry of peasants . But the man .- he is no longer a serious candidate , except to the bill brokers . The majority rejacts the proposed abrogation of the law of the 31 st of May , but under cover of modifications there seems to lurk capitulation . Rather civil war than our vanity should suffer ! These are the men who have ruined or betrayed three dynasties .
It must be- confessed that the Opposition are now the true Party of Order . Their silent reserve intimidates the reaction , like the handwriting on the wall . They have resolved to protest simply , by the mouth of one speaker only , against the law of the 31 st of May , and to wait . The majority , divided , discouraged , and demoralized , will dwindle away into separate minorities , as this year closes in . The next year is the nation ' s .
In Portugal we are glad to find the Progressits gaining strength in the elections . Dr . Lee , Bishop of Manchester , has " charged " his diocese with the purest Whiggism of the Church . Convocation , he thinks , would be " calamitous " ; but then , fortunately for his peace of mind , he thinks the movement for synodical action will be " unsuccessful . " It is " undesirable" also to alter what the " experience of three centuries has
shown to be enough for securing among us the profession of the truth ; " namely , the rubric , the services , and the liturgy . And the surest hope of the Church is said to be to abstain from getting into collision with the State . Verily , it is to the more chivalrous spirit of the Bishops of Exeter and Oxford , and men like Archdeacon Denison , that the Church must look for help in making itself honest before gods and men . Dr . Lee is not a Churchman —he is a State-Churchman .
The City was eminently scandalized on Wednesday morning , to read in the journals copies of a correspondence between the London Dock Company , the Board of Customs , and the Treasury , apropos of tbe trials of February last . Tho Docl-( Joinpany humbly applies for the release of the goods under seizure . Tbe Customs consult the Treasury , and Sir Charles Trevelyan , in tbe name of" My Lords , " dictates conditions the most arrogant and barefaced conceivable , imposes a nominal fine , assumes the guilt of tho
Company , and talks down to them from his official Olympus . The Dock Company surrender the whole question by consenting to pay the line — under a useless protest . Victors in February , by some sleight of baud behold them th < ' vani / mnlied of November , apparently self-slniii- Hut the points at issue , the gross laches of « he Customs , and tbe oppression of the suits , me too interesting to th . » merchant *! of London to be siiHerwl to rest where they are . Something effectual must be done .
A murder in Marylebone , of more than usual atrocity and stup idity , ban been committed . The characteriHtic of the crime is tlui intense astonishment of the murderer when be came to reflect that " ho had tho heart to do it . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111851/page/1/
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