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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness isi the Idea of Humamty-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths distinctions ° f ^ lifion 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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Mews Of The Week— The Arctic Expedition ...
MEWS OF THE WEEK— The Arctic Expedition 985 William , the " Miles Gloriosus" of Nt PAGB Two Champions of " Religious East Somerset 990 The Meeting Of Parliament 982 Equality" 986 The Third Saint Luke 992 TheQueeSBeturn 982 Outrages in Ireland 987 The Spiritual Insolvency of " the The Queen at the Preston Station ... 982 Kailway Jousting 987 Church WM Lord Derby Elected Chancellor of Miscellaneous 987 Lost , Stolen , or Strayed-the Eng-Orford 982 Health of London during the Week 988 lish People . - ......... 99 J Lord Derhy at Liverpool ' . ' .. ' . " ....:. ' . ' .. . 983 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ...... 988 Taxation Kedw > e $ to Unity and Sim- ^ ^ ZZi ^ zzzz ::: S :::. postscr . pt ™ t £ e ^ " ^ ; £ S" .:::::::::::::: «» SE 53 £ 2 ^ -Aii =::::::::: S PUBLIC A ™ RS- u r ? h " p * General Scott ' s Chances 985 England , France , and America 990 Pahssy the Potter » ab
Latham ' s Ethnology &® The Habits of Birds *™* Books on our Table 9 yy PORTFOLIOLetters of a Vagabond 9 " THE ARTSThe Theatres 1002 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c . 1003-1004
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VOL . III . No .-134 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 16 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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T OUIS NAPOLEON has virtually accepted the JLj Empire in France ; the greatest event probably not only of the weekr but of the year . We say that with some reserve , because , if we mistake not , the election of the American President may prove to be a compensating fact of not less magnitude . The scene in which Louis Napoleon definitively announced that he had accepted the manifest will of the French people , was Bordeaux
His speech is constructed with great care , in reference not only to his immediate hearers , but to France , to foreign countries , and to England . To his hearers he held out the promise of great commercial prosperity—he really pledged himself to the prosperity : " you are my soldiers , " he said , alluding to the commercial activity which he intended to foster , and to the conquests of peace with whirh he intended to rival his uncle . In
spite of that peace , and perhaps of the prospect of a more beneficial wine-alliance with England , the people of Bordeaux will not forget that Louis Napoleon has promised to make the Mediterranean " a French lake . " To the bulk of the French nation , he promised a great stimulus of trade and employment , precisely the two things the expectation of which has made him tolerated by the middle and working classes . To foreign countries he promised peace , if there should be no coalition against him ; but a rhetorical hint of retaliation is held out if he should be crossed . His assurances
have been received with a wonderful amount of trust in this country . The Times indeed finds it difficult to believe his assurances while the army remains unreduced , and the navy is in a state of unprecedented activity ; and it invites him to make good his words , by beginning a reduction of the army . Ilia obvious reply is , that he cannot reduce his army while Austria , Prussia , and Russia overawe Europe with such large forces ; and of course no one can be free to begin . The Morning * ost , which has lately been writing in favour of ¦ kord Pahncrston , positively strives to reconcile
. ' IjllfyiiiYwl .. * ii * 1 1 . 1 ¦ ¦ a " a f IM _ _ _ . _ 1 ^ "g land with the French traitor . The general » dea ueeins to be , that while he speaks fair he must ) e Relieved ; a conclusion precisely the reverse of that which would be justified by facts . Before the second of December , Louis Napoleon always profeased republican fidelity ; he always professes at the eleventh hour the exact opposite of that which he intends to do . Shrewd calculators Remark , that his self-support has hitherto de-[ Counthy Edition . ]
pended for its basis on the army , that his programme omits any satisfaction , to that important body ; that his system of employment has hitherto gone upon the plan of credits , and must be overwhelmed when the general creditor shall send in his " little bill . " An employment for the army , therefore , is almost an essential to his future safety ; and it is to be more than suspected that his secret programme must really include some pressure from without which shall furnish him with a fair pretext for satiating his soldiery , though not out of French treasure .
The countervailing fact would be , the election of a President to the United States with the power and will to wield the strength of the federation in support of liberty . By becoming an Emperor , the French President becomes the sport of circumstances . The American President may be master of an opportunity unprecedented in history ; for at no other juncture in time has there been
so open a field simultaneously with the number of civilized nations to be affected by the action of a true hero . If General Scott should be elected , for which result a New York correspondent of the Times labours to make out more probability than people have calculated , we shall have a goodnatured routine official , willing and compelled to uphold the dignity of the American flag ; but not a master of himself or of the situation .
Counter to the opinion of that pains-taking writer , who almost shows that Scott has engaged in his behalf influences that must antagonize each other , we incline to agree with a very able writer in the New York Herald , that the chances for Pierce arc preponderating in amount and substantial in their nature . Traversing the analysis of previous elections , the writer shows that the military influence had little effect , perhaps little even in the case of Znchary Taylor ; that the defection of Van Burcn and the frcc-soilers from the Democratic party in 18-18 was the real secret of Taylor ' s
success ; and that the Democratic party is the one which has been making the steadiest and largest progress . The Herald calculates , therefore , by a comparative examination of the figures at previous (• lections , that General Pierce " will be elected President over General Scott by a probable plurality of i )' . i , () M ) votes in the several states , and 182 electoral votes in the Union . " The speech cultivating Anglo-American relations , which Mr . Thomas Baring has made at Boston , would be seriously damaged by the election of General Scott ; who has endeavoured to array on his side the Anti-British feeling of the Canadian , border .
Cuba remains in a state of the utmost uneasiness . The intelligence received at New Orleans on the 22 nd of September , report an excessive strictness of the police ; and American shipmasters complain that they are burdened with an additional secret police spy on board each vessel . Another report is , that a captain of a French brig of war , which arrived at Havannah on the 18 th of September , had offered his services to the Captain General of Cuba , in case of necessity ; similar offers were expected from England .
There appears to be a decided connexion between these Cuban alliances and the obligation imposed upon the political refugees in Jersey to place themselves under the immediate surveillance of the police ; while Signor Adriano Lemmi is expelled from Malta because he is the correspondent of Mazzini ; Signor Lemmi , bearing an American passport , and claiming the protection of the American consul ; who protested . Indeed , the position of our Ministers abroad may be inferred more easily than their position at home . The latest demonstrations on their behalf
are almost wholly of a negative character . The Earl of Derby makes a speech to the corporation at Liverpool , but with closed doors , and the only reportofitis , that it actually contained nothingexcept " brilliancy" mousseux , and after-dinner " pathos . " Mr . William Beresford has been at Castle-Ilcdingham , defining the position of Ministers for the information of the country at large . It was from the castle of that renowned place that Mr . Disraeli first promulgated his doctrine of readjustment . All that Mr . Beresford lias to tell us , however , is ,
that Ministers did not enter office as Protectionists , and that they have notWome Free-traders . We learn , therefore , equally from the rattle of Mr . Beresford , and the silence of Lord Derby , that Ministers , in point of fact , have no position . They cannot even decide when the Duke of Wellington is to be buried , nor how ! They cannot decide when Parliament is to meet ; the last report being the 5 th or ( ith of next month . Why not tU « f > th ? with a place specially reserved
for Mr . Lucas underneath the House of Lords ? Ludicrous as it may seem , it is credibly reported that Ministers are us anxiously as the public trying to conjecture what their position is to be ; for a scheme of policy , which Mr . Disraeli was deputed to furnish , bus not yet ln . cn sent home . In the meantime , some new candours have seized the Protectionist party . Mr . Beresford avows that they arc in a minority in the House of Commons . Although there is a decrease in the
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101852/page/1/
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