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" Thb one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or 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 Reli ^ on , 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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—? Ministerial Quietism Will Not Be Suff...
—? Ministerial quietism will not be suffered to take possession , as Lord John Russell seems to have proposed , of the whole session in Parliament . The Anti-Catholic ferment , which is understood to have been fomented as a diversion for popular energies and a cover to Ministerial inaction , will scarcely serve that turn . Sevef & l pereoflis have evidently been bestowing the recess on ' enter pri * fe & whigh will „ gj * e Ministers trouble , and among thoseTp ' er ' sons ' is 7 " > rd John Russell himself . In hiai letter tcfiths Hudk & dvertiser , Mr . Hume plainly intimates that-** he h « s been very busy ; Misr Roebuck ' s recent announcement implied that he had something very formidable to advance ; taxation repealers , financial reformers , suflfrage-a ^ ttensionists , to say nothing of troublesome persons from a distance , like Mr . Fairbairn of the Cape colony , will not be put off their vocations by any half-pretended fuss-making " business of importance" concerning Pope Pius and his bull . Lord John may have got up the No-Popeiy cry to his mind ! but he will find it very difficult to satisfy the expectation he has raised , and he has set up some ulterior agitations which he could scarcely have expected . The Guardian professes to foreshadow the measure which Lord John Russell has urged the people to claim at his hands —« prohibition on the use of the Roman Hierarchical titles , under pain of two months' imprisonment . The Guardian also reports enquiries made by Government abroad , which are supposed to indicate a disposition to invite a Concordat with Rome . The Concordat will have the approval of most judicious politicians—precisely the class of which Lord John Russell ' s Durham letter showed so flagrant a dinregar ( l . That fact , indeed , does not disprove the notion that he is going to do something commendable ; he may he going to take a turn of popularity-hunting among the judicious ; but then what on earth will the poor man do with the clamorous crowd that he has called to the door of Parliament ? A concordat with Rome will be the very thing to provoke new outcries of fright and fury from that respectable mob . Nor is it to be supposed that the technical prohibition of titles dan satisfy the public expectation of a " measure " : Lord John Russell himself has stamped it with ridicule by anticipation , when he said in Parliament that it would be absurd to disallow particular titles : such a . law could only take effect in preventing ecclesiastics from calling themselves by the tabooed titles ; it could not prevent the colloquial and popular use ; unless Lord John does intend a law topursuo " Popish recusants "—authorizing the E « r Ce to arre 8 t WY person detected in saying Westminster" instead of "Melipotamus , " and bang the culprit to [ trial before an English jury . Besides the inherent difficulty of dealing with I [ CoorrrnY Edition . ]
the demands that Lord John instigated , there is the embarrassment of the further demands . The Russell agitation has drawn public attention to the fact , that the practical grievances which press upon members of the Church of England are its internal dissensions , its self-destructive heterodoxies , its noteless destructive rigours of orthodoxy , its reversions to Rome ; Lord John has raised questions an unsatisfactory settlement of which—and no settlement can be satisfactorymay bring about the long-threatened landslip of | U , Evaogelicat tract | n ^ o the vjUley df fitment ; and * drive forth congregations " like-tftoBfc atf Sf . Saviour ' s , n * Leeds , now staadinff out for confession , to the very summit of the seven hills € Rome . How wifl Lord John Russell refuse the claim of the High Church party , this weak embodied in petition for a renewal of Convocation ? How will he allay the spirit of Ajfti-State Church , which is rearing its grim head at Anti-Popery meetings , like that in Southwark . Some intentions imputed to the Government at Rome would have a very embarrassing effect : it is said that the Pope intends to disallow the proceedings against the Queen ' s Colleges in Ireland—disarming much of the prejudice and alarm at the bigotry of Rome ; also , that he has transmitted to Ireland a bull separating the Bishoprics of Cloyne and Ross , and restoring the substantive Bishopric of Ross—asserting there that particular form of authority which is not to be gainsaid in "that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland , " but is to be gainsaid in this part of the United Kingdom . If these things are true , Ministers court in Ireland that Pontiff whom they repel with affright in England , and they permit him to " insult" in Ireland that royal prerogative of Church supremacy which they so bravely defend in England , where it is so particularly safe and respected . We do not see , therefore , what substance there is in the Ministerial measures that can serve the purpose of blocking out other subjects in the session of Parliament . At the same time there are as yet no indications that much will be forced upon Ministers or done by any other party . In all the meetings and manifestations of the week there is no indication of a new spirit—nothing to show that political parties have acquired pertinacity of purpose , or have abandoned the almost universal habit of flinching—nothing to suggest a hope of strong faith and resolute will to force forward measures founded on conviction , without regard to interests or effeminate dread of " consequences . Perhaps nothing exposes the still subject condition of the People , even in Prussian Germany , than the travels of a new-born infant—which the reader will find related amongst our news—first in search of baptism , by the revolutionary name , "Jacobi Waldeck , " which Pastors refuse to bestow ; and then , in avoidance of compulsory baptism , by a more authentic name , which wae at last enforce *} under military guard . Even the speech of M .
Manteuffel is scarcely more significant than this tale ; although he does falsely denounce the constitutional resistance of the whole Hessian People as " an official revolution" "in gown and slippers "; avows that Prussia has broken with the revolution , as unsuccessful ; and coolly adopts the reactionary interpretation which indignant Liberals put upon the " transparent policy" of King Frederick William . It is reported with probability that Prussia , Austria , and Russia are to meet shortly at Dresden , to reestablish the German Diet , with some slight qualification . *••¦ Meanwhile , the Stadtholderatff o £ Schleswig-Holstein has given up the ' contest , aad has * handed over the German rights of Holstein , and the rights of Schleswig as an adjunct to Holstein , to ^ the German Federation—whatever that may be . % : The National Assembly of France has been performing a couple of farces . The first is in publishing the report of the Permanent Committee , which solemnly sat to investigate a good deal of the alarmist gossip about the late Ministry i it repeats some of the gossip and some of the explanations ; leaves the Imperialist cries of the army and the Imperialist symbols of the Tenth-of-December Club in a frightful state of non-denial ; but does not recommend any national action . The next farce is the report of the committee on the recent Ministerial crisis : the committee cannot make out that the dismissal of General Changarnier is technically erroneous ; it expressly declares that responsibility for the late complications does not extend " beyond the Ministry "—meaning not to the President ; but accuses the Ministry of " tendencies " hostile to the Assembly , and advises a vote of no confidence . Meanwhile , President Bonaparte has changed his Ministry , dismissed Changarnier , and split the garrison of Paris into two parts ; and the hostile majority of the Assembly shrinks before him , its numbers palpably falling off . Such is always the effect of boldness marching straight onward to its purpose . These feeble counterfeits of political movements scarcely concern us so much as some ugly portents non-political at home ; disease appears to be uncommonly vigorous in both the physical and the moral world . The weather has been in a most abnormal state , the thermometer many degrees higher than the average for the first half of January , the barometer singularly low . We believe that the extent of illness , in London especially , far exceeds the ratio indicated by the mortality tables . Crime is extraordinarily rife ; it is scarcely » n exaggeration to say that burglary and highway robbery run riot in our well-watched town . There is a singular multiplicity of cases in which servants , paupers , and other helpless persons , are injured or killed by bad treatment and neglect . In the constant succession of railway accidents that at Ponder ' s-end , on the Eastern Counties Railway , stamps the management of the company as producing disaster and death . The diseased action extends to
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18011851/page/1/
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