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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by- prejudice and one-3 ide . views ; and , by setting aside the disbinction . 3 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 . "—HumboldCs Cosmos .
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HtVltWOF IHtWEEK— page Continental Notes 367 Steam Communication with Aus- The Whole Argument against the Imperial Parliament 362 Out Civilisation . 367 tralia 372 Sabbatarians - 378 Convocation . 364 State of Trade 358 A Little Currency Question 373 New Editions < . 378 Arbitration of Disputes between Naval and Military News 368 Mr . Lowe ' s New Bill i 373 Latter-day Poetry 379 Masters and Workmen 364 Miscellaneous ...... 369 Proposed Roform- ' of the Judicial Public Meetings 364 Postscript . 369 . Establishments of India ... 373 THE ARTSThe Peace ................... 365 I ITFRATURF- The Italian Opera in its New Home 381 The Crimean Board of Inquiry 365 puri ia accaidc U I tKA I UKt ^_ The True Romance of Hookwood ... 366 f UtJLIU AFFAIK&— Summary ... 375 The PazpHo as * Ireland ... .... 366 The Nightmare 370 Who Wrote the VTav-erley Novels ? 375 « 1 »^« „ . ??>! , . 'I "I ' J . ^ .- ¦ 382 . The Orient .. 366 The Sardinian Memorial 370 Typical Forms ............. S 76 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS—' America ...... 366 The City Fueros 371 Oniaf Pacha ' s Campaign .... 377 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 3 SI
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f TMEE Conference is closed j according " to report , ¦ ¦*• next to nothing has been done with respect to Italy ; a majority of the British Commons has affirmed the first reading of a bill for dispossessing Maynooth ; a majority of the same respectable House , leaving a minority of less than forty members , has refused to assemble for the purpose of discussing Sir Joshua Wj ^ lmsle y ' s practical
measures for extending the suffrage and improving the electoral body ; tlie City is organising a vigorous opposition to the bill for " reforming" it ; and while the world is thus going on , military officers are exposing each other and our military system before the Crimean Commissioners at Chelsea Hospital ; and Convocation is talking about the rotten parts in our Church system , just loud enough to be overheard , and feebly enough to settle nothing .
The members of the House of Commons , or the major part thereof , so far defer to necessity as to make speeches at elections and canvass the electors ; but they have so little unity of feeling with the people , that they have no care whatever to fulfil the general wish . They do not desire to give the great body of the population any share in the electoral franchise ; they are so totally indifferent , that they will not muster for the purpose of debating the subject j and yet the House is become so impotent for any useful purpose that it can be swayed about by the very men that it despises .
The events of the week fully justify this expression- All the questions that have been brought before the House have been settled by individuals , and the vote has been passed on personal or party calculations , not at all upon the public interests . The very subject of the franchise was one case ; Maynooth was another . What was the
question at issue hero ? The public in Ireland is taxed , as it is in thia country , for the maintenance of religious establishments ; it is however there , as it is not here , taxed for th « maintenance of establishments which do not represent the religious feolinga of the country . Ireland maintains a ProteBtant Church , and the Roman Catholics have to
pay for it . A very small proportion of the public money has been allowed to Maynooth annually . Now , why was Maynooth established at all ? Because previously the priests sought their education at St . Omer , at Rome , or in other places on the continent—and it was thought better for English policy > since they must be educated , that it should be in their own country . The results have been somewhat more to nationalise the priesthood of Ireland , and somewhat perhaps to diminish the scale of their attainments and of their social cultivation . Having enticed the priests home , it is now proposed to abolish the College , to retract the only portion of the money given back to the Papists who pay so much for Protestant churches , and to mingle injustice with bad faith . Sir Robert Peel converted the annual grant into a permanent endowment for two reasons—partly to remove every excuse for not rendering the College more respectable in its management ; and partly to prevent the annual bickering over the sectarian question . Mr . Spoonbb proposes to upset this arrangement , and the House affirmed his proposition by three strong divisions—for going into committee— stopping in committee and bringing in his Bill— the last by 159 to 142 . But all the considerations which we have mentioned were nothing to the point with the House of Commons : the reasons to persuade them were different . Some of tlie members had got their seats on the promise of voting against Maynooth and their consciences ; others were going to the Opera that evening , having no care for reconcilement between the different creeds of the population ; others stopped away in order that the responsible Government might be involved in the defeat consequent on Spoon Kit ' s success , It is on petty grounds such as these that our respectable House of Commons decides most important public questions : it lends ^ itself in turn to the public men that us « it . The subject of Ministers' money came next . What is this ? It is an impost on the householders of eight or nine Irish towns , Dublin included , for the maintenance of Protestant churches , principally of the Establishment , though in the north un-cstablbhcd Protestant churches share the
proceeds . Sir John Young , when he was Secretary for Ireland , attempted to amend ' this real grievance by exempting'houses uhder 4 | 10 , which form , only one-fiftii part of the number , and letting the municipality collect J the tax . The municipalities decline , and there is a deadlock ; yet the honest House of Commons refuses to discontinue this impost , although it has voted JorVdiscontinuing the Maynooth grant , r . . 7 . r : Jk ~ -
The exposuie at ^ Chelsea'" Hospital . is indeed characteristic of the country . A board of General officers and other distinguished persons sit as judges . They scarcely know how to conduct the inquiry . The Judge Advocate-General , a most amiable gentleman , much esteemed , alloivs the conduct cf t-he scrutiny to escape from his hands ; and the judicial inquiry na » S !!!? k * ° protracted altercation between the witnesses . In the course of this altercation , the most extraordinary facts come out . Lord Luc an , the chief officer of cavalry , permitted horses to perish at the rate of
sixty-eight per cent . ; he brings forward his own witnesses to show that he used all possible assiduity ; they do prove that he flustered himself , not that he did anything for the salvation of the horses . One gentleman he finds to give him a testimony on every conceivable point ; and , if Court favour should make the high-born Lord Luc an Commander-in Cliief , doe 3 not everybody know where deserving Richaiu > Aiiibv will be ? While this drama is going on , idlers of all classes loiter about the Court ; and ladies who attend daily , sit doing their crochet work , in order " not to be idle , "
The plot thickens ; still more interesting nnd critical debates are coming on—notably Mr . Whitksidb ' s motion on the siege of Kars ; and the officials begin to talk of " dissolution / ' But what can they dissolve about—upon what can they " go to the country ? ' * If the people had any real Tribune , they
should now support him in exacting fj $ M » -tj *»« u 8 > ter 3 a complete account of the proceeuiji ^ T ^ n- ^ o $ >«? ferenoe . We know that they fiSv ^ b ^ prj , ;]> n £ er $ sty ing ; wo want to know what hasfce ^^ jf | ftHtt e ^ A ^ ' flt suppressed ; how our own (^ W ^^^ t & Uite with reference to the others . "fE fefetji H % n } : that the Plenipotentiaries of R && $ | ffiftyto ? ^ . con' ^ i-V < 3 ' ^ -. ' ¦ ' ¦ " "j ' V ' j . -tf ^ .- ' '
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19041856/page/1/
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