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" The 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 Relisfion , 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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News of the Week- Page The Silliest Duke in England 703 Lord Stanley ' s Recantation 709 The Doctrine of Atonement ...... 711 Leeds Redemption Society 698 Lord Stanley ' s Letter 703 . Railway Passengers ' . Assurance Com- The Antichrist " •* The National Reform Association .. 69 !) Needlewomen at Seven-pence a-Day 703 pany ••¦ " 1 ^ Lit erature— -.. Soiree to Mr . George Thompson .. 700 An Infernal Machine 703 The Highland Anollyon ... 709 Montgomery ' s God and Man 714 Seduction and Murder 700 Murderous Outrage at Birmingham 703 Social Reform—XIIf . —Communism Nen It ovel by Dumas «•» The Frimley Murder 701 Miscellaneous 704 —Its Principle 709 Books on our Table 71 b A Band of Burglars Routed 70 L European Democracy— Opkn Council— a hearts—The Queen of the Belgians 701 The Italian National Committee .. 705 Morals of the Public Schools ...... -710 J he Keopenmgs ... < » The Restaurateur President 701 Associative Progress— Associated Homes for Poor Ladies 711 The Olympic Novelty * " > Hesse-Cassel 701 Education 706 A Reply to Attacus 711 Othello at Sadler ' s Wells 716 Denmark and the Duchies 702 Public Affairs— m Social Progress . —The Land 712 Portfolio—The Movement in the Church .... 702 Financial and Parliamentary Reform 707 Church Reform 718 V . " *" ™ T th l ZL ?*''' Dwellings of the Poor 702 The Land Problem 708 The Prize Essay 713 Commercial Affairs—The Irish Tenant League 702 Associated Homes . 708 Mutual Improvement Societies .... 713 Market * . Gazettes , & c 71 S- ~»
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Murder and burglary are assuming the important position of public affairs , and furnish , indeed , by far the largest amount , as well as most stirring portion of our week ' s news . A more remarkable variety , a more copious fertility of invention was never exemplified by the record of a single week . And if we extend the record to minor offences it becomes still more curious . The most recent of
the outrages is one belonging to the Corder class . Jael Denny , the belle of Donninghurst , near Brentwood , is inveigled by a faithless lover into a lonety place and strangled . The rascal , it would seem , had for sometime practised the art of strangulation in his own room , with a view to facilitate his marriage by putting the mother of the child that would have been born to him out of
the way . The case belongs to an old class ; but it has seldom been presented in a form so revolting from its cold-blooded deliberation . At an ineffable place in Wales one Jones , failing to obtain possession of a legacy bequeathed to his mother , emigrates to America , leaving his wife and children , —so stands the accusation , —to poison the recusant legatee . In the burglary at Birmingham , where Mr . Marston , a goldbeater , fights for a quarter of an hour with a party of burglars , while his daughter vainly endeavours to persuade two policemen to enter , —they declare they thought he was correcting his wife or his son . The repulse of the men who tried to break into Mr . Holford ' s house in
the Regent ' s-park ; the attempt to murder the Reverend Mr . M'lntosh at Kendal ; the courageous exploits of Keziah Prior , near Svvindon , who drives forth a brace of burglars , helping one of them out of the window with a punch in his back and a witticism ; the confession of one of the men engaged in the attack on Mr . Holiest—contribute to the peculiar diversity . Among the stranger incidents is one of a milder order . A gentleman was so alarmed at the Frimley murder , that he prepared his pistols against the possibility of attack . At last it came :
he heard burglars attempting the house , and the opportunity had arrived for trying the excellence of his pistols ; but he was now so alarmed that he was perfectly paralyzed , and could do nothing but sit still , and , it would seem , indulge in a rapid succession of swoonings , which he continued with perseverance until the burglars—made off . Of the fiercer kind is the delivery of an infernal machine to a gentleman at Bermondsey—a box of Lucifer matches and gunpowder , which would have blown him up if some suspicion had not induced him to submerge it in water before he opened it .
Among the minor misdemeanours we notice the Duke of Atholl ' a recusancy against the law which declares the right of way through Glen Tilt . It seems that he has posted men about the glen to stop passengers ; and , on occasion , he heads the outlaws [ Country Edition . ]
himself , with a loud bullying worthy of a Highland chief in ruder times . The Irish Tenant League pursues a chequered career . It is repudiated by Mr . Osborne and accepted by Mr . Scully ; and , upon the whole , it seems to be gaining ground . The secret of its success and of its failure will be found in the truth of its fundamental principle—the necessity to facilitate industry in getting at the land—and the vitiated method of reform through the medium of fixed tenancy . The method is practically illogical , and fails to enforce conviction , where even a more sweeping measure might defy
contradiction . ' — A curious mystery is preserved in the reports of the Church Union , and we are able to collect the general drift of the movement more readily than the precise details . From what has been published we infer , that a majority of the Church Society at Bristol has abandoned the society , perhaps as a preliminary to entering the Roman Catholic Church . At a meeting of the London Church Union in St . Martin ' Hall , Dr . Pusey made a long speech on the subiect , which has been published separately . It does ~ not contain any sufficiently specific
statement , but it implies . a good deal . He appears to censure the majority at Bristol for some bitterness which has provoked the secession of the minority —he deplores disunion , and would seem to intimate , that much of the extreme High Church feeling is due to the virulent antagonism of the opposite feeling . Meanwhile , he declares that he himself intends to die in the Church of England , and so prove his fidelity . From the speech , it is manifest that Dr . Pusey is not prepared to follow those whose secession may have originated with his own agitation ; but we do not see that his reluctance will have much tendency to arrest the
movement . The National Reform Association has begun its winter campaign with a large meeting in London . It sets out in a spirit of activity , but , unless its policy be considerably enlarged , we doubt whether it will be able to get up much interest beyond the circle of its own members . We know that measures far more practical and enlarged are beginning to be actively discussed at meetings of the working classes . It is not only the Conference of Chartists and Social Reformers
that shows a disposition to handle the most important subjects of taxation and public oeconomy . Wherever considerable numbers of the people are collected , the subjects of suffrage , taxation , land , labour , and the care of the poor , are touched with animation and vigour . From day to day you see new adhesions to the most energetic forms of policy . At the meeting of the Leeds Redemption Society , for instance , Joseph Barker stands forth as an advocate of Association . At the Hungarian meeting in Bradford leading members of the working classes display a thorough ability to handle national
questions and public affairs . The association that represents the middle class must extend the scope of its agitation and considerably enforce the vigour of its movement , if it would keep pace with the practical politics of the working classes . Again , the Bradford meeting was notable for attesting the capacity of the People , properly so called , to revive the spirit of nationality , and deal with international policy . Assuredly the tricky diplomacy which plays at fast arid loose with the enticin
doctrine of non-intervention , — g dependent states to rebel by " moral support" or " spirited protests , " and then abandoning them to a coalition of Absolutist and alien forces , —is not countenanced by the People of England . Nor do we believe that it will be difficult to make the People feel that it shares the responsibility which its sufferance permits . The relief raised for the Hungarian and Polish refugees is a composition ; the welcome promised to Kossuth is a reparation for the national fault which passively allows the wrong doing of the
Government . Other opportunities will soon be afforded for those who have the cause of the Peoples at heart to testify their devotion to it . The Italian patriots have boldly announced the course they mean to take . The first manifesto of the Italian National Committee will be found in the page devoted to the " European Democracy , " and we have no doubt that it will be read with deep interest by the friends of liberty in all parts of the globe . They will now begin to have faith that something is about to be done . affairs there is critical event
In foreign no very to report . A general description of the present week would scarcely differ from a general description of last week . Death , indeed , has removed an amiable lady in the Queen of the Belgians ; but we are not aware that that will have any political influence . In Hesse-Cassel there has been thus far no decided change . The report that the Elector had abdicated—the fashionable expedient just now for escaping from a hobble—is as yet unconfirmed ; but there can be no doubt that the deliberate and legal pertinacity of the people must prevail . They have nlaced their Sovereign so completely in the
wrong that no neighbouring Government has the face to interfere in his behalf . Abdication will probably be resorted to as much to facilitate the conclusion of the protracted scene for their sake as for his own . In the Duchies the German party is losing ground . In France the half-disguised contest between the President and the Permanent Committee of the Assembly continues , the Committee doing its best to serve the President by means of its own want of tact ; but public discussion turns almost entirely upon trivialities—the burning of Louis Philippe ' s carriages and the carriage luxury of the Provisional Government—probabl y one of the fictions in which French biography is so fertile .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 19, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19101850/page/1/
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