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"The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea or * Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected betweeu men by prejudice and one-aided views ; add'by setting . aside the distinctions of Rek . sp . on , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race aa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of ' our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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® 6 nUnt $ : ' ¦¦ ¦' News oi , the Wbkk— Page The Exposition .... 579 Liberty of the Press 583 Not so Bad as we Seem 589 Parliament of the Week 574 Personal News and Gossip 580 Prussian Postage 585 SmallTalk 590 Census of Great Britain ... 575 Police - .... 580 California in Debt 585 Pkogrbss of the Pbopi / B — Church Matters .. ..... 575 Murders .. 581 Social Keform . —No . I . "Difficulties" 585 The Workman and the Exhibition .. 590 Continental Notes ..... 577 Miscellaneous 581 Litbratcrb— Progress of Cabet's Community at Austria in Lomhardy 577 English Glees and Madrigals . 581 Newman ' s Political Economy 586 Nauroo 591 Success of Association in Paris .... 577 Public Affairs— American Romance 587 Opbn Council—" Sheffield-Petition against Standing The Census 582 Ancient Romance 588 National Union of Working-Men ' s Armies ....... 578 Rome in 1849 58 * 2 Books on our Table 588 Association 592 Official , Popery in Malta 578 Progress of Assurance 583 Tub Arts— " Peace , the Destroyer . " 592 The Rail way Accident near Lewes .. 578 The Priest , the Bishop , and tbe Orders for the Play ! 589 California at Home . 592 The Balloon Catastrophe .......... 579 8 ; nod ... 584 II Favorita . 589 Commbrcial Affairs—Adventures in the Kafir War 579 The Canterbury Association and the Mile , de Belle Isle 589 Markets , Gazettes , & c 593-94
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gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , has been celebrating its third Jubilee and hundred and fiftieth anniversary , under the Presidency of Prince Albert ; the champion of a truly Catholic spirit , that might redeem Christianity from the dangers to which it is exposed by the contentious clergy of England . In the French Assembly the Committee of Revision makes very little way . Their time is occupied by discussion—useful , no doubt—in keeping the population of France up to the knowledge of what
is going on ; but useless to politicians at a distance , who know that the result has been prepared beforehand , and that , from the composition of the Committee , the revision will be resolved upon . But it is important to note that the Conservative party are becoming profoundly uneasy respecting the law of the 31 st of May—that rock a-head of the Party of Order ; upon which , as surely as they exist , they will make shipwreck . It is more impossible than ever that any majority can be got for total revision . The gravest dissidences are apparent in the
Committee . There is only unanimity in the six who are opposed to revision ; there is only hostility of opinion and divergence of aim in the nine favourable to revision . The four Republicans , and the hotheaded Anti-Bonapartist —( curious designation fora statesman , that!)—keep up a smart and continual fire at their opponents ; while Montalemhert solemnly temporizes , and Berryer stands out upon principle . Meanwhile , Prince Louis Napoleon reviews the troops and inaugurates railways , and
Premier . . Ministers are very shaky , and he is so very successful . He had the face , indeed , to cite the new alliance between Russia and Austria—that infamous conspiracy between two men who have shamelessly broken faith with their subjects , to act jointly against those subjects—as an example of his success in preserving peace ! Of course he must mean that he promoted that infamous conspiracy ? However , the Liberals like Lord Palmerston because he is always so successful , and they are beginning to be very sick of shaky Lord John .
Lord Stanley ' s catechizing of Ministers about restrictions to be enforced on countries that do not reciprocate our navigation liberalities , was a display of Protectionism in its worst aspect , idle and malevolent . Idle , inasmuch as the provocative was confessedly an increase of foreign trade , which can do no material injury to the People of this country , while it brings to them rather material advantages ;
malevolent , because its manifest object was to place the poor Ministry , which calls itself a Free-Trade Ministry , in a dilemma ; and Ministers have no Palmerston in the Upper House . Lord Granville made the obvious and sensible reply , but the mind slips over the well-worn Free-trade arguments ; while Lord Stanley ' s implications stand up as fresh and sharp as flints .
Mr . Bass ' s proposal to reduce the Malt-tax by half , was necessarily rejected by a House which is shuffling off all questions of taxation . The debate on the Maynooth grant was a passing tribute to the rampant Protestantism of the day ; and the rejection of Mr . Spooner ' s amendment to reduce it , by the narrow majority of two in a House of two hundred and forty , was a risk which Ministers permitted by their
quiboasts that he can " save" France ; the Assembly pales its fire before the light of the Committee ; intrigue and ambition dominate right and left ; and , amid all this ostentatious clamour of the great , the people march silently on , working out the real redemption of society through the medium of Association . Our readers will see that another English gentleman , to whose aid we have before been indebted , is making himself master of this great subject , and helping to bring it within the scope of practical politics , of the statesmanship of the future .
escence . It has been pretended , both in the House and in the Press , that Sir Robert Peel enlarged the grant in the expectation of good behaviour on the part of the Roman Catholics ; but we believe that to be a gross misrepresentation of the ground on which he placed the measure . If our memory does not deceive us , he expressly repudiated the idea that he made the concession with a view to a " consideration" of any kind : he affirmed that it would be better to furnish Roman Catholics with the means
Riot in Hamburg—a peaceful commercial cityis a consequence of Austrians in Hamburg . When the armed comedy which Austria and Prussia played last autumn , before the astonished and disgusted eyes of Europe , was over , leaving the paltry game , Hesse Cassel , which the royal hunters had ruu down , to the Bavarian and Prussian armies , Austria went at once and put down revolt in Sehleswig-IIolBteiii . Hamburg was then occupied as a matter
of education at home , rather than abroad ; and that if any grunt were made at all , it ought to be sufficient . The sequel has confirmed Sir Robert Peel ' s view : nothing could be proceeding better thun the domestication and gradual enlargement of Irish Catholicism , until Lord John ' s anti-papal hubbub for a time ; alarmed , alienated , and weakentul the liberal Catholics of Ireland .
of course ; nnd Hamburg lms suffered an a matter of course . The Austrian taste for " volleys " charges nt the point of the bayonet , especially when the foe in unarmed , is a notorious fact . So that our readers will not bo surprised to see in our column « an account of a brutal attack t > jr an Austrian division , upon a street mob , in tbe suburbs of Hum burg . England is apariytott > e treaties under which the Hunse towns retjajjfc their freedom : ims tho " most Liberal" and
SuVoe-Enough events have happoncd this week in Church affairs , to show that Sectarianism is not yet slumbering again . While the Chichester clergy arc protesting against " novelties" in the Church , tho London Church Union iu complaining that Rome , by refusing to recognize the Catholicity of tho Church of England , in protracting' the schism of tho West ! Meanwhile , the Society for the
Propa-Mr . Cobden ' s peace and oeconomy motion , for example , being expressly advanced and withdrawn , practically has the effect of sanctioning the Palmerston policy , which does not consist in peace and economy . It is a strange phenomenon this conconstant talking about peace , when we have peace , just as popular orators are always boasting about war , in time of war . The average mind is always under subjection to the notion of the day . Mr . Cobden ' s plan of securing peace , if we judge by his deeds , amounts to this—To move a resolution , raise a debate , elicit a repetition of those old professions which Lord Palmerston has rendered familiar
True to its present method , Parliament has done not a little work this week , but all inversely to the direct propositions before it . It has been more or less directly incited to promote peace by asking for a mutual disarmament of France and England , to revise tb . e removal of the Navigation Laws , to halve the Malt-tax , to release Mr . Edwards one of the St . Alban ' s witnesses , to reduce the Maynooth grant , and put Mr . William Williams ' s views on Sabbath observance into a statute ; but if it has made any progress on all these questions , the movement is in a direction quite opposite to that invited .
to Parliament and the public ; and then , avowing satisfaction with those dear old professions , to withdraw the resolution ; Lord Palmerston winding up the debate by declaring that he holds himself free to do in future precisely as he thinks fit . That is the whole story ; that is the whole of Mr . Cobden ' s achievement this session on behalf of peace . Even if Mr . Cobden ' s resolution had been carried , it could have done nothing for its professed object . What are the influences which now menace the
continuance of peace ? They are , the hated revival of the reactionary party in Europe , the system of falsehood and mystification which create universal misunderstanding and distrust , and especially the truckling to secret diplomatic motives , which neutralize high national motives in the more popular O mntriea . But a weakening of Franco and England would only strengthen the Absolutist league which their latent power keeps somewhat in check . Neither disarmament of the
more liberal countries , nor professions from Lord Palmerston , whose whole career haw conduced to the influence of official European diplomncy , can secure peace . But there is far lews regard for peace or for popular progress than there in for Palmer-Hton and his professions . If reformers wish to place national security on a truly sound basis , they will follow tho example set by tho town-council of Sheffield , and demmul the abolition of standing armies—those modern inventions of officialismthose tools of Absolutism . Lord Palmerston ' s success in bamboozling the pence party line revived the idea that he must be [ CouN-ntr Edition . ]
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Leader (1850-1860), June 21, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21061851/page/1/
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