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_« ' The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of 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 Religion , 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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WEEKOF THE _PAOB NEWS The Derby Bribery ... Funeral of Henry Clay Emigrants Beware I .. 694 694 694 695 696 699 699 700 701 701 t * t «»«•«« The New House of Commons The General Election Letters from Paris Continental Notes The Laws of Europe .... The Stockport Riots .... Emigrants' Group Meeting Propose * Authors' Co-operative Publishing Association 702 le Stockport Riots . 701 migrants'Group Meeting 701 _opose * Authors' Co-operative Publishing Association 702
Romance and Rascality How to get a Stock of Portraits ... The Panama Railway A Peep at Melbourne The Duchess of Kent Collision ... Attempted Suicides Miscellaneous Health of London during the Week Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... POSTSCRIPT PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The " Screw" in the Counties 706 702 703 703 703 704 704 705 pOSTSCR | pT __ 705 _rwia , "" - PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The " Screw" in the Counties 706 702 702
LITERATURE— _Pashley on the Poor Law 710 The March of Austrianism The Leader" and the Church The People the only Legitimate Source The Cycles of Life OPEN COUNCILThe Answer to the Appeal 708 708 709 The Answer to the Appeal 709 , . _ ,- « ,.-.,, _»_ LITERATURE— Pashley on the Poor Law 710 I The Retribution of Cant England and America Hall 707 Tiptree 707 708
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c ... 715-716 PORTFOLIOThe Discipline of Art—The Tiger and the Sylph THE ARTSA Parting Glance at Academy Exhibition .. Mademoiselle Emilie meersch 689 714 theRoyal 714 714 Vander _i-aemoisene _. mme v COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c ... 71 ' Woman's Life 711 Gregory ' s Organic Chemistry 711 Books on our Table 712 . _~
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Theoretically , the majority seems to be passing over to the Derbyites ; but practically , we suspect it will be found extremely doubtful how the votes will go . " Able Editors" marshal the House under the » standards flaunted on the hustings ; but Ministers may not find members so pliant and docile as constituents . A thousand things may happen between now and October to turn th * < nin . _o » t _« f _oj / _miuiij «« k 1 wft must see a few of the division lists before we can properly _oUsaJfy the new men . A considerable number of
"supporters of Lord Derby" are of the class amenable to public opinion . Besides there are the Liberal-Conservatives , who muster strongly , and who will hold the balance of power next session ; and even if Lord Derby gain a nominal majority , it will be so small that his Government will in no case be entitled to the enviable epithet of " strong . " For the present , bribery , intimidation , and cant , are his constituents .
But the " No Popery" cry has not been _successful everywhere . Middlesex has returned Ralph Osborne , and the " Protestant Saint , " wittily styled the " Brummagem St . George" by his triumphant opponent , will not be called upon to accept the _Chiltem Hundreds . All the _glozmg bigotry , the tyranny ur ii » .. aiordism , uie _ca » _t , the misrepresentations , the gold of the Tories , have availed them little . And in spite of these formidable foes , and in the teeth of the obvious
coolness of the Grosvenor party , Mr . Osborne wins by 151 . The Herald affects to consider the defeat a success . May the Derby Government meet with many sueh successes ! They had another m East Surrey , which has gallantly returned Alcock and King . But Middlesex and East Surrey are the sole stars on the county firmament . Reform and _* ree-h * de are eclipsed elsewhere . Herefordshire has rejected Mr . Cornewall Lewis , to its deep
disgrace , displacing him in favour of the bucolic "ooker , or the untried King , or the soldier Han' _> ' » ry , professing Protectionists . But , possibly , »* the poll books were stolen from the booth at % ss _, this election will not be held valid by the Mouse of Commons . In Hertfordshire Bulwer _^ _yttou _has been returned , with Meux and Halsey , _faceting Trevor the Liberal Free-trailer . In jjwt Somerset , Mr . Elton has been defeated by _«» es and Knatchbull , after a stout struggle , in _Uicli every kind of trick and violence was _pyac-LCOUNTUY _EoiTIQN . ]
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tised by the Tories . Tenants were bullied and driven to the poll in flocks ; small shop-keepers were menaced , and the whole division placed under a " reign of terror" by the " chivalry" of the Derby faction . East Sussex and West Surrey present similar pictures . In all the purely agricultural counties the vote is a farce ; and in some it becomes a curse to its possessors . When does a Derby Ministry expect to repair the damage to the moral character of the constituencies , which they have inflicted in one short week !
On the classic ground of the West Riding , a very different scene passes before the spectator . There Orange and Blue _nrocj . « md mingle , harmonized by Free-trade . But this county election stands significantly apart from all the others , for there the contest turned entirely on the Free-trade question . Cobden spoke of nothing else . He studiously avoided every other topic on the hustings , maintaining quite an official reserve upon the other great questions of the day . Reform ,
education , sanitary measures , were shelved ; and the Free-trade champion tilted mightily only against the carcase of Protection . It was quite a diplomatic affair . Indeed , Cobden professed to stand upon none other than Free-trade ground . But when he had eaten a solid luncheon , he broke out into a dashing attack upon Disraeli , styling him a mountebank , a revolutionary incendiary , and »* n < _... _pvott y names , for which he will have to
answer anon . But he also lectured the Whigs , and spoke at the head of Sir Charles Wood , chairman on the occasion , telling the Whigs that they must revise their old notions , and step out earnestly for reform—moderate reform . By certain persons , this seemingly close adhesion between Wood and Cobden , is thought to indicate that there is probability in the rumour of a coalition between Manchester , reduced to the
tepid official temperature of Dowmng-street , and Chesham-place , reinvigorated by the bracing air of the North . Meanwhile , Mr . Disraeli formally renounced Protection at Aylesbury , last Friday week . He said tbe Government " never had any intention" of re-imposing the corn-laws . This was news . Already the farmers' friends pull long faees .
But that was not the most remarkable of the Caucasian revelations . Mr . Disraeli , after hammering away at the idea of readjustment of taxation , relief of special burdens , and so forth , for these three years , now coolly informs the farmer that he does not rely upon these schemes for their salvation , and mysteriously hints at some grand
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plan which he _Jias in reserve , which will command the enthusiastic support of the people . Why , dull Mr . Walpole was harping on this very theme at Midhurst , the other day ; it has been paraded about at dozens of elections . Beresford , of " rabble" notoriety , talked quite a different language . Henley , and Stanley , and Christopher , and
Pakington , are likewise at odds . We begin to inquire whether Mr . Disraeli is not the cabinet , and whether the other Ministers are at all in his confidence . And it is not an irrational question to ask , whether lie has any measures , whether , in fact , the whole thing be not a great hoax . At all events , it indicates mystery , if not disunion , in the Protectionist camp .
The most brilliant and marking event , however , of the week , was the annual gathering , held on Wednesday last , at Tiptree-hall , the farm of Mr . Mechi , the great agricultural propagandist : who usefully applies the art of advertisement acquired at his London warehouse , in disseminating throughout England , and we may add , throughout Europe and America , the new principles of cultivation exemplified at his Essex farm . A host of celebrities , political and diplomatic , scientific and
literary , were assembled to compare the merits of rival reaping-machines , disintegrators , and drills ; to admire the rich wheat-crops waving on soil which , but a few years since , was half water-logged clay , half sandy barren heath ; to note the manifest superiority ( not only in fatness and physical health , but also in briskness and intelligence ) of pigs kept in clean boarded sheds , over their fellow swine , wallowing in I'd thy sties ; and , above all , to contemplate the steam-heart , and the iron
arteries , with which , at the suggestion of the Sanitary Reformers , Mr . Mechi has recently completed what may now ht ; called the circulating system of his farm . No one , indeed , ( as we heard Mr . F . O . Ward remark ) could listen to the throb of the central engine , and watch the liquid manure ( the nutrient life ' s blood of the farm ) spouting from remote capillaries , and showered down on distant crops , without feeling that a new epoch
is dawning , equally pregnant of good to town and to country , equally important to sanitary and to agricultural progress . To our minds , indeed-, the most remarkable feature of this very remarkable congress , was the presence of the leading Sanitary Reformers , the Chadwicks , the Wards , the Kbringtons , & c , at a festival so purely agricultural ; as , on the other hand , the attendance of Mr . Mechi and the agricultural reformers gave a special significance to the late Sanitary banquet in London . It is
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071852/page/1/
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