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» The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the £ w «¦ if ^ wlstinctioS of Religion , to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and ^ y settmg aside th ~ ^™ f ^| our spiritual Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-tiie tree aevciopmeu nature . "—Humboldtfa Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— * agh The Parliament of the Week 1222 The Ministry ' . I 223 Mr . Gladstone and Lord Derby ... 1223 Disgraceful Scene in the Carlton Club 1223 Message of the American President 1224 The Cuban Slave-Trade 1225 Letters from Paris 1225 Continental Notes 1226 Abd-el-Kader to Lord Londonderry 1226 A Kival to the " Melbourne" 1227 The Church Tax-Gathering 1227 American Notes 1227
New Telegraph Linea on the Conti- The Latest Position of the Cuban nent 1228 Affair , ¦ 1231 Criminal and police Notes 1228 American Souvenirs of Napoleon ^ Miscellaneous 1228 HI ............. '""" Health of London duriugthe Week 1229 Reproductive Employment and the Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1229 Amended Order 1 ^ - ' Mr . Kirwan ' s Case 12 <" POSTSCRIPT I 229 Napoleon III . and his Military Democracy l ^^ PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ' The ( Deceased ) Budget Dissected . _ ,, . , 1230 —No . III 1232 Chnstma 3 XMK } Formation of the New Ministry : O ^ E ! l ?? Hu ~~ ¦ a » a iw the Impediment 1230 Sabbath Observance in Scotland ... 1234 Mr . Disraeli * nd his Colleagues .... 1230 Mr . Kirwau s Case 1234
LITERATURESpontaneous Generation l ££ A Batch of New Books 1247 Gorgei ' s Life and Acts in Hungary Iid 7 Books on our Table 1238 PORTFOLIOThe Haythorne Paper 3 1238 Passages from a Boy's Epic 1239 THE ARTSPanorama of the BerneBe Alps 1240 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c . 1240-1244 . ——
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EXIT Derby , and enter Aberdeen . Lord Derby ' s Administration has taken its formal departure in a manner highly characteristic of its two leading Ministers . In attempting to hold office by the strength , of a protectionist connexion , in attempting to hold oifcce on the pretext of resisting the democracy , tfken the democracy is asleep and in no way giving opportunity for resistance , —in endeavouring to accommodate Protectionist and Free-trade expectations , without a
carte blanche , and with measures subject to revision by inferior and more prejudiced intellects , — Mr . Disraeli had to maintain an impracticable position ; he had to maintain it almost alone ; and partly by his own fault , partly by force of deficient generosity in his adversaries , he became the object of a dead-set on the part of niany Opposition leaders , any one of whom might have been a sufficient adversary . A purist raked up Mr . Disraeli ' s past political sins—an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer , who has cultivated only one of the many pursuits in which Mr . Disraeli
lias distinguished himself , and that one not very creditably , used the accidents of technical knowledge and party prejudice to humiliate his greater rival ; others stood round to watch for an unguarded action or a stumble , and the Minister felt himself surrounded and struck on every aide . On Thursday , he made a fierce retaliatory speech ; but in the formal announcement on Monday , he had recovered his self-possession , and gracefully apologizing , he re-established his personal position
mi the House . Lord Derby has more and more sought to make his tenure of office a personal affair . It has been stated in print that he personally canvassed for support among the Liberal Members of flic House of Commons ; and when at last he could hold on no longer , the formal announcement of his resignation was accompanied by a tirade against all and sundry who were not amongst his own follower * . i The Derby Ministry is over , and its grand achievement has been to establish the fact , that
Protection is impossible , even in the eyes of its own advocates . Mr . Yillicrs could not have done it half 90 well . ^ It has also established this fact that Toryism is ' impossible . Lord Derby , who had expressed a desire to retreat into private dignity , has consented to continue at the head ot [ Counthy Edition . ]
his party , and promise * to . be the leader of a spiteful Opposition . . 1 \ _ The week has been o ^ bup ied by an endeavour to form a new Ministry ^ with a member of the Peel party at its headJj ^ nt it has proved more difficult to frame a Mifcjifx of the majority than it was to frame a Mirafe ^ th » rmintn ^ : r ^ n Lord Pahnerston ' s une ^ Pw ^' s & sajalt tlijwM & iflje Whigs from the seats of . office , and allowed Lord
Derby to come in without doing any service for the privilege . ' Trie reports of the " difficulties " put forth from day to day were not of the most intelligible 01 * trustworthy kind , the whole effect being that the Peelites pertinaciously battled for an undue preponderance in the Ministry , that Lord John Russell consented to accept an office of no political importance , and that the Radicals , or advanced Liberals , were omitted in the scheme
of the new Administration . Undoubtedly there were difficulties ; the Ministry was not ready for announcement on Thursday ; and impatient Liberals bedame gloomy and foreboding . Lord Aberdeen is much respected , as a good Englishman , an old ally of the Holy Alliance transmuted to the more modern sympathy with a Gladstone ,
—a Tory converted almost to a Liberal , and a hearty coadjutor of Peel . Yet every day added to the general want of confidence in his ability to establish a permanent Ministry . How could a Conservative Cabinet grant such an extension of the suffrage as would satisfy public expectation ? How refuse the claims of its Puseyitc friends ,
specially to be urged on Mr . Gladstone : ? How encounter the opposition from Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , backed by the largest of the minorities , un < l supported only by a combination of smaller minorities , mostly liberal , and very precarious in their co-operation ? But the announcement in Friday ' s Times has materially modified this view . The probability of a Cabinet comprising all the leading men in
the late Opposition , so placed us to be- efficient without bringing their crotchets into play , — Lord Palmerston in the Home . Office , which means activity ; Lord John in the Foreign Office , which ought to mean English' independence ; Mr . ( llad-Btone in the Exchequer , which cannot mean theological casuistry ; and the Duke of Newcastle in the Colonies , which means justice , —raises new hopes ,
winch tune must test . Two meetings of the week exemplify the coming difficulties for any Ministry that should be undecided ; the meeting of Lord Derby ' s
friends , to re-organize his majority ; and the meeting of Parliamentary Reform Associations , to develop thjer ' organization of a Radical Opposition . The / offidels of % 3 Association have diligently employed the . off Season in extending the local machinery about the country , and it is becoming really formidable . ,, . ., . The Ministerial crfliihas absorbed almost every attention at home . Atgroad , t ^ fgrand event is the visit of the voung Austrian jEmperor to Berlin ,
banquetting , and of course consulting , with the King of Prussia ; and thence proceeding to meet the Emperor of Russia at " Warsaw . The Holy Allies are re-assembling , and their union bodes mischief for Europe . Louis Napoleon , indeed , is said to be the chief subject of their discussion ; but that cannot be all . Europe does not yet lie quiet under lier oppressions ; and there can b ^ little doubt that the great potentates met to consider how the machinery of suppression could be
strengthened and extended . In France , for all his brilliant successes , Louis Napoleon is under a cloud . He has failed in important details . He cannot get his bride . He cannot get recruits among the republican party , lie cannot raise the wind ; and the impending financial collapse cannot be for ever deferred . Dissidents at home seem to grow bolder , whjle foreign monarchs conspire against him . But he resorts to the press . An ominous pamphlet , " Des JAmites de VUmpire , " has just appeared under the direct patronage of the authorities , which claims for the boundaries of France the
Rhine , the Scheldt , and the Alps—annexing Belgium , the Rhino provinces , and Sav oy ; and the Army will probably follow up the publication , by setting out to recruit the Imperial exchequer with remunerative war . France itself resents taxation ; but a few subject provinces might contribute an useful quota . Lomhardy , for instance , with only one-eighth of the population of the Austrian Empire , contributes one-fourth of the gross revenue ; and being only a subject province , the dislikes of Lomlmrdy are not of much political importance at the capital . How convenient that is 1
The Turkish question is becoming more complicated and more urgent . The bunk lit Constantinople has declined to receive state paper—a rebellion more alarming than that of Montenegro . France is once more avenged for the rejected loan . From America , President Fillinore has sent us one of the plainest and most important messages
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25121852/page/1/
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