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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 oae-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 ' b Cosmos .
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News of thb Week— 'Page News op the Week—continued . " The People ! ' ? •' It ' s Coming I " ... 107 Progress of Science—Parliament 98 Disasters in the West Indies 101 Open Council— Position of Science 113 Death of William Wordsworth .... 99 Destruction of the Cathedral of Sar- Wheat Prices . —Mr . S . Sandars's Case 108 Liebig and B'schoffs Evidence . — Reported Safety of Sir John Franklin 99 ragos 3 a 101 Subsistence and Land 108 The Gurlitz Murder 113 Reform Conference 99 Incendiary Fires 10 L The Education of the Poor 108 Portfolio—The Movements in the Church .... 100 Murders and Murderous Assaults ... 101 The Oxford Credit System 108 The Apprenticeship of Life 114 France and Her Government 100 Miscellaneous * 102 Power of Justices ot the Peace .... 109 The Aristecratical 116 : The Return of the Pope 100 Public Affairs— Literature— AmericanArt lip The Great Tunnel of the Alps 100 The New Reformation 105 Sydney Smith's Moral Philosophy ... 110 The Lyric Drama lib The Solution of the Last "Sea- Position of the Public Educationists 106 Browning ' s New Poem Ill The Drama Ho Serpent" 101 The County Freehold Movement .. 106 Historians of the Revolution of 1848 111 Commercial Affairs—Divorce 101 Wages in England and America .... 106 Notes and Extracts 112 Markets , Gazettes , & c . 117-20
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The delegates of the Reform Conference have assembled in London , have settled their plans , and finished off with a soiree . The conference , it seems , is to end in the establishment of an agitating machinery , with its staff and fund , after the fashion of the Anti-Corn-Law League . But , as we showed last week , the objects and circumstances of the new movement are of a very different character ; and the same machinery is not at all likely to
produce equivalent results . The delegates came to town with predetermined plans , and our suggestion that they should enlarge the scope of their movement by including the People is answered by reference to their instructions ; also by Mr . Bright ' s argument , that the sort of compromise between an effective course and a donothing policy will '' conciliate" the timid , and render the movement " slow and safe . " We have
no faith in such counsel , and scarcely believe that Mr . Bright himself has any . Of all his party he is the man whom we should point out as showing the traits of the sturdiest and most vigorous disposition ; and , if the movement had taken a more energetic form , we should have expected to see him throw himself boldly into the van . We hardly despair yet . John Bright is scarcely the man to be content with a hackney-coach pace in political movement . Nor is the Conference likely tb be quite fruitless . Its tendency seems to be to resolve itself into rather a large and cumbrous machinery for promoting the Freehold Land
Movement . It certainly has caused no stimulating alarm to Parliament , which has continued its jog-trot course of weekly drudgery . Ministers have been busy over a few Bills , with more or less of progress , and some eleemosynary contributions by strangers . In the Stamp Duties Bill , Sir Charles Wood compromises the difference with Sir Henry Willoughby , adopting Sir Henry ' s one shilling scale of duties on small amounts , but gradually increasing it till he arrives at his own half-crown scale on larger amounts . In the slow process of Committee on
the Australian Colonies Bill , a suggestion voucnsafed « y Mr . Roebuck , to include a provision for defining boundaries of Australian Colonies , is caught at as a windfall by Ministers . It is not only a practical improvement on their curious sample of legislation , but it half affiliates the measure to Mr . Roebuck , and may help to disarm that troublesome critic . Mr . Page Wood's Affirmation Bill has been thrown out ; not , however , by a large majority . So has Mr . Monckton Milnes ' s Bill for improving the treatment of Juvenile Offenders by rendering it wore summary .
, In the House of Lords some dreamy Protectionists , the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Malmesbury , have been reviving the discussion on
then * doctrine with lugubrious allusions to lowprices . The Lords also are engaged in pruning the salaries of their own servants . The Parliamentary event of the week is Lord John Russell ' s announcement of a Royal Commission to inquire into the management of the universities . This is a mode of staving off Mr . Hey wood ' s motion . He proposed a royal commission with specific objects ; Lord John Russell announces a royal commission with unspecified , perhaps indefinite , objects ; Mr . Heywood withdraws his motion , and of course the inquiry is left in a more manageable shape for official trimming .
Out of doors the week has not been eventful . The most notable fact is the new decision on the Gorham case . The Bishop of Exeter had demurred to Mr . Gorham ' s right of carrying an appeal from the Court of Arches to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; an old statute pointing out the Upper House of Convocation as the right court of appeal . The question came before the Court of Queen ' Bench , and it has been decided against the Bishop . The new
judgment was delivered by Lord Campbell—one of the Judicial Committee whose judgment is impugned , and a party to that singular correspondence with Miss Sellon which we noticed last week ! Lord Campbell delivered the judgment ex-officio ; but it is a " curious coincidence , " and one not calculated to add weight to the judgment . Meanwhile , the agitation in the Church continues unabated ; and we see signs of its spreading to new quarters . Even among Dissenters there are strange symptoms just now .
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The foreign journals are filled with the ceremonial of the Pope ' s return to Rome . The rejoicings could not be got up . It is clear that no real satisfaction has been manifested by the people , though that notable ally of the Church , the liberated convict Genaraccio , offered to enroll two thousand of his fellows to draw the carriage of Pio Nono in triumph to the Capitol . There was , of course , some snouting , paid for by the clergy ; some illumination , compelled by the police ; on the road to Rome men were said , to have flung themselves before the horses of his Holiness , as in sacrifice to some adorable Juggernaut . But it would seem
the prostration was only that of a few capuchins . In juxta-position with these tokens is " an attempt to fire the Quirinal , " the arrest of " hostages" for the Papal safety , and loud murmurings , even of French soldiers , at being compelled to kneel before the Pontiff . The " wickedest rabble" ( sceleratissima canaglia)—as a proclamation in the Roman Gazette politely styles the Republicans—are not yet hungering for the Papal benediction . The French army changes its name from " expeditionary" to that " of occupation . " Truly it must occupy Home if the " Restoration" is to be maintained . The Angers accident is made use of by the
French Socialists : the indomitable Proudhon and others laying that loss of life at the doors of a suspicious Government . But for governmental fears , the battalion of the eleventh Regiment had not been ordered to quit the ordinary route . Any way the accident happens unluckily for the men in power . The first few army votes yet counted on hot
are in favour of Eugene Sue . The war is between him and his opponent . The Conservative journals contrast his extravagant mode of life with his avowal of Communism : his friends-retort by denying the heroism of the champion 6 f order , M . Leclerc . The Presse and the National me at variance ; The Government is beaten by the Assembly . M . Baroche is not to be allowed to make" his new
law of transportation retrospective , however politic it might be to remove the condemned of May and June . M . Baroche is too bad even for Odilon Barrot ., Rumours of a coup d ' e ' tat continue . The Government , questioned thereupon , answers , that it would punish any who hinted at such a course . So it seizes , not the Napoleon , which had broadly suggested the necessity , but the National , which only denounced the intimation . Electoral meetings are prohibited in the department of the Saone-et-Loire , because the candidates , being
strangers , are not " entitled to hold a meeting . " One would think there was the more necessity for their addressing their constituents . Even the orderly M . de Larochejaquelin is subjected to the same rule at Paris . M . ' Thiers , disgusted , is " going to Italy , " possibly to receive absolution from the Pope . Dissension seems to be the order of the day . Not even in the President ' s own family is there any concord : the Prince ot Canino opposed the French vi et armis at Rome ; Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most
implacable of the Reds ; Pierre quarrels with the President ; Lucien deserts him . In amiable contrast with this divided family appears the report of a reconciliation between the elder and younger branches of the Bourbons . The Counts of Neuilly and Chambord are to embrace , to forgive and to forget , Louis Philippe being only anxious to renew his violated oath of allegiance to Henri Cinq . A similar happy reunion is to be accomplished at Madrid on the auspicious occasion , the birth of an
" heir" to Spam . The Erfurt Parliament is still in existence . The two houses have adopted the Constitution en bloc , notwithstanding the opposition of the Prussian Government , which advised a previous revision of its own scheme , in order that " all dangers may be avoided . " There seems no danger , however , of anything serious , whatever course may be adopted : for Prussia knows well that the whole
affair will amount to nothing . If the Assembly should evince any sign of strength , it will be immediately dissolved , unless Prussia can find other means to escape , such as the timely withdrawal of some of the larger Governments of the League , Meanwhile the Constitutionalists are
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Leader (1850-1860), April 27, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27041850/page/1/
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