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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-aided views ; and , by setting aside the disunctaona 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'a Cosmos .

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      «« S B T S T" G « NOE REVIEW OF THE WEEK- ^ ok Gathegng « . from the Law and Po- ^ 'Something like a Majority 615 Jg ^^ ' fti ^ Z ^ ZZZt Slo Imperial Parliament 602 Naval and MUitary ' . " . " !' . " . ' . ' .- '' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . '" . ' . ' . " . 610 LIIE ^ TitRE ~ 616 S ubin , ^ «" w « fch a ' TJntertain- 62 ° TheEducationalConference 605 Obituary 610 fai nxaary 616 Mr . and Mrs . Webbs Entertain-KK == r ::: & g ^™ :==: SB ^ BSfcEE ffi ffilfei ^ r ::== BBSSSEEEEEs ^ t ^ f s s ^* =- "" a . Ttte , setto .. ZZ Ireland . 607 Mr . Roebuck ' s Circular 613 New Editions w » In Remembrance of the lato Mr . The Education Conference ....... 613 H _ ARTS _ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSo ^ feS ! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Si I & S &^^^^ . :::::::= tit »¦*— «^> - «» c « y in * a **»»<*»*«* - ** «

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      • S UBJECT to the friction of parliamentary interruptions , ljoxd Palmerston ' s Government is pursuing the course wVoh it laid down , and without much practical disturbance- When Liord Derby could have beaten the Government on the question of Ministers' Money , he flinched . Proxies , which are available at other stages of a measure , are not available in committee . The second reading had been carried by a majority of

      proxies against a majority of peers present ; Lord Olancabty accepted that as a proof that the bill had not been decided by the deliberate decision of the House listening to the arguments ; he thought that if the proxies who had voted with Ministers had been present , they might have been convinced by the arguments of his leader . Lord Derby , however , repelled the idea of disusing proxies . It would not , in fact , be very convenient for a Derby

      Ministry , and he knows it . It would also be very inconvenient for a Derby Ministry , if Lord Derby had , in a very trifling matter , done his best to keep up ttiose sectarian feuds in Ireland which , as Lord Stanley , he really did much to diminish in 1833 . He saw that Tuo might have heaten Ministers ; he tried to keep up his Conservative repute by pretending to try to beat them on tit © second reading" when ho couldn't ; and now , on the stage wlv < m he could ,

      he let them triumph ! It was the same in regard to the Oaths Bill in the Commons . The opponents of Ministers have lain down before them as the Hindu before the car of Juggernaut , only with a more semi-voluntary helplessness . Lord Blandford stood hard against the third reading , Sir Frederick Thesiqer protested , but the bill was carried by a groat majority . Before that , at the last stage but one , Mr . Fr azgbb . a . ij > had discerned an artiatio blemish in the measure . Unlike tho Roman Catholic llelief Aot ,

      it pennittod gentlemen of tho persuasion now relieved , the Jews , to enter into tho posts of Lord Chancellor , Lord Lieutenant of Iroland , and Lord High Commissioner of tho Church of Scotlandposts connected with Church preferment ; and Mr . Fitzqbuald proposed a sot of amendments excluding a Jew from those offices , or from advising the Crown on ecclesiastical subjects . It is highly improbable that any Jew would aooopt such offices ; one might almost as much , expoot ; to see Baron irtONBL be Rothschild Archbishop of Canterbury . But Lord Palmkbston thought it wiser to give

      way . He accepted the amendments , trating division in the House of Commons , and lending a new proof of his imperative desire to conciliate the House of Lords . The Divorce Bill has passed the House of Lords after all , with several amendments , some of the latest being actual improvements . The Bill no longer give 3 the Marriage Court power to imprison those who are convicted under its operation , and thus it is stripped of that provision which inight have deterred husbands from seeking the relief of divorce , lest they should consign an unhappy woman to the imprisonment of a felon . Some of the latest debates in the House of Lords turned upon

      amendments proposed by Bishops , or by Peers that emulate the pietism of Bishops , in order to excludeithpse who are convicted under the Bill from re-marrying either each other or strangers under the spiritual sanction of the Church . But every amendment only served to show how preposterous it is to make such distinctions in the general law of marriage . ; and liow futile it is to construct a means of carrying out the distinction .

      Where the House of Commons has shown its independenoc , the selection appears to us not to have been happy . There is an immense increase in the miscellaneous estimates j some of the items would have been very fair subjects for reconsideration j but the House of Commons has already suffered the opportunity to pass . The strangest case for inquiry challenged attention in the large Army Estimates , among othor points , the House really knew nothing as to tho principle on which the Aldershot encampment is to be maintained . Mr .

      C / ViRD showed that the purchase of that heath had been effected in . a very imprudent manner , at a considerable price for waste land , when tho Crown already has waste laud of little value , and more suitable for tho purpose j one instance is tho Crown land near Portsmouth . The House deolined to support Sir Henry Willougioy in demanding a more stringent control over the expenditure for tho now IIouso 3 of Parliament j but it supported Mr .

      William Williams in virtually refusing 50 , 000 / . towards tho park at ]? insbury , in which it was supported by metropolitan members wliose own distriots are already supplied ! This is a most unhappy ox ample of resistance . If tho House had granted this 50 , 000 / ., it might have saved the same sum out of Alderahot , out of the Houses of Parliament , or out of many another item whore money will bo expended without any benefit to the people of this country . But it has been open-handed towards tho War

      Department , singy peop , , in that perversely discriminating stinginess , it is supported by metropolitan members ! Lord Raynham moved for a committee of inquiry iuto workhouse administration , showing how abuses exist such as those which we have witnessed in Marylebone , while the Poor-Law Commission is ¦ een , by the fact that the abuses continue , not to

      possess sufficient power of controlling them . What is the official answer ? That such an inquiry would be ' extended over three years I and , as a quicker process , Mr . Bowerie proposed to conduct it himself , single handed , and through the Poor-law Board whose very incapacity is in question ! The House supported Mr . Bouvkrib , because , although it might be ready enough for the Poor-law Committee , it wants to end the session .

      Out of doors we have had the Education Conference , which set for the first and third days in Willis ' s Rooms , on the intermediate day at tho Tliatolicd-Lnjoao Tavern , in sections . The second chairman at one of these meetings was the same Education Minister , Mr . William Cooper , who made the official statement on the progress of education for the year in the House of Commons . But the out-of-doors people clearly beat tlie House of Commons , both in the completeness of their

      information , and in the scope of their discussion . Prince Albert was tho first chairman , and he delivered an admirable speech . Lords , bishops , and distinguished persons of all classes , adorned the platform—adorned that platform on whioh— - Prince A lbbbi was away—there did not exist sufficient tact or kindly feeling to manage the chum of Robert Owew for a hearing , without inflicting upon the aged man a species of studied insult , to whioh the ridicule of the polite and ' educated '

      meeting gave point ! Tho question of cotton supply has been rendered orious by the state of tho supply from Amerioa Tho rising price has not only embarrassed tho manufacturing trade , but has made aome manufaoturors turn pale with tho prospect of being unable to continue their business , while tho working olasscta are threatened with being thrown out of

      omploymont . For some time past there hasbeou ui > effort ? to turn , attention' towarda oUKJ ^ fiMo ^ X fields besides America ; and in tho jj ^^^^^ i pday , India was tho field at wliioh Mjj ^ mt ^^ X ^^ 3 * pointed . Various oausos wore atoE 3 | pn ^^ K ^ vlj |» xjd olino of a cultivation 01100 indiffonouffj i ^^^^ Pw ^ i 3 hz wo do not soo any complete 0 X l | j [ P | WH > reasons whioh have prevented a natiWJ « %$ ^ S ^^^\ hp

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27061857/page/1/