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. ?• Thb one Idea which History exnitnts as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or . Humanitv—the noble endeavovir to throw downaa the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided . views- and by setting aside the distinctions , of ReUs ? ion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race ¦ ' ,. ¦ ¦¦'> -.. aaTpne brotherhood having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Tuesday is the day on which all politicians fix their regard , with strong expectations of— nothing ; but only a certainty : that something lies beyond , and probably a general election . As the time adranees , every party is in a state of increasing perplexity . The rapid succession . of Cabinet Councils attests the trepidation o £ M ^ nistera . The Proteetionivts , tooi } hky £ v 1 $$ fr- meeting , at Burleighlioaate , and have hit upon no device better th < an "to
adopt , iaaUitiin ^ grUyy th ^^ ld uncon ^ prothising Kite of policy openeaby ttye . lamented Lord George Bentinok ^ -goiitg back to the devices of a dead man and a day dead to history ! The " Reform " party , or parties , are not at all in a state of decision ; as the meetings at Edinburgh and Linlithgow may witness . If any vigour is to be got put of the Party , it will be elicited at the approaching conference to be called by the Parliamentary Reformers . But no set of Members will meet her Majesty with any firm resolve ; rather with the hope that some
blunder in their rivals may give to themselves the falae strength of others' weakness . Air parties enter Parliament for the session with a sense [ that the immediate future is more uncertain than the future usually is . Meanwhile , they are all preparing for the general election , which is expected with slight delay ; and the usual coquetries between candidates and constituencies multiply . Among those whose court-. implies a speedy occasion for renewing the union is Mr . George Cornewall Lewis . But what the election is to be about nobodv vet knows . Of
course Ministers will try to give their own keynote ; of course the Protectionists will try to prevent them , and " appeal to the . country " on the George Bentinck plan . That would have the merit of be * ng at least a substantive and independent course , which no other party as yet shows itself prepared to take . Ministers , it is said , count on the national defence movement as a diversion from ordinary politics ; but it will prove too strong for them . Iney will be wholly unable to control it : it is not to be expected that they satisfy it . When w » e Stock Exchange takes up arms , as it is doing , « ne money men must be in earnest ; and they will 1 ¦— " --- «« . »»»» v uu 111 caiUCBtj MHU hllpY Will Want to
know how it is that , after we have been Pay » ng fifteen millions a year , for naval and military purposes , we have not got effective naval and raihtory instruments ? The | tme Clubs forming in ajl quarters will back the ^ bok Exchange . A perfect army is rising up to a * k what Ministers have been about ? Also , what Ministers mean to do with the income lax 1—which can neither be spared nor tolerated . It is not the resignation of Lord Nor-Mianby , Ambassador in France , nor the appointgetat of Lord Cowley in his stoad , that will satisfy gw popular demand for explanation on these heads . *« at explanation is the thing most impatiently an-ICotruTjiv Edition . ] ' t j
ticipated ; and , if we must confess the truth , the public is prepared to find that explanation unsatisfactory / The strike of the iron manufacturers continues , and still imparts some uneasiness to the commercial world . The great depression in the iron trade shows , either- that the strike of the masters is telling very severely on the traffic in the raw material , or that the trade would have been in a very languishing state , even if the masters , had not disguised their slack business under their strike . The reports of a very dull state of the iron trade in 7
America inclineus to the latter supposition . The unskilled labourers begin to grovrnnea ' sy at their suspehdeiTwork . The masters continue to be obstinate , and grow more hostile ; witness their last circular . Altogether the situation of things is not promising . The industrial world is deeply stirred in other quarters . The immense emigration ( 1 , 216 , 000 from the United Kingdom in ten years ending 1850 , and principally from Ireland in the last three of those years , ) has alarmed the more enlightened oeconomists of Ireland for the future ; and the meeting convened in Dublin by the Board of
Manufacturers has resolved to encourage reproductive employment as the direct means , not only of oeconomising the labour that remains , but of arresting the continued drain . The oppression of the associated workmen in Lyons , Lille , and other towns of France , on political grounds , has alarmed the associated workmen of Paris ; who have formed a committee to prepare the plan of an extensive emigration . The same measure is threatened by our own Amalgamated Engineers . It would oe a frightful day for both capitals if the threat were realized ; especially as the associated men are , for the most part , the best workmen .
The accident at Whitehaven , where the sea has destroyed a large piece of the railway wall and embankment , seems to be another case in which the contract system has broken down , through shaving too closely to the bare necessity , and making no allowance for known contingencies . The wall was not made strong enough , and it fails . The elaborate report of the trial trip of the Orinoco , however , proves that " public opinion" does yet exercise some wholesome sway , and that disasters
like that of the Amazon will not recur without an effort to prevent them . But these counteractive efforts are partial apd transitory : there needs spine means of consolidating them , by basing them on a principle , and reducing them to a system —•• a duty for . the Socialist party to perform . The principle of Concert , reconciling interests generally deemed conflicting , removes the temptation to the dishonest stinting which teaches to trade a perpetual defrauding of the public , a chronic poisoning through adulterationand the most frightful of calamities :
, Ireland is again in the throes of anarchy . Certain northern oounties are hot , rather too Jiot for some unfortunate gentlemen , with a horrible Riband
conspiracy . Another magistrate , quietly walking in his garden , is fired at , as is customary in those parts , from behind a wall , but escapes with a skin wound . Threatening notices are freely handed about , by invisible persons , to the obnoxious . Justice , specially appointed to try the suspected , is escorted to her destination by troops of dragoons . Flying columns of soldiers hover here and there , mingled with police armed to the teeth . Justice , duly caparisoned , denounces the Riband conspiracy , and threatens the conspiratorsin turnwith a
, , Nemesis . Meanwhile , two men are ] arraigned for the ; murder tijf Mr . Bateson . This is a terrific spectacle . Landlordism and religious persecution grow into such , quite naturally . Horrible as it is , could we reasonably hope to find it otherwise ? Meanwhile , after three months preparation , the " Ariindel Banquet , " at Limerick , fails—Lord Arundei not present . Dr . Ryan , while he proclaims his intention of breaking the law , prudentially suggests a Concordat and diplomatic relations with Rome . Here is matter for reflection .
The Decree confiscating the possessions of the house of Orleans , from which Louis Bonaparte was thought to have recoiled , when he was biding his time , like a tiger for a spring , appalled and amazed even those who had professed themselves incapable of amazement at any doings of the Dictator . Even the journals which had been lashmg themselves with their own tails for the last few < t $ ys , in the absence of any fresh provocation , burst out into fresh fury , charged with all the angers of the faithless factions which for three years have been p laying into the hands of the man who was their instrument , and is now their master—playing
that game of Reaction , in which they were once the tyrants and are now the victims . An attack upon property by the sworn Defender of Property 1 " Religion , & c . "—one falls into humming that old tune by a sort of fatal habit . Alas I the burden of the song is now the crudest of mockeries 1 Mark the thermometer of our political morality . Louis Bonaparte has been confiscating daily for the last seven weeks ; but the blow fell upon the unknown ; perhaps on the rouges ; it was the least of his enormities , to be dismissed in a paragraph ; but now that the lightning has seared the tall trees , respectability stands aghast , and clutches feverishly at its own breeches pockets . We are not palliating
confiscation in any shape—robbery is always robbery ; nor do we think the title of the Princes of Orleans by any means unexceptionable ; nor do we honour the motives or applaud the generous disbursements from another man's purse by that Friend of the People M . Louis Bonaparte . We onjy mark contrasts . The Ball at the Tuilcries seems to have been a snob-cruah on an enormous scale—a suffocating crowd of nondescripts driven to and fro by a disastrous curiosity ; if poor old Louis Philippe ' s ghost could have been there invisible he would have recognized many a " familiar friend "
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31011852/page/1/
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