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No . 2 . SATURDAY , APRIL 6 , 1850 . Price 6 d .
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Hope and endeavour—that should be the moral of the week . The country teems with acclivities in every quarter and in every class . Obstacles there are in plenty , —terror and crime ; but the greatest amount of action and strength is brought to bear upon the highest objects , and the greatest amount of combination also . The best organized conspiracies now before us are those in favour of humanity and its advancement . The Lancashire public education movement , for example , which collected from different parties so large an assemblage on Easter Monday , is amongst the most promising movements of the day , not only for the extent of good which it may acheive , but for the prospect of immediate results . The working people are alive in every great town ; and they are receiving efficient assistance from individuals of the educated classes . Scarcely a day , again , passes , but we hear of new recruits , in the service of the working man from among those who have hitherto stood aloof . While the Lancashire men are fighting their own battle on the Short Time question , and the needlewomen are receiving eleemosynary aid from scions of the Aristocracy , and grandees of the city , associated workmen in Castle-street are boldly facing the competition with capital ; and similar associations are following the example . The Ecclesiastical dispute has assumed a larger aspect than it bore while it was a mere quarrel of discipline between the Bishop of Exeter and this or that clergyman . Questions of principle have been raised , —the relation of an establishment to the state ; the proper function for an Ecclesiastical incorporation . And not only the litigious , but some of the most earnest and discreet men both in the clergy and laity are engaged in active consultation on that course which may appear to be the best for the future . Before these popular and social movements the official activities sink to the grade of peddling . 1 he movements of Ministers in and out of town are chronicled ; but the repetition of the record is tedious , and suggests nothing but the question , What is the use of all the motion ? Lord Seymour is reflected for Totnes , after his appointment to be Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests . What then ? Perhaps he may be a more effective officer than the Earl of Carlisle , but certainly he is not a man whose presence in the Government is more advantageous to the people . Lord Carlisle may not be able to do much , but he maintains a truehearted spirit . In some respects his function in a Ministry has been that of a female in the household—to cheer the hopes , and keep up good feeling . Lord John Russell goes to see Manchester and the curiosities thereof , and to reside with Sir Benjamin Heywood . The principal
natives show him factories ; the aldermen and town council read him addresses , and hope that he will come again , which is lively enough ; but one will look to the debates with some curiosity to see the practical results of his commercial visit . Ministers have been censuring Sir Charles Napier for " indiscretion , " in criticizing their naval administration—and it is very indiscreet , manifestly , if he is looking for preferment . The naval authorities have just curtailed the amount of grog issued to men in the Navy ; and a physician suggests that total abstinence tends to scurvy . Doubtful and small the Ministerial arrangements of this present week . The greatest crop of events must be sought at home in the class of crimes and disasters . Mothers and fathers of families are carrying out the Malthusian dogma with a stupendous rigour ; and tardy equinoctial gales blowing back the sun of April are depopulating our floating navy .
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In the English possessions abroad , we notice signs of future commotion , rather than much present action . In Canada , for instance , some recent elections indicate a considerable progress in the new doctrine , that the colony should be " annexed " to the United States ; but to the English reader the details are as yet too scattered to be either very significant or very interesting . Nova Scotia , which was long before Canada in commencing the practice of " responsible government , " is also preparing for a further extension of that principle . That is to say , the colony is taking steps towards bringing the administrators of Government under a more direct and detailed responsibility to the local Parliament . On the opposite side of the globe , in India , divers military adventures attest the unfailing bravery of our troops , and also attest far too generally a disposition among the natives in the border provinces to treat British authority as anything but a settled matter . Settled of course it will be , but at what cost ? To us in England it is chiefly a matter of money accounts ; we look with anxiety , not to the military results , but to the total of the bill .
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Peace is yet maintained in Europe , but in all directions rumours of warlike preparations are rife . Turin is to be surrounded with fortifications ; Trieste is in process of being fortified j Austrian reinforcements are entering Italy ; Wurternberg puts its army on a war footing ; Prussia also prepares ; Russian troops continue to hover on the frontiers of civilization . All this may mean no mischief , save to the people ; but it indicates the unsettled , feverish state of Europe . There is , however , incentive enough to war , if the squabbles between the Governments could have anything serious in them . Prussian Germany at issue with Austria and her allies ; Prussia at enmity with ; Denmark ; Russia angrily protocoling Prussia and backing Greece against Lord Falmerston .
Austria dieting to Tuscany to refuse the mediation of 3 p 2 r * 3 inia between Tuscany and England . Add ^ to these the insurrections ( fomented by Russia ) in the Turkish dependencies ; reports of disturbances in Milan , and even of " hostilities between some of the German states ;" and there is surely fire enough to kindle Europe , could it be all in earnest . But mediation is the order of the day . Austria already begins to draw in her claws ; Prussia will hurt no one ; Lord Palmerston is not so terrible as he would appear . There may be some little bickerings among the Powers ; but the entente cordiale is not endangered . In truth , the European Governments need their increase of force to keep down their discontented subjects . The peoples' manifestation of indignation may be better credited . Polish deputies withdraw from Erfurt , will not recognise a German Parliament that would keep any portion of Poland as German territory ; German inhabitants of Schlesvvig-Holstein-will be bound by no " contracting powers " to- Denmark ; new religious communities are springing up in Bohemia , new Hussites , perhaps , at all events not without some political purpose ; and meanwhile Austria flings away her last chance by alienating her Slavonian subjects , —breaking faith with them as of old , prohibiting their papers , forcing the German language upon them , driving them toward Russian Panslavism . Young Italy yet lives and hopes . Rome relents not , even at the probability of the Pope ' s return- a return , however , not believed in ; nay , some will say , that he does not intend it , but leaves Portici only that he may give his French allies the slip , and throw himself into the arms of Austria . Shame abroad and utter discord at home sum up the state of France . Throughout the whole , of Europe these are the elements of strife—more , perhaps , than the Princes fancy . Greece still refuses to succumb to Downing ' street , " though her ship-owning population is ruined by the blockade , Greek vessels everywhere lying idle , and the loss already estimated at 30 , 000 , 000 of drachms . Unless the " Protecting Powers" speedily protect her , Greece will bo ruined by her best friend !
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LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN MANCHESTER . Lord John Russell . Lwdy John , their infant child , with Mr . Grey , Lord John ' s private secri'tary , and suite , arrived in MancheKtcr , on Tuesday , by the daymail train . Sir Benjamin Heywood was in waiting to receive his guests . The passengers who arrived by the same train , and the friends awaiting their arrival , saluted Lord John with a hearty cheer , which was taken up and reechoed by a more numerous assemblage collected outttide the station gates . Lord John Russell , who appeared in good spirits , though , somewhat pale , bowed in acknowledgment ; and the party proceeded rapidly through the town to Claremont .
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News o * the Week— Page Movements 29 Struggle * of Religion towards Eman- The Queen ' s Father 40 Lord John Russell in Manchester .. 25 Events in India 29 etpatiooi .............. V .. ; 34 Books on our Table jl Lancashire Education Movement .. 26 America and California 29 Chnston SociaUsm .......... 35 Notes andExtracts .,. ^/ L , The Gorham Case 27 Grand Assault at Arms 29 Mrs . Grundy and the Public Press .. 38 Portfolio ^ - - ^ . t £ SirCharles Napier and Ministers .... 27 Wreck of the Royal Adelaide 30 Open Council Tlie Rtfmer and the Fox ...... >>^ , ** Retrenchment in Grog 27 Incendiary and other Fires 30 The New Marriage Bill 36 Worship .... ^ 43 A ^ ect of Ireland ..... 27 Domestic Murders 30 Bight to the 8 oil and its Fruite ...... 37 Apprenticeship of Life ;¦ - - - « Easter in London 27 The Defamation of a Clergyman .... 31 Communisij £ - defended from the ^ Bam .... 43 A Moderate " Republic" .. 28 Tricks upon Travellers 31 Charge olWntimentality 37 Lyric Drama and Easter Pieces .... 43 ThP Return of the PoDe 28 LlTBBATUB » 4 * ' Overland to India 45 Vrnntion of Mount VesuVius ,... 28 Public Affairs— Newman on the Soul . # 38 Kaulbach ' s New Cartoon 45 61 aX ° i . Ka 7 and Russian Srd jVBusseil ' s Visit to Manchester 3 i A History for Young England 40 Commbkciai , APFAins-Gazettes . &c . 46
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Leader (1850-1860), April 6, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1839/page/1/
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