On this page
- Departments (2)
-
Text (7)
-
Untitled Article
-
$tm nf tut Wnk
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
<$ontent#: 339
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
$ // y / ut / £ y ^ - -. /^/ % ^ t . /^^^ ^ ^/^ X ^ - ^^ V s q / p ^* c ^ / gvv VVVv ^ £ >^ v —— I I
$Tm Nf Tut Wnk
Mtm nf the Wnk .
Untitled Article
Outrage has once more visited Queen victoria , in the shape of a sudden assault by a mad gentleman who has haunted the west-end . Danger there seerrfs to have been none : there was a blow—the Queen was struck on the head ; but it was with a slender cane , and the crazy state of the man ' s mind reduces the matter to an accident , like a casual encounter with some wild animal . Queen Victoria
displayed her wonted self-possession , and will be among the last to magnify the annoyance—one of the vexations incidental to the vocation of royalty , on account of its prominent position . Such incidents have their compensation in the opportunity which they afford for drawing out some sterling qualities of the Queen ' s character , and for making her see the esteem in which she is held by the
public . We turn to less unexpected and odious events at Court . Notwithstanding the levelling tendencies of the age , Queen Victoria ' s " seventh " has just been christened at Buckingham Palace with all the pomp of a powerful Court ; even the levelling public rushes to gather the crumbs of the pageant—passing glimpses of the " distinguished" performers in their carriages ; and the very humblest of readers pores over the dry diagram of the procession in the chapel , as if the marshalled type really stalked
the paper pavement with some living dignity borrowed from the personages whose names it bears . Pomp is power dramatized and made symmetrical to the sight ; human nature sympathizes with power ; and even Republican sense—if it be sensecannot deny the power that was dramatized in Buckingham Palace on Saturday . It had gathered its representatives to receive amongst its band of worthies little Prince " Arthur William Patrick Albert . " There may be a question how far it is good moral training for a child to be brought up with these pamperings of pride ; there may be a
burlesque in a pageant which calls Princes and cavaliers from distant parts to wait upon a baby in long clothes ; but the veriest leveller may be satisfied with one reflection : the infant great man must , then and there , ex-officio , be made member of a Church that boasts to be descended from a Founder who was born in a stable and baptized in an open stream of Syria . Which done , a state ball " celebrates" the event , and milliners toil that ladies may dance , because little Prince Arthur is enrolled a Christian !
Something really smaller than the nascent fortunes of a royal infant has absorbed public interest this week—the fate of the Russell Ministry , with the lengthened talk which has passed on that Ministry at stake . Although Ministers affected to make light of the censure pronounced upon their Greek policy by the House of Lords , they have not scorned the offer of an appeal to the Com-[ Town Edition . ]
mons . The mode in which that appeal was accepted was characteristic . A bold and straightforward man , impugned by the " Upper " House , which is really the less powerful and important Chamber , would have appealed at once to the Elective House , on the question at issue , abiding by the decision thus invoked . Lord John Russell sat with his hands before him . Lord Palmerston , who was more especially inculpated , is both more indifferent to censure and less supremely responsible than Lord
John , and he took no step . He might have resigned ; but resignation has never been his forte . " Why should he , you know , when there was no occasion for it ? " It was like one of the c $ e pauses after dinner , when something disagreeable is said ' but nobody feels courage to reply . At last the opportune Roebuck advances , with a resolution not directly contravening the censure of the Lords , but applauding Ministers in more general terms ; and then follows the great debate of the session . Mr . Anstey , whose rhetoric is always going down
hill , and is half inclined to run over itself , proposed to render the resolution a more specific approver of the Greek policy ; honest Joseph Hume wanted to make it a general , but not a particular , vote of confidence ; both , however , were persuaded to get out of the way . The debate proceeded with more vicissitude than is common in Parliament nowa-day s , and the principal speeches were watched with some revival of public interest . Roebuck was thought to have made a clever barrister-like " case" on
the side of his client ; the substantial Graham " smashed" the nisiprius address by a comprehensive review of Lord Palmerston ' s foreign policy , which is generous and bold in profession , frivolous and vexatious in practice , vain or disastrous in results , —especially to those allies or those objects that he most professes to love . Gay , facetious Osborne turned the laugh against the grave Graham , who for four years had sat on the third cross bench protecting the Premier , as
" The sweet little cherub aits perched up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack . " And plausible Palmerston spoke for nearly five hours with such pleasant ease , such pleasant face , such wellbred air , and . ' gentlemanly feeling , that by midnight it became impossible to help believing him . The influence of this physical and intellectual feat was felt in the sequel of the debate ; but still the steady wind and tide of argument and
feeling went against the Government , whose members and friends , repeating again and again the same efforts , appeared like wearied rowers sawing backwards and forwards unceasingly , but unable to urge their boat from its backward drift . While we write , the critical result is still in suspense . The Speaker set it down for Thursday , but even that high authority has been out ; and the division may be put off till next week . At the best we can only announce it in our later edition ; and the perverse concession to Lord Ashley is
likely to debar many newspaper readers from a prompt knowledge of the event . Whichever way the debate goes , it is felt that Ministers are irretrievably damaged . The picture which Lord Palmerston ' s friends have contrived to present to his wife just in the nick of time will not restore him to the confidence of foreign courts . And if it prove true that France and Russia have abandoned their share of the Greek loan , for the interest of which he has so maladroitly pressed an embarassed debtor , it will be felt at home that he is failing even in the decorative arts of his own profession , and letting his cunning competitors overreach him in the contrivances to get up appearances and
influence abroad . r Still more genuine agitation has been created by the abrupt measure of Ministers , in their perverse obedience to the Ashley dictation against delivery and receipt of letters on Sunday . From all parts of the country we have the loudest complaints . Sunday is the day when vast numbers of the trading and industrious classes make up their arrears of information on family and public matters ; which is all stopped now . Newspaper proprietors and news agents are labouring to supply
the deficiency by private means ; a process that occasions an enormous increase of Sunday labour . For that which inevitably will be done , was done by the Post-office with a far less number of hands or expenditure of time than the work will entail on the scattered machinery of private traders . Lord Ashley ' s edict , as administered by Lord John Russell , proves to be a measure for augmenting and stimulating labour on the Sabbath , and provoking hatred at the attempts to keep it unprofaned . Even the Sabbatarians are enraged .
The Protectionists continue to hold meetings , and Mr . Ferrand is still astir in getting up his wool-gathering league ; which he amuses with such tales as the new one—that the ill-paid operatives of Manchester have a practice of pawning their bedclothes to redeem their dayclothes in the morning , and of pawning their dayclothes at night to redeem their bedclothes . And these fables pass
current with the party on which the Premier ... aspirant relies for support ! After that , how can we laugh at the new miracles in Italy—the picture of the Saviour which floats on air away , with lighted tapers attending it ; or the picture of the Virgin that moves its eyes ? Strange igndrjince in people and leaders , that can represent Sfivine power as displaying itself in trivialities , and can hope to base political action on financial fictions which any child could confute !
Our news continues to exhibit signs of the increased attention paid to the associative principle , diversely applied . Now , it serves the resources of working men at Manchester : then , again , it spares the narrow means of small annuitants in the Industrial Home near Red Lion-square . The principle is valid , even in partial experiment ; but
Untitled Article
No . 14 . SATURDAY , JUNE 29 , 1850 . Price 6 d .
Untitled Article
"SBCavTSr . Fa & ? ££ as ^ .:::::::: K » fiBS ^ ..:::: !?^ fJS ^ :::::::: S tta&SgSS&xv : — | Srta « ffitor / .:::::: v . B tS&fsr * J ^ M ::::::::: ; - ^ 1 Wt i » £ ii £ EEZ & p ^ SS = ? ~ 319 aa *^ f ? .:::::::::: " 3 WSSS ^^ ? New ? . T . " .. !? f .. ! ? 3 n KSaSSSl ^ Tr !? .:::: S XJ ^^^ ..:::: « oSts Vnhe ^ r . v ; .:::::::: S IM ^ fe :::::::::::: III ffig £ F £ fgK&i £ ! S . : it JJS 5 £ SSR ******* 328 ° ^ SSS ^ SSX : ^
Untitled Article
V _ / " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i » th « Idea . ot Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aSide the distinctions of Relisfion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
≪$Ontent#: 339
ill < &ontent # :
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), June 29, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1844/page/1/
-