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'• ...: No . 32 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 2 , 1850 , Price 6 d . T \
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— News of the Wbek— Page College 750 The Financial and Parliamentary Litbhatuiib— . The liduuational Conference at Man- Movement from Home 750 Reform Association 756 A German Dramatist *\ Chester 74 G Burglary , Murder , and Robbery .... 750 Tho Wicked Sunday Trains 757 GeneviCve .. 768 The French Ministerial Crisis ...... 747 Miscellaneous 751 The Peasant Proprietors of Franco 757 Tim Aktb— . . ¦¦ „ The Warsaw Congress 747 European Democracy— Social Reform—XV . —A National Macready ' a Farewell , 7 G 3 . . .- ; Preparations for War 747 The Italian National Committee .. 753 Policy ; .. 757 Art and M anufacture 763 Professor Gottfried Kinkel 747 Associative Proqrbss— n .-v p ... . . ... Portfolio— • The Exhibition of 1851 748 History of the Rochdale Coopera- UPE > ^ o »» C" . — Martyrs and Prophets 761 ' The " Leader . " in France 748 tives 754 Letters' on Unitarianism 759 . Vivian on the Wye ,.... 7 Gt ; The Sweating System 749 Working Associations of Paris .... 754 Associated Houses for Poor Ladies 759 8 onnet 764 , The Slave Fugitive Bill 749 Public Apfaiks— An Educational Institute 760 Commercial Affairs—The Irish Catholics and the Queen ' s The Cross : to Arms 756 The Proposed Pioneer Association .. 760 Markets , Gazettes , &c 705-68 : r i —»
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\ ^ y "The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or 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 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 ' s Cosmos . "' . "' . - * *
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The Education Conference at Manchester has passed off so well , and elicited so good a spirit amongst all present , that it cannot fail to have very important results . Although the council was one marked by real discussion and not a pretence of it , the body came to unanimous conclusions , attesting at once the zeal , the intelligence , and the practical frankness of the deliberators . The adhesion of Mr . Cobden is an event in the history of the country . The subject is pi'ecisely one which he can handle with the very best effect . Possessing a
masterly power of grappling with facts and arranging them for the most popular comprehension , no man can make so plain as he can a great national necessity . The national necessity of" education is undeniable ; but , although not denied , its sharp urgency has not been insisted upon with such emphasis , and , as Stewart Rose ' s servant would say , such " sculptured language" as to make it knock against the heads of public functionaries . Now , Mr . Cobden can send a fact at the head of a Minister with the force of a David . The system
activity . He understands the organization and furtherance of such movements , and we presume that the cause has not only gained an advocate in Parliament , but that it has also gained a grand master in the freemasonry which is to stir the nation in the achievement of its own work . In our congratulation at attaining the assistance of Cobden , let us not forget the service done last year by W . J . Fox , whose admirable speech helped as much as anything to win conviction in favour of the scheme . But Mr . Fox would be among the last men to underrate the paramount importance of
Mr . Cobden s accession .. , \ ; The time is ripe for a movement on the subject . Many events will rapidly conduce to make the public feel the necessity more and more , and also the facilities . While we see Archbishop Wiseman taking possession of England in the name of the Pope , and spreading his hierarchy over the British province to gather the faithful and the converted into the Romish Church , — while we see that striking attempt at intellectual reaction , —we also
see how signally the influence which set it at work is gradually falling to pieces . In spite of the Papal denunciation , the Godless Colleges in Ireland are rising to be national institutions . That most bigoted , and ignorant of countries is really a model to England in the promotion of popularly accessible education . The national education is gradually training up a generation of youth , who will intellectually show that they have outgrown the hedge priest . The middle class and gentry are finding the same opportunities in the Queen ' s Colleges , —
proposed by the Lancashire Public School Association , now become the National Public School Association , is clear-headed and statesmanlike , capable , perhaps , of further development on further deliberation , but certainly going direct to the great want of fitting the furniture for the occasion to the existing institutions of the Country—the practice of local Government , and the spirit of the English People . Now , there is no man in our House of Parliament that can explain a project with such plainness , such frank conciliation of timidity , such thorough exposure of the groundlessness of fear ; there is not a man in the country that can explain
they are showing practically by the conduct of the students that a truly liberal system of education is not necessarily allied to irreHgion or immorality . Quite the reverse . We learn by the speech of Sir Robert Kane , on opening the second session of the Cork College , that the students have exhibited assiduity in their religious exercises , and morality in their conduct in a more than customary degree . From him we learn another most important fact .
away a ghost half so convincingly as Cobden—the bug-a-boo is reduced to its constituent rags and mopstick in his hands j and not to march along the forsworn path becomes a covvardice too ridiculous even for the most superstitious . The man and the mission are perfectly suited to each other ; and we Jjare sure that the cause of national education has made an advance into real nationality by becoming the client of Richard Cobden . Now that he has fairly grappled with the subject , it will not be easy to count it out—it will not be easy to dismiss it with a field-day of debating society discussion in Parliament ; the less so as we expect from Mr . Cobden ' s antecedents that he will not leave
In spite of the Papal denunciations , in spite of thq roaring of the lion of the tribe of Judafi from his den of Tuam , the Roman Catholic youth actually do flock to the colleges . What does this mean ? It means that the gentry and middle class of Ireland , who by inheritance and training retain their faith in the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church , ytt perceive how impracticably antiquated is the administration of the head at Rome : how
How , then , can we share the alarm whiclr is so vehemently expressed by many at the invasion of the Roman Hierarchy ? It is true that Dr . Wiseman has formally proclaimed the restoration of Great Britain as a province of Rome Papistical !}^ But what then ? On the field of Ireland , where these influences have been actually at . work , we that when Roman Catholicism is brought fdrth and exposed to the influence of knowledge , it cannot resist the processes of practical conversion . And such , too , must be the case in England . Amongst the free movements of our land and time the :
cumbersome and tottering machinery of , Romanism can find no stable footing . The more it stands forth the more it courts destruction . ^ The Committee of the Church Union , that half-Romanized body , has actually found itself compelled to make a small demonstration against the Pope of Rome for his interference with England , which they characterize as " an invasion" of the Anglican Church . This is rather a mild mode of censure , but quite as strong as any one can look for from the followers of Dr . Pusey .
The very Exposition of 1851 , which Prince Albert ' s speech at York has again brought into such active discussion this week , is an auxiliary of national education ; bringing men together from all quarters , jostling national customs and opinions , and showing to different Peoples the work of each other , how alien soever their fruits . When we hear of such things as preparations made for the coming of 3 O 0 O people in a body from one part of Germany , we learn how immense the concourse must be . We believe that it will far exceed the estimates of many .
The question of war in Germany is as much mooted and as obscure as ever . One mail announces that it is to explode at once—the next does no more than repeat the old intelligence about important movements of large bodies of troops towards the frontier . The King of Bavaria has been very enthusiastic , at a public dinner , in declaring allegiance to Austria . Prussia is said to be obstithe
nate on the ground of Hesse-Cassel . In United States the Fugitive Slave Bill has become more than ever a point of irritation . It is really a very oppressive measure : it has been used to inflict shocking domestic calamities in the abrupt removal of persons who were quiet denizens , but technically slaves , in another . The Abolitionists are intoxicated with indignation . The slavery party is preparing to resist aggression with obstinacy ; and Alarmists discern imminent danger .
the conduct of the matter to Parliament alone . Although he doubled his power and influence when he entered Parliament , he knows well enough that half the work , if not more , of any great national undertaking is to be gone through out of doors ; that Parliament can but cap what the nation has resolved . For this reason , we expect that Mr . Cobden will induce his colleagues , in the local sections of the National Committee , to undertake the work of practical agitation with due vigour and [ Tows Edition , " !
utterly false is the assertion on which the antagonism is based that the training of the colleges is immoral and irreligious . It is a truth that has not been fully developed until our own day that the deepest sense of religion , and the broadest light of sciencej instead of being incompatible , as they were thought by the bigots and sceptics of recent generations , are reciprocally corroborative . The Roman Catholic middle class and gentry of Ireland evince a practical knowledge and conviction of that fact .
Our criminal record is not prolific this week . Perhaps the vigorous mauling which Mr . Paul and his fellow-servants gave to the burglars at H olfordhouse has already had its terrors for ambitious aspirants of the . Turpin and Jack Sheppard order It is one thing to be a successful Turpin , anoth thing to be reduced , like Mitchell , to the condir of a groaning cripple .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 2, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1857/page/1/
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