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The German question remains as far from a settlement as ever . The two antagonists stand to their guns in a somewhat bullying attitude , while diplomatists negotiate , and ministers grow more and more anxious . Europe looks on with great eagerness , and with something of that impatience which possesses you when you see two fellows quarrelling in the streets having thrown off their coats , turned up their shirtsleeves , and ransacked the pure well of English very much defiled for epithets to madden each other ; and yet , with all these belligerent
demonstrations , they both seem backward in coming to blows , and you feel quite relieved when some one more impatient than yourself , pushes the two men together , and so forces them to fight . The arrival of Radowitz in England—especially after the publication of the letter to him from the King —is justly regarded as significant of something like negotiation with our Government , and alarms our Austrian , journal , the Times . True it is , that England regards the squabble with very little sympathy , and that little rather out of hatred to despotic
Austria and Russia than out of any care for Prussian projects ; but , little as it may sympathize with Prussia , it feels very strongly that any project which Austria and Russia may have with regard to European states cannot be good for Liberty . Although , therefore , England naturally wishes for peace , and will preserve neutrality as long as possible , the presence of Radowitz may not be without result , even although Lord Palmerston ' s intimation tends the other way for the moment . France , also ,
loudl y proclaims her intended neutrality while applying to the Chamber for supplies to raise the 40 , 000 men—needed for the neutrality . What the upshot really will be no well-informed man pretends to decide . Meanwhile , the Prussian troops in Hesse have retired before the overwhelming forces of the Austro-Bavarian army—Baden has seceded from the Prussian league—Russia sends her intimation of support to Austria , and Austria , thus backed , insists on the fulfilment of her demands in Hesse and Holstein—the effect of which
may be estimated by the panic on 'Change at Vienna . The excitement occasioned by the warlike animus of the King ' s speech has somewhat abated , owing to the very justifiable suspicion which darkens over all the speeches of that royal rhetorician , the weathercock of tropes . What a speech it was ! And how unlike modern addresses from the throne—except , perhaps , in its
vagueness and unveracity ! And with what perversity he chooses the hour for making himself still more unpopular by sketching the necessity for fresh rigours against the press — in discussing which the deputies are to " reconcile the claims of a reasonable freedom with the conditions necessary to the safety of the state and society . " Every [ Town Edition . ]
one knows what that means . The example of England , no less than the teachings of moral justice , might show him that the only " reasonable freedom" compatible with the safety of society is absolute freedom . He thinks that reason consists in flattering his follies ; and theConstitutionnelle , for having a wider theory of reasonable freedom , is confiscated , and its editor banished from Berlin . Our own troubles remain . Meetings are somewhat less numerous , but no whit less vehement or foolish . Dreary it is to wade through the columns
and never meet with a new argument , or a trait of generosity ; they would be intolerable but for the occasional outbreak of genuine absurdity , such , for example , as the declaration of Mr . Tagg at an eminently respectable ward-meeting of Bishopsgate Without , that he opposed the Papal Aggression " on grounds of universal philanthropy , of civil and religious liberty , and because the Pope was Antichrist ; " or as that of the vicar , who , answering the assertion , that with a free press we need fear no Popery , asks if there is no danger in a free
press when two-thirds of the writers in it are Catholics : a morsel of literary statistics which will astonish our brother journalists . To be sure the least sign of toleration implies that the writer is a Catholic ; otherwise how could he tolerate Catholics ? Our noble contemporary , the brave Scotsman is Catholic , and its denunciations of the prevalent furor are " bought" with Catholic gold ; as to the Leader , it has retreated into the " true fold , " every writer wearing sackcloth , and the ir , very " devils" crossing themselves as they bring in " proofs !"
Very characteristic of the liberality of Protestants was that unmarked episode in the meeting at York , where , on Lord Fitzwilliam saying that the real antagonism lay between the Church of Rome and the Reformatian , and that the various Protestant sects were the offspring of the Reformation , having all of them vital Christianity-, only faint cries of " hear , hear" responded . Of course , vital Christianity is only found in our Church , as the Bishop of Oxford declares . It is the true Apostolic Church , and the sin of the Papal Bull is in ignoring the
existence of this true Church in England . Much dismay , and no little triumph , follows Lord Beaumont ' s Letter to Lord Zetland , wherein he , a Catholic Peer , does not hesitate to declare against the Bull , and to rate the Pope for placing the laity in a dilemma either of disobeying him or the Queen . His Whiggism overpowers his Catholicism , and he pronounces it " unconstitutional , " admiring Lord John ' s " vigorous protest . " But , as this letter is followed by a report of his appointment to the governorship of Malta , people dlraw their own conclusions .
The prospect of University Reform , though it alarm the retrograders , and fail to satisfy the real exigencies of the case , is nevertheless cheering , as at least a step towards adapting the Universities to our time . In making professorships realities , instead of the mere formalities they now are—in getting rid of that monstrous system of private tutors—in restoring the ancient facilities for the foundation of new Colleges and Halls , as well as
for the temporary residence of learned men , foreigners , and students—in diminishing the time spent in " arts , " and devoting a year or two for professional preparation;—these , and the other topics on which the Roj'al Commission asks for information , imply no very sweeping reform ; but they aim at distinct abuses , and it will be strange indeed if they do not elicit answers which will destroy those abuses .
The Freehold Land Conference at Birmingham this week acquires greater significance than any former meeting of the kind , from the very decided style in which most of the speakers condemned the land monopoly . The evils attendant upon the large-farm system , as well as those which spring from the accumulation of large estates in few hands , were as warmly denounced as the most enthusiastic Land Reformer could desire . Mr .
Cobden disclaimed all connection with Communism , and no doubt he was perfectly sincere ; but without joining the Communists he has it in his power to give a powerful impetus to the cause of social reform by turning his thoroughly practical understanding to the study of the land question . Mr . Bright said truly that the abolition of the land
monopoly is the most important question of the present day . Let him not forget this during next session . Many an opportunity will occur for exposing the injustice and the wastefulness of the present system . Let him take proper advantage of such opportunities , and he will soon become , as he will justly deserve to be , the most popular member of the House of Commons .
The strike of the Glaziers in Hyde-park brings into play the extreme injustice of our labour-laws . People are horrified at the idea of workmen combining to raise wages— " taking advantage of the present difficulties "—and throwing the Exhibition into danger ; and , doubtless , the thing is to be deplored . But why are the workmen to be overdriven and underpaid ? If the Contractors must have the work executed at steam pressure , why do
they not pay liberally for the demand they make upon the workmen ? Moreover , setting that and all other questions aside in the present case , granting that the workmen have taken a " base advantage" of Messrs . Fox and Henderson ' s necessities , who in our society shall dare complain ? Do not masters combine to keep down wages , and why may not workmen combine to send them up ? Are the demands of "justice" to rule only the workmen , and leave masters to the beautiful regulations
The riot at Birkenhead between the Catholic " navvies" and the Police is an unhappy commencement of violence : the first blood has been drawn j let the agitators beware lesfc H be not followed by more fearful scenes !
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News of the Week— - Page Old Jerry Wombwell 845 Prussia 851 Litbratuub—Freehold Land Conference 84 : 2 The Storm . —Great Loss of Life .... H 45 Earl Fitzwilliam and his Tenantry 853 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 850 The Anti-Popery Movement ...... 842 Inhibition of 1851 846 Social Keform—XIX . —Le Droit au Maconochie ' s Principles of PuuUh-Mr . Hume on the New Agitation .. 843 Miscellaneous 816 Travail . No . 4 852 meut 857 A Catholic Condemnation of the Bull 843 Associative Proqrrss— Oprn Council— Burgee ' s Plato 8 j 8 The Pope and the Despots 844 The Welsh Communal Estate 849 Girls ' Day Schools . Improved Lodg- Book * on our Table S . > 9 Prussia and Austria 841 Public Affairs— ing-houses for Ladies 853 Tub Arts—French Notions on Germany ...... 844 Protestantism Versus Luther and Education 854 The Duchess of Malfi 853 Piedmont and Home 814 the Pope 850 2 few and Old Unitarianism 85 t Portfolio—The French Academy . —A Vacancy 844 Political Lying- 850 Free Admission to Churches 834 The ltcmorse of Pontius Pilate .... 8 ( 50 Theatricals at Knebworth 844 Joseph Hume and Lord John 851 The Temporal Power of the Pope .. 855 Commbkcial Affairs-The Strike at the Crystal Palace .. 844 Czarism , Csesarism , and the King of London Cooperative Store 855 Markets , Gazettes , &c 861-64
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4 '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-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Rehsjion , 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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No . 36 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 30 , 1850 . Price 6 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 30, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1861/page/1/
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