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Although scarcely deserving the name of national , the anti- Papal movement has stirred the whole of England and Scotland , and is provoking a counter movement in Ireland . We say it is not national , because it does not include the Irish , and still more because there is no evidence that it includes the most numerous class of the English People—the working class . We have suspected this from the first ; and at the public meeting in Bradford we see that a distinct claim was made to
adjourn the meeting till the evening , in order that the working classes might express their opinion : no such adjournment was made , and we do not observe that in any place the opinion of the working class has been invited . Probably in Bradford , as in some other large towns , the opinion ^ of the working classes is avoided , from the consciousness that the thinking and influential portion of those classes are too far gone in practical philosophy to have much respect for sectarian movements . Perhaps they may not universally admit the standing
political dogma of this movement , —the spiritual supremacy of the Queen : that , no doubt , is the reason why the old Seceders of Scotland , a very numerous and much respected body , hold _ back from the movement . Birmingham , which is remarkable for intellectual activity and freedom , has had its meeting , and practically decided not to " pronounce . " In Ireland , the new and zealous Primate , Dr . Cullen , seconded by the ardent Bishop of Ardagh , is addressing the Roman Catholics , and making them feel the anti-Catholic animus of Lord John Russell ' s letter .
Nevertheless , it is not to be denied that the movement is stirring in every part of England : the city of London , the University of Oxford , and the University of Cambridge , have paid a formal visit to Windsor , to lay their addresses before the Queen . The Duke of Norfolk , Premier Duke , Earl Marshal , highest temporal dignitary among the Roman Catholics of England , and celebrated suggester of " curry powder" for the poor , has publicly endorsed Lord Beaumont ' s anti-Papal letter . The Bishop of London has seen fit to " accept the resignation " of Mr . Bennett , of St . Barnabas , Pimlico . In fact , there is a sort of
universal hubbub , the ferment encreasmg . Great anxiety was felt to learn the purport of the royal answers to the addresses ; it had been rumoured that Lord John ' s ultra Protestantism had been inspired by Queen Elizabeth ' s representative , and it was expected that the royal lips would utter declarations at least as emphatic as the Durham epistle . At the first blush , the concise replies did not appear to say much . It was supposed , however , that like oracles and eggs , though small , they were full of latent vitality ; and ingenious politicians have been very diligent in the endeavour to interpret or hatch them . Without much success . ITown Edition . ]
You cannot get more out of them than the declaration that Queen Victoria will do her duty ; which no one doubted . We suspect , not only that the formal replies of Queen Victoria have been restrained by the usual necessities for awaiting the deliberate conclusions of her responsible advisers , and the cooperation of Parliament , but that Ministers themselves , who found it so easy to proclaim the necessity of doing something , do not find it so easy to agree what it is they are to do .
Among reflecting people there is great fear of the religious intolerance which may follow this anti-Papal impulse . We have no such fear ; the two things that look to be most threatened—the progress of Catholicism and the progress of Free Opinion , are perhaps of all others the things least endangered . Antagonism moved by a persecuting spirit never yet checked the progress of any religious creed ; still less when the antagonism is actuated by an alarm which confesses power in the creed assailed . It is too late in the day , however , to
dread any intolerant ascendancy , Papal or Protestant : this violent conflict of sects will shake nothing so much as the sects themselves that are agitating . It unsettles opinion ; it jars the foundations of long-established bodies ; it multiplies and widens the breaches in old organizations ; it subjects sectarian doctrine to a hazardous clash with doctrine equally sectarian ; and the conflict of sects , reciprocally destructive , must disengage many more minds for the clear perception of the truths common to all religion . To us this discord sounds like the prelude of harmonious unity .
frightened back into the fold of Royalty , and that he is , therefore , contriving to evade his own People , whose hopes he had been raising ; that the Elector of Hesse is to be supported against his People , who are to be coerced into accepting terms dictated by the diplomatic and royal conspirators , the King of Prussia becoming an accomplice in the coercion ; that the Holsteiners are likewise to be coerced into submission to the King of Denmark ; and that the " free conference " of German states
is to be a conference of delegates from the governments , excluding the Peoples of Germany ! The details of the plan on which Germany is to be newly arranged , are not foreshadowed , but the Emperor of Russia appears to be a kind of Assessor , or Patron Saint , presiding at these royal councils . Such is the return made by the royal classes for the unprecedented forbearance of the People in the most recent of European revolutionsthe most recent , but not the last .
France continues to be , overtly at least , somewhat quiescent in politics ; still chiefly interested about the trial at Angoul 6 me . The result has been , that the jury , after a most wonderfully copious and lax outpouring of evidence , took a charitable view of the whole , and pronounced the Abbe Gothland " guilty , with extenuating circumstances ; " while they acquitted Madame du Sablon . What the " extenuating circumstances " can mean , it is
difficult to surmise , unless an Angoulgme jury consider the threat to disclose one offence against the law provocation sufficient to extenuate the crime of murder . The extenuating circumstances , however , have saved his life , which is henceforth devoted to the forced labour of the French convict yards . As to the lady , though the evidence convicted her of a very inculpatory familiarity with Gothland ' s household throughout the affair , it did not at all amount to proof .
A mad attempt in France , by the earnest reactionary Monsieur de Montalembert , to extract from the National Assembly a statute enforcing the observance of the Sabbath , is likely to result in nothing more substantial than a remarkable declaration which interrupted him . He mentioned persons attached to no religion , on which some one called out . " Thev are the majority . " Monsieur de Mon * h he
At home , the preliminary police investigations into the more revolting charge against Mr . George Sloane , the special pleader , and his wife , have resulted in Mr . Sloane ' s being held to bail . Among the trials of the week , some interest has been created by an action for libel , which " Captain . Aaron Smith" had instituted against Captain Cook , a correspondent of the Times . Mr . Smith is the person whom Mr . Cobden chastised for interrupting a Peace Meeting , by averring that he had been guilty of piratical conduct . It will be remembered that Mr . Smith endeavoured to clear his character
talambert aenied their being a majority , thoug admitted their being very numerous . In this country , the same class is in a very peculiar position : while its extent is concealed , on one side , by the numbers who " conform , " it is daily losing numbers to those who , while they are attached to no particular sect , are seeking to define the terms of some more comprehensive faith , or are waiting
while others seek . Our suspicion is confirmed , that the conference at Olmiitz was nothing more than a conspiracy of Royal Cabinets to filr . Ii from Europe the last relics of the Revolution , and to settle the affairs of Germany without the Peoples of Germany : all the ! descriptions of the so-called settlement are falsified by the publication of the minute signed by the Austrian and Prussian Ministers . There has been no settlement ; no terms are laid down for the settlement ; it is clear that the so-called free confererence is a humbug . These things only are clear — that the King of Prussia has been
by getting up an affair of honour with Mr . Cobden ; but that Mr . Cobden would not accommodate his antagonist by a reciprocity of honourable shots . Mr . Smith , therefore , appealed to the law against another of his assailants , who had printed the accusation in a very specific form . After a very full investigation of very old transactions , and a very clear , though somewhat free-and-easy summing up by Lord Campbell , the jury awarded £ 10 damages ; the bank-note being a certificate of character for the Captain to that amount .
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No . 33 . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 14 , 1850 . Price 6 d .
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^^ 11 Thb one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw- down ail the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Relis ? ion , 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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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 14, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1862/page/1/
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