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Queen Victoria is to open Parliament in person ; bo it is authoritatively announced . The fact would possess some importance for the People , if it were to be supposed that the Queen would be met by real representatives who could state the actual wants and wishes of their constituents . It is also announced that the Address is to be moved and seconded by the Marquis of Kildare and Mr . Peto , the member for Norwich . The Marquis is an intelligent and liberal man , who bears a higher repute for intentions than performances . Mr . Peto
is well known . But what importance attaches to the fact of their making the first speeches in the House of Commons this session we do not perceive . It would be far more interesting for the public to know what Ministers mean to do—how they are going to destroy Pope Pius's Bulls—what taxes they are going to repeal : what substantial improvements tljey are going to introduce into the Poor
Law—how they will meet the demand for Chancery Reform , and so forth . But even on these points , the less anxiety will be felt . It is to be presumed , that any measures contemplated in Downing * street , will not make much difference ; they will , probably , rank in importance on an equality with the facts already announced , that the Queen will be in the House of Lords on the 4 th of February , and that Lord Kildare and Mr . Peto will make the
first two speeches . As to taxes , a kind of competition is going on between the advocates of repeal in different directions . Tea is competing with windows and the knowledge taxes ; and much may be said on behalf of the cup which cheers but not inebriates . The window-tax movement is a very respectable one , and it will very greatly benefit the working classes , but not so immediately as the reduction of the tea tax , one of the heaviest and most unjust , and pressing with peculiar severity on that
commendable luxury of the poor . The heat of the Papal movement is removed in a great degree to Ireland . Much is made , both by 1 fdtestant and Catholic , of the bull dividing the long-conjoined bishoprics of Cloyne and Roes . The Roman Catholics have hitherto nominated their own Bishops for the Papal confirmation , and the appointment of Dr . Keane to'be the new Bishop of Ross is seized by ingenious Protestants as an
JjKgression on the Roman Catholics of Ireland . A he grievance , however , appears to be singularly felt vicariously by the Protestants alone , on behalf w ^ their Roman Catholic brethren , who are not at all WNonstratjSire of the injury which they sustain . Jhey ought to be hurt and indignant , but they appear to be pleased and exultant . Bishop Keftae , Jfr is said , will take up his head-quartare at Sklbpere « n , the head-quarters not long since of famin * t and the very spot where English aid came moat LTown Edition . ]
opportunely . What strange association of ideas may crowd the breast of the new prelate when first he surveys that capital of his diocese . Another point , of which much is made , is the insertion of Professor De Vericour ' s Analysis of Christian Civilization , in the Index Expurgatorius , the periodical enumerating the books prohibited to pious Catholics . The ultramontane party sustains a new paroxysm of indignation against the godless Colleges , and the Ministry which appoints to them the author of a forbidden book : it happens very unfortunately that Ministers have been placed by Lord John Russell in a position to weaken their support of the rational Roman Catholics against
the bigoted extreme . Not long since it was re-S > rte d that there was a disposition to give up M . e Vericour , who has published a very mild and orthodox view of his subject , in order to conciliate the Roman Catholics : it would be strange if the Whig Ministry , among its other inconsistencies , were to accompany the deadly battle against the Papal aggression by a surrender of the blameless De Vericour . One point is worthy of note . The Government at Rome can put De Vericour ' s name in the Index Expurgatorius , can excite the comparatively few of the extremely bigoted in Ireland , but it cannot suppress the colleges ; it cannot remove the Professor—a useful illustration of the
principle which we pointed out last week—that sect is powerless while it remains destitute of civil authority . The Irish prelates will not be left out . They have sent in their separate address to Queen Victoria , setting forth the identity of their case with that of the English Church , ana alluding in injured terms to the mode in which they were forgotten by the English Bishops . Most of the prelates have signed this address . Some , we are sure , like the
logical Richard Whately , with no feelings of intellectual pride in the act . Others have kept out of the squabble : and we have some difficulty in reconciling the signature of Dr . Monsell with the excellent spirit in which he rebuked the Anti-Catholic asperities of his own clergy , when they formally addressed him on the subject . The consolatory fact , however , is that there is a good strong backbone of sense even in the Irish English Church .
A report has been circulated this week by the Morning Chronicle that Lord John Russell and Lord Ashley intended to unite in a new reformation—the revision of the Prayer-Book ; but Lord Ashley disowned the noft impeachment , and denies the whole project . There is to be no reformation of the Prayer-Book , for fear lest th © endeavour to uettle the points of dissension should bring on a crisis , and force the Church to divide itself into its
several seot « . , In France the New Ministry has sustained it * second ana deliberate defeat ; has- resigned , and the President is in the thick of another Ministerial
crisis . The juncture is marked by very strange features . The principal event is considered to be the course taken by the most skilful professional politician in France , M . Thiers . After having been a sort of agent for the restoration , a Constitutionalist under Louis Philippe , and then almost a Republican — after having become recently a representative of the Legitimist party , he has now , like Mahomet , gone to the Mountain , formed a coalition with it on its own terms , and thus effected the consolidation of that large majority which has defeated the Ministers . The speech with which he brought this about , was remarkable even amongst his mischievous orations ,
for its hostile , provocative , and threatful tone . It was calculated to set all parties against each other , to raise angry passions on every side , and prevent tranquillity . We , who have no sympathy with quietude where the settlement rests on bad principles , cannot see with satisfaction an aimless hubbub , which the professional politician is raising for his own purposes . He affects to be a strict Parliamentarian , but he has kept together a majority formed of separate fragments , so entirely opposed , that it can never act together , for any positive purpose . A majority , including Legitimists and Red Republicans , Political ( Economists and Socialists , with Changarnier for a free Captain , is not available for any useful purpose .
We here see the practical difficulty in the working of a numerous body like that of the Assembly , without any power of sending it back to the country . The Assembly is disorganized ; but it must await the stated period for its reorganization by the will of the people . Meanwhile , the President resorts to the questionable expedient of selecting his Cabinet from the minority of 286 . Much is made of the eminent names included in that minority , among which we find the Due dp Broglie , chairman of the very commission on the Ministerial crisis , de Montalembert , Leon Faucher , Dora , and other men of undoubted eminence . Mok > and
Oduon Barrot , who belong to the majority , stopped away . On the other hand , the names in the majo rity are not such as to be slighted , including as they do some of the most eminent of the old bureaucrats , of the military men , of the popular leaders , and of the Legitimists . Changarnier is understood to be very angry because his merits have been passed over with silence in the resolution against Ministers . In the face of the disorganized majority , the minority is acting with some approach to unity , an if it were a majority ; but even the appointment of a Ministry will not settle the crisis of the political world .
A new conspiracy is reported as having been just discovered—the union of the Contmunes meeting at the house of the Associated Cooks at the Pigole BaTriere , and having •» jmtMv sftMmgly incitatoMT proclatntfftHM , combining Had ifaMblicaiiism ¦*§ a sort of Xudditg Cominiiiis—i Whsthsr this is new police trap like the AIki * -Yo « affair , a rill
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VOL . IL—No . 44 . SATURDAY , JANUARY 25 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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News of the Week— Pa g ? Manslaughter at the Peckham Lunatic Review on English Socialism ...... 82 Proposed London Convention 90 The French Ministerial Crisis 74 Asylum 76 Litbratokb— Associative Progress— 90 ' German Affairs 74 The Murdexs of the Week 76 A New Philosophy : The Alpha 85 Oven Council—Protestantism and Popery 74 Suicides and Sadden Death * 77 Euphranor 86 An Answer to Sir Edward Sudden .. 91 Father Gavazzi on the Inquisition .. 74 Public Afpaiks— The Church in Danger 86 Bishops and their Power 91 The Gray ' s-inn-laue Educational "Wanted , a National Party 80 The First Angel 87 The Population Question 91 School 75 Irish Manufactures .... 81 Poutfolio— An Kquitable Exchange Medium .... 92 The Funeral of Bern 75 Anomalous Prices of Bread 81 Plea and Counter-Plea 88 Complete Protestantism 93 The Vacant Seats ..... 75 Are we Going Backward ? 81 An Episode in a Hi 3 tory , 88 Taxes on Kno . wledg-e 92 The Great Exhibition 75 : An Universal Law 82 Thk Arts- Chartist Leaders 98 4 The Uckfield and other Burglaries .. 75 Civil Law .... Leisure of a Dramatic Critic 89 Proposed Prize Essay 93 Deportation of Pauper Children to Shipment of Pauper Children 83 European Democracy— The Compositors aud the "Post" .. 93 Bermuda 76 Chancery Reform . 82 Development of Polish Democracy ... 89 Commercial Affaihs—Mr . Cobden on National Education 76 Soeial Keform . —XXVI—Edinburgh Democratic Intklligbncb— Mark « t 3 , Gazettes , &c 94-9 < 5
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41 The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the 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 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 . "—Homboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 25, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1867/page/1/
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