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Unaccustomed spectacles have been presented this week—Queen Victoria walking among her subjects on one of the shilling days at the Crystal Palace , Henry of Exeter on his episcopal throne in Sj'nod , and many other phenomena , which have more meaning in them than the fatigued politicians of the present hour care to read . Queen Victoria is one of the habitues at the Crystal Palace ; and from what we have observed throughout her public life , we are not surprised
that she should trust herself freely even among the shilling classes . The shilling classes and the journalists seem to have been amazed at the condescension , and much eloquence is poured forth on the progress of social intercourse between our widely-severed classes of society . The very amazement shows how baseless the congratulation is : there is no such approximation amongst us as yet ; England is behind every civilized country in the world , from the Mississipi to the Adriatic , in respect of that distance between the social classes .
Henry of Exeter has set about his work of restoring vigour to ecclesiastical government , with a resolution and fixity of purpose that we should rejoice to see on the side of freedom . In that respect we would hold him up as a model , lie has opinions on the subject of a vital doctrine in the Church of England ; one of his own clergy asserts opinions diametrically opposed to him ; appealing to the law ,
the Bishop is thwarted and opposed by the supreme government , which takes refuge from the responsibility of a decision by solemnly pronouncing a judicial equivoque . Assembled in convocation , the clergy of the province abruptly separate , to evade the same question . Thun disappointed , Henry of Exeter doe « all he can : he revives the Synod of his diocese , holds it with a pomp and ceremony proper to his view , and there discusses the doctrine , of
Huptisin and the principles of Church government . Among the proceedings wan a formal declaration infant to obviate misconstruction—that perversion to th ( - Church of Home involves abandonment of truth for error . It in a significant fact that , although the meeting adopted this formal declaration , us uifiny as live hands were held up against it—live of the clergy in the diocese of Exeter avowedly object to that disclaimer .
While this attempt is made on behalf of High Church authority , other movements are taking place elsewhere . Perhaps the moat remarkable in Clmrles Kingnley ' tj appearance in the pulpit of St . John ' s , Eitzroy-nquare , to deliver the " Message of the Church to the Labouring Classes . It is well known that Kingaley is the most eiTeetive preacher of that school which is endeavouring to restore ! the influence of the Church , by restoring the principle <> f Association that prevailed among the early Christians ; and any one could tell beforehand , in I To wn Ei ) i rion . ]
general terms , the mode in which he would preach the " Message . " Nevertheless , the incumbent of the Church , the Reverend Mr . Drew , thought it " prudent" to follow the benediction with a protest against the Message , as it had been delivered by the apostle . Several versions of the atFair have got before the public : we understand that the preacher intends to give his own account and to publish the sermon . It is not for us to say whether the Christianity of the early Christians is orthodox or not ; but we have no doubt that the sermon will be well worth reading .
And Parliament ? It has been uncommonly " busy " after its fashion—that is , the House of Commons has been busy ; but not much has been done towards the real progress of anything valuable . Lord John ' s Anti-Papal Bill continues its slow progress , and Ministers have as yet been successful in resisting Mr . Walpole ' s attempts to put some real efficiency into it ; but their majorities have not always been very large . The Jew Bill has passed the . committee in the Commons . Ministers have succeeded in carrying their supply of £ 300 , 000 for the Kafir war , and in over-riding Mr . Hume's claims on behalf of the colonists to
self-government ; but have the more formidable antagonist to encounter in Lord Stanley , who has announced a motion of inquiry for Monday next . Is he going to take up the cause so well advocated by Mr . Adderley ? Meanwhile , Ministers have succeeded in balking Mr . Mowatt's plan for organizing a public water supply , by enforcing the " standing orders , " after consenting to let his bill go before the select committee on their own plan ; they have stopped Lord Ellenborough ' . s pleading for Jotee Persaud ; they have put olF Mr . Henry Herbert ' s pleading for the savings bank depositors of Rochdale , Scarborough , Tralec , and Killiirney ; and Mr . Cowan has failed , by an adverse majority of 1 , to earry his bill for abolishing the antiquated tests in the Scottish universities .
The case of the savings bank depositors is one of great hardship ; by coquetting with the funds of those banks , ami \ nshiff them , ( Jovernnuiiit has conveyed an idea to the public , that the banks give public security ; hence a trust which the institutions by no means deserve . The obduracy of Ministers is a double injustice—to those depositors who have been ruined , and to the humbler classes of the public ! , who have a right to a public security for their savings equally with the richer fiindholder .
Among the " questions" in Parliament , is that respecting the treatment of M'Manus , one of the Irish transported " rebels , " who had been compelled , for some technical act of insubordination , to walk a hundred and twenty-live miles to receive punishment I <»' reat doubts are entertained whether the ( Governor acted legally ; but that in a trifle in Van Dieinen's Lund . II , is not much better in England , if we may trust the petition which Krnest Jones has sent into the House of Commons , describing his treatment in
prison , while under sentence for " sedition . * ' The meanest persecution , in the shape of studiously bad lodging , clothing , food , and regimen , was inflicted on him for two years . He demands inquiry—a demand vigorously backed by the great public meeting in the National Hall , and promised good support in Parliament . It had better be met by compliance . The Revisionist party have sustained another semi-defeat in the Commission of the French
Assembly . All the propositions developed before the Commissioners have been rejected , and M . de Broglie , the super-eminent " patriot" of an evening contemporary , was obliged to draw upon his wits for a new resolution . This was agreed to , we suppose , on account of its vagueness , as , in effect , it only and simply declares that , in the opinion of the Commission , a revision of the Constitution , as permitted in Article 111 of that instrument , is desirable . But the decision of a Commission in
which eight only are opposed to seven is not very weighty . And when we find that M . de Tocqueville receives eight votes as Reporter of the Commission to five bestowed on M . de Broglie , we must confess that the legal chances of the Revisionists are at an end , the extra legal chances remaining as desperate as ever . Unfortunately for them , two can play at the game of " coup de main . " A buffet from the
broad band of the People is not to be despised , as the Barrots and De BrogUes know a little too well . It must be gall and wormwood to the Bonapartista to have the report upon revision , which a De Broglie would have adapted so admirably to the hopes of the " Nephew of his Uncle , " confided to a De Tocqueville , an avowed opponent ot the law of May , and by no means so firmly attached to monarchy as to reject the republic at any cost .
Meanwhile , the Champ de Mars has been the scene of another review by the President , whereat " Vive Napoleon ! " was lost in " Vive la Republique ! " The Assembly has reenacted the law prohibiting clubs , and is almost weary of petitions showered in upon it by " forty-prefect " power . It is startling news for an Englishman to read over his breakfast , that Emile de Girardin denounced petitions as " revolutionary . " But it is all explained when we know that France swarms with ( ioverninent officials , that the screw has been applied , and of course not resisted .
Again we have to draw attention to the silent progress of the I ' renrh Peoplo in Association . Tho facts contained in our news , though occupying but a small npace , are highly important . These Sociailists of Paris , after all , are doing , while the Anarchists of Order are always spouting and intriguing . Revision of the Constitution , reelection of Prince Loui . s , maintenance or repeal of the law of May the issue of these questions , great though they be , is as nothing compared with tho noiseless , persevering , inevitable spread of the doctrines of Association among the People , and tho reduction of those doctrines to practice .
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VOL . II . —No . 66 . SATURDAY , JUNE 2 S , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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I Npws op the Week— Pnge Suicides Gat tion for the Wo . ker 3 COS Art or Amusement ? 613 Parliament of the Week 593 The Exposition 001 A Human Patriot delivered up by Nnv Instruments 614 Continental Notes 60 J Train on Tire 60 "> Austria 608 Progress of the People—Meetings of the Week GOO Police GC "> Social lleform . —No . II . " The Diffi- Politic *! Danger of Doing Nothing- 614 The Great Fire in Southwark G 01 Public Aff . aius— culty " 608 Open Councii .-The Church and the People 601 The Putting an End to the Euro- Litbkatuue— The Author of "Yeast" and the Th-: Synod of Exeter 602 pean Revolution 606 r ^) nl Alaidstone ' s Abd-el-Kader .... 610 Incumbent of St . John ' s 615 The Future of the Crystal Palace .. 602 The Whigr School of Rebellion 6 L > 7 Charles Knight ' s Publications .... 610 Protection and Free Trade 61 G Burii > d Alive ' . — The Dedminster Etiglaud for the Rich COT A New Prophet 611 Mania ^ e with a Deceased Wife ' s Colliery Accident 602 The Depopulation of Ireland COS New Music 614 Sister 616 - The Irish Convicts of ' £$ 603 The Crimeof beinsrGreen 6 ! i 8 Portfolio— Malthus Ajjain C 16 Mock Auctions 603 The Coutroul of Fire 003 Imaginary Conversation 613 Commercial Affairspersonal News and Gossip 603 Refreshment Rooms at the Exposi- The Arts— Markets , Gazettes , &c 617-18
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^ ~ y "The one Idea which History exnibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 tha Idea or H Humanity—trie noble j Adeavour to thro \ v dovsm all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside th e 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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Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1889/page/1/
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