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VOL . IL—No . 72 . SATURDAY , AUGUfeT 9 , 1851 . Price 6 d
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Parliament has broken up for the holidays ; The Session , distinguished only by the Papal Aggression Bill , is over ; and the retrospect of its deeds is brief—it has stirred up the No Popery spirit ,. and excepting a few scraps of improvement , chiefly in Law practice , it has disappointed every expectation . The last week has been a scramblemeasures hurried through their latest * stages with indecent precipitancy ; a precipitaocv _ so indecent in the case of one Bill , promoC ? 3 fof ~ fh ' e convenience of the Bishops , that the Prime Minister was publicly called to account for it .
The confusion of parties with which this Session began , has been worse confounded . Although no political section has sunk to the degradation in which the Whigs are content to remain , enduring the responsibilities of office without its power or dignity , no other political section has felt itself strong enough to cope with the difficulties of the time , which are all the worse , since they are o ( the negative , kind . No party has yet discovered " a mission" for itself . The Protectionists are left
without a doctrine , and their leader is cultivating the gout in contemplative repose . Mr . Disraeli has been trying a variety of enterprises : now some quasi-Protectionist mission , some An ti-Whig demonstration , some political cry , some financial" dodge "; but the incidents of the novel have not proved strong enough for real life , and the Session leaves him rather damaged than otherwise . The business of the Free Traders is done , and the trading section of them , as Financial Reformers , have
become a section of the Radical section in Parliament , which is ruther laughed at for its credulity in the direction of Ministers . The very aged mother whose son protests for the hundredth time that ho has now sown his wild oats at sixty , Donna ISlvira who believes Don ( xiovanni again after his thousand and five hundred ladies , the creditor who expected Sheridan to pay him—these ave prototypes of the Radicals looking for Lord John's Reform Hill next session . There ih ,
however , no reason to suppose that Members will bo preven ted from meeting next neBsion by any sense ° f shame or ridicule at beginning the farce over * n ! llll J on the contrary , it is said that some of them " 'ive alread y made arrangements for canvassing the w »» 'lting-cliibHcs under Lord John's promised Hill ! Meanwhile , the contest to which Lord John Riis" l J has committed tho country , may b ( 5 nai < l to - - " ••• i * iivu « iu i * n * a v ^ Miumj ' , iiiuy wu nuui hj
« ave commence d with tho Limerick election . Lord 'undol and Surrey encountered an unexpected opponen t in Father Kenyou , who deprecated ne « ta-» im bigotry ami tried to combat it with national liii ry * le P rol ) nting the introduction of an F , ng ~ « « innan to an Irish ' Constituency . This eccentric eWr ' ° wevcr , had no siiccoum ; Lord Surrey ' n <^ K > n « carried by atorm , and ho must bo ro-ITown Edition , ]
garded as the Roman Catholic leader for next session . He is well suited to the post : endowed by nature ^ with a candid disposition that disarms doubt and antagonism in others , he is yet manifestly a sincere and earnest man in his own faith ; his birth secures him a good position amongst English Catholics ; his election ranks him among Irish Catholics ; and under his lead the two sections will be able to act together . Many Liberals also will join the alliance the more willingly for his being at the head of it . If he can manage to keep the political question of Roman Catholic rights distinct from sectarian assumptions , if he can keep it to the broad ground of social justice
without obtruding spiritual arrogance , if he can avoid the hazardous audacity for which the priesthood of Rome has been too often distinguished , the heated rashness of the Irishman , and the extravagant timidity of the Whig—he will be enabled , under the dark shadow of the Anti-Papal Bill , to muster a great force for the reclamation of religious freedom . We welcome the accession of the Roman Catholics to that great cause : let every faith , say we , stand free from temporal oppression , debarred from temporal tyranny ; let us settle our spiritual differences on spiritual grounds , under the broadest constructions of mutual good faith , and we have no fear for the result .
Ihe times appear dead enough at present ; but the politician with the most half-shut eyes knows that we are commencing the recess before a busy political season . Not that it will be busy by force of the Ministerial measures ; its business will come from without . The date of 1852 is a momentous one in the almanac of political expectation . In our own country , events and discussion combine to indicate the character of the next movement . The
attempt to raise wages at Wolverhampton will not be arrested by the recent conviction : on the contrary , in any event the trial ia likely to prove a new stimulus . Should tho Judges at Westminster confirm the verdicts , the enforcement of unjust and unequal Combination Laws will raise an agitation already threatened in the continued depression of wages . Should the verdicts bo quashed , which in possible—and several joumalistH are already anticipating that result—a new extension will be given to the freedom of the working-men for an alliance to protect their own interests . Meanwhile the
discussion of tho AsKociativc principle continues to receive , very remarkable acceawions . Amongst our news the reader will find a striking passage from the . ( . Hobe , in which the Whig journalist anticipates for the working classes a period such an the Reform Hill ana was to the middle elaHse . 8 . The liriyhton Herald , a Conservative paper , passes Homo strictures on Mr . Coningham ' H lecture , in a spirit which we may not only call candid , but friendly ; cunvaHbing tho practical extension of the principle with a respectful attention , and pointing uornc cautions thut are essentially valuable . The Lincolnshire Chronicle publi » how the complaint of a trader
—the first distinct cry , it may be said , of that class , on recognizing the ruinous pressure with which competition is crushing it ; and the journal appends a remark , showing that intelligent writers throughout the country are beginning to perceive the . destructive operation of that imperfect ( Economical principle . We do not recollect , in the history of the world , a parallel to the international fetes , celebrated this week at Paris . Kings have greeted Kings on Fields of Cloth of Gold and the like , suspiciously , and protected by bands , of armed retainers . Popes hare met Emperors , when something was to be gained on one side , or atoned for on the other .
Three Emperors once met at Tilsit , with hypocritical suavity , each intent on playing his own selfish game . England entertained the allied Sovereigns , and Louis Philippe received Queen Victoria at the Chateau d'Eu . But in all these greetings there were crowns at stake and special interests to care for . A bland hy |> ocrisy , a diplomatic , superficial friendliness prevailed . It was not the nation which shook the neighbour nation by the hand , giving a cordial and hospitable welcome ; it was the potentate saluting a questionable ally , a magnificent aristocracy feting subsidized princes and rulers , or a crafty King pretending friendship to a woman for the aggrandizement of his family . None of these characteristics are to be found in
the fetes of Paris . The ruleta of the respective * countries are not officially cognizant of them . President Bonaparte receives his guests at St . Cloud more like a private citizen of exalted rank than a " prince , " as the Post loves to style him . The real host of the Lord Mayor is the Prefect of the Seine ; the real act of fraternity passes betwedh the city of London , for England , and the city of Piuis , for France . The greeting is one of Nation with Nation , of People with People , for the first time in the history of Europe . That we take to bo the meaning of the splendid hospitalities at tho Hotel de Ville and the Palace of St . Cloud .
It is a great fact . What does it matter if the Lord Mayor never ilid come up to time ; that he bungled in his . speech ; thut he stooped to brush the tlust from his boots with his pocket-bankerchief , in the Marble Court at Versailles ; and that he figured ; iu tho great Nobody at St . Cloud ? The substantial result is the same . France has broken bread with Kntflund . The People of Franco will booh learn that it was not the people of Fiiiglaud who won or
wished for the battle of Waterloo , and who lout the battle of Fonlenoy . Waterloo gave Franco to tho Hourbonu , and wan the laafc rivet which fastened the National Debt around tho neck of England . Let tho fttm of Paris bo the seal of that new iwru of peaceful strife or , rather , international cooperation , inaugurated by tho Exposition of IH 61 . N <> "'<»« war between us , Frenchmen ; but ««!< ' by aide l «' t the People of both countries stand , in arms if need be , against
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I pifire The ca 3 e of Ann Hicks 748 The Ministry of the Recess 752 The Opera 7 > 8 I " News op TUB WhEK— ° A Judge Insulted .... 748 Home and the Reaction 753 Portfolio—Parliament of the Week 742 HorribJe Murder 749 The Wolverhampton Case 753 The Issue of Prce-Itaphaelism 759 ' The Queen ' s Speech 743 Combinations among Workmen ille- The Crimes of Peace 754 Organization of the People—Industrial Congress 743 g"al—among Employers legal ...... 749 The Horror 3 of Modern Sepulture .. 754 Bradford Working-Men ' s Cocipera-The Ffites of Paris 74 t Personal News and Gossip 750 The French on Beer 755 tive Association ICO Justice at Borne 746 Police * 750 Literature— Opes Council—Continental Notes 746 Miscellaneous .: 751 Socialism in the Quarterlies ........ 7 . ) 6 A Word to the Peace Congress 760 Limerick Election 747 Mr . Thomas Cooper ' s Lecturing- Lamartine on the liestoration 757 - Health of London during-the Week . 761 ' Minority Church Bates 747 Tour . 751 , The Tutor ' s Ward . 757 Commercial Affaies-The Journals and the Labour Move- Births , Marriag-ps , and Deaths .... 751 Tub Akts— Markets , Gazettes , Adverti « ement « , ment 747 Public Affaiks— Bouffe 758 &c 761-64
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I "The one iaea which History exnibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is-the-Idea or I Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the bamer 3 erected between men by prejudice and one-sided I views - and by setting * aside the distinctions of Rens ? ion , Country , , and Coloiir , to treat the whole Human race I ¦ as one ' drotherhood having one great object—toe free development of our spiritual nature . "—Huj ^ boldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1895/page/1/
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