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VOL . II—No . 80 . SATURDAY . OCTOBER 4 . 1851 . Price 6 d
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Protection is giving up the ghost ; leading men of the party are daily deserting ; it is a sauve qui peut . Mr . Disraeli's retreat is generally imitated—Harcourfc and Henley at Watlington , Clive at Ludlow , Wemyss and Robert Palmer at Maidenhead , . have all fled ; General Wemyss dies jesting ; Robert Palmer plays undertaker to Protection with grave decorum . They talk bravely of lowering rents ; but they do not tell the farmers whether that intended reduction is to be more than the
force non ^ annually performed , for the well-understood purpose of keeping up rents . Mr . Clive proposes corn-rents . All hint at hopes , very distant , dim , and doubtful hopes—beyond the grave , as it were . Mr . Disraeli ' s scheme is mentioned with marked coldness . Mr . Harcourt thinks that Mr . Henley is the man to suggest something ; but Mr . Henley " does not see his way clear . " No more do the farmers . In short , Protection is given up , and nothing is advertised to succeed it . The farmers are left in the lurch .
In Ireland more than one striking fact shows the still unsettled state of the country . John Lamb , the intelligent Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whig , avers that the harvest has been got in by women , old men , and boys ; the young men having gone to America ! Imagine society thus thinned . The harvest is not bad—but the people ! They are gone , or going . The time has 1
come for repayingadvances made by Government on the security of the Poor rates : several of the ^ Unions are repudiating—Roscommon , Galway , Mount Kellew , ' 1 uam , and Mayo especially . The repudlatora are headed by Lord Lucan , rebuked by Mr . StaffoH . We do not believe that Ireland can pay ; there arc signs of it . The first breathing time after ruin and famine is not the time for any but a Shylock to ask payment of hiw bond .
The Whigs are again put upon their mettle by the Irish Roman Catholics . " Paul , Arclibiohon of Armagh , " haw signed the address of the Catholic Defence Association . The Lion of St . Jarlath ' a is no longer alone in his heroism . Does Lord John Russell dare carry out the provisions of the KccleuiaKtical Titles Assumption Act ?
One institution is kept up uninjured—London city . This week hath the next Lord Mayor been elected . The Aldermen have taken the occasion l <> Hcold the Times for quizzing them at the time « i the . Paris visit ; an indiscretion on the part of jue Aldermen which Sir Peter Laurie seriously r « - mikr-d . The world will learn with satisfaction , on " > s own authority , that his withcra are unwrung .
Delay w the trump card in all that i * legal . The new Appellate Jurimliction Act came i ,, to force on uie iat ot October : of courae the proviaions of the ftct were put in force ; but , 8 tnuige to Ktttte , the 11 own Edition . ]
appointment of the new judges is not officially announced . The Vice-Chancellorships , vacant by the alleged new appointments , are going a begging . What a lack of confidence this fact betrays in the stability of Whig rule and Whig reform ! It is a novel thing in England to find a Judge attacking the liberty of the press ; ordering the arrest of an editor without a warrant or summons ;
imprisoning him for contempt of court , videlicet , printing the opinions of the said Judge : further imprisoning him for alleged assaults , and committed for defending himself against an unauthorized attack upon his personal liberty in his own house ; arresting and imprisoning his sojn ; hauling up the police for refusing to abet said Judge ' s illegal proceedings ; and causing a summons to be served on another editor for a similar offence . It is novel to read of
a whole town sympathizing with an alleged contemner of judicial authority , and escorting him with " enthusiastic cheers " on his road to prisonand back again . Yet such is the spectacle presented by the Judge of the Liverpool County Court . Murder , suicide , and manslaughter form quite a feature in the " light reading " of the week . la two instances , the dreadful tragedy at Camberwell and the suicide in the City indicate the rottenness
of our trading and commercial system . Favvcett appears to have killed his children and himself because he could not face ruin and failure ; Ingle Rudge , because he could not meet " settling day " at the inexorable Stock Exchange . Tlie Fro me murder is only one of the points of that sunken reef of rocks we last week called " Moral Plagues , " which has protruded above the surface . Let Society in her pride beware ' .
The crusade against the liberty of the press in France has been partially arrested by the acquittal , on a second trial , of the gerant of La Presse , for publishing Victor Hugo ' s letter to the Avi-nement du Peuple with comments . Not , however , before M . Lugene Barestc had been prosecuted for a paragraph of incorrect news in La lU : nublique , a paper distinguished for calmness arm consistency in its advocacy of social reforms . But what is this to Leon Fauchcr ?
One thing seems tolerably clear , and that in , that M . Louis Napoleon will probably be " hold " altogether , as a reward for his truckling and indecisive ambition . Meantime be is bidding for popular sympathies . Having seduced the marketwomen into embracing his cause , he has now commenced a round of visits to the working associations : " not ( says La Patrie ) to display sympathy in favour of a principle which was admitted to be a bad one , but to give a proof „/ the solicitude of the Government for the working clauses . " llathcr late in the day for this new solicitude which we imagine the associations will know how to estimate at its real value , if not to dispense with it altogether . But the foct is indicative ol u new straw in the wind .
Austria and Piedmont are snarling at each other from Somma and Marengo . Their manoeuvres are something more than shim-lights ; but we are glad to notice that Victor Emmanuel is not afraid to leave his palace to the citizen-guard during his absence . 11 is reception and that of the Duke of Genoa , are very different from the official enthusiam of the Austrian
soldiery . Of the young Emperor ' s welcome at Milan one fact speaks volumes . The man who contracted to illuminate the city was murdered . At Como the municipality flatly refused to send a deputation , or to vote the expenses of a f £ te . At Mantua " Morte all' Imperatore ! " was found inscribed on every wall ! At Verona , considered the most Austrian town in Italy , the Emperor ' s
reception was a very poor one , being * confined to a few wretched torches , and a display of horsemanship a la Franconi at the Amphitheatre . Of the rest of Italy . it may be said that one knows less of what is going on around one there than we do in England . All information except what suits the Government is excluded from the few newspapers allowed to appear ; there seems to brood over the land the shadow of a vast cloud which
darkens joy from almost sill faces , and turns the iairest cities into cities of the dead . We do not speak by mere report ; we may almost say that we have seen this with our ovf ti eyes . From Vienna we learn the return of that posthumous Noah , Metternich , to the Ararat of his old age . He will hardly be worth disturbing again . Italy has responded to Hungary at La Spezzia ; and Kossuth has landed amidst acclamations at Marseilles . But he will not be yorry to exchange the land of Franco-Austrian Police and Spies lor the City of the Draymen , who are ready , as all classes are , to give the illustrious exile a welcomeworthy of a land of freedom .
Democracy is striking its roots in quite unexampled directions . The Iberian Republic , comprising Spain and Portugal , is visible on paper . Another straw in the wind not worth noticing , many vain partisans will say . Death having deprived Herat of its Khan , Dhost Mohammed , the Affghun , has seized the vacant ; post . It is expected that Persia will interpose on behalf of the young Khun ; and if so , probably Russia may find occasion to get ncaryr to our Indian border .
Perhaps so . We confc . su that at present we . watch even " the progress of Russia in tl »< " lOa . st" with lt'sa solicitude than the progress of discovi-ry in the North-Went—tin ; search after Franklin . Dr . John Rao places beyond a doubt tin : fact tlnit Franklin and his party may have survived ; and it is possible that Dr . Rac may already han : joined them . Doitd or alive , they must bo found ; but tho probabilityis , that they have not yet perished ; at all events the latest explorations render tlieir survival up to u recent period the w >« t iiotublu luct .
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V _^ ? 'The ono Idea which History exnibits aa evermore developing itself mto greater ^ distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided view 3 : and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Hu . hbolut ' s Cosmos .
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News OP the Werk- Pa « e Lord Londonderry and Abd-el-Ivader 039 Londonderry .. . 913 a ie Game of Speciilation .......... 01 J A Glance at the Continent 934 Public Opiuum . < W « Men and Movements Ml 1 he Season ol tUe Sacred Harmonic Some Mysteries of the Austrian Death of Kenaimoro Cooper 940 Colonial Representation ............ 911 Ssociety JIJ Money Market 935 Personal News aud Gossip 040 A Royal Pervert" to the Water OuqaSIZ . mion of the nopLELiberation of Kossuth ' . ' . " ... ' . !!!' .. 936 East India NeWj S 4 ' l T . Cur < i u ? , , . National Charter Association 9 j 3 Father Gavazzi and the Friends of Tlie late Gales . 9 0 ^ suth • £ f ° ?«* V OUSCII \ 7 .. ,, r , Italy .. . 935 Murder * and Suicides 941 A * alse Al . irm 9 i 4 J o Giuseppe Mazzuu !>•»> Protection * at a ' Di ' scou ' it 936 Miscellaneous 941 Social Reform . — " Notti of a Social Von Keck , and Derra ... if > l A Scene in the Court of Aldermen .. 237 Birtln , Marriages , and Deaths Uil ( Economist" 944 The National Land Company 9 JI A CountvCourtJudaeiua" Fix . " .. 937 Public Affairs— Litbratukb— Health of London during the Week JU Ireland 93- * The Last Mancheati-r Meeting 942 Philosophy of the Water Cure 916 Commercial Affaiks—A Bloomer Kiot . ' . " . " . " . " . " . ' . W . ' . V .. " .. ... 938 " That is Whit we Want here " .... 943 Mig-net's Mary Stuart 947 Market 3 , Gazettes , Ad" " rtisement 3 , Is not Sir John Franklin alive ? 938 . Abd-el-Kader , Louia N 3 poleon , and Tub Arts— &c 951-35
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1903/page/1/
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