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¦ ¦ ¦ m * Louis KossUTH has arrived at last , and landed on the shores of England , immense acclamations from the Isle of Wight to the Hebrides ensuing thereupon . Great shouting at Southampton on the quays there , and a rush of fervid Englishmen , anxious to extend the strong hand of welcome to him who at present represents most vividly the cause of European Nationalities . Kossuth . is come . Spite of the efforts of the Austrian journals , of the Times , well backed by the organs of
the Foreign-office and of the Liberal Conservatives , of sundry smaller scribblers and dastards , the swell of welcome has risen higher and higher all the week ; and , as towards the Pole , the heart of England throbbed towards Southampton on Thursday and Friday . The Madrid arrived ; Ko 8 suth came ; and in the eyes of Europe the murder of Batthyany , the massacre of Blum , the dastardly assassination of Hungarian liberty , were tried and sentenced to everlasting infamy by the voice of the Freemen of England . It is enough .
On one side we behold the journalism of the Foreign-office and of Russia , and on the other the English Nation and the Chief of Hungary—the vast idea of Nationality and the sacred person of the Exile for conscience and patriotism . The meaning of all thia is , that England , not the ' England" of the Foreign-office , is the ally of Hungary , and not the ally of Austria ; and that the English People are prepared to espouse the cause of National Independence as opposed to Imperial Absolutism . With the Union Jack and the
Star-Spangled Banner on her aide , the rescue of Hungary iB only a question of time ! Save the inchoate Reform agitation , there is but one purely national queation on foot , and that is onl y the ghoat of one . Protection , like Jack Scroggins in the old song , comes back in dreary plight , haunting agricultural meetings . Protection comes back , and breathes a damp , unearthy inspiration into the Granbys and Bookers , and throws a wholesome tecror into the Hardwickes ,
waking them falter , and utter large , portentous , oracular nothings . Lord Granby , at Waltham ,. confident of many things ; confident in the " old remedy" ; confident that Mr . Disraeli has not given up Protection . Mr . Booker in likewise in a confiding mood ; confident in tho reversal of the verdict of ' 4 ( i ; while tho fiery and decisive Hardwioke , oscillating between Disraeli and Gran by , confounded by both , utters a speech at Saffron Wuldon , in which you expect something decisive at every sentence , and you get—empty speculation , dreariest uncertainty , In fact , Disraeli has done for Protection as a war-cry for any possible political party ; and the ghastly merriment qf Qcanby , the vul garity of Booker , the indecision of HVdwicke , tuo lachrymose ebullition of Delaware— -a comtfdio 1 ' 1 ' owrt EomouJ
larrnoyante of Protection converted by a hasty stage penitence into Free-trade , are proofs of the fact . Only it is possible that Disraeli will find that he is no more than leader of a troop , not general of an army , next session . Poor Coningsby ! Protests against the awards of the juries appointed to judge the articles exhibited in Hyde-park are rather numerous . Medals are declined ; grumbling takes portentous shape ; occasionally reasonable , as in the case of Claussen and the Musical Jury ; but
oftener unreasonable , as in many cases . The Claussen invention obviously deserved either a prize for originality , or no prize at all ; and it is inexplicable how the Council came to reverse the decision of the jury on musical instruments , certainly composed of men prima facie among the most capable . But the singular result of the controversy is that the Constitutionnel has been labouring hard to show that fair play has not been dealt out to France . This is merely carrying out an old tra *
ditionary policy of the Constitutionnel , always forward in depreciating perfide Albion . It is a dynastic prejudice . But the generous Rtpublique , always fair towards us , is highly pleased with the awards , and quotes with great approval the large proportion which medals given to French , bear towards those bestowed on British exhibitors . We register this fact the more readily because the Constitutionnel is the tutelary genius of Bonapartism and the party of Order , while ha Republique is
Republican . The Constitutionnel is also the hero of another cause : knocking down England with one hand , and backing up M . Bonaparte with the other ; this , too , is traditional . How the said Bonaparte will extricate himself from bis embarrassments is not clear . Having declared that he desires the rep « al of the law of May ' , he has drawn down upon himself two species of attacks ; one for unfaithfulness and perfidious amb ition from Orleanist , Legitimist , and Fusioniat ; the other for insincerity and desire of personal aggrandisement from the Republicans . He cannot form a Parliamentary Cabinet . Granier do Cassagnac , Emile de Girardin , Alphonse de Lamartine , LaGuerroniere—these are not exactly the men to command a majority ! The eminently practical
Girardin has seized hold of the occasion , and fought stoutly for the repeal of the law ; but then , ah del he has also advocated revision . Forthwith , instead of adopting both cries , and impelling the movement , tho Republicans have shown nothing but excitement and vexation . We do not blame them ; we only point out their mistake . Why not havu taken the President at his word , fairly compromised him with tho party of Order , roused all France by supporting authority , obtained universal Huttrage , a (' onstituent , and abanisfor real Republican , Institutions ? JLdon Faucher expires as ho has liveddecreeing martial law in two departments ! Austria has possessed herself officially of the military power of Tuscany , and no one protests . What a force does the note of Lord Palmerston
become on the subject of the Gladstone letters , placed by the side of that fact ! The Austrian " stick " and the Croatian bayonet are triumphant in Tuscany ; and Lord Palmerston writes a rude letter to Castelcicala , which issues into print in the suspicious columns of the Augsburg Gazette , on the barbarities of Naples . Acute apprehension of the theory of compensations ! Austria is strong in the strength of Russia . Naples is weak , has a sea-board ; and , besides , is infinitely valuable to Palmerston , because she attracts upon herself so much odium . He obtains popularity by snubbing her Government , but the barbarities of Naples continue ; Palmerston , in denouncing them , has only given one more proof of his sincerity to admiring , confiding , soft-hearted Liberals .
So it is with the Egyptian Railway . In the occult province over which his lordship presides , much is done , the results of which no one can foresee . Here , however , are clearly two facts . Egypt is opposed to Turkey ; Palmerston steps in to mediate ; Turkey , whose right to interfere ought never to have been questioned , must give way . But the railway is not yet made . Cape news is disastrous . Lord Grey has so complicated affairs , the Governor has so m s-
munaged his business , both military and political that the Colony is utmost ready to " separate . ' The two important meetings which we chronicle are evidences of the spirit of the colonists . They distinctly point to self-government as the want of the Cape ; the resolutions are standing impeachments of Ministers and solemn warnings to England . That we do not put down the Kafirs is dishonourable ; but that we have not kept faith with the colonists is a crime . Probably the next flag seen on the wnters of the Thames will be the
banner of the Cape of Good Hope ! When Mr . Adderley and Sir William Molesworth propose to give our colonies the rights of freemen , tne cry is raised— " Oh , you want to dismember the Empire ! " But is the policy of Molesworth so likely to dismember the Umpire as the policy of Grey P It is bad faith , oflicial tyranny , bureaucratic government—it is these which dismember empires . Ireland , like the Cape , is a region of warfareonly in the land of St . Patrick ink is more freely shed than blood . The progress of tenant-right doctrines has alarmed the feudal instinctK of the Lord of the Tower of Garron . He threatens his
fanners with his vengeance , and , what is worse , a deprivation of their actual rights , if they attend meeting * of tenant-right leaguers . The tenantfarmers protest with " indignation , " as well they might . But it matters little . The seemingly chivalrous lettcrM to " moncher Prince will not liberate Abd-el- Knder , nor will the " ukase also from the Tower of Garron , put down tenant-right Mr Matthew Hill has been delivering once more one of those clear and admirable charges to the Birmingham grand jury oil the pOT&XUOn of
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" The one Idea which History exnibita as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or 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 Religion , Country , and Colour to treat the whole Human race aa one Brotherhood , having one ^ reat object-the free development of our spiritual nature . " -Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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News OF the Wbbk— P < i ° e of the Taxes on Knowledge 1012 of England 1017 Tub Artshbws of the wbbk . hvTr M inrplianeou * .... 1013 Odium Theologicum 1017 'J he Bachelor ' s Evening 1023 Continental Notes 10 » R p ^ ic 1 fFA Tbs- The American Defiances 1017 European Democracy 1023 Kossuthm England 100 b ¦ ArSSioii at it * Ebl > 1013 Mr . Bentley ' s Challenge 1017 Organizations of the People— ; S ^ SSo ° ie Fi 5 Sl ^ r ihi"ii : I 0 L 8 iST ^ f- » 8 » -V . V / ..:::::: 101 J So ^ Refc |« .- » NoLof a Social X ^ l C ^ Atnt oto * .... 1023 demotion Soeietv 1003 Progress of Assurance 1014 CEconomist iuw upen councilsSSr * - i » SrwasraSLiii-i-w-: *?» & ¦ £ w ^™ . » .. S / Kstssu ^ , ¦• . . :. I ¦ . . .: ataSss&r :-: iS JSZ&iszszz'XTSt :. US m SSS ^ ... ^^ H .. ^ vm c S ^^ TJrtI 5 ftft « sxi iS Matthew Hill at fcin ^ hun .. 1010 The New Star-Spangled Banner .... 1017 Portfolio- Commercial Affaibs-Pub ic Ooinion . " t " ........ 1011 The Glasshouse at tile Cape 1017 Carlyle on Sterling 1021 Markets , Gazettea . Advertisement ^ ISdaSnfSp ^ Vtingtheiipeai Commercial Prospects in the North The Useful and the Beautiful 1021 &c 1025-8 ¦ , I I I H I I - I ——^^—^ ¦
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VOL . IL—No . 83 . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 25 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1906/page/1/
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