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EN . GLAND HAS PRONOUNCED * England has accepted the position offered by Kossuth to the free states of Europe . Our Government may wince , shrink , and hesitate j certain timid folks , who had fallen into a , routine of sleepy politics , may falter $ a stockbroking press may raise up cries as false as the great Goehrane conspiracy j bat England has stepped out bodily—in Copenhagen-fields , at Birmingham , at Manchester , at Birmingham again , and again in London * in the persons of the middle class—England has stepped forth , and accepted nonintervention in its complete and efficacious form .
The Peace Society protests ; but it is well known that leading members of the Peace Society are active in promoting " Kossuth demonstrations . * ' We have no quarrel with thewi : let them cover their consistency with protests , and we will grumble not . We can afibrd to be in good humour with all the world . The Times is almost in alliance with the Peace Society , only the alliance would hare been too laughable . The Times can brave public opinion , can dare the sacrifice of its own circulation and
pecuniary 'interests , 'can sacrifice itself at the altar of Austrian loans—do we ' not see daily that noble vnstancebf self-imrnolatiori ?^—but the Leading Journal cannot affoid to be laughed at , so it will not be thought to be jn > alliance with the Peace Society . Only adversity makes one ac / juainted with strange bedfellows ; and it does happen that the Times and the Peace Society , all the world being against them at this particular moment , are lying down together in one bed , pillowing their heads on PorterTs Progress of the Nation and other lay sermons , and consoling each other in very touching strains about the expensiveness of war .
1 Yes , the Times , seeing ; that it -can't write down Kossuth arid the English people , who have somehow got face t > face , aild won't be written downwinch thd writer take ? very Unkindly—cunning Times resorts to a , device worthy of Lear ' s ingenuity in ; his extreme , and comes , upon them with ptfctipticB ' -from Porter . Alread y * before the midnight of 1 ) 851 , the trumpet of freedom tries the stirrirVg noU which is lo awake- the morning of freedom ia , 1852 ,-. and the poor Times ,, seeing that the fit has seised u » all , tries its hand at a counterblast of statistics . " Don ' t go to war , " cries Times , f < it will cost-so much : Porter says so . " is
The ar ^ umeut amusing , not only as an old wife's soothing Hop tried to lull the wakening spirit of a giant , but as ' . being of such nature that in fact it tella for the war of . freedom . Let us not blink the truth : we are for a war , and we are going to have one . Our readers will testily to our earnestness in that behalf ; events are testifying to our foresight . But the Times would have # one to Nekton * just before 1
the firat broadsideat Trafalgar , and would , like any Peace"man , have expatiated on the cost of each ball and pound of powder . 'Times would have represented to Washington the exponsiveness of bandoliers ; and would have asked Lafayette if ho had pre-culculsited his bill . Too Into , good Leading Journal ! If you warn to keep your lead , go buy you a manual of tactics , and eugagea few half-payB to report for you in l « . » 2 . Too lato with loiter
now I The nrmiuient is magnificent which the Times dign up from Porter ' s archeology of the British Umpire . W « 'have NJ F " ' during tho present century , - sauli Times , witting over its I orter , £ l , 2 OO , 0 O () , O ()( > , more limn halt in actual war ; we gave subsidies . t *> the tune of £ 40 , 000 000 , and more ; wo spent £ 1 , 61 ) 6 , 000 in arum and supplies for our allies . Most true ; we are spending nearly £ 30 , 000 , 000 yearly as the cotinefluttico . Bufc wAf / did we H |»< nul all that money ? To « efc tip Aujtrio And Russia . We ltyye / rtS thw Tittten « ayH , yielded \ if > Sicily tfr Naples : ' llttasia , ' l ** trtAia , and Austria
Have to thank us for immense subsidies ; and what is the return ?* ' ** During the war we ga \ re much substantial assistance to Russia . What is there to show for it ?** The Times puts the question ,, not we . It is engaging to Bee so much naivete still surviving in the atmosphere of Puddledock , ijut we must quote more : — ' France has twice exercised her natural and inalienable privilege of settling for herself how she shall be governed ; the heir of the man we chained to the rock of St . Helena , now presides at St . Cloud ; and deep ir . the heart of every frenchman there lurk *
the scarcely secret hope that France will one day have tV \ e last word w \ tK her conquerors ,. Belgium , which we united to Holland at so much cost and pains , has long thrown off that yoke , and it is no thanks to us that she is not a mere appanage of the crown of France * Holland , whom we endeavoured to aggrandize , has a standing quarrel with us , only unimportant because we have not succeeded in making hey even a secondrate power . We are nowhere so unpopular , either with Peoples of with Courts , as in Portugal and Spain , the chief obfects of 6 U * costly and heroic interference . Nowhere are "Wfe so insulted , aftd
« ith such impunity * Our interference in behalf 6 f the kingdom of the Two Sicilies has not obtained either a single political right or the performance of one Royal promise in favour of the island we rescued , preserved , and restored . The tope , whom we were so forward to reinstate in his lost independence , has since used it incessantly to promote disaffection among our own people , and abridge the ^ prerogatives of our Crown . In Greece , if a British subject has his hous * pulled down over his head , and his property destroyed , so little disagreeable is the occurrence to the Sovereign we created or the people we made free ,
that we must back our bill of damages with five sail of the line . Whether we are on the best possible terms with Austria , and whether the many millions we have spent in her behalf have been spent to a political advantage , we leave to those who now ask our interference between the house of H-xpsburg and the finest provinces of the Austrian empire . Whatever our gainsiiy our countless expenditure in Germany , we cannot flatter ourselves that we have much promoted the cause of constitutional government . It is almost forgotten that during the war we gave much substantial assistance to Russia . What is there to
show for it ?' Well said , Times . but what does all this teach us ? That it has been a losing &aine to set up a Jew crowned families and their official retainers against the Peoples of Europe . That is true . And it is a losing game , still , to keep up those families . To keep them up , we keep up the system of huge Standing Armies and huge National Debts , at a cost to ourselves of millions sterling . And we have " nothing to show for it "—nothing !
But we are going to change the tune . Yes , for all the trepidation of the Times and the Peace Society , the great demonstrations of London , Birmingham , and Manchester , comprising as they have done all the active men of the working and middle clashes , prove that England—not the official England of a bureau , hut the real , hearty , subjJantiftl England itself , is going to revise its policy . And w ^ th what results > First , as Kossuth said at Manchester , " the oppressed nations will be of good cheer ; " aa John Bright said , there ia to be " a glorious resurrection of the trampled nations . " " The alliance of despots , " says Kosauth , "is a fact » - " these demonstrations attest the instinctive
sense of the English , people , that a turning point has come in the history of the world , when that alliance must consummate itself in the subjugation , not only of France , already offered to it by mercenary tvaitorH , but of England , unless it be met by an alliance of the rco |> le& . America perceives the same fact , and the glorious young Republic of the West , forgetting her differences with us as we forget ours , is preparing to join the mighty union from which England will not be excluded . Kostmth Ihih already conferred upon us the inestimable blessing of awaking us out of our slumbers ; he has pledged himself to promote the union between England and America . <* od speed him .
The Kri tf liah People will not be blinded by tho nonsense that wmild not deceive children . A howl of delight was raised by the enemies of KoRBUth and national independence when he avowed himself a republican What then ? In the first place , the Knglinh arc not , an they once were , to be frightened by names . Our best trust , ia henceforth to beif our official folks do not spoil and prevent it—an alliance with a Republic , tho great Republic of America . Next , whivt if Hungary do choose a republic ? Kacli nation to be independent , and
choose it a own form of government—that is KoBsnth ' a proposition ; and it is accepted by London , UitriiihfHtmm . atid Manchester . Hungary was
.. i ¦ -- ¦¦ - ¦ ¦— ¦ — ¦ — - I , - __ _ 1111 i - ¦ ——¦ monarchical , arid she implored to remain So ; but the perjury of her Kings has worn out her relifcttfce on the whole craft . She had a succession of Charles Stuarts , and Englishmen will not blame he * for cutting off the entail . But why should it lie with a few crowned families and official servants to keep the nations apart ? That is the true bad ceconomy , —that is * Ki > ^ hstlv War disguised in the semblance of
" Peace . * ' Manchester is pledged to a truer policy . " Free trade , * ' said Kossuth , "is not carried . Cheaper bread is carried ; but free trade is not carried . Free trade will be carried , when the products of England ' s industry shall have a free accession to the markets of Europe , from which , by the Absolutist principle : they are now excluded . " The liberty of Europe ' s Continent is more than a dispensable complement to the free-trade school . ' That would , indeed , be free trade , that would be peace , that would be a real Holy Alliance . Nnw . wesav . the choice of the English people
lies between that free trade , that peace , that alliance of the civilized world , and & progress Of despotism which will riot cease until the Cossack waters his horses in the Thames ; the choice lies between fighting the battle of defence here in Bnrfand , —dn our own land , on the Very banks of the Thames , or on the distant lands of Hungary and Italy . But the choice has already been made .
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ARE WE PROSPEROUS ? The Trade and Navigation Returns continue to exhibit a most satisfactory increase in our exports of all kinds of manufactured goods . The coffers of the Bank of England are crammed to repletion . " We have just concluded a harvest , " says the Economist , " which , taken altogether , has perhaps never before been equalled for quantity and quality . Another reduction has taken place in the price of the four pound loaf , which now ranges from 4 £ d , to 6 d ., and all other commodities are equally plentiful and cheap . And yet the golden age of Saturn comes not . To a lar ^ e portion of the industrious
classes it seems as far off as ever . The streets of Paisley are said to be" thronged with workmen wandering about" in search of work , and even in thriving Manchester , the trade circulars speak of the mills going on short time , because " several descriptions of our staple fabrics are produced and sold without a margin of profit . " We know very well how Mr . George Frederick Young , or Mr . Chowler , would explain such a state of things at Paisley and Manchester ; but that is not what ue care for . How does Mr . Cobden or Mr . Bright , account for it on free trade principles ? Has legislation done all that it can do towards improving the condition of the people in their estimation ? If they think it has not , what must be our next move ?
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OUR COLONIES IX THE COMING YEAR . It is now some months since the Leader was the first to herald the necessity of a close alliance of England and America in what has since been pre-, saged by official lips as the " coming war of opinion . " i his island of ours stands as a breakwater between the decrepit despotisms of the Old World and the boundless destinies of the New . We are the advanced sentinels of freedom ; the land beyond the ocean , her last refuge . John Bull , secure in liberties at home , ia tho constitutional friend of Cossack " order " abroad . Liberty , if not according to the British constitutional gospel , is anarchy : belter he allied with the right divine of despotism than with the ri ^ ht primeval of Democracy . Nevertheless , we had cast our bread upon the waters , and after many days it comca again to us — with interest 1 The idea lias been caught up far and wide . With electric rapidity it traversed the Atlantic , and already binds the parent stale and her giant offspring by closer bonds than those of interest or blood . Announced at Southampton by the man who may be future President of the United States , as a sure and certain promiseechoed by diplomacy itself I
; escaping for a moment from secrecy and shadow in , the person of our own Minister at Washington ; proclaimed unceasingly by Hungary m the p *» oil of KoHHUth , as the earnest of Kuropfc ' j redemption--the alliance of free England and free America against the crowned coalition of European tyrannies fc no longer a voice oast on the wind and wailing for an echo-it is an instant necessity , a living fact . It is a beacon-fire in this night of European desola-I . ,.,, to the quaking thrones , to the heart-famishea exileH to tho eilcni and expectant Peoples . Now what is Knglanern condition within IMhtJ
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. -. ——•«* - — : y - . - . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 15 , 1851 .
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There ia nothing so revolutionary , because , there is ¦ nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to Tceet > things tixed when all the world is t > y the very law of its creation iri eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page 1087, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1909/page/11/
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