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Although thoroughly used up , the English public has been a little roused this week hy incideiats here and there ; and we are drifting towards the general election with a hope of more to quarrel about it than might have been expected a few weeks since . Mr . Disraeli ' s latest address to the electors of Buckinghamshire , Lord Malmesbury ' s last feat as Foreign Minister , Maynooth disposed of , the Militia Bill carried in the Commons , Mr . Feargus O'Connor ' s arrest , Lord Cathcart ' s new policy at the Cape , the aggression on the English daily papers by President Bonaparte , —these would be incidents enough to arouse
a more excitable nation to fervour . Yes , the Militia Bill has passed the Commons ; and what then ? Aye , what then ? There is a statute the more , that is all ; a few months hence , and some of us will see a strange awkward squad , of all sizes , exercising near the county town . Eighty thousand men , when they are caught , will be but as a drop in the ocean of English millions . However , as Mr . Disraeli says , they are " a beginning j" and as Mr . Osborne says , a real volunteer measure would be the best continuation .
Maynooth has been debated once more , —and shelved ; at least , it is to be hoped so . Mr . Scully managed to speak for some hours , occupying the floor , while he touted for votes in Ireland . Ditto , Mr . Freshfield , for votes in England . Mr . Bennett has also been debated again , and the Bishop of Bath and Wells ; with no novelty . Mr . Gladstone made an admirable defence of the
ecclesiastics ; showing , that being technically correct , they could not be technically assailed . Mr . Horsman produced a letter , as if it h ad been lent to him for the purpose by tlie Bishop of London J —a more stage-effect . Incapable of practical conclusion , the debate ended without result . B » t in Parliament , the most extraordinary ftffair has been the debate on Lord Mnlmcsbury ' s Surrender of Criminals Convention with France lJill ; a . discussion which exhibited the Foreign
Se cretary in a position little familiar to English statesmen . The bill purported to be the draught ° f a statute needed to carry out the mutual extraction of offenders , not political , between France n *> England ; but one after another arose Peers , without distinction of party , to expose the numerous provisions of the scheme . A vague dcs <* iption of offences , sufficiency of the French Warrant in England but not of the English warrant [ Town Edition . " !
in France , no discretion left to the English magistrate except as to the evidence of identity , completion of the bargain on the French side left to an understanding , " with other incidents that we have discussed in a separate paper , —gave to the bill a character wholly alien to our legislature . If the measure had been drawn up by a French Prefect of Police , and advanced in the French
Parliament by a Minister of Louis Napoleon , it would have created no surprise ; but to discover the man with the hardihood to propose it before the English Senate might have taxed the French Government . One is almost inclined to suspect that our Foreign Secretary is so in every sense of the word , and that he must be ignorant of English usages or feelings . As Peer after Peer—Aberdeen , Campbell , Brougham , Argyle , Cranworth—arose , with calm manner , but the unflinching utterance of an English resolve , to arrest the project , the French Minister must have felt that he had wandered
into the wrong Parliament . The publication of the Mather correspondence had already done ser ious damage to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; but this debate gave him his coup de grace . The Peers , with a stretch of courtesy unwarranted by the facts , permitted the bill , as a Government measure , to receive its second reading ; but it cannot continue to receive the countenance of the Government , now that Ministers know what it is ; and therefore the talk of " improving it in Committee" must be all idle form : the only valid improvement , will be to
efface it . Mr . Disraeli ' s address may have served him with the electors of Buckingham ; but if so , he must have them well in bund ; and it has not served the Ministry to which ho belongs . The public is beginning , to think that each Member of the Ministry goes mostly " on his own hook , " and that Mr . Disraeli , far too knowing to link his fate with that of a Malmcsbury , has resolved to set up in a totally new walk of art . His address may be divided into four parts : —1 . The recognition oncilement
of work to be done , including the rec of commerce and agriculture with the" maintenance of Protestantism and the British Crown ; 2 . The recognition of " claims , " " such as claims on the part of Ireland , the landed interest , &c . ; 3 . A boast of three measures to be passed—the New ZealandConstitution , the Militia Bill , and Chancery Reform ; and 4 , A promise of revised taxation , which , being scrutinized , shrink s into an opinion that " the possibility" of such a measure " seems to loom in the future . " What about Protection ?
On that head , it is avowed that the tendency of the age is to free intercourse ; and that " statesman can disregard the spirit of the epoch in which he lives . " Protectionists may make of this what they like : one faithful Protectionist , who was rancorous , against Peel , infers from this new avowal that Protection is to be restored at such time as may permit it with least damage to the institutions of the country ? Meanwhile , the public at large is scarcely so much mystified as amused .
The annual dinner of the Sanitary Reform Association , last week , happened too late for our review , or it should not have passed without notice . Materially , the Sanitary Reformers may be said to . hold in their hand the key of the portal from past difficulty to future contentment . Healthy towns and fertilized fields will bless their exertions .
And if some of their political members learn m the difficulties that beset all contests for great good , the generous spir it of determined service and of trust in the people , avowed by more than one sp eaker , titled as well as untitled , the unpolitical association will aid not unfitly in breathing a more healthy spirit even into our politics .
The humiliations of MM . VeYon and Granicr de Cassagnac would be ludicrous enough if they were not also a lively image of the humiliations of France , suspended on the lips of a quack and a bravo . With Dr . V&on ' s nod the funds are shaken—with M . Granicr ' s frown they fall—with a government paragraph , repudiating both its instruments , the funds revive again , and Belgium is appeased . No one doubts that the repudiated articles were written to order ; but when his foul
task has been fulfilled , the executioner is repulsed into disgrace and obscurity ; and so the hireling dagger , that stabbed in the back the bravest and best names of France , the pen that most insolently announced and savagely glorified , the 2 nd of December , is cast away with contempt as soon as its dirty ink-pool of calumnies and insults is exhausted . Has not Victor Hugo been avenged by the fall of that tribune from which he had been
hooted by the party of order ? and is n , ot the independent press , that perished last December , avenged once flnore by the " warnings" to the Constitutionnel ? So fatal is the distrust of liberty —so rapid the proclivity of despotism . The English press is struck at last—by proxy . Correspondents in Paris , who have not learnt how to concoct official paragraphs , will have to atone for the Editors in London , until my Lord Mahneal ) iiry , that model Englishman , shall have made it
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VOL . HI . No . 116 . ] SATURDAY , JUNE 12 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— * AGB Miscellaneous 559 Church Anarchy , 563 THE ARTSn < u w » oV in Parliament 550 Health of London during the Notes for the Elections 564 The Trial of Love 569 ? T ^ f ^^ Ss G'Connor '''' 553 Week ..., L ... 560 Simile for Popular Use 564 German Plays 569 £ * S fitters '" 554 Births , Marriages , andDeatha 560 Say not a Chancellor is HI 564 Ella ' s Mating Musicale 509 Election Matters .. ... oos ° Mademoiselle Van der Meersch 669 letters from Pans 555 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE- Eoyal Italian Opera 570 ContinentalJNotes 556 __ ¦ , ,,, „ . „ , Theology in Nature 665 Quaxtett Association 570 Sddety of the Friends of Italy 557 Malmesbury and Mather-Cass and The Story of Nell Gwyn 666 The New Philharmonic Society ...... 670 Progress of Association ............ , 557 ^ Innes 561 , Books on our Table 567 Royal Academy Exhibition 570 Metropolitan Sanitary Association ... 658 What is Disraeli ? .. 562 The Cape War ... i ... 558 Malmesbury's Napoleonic Idea ...... 662 PORTFOLIO— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSA Whitechapel Romance ............... 558 Osborne's Military Studies ...., 563 Comte ' s Positive Philosophy 567 Markets , Advertisements , &c ... 571-572
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" The one Idea-which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected bet-ween men by prejudice and ono-sided views ; and by setting aside the 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 . ' *—ttemboldt ' s Cosmo * :
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1939/page/1/
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