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War , possible or actual , is still the subject of the day . The American mail brings more about the Fishery question ; and the Cape mail brings news of more disasters . Mr . Webster has been delivering a speech , professedly intended to moderate the American mind , but really calculated to inflame angry feeling ; a needless labour ; for we believe that Americans will obtain all that they ask of Downing-street , by the help of public opinion in England . The tone of our own journals proves as much . The organ of the Peel party , that of the Manchester party , with most of the Liberal papers , are adverse to the position assumed by Ministers ; the Times , which professes to be a reflex of the public , has had » series of daily articles , showing that the letter of the law is on our side , the spirit of fairness on the other side , and urging , not the less effectively because temperately , the necessity of revising the Ministerial policy . The organ of Ministers , the Morning Herald , denies that anything new has been done ; on which the Times rejoins , that if nothing new has been done , why make a parade of it to the colonists of the British North American provinces , who had been led to expect some new enforcement of protection for their fishing grounds ? Either the colonists have been cajoled , or the United States are assailed . The argument is unanswerable ; but in fact the paper in the Herald is less noticeable as a disclosure of facts , than as an admission that the Ministerial position is untenable . How Ministers are to back out of their absurd advance docs not yet appear . The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is not quite so momentous , but is very discouraging . It is clear that nothing has yet been done to check the savages , who still make desperate raids on the border ; that they do not yet think of submission ; . that the cession of independence to the Emigrant Farmers of the Dutch race under Pretorius is made in a politic desire to conciliate men whoso alliance with the Blacks is feared ; and that General Cathcart confesses the extremity of his position , by the desperately confident tone which he assume * in threatening to establish his own head-quiutew in the camp of Kreli . He also appeals to the colonUt * , with a mixture of insinuated threat and promise ; urging the Burgher [ Town Edition . ]
guards to come forth , and promising to divide amongst them the re-captured cattle . He has recurred to the old * ' commando" system—a species of agricultural militia organization . Altogether , the attitude of the Governor Commanderin-chief is deferential and blustering ; no real progress has yet been made in reducing the rebels ; and meanwhile loss of life and property is increasing . Another . colonial subject merits more attention than it receives from the public at large . More convicts are « ent to Van Diemen ' s Land—to swell the number of runaway convicts who reappear in the gold diggings . The friends and settlers of Van Diemen's Land protest against this short-sighted policy ; which also exasperates the Australians generally ; but our Government perseveres . Lord Londonderry is a chivalrous Irish soldier —at least , such he delights to be thought . Spite of the proceedings in regard to the " Family seat , " he is unquestionably a gentleman—a little indiscreet , perhaps , but still a gentleman . As a soldier and a gentleman , he has , from time to time , endeavoured to prevail on M . Bonaparte to release the gallant Arab from the durance of Araboise . Last year , we pr inted a correspondence between the Irish soldier and the President of the Republic ; and then , when his own fate hung trembling in the scales , M . Bonaparte said he had done all he could ; that if no more was done , it was because he had not the power to do it : that when 1852 was passed the thing would be easier of accomplishment ; and that , sooner or later , he desired to set Abd-el-Kadcr free . Lord Londonderry believed him . In December , we know , the would-be liberator of Abd-el-Kader liberated himself , and enslaved France . Abd-el-Kader and France were both in durance vile . February came , Lord Londonderry still believing , wrote to remind M . Bonaparte of his promise . The Ides of March were past : 1852 had come ; but the hands of M . Bonaparte were now red with French blood , and how could he sign the release of the Arab chief ? For two months . Lord Londonderry got not even a reply to his letter . In May he wrote again , trusting to the courtesy between gentleman trad gentleman—that is , between Lord Londonderry and M . Bonaparte—for an answer . Still no reply . Of course , the ' * hero" who , in tha wQtds of Londonderry , i * " absolute , supreme ,
omnipotent , accountable to no one but himself ;" the Tiberius of France , shared the fate of his kind having become a splendid scoundrel , how could he act like a gentleman ? But Lord Londonderry still believed him , and waited for a reply to his second letter . June passed ; July slowly lapsed away ; August arrived—three months , and still no reply . Lord Londonderry finds that " his Prince , " M . Bonapnrte , is a violator of solemn pledges ; and he lays the intercessory correspondence before Europe aiid the world . The world will give the appellant what he asks—admiration for his credulity , and contempt for his «* Prince . " The revival of Bonapartism in France is one continued raise en scene . The people are caressed with dramatic spectacles of past glories to atone for present humiliations . Fete after fete cheats the Parisians of their self-respect , and beguiles Frenchmen into forgetfulness of the rights of freemen and the duties of citizens . The solitude and the silence around the electoral urns , however , proclaimed trumpet-tongued the pent up indignation . The very general abstention from voting even in the towns where Louis Napoleon was said to be idolized , makes the isolation of the man the more glaring , and proves that a country " cannot be ruled in spite of itself . " The President apes the Czar in the suddenness and secrecy of his movements . He goes to the Solognc one Saturday to visit his new estate , and returns to St . Cloud on Tuesday , the departure being announced in the Moniteur some hours after the return . Niggard and offensive , even clemency sits upon the usurper with an ill-grace : Fifteen exiles , of divers categories , are suffered to return to their country , and to excite their gratitude the official press welcomes them with insulting paragraphs of contemptuous pity . Victor Hugo's burning words are stealing like fire from lip to lip , and from heart to heart , and already begin to rouse his country from the lethargy of indifference to the sense and the shame of a national conscience . Proudhon , the selfdestroying sceptic , is permitted ; Victor Hugo , the ' fiery denouncer , is pursued as a terror and a scourge . < « . . ' , .. At home , the news is of min ^ importance . The Ministerial question is , for tto # M& absorbed in the fishery affair ; and a general . fteling grows upamong all parties , that the "diffltfilty" ahouldnot proceed without a consultation in Parliament ; yet
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VOL . III . No . 125 . ] SATUEDAY , AUGUST 14 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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^ o nr THiWliK * * ASB Ireland 771 Indications Reform Doctors * Are the Stars Inhabited t » NE WOf 2 S * Da ^ n Z An Episode in Town Life 772 Commons 777 Jerdan ' s Autobiography 783 TbeAmer ^ FiA ** y Question ... 766 " What ' s in a Name ? " 772 Hints to New M . P . ' s , by an Kxpe- Books on our Table ?«* TheJWWWft ^ ... . . . 768 Captain Atoherley Again 772 rienced "Stranger" 777 r 0 W « r « from FWis ; , 767 Cheap Funerals 772 The Co-operative Movement 778 PORTFOLIO—1 ? ontiheBt » Hfot « s 768 Miscellaneous 772 The Dangers of the Temperance Letters of a Vagabond 784 . IVonBeok '—Additional Evidence . 768 Health of London during the Week 774 " Cause" 779 Comte's Positive Philosophy 785 The Norwood Nunnery 769 ¦ nt rn , » Marrinraq kAA TWtha 774 Emigrant ' s Transit Difficulties ...... 770 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 774 OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSCitr Sympathy with th « Suflterers at POSTSCRIPT 774 The Late Co-operative Conference 780 tut- — :.,: 787 Montreal 770 „„ ,,-. «»„ . Letter from Mr . E . VansittartNeale 780 v ^ oHflSe ! ' 787 Curious Will Case 770 PUBUC AFFAIRS- Von B « ck at Birmingham 780 tS ^^ oSA ^^ TZ ' . ' . TW Agricultural Improvement 771 The Impossible War with America 775 The Province of Toleration ,.... 780 me uoia jsieiaa oi jmuh-i-mu * .. . Eailway Accident ..... ..... 771 British Eeactton on the Continent ... 776 UTERATORE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSV c ^^^! ° ^^ : 771 gfltt ^ SS lS"TZ g 2 ™ J 1 Thinker 781 Markets , Advertisements , &C .... 787-78 B
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« The one idea Which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea cf H ^^^ - ^ endeavour to throw cfown all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths distinctions ot Keiigion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual jx ^ buxe ^' —Mumboldt ' s Cosmo :
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1947/page/1/
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