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Q ^ M £ j 9 HMHHB * h retired to her Scottish fa ^ PHNtttiN ^^ H pftas in a state of erup-^ ISS 9 H ^ ^ as ma < * a declaration in ^^ ballot , —the British Association hoj ! H |^^ HPal feast of intellect and flow of soul at BeluHH ^ Sir Colin Campbell has resigned his command in r-esiiawur , —two hundred emigrants have been drowned in Lake Erie , —the Guild of
Literature and Art has been starring it at Manchester , —Lord Dalhousie has gone to Rangoon , — King Frederick William has been besieging Magdeburgh with sham siege , —and the cholera is making steady march across Germany ; there is movement enough in the world , though the signs of it for the week are mostly of a trivial order , and need little more than a paragraph while we report the progress of things in general . The removal of Queen Victoria , for example , from England to Scotland , is a fact pleasing to those who are interested in the health and
recreation of the Sovereign ; since there is no limit to the disasters which might ensue from the morbid irritabilities of a chief magistrate , and the ulterior stability of any institution may depend on the condition of its occupant . It is well , therefore , to note the fact ; but being noted , there is nothing more to be said . l ) r . Cahill blurting madly much that looks like trutli against the last two Governments , in the Dublin Freeman ' s Journal Father Burke and
Father Clune arrested and liberated on bail for riot at Six-Mile Bridge ; Lord Eglinton and his Countess at Belfast , a shining light among the savans of the British Association , ^ nd Sharman Crawford banqueting with the defeated Tenant Itighters at Newtownards in Londonderry , family count y , make a very interesting but extensive tableau , thoroughly Irish . Dr . Cahill , in his coarse , libellous fashion , points out how England mid liberty have been degraded under both Russell
and Derby on the continent ; and Sharman Crawlord and his friends show how the liberty of voting "as been suppressed in the family county . These ire not new facts ; and , after all , possibly the roost important is the declaration , per letter , made » y Mr . Cobden at the Newtownards festivity , that when the battle between Protection and Free-trade "h ull be fairly over , he hopes a great leftguo for the [ Town Edition . ]
ballot will be established , never to be given up until the object be obtained . Manchester has feted Art and Literature this week j officially dining with the delegates in the Free-trade Hall . The amateur-author-artistactors had been performing for the benefit of the Guild ; and delighted Manchester has hastened to do honour to intellect and
imagination in return . Does it not show the harmonizing power of Literature and Art , when it can draw together Mr . Thomas Bazley and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , make them dine at the same table , listen to each other ' s oratory , and do all this in the Free-trade Hall ; Protection and Freetrade reciprocally charmed , the one by the munificence of Cotton , the other by the eloquence of Corn ? It must have been instructive to both
parties . Miracles in the age of steam and electric telegraphs have been common enough on the Continent ; but it is a novelty to meet with a miracle in England . Yet a miracle has been living , we are told , at Shottisham , in Suffolk , for some years past . A young girl , named Squirrell , has either lived , or pretended to live , without food for many weeks . S \\ c declares that angels have visited her , and that one has acted as her guardian . She has been lionized by the whole county , and scores
have been enraptured by her eloquence on sacred and profane themes . But suspicion has led to investigation , and certain phcenomena , natural enough in ordinary persons , but totally unaccountable in one who neither eats nor drinks , have led to the belief that the young miracle is an impostor . One fact is certain—medical men , gentlemen , and clergymen , have been greatly puzzled ; but at present the evidence is incomplete , and no judgment on the merits can he fairly given cither way .
The really important news conies from more distant quarters . In India , for example , the last movements indicate some further embarrassment in our military affairs . That Sir Colin Campbell has resigned his command in Pcshawur , is in itself an inconvenience , even if it bo no more than an act of personal impatience . But if the reasons ascribed to him arc true , it in something more than an inconvenience : he is said to
complain that the troops placed at Ins command are not sufficient for the duticH required of them , and that he had undergone vexatious interference
at the instance of the political agents . Sir Colin Campbell is a distinguished officer , and it is to be borne in mind that he is neither the first nor the most distinguished in India who has chafed under control : While Sir Colin is complaining that he has not troops enough , General Godwin ' s demand for reinforcements in the Rangoon has been duly honoured ; and the Governor-General
of India has himself gone to the same quarter , for the purpose of reconnoitring . These facts prove that something more is expected than the resistance which the British have encountered thus far . It is observed that the army of the Rangoon has been greatly increased beyond the original estimate ; but it must be remembered , that to retain their prestige , British arms are now bound to be successful in India ; and that to
command success we must have military leaders of daring genius , or armies strong in numbers and appointments . Routine and other influences impede the official discovery of genius until it is superannuated ; and great armies , therefore , are the alternative that remains to us . The large army in the Rangoon is a necessity , for the same reasons that make Sir Colin Campbell ' s complaint peculiarly untoward .
From the opposite side of the world comes a mixture of bullying and conciliation . According to the New York Herald the fishery question is by no means laid at rest , but is to be revived by the Senate with increased bitterness , and Mr . Webster has been telling people all round that they may take guano from the Lobos islands , where Peru has prepared a garrison and fleet to receive them . Meanwhile , however , well informed
writers anticipate that the fishery dispute will have been finally laid to rest by the mutual concession ; and Commodore Perry has been received ut St . John ' s and Halifax in the most friendly spirit ; the union-jack and the star-spangled banner flouting to the breeze in cordial proximity . The ground is giving way under the dominant Imposture of Napoleonism . Ridicule , affront ,
humiliation—such is the tribute rendered to the Ca ; sar of the hour by a nation that has the wit to be ashamed , but not the courage or the virtue to be free ! The Empire , it ncems , is imminent , to " create a diversion ; " and after the Empire why not wur to create a diversion ? The disgraces of the coup dYtat can only be " diverted " by successive coups d'feiat ; the f&es have proved but
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VOL . III . No . 128 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 4 , 1852 . [ Peice Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— pas » National Orphan Girls'Home 844 The Immortal Spark in Protection 849 LITERATURE—,, - Po j . qoq Church Patronage 844 Outrages on Women 849 T H t nf A nimala 854 SSSSTlSS £ A Eesistleas Inquisitor 844 Family Influence in the Present g * j £ ^ ' j ^ Fan ^' Poems 855 Continental Kotes . 839 LawBeform 845 Parliament 850 Boofas on our Table 856 Britah Subjects mItaly , 840 Tavern Signs 845 The Actual Position of the Convopa- Book * on our Table American JJtftcumes ... » 4 U A Patron of the Begging Trade 845 tion Question 851 PORTFOLIOEruption of Mount Etna 841 Bingham upon Bagpipes 845 Hints to New M . P . ' s . By an Experi- PORTFOLIO Kadways in Canada . 841 Athenaeum Life Assurance Society 845 enced « Stranger" 851 Letters of a Vagabond 856 ^ " ^ f Ban ^ uet to Sharman Miscellaneous .... 846 _„_ . ___ Crawford .. 841 Health of London during the OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTS-* ££ 5 £ ^ .. ^ == 5 OT == rz : S ^ = S ^ := S H ~^ E : i Cleopatra Outshone 842 POSTSCRIPT 848 On the Late Co-operative cower- e " 122 " ° ** " *"" ^ ^ PUBLIC AFFAIRS- vZ ^ " ^ ... ~ =:: Z . ™ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSisS ^ i ^ S ^^™ ::::::::: 31 What Then ? 849 Convocation .,, 853 Markets , Advertisements , &c 858-860
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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea cf 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 fteligion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humholdt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1950/page/1/
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