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VOL . III . No . 138 . 1 SATUEDAY , NOVEMBER 13 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— p a gb The Deposit and General Life As- A Screw 1089 Whewell on Fundamental Ideas ... 1094 The Parliament of the Week 1078 surance Company 1084 Seats to See the Show 1089 A Batch of New Books 1095 Death of Daniel Webster 1079 Miscellaneous 1085 The War of Ideas 1090 Books on oar Table 1096 Cuba and the United States 1080 Health of London during the Week 1085 PORTFOLIO Letters from Paris 1080 Births , Marriages , and Deathg 1085 OPEN COUNCIL— " . " , „ inoR . , iwi mat Shards and Pebbles iuyt > £ S « dSSni -in' ^^^ X * POSTSCR . PT " ... 1086 Tl £ ^ *?™ *™?? . 1091 Tto ^^ ° ^ In Memoriam : " Eobert Blum" ... 1082 mini ir akairc The Crystal Palace and the Dese- THE ARTSChurchMatters 1083 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- oration of the Sabbath 1091 Anne Blake 1096 Mr . Humeon Direct and Indirect Daniel Webster 10 S 7 Prance-the Empire 1092 } lj Concerts " 1097 Taxation 1083 England ' s Value 1087 * Juiiien s Concerts iuv »/ Earthquake at Liverpool .,. — -. ; I 08 * S ^ nch and Austrian Occupation of LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCure of Asiatic Cholera in its Worst Italy 1088 Stage by Cold Water 1084 The Socialist at the Diggings ...... 1088 Go > gei ' s Life and Acts in Hungary 1093 Markets , Advertisements , &c . 1099—1100
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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Hiusaanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside th . e 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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THE expectation which awaited the Queen s speech has been disappointed , foe it is some proof of the popular faith in Disraeli , that he was expected to throw the fire of genius into that formal document . But it is of the old stamp . An expression of regret at the irreparable loss sustained by the country in the death of Arthur , Duke of Wellington , a little crowing over the success of the militia , the usual assurances from all Foreign Powers , a hope that the Fishery question with the United States may ultimately be settled in a beneficial manner , the opening of the Argentine rivers ; suspension of the stringent measures against Brazil , abolition of the Portuguese discriminating export duty on wine , renewal of the East India enquiry , a comprehensive scheme for the advancement of Fine Arts and Practical Science , the prosperity of the country , the consideration of measures for mitigating the injurious effects of unrestricted competition , a liberal and generous policy towards Ireland , the inquiry into capitular institutions , University Reform with concurrence of the university or colleges , possible discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen ' Land , Luw Reform , and " other measures affecting the social condition of the country "—these are the suggestive topics of the speech . The Royal programme of the session chalks out a good deal of work ; but so much more depends upon the measures themselves than upon the mere promise of them , that the speech cannot be accepted as any mdicution whatever , even of the desire to deal Wl -h the things about which it talks . Nor does the first night ' s debate throw much lnoii : hght upon the specific questions . Protection is given up on all sides ; Mr . Christopher and ¦ Mr . Newdegatu only making the reservation , implied in the proposal to defer action on that s Jibje <> t . Referring to the free-trade paragraph in the S peed ,, Mr . Disraeli explained its only mean-U ) K ~~ that the new commercial policy is recog-V 'd and accepted by Government , as tin ; PNiiei ple of " unrestricted competition / ' Still r ¦ Charles Villiers announces a motion , explicitly "lying doWn the free-trade test for the present ] u lutur
Convocation is the bugbear of the week , and the Low Church have honestly tried to tag on to it the Confessional . But it won't do . The two things are as little inseparable as Lord Shaftesbury and Statesmanship . But the Low Church party have added to the elements of discord and dissolution two very strong dissolvents : the Archbishop of Canterbury has said , appeal to " public opinion " to settle our differences—at least , to relieve me of this horrid convocation . And Lord Shaftesbury shouts out the cry , and makes it the alarum of a fierce agitation . At the same meeting , Canon Stowell proposes the " popular election " of Bishops . Democratic churchmanship with a vengeance ! It may be doubted whether Bishops reduced to " popular election" would even be able to keep apostolical gigs . Popular notions of the successors of the Apostles are so very primitive . A caution to beneficed dissenters . The continued preparations for the Empire , while they show an affectation of independent judgment on the part of the senators , show also how completely their master has them under command for purposes essentially his own . They demurred to fixing the succession in the heirs of Jerome Bonaparte , but they have left the matter of succession to Louis Napoleon himself . The vote of M . Viellard , Louis Napoleon ' s old tutor , against the establishment of the Umpire , offers a well-arranged occasion for the display of Imperial magnanimity to vernerable austerity ; but the Emperor elect is taking measures to settle the question of succession in the most direct manner . An apartment for the Empress is in preparation at the Tuilerics ; the room and the title , however , being all that is as yet realized of the august spouse . Petty vexations may disturb the plans of the adventurer ; an angry uncle , u pedantic adviser , an indiscreet prefect , may cause him trouble ; but the watchfulness of his eye never fails—the whip-hand is always quietly at its work , and every corner in the race is neatly turned . Every obstacle that he pleases to convert into a facility , lends itself to his service : the clergy have become bis canvassing officers , the Senate fall in with bis desire to have the Senatus Consiiltum presented to him on the seventh of November , anniversary of the lHth llruuiairc . The rock ahead at present , is the doubt whether the " people ,, the seven millions , will again vote " Aye "; a doubt suggested by the fact tlmt the whole bod y of Legitimists resolve to abstain from voting . But
what does that matter ? If any of the seven millions indulge the caprice of withholding their signatures , what more easy than for prefects , mayors , and other functionaries , to count up the absentees , on the principle that silence gives consent ? It will be as easy to compile the seven millions as before . Louis Napoleon is not likely to encounter any present difficulty . King of Algiers , his uncle will be viceroy over that province ; Protector of the Holy Places , his protege , Abd-el-Kader , will be posted in the centre of Asiatic Turkey ; and if the intrigues in Piedmont and Naples , with the garrison in Rome , work well , even the coveted title of King of Rome may grace the unborn head of Napoleon the Fourth . The first trouble that any Francis Moore can foresee for the Emperor , must be impatience or division in his army . Even Belgium has yielded , King Leopold and all : the mouth of . the nation is to be bitted ; printed or pictorial animadversions on foreign potentates will subject the satirist or selfappointed censor to two years' imprisonment ; and Belgian juries , hitherto stubborn , are to be drivel to a judicious verdict . The keener air of constitutional freedom must not visit the face of despotism too roughly . Holland is avenged . The policy of 18 . M ) in Belgium , as in France , annulled . There remains nothing of that memorable year but : i nursery , somewhat dangerously situated , for amiable princes of the prolific house of Coburg . The American mail has not yet brought us the account of the election . Political activity had been in some ; degree ; checked , out of respect to Daniel Webster , whose death had somewhat suddenly closed bis career . This fatal termination to his illness contributes to explain that want of efficiency in public ; affairs which had quite recently been noticed . His loss , however , is deplored by all , without distinction of party . The unbidden crowd of mourners at bis funeral , the spontaneous sincerity of the ceremony , the strewing of / lowers on the bier , and the unpivtending'interment on his own estate , contrast somewhat favourably with the too long-deferred and not unstudied woe which is to follovv Wellington to the tomb . Webster died on the 2-1 th of October , is buried with a truly national funeral , and the reports have crossed the Atlantic , while our own Wellington died on September the 14 th , ami while the heralds , upholsterers , and caepenters are busied preparing for the military show
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1960/page/1/
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