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AS the preliminary session advances , the position of both divisions in Parliament becomes less and less creditable , and discreet men are only wishing that their own party were out of the scrape . The position of Ministers , who have become Free Traders not upon conviction , is complicated by the singularly infelicitous position which Lord Derby has assumed . Invited by Lord Clanricarde to repeat in the House * of Lords the resolution affirmed in the House of Commons , the
Premier hesitates , and then proposes a resolution , not candidly accepting Free-trade , but sullenly " adhering" to it in the dislike to " frequent change ! " The acquiescence of Ministers in the House of Commons has therefore so little good faith in it , that the hesid of the Ministry undisguisedly draws back . Sir Robert Peel was
reviled for liis conversion in practice to an opinion which he had long entertained in theory , and had never precluded himself from adopting : within the short period since his death , the party that reviled him has professed Protection , has disavowed it , has accepted Free Trade , and now retracts from Free Trade as much as it is officially
safe to retract . In like manner the party that used to oppose Reform is now gaining what credit it can for reforms in various directions , especially in the law . Lord Chancellor St . Leonard ' s in England is followed up by Attorney-General Napier in Ireland . Ministers have pledged themselves , through Mr . Walpole , to bring in a measure for settling the
question of Ministers' money in Ireland . la Ireland Lord Derby , taught by Lord Eglinton , promises not to interfere with the system of national education ; a negative promise which is a great political fact , since it annuls the main Tory opposition to that system . And Attorney-General Thesiger , not the Chancellor of the Exchequer , is to amend the Stamp-tax on newspapers . Will his measure l » e to the satisfaction of the
Anti-Knowledge-Tux Association , which assembled in «« eh force at Exeter Hall on Wednesday ? l * ut while the quondam- Tories sitting on the Reform Treasury bench are thus serving their apprenticeshi p to an advanced Liberalism , otte of their colleagues is accused of illustrating , in hi . s own person , the most obstinate adherence to the oldest and worst abuses of Parliamentary corruption —u systematic suborning of electors . Sir Alexander [ Town Edition . ]
Cockburn has established so strong a pnma facie case against Major Beresford that Government could not . resist the motion for enquiry ; and a select committee has been appointed to examine into a charge against a member of the Government of grossly violating the law ! The proclamation of the Empire in France , and the extensive addition to our own defences , are
simultaneous , if they are not connected events . The accession of Louis Napoleon , by " the logic of the people , " as he calls it , and under the title of " Napoleon the Third , " has been expected ; but foreign powers seem surprisingly to have supposed that something would happen to prevent it , or that Louis Napoleon would desist from his pretensions . To a man of his mind , and in his position , there can be no reason for desisting : it is evident that he dreamed of such exaltations when he was an exile , haunting Leicester-square ; he ha 8 braved denunciation , ridicule , obstruction ,
danger , bloodshed ; in spite of apparent impossibilities he has succeeded ; and the prospect of subjugating Europe , surveyed from the bee-spangled throne of the French Empire , would not be so mad a project as the ascent of that throne , surveyed from the dungeon of Ham , or the isolation of Gore House . He had announced , in his message of November the 4 th , that the establishment of the Empire would restore that which was destroyed in 1815 ; that is , would reverse the decrees which the that is , would reverse the decrees which the
European powers made at that date . Ky assuming the title of " Napoleon the Third , " he claims a continuity of succession from the first Napoleon , ignoring the decisions to the contrary . The Times announces that the Allied Powers are unanimous in refusing to recognize that dynastic pretension ; and as the proclamation of the Empire will ipso facto cancel the credentials of the foreign representatives in Paris—credentials addressed to the President of the French Republic—an opportunity will be at once aflonled for joining issue
upon that point . Europe permits the Empire , but forbids the succession : but Louis Napoleon has already assumed the succession , anil warned Europe against assailing him ; and the Constitutionncl announces that England must henceforth share the supremacy of the seas with France . According to the appearances of the day , therefore , Europe is resolute to deny that which Louis Napoleon is prepared to take—prepared to take and hold with a strong hand . And Louis Napoleon has never yet made a move till he was ready . The defensive preparations on our own side of
the channel indicate a suddenly stimulated sense of necessity . Eight new screw line-of-battle ships are to be prepared with earliest despatch ; 5000 men are to be added to the Navy , with 1500 marines . The artillery force is to be increased by 2000 men , and 1000 horses ; and 200 guns are to be constructed without delay . Fortifications on the coast are to be hastened . It will be observed that nothing is said about an increase to the Army ; but as several regiments are under orders for
foreign stations , and as we have already stated our belief that in some cases the so-called relief of regiments will prove to be a reinforcement of the particular stations , it is evident that a serious addition will be requisite for the Infantry and Cavalry , not only to keep them in due proportion with other arms , but to make good actual deficiencies at home . The announcements have appeared by instalments , as if to bring them before the public mind by degrees ; and we may expect that the largest announcement will come last .
It is already confessed that the estimates for the steam marine will be " enormous ; " but the addition of men to Navy , Marines , Ordnance , and Army , means a grand addition , to the estimates , besides fortifications . In short , gradually as it may be confessed , we are at the beginning of a . war expenditure . It is satisfactory to note that the militia , which constitutes an experimental commencement of a . national auxiliary force , have thus far proved very good in the selection and behaviour of the men . In most of the counties the drill has either been
accomplished , or is now proceeding ; and the men make satisfactory progress , for their modicum of training . The strictures passed upon their equipment and drill , by a Prussian officer , do not in any degree derogate from the essential character of the force , but the reverse ; and the faults which he points out can easily be remedied in the sequel , when the proper departments shall set about the work more in earnest .
At the saint ; time , the resources of the country continue to expand in all directions . The reports of trade are excellent , although the . season is one generally of relaxation . In some rases the expansion of business is remarkable . In Bradford , for example , notwithstanding the dillieulties occasioned by the dearth of wool , trade continues to be brisk . And in Nottingham , which may be considered usually at a low point in the scale of prosperity , the business of the past week is pronounced to have been better than it has ever been
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VOL . III . No . 141 . ] SATURDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavmir to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-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 . "—Humholdt ' a Cosmos .
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NEWSOFTHE WEEK— The " M . P . " Affray 1155 The Garrison Invincibles at Stafford The Cloister Life of Charles V 1164 PAGB Agricultural -Distress in a Police House 1159 Correspondence on Butler lit * The Parliament of the Week 1150 Court 1155 The Tooth as it is in Budh 1159 Books on our Table uw Election Matters 1152 Miscellaneous 1155 Taxation Seduced to Unity and Letters from Paris 1152 Healthof London during the Week 1156 Simplicity 1160 PORTFOLIOContinental Notes ... 1153 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1156 On the Cultivation of Flax—Supple- Letters of a Vagabond 1168 The Burmese War 1153 mental Notes and Figures 11 G 2 Address from the " Ladies" of Eng- POSTSCRIPT . 1157 " Waterloo ! " Hush ! 1162 THE ARTSland to the " Ladies" of America How and Where " England" asserts Defacement of Pictures at the Na-. against Slavery 1153 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Herself . 1162 Gallery 1169 Slave Law in New York 1154 FUbLio fli-hAmb Two Wellington Autographs 1162 uonai <_ rauery National Defence 1154 Parliament Standa Confessed 1158 tcdatiioc— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPrussian Opinion of British Militia 1154 Augmentation of the Forces 1158 LITERATURE Eepeal of the Taxes on Knowledge 1155 A Model Conservative 1159 Earth , Plants , and Man 1163 Markets , Advertisements , &c . 1170-1172
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1963/page/1/
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