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TT ) ECULIARLY dull in novelties , the news of I the week has still its strong points of interest on the old topics . In fact , the only novelty is the fog of Tuesday night , the first of the winter season . But although a fog is an exciting sport when you are detained in a creeping cab or omnibus , with demon link-boys rushing and flaring around you , to help you to lose your way , or to bewilder your hopes of finding it , comment is superfluous . Novelty as it is , those who saw and felt it don ' . t require a description ; while no description could give any countryman an idea of that portentous phenomenon , a London fog . We put no faith in omens ; yet the fog did follow the Peace Congress like a huge exhalation to damp the national ardour . The Manchester conferrings ended with a grand trio , on Friday week , in which Mr . Milner Gibson , Mr . Cobden , and Mr . Bright , successively performed a concerted piece with admirable skill . Mr . Gibson , the gallant yachtsman , quite demolished the idea that Cherbourg was intended for a fortress—a naval stronghold ! No ; the execution of Napoleon ' s grand idea was to produce simply a breakwater , thus affording shelter in a storm for ships of all the nations in the world . So that the Gauls are not a warlike people , after all , but eminently peace-loving and charitable . Mr . Cobden informs us that he will resist unprovoked aggression : a comfortable admission ; and that he will oppose any and every Ministry bent on increasing our armaments . But it strikes us this is the shattered policy of the Irish Brigade ; the cause for which Smith O'Brien Buffered in the cellar , and for which John O'Conncll was to have died on the floor . Mr . Cobden menaces Lord Aberdeen with a Parliamentary Thermopylae , in which he will play the Leonidas of Peace against the Premier's Xerxes . We shall see . The general tone of Mr . Cobden ' s speech was in bad taste , and arrogantly incorrect , especially his disquisition on France . Not ho Mr . Bright , who is certainly increasing his reputation for statesmanlike views . The best points in Mr . Uright ' a speech were those in which lie pointed out that neither " security" for England , nor freedom for Europe , have followed from the war ending in 1815 , although it has cost bo much ; and where he described what he would do , were he Minister . lie would have the " most
destructive" implements , the best ships , and the highest efficiency in all we have . This is sensible . We have long noted how steadily Mr . Bright is , as a " possible" politician , outstripping Mr . Cobden . The Peace Conference more decidedly sets forth the real question—national defence or national insecurity . We have no fear for the result . One of the most striking signs of the set of public opinion , as well as one of the most notable instances of the independence of our journalism , has been dis played by the Daily News . Usually regarded as the organ of Manchester , that journal , nevertheless , courageously printed , on Wednesday , the ablest , most elevated , and most exhaustive reply to the " 1793 and 1853 " pamphlet that has yet appeared . Mr . Cobden ' s shallow philosophy , his omissions , his confusions , and intrepid inaccuracies , both in facts and conclusions , are exposed with a calm , fervid power and relentlessncss , not often met with in newspaper literature . Parliament assembles next week , and the probabilities of an early discussion of the all-absorbing question of national defence every day increase . The treatment of this question will be the touchstone of the ministerial policy . Among the most remarkable of the minor signs of the times , is the effort of workmen of all kinds to get higher pay—not only shipwrights , colliers , factory operatives , and mechanics , but even the agricultural labourers have shown a disposition to have their share of the general prosperity . The labourers of South Wilts have struck for an advance of two shillings ; and although their wages would then be only nine shillings , yet the difference is considerable for them . In conjunction with this subject we have the Quarterly Return of the Registrar General , showing that emigration , last year , went on at the rate of a thousand a day ; while the increase of the population is somewhat under that . But we must remember that many Germans emigrate from our ports ; and it ia still probable , the Registrar concludes , that the increase is a little above the decrease . Another striking point is the enormous increase in the number of marriages in the summer quarter ; and the gradual increase in the matrimonial averages during the last seven years . The working men have held a well-organized representative meeting at St . MartinVhull , in favour of opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays . This sets at rest for ever the question whether the working clusses are favourable to the project ; and is
a conspicuous testimony that they prefer the refinements of the Crystal Palace to the coarse and degrading pleasures of the gin-palace , or the luxuries of adulterated liquors at suburban taverns . Mr . Mayhew ' s controversial vindication was able , but it may be doubted whether his more recondite illustrations were not a little above concert pitch . His championship , however , stamped this collective and calm demonstration with reality , and VA » 1 " =-torical and patristic authorities were no doubt aimed at the more learned Judaizers in the pulpits . If we may judge by tti 3 quality of the " religious " tracts delivered at the doors , Mr . Mayhew and his coadjutors enjoy all the learning , all the common sense , and all the logic of the question without fear of competition . The Emperor is married at last , and after that magnificent ceremonial , which for mise en sebne seems to have surpassed all former efforts of the Imperial manager , he has retired to the seclusion of sweet St . Cloud , to seek a moment ' s escape from the fatal tyranny of his fatalist Star , in the lap of beauty , and in the luxury of loving ; smiles . If the holy stream of human happiness flow for this man too , why , let him slake his fevered lips as if he were not styled Napoleon III . ! The Times attests that change in the character of the French people which our correspondent remarked months ago , and now again records : the sullen , reserved morosencss , we mean , where once you would have found reckless frolic and Vive la bagatelle . ! There was not a spark of enthusiasm in the Parisian crowd last Sunday . The winning beauty of the Empress passed unheeded as the trappings of the imperial equipages , save where curious women smiled in tearful sympathy upon the " very woman" who had dared to win a diadem . Whatever may be the opinion here in England of the French Emperor , certain it is that our countrymen arc treated with especial consideration at the Imperial Court , and we sec the consequence in a letter addressed to our Open Council this week . The writer goes to N 6 tre Dame , chats with the Emperor ' s intimates , and returns an ardent and enthusiastic convert to the great Adventurer ' s cause . Such are the dissolving influences of Notre Dame and the Tuilcries . ' * The Press seems to be slowly recovering some portion of its liberty : by learning to " say everything when saying nothing , " it has proved a more dangerous enemy in the hands of skilful writers , thun the licence of unrestricted publicity .
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VOL . IV . No . 150 . ] SATUKDAY , FEBRUARY 5 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .
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" Tbe 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 barriei-3 erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions or Kengion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—JELumholdt' a Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— pagb Earl St . Germans in Dublin 129 The Moral of the Achilli Case 133 Demetrius the Impostor l # * _ „ . ,, . ¦ , „_ MoreoftheAgapemone 129 The " Nation" on the " Leader" ... 134 The Keligion for Our Age 139 letters from Pans 122 * ^ How to Meet the Peace-Party 134 Magazine Week 140 Continental Notes 123 How One may Live and Diein Eng- ^ ^ ^^ ^ . ^ ^ g ^ Wind-up of the Peace Congress 124 land 1-9 Trade aud Humanity 135 Mr . Cobden ' s Wager Accepted 125 Practical Use of the Spy System ... 129 A Eap for the Spirit-Eappers 135 ' Sir Charles Wood at Halifax 126 Criminal Record .. 129 A ( Hair ) Brush with the Emperor 135 PORTFOLIO Kefonn Meeting at Manchester 126 Miscellaneous 130 . The Sunday at Sydenham 136 The Works of the Old Painters . Meeting of Workmen in Favour of Health of London during the Week 131 Chapa . VI . and VII 141 Opening the Crystal Palace on Births , Marriages , and Deaths 131 OPEN COUNCILSnndays 126 B . RTDr . Newman ' s Sentence 127 A Convert's Opinion of the Emperor 136 mtflKIS Beligious Equality Meeting at Kells 127 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Opening of the French Plays 142 CWnff ^ Vhe in Whitechapei" :::: " m A Warning to Ministers 132 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSHolmflrth Mechanics'Institution ... 128 Mr . Cobden and the Peace Move- Spontaneous Combustion . Two Let- , 7 77 , * Benefits of Co-operation 129 ment , 132 ters to Charles Dickens—No . I .... 137 Markets , Advertisements , &o .... 143-144
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1972/page/1/
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