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T ) ERHAPS the most important piece of progress _ L which Government has made this week , consists in the Pilotage Bill , introduced by Mr . Cardwell , to do away with many inconveniences which now obstruct the proceedings of the shipowner . This appears to be a more deliberate and complete step in the same direction , than Mr . Disraeli ' s promises with regard to Pilotage . Mr . Wilson ' s proposal for an inquiry into Assurance Associations , is in part justified by the grounds
which he stated , —the number of projects , and the failure of several . But he scarcely concealed the fact , that he was animated by something more than distrust of the old companies , and almost a desire to " expose" the younger . Of course , the inotives of the joint secretary to the Treasury are inscrutable , but it is well known that the old companies entertain great jealousy of the custom obtained by the new .
Notwithstanding Sir Frederick Thesiger and the Tory saint interest , Lord John Russell succeeded in carrying the second reading of his Jew Relief Bill last night , by 263 to 212 . Although the subject is almost as stale as the weather , it was a spirited debate . Rougher times would be a Godsend to our men in political life , for truly there is stuff in some of them , if a life at the library fire did not let it smoulder so much like death .
Some other changes which private Members have attempted to force on Government have met with only partial success . Mr . Craufurd ' s attempt to abolish tlie County Courts in Scotland , and to assimilate the administration of the law to what , with some very cumbrous exceptions , it is in practice , has been referred to a select committee , Government showing no countenance . They deserve more credit for their resistance to Lord Clancarty ' s attempt at invading the system of National education in Ireland . The system
was assailed by the Bishop of London and Lord Harrowby ; it waa defended by Lord Aberdeen , Lord Derby , the Bishop of Limerick , the Bishop of Norwich , and Lord Lansdownc ; all of itn champions being closely connected with Ireland , except Lord Aberdeen . The system , indeed , works admirably , and has already told upon the conduct , and therefore upon the condition , of the Irish people . Its very success , however , is a grievance to those who insist that * ' education without religion" cannot succeed .
The election committees have made havoc with seats , and havoc also with the reputations of some candidates . Amongst the members unseated have been Sir Frederic Smith for Chatham , where , as an official , he had received votes under expectation of patronage . Mr . Clay , and Lord Goderich for Hull , —where their agents had bribed without their privity j Mr . Horsfall for Derby—where " W . B . " had sent Mr . Flewlcer ; and Mr . Mackinnon for Rye , — where there were festivities
going on , well understood to the local managers , not to Mr . Mackinnon . The writs for Chatham and Hull are suspended , and Lord John has intimated a proposition that where the general conduct of a constituency comes substantively into question , there shall be a separate committee , besides the Election Committee , to inquire into the course of action which ought to be adopted . Perhaps the most remarkable result of these inquiries is the amount of disgust which
they have excited ; and their influence m promoting a remedy may be proportionately beneficial . The Times does not conceal " that they lead straight to the ballot , and Heaven knows what besides , " meaning , we presume , very extended suffrage , if not a national suffrage- It is quite clear that the present electors are paid electors ; that they have no judgment in the selection of Members ; and that the House of Commons , or a considerable part thereof , is not elected by the
people , or by the constituency , or by any recognised body . It is said that petitions against Members , although issued in a more wholesale way this y ear than usual , have been by no means levelled at all the doubtful seats ; but perhaps it would not be a bad plan to apply the principle to the " Railway Director , " who suggested to the Times that the guard of a train should not presume safety , and wait for a signal of danger , but that he should not go forward untij he received a signal of safety . It would not be a bad plan to
presume corruption in the case of every member , and by presenting a petition against every seat , to put the member upon proof of purity . Sad work might he made with the first House of Commons subjected to such a process ; but if it is necessary to protect any one , it seems to be the Member , and those who desire to bo elected only once for a session , instead of having to get in a second or even a third time ; we may begin to perceive that with the ballot and u national suffrage , Members will have a chance not only of getting in , but of staying in .
Indian justice received important accessions in both Houses last night . John Bright , Disraeli , Ellenborough , Cobden , Derby , Hume , were not all who joined in the demand for a reconsideration of the Government resolve to legislate permanently ; several of the best of the younger Members amongst the Liberals—such as J . B . Blackett , R . Phillimore , and Danby Seymour —came out independently on the same side . Government has not yet heard the last of this matter .
Lord Malmesbury has raised , m very threatening manner , a question in the House of Lords , — Whether or not Mazzini had been suffered to embark in the English frigate Retribution ? Lord Aberdeen replied , that he had received no information , replying in a tone that seemed to say that he was glad not to enter further upon the subject . Official " England" would give a great deal to save the author of all the misery in Italy , the Emperor who orders the executions of
innocent men , and the flogging of women ; but she hesitates to afford protection to a fugitive patriot . We do not know in what manner the British navy could be better employed . The frigate Retribution is called " H . M . S . "; but we all know that the three letters are only a form . The navy belongs to the Nation . The Queen and her ministers are , after all , but public servants ; and if the nation approves of the escape afforded to Mazzini , there is no reason why the
public servants should be ashamed of their work . If the British people were ashamed of seeing their ships employed thus , in bearing fugitive patriots to a place of safety , the duty would fall to other hands . An American frigate and corvette are on the shores of Italy , and would save the fugitives , if England declined to do so . But although England would be willing to share that pious work with America , we do not think she is as yet sunk so low us to desire to surrender it altogether .
Austria manages to make progress in tyranny , even on Italian grounds , where we might suppose her to have arrived at the end of her tether . The forced levies of money upon Milan have been followed by the wholesale confiscations of property belonging to any persons who remain beyond the boundary ; a measure which sweeps into the exchequer the property of Lombard noblemen in Piedmont . More persons have undergone capital punishment , and " justice" has been satisfied by the castigation , amongst others , of a young girl Anna Celzera , aged tweaty-two years , who has tP
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VOL . IV . No . 155 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 12 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK Miscellaneous 250 The Detenus of Louis Napoleon 254 LITERATURETAGB Health of London during the Week 251 " A Stranger" in Parliament 255 Scrap Literature 259 The Week in Parliament 242 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 251 Beport of the Oxford University The Plaint of Freedom 260 letters from Paris 245 Commission . Ill .... 256 A Batch of New Books 261 Continental Notes 246 puBUC AFFAIRS- ^ t ^ Zi ^ oL V $ " 7 % PORTFOL . OP 2 T m ! I 1 ™^^ ' 247 Shall England Expel the Refugee Church Harmony in France . „ 257 The Rappites Exposed 261 The Milan Insurrection 247 Patriots ? 252 Unstamped Newspapers 257 The Wellington Monument in „ Patriots / ma e v x THE ARTS—, f „ . „ Proposed Partition of Turkey 252 ^« - » . i -ahu / mi „ . . , m , o ~> Somersetshire 248 More Chapters from the Genesis of OPEN COUNCIL- Gossip about the Theatres 263 Yankee Challenge 249 Parliament 253 The Recent Cowper-street Discus- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Ship Ericsson 250 Interdependence of Trades 253 sion . .......... ^ o » , Progress of Railway « Accidents" ... 250 The Church and the Emperor 254 Unsectarian Support of the Madia * 251 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Imperial Policy in Detail 250 Colonial and Oceanic Postage 254 The Sunday Reform Movement ...... 251 tisements , &c 263-Zb 4
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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble ipndeavour to throw down all the Barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tha distinctions oi ttengion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' t Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1977/page/1/
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