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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Htttaanity— 'the noble endeavour to throw down ali 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 . "—HumboUtrs Cosmos ,
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VOL . VII . No . 317 ] SATUBDAY , APRIL i& 1856 . Price tSgSiJ ^ rilgS ?^ ' .
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ceeds . Sir John Young , when he wds Secretary for Irelatid , attempted to amend this real grievance by exempting . houses under ^ 10 > which form only one-fifth part of the number , arid letting the municipality collect ] the tax . The municipalities decline , and theie is a deadlock ; yet the hottest House of Commons refuses to discontinue this impost , although it has voted for discontinuing the Maynooth grant . . ¦ > ,
rpHE Conference is closed ; according ' to report , - * - next to nothing has been done with respect to Italy ; a majority of the British Commons has affirmed the first reading of a bill for dispossessing Maynooth ; a majority of the same respectable House , leaving a minority of less than forty members / has refused to assemble for the purpose of discussing Sir Joshua ¥ almsley ' s practical measures for extending the suffrage and improving
pay for it . A very small proportion of the public money has been allowed to Maynooth annually . Now , why was Maynooth established at all ? Because previously the priests sought their education at St . Gmer , at Ronie , or in other places on the continent—and it was thought better for English policy , since they must be educated , that it should be in their own country . The results have been somewhat more to nationalise the priesthood of Ireland , and somewhat perhaps to diminish the
scale of their at . t . ainmpnts ar » £ » of their social cultivation . Having enticed the priests home , it is now proposed to abolish the College , to retract the only portion of the monej g ' wen back to the Papists who pay so much for Protestant churches , and to mingle injustice with bad faith . Sir Robert Peel converted the annual grant into a permanent endowment for two reasons—partly to remove
every excuse for not rendering the College more respectable in its management ; and partly to prevent the annual bickering over the sectarian question . Mr . Spoonkr proposes to upset this arrangement , and the House affirmed his proposition by three strong divisions—for going into committee— stopping in committee and bringing in his Bill— the last by 159 to 142 . But all the considerations which we have
mentioned -were nothing- to the point with the House of . Commons : the reasons to persuade them were different . Some of the members had got tlicir sents on the promise of voting against Maynooth and their consciences ; others were going to the Opera that evening , having no care for reconcilement between the
different creeds of the population ; others stopped away in order that the responsible Government might be involved in the defeat consequent on Spoon er ' s success . It is on petty grounds such as thesio that our respectable ) House of Commons decides moat important public questions : it lends . itself in turn to the public men tlwt use it .
The subject of Ministers' money came next . What ia this ? It is an impost on the householders of eight or nine Irish towns , Dublin included , for the maintenance of Protestant churches , principally of tlie Establishment , though in the north un-estnblialiod Protestant churches share the
prothe electoral body ; the City is organising a vigorous opposition to the bill for " reforming" it ; and while the world is thus going on , military officers are exposing each other and our military system before the Crimean Commissioners at Chelsea Hospital ; and Convocation is talking about the rotten parts in our Church system , just loud enough to be overheard , and feebly enough to settle nothing .
The members of the House of Commons , or the major part thereof , so far defer to necessity as to make speeches at elections and canvass the electors ; but they have so little unity of feeling with the people , that they have no care whatever to fulfil the general wish . They do not desire to give the great body of the population any share in the electoral franchise ; they are so totally indifferent , that they will not muster for the purpose of debating the subject ; and yet the House is become so impotent for any useful purpose that it can be swayed about by the very men that it despises .
The events of the week fully justify this expression . AH the questions that have been brought before the House have been settled by individuals , and the vote has been passed on personal or party calculations , not at all upon the public < interests . The very subject ; of the franchise was one case ; Maynooth was another . What was the
question at issue here ? The public in Ireland is taxed , as it is in this country , for the maintenance of religious establishments j it is however there , as it is not here , taxed for the maintenance of establishments which do not represent : tfoe religious feelings of the country . Ireland maintains a Pro - testant Church , and the Roman Catholics have to
The exposure at Chelsea Hospital is indeed characteristic of the country * A board of General officers and other distinguished persons sit as judges . They scarcely know how to conduct the inquiry . The Judge Advocate-Generala a most amiable gentleman , much esteemed , allows the conduct of the scrutiny to escape from his hands ; and the judicial inquiry has sunk to protracted altercation between the witnesses . In the course of this altercation , the most extraordinary facts come out . Lord Luc an , the chief officer of
cavalry , permitted horses to perish at the rate" of sixty-eight per cent , j he brings forward his Swn witnesses to show that he used all possible assiduity ; they do prove that he flustered himself , not that he did anything for the salvation of the horses . One gentleman he finds to give him a testimony on every conceivable point ; and , if Court favour should make the high-born Lord Lucan Commander-in Chief , does not everybody know where deserving Richabd Airky will be ? While this drama is going on , idlers of all classes loiter about
the Court ; and ladies who attend daily , sit doing their crochet work , in order " not to be idle . " .,, , The plot thickens ; still more interesting and critical debates arc coming on—? p 6 tably »; Mr . Whites id hj ' s motion on the siege -fat- Kara j ; and the officials begin to talk of " dissolution . ** But what can they dissolve about—upon what can they
" tto to" the country ? .. r • ir If the people had any TQ ^ f ^ tJjDWM ^^ Sithw should now support him in <^ c ^^^^^ w ^ W ? j ^ a complete account of the P ^ MP ^^ BBpf ference . Wo know that t ^^ 'llfi ^ j ^ e ^;^ Pr . o ?« fting ; we want to know what Ii 4 ^!! i ^)^| t ^ i ^| dsf ^ h ^ t suppressed ; how our 6 w ^ ' t 5 wl ^ Wp |^^^] &ja with reference , to th ^ o ^ efljgj ? ^? mMj (^^^ pt that the Plenipotentiaries o ^ . l ^ j ^^ j ^ fi ^^;^ -
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- pao » . -.., „ . Continental Notes 3 G 7 Steam Communication with Aus- The Whole Argument against the Imperial Parliament 362 Oar Civilisation 357 tralia ... * ... 372 " Sabbatarians ... ; . &T 8 Convocation 364 State of Trade . 368 A Little Currency Question 373 New Editions 3 . 78 Arbitration of Disputes between Naval and Military News ,... 368 Mr . Lowe ' s New Hill ... 373 Latter-day Poetry .... £ 79 Masters and Workmen 364 Miscellaneous 369 Proposed Reform of the Judicial Public Meetings 364 Postscript .. 3 S 9 Establishments of India .. 373 THE ARTS—£ » ££ - '" li * * "V * VV *" - ? tt LITERATURE— The Italian Opera in its New Home 3 & 1 The Crimean Board of Inquiry 365 djjdi ir » afcaidc * uixurtiuat K _ . The True Romance of Rookwood ... 366 f UBLIU « rr AIKS- Summary .... ... 375 TheGaa ^ fca w > Ireland 366 The Nightmare 370 Who Wrote th « Waverley Novels ? 375 «~ . « „ 5 ? - *"" 1 " " "" The Orient 366 The Sardinian Memorial S 70 Ty pica : ! Forms . 37 S COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAmerica ,.. 366 The City Fueros .. 371 Omar Fiicha ' d Campaign .... 377 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 381
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2137/page/1/
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