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•• The 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 barriers erected between rhen by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of KeJagion , Country , and Colour , to treat the -whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development or our spiritual Ti 3 . tXLie . "—Ilumbdldt ? 8 Cosmo * .
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Malmesbury must be thrown overboard , to save the Ministry ; that is the one fact made evident by the events of the v ? eek ; and it is a fact tolerably predetermined , we believe , not only by his political opponents , but of course with more rancour by his political friends . The two scrapes into which he has brought the Cabinet , happening together , thoroughly exposed before the public , transcending the toleration of the two Houses in which they are debated , have settled the matter . The accidents of his position conspire with his own conduct . The personal friendship , for example , of Mr . Scarlett , in Florence , with the Duke
of Casigliano and "the other side" m the " Mather affair , " although a matter for which Lord Malmesbury cannot be deemed responsible , contributes to deepen the colour in which he has already appeared . Lord John Russell has taken advantage of the Mather scandal to use it as a party weapon , and condescending to appeal amongst the grievance tribunes of a Supply night , he makes a grand attack upon the Foreign Administration jn
particular , and upon the Derby Administration in general . In the Mather part of his oration , he had an easy task—the logic , the statesmanship , the style of Lord Malracsbury ' s own composition , simply recited , operated as the wit and sarcasm of the reciter . Mr . Osborne supported Lord John ' s stead y Foot with his light Cavalry j Lord Dudley Stuart dashed in the face of the Commons the painful contrast of American efficiency in defence of American citizens abroad : and Lord
Pttlmerston , giving a broaddr scope to the debate , recorde d a warning that the immediate question , involvin g the nominal independence of small states like Tuscany , virtually under the protection of larger states like Austria , must necessarily be handled at no distant clay . The fact of the case made out on the side of the Opposition , was to exhibit the Ministry ' as vulgar and inefficient , to
make Englishmen vexed and ashamed with their ° wn position abroad , and to prepare the mind for troub lous times , when real energy will be needed . The retorts of Mr . Disraeli and Lord Stanley * the inefficiencies of the past Government , were not without effect as mere debate return blows j but they were more than compensated by the ludicrous irrelevancy of Lord Granby ' a episodical thesis on Protection . Lord Malmesbury stands confessed in the matter [ Country Edition . ]
of the convention with France , as incapable of proceeding with his own plan , or of understanding his own case . On Tuesday , last week , his bill was first explained in its real nature to the Lords ; under the pressure of objections made by Law Lords , and experienced statesmen , in spite of his defences and excuses , he found it necessary to change his position , and to advance sweeping amendments on the Friday . On . the Monday , he
comes before the House , confessing that his previous assurances were based on a mistake , asking leave to withdraw his bill altogether , " for . the present , " and begging that there might be " discussion" on the subject . The House permitted him to withdraw the bill without discussing it , and he left the debate as a trespasser leaves the presence of men before whom he has made a full confession after detection .
Mr . Anstey endeavoured to bring before the House of Commons the case of the British Missionaries in Hungary , seized by Austria ; but he did not possess sufficient hold of the House to command its attention . The House was counted out . In connexion with these eccentricities in our foreign administration , the public will note with some anxiety the announcement in the Morning Herald , — " We understand that the Government have taken means to prevent , by our naval power , any efforts that may be attempted by American
adventurers against the Virgin Islands . " The announcement is as ugly in its political aspect , ns it is in its literary composition , and we hope as incorrect . To prevent efforts that may be attempted by adventurers , is not a very intelligible process j but the exercise of naval power against Americans is a process which Eng lishmen aught not to trust to the Malmesbury Cabinet . Americans will , at all events , bear in mind the distinction which we have so often repeated to them—that Downing-street is not England . South
The presentation of a petition from New Wales , calling her Majesty " a trustee of the public lands , " and challenging British right to tax the colony , is an historical event . It calls Boston to mind . Most successful in mischief , Lord Derby has succeeded in spoiling Lord John ' s Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill , by preventing inquiry , except upon a joint address from both Houses . The bill was not of the best quality , but it is now simply worthless .
Mr . Spooner has suffered hia Maynooth motion to bo bandied about by adjournments , speaking *
against time , divisions on collateral subjects , readjournments , and delays of every kind , until , at last , to -confess the truth , unless we were to search the journals of the House , we could not tell exactly what has become of it in technical sense : practically and avowedly he has given it up " for the session , " that is for ever , as far as he is concerned , There is some movement in election affairs , still ,
however , without any material change . The prevalent peculiarity is an overplus of liberal candidates in all quarters . Here and there we see a coalition of the two great parties in the State , who are keeping up the farce of contest in St . Stephen ' s the better to secure their reciprocal alternation in office . In Leicester , for example , Whig and Tory are conspiring against the Radicals , Sir Joshua
Walmsleyand Richard Gardner . Sir Joshua may not go so far in social reform as we of The Leader $ but he has manfully stood his ground in an expression of Radical policy commanding the largest public assent , and a town like Leicester is bound not to see itself thwarted in securing a representative of its own views , by the combinations of men alien to its real feelings .
A negative step has been made this week in the Jew question . Mr . Salomons , after a technical defeat , has obtained a substantial victory . After a verdict in a former action pronouncing him liable to penalties for voting in the House of Commons without having taken the abjuration oath , a new trial , in the Court of Exchequer , to enforce penalties , is defeated by the loose manner in which the informer brought his evidence before the Court . Upholding the letter of the law strictly , in the penal case , according to the true constitutional spirit of the law , Lord Chief Baron Pollock mainly influenced to that result .
The fete of the Cork Exhibition , extremely agreeable and c reditable to the City of the West , has been usefully signalized by the emphatic approbation which the Lord Lieutenant bestowed upon the Queen ' s college . He visited it in person , and expressed his approval in plain English , beyond all mistake . The " godless" college
indeed supplies , in its broad and liberal education , the most powerful , as it is the most inoffensive antagonism to Maynooth ; and it is important that its practical merits should have received this public and official recognition from the Irish representative of " the last of the Conservative Cabinets . "
The French ruler pretends to arrest a financial crisis by taxes on horses , dogs , and paper j whilst ho refuses to reduce a devouring army , and incites
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061852/page/1/
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