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" The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour 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 oiie brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— * AGB The Deposit and General Life Aa- A Screw 1089 Whewell on Fundamental Ideas ... 1091 The Parliament of the Week 1078 suranee Company 10 S 4 Seats to See the Show 10 S 9 A Batch of New Books 1095 Deathof Daniel Webster 1079 Miscellaneous 1085 The War of Ideas 1090 Books on our Table 1 ° Cuba and the United States 10 S 0 Health of London during the Week 1085 Letters from Paris 1080 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1085 OPEN COUNCIL— PORTFOLIOContinental Notes 1081 _ ,, _ , . ,. „ , „ , „ .... , Shards and Pebbles 1 O 0 O KossuthandMazziniinStore-street 1082 POSTSCRIPT 10 SG The Eelafaon of Women to Political I T ho Haunted Shore 1090 C D iTSS ; " EObert B 1 Um" - Zl PUBLIC AFFA . RS- T ^^^^ c ^ a ^ Bese . \ THE ARTSMr . Humeon Direct ' and'indir ' eci Daniel Webster 10 S 7 oration of the Sabbath 1 O 91 Anne Blake 109 G Taxation 1083 England ' s Value 1087 Franee-the Empire 1093 Jullien ' s Concerts 1097 Earthquake at Liverpool 1083 French and Austrian Occupation of iiTrB » Ti . i > r ! ^«««» -i- r , ^ i «¦ Ar-r- « . r . r > Cure of Asiatic Cholera in its Worst Italy 1038 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSStage by Cold Water 1084 The Socialist at the Diggings 1088 Gorgei ' s Life and Acts in Hungary 1093 | Markets , Advertisements , & c . 1098—1100
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THE expectation which awaited the Queen ' s speech has been disappointed , for it is some proof of the popular faith in Disraeli , that he was expected to throw the fire of genius into that formal document . But it is of the old stamp . An expression of regret at the irreparable loss sustained by the country in the death of Arthur , Duke of Wellington , a little crowing over the success of the militia , the usual assurances from all Foreign Powers , a hope that the Fishery question with the United States may ultimately be settled in a beneficial manner , the opening of the
Argentine rivers , suspension of the stringent measures , against Brazil , abolition of the Portuguese discriminating export duty on wine , renewal of the East India enquiry , a comprehensive scheme for the advancement of Fine Arts and Practical Science , the prosperity of the country , the consideration of measures for mitigating the injurious effects of "" restricted competition , a liberal and generous policy towards Ireland , the inquiry into capitular "istitutions , Universit y Reform with concurrence 01 the universit y or colleges , possible discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen ' Land ,
1-jftlV lwt 4 Vti < vw . _ T tc . 1 it * a' il . ^ wv Reform , and " other measures affecting the social condition of the country "—these are the su ggestive topics of the speech . The ltoyal programme of the session chalks out a good deal of 1 c ; but so much more depends upon the measures t hemselves than upon the mere promise of . ^ » » that the speech cannot be accepted as any '"• lioation whatever , even of the desire to deal l \ thincs about which it talks
. ino ^ ( 1 < H ' S tlU : first nigllt > s *^ bate throw much ti " u I the specific questions . Piotec-Alr ' N K 1 VCU " ° a 11 Si < ltVS ; Mr- Christopher and ' j . ' , degutu only making thc reservation , hn-1 «¦• in tins proposal to defer action on that "Umonf 1 ) /• ¦ the s Kel « r » ' «« g to the free-trade paragraph in in f-l ^ i * * ' ^'' ^* srnt ! n I'Xplained its only mcanniv 7 T Ut tll ( ' nt ! w « o «» nereial policy is recogftUl
Pri i ( uecc I ) t 0 ( l l » y Government , as the Mr n | ° 7 "" restricted competition . " Still Wu \ r " l lleS ^ illiers lull ><>« i « : « s a motion , explicitly mid ? WU tlle fl > c « -tnwle test for the present Afr . ' ! ' Governments . The subject of curiosity , it is lMr »« li ' B plan , is deferred for a fortnight : rutli «» !! " (> IUry out " free-trade—»<> announced " ^ reatcningly . ^ OUNTHY EDI 1 J 0 W . 1
Convocation is the bugbear of the week , and the Low Church have honestly tried to tag on to it the Confessional . But it w ^ 't do . The two things are as little inseparable as LordShaftesbury and Statesmanship . But the Low Church party have added to the elements of discord and dissolution two very strong dissolvents : the Archbishop of Canterbury has said , appeal to " public opinion " to settle our differences—at least , to relieve me of this horrid convocation . And Lord Shaftesbury shouts out the cry , and makes it the alarum of a fierce agitation . At the same meeting , Canon Stowell proposes the " popular election " of Bishops . Democratic churchmanship with a vengeance ! It may be doubted whether Bishops reduced to " popular election" would even be able to keep apostolical gigs . Popular notions of the successors of the Apostles are so very primitive . A caution to beneficed dissenters . ' The continued preparations for the Umpire , while they show an affectation of independent judgment on the part of thc senators , show also how completely their master has them under command for purposes essentially his own . They demurred to fixing the succession in the heirs of Jerome Bonaparte , but they have left the matter of succession to Louis Napoleon himself . The vote of M . Viellard , Louis Napoleon ' s old tutor , against the establishment of the Empire , offers a well-arranged occasion for the display of Imperial magnanimity to vernerable austerity ; but tin ; Emperor elect is taking measures to settle the question of succession in the most direct manner . An apartment for the Empress is in preparation at the Tuilcries ; the room and the title , however , being all that is as yet realized of jthes august spouse . Petty vexations miiy disturb the plans of the adventurer ; an angry uncle , a pedantic adviser , an indiscreet prefect , may cause him trouble ; but the watchfulness of bis eye never fuils—the whip-band is always quietly at its work , and every corner in the race i . s neatly turned . Every obstacle that he pleases to convert into a facility , lends itself to his service : the clergy have become bis canvassing officers , the Senate fall in with bis desire to have the SenatCis Consultuni presented to him on the seventh of November , anniversary of the lHth Hrumaire . The rock ahead at present , is the doubt whether the people , the seven millions , will again vote "Aye "; a doubt suggested by the faet that the whole body of Legitimists resolve to abstain from voting . Uut
what does that matter ? If any of the seven millions indulge the caprice of withholding their signatures , what more easy than for prefects , mayors , and other functionaries , to count up the absentees , on the principle that silence gives consent ? It will be as easy to compile the seven , millions as before . Louis Napoleon is not likely to encounter any present difficulty . King of
Algiers , bis uncle will he viceroy over that province ; Protector of the Holy Places , bis protege' , Abd-el-Kadcr , will he posted in the centre of Asiatic Turkey ; and if the intrigues in Piedmont and Naples , with the garrison in Konie , work well , even the coveted title of King of Rome may grace the unborn bead of Napoleon the Fourth The first trouble that : mv Francis Moore can
foresec for the Emperor , must be impatience or division in his army . Even Belgium has yielded , King Leopold and all : the mouth of the nation is to be bitted ; printed or pictorial animadversions on foreign potentates will subject the satirist or selfappointed censor to two years' imprisonment ; and Belgian juries , hitherto stubborn , are to be driven to a judicious verdict . The keener nir of constitutional freedom must not visit the
face of despotism too roughly . Holland is avenged . The policy of 1830 in Belgium , as in France , annulled . There remains nothing of that memorable year but a nursery , somewhat dangerously situated , for amiable princes of the prolific bouse of Coburg . The American mail has not yet brought us the account of the election . Political activity had been in some degree cheeked , out of respect to Daniel Webster , whose death had somewhat
suddenly closed bis career . This latal termination to bis illness contributes to explain that want of elHcieney in public affairs which bad quite recently been noticed . His loss , however , is deplored by all , without distinction of party . The unbidden croud of mourners at his funeral , the , spontaneous sincerity of the ceremony , the strewing of flowers on the bier , and the unpretending interment on his
own estate , contrast somewhat favourably with the too long-deferred and not unstudied woe which is to follow Wellington to the tomb . Webster died on the 2-lth of October , is buried with a truly national funeral , and the reports have crossed the Atlantic , while our own Wellington died on September thu Mth , and while the heralds , upholsterers , and carpenters are busied preparing for the military ahovr
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/1/
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