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REVIEW OF THE WEEK. —n—.
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Her Majesty has gone thro' the ceremonial by virtue of wMbh she opens the sittings of the legislative bodies by a speech . Eoval speeches are proverbiall y unmeaning affairs / the object beimTo conrse , to say as little as possible , so that Ihe opposition Tay ' no prepare hen ; plans with reference to the tactics intended to be adopted by the government . This particular speech does not disgrace its predecessors in that respect . It contains all the old for-APS ^ X ° * "V E ^ hman ought te be
thoroughly ashamed ; and gratitude for homeopathic benefits . There are , however , three paragraphs in the composition which excite more than ordinaryremark One bears the mark of the literary tendencies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , announcing as it does , that steps are to be taken to forward the advance of art and practical science . The second relates to Ireland , and shows the disposition to deal firmly , if not severely , with the priestly party there . While it recommends in an undertone as it were , that the Sister Isle should be dealt with in a snirit . nf liWaKf ™ ii w ™!™ * i . » „ x- r be dealt with in a spirit of liberalitit bespeaks the of
,, , y , co-operation the legislature to put down turbulence and discontent . This part of the speech declares open war with the nominees of the Roman Catholic hierarchy , and will , ensure for the Cabinet their determined opposition . Perhaps , however , that was already decided upon , so that the tone of the speech may matter very little . The third noticeable paragraph is that , respecting winch there has been so much of curiosity , and respecting which there have been so many prognostications and speculations . It relates to Free Trade , and is to say the best of it exceedingly ambiguous . It does not express any opinion as to whether Free Trade is beneficial or injurious . It leaves that as
an open qnestion—protectionists are still at liberty to make good their case if they can , and Pree Traders to make good their footing . If the battle had not been already lost and won beyond the possibility of reversal , it might be fought over again . The paragraph begins by admitting the prosperity of the people , an admission which the people themselves would not be so ready to make , and then goes on to say that "if" the legislature should be of opinion that that is owing to Jree Trade and other causes , and if they find that the great fiscal change has inflicted great injury upon the agriculturists , it is hoped they will find some means of getting aid of the evil while they preserve the benefits .
Here is , so far as English policy goes , the commencement of the debate of the session . There is a wonderous virtue in an " if , " and the "if" of the paragraph will be quite sufficient to wake the ready ire of the Manchester men . If our present position is owing to Free Trade indeed , who doubts it ? Mr . Cobden will say . The answer lays in the three words " and other causes" and a
powerful answer they open up , if handled by so acute a logician as Mr . Disraeli . When Cobden inquires to what you do attribute the decreased pauperism % The reply -will be to more general employment . To what is that more general employment by the higher wages which prevail to be ascribed ? The response may be to fewer labourers , in consequence of emigration and consequent diminution of competition for work . But , then what is to be said to increased
exports ? Answer fresh markets opened up in California and Australia . If Mi * . Disraeli were to take that ground , it would be difficult to apportion what is due to Free Trade alone , and what to the operation of other causes , but it is uncertain what course Mr . Disraeli has marked oat for himself , and it is hinted , that if the protectionists will demand protection , they may get it for themselves without his assistance .
It is certain that there have been grave dissensions in the Cabinet , the thicker-headed portion of the Tories opposing Disraeli , and the most intelligent seconding him but luke-warmly . These are said to have gone so far , that the Editor of a morning paper vouches for the following little bit of political romance . Not many days ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer consulted one of the principal personages connected with the Times newspaper , as to the amount of support he ( Disraeli ) might expect , if he made a bold move and threw off the aristocratic dunderheads , by whom he is surrounded altogether . What the magnate of the Times said we are not
informed ^ but it may be inferred from the fact that a leader appeared in that paper exalting the intelligence of Disraeli , and deprecating the ability of his colleagues—the great danger of a split is evident to all who think . The tenth transmitters of foolish faces cannot bear their conscious inferiority to the descendant of the Jew , and he , with all the pride of intellect , is not willing tamely to submit to the illsuppressed scorn and the covert insults of those whom he knows are as men beneath him . Such a union is as little likely to be happy as that of January and May , and the probable result is expressed in the scriptural words " a honse divided against itself cannot stand . "
Pending the preparations for the funeral of the Duke , the details of which are too well known to be reported , there are some reports worthy of notice , as indicating the position our Government is prepared to take as regards continental powers , and the temper some of those powers are likely to display towards us , when the opportunity serves . We are told that the flags which commemorate the victories of the duke , are to be removed from Chelsea Hospital , for fear that their exhibition should offend foreigners . If this were prompted by the motives which actuate the Peace Society , we could understand and appreciate it ; but as Her Majesty ' s ministers are not prepared to job Messrs . Fry & Co ., we can only ascribe it to downright cow-
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ardice or to a desire to conciliate the French homicide , equally disgraceful . If there be fear of an invasion , the better' way would be to say so at once , and be prepared for it . If , on the other hand , we are to be called on to show consideration for'the usurper , who has shewn none for others , the announcement of the fact would : be desirable ; and if that did not cause Englishmen to . rouse themselves from their degradation , we do not know what woulo § It is announced that the Austrian officers evince an unconquerable repugnance to shew their uniforms in London , and that no representative of Austria will assist at the obsequies . This is attributed by the Times to the remembrance of a drubbing Haynau got from the draymen . More
likely the truth is , the hate they bear to even the semblance of freedom , and which leads them to cut down defenceless , Englishmen in the street , will not allow them to have a share in the-ceremony . Whichever is the truth ,, we can well bear to see the remains of the departed warrior borne to the grave , without the uniform-of ; the tyrant mingling in the train . Spain has imitated the Austrian example . Three of the officers of her army' to whom the ; mission was offered refused it ; and at last it was deputed to the ; Duke ; d'Ossuna , who being in London , cannot well refuse the office . We need not point out the estimation in which England'is ' held abroad , when a fallen power like Spain , feels bold enough to offer such an insult .
The church is fairly astir , and there are symptoms of a pretty squabble . Covocation for the provinces of Canterbury and York have met . In the Canterbury assembly , the Commissioner of .. the Primate was uncompromisingly firm . He would ,. allow nothing to . be done . He would hear nothing . This assembling was , a mere matter of favor ; there was no authority for them todo ^ business , and -no business should be done . The Puseyite archdeacons and rectors , and vicars , who had come loaded and provided with-aU sorts of arguments for synodieal action , were completely " shut , up , " and . there was an end of the matter . The reverend-gentlemaniAvho-presided ' for his
grace of York , was not so immovable , oblivious of the fact . that all the danger of an action lies in the beginning , he allowed some of the provincial clergy to read petitions for a working convocation . The favoured gentlemen illustrated the saying , that . ' "; ifuyouqgive some folks an inch they will take an ell . " They wanted ito ' . found a motion upon their petitions . This the Commissioner resisted ; they in tiini protested , and the meeting was adjourned for a few , days , when if the persons concerned were not clergymen , we should sayHhere ' would be a row ; % ? ancleven as it is , their " sacred" character ; notwithstanding ; that isrvery likely the pioper term for what is coming . ^! ' / ' . V , " "
In ihe meantime the stream is moving in another ' quarter . The kityv with some of the clergy to back them , have held , a meeting at Freemason ' s Hall , the Earl oi Shaftesbury in the Chair . Here convocation was reprobated , and the practice of . confession . deprecated . The Bishop of Exeter , as might be expected ; came , in rf 6 i '; Ms share of opprobrium . Mr . Prynne was put on a level with the ' t literature of Holywell-street , and the puseyites generally ^ t | eat < ed yepy unceremomoniously . The hardest hit , however , was ohe ^ ainied % y . SirH . Vert / , . ¦ . * * i" ' . ¦ ¦¦ \ '• i ¦ " ¦ ' 1
ney . He said that there were abuses in the . church ^ abuses' not to be reformed by an assembly of ecclesiastics , but wliich ; laymen must put their hands to . The revenues of the church must be better applied , also a searching inquiry made into Cathedral trusts and Cathedral Schools . The spirit of Mr . Whiston is beginning to move even among churchmen , and if the puseyite efforts have the effect ' of rousing , them up to see right done , we may have to thank Harry of Exeter , and his colleagues , for involuntarily causing a great good . . . ^
The deputation on behalf of the Madiais , headed by Lord Roden , have returned . The Duke would , neither jeceive theii' petition nor grant them an interview . They had no right to question the laws of the state , or interfere between him and his subjects . He might extend his mercy to the " culprits , " but that-was his affair , not theirs . The utmost they could gain was permission to visit the convicts ; and we are promised the details of the interview . ;\ Lord Cavan , who was at the anti-convocation , intimated some hopes thatthe' sentence would be remitted * What those hopes rested upon we . have , yet to learn , equally so to understand the grounds ' . upon which Iiordllbden feels the " respect" which he expressesfer the Ducal tyrant— a sentiment we will venture to say is not shared with him by any honest and real
friend of liberty . . ';•• As a commentary upon the peaceful professions contained in the Queen ' s Speech , some fifty thousund militiamen are being taught how to handle their muskets , and as a further symptom of confidence , in the good-will of Louis Napoleon , General Napier , our best living general , is appointed to the post of danger ,: the leadership of the men of Kent
Mr . Lueas , the advocate of Tuscan despotism , whose heartlesssness raised a shout of execration even among the better-disposed of his allies , has published a long letter to Sergt . Shee , for the purpose of convincing that learned gentleman that the difference between them is only apparent . He tells the . Sergeant . that he was mistaken in supposing the conviction of the Madias to rest upou reading the Bible only . Their real offence was proselytizing . He feels certain ¦
that the learned Sergeant will allow they ought to -be ; punished for that heinous crime . We are . curious to see what Mr . Sliee will say in reply . It he does agree -with Lucas , we shall say , " sad that such difference should be 'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee . " Mr . Lucas , however notwithstanding ; it is certain that' in . Tuscany and throughout Italy people are imprisoned for reading the Bible , without adding to that wickedness the crime of proselytizing , and . Lord Cavan , in his Freemason ' s Tavern speech , broadly stated the fact . _
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The democratic event of the week is the meeting ; of the Friends of Italy , at the Music Hall , Store-street , on Wednesday night . Mazzini and Kossuth were there , and spoke , though they could hardly be said to have made speeches . Mazzini struck the key-note , and Kossutli followed it . Their grief was too deep for words—too burning for tear ? . They felt ; that while tyranny everywhere dyes its hands in the blood of the-sons of freedom , while Hungary is crushed beneath the heel of Austria , and the blood of the bravest of Italy ' s
children spouts forth in answer to the musket shots of the barbarous 'Croats , they have something else to do than to make speeches . That it is the time for efforts not for perorations . It is time we thought asKossuth and Mazzini think , as some of the best among us-begin to think with them , that the time for talk has gone by , and the time for deeds more than begun .- That with blood-thirsty tyrants , who have neither hearts nor consciences , supplications for mercy are useless the utterances of contempt and indignation ineffectual , nothing but the sword will prevail . ., .
Since our last the intelligence has reached this country of the death ^ of Daniel Webster , themost powerful and influential of the American statesmen . . In unother column we give sucli particulars as are within our reach , of the life and lastmoments of the man who played so important and prominent a part on the stage of life . Till very ' lately his policy , considered from an American point of view , was the perfection of diplomacy , and we would fain believe that his recent mistakes , upon which we have had occasion to comment with SQme . severity , were , but the , signs of the failing of that vast intellect which the hand of death has removed from the world . . It is a
curious coincidence that England and America are at nearly the same mpment ' performing thejuneral rites' of two men who have done so muclvtp mould , the . pas ' tand to influence the future . , The intelligence , from the CapeJeaves the . Caffre war just : where it was—unfinished . ¦ Report says that the . Commander-in-Chief returned from his " triumphant" expedition beyond the Kei , because
the want of provisions would not allow him to . stay any longer , riot because he had-completed his work . Another ugly , feature which appears is that the jingoes , like , the . Hottentots , are not trustworthy , They have been ; supplying the JCaffres with arms and ammunition . Anumber of'them are in prison on the charge , and it is believed that many . more ' will be apprehended , If there should bean open defection , the . whites will be left to . fight their own battle single-handed .
¦ The . diesis : cast , so far as ; Louis . Napoleon is concerned . The Empire may be < taken ; to be proclaimed ; for when the Senate decrees , ' arid the people are left to vote , of course all -is - settled ; What with the fear of bayonets and the managnient of ballot 'boxes , ; there is no fear of a majority " .. Poor France—she who spurned theBourbon and banished the Orleanist . : She who listened to Lamartine , and trusted iouis Blanc . She who proclaimed , freedom and raised the trees of liberty , is now a- the foot of amountabank Charl * ton , and a group , of penneless , characterless , adventurers . She who abolished capitarpuuishriieiit bows , perforce before the cowardly kidnapper ot
her leaders , and stillmore cowardly murderer ot her Citizens . Poor France !—Her' degradation was marked in England by an earthquake . Oh ! there are more earthquakes , and not a few volcanoes in . store . When a people cannot select , an army may , and there are hints of more and more military discontent . It is told that regiments are weeded and removed ^ and that officers , as well as men are , implicated . He who slays with the sword , by the . sword shall he be slain . Louis Napoleon has drawn the weapon— -it is beyond his powe to sheathe it ; and it may . be that a stroke from it or a more ignoble weapon will yet . mingle the ' , turbid puddle which runs | in his v ns with the sea of bitter blood which he has caused to be shed . If o
not , ; a , tear will swell the torrent of tears wliich his ferocity has evoked . . 1 ; The accession to the throne is marked by disputes , and the " Im . perial" family , Amity , does not find a home beneath the purple . The Ex-king of Westphalia is indignant , that his family are excluded by the Senate from the succession . The cause is said to be the fear of the Republican tendencies of the young Prince , his son . It is supposed , however , that the wounded feelings of the President of the Senate will be arranged by lucrative posts being assigned to him and his . offspring . It is hinted that he will be created Constable of France , and the young Imperial Republican be sent to govern Algiers .
The Belgian Ministry have dared to propose a law fettering the press . It will be a crime , if the law passes , to speak the truth of the French man-slayer . The proposition was received "b y the legislators in dead silence . The plea assigned for such an act ( which is in direct opposition to the Constitution ) is that such a law exists in all civilized nations . Is this peace , or are Aye civilized ? If so , we had better relapse into barbarism . It is said that England has joined in forcing this enactment upon Belgium . Is that the shadow betokening : our own fate ? Dare any Cabinet propose such a law here ? Are any
of § our legislators base enough to suffer such an ukase to pass ? Would any court of law behold enough to enforce it ? If so , we speak for ourselves , and we believe every English writer will endorse the sentiment . If so , let it be done ; but we will not be gagged . When a man breaks his oaths—plots against individuals and a peopledessecrates religion—and sheds innocent blood , we will call him perj urer , conspirator , blasphemer , and mnrderer , aware , that those wh ( ( would dared to punish such honest expressions of opinion , would bi hurled from power with all the force or contempt of abhorrence .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1704/page/1/
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