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      " Ha * on * Id _* Ef # hidli History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour , ; ..- to throw down allthe _biarfiers 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 _objectr-the free development of our spiritual nature ; —Humboldt ' s Cosmos . . . . ¦ _¦ I :

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      , Evyg Of The Week— Thegreatgale 8 Sir W...

      , _EVyg OF THE WEEK— TheGreatGale 8 Sir William Molesworth for South- . LITERATURE—* _AGB Trade , Gold , and Corn 8 wark H Life of Thbmaa Moore 17 . The Parliament ofthe Week 2 Tax . es on Knowledge 9 Archdeacon Denison ' s Political Keppe l ' s Visit to the Indian Archipe-The Aberdeen Ministry . 3 Opening the Crystal Palace on Sun- _Charohmanship * 12 _j ag 0 ... 18 The Coming Elections 3 day 9 Struggles of Protestantism in Pied- Children ' s Books 20 Archdeacon Denison and Mr . Glad- Barth and Overweg _' _s Afirican Expedi- mont 12 Boots _ot _» our Table 21 _Society oi xne _JTienoa «» _xwujr « POSTSCRIPT 10 Wandering voice r i _« Mr . Woodin ' _s Soirees . tt Death of _^ _ssuth _s Mother I . 7 OPEN COUNCIL- A Week of Boxing Sight * 21 *?¦ _£ _*?* _» _J"S _**^* ? . , „ ¦ PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ° _!^ 2 _SZL . 15 Archdeacon Denison and Mr . Glad- Barth and Overweg ' s Afirican Expedi- mont 12 Books on our Table 21 stone .... .,....:.. 4 tion " .. 9 Mr . Kirwan ' _s Reprieve 13 Foreign Opinions of the _English Miscellaneous 9 " Brother" No . " III . " 13 THE ARTSMinistry :...... ....... ..., 5 Healthof London during the Week ... 10 The " Leader" in the Dublin Me- Fairyland at the Lyceum 20 Letters from Paris ¦ 5 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 10 _chanics' Institute 14 Leo the Terrible 21 Contihe _^ _talTN ' otes 6 _Art thou an Ambassador or but a The Marionnettea ... 21 Society of the Friends of Italy 6 POSTSCRIPT 10 Wandering Yoke ? 14 _^ Woodin . _Sokees _T . ' . _" . / . ' . ' . ' . ' .. ' . _" ' . ' . ' . ' ... . tt JSI _w _^^ ? * _ZZ _£ : ""' " _*;¦ - ¦ PUBLIC AFFAIRS- The " Melbourne" 15 the West Coast of Mexiop , ,:, „ ...,. _' .. 7 . . r _***> meiDourne .................. ao coumercial _AFFAIRSTheKirwanCM _* _.,..... _^ _....:: ?; . ; .... _; . 7 The New _Ministey , its Programme , The True Test ot a Man ' s _Behef 15 _^ _STa « IZ ! _at *( , 22-2 _^ FiK 9 _ittCalifemi _^ ..., _a _^ .... _« ....... 8 _anditsMen .... 7 11 Slavery ...... ; :.. ...... _i 15 Markets , _Advertasemeot ., & c 22-2 _^ " '" ' "" vf "'' ¦ _' ¦' ¦ '¦¦ ' ¦ _'¦'¦ ' - L ¦ --- ¦—¦ ¦ . ¦ : ' A-y ' ,. .. " ' ¦' '

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      ' - _/[ V _: ' ...... _ VOLIVNo 145 ] SATURDAY , JANUARY 1 , 1853 . 7 [ Price Sixpence .

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      rendered a respectable Government impossible , Lord Aberdeen has succeeded in forming the most respectable Administration which has been seen in _i rm . . _J . _ 7 __« ¦' . _ : _ : » ... . _.-. * i _'_ . very allocation of offices shows the extent to wt this honourable feeling has gone . Lord J ( Russell in a Secretaryship , Lord Palmerston in Home Office , Mr . Gladstone in the Exchequer , but exemplify a good feeling , which has b imitated in the subordinate ranks ; and thus have in one Cabinet the strength of the Peel i Russell Administrations , reinforced by indep dent men such as Molesworth , Argyll , Mona and Charles Villiers . If Mr . Disraeli had a h struggle to contend almost single-handed witl host in Opposition , now that he is in _Opposit and the adversary is Concentrated in office , he i find it a still harder contest , unless he should ceive help from some unlucky Liberals of the <] appointed sect . The time _itic s- of le _: h in le _10 _> n re id l- 1 , d a n 11 :- i- m AFTER _Lord Derby had rendered Government ridiculous , and the severance of the Liberal majority into many minorities seemed to have rendered a respectable Government impossible , our day . The _aeWasai members of the Admini tration have co-operated with a general sacrifice self or individual peculiarities of view ; and tl

      , however , is by no means prop or party fighting . A contemporary , who see well inclined to war upon the Ministry , is _<& _enough to assert that the present juncture _Jembles that of 1830 ; but assuredly the t _icriods can only be brought together for contra lot _resemblance , both at home and abroad . _L 830 , Catholic emancipation was recent ; Refo v _« _a pursued with the spirit of the chase gaini _pon its quarry ; the Tories , smarting from rec ( lefeat on the ground of religious liberty , still h < » ut stubbornly on that of political liberty ; " i Juke" was proposing to defend London by ara ne Liberal aristocrats were not disclaiming off »* _< a populace marching from Birmingham ; a » e populace was ready . Abroad , constitutioi _Government-had succeeded to arbitrary Govei _nent in France and Belgium , and Europe was ' e & ce . s _s h _i- _0 ; , a a g t il e ; _s 1 1 t

      _* W all is reversed . Political action , aa _nulerstood it in 1830-32 . is dead . Chartism si ceded to _Reform , mustered its millions , made t * tal mistake of April 10 , 1848 , and is now _slui ermg—its members all dissolved . Reform is [ Couhtby Edition . ] d - 3 . i .

      dominant under _jjiari wrey , nas _suecumoea vo _ireei , and has expired of old age and inanition ; merging itself , under Aberdeen , in a national party . Free- > 4 _ __ -i _t _ X J 1 _~ _n-. _~ .. _~™~ _4- _~ A trade has commenced , pursued , and _consummi its own agitation ; and Protection , dominan ' 28 , protected by Melbourne , is ranked with fellacies of the past . France has displaced ' _stitutional government , and , with the usual publican preface , has returned to the Empire absolute power , half _« ttragging Belgium after The treaties of 1815 , torn to tatters , are awai a revision at the hands either of Revolutio consolidated Absolutism ; and everything E pean is in question . The Duke is dead , and 1 land is strengthening her _defences—making tight and snug in preparation for a squall . ed . in he in- te- nd er . ng or ¦ o- g- all ias old tale > and excites no passions—the next instal- ment expected from the quondam " Tory , " Aber- deen . Religious liberty has advanced to an ap- proximation to religious -equaUty ; and the chief embarrassment has arisen from an excess of licence in the Roman Catholic staff . The Whig party , dominant under Earl Grey , has sueeumbed to Peel ,

      Socially the condition of the country undergone the most sweeping changes s 1830-32 . Freedom has become a habit , tho enervated by the habits also of long peace . great manufacturing interest , at its zenith dm the ten years ending 1839 , has undergone desperate depression of 1842 ; and _commi recovers to the wide and immense _prosperity 1852-53 . Ireland has undergone an O'Conn a famine , an Encumbered Estates Act , a depo lating emigration , and a Tory Government j moting free education ; and is recovering to dawn of real happiness , after her seven centu of wrong and her twenty years of retaliati Steam navigation has spanned the ocean ; ves of size and power undreamed are on the stoc California and Australia . yielding gold fc commerce unwitnessed in history . How mucl all this bas happened in the past year , we n not say . But in this year of political traoquill of commercial prosperity , of social hopefulness action suspended after and before the struggle . a continent — of interregnum between opin obsolete and opinions unformed— -of imme influences and powers collecting their stsength purposes not yet defined , what resemblance there to 1830 ? Then it was the party of pec triump hant over a _decaying though still domin faction : now , the popular convictions have read even the heir * of that faction—save tn unc < ce gh he _ag _ie ce of 11 , i- _o- a es n . « ls i ; a of : d y , [> f of in ie _> r is le it id i-

      _nuiuugsi . mem , » t » _- _„ _~^~ rt ™~ _^ opposition is prepared to obstruct their return _, Often as Lord John Russell s seat has been _fhMafonoel TO T _^ _WlflnTl . all IS llOW _at > T > rOVal . tnreatenea in juuihumi , mi » * _w _« _»| . ru .. Even in Oxford , where a stronger agitation thi ever had been got up against Mr . _Gladstor Conservative councils have prevailed against t rash proposal , to re-open a question so recenl settled—and against the bringing clergymen i to vote from tbe Christmas duties _, affairs dea verted remnant just sent to the limbo of Opposition ; and there is a prospect that the nation may be summoned to unite against common dangers . The addresses which the Ministers in the House of Commons have severally put forth to then constituents show the general accord prevailing amongst them ; and it does not appear that any

      Save the elections , political are The Friends of Italy have held their second soin and are pushing a knowledge of Italian questio among the people ; while Italy herself is _sufferii the continued progress of the reaction . T Sardinian Government has given way before tl priest party , and has withdrawn the Civil Marria Bill ; the conduct of the Pope and his adheren being marked by the obstinate refusal to ma . the smallest concession .

      The Emperor of Austria is back to his capiti and Russia has transmitted to Berlin the form which she will recognise Louis Napoleon as En peror of the French . He meanwhile has obtain * the most urgent recognition—that of bis Senat which has passed the Senatus-Consultum , sanctioi ing all the absolute powers which he asks . Ai he is trying those newly invented cannon wii which , possibly , he may vindicate the _legitime of his descent , and extort a tardy recognitic from disdainful "right divine . " and forebodir

      But the New Year dawns stormy on that fatal palace of the Tuileries . Conspirac is in the air , in the street , in the saloon : _frieiui are few , foes many , fears incessant : and in th heart of that city * of enthusiasm , the Emperc u by the will of the Nation , " finds no safety but i serried bayonets , bristling barracks , and deatl concentrating forts : no safety but in arms _« home , and no escape ( it may be ) bnt in wi abroad . Eig hteen hundred and fifty-two was 1 have been the general overthrow , had not tl Saviour of Society bound France _hond and foo What shall ' 53 be , with that _Sjxrfcmr of Societ growing restless in his purple , as the star of h unfulfilled _destiny waw _* ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011853/page/1/