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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 one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— FAGE The Week in Parliament 622 Election Matters ;•• " . 6 a _* Anti-Catholic Proclamation Riots at Stockport 626 The Anti-Catholic " Proclamation ... 626 Letters from Paris . 627 Continental Notes 628 Have we the Right of Public ing ? Progress of Association Illegal Flogging in the Navy Paul Cullen Enthroned Meet 628 629 629 629
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. An Accession to Dissent 629 University of London 629 Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear 630 A Steamer Run Down on the River 630 An Aristocratic Swindler 630 Miscellaneous 630 Health of London during the Week g U ° 63 Q _wl _ittTf ° T "" a T" ' _£ "" _^ Health of London during the vy eeic V" — " 63 ° Births , Marriages , and Deaths 630 POSTSCRIPT 631 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Eligible 632
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Our Relations to _Tractarianism The Tuscany Question : its Proportions The Police of Religion Latest Aspects of _Napoleonism Questions for Conservatives _nocM _nnnu / Mi oreNCOUNCILA Question about the _Stoel OPEN COUNCIL- A Que 8 tioll about the Stockport Riots 635 Modern Heraldry 635 LITERATURE— James Russell Lowell 636 Guizot on Corneille 638 633 True _ 634 _634 ... 635 635
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_Griai in the Prophete 641 II Barbiere 642 German Plays and Actors 643 Notes Theatrical 642 The Quartett Association 642 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c ... 619-620 Books on onr Table 639 PORTFOLIOThe Discipline of Art . —Letter I . ... 639 Passages from a Boy's Epic 640 THE ARTS—
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VOL . III . No . 119 . ] SATURDAY , JULY 3 , 1852 . [ Pkice Sixpence
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Pabliament has finished its session , is dissolved , is broken up , and members , now merged in candidates , are struggling for re-election . There is nothing like a friend in need . Lord Lyndhurst , who declined to join the Ministry , has volunteered to certify it , and he sends it to the country with his influential certificate , as having got through an immense amount of business during the session . Lord Beaumont put in a claim for the Whig Ministry ; Lord Grey insisted that his colleagues had prepared the bills : but
Lord Derby , accepting the certificate , maintained that he and his colleagues had passed the bills ; a progress which the experiences of the past few years shows to be the more important . Anybody can invent bills in his library , but it is not all of us that can pass them . Lord Derby is on the right side of the hedge in that question . He may go to the country as the Minister that has passed some bills ; which appears to us , in these latter days , a claim superior to any that Lord John can advance . He is the Minister that imagined some bills .
Out of all this wrangle of retrospective claims , emerges Lord Palmerston ' s statesmanlike survey , suggested by the question of the British missionaries in Hungary . Three gentlemen , intent upon advancing Protestantism in Hungary , have been seized by the Austrian police . A debate arises , as to the merits of their treatment . Austria , it is admitted , has a right to enforce her own _re-Rulatmna upon foreigners ; but British subjects l » ave a nght to protection by their own
_Government . Such are the two counter claims bandied about on either side , without advancing towards a _inclusion . Only Lord Palmerston suggests the true g , st of the question . Austria lias a ri ght to enforce her own law over foreigners , as well as subjects ; but foreigners have a right to be shown " > at the power enforced upon them is that of law , _»«« not the dictate of an individual whom they
Ujay happen to encounter . It is the correlative duty <« the Government to which the British subjects ) u » e looking for protection , to ascertain that law be enforced , and nothing but law , and that it be enforced by the proper officers . The resolution _proved by Sir Harry Verney , in lieu of Mr . Anstey , 'uhrmed u censure of the Austrian Government ; u > r which , technically , the British Parliament have *» o data ; and Lord Palmerston demurred to tho [ Country Edition . ]
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resolution . But he has placed the question on its true ground , and the Government must be blind and recreant , indeed , which cannot , with that guidance , bring it to a . proper issue . British missionaries have no absolute right to pursue their avocation on Hungarian soil , but they have a right , recognised by international law , to claim
that no coercion be enforced upon them , except that of the established law of the land . Anything short of a fulfilment of that right on the part of the Austrian Government , is a wrong committed , not only against those individual citizens , but against the State to which they belong ; and the State which submits to a wrong of that kind , inscribes upon its own flag the word " recreant . "
In debating this subject , Lord _^ Palmerston touched upon another—the policy of Austria south of the Alps . He doubted whether that empire derives any strength from its Italian possessions , and we incline to agree with him . Although Austria derives a net revenue , which may be considered clear profit—from ploughing Italian fields , independently of the military expenditure on those fields—yet it is certain that the southern appendage to the empire entails responsibilities to
the North and East , which probably countervail the advantage derived from Lombardy , even on the most material grounds . It is a question , indeed , which Austria is not likely to settle for herseif ; so strong is the instinctive appetite of States for provincial aggrandisement . An important fact for us is , that a statesman shows himself , in our degenerate Parliament , capable of grasping these questions before they are urged upon us practically and precipitately . Foresight and
knowledge , in office , are the two great desiderata ; but so far as they exist they seem to be in opposition . The session then is over ; Ministers have eaten their whitebait dinner , and Queen Victoria has dismissed her Parliament , with a painful augury . The whitebait dinner , which properly and decorously belongs to the Saturday , was eaten on the Wednesday . We remember no precedent for this act . It is an innovation wholly unrecognised
by our constitution ; and when we are told that the Ministers , instead of being downcast , as everybody expected , were exceedingly merry , we can only regard the augury as the more shocking . Conservative Ministers thus breaking through our venerated institutions , officially devouring whitebait , not on a Saturday , and laughing while they do it , afford a spectacle for men and fishmongers frightful to contemplate , Who can foresee the
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consequences ?— " Eat and drink , " they say , " for to-morrow we die . " The Parliament just expired has seen some events which were not expected , although it was summoned amid the evil portents of the Irish famine . One of its first votes was for that Kaffir war which is not yet ended , but is now accompanied by the Burmese war . Parliament has been compelled , by the attitude of the Colonies , to desist from forcing convicts on them ; justice in that regard , however , being still denied to Van Diemen ' s Land . The " Reforms" of Pius the
Ninth being interrupted by the revolution in Paris , the deceased Parliament successively witnessed the dethronement of Louis Philippe , the revolution which spread throughout despotical Europe , the counter-revolution which has annulled the constitution of Hungary , and the usurpation of Louis Napoleon . The Papal aggression was made into an event by Lord John Russell , on whom it has entailed an Irish " difficulty , " and an English discredit fatal to his repute . The world has scarcely recovered from its amazement at the Californian discoveries , ere they were capped by the Australian . It has recovered from its
amazement at the Exposition of 1851 ; and m a fit of morose imbecility is going to bury the crystal monument of that event at Sydenham . The performances of the five years have not been exactly commensurate with the events . Parliament has tinkered at the Poor-law , the organization of revenue departments , and sanitary needs . It has tinkered at electoral reform , and done something real against bribery . It has continued the process of developing Free-trade , by
abolishing the Navigation Laws , and has equalized the West Indian sugar duties—an injustice to a community not yet brought within " the category ol Free-trade . " It has abolished the duty on windows and on bricks . It has conceded imperfect representations to the southern colonies , with the controul over divers revenues ; and the Colonial Minister has undertaken to consider the final surrender of revenues within the . colonies . It has
recognised the chance of needing'defence at home , by providing a microscopic militia . It has effected , in its last days , some really valuable law reforms ; and it has exasperated the Roman Catholics b y that act against ecclesiastical title * which lias never been enforced . It has not been a strong Parliament ; but probably it will prove to have been stronger than its successor . _\ et , being full of experience and wisdom , we
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Leader (1850-1860), July 3, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03071852/page/1/
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