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11 " 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 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 Cosvos .
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Nbws op thk JTeek— Page Progress of Incendiarism . 126 Lord John Russell 132 TheDranaa . 137 Parliament 122 Murders and Murderous Assaults ... 126 Rights of Royalty 133 Progress of Sgibncb— _ ,, ¦ _ , ' Public Education Movement 183 Miscellaneous 127 . The Gorham Caae .. ' . 132 . Development Theory and Mr . H . ¦ . . The Church Movement 124 Public Affairs— Death of Jesus 133 Miller ' s Book :. i 158 France . —The Election and its Con- The New Crusade ... 130 Mr . Sandars on Prices 133 Antique Nails -v ^ o sequences . ' ... ; 124 Universal Suffrage 130 Literature— . Diffusion , of Silver , Lead , & c l *» Spanish Scandal .... 126 The Educational Obstructives 131 Mure ' s Literature of Greece 134 Portfolio—American News 125 Moral of the Paris Election 131 Madame Pulszky ' s Hungary 134 TbtheWorm .......... ^ ............ 139 Sanitary Projects 123 An Example to Insolvent Landlords 131 Science in Fable 135 The Apprenticeship of Life . ; ... i ... The Zoological Society .. 125 Royalty and Loyalty ... 131 Books on our Table 136 The Lorelei r . »" ........ 14 U The Philanthropic Society ' s Farm The Black Demon in America ...... 131 Notes and Extracts . ; .,.... 137 Talent for Silence .... . .-... ; ....... School 126 Open Council ^ - Tub Arts— Commercial Affairs— j . ¦; * 8 eizure of a British Subject 126 The Rights of the People . 132 The Lyric Drama . 137 Markets , Gazettes , & c , p . .. ; .... 142-44
No. 6. Saturday, May 4, 1850. Jrrice 6d.
No . 6 . SATURDAY , MAY 4 , 1850 . JRrice 6 d .
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Ceaseless as the movements of the ground under the rain of fire , as Dante saw them , is . the stir of the Qhurch in the conflict of conscience and usage . The Church dignitaries have evidentl y taken alarm at the extent and unmanageable pertinacity of the agitation . The Archbishdp of Canterbury endeavours to compromise and conciliate ; the Bishop of London tries to hush up ; even the Bishop of Exetec manifests annoyance at the continuance of ^ t ^ si &^ - ^^ a ^ not persevere in resisting the decision of the Judicial Committee in the Gorham case . But while the
most ardent dignitaries of the Church show this disposition to allay the dangerous storm , less elevated persons still acknowledge the impulse of conscience . Mr . Maskell does so almost to a contumacious extent . The correspondence in which he importunes , first one Prelate and then another , for some guidance in determining what are the doctrines of the Church of England , shows the extremity to which conscientious priests of that Church are driven . Mr . Maskell is a veritable
" enfant terrible" : with the frightful candour of childhood , he pushes home his questions to the last extremity ; and is simple enough to declare , by way of finish , that his Archbishop and Bishop have left him no doctrine whatever to teach except that of " the ever blessed Trinity . " We cannot improve upon Mr . Maskell ' s interpretation of the correspondence ; that is precisely what it amounts to . It seems to have become a question whether the Church can retain its defined doctrines at the same
time with its defined property ; and its Prelates manifest a marvellous alacrity in choosing the alternative of giving up the defined doctrine . It may be said that henceforward , according to the description of these dignitaries , the Church of England has no distinctive doctrine , except the doctrine that the property which it holds is its own and must not be given up . With this doctrinal debility appear some other signs of weakness , not new , but very untimely ; such as the declaration in Parliament on the
t hrowing out of Mr . Frewen ' s Pluralities Bill , that pluralities are an abuse which cannot be given up ; and the scandalous attempt of Archbishop Sumner to preserve for his own son the reversion of an immense condemned sinecure . The agitation of the Church is of a destructive nature , because the Church will not assume any
organic action , submitting rather to the accidents which are crumbling it to pieces . Sincere friends of the institution already begin to think that it belongs to the past . The opposite and contemporaneous agitation belongs to the future—the Public School movement ; which has not in any respect lost strength or hopefulness because it has been misconceived by
the officials . The meeting at Bradford akme would , suffice to prove as much . That populous YorksMre town must now be added to- the - list off the * # reaj > : manufacturing boroughs which have declared in ' favour of the Public School system , thfis keepingup the chain of f adhesions unbroken by % " the . official repudiation . In fact , the / leaders of the school movement understand the future in regard ' to their plan far better ; than the statesmen at thf
centre of affairs . The suggestion- thrown outjjy Mr . W . E . Forster deserves prompts consideration b y the promoters of that system : ^ rith the eih « E hatic adh ^ ttle douot that a rinimtaneous demonstration on behalf of the movement would be accorded to the first invitation ; and even now there is time , before the Whitsun holidays , to make the needful arrangements ; the more so , as the promoters of the system want neither for zeal nor tact .
We have already alluded to some of the proceedings in Parliament . The Legislature being determined to keep a secondary place in the political action of the day , nothing of first-rate importance has been achieved this week . The pretended reconstruction of the Ecclesiastical Commission leaves the commission substantially what it was beforean open commission of bishops to arrange the funds of the Church according to their own fancy , so far as that can be done without perilous scandal . Mr . Henley ' s motion to reduce public salaries was
a mere spiteful Protectionist retaliation on the Liberals—an attempt to make official subordinates feel that their chiefs in office have drawn upon them many losses as the consequence of free tradean attempt to enlist the official subordinates on the side of Protection by rendering their Free-trade superiors odious in the pocket aspect . Sir Charles Wood ' s plan for reorganizing the savings banks will be a great improvement : it supplies a national guarantee for what is really a national institution . It has one serious defect—it does not reimburse
those who have lost by the frauds committed under the implied control of Government . The rest of the week ' s news is multifarious , the capital being especially noted for its various activity . The spring exhibitions and the spring fashions draw crowds of carriages into the western streets . The Philanthropic Society reports its correctional farm to be flourishing ; its boys to be reforming . The Zoological Society proclaims great accessions
to its animal community . A long list of murders is led off by the strange and mysterious crime in the Wandsworth-road . Exeter-hall is crowded with May Meetings . The Horticultural Society blazes upon the world with the floral beauty of its first display for the season . Into this busy world of England arrive some thousand babies a day ; one of the thousand , on Wednesday , was Queen Victoria ' s seventh , a Prince , deposited , the court historian says , in the most splendid cradle of the famil y *
Foreign news is scant y this week ; by far t | ae > most important is thalr ' from France of the election of Eugene * Sue . I »' spite of M . Baroche ' s stippresaion of electoral meetings , in spite of M . parser ' s interdiction of { the . Republican press , in ' spite ? of the most strenuous exertions of the p & rty of " order , " the Socialist candidate heads theypqtt , ; wit ^ a majority larger tBauHhailof the elected of theMotlMrf Mar ^ h . t This ; tod , notwithstandii % the defection " of ftfrEmile deGirardin , who is , ev idently hpTwiin ' a- 'in another direction s arid though the moire
austere Republicans accept bjrt M ^ u ^ ch ^^^^ ;^ blow to tttose ia power . ^ HTovfr mlt" ^ aey t £ eetpe | : < f By a change b £ Ministry ; by ; : tf remc $ 8 l ^ n ^^ % * regulating" this unpalatable law of univeri ^ visuf ^ frage ; or by a coup d'etat i The first coul & feflfeet nothing . An " energetic" government has already been tried , M . Baroche and M . Carlier having done the worst in that line . A ' conciliatory" scheme with Lamartine , Dufaure , and Persigny , is scarcely
worth mentioning , even as matter of Parisian gossip . Colonel Espinasse has already proposed to the Assembly to " modify" the electoral law : even that may be inefficacious . The most likely chance seems the bold stroke , especially if the Reds would play into the President ' s hands , and begin an outbreak unprepared . But they are not induced that way either by the provocations of the police or the " analogies" of the NapoUon . They are
manifestly determined to oppose a cool front to the reaction . Even the Presse , which defies the prohibition of its sale , will contest the matter legally ; and advises the people not to be worried into violence , not to give any pretext for " placing Paris in a state of siege , and proclaiming a Dictator . " The National gives the same advice , laughing at the frog of the fable , which this time blows itself out to be a " Sunday-Emperor . " The attitude of the le
Home remains quiet . Peop is cold and severe . The restored Pope passes through silent streets to visit and bless the French soldiers . But even they slip away to escape contact with the man who bestows his thanks upon those wounded in the attack upon Rome , but who denounced as prostitutes the Roman women that succoured Rome ' s heroic defenders . His position is not of the pleasantest . To complicate it the more , Prussia has just stepped in to claim a voice in the diplomatic arrangements concerning the Court of Rome . England is said to have instigated this to counterbalance the influence of Austria , as if
Prussia couldbe relied on in anything . The Catholic power is shaken to its roots . Though Austria make concessions to the clergy , restoring in her German dominions the old privileges repealed by Joseph the Second , though the Jesuits are brought back to Venice and Verona , and the education of the Lombard youth confirmed to the Churches , the Papal influence will not be so restored . Of far more than countervailing damage is the Piedmontese law , depriving the clergy there of their excep-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 4, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04051850/page/1/
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