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      " The One Idea Whioh History Exhibits A3...

      " The one Idea whioh History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea cf 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— Pag! National Orphan G...

      NEWS OF THE WEEK— pAg ! National Orphan Girls * Home ...... 844 The Immortal Spark in Protection 849 LITERATURELettersfrom Paris .. 838 Church Patronage 841 Outrages on Women 849 _„ .. ! _J _2 SS 5 £ 3 £ f 7 . ~ : ~"" _- " Z S _^ 2 . _S _,- _; ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: « £ _^ _JSta-avcssss : **¦ - - »— SM Eruption of Mount Etna .. ... 841 _ATPatronof thei Begging Trade ... ; .. 845 tion Question 851 PORTFOLIOBaflways in Canada ... 841 Bingham upon Bagpipes 845 Hints toNewM . P . _'s . ByanExperi- _i-omruuu Tenant Bight Banquet to 8 hannan Athenaeum Life Assurance Society 845 enced " Stranger" 851 Letters of a Vagabond 856 Crawford . 841 _Miscellaneous 84 a A Royal Freemason ... ' . ' . ' . " . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . 842 . Health of London during the OPEN COUNCIL— THE ARTS—,.. X . nr . i . i . _i __ m . l _^ . ' _Uliii' "Week 847 _ _~ r , _wc t _»_ _. „— t a « _or . Q _aivujiai _*«™™~» _o _» a . _WfliV BA 7 Mr . Coroner Wakley on Charitable _ . _**/ eK ""' . ""• _¦ •••••• ' •••••• ° _* 7 The Temperance Cause Institutions ..... 842 Blrt , w > _Mamages , and Deaths _^ ...... 847 Temperance Dogmatism ... Cleopatra Outshone 843 POSTSCRIPT 848 On the Late Co-operative The Guild of Literature at Man- ...... . ' ence and its Beport ..... Chester . 842 PUBUC AFFAIRS— Von Beck Extraordinary Narrative .. 843 "WhatThen ? , , 849 . Convocation THE ARTS—852 Dreary London ! ... 853 853 " Strike ! Strike the Light Zither ! " 858 Confer- The Last Night at Covent Garden ... 858 853 ''" . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . 853 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS—853 Markets , Advertisements , & c . 858—860

      Vol. Iii. No. 128.] Saturday, September ...

      VOL . III . No . 128 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 4 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence

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      Queen Victoria Has Retired To Her Scotti...

      Queen Victoria has retired to her Scottish fastnesses , _—iEtna has been in a state of eruption , —Mr . Cobden has made a declaration in favour of the ballot , — -the British Association holds its annual feast of intellect and flow of soul at Belfast , —Sir Colin Campbell has resigned bis command in Peshawur , —two hundred emigrants have been drowned in Lake Erie , —the Guild of Literature and Art has been starring it at Manchester , —Lord Dalhousie has gone to Rangoon , — King Frederick William has been besieging Magdeburgh with sham siege , —and the cholera is making steady march across Germany ; there is _|

      movement _enough in the world , though the signs of it for the week are mostly of a trivial _orderj and need little more than a paragraph while we report the progress of things in general . The removal of Queen Victoria , for example , from England to Scotland , is a fact pleasing to those who are interested in the health and recreation of the Sovereign ; since there is no limit to the disasters which might ensue from the morbid irritabilities of a chief magistrate , and the ulterior stability of any institution may depend on the

      condition of its occupant . It is well , therefore , to note the fact ; but being noted , there is nothing more to be said . Dr . Cahill blurting madly much that looks like truth against the last two Governments , in the Dublin Freeman's Journal ; Father Burke and Father Clune arrested and liberated on bail for _*» ot at Six-Mile Bridge j Lord Eglinton nnd hia Countess at Belfast , a shining light among the « avuns of the British Association , and Sharman Crawfor ( i banqueting with the defeated Tenant _fighters at Newtownards in Londonderry , family count y , make a very interesting but extensive

      tableau , thoroughly Irish . Dr . Cahill , in hia eoar 8 e ' libellous fashion , points out how England and libert y have been degraded under both Russell JIld I ) erl ) y _«« the continent ; and Sharman Craw-° nl and his friends show how the liberty of voting m been suppressed in tho family county . These ttre not new facts ; and , after all , possibly the h ° 1 M MnPortaut l 9 tli ° declaration , per letter , made 'y Mr . Cobden at the Newtownards festivity , that _nh IM th ° _Vattlebetween Protection and Free-trade 1 f , url y over , he hopes a great league for the _lCounthy Edition . ]

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      ballot will be established , never to be given up until the object be obtained . Manchester has feted Art and Literature this week _s £ ficially dining with the delegates in the _Free-iwule Hall . The _amateur-author-artist-Hcttittir i had been performing for the benefit of the Guild ; and delighted Manchester has has - tened to do honour to intellect and

      imagination in return . Does it not show the harmonizing power o € Literature and Art , when it can draw together Mr . Thomas Bazley and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , make them dine at the same table , listen to each other's oratory , and do all this in the Free-trade Hall ; Protection and Freetrade reciprocally charmed , the one by the munificence of Cotton , the other by the eloquence of Corn ? It must have been instructive to both

      parties . Miracles in the age of steam and electric telegraphs have been common enough on the Continent ; but it is a _novelty to meet with n miracle in England . Yet a miracle has been living , we are told , at _Shottisharn , in Suffolk , for some years past . A young girl , named Squirrell , has either lived , or pretended to live , without food for many weeks . She declares that angels have visited her , and that one has acted as her guardian . She has been lionized by the whole county , and scores

      have been enraptured by her eloquence on sacred and profane themes . But suspicion has led to investigation , nnd certain phecnomena , natural enough in ordinary persons , but totally unaccountable in one who neither eats nor drinks , have led to the belief that the young miracle is an impostor . One fact is certain—medical men , gentlemen , and clergymen , have been greatly puzzled ; but at present thc evidence is incomplete , and no judgment on the merits can be fairly given either way .

      Tbe really important news comes . from more distant quarters . In India , for example , the last movements indicate some further embarrassment in our military affairs . That Sir Colin Campbell has resigned his command in Peshawur , is in itself an inconvenience , even if it be no more than nn act of personal impatience . But if the reasons ascribed to him are true , it is something more than an inconvenience : he is said to complain that the troops placed at his command are not sufficient for the duties required of them , and that he had undergone vexatious interference

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      at . the instance of the political agents . Sir Colin Campbell is a distinguished oflicer , and it is to be borne in mind that he is neither the first nor the most distinguished in India w ho has chafed under controL While Sir Colin is complaining that he has not troops enough , General Godwin's demand for reinforcements in the Rangoon has been duly honoured ; and the Governor-General of India has himself gone to the same quarter , for the purpose of reconnoitring . These facts

      prove that something more is expected than the resistance which the British have encountered thus far . It is observed that the army of the Rangoon has been greatly increased beyond the original estimate ; but it must be remembered , that to retain their prestige , British arms are now bound to be successful in India ; and that to command success we must have military leaders

      of daring genius , or armies strong in numbers and appointments . Routine and other influences impede the official discovery of genius until it is superannuated ; and great armies , therefore , are the alternative that remains to us . The large army in the Rangoon is a necessity , for the same reasons that make Sir Colin Campbell ' s complaint peculiarly untoward .

      From the opposite side of the world comes n mixture of bullying and conciliation . According to the New York Herald the fishery question is by no means laid at rest , but is to be revived by the Senate with increased bitterness , and Mr . Webster has been telling people all round that they may take guano from the Lobos islands ,

      where Peru has prepared a garrison and fleet to receive them . Meanwhile , however , well informed writers anticipate that the fishery dispute will have been finally laid to rest by the mutual concession ; and Commodore Perry has been received at St . John ' s and Halifax in the most friendly spirit ; the union-jack and the star-spangled banner floating to the breeze in cordial proximity .

      The ground is giving way under the dominant Imposture of Napoleonism . Ridicule , affront , humiliation—such is the tribute rendered to the Caesar of the hour by a nation that has the wit to be ashamed , but not the courage or the virtue to be free 1 The Empire , it seems , i . s imminent , to " create a diversion ; " and after the Empire why not war to create a diversion ? The disgraces of the coup _d'etat can only be " diverted " by successive coups _d'tclat ; the _ftftes have proved but

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091852/page/1/