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"The one Idea which History exoibits & 3 evermore developing itself mto greater distinctness is the Idea or 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 ^ reat object-the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Humbolpt's Cosmos .
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Nrws of tub Webk— Pase Irish Kindne « 3 843 reign Flour 848 mg Ass 854 Absolution rel =-. t » blUhed in Austria 838 The Earthquake iu Southern Italy .. 843 Boulogne 1840 : Lyons . 1851 .. ..... 849 Tub Arts—OrXrrtfensintJeruiariy ........ 838 Public Opinion 813 Railway Insurance applied to Kail- Infant Prodigies 855 Continent ?! Notes * y . ..... 839 Association in America 844 n « y Servants 849 The O ,, era in 1 * 51 8 * 5 The Invas & n-nf Cuba '" " . / 840 Charles George Harding 815 England the Teat of Absolutism .... 849 Organization of the People . 855 " Barones * Von B * ck " an iniposior . Personal Xe \ ys ami Gossip . 815 Bishop ? - where they should uot be .. fe 50 Opkn Council—_ . ImportantPo'iiical Disclosures 810 -Murder * . 845 Term ? for the Sale of Cuba 8 . 0 The Violent Dissolution of the Free More Gold DUcoi'eries .... 811 Spirited Chase and Capture of The Flunkies of "Order" 800 Congregations of Austria and the AB . nHation in Snain ...... 841 Burglars 846 Social Kelbrm . —Association the only Fanatical Proceedings of the Fac ^ for Faruierr ' .. ' . ' ... ' ..... ... 8 li Police ...., 846 tesourceof the Poor Tradesman .. 853 Catholic Clergy against Protestaul-Collierv 8 iuash at Kin " ?* woo 1 ...... Sii Miscellaneous 816 Litbratuhb— ism in Ireland . By Johannes The Lock Controversy ... 813 Public Affairs— Proudhon on Reaction & Revolution 852 Ronge ....... 856 The " Whisperer" and " the Arch- 813 Austrian Challenge to the Democracy Jules Janin in London 853 Commbkoial Affairsbishops 813 o' the World 847 Portfolio— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Organization of ' " Lynch" Law ... ; fc 43 Adulteratiou and Admixture of Fo- Trials and Troubles of a Poor Work- & c 857-60
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VOL . II— No . 76 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 6 , 1851 . Phice 6 d .
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Foremost in importance is the consummation of reaction in Austria * by the Emperor ' s reassumption of Absolute power ; but the report of a great gold bed in Eastern Australia is scarcely less " exciting" to the English reader ; nor does the explosion of espionage and conspiracy in the Von Beck case , at Birmingham , create much less surprise ; nor the account of the men at New York , demanding " revenge for the bloocl of Americans ' slain in Cu ^ a " -rWopdily slain , indeed—less eager
interest . Indeed , the papers of the week are eventful . ,-- ,. :- .-. ¦ : ¦ . : ¦ ¦ ' L - - - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ ¦' - ¦ i The Emperor of Austria has put forth opdhMncea signed by his own harfd , 'releasing Ministers from any responsibility except to himself . Professedly the object . of this movement is to enable the Emperor and his council more freely to consider how far the constitution of March 4 , 1849 can be rendered available ; but a moment ' s consideration shows that the object is the final abolition of that constitution , already abolished in practice .
The present act is one of a series . The " state of siege , " as the Progresso of Turin observes , had already suspended the constitution in cities , provinces , and whole kingdoms ; as soon as possible after the revolution , the bureaux were reorganized on the old Absolutist plan , with new constitutional names ; then it was discovered that each particular article of the Constitution , on the pretence of trying to apply it , was " impracticable ; " then the rags of constitutional forms , adopted in a
hurry , were gradually done away . In August last issued an ordinance abolishing the National Guard ; in the same month ; the article of the first section , which secured entire religious liberty , was violated by prohibiting the Free Catholic Churches . And now the applicability of the whole constitution is to be " considered . " Ofcour . se , it will be found to be " impracticable . " It was a fitting and necessary preliminary that the Emperor should resume absolute power .
It happens curiously enough , thut juat « ih the Emperor ' s ordinance reaches this country , the strange organization of an Austrian branch of English police explodes to public view . The detection of the " BaroncHH von-Beck" at Birmingham , not omyeirpbsed an impostor , who had been spy to the Hungarian national Government , anil probably to Austria throughout , but also exposed the fact that there ia a " foreign department " in our police !
In the second of his remarkable letters on the state of Religious Freedom , M . Konge avers thut Cardinal Wiseman was sent to this country by Austria , in order to create a tumult among the Irish Catholics . It ia certain that Dr . Wiseman did vihit the Imperial palace of Schonbriinn before his return to England . Nothing so facilitated hia [ Country Eoition . ]
creating a tumult as the Anti-Papal Bill , passed by that Ministry which owns Lord Palmerston for its Foreign Secretary , —nay , by that particular section of the Ministry which owns Lord Palmerston ! The paper which we insert on the state of Germany , illustrated specifically by the state of Baden , is a remarkable pendant to the disclosures of Mr . Gladstone at Naples . It shows a striking uniformity in flue conduct of Absolutism . We have already seen how a discriminating postage is used to exclude objectionable journals from fiome , Milan , and several , Roman states . . Taxes are doubled in all the Despotic states , to wring from the people the
means of their own oppression : so it is in Jiaden in Naples ,, political prisoners are coefmed h »' prison * half or whdttjr mibterr ^ nean . : so itls in Baden In Home anS Milan respectable citizens trim beaten with sticks :. so it is in Baden . € & urt 3 martial are the tribunals in Italy and Germany , and—ehame to Frenchmen!—in France . They are not needed in Naples , because the judges are under the command of the Attorney-General , ; who threatens them with the consequences of being pedantically merciful ! Perhaps Baden possesses an unique contrivance in the " Sifting Committee , " the duty of which is to determine whether accusations shall
be carried before civil or military tribunals . 1 his is imparting to the system of Despotism the neatness of perfect finish . An admirable paper in La Presse , however , by M . Sitnler , confirms our belief , that Monarchisrn has been destroyed as a general tenet in Germanydestroyed by the tyranny of Absolutists , the treachery of vacillating Prussia , and the pedantic incapacity of the Doctrinaires . There , as in France and Italy , the battle must be waged between tht two extremes .
In Spain , republicanism is known to be making way among the People , ignorant as they are : the proprietors of ] £ l Trabajador ( the Workman ) establish the first working-man ' s journal in Spain : it teaches the doctrine of Association ; and practical Association has already commenced . What with the growth of " the Republic Democratic and Social" at home , and the precarious tenure of Cuba in the West , the Spanish Monarchy looks to be in danger , —although the Duchess de Montpensier has just given birth to u child .
" Meanwhile , if the American accounts are true , the Spanish Cubans have effectually drawn the great republic upon themselves : they have roused its just rage , by shooting a great party of Americana in cold blood ; they have given the Government room to interpose , by firing on a mail-steamer , and enforcing that " right of search" which America successfully denied even to England . The Americans have thus marked Cuba for their own with American blood— -a signature which they seldom permit to be effaced . The fat : t is important in the present » t * te of Europe and international relations . On the other side of the American Continent ,
San Francisco is in a revolutionary condition . A secret tribunal , resembling those of the Middle Ages , dominates over the law . Their is an air of romance and unreality about this which is both ludicrous and terrible . A secret conclave , executing " wild justice " on the authority of •• No . 67 , Secretary , " is very original . Life and property at the diggings must be protected by Lynch ; but in San Francisco the presence of that famous personage is very ugly .
The discovery of a great gold bed in Australia has a strong political bearing , if the report is correct . That gold has been found seems to be certain : the discovery , indeed , was anticipated by geologists ; that the field is extensive is also probable . There will at once be set up , not belly a great attraction in the Australian towns , drawing the colonists to that particular field , but a great attraction for emigrants from this country . Meanwhile , the discovery maygive a new turn to the question of " royalty "; which Ministers have promised to cede : will they cede it , now that the value of the subterranean resources is
known ? If they refuse it , will the colonists , already talking of " independent : " be restored to affectionate allegiance ? This also is one of the colonial questions whioh has an important bearing on the state of political relations even in Europe * . Before the fates of Peoples and the prospects of States , the interest of mere royal families dwindles to insignificancy ; and few will care to busy themselves with the gossip about the Prince de Joinville and his trimming answers to the requisition ' tHts who invite him to stand for the French Presidency : he will not decline , he will not stand , he will not refuse to serve if elected—such seems to be the
substance of the reply given , with the acquiescence of his family . The acquiescence is curious , considering that to accept the election would seem to forego the royal claims of his family . But one conjecture , perhaps , may solve the difficulty : if elected without hia own leave , and without pledges , the Prince might accept the office as a mere means of getting back to Paris , and there employing the resources of official position to reopen the path to the throne for his nephew , the Count of Paris . Although literally relating more closely to home affairs , the gossip about the Russell Reform Bill of next session is received with little interest . The
Globe of Thursday had an article very perplexing at the first view , as it seemed to make out that thero could be no Reform Hill : no parties , it represents , can agree upon any definite proposition , except a few enthusiasts , " who demand the admission of the whole body of the working-claws to the franchise ; which would array against tfie biJJ the whole of the moneyed class . But you understand the paper at once when you read an allusion to the 1 rotectionists m exasperated by a " provoking indifferencei to every fresh speculation of Mr . Disraeli s in the present Parliament , and i »« , therefore , entertaining " a savage readiness for whutever contrivance would enable either farmery or fuctory operatives to put a
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091851/page/1/
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