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rage The case of Ann Hicks ............ 748 The Ministry of the Tlecesa ........ 752 The Open .... « ,, « .. « 7 * 8 News OF the Week- A Judg-e Jnanlted ... 718 Home ami the Reaction . 793 fouTFOLiOParliament of the Week .... ..... 742 Horrible Murder 749 The Wolrerliampton Case 753 The Issue of Praj-TUphaeliam .. * ... 753 The Queen ' s Speech 743 Combinations among- Workmen ille- The Crimes of Peace 754 Organization ok the Pkople—Industrial Congress 743 g"al—among Employers legal 749 The Horrors of . Modern Sepu ' -ture .. 731 Bradford Working' -Men ' g Coopera-The FStes of Paris 741 Personal News and Gossip 759 The French on Beer 755 tive Association 760 Justice at Kome 716 Police 7 ' A ) LrTEBATURB— OP 8 N Council—ContinentalNote 3 718 Miscellaneous ) 751 Socialism in the Quarterlies 7 > 6 A Word to the Peace Congress 760 Limerick Election 717 Mr . 'Ihoinas Coopei ' s Lectuiing' Lamartine on the Restoration ...... 7 > 7 Health of London during the Week . 7 ( 51 Minority Church Rate 3 747 Tour 751 The Tutor ' s Ward 7 . i 7 Commercial Affairs—The Journals and the Labour Move- Births , Marriag-cs , and Deaths .... 751 The Ahts— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisement * , ment 747 Public Affaiks— Bouffs 758 & c 761-64
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Parliament Has Broken Up For The Holiday...
Parliament has broken up for the holidays . The Session , distinguished only by the Papal Aggression Bill , in over- ^ - and the re trospect of its deeds is brief—it has stirred up the No Popery spirit , and excepting a few scraps oC improvement ; , chiefly in Law practice , it has disappointed every expectation . The last week has been a scramblemeasures hurried through their latest stages with indecent precipitancy ; a precipitancy so indecent in the case of one Bill , promoted for the convenience of the Bishops , that the Prime Minister was publicly called to account for it .
The confusion of parties with which this Session began , has been worse confounded . Although no political section has sunk to the degradation in which the Whigs are content to remain , enduring the responsibilities of office without its power or dignity , no other political section has felt itself strong enough to cope with the difficulties of the time , which are all the worse , since they are of the negative , kind . No party has yet discovered " a
mission" for itself . 1 he Protectionists are left without a doctrine , and their leader is cultivating the gout in contemplative repose . Mr . Disraeli has been trying a variety of enterprises : now some quasi-Protectionist mission , some Anti-Whig demonstration , some political cry , « ome financial ' ' dodge" ; but the incidents of the novel have not proved strong enough for real life , and the Session leaves him rather damaged than otherwise . The business of the Free Traders is done , and the trading section of thorn , as Financial Reformers , have become a section of the Radical section in Aarlwment , which is rather laughed at for its credulity in the direction of Ministers . Thn
™» y a »; ed mother whose son protects for the hundredth time that he has now sown his wild oats at sixty , Donna Elvira who believes Don Giovanni a after hio thousand and five hundred ladies , the creditor who expected Sheridan to pay him—these awj prototypes of the Radicals looking for Lord j »>« u ' b Reform Bill next session . There is , howev « r , no reason to suppose that Members will bo preven ted from meeting ucxfc . session by any sense 1 shame or ridicule at beginning the farce over liT " * ! ° " tlle c <) ntl * ai y > lt lH HtlitI tlmt N « mo of them ' ^ . r * - * » dy made arrangements for canvassing the ° nuiig-claHHo « under Lord John ' s promine < l Bill !
BelM C ! Umhlle ' contest to which Lord John Ruhh-il comi » itta < l the country , may bo said to Arii C , ° J nmencctl with fcho Limerick election . Lord on .,, ! J- lSurr com !>» t il with national lialmum f rc l rol > lUl "g lhe introduction of an ICuge « cabB « l « i 1 Bh Con 8 t > t » oncy- This eccentric Section w ° Ver % had no succeHH J Loid Surrey ' s I rcSir Cttrned by Btorm ' « na Uti mu 8 t be «*¦
garded as the Roman Catholic leader for next session . He is well suited to the post : endowed by nature with a candid disposition that disarms doubt and antagonism in others , he is yet manifestly a sincere and earnest man in his own faith ; his birth secures him a good position amongst English Catholics ; his election ranks him among Irish Ca ~ tholics ; and under his lead the two sections will be able to act together . Many Liberals also will join the alliance the more willingly for his being at the head of it . If he can manage to keep the
political question of Roman Catholic rights distinct from sectarian assumptions , if he can keep it to the broad ground of social justice without obtruding spiritual arrogance , if he can avoid the hazardous audacity for which the priesthood of Rome has been too often distinguished , the heated rashness of the Irishman , and the extravagant timidity of the Whig—he will be enabled , under the dark shadow of the Anti-Papal Bill , to muster a great force for the reclamation of relierious freedom . We welcome the
accession of the Roman Catholics to that great cause : let every faith , say we , stand t \ no from temporal oppression , debarred from temporal tyranny ; let us settle our spiritual differences on spiritual grounds , under the broadest constructions of mutual good faith , and we have no fear for the result . The times appear dead enough at present ; but the politician with the most half-shut eyes knows that we are commencing thc recess before a busy political season . Not that it will be busy by force of the Ministerial measures ; its business will come from without . The date of 1852 is a momentous one in the almanac of political expectation . In
our own country , events and discussion combine to indicate the character of the next movement . The attempt to raise wages at Wolverhampton will not be arrested by the recent conviction : on the contrary , in any event the trial is likely to prove a new stimulus . Should the Judges at Westminster confirm the verdicts , the enforcement of unjust and unequal Combination Laws will raise an agitation ulready threatened in the continued depression of wages . Should the verdicts be quashed , which in possible—and several journalists are already anticipating that result—a new extension will be given to the freedom of the working-men for an alliance to protect their own interests . Meanwhile the
diseusBion oi the Associative principle continues to receive very remarkable accessions . Amongst our news the reader will find ft striking passage from the Globe , in which the Whig journalist anticipates for the working classes a period such nn the Itcform Bill aira was to the middle classes . The Brighton Harold , a Conservative paper , passes Nome strictureH on Mr . Coninghuin'h lecture , in a spirit which we may not onl y call candid , but friendly ; canvassing the practical extension of the principle , with a reHpoetful attention , and pointing some cautions that are essentially valuable . The Lincolnshire Chronicle publishes the complaint of a trader
—the first distinct cry , it may be said , of that class , on recognizing the ruinous pressure with which competition is crushing it ; and the journal appends a remark , showing that intelligent writers throughout the country are beginning to perceive the destructive operation of that imperfect ceconomical principle . We do not recollect , in the history of the world , a parallel to the international fetes , celebrated this week at Paris . Kings have greeted Kings on Fields of Cloth of Gold and the like , suspiciously , and protected by bands of armed retainers . Popes have met Emperors , when something was to be gained on ons side , or atoned for on the other .
Three Emperors once met at lilsit , with hypocritical suavity , each intent on playing his own selfish game . England entertained the allied Sovereigns , and Louis Philippe received Queen Victoria at the Chateau d'Eu . But in all these greetings there were crowns at stake and special interests to care for . A bland hypocrisy , a diplomatic , superficial friendliness prevailed . It was not the nation which shook the neighbour nation by the hand , giving a cordial and hospitable welcome ; it was the potentate saluting a questionable ally , a magnificent aristocracy feting subsidized princes and rulers , or a crafty King pretending friendship to a woman for the aggrandizement of his family .
None of these characteristics are to be found in the fetes of Paris . The rulers of the respective countries are not officially cognizant of them . President Bonaparte receives his guests at St . Cloud more like a private citizen of exalted rank than a " prince , " as the Post loves to style him . The real host of the Lord Mayor is thc Prefect o . the Seine ; the real act of . fraternity passes between the city of London , for England , and the city of Paris , for France . The greeting is one of Nation with Nation , of People with People , for the first time in the history of Europe . That we take to bo the meaning of the splendid hospitalities at thc Hotel de Ville and the Palace of St . Cloud .
It i « a great fact . What does it matter if the Lord Mayor never did come up to time ; that he bungled in his speech ; that he stooped to brush the dust from his boots with Ilia pocket-hankerchief , in the Marble Court at Versailles ; and that he figured m tbo great Nobody at St . Cloud ? The substantial result is the same . Franco has broken bread with LCnglnml . The People of France will soon learu that it was not the people of England who won or wished for the battle of Waterloo , and who lout
the battle of Fontenoy . Waterloo gave Franco to the Bourbons , and w »« the iawfc rivet which fastened the National Debt around the neek of England . Let the fdtea of Paris be ibo « eal of that new wra of peaceful strife or , rather , international cooperation , inaugurated by the Exposition of iti & ii No more war between un , Frenchmen ; but « i < l « by side let the People of both countries » tand , in uruis if need be . agtunul
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081851/page/1/
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