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      ¦ ¦ _ ___ — —— , ¦ : ^ , - ,, " ! > * " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the nc 5 ble endeavour ' to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided iviewsj * 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 . "—Sumboldt ' s Cosmos . ¦ " . ' ' ¦¦¦¦¦¦ " > -a ¦ . . . -, = _ . __ . . . ^ _^ , ¦ . — ' —• — -

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      . Urta/C Op The Week— Pabe Out-Door Reli...

      . urtA / c op THE WEEK— pabe Out-Door Relief in Australia 342 The Labourer ' s Golden Dream come Claret and Olives .. - «> NE rJS 334 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Eace ... 343 True . 347 The School for Fathers 3 o 2 History of Parliament ^ .. 334 The Case of Mr . Whfston 313 Sixty Years Lost ;! ... 343 Books on our Table 3 o 3 Mr . CardweUa ^ Mverpooi ............ m » The Murder of Mr . Boyd .. 344 The Great Painted Window Question PORTFOLIOv . Electum ^^^¦^¦ ^•^ y' ^ Miscellaneous . 344 at Hampstead : 343 Comte ' s Positive Philosophy ......... ' 353 - MeaDrole ^ . S ^ i . ..... 337 ^ alth of London durin g the Week 345 The Poor that are always at Us ...... 343 THEARTS _ - ' " iettS from Paris :...-................... 338 Birtha , Marriages , and Deaths . 345 OPEN COUNCIL- The Operas 354 Continental Notes ... 339 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The True Peace . 343 The Theatres in Easter week 354 Mazzhii arid the French Socialists ... 340 Providence in History 349 Burford ' s Panorama of Salzburg ... 355 SSSS ^ - ::::: ¦ ::::::: IS ^ S ^ S ^^ :::::::::::. Z tt .-M- ^ v ^ i ^ d- ^ t 349 Co ™ er ™ laffa , rs-^ iSin ' theGrystai Palace .., 341 The Birkenhead 347 LITERATURE- Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements r- - .: SeSS # ^ , S ^ . ? . » -A ^ ' 34-V . The Church in a False Position 347 Newman on Begal Home 350 & c ¦ - 35 o-35 a

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      YOL . Ill , Tfa 107 . ] SATURDAY , APRIL 10 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence , f

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      Easter Breaks A Session Unmarked By Any ...

      Easter breaks a session unmarked by any other achievement than ^ that of substituting for a Ministry which professed Reforrh without achieving it , a Ministry which professes Protection without pursuing it . ^ e have changed King Log for—KingLog * Bte inay look like a Stork at the distance , but go close arid you find it is nothing but a stumpt-r-fnghtftt ] and frantic as seen from afar , but as dead as a "Whig . It is indeed something to have got rid of the Old Man of the Sea

      Ministry ; and as Lord Derby has no such chance of settling down into his bed as a Russell had , the change is one for the better ; but that is all . We are to have a dissolution before the year is out , and Parliament will probably be summoned before Christmas ; but what Ministers mean to do , they will not say . No crossrquestioning can extract an avowal : they will not confess what they mean to attempt in the residue of the session j they will not announce the policy which they intend to submit to the country at the

      election . They evidently dare not avow their own plans . In the meanwhile they avoid discussion . Some important subjects have been before Parliament this week , but Ministers maintain a defensive and evasive attitude . The Kaffir war has been in discussion , on going into Committee of , Supply j but the question was one rather with the late than the

      present Ministry . Without so apposite an occasion as he might have had on Mr . Adderley ' s motion , Sir William Molesvvorth expounded the merits of the case , and Mr . Frederick Peel detended Lord Grey ; but the interest of the points jn litigation is to a great extent superseded by the change of administration , both in Downingktrect and the Colony . The debate was chiefly notable for Mr . Gladstone ' s argument , in favour ot fcavmg the colony and its defence to local ^ -government ; a proposition ill met by Lord ° l » n Russell ' s argument ngninat any sudden withdrawal of troopswhich nobodproposed . ¦ ¦ » * . - »— » w »¦ t

      , y * ^ " " - ^ ^*^ " »^ r *^ ^^ ^^ ^^ m r ^< r *** ^^ w ^ v Anot he r subject , advanced by the interpella' ° " ° \ Lor < l Beaumont , has been the treatment r Jinghah subjects abroad and of foreign refugees J . tU 8 country : Lord Malmcsbury ' s answer imlaid A he shoultl not < le P f ™™ t « e course down by his predecessor—moderation and practical independence : he 8 UOul < l propose no iteration of the laws , and should introduce no » angci m their administration . Lord Beaumont Country Edition . ]

      was addressing the House of Lords on the discourteous and arrogant despatches of Prince Sehwarzenberg , when death had already sealed the lips , and palsied the hand of that Austrian statesman for ever . On the whole , however , the principal Ministers have kept out of discussion in a marked manner , within the last few days . They are preparing for the election , and profess to despise the present " moribund Parliament , " while they dread to let their real policy be detected .

      Out o £ doors , circumstances dp not favour them . Demonstrations like Mr . Cardwell ' s Freetrade electioneering speech at Liverpool , do not augur favourably for the opponents of Free-trade ; still less the alliance with flaunting fanatics like the Reverend Hugh M'Neile . The election of Archbishop Cullen , of "Armagh , heretofore Primate of Ireland for the Roman

      Catholic Church , to the second , but more influential post , as Archbishop of Dublin , means mischief . Dr . Cullen is the leader of the ultramontane party , and he is substituted for the late Dr . Murray , leader of the Liberal Catholics , whom Lord John ' s anti-papal agitation so insanely alienated ; but Dr . Cullen will prove not less troublesome to an Orange Government , like Lord Eglinton ' s , than he would have done to the Russell Cabinet .

      And , to crown the troubles of the Derby Cabinet , the Revenue Returns for the year and quarter present a most embarrassing aspect for a Protectionist Ministry—a decrease of 700 , 000 / . on the year , with the very slight increase of 100 , 000 / . on the quarter ; and a still more vexatious condition of the details . The Income-tax , with which they must deal in some way or other , is yearly declining ; the Revenue must be supported ; yet the chief returns are from that department of Customs which Free-trade rendered so little oppressive , though still so productive ; and Excise ,

      which includes the Malt-tax , object of agricultural hatred . The practical injunction of the Revenuetable is this ;—Stick to the Free-trade policy , don't abandon the Malt-tax , don't abate but improve the Income-tax . But how is Mr . Disraeli to do that and yet to retain the agricultural confidence 1 At the eleventh hour , an agitation has fairly commenced to save the Crystal Palace . In spite of official frowns , a huge concourse took possession of the building on Saturday , enjoyed a promenade , and held a meeting to protest against the destruction of the edifice ; a public meeting in the city has adopted the same view , by an immense

      major ity . Lord John Manners , who was so free to give up " arts and commerce , " is obdurate on the score of the building : a few lordly residents dislike it , and , whatever Ministry may be in office , social courtesy would forbid any violation of their pleasure ; so the public apathy is to be used against the public wish . There can , however , be little doubt that the Ministry which removes the most popular work of the day will effectually draw upon itself a large share of public dislike .

      Schwarzenberg , the sworded Metternich of the counter-revolutionary period , has been struck from his seat of power by the fatal hand of disease . He was the man for his day . Poor Stadion took the troubles of 1848 to heart , tried to accommodate the institutions of Austria to the march of time , wes slighted for his pains by all parties , went mad with anxiety , and died . Schwarzenberg had no such premature providence : he looked to the

      present only ; grappling with revolution , he seized the contumacious provinces of Austria , re-bound them to their slavery , and to the past ; and restored the absolute power of his Emperor . He did it at the expense of subserviency to Russia , at an expense of bloodshed and misery incalculable ; but he did it . In the Austrian , sense he was a great man . He affected even the internal administration of England ; he repelled Lord Westmoreland and his complimentary tea-service , until the Whig ministry had shaken off the only man that gave it strength , against whom he had

      conceived a sullen enmity . If tliat injury to a vigorous statesman like Lord Palmerston is to have any results , the offender has not lived to endure the rctribntion . Stadion . died in a madhouse ; Schwarzenberg died in undisputed power . Louis Bonaparte leads France as a skilful husband in the honey days of illusion—dashed , it may be , with a faint prescience of future henpeckj Ug—leads the wife of his bosom , by managing to be driven the way he would , go . He will only accept a crown if ho is driven to the hard necessity : accordingly , the army , debauched by donatives and influenced by souvenirs and appeals ,

      the legion of coquins who shout at Ins carnagewheels for so much a day , and the in numerable functionaries of every degree , transformed for the occasion into purveyor ^ of enthusiasm , are pumping up another free and sincere expression of the people ' s will in time perhaps for the 5 th of May , which , as a Napoleonic anniversary , will have to be celebrated . The reception of the magistracy , with old

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10041852/page/1/