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      •' The One Idea Which History Exhibits A...

      • ' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humani ^ r—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 Kelagion , 'Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual ¦ ¦ nature . "—iHhmboldes Cosmos , ¦' :

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      Contents :

      M Rue Uwpplf— Sagb The Ice-Bound Ships ....

      M rue uwPPlf— SAGB The Ice-bound Ships . ¦ . 461 Wagner Analyzes 467 PORTFOLIO--NEy / S OF THE WEEK- * A « . Ninety Lives lost ii Coi-mines 1 ... 461 French Strychnine and English Beer 467 Comte's Positive Philosophy 472 Jhe Week in Parliament ; .. „ ... 464 Miscellaneous ... 461 The Manchester Working Man . —A THE ARTSMinisters at the Mansion Hottse ... 457 Health of London during the Story of Competition . 467 The Operas . * - 473 ( Jhorch Matters ........................... 457 Week ...................... 462 On the Cultivation of Flax .. 467 Eose Cheri ¦ . 474 letters frompans ... 458 Births , Marriages ; and Deaths ...... 462 Patagbniaand St . Giles ' s .... 468 Lueia-. 474 Continental Notes .............,... ; ...... 458 Colliery Explosions 468 German Plays ' 474 Statues of Sir Rohert Peel ... 459 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— None but the Brave Deserve the Fare 468 The Quartett Association 474 ; Tjie Wagner Case ........................ 459 , Hqvr to BeaKie Protection 464 IITpbature- Eoyal Academy Exhibition 474 tforal Literary Fund Dinner ......... 450 The Feastof Eagles 464 LITERATURE— „ -.. „« ..,, . ¦ « . « ,, « . ' Iroiffess orAssodatioh .................. 460 The Orange Thunder-Cloud ............ 465 Scottish Criminal Trials , . 469 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSenJyMayhewandthe Silk Weavers 460 The Settlement of Schleswig-Sobtein 485 Consumption and Travel 471 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , < 3 old " GatheringandWool-Gatheriiig . 461 The Convocation Movement . 466 A Batch of New Books .. 471 & c 476-470

      Tol.Iil No. 112.] Satueday, May 15, 1852...

      TOL . IIL No . 112 . ] SATUEDAY , MAY 15 , 1852 , [ Price Sixpence .

      To Our Readers And. ^: ' ; ' Subscribers.

      'TO OUR READERS AND . ^ : ' ; SUBSCRIBERS .

      The Fouowing Note Hasbeen Handed To Us B...

      The foUowing note hasbeen handed to us by an old and valued subscriber . He had received it from a solicitor , whose name wewithhold , as we are indispOBed to serve as an advertisement to legal aspirants in this way of business , or to run the risk of any proceedings which might be attempted in the hope of costs . The solicitor ia question wa « acting by instruction of Messrs . Clayton and Son , of ' No , 265 , Strand ; through whom the

      gentleman , so addressed , had ordered his weekly copy of the Zeader , pf which , however , he complains that he had frequently been altogether deprived , but for the receipt of which , during a period not specified , payment of 11 . 10 s . 6 d . is now demanded in this offensive manner . " . [ ' ,. . « 6 th May , 1852 . "Sik , —Messrs . Clayton andSoN have directed

      me to apply to you for immediate payment of 11 . 10 s . 6 d . due to them , and unless I receive this amount , with 2 s-., my charge , in ' course of post , I must issue process from the County Court , as my clients are resojvefl not to lose the amount of their demand upjbii you . ' " " I . ' am , sir ,- your obedient servant ,

      Having reason to believe that this is only one of many similar applications ; We beg leave to solicit the particular attention of our readers and subscribers to an advertisement \ f e have felt ourselves compelled to insert in another part of our paper . During the first few months of its

      establishment , Messrs . Clayton and Son were the publishers of the Leader . When they had ceased J ° he publishers , the list of subscribers originally wormed by them was not transferred to the new publi 9 her , but was suffered to remain with them ; J / Jf ' Proprietors desiring to make the change as « ttleinj urious aB possible to Messrs . Clayton and "ON . TVinf la * ! - „ ' J _ •_ __ 1 . " 1- 1 _ i ? „ ., _ on , That is the mode in which several of

      our oldest subscribers were suffered to continue the order to Messrs . Clayton and Son without any speoitl notice as to the transfer of the publishing oujfo . . ..., ¦ LJk ** 18 ^ 06 * ° ^ se subscribers , however , wo T ? T" *** to fltftte , explicitly , that we have no r *^ ~* sendmg ebmmunioationB like the one we ^ P ™^^ , and that we cannot be answerable Btioli ° ? ^ llair , t ^ an 8 rai ^ sion of papers , excepting a r ^ ^ e seat dirootly from our . own office . Country Edition . ]

      The former connexion of Messrs . Clayton and Son with our publishing office makes it necessary for us to disclaim all connexion with the recent acts of that firm . "We say this without prejudice to the trade of news - agents at large , among whom we are glad to acknowledge many friends who have diligently promoted the circulation of our paper ; and we believe that the most convenient way for the reader usually is to order his journal of his own newsman .

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      ; Mms ' . of tk Wnk .

      Political Adulteration Almost Keeps Pace...

      Political adulteration almost keeps pace with trading adulteration , and amid the mass of measures made for sale , the character of the dealers is decaying past redemption . Ministers have had this week to pay the penalty of their licences . On Monday their disasters began , when Mr . Disraeli advanced his bill to confer the Parliamentary seats taken from Sudbury and St . Albans on two new county divisions , which he proposed to slice off South Lancashire and the West Kiding of Yorkshire . He found a grave and formidable opponent in Mr . Gladstone ; who discussed less the merits of the

      measure than the right of Ministers , in their position ad interim , thus to dispose of the representation . And on a division , the bill was thrown out by 234 to 148 . Although bearing the semblance of a " liberal measure , " is probable that i t would have snatched large constituencies for the agricultural or protectionist interest ; but the country gentlemen are understood not to have seen it ; they only saw that four seats were to have been conferred on th e great manufacturing counties , and they were proportionately angry . So that at the expense of an inopportune defeat , Ministers did not even win the agriculturist gratitude .

      Tuesday produced » scene not less disastrous to the Ministers . Mr . Spooner brought forward his long expected motion against Maynooth . Professedly it was one for inquiry ;¦ ' but confessedly the object is to withdraw the grant . The Irish members challenged inquiry , and dared the party assailants of the Roman Catholics to come on , Lord Palmerston showed how totally inexpedient the motion was j since it must either end in proving that the grant had fulfilled its object in providing education for the Eoinan Catholic clerical students , and then nothing could be said against

      it ; or that the grant had not answered its intended purpose , and then Protestants would be seen insisting on the performance of Catholic duties ! But Mr . Gladstone entered deep into the subject ; showed that the question was not whether Roman Catholic students should be taught - —that is settled , but whether they should be taught abroad or in Ireland ; he reminded the

      House , that Mr . Spooner , who asked inquiry with a foregone conclusion , was not the person to conduct an impartial investigation ; and he explained how the inquiry could best be pursued under the guidance of a responsible Executive . The debate was adjourned till next week , having done irreparable damage to Ministers , be it decided how it may .

      Let us not forget , however , that in the House of Commons , on Wednesday , Mr . Milner Gibson renewed his debate to repeal the taxes on knowledge ; which was enlivened with an episode introduced energetically by Mr , Gladstone on the new book controversy . The motion was defeated , but the debate showed two things unmistakeably - —that the bookselling system cannot recover unaltered from the present crisis , and that the booksellers will inevitably be forced into an effective agitation for repeal of the taxes on paper and advertisements .

      Meanwhile , Ministerial discussions had been transferred to the hospitable board of the Lord Mayor , where Lord Derby made an addendum to his right honourable friend ' s budget speech . All our political system , he said , is one of compromisesrepresentation , church , finance , throne , all : a periphrastic mode of intimating that Ministers intend to effect a compromise between Protection and Free-trade , which neither must expect to be satisfactory . But , at the same feast , Count

      Walewski made a more important declaration . " At no period , " he said , "have the relations between France and England been of a more satisfactory nature , and a better understanding has never subsisted between the two Governments aa to all the questions now pending both in the old world and the new . " Saying these words he challenged contradiction from the present Ministers , Lord Derby and Lord Malmesbury ; and he thus confirmed what we have before declared in

      the Jjeader . Ministers have appeared in a better light in their relations with labour . Replying to the deputation from the Society of United Trades , which has succeeded to the Amalgamated Society

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051852/page/1/