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    u The one Idea which History exhihits a 9 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and hy setting aside the distinctions or Religion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , haviftg one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    WEEK- PAGE NEWS OF THE Th e General Election ... The K oyal Agricultura l S De ath of Henry Clay Letters from Paris Continental Notes India and Burmah Co-operative League A Wild Clergyman A Mormon Miracle The Sanitary Association Water Monopolists 670 674 674 , 674 675 676 676 677 677 Society . the versus 677 678 Dreadful Bailway Accident » tters from _rans OT-i mtinental Notes 675 tdia and Burmah 676 _^ operative League 676 Wild Clergyman 677 Mormon Miracle 677 te Sanitary Association versus the Water _Monopolists 677 readful Bailway Accident 678

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    Overcrowded Steamboats 678 The Danger of Bathing 679 Miscellaneous 679 Health of London during the Week 679 BirthB , Marriages , and Deaths 679 POSTSCRIPT 680 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Mini 3 trv Defviner the PeoDle ... 681 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe Ministry Defying the People ... Palmerston and the Future Our Modern Feudal System Italian Martyrdom and English Apathy 681 681 682 682 BirthB , Marriages , and Deaths 679 POSTSCRIPT 680 ru " PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Ministry Defying the People ... 681 Palmerston and the Future 681 Our Modern Feudal System 682 Italian Martyrdom and English Apathy 682

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    How to Elect Guardians to Mind Anti-Maynooth and its Teachi : The " Standard" * caught 1 dropping Worn-out Words in Political tJT _*™? _^ - Dishonest Dizzy "The Show of Hats" The Value of the Franchise .... OPEN COUNCILThe Leader and the Church Con Worn-out Words m Political Con- _troversy 683 Dishonest Dizzy 684 " The Show of Hats" 684 The Value of the Franchise 684 OPEN COUNCIL— The Leader and the Church 684 to your , 683 hings ... 683 Eaves- 683 and its Teachings .. ; d" * caught Eaves

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    PORTFOLIO _Comte's Positive Kulosophy 688 The Discipline of Art _&» Passages from a Boy ' s Epic _1 690 arts—VVi _n Vth _Bnmna _«» 0 Vivian intne ump _COMM ERCIAL AFFAIRS cni _*» n 2 _aiarkfete , _Advertisements , & c .... _691-OB _* j LITERATUREQuizot an Shatapeare 685 Herbert _SpeaoWa Theory of _Population ; _&& Books on our Tabid 688

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    VOL . III . No . 121 . ] SATUKDAY , JULY 17 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpemoe _.

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    While the Ministerialists are counting tbeir gains as they are pleased to efettthem , the _jnriA c at large is chieflj interested hx _^ t _flfct thit _O _* - ford _University has not _dk-a _^' j _^^ Jii iug Mr . Gfcufotone , and tbtt _SfeM _^^ _fMh-ft- * deemed itself by once more _^ l _^ _iMk _^ K _& l _^ Oxford , indeed , hm _pfa *& _& - _lA _^ _VfE ** the head of the poH > pr _« JfcW ** % to be _jrepresented by the member for Exeter _Ball , than by the truly refined and independent statesman and scholar ; and a Ministerial morning paper , while deploring the short-lived triumph of Tractarianism and heroworship , through a not unnatural alliance of graduates in superstition and scepticism , the disciples of Pusey and admirers of Carlyie , enters into very elaborate calculations to show that Dr . Bullock

    Marshain would have been returned if two hundred persons who intended to be in Oxford had actually gone , if fifty promised votes had been recorded , and so forth ; meanwhile says the consoled Herald , " despite the heat , the expense , and the necessity of taking part in other elections elsewhere , 750 sons of Alma Mater , manly and true , recorded , in person , their solemn condemnation of Mr . ( _Gladstone's _heresies !"

    I _5 y a parity of reasoning the distinguished journal asserts , in a breath , that " rapidly is the opposition phalanx diminishing iu its numbers ; " but still thut " every seat now gained becomes of the utmost importance ; it is the prelude of certain victory ; moreover it gives the only chance of a firm and stable Government . " This rapid accumulation of Parliamentary wealth , which is so _imxious about its individual pence , this " certain " " chance" materially diminishes when we scrutinize the nature of the Ministerial progress .

    It ia true that here and there a constituency has transferred its votes to a Ministerialist , but the gams are far from sufficient to encourage a hope that they will do more than diminish the _^ position majority , leaving it still u majority . . J II ( rotd calculates that the _opposition will be * m _^" *' _' ' 1 > U < thc m ' fot ) tiu « ° " which many Ministerialist * m > w stand , foreshadows division

    _. m t _( 1 ( . Ministerial minority . The diversity ° 1 view has been rendered more marked . There w the old sehoo ] who , with Mr . Ilerries , at _Stainlord , and Mr . Hooker , at Hereford , are for returning to Protection in the full sense of the word . heron , the Disraeli school , who generalise the [ Country Edition . ]

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    _^ ik } word . _ProtecCion , aud seek a substitute for the advantages of prohibitory duties in a transfer of fiscal burdens from . one class to another ; and there is the newest school , who , with Sir Thomas Dyke Acland , and Lord Hugh CholmOndeley , _dfcdfcre point blank that if a mea-. sure to m _^ WMfce Corn-law were proposed they _tMttwUbt _iMpfe _^ 4 _flpfri ( p _£ ' ' _Jt- Lord Stanley , son of the _''fllHliPfe'SwSi' * _" * _"ft » subject is at rest , and _M _* _wUbt _iMp _|^ 4 | _itf _0 _Mt ' ' it- Lord Stanley , son of the _Ifamfc J _^ _fpf _^ Wt ' _* be subject is at rest , and _'^^ _. _fdilni _^/^ NMidenrvt of the Board of Trade , says that no man intends to propose a renewal of the Corn-laws ; hut the members whom we have just mentioned say that the question shall not be disturbed , and that they will resist the _reimposition . Observe , Booker , Kelly and others are for restoring Protection ; Disraeli and others are for converting it into transfer of burdens or compensation ; Acland aud others would resist the _restoration . Without presuming that these several sections of the minority would often vote against each other , their very existence indicates divided councils , even in a minority .

    The Protectionist party professes to make its boldest move in proposing as candidate for the West Riding , against Cobden , that Mr . George Pelsant Dawson , of _, Osgodby-hall , whom we have more than once mentioned as having introduced the idea of spontaneous association amongst agriculturists to promote their interests ; an idea per * - fectly in accordance with the progress of opinion . We have always regarded that idea as reconciling the conflicting interests , hitherto imperfectly represented by the one-sided dogmas called Protection and Free-trade . If Mr . Dawson were

    returned to parliament , it would be some compensation for the ejection of Philip Pusey by the electors of Berkshire , because he told them that henceforth they must rely not on Protection , but on a sound system of agriculture . We have to note also the gain of more than one truly popular member . Mr . Edward Miall , the editor of the Nonconformist , a dissenter , with views far more enlarged than those usually found among nonconformists , is returned for Rochdale ; and Newcastle-upon-Tyne has vindicated its high character for intelligence and political vigour , hy electing Mr . Blaekett , a man hearty and able in the people ' s cause .

    Amongst other pleasing traits of the elections , we note the energy with which the people oi Norwich have rescued themselves from long standing habits of bribery , carrying th « ir zeal so far as to place committees in the streets during the night

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    to keep watch upon the bribers . This energy has won victory ; and Norwich , in one of whose streets so much as 4000 / . has been spent at previous elections , has now freely returned the men of her own choice . —Peto , the liberal dissenter , whose munificence we admire , though we might not agree with all his views on industrial subjects , and Warner a thoroughgoing Radical .

    While Parliament is struggling into existence , rejecting Pusey , haggling over Disraeli , Booker , or Acland , or Cohden , or Pelsant Daws _^ _ft , _apiculture is struggling into sense , hy h « lp irf Us _associations , lie Exhibition « f the _Jfayal Agricultural Society « _fc Xewe «» is * proof that the farmers are seeking in . earnest to place themselves above artificial support . We observe that the

    show of machinery is extensive ; and that every year adds to the demand for it among agriculturists . This is a cheering sign . As farmers become able to pay rent by skilful enterprise , they will become less and less the slaves of the rentexacting classes . Thus a double victory will be gained—moral and monetary independence .

    The sum of this week ' s French news is anticipated by our last resume of the political situation in that country . The dangers and difficulties of Louis Napoleon are spreading like a cloud . The most salient fact is the almost universal strike of the working-classes throughout the country ; a proof of wide-spread and deep-rootexl discontent ,

    formidably organized . The army wavers , and even the peasants stone the adventurer , St . Arnaud , when they recognise him . Literature , driven from the press , and oratory from the tribune , take refuge in pamphlets and brochures , and by simply adapting Tacitus ( after the manner of English dramatic authors ) , hurl deadly shafts at the reigning imposture .

    Let those who hail the re-establishment of good relations between olficial English Toryism and Austrian absolutism ponder well the amenities oi Austrian rule in Loin hardy . But from the nettle of Calamity , we pluck the flower , Hope . Italy is neither dead nor sleeping . A people that can so suffer and so persist , has a future beyond the

    reach of despotism ami diplomacy . With the light and warmth of her genius , Italy fills the world . With the example of her heroic endurance , she will rekindle the torch of freedom , a beacon to the nations oppressed . Lord _Palmerston't . latest words , on the Italian question , were only too well timed ; hut what of Lord _Malmesbury ' s professions , and what of his alliances _?

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/1/