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      • \ ^ y "Thb one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Hamanitr-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 & 3 one brotherhood having one ^ reat object-the free development of our spiritual nature . " -Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      Nhws OF THB W 8 BK-- P « Z * Bicester Railway Accident-Import- What can be done with Six Acre 3 of " Talented ' again 901 Liberation o ' fKoas ' ' . ' . ' . ' . 868 Personal Newa and Gossip 8 JI A Flattering Likeness 896 nation 902 The ^ Sardinian Workmen ' and the The » Von Beck" Mystery 892 A Subversive Fact 89 ci Open Counc . l-* M . Si ? , 1 » 88 S The Exposition 891 Social Keform . — " Notes of a Social Catholic and Protestant Miracles .. 912 The Kafir War ' . ' ** . 8 H 8 Desperate Tooth-drawing 892 CEconomist" 895 The Principles of Social Org-anlzation 903 ThP Indian , Npws "' . 888 "Murder will out . " 892 Litebature— Affairs of the lata Harinony-hall Advent of BloomeriVm . " .. . ' .... 888 Public Affairs- The Creed of Christendom 897 Estate 903 PaDal AsfBTesBion . 888 England , Europe , and America .... 894 Golden Dreams and Waking Realities 899 Commercial Affairs — Dr Cullen on Education . * . * . " . ' 888 Wciomerism 894 Portfolio— Markets , Gazettes , [ Advertisements , Lincoln Penitent Females' Home . 889 Home and Cuba . 895 The Socialists ' Apology 901 & e ... ; 903-8

      Vol. Ii.—No. 78. Saturday, September 20,...

      VOL . II . —No . 78 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      "While The Queen Is Rusticating In The H...

      "While the Queen is rusticating in the Highlands , while her Ministers are scattering themselves over the copntry in search of health , Mrs . Dexter lecturing on Bloomerism . and Newminster winning the St . Leger , Mr . Disraeli has been promulgating a party manifesto from Aylesbury . Protection is no longer a great fact ; it " is a dead fact ; and the member for Buckinghamshire gives it up . But in doing so he has given another proof of the utter impracticability , impotence , and want of statesmanship , which characterize the Country Party . This Aylesbury manifesto is more explicit , and at the same time more untrue—contains more selfish

      philosophy and illogical reasoning than any of the many by which it has been preceded . The Protectionists have a magnificent career before them , if they would really consult the " spirit of the age , " to which Mr . Disraeli appealed , and apply themselves heartily to the task of renovating the condition of the peasantry , instead of sustaining the rent-rolls of the landowners ; but it will be seen that the projects of Mr . Disraeli aim only at the reconstruction of a

      shattered interest ami a broken party ; that they in no wise tend to the permanent welfare of the tenant or peasant-class , nor to the welfare of the nation ; and that his boasted " case for the country " is a special , and not a national case , neither broad enough nor strong enough to form thebasis of a party with the capacity of holding power forthrec months . " Political Justice" is incompatible with " rotten boroughs and the Chandos clause . " " Financial Equity , " meaning repeal of the malt-tax , repeal of the land-tax , could not coexist with the

      maintenance of a host of taxes pressing on the subsistence and the comforts of the poor . Yet this is the basis proposed by Disraeli , the best tongue among them , for the policy of the Country Party ! But this question of taxes—the only question with which he deals—what a small thing it is ! Might lie not obtain an insight into " the spirit of the

      age" by looking at palpable facts , instead of framing ingenious theories of action upon a false bottom ? Why is tenant-right ignored ; and no word spoken for a peasant proprietary P The new Irish Society for placing Irishmen fairl y on spots of free land , the great success of the . Freehold Land Societies and the perseverance and nkiU of a Lord Willoughby d'Eresby , in testing the practibility of applying steam to agriculture , Point out the true basis lor the formation of a

      country party . "' it every political section is drifting hehnlessly on tue orcan of impracticability . Mr . Disraeli counsels unu «^ propo 8 c 8 chirrft , m 8 Mr . Iium fi ^ ° ft &^ \ T urther thun household Huf ^ the * tJ £° T \ haV ° . *<* ° y whatever W ; and m ^ lSZnZ ^ itT "^^ [ Cqvnthv Edition . ]

      It is the same in our colonial mismanagementno determined definite principle and course of action . Sir Harry Smith ' s despatches impart a graver tone to the Cape news . No one knows when or how hostilities at the Cape will terminate . Whig meanness and irresolution paralyze all . In the educational aspects we see this week the two poles of the opposition to the national education party . Positive Cullen , negative Condor . Dr . Cullen would have no mixing of the children

      of different sects at school—everything must be Catholic . Education without religion is " devilish " —education in company with Episcopalian or Presbyterian children , an abomination . Not Catholicism this , but exclufiiveness . While the Reverend Mr . Condor , an advocate of pure voluntaryism , sneers at education in general , objects to any kind of state assistance , and denounces secular education in toto . Resistance to the spread of true Catholicity characterises each of these

      extremes . Confusion of orders , a certain laxity of management , and want of positive definite instructions , prove to have been the causes of the Bicester railway accident . " The finding of the jury is a severe rebuke to the railway authorities . The " accident " need not have happened ; none of the circumstances attending it were primarily beyond human control ; and the weight of public censure which falls upon the authorities , is fully deserved . A sickening task to trace week by week the blind courses of Continental reaction ! Kvery day the close alliance of the French factions with the

      German despotisms becomes more palpable . The " vigorous Ministry" of M . Bonaparte is not content with doing " international loyalty" by espionage , imprisonment , and expulsion of herds of refugees , making the hospitality of the Republic a byword ; but it apes faithfully every new vexation of the police ot Vienna and Berlin . In Italy certain national colours are forbidden ; so in France we hear of red cushions , cravats , or other articles of dress and furniture bearing that hateful colour , made a suspicion , an offence , a punishment . In Paris the remaining son of Victor Hugo is sentenced , on the verdict of a packed jury , to an exorbitant penalty for an article

      adopting and commenting upon the avowals of a Government organ ; whilst at Vienna , Sapphir , the brilliant humourist of the once gayest , but now most forlorn of cities , is condemned to prison for a page of real tragic irony on the recent Cabinet letters under the disguise of a lament over a shattered mind . Freedom of thought and utterance is alike incompatible with Emperors and Prince-Presidents ; but it is well to mark that the ( sentences in both cases produced the same deep and universal feeling of disgust . L < Son Faucherand Baroche strike at Victor Hugo through hiu 8 ons ; one not twenty-one , the other scarcely twenty-three years of age . If , as the advocate said , on the trial , you deprive mothers of

      their sons , how will you win the support of the •* Family " which you are for ever chanting ? The great poet-orator has given hostages to the Republic . In the day of her resurrection she will not forget the gift . Another whole Department placed in a state of siege , because in two small towns , cbntaining each perhaps a thousand souls , some slight resistance was offered , on the occasion of a fete , to the provocations of the gendarmerie , shows how fatally incontinent is reaction ! Four hundred thousand citizens deprived of

      the protection of the civil law and handed over to courts martial on account of some village rioting . And this in the heart of republican France , in a time of profound quiet . But the reasons that are alleged might be equally alleged for placing all France under a state of siege . Manoeuvres of factions , indeed ! Is the Republic a faction ? Perhaps M . L . Bonaparte expects to obtain a renewed lease of power from the universal suffrage of a People under the state of siege . Can it be wondered at , that all the prestige of Bonapartism , all the hallucination of a " name" is fast fading

      away . Beyond the entourage and the functionaries , who will now vote for a man who is only not a traitor because he has neither the wit to devise , nor the courage to act ? He is not even a decent stepping-stone to Monarchy . But he may retire witli the miserable comfort of having consolidated the Republic , not according to his sacred promises , but in spite of his persevering treacheries . As an agent of Austrianism he has won hia spurs . The sometime refugee of Switzerland menaces Swiss hospitality ; and the exile of London solicits the harassing , when he cannot obtain the expulsion , of the exiles who gave him back a country .

      His own time may come again to know the sweets of exile and the glory of a free country ' s protection . The monstrous illegality of preventive imprisonment has been illustrated in the trials of Agen : MM . Lesseps , Desolme , and Dufau had been nine months in prison on mere accusation , and were acquitted . What security is there for life , or property , or family , where a Government gets obnoxious citizens out of the way in this summary fashion ? There is no excess of tyranny practised at Berlin or Vienna that the actual Ministers of M . Bonaparte do not strive to exceed . Even Belleisle is an imitation Ischia 1

      lhe vexatious Police Ordinances respecting strangers have created a panic in Paris . Three thousand German and Belgian workmen deprived of honourable bread and work and driven across the frontiers , starving and desolate . A sop to Despotism I Even English travellers , as unpolitical as possible , rush for a permit de skjour , or tako wing to regions where Passports are unknown . All these acts of the " vigorous " Government aro paralyzing commerce ; will the bourgeoisie be thankful ? or will they , as they have done before read a lesson to the authorities next time tlfcy bar * to vote ?

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091851/page/1/