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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 19 the Idea ot Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and oue-sided views ; 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 . " —Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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News of the Week— -Page Court 171 The " Times" and the Libel Law .. 177 The Season at Her Majesty ' s Theatre 182 Parliamentof the Week 16 " 6 Tribunals of Commerce 171 Liberty to Poison 177 Grand Tour through Kurope 18 i The State of Europe 167 The Interview with Gholab Singh .. 171 The Poor President 177 Democratic Intelligence—A Threatened Egyptian Quarrel .... 168 Sir John Franklin 171 The Rivals 177 Letters to Charii > ts 182 A Threatened Kaffir War 168 Poisonous Breakfast Beverages .... 172 Litehaturk— Associative Progress 183 Piedmont 168 Railway Accidents 172 D'Arliiicourt on Italy 178 Oi'kn Council—Industrial Disturbances 168 Public Affairs— Wendell ' s Antediluvian History .... 179 Episcopal Titles 183 The Great Revenue Trial 169 A New Empire in Europe 17 > Fourier on the Passions 180 Marriage with a Deceased Wife's National Reform 169 The Budget—of "Notions" 175 Books on our Table 181 Sister 183 The House Tax Budget 169 The Mayne-Radetzky Conspiracy .. 17 t » Portfolio— Tracts for the Millennium Is 4 Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge 169 The Progress of Life Assurance .... 176 To Liyard , discoverer of Babylon The Edinburgh Review on Socialism 183 The County Representation 169 The Gruel Question at Barham .... 177 and Nineveh , 181 Mr . Muntz ami the " Times" 185 Protestantism and Popery 170 Protection of Servants and Appren- The Arts— " Commercial Affairs—The Romance of the Bankruptcy ticea 177 Sixtus V . and Azael 181 Alark * -ts , Gazettes , & c 18 . V 86
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Ministers beaten by two to one!—that is the event which quite eclipses the Budget in public interest . The occasion was probably thought by Ministers to be a small one—Mi . Locke King ' s motion to extend the £ 10 franchise to counties , repeated after last year . At that time . the objection was , that the bill was introduced "too late in the session : " Mr . King now introduces it at the
beginning , and Lord John , objecting to > the sweeping character of the proposition , proposes to consider something of the kind next session ! When Mr . King moved in July he was too late ; when he moves in February , the proper time is found to be " next session ; " in short any session but the present . However , the House is becoming intractable , and it would not wait till next session , but even took its division at once . The numbers stood thus : —
For Mr . Locke King ' s motion .... 100 Against it 52 Majority against Ministers . ... 48 " Loud cheers , " of course . The House was a thin one : Lord John had been abandoned by his patrons the Conservatives , and left to the mercies of the Radicals . Out of doors the delight is not less . The Daily its Ministerial and its ministerial
News forgets sympathies , laughs sxews iorgecs sympatnies , ana laughs at Lord John ' s " signal of distress , " the promise for next session . The Chronicle is calculating on more defeats to follow this * ' cruel cut , " even until the Ministry he quite lost to view . The exulting Times—we all know what that means—asks where Lord John will be ? " But , Lord ! to see how the people in the streets do stop and laugh with each other , and chuckle , as if it were a holiday for all !" Which , indeed , it is .
Mr . King ' s bill is calculated to effect a very considerable extenwion of the franchise in a Liberal sense ; to the advantage , however , of the trading and middle class rather than the working classes , of whom mention was made . But the value of his movement will be found in the division rather than in the details of the bill : it breaks through the dead-lock—we are again going forward : umj whether Mr . King ' s bill he carried into an act or not , some extension of the franchise will followand some sort of political action in place of mere stagnation . It is tlu ; best week we have had for many a month .
But we must go back to the beginning . The Budget is generally pronounced to bo neither more nor leas than a humbug , It can as little be described in a sentence as the contents of an old lady ' s pocket . Sir Charles Wood begins with a surplus of £ ' 2 , 500 , 000 ; he devotes a million to redeeming so much of the National Debt ; lie abolishes the duty on agricultural seeds ; he diminishes the duties on coffee , leaving no difference between foreign und colonial ; he transfers part \ [ Country Edition . ]
of the cost of pauper lunatics from the local to the national funds ; he abolishes the window tax but substitutes a house tax calculated to be equal to two-thirds of the window tax , but modified by various exemptions and non-exemptions which may not be calculated . The budget has created a burst of disgust , except where the feeling does not rise above contempt . The leagued parishes of London , who had formed a permanent committee against the window tax , threaten to go to great lengths of speeches , and the members attached to the League threaten to
go to the most shocking of extremities—even to the voting against Ministers . Iu bestowing his trifles all round , Sir Charles Wood totally omits one interest—that of the working classes . As in the Ministerial oratory against Mr . Disraeli , not a thought was bestowed on a distinct boon for them : Sir Charles Wood has other idols ; before his economical eyes the money power is rampant . And he is not going even to modify the income tax : that odious burden is left upon the shoulders of the middle class , without an attempt at improvement or compensation . Everybody already
began to think that " Ministers must go out . The low estimation in which they are held is exhibited in every place—in the House , by the cavalier mode in which they are made to postpone , from night to night , their two great measures —the Budget and the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . Out of doors , by such epithets as " swindle , " " thimble-rig , " and the like , cast at their window tax commutation . Perhaps the greatest _ enterprise which they have undertaken this session is the removal of Srnithfield-market ; but are they strong enough to achieve it ? Surely no one expects that Lord John Russell and his Cabinet can successfully contend against the Lord Mayor , Aldermen ,
and Common Council . The further they go with their Ecclesiastical Bill , the deeper do they get into hot water . The Catholic hierarchy and laity of Ireland coolly announce that they « hall disregard the measure ; so that Lord John will have to leave his own bill alone , or to play the part of a miniature Cromwell in Ireland . On the other hand , a correspondent of the Times has discovered that , as the bill standb , the paint * and penulties intended for the Roman Catholic bishops in England might be enforced against the Episcopal prelates in Scotland . " Here ' s a go 1 " as Clown says in the Pantomime when he aims a blow at Harlequin and smashes his prot < 5 ge \ the Pantaloon .
At the imposing scene in St . Edmund ' s College , Cardinal Wiseman counselled the members of his church to put their trust in Divine intervention—Win ting at something like a potato famine as the retribution for Lord John ' persecuting bill : the Cardinal may repose a more practical trust in the selfdestructing blundering of Ministers themselves . The election of Mr . Barrow for South Nottinghamshire is a lesson , not only for the farmers ' friends of the dilettanti title class , but for other
grandees : the farmers are electing their own member ; and , perhaps , other classes of the people may follow the example . The progress of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association shows that such a disposition is gaining ground among the middle class . The cause of Public Education is advancing . We see signs of life in the London Committee . The promoters of the Manchester scheme have laid down eleven contributions of * £ 500 each towards
their modified project . It is done in true Manchester style . If they were later in the field , they are probably animated by a distinct religious motive which will never fail to inspire a high zeal . But the subscription is in fact an indirect trihute to the more statesmanlike project of the National Public School Association . Yarmouth has added its contingent to the refractory paupers of Norfolk and Suffolk ; and the sailors of the northern ports maintain their strike against the Mercantile Marine Bill .
The result of the great revenue trial has been to cast back disgrace upon the accuser , the Board of Customs : the retracting speech of the Solicitor-General , the summing-up of the Chief Baron , a gentleman in the most generous sense of the word , the explicit verdict of the jury , practically confirm the suspicion that the charge against the London Dock Company was an idle story trumped up to cover the neglect of the officials .
Abroad , the great event is the resuscitation of Austria in a larger and stronger form of Empire . The fuct that such an empire was contemplated , has been for some time known , but the vast importance of the project dawns upon us as it approaches completion . The main features of the scheme are these : the Germanic Confederation and Diet are reestablished on the basis of 1815 with the superstructure of 1851 ; the non-German provinces of the German Powers are included in the
Confederation , Austria including Hungary and the JLornbardo-Venetian Kingdom . A Hanoverian paper gives the substance of a note addressed about ten weeks ago by Lord Palmeiston to the Courts of Berlin and Vienna , objecting to a new settlement without the concurrence of the European States generally and specifically to the inclusion of the non German provinces ; but from the reports current as to the proceedings at Dresden , it does not seem that Lord Pulinerston ' s warning has operated aa a check to the scheme . Egypt , too , is resuming the position of 1 B 40 , by refusing to obey the orders of the Porte ; it is to be presumed that the Pasha of Egypt would not have taken this course while the unsettled stale of Europe kept more powerful enemies of Turkey at work : reaction having nearly regained the " Peace " of Europe , the old enemies of Turkey are once more disengaged , and the Pasha thinks to bully his Sovereign with impunity . Lord Palinerston must be rubbing his hands at the work which is growing up to employ his restlessness .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22021851/page/1/
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