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      I '"Thb One Idea Which History Exoibita ...

      I '" Thb one Idea which History exoibita as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of I Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all . the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one |^ ided I views and by aetting a 3 iie the distinctions of Rehspon , Country , and Colaur , to treat the whole Human race I a 3 one brotherhood havin ^ one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      I Niws OF the Week— Tttft Crime in tlic Uuited States 779 A Cheering-Fact 803 TirR Arts-I Catholic Agitation in . Ireland . 7 ^ Police 7 J 7 News f . » r Yarmouth 803 Country Cousins at the Theatres 80 (> I Church Matters . ~! H Miscellaneous 797 Social Reform . —Concert the Salva- The . Musician in the Crystal . Palace 807 I Continental Notes ""* .. !! 7 & J Pccnc A » fai & s— tioii of the Middle Classes 802 JEuhope an Democracy—I . JRevolutiona in the E « st .... Hi Catholic , not Protestant 739 Literature— 'Die Central European Democratic I The Formosa Massacre 793 Seizure , of the Nizam ' a Territories .. 799 Raskin ' s Pre-RapliteUtigm 803 Committee 808 I Notes of Travel and Talk 793 Railway Policy 800 Thornky ' a Lays and Legunds 804 Organization of the People—I A Polish Hero . " . 96 Mr . Gladstone' s Deniers 800 Revolutions of Italy 805 Hints towards rendering Local Agi-I HftHftx and Quebec Ball way .. ^ .. 796 Progreg * of Assurance 801 Books on our Table 80 . ) ta'ion effective 809 I The Clipper Yacht " America . " .... 796 "Order' » conducive to Crime 801 New Music .... 806 Commercial Affaibs-I Personal N « wb and Gossip . 796 Betrayal of the Law by a Magistrate 802 Portfolio— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , I Bloomer Gossip 797 Prohibitory Postage Abroad 8 J" 3 The Dojf-cart . ; 805 & e 8 t 9-12

      Vol. Ii.—No. 74. Saturday * August 23, 1...

      VOL . II . —No . 74 . SATURDAY * AUGUST 23 , 1851 . Pricb 6 d .

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      pEFiANCjB ifcftudibty p roclaimed by the leaders of the Koqmn Catholics , English as well as Irish , assembled in Dublin , at the great ** aggregate m & iihtg' : "' The preparations made l ^ orpl ^ q & getup a counter demonstration ampng tie Gregg BdnxtfofOnggemei ^ were * row « Jocai expression of the interest exciteij ; but whei we nee the character of the men present—when we see not ** mere Irish" Members , but men who command the attention of the Commons—when" we nee the

      Catholic Bishop * of England and Scotland as well as Ireland—when we see the unanimity , and the determined feeling-to go all lengths in asserting the right of Catholicism to the free exercise of its own forms—we understand that the Catholics are not inclined to spare Ministers by winking at compromises , and suffering the new Catholic Coercion Act to fall into oblivion through a studied avoidance of its prohibitions . We should have been amazed at the Catholics if they could have abated their language and observances- to the polite standard of Whi £ compromises ; assuredly , we should not have respected them . The key-note of

      the meeting was struck in the first < vords uttered by Lord Gormanstown , who moved , that " the most Reverend Dr . Cullen , Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland , " be requested to take the chair . Lord Gormanstown is liable to prosecution for the use of that forbidden title : will the Attorney-General prosecute him ? Will the Attorney-General permit Mr . Tresham Gregg to prosecute ? Of course the Orangemen of Ireland will stand by their principles , and will press for permission to vindicate the law under Sir Frederick Thesiger's clause

      . And occasions will multiply too often for Government to abstain altpgether . But the first prosecution will be a declaration of war ; and from the spirit now evinced in Ireland , we . may guess jne sequel . The touch of feeling elicited by Thomas hooper at his lecture in Belfast—the prompt hot assertion of nationality—the admission , tacit or avowed , that the Protestants and Catholics , if free » rom Euglish repression , would wage war to the K nife—theHe traits , even in Saxonized Belfast , attest the smouldering fire upon which Ministers nave been heaping coals .

      When once a war against oppression is begun , «» e Eng lish Catholics can hardly hold back ; nor f : 8 u l > pose that English lovers of freedom , -uweyer they might disclaim an influence residing coii J Home , would refuse to stand by fellowreliSr ! ™/ 11 l tho sfcru irgk *« the equ * l rights of gioua freedom . KoS ^ S ? TV for the i feelinff an < 1 hearfcy TlievSi i 5 workil ° K classes in this matter , fttten *;^ f que 8 tionB of their own to r * »« e when wwntion is a little more awakened than it bus been ICqvh tbt Kpmo ( r l

      this year ; but they wiulHrt for ^ ef ^ f w « ajL 6 . Qf . tlieir fellow-countrymen . , J S > - ^ ^ % fe :-Before-this great contest , of'Prote ^ i ^ t ^^ ttwt Catholic ,, the minor discords of English » fejejw ^ Mn % into insignificance for the moment ; yet tip & HtLey franghlTiwith much that will affect society •& £ no distant date { and , upon-the whole , we believe the jbetter inifio ^ ces are both , the larger and the ^ t ^ g ^^ llt ^ 'leoMrespondence fr ^ ou * -Bishop TJ ^ iu 4 wall a ^ ^ cbdeacon Williams is bne of those onpleasaat ^ i ^ wrtneet -which are no frequently contributing to bring discredit on the Church of

      England . The Archdeacon -is somewhat coarse in his demeanourj but no Churchman can blame him for that which he seeks— -to develope the machinery of the Church of England in Cardiganshire . Dr . Thirl wall , has promised to remove legal difficulties in the way . of doing so *—difficulties arising from the very fact that the Church has been undeveloped in Wales ; during eight years that promise has been unfulfilled ; now the Bishop repays his Archdeacon ' s zeal with insinuations that he is not suited to promote the best interests of his Church : and still the Bishop withholds the required sanction !

      We do not desire to be hard on Dr . Thirl wall : he is a distinguished scholar ; a man of truly generous intellect ; a politician , whose influence has , in the main , been exerted for good . But he is tainted with the Whig spirit of compromise and expediency . The set-off against this Cardigan scandal is the honest act of Dr . Townsend , who recently visited Rome , in the hope of closing the schism which has divided the Protestant from the Catholic Church for three centuries . He has not yet effected his object . Nothing daunted , he attended at the

      meeting of the Evangelical Alliance , invited five of the members to spend some days with him , and is to discuss with them the possibility of uniting the several bodies of the great Christian Church . The same spirit animated that remarkable meeting of the Church of the New Jerusalem , at which the followers of Swedenborg opened arms to all sincere seekers of truth . In short , uuder the mystical influence of Swedenborg , the New Jerusalem is one form in which a Catholic Spiritualism is becoming embodied . The $ entiment of Swedenborg obtains adherents , and the veracity of his

      feeling convinces the heart of many who might find a difficulty in reasoning out his exposition . In France , illegality ; in Germany , mystification ; in Italy , savagery ; these words describe tins hindrances of Government of the " Partyof Order . " Such are the three strings of one eternal fiddlestick lor war , scraping a monotonous tune of " Religion Family , Property . " By the way , M . Thiers ' a own sinter seeks a percarious subsistence by advertising » * ' i— kin- m ° more fit « ian " the late Prime Minister of Franco" to vindicate "tho family ' ? France i * divided Jnto Constitutionalista Rnd

      Eevisionists ; the former comprising all shades of the Republican pai * ty , the latter all the Monarchical factions . Total Revision means a return to Monarchy—but to which of the three ? Partial Revision , a prolongation of the Elysee , et cetera , to M . L . Napoleon and his needy entourage . But so long as Article 45 of the Constitution , and the law of the 31 st of May , remain unrepealed , and 188 is more than a fourth of 750 , Revision is impossible . And who dreams of a coup d' & at at the eleventh boar ? The most moderate men express disgust at these failures , these struggles for place and power , and at the selfishness of the man to whom France was bo bljnd as to confide her destiny , and to whom the Republic restored a country . They say they now understand all the violence of the first

      revolution . Happily for Paris , the Government of conspirators encourage every plan of pleasure which can divert the people from their plots ; so that if a struggle be unavoidable next year , at least " the eve or their deluge" will be gaily spent , sans broyer du ttoir prSmaturement .- or , as we say , without meeting troubles half way . Nevertheless , the Conseils d Arrondissement

      petition , the Conseils Ginkraux will petition , supplied with forms from the Prefectures . Their municipal bodies exist at this moment illegally , their powers having expired last May . They discuss political questions illegally ; yet if the burden of their song be revision , they are not connived at , but encouraged by the Government . It is only when , as at Limoges , they dare to speak in favour of the Constitution , that a decree condemns and annuls the

      spontaneous vote . The preachers of order are the preachers of disorder , they agitate for agitation ' s sake . The French Ministry are visiting the Exposition by turns . May they return wiser from the spectacle of Order in Liberty ! The new Legitimo-Bonapartist league threatens to fall through , from the chivalrous repugnance of the sons of La Vende " e to so unbleut an alliance . The Prince de Joinville is decidedly a competitor for the Great National Stakes of ' 52 . But till the settlement of M . Cretan ' s motion , to recall the

      proscribed families , he iu to remain dark . His addresB is said to be already at Paris , patent to bin select friends ; and expressions of devotion to his country , with bits of pathos on exile , are oozing out confidentially . The disturbances in ISArdilche are exaggerated by the reactionary press ^ into a fresh pretext for repression ; they seem to have begun with tho Gendarmerie forbidding the Marseillaise j- ^ hich is deemed a seditious hymn under Napoleon the Little ! His air next year v ? ill probably be Partant pour la Syrie .

      The numifesto ( from the pen of Lamennais , and signed by some eminent names of the MounLuin ) of a new "French , Italian , and Spaniah Central Democratic Committee , '' i « noticeable for the largeness of its religious spirit : and the appeal to a democracy in Spain , so long bandied , about by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23081851/page/1/