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VOL. III. No. 135.] SATUKDAY, OCTOBEE 23...
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" The one Idea which HiBtory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths 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 . "—Sumboldt ' s Cosmos .
Contents: Iirai
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¦ eu / e or THE WEEK- The Murder in the Hue Vivienne ... 1011 A Voice from the Archdeacon of Tillage Life in Egypt ........ H ^ PAGB Is a Railway Station a Cab-stand ? 1011 Wells 1017 Well ' s Brown ' s Three Years in Eu-Report of the Kevival of Convoea- The Railway " Accident" System ... 1012 Abd-el-Kader and his Liber .-ttor ... 1017 rope » "f * tion • 100 G Miscellaneous - 1012 Taxation Reduced to Unity and Booka on our Table iu ^ School of Design—Sheffield 1006 Health of London during the "Week 1013 Simplicity 1017 Dying Glooms of Protection 1007 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1013 The People ' s Palace and the Reli- PORTFOLIOletters from Paris 1008 gious World . 1019 The Haythorne Papers 1024 Continental tfotes 1009 POSTSCRIPT 1013 Passages from a Boy a Epic 1025 ^ TV W ^ ° WeUingt ° \ Z " PUBLIC AFFA . RS- OPEN COUNC . LS : £ SoTcaba :::::::::::::::::::::::: JSo The Me ^ of convey-on "** ^^* ^^\ £ s ! i-- iSi ! TH 6 ARTS ~ Sell . from Sonth Australia 1010 the Despatch of Business " ......... 1014 . Disunion among Popular Leaders 1019 Medea ....... 1026 A Story of the Passport System ... 1010 Louis Napoleon Emperor 1015 ilTFBATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSProgress of Association .... " . ... 1011 The English Working Tantalus ... 1016 LITERATURE „? ,, . - 7 *» inw IMS Fatal Duel at Egham . 1011 The « Daily News" for War 1016 Pritchard ' s History of Animalcules 1020 Marketa , Advertisements , & c . 1027-1023 "' ' ' ' '" ' i . ¦ — . . ¦ i . ¦ ¦ ¦ i . . , ,. .. . . . ¦ ... —— ¦¦¦ - ~ " ' — ¦
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VOL . III . No . 135 . ] SATUKDAY , OCTOBEE 23 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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/ CONVOCATION to meet " for the despatch of \ J business , "—that is the most startling announcement of the weelc , although the announcement is startling rather for professed politicians than for the public at large ; and it is contradicted by the Morning Herald , who discovers a new " plot" in the assertion . The story came out gradually , and it still remains in considerable obscurity . The Times was the first to announce it . It was then . ^ followed up by the Morning Chronicle , which ^^^^ Jbuy ^^ i |^ iprior information , and which announces tne business set
down for the Convocation to be of a very limited character—only to consider the practicability of introducin g reforms into the Church . The press has discussed the subject mostly in a tone of deprecation . The idea is suspected to be a concession by the Derby Administration to the High Church party , which forms the flower of the old 1 ' ory party : but , as usual with these sectional
concessions , that which pleases the select few , exasperates or alarms the many . The proposal almost looks as if it would turn the great body o £ the Church of England laity into dissenters , at the bare idea of such a " Church and State" convention . Kobert Winston , the cxposer of cathedral abuses , bus been re-instated in the head-msistersl of Rochester Graninmr-sehopl , by his Bishop ; »»« vindicators of " the present system" signally ' Seated .
Jk yoiul these clerical vicissitudes , there is little in e ionic news , save to report progress respecting ) Iose schools of economy ,, the agricultural < lins which the pupils are getting on famously . •« true iden is limiting way , in spite of all the tend Uatllgt' 3 With Which tlu ! l » "P lmv ( ' to oon ~ . At YValtham , we find Lord Homers « nd
"• l / lwnvlo .. , 1 1 . » ¦ . 1 ¦ !• W \\\ owler < l « ploring the rise in the price of ^ ' •<>» , us the consequence of a short supply ; wlu , r IUC illstlllltl y corructwl by Mr . lleasley , ° Rave Uerners , Chowler , and the other boys a s 'ili 1 •'" atut ' ' > explaining bow the home . IPy is really in cxcchs of what it has been ;
•> ctt ( ' Iul ( ' ( 1 1 > ri ( 'e hvin x tlic rcsull ; siuii )| y ol a At 1 [ V . ' niin < l ' tn * ' mor < - prosperous country . ami m ' f () n 1 ' liOrA ltotcmun stood up for leases tl ,,. (!( 1 UltllbU- tenant-ri ght ; and even Mr . looker , that jj "C"ltllrul a I ) OHtl « « f the Standard , declared Haw " the dawn of improvement bursting L ^ ounthy EomoN . ]
upon the farmers "—as the stout North wind of Free-trade , we presume , dispelled the old clouds of Protection . But at Chertsey the best lesson was given . Mr . Evelyn was mourning over the condition of the farmer , while Henry Drummond held up to his stout-waisted hearers the example of a labourer—a man who had grown five thousand grains of barley from a single grain ! " He could not do it again , " cried some of the farmers . But he could . The same experiment has been tried with wheat , and the same result obtained many times ; and can of course be obtained again . When farmers have made some advancement in that direction , they will be independent of questk \) Bs concerning Free-trade or Protection . From these stray facts , it is evident that agricultural students make a marked progress every week . Another striking event is the appearance of the Duke of Newcastle at the annual meeting of the Sheffield School of Design , where he remonstrated with the local supporters of the institution for not rendering it thoroughly efficient , and supplied them with some admirable instruction on the use of art in handicraft trades , with a glance at its social bearing . It is very seldom that question * of art are handled with so comprehensive a grasp of the subject , or with so much power of putting the truth in plain language to the hearers . The Sheffield people have adopted the idea supplied to them from without , and have made a show of curvying it into effect by accepting patronage of the central government ; but their feeble efforts implied a deficient sincerity of purpo . se - and the remonstrance which 'he Duke adnrVnLstcued wa « advice of too wholesome a kind to \ xt very often given . It is a good example , moral , us well as wsthcticul . Louis Napoleon ' s triumphal cutty into Paris , the talk of the lust nine ( lays , has cmased to be news . There are few of our readers who have not already heard all about an evenV so kmg prepared and so much the theme of conversation from mouth to mouth . The magnifittonce of the living picture arranged for his entry into the capital was a successful eontra » ft to previous attempts at the same species of inhibition , and this , at all events , does not seem to have fallen oil' so flatly as the others . We lmve accounts from I ' aris which repeat , the same assurances that the show of loyalty was . hollow ; that the people were passive and sullen , and that the whole scene was but the contrivance- and performance of innumeiabk functionaries * We ; have no doubt that
there is a great deal of truth in these assurances , but at the same time we are convinced that the acquiescence of the people has now assumed a more positive shape than it has possessed before ; that the coming glories of the Empire , in fact , have a positive attraction for Frenchmen , and that numbers are giving their adhesion to the ranks of the future Empire . The Senate is summoned for the fourth of the next month , the day on which our Parliament is to meet , and it is then expected to deliberate upon the Senatus consultiyn for the establishment of the Empire . That change will
be of the greatest political importance . It will , to most practical men , cut off the past from the future in the career of Louis Napoleon . It will record the complicity of the nation , which has allowed it to go so far , at least without resistance , an d * from that period it will be useless to regard the defacto monarch of the French nation as the provisional usurper which hitherto he has appeared . Louis Napoleon is to be " King of Algiers , " which adds nothing to what be has already ; but also " Protector of the Holy Places , " which implies a resolve to take a special policy in the East . His uncle ' s dream of oriental supremacy
is on him . The spontaneous and unanticipated liberation of Abd-el-Kader has snatched a grace beyond the reach of more legitimate and more liberal rulers . There has been no coup d'tiat in the Cape colony ; for General Catbcart ' s expedition beyond the Kei does not deserve that name . It has indeed amounted to u successful raid on the old Scotch plan . lie succeeded in burning Kreli ' s " great place , " brought buck l . 'J , ( KX ) head of cattle , and also a better idea than be had bad before as
to the efficiency of the burgher levies ; whom he praises publicly . Sir Harry Smith could have toll him that if the burghers can be possessed with confidence for their leaders they are as brave and efficient hh any men in the world ; and the burghera could tell him , that an occasional raid into the country is not the way to master the natives . It is not by a war upon them that they
are to be subdued , but by a constant exercise of the strong arm of the White man ; nml it needs no army to do that , but the arm of the colonists themselves ; for they hit . properly trained for the work . Kaffir wars are the nonsensical creation of a Colonial office , very familiar with the cab-stands of Weatminatcr uiul . the geography of " tlw . moors , " but knowing little about the Africuu border or the nature of the Black tribes .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101852/page/1/
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