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* 'Thb one Idea which History exMbits 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 the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , havingonegreat object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Nw . q np the Week— ¦?«*« Address of the Poor-Law Association Landingof the French .. ..,..,. 84 Portfolioletters from Paris .... 70 to the Ratepayers of tho United The Golden Isles ..,.. 85 Aquinas ... . 89 rSndriental Not * s . ' .. ...... 71 Kingdom ....... 79 March of Opinion ... 85 The Arts—Bise of a National Prussian Party .. . 72 The Steel and the , Cord ..... 80 Dedicated to our Friends in France .. 83 The Marionnettes ... 89 The Reform Campaign ... .. ? % Ti Foreign Police in England 80 Glossary of Napoleonic Neologisms .. 85 Dreary Lane ! „ ... 90 Natiohal Defences .. 74 QuiteGuilty .. :.......,....... 80 Exit Party of Order 85 London Thursday Concerts 90 C ^ SiStt e ^ IT . """ . " ^™ .... M XceUaneouV : ; :. I .::..::.....:.:.. SI AboUtion ' of Quarantine ............ 85 Olympic ' .. 90-The State of Ireland .. 75 Births , Marriages , and Deaths . 81 Litbratu « b— Open Cocncil—America Comino-to Europe 76 PdbliC Affairs— Stephen ' s Philosophy of History .... 87 Industrial Conference in Ireland 90 The Arctic Expedition ..: 7 C Practical Progress of Industrial Whateley on the English Language .. 87 Life-Officers at Sea 90 Industrial Education .......... 77 Fellowship ..:...... .... 83 Pathway of the Fawn ................ Commercial , Affairs-Progress of Association . 77 Louis Napoleon ' s Iron Constitution .. 83 Pius the Ninth 89 Market 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements . The ° Amazon . 78 Volunteer Regiments and Rifle Corps } 83 Books on our Table . 89 & c 90-93
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if as yet less formally expressed , i # evidently more general and more genuine . ' The journals of all parties join with it ; excepting one or two , which scarcely venture to oppose , but insinuate qualifications in the Peace and Manchester school sense . Peace ought to have nothing to say against the movement , which is one to prevent pur land from being made the scene of war . But besides the direct object of the stir to get up rifle clubs , to arm the People , improve the fortifications , summon the Channel fleet to its duty , and so forth , there is
the agreeable incident of its uniting the severed sections of our population—an incident which we have already noticed , and which becomes more apparent every day . There is something heartily the reverse of that selfish and calculating spirit which has beset our public life too long . Even the Reform agitation is improving under the influence of the Parliamentary Reform Association , as the policy of that body widens . We think we detect a continued disposition to desertion among some of its «* friends , " who wish to play a separate game ; for the Manchester men take their aristocratic stand upon a ratepaying qualification
, excluding " lodgers "; and Leeds is for the day misled by its own Baines : a charge for admission secured a " respectable" audience—and but narrowly rejected manhood suffrage . The success at Nottingham and Derby is due to thi broader policy of the Parliamentary Reform Association ; out that at Birmingham ought to be especially instructive . The two members were against the meeting . For Muntz—his costume , currency , and ! £ i » rft ~ " ~ w 5 ° could account ? But the defection of William Scholefield , though probably with a good-natured eye to Ministerial difficulties , causes a genuine feeling of regret . However , the two members stopped awav . and nrnteHted mminot
tr » S ° ! "rtwvention , the meeting heing w ^ fiiiS ° ^ eOU 8 ; nevertheless the ToWhall was filled . The meeting was better than unani-£ L ? liT , a ? rat A ed and hearty ; ana the ¦ JHjT P } $ r ° f ^ Association more than sucrseeurW ^ ^ " ^ Ge 6 r « Daws o » ° d TheS r - adhe 8 l ? . «** w « rf svffmqel W ° be £° llCy V Ver heat * Geor « DawTonLs people ^ bu ? J « ademag ° ^ Z fctterer of the the CmbW 2 . 0 O ™ mu"lty where every man , even numWer he 18 , has to do the drudgery o ' f the jCotwiftY UpvnonA
nation—especially to pay the debts of the nation , and to defend it , if need tje—he did not dare to say to any one such man , "You are excluded from the suffrage ; you are of the kind unfit for it . " And George Dawson does not dare so to say precisely because he is a bold man and a truthful man . The pretence of " unfitness" is a sneaking untruth . ^ The Association makes no such pretence , and it appears to be gradually' finding its way to that broad policy which would win for it everywhere such popular success as at Birmingham .
The strike of the engineer-employers continues , without the slightest prospect of reconciliation . The masters , by their agents , carry on the war with steady attempts to misrepresent the facts , with vituperation , with discharge of men not implicated in the quarrel , with threats that the business will leave this country . Possibly it may—by whose fault ? Who really did strike ? Meanwhile the men persevere in quiet adherence to their demands , and in their endeavours to establish cooperative
model workshops . One will open in Southwark ; another is contemplated at Manchester . Lord Cranworth ' s extrajudicial dictum against the men has been met by a brief and calm statement from the trustees of the working fund—Lord Goderich , Mr . Thomas Hughes , and Mr . Augustus Vansittart . Altogether , the progress of time pre sents the case of the men more and more favourably to the public . There is a new strike , on the part of the men , among the shipbuilders of Hylton . It would be awkward if such demonstrations were to become
general 1 Ireland is again the field of industrial disturbance . The existence of a Riband conspiracy in the North is still disputed , but is specifically asserted by the Dublin Evening Mail , with strong corroboration from the known facts . There are proposals to increase the constabulary , and to try agrarian offences by the special jury panel—coercion , and trial of one class by another ! The conference called by the Irish Board of Manufactures to consider , inter alia , the means of rendering the Poor Law self supporting by reproductive employment , is a far more hopeful process . Perhaps our Governors will hit on the right course in time ?
Men in earnest generally adopt popular modes of disseminating their ideas and principles ; Thus the High Church Party , represented by the Reverend Canon Trevor , appeared this week in the Metropolis , publicly lecturing , and converting the pulpit of St . Paul ' s , Finsbury , into a tribune for the occasion . Both Houses of Convocation also , wo observe , are to be petitioned , and induced ( if possible ) to exert themselves for the recovery of their " Constitutional functions "—that is , solicited to make a stand for honesty ' s sake . This is well .
France has indeed fallen among thieves ! Drained of her very lifeblood by the exile and proscription of her best and bravest citizens—of all her " illustrations " in arms and arts , in literature and
statesmanship—ravaged and ransacked by a terrorism that spares neither age nor sex— -that consigns to the ingenious tortures of torrid swamps unconvicted batches of political opponents—she is now > it seems , condemned to sink into tha " old rut" of jobbing and corruption . We had always foreseen that the Dictator would fall between two stoolsvested interests and popular expectations . Even
were he disposed to originate large measures of social reform , or of mere financial economy , he would be arrested by the claims of the moneyed classes- —the stockjobbers and speculators—to whom Louis Philippe sold himself as to a Mephistopheles ; only your Mephistopheles of revolution is not so courteous in biding your time as well as his own ! His demands are apt to be sudden .
Like a naughty boy who , having told one lie , is obliged to fortify it by many more , Louis Bonaparte is rushing from bad to worse with a fatal felicity of which , perhaps , he is scarcely conscious himself . Violence succeeds to violence—folly to folly—crime to crime . He cannot stir a step towards ameliorations without creating a host of malcontents . The enormous credits for public works to keep the faubourgs busy are eating into the heart of the Exchequer ; not to speak of the increasing costliness of an Imperial " household , ''
and donatives to unruly , Praetorians . No one now believes that it can last . Our private letters from " Parties of Order , " eschewing details , say , " Heaven only knows when or how it will end . ' The Prince and . his men are using up the sensations of power like so many resperate gamblers , condensing into ever so few days all the atrocities of all the despotisms , and all the faults that have sapped all the regimes of the last half century in France— - the iron-handed compression of the Empire , th « biflfotry and insolence of the Restoration , tho
jobbing and corruption of the Monarch y of July , seasoned and spiced with the reckless effrontery of professional burglars in possession of power which they once coveted , and now handle like a " strong box . " As for the Constitution , it only wants a preamble , vulgar but sincere— " What ' a the odds so long as you ' re happy ? " AH the rest is but a pale copy of the Consulate . The difficulty will be to get any decent names to accept Senatorial or Legislative functions . It is not so noble to be perpetually " assisting at" your own interment . and to
The same discipline is applied to citizens tile Press . Obnpxious persons and obnoxious papers are ordered , to " cease to appean" B . ut in the former case , the method and the consequence are not to be contemplated without shuddering . To have once belonged to a secret society—an elastic expression—is a sentence to Cayenne I The only choice lies between trans-, and dc-portation . Meantime , M . Bonaparte and his friends are making a purae , before there is a Legislature to " hold the purse-strings . " The gentlemen who once landed at Boulogne with a sick eagle and a case of bad champagne , would now , we suspect , bo
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011852/page/1/
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