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SCHWABZENBEKO'S TESTAMENT. Fexjtcb Scuwm...
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ASTONISHING CONCESSION TO THE JEWS. "Tha...
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X LOCALIZATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. (To t...
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.Uuqkselling And The Taxes On Knowledge....
Taxes on Knowledge * therefore , the booksellers and publishers would have to come to an undergtandujg with the members of the writing pro * fegsioB as to the best meaiis of arranging that mtitter of copyright . We believe that the change would be of immense advantage to all concerned —to authors , publishers , hooksellers , and the reading public , nbt excepting , also , the newspaper
advertising interests ; and we believe that such a series of changes is involved in the one which js immediately expected from the present agitation , the reduction in the retail bookseller ' s per centage . In the meanwhile , the beneficial changes will be brought about moi * e smoothly an 4 more expcditiously if those who have the operation in charge foresee thfi successive steps of the whole reform .
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Schwabzenbeko's Testament. Fexjtcb Scuwm...
SCHWABZENBEKO'S TESTAMENT . Fexjtcb Scuwmhzenbebg was the keystone of the new Holy Alliance in Europe . His wa 3 the strong brain and the uncompromising will , clear in purpose , compact in policy , thorough in execution . The task to which he addressed himself with , all that energy , vehemence , and audacity ^ of character and temperament , which in his earlier youtli had been wasted in excesses , was gigantic as the disorder and dismay of the crumbling Empire . His chief task was to re-establish and to re-consolidate Austria . But to re-establish and to re-consoiidate Austrianisin in Europe was the
abstract " mission , " of which the renovation of the house of Hapsbtirg was but a concrete and tangible expression . True , Schwarzenberg was pre-eminently Austrian , in the national sense ; and to aggrandize Austria , Prussia was to be humbled , and the Czar invoked . Schwarzenberg never forgave the vaulting mysticism and the revolutionary antics of the former in ' 48 ; and he secretly resented the overwhelming arbitration of the latter , when the danger was overpast , and Hungary trodden underfoot hiy the Cossack ,- J 3 ut he never allowed his jealousies or resentments to divert him from the supreme resolve of annihilating the Revolution in all its developments , in its very
spirit anp . essence . Not content with exterminating the men of the Democracy , he pursued the idea with unrelenting rancour . He effaced every vestige of constitutional figments , and swept out every trace of parliamentary institutions . When death struck him from the pride of power , he had restored the Metternichian system , but in a more complete , more severe , more absolute shape of unmixed , unchecked , untempered despotism . No bigot of the right divine , or of hereditary legitimacy ,
monarchy was for him neither a romance nor a religion : but Order , by the grace of bayonets , and the extinction of democracy by Courts Martial , and the organization of society b y bullets and bastinadoes—these were his sovereign and jsum xnary remedies for the peoples in insurrection , and the nationalities in arms . We have no space here to do more ' than resume , in a few words , the history of Schwarzenberg ' s policy from November , 1848 , till the day perg s poiicsy i * viii ^ uvcmuin ) ^ . u-jiu , w ^ « " « ^^ j then
of hip death . Wo are not surprised , , to find that one of the last state papers he ever drew UP was in earnest approval of the coup d' & at in Franco , and of the congenial vigour of the French dictator ' s acts , Louis Bonaparte had crushed the revolution : he had extinguished 1852 ; he had abolished even the forma of palavering liberties ; ho had played the game of reaction with the high hand of success : he had won his spurs in the army of despotism ; lie deserved to be honoured , caressed , and encourjiirnrl ' far thfi thrones which he had served and
saved ; though his power reposed nominally on the popular will , and threatened the ominous phenomenon of an elective empire . It is clear that Schwarzenberg had the penetration to porcoivo that despotism itself could only bo recoiiBtitufced on ft quasi-revolutionary basis f that it was idle tto dream , of impossible reparations , when the very principle of authority was at stake , Ho promised the support of Austria to one who had rendered inestimable service to the goneral interests of the conservative
system , and ho urgently re
to have shrunk from countenancing his imperial designs . This is cither seeing too far , or not far enough ; for / undoubtedly , Louis Boimparte belongs to the camp of the Counter-Eevolution hitherto , to whatever courses hie may be hereafter driven by his gidejy star . ., , ...,. / Schwarzenberg , wise in his generation , ^
counselled union against Democracy . The Monarchies are for union , top , but possibly against Louia Napoleon himself , at some future date . Ah ! if the nations would only better the instruction of their enslavers , and learn union ; how speedy and how certain would be that deliverance , which is now but a distant hope , when it is not a despair .
Astonishing Concession To The Jews. "Tha...
ASTONISHING CONCESSION TO THE JEWS . " Thank God , " exclaims the fashionably religious Morning Post , " we have , and for the present at least shall have , a Christian Parliament . " Thus the Pharisaical Post rejoiceth in the judicial decision that Mr . Salomons has made an unlawful adjuration in omitting the contested phrase , " the true faith of a Christian / ' when upon his oath at the bar of the Commons . Yet if the moral doctrines of Christianity insist upon good-will to men , brotherly kindness , toleration , and equality of rights , we do not see that Parliament would be less essentially Christian , if our Hebrew fellow-citizen should also he admitted to a seat
there . If all men are equal in the sight of God , it is at least conceivable that they should he equal in sight of Mr . Speaker . When a , certain JRoman Catholic dignitary was reminded , that . the tortures of the Inquisition were not exactly consistent with the divine injunction to " love your enemies / ' he replied , " True , we are commanded to love our enemies , hut we may do as we please with God ' s enemies . " Verily the Post , notwithstanding its very discreet detestation of Roman Catholicism , has condescendetbto borrow somewlia ^ f . ^ tba . &«^ 4 e ^^ jNS < ieebar > wlion-in Ifcg jgause of bigotry it invokes the name of that Being , of whom it has been grandly said , he sendeth his sun to shine ( equally ) upon the just and the unjust . "
But the Morning Post has its own notions of liberality , and we will riot conceal them in extenuation . It has its own magnificent concessions . It tells us that " the liberty of a man to le a Jew is not restrained , but to act as a Jew in things which concern Christians is , and must be , restrained and prevented ^ To act otherwise would be to deliver Christianity to the will of its enemies , for who so great an enemy to Christianity as ho who denies the existence of Christ ?"
Magnanimous Post I A Jew may be a Jew because the Post cannot help it—cannot uncircuvneise him . A Jew may he a Jew , if he will not etiy so . He may possess an otiose , but not an active , faith . He may hold convictions , but he may not carry thorn out . The light by which he walks—the light vouchsafed him , as he believes , by the God of his fathers , he may enjoy in barren impotence , hut it shall have no political recognition—and the deep , inextinguishable faith of
Iuh race , no civil representation . Wonderful liberality of concession ! The Post deplores tliat the Jews should persist in obstinately denying the existence of Christ ; how can they be wqll disposed towards an historical fact whose influence is mode so malevolent to them ? The Post would not deliver Christianity to the will of its " enemies / ' then why bo blindly and doggedly insist on an exclusion which raises up against Christianity enomios , both among Jews and Gentiles P Ion .
This Dinnke-Dkli, Ov Boom. " Srnce Fcho ...
THIS DINNKE-DKLI , OV BOOM . " SrNCE fcho < kys of Burko , " says Sir Jamos Weir Hogg , " India has been the dinnorrbcll of tho House . " Tho dobato of Monday evening involved tho interest of 150 , 000 , 000 of British subjects , not to aay tho intercuts of tho whole ompiro ; and yot " thoro wove momenta when thoro wore hardly Mornbors onough to make a Houeo . " Such is the earn that MomborH lmvo of tho largest intercuts ! It is only ono of tho many traits which fittest tho incapacity of our governing classes to govern . If men cannot stay from dinnor to discuss the empire of 160 , 000 , ( X )() , thoy are not fit for that empire—and they will loso it .
It ia tho Bamo with colonial interests : Australia is torn with flooiftl anarchy consequent on tho euddon discovery of gold . TUo sudden concentration of iiuluntry on that ono tompting bait Ima caused a collapuo in nil the other and higher branchos of industry ; yet the Imperial Govornmenfc dooij—nothing ! It is the sumo with Ireland—torn * with cecouoinfca ! diflioulfciefl and sectarian feuds . It ia the eamo with England , md tho great labour quqation—who cares about it P The necessary consequences are likely enough
to follow : governing classes paralyzed with indifferency will lose that to which they are indUTerentH-Iiidia the Colonies , Ireland , England !
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CHOI . EEA . COMINa AGA . IK . The shepherds who paid no attention when , the idle boV dried « Wolf ! " because lie liad deceived them' several times , wore almost as foolish as he was ; since they suffered the impatience for an idle trick to jiarden them against providing for a danger which was probable enough : but how much , more absurd would . they have be en if tho wolf had really come before , several t imes , and had not only eaten the naughty boy ' s sheep , but their own , or them , selves ? Yet , stupid as those shepherds would have been they only typify our worthy Ministers since the last attack of cholera ; the pest that has now broken out again in Persia , and will probably moke the grand tour as before
It frightened us very much , and we appointed a Board of Health to lock the empty stable . We resolved to set our house in order- —to drain our towns , to get us a good supply of water , to discontinue the practice of burying out dead under our noBes . But ia effect the Board of Health was only appointed to be bullied by its official superiors : it has been the substitute for the bear or badger ( a . the bear-garden of the Treasury ^ To resist the next attack of cholera it has been permitted' . ' to prepare— -Croydon . The practice of burying our dead in towns has been pro-Mbited , and- —continued . The . supply of water for the metropolis has been systematically referred to—" next session / ' probably the session after the cholera !
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There Is No Learned Man. But Will Confes...
There is no learned man . but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awa £ r $ r ?' and his iudgmenf sharpened , If , then , ^ be proflta . be for him to read , why should it not , at least , betoleiabio for his adversary to write . '— Mjxton .
X Localization Of Church Property. (To T...
X LOCALIZATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY . ( To the Editor of the Leader ) Sib , —Your correspondent , " Catholic , " desorves credit for novelty of idea , at any rate , in his proposal ( in effect ) to confiscate Church property ; for ho <* not appear to make any exceptions whatever , either as regards that portion of Church property which is decidedly national , or with respect to that very large amount which has been raised entirely by voluntary means , of late years , and which no one con say belongs to tho nation , but entirely to tho Church as a sect ; . * should like to know how ho would deal with tins dimculty . But , sir , to my mind , tboro in even a greater pwMem to bo solved . Whore is that parish throug hout w » United ICingdom that could or would agree in owcwi h a pastor to teach them ? Unanimity ia out ° * JL question , in tho present state of society at least , w everybody seems to ngrco to diner . Would i » then , bo felt a grievous hardship by the minority w compelled by what they would consider h tyrim > majority , to * put up with whoever they ( the »« U ° J ' thought flt . Yo ] ir correspondent invited discussion , wid II * thrown these obscirvations tog-other , rather to indue to enter more fully into detail than to mako iwi ai . on his plan . In tho first par * of his lottor 1 coiu ^ concur ; and I believe that any ono dosorvos w ^ his country who ondoavours by those weans h power to nsfliat at a solution of what Jma ' » proved ho diiHcult a question . _\ H _——
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041852/page/16/
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