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own assurance long since given ; for we have a right to say that the Leader was the first , by many months , to broach in England the subject of the Anglo-American alliance , which was simultaneously broached in America . We have a right to exult now that the slight which was first thrown on the idea is exchanged for the loud concurrence which burst from , that truly representative assemblage—ah assemblage more truly representing the mind , the power , and the spirit of the English people than that which is technically called the Representative Chamber of Parliament . We rejoice to find there are men enough of insight and energy who have hold of the vital tmih .
We have ono statesman , at least , who has hold of the right truth , and who possesses , moreover , the insight , and the intelligence , and the power to _dh'ect the nation in realizing thai truth . Lord Palmerston-whoso friendly relations with America we have had more than one occasion to illustrate , who perfectly understands all about that matter , stood forward at the Lewes meeting last week as a statesman who had thoroughly mastered the allimportant material principle of the Agriculture of the Future . His phrases , often quoted at Tiptree on Wednesday , are another sign and another impulse for the general progress : —
" I have heard a definition of curt ; I have heard it said , that dirt is nothing hut a thing in a wrong place . ( ' Sear , ' and laughter . ) Now , the dirt of our towns precisely corresponds with that definition . ( ' Sear . ' ) The dirt of our towns ought to be upon our fields , and if there could be such a reciprocal community of interest between the country and the towns , that the country should purif y the towns , and the towns should fertilise the country—( laughter )—I much am disposed to think that the British farmer would care less than lie does , though he still might care something , ahout Peruvian guano . ( ' Hear , hear , ' and cheers . ) Now , we all acknowledge that there are certain laws of nature , and that those who violate those laws invariablv suffer
for it . Well , ifc is a law of nature that nothing is destroyed . Matter is decomposed , but only for the purpose of again assuming some new form , useful for the purposes of the human race . But we neglect that law . ( ' Hear , hear . ' ) We allow all decomposed substances in towns to pollute the atmosphere , to ruin the health , to produce premature misery , to he pestilent to life , and destructive of existence . Well , gentlemen , if , instead of that , there could be a system devised hy which these substances , which are noxious where they now are , could be transferred so as to fertilise the adjoining districts , 1 am persuaded that not only would the health of the town populat ' on be thereby greatly improved ,
hut the finances of the agricultural population would derive considerable benefit from the change . You all know , gentlemen—all who have attended to the subject , and read recent publications , must know—that for an expenditure per acre far less than that which produces one manuring of Peruvian guano , you may establish permanent arrangements , hy which , bringing from the towns fertilising liquids , you would improve your property , and a permanent improvement would lie made in the laud at a far less expense than is now required to produce a single crop . ( Cheers . )" What a , relief to turn fo those gatherings at Lewes and Tiptree from the sickening scandals of county elect ions !
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Till' . MARCH OK _AlhSTKIANISM . " Tiii-: Italians are incorrigible , " say the Austrian authorities , and for that very reason the innumerable arrests made in . Northern Italy excite little uneasiness in the ollicial circles of Vienna , for "' there is a . permanent conspiracy in . Italy . " The only precaution taken by the Ausfrians is , to increase their severity ; and now , besides fhe perils of wearing mi unlicensed hat , the
appearance of a . man in black clothes is sulhcient to <• au . se his arrest : Ik ; is supposed io ho mourning souk ; departed pal riots . The Austrians have held Italy , on and oil ' , since the Middle Ages ; but they have not quite brought their system to perfection ; when the Italian countenance wears the authorized smile of contentment the Austrian system will be complete . Meanwhile Ihe nexus bet ween Italy and Austria , is a , strong army , and those treaties of 1 tt 1 fi which Austria has broken
so signally . Progress is made in bringing Hungary to the same perfect relation with Vienna ,. According to the . Austrian accounts , the people , wholly tired of its native ministers , tired of its constitution , and of its own history , has welcomed the Austrian rule with delight , mid "is lying at tho foot of tho
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Emperor and Xing . Perhaps there was too much of spontaneous will in this acceptance of subjugation ; but rough lessons have been bestowed in correction . The Emperor has been making a royal progress in the kingdom , with much magnificence ; at Pesth , attended by the Ban _Jellachich , he inaugurated a monument to Henzi , who defended the citadel of the Hungarian
capital against the Hungarians ; at Stuhiweissenburg , the loyal crowd not taking off its multifarious hat with a sufficiently obedient start , a General rode about among them , knocking off the dilatory hats of the Magyars , much to the satisfaction , no doubt , of the Croat attendants on the Emperor ; and while themonarchisthusgraciously traversing his conquered province , a court-martial at Hermanstadfc issues new sentences of death ,
imprisonment , and confiscation . The Hungarians are not to forget the struggle for the maintenance of their ancient independence—they must not be loyal for want of thought or by their own free will ; but must render obedience to sheer compulsion , and must know their subjection . It is that government by conscious subjection in lieu of public opinion which is really making way on the continent ; and Austria , aided by the active help or the sufferance of the allies of 1815 , is very successful in extending the dominion by terror . In Italy it'has been completely
re-established ; in Hungary it has been newly introduced , after years of constitutional government ; and whereas , under the English influence , public opinion is beginning to establish a footing in Turkey , Austria is said already to have set her devouring eye upon the Christian provinces . Austria is at once extending her territory , spreading her Viennese plan of government so as to make it co-ertensive with her empire , and rendering her tyranny more intense . Those who were much dismayed at Lord Palmerston ' s idea of disturbing the political geography of 1815 , may derive some consolation from the reactionary encroachment which Austria is effecting on that same settlement .
But not Austria alone ; her volunteer ally , France , is making similar progress . Louis Napoleon has been enjoying one of his royal progresses to Strasbourg ; and he has traversed his dominions amid the joy of the Prefects , and the admiration of holiday sight-seers . There has been an advance of his moral power , during the whole journey ; and its dramatic incidents were well played off : " the President" at La Ferte , " the Prince President" throughout many prefectures , becomes " his Highness" at Nancy : " enthusiasm" throughout , waxes to the . " most
sympathetic acclamations' at Bar-le-duc , to " respectful _devotedness" at the same place an hour later , and at Nancy , to " the most profound gratitude towards the Prince who has saved France . " A mock " passage of the Rhino" delights French traditionary vaticination at Strasbourg ; nt Kohl , across the frontier , the Prince President reviews ihe troops of Baden with the most gracious amenity , and is escorted back to the French territory by the foreign ministers . The whole pageant marks ihe progress of His Highness in a royal possession of the affections of his people , and in the sufferance of the allies . The passage of royal France across the Rhino laiH already hecn performed iu drama , with a
concurrent welcome from German Legitimacy ; and thus tho question of awarding the frontier has been negotiated in a symbolical pageant . The political geography of 1815 was never more thoroughly under discussion than it is now , with actual progress in revising it according fo the Austrian sense : the one thing manifest is , thai the encroachments are made at the expense of constitutionalism , and that Kngland is wholly absent from the _neootintioii .
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Till ] " liKADFAl" AND TIIK ( . _IIlHlCIt . Mn . Kinthka sends us a temperate and kindly letter , re-asserting , with some qualifications , our " inconsistency . " Wo printed bis letter last , week ; and as wo are in court we must see what ( ran be said in reply . The gist of the charge is , thai we " systematically devote much of our time to lengthy leading articles on the infernal discipline and policy of the Church , " from which lie proceeds to " infer an extreme ' , anxiety" on our part " for the improvement of its affairs , in order to ensure _^ increased power and stability" to ihe Establishment ,. _l'uBsinir over tho iufert > net > , which it . Dim-
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ply gratuitous and illogical , and not warrant a by anything we have written on the sub 1 _? we remark , that Mr . Kintrea holds our co to be inconsistent with the purpose of the Lead —that " of propagating sound liberal princinl ? in politics , and perfect freedom of opinion S 3 worship in religion . " Mr . Kintrea , by implie tion , likewise charges us with advocating « Q ~ , principles of all parties . " To deal with the accusations directly : we den that we have ever published any articles on til internal "discipline" of the Ohurch ; and v _^ deny that we have ever advocated the principles of the Church . If proof of this be needed Ve
appeal to the articles we have written on Church affairs , confident that no such advocacy can be found . What we have advocated is this : that the Church should be permitted to develop her principles ; that it is incumbent on her to develop those principles ; and we have said that if , in that development , Separation becomes a point of duty , an act of necessity , let Separation ensue . For we have always felt , and always asserted
that the dissensions in the Church are so great the hypocrisy of some of her members so glaring ' the inconsequence , the timidity , the _hollowness of others so pernicious , that the maintenance of the Church in her present state , settin g aside entirely the vast question of Church property , is morally degrading to us all . Surely that reason alone is sufficient warrant for the part we have taken .
As to the charge of " inconsistency , " we make very light of that . We utterly deny that because we are what in political jargon is called "Radical" in most things , the only line open to us on Church matters is attack , abuse , demolition . We take higher ground—ground which we believe the deepest and most far-sighted thinkers will acknowledge to be really more " Radical " and effective than that which Mr . Kintrea
believes to be right . We abandon the old traditional mode of dealing with the Church . Our aim is not to destroy , but to test the vitality of the Establishment , confident that if the Establishment have a real vitality , it will endure , and if it have not , that it will die . We wish to put in action a deeper principle than that of demolition from without ; we wish to give the Church the opportunity of saving or destroying hersel f , onco for all , from within .
iou cannot ignore the Church ; neither , however desirable it may seem , can you " abolish it root and branch" without a revolution . The Church is too important to bo ignored—too strong io be abolished . But let the Church havo power of independent action , and you will find that sho will save herself or destroy herself , according as truth or falsehood predominate in her composition .
Now , what wo have advocated in the Leader is the demand for Convocation and By nodical action ; because we believe that every body of men , more especially a body like ihe Church of England , has a right to self-development , in so far as it does not clash with the rights of others . And from this point of view Mr . Kintrea will find that wo cannot " leave the Church and its _synodical questions to iheir fate , " without " hurt " to _tiliv nation , including Mr . Kintrea and
ourselves ,- mid he will find also that ; fhe " Ural wish of every true friend to civil and religious liberty " is not to " abolish" things " root and branch , " bui fo see that all men have due liberty . We trust , enough has been said . We entirely acquit Mr . Kintrea of any intention to make an " offensive charge" against the Leader ; nnd , welcoming free discussion with him as with 'toy other becoming opponent , we are , glad of having had this opportunity of setting ourselves right with many of our readers .
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TIIK _I'KOriiK Till . ONLY _LIWITIMATW SOUROK . . Tt is less difficult Cor a . rich man to enter tho kingdom of heaven than il , is for a working man to enter fhe national council ; though his presence there would materially aid tho deliberations of that body . It is not so in Mm United States . We question whether any mem lair of the Republican Congress remains in the condition of a working man ; but ihe facility of advancement , both social nnd political , is so great , in the United States , that the theoretical boast of this country is realized there , and it is not only possible , but common , for u man to rise from tho hunibh . nl t _°
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071852/page/16/
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