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      At Home We Have Little Stir: Society And...

      At home we have little stir : society and the weather are both chequered , but without any present storms . Abroad the commotion is greater , though it does not just now wear much aspect of danger . President Bonaparte ' s tour , for example , wears a very imposing aspect in the long narratives , and in the theatrical displays at which so many considerable towns have assisted . But , after all , it cannot be taken to prove anything .. The French have the happiest knack in the world of preferring innuendo

      to direct declaration or action ; and their appetite for political liberty seems to be appeased when parties have the liberty of launching antitheses at each other , or developing epigrams . Louis Napoleon has kept up a kind of peripatetic hospitality , accommodating his pageantry , his equipage , and even his words , to the supposed bias of public feeling , Republican , "Orderly , " or Imperial ; and the communities among which he has appeared seem to have taken their own choice as to the aspect in which they should view him , pointedly insinuating

      their own sentiments , Moderate or Red , Republican or Imperial . Judge Louis Napoleon by liis speeches , and you would suppose him bent upon maintaining order , the Republic , the traditions of France , in short , upon doing everything that is good , nothing that is hazardous or evil . But the man who talks in this way , and challenges "the love * ' of the Lyonnese , maintains in office about the worst Ministry that ever conducted the public affairs of France , and connives at the paltriest intrigues of that Ministry .

      If Louis Napoleon desired a foil , however , it is furnished in the burlesque of his own progress , which Legitimacy has got up . The old Royalists have been making a pilgrimage to Wiesbaden to pay their homage to the Count de Chambord ; but the reports they send home are bare of purpose or result . They had no definite object ; they have acquired none . They have seen the somewhat obese and well-meaning representative of the French Bourbons , who " condemns nothing and approves of nothing ; " and they write home to say so ! The fact is , that the Count is wholly unfit

      for political action , and better suited . for a sort of hospital museum , for the preservation of obsolete royalties and other fading curiosities , Perfectly sincere , in him survives the unaltered impersonation of royalty as it existed at the beginning of the century . He still accounts himself sacred , " the Lord ' s anointed ; " and thinks that his elevation to the throne of France will be in itself a blessing . But as to any grasp of political ideas or any practical policy , not the faintest sign has ever come before the public .

      The Schleswig-Holstein contest remains without much movement . That Lord Palmerston has equally mistaken the true interests of England and [ Country Edition . ]

      the feeling of the German people will appear by the communication from Germany which we are enabled to publish . Desperate floods have anticipated Queen Victoria ' s visit to Belgium . The waters have occupied the capital with a power more peremptory than that of royalty . On the whole , however , although the inconvenience and hardship are great ; the disaster does not appear to have been fatal .

      Royalty , too , is outshone in the e ' clat of Jenny Lind ' s departure for America , the ecstacy of the English at contemplating the merits of the younjg Swede appears to be more than John Bull ' s constitution can bear ; it has evidently turned his head ; he rushes , not only to hear the lovely singer , but to see her " enttftrlf rro even makes speculative inane * towards a casual fire in Liverpool , in hopes that she will be drawn to the spectacle ; and the police are

      fain to request the forbearance of the lady , asking her to evade the public by hastening her departure , and thus to cheat the Lancashire folks out of some of her own attractiveness ? Mademoiselle Lind has a very beautiful voice , is a highly-finished singer , an intelligent actress , and is of meritorious life ; but certainly the display of indiscriminate curiosity , crowding to view her in every possible aspect , is as ludicrous as it is unintelligent .

      In more domestic affairs , the most notable occurrence , perhaps , is the Bishop of Exeter's declaration , in the shape of a formal letter to the churchwardens of Bramford Speke , that he does not mean to institute legal proceedings against Mr . Gorham for opinions published in a book ; but that he shall endeavour to enforce ecclesiastical discipline , if Mr . Gorham should administer the rites of the Church in the sense of the doctrines which he has upheld . It has been a mistake , therefore , to suppose that Dr . Philpotts has retired from the contest ; it appears that he awaits an opportunity which will be

      convenient . A quarrel between the Eastern Counties Railway Company and its servants caused * some present inconvenience to the public , and raises apprehensions for still greater inconvenience of the like kind in future . We have touched on this in a separate paper . The Chartists have been holding a Conference , and have wisely agreed to enlarge their activity , so as to embrace subjects of political improvement . This leaves a broad way open before them , and , without doubt , they will find opportunities of

      using it . The anxiety about the crops is considerable . The reports which are current at this time it is always very difficult to reduce to defined conclusions , not only because they are partial in point of space , but also because the views which they express are very much tinged by the feelings of the several writers . Of one fact , however , there can be no doubt ,- —that the yield in different parts will show an extraordinary degree of variety . It seems also to be certain that the potato

      blight has shown itself in many quarters , and in some places with very fatal effect . The crops , therefore , are not likely to be above an average . Tl » degree in which they may fall short cannot , we believe , be computed yet . The criminal records of the week are among the most stirring : they relate some curious events . The attempt of the inmates to burn Parkhurst prison , for example , jars roughly against the faith in the reformatory process , though it cannot be deemed conclusive . Alternatively it establishes the fact that something wants setting to rights . Either the reform of criminals by educational training is a delusion , and we ought to * revise the whole theory 0 * tfM * 8 uhjM 4 or m , means taken at Parkhurst are not itttfproper means . It is possible , for instance , that the reformative process used there may be calculated rather on dogmatic notions as to the influences which ought to bring about an amendment of character than upon a true diagnosis of moral disease and a scientific analysis of moral influences . Some of the marriage cases , this week , are a practical satire on our laws . In juxtaposition with the case of Sheen , who seems to have made marriage a regular trade , we have that of Mary Fitzgerald , who is clearly convicted of what the law holds to be a crime , bigamy , and yet is recommended by the jury to " mercy" because the husband who made the charge was actuated by mean motives ; — though that certainly does not mitigate the illegality of the prisoner's conduct . She is told by the Judge , in the most formal manner , that " the predominant feeling in the court was one of compassion for the prisoner" In this case , either the judge and jury combined to wink at a lax observance of the law which they are appointed to enforce , or the law is so bad that judge and jury cannot help flinching from its rigid enforcement . If it is cruel in the case of Mary Fitzgerald , it is not less feeble in the case of the German who makes his sad complaint at Worshipstreet Police-office : he has married a woman who will be no wife to him , and is told by the magistrate that he may institute a suit in the Consistoriai Court for divorce , ' if he has the means of doing so . " In other words , if he has money he may purchase justice ; but if he is poor the law of this country will take no steps to protect him against injustice . . . The Law ! Do we not sometimes triumph in its defiance ? Let us have a good sturdy defiance of the Law , like the wild romance from the Island of Harris , and we at once acknowledge that Nature is better than Law . We side with y oung Donald , who goes to carry off his bride vi et arm is ; we laugh at parents and magistrates in this drama of real life ; and when we learn that the story ends happily , in the legitimate way , by the success of the young couple , we have a conviction that a good conservative right of lawlessness has been reestablished .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 24, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24081850/page/1/