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Nkws of the WBBK— ^ a & ManslaughteratthePeckoam Lunatic '¦ Beview on English Socialism 83 Proposed London Convention 90 The French Ministerial Crisis 74 Asylum 76 Literature— Associative Progrkss— 90 German Affairs 74 The Murders of the Week .......... 76 . ' A . New Philosophy : The Alpha .... 85 Open Council—Protestantism arid Popery 74 Suicides and Sudden Deaths 77 Euphranor 8 ( i An Answer to Sir Edward Sugden .. 91 Father G-avazzi on theTJhqmsition .. 74 Public Affairs— . The Church in Danger ......... 86 Bishops and their Tower 91 The Gray ' sr HHi-laue . Educational Wanted , a National Party 80 The First Angel . 87 The Population Question 91 * ' . School .... ... 75 Irish Manufactures 81 Portfolio— An Equitable Exchange Medium .... 92 The Funeral of Bern -75 Anomalous Prices of Bread 81 PJea and Counter-Plea 88 Complete Protestantism 9 $ . The Vacant Seats ¦ . « .... „* 75 Are we Going Backward ? SI An Episode in a Hi 3 tory .... . 88 Taxes on Knowledge .. 93 The Great Exhibition v . 75 An Universal Law ... 82 Th « Arts— Chartist Leaders 93 The Uckfield and o ^ h er Burglsrier .. 75 , Civil Law 8 £ Leisure of a Dramatic Critic 89 Proposed Prize Essay 93 Deportation of Pauper Children to Shipment of Pauper Children 82 EgUOPEAN Democracy' — The Compositors and the " Post" .. 93 Bermuda ..... ^• .... ' v ' 76 Chancery Reform 82 Development of Polish Democracy .. 89 Commercial Affairs—Mr . Cobden on National Education 76 Social fie form . —XXVI—Edinburgh Democratic Intelligence— Markets , Gazettes , & c 94-96 — '' ' ' '' - ' ... . .. . . i . ¦ - ,. , . i . - »—
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¦ ST . , —? * - Queen Victoria is teopefiParliament , in person ; so it is authoritatively Announced ,, The fact would possess some importance for the People , if it were to be supposed that the Queen woula be met by real representatives who could state the actual wants and wishes of their constituents . It is also announced that the Address is to be moved and
seconded by the Marquis of Kjldare and Mr . Peto , the member fdr Norwich , Tlje Majquts is ao in * telligent and liberal jnan , ^ whg ^ bw ^ s y a fcugKer repute "" ffrt is ^ hlttSm' ^ n ^ f ^ ffK ^ K ^ nces ^ * Mr . FlJJTo is well known . But what } mpbrt | ED ^; e ai ^ ache irtd the fact of their making theirst speeches in the House of Commons this seaiiqo we ad not perceive . It wouid be far more interesting for the public to know what Ministers mean to do—how they are going to destroy Pope Piuses Bulls—what taxes they are goin # to repeal : what substantial improvements they are going to introduce into the Poor
Law—how they will meet the demand for Chancery Reform , and so forth . But even on these points , the less anxiety will be felt . It is to be presumed , that any measures contemplated in J 3 owning-street , will not make much difference ; they will , probably , rank in importance on an equality with the facts already announced , that the Queen will be in the House of Lords on the 4 th of February , and that Lord Kildare and Mr . Peto will make the first two speeches .
As to taxes , a kind of competition is going on between the advocates of repeal in different directions . Tea ia competing with windows and the knowledge taxes ; and much may be said on behalf of the cup which cheers but not inebriates , lhe window-tax movement is a very respectable one , and it will very greatly benefit the working
classes , but not so immediately as the reduction of the tea tax , one of the heaviest and most unjust , and pressing with peculiar severity on that commendable luxury of the poor . 1 he heat of the Papal movement is removed in a great degree to Ireland . Much is made , both by l rotestant and Catholic , of the bull dividing the long-co njoined bishonrics of Clovne and Rohh . The
Koman Catholics have hitherto nominated their own Bishops for the Papal confirmation , and the appoint ment of Dr . Keane to be the new Bishop of WosB ih aeized by ingenious Protestants as an JjKKresHHm on the Roman Catholics of Ireland . i he grievance , however , appears to be angularly ieit vicariousl y by the Protestants alono , on behalf oi their Roman Catholic brethren ,, who are not at all reinonHtrativo of the injury which they Btiatiun . Ahoy ought to be hurt and indignant , but they appear to be pleased and exultant . Bishop Keane , w > s said will take up hi * head-quarters at Skibi ereen , the hoad-quautera notllpng since of famine ; ana the very Hpot where Knglinh aid came most [ Country Kpition . ]
opportunely . What strange association of ideas may crowd the breast of the new prelate when first he surveys that capital of his diocese . Another point , of which much is made , is the insertion of Professor De Vericour's Analysis of Christian Civilization , in the Index JExpurgatorius , the periodical enumerating the books prohibited to pious Catholics . The ultramontane party sustains anew paroxysm . of indignation against the , godless Colleges , and the Ministry which appoints to them die author of a forbidden book : it hanpgns very unfortunately that Ministers have beetx-pli ^ ed , bg J * AM Xob . ii Russell in a position to weaken Their BPHWHPr ^ WWAJMW ^ WWWIIBf nOIIHHFTOIuHvIIOTKJv MIBBr it
tpe bigoted extcerfte . Not Iao ^ "fflsce . was reported that there was a disposition to give up M . < Pe $ eticour ,. who has published a very mild and orthodox vvsw of his subject , in order to conciliate the Roman Catholics : it would be strange if the Whig Ministry , among its other inconsistencies , were to accompany the deadly , battle' against the Papal aggression by a . surrender of the blameless De Vericour . One point is worthy of note . The Government at Rome can put De Vericour ' s name in the Index Expurgatorius , can excite the comparatively few of the extremely bigoted in Ireland , but it cannot suppress the colleges ; it cannot remove the Professor- —a useful illustration of the
principle which we pointed out last week—that sect is powerless while it remains destitute of civil authority . The Irish prelates will not be left out . They have sent in their separate address to Queen Victoria , setting forth the identity of their case with that of the English Church , and alluding in injured terms to the mode in which they were forgotten by the English Bishops . Most of the prelates have signed this address . Some , we are sure , like the
logical Richard Whately , with no feelings of intellectual pride in the act . Others have kept out of the squabble : and we have some difficulty in reconciling the signature of Dr . Monaell with the excellent spirit in which he rebuked the Anti-Catholic asperities of hit * own clergy , when they formally addressed him on the subject . The consolatory fact , however , is that there is a good strong backbone of sense even in the Irish English Church .
A report has been circulated tliia week by the Morning Chronicle that Lord John Run well and Lord Anhley intended to unite in a new reformation—the revision of the Prayer-Hook ; but Lord Ashley disowned the Hoffc impeachment , and denies tho whole project . There is to be no reformation of the Prayer-Book , for fear lost the endeavour to nettle the points of dissension should bring on a criniH , and force tho Church to divide itself into ita Nuvoral Hucts .
In France the New Ministry has sustained its second and deliberate defeat ; has resigned , and the President in in the thick of another Ministerial
crisis . The juncture is marked by very strange features . The principal event is considered to be the course taken by the most skilful professional politician in Fiance , M . Thiers . After having been a sort of agent for the restoration , a Constitutionalist under Louis Philippe , and then almost a Republican — after \ > ving become recently a representative of the Legitimist party , he nas now , like Mahomet , gone to the Mountain , formed a coalition with it on its own term ? , and tfcus effected the consolidation of that large majority which has defeated the Ministers . The
speecn wkm which he brought this about , was re-ItfMtaftle ev ^ ampng » t his mischievous otfEHons , foarito hostile , provocative , and threatful tone . It waff calculated to Diet' all " parties against each other , to raise angry passions on every side , and prevent tranquillity . We , who have no sympathy with quietude where the settlement rests on bad principles , cannot see with satisfaction an aimless hubbub , which the professional politician is raising for his own purposes . He affects to be a strict Parliamentarian , but he has kept together a majority formed of separate fragments , so entirely opposed , that it can never act together , for any
positive purpose . A majority , including Legitimists and Red Republicans , Political ( Economists and Socialists , with Changarnier for a free Captain , is not available for any useful purpose . We here see the practical difficulty in the working of a numerous body like that " of the Assembly , without any power of sending it back to the country . The Assembly is disorganized ; but it must await the stated period for its reorganization by the will of the people . Meanwhile , the President resorts to the questionable expedient of selecting his Cabinet from the minority of 286 . Much is made of the eminent names included in that
minority , among which we find the Due de Broglie , chairman of the very commission on the Ministerial crisis , de Montalembert , Leon Faucher , Doru , and other men of undoubted eminence . Mold and Odilon Barrot , who belong to the majority , stopped away . On the other hand , the names in the majority are not such as to be slighted , including us they do some of the most eminent of the old
bureaucrats , of the military men , of the popular leaders , and of the Legitimists . Changarnier is understood to be very angry because his merits have been passed over with silence in the resolution against Ministers . In the face of the disorganized majority , the minority is acting with some approach to unity , an if it were u majority ; but even the appointment of a Ministry will not . settle the crisis of the political world .
A new conspiracy is reported as huving been just discovered— -the union of the Communes faceting at the house of the Associated Cooks af ; tho'Pigole Barrjere , and having in potto strongly ineitatory proclamations , combining Red Republicanism and a sort of Ludditc Communism . Whether thin in a new police tr . m like the Allfuq-Yon ufiair , a reul
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 25, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25011851/page/1/
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