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News of the Whbk— Pase of the Taxes on Knowledge 1012 ofEngland 1017 Thr Arts—CotIinental Notes loSe Miscellaneous . 1012 Odium Theologicum 10 7 1 he Bachelor ' s Evening 10 * 2 Kossuth in England 1006 Public Affaius— The American Defiances 1017 European Democracy 1023 Prospects of the Kafir " 1008 Ayitation at its Ebb 1013 Mr . Bentley ' s Challenge ........... 1017 Organizations of tub Peoplh- . HarvesLhome Festival of the lie- The Campaign « f 1852 1014 8 ocial Reform . — " Notei of a Social National Charter Association .... 1033 demptionSociety 1008 Process of Assurance 1014 ( Economist" 1 MT Open Council-Protection is dead but Granby livetH 10 J 9 The Cape Triumphs 1015 Litkhatdrb— To Joseph Mazzmi .... : 1034 ^ Vafn » Londonderry ............ 1009 The People ' s Institute in West- The Blue and White Niles 1019 The Power of Education UK 4 The KxDosition Protests 1009 minster 1015 Stockhardt ' s Experimental Che- The Church and the People 1024 The Von Beck Mystification 1009 The Medical Question of the Day .. 1016 mistry , 1080 Is the King of Prussia a Protestant T 1025 Matthew Hill at Birmingham .. .. 1010 The New Star-Spangled Banner .... 1017 Portfolio— Commercial Affairs—Public Opinion 1011 The Glasshouse at the Cape 1017 Carlyle on Sterling 1021 Markets , Gazettes , Adrertisementa . Association for Promoting theRepeal Commercial Prospects in the North The Useful and the Beautiful ...... 1031 & c 1025-8
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Louis Kossuth has arrived at last , and landed on the shores of England , immense acclamations from the Isle of Wight to the Hebrides ensuing thereupon . Great shouting at Southampton on the quays there , and a rush of fervid Englishmen , anxious to extend the strong hand of welcome to him who at present represents most vividly the cause of European Nationalities . Kossuth is corae . Spite of the efforts of the Austrian journals , of the Times , well backed by the organs of
the Foreign-office and of the Liberal Conservatives , of sundry smaller scribblers and dastards , the swell of welcome has risen higher and higher all the week ; and , as towards the Pole , the heart of England throbbed towards Southampton on Thursday and Friday . The Madrid arrived ; Kossutli came ; and in the eyes of Europe the murder of Batthyany , the massacre of Blum , the dastardly assassination of Hungarian liberty , were tried and sentenced to everlasting infamy by the voice of the Freemen of England . It is enough .
On one side we behold the journalism of the Foreign-office and of Russia , and on the other the English Nation and the Chief of Hungary—the vast idea of Nationality and the sacred person of the Exile for conscience and patriotism . The meaning of all this is , that England , not the " England" of the Foreign-office , is the ally of Hungary , and not the ally of Austria ; and that the English People are prepared to espouse the cause of National Independence as opposed to Imperial Absolutism . With the Union Jack and the
Star-Spangled Banner on her side , the rescue of Hungary is only a question of time ! Save the inchoate Reform agitation , there is but one purely national question on foot , and that is onl y the ghost of one . Protection , like Jack Scroggins in the old song , comes back in dreary plight , haunting agricultural meetings . Protection comes back , and breathes a damp , unearthy inspiratio n into the Granbys and Bookers , and throws a wholesome terror into the Hardwickes , making them falter , and utter large , portentous , oracular nothings . Lord Granby , at Waltham , is confident of many things ; confident in the " old
remed y "; confident that Mr . Disraeli has not given U Protection . Mr . Booker is likewise in a confiding mood ; confident in the reversal of the verdict of ' 4 G ; while the fiery and decisive llardw'cke , oscillating between Disraeli and Granby , confounde d by both , utters a speech at Saffron Y ahlen , in which you expect something decisive * t every Bentence , and youjfet—empty speculation , dreariest uncertainty , , In fact , Disraeli has done lor rolection as a war-cry for any possible political jiarty ; arid the ghastly merriment of Granby , the vul garity of Booker , the indecision of Hurdwicke , l "o lachrymose ebullition of Deluwarr—a coinddio [ CowHTar Bnmocf . l
larmoyante of Protection converted by a hasty stage penitence into Free-trade , are proofs of the fact . Only it is possible that Disraeli will find that he is no more than leader of a troop , not general of an army , next session . Poor Coningsbyl Protests against the awards of the juries appointed to judge the articles exhibited in Hyde-park are rather numerous . Medals are declined ; grumbling takes portentous shape ; occasionally reasonable , as in the case of Claussen and the Musical Jury ; but oftener unreasonable , as in many cases . The Claussen invention obviously deserved either
a prize for originality , or no prize at all ; and it is inexplicable how the Council came to reverse the decision of the jury on musical instruments , certainly composed of men prima facie among the most capable . But the singular result of the controversy is that the Constitutionnel has been labouring hard to show that fair play has not been dealt out to France . This is merely carrying out an old traditionary policy of the Constitutionnel , always forward in depreciating perjide A , lbion . It is a dynastic prejudice . But the generous Rtpublique , always fair towards us , is highly pleased with the
awards , and quotes with great approval the large proportion winch medals given to French , bear towards those bestowed on British exhibitors . We register this fact the more readily because the Constitutionnel is the tutelary genius of Bonapartism and the party of Order , while ha Repubtique is Republican . The Constitutionnel is also the hero of another cause : knocking down ^ Eng land with one hand , and backing up M . Bonaparte with the other ; this , too , is traditional . How the said Bonaparte will extricate himself from his embarrassments is not clear . Having declared that he desires the repeal of the
law of May ' 31 , he has drawn down upon himself two species of attacks ; one for unfaithfulness and perfidious ambition from Orleaniat , Legitimist , and Fusionist ; the other for insincerity and desire of personal aggrandisement from the Republicans . He cannot form a Parliamentary Cabinet . Granier de Cassagnac , Emile de Girardin , Alphonse de Larnartine , La Guerroniere—these are not exactly the men to command a majority ! The eminently practical Girardin has seized hold of the occasion , and fought stoutly for the repeal of the law ; but then , ah del I advocated revisionForthwithinstead
he has also . , of adopting both cries , and impelling the movement , the Republicans have shown nothing but excitement " and vexation . We do not blame them ; we only point out their mistake . Why not have taken the President at his word , fairly compromised him with the party of Order , roused all France by supporting authority , obtained universal suffrage , a Constituent , and abauisforreal Republican Institutions '? L < 5 on Faucher expires an he has lived- — decreeing martial law in two departments I Austria baa possessed herself officially of the military power of Tuscany , and no .. one protests . What a farco does tho note of Lord Palraerston
bocome on the subject of the Gladstone letters , placed by the side of that fact ! The Austrian " stick " and the Croatian bayonet are triumphant in Tuscany ; and Lord Palmerston writes a rude letter to Castelcicala , which issues into print in the suspicious columns of the Augsburg Gazette , on the barbarities of Naples . Acute apprehension of the theory of compensations ! Austria is strong in the strength
of Russia . Naples is weak , has a sea-board ; and , besides , is infinitely valuable to Palraerston , because she attracts upon herself so much odium . He obtains popularity by snubbing her Government , but the barbarities of Naples continue ; Palmerston , jn denouncing them , has only given one more proof of his sincerity to admiring , confiding , soft-hearted Liberals .
So it is with the Egyptian Railway . In the occult province over which his lordship presides , much is done , the results of which no one can foresee . Here , however , are clearly two facts . Egypt is opposed to Turkey ; Palmerston steps in to mediate ; Turkey , whose right to interfere ought never to have been questioned , must give way . But the railway is not yet made .
Cape news is disastrous . Lord Grey has so complicated . iflairs , the Governor has so mismanaged his business , both military and political that the Colony is almost ready to " separate . ' The two important meetings which we chronicle are evidences of the spirit of the colonists . They distinctly point to self-government as the want of the Cape ; the resolutions are standing impeachments of Ministers and solemn warnings to England . That we do not put down the Kalirs is dishonourable ; but that we have not kept faith with the colonists is a crime . Probably the next flag seen on the waters of the Thames will be the banner of the Cape of Good Hope !
When Mr . Adderley and Sir William Molesworth propose to give our colonies the rights of freemen , the cry is raised— " Oh , you want to dismember the Empire ! " But is the policy of Moleswortli so likely to dismember the Empire as the policy of Grey ? It is bad faith , official tyranny , bureaucratic government—it is these which dismember empires . Ireland , like the Cape , is a region of warfare —• only in the land of St . Patrick ink is more freely shed than blood . The progress of tenant-right doctrines has alarmed the feudal instincts of the Lord of the Tower of Garron . He threatens his
farmers with his vengeance , and , what is worse , a deprivation of their actual rights , if they attend meeting *! of tenant-right leaguers . The tenantfarmers protest with " indignation , " as well they miifhl . But it matters little . The seemingly chivalrous letters to " inon cher Prince ' will not liberate AIxl-el-Kader . nor will the " ukase , abso from the Tower of Garron , put down tenant-right Mr . Matthew Hill has been delivering qnce more one of those clear and admirable churgeH to tho Birmingham grand jury on the prcvcntionjof
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25101851/page/1/
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