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, _ . ^^ The one Idea which History exnibits as evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sidea views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one orotherhood , having one great oDjecL—tfie tree developmeut . ot our spiritual nature . "—Hoxiiuldt ' s Cosmos . ____ , „_
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News Of The Week- Prt!>E Miscellaneous? ...
News of the Week- Prt !> e Miscellaneous ? 1231 Literature— Organizations op the People—Letters from Paris 1222 - Public Affaiks— Dante ' s Life and Times 1236 English Sympathy for French Continental Notes 1227 Lord Palmerston superseded 1232 Popular History of Mollusca 12 : S 7 Republicans l - >* The An-lo-American Alliance .... 3227 Napoleonic Ideas 123 : $ Gift Books 1237 Open Council—Kossuth in America 1228 More . Troops—National Defence .. 1 W 3 Books on our Table 123 S A JSew Oaily Paper J- ^ The Keform Campaign : UepnUe .. 1228 Westward , Ho!—The Land of Free- ThbAuts— Is Louis Napoleon popular or n , t l ^ O The Comin-Strike at Manchester .. 1228 dom .....: 1- > 31 The History of Pantomimes 1238 the Power ot Education 1-40 Saxons andCelts 1229 The Fate of the" Base Exceptions " 1231 Portfolio— lhe Essentials of Christianity .. .. 1 * 41 The Parties in Italy 1229 - Grand and Peculiar Event " .... 1231 = Vine Game of Speculation 1238 Health of London during the Week 1241 Colliery Explosion—Fifty Lives Commercial Intelligence 1235 European Democracy Commercial Affairs-Lost . f 1230 The Proper Currency for Austria .. 1235 The National Committee of the Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1231 Notes on War .. 1235 lioumains 1238 ^ ? . 1 .,-U-iv **
Vol. Ii— No. 92. Saturday, December 27, ...
VOL . II— No . 92 . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 27 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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^ mr Lord Palmekston is no longer Foreign Secretary ; Earl Granville is appointed to the vacant post . What then ? asks the Public . We aie not yet able to answer . The removal of so important a statesman as Lord Palmerston , and the substitution of a statesman wh ose importance is entirely a matter of the future , has not so much taken the public by surprise as left it without explanation . The press helps us to an explanation on the dry facts , but gives little insight into the spirit and matter . We
are not told who has brought the change about . The Times , celebrated for its immortal saying on another occasion— " The Queen has done it all "now only treats us to negatives . It denies that Lord Palmerston ' s expulsion is due to Lord Grey ; avers that " last Monday morning Lord Grey and his connections were , like most of their colleagues , ignorant of the object for which the Cabinet had been summoned to meet . " Even of the Premier , it is only said that " Lord John Russell has sanctionel this change in an important office of his
Cabinet . " The Times combats the notion that Lord John ' s Government will be weakened by the change—it is to be strengthened , apparently , by some " new blood . " " Negotiations for the improvement of the Government have failed , " says the Leading Journal , more on one ground than any other—namely , Lord Palmerston ' s occupation of the Foreign-ollice . Ah to the conduct of Foreign Affairs , henceforth the Premier " will be led to take a more direct and active part in these important transactions . Such was the invariable rule of this
country in former times , and to that rule and practice Lord Palmerston was himself subjected during the most brilliant and successful part of bis mvn administration , under the late Karl Grey . " " As the case has stood of late years , Lord Palmerston ' s colleagues divided with him the responsibility ol his proceedings , without sharing an authority which he . exercised to a great extent beyond their control . " In spite of its coniident tone , the Times evidently liven in dread of some alliance between Lord
Palmerston and " the Democrats . " They are warned to ascertain , bin opinions before they adopt him , especially on the subjects of Reform , ( Join Laws , and constitutional liberty in France . And he is warned not to enter into a hopeless and unprofitable course of agitation : " His long experience and Inn past nerviee . 3 forbid him to engage in factious opposition ; "—and , " the good sense of the country would rewHt an appeal to its passions , in direct hostility to the cause of peace and order throughout the world . "
So writes the journal which has evidently been favoured with the fullest and most direct official information : the others do not add very lnueli to its disclosures . Retrospective and critical , the ? Daily News calls to mind the irritation in Vienna at Lord l / sdmerston ' H coquetting with tho refugees [ Country ISoition . J
in London and his advances towards Kossuth ; the disapproval , at the English Court , of his language about " bottle-holding" and " nationality " to the Islington and Finsbury deputation , so insulting to Austria and Russia ; Lord Palmerston ' s applause of Louis Napoleon ' s usurpation ; and then the Daily News adds " another circumstance " as conducing to his disgrace : " This was the discovery by Louis Napoleon ' police agents , employed in the arrest of Cavaignac and Changarnier on the night of the 2 nd of December , of a voluminous correspondence , in which the British Government or its representative , Lord Normanby , had very freely recorded its admiration of , and hopes in , the
Republic , and the utter ' contempt in which it held the pretensions and character of Louis Napoleon . " The Morning Chronicle , if we rightly interpret it , hints that Lord Palmerston has been cast off by his colleagues , because he was not prepared to yield to the combined demands of the Continental Powers a " Confederacy , " about to include even Fiance , and headed by Austria and Russia , who "have demanded that British hospitality shall no longer be accorded to political refugees of all nations and all classes , but that such of these as shall be proclaimed ' dangerous , ' by the de facto rulers of their respective countries , shall be forthwith driven from our shores . " This would throw a
totally new light on the whole position ; but the Chronicle is at present writing in the interest of Lord Palmerston . And it hints advice the exact converse of the warning from the Times , —that the Liberals in the House of Commons should look to Lord Palmerston as a bead . The promotion of Lord Granville , from being Vice-President of the Hoard of Trade to bo Foreign Secretary , leaves vacant two places which he held ¦— -that of Vice-President , and that of Paymaster of the Forces ; both of which will have to he filled up . But further vacancies arc expected . Sir George
Grey , for example , is supposed to be in a state of health which may preclude his continuance in active work . And the hints incline to a coalition . No reliance can be placed on such hints : they are precisely of the kind that would be suggested to any political quidnunc by the obvious facts ; and the plans of the official party nre kept dark . Some are anticipating an accession of 1 ' ecliten , and go no fair as to think that Sir James Graham would join the Whig Ministry ! Others look for an infusion of iniddle-cfciss blood , and expect that Mr . Cohdcn
will have one of the places vacated by Lord Granville . Will it be that of Paymaster of the Forces ? Meanwhile , Lord John RiiskcII has incurred the grave displeasure of the Manchester Reform Conference . Our readers knew that be had declined to receive the Manchester deputation , on the ground that it would he "inconvenient" to receive , representations from a particular place on a measure interesting to the whole country ; but the Manchester people justly regard that excuse as " fudge . " The Chancellor of the Exchequer continuity receives
deputations from particular places on matters vitally interesting to the whole kingdom . And the Manchester people " resolve " that Lord John ' s reply is—not " evasive , " they waive that true description , on the score of courtesy—but " most unsatisfactory . " The Manchester overture to support the supercilious scion of the House of Bedford , therefore , was useless ; and Lord John does not scruple to tell Manchester to mind its own business . He will hear more of that next session .
The manufacturing districts are threatened with a " strike" of workmen , and there is much discussion in the Times upon the subject . On one side writes " Amicus , " whose view the Times adopts ; on the other , Mr . W . Newton , an intelligent leading member of the Council of Amalgamated Engineers . Ori the one side it is asserted , that the " Trades' Unions " are demanding of the manufacturers to cease overtime , to employ none but Unionists , and to equalize wages . On the other
side it is averred , that the workmen make no such demand , but only dictate the terms on which they shall work themselves . They have a perfect right to do so . Masters conspire to keep down wages , and to keep up the time of labour ; and it is quite right that the men should conspire for the opposite objects . The Times and its correspondent seem to be reciprocally mystified , especially the Leading Journal . But we hope to be in a position to deal with the facts more completely next week .
Louis Napoleon , in his cool , silent way , is still reposing on bayonets , duly flanked with cannon and cavalry , lie is elected b y a large majority , — if we may believe the reports of his creatures . But with Paris , with France in a state of siege ; with no opposition candidate ; with Home on his side , terror on bis side , all kinds of dishonesties on his side , backed by a hireling press , surrounded by the " JKlixir of tho Blackguardism" of France , who can put any faith in the election return of the ' 2 < Jtb of December ? The means of procuring the return of M . Bonaparte have been so scandalous , so utterly regardless of all moral , all written and unwritten law , so obviously in the interest of the despots and the Jesuits , that no sane man can believe that the
recorded votes of the French People represent the choice of the French People . The election is a sham as an election ; a terrible reality for Kurope . There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous—but one step from the IHth JJrumairo to the ' 2 nd of December . But the end is not yet . I ' ranee waits . On other points of the Continent almost every
political movement seems regulated by Parisian politics . Austria supports Louis Napoleon , oven excluding Belgian newspapers which denounce tho coup d \< tat . Austria casts angry glances towards Piedmont and Switzerland . Hanover in endangered . Bonaparte covets the Rhine provinces and Suvoy to round his empire . Russia ban everything to gain , nothing to lo . se . How would the City liko to hear that a European Congress way going to
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121851/page/1/
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