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      "The One Idea Which. History Exhibits As...

      " The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea ol Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the ¦ whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      Kbwa Of Thb Whbk- Pa8e The Porbfi And Hu...

      KBWa OF thb Whbk- Pa 8 e The PoRBfi and Hungarian Refugees A Country without a Bishop 297 T « k Abts—Parliament of the Week ..... 286 iw Liverpool 291 Beligious Liberty sometimes Per- rwnimr of the Ooera . 301 The Main European Question 287 The Essex Murderers " 292 bonalRestraint 297 ££ *' \ 5 f <* " £ ShaksDearV & adin ^ 301 Protestantism and Popery 288 Miscellaneous 292 Taxes on Knowledge ... 297 rw m icucnmhw 301 Miss Talbot-Convent Discipline .. 289 »„ ,, „ ..,. „ , Sham Groceries 297 T ° tufe 3 ^ 1 Landlords , Labourers , and Poor public afiuibs- Petition Signature * ..... 297 xir t W" wkllack 301 Rates 290 Easter Recess—The Dissolution .... 295 Opinion at Westou 297 Mr . j . w . wanac * . •>« The Association i & r - Promoting- the Alas , Poor Italy ! 295 Literature— Fbogeess of the People—Repeal ef the Taxes on Know- Wholesale Aggression on the Right Mariutti ' s Italy in 1848 ; 298 T ., *„_„ rb * t \* t * Vi \ ledge 290 of Way at Hornsey ? .. 296 The Siere of Damascus 299 Letters to Chartists ... « xn Life Assurance 29 L Essex Anarchy and Yorkshire Or- C . Knight's National Shakspere .... 030 Commercial Affairs—Omnibus Improvements 291 ganization 296 Books on our Table 3 U 0 Market 3 , Gazettes , & c 302-3

      Vol. Ii.—No. 53. Saturday, March 29, 185...

      VOL . II . —No . 53 . SATURDAY , MARCH 29 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      The Great Division On Lord John Russel's...

      The great division on Lord John Russel ' s Anti-Papal Bill has superseded the interest in the fogend of the debate . Lord Arundel and Surrey ' s amendment against the second reading was negatived by 438 to 95 . But , asks everybody , what does this majority mean ? For it is at once put out of the question that the majority was one for Ministers . Probably it is not a majority for the bill ; possibly not even for the principle ; but simply a majority for the second reading—for

      going on one stage more . The minority consisted unainly of Inch Members , English Roman Catholics , Young Englanders , and the stanchest supporters of religious liberty . With the supporters of the Ministry the majority confounded many who acted in mere dislike of the Pope , many in deference to that dislike among the public ; others in a special fear of their own constituents , and some sent the bill forward with the expectation of seeing it mauled in committtee . The majority , therefore , means nothing very definite ; certainly not a vote of confidence in Ministers .

      The closing nights brought forward speeches that ought not to be forgotten , especially those of Mr . George S my the and Mr . Gladstone . Mr . Smythe lent the currency of hie eloquence to a startling truth , which falls in well with the opinion of the New Reformationists in Italty . " Rome , " he said , " has gone beyond the Government of England in the spirit of the principle which decrees that none shall pay for a faith other than

      his own : " " she has re , ad in England the first bans of those free nuptials between Liberty and Faith—between Modern Liberty and Ancient Faith , which , in his conscience , he believed in no remote age would yet regenerate mankind . " Mr . Gladstone ' s speech was an argumentative exposition of the facts that the bill is needless , impotent , and impolitic . It is remarkable for containing the bitterest , though quietest , remark in the debate : —

      "The noble Lord distinctly stated , unless I am mistaken , that the appointment of bishops was not a spiritual but a temporal act . " Lord John IIusskli ,. — "I referred to the opinion of Dr . Twigs . " Mr . Gi . ai > stouk . — " I . should bo glad to know what opinion the noble Lord has . That , hotoever , I am not hkely to get . Miss Talhot ' s case has grown from a mere episode in the debate to a substantive topic of general discussion in Parliament and Law Court , newspaper and drawing-room . The whole case lies in a nutshell . Miss Talbot is an heiress under

      age , protected by her half uncle , the Earl of Shrewsbury , her testamentary guardian Dr . Doyle , and the Lord Chancellor . Her stepfather , Mr . Craven Berkeley , suddenly conceives an anxiety lest the fortune of £ 80 , 000 should be brought up upon Catholic principles an well uh the young lady that [ Counti » y Edition . ]

      belongs to it ; and incontinently he raises a pother which deranges all the young lady ' s plans and exhibits the Berkeley zeal . The true checks against any danger of conventual oppression lie in the direction of the bill initiated by Mr . Lacy and Mr . Spooner for the registration and visitation of convents ; but of course that measure will not be passed with any enactments so ferocious as that which makes asapfelt in a religious howte felony ! Meanwhile , scandal and prejudice do not check the transitions to Rome , still less the tendency . Mr . Bennett may be driven out of the Church , and his ornate chancel may be despoiled ; the statistics of the Church and State Gazette , —which reports a hundred Oxford fellow * , professors , and graduates to have gone over to Rome , and seventeen hundred clergymen to have denied the supremacy of the Crown , —may be exaggerated £ , but the fact remains , that clergymen , laymen , and evfen families , continue to make the transit ; and we believe that the process is stimulated by the outburst of persecuting spir it . Among the Ministerial measures promised was Chancery Reform , which Lord John promulgated on Thursday . The new " Reform" seems to be a mere tinkering , shifting , botching attempt to evade a real measure , such as the public expected . Out of doors the principal movement just now takes the shape of labouring or agr icultural discontent . The Irish Tenant League has been defeated at Dungarvan , but defeat has only added to the rankling , which shows itself in * ' exclusive dealing "; and , although it has failed at an election , the Tenant League spirit has given a new impulse to resistance of rent-paying even in the discreet North . In England , we have the Essex farmers proclaiming low wages as the correlatives of freetrade prices—and high rents ; while the Suffolk labourers are to be tried for the riot in Barham Workhouse . It is not surprising that tho accompaniment of this feeling should be a great increase of crime . The fact is remarked by Mr . Justice Cresswell at Liverpool Assizes , as rendered the- more extraordinary by the " prosperity" which gives employment to the working classes ; but , if Mr . Justice Cresswell were better acquainted with the actual state of the working classes , he would know that the employment is singularly partial and capricious . For example , close observers note n marked decline in the state of Leeds , while Bradford could recently boast a " roaring" trade of nearly three ycara * duration ; and we saw not long since a curious sign of prosperity among the weavem of Carlisle . In Glasgow they arc building a new prison to provide for the increase of crime . The fact is , that much of our " prosperity" is that of traders and manufacturers , whose " employment" is given in great part to machinery , and not to living human hiiiulu ; although employment ih the condition of' existence . That is one Hiv « eping ' reason why the " prosperity" in in vain for the poor , and why crime increases among them . A

      , London magistrate is much scandalized at a I combination among the coopers to prevent their I fellows from accepting employment where ma-! chinery is used ; they have carried their organization so far that they can now do with-I out its ostensible use , acting singly , but not the less surely ; and coercing masters by refusing | to work with men who break their rules . It is of little use to say that in the long run the men are generally conquered : the combination at Iea 3 t defers their day of defeat , and does remind the employing and legislating classes that there are human beings to be considered . But the men are wrong to seek their ' safety in combinations which the past show to be untenable , and only of temporary use : the real source of their calamity lies in the system of competition ; that system is no longer upheld with the blind reliance of twenty year » ago ; on the contrary , opinions in favour of coiv cert are now tolerated , nay discussed , even in our great Quarterlies ; and daily have we signs that they are making their way in every class of society and in every part of the country—from the Chartist Association , whose Convention assembles next week , to the " highest" orders , from manufacturing Manchester to rustic Weston-super-Mare . The Continental news of this week may be looked upon as a mere repetition of the news of last week . Austria and Prussia are said to have come at last to a definitive settlement of their business . Austria will have the Presidency of the Diet , and will share with the rival power the Presidency of the Executive Committee . Although the report is given by official papers in Berlin , the news is too good for Prussia to be true . In France , the impossibility of revising the Constitution before May , 1852 , begins to appear obvious to all interested parties . There is , therefore , some probability that a scheme set on foot by the Club of the Rue des Pyramids , for putting off the Presidential election till 1854 , will meet with a favourable reception . The law of the 31 st of May will , probably , be applied to all electoral purposes . Austria is binding Italy with a net of her own railways . A line ih to run from Venice to Leghorn , crossing Lombardy , the Duchies of Parrna and Modena , the Legations and Tuscany . All the commercial interests of those countries will be sacrificed to the military exigencies of the ruling | x > wer . Woe to the conquered ! In London has just happened an event both of forttan and domestic importance — Lord LyndhursV « call upon Ministers to renew the Alien Act , in order to expel the representative * of foreign patriots now amongst us . Lord Grey ' s answer may be interpreted as a refusal to interfere , and a hinted request to the refugee patriots that they be discreet . We are glad to « e « that a Grey declines to act as an a ^ ent of AuBtrinnism ; scarcely Icsh {* lud that Lyndhiust , iinenervateil \» y ««»' , has brought the Whig Ministers to ' th * test . England will not be inudq the tool of Austriu .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031851/page/1/