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"Thh one Idea which History exnibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw ; down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one Brother hood , having one great ooject—the free development or our sDintual nature . "—Huaibolbt ' s Oosaos .
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News of the Week— Pa « c Miscellaneous 1231 Literature— Organizations of the PeoplSLetters from Paris 1222 Public Affairs— Dante ' s Life and Times 1236 Eng lish Sympathy for French Continental Notes 1227 Lord Palmerston superseded 1232 Popular History of Mollusca 1237 Bepubhcans i « o » The Ansrlo-American Alliance .... 1227 Napoleonic Ideas 1233 Gift Books 1237 Open Council—Kossuth in America .. 1228 More Troops—National Defence .. i 233 Books on our Table 1238 A New Daily Paper \ XTJi k The Reform Campaign : Bepulse .. 1228 , Westward , Ho!—The Land of Free- Tun Arts— la Louis Napoleon popular or not 1 . J 40 The Coming Strike at Manchester .. 1228 dom : 1234 The History of Pantomimes 1238 1 he Power of Education LJ 40 Saxons and Celts 1239 The Fate of the" Base Exceptions " 1234 Portfolio— 1 he Essentials of Christianity .... i « i The Parties in Italy 1229 " Grand and Peculiar Event" 1234 KiThe Game of Speculation 1238 Health of London during the Week 1 ^ 41 Colliery Explosion . —Fifty Lives Commercial Intelligence 1235 European Democracy Commercial Affairs—Lost 1230 The Proper Currency for Austria .. 1235 The National Committee of the Market 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1231 Notes on War 1235 Kouinains 1238 & c « «•» I-- ** - - **
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Lord Palme rston 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 whose 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 Drought 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 sanctioned 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 ' a occupation of the Foreign-office . As 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 his own administration , under the late Earl Grey . " " As the case has stood of late years , Lord Palmerston ' s colleagues divided with him the responsibility of his proceedings , without sharing an authority which he exercised to a great extent beyond their control . " In spite of its confident tone , the Times evidently lives in dread of some alliance between Lord
Palmerston and "the Democrats . " They are warned to uncertain his opinions before they adopt him , especially on the subjects of Reform , Corn Laws , and constitutional liberty in France . And he is warned not to enter into a hopeless and unprofitable courne of agitation : " His long experience and hia past services forbid him to engage in factious opposition ;"—and , " the good sense of the country would resist an appeal to its passions , in direct hostility to the cause of peace and order throughout the world . "
So writea the journal which has evidently been favoured with the fullest and most direct official information : the others do not add very much to its disclosures . Retrospective and critical , the Daily News calls to mind the irritation in Vienna ttt Lord Pulmurston ' u coquetting with the refugees I Town Koition . 1
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 ' s 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 y ield to the combined demands of the Continental Powers a " Confederacy , " about to include even France , 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 defacto 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 head . The promotion of Lord Granville , from being Vice-President of the Board of Trade to be 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 be filled up . But further vacancies are 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 are kept dark . Someare anticipating an accession of Peelites , und go so far as to think that Sir James Graham would join the Whig Ministry ! Others look for an infusion of middle-class blood , and expect that Mr . Cobden will have one of the places vacated by Lord Granville . Will it be that of Paymaster of the Forces i Meanwhile , Lord John Russell has incurred the grave displeasure of the Manchester Reform Conference . Our readers knew , that he had declined to receive the Manchester deputation , on the ground that it would bo ' * inconvenient " to receive representations from a particular place on ti measure interesting to the whole country ; but the Manchester people justly regard that excuse us " fudge . " The Chancellor of the Exchequer continally 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 j on the other , Mr . W . Newton , an intelligent leading member of the Council of Amalgamated Engineers . On 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 ilanked with cannon and cavalry . He is elected by 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 Rome" on his side , terror on his side , all kinds of dishonesties on his side , backed by a hireling press , surrounded by the " Elixir of the Blackguardism" of France , who can put any faith in the election return of the 29 th
of December ? The means of procuring the return of M . Bonaparte have been bo 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 Europe . There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous—but one step from the 18 th Brumaire to the 2 nd of December . But the end is " not yet .
franco waits . On other points of the Continent almost every political movement seems regulated by Parisian politics . Austria supports Jfcouis Napoleon , even excluding Belgian newspapers which denounce the coup d ' etat . Austria cunts angry glances towards Piedmont and Switzerland . Hanover is endangered . Bonaparte covetu the Rhine provinces and Savoy to round his empire . Russia Ivm everything to gain , nothing to lose . How would the City like to hear that a European Congress was going to
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_27121851/page/1/
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