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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 of 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 _Relisfion , 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 . _v

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      _Nbws of the Week- Page News op thb Wbbk—continued . A Judge .... 11 American Books 16 Parliament 2 Restitution of Conjugal Bights 7 The True Appeal for Repeal 12 Books on our Table .. 16 Protectionist Meetings 3 Disturbances near Glasgow 7 " The . Leader" and Protection 12 _« Parliamentary Reform Movement ... 4 The Bridgenorth Murder 7 Wigan competing with Newcastle ... 12 a _«~ _T ?• m * _r-r it _Leeds Redemption Society 4 Fatal Cruelty : the Bideford Case .... 7 Open Council— _wKTSm _^ _rfW _n * la Tailors ' Sweating System 5 Justice by Misadventure 8 Right of Subsistence out of the Soil . 12 _xne J _^ _ons and the Oxen i » Banquet to Lord Gough 5 Strange Defamation Case 8 Association and Communism 12 _tw _7 _^ _5 « pV * r _\ ' * « _.... _••• * Trench Laws against the Press 5 Miscellaneous 8 Pressure of Taxes on Knowledge ... 13 _£ ? _"J " . ~\ n _% _"f _?™* _, n Hints of Monarchy in France 6 Public Affairs— Extracts from Letters 13 _« otes and _Extracts w The Erfurt Parliament 6 Society and its Salvage 10 Literature— Commercial Affaibs—Ecclesiastical Agitation 6 The Church , its Bishops and Priests . 10 Carlyle against Downing-street ..... 14 Gazettes , & c , 21 A Puseyite Recusant Clergyman .... 6 German Unity 11 New German Book on _Shakspeare ... 15 Advertisements .... 22

      No. 1. .. . Saturday, March 30, 1850. Pr...

      No . 1 . .. . SATURDAY , MARCH 30 , 1850 . Price _©< d .

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      If Any Political Party Would Make Way Ju...

      If any political party would make way just now out of the stagnant slough of indifference , it must do so by carrying with it the great body of the People . We say this as much for politicians pro- fessed , as for the sake of the People . To obtain the assent and support of the People , appeal must be made not only to their convictions , but to their affections . Apply this test to the past session of Parliament and we shall see what it has done , not only in Acts formally passed , but in trying the efficiency of parties , or making good a footing for popular interests . Ministers may be put out of the question , Their object and thus far they have succeeded in it—has been to keep in ; and they have once more persuaded some of the most honest Reformers that the great purpose of political life in England is "to keep out the Tories . " Ministers have kept in , and have also achieved a surplus _revenuef moreover , they have clipped off the Brick Duty . They have a bill for _extending the Irish franchise , and they have passed a bill for preventing processions in Ireland , —which are apt to have a murderous tendency . They have a bill for pretending to give a constitution to the Austra- lian colonies ? in order to prop up the somewhat weakened authority of Downing-street at the anti- podes . They seem really disposed to give the Cape of Good Hope the _effective constitution which they have already given to Canada ; be- cause the Cape of Good Hope has all but re- belled , as Canada did . But the pr inciple upon which they have most distinctly and vigorously taken their stand is that of maintaining the blockade squadron on the west coast of Africa , which does not prevent the slave-trade , but only obliges slave-traders to press the harder on their living freight . It was on this question , to beat Mr . _Hutt and common sense , that they called the . most rigid muster of their adherents ; and many an old Reformer consented once more to play the part of a bung , lest the Tories should leak into office . " To such base uses may we come at last ! " The Ministers , therefore , are out of the question in considering parties hav ng some relation to the People . The Peel party , which not long since used to be the principal rival of the Whigs , is disbanded ; its leader reposing , its members in part dispersed , or _ioining on occasion the excessively heterogeneous but not very numerous band of men who are endea- vouring to move Parliament in treating questions on their merits . It is to this class , of doubtful numbers and limitation , that the greater activity of the session thus far is to be ascribed . The other part of the Opposition on the left hand of theSpeaker , the remnant of the old Tory party - the long professed " friends of the farmer , " also

      If Any Political Party Would Make Way Ju...

      " _f _" _ends of the labourer , "—finds a difficulty in . establishing its influence in any quarter . Although it is landlord to the former class , the farmers doubt it much—daily more and more . The labourer knows nothing about it ; he cannot understand Mr . Disraeli ' s literary language , nor quite perceive the interest which labour has in a transfer of landlords' local burthens to the Consolidated Fund paid by the great body of the people . Neither is the affec- tion of the people strongly attracted by Lord Stan- ley ' s efforts to whitewash Lord Roden and the Orange heroes of Dolly ' s Brae . The People does not perceive much achieved for it in this quarter , and does not feel its bowels yearn with affection excited by gratitude or old traditions . The tra- ditions of the " bold peasantry , its country ' s pride , " are cut off too recently by the workhouse . Turn to the more popular parties , the Taxation Reformers under Cobden , the Parliamentary Re- formers under Hume , —men who are doing some- thing towards what the People have collectively demanded : but they are not doing enough . Their Taxation Reform is troublesome , indeed , to those who are officially charged with the conduct of public affairs , but does not grapple with the real mass of the burthens that bear upon the People . One instance of its omission—it makes no attempt to deal with the national debt . Ingenious Disraeli had not forgotten that hated monster , and it was duly to be dealt with in the catastrophe of his happy-ending romance ; a romance , alas ! put off till " next session . " Hume offers for the People what is almost a Charter ; but they do not care for it , precisely because it is clipped , and is not ani- mated by a spirit of thorough reliance on the generous disposition of the masses . Though large , it is stinted and guarded in deference to the timid , The People dislikes timid men ; as timid men too fearfully discover in times of danger . The People speaks for itself in its efforts to im- prove its condition by associative attempts , —as in London , Leeds , Manchester , Bristol , Sheffield , and other places , experiments multipl y ing fast , It speaks for itself among the factory districts , in the demand of a general consent to keep labour within practicable limits of time , so that life shall not be utterly run out in the din and dust of the weaving-shed or the spinning-factory , but shall know something of what man is dofng intellect- wards , something of what Nature is doing exter- nally , and what man is born to know . . But it finds popular leaders in Parliament conniving at official t evasions intended to cheat the People of that enactment which , in 1847 , Parliament could not refuse . The People does not find effective svm- pathy or agency in Parliament , and , therefore , parties in Parliament are weak from want of popu- lar support . They are perpetually trying to move the nation without possessing the strength of the nation ; and , until they do learn to win that great instrument of popular activity , they w , l still waste their efforts in disappointment and humiliation . *

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      About the country all is quiet . Politics , except for the organized agitations of the parties we have named , are dead . The Londoner just now sees the world only in its holiday aspect . The metropolis > t . is overrun with boys , boxes , and bonhomie _^ thl < pleasing bustle of the holidays . In the factory districts wages are looking up , and trade moves . In the agricultural districts farmers are . talking surlily ; but there are not many incendiary fires _, Ireland is preparing to lose its Lord Lieutenant with some grumbling , but without much real regret . The news of the papers now and for some time past has been grimly diversified by the strange records of crime , of domestic poisonings , hideous brutalities , with 4 ieireand there the : failure of justice through the preposterous and cumbrous _ktechuicalities of our law ; excellent as that law is for the gentlemen of the long gown and the gentlemen of the dock . Education is the great remedy among others for the cure of this mortal disease of the uneasy classes .

      A ^ Ma ' * Iaaq Ana Ir ^ O Pw™ ; M After...

      a _^ ma ' * _iaAQ anA iR _^ o pw _™ ; m After the storms of 1848 and 184 S ' Europe is again « at peace . " Yet it is only the _surfece which » calm : the under current is nowhere stilled . In France the Republican party appears resolved to advance more surely , for it has learned more of self-control . Meanwhile , the unstable Government of Prince Louis Napoleon rushes into extreme measures , imitating the fatal policies of the old monarchy : this , too , with a majority in the Assembly not to be relied on , and with an armv that supports Socialist _candidate's . And the Reactionaries are openly dividing ; for the Legitimists will not wait : M . de la Rochejaquehn urges the Assembly to decree the sense of 1 ; ranee to be taken on the 1 st of June , on the question whether the Republic shall be maintained , or the monarchy restored ! French bayonets yet linger in Italy . French troops , ra conjunction with Austrian and Spanish ( or Swiss ) are to form the pontifical bodyguard _, A day is at lengthi fixed for the _^ ° Pf s _return ; fixed , but not credited , for the attitude of . the Roman population is not inviting . _Ontheannouncement of the Popes " certain return , instantly appears m Rome a proclamation by _Monim . In spite of the popular Papal demonstrations o be got up by the ex ; felon Gennaraccioj m _sprte of Cardinal Antonelh ' s circular to the diplomatic body ,. wherein he declares the . " universal _satisfaction " which " hailed _^ _^^^ _nfJ _^ A % . rnate Government - the only _^ mg wanited tor entire satisfaction being the return of the Ho y Pontiff , it is _clear _^ that the Papacy can " _* nd o . ly so long „ it shall be _»» PI _^ by _* ° _™ _$ ? T arms ' _^ J _^^^^^^^^ _}^^ mont the clergy are P ro _^ n _? » f ™ _% _*^ _~ l n 1 _^ terial P"P ° 8 lto ° » _JfP _~™^ _^ deprive them of their privileges ; a proj osition the more s , gnificapt , inasmuch as it i _" _^^ _g reference , to the » Holy See . _Rf e \ f _^ r _^ _J _5 confiscate half the property of all the Lombard

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 30, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_30031850/page/1/