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    No . 12 . SATURDAY , JUNE 15 , 1850 . Price 6 d .

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    " THE ' oae 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 Rehqion , 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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    If any considerable proportion of the work executed in Parliament this week had been really useful , much credit might have been allowed to the Legislature ; but , although the whole mass is not altogether vain , the bulk of it unquestionably must go for nothing . Parliament seems obliged to legislate as farmers grow corn , with more straw and chaff than grain . The Metropolitan Interments Bill , which is among the most useful works , is itself a sort of corn-stack encumbered by its own bulk . The improvement contemplated by Lord Naas ' s motion for going into committee on the mode of levying duty on home-made spirits is scarcely advanced by his defeat of Ministers ; he carried his motion by 85 to 53 , and Ministers were duly humbled ; but there we presume the matter ends . It is the same with Lord Westmeath's bill to fix a minimum of encumbrances which shall bring estates under the operation of the Encumbered Estates Act : the main object of the bill obtained so much sanction in the House of Lords , that the Karl of Carlisle was fain to let it go to the Commons ; whither it travels with a good deal of harsh language from Lord Glengall , against the act and the " dirty theory got up by the Manchester school . " Among the positive utilities is the advancement of the Marriage Bill through committee in the Commons . Mr . Hume and Sir Robert Peel have had a gladiatorial contest on the subject of art and its administration in the Palace at Westminster . Mr . Hume tried to cut off the salary of the commission , wishing the useful part of the building to be furnished before the Fine Arts Commission should proceed with its decorative works ; and he took occasion to make a general censure of the failures about the building—the frustration of the plans , the increased estimates , the hindrances , the lapse of time , &c . All of which said , Sir Robert Peel got up , and , first showing that Mr . Hume had himself been among those who suggested expensive and dilatory alterations , launched into a general eulogium upon the artists engaged to decorate the building : he thus succeeded in making Mr . Hume ridiculous , while he enveloped the whole subject in a gilded cloud of parliamentary eloquence . The House laughed at Mr . Hume , and voted the money . Out of the Australian Colonies Bill , some of the colonists hope to get the means of obtaining for themselves self-government , thinking to filch that concession from Lord Grey through the holes in his own measure . Amendments of the bill in the House of Lords have been rejected by decisive though not large majorities . Lord Monteagle proposed , to have a double chamber , in vain . The Bishop of Oxford proposed to refer the bill to a select committee , in order to revise the errors which he pointed out after Mr . Lowe ; Lord [ Town Edition . ]

    Brougham moved to hear counsel at the bar , —in which case , of course , Mr . Lowe would have appeared , as Mr . Burge and Mr . Roebuck appeared for Jamaica and Canada : but the House stuck to the Ministerial side . Moving for papers , Lord Jocelyn has given Ministers a jog on the subject of Indian railways ; and Mr . Wilson has given the assurance that Ministers do not intend to let the matter flag . The political movements out of doors are not very striking , distinguished , indeed , rather for negatives than positives . At the Consumption Hospital dinner , for example , the Nepaulese Ambassador , who was to have been the great ornament and attraction , was too unwell to attend . At the Merchant Tailors' dinner , Sir Robert Peel made his annual appearance , but did not announce the construction of any new political party . At the Protection Meeting in Market Harborough the defenders of the Corn Laws promulgated no new views ; but did propose a halfpenny rate on their district , as the means of raising the sinews of war according to Lord Stanley ' s suggestion . Movements still in Ecclesiastical affairs . The Gorham question is not suffered to subside ; for , while Mr . Gorham obtains a writ of " Quare impedit" in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , the Bishop of Exeter obtains a rule in the Court of Exchequer to hear the argument on the points of law , which the Queen ' s Bench and Common Pleas had refused to hear . Mr . Gorham , therefore , stirs up the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform his Ministerial office of induction , while the Bishop of Exeter at last finds a court to listen to the law refinements of his counsel . The High Tory but Low Church Standard bursts forth in a copious flood of indignation at the Romanist tendencies of the ceremonial in St . Barnabas Church at its opening . There was a procession in the Church as soon as the Bishop of London entered ; on the altar were a cross and candlesticks—nay , " elegant" candlesticks ; and the Bishop of London , horribile dictu , preached " unity . " Socially , the striking incident of the week has been a counterpart of the Dunn persecution of Miss Burdett Coutts : one M'Allister , a discharged footman , has been trying to force his quondam mistress , Miss Bellew , to marry him ; and , in selfdefence , she is obliged to appear before a Police Court . If Lynch law can claim any respect , it is in the treatment of such fellows as this . Vicissitude has no influence in disturbing the annual round of Ascot races . Be the season hot or * cold , prosperous or poor , with its thousand births , and deaths , and marriages in the day , forgetting business and bankruptcy , all the world mounts into four-horse coaches or humbler substitutes , and drives out of town to Ascot . With all his commonplace mistakes and his disingenuousness , force of character has been the trait

    of Louis Philippe ; the personal influence which it has gained for him , surviving even his downfall and the failure of his active faculties , is shown _ by the anxiety felt at the rumours of his being seriously ill . Paragraphs have appeared , from day to day , in the nature of semi-official bulletins ; early in the week it was intimated that he was rapidly sinking under a mortal and incurable disease , understood to be cancer of the stomach ; subsequently , the Times puts forth an authenticated statement , implying t&at the disease is nothing worse than bronchitis , and asserting that his health is not such as to cause any immediate anxiety . Meanwhile he has had a special visiter from France in the person of M . Thiers , whose mission has been ascribed , variously , to the dutiful desire of seeing his old master once more before death , and to some negotiation respecting the French throne . For the old story is revived , that the Orleanists and Legitimists are disposed to " swap " expectations : Henry V ., it is expected , will be childless ; Louis Philippe ' s grandson is now very young : to make way , then , for Henry V ., with an understanding that he opposes no difficulties to the succession of the Count of Paris , would not be worse to the little Prince than to appoint his cousin as Regent during a minority . In this way the interests of two considerable parties would be amalgamated . But report says that the Duchess of Orleans stands out for the absolute rights of her little boy ; though how any absolute < r rights" can be more valuable just now than * the increased probability obtained by such a coalition it is difficult to understand . Too much need not be made of the rumour , except in so far as it seems to show the importance still attached to . Louis Philippe . It may also confirm the impression , that if a man with equal force of character were now to rise in France , of years better suited to activity , he would ipso facto take the lead of the people . The poor President is by no means equal to that part . The reports about him this week exhibit him in a state of mystification . He is understood to be , as usual , "in difficulties "; his official and quasi-monarchical hospitality having urged him to " outrun the constable" ; so that he has anticipated the increased salary which the National Assembly seems to have some difficulty in granting . It is quite natural that he should be disgusted ; and when , at St . Quentin , he talks about his " real friends , " the sarcasm is understood to be levelled at the recusants in the Assembly . Moreover , his Ministers are said to have outwitted him on the subject of the electoral law . He did not understand that the universal suffrage which elected him had been abolished with the universal suffrage which elected that disagreeable Assembly . Quite the reverse ; he supposed that , while an improved constituency would elect a newer and a better chamber , the old constituency , in its admirable capacity of electing himself , would be retained , He is , therefore , exhibit-

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    — . ^ . . . ^ .. _ j * ur w . — -ruge . Miscellaneous < hl . uengious jceaerauon aixy m sana x . x . ... ......... «<<« . « o *» Parliament 266 Public Affairs— Federal Religious Unions 277 Tub Arts—The French President 268 Serious Invasion of the Privileges of A Defence of Scripture Authenticity 277 The Lyric Drama 283 Orleans and Bourbon 268 the People 274 Doctrines 277 The Drama 283 The Cuban Expedition 268 Lord Grey ' s Australian Democracy . 274 Marriage and Divorce 278 Pbogrkss op Science—California 269 Beginning at the Wrong End 275 Teetotalism 278 Magnetic Power , &c . &c 283 Germany 269 The Working Tailors ' Association . 275 Laws of Nature : Population 279 Portfolio—The Church Movement 269 An Argument against Sanitary He- Bight of the Suffrage 279 A Flight of Authoresses ... 284 Six Hundred more Churches 270 form 276 Literature— Two Magnetic Stances 284 Labourers and the Labour Market .. 270 Credit 276 Pepe ' s Italian Struggle 280 Despair 285 The Serpentine 270 Clerical Infidelity 276 Young Russia 281 International Criticism 285 Mr . Cobden and Mr . Garbett 270 Open Council— * Newman ' s Phases of Faith 281 Commercial Affairs—The Egyptian Mummy 271 A Joint-Stock Cooperative Society . 276 Books on our Table 283 Markets , Gazettes , &c 286-88

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 15, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1842/page/1/