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    Death , again busy in high places , carries off the Duke of Cambridge ; and the courtly world is busy with addresses of condolence , preparations for mourning , and all the labours of formal melancholy . But the public regret goes beyond the forms : it will assert its genuine character in spite of these mechanical contrivances , in spite of that nuisance , a general mourning ; for most of us will miss the familiar presence of the good old gentleman , and no small number will feel the loss of an active friend . The Duke was a steady worker in what you may call the parish business of the empire ; and some greater or more intellectual man might be more easily spared .

    " Is it for Cambridge or Peel ? " was the question on Tuesday , when the church-bells were heard tolling . It was the day of Peel ' s funeral , and the London parishes , like many about the country , spontaneously declared the public sympathy with the sons of the statesman who were at that hour depositing his remains in the church of Drayton Bassett . It is a curious and painful account that of the funeralj mostly calculated to suggest ennobling ideas , but not also without some of a different kind . The plainness desiderated by the departed

    statesman , that simple modesty which avoided a public funeral and its pomp , could not struggle into full reality : the new family could not quite suppress the pride of mortal pomp . The parade of processions , the idle " board of plumes , " the crimson coffin , and the blazonry of pedigreed birth could not be foregone ; and yet the force of natural grief , the memory of departed greatness , were strong enough to overcome these mockeries . The managers of the mournful pageant were deliberately trivial ; its chief performers could not resist the

    inspiration of a more unstudied and solemn feeling . The loss of Peel has still been the subject of the week . Meetings have been held all over the country , to devise modes of immortalizing his memory—at his native place , at the chief seats of manufactures and commerce , there are to be such monuments ; and the monuments in Westminster Abbey will add a new name to their illustrious list . The course of political affairs has not tended to reassure us under the loss . The whole prospect is , without mitigation , ugly and unpromising . The position taken by Ministers in Parliament becomes

    more and more feeble end unpopular . This week we see the Premier resisting Mr . Locke King ' s proposal to make a very plain and natural improvement of the county constituencies , by extending the £ 10 occupant suffrage of boroughs to the counties . Lord John might fairly say that Mr . Kind ' s proposition was unmatured in plan and late in . its discussion ; but the reform is one that ought not to have remained unachieved to this day . The necessity for making it now is a disgrace to the author of the Reform Bill , who haa repudiated [ Town Edition . ]

    • ' finality . " But the tone of his speech is stall more derogatory to himself ; it was cavilling , sneering , and petty in spirit ; showing every disposition to seize the advocate of a real reform at a disadvantage , and a perfect absence of sympathy with the general object of the motion . The concession made in the matter of Sunday labour evinces a spirit scarcely less grudging and unpopular ; and the disclosure by a Member of the House , in a letter to the Times , exhibits a paltry manoeuvre . Mr . Locke proposed what was

    intended for a mild retractation of Lord Ashley ' s inopportune address to the Crown : he moved for an enquiry into the practicability of reducing Sunday labour in the Post-office ; the new rule to be suspended during that enquiry . Lord . John Russell suggested an alteration of this proposal , cutting off the suspension of the new rule , and , therefore , continuing the prohibition on Sunday labour , professedly in order to give the new rule a " fair trial . " Lord John ' s amendment was carried . Now , this act on the part of the Minister is a " three piled hyperbole" of disingenuousness—a paltry

    piece of stage play . Lord John never has given the new rule a " fair trial , " and does not mean to do so ; since no plans are adopted to mitigate the public inconvenience . The real motive was more likely to be the wish to evade the difficulty of resisting the Saints . But , what will be thought of the Minister ' s frankness , when it turns out that they had concerted the original motion with Mr . Locke , whom they publicly deserted and slighted , to make show of concession towards Lord Ashley and his Tory-Puritan friends ? Any position more disingenuous , mean , and impolitic , could scarcely be contrived .

    tion of Mutius Scsevola and other idols of juvenile ambition . It is either a boyish freak , which ought to be chastised with a whipping , or , as some fancy , a device for restoring a trifle of popularity to the President . But it would be a dangerous device . In France , we suspect , the sympathy ^ runs so strongly with the classic crime of regicide , that a mere attempt marks out the object for future attack , as trees are notched to be cut down . The public would feel disappointed at the frustration , and would regard the surviving Prince as an encroacher on the public rights of amusement .

    In the meanwhile the President ' s Government is doing all it can to destroy anything like popularity for itself and its master ; though not so rapidly as it is undermining the liberties of the country . " It has abolished universal suffrage ; it has quashed the right of public meeting , or , indeed , of meeting at all ; it is now destroying all vestiges of freedom in the press . The actual policy of the Government party in France is almost undisguised reaction . Its ultimate aim seems to be undetermined . Some

    supporters of President Bonaparte ' s Government declare their predilection for Legitimacy . Gathering strength in any popular party we do not see ; but that the anti-popular party is gathering against itself every element of hatred and exasperation is quite plain . If the Liberals are not preparing a revolution the Anti-Liberals are doing so . Meanwhile the mercurial Parisians amuse themselves with scientific balloon expeditions and balloon expeditions not scientific , in which the aero * naut , dressed " en jockey , " mounts a passive steed , who browses the trees as the strange equipage skims above the ground .

    The medley of our general news fetches up the sequel of some affairs already before the public . The madness of Pate , who assailed the Queen , seems to have been put beyond doubt at his last examination ; but it was not enough to exonerate him before Jury or Judge , and he is sentenced to seven years' transportation . The madness of a " determined Chartist , " who drew out a plan for setting fire to the muslin dresses of

    Ministers have had a success this week ! The Home-made Spirits Bill , which had been introduced against their opposition , they succeeded in throwing out by the glorious majority of 121 to 120 ; thus establishing their characteristic " working majority" of one . Colonel Sibthorp was naive enough to ask if , after that division , they would dare to carry on the Government of the country ? Of course they would : they prefer that majority to a larger , it is so compact and manageable ; and , as

    to their daring to carry on the Government ot the country , that is precisely what they most dare to do . Their audacity in that respect is exceeded only by the simplicity of the Colonel . Among the most notable of the miscellaneous subjects before Parliament have been Mr . Ewart ' s motion to abolish capital punishments , to which we must revert next week ; and the reception of Mr . Feargus O'Connor ' s motion on the People ' s Charter—the House going away : it was " counted out !"

    the lady-throng in Kensington-gardens , is less manifest ; but the fellow has been severely punished by the refusal to send him to trial : he is only called upon to find bail . Among the strangest outrages of a private nature is the assault of a medical student on his master , whom he nearly strangled . It seems to have been a contest of angry passions . Walter Watts , the fraudulent insurance clerk—who has been followed

    in his fall from apparent affluence to penal disgrace by the regret of many that remember his pleasant manners—has been once more exhibited in the Central Criminal Court , and has been sentenced , to ten years' transportation . One incident that comes pleasantly out of the vexations and mourning of the week is the marriage of Herbert Edwardes to the loved lady who watched from afar his chivalrous exploits in the East *

    Paris has been the scene of a farcical little melodrama : one Walker , a French lad with an English name , has been seized with a pistol in his possession , and the avowal on his tongue that he meant to assassinate the President , apparently in emula-

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    "Thb one Idea which Historr exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distmctnesa i * the Idea ot Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and oa . e-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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    News of thb Week— Page The Law of Divorce—A Maiden Wife 366 Puritanical Increase of Sunday La- James on Socialism . J « o Parliament 36 J An " Excessively Moderate" Drinker 366 bour 373 Ammal Magnetism * i *> The Duke of Cambridge 3 K 3 Trial of Pate for Assaulting : the The O'Connor Land Scheme 373 ThbArts—Peel .-Honours to hil Memory .. 363 Queen 366 Nullification of the Royal Pardon .. 3 , 3 Sl ^ Sufi ^ AHmi ™ .. 378 Attempt to Assassinate Louis K apt- The Prussian Poet and the Prime Genuine Toryism 373 Bachel and Her Admirers d 7 t » leon : . 7 . 364 Minister 367 Open Council— Progress of Science— _ TheLaw Against the Press . «? 364 A Brave Girl 367 TheLostKeys 373 Bequests to Scientific Institutions . 379 Schleswig Holstein Again 364 Murders and Murderous Assaults .. 367 Speaking Out 374 F °£ ?? £ F ?— Witnesg 380 The Bul # arian Insurrection 365 Public Affairs— Marriage .... . 37 a The Unseen Witness f ™ Church of England Self-Supporting Personal Influence in Public Affairs 371 Sabbath Sect Desecration 375 Hymn .... ooi Village Society 365 Smouldering Fires in Europe 371 Lord Ashley ' s Postal Arrangements 375 The Cat ' s Pilgnmag 38 L The Exhibition of 1851 365 General Mourning 372 Literature— Commercial Affairs-Aeronautics in Paris 365 Government Treachery in France .. 372 Bushnell ' s Three Discourses 376 Markets , Gazettes , Sec ______

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    No . 16 . SATURDAY , JULY 13 , 1850 . Price 6 d .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 13, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1846/page/1/