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News of tub Wbbk— Page The Gold Diggings a 5 « . Public Affa i » s- ^ LitbsATona-- . . SM The Queen ' s Visit to Edinburgh .. 554 The Submarine Telegraph Broken .. 557 School of Rebellion , 561 Philosophy at Cambridge oOT The Visit to Cherbourg 5 * 4 Proposed Suppression of Doncaeter The Progre « of the Nation ........ 563 «» „"« , * . r . ^« '' V •¦•• " — . £ ( Z I . 011 U Philippe ' s Funeral 554 Races , 0 * 7 Wonders 563 Euaen e Sue « Lu tNovel „ 5 G 8 The Canterbury Colonist * 555 Marshal Haynau in London 5 r > 7 A Short Crop but Plenty of Food ,. 563 Books on our Table .,. * DB * Trial and Sentence of the Officers of Lovers' Qnarrela 5 o 8 Social Reform 5 j > 3 roRTF ««•»— _ . - „ theOrion 555 The Veritable Sea-Serpent 558 r « n « n . w rh ^ . Th f L " , fi 72 The Texan Question 558 The E-sex Poisonings 558 Opbw Counoii- Chants of . the Angela ; ... . ' 57 a Australasian Independence ..... I .. 556 Suicide ol an Officer 558 IsOur" Progress" Backward . .... 564 Confes ^ ons of a ' l . rmd Lover ...... 57 * The Wiesbaden Congress 5 ' » S A Chloroform Robbery 558 A Reformation 5 b * Commercial Affa IBSCopenhagen Court Gwii . 556 A Case of Lunacy 558 Pauper Farms .............. ...... 565 M * J ** > Si *™?*? ' Birth 9 ' M % * ~ Another Indian Disturbance 556 Miscellaneous 559 The Romans and their Revolution .. 56 > riages , Deatiis , &c 574-. 6
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea 101 Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between menbv 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 , hiving one great objeot-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Co * mOs .
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No , 24 , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1850 . Psice 6 d .
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Royal or quasi-royal excursions have been engaging public attention in various countries and . in various fashions . Queen Victoria has delighted her beloved Scots by making Edinburgh her residence , and has disappointed them by a brief and secluded sojourn . Prince Albert , however , made some amends , by figuring on " the ftfound " as leading mason in laying the first stone of the new gallery ; a very handsome building , altogether , throwing the gallery of Trafalgar-square into the shade . " Henry the Fifth , * ' for the first time
prodifficulties into account , by casting him into prison , can only serve to give his opponents an air of meanness : and the same untoward effect is produced by the letter of a correspondent in the Times , disparaging the doctor s personal character and position . There is this one element in the agitation , which ought to be formidable to the Government in Downing-street an opinion is gaining ground among Colonists in various parts of the empire , that the English race
acquires new characteristics with the . peculiarities of the new regions and varying communities in which it is dispersed ; and that each colony thus acquires a sort of distinct nationality for itself . It is a serious , and possibly may prove a fatal defect in our colonial administration , that it makes no provision for this varying nationality . The fact , however , is unmistakable , and we suspect that several efforts at independence have erroneously been ascribed to special quarrels , when they ought to have been traced to this general source . But the Government of D iwning-street is the very beau ideal of a London martinet red-tapery : having no respect whatever for these branching nationalities , Downing-street is continually striving to keep each colonial family on the Procrustes bed of routine ; and , so long as that vain effort is continued , we run a chance of seeing some important group of colonies break loose from the empire , as the only means of breaking loosefrom the official tormentor . This is the system which creates and strengthens such men as Lang and Papineau , such bodies as the Anti- > Convict Association of the Cape , and the Separation League of Canada .
claiming himself " King" France , has taken leave of his beloved subjects—the holiday-makers at Wiesbaden ; and the party has dispersed — like its hopes . Louis Philippe has made his last journey , or rather has begun his last journey , and attained a provisional home in the private chapel of a Roman Catholic lady at Weybridge . His epitaph announces his subsequent departure for the land of his forefathers . The veritable King of France pro tempore , Louis Napoleon , has found his
popularity tour so profitable that he has already set out upon , another with very good promise . The King of Denmark has made an unexpected sally into the region of left-handed marriage ; The Sovereigns of Northern Europe have lately made free in a similar direction , but the Danish King ' s proceeding is the more remarkable , since it effectually cuts off the direct succession . Politicians are mystified ; but it is not impossible that the active patronage of Russia might have been given with a view to this unaccountable step .
to Cape Grienez , will of course be repaired : the practicability of the scheme has been fully proved . The attempt to suppress-Doncaster races is an improvement of a doubtful kind . ' We do not respect horse-racing as the best of all sports ; but manly sports are so fast disappearing amongst us ,, that we are loth to spare any one of them ; and there is some comfort in seeing cant so effectually exploded by direct outspeaking as it was at the Doncaster meeting . .
Parliamentary vacancies seem to be' multiplying in the early part of the , recess . Cambr idge is still agitated by the vain effort to find a fitting candidate . Mr . Walpole and Sir John Herschel are understood to have declined . Mr . Macaulay is said to hold back from public life altogether , sticking to his pen ; but perhaps he has not been pressed enough . The names before the electors at present are , Loftus Wigratn , Turner , and James Parker—all Chancery barristers of some eminence . Charles Wynn , the patriarch and routine-authority of the Commons , has been removed from the familiar scene ; and a younger relative offers himself to the electors of Montgomeryshire .
Our criminal records are rather voluminous this week . Among the most prominent incidents is the renewal of the Essex poisonings--at least , Ann Chesham , a woman previously implicated in , some accusations of the sort , has again been arrested , for a poisoning at Claveringe . The sentence on two officers whose neglect and recklessness occasioned the wreck of the Orion , has startled the public by its se ^ t ^ rity . If severity were the established rule , some check roight . be put upon offences of the kind ; but the result of such trials has been as irregular as the result of gambling , and the moral effect is annulled .
The Canterbury Colony , whose members are about to leave our shores , must thus far be regarded rather as a project of home improvement than as a colonial fact . The colony is composed of members of the Church of England , under the idea that companions selected from one particular sect will start in a great measure free from religious discords . The Colonists are also picked for good character . It is not to be expected that the exclusive nature of the settlement will be practically maintained unbroken ; and we have yet to see how far the plan of a single religion can be made to work . Could it really be kept up , we should fear , riot so much discord , as a fixed and stationary
In the absence of any great political news of a metropolitan kind , whether at home or abroad , prominency is given to some questions of outlying territory . The United States , for example , own some anxiety just now on the score of the Texan boundary ; but there can be no doubt that the federal Government , which has reallv made large concessions , will bring the overweening Texans to reason . In India the Affreedies are causing irritation on our border ; jealous , it would seem , about our gun roads ^ and the Sikh chiefs are said to be plotting for their own escape . In the West Indies we Bee that dissatisfaction is taking a more political
Among several personal matters , the most striking of fashionable arrivals is the presence of the sea-serpent on the coast of Ireland . This excites more wonder than the secession of Viscount Feilding from the Church of England to Rome , or the spectacle of a Napier in hot water . Sir Charles , the General , is at issue with the Government of India , on some point which his brother William makes unintelligible by his explanation ; and he has incurred public odimn by his persecution of Colonel King , on imputations unproved . Marshal Soiilt is ill , and is , perhaps hawtily , presumed to be
turn . Hie Colonists feel that an effective representative Government will give them a hold on attention in Downing-street which they do not yet possess . But the most startling announcement is Dr . Lang ' s project of agitation to separate the Australian Colonies from the mother country , with the consent of the Crown , and to erect them into a federal Republic . Although Dr . Lang ' s influence is diminished by the fact that he is an indiscreet man , alarm has been created in London , not only by the knowledge of his great vigour and ability , but also by the extent of popular support which he receives in Melbourne . The attempt to turn his private [ Town Edition . ]
opinion in the colony ; but we do not believe that it can be maintained . Meanwhile , at the outset , it does tend to obviate some of the distractions of early colonial life . Social improvements may be noted advancing . The Commissions to enquire into the twoUniversities of Oxford and Cambridge , their studies and practice , have been gazetted . The members are all University men , with no infusion of new blood ; a fact that casts some doubt on the searching character of the enquiry . The institution of a public library at Liverpool is an excellent example . The accident to the submarine telegraph , from Dover
sinking towards the tomb . General Haynau has had a taste ; of the English feeling towards him . He was mobbed by Barclay ' s sturdy brewers , and had difficulty in in iking his escape with life and beard uninjured . There is some talk of punishing the men , but the spirit which animated their irregularity was a good old English feeling which we have no wish to rcc declining to a lower pitch than it has done . There is more genuine sincerity and heartiness in this brewers' chace of " the Austrian butcher" than in the proclamation that ' * Nottingliill is coming forward" for Hungary , or Lord Palmerston ' s " spirited" protests .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 7, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1852/page/1/
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