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Ministerial quietism will not be suffered to take possession , as Lord John Russell seems to , have proposed , of the whole session in Parliament . The Anti-CathoKc ferment , which is understood to have been fomented as a diversion for . popular energies and a cover to Ministerial inactaoti , will scarcely aerve that turn . Several persons have evidently been bestowing the recess on enterprizes which will C ' ve Ministers trouble , and among those persons is 3 rd John Russell himself . In his letter to the
null Advertiser , Mr . Hume plainly intimates that he has been very busy ; Mr . Roebuck ' s recent announcement implied that he had something very formidable to advance ; taxation repealers , financial reformers , suffrage-extensionists , t 3 say nothing of troublesome persons from a distance , like Mr . Fairbairn of the Cape colony , will not be put off their vocations by any half-pretended fuss-making " business of importance" concerning Pope Pius and his bull .
Lord John may have got up the No-Popery cry chis mind ! but he will find it very difficult to satisfy the expectation he has raised , and he has set up some ulterior agitations winch he could scarcely have expected . The Guardian professes to foreshadow the measure which Lord John Russell has urged the people to claim at his hands — -a prohibition on the use of the Roman Hierarchical titles , under pain of two months' imprisonment . The Guardian also reports enquiries made by Government abroad , which are supposed to indicate a disposition to invite a Concordat with Rome . The Concordat will have the approval of most judicious politicians—precisely the class of which Lord John Russell's Durham letter showed so
flagrant a disregard . That fact , indeed , does not disprove the notion that he is going to do something commendable ; he may be going to take a turn of popularity-hunting among the judicious ; but then what on earth will the poor man do with the clamorous crowd that he has called to the door of Parliament ? A concordat with Rome will be the very thing to provoke new outcries of fright and fury from that respectable mob . Nor is it to be Hupposed that the technical prohibition of titles can satisfy the public expectation of a " ineamire " : Lord John Russell himself Iiuh stamped it with ridicule
by anticipation , when lie said in Parliament that it would be absurd to disallow particular titles : such a law could only take effect in preventing ecch'HiaHticH from calling themselves by the tabooed t » tl « H ; it could not prevent the , colloquial and popular uhu ; unleHH Lord John dom intend a law to purauo "Popish recuHantH "— authorizing the " ° w tO urrcHt a"y pt-rnon detected in saying WcHtminHtor " instead of " MelipotiunuH , " and » rmg the culprit to trial before an English jury . Uesidea the inherent difficulty of dealing with LTown Edition . ]
the demands that Lord John instigated , there is the embarrassment of the further demands . The Russell agitation has drawn public attention to the fact , that the practical grievances which press upon members of the Church of England are its internal dissensions , its self-destructive hetorodoxies , its not less destructive rigours of orthodoxy , its reversions to Rome ; Lord John has raised questions an unsatisfactory settlement of which—and no settlement can be
satisfactorymay bring about the long-threatened landslip of the Evangelical tract into' the Valley of Dissent , and drive forth congregations like those at St . Saviour ' s , at Leeds , now standing out for confession , to the very summit of the seven hills of Rome . How will Lord John Russell refuse the claim of the High Church party , this week embodied in petition for a renewal of Convocation ? How will he allay the spirit of Anti-State Church , which is rearing its grim head at Anti-Popery meetings , like that in Southwark .
Some intentions imputed to the Government at Rome would have a very embarrassing effect : it is said that the Pope intends to disallow the proceedings against the Queen ' s Colleges in Ireland—disarming much of the prejudice and alarm at the bigotry of Rome ; also , that he has transmitted to Ireland a bull separating the Bishoprics of Cloyne and Ross , and restoring the substantive Bishopric of Ross—asserting there that particular form of authority which is not to be gainsaid in " that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland , " but is to be gainsaid in this part of the United
Kingdom . If these things are true , Ministers court in Ireland that Pontiff whom they repel with affright in England , and they permit him to " insult" in Ireland that royal prerogative of Church supremacy which they so bravely defend in England , where it is so particularly safe and respected . We do not see , therefore , what substance there is in the Ministerial measures that can serve the purpose of blocking out other subjects in the sesthe time there
sion of Parliament . At same are as yet no indications that much will be forced upon Ministers or done by any other party . In all the meetings and manifestations of tne week there is no indication of a new spirit—nothing to show that political parties have acquired pertinacity of purpose , or have abandoned the almost universal habit of flinching—nothing to suggest a hope of utrong faith and resolute will to force forward measures founded on conviction , without regard to interests or effeminate dread of " consequences . '
Perhaps nothing exposes the still subject condition of the People , even in Prussian (« ennany , than the travels of a new-born infant—which the reader will find related amongst our news -first in search of baptism , by the revolutionary name , " Jucobi Wai deck , " which Pastors refuse to bestow ; and then , in avoidance of compulsory baptism , by a more authentic name , which was at last enforced under military guard . Even tho speech of M .
Manteuffel is scarcely more significant than this tale ; although he does falsely denounce the constitutional resistance of the whole Hessian People as " an official revolution" "in gown and slippers j avowsHtbat Prussia has broken with the revolution , as unsuccessful ; and coolly adopts the reactionary interpretation which indignant Liberals put upon the " transparent policy " of King Frederick William . It is reported with probability that Prussia , Austria , and Russia are to meet shortly at Dresden , to reestablish the German Diet , with some slight qualification .
Meanwhile , the Stadtholderate of Schleswig-Holstein has given up the contest , and has handed over the German rights of Holstein , and the rights of Schleswig aa an adjunct to Holstein , to the German Federation—whatever that may be . The National Assembly of France has been performing a couple of farces . The first is in publishing the report of the Permanent Committee ,
which solemnly sat to investigate a good deal of the alarmist gossip about the late Ministry : it repeats some of the gossip and some of the explanations ; leaves the Imperialist cries of the army and the Imperialist symbols of the Tenth-of-December Club in a frightful state of non-denial ; but does not recommend any national action . The next farce is the report of the committee on the recent Ministerial crisis : the committee cannot
make out that the dismissal of General Changarnier is technically erroneous ; it expressly declares that responsibility for the late complications does not extend " beyond the Ministry "—meaning not to the President ; but accuses the Ministry of " tendencies " hostile to the Assembly , and advises a vote of no confidence . Meanwhile , President Bonaparte has changed his Ministry , dismissed Changamier , and split the garrison of Paris into two parts ; and the hostile majority of the Assembly shrinks before him , its numbers palpably falling off . Such is always the effect of boldness marching straight onward to its purpose .
These feeble counterfeit of political movements scarcely concern us so much as some ugly portents non-political at borne ; disease appears to be uncommonly vigorous in both the physical and the moral world . The weather has been in a most abnormal state , the thermometer many degrees higher than the average for the first half of January , the barometer uingularly low . We believe that the extent of illnesn , in London especially , far exceeds the ratio indicated by the mortality tables .
Crime is extraordinarily rife ; it is scarcely an exaggeration to nay that burglary and highway robbery run riot ; in our well-watched town . Them ia a singular multiplicity of caseH in which servants , paupers , and other helpless persons , are injured or killed by bad treatment and neglect . In the constant succession of railway accidents that at Ponder ' u-end , on the Eastern Counties Railway , ( stamps the management of the company m producing disaster and death . The diseased action extends to
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by aettmg 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 the Wbbk— Page Public Meeting at John-street 52 Public Affairs— Lives of Misers 64 The RfetroDolitan Church Union The Executive Committee of the A People ' s Administration 59 Wilnon s Catholicity 64 Meeting- 50 National Charter Association .... 52 Protection of the Poor 59 Portfolio—The Southwark Meeting 50 Metropolitan Delegate Council 53 Scientific Censorship of the English An Episode in a History 66 Protestantism and Popery 50 Railway Thrift and Responsibility .. 53 Press ............................ 60 Thk Arts—The English at Rome .............. 51 The Taxes on Knowledge 53 Movement of the Sects in the Church AU that Gluten is not Gold 67 The President and the Assembly .... 51 The Compositors and the " Post" .. 54 of England 60 The Old Love and the New 67 The Dresden Conferences 51 The Duke of Newcastle 54 The " Post on Low Prices 61 St . Martin s Hall 67 Father Gavazzi in London 51 Alleged Calumny and Intrigue 54 Social Reform . —XXV—On the Party EcropeaN Democracy—The Crystal Palace 52 The Uckfield Burglary 55 which Cries Down all Party , and History or the Polish Democracy .... b& The New Manchester Education Incendiarism and Fire Insurance .. 55 Repines that Nothing is Done 61 Associative Progress—Scheme 52 Three Persons Burnt to Death 55 Literature— Owen and the habitation of 1851 08 The Parliamentary and Financial Interesting to Clerks 55 Time , the Avenger 62 Commercial Affairs-Reform Association 52 Newspaper Chat 57 Schlosser ' s Eighteenth Century 63 Markets , Gazattes , &c 70- < 2
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VOL II . —No . 43 . ' , SATURDAY , JANUARY 18 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1866/page/1/
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