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      Parliament has met , and the Session has begun ; but the assembled wisdom of the county has not thrown much new light on the more urgent questions of the hour . Of course , nobody expected to learn anything from the Royal Speech , and therefore not much disappointment is felt at being told that the country is prosperous , that the agricultural interest is in difficulty , that the Queen will resist encroachment by any foreign power , and so forth . Even surveying the whole round of speeches by Ministers , Anti-Ministers , and representatives of various parties , you can make out nothing at all determinate . Lord John Russell introduces a

      measure to prevent the assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom ; " thus limiting his boasted resistance to a restraint upon verbal aggression . Paltry as the measure must be , it will not be carried without vexation , and , if carried , it cannot work . Some , like Lord Stanley and Mr . Disraeli , call upon Ministers for a truly effectual measure , and throw out . sneering presumptions that the

      Ministerial measure must he ho . Others , like Lord Camoys , support resistance against the Papal Aggression , but declare that they Will not permit the _ smallest reaction in the persecuting way . Ministers arc committed tu something worse than making bricks without straw—they are forced to the task <» t cutting oil" the pound of flesh , but warned that they must not spill a drop of blood . *

      Ministers arc threatened with something in reference to the agricultural distress ; which they admit , without attempting its cure . The Duke of Richmond and Lord Wiiu-hilsea talked about Protection ; but it is manifest that the loaders of the Opposition , Stanley and Disraeli , contemplate nothing ho impracticable . What they do intend , docs not yet appear ; but Mr . Disraeli intimates , that if he does not succeed in carrying his measure this time , he shall < l > op the subject altogether . Thin i . s mainly inteiuJed a . s a threat to hi . s own party . It has been noted thai ; luifli Stnnlmr ...., ] !¦ » :. 1 : /¦ 1 : -j noted that both Stanley and Disraeli felicitous

      were 'jut measured in their language , like men reserving men- strength , and looking forward to a real struggle . The third great neclion of the speech relates to loieifr ,, policy , and thin docs < HkcIo . su something . } He tone , speaking witli . pleasure of the approach-»» K watlenient in ( Jemiany and in Sclileswig-Uol-Ht « in , implies that Lord Palmerslon ncarcely alK-cls »¦<> maintain relations any longer with the Liberalism <> l Kurope , and has pciri ' ectlv given himself up to "I" Kusho- Austrian influence . Not a word in said «»«> out the . shameful invasion of Htate independence « ' »«! constitutional law in llcHse-Cassel ; not u word about the possession taken of Hamburg by the Austrian troops . It j N true that [) u > . soldiery wore I Town Uimtion . ]

      speech—the Anti-papal measure is to be a minim urr measure ; the agricultural distress is admitted , but is left for cure to the chapter of accidents ; the foreign policy of England is an Austrian policy . The speech discloses nothing further worth attention : the law reforms , vaguely described , seem to be only mentioned in case Ministers should choose to take advantage of the door thus kept open ; the only positive measure distinctly announced , is one to register deeds of transfer and other instruments relating to property .

      sprigs of green in their hats to signify amity , and that their toll was paid across the ferry . Austria has taken possession politely , but has not the less taken possession . Mr . Cobden recently proclaimed Lord Palmerston to be not the ally of Liberalism ; but the Viscount has now thrown off the mask : England is committed to a complete sanction of the Russo-Austrian policy . The ministerial declarations do not materially affect the inferences to be drawn from the Royal

      I he attempt made by Lord John Russell to place new restrictions on the freedom of the House of Commons to address the Crown may be considered to have failed ; though we would not have Members relax their vigilance in the matter ; since Ministers are quite capable of resorting to that surprise which they so much deprecate a . s again-st themselves . But the manner in which they were rebuffed , Lord John's tame submission under Mr . Disraeli ' s quiet , but cutting , sarcasm , and the discomfited bearing of the Premier , indicate a very low state of the Ministerial health—a conscious debility the most painful .

      Ihe great deputation of aggregated metropolitan parishes on repeal of the Window Tax invaded tlie Exchequer on Thursday , and saw the Chancellor thereof ; but the most formidable array of metropolitan members mid parish beadles could not frighten Sir Charles Wood into any pledge : he is to disclose on Friday next , lie was told that the tax bore unjustly upon the poor , sparing the rich ; but he must have comforted himself with the thought , that most of the profitable imposts do that . However , on this one , at present , he looks as if he were goin # to yield .

      Generally , it in Keen that the . session will be as much a nullity as Ministers can make it ; and tho leading men of oilier parties have not the will or the courage ; to supersede ihe ollicial incapablcs . A magnificent opportunity invites political activity ; a thoroughly national policy would come before a public ; in a mood to do something , yet , not knowing very well what , to do , and as yet nobody advances with a practical suggestion , ftxpmenced politicians are giving excellent advice : expatiating among his old Storkporl , constituents , Mr . Cohdcn censures the disposition of Parliament , " to embark on an interminable , topic which politicians ought never to discuss at Jill , " - —the Catholic question ; and Air . Hume inaugurates a series of Ii'cl . ures supplied

      by the National Reform Association at the London Tavern for the instruction of the public in political questions ; but Mr . Hume has not yet got much beyond the liberalism of the Reform Bill sera—now rather out of date . The Financial Reformers persist in taking up a position behind the People , whom they might lead if they would only walk tc the front ; they persist in leaving the post of leadet vacant . m The convocation of the clergy , this season , has been most emphatically marked by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a solemn farce . Both Houses of the Convocation had received a petition , praying that the powers of the convocation should be restored , in order to the correction and better ordering of Church observances . If such a process were conducted by a man liberal and practical in his disposition , something like uniformity and stability might be introduced , leaving disorder only to extreme enthusiasts . But Archbishop Sumner evidently feels himself unequal to such an office : after opening the convocation , and pretending to commence business , he suddenly breaks it up again by an adjournment till the summer .

      While Ministers arc trying to evade the difficulty of dealing with the Papal Aggression , they are courting difficulties in Ireland . They must anger the Roman Catholics : the refusal to receive a petition from the Orangemen offensively violates precedent , and must , anger the Protestants . The issue of a commission to inquire into Dublin Universit }' , as well as Oxford and Cambridge , is a proper measure in itself , but probably could not have been made at a more unlucky time . Ministers are leaving no stone unturned where they may uncover a scorpion .

      The foreign news is not of striking importance . I he French Assembly has quieted down after its contest with the President , and the President has made bold to ask it for a little more canh—an addition to his own salary of about X 7 () , ooo . The Assembly seems in no mood to jnant it . The contest between the two coordinate powers has taken the meanest shape which it couUl possibly assume .

      Undue importance has been attached to the ebullition m Switzerland . Excepting in the letter , it is totally unconnected with the Democratic movement . In Berne , the Conservative party has . recently come ; to power , and has signalized its return by severe . efforts to expel certain Republicans who had taken refuge there ; the friends of a particular fugitive were angry , and they resisted ; but the Government has carried its point ; and there the matter ends .

      The Viennese accounts report a sudden severity <)( arrests in the Austrian capital , especially among students and officers . Yes , and such noonoN are likely to continue ; for opinions inimical to Absolutist teovcrnment are spreading even among tho supporters of such . • ovcriinirnf . s .

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      VOL . II . —No . 46 . SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 8 , 1851 . p RICE 6 d .

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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 setting aside the distinctions of Reh-ion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race . as one brotherhood , having one great object-trie free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 8, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1869/page/1/