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    Ministers beaten by two to onel—that is the event which quite eclipses the Budget in public interest . The occasion was probably thought by Ministers to be a small one—Mr . Locke King ' s motion to extend the £ 10 franchise to counties , repeated after last year . At that time the objection was , that the bill was introduced " too late in the session : " Mr . King now introduces it at the

    beginning , and Lord John , objecting to the sweeping character of the proposition , proposes to consider something of the kind next session ! When Mr . King moved in July he was too late ; when he moves in February , the proper time is found to be " next session ; " in short any session but the presmt . However , the House is becoming intractable , and it would not wait till next session , but even took its division at once . Thenumbers stood thiiR ?—

    For Mr . Locke King ' s motion .... 100 Against it 52 Mnjority against Ministers . ... 48 " Loud cheers , " of course . The House was a thin one : Lord John had been abandoned by his patrons the Conservatives , and left to the mercies of the Radicals . ' Out of doors the delight is not leas . The Daily News forgets its Ministerial sympathies , and laughs at Lord John ' s " signal of distress , " the promise for next session . The Chronicle is calculating on more defeats to follow this " cruel cut , " even until the Ministry he quite lost to view . The exulting Times—we all know what that means—asks where Lord John will be ? " But , Lord ! to see how the people in the streets do stop and laugh with each other , and chuckle , as if it were a holiday for all I " Which , indeed , it is .

    Mr . King's bill is calculated to effect a very considerable extension of the franchise in a Liberal sense ; to the advantage , however , of the trading and middle class rather than the working classes , of whom mention was made . But the value of his movement will be found in the division rather than in the details of the bill ' breaks through the dead-lock—wo . nre again going forward : and whether Mr . King ' s bill be carried into an act or not , some extension of the franchise will followand some sort of political action in place of mere stagnation . It is the best week wo have had for muny a month .

    But we must go back to the beginning . The Budget is generally pronounced to be neither more nor less than a humbug , It can as little be described in a sentence us the contents of an old lady s pocket . Sir Charles Wood begins with a surplus of £ 2 , 500 , 000 ; he devotes a million to redeeming bo much of the Nutional Debt ; he abolishes the duty on agricultural B « eds ; he diminishes the duties on coffee , leaving no difference between foreign and colonial ho transfers part LIown EornoN . ]

    of the cost of pauper lunatics from the local to the national funds ; he abolishes the window tax but substitutes a house tax calculated to be equal to two-thirds of the window tax , but modified by various exemptions and non-exemptions which may not be calculated . The budget has created a burst of disgust , except where the feeling does not rise above contempt . The leagued parishes of London , who had formed a permanent committee against the window tax , threaten to go to great lengths of speeches , and the members attached to the League threaten to

    go to the most shocking of extremities—even to the voting against Ministers . In bestowing his triiles all round , Sir Charles Wood totally omits one interest—that of the working classes . As in the Ministerial oratory against Mr . Disraeli , not a thought was bestowed on a distinct boon for them : Sir Charles Wood has other idols ; before his economical eyes the money power is rampant . And he is not going even to modify the income tax : that odious burden is left upon the shoulders of the middle class , without an attempt at improvement or compensation . Everybody already

    began to think that " Ministers mu 9 t go out . " The low estimation in which they are held is exhibited in every place—in the House , by the cavalier mode in which they are made to postpone , from night to night , their two great measures —the Budget and the Ecclesiastical Titles Hill . Out of doors , by such epithets as " swindle , " " thimble-rig , " and the like , cast at their window tax commutation . Perhaps the greatest enter prize which they have undertaken this session is tlie removal of Srnithfield-market ; but are they strong enough to achieve it ? Surely no one expects that Lord John Russell and his Cabinet can successfully contend against the Lord Mayor , Aldermen ,

    ami Common Council . The further they go with their Ecclesiastical Bill , the deeper do they get into hot water . The Catholic hierarchy and laity of Ireland coolly announce that they shall disregard the measure ; so that Lord John will have to leave his own bill alone , or to play the part of a miniature Cromwell in Ireland . On the other hand , a correspondent of the Times has discovered that , as the hill stands , the pains and penalties intended for the Roman Catholic bishops in England might be enforced against the Episcopal prelates in Scotland . " Here ' s a go ! " as Clown says in the Pantomime when he aims a blow at Harlequin and smashes his prote ' ge ' , the Pantaloon .

    At the imposing scene in St . Kdmund ' a College , Cardinal Wiseman counselled the members of bin church to put their trust in Divine interventionhinting nt something like a potato famine an the retribution for Lord John ' s perwecuting bill : the Curdimtl may repose a more practical trust in the selfdestructing blundering of MiniuteiH themselves . The election of Mr . Barrow for South Nottinghamnhir * is a lesson , not only for the farmer **' frionda of the dilettante titled oIuhb , but for other

    ' ' ' ' ' " ' ' "' ¦ ' ¦ II ! IH « l ¦ t grandees : the farmers are electing their own member ; and ^ perhaps , other classes of the people may follow the example . The progress of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association shows that such a disposition is gaining ground among the middle class . The cause of Public Education is advancing . We see signs of life in the London Committee .

    The promoters of the Manchester scheme have laid down eleven contributions of £ 500 each towards their modified project . It is done in true Manchester style . If they were later in the field , they are probably animated by a distinct religious motive which will never fail to inspire a high zeal . But the subscription is in fact an indirect tribute to the more statesmanlike project of the National Public School Association .

    Yarmouth has added its contingent to the refractory paupers of Norfolk and Suffolk ; and the sailors of the northern ports maintain their strike against the Mercantile Marine Bill . The result of the great revenue trial has been to cast back disgrace upon the accuser , the Board of Customs : the retracting speech of the Solicitor-General , the summing-up of the Chief Baron , a gentleman in the most generous sense of the word , the explicit verdict of the jury , practically confirm the suspicion that the charge against the London Dock Company was- an idle story trumped up to cover the neglect of the officials .

    Abroad , the great event is tlie resuscitation of Austria in a larger and stronger form of Empire . The fact that such an empire was contemplated , has been for some time known , but the vast importance of the project dawns upon us as it approaches completion . The main features of the scheme are these : the Germanic Confederation and Diet are reestablished on the basin of 1815 with the superstructure of 1851 ; the non-German provinces of the German Powers are included in the

    Confederation , Austria including Hungary and the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom . A Hunoveriun paper gives the substance of a note addressed about ton weeks ago by Lord Palmcrstou to the Courts of Berlin and Vienna , objecting to a new settlement without the concurrence of the European States generally and specifically to the inclusion of the non German provinces ; but from the reports current aa to the proceedings at Dresden , it does not seem that Lord Pulineruton ' H warning has operated us a check to the scheme .

    Egypt , too , is resuming the position of 1840 , by refusing to obey the orders of the Porte ; it is to be presumed that the IWia of Egypt would not have taken this course while the unsettled state of Europe kept more powerful enemies of Turkey at work : reaction having nearly regained the " Peace " of Europe , the old enemies of Turkey » re once more disengaged , and the tfashu think * to bully hi * Sovereign with impunity . Lord Palnienton WlUt be rubbing his hands at the work Which in growing up to em ploy his restlcaunqsa .

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    News OF the Week— Page Court 171 The " Times" and the Libel Law .. 177 The Season atHer Majesty ' s Theatre 18 J Parliament of the Week 166 Tribunals of Commerce 171 Liberty to Poison 177 Grand Tour through Kuropc 18 : The State of Europe 167 The Interview with Gholab Singh .. 171 Tim J ' uor President 177 Dhmocuatic Intelligence A Threatened Egyptian Quarrel .... 1 C 8 Sir John Franklin 171 The Rivals 177 Letters to Chariots .... 182 A Threatened Kaffir War 168 Poisonous Breakfast Beverages .... 172 Litbratuiie— Associative Pkoguk ' . * ... . * ...... 183 Piedmont 168 Railway Accidents 172 D'Ailincourt on Italy 178 Open Council—Industrial Disturbances 168 Public Affaius— Render ' s Antediluvian History .... 171 ) Episcopal Titles 183 The Great . Revenue Trial 169 A New Empire in Europe 175 Fourier < n the Passions 180 Marriage with a Deceased Wife ' s National Reform 169 The Budget—of " Notions" 175 Hooks on our Table 181 Sister 183 The House Tax Budget 169 The Mayne-Radetzky Conspiracy .. 17 t » Portfolio— Tracts / or the Milletmium 1 H 4 Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge 169 The Progress of Life Assurance 176 To Layard , discoverer of Babylon The Edinburgh Review on Socialism 183 The County Representation 169 The Gruel Question at Barham .... 177 and Nineveh 181 Mr . Muntz and the "Times" 185 Protestantism and Popery 170 Protection of Servants arid Appren- Tub Arts— Comubhcui , ArFims—The Romance of the Bankruptcy tices 177 Sixtus V . and Azacl 181 Markets . Gazettes , &c 185-86

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    V _/ " Thb one Idea which Hi 3 tory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea ot 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 Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humbulut ' s Cosmos .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1871/page/1/