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    - m- ¦•-¦ '-¦ We resume our illustrations of " European. Democracy" after an unavoidable delay. The address of the « European Central Democratic Committee" to the patriots of Lombardo-Venetia and of Vienna, which, we give, is significative of the sense which recent events have impressed upon the minds of all liberal men in Europe, that the cause of liberty is everywhere the same, so that a close union of the oppressed peoples of rthe Continent is necessary, as it will be undoubtedly sufficient, to effect their common emancipation. The title which we have hitherto employed in these columns has proved somewhat too restrictive We. have reason to believe that it will be more satisfactory to our readers that we should endeavour to illustrate and explain European Democracy -without confining ourselves to the irregular opportunities furnished by what may be strictly designated as its " official acts." In accordance with this greater latitude in the treatment of our subject we shall give next week a memoir of the late General Bern, par excellence the soldier of Democracy. It will be found, we believe, at once the completest and the most accurate which, has y et appeared in the ureas of this countrv.

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    give no authorities , and those who profess to combat opinions , chiefly combat rumours . It could do no good to working men to persuade them that these are contributions to our literature , or additions to our knowledge . Mr . Cassell has merit in creating a medium for so much writing , which is undoubtedly a useful and indi nsable discipline for the writers . The attempt to express ideas always sends in sure improvement . As a book of Egcercisea , showing industry , activity , and aspiration , this volume of papers has value , and this is its chief merit . It might be said that some of these papers are ¦ written better than some lords would write them , but this ought to be poor satisfaction to working men . unless lords always wrote well . . The Comedies , Histories , and Poems of William Shakspere . Edited by Charles Knight . ( The NationalEdition . ) Comedies . VpLl . Charles Knight . Italy in IMS . By L . Mariotti . Chapman and Hall . William Penn . An Historical Biography . With an Extra Chapter on the " Macaulay Charges . " By William Hopworth Dixon . Chapman and Hall . Local Self-government and Centralization ; the Characteristics of each ; and its Practical Tendencies as affecting Social , Moral , and Political Welfare and Progress . Including Comprehensive Outlines of the English Constitution . With Co / nous Index . By J . Toulmin Smith , Esq . J . Chapman . The Crefd of Christendom ; its Foundation and Superstructure , By William Rathbone Greg . J . Chapman . The British Churches in Relation to the British People . By Edward Miall . HaU , Virtue , and Co . General History of the Christian Religion and Church . Tran si ated from the German of Dr . Augustas Neander . By Joseph Torrey . New Edition , carefully revised . By the Beverend A . J . W . Morrison , M . A . ( Bohn ' s Standard Library . ) H . G . Bohn . The Iliad of Homer . Literally Translated . With Explanatory Notes . By Theodore Alois Buckley , B . A . H . G . Bohn . Monk ; or the Fall of the Republic and the Restoration of the Monarchy in England in 1660 . By M . Guizo ' t . Translated from the French , by Andrew 11 . Scoble . H . G . Bohn . Fen Pictures of Popular English Preacliers ; with Limnings of listeners in Church and Chapel . Partridge and Oakey . Life at the Water Cure ; or , a Month atMulvern . A Diary . By , H . J . Lane , A . E . B . A . With The Sequel and Confessions of a Water Patient .. By Sir E . Bulwer Lytton , Bart . G . H . Bohn . Jfyicei of Freedom , and Lyrics of Love , ' By T . Gerald Massey , Working M an . J . Watson . Insubordination ; or , the Shoemaker''s Daughters . An American Story of Keal Life . By T . S . Arthur . T . S . Hodson . Two Lectures on the ' Papal Aggression' Controversy . By George \ Dawaon , M . A . E . C . Osborne . jj&ti ght ' s Pictorial Shakspere . PartXI . ( King Henry IV ., Part S ^) C . Knight . JFdmii ^ ar Tilings ; a Cydopce&ia of Entertaining Knowledge . Beihg y Ustful Information popularly arranged . Nos . 2 and 3 . Arthur Hall , Virtue , arid Co .

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    Subtle lNi '; i . uENCES . —I met with a curious instance lately of a factwyell known , but always instructive in regard to the force pf our absorbing or receptive power . A friend's gardener ^ after taking a few pinches of flour of sulphur to sprinkltN over a . plant , and cleansing his hands immediately afterwards , found how subtle was its influence through the svisjtein ., and out a . gain from hia hody , and through his clotfeeS ) so that the money in his pocket , and other metal aboCJ fc him , became tarnished . " What is there now more subtle and wonderful in mesmeric action than this ? Here the system receives a general influence which , though uiVfeltby the individual , is potent in its effects . Other substances will produce similar effects . I know a case of \ a lady who could not touch the brass knobs of her doors for some weeks , from their producing pnin , and partly paralyzing the arm : and of another lady who was differently affected by the approach of various metals , and other . substances . Medicines rubbed on her skin would produce' precisely the same effects as if she had swallowed them . I know a whole family who are disagreeably affected by the near approach of iron . Some are aware of the presence of a cat , by a sensation experienced without seeing the animal . —Atkinson and Martineau's Letters on Man .

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    M . Carre . —Metaiiue v . Wiseman . —Full often have we indulged in a hearty laugh when , in talking over old times with , a chance schoolfellow , we have recalled the eccentricities of our French master For a term of between four and five years we received his almost daily instruction , and tormented him with every variety of schoolboy tricks . His penurious habits and his contempt of women , whom he used to designate as ' fly-traps , " are as vivid in our memory as if we had parted with him but yesterday . We knew him to be rich—we had frequent exemplifications of his parsimony . Often and often has he boasted that in the fruit season his dinner was a pint of damsons purchased for a penny . He once told us that when he went to a well-off pupil ' s house to sup , he had " glorious tuck-out , " and thus rendered breakfast unnecessary for the following morning . It was a tra dition in the school that he had but ono shirt , and that he was wont at stated times to wash it himself in the New River , and walk about the fields with it on a stick until it was dry . The last time we saw him , now above twenty years ago , he was dressed in a new suit of black , wore n gold chain , looked buckish , and said he was about to return to France , and live comfortably on the handsome fortune he had amassed . Gentility and ease , probably , did not suit him , for he returned to his occupation and his penury . It was impossible , in reason , to anticipate for him a peaceful end , but little did we dream that his dying hours would be disturbed by ghostly importunity , and that the property he had made himself miserable in ^^ tfoUjctf ngjiSMjUjybe wrung from him at last by that church < OK / W * ftincn ; lie was no more than a nominal member . That J >«* ^ bldJPMn € h , rnaster was M , Mathurus Carre " , respecting •^ MM Hpp » e [ ppy ' p perty a lawsuit is now pending between M . .. ogyHOWine '; a kinsman , we suppose , and Cardinal Wiseman .

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    We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , fo ? the Useful enepwages itself . —Gobtbe .

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    SONNET . IN A COUNTRY GARDEN " . Again sways round the porcl . the summer ' s green , The rose-trees , o'er-involved , nigh break witli flower , And Shakspeare ' s whitened bust , iri gorgeous bower , With sunny brows the trellis shines between . Might I but gaze , and dream , that what has been Is still ! might linger one enchanted hour , ^ Knowing my Love , bright , fresh , as after shower The morn , will forth , may momently be seen . O God , she ' s dead ! and three long years of woe Have not till now accomplished my despair ! Here I can wait ; but never , never so Will she come bo unding blithely from the stair . No , were my watch the sun's , fix ' d stars these eyes , Ne ' er should I more that sweetest form surprise . _ W . H .

    THE THEATRES . Immanuel Kant , the great philosopher , who lived an extremely unimpassioneel life in Konigsberg , and who wrote various works of a light entertaining character , which I advise you to read when you have the toothache , proved to the satisfaction of all Germany that Space and Time had no absolute existence , but were merely forms of thought . It is perfectly clear to me that Kant was no journalist . Space and Time are formidable realities to the journalist , and this week they force me to give the most cursory indications of what , under other circumstances , would require three columns . Merely to keep you au courant 1 will note first thnt J . W . Wallack maintains by his Macbeth the position he gained by his Othello ( next week I will go into details ) ; secondly , that the new melodrama at the Princess's Theatre , Pauline , turns out to be a French piece of horror skilfully moved and is thoroughly to the liking of the audience thirdly , that Charles King is a pleasant little comedy at the Olympic , the success assured by Leigh Murray and Mrs . Stirling ; fourthly , that Drury-lane has produced a neat little one act trifle by Charles Dance A Morning Call , which rests upon Mr . Anderson and Mrs . Nisbett ; fifthly , that the Opera- delightful sound !—is to open to night , with Caroline Dunrez as Lucm ' Vivian .

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    THE BUDS . Spring is here , though young and tender , and still Staggering with gusts of patting March . The autumnal fruit-trees are spreading forth their spring blossoms—most beautiful . ' * They toil not , neither do they spin "; yet , verily , the World ' s Exhibition shall not show handiwork like to these . True was that two thousand years ago ; as true still . Frail are these flowers and tender ; yet is there a power "which sends the gentle gems through the rugged winds -with certitude unerring . States fall , Ministries hang suspended in uncertain fate , troubles come and prosperity , revolutions and restorations ; but each year the almond blossoms smile upon the world . Institutions decay , " property " wastes ; but the blossoms fail not , neither does their source grow lifeless . We repeat this truth from time immemorial : may we never forget it ! The rainbow was a hope , as these are—and for ever . Let us strive , with loving and trusting heart , to learn the laws by which , while evil and imperfection alone pass away , goodness and beauty are ever renewed ; for , wherever we see those laws working , there is goodness . When we have learned to wish to obey , we shall forget to quarrel about creeds and aggressions ; we shall cease to set class against class ; we shall unlearn to covet only wealth , to build prisons for poverty , and to make either abodes or laws that , denying nature , erect foulnesses into institutions . Yes , blessed be God ! our plans pass a way and cannot stand ; but the model is for ever renewed to us , so long as the blossom hangs upon the bough . And yearly we cry out with joy at the sight ; ' for the sound instinct , the immortal faith cannot die within us . But we are working , and ever is the sign lifted to our sight .

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    Rights or Industry . -Yes ! that is the phrase which , for the first time in the world ' s history , has benun not only to claim , but compel attention . And ' it is a great stop even to get the fact acknowledged , that industry has any rights . Rights admitted , the great point of inquiry is , as to what they are . —IIolo ' s facial Science . 10

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    A Home Ihjiust to the Clergy . —Let any churchman ol average capacity and candour read this so-called Athanasian Creed , vith the first five articles of our ihirty-nine , and then ask himself , in the depths of a still heart , whether he dare , on his death . bed , give the full assent and consent of all his soul and all his mind to the metaphysical and maledictory matter therein contained , sealing his profession with a solemn •« So help me , God . " If he feel that he dare not cross the dark barrier of the if ™ w ^ such a recent declaration weighing on the n ,. 2 ? .-n ° 8 P \"» . hftS he himself answered the l ft Di ; f are debating , as to whether our formularies ren , rP ^ i erg 0 < - r ll 0 dlfl ? aUon ' whether the religious Efth « f c ntB ° f th 0 ni " et (? en th century can be satisfied 5 wiSw T w-f . ° £ ? , Bixteenth .-Fiom the leotua ? Olson ' s Catholicity Spiritual and Intel-

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    THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO THE PATRIOTS OF VENICE AND lOMBARDY AND OF VIENNA . Brothers , — -In this month , three years ago , you accomplished great and noble things . You , men of the Lombardo -Venetian provinces , proved your title to life and liberty . You valiantly resuscitated your glorious traditions of the twelfth century . Without organization , without chiefs , and almost without arms , you engaged in five great battles with the foreign army encamped in your plains . You chose to initiate the struggle the very day in which Imperial concessions endeavoured to stifle your effort . You have been strong in combat , generous in victory . Glory to you , to your improvised soldiery , to your exiles , to your martyrs ! Your five days have reconquered for you a country ; come what may , that country will yet exist . And you , Viennese ! Yo u have proved to Europe that no despotism exists sufficiently corrupting and enervating to destroy the human soul and its eternal protestation in favour of progress . You have raised the banner of democratic liberty in the very stronghold of temporal authority . Awakening from your slumber of ages , you have in one bound almost attained the goal , and proclaimed that the Empire is to the People . Glory also to you , to your academic legion , to your working men ! Through you Vienna has reentered the crusade of European progress , from which the House of Hapsburg kept her excluded . Men of Milan and of Vienna ! your insurrections have failed ; but they have given the programme of the revolution to come . Let the fruit of your movements be ripened in exile , in prisons , in the midst of a slavery which , we feel now , is only the slavery of a day . Bind still closer the alliance between you ; grasp each other loyally by the hand—you can without weakness , for you have both been brave . Prepare yourselves ; this is but the night vigil of youi arms . The fourth anniversary of your movements must find you at your posts , conquerors again and for ever . Then , instructed by the past , you will remember , that henceforth every revolution is but an e ' meute , if it is not an European revolution . You will repulse as a crime every dynastic idea , all thought of aggrandizement , all tendency to isolation or usurpation , which might endeavour to substitute itself for the sacred idea—All nations for all Humanity . You will have but one strengthn Pe ° Ple ; but one method—the logical deduction of all the consequences of your principles ; but one endassociation in liberty ; but one guide—genius and virtue manifesting themselves in love ; but one religion—human solidarity in progress . Children of two races too long hostile to one another , you will use as brothers ; you will conquer as brothers , iogether you will accomplish a mission great as the w » an * which requires your united strengths . You will efface from Europe this tyranny which divides itself m two , one seizing upon the body , the other on the soul . To you Italians , the Pope ; to you Viennese , the Emperor ! For the Central European Democratic Committee , Ledru IIollii ? , J . Mazzini , A . Darasz , A . Ruge . London , March , 1851 .

    - M- ¦•-¦ '-¦ We Resume Our Illustrations Of " European. Democracy" After An Unavoidable Delay. The Address Of The « European Central Democratic Committee" To The Patriots Of Lombardo-Venetia And Of Vienna, Which, We Give, Is Significative Of The Sense Which Recent Events Have Impressed Upon The Minds Of All Liberal Men In Europe, That The Cause Of Liberty Is Everywhere The Same, So That A Close Union Of The Oppressed Peoples Of Rthe Continent Is Necessary, As It Will Be Undoubtedly Sufficient, To Effect Their Common Emancipation. The Title Which We Have Hitherto Employed In These Columns Has Proved Somewhat Too Restrictive We. Have Reason To Believe That It Will Be More Satisfactory To Our Readers That We Should Endeavour To Illustrate And Explain European Democracy -Without Confining Ourselves To The Irregular Opportunities Furnished By What May Be Strictly Designated As Its " Official Acts." In Accordance With This Greater Latitude In The Treatment Of Our Subject We Shall Give Next Week A Memoir Of The Late General Bern, Par Excellence The Soldier Of Democracy. It Will Be Found, We Believe, At Once The Completest And The Most Accurate Which, Has Y Et Appeared In The Ureas Of This Countrv.

    - m- ¦• - ¦ ' - ¦ We resume our illustrations of " European . Democracy" after an unavoidable delay . The address of the « European Central Democratic Committee" to the patriots of Lombardo-Venetia and of Vienna , which , we give , is significative of the sense which recent events have impressed upon the minds of all liberal men in Europe , that the cause of liberty is everywhere the same , so that a close union of the oppressed peoples of rthe Continent is necessary , as it will be undoubtedly sufficient , to effect their common emancipation . The title which we have hitherto employed in these columns has proved somewhat too restrictive We . have reason to believe that it will be more satisfactory to our readers that we should endeavour to illustrate and explain European Democracy -without confining ourselves to the irregular opportunities furnished by what may be strictly designated as its " official acts . " In accordance with this greater latitude in the treatment of our subject we shall give next week a memoir of the late General Bern , par excellence the soldier of Democracy . It will be found , we believe , at once the completest and the most accurate which , has y et appeared in the ureas of this countrv .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1851, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1875/page/16/