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    Peel had a great dinner at Merchant Tailors' - hall , became a great Minister , and established Free Trade : Lord Stanley has a great dinner at Merchant Tailors ' -hall , is to become a great Minister , and will undo Free Trade—such is the anticipated sequence . But it won't do . The dinner was irreproachable , and the company numerous and " distinguished , " but the effect is fiat and not inspiriting . Look at the men , their bearing , their policy . The policy , if we make it out , is moderate

    duties on imports , as a source of revenue , with a sidelong effect of protection—at tlie best , a mere mitigation of Free Trade . Vexatious to Liberals and unsatisfactory to farmers' " friends . " But , even if the policy were the most sagacious and strenuous in the world , where are the men to carry it out ? Lord Stanley confessed , but a few weeks back , that he had only one experienced man towards a Cabinet : has he been able to multiply that one in the interval ? Surely not ; for we see that he is still furnished with no better second than the Duke

    of Richmond . Lord Stanley spoke with a confident manner , but not with the language indicating any certainty of success ; he announced no new organization of party ; his only change of tone was increased contempt of the Whigs , and abandonment of forbearance towards them . The Duke of Richmond was the same impersonation of one long , earnest platitude that has immortalized No . 17 , New Bond-street . But the bearing of Mr . Disraeli was the most remarkable : he made , probably , the dullest and slightest speech that ever fell from his lips ; spoke of himself as " one of the rank and file of the Commons , " not as a leader . ' Is

    this the sulky modesty of a man who hat * been underrated by his colleagues , and told to know his place , and so revenges himself by ultra-abasement when they ask his help—as Shylock reviles himself when asked to help the haughty noble merchant ? It looks very like it . The party is ill-manned ; it lias not a policy worth attention ; Lord Stanley , no longer young , displays no new resources ; his sole opportunity is the utter nullity of Ministers—the ghost of a Cabinet which occupies the seat of power without filling it . Yet Lord Stanley can do one service to his country ; he can despatch the useless , obstructive Whigs .

    Yes , useless and obstructive . Look at their conduct in the little reforms proposed by Sir William Clay and Mr . Locke King . Sir William would let " com pound-householder , " videlipot lodger , pay his share of the landlord ' s rates , and « o make good his own vote . Lord John objected that it would disturb the text of the Reform Bill-r-that tmcred record 1 and the Commons supported the Premier . Mr . Locke King proceeded with his bill to extend the £ io borough franchise to coimtiee ; Lord John renewed his promise of a Reform Bill hcrenftrr : [ Town Kjiition . 1

    Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr . Osborne set an example of confiding in Lord John ! Amazing credulity . People , however , have been proud to believe in Joanna Southcote ; and not a few Liberals supported Mr . Osborne . Mr . King ' s supporters were reduced from a hundred to eightythree , his opponents increased to 299 ; so that Ministers succeeded in blocking out a reform , such as it was , by the shadowy promise of one which they will not carry .

    So it is with economy . The Whigs are always economical in theory—but not in office . Their Army Estimates , like their Navy Estimates , are subjected to fanciful " reductions " here and there ; but the causes of expense—the aristocratic system of purchase , the provocatives to turbulence at home and in the colonies , the practice of siding with foreign Governments which menace our political system rather than with foreign peoples—these , like the useless African squadron , are causes of our immense military expense ; but the Wbigs leave them untouched ; and the estimates are annually voted , with the annual complaints of Mr . Hume and his friends .

    The " foreign refugees in London" have been denounced to the Commons by Mr . Stuart Wortley , and Ministers have replied in that cringing , craven style which is the present fashion in foreign affairs . Sir George Grey stated that the foreign leaders in England are known and watched ; and he uttered a word of threatful reproachful warning to them that they should not here engage in " plots . " What nonsense this is ! If it so please them , they have a right to plot . Foreign countries have not been so very squeamish towards our own : France shielded the Pretender to the English throne ;

    Russia sent emissaries to Herat ; Holland has negotiated with the Anglo-Dutch at the Cape ; Russia and Greece are said to have tampered with the Ionian States , —alien powers all , menacing British interests , British territory , the British power . But the exiled patriots of Italy or of Germany have a right to struggle for their national liberty—the same right which we have conceded to Englishmen in recognising the Orange dynasty and its successors . England is not endangered because Maaxini makes progress towards organizing ; on the contrary , the interests of the English People are" advanced by the

    extension of popular power on the Continent . When nn English Minister trims between our independence and a servile admisHion of Austria ' s right to make us tho tools of her despotism , he is a traitor to the principles that established the Brunswick dynasty on the English throne , a traitor to the nation whose feeling lie misrepresents . Tho Bishops have for some time been known to have had under consideration a declaratory address on the subject of that Puseyisna which excited the real part of the Protestant alarm during the lute Anti-Papal ferment : the address is now out ; and it proves to be a mout milk-and-water request to

    agitators within the Church not to disturb its quiet I The address can scarcely have any effect—except to encourage agitators ; just as the cry of the old London watchmen used to tell the marauders of the night that all honest people were asleep except the utterer of that toothless ejaculation . The perplexed condition of English Churchmen who wish to live quietly was elaborately demonstrated in the House of Lords on Thursday evening . The Duke of Richmond brought forward a grievance complained of by those Dissenters who leave the Church and yet demand a share of its privileges .

    The culprit-in the present instance was the incumbent of St . Peter ' s , Chichester , who refused to read the burial service over the grave of a Dissenting minister when asked to do so . All who took part in the discussion lamented the present state of the ecclesiastical laws , but no one ventured to hint that any reform is possible . The Bishop of Chichetter admits that it is very awkward for a clergyman to be asked to read the burial service over the grave of a man whomay have died in a fit of delirium tremens , or

    has taken away his life . Many clergymen , he says , must feel their consciences severely taxed when called upon in such cases to say that they commit the body to the ground " in the sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life . " But the law is itnperative and must be obeyed . This will hardly go down at Oxford . Nottingham is getting up a Protestant aggression on Rome—a mission to convert the Catholics on the Seven Hills !

    Miss Talbot' 8 case is settled . It turns out that her conventual seclusion was complicated with some marriage to which she was not averse , and the law proceedings will result , at least , in securing her , personally , freedom of choice . Much unfair use is made of discrepancies between the religious persons involved ; but it is quite evident that the whole truth has not come out ; but the lawyers have taken their usual licence . Tho foreign news is flut . The Moniteur has been on the eve of announcing a new Ministry for the last fortnight . It has at lust informed tho world that all efforts to that effect have proved unavailing . The party of order are taking strenuous measurea to demolish the lust remnants of Socialism . The

    Hotel de Ville in Puris i « swarming with armed men , and has the appearance of fortified barrack * . The King of Prussia has sent to Vienna oiw of those diplomatic notes that go by the name ot ultimatums . Which of the two Powers , however , is really to have the last word does not aa yet appear . The Dresden conferences are virtually at an end ; the conclusion buing pretty much the warae as assemblieu and congresses came to at Frankfort before tluH . i . e ., nothing .

    The Pope has been rid of one of his most formidable enemies . 11 Pawaatore hat been killed in a Bkirmitili with Roman gensdarmes . At Rome , aa well as at Naples , passjvorts are denied to traveller * curious to hi *» the London Exhibition ,

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    VOL . II . —No . 54 . SATURDAY , APRIL 5 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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    • ' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater diatmctnasa is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided viewa ; 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 . "—Humboldt ' 3 Cosmos .

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    News of the Wbhk— -P « # « The Frimley and other Murders .... " j Savonarola in London .... 32 t Opening of Corent Garden . ........ 326 Parliament of the Week 310 Miscellaneous 31 G Pulszky ' s Hungarian Traditions .. 322 Progress of the Peovlb—The Stanley Demonstration 311 Public AppaIHS- * ^ f ^ Vable 3 ^ 3 Proceedings of the Chartist Conven-T LiOrLt "' H 12 How to Reduce tike Array ' Estimates 318 Booka on our Table ... ; 4 . 3 Uon ..... 32 ? hS-SSi £ i ! to ? IWWICd | pi SI ^ S " : ^ . ?? . T ::::::::: ill ^ L ^ o ^ i ^ :::: ; ::::::::::. ^ Hejertsp ^ on N ^ Ed ^ T he bxuibition « $ L 4 n . » . » a « ^ a . n »„„?« « « tort tion o « o Tayleur ' a Oivorce 314 -rf » W ™ t p » l nVV . * ' *"''' % > n Tub Arts- Government not a Superfluity 326 The Seamen ' s Strike 315 x ^ J ^ SSS f ^^^ Q ^ n Gustavu . HI ... 345 The Wood Pavement 32 G The Carnival at Rome 315 MysUrtous Deaths 6 i \ i The Quwn of Spades 3 * 5 Commercial Affaiks—Earthquakes in Asiatic Turkey .... 315 LITRBA . TCKB— Comptou ' s Benefit 325 Markets , Gazettes , &c 328-29

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1877/page/1/