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Parliament has broken up for the holidays , leaving little done , much unsettled . Indeed nothing has been done " this half" [ session ] , except to squabble over what should not be done . Yet everything has been unsettled—from the style of an Act of Parliament to the Ministry itself . Parliament gives up its plan of " shortening acts of Parliament , " and returns to the good old style
which pledges nobody to anything , from legislators to malefactors ; it may be called the long , loose , and loophole style . The Ministry has been called upon to show its right to exist , and has confessed that it has no right—by resigning ; but it has been sentenced , as Dogberry says , "to continue ; " it being too weak , and contemptible to destroy—at present . The Protectionists , not quite ready to take office , have ascertained that the Russell Cabinet is to be
removed—is quite loose in its socket ; and so they leave it in till the convenient moment . The Anti-Papal agitation has degenerated into an Anti-Puseyite squabble out of doors , and we see the effect in a number of final conversions to Rome ; in doors , the Anti-Papal debates have degenerated to a bore , and the bill stands over till after Easter ; the income tax has been debated , is to be continued , but in respect of details stands over till alter Easterj Sir William Molesworth has raised the question of colonial government and finance , and it stands over till after Easter ; Lord John will try to proceed with his Jewish Disabilities Bill , but it stands over till after Easter : Mr . Baines ' H
bill to abolish , or alter , or palliate the law of settlement , if he can get on with it , at least standu over till after Easter . They all stand over till after Easter ; except the Irish Lieutenancy Abolition Bill , which is itself abolished—the first " innocent " massacred , already ! The principal progress made is in getting money— " supply , " they call it ; and there is no doubt that Lord Stanley will have the Income tax secured , the odious retrenchment questions gabbled over , the bothering Anti-Pupalisin , which is so peculiarly Lord John ' s own rubbish , all swept away , before he deigns to tak « his seat on the Treasury Bench .
Lord John han succeeded in " jockeying" Mr . Adderley by a very old " do < lp ; c . " The tsUl . u of the Cape our readers know : it can only he uatiafactorily settled by arriving at a knowledge of the actual relations between Settlers and Natives , and what they ought to be , or , at least , endowing the officials with that novel and useful information . Accordingly , Mr . Adderley proposed in Parliament a project very much in favour at the Cape—to send out a Royal CommiHuion , in order to collect urxl authenticate such information . The proposal \ v » h too sensible to be mot by a direct negative ; liut Lord John disposed of it by an assault in flaulc : ho proposed to refer the subject , not to a coinmia-ITown Edition , ]
sion which should visit the colony , but to a Select Committee which should sit at home at ease , and witness a set-to between Mr . Adderley and Mr . Hawes , Mr , Fairbairn and Mr . Mothercountry , or any others that could be brought into the ring . This took the fancy of the House , with its love of doing that which amounts to doing nought ; and so Lord John ' s amendment was carried . The debate afforded Mr . Gladstone an opportunity for
showing that the way to fasten upon colonies the proper check against border wars is to give them a representative and responsible government ; and to Mr . Roebuck opportunity for one of his most favoured sallies—a commonplace rendered striking by being made shocking in the cruelty and harshness of its application . He argued that it is useless to protect Aborigines , since the Anglo-Saxon must tread them down in the march of colonization .
But the truism is a falsism . Meanwhile , the latest news from the Cape is an opportune comment on this debate : Sir Harry Smith vainly contending against the savages , and vainl y calling for help from the colonists ; who stand by with folded arms , and look on while he prosecutes his war with the natives . Lord Stanley has figured as spokesman for British Guiana . That colony is blessed with the mockery of a constitution ; it has an electoral body limited by a property qualification ; the electors elect an electoral college , which elects about a dozen "
representatives " ; and they sit in a Court of Policy , or a " Combined Court , " with certain official members . The colony has been treated with slight , superciliousness , and disingenuousness by the Dovvning-street officials ; the people , White as well as Black , hate the mock constitution ; the Combined Court itself has declared against it . The colonists want an elective Council and Assembly—the usual prayer ; and Lord Stanley advised Ministers to grant such a constitution " as soon as the colonists should bo fit to receive it . " Lord Grey agreed to grant it " as soon as" ike .
Lord Stanley also tried to ascertain that Ministers would really secure a proper and effectual guarantee for the loan which i « required to make the North British Railway through New Brunswick ; but there is no pledging a Whi ^—till after Master . Meanwhile , the Honourable House has put KdwardH into Newgate , and let him out again ; nun reported that St . Albau ' w wan bribed , and that nobody did it ; and contemplate ** an inquiry into that mysterious slate of thingH . But ; among the election movements which are so numerous just now , the most important in the move of the Oxfordshire farmers to return nn their
Member one of their own body , Mr . Roberts Thin m following up the blow which the Nottinghamshire fanners mined so eilortually at Llie dominant , lamlloxlimn ; at Luton the Bedfordshire farmers are meeting , establishing Laud Societies and Registration Societies , and entertaining Mr . John Bright . We hove no fear that agricultural
agitation , which seems to be fairly beginning , can end like the Reform Bill in establishing a mere middle-class electorate . Already we see that the farmers are breaking through the fear of talking about rents , land , and wages before their labourers : they are quoting the declaration of the labourers that no more tax is to be laid on bread . We believe that the movement in the agricultural districts is actually beginning . Indeed , even in the towns , the Reform Bill movement has not ended yet—we have not got to " the circumference . " The meeting of Financial Reformers at Manchester shows how conscious even the middle classes are that the movement must go on .
The Bishop of Exeter is one of those zealous churchmen who will not he quiet : in a reply to a communication from the Crown on the subject of the Ashley address , he announces decisive measures for a High Church agitation in his own diocese . He is about to call upon his clergy to give or to refuse their signatures to that article of the Creed which says , * ' I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins ; " also to meet in Synod , and to deliberate on the steps rendered necessary by the state of the Church at large , and more especially within Dr . Phillpotts ' s own diocese . As feeling runs high in the western counties , the Bishop is inviting a mortal contest .
The Prince President of the Republic , whose first Parliament has abolished Universal Suffrage , has got rid of his mere departmental Ministry , and has reappointed a Cabinet , substantially the same with that which gave way before the opposition of the majority in January ; but there is some difference in its position . Invited by Monsieur de Sainte Beuve to renew the resolution declaring want of confidence in the same Ministry , the Assembly fjot rid of the reminiscence , after its pastoral fashion , by passing to the order of the day , " pure and simple" ; which means that the Assembly will not now say that it has no confidence in the Baroehe-l ' auclier
Ministry . Why ? Certainly not because the unchangeable ( economist , L ( 5 on Faueher , is more than ever head of the Cabinet . But the Assembly is tiled of quarrels and irregular Ministries , and ulurined perchance at the sign * of movement in the Republique dt ' mocratiquc et sociale . Meanwhile , the democratic Socialist members of the Left have- « et out for a two weekw' holiday in the country , to recruit their health and their political force tj . Sahlanha 1 » hn begun a military insurrection in Portugal ; but it seems to be no more than a form of Ministerial crinin common to that country .
The agitations of Europe will scarcely deter Queen Victoria from opening the Internutionul Exposition on the 1 st of May . The London tradesmen are furbishing up their shop-fronts with ii brilliancy ami relrrity unprecedented ; and the Commaii ( h"i-in-Cliief is concentrating troops round London , alarmed probably lest Queen Victoria should seize the opportunity to start dome brannew revolution .
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VOL . II . —No . 56 . SATURDAY , APRIL 19 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 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 Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race aa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Huhboldt ' s Cosmos .
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News of the Week— Page Miscellaneous 362 The Mazzini Plot 308 progress of the People—PaHiamentof the Week 358 Public Affaiks— Litkraturb— To the Chartists of Edinburgh and Election Affairs 358 Easter 365 The Doctrine of Homoeopathy 368 Hampshire 374 Public Meetings 358 Organization of Labour in Thanet .. 365 Industrial Association 369 Letters to Chartist 3 371 Revolt in Portugal 359 Farewell to the Wood 365 Centralization and Local Government 371 Open Council—The New French Ministry 359 The Penny Stamp Committee 366 Religious Unity 371 Moustachios and Beards prejudicial General Continental Affairs 359 Uniform and Reform in the Army .. 366 Portfolio— to their Wearers 375 Uembinski in Paris 360 John Stuart Mill and the Water Sketches from Life 372 Tlie Bishops' Address to the Clerary 37 . > Protestantism and Popery 360 Question 367 The One Grey Hair 372 The Hellion of the Working Clans 375 The International Exposition 361 The Whigs Saved 3 S 7 The Arts- Prize Essays 376 Removal of the Poor 301 Legalized Poisoning 36 * Vivian in his Easy Chair 373 On Teetoulism , Scurvy , and Beer .. 376 The Progress of Adulteration 361 Captain J . 0 . Cunningham 368 London Sacred Harmonic Society .. 373 The Socialist Hydra 376 Crime and Punishment 361 Key to Religious Freedom 368 The Queen ' s Parasol 373 Commercial Affairs—Filial Abduction 36 L Attempted Assassination 3 G 8 European Democracy— 373 Markets , Gazettes , &c 377-78
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1879/page/1/
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