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    While the Queen is rusticating in the Highlands , while her Ministers are scattering themselves over the country in search of health , Mrs . Dexter lecturing on Bloomerism , and Newminster winning the St . Leger , Mr . Disraeli has been promulgating a party manifesto from Aylesbury . Protection is no longer a great fact ; it is a dead fact ; and the member for Buckinghamshire gives it up . But in doing so he has given another proof of the utter impracticability , impotence , and want of statesmanship , which characterize the Country Party . This Aylesbury manifesto is more explicit , and at the same time more untrue—contains more selfish

    philosophy and illogical reasoning than any of the many by which it has been preceded . The Protectionists have a magnificent career before them , if they would really consult ( he " spirit of the age , " to which Mr . Disraeli appealed , and apply themselves heartily to the task of renovating the condition of the peasantry , instead of sustaining the rent-rolls of the landowners ; but it will be seen that the projects of Mr . Disraeli aim only at the reconstruction of a shattered interest and a broken party ; that they in no wise tend to the permanent welfare of the tenantor peasant-class , nor to the welfare of the nation ; and that his boasted " case for the country " is

    a special , and not a national case , neither broad enough norstrong- enough to form the basisof a party with the capacity of holding power for three months . " Political Justice" is incompatible with " rotten boroughs and the Chandos clause . " " Financial Equity , " meaning repeal of the malt-tax , repeal of the land-tax , could not coexist with the maintenance of a host of taxes pressing on the subsistence and the comforts of the poor . Yet this is the basis proposed by Disraeli , the best tongue among them , for the policy of the Country Party ! But this question of taxes—the only question with which he deals—what a small thing it is ! Might he not obtain an insight into " the spirit of the age" by looking at palpable facts , instead of

    fnnning ingenious theories of action upon a false bottom ? Why is tenant-right ignored ; and no word spoken for a peasant proprietary P The new Irish Society for placing Irishmen fairly on spots of free land , the great success of the Freehold Land Societies , and the perseverance and skill of a Lord Willoughby d'Eresby , in testing the practibility of applying steam to agriculture , point out the true basis for the formation of a

    Country party . But every political section is drifting hclmlcsBly on the ocean of impracticability . Mr . Disraeli cou 8 ela unity and proposes chimeras ; Mr . Hume , at Montrose , jjoea no further than household « uf-Irage ; the Whigs have no policy whatever ; and the l eel party give no sign of their existence . Either vacillation or vacuity . | Town Edition J

    It is the same in our colonial mismanagementno determined definite principle and course of action . Sir Harry Smith ' s despatches impart a graver tone to the Cape news . No one knows when or how hostilities at the Cape will terminate . Whig meanness and irresolution paralyze all . In the educational aspects we see this week the two poles of the opposition to the national education party . Positive Cullen , negative Condor . Dr . Cullen would have no mixing of the children

    of different sects at school—everything must be Catholic . Education without religion is " devilish " —education in company with Episcopalian or Presbyterian children , an abomination . Not Catholicism this , but exclusiveness . While the Reverend Mr . Condor , an advocate of pure voluntaryism , sneers at education in general , objects to any kind of state assistance , and denounces secular education in toto . Resistance to the spread of true Catholicity characterises each of these

    extremes . Confusion of orders , a certain laxity of management , and want of positive definite instructions , prove to have been the causes of the Bicester railway accident . " The finding of the jury is a severe rebuke to the railway authorities . The " accident" need not have happened ; none of the circumstances attending it were primarily beyond human control ; and tlje weight of public censure which falls upon the authorities , is fully deserved ^ A sickening task to trace week by week the blind courses of Continental reaction ! Every day the close alliance of the French factions with the

    German despotisms becomes more palpable . The " vigorous Ministry" of M . Bonaparte is not content with doing " international loyalty" by espionage , imprisonment , and expulsion of herds of refugees , making the hospitality of the Republic a byword ; but it apes faithfully every new vexation of the police ot Vienna and Berlin . In Italy certain national colours are forbidden ; so in France we hear of red cushions , cravats , or other articles of dress and furniture bearing that hateful colour , made a suspicion , an offence , a punishment . In Paris the remaining son of Victor Hugo is sentenced , on the verdict of a packed jury , to an exorbitant penalty for an article

    adopting and commenting upon the avowals of a Government organ ; whilst at Vienna , Sapphir , the brilliant humourist of the once gayest , but now most forlorn of cities , is condemned to prison for a page of real tragic irony on the recent Cabinet letters under the disguise of a lament over a shattered mind . Freedom ol thought and utterance is alike incompatible with Emperors and Prince-Presidents ; but it is well to murk that the sentences in both cases pro - duced the same deep and universal feeling of dis - gust . L £ on Faucherand Baroche strike at Victor Hugo through his sons ; one not twenty-one , the other scarcely twenty-three years of age . If , as the advocate suid on the trial , you deprive mother * of

    their sons , how will you win the support of the " Family " which you are for ever chanting ? The great poet-orator has given hostages to the Republic . In the day of her resurrection she will not forget the gift . Another whole Department placed in a state of siege , because in two small towns , containing each perhaps a thousand souls , some slight resistance was offered , on the occasion of a fete , to the provocations of the gendarmerie , shows how fatally incontinent is reaction ! Four hundred thousand citizens deprived of the protection of the civil law and handed over to courts martial on account of some village rioting .

    And this in the heart of republican France , in a time of profound quiet . But the reasons that are alleged might be equally alleged for placing all France under a state of siege . Manoeuvres of factions , indeed ! Is the Republic a faction P Perhaps M . L . Bonaparte expects to obtain a renewed leasejof power from the universal suffrage- of a People under the state of siege . Can it be wondered at , that all the prestige of Bonapartism , all the hallucination of a " name "is fast fading away . Beyond the entourage and the functionaries , who will now vote for a man who is only not a

    traitor because he has neither the wit to devise , nor the courage to act ? He is not even a decent stepping-stone to Monarchy . But he may retire with the miserable comfort of having consolidated the Republic , not according to his sacred promises , but in spite of his persevering treacheries As an agent of Austrianism he has won his spurs . The sometime refugee of Switzerland menaces Swiss hospitality ; and the exile of London solicits the harassing , when he cannot obtain the expulsion , of the exiles who gave him back a country . His own time may come again to know the sweets

    of exile and the glory of a free country ' s protection . The monstrous illegality of preventive imprisonment has been illustrated in the trials of Agen : MM . Lesseps , Desolme , and Dufau had been nine months in prison on mere accusation , and were acquitted . What security is there for life , or property , or family , where a Government gets obnoxious citizens out of the way in this summary fashion ? There is no excess of tyranny practised at Berlin or Vienna that the actual Ministers of M . Bonaparte do not strive to exceed . Even Belleisle is an imitation lschia !

    I he vexatious Police Ordinances respecting strangers have created a panic in Paria . Three thousand German and Belgian workmen deprived of honourable bread and work and driven across the frontiers , starving and desolate . A sop to Despotism ! Even English travellers , as unpolitical as possible , rush for a permit de sijour , or take wing to regions where Passports are unknown . All these acts of the " vigorous " Government are paralyzing commerce ; will the bourgeoisie be thankful ? or will they , as they have done before , read a lesson to the authorities next time they have to vote r

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    VOL . II . —No . 78 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , 1851 . Price 6 cL

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    Nhws or * n . Wbek- Png , Bicester Railway Accident-Import- ***«¦»* ^ ^ ^ *!?? . " . . . 895 T . i / ahts ^ " **** ^ The Disraeli Manifesto 886 p . fhuc rJoiSion ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . S 9 j The Sulphuric Acid Test of Pro- Timon of Athens 902 Continental Notes ................ 886 ? vppinlH ? 3 Meetin » 891 sperity 895 Organization or the People — Unreported Incidents of a late Royal steam Plouffhin- * ""' . " . " .:: ' . 891 AnAntidote for Spies 89 S Cooperative Stores and their Organi-T ° « r ........... 888 | f * a ™ 2 i ? S 8 n andGM 8 ip .::.:: 8 'J 1 A Flattering Likeness 896 zation 902 Liberationof Kossuth 888 The « Von Beck " Mystery ........ 893 A Subversive Fact 89 S Open Council-The Sardinian Workmen and the The ExDositU . n .... . 892 Social Reform— » Notes of a Social Catholic and Protestant Miracles .. ThSff ' . " . SI DesperateToo ^ h-drkwinff .......... 892 ( Economist" 895 The Principles of ^ ocial . Organization 903 The Kafir War g" ° "Murder will out . " 892 Litkkatcre— Affairs of the lata Harmony-hall The Indian New ...... 888 ™? c affaiks- The Creed of Christendom 897 Estate .... 903 pfnalA ^ fes sTn . ' . ' . 888 England ; Europe , and America .... 894 Golden Dreams and Waking Realities 899 Commercial AFFairs-Papai Aggression .... ° Rinomcrism 894 Portfolio— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , S ^^ aar FSSSt o - BbnU " . HI SrnTcuba-:::::::::::::::::: I 9 I The socialists- Apoiogy 901 &c : 903 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1901/page/1/