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      Lord Palmebston has been down to Tiverton , has made his long-expected speech , and has announced—nothing . Why any announcement wa 3 expected we know not ; but the fact was that he expected to give Ministerial explanations on three important points : some persons thought that he was might be the mouthpiece for promulgating Lord John Russell's draft of a new Reform Bill ; others anticipated something on the agricultural distress ; others , an autographic explanation on foreign affairs , and the position of the English Government therein . All who expected are disappointed , We

      expected exactly what we have—a marvellous display of the pleasant viscount ' s skill in making the people of Tiverton believe that he had said something . As to the intended Reform Bill , it is a blank in Lord Palmerston ' s speech—as much so as we believe it to be in Lord John ' s mind at this moment ; for we have not yet reached the 1 st of February . As to agricultural distress , Lord Palmerston vaunted the success of free trade , and promised the people of Tiverton that they should have Protection when

      the sea should run up hill , On this subject he was very " firm . " For the materials of this section see the Free-trade speeches of the last fire sessions by Peel , Cobden , Palmerston , Villiere ,, &c , passim . As to foreign affairs , he vouchsafed the intelligence that the Pope had committed an aggression , &c , and that Kossuth was coining to this country . Nothing could exceed the ease , the grace , the tact , the pleasant manner with which Palmerston told the people of Tiverton—nothing .

      The Parliamentary Reformers have had a grand field-day at Manchester . We observe that the tone of the meeting was broader than its political creed . This is hopeful . To the agricultural dinners will the agricultural mind turn for solace and enlightenment—in vain . At Hertford , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton " eschewed politics ; " but he declared that Government ought to try agricultural experiments . At Evesham , Captain Rushout avowed his faith in steam

      machinery ; and Mr . Foley declared that they must wait to see the price at which corn should settle before they could determine their " principles" I At Carlisle Sir James Graham commended high farming , sheep farming , M'Cormack ' s machine , and Claussen ' a process of flax preparation ; and anticipated the time when manufacturers should establish works in the neighbourhood of flax-fields . But what are the farmers to expect , now ? Everybody is as uncommunicative as Mr . Disraeli was at Aylesbury .

      # Upon the subject of Land , Ireland has taken an important step . It is proposed to form a great association for the purpose of establishing a Peasant Proprietary upon Freehold Land , to be bought in ITOWN KoiTIQN . l

      the Encumbered Estates Court . It is the boldest and most useful scheme yet advanced for " planting" Ireland with Irish—no small matter ; and it would also give a real solvent proprietary in the place of the present nominal and bankrupt one . The scheme , as will be seen elsewhere , is based on the same principles as the freehold land movement in England , but contemplating a much wider scope . It would be also an extensive application of the principles of association—concert in the employment of capital , without which it would be impracticable .

      In England the harvest is said to be " magnificent . " We cannot yet tell much about the quality of the grain ; and the sun was mostly pale last summer . But abundance seems to be the rule . So it is , cereally , in Ireland ; and the suddenness of the ripening , combined with other causes , has made the Irish farmer feel severely the diminished supply of labour . The potato disease is the subject of conflicting reports : we conjecture it to be extensive , especially in the North . On the whole , the food prospects are good—would the prospects of the food-producing classes were as much so ! The Archbishop of Canterbury has retracted the latitudinarian expression of opinion as to the laying on of hands contained in the Gawthorn

      correspondence ; the Reverend Mr . Palmer , of Whitchurch , helping him in the process . He complains of being misrepresented , poor man ; whereas his esoteric opinion on ordination was as " plain as a pikestaff . " Here we have more evidence of the necessity of Convocation . Could a Sumner pretend to rule any Church but a Church tied to the State like the present , abandoned to anarchy of belief and discipline ? It is plain that Dr . Sumner is not even strong enough for the place he at presents holds . Where will the Church drift to ?

      In Fiance malgrd l ' almerstonian complacencies , in Germany , in Italy , under Pope , President , Pretender , we read but one system , and that is the anarchy of authority . Corrupted justice , a gagged press , a vexatious and inquisitorial police , an organized espionage , religion itself oppressive , intriguing , prostituted ; the whole fabric of law and order alien to the sympathies of the People , sustained bytwoinsolentPraetorians : such is the reign of

      anarchy in which the party of Order do rejoice The same war a I ' outrance to the Press , at Paris , Berlin , Vienna . The same exploits of mouchards and gendarmerie . Leon Faucher ' s triumphal entry into Rheims ( where lie seems to have been only not crowned ) is hardly , perhaps , equal in pomp to the apparition of the young Austrian Kaiser at Verona , amidst the enthusiastic acclamations of—his soldiery ! Nor are the feats 01 jvi

      of M . Carlicr ' a ianiaMnruin riuif *> nn o ...-. » - .., ; tl » w ... . earner a janissanos quite on a par with his more practised confreres of the Prussian and Austrian capitals ; but they are a very good imitation , and to us are prophetic of the same reward ! But M . L . Bonaparte , whose whole career of office has been consumed in unaccornj > u « hod perjuries , would .

      do well to imagine that the French are still a People elastic upon occasion ! Pliant enough , it ia true ; but the rebound . He has suspended . fined , ruined the journals which once supported the promise-maker . it is easier to count the names of editors imprisoned than of editors free ; but afterwards , when he has silenced free opinion , when he has become the Soulouque of the gendarmerie , what is to became of the promise-ire « Jfcer , unless the France of 89 be dead ? The Republic will survive many Soulouques /

      The increasing splits in the Monarchical factions make one smile ; but to hear a man like Guizot exclaiming , " It is legality that ruins us ! " may well give all calm observers pause . What will be his cry when the next Sauve qui peut arrives ? Where , if not under the wing of the Constitution they now insult , and of the vile multitude , who , clothed in rags , kept watch at Rothschild ' s and the Bank , in February ' , will he , and such as he , seek refuge ? The canker worm of France is the dishonesty of its statesmen .

      While Absolutism , by violent efforts , has quite enough to do in the way of getting on its centre , Spain steps in and complicates the Continental plot by strutting forth to bully the Yankees . Were not bragging as common in Madrid as Imperial bankruptcy in Vienna , this conduct might have immediate and happy consequences . Spain would , if she dared , bring American intervention into Europe . She publicly declares her intention of thrashing the Republic of the West—only give her a decent pretext—only . . . . ! But " She lets I dare not wait upon I would , Like the cat i' th' adapfe . "

      Still it is possible . While the Heraldo was defying Brother Jonathan , one of his many mouthpieces was defying—not Spain , that would be nothing— -but all Europe ! The Cuban expedition has ended tragically . Lopez had , evidently , been fearfully deceived by pretended accounts from Cuba , which represented the Creoles as prepared to rise and throw off the

      yoke of Spain at the first signal-gun from an invading band . It was not so . The four hundred and fifty gallant fellows who , aa it turns out , have broken the law of nations have been all shot in fight , butchered in cold blood , hunted down by bloodhounds , or made prisoners . Had the Creoles risen , and , with the help of the invaders , succeeded , the deed , we suppose , would not have been a violation of any law *

      Two simultaneous facts might make our Government pause , as the saying is ; though the phnwe will not serve for a Government whose career ia one continued pause . The discovery of gold in Australia has occasioned some uneasiness amongfct those practical men who are best acquainted With the colony ; the means of providing both for the intercommunication and the control of the region are matters for solicitude } and a deputation of merchants will wait on the Minister . The two-

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      ^ y "The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea at Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by . prejudice and one-sided views and by aetting aside the distinctions of Reh ^ on , Country , and Colour , tp treat the whole Human race a 3 one ' ^ rotherhood haVinc one ^ reat obiect-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      VOL . II . —No . 79 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 27 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      N « wo ow thu Wiihk— Pa ^ e Canterbury arid his " Friends" .... 91 . "> Practical Advantages of a European ThrAktsaTdJ £ o ^ Eurone » To SocHlis = » i « Switzerland . - . 915 War 9 J 0 A Word to toy Readers aud ' ¦ Mr . The Friends of Italv ' . 910 A devolution iu GuUcm- ^ Iunm- .. 913 The Truth thatjthere is in Bloomer .. 910 Phelpa 925 The WAuatrian Loan 9 1 Iiertskin Orators 910 A Littl- . Peddinyton Prophet 921 Pobtfolio-ThlpltdtuderofPa ° merIton * "¦ "'" 911 Printers' AtheFieirn 916 The SUmp-oflice in Retreat 9 : 31 A Plea for SundayBeform 925 A * rifiiUa « lMeetin « 913 Public Opinion 916 Moral Plague * 921 Organization of the People 936 ( SeatBSfoTm Mating- at Winchester 913 Pewowal News aud Gjasip tl 17 Sodial Reform .- " Note , of a Social Ot bw Council- . Prospects of Relief for Ireland 913 BloomerUin 917 ( Economist" 9 * 1 To Gutseppe Mazzim . 926 Cuba 9 i 3 Public Affaius— Litbhatubb— The Invasion of Cuba , . 9 ^ 7 The Life * and Deatb ' of General * Lopez 9 U Protection or the Equivalent 919 G . P . K . James Louis XIV 923 Commercial Affaibs—The Snanish and American Defiance * 9 U His Majesty of Naples and Gladstone 919 Proudhon on Association 9 . 33 Market 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , Anti-ConvictLeague 915 Equality in the Eye of the Law 919 Lady Selina Clifford 9 ii &c 927-32

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1902/page/1/