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      . Russia and Austria , and enemies : of truly popular freedom who are not quite so far off , rejoice to think that Louis Napoleon has , succeeded in discounting 1852 before the Peoples could geftheir forces into play : he has obtained the start ; but he keeps it at a fearful risque to himself , and \ ve have not finished yet . We have only begun 1852 , which has / perchance , surprises in store not less striking isiJi

      v , tnant&ose pt . i ^^ m ^ m ^ Mim ^ m ^^^^^ ' - ^ . 3 | wW ^ r ' . ^ iWhilJttn'&nc 0 of daily literature , ¦ '" ' dtefcussion has exhausted itself on the -events as they passed , and our public writers produce their annual " retrospects" wjth a weary air of exhaustion . Still it has been fertile of many curious productions , so peculiar to itself that curiosity will not soon tire of enuroerat : ng * "them . In finance , for example , the English Government treated" us to a

      double budget , and the Austrian to a rise of quotations byJorce of bayonets ; while Australia added its gold bedWto the recent Califbrnian discoveries . In France , ' by his -midnight burglary of ; Paris , Louis Napoleon has restored the Consulate , as a step towards the Empire ; he slavishly parodies every act of his ; uncle ,, including the restoration of the Church , and of the eagle to the national flag . At home we have had a series of dramatic

      surprises—the double budget aforesaid , the limitation of the income-tax to one year more , the anti-Papal mob agitation set on foot by the Prime Ministeran official Lord-George-Gordonism—the establishment of a " foreign department " , to our Police , the Gladstone denunciation of Naples , the visit of I £ ossuth , the dawn of the Anglo-American Alliance , the undermining of Lord Palmerston by his

      chief colleague ,, and , it is said , the design on the part of the Premier to establish a new " Bishop of Southwark . " Some one said , at Manchester , that Lord John would not have rebuffed a deputation T 'y > i 8 n ° P-maHing " ! The idea is borrowed from the Pope , and the mitred officer is to serve as a JNew Year's present to the English public from a grateful patriot .

      The new year begins with an unsettled Ministry : and while we write the political world is full of Tumoura . Lord Granville has formally received his appointment ' as Foreign Secretary ; but the other offices have rather . gone begging . It has crept out , too , that some of the Ministry , who ncquiesced in Lord Palmerston ' s removal , have subsequently . expressed their dissatisfaction , an £ it w reported that Lord . Lansdowne will not remain in the Cabinet . The manifest effort of Ministers is to recruft their forces from the Liberal-Conservative ranks ; but they have not obtained

      adhesion from le « dw <> members of that party . Meanwhile , it is said that Lord Palmerston is confident of support from a large number of Liberals ; and ITown Bomo */]

      ^ mentary Reform Association has thrown out a hint of a conference to be held in London shortly . . Its proceedings will be awaited with interest . ' X # n , thet inSab ? time" ; the dispute between the skilled mechanics of the iron trades and their employers occupies a foremost place in public attention . It is not only a great trial of strength between the two parties , but a trial of the protective principles upon which they severally rely . The men of the iron trades enjoy high wages , and many advantages possessed by few working men j they are strong ; their combination is extensive arid well supported ; their leaders are uncommonly intelligent ; their demands , in the main , reasonable and humane . They desire to be relieved- from the compulsion to work

      we believe he may have it , if he take the proper steps to acquire it . Some speculation has been excited by the visit of Mr . La&ouchere to Bowood , Lord Lansdowne ' s country seat , and of the same gentleman to a leading man at Manchester .. Is it reconcilement , asked Political Gossip , or a new party in formation ? ' - ' * Reform " has not yet recovered from the check given to it , in the persons of the Manchester men , by Lord John Russell ; but the National

      Parliaovertime , or more than ten hours a day , except in cases of necessity ; and they object to a system of piecework devised to wring a larger portion of toil from the working man , to beat down his wages , and to place the trade in the hands of middlemen . United trades connected with the body also object to the practice of placing unskilled labourers as companions of mechanics , so as to supersede the labour of the more skilled and better-paid class . The masters resent •' interference" and " dictation ";

      they are now openly combined in antagonism to their men ; they are endeavouring to push the contest to extremes , and it is evident that they are confident of success . If they do succeed , it will be through the want of union among the men . It too often happens that the working men cannot stick to any movement which does not return an immediate benefit to their own particular trade , and therefore they fail to support their brethren in resisting processes of beating down wages and extorting work , which are really

      identical in the different branches of industry . Thus the working class consents to be vanquished in detail . We shall see how the Amalgamated Society of Engineers conducts this struggle . Before the issue , however , we beg to remind our countrymen of the working class that' they are struggling on unequal terms , under Combination Laws which are always interpreted against" them ; that the

      general decline of wages and of social position for the workman can only be arrestod by ^ establishing the right of labourywhieh > WQuld be effected > y a sound Poor-law ; and that the root of their difficulty is the political impotency of their class , which deprives them of respect before both Legislature and Bench . They will see the result of the present contest : let them bear our memorandum in mind . Note the suggestion of Mr . Bridges Adams , that

      the Amalgamated Engineers should found a cooperative trade of their own , and thus combat the masters . Mr . Adams is a man of great sagacity pnd experience , but we did not before know that we might jCount on his powerful aid in the advance of practical Socialism . Welcome ! Let the men read his words . ^ ' _ France is advancing' towards " the Empire . ** On the-first day of the new year- Louis Napoleon went through the form of a religious installation as _ ten years' President , at the Cathedral of Notre Jpamey Avith alltheyceremonies used by his uncle as First Consul ; he takes up his abode at the Tuilevies —and the Paris tradesmen look for balls and

      festivals ; and a veteran of the Old Guard might suppose that forty years had been abolished . Meanwhile , the new Imperialism is developing itself in a variety of forms . Louis Napoleon receives from his royal brother of- Russia the order of St . Andrew , usually conferred on Sovereigns . The Austrian papers are proclaiming ; as the Viennese Presse does , that Louis-Napoleori-ized France wil no longer need to oppose Russia j and the Austrian Lloyd ' s , that the Prince President is a firm adherent to the party of /* Order . " A new tribunal and new laws for the press are instituted , under which political discussion will be illegal . and even the faithful Ve * ron is said to be so scandalized as to

      have declared that he would-maAe the Government grant some modicum of political existence to the press ; a threat defied by the Minister de Morny . Allusions to ' the existing state of things in the plays at the theatre , however vague , are greedily seized by the audiences—a sign of returning life ; and Jules Janin flings quotations from Tacitus at the powers that be . Tacitus is a gentleman against whose existence Louis Napoleon , Ferdinand of Naples , and such "best of kings , " retrospectively and vigorously protest . Could they , only go back

      along the path of time , they would execute summary Justice on him . Tacitus , however , will not be killed ; and it thus becomes necessary for the Police to exercise their unceasing activity"to lay his ghost and persecute people in general throughout the countries subject to the monarchs of " Order "—an activity by no means relaxed at ' the present time . That desperate Oliver Twist , the- state prison , is daily asking for f ( more , " in Hungary , Italy , Austria , and Germany , —and having it 1

      The friends of * ' Order " inJUindon have been delighted with a new acquisition : it is a lettor from . Count Casimir Batthyany , making divers accusations against Kossuth—of being the cause of his country ' s downfal , of breaking up the Ministry of LouisrBatthyany , of surrendering the Dictatorship to Gorgey without the privity or consent of his colleagues . Nothing does more discredit to . the ? arty of " Order " than its literature ; and Count ! a 8 imir , a man of better disposition than vigour , will one day be ashamed of his anti-Hungarian epistle .. Its inconsistencies are patent to every

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      VOL , IILr—No . i ) 3 . SATUKDAY , JANUARY : 3 , 1852 . Prige . 6 d .

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      N ^ s ~ OFifHB ^ rBBK « - —— —_ P «^ e ^ _ Scandal in Mayfair .. 8 The GovcrnmentalJ ) epartment 9 .... 13 ^ Christmas Pieces 18 lett * Z rJhm T % Mk . . ' . l ^ Murderand " erime . i . T .... 7 . . ^ .. 7 T 7 ^« — SocisiiEteforin ^ - " Noter ^ a-Sociat GRG * mzATroNST > FTirE Pepteernnti ^ ntTKntPa * ' * ' **"'" ' 3 POBUC AfpahS- tEconomi 9 tf \ ... 13 National Charter Association 20 l"heEo 8 itiob ^ of AffairVin Downing- OarMinisters- What are they at ? .. 10 Notes on War . 14 ' Howlha Times assails Working Men 20 streT" ....... ^ ....:... t . 4 Official Chances of War with America Litrratokb ^ Open Council— . ¦ • • - AHiance k ' ndWar ' 4 find PopularAlliance .............. 11 The Head of the . Family 16 lo the London Executive Committee , The * GtaerbfWEriginee ' rV ! . . ' ! , **^^ 5 Hqw to make . Pauperism Pay ........ 11 A ? assiz on Physiology . ; i . 17 ¦ of the Amalgamated Iron Trades .. 20 BeforarCoaference ....... * ........,. t Our vast "Non-Effective" .... .. 11 Books on our Table .............. 17 , Agrncultural Associations > . 20 Caeimet ^ a \ Ayany - andLonisKossuth 7 "Anonymous Paitnewhip" already Poutfolio- Cqjimeroiau Appaius- " The Syrian Refugees .... ; ,..,... 7 legnllu Ireland / ... .............. 12 - TheHaythorne Papers ...... 18 Market * . Gazettes , Advertisements The French-in Morocco ........,-,. 7 The Ladies'Guild .................. 12 ^ Thb Arts— . ' &c ... - •—^ - 20-24

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      ¦ ¦¦ j ¦ ¦ 'TttB one Idea which History exnibita as everraore ^ developing itself-into greater distinctness is the Idea of ' ¦ flnS ^ -tfie noide endeavour to thrdw down all the -barriers erected between men by prejudice . and one-sided aaone ' orothe&ood , havingone greatobject-the free development of our spiritual nature . "— Hdmbolpt ^ Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 3, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1916/page/1/