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    Without any sudden onset against Ministers , their position ^ has Iwppnie daily weajcfe ^ y ^ itil everybodyis expecting their dissbluiiQtf ^^^ l ^ en their friends ^ ish th ^ m out ^ increasing ; feebleness isibetrayed in , t ^ e very texture and substance of the measures ; which they produce . Tl » e «* ond < xS the larger aerie * , tu £ Mihtift 8 cherae , ex <*^« i » ihiui * utinjrtl « MJ « " <» " *

    ment , and proposes to accomplish it By calling out 80 , 000 young men , with a few more " next year" ! The organization is to be Strictly local ; substitutes are to be , allowed , but only in " certain cases ; ' * "V This project , received by the House of Commons generally with an indulgence anything but nattering to Ministers , has met with two kinds of opponents . Lord Palmerston desires to substitute for this " local militia" a " regular

    militia ; " of which the chief distinction would be that the latter would be removable to any part of the country , and that substitutes would be , accepted . The ' feeling that what Ministers propose is too confined and feeble produced a correspondent feeling that Lord Palmerston had come nearer to the exigency by proposing what would be more energetic and general ; and although the view is an erroneous one , it caused Lord Pal-.

    mevston to be heard with evident marks of satisfaction . No doubt it was deference for public opinion that made Ministers enter into the affair at all ; deference for the ceconomic-pcace part y probably made them keep it as small as possible ; and they have be e n fitly repaid for their trimming : two eminent leaders of that party , Mr . Hume and Mr . C ! nM <» Yi fnfnllv nlu ' pft to n militia . liume and Mr . Cobdentotallobject to a militia

    , y , and prefer a regular paid force . We said , some months back , that if ever Mr . Cobden came into office , his first act would be to increase the Stand-*» g Army ; and verily he has forestalled our prophecy ; forestalling also that addition to it , that probably he Would become Paymaster of the Forces . Evidently , he has an eye to that post ; unless he is to supersede Lord John in command of the Channel Fleet .

    Lord John kept back h , is Reform Bill until late last week ; it did not come before the public at large until Saturday ; and the brief interval subsequently has been busily employee ! in a close scrutiny of it , which is anything but satisfactory . . Its actual provisions are scarcely less unpopular than [ Town Edition . ]

    its omissions . It is found that the seleetkat of new boroughs , withiwhich thiE ^ oM are td toe pieced , will materiaUy extend the influence of the Whig landlords ; whiieth * omission of ballot and of triennial parliaments ^ is pMcularly cUshked . Many Reformers nopje that Lord John will fail 0 ven at the second reading ; and it is quite certain that formidable amendments await him in

    committee ; some of ; which are likely to furnish occasion for hostile oeaKtiows . The Protectionists rljg ^« ei ^ 4 ^ y ^ :. sufficient pahia ' W ' oswaa ^ of the bl . franchise andthe Assessed-tax franchise ; which will possibly make important additions to the constituency ; but the paltry spirit of the bill is enough to justify the dislike and contempt which it has excited . " Indignation meetings " have already been held by Reformers , and are likely to be followed up ; and the proceedings abundantly testify the prevalent feeling .

    The bill for the disfranchisement of St . Alban ' s gave rise to two incidents highly characteristic . Mr . Jacob Bell stood forth , with " nervous ndiveti" and confessed his mistake in going down to St . Albau ' s at all . He spoke with excellent good feeling , as a man at once anxious to be honest , and not to make others the Sacrifices to his own virtue ; but the House seemed to think him only laughable ! The other incident was the dragging out of Mr . James Coppock ' s name . It

    will be remembered that Bfr . Coppock was the agent who procured Mr . fielFs return , and that he had raised , in the mind of aloc « I agent , an expectation of obtaining a Government situation . Ministers now disavowed all knowledge of Mr . Coppock , of promised situations , or any other implication ; although Mr . Hayter had perused Mr . Bell ' s address to the electors in Mr . Coppock * s company !

    Lord Claude Hamilton accused Mr . Roebuck of belonging to the same club as Mr . Coppock j on which Mr . Roebuck threatened to call Mr . Coppock to the bar of the House ! And he may still make good his threat at ft later stage . Ministers came off with a majority of 92 , on Lord Naas ' s vote of censure respecting Lord Clarendon ' s entanglement in , the Dublin World affair ; but the discussion was damaging .

    What the working classes suffer by not being represented in Parliament we might have named , if it had only been from two incidents of the week—the debate on the Cuffe-street Savings Bonk in Dublin , and that on Mr . Slaney ' fl motion

    for a commission to suggest improvements in the law ofrpartnershipi The savings banks have always been regarded as under Government controL and guarantee ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer has used the funds when he was short of cash ; and Mr . Tidd Pratt is appointed to advise the depositors in savings banks , founders of benefit societies , See . The Cuffe-street Savings Bank fails , and Ministers repudiate all responsibility ! They now say that the question has been settled

    bj previous debates ; but they would hear yet ~ KUMJ £ > of it if depositors in savings banks Were more cB » e £ tiy represented . They also disavow Mr . Tidd Pratt . Mr . Slaney ' s debate drew forth an excellent speech from Mr . Cobden , who admitted the right of the working classes to form industrial associations ; but the mover was obliged to put up with the assurance that Ministers would appoint a committee to revise the law of partnership —a new delay in a measure of the simplest

    negative justice ! Those who oppose Mr . Slaney ' s proposition speak as if some positive concession were to be made to the working classes , and they deprecate interference or official sanction for the hazardous experiments of cooperation ; forgetting that the difficulty lies in the obstructive interference which the law already interposes . If free traders would only carry out their doctrine to the full , they would remove many of these obstructions ; but the working classes are unrepresented , and their interests are postponed .

    The deputation that waited on Lord John Russell on Monday , respecting the very imperfect state of the sewage of the metropolis , discloses , for the hundredth time , the want of a local Council for the management of metropolitan affairs . We cannot have efficient sewers , wholesome bur ials , pure water , because there are a myriad of militating jurisdictions . Surely London , with its enormous wealth and v ast population , requires local representative government . Lord John will earnestly consider , and—do nothing .

    To the eye that can pierce across the troubled present into a serener future , France , degraded as she seems , may be even hopeful of aspect . For is not that gigantic idol of Bonapartism crumbling into dust?—falling to pieces from very hollowness ? One grows sick of pursuing , the rank imposture , and the reckless effrontery of the desperate men who have gagged poor Franco / and are slowly robbing her of money anc ? life . Read the Moniteur , and you will say , as one of the English , gue . ata at the Elyse ' e , that Louis Bonaparte is the typo of

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    VOL . Ill , No . 100 . 1 SATURDAX , FEBRUARY 21 , 1852 . [ Pric ^ Sixpence .

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    A . TlJ , uufreif— paob Murders 175 How tobethe Meet of 7 , 600 , 000 . 179 PORTFOLIONEW S OF THE W » K lea Fires ¦•¦• ••— Nadaud-theMason Member of Par- MagneticEvenings at Home 183 SS ^ S ^ . : :::::::::::::::::. ™ M ^ iiane ^ " ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. ^ a ^ nt .. ..... 179 Eeco ^* ™ ......... 184 Continental Notes ; . 171 Health of Itfndon during the Week 176 _ VoiiMClL— THE ARTSKu ^ Blanc arid Maazini ... . .......... 171 Birth * , Marriages , and Deaths 176 OPEN COUN ^ CIL Woman ' s Heart 185 jjouu > . i « 173 Scheme of Settlement of the . NewB- T « V « nrh Plavs 185 SSSS :::::::::::::::::::::::: iS pubuc affairs- paPer stamp Que ^ n m ^ Hs ..::::::: ; :::::::::: z : z :: 2 Capture of Lagos . .. 174 Extension of the Whig Franchise ... 177 uTEBATiiDt London Wednesdaj- Concerts .... 185 Petticoat Protests 174 The Gold Panic in Australia .... 177 LITEKATUKt Notes and Extracts 18 « £ eland . ; ............ 174 The Militia Apology . 178 DisraeU ' sBentinck ...... 180 , r % AMMC _^ , ., -- „«*_ - £ ^ adies Ouad ..................... 174 Where Ignorance is Strength , 'tis Comic History of Bome ...... 181 COMMERCIAL AFFAWS--Sl ^ hCaiaV ^ op he ....:............ 174 FoUy to be Wise ... ... _ ' 178 Manual of Geographic ^ Science ...... 182 Markets , Gazettes , Adrerfaseinent ^ CenfcralCo-operative Agency ,........ 176 . Grey ' s Qne Error ........ . 179 Bookaon our Table ............... ¦• 1 » 2 &o 186-188

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    » The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the J Jea of Hmaa ^ Lfe ^ e noble' endearo ^ to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distancttonaot « engion ^ Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object ^ the free development of our spiritual nature . " - ^ -J 3 tum 6 otdt ' $ Cosmo $ ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1923/page/1/