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Leader (1850-1860), 24th April 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 396, Untitled Article

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      T ^ ses on Knowledge , tkerefbrp , the booksellers and publishers would have to come to an understanding with the members of the writing pror fession as to the best means of arraiiging that matter of copyright . We believe that the change would be of immense advantage to all concerned -r-to authors , publishers , booksellers , and the readme miblie ! not excepting , also , the newspaper

      advertising interests ; and we believe that such a series of changes is involved in the one which is immediately expected from the present agitation , the reduction in the retail bookseller ' s per centage . In $ ie meanwhile , the benefipial cKanges will be brought about more smoothly and more expeditiously if those who have the operatipn in charge foresee the successive steps of the whole reform .

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      SCHWARZENBERG'S TESTAMENT . Prince Schwaezenbeeg was the keystone of the new Holy Alliance in Europe . His was the strong brain and the ^ compromising will , clear in purpose , compact in policy , thorough in execution . The task to winch he addressed himself with all that energy , vehemence , and audacity of character and temperanient , which in his earlier youtt had been wasted in excesses , was gigantic as the disorder and dismay of the crumbling

      Empire . His chief task was to re-establish and to re-consolidate Austria . But to re-establish and to re-consolidate Austrianism in Europe was the abstract " mission , " of which the renovation of the house of Hapsburg _ was but a concrete and tangible expression . TTrue , Schwarzenberg was pre ^ eroinentiy Austrian in the national sense ; and to aggrandize Austria , Prussia was to be humbled , and the Czar invoked . Schwarzenberg never forgave the vaulting mysticism and the revolutiojQaiy antics of the former in ' 48 : and he secretly

      resented the overwhelming arbitration of the latter , when the danger was qverpast , and Hungary trodden underfoot by the Cossack . But he never allowed his jealousies or resentments to divert him from the supreme resolve of annihilating the Revolution in all its developments , in its very spirit and essence . JSTot content with exterminating the men of the Democracy , he pursued the idea with unrelenting rancour . He effaced every vestige of constitutional figments , and swept out every trace of parliamentarv institutions . When death struck him

      from the pride of power , he had restored the Metternicnian system , but in a more complete , more severe , more absolute shape of unmixed , unchecked , untempered despotism . No bigot of the right divine , or of hereditary legitimacy , monarchy was for him neither a romance nor a religion : but Order , by the grace of bayonets , and the extinction of democracy by Courts" Martial , and the organization of society by bullets and bastinadoes—these were his sovereign and summary remedies for the peoples in insurrection , and the nationalities in arms .

      We have no space here to do more than resume , in a few words , the history of Schwarzenberg's policy from November , 1848 , till the day of his death . Wo are not surprised , then , to find that one of the last stato papers he over drew up was in earnest approval of the coup d'etat m France , and of the congenial vigour of the French dictator's acts . Louis Bonaparte

      had crushed the revolution : he had extinguished 1852 ; he had abolished oven the forms of palavering liberties ; ho liad played the game of reaction with the ; high , hand of success : ho liad won his spurs in the army of despotism ; ho deserved to bo honoured , caressed , and encouraged , by the thrones which ho had served and saved ; though his power reposed nominally on the popular will , and threatened the ominous

      phenomenon of an elective empire . It is clear that Seliwarzonbcrg liad the penetration to perceive that despotism itsolf could only be reconstituted on a quasi-revolutionary basis ; that ifc was idle to dream of impossible restorations , when the very principlo of authority was at stake . He promisod tho support of Austria to ono who had rendered inestimable service to tho genoral interests of tho conservative syetern , and ho urgently recommended tho other % W SI' ^ Waa afPowprfl to waivo tho treaties in his favpur , F * V J ^ ^\ J yty $ fcfy-oy had so often brokon in their own . / ^ j £ _ 3 * C- '' v ^™^! \ far S ohwarzenberg . But llussia and I'st + ' . y- ^ L . . ' ' ^ ' ^ KP ^ iyV 6 reported to have replied with a cerpV& } $ L ' l %$ /™ jto , daftness to that recommendation , and without V' \ > C *> r » V " ' ^ iMwSISw y prejudice against Louis Bonaparte ,

      to have shrunk from countenancing his imperial designs . This is either seeing too far , or not far enough : for , undoubtedly , Ijouis Bonaparte belongs to tHe camp of the Counter-Rev oiution hitherto , to whatever courses he naay be hereafter driven by his giddy star . Schwarzenberg , wise in his generation , counselled union against Democracy . The Monarchies are for union , too , but possibly against Louis Napoleon himself , at some future date .

      Ah ! if the nations would only better the instruction of their enslavers , and learn union ; how speedy and how certain would be that deliverance , which is now but a distant hope , when it is not a despair .

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      ASTONISHING CONCESSION TO THE JEWS . " Thank God , " exclaims the fashionably religious Morning Post , " we have , and for the present at least shall have , a Christian Parliament . " Thus the Pharisaical Post rejoiceth in the judicial decision that Mr . Salomons has made an unlawful adjuration in pmitr ting the contested phrase , " on the true faith of a Christian / ' when upon his path at the bar of the Commons . Yet if the moral doctrines of Christianity insist upon good-will to . men , brotherly kindness , toleration , and equality of rights , we do not see that Parliament would be less essentially Christian , if our Hebrew fellow-citizen should also be admitted to a seat

      there . If all raen are equal in the sight of God , it is at least conceivable that they should be equal in sight of Mr . Speaker . When a certain Roman Catholic dignitary was reminded , that the tortures of the Inquisition were not exactly consistent with the divine injunction to " love your enemies / ' he replied , " True , - WB _ are commanded to love our enemies , but we may do as we please with God ' s enemies * " Verily the Post , notwithstanding its very discreet detestation of Roman Catholicism , has condescended tq borrow somewhat of the facile logic of Escobar , when in the cause of bigotry it invokes the name of that Being , of whom it has been grandly said , "he sendeth his sun to shine ( equally ) upon the just and the unjust . " But the Morning Post has its own notions of liberality , and we will not conceal them in extenuation . It has its own magnificent concessions . It tells us that " the liberty of a man to be a Jew is not restrained , but to act as a Jew in things which concern Christians is , and must be , restrained and prevented . To act otherwise would be to deliver Christianity to the will of its enemies , for who so great an enemy to Christianity as he who denies the existence of Cheist ?"

      Magnanimous Post ! . A Jew may be a Jew because the Post cannot help it—cannot uncircumcise him . A Jew may be a Jew , if he will not say so . He may possess an otiose , but not an active faith . He may hold convictions , but he may not carry them out . The light by which he walks—the light vouchsafed him , as he believes , by tho God of his fathers , he may enjoy in barren impotence , but it shall have no political recognition—and the deep , inextinguishable faith of his race , no civil representation . Wonderful liberality of concession ! The Post deplores that the Jews should persist in obstinately denying the existence of Christ ; how can they bo well disposed towards an historical fact whoso influence is made so malevolent to

      them ? Tho Post would not deliver Christianity to the will of its " enemies /* then why so blindly and doggedly insist on an exclusion which raises up against Christianity enemies , both among Jews and Gentiles P Ion .

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      THE BINNKK-BM-L OP DOOM . " Since tho days of Burko , " says Sir James Weir Hogg , " India has boon , tho dinner-bell of tho House . " Tho debate of Monday ovoningj involved tho interests of 150 , 000 , 000 of British subjects , not to say tho interests of the whole empire ; and yet " thoro woro moments when thoro worehardly Members enough to naako a Il ' oueo . " Such is tho caro that Mombors have of tho largost interests ! It is only ono of tho many traits which attest tho . incapacity of our governing classes to govern . If men cannot stay from dinner to discuss tho empire of 160 , 000 , 000 , they aro not fib for that ompiro—and they i $ ill lose it .

      It is tlio same with , colonial intorosta : Australia is torn , with fiocial anarchy consequent ; on tho sudden discovery of gold . Tho sudden concentration of industry on that ono tempting bait has caused a collapse jn all tho ofchor and higher bronchos of industry } yet tho Imperial Government j [ ooa—nothing ! It is tho 'name with Ireland—torn -with © economical difficulties and sectarian feuds . It is tho same with England , and the groat Labour question—who core * about it P Tho noceseary consequences are likely enough

      to follow : governing plasse ^ l-I > F ^ p ^ - ^ th \ i ^ ipF fii ^ , i ^ will lose tjiat to which , they are md ^ erenfr ^ fo ^ ^ Colonies , Ireland , JSnaland !

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      LOCALIZATION OF CHtTRCH PROPERTY , ( 2 b the Editor of the Leader ^) Sib , —Tour correspondent , ^ Catholic , " deserves credit for novelty of idea , at any rate , in hi $ proposal ( in effect ) to confiscate Church property ; for ho does not appear to make any exceptions ' whatever , either as regards that portion of Church property which is decidedly national , or with respect tp thaf ; very large amount which has been raisejl entirely by voluntary means , of late years , and whicfr no one can say belongs to the nation , but entirely to the Church as a sect . A should like to know how he would deal with this difficulty . But , sir , to my mind , there is even a greater problem to be solved . Where is that parish throughout p » o United Kingdom that could or would agree in electing a pastor to teach themP Unanimity is put of tho question , in the present state of society at least , when everybody seems to agree tp differ . Would it not , then , bo felt a grievous hardship by the minority to be compelled by what they would consider a tyrannical majority , to put up with whoever they ( tho majority ; thought fit .

      Your correspondent invited disouseion , and I have thrown those obsorvations . together , rather to induce him to enter more fully into detail than to make an attack on his plan . In tho first part of his letter I cordially concur ; and I believe that any one deserves well ot his country who endeavours by those means in his power to osBiut at a . solution of what has hithorto proved so difficult a question . <* . J . I

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      CHOLEBA . COMING JLGhlllT . The shepherds who paid no attention , when the idle boy cried " Wolf ' . " because- he had deceived , them several times , were almost as foolish as he was ; sincethey suffered the impatience for an idle trick to hardeb thena against providing for a danger which was probable enough : but how much , more absurd would they ^ have been if the wolf had really come before , several tiines , and had not only eaten the naughty boy ' s sheep , but their own , or them , selves ? Yet , stupid as those shepherds would have been , they only typify our worthy Minister the last attack of cholera ; the pest that has now broken put again in Persia , and will probably make the grand tour as before .

      It frightened us very much , and we appointed a Board of Health to lock the empty stable . We resolved to set our house in order- ^ -to drain our towns , to get us a good supply of water , to discontinue the practice of burying . our dead , under © ur noses . But in effect the Board of Health was only appointed to be bullied by its official superiors it has been -the substitute for the bear or badger in the bear-garden of the Treasury . Tp resist the next attack of cholera it has been permitted to prepare—Croydon . The practice of burying our dead in towns has been prohibited , and- ^ -continued . Thesupply of water for the metropolis has been , systematically referred to—" next session ; " probably the session after the cholera J

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      There is no learned man but will confess he hath much , profited by reading controversies , Jiis senses awakenea , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , at be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , bd tolerable for hia adversary to ¦ write . — Miitoit ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1932/page/16/