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After all the implied promises of the Ministry and in spite of additional reasons for assembling the National Council , Parliament , it now appears , is not to meet in October next ! It will be remembered that Lord Derby stands pledged to call Parliament together , and to take its opinion on his policy , before the close of the year ; which allows - him two month * after October . He has
not yet , therefore , broken his specific pledge ; and the assertion that the public is " indignant" at the delay , rather caricatures the apathetic countenance of the said public , just at present . Nevertheless , there was an expectation , on very sufficient grounds , that the meeting of Parliament would not be delayed after October ; and the procrastination will be regarded as another instance of the shuffling already laid at the door of the Derby Cabinet . *
The Ministerial papers report that the question of the American fisheries is settled ; but the public feels some doubt as to the fact , still more as to the conditions of the settlement , and cannot be at all satisfied while the national representatives are kept at a distance , and debarred from exacting explanations . The
documents have been produced piecemeal , and in a very scattered manner , and the final arrangement has not yet been promulgated . Undoubtedly , there is a feeling of" relief at understanding that an obstinate dispute with the American republic has been avoided ; but there ia some desire to know that our Government has not avoided a
dispute at the expense of a humiliating attitude . Another subject which is but beginning to attract notice , is the news from Burmah . Annexation is " looming in the future . " The officers who supply the papers with intelligence from that quarter , represent the natives as importuning the invading army for protection : wliile the Burmese u ° vernment maintains an obstinate combat with
the English , retaliating upon the English province of Assam . The interpretation of past history in India renders this prophecy of annexation very probable , and not the less so , because the instruments for its accomplishment are the prophets now pointing to it . Another distant dependency is creating some [ Town Edition . ]
disturbance , both in our political and social relations . While Van Diemen ' s Land is declaring that it will stop the supplies for the maintenance of the official establishments of the colony , unless the British Government will fulfil its pledge to stop the emigration of convicts : —while New South Wales is making a similar declaration prospectively , unless control over its own funds be conceded to it , the bait of the gold fields is aiding the permanent American demand for our working
classes , to drain the labour market in town and country . We have already mentioned instances of this fact , and the present week supplies some further examples . While Mr . Wyndham Harding ' s ship , at Southampton , is carrying off a body of emigrants on Mrs . Chisholm ' s plan of grouping —while the parish of St . Martin ' s-in-the-fields is resuming its successful movement in favour of parish emigration—the drain upon the labour market has bee n so severe in some parts that , in
Scotland , for example , colliers have been engaged in reaping ; and in Sussex , private soldiers of the Foot-guards have turned their swords into sickle * . Meek professors of Orange bigotry with drawn sword and loaded pistol find themselves ignominiously disarmed and lodged in gaol by the police . This is instructive , and shows that the Stockport riots are not catching . But where is the neophyte Mr . Forbes Mackenzie , M . P . ; why was not he there on the glorious 12 th of August ? In the
metropolis there are different doings . The Reverend Mr . Oakeley invokes the protection of Mr . Walpole against the parodies of the Roman Catholic religion , performed by an itinerant lecturer named TModor ; the person who operates with Chylinski mentioned last week . Mr . Walpole can do riothing for him unless a breach of the peace should follow the disgraceful proceedings . Everybody is remarking that it would have been far different had the ceremonies of the Church of England been indecently mocked by an unbeliever . Meanwhile Roman Catholicism issues from Oscott College , a portentous document , beginning , " " We the Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster , in Provincial Synod assembled ;" but the paper merely consists of an essay on education . The poor must be educated , say these gentlemen ; but the education must bo " up to the mark of modern demands , and yet it must bo solid in faith and in piety . " In fact Roman
Catholic secular knowledge must be imparted : but so efficiently that ^ o pretence may be " tenable for sending Roman Catholic children elsewhere . " Not only the poor but the middle and upper classes , must be taught apart from the mass of the people . Certain decrees and canons the document informs us have been agreed to j but until Rome has sanctioned them , they cannot be
published . The closing paragraphs , with obvious allusions to Stockport and Sbt-mile-bridge , recommend peaceful behaviour and absolute reliance on the laws of the land , even under the severest provocation . It is a pity the letter was not less diffusely written . It is signed by three unknown English names—Secretaries of the Synod . If it be intended as a text of the comprehensiveness of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act , why did not the archbishops and bishops affix their own
names ? The Paris Fete of the Fifteenth of August was a failure . A driving wind shivered the decorations , a pelting rain deluged the fireworks . As for the general illumination , it was chiefly remarkable for being not general , but notoriously special and official ; the citizens making their windows conspicuous for darkness . The demeanour of the National Guard , purged by prison , exile , and exclusion , of its hostile elements , was rather reserved
than respectful ; certainly not sympathetic to the Saviour of the existing order . The populace , blast &nd indifferent , gaped and gazed , and lounged about , and then went home sick to death of pasteboard mountains and gingerbread Napoleons , and lampions as destitute of light as France of liberty . Trade rejoices at the influx of strangers , and forgets the cost of the attractions ; and so France prostrate , apathetic , indifferent , befooled , is content to drift to dissolution , a gaudy slave , a spectacle to gods and men .
While the Archaeological Association , under Presidency of the Duke of Newcastle , is surveying the Midland Counties to revive the perception of their ancient aspects , —while fine and penalty are striving to check the overcrowding of steam vessels on the river , —our railway system is struggling out of anarchicirf hostility * fatal to shareholders , and disastrous to the public , towards u totally new principle of government—a general " amalgamation . " It i « true that the Great Western Railway Company has , for tho moment , declined the
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VOL . III . No . 126 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 21 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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« * the one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself mto greater distxnetness is . thes Idea f . H ^ f te ^ e ^ oble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths ^ tmctions ° * ^ W £ f Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object > -the free development or our spiritual nature . "—Sumboldt ' s Cosmoi .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1948/page/1/
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