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      AFTE R Lord Derby had rendered Government ridiculous , and the severance of the Liberal majority into many minorities seemed to have rendered a respectable Government impossible , Lord Aberdeen has succeeded in forming the most respectable Administration which has been seen in our day . The several members of the Administration have co-operated with a general sacrifice of self or individual peculiarities of view ; and the very allocation of offices shows the extent to which

      this honourable feeling has gone . Lord John Russell in a Secretaryship , Lord Palmerston in the Home Office , Mr . Gladstone in the Exchequer , do but exemplify a good feeling , which has been imitated in the subordinate ranks ; and thus we have in one Cabinet the strength of the Peel and Russell Administrations , reinforced by independent men such as Molesworth , Argyll , Monsell , and Charles Villiers . If Mr . Disraeli had a hard

      struggle to contend almost single-handed with a host in Opposition , now that he is in Opposition and the adversary is concentrated in office , he will find it a still harder contest , unless he should receive help from some unlucky Liberals of the disappointed sect . The time , however , is by no means propitious for party fighting . A contemporary , who seems well inclined to war upon the Ministry , is rash enough to assert that the present juncture resembles that of 1830 ; but assuredly the two periods can only be brought together for contrast ,

      not resemblance , both at home and abroad . In 1830 , Catholic emancipation was recent ; Reform was pursued with the spirit of the chase gaining upon its quarry ; the Tories , smarting from recent defeat on the ground of religious liberty , still held out stubbornly on that of political liberty ; " the Duke" was proposing to defend London by arms ; the Liberal aristocrats were not disclaiming offers of a populace marching from Birmingham ; and the populace was ready . Abroad , constitutional Government had succeeded . to arbitrary Government in France and Belgium , mid Europe wan at

      peace . Now all is reversed . Political action , as wt understood it in 18 U 0-32 , is dead . Chartism hucceeded to Reform , mustered its millions , made tlui fatal mistake of April 10 , 1818 , and is now slumbering—ita members all dissolved . Reform ia mi [ Town Edition . ]

      old tale , and excites no passions—the next instalment expected from the quondam " Tory , " Aberdeen . Religious liberty has advanced to an approximation to religious equality ; and the chief embarrassment has arisen from an excess of licence in the Roman Catholic staff . The Whig party ,-dominant under Earl Grey , has succumbed to Peel , and has expired of old age and inanition ; merging itself , under Aberdeen , in a national party . Freetrade has commenced , pursued , and consummated its own agitation ; and Protection , dominant in ' 28 , protected by Melbourne , is ranked with the fallacies of the past . France has displaced constitutional government , and , with the usual Republican preface , has returned to the Empire and absolute power , half-dragging Belgium after her . The treaties of 1815 , torn to tatters , are awaiting a revision at the hands either of Revolution or consolidated Absolutism ; and everything European is in question . The Duke is dead , and England is strengthening her defences—making all tight and snug in preparation for a squall . Socially the condition of the country has undergone the most sweeping changes since lti ' . iO ~ 32 . Freedom has become a habit , though enervated by the habits also of long peace . The great manufacturing interest , at its zenith during the ten years ending 18 . 'J . ° , has undergone the desperate depression of 1842 ; and commerce recovers to the wide and immense prosperity of 1852-53 . Ireland has undergone an O'ConnclI , a famine , an Encumbered Estates Act , a depopulating emigration , and a Tory Government pro- [ moting free education ; and is recovering to a I dawn of real happiness , after her seven centuries I of wrong and her twenty years of retaliation . Steam navigation has spanned the ocean ; vessels j of size and power undreamed arc on the stocks ; California and Australia arc yielding gold for a commerce unwitnessed in history . How much of all this has happened in the past year , we need not say . But in this year of political tranquillity , of commercial prosperity , of social hopefulness , of action suspended after and before the struggles of a continent — of interregnum between opinion obsolete and opinions unformed — of immense influences and powers collecting their strength for purposes not yet defined , what resemblance is there to 1830 ? Then it was the party of peopletriumphant over a decaying though still dominant fuction : now , the popular convictions have reached even the heirs of that faction—save im uncoil-

      ' verted remnant just sent to the limbo of Opposition ; and there is a prospect that the nation may be summoned to unite against common dangers . The addresses which the Ministers in the House of Commons have severally put forth to their constituents show the general accord prevailing amongst them ; and it does not appear that any opposition is prepared to obstruct their return . Often as Lord John Russell ' s seat has been threatened in London , all is now approval . Even in Oxford , where a stronger agitation than ever had been got up against Mr . Gladstone , Conservative councils have prevailed against the rash proposal to re-open a question so recently settled—and against the bringing clergymen up to vote from the Christmas duties . Save the elections , political affairs are dead . The Friends of Italy have held their second soiree , and are pushing a knowledge of Italian questions among the people ; while Italy herself is suffering the continued progress of the reaction . The Sardinian Government has given way before the priest party , and has withdrawn the Civil Marriage Bill ; the conduct of the Pope and his adherents being marked by the obstinate refusal to make the smallest concession . The Emperor of Austria is back to his capital ^ and Russia has transmitted to Berlin the form in " which she will recognise Louis Napoleon as Emperor of the French . lie meanwhile has obtained the most urgent recognition—that of his Senate , which has passed the Senatus-Consultum , sanctioning all the absolute powers which he asks . And he is trying those newly invented cannon with which , possibly , he may vindicate the legitimacy of his descent , and extort a tardy recognition , from disdainful " right divine . " But the New Year dawns stormy and foreboding on that fatal palace of the Tuileries . Conspiracy is in the air , in the street , iu the saloon : friends are few , foes many , fears incessant : and in the ' heart of that city of enthusiasm , the Emperor " by the will of the Nation , " finds no safety "but in serried bayonets , bristling barracks , and deathconeentrating forts : no safety but in armH at home , and no escape ( it ; may be ) but iu war abroad . Eighteen hundred and fifty-two was to huve been the general overthrow , lnul not the Saviour of Society bound France hand and foot . What ; shall T \ i be , with that Saviour of Society growing restless in his purple , us the star of hi * unfulfilled tlcutiny wanes ' {

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      YOL . IV . No . 145 . 1 SATURDAY , JANUARY 1 , 1853 . [ Pkice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— The Great Gale 8 Sir William Molesworth for South- LITERATUREPAGB Trade , Gold , and Corn 8 wark 11 Life of Thomas Moore 15 SIwr ii- , Letters from Paris 5 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 10 chanies'Institute 14 Fairyland at the Lyceum 21 Continental Notes 6 Art thou an Ambassador or but a ™ ° 2 ^ / , ' 5 2 » f £ aE 3 ^ =: 7 POSTSCR , PT .. 10 Wandering Voice P 14 % . % S £ fi ^ Z :==: S Extract from a Private Letter from onmu- accflioc— OPEN COUNCIL— A Week of Boxing Nights 21 the West Coast of Mexico 7 PUBLIC AFFAIRS The " Melbourne" 15 The Kirwan Case 7 The New Ministry , its Programme , The True Test ot a Man ' s Belief 15 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSFires in California 8 and its Men 11 Slavery 15 Markets , Advertisements , &c 22-24

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Hnmboldt'a Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1967/page/1/