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/~ i OVERNMENT has aimed a blow at Kossuth , vX \* ith the intention of lending the power of England to defeat the Hungarian patriots ; but the blow appears to be a miss . The first intimation of the fact appeared in the columns of the Times , where it was stated in a manner that showed how much that journal had been misled . It was said that a seizure of arms , ammunition , &c , bad been made , as if it had been at the house of Kossuth ; but there has been no seizure of arms ; the house ransacked by the police is not KossutVs ; and , indeed , the whole story of the Leading Journal is
a mystification . The next scene of the drama is in the House of Commons , where Sir Joshua Walmsley , Mr . Thomas Duncombe , Mr . Bright , and Lord Dudley Stuart , put questions to Lord Palmerston , and were mot with answers studiously framed for evading the questions , to make it appear that something like the tale sent to the Times had really happened , and to conceal the fact , that Ministers were committed to a course as illegal as it is tyrannical . Under the proper head amongst our own news articles , the reader will find the true state of the ease so far as it is vet known . It
appears that some information had been given to Government ; that police have broken into the warehouse of Mr . William Hale , a civil engineer , at Rotherliithe ; that they found not " arms" but rockets ; and that the store of those rockets had been known to Government before Kossuth ' s arrival in this country . To use the popular expression , Government has " found a mare ' s nest , "
and has exposed nothing , if not its own wish to play the part of spy and policeman to Austria . This has really been the important subject in Parliament ; and if the sequel should resemble the facts disclosed already , the British House of Commons may be called upon to decide whether the deep disgrace shall lie upon itself , by its own sufferance , or be cast upon a baffled Government ?
Before this affair , enjoying a kind of lull ufter the effort of attending to Mr . Gladstone ' s explanation of his financial measures , Parliament had been principally engaged about small contests , in which the Tories or " independent Members" have beeu taking the most active part . The Clergy Heserves Bill passed its third reading on Tuesday , with a decisive majority of 2 B 8 to 208 . The Opposition took its revenge in beating Ministers on the Bubject of Kilmainham , the Chelsea Hospital of Ireland , discontinued by Mr . Fox Maule when he was Secretary-at-War . Mr . Isaac Butt now
discovers that grievance , and moved a resolution to restore Kilmainham to its former footing ; a proposition which Ministers faintly opposed , and suffered to be carried against them by 195 to 138 . Another fight was taken by the Opposition against Mr . Milner Gibson ' s County Boroughs Bill ; Sir John Pakington still taking the lead , and proposing an amendment merely to add a few elective Members to the great unpaid , which would give to our counties a constitution like that opprobrium of British Government , Guiana ; but he was beaten . He only succeeded in delaying Mr . Milner Gibson ' s Bill .
Another party-move to turn th ' e Master of the Rolls out of Parliament , by a Bill professedly excluding Judges from the elective House , was carried on the second reading . Amongst the opponents of the Judges was Sir Fitzroy Kelly , who described it as humiliating to the dignity of the Bench that a judge should go cap in hand before a " rabble . " What humbles the judge , it appears , does not humble the gentleman ! We presume that Sir Fitzroy will discontinue cringing to " rabble " when he shall be made a judge ?
The carrying of the Jew Bill last night , by a majority of 288 to 230 , was one of the most complete and decisive feats of the week in these party contests . Mr . William Williams made an effort to bring the gross produce of the Revenue , including the cost of collection , under the notice of Parliament ; but having extracted from Mr . Gladstone a statement thatMinisters intended to take steps towards that end , he declared himself satisiied , and withdrew the motion .
It will be seen that party has had a chequered fate in the debates of the week , and so it has in the Election Committees . Mr . Keogli makes good his qualification for Athlonc ; Sir Thomas Herbert is elected for Dartmouth , and so is Mr . Aglionby for Cockermouth ; but Mr . Arthur Mills is unseated for Taunton , Mr . Taylor for Tynemouth , und , Colonel Brucn no longer survives to sit for Carlovv . The Lords agree to the inquiry into the corrupt practices at Canterbury , and the Commons have been considering whether Clitheroe should not be the subject of an examination .
The Leicester petition has proved a ludicrous failure , and Sir Joshua Walmsley ' s sent is secure . Indeed , it never was otherwise . There was , after the last election , a practice on the Tory side of easting petitions agninst the opposite party by wholesale , to take what could be got ; and , in . some instances , to vamp up a means of bargaining one petition agaiurt another , in the dark room *
of the Carlton Club , or the enlightened precincts of Cleveland-row . In the particular instances of Leicester , the practice of lavish petitioning afforded some witnesses an opportunity of visiting London , " in the season , " at the expense of somebody . However , it is satisfactory to ascertain Sir Joshua ' s absolute safety just as he makes his value felt , by being one of the independent members to speak up for constitutional freedom now that it is menaced by the . "English" Minister in the person of Mr . Hale .
The Court of Aldermen have declared for a reform of themselves ; everybody having settled the question for them—the public , the Common Council , and even her Majesty ' s Ministers ; for Lord John announced a measure on Friday . The Aldermen have at last made up their minds to undertake the duty , but they are going to do it after their own fashion . They will not consult the Common Council ; they scout the public ; they decline to confer with Ministers ; like the Knights of St . John , they will fight for their hospitals to the last ; but , like the Knights , they will be defeated—the chivalrous Sir Peter Laurie
to be the Eynaud of his order , the last of its masters bravely defending the citadel . Lord Ingestrc , who is taking great pains to employ his station and opportunities beneficially for his fellow-countrymen of the working class , has procured a meeting and a public dinner to encourage the formation of model lodging-houses in the West-end . The Duke of Cambridge occupied the chair at the meeting , the Duke of Argyle at the dinner , and the mouth of the purse wjis opened freely . The Times , which does
not like Lord Ingestre , satirizes charity dinners ; and undoubtedly it is a slur upon English people that they cannot pay the tribute which they think due to misfortune or to patriotism—that they cannot find dwellings for the poor or aid for the Pole—without a ball or a feast . Nevertheless , so long as the more selfish ot
the aristocracy are content to eat and dance without a sacrificial libation of part of their luxury to parent Earth , mother and nourisher of their race , some comparative respect at least is due to those who do not forget their fellow creatures in their pleasures , or who make their pleasures subservient to good objects . Of Lord Ingestre , at least , it may be said , that he did not wait to dine before lie
tried to do his duty . But , after all , the true social revolution from which the working classes will benefit moBt immediately is the rise of wages , which is constant and very general , if not universal . We have particu-
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VOL . IV . No . 160 . 1 SATUEDAY , APEIL 16 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— Happier Homes for the Poor 3 G 9 What will Englishmen do with their LITERATURE paob Mr . Feargus O'Connor 369 Money ? 372 Horace " —• . ZL * The Week in Parliament 362 Opinions of the London Union on Intelligence vertut Education 372 Boner ' s Chamois Hunting 37 » The Timet , Lord Palmerston , and \ Church Matters 370 Diplomacy a Profession 373 ARTSM . Kowuth 365 " Two Richards in the Field" 370 Marriage Law iNon-Beform 373 " ggj ^ letters from Paris 366 Parental Depravity 370 K h Cllrates and starving Bishops 374 Jh ^ DesneSe Gtara S 8 L Continental Notes 367 Miscellaneous 370 „• on * Tnn « Mr 375 Ihe IJesperate ttame ~» Indian Judges 367 Health of London during the Week 371 Law and Lunacy . _ ..........-.... * 75 The Opera .. 381 Ti » Burmese War 368 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 371 "A Stranger '' m Parliament 375 The Quartett Association 382 Ame rican Coup D'Etat 368 p R _ Tendencies of the Kew Fmancal COMMERCIAL AFFA . RS' C ^ foTLrlltorpo ^ on Ee : "" Eng ^ h Sers Austrian Accom- . ^« &Z ^" *^ ** ££ ???• " ^ ^ 2-384 form 368 plices 371 ment .- '
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. ¦ " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of H ^ anity—the noble ende ^ our to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths demotions or »« W <« i . Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ot our spiritual nature . "—Humboldft Cosmos . . .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1982/page/1/
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