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VOL . VI . No . 298 . ] SATURDAY , DECEMBER 8 , 1855 . Price { g ^ ST ^^ MHSSS ^'
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THE King of Sardinia has been the conspicuous object occupying the public sighi throughout the first half of the week . There is nc class so addicted to sight-seeing as the princelj class , and he has done as much work as the five days would permit . Royal visitors usually make £ dash at the military sights , andjKing Victoh Emmanuel is too good an officer to neglect thai part of his business . But most assiduous has he been in the receipt of addresses . Englishmen seized him , not to make him tell them what Sardinia is doing , but to tell him what England is doing ; as if the contemplation of his merits—civil , military , and ecclesiastical—called forth an overweening consciousness of our own merits , and compelled us to chatter corporately . He had scarcely reached the metropolis ere the Young Men ' s Christian Association dashed at him with a preachment on the subject of civil and religious liberty ; the Young Men were followed up by the Three Denominations ; then " J . B . Cantuab , " and a number of pious persons representing * he religious societies , all told King Victor Emmanuel , how they admired him for giving national independence , constitutional freedom , and religious liberty to medmont ; but how much more they admired themselves for having secured these blessings beforehand . Nevertheless , the demonstrations have not been without a useful influence . If they have exhibited our conceit , they have pledged us more strongly to the principle of liberty , in regard to religious matters ; and they must have strengthened King Victor Emmanuhl in the belief that freedom of any kind is not conducive to civil war or to danger for the Government . Ho declared as much in a deep bass voice , that resounded through the Guildhall , when he sat receiving the City address ; and , although ho spoke in the language of Italy , which must havo been Greek to most of his audience , ' there was a frankness in his manner that deeply impressed them . They received , us an ausurance to be believed , the declaration which he made , that having unsheathed the sword , ho would
j not sheathe it again until the Allies should have I secured a peace enduring , because honourable . One of the most curious encounters on this soil of free and religious liberty was that between " Cardinal Wiseman and the King , whonF the Pope has placed under a kind of preliminary excommunication . The King attended divine service in the Sardinian chapel ; the chief dignitary of the Roman Church in London had to t perform duty ; and it lay with Cardinal Wiseman . either to waive that ceremony and his allegiance to , the Pope , or to take the post due to him , and I accommodate himself as gracefully a 3 be could to the position . He took the latter course : he wel-, corned the King to the chapel which the Sardinian Government maintains in England , but said . not a word of the excommunication , of the Con-[ cordat with Austria , or of those P apal hostilities [ which have threatened , and may yet again threaten , the power and the life of Victou Emmanuel .. It is not that Cardinal Wiseman remains passive on the subject of the Concordat . On the contrary , he is endeavouring to stifle public opinion in this country under a feather-bed of explanation . He began a series of elucidatory addresses in a Roman Catholic chapel on Sunday last ; and he has so much to say , that during that whole evening he could only make a beginning . We get out of his description but two affirmations—first , that the clauses of the Concordat had been for two years under the profound consideration of the Emi'ijhok and his advisers , of thePoPB and his advisers , nnd that , therefore , it is not to be judged in a hurry by foreigners ; secondly , that it is written in a Latin which is " the peculiar language of ecclesiastical diplomacy , " and is , therefore , unintelligible to the vulgar . The accounts hitherto given of it , says the Caudinai ,, arc like " a romance—a laughable production ; " but he did not deign to give the slightest explanation to prove this assertion . It happens , unfortunately for the Cardinal's assurances , that recent events arc calculated only to discredit them . Wo have had the Bibleburning ense in Ireland lately , where a Russian servant of the Popr has been indicted for burning
the New Testament . Archbishop Cullen , exulting in the Concordat , makes a slanting allusion to the | burning of " wicked books" as a commendable ! act ; and the fire lighted by the Russian priest has roused a strong anti-Protestant feeling in Ireland . i We have lately noticed some encroachments in Bohemia and in Bologna : other encroachments have since been reported . In Lutheran Hungary , schools for Lutheran children have been suppressed because they have not been licensed by the State , the Concordat having stipulated that the State should consult the bishpps on the subject of schools . In Modcna the Government has decreed that henceforward civil marriage shall not be necessary , the ecclesiastical marriage sufficing . The trial of Father Pictciieiune for Bibleburning has taken place , and Justice Cramptox told the world , through the grand jury , that to burn the Bible is to destroy the very foundation of our law—our common find our statute law ; since Christianity is the basis of our common law , and the oath taken by public officers and witnesses is the guarantee for the administration of justice . This is to proclaim perjury the only punishable offence , and to hold out the doctrine that Jews , Quakers , Separatists , Deists , Secularists , and non-Jurors or non-Christians of any denomination , are beyond the pale of the law . I low Houseless thi account is everybody knows ; the common law rests upon the usage of the country j the statute jaw from the authority of Parliament . Oath itself may be administered in any form , or dispensed with altogether . SenselcsH an the ehanuo is , it will do harm in Ireland , by distracting public op inion on the subject of the law , and giving to tn 0 Government and the Judiciary thv u |>| M ! : imiic e 'brongft ^ into high relief by the jiiilj ^ tJeWHvfir qcl [ by . Ur , fl . L . JH . MNOWN , in tho OdWb ^ 0 <» HWbf « m nj * & £ ncsdny . Mr . WiC 8 Tioirro ^ 4 MRfr . JJaj ^ Wi fcj < # p / criiHiule of Beltfravia n Wm ^^ : ^^^^ i <} r candlesticks of St . Paul . Wrt \^* ^ 'l ^^ At u ^
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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 oy 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 . "—JiuwOulUi ' sCosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- pag e The War 1166 War Miscellanea 1168 Victor Emmanuel in England 1168 The Orient 1169 The Petition of Mr Bates 1169 A Gay Lady H 69 Our Civilisation 1170 The War and the Sanitary Movement 1171 Naval and Military News 1171 Continental Notes 1172 Obituary 1172
Miscellaneous 1172 OPEN COUNCILPOSTSCRIPT— What shall we Gain by the War ? .. 1178 ™ T r ^ * ¦ r » - * x . ,,, j India--The Subsidiary States .... H 78 The Czar's Desire for Peace ...... 1174 Alexander Herzen's " . Exile" .... H ? 8 The Eastern Counties Kailway Disclosures . 1174 LITERATUREPUBLIC AFFAIRS— Summary 1179 Six ; New Points 1175 Macaaulay ' s First and Second The * Court Circular" on Ifeligion 1175 Volumes H 80 Colonel Turr ' . 1176 Charaters in Little Dorrit 1182 Survey of the War 1177 Ilobt . BrowTiing ' s Men and Women The"Skelton in Every House" of ( Second Notice ) 1182 Business 1177 Pictures of Cuba 1183
THE ARTSMont Blanc 1184 The Theatres 1184 London Gazette 118- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &o HS . 'V
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2118/page/1/
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