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      '.' Ttxe One Idea Which History Exhibits...

      ' . ' _Ttxe one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea cf Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-3 ided views ; and by setting aside ths 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 . '—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      EWS OF THE WEEKThe Derby Government _TABB the and 742 United States General Pierce and the " Times " The Raising of the First Column the New Crystal Palace Letters from Paris 743 of 744 746 746 746 746 746 746 746 The Democratic Refugee Committee to their Fellow-Countrymen " Six Mile Bridge" The Stockport Riots Bribery Clerical Electioneering Irish Election Expenses Corruption in Army Appointments Excursion to the New Water Sources for the Supply of the Metropolis 747 I

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      Progress of Association Coffee and Chicory The Philosophy of RaQway dents Railway Accidents Release of Mr . Cobbett Impudent Intolerance Murder : Madmen at Large Scaffold Penitence Melancholy Child Murder .. The Emigration Swindle A Wife " by Commission" .. A Fire Fountain " Model" Lodging-houses ! ,. Miscellaneous _,... Health of London during the Births , Marriages , POSTSCRIPT 747 748 760 760 750 751 751 751 751 Week 7 . 62 and Deaths Aeci 748 749 7-M 749 749 752 753

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      PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe New American " Difficulty" ... Whiggism in the Main Sewer Our Favourite Tyrant for Home Consumption Army Purchase—Corrupt Practices The Movement in the Church The Palace of the People Louis Napoleon and the Three Northern Powers The Co-operative Movement On the Cultivation of Flax Mutual Toleration Advice Gratis Lines Suggested by Recent French Festivities OPEN COUNCILProtectionist He-adjustments 754 7 S 4 755 755 756 756 756 756 757 757 758 758 758 758

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      758 758 Pulpit Quackery .... The Von Beck Case Tne von uecm i ; ase _««~ LITERATUREA Student ' s Life 760 Books on Hungary 760 Books on our Tahle 761 PORTFOLIOComte _' s Positive Philosophy 761 THE ARTSAmid the Ferns A Word or Two about " Pietro II Grande " 762 Jullienand 763 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets _, Advertisements , 763-764 & c

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      Yol. Iii. No. 124.] Saturday, August 7, ...

      YOL . III . No . 124 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 7 , 1852 [ Price Sixpence

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      3prie Moat Startling Incident Of The Wee...

      3 _PriE moat startling incident of the week unquestionably is the announcement from the United States , that the British Government has ordered a fleet of armed steamers to the coast of British North America , for the purpose of resisting the encroachments of the Americans within the limits of the British fisheries ; and that the dispute had been placed in a highly practical form , by the seizure of the Coral , a fishing vessel belonging to the State of Maine , captured by a British steamer ,

      nd carried into the port of St . John ' s , New Brunswick . The Americans and the English differ as to the intended construction of the treaty of 1818 , defining the limits , but the Americans admit that the letter of the treaty is with Great Britain . The greatest excitement prevailed , not only in the fishing districts of Maine and Massachusetts , but also in New York and Washington . The leaders of different parties vie with each _nthor in _assumincr an " _^ _norn-phi" miunior unit _nthor m assuming an " energetic" mannerand

      _^ , there is no doubt that the incident might become an important element in the rivalry which precedes a presidential election . Although some intelligent writers admit the validity of the treaty , the general impression seems to be that the fishers of Massachusetts and Maine must be supported at all hazards . It is evident that the English are prepared for real action ; on the other hand , the Americans will not flinch ; and speculation is alread y rife as to the effect if Yankee blood be shed .

      . Lord Malmesbury ' _s friends , who boast that he w the man of the City , because be has settled the attnir of the Mexican bonds , think that he will be equally lm , () n thc bauka () f N ( : wfoumliam j J ut there is a difference between negotiating with _«>« rough sailors of Massachusetts , and doing so ? " _Mexi _«»» bond-holders , sickened with hope Uelerred . l

      Ihe Ministerial share in tbe matter is rendered ie more dubious , since the rumours of u " split _« "te Cabinet" gain f „ rCe ; Ulul it is novv mli ] « at , m about a week or so , some serious _disrup-« o _« is to astonish the world . What the split is _i " _,. " ot lcar » _J but' the manner of statin * h _JhST _?« 8 ° me of the oW-fcrtiioncd Tories _de"me to follow Mr . Disraeli in hi » new _meaaurea . LCounthy Edition . ]

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      The course of the latest political events indeed has not been _favourable to the old-fashioned Conservatives or Protectionists : the very last election , that in Orkney , was a bad augury for them , the Free-trade Liberal Dundas , beating the Derbyite Free-trader by 227 to 194 . While the investigation is proceeding into the cause of the Anti-Catholic riot at Stockport , with some doubtful evidence imputing excessive malignity on both sides , the enquiry into the affray

      at Six-mile Bridge , near Limerick , lends additional probability to the tale , that the soldiers were employed in the most barefaced manner as an electioneering instrument of the Tory party . The present version of the story is , that certain voters were voluntarily submitting to a colourable restraint by the Liberals , in order to avoid giving their votes under coercion by their landlords ; so that their " rescue" by the soldiers , under guidance

      of a young Tory magistrate , became the transfer from a friendly to a hostile arrest . The correspondence between the Priest Coghlan and Captain Smythe , in which the priest , while affecting to denounce Protestant habits and landlord tyrannies , really arouses the bitternesses of his countrvmen , is another _ugty sign of thc degree in which malignant spirits are enjoying the storm raised by the Whig and Tory traders in sectarian differences .

      A spirit of a different kind is making way here in England : the election of proctors on the understanding that they shall convert the proceedings of convocation to real business , is making sufficient progress to alarm the advocates of the status quo , insomuch that the Times puts forth a strong paper against the movement . The writer professes not to understand its object . lie contends that thc Church of England subsists by a multiplicity of " compromises , " possible only while the formal character of Convocation favours the

      avoidance of encounter on points of difference ; implying , therefore , that to restore the vitality of convocation would be equivalent to disruption of tbe church . In other words , according to the writer of the Times , the Establishment is not a church , but only a variety of sects , who connive at eaeh other ' s usurpation of the apostolical succession to church property . This is a view which we have not excluded ; but it does not follow from it that Convocation would have the effect of breaking up the national _eQckaiafttical machinery _.

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      If the writer were logically to carry out his own conclusions , he ought to arrive at the position of our correspondent " Catholic / ' who suggested , some time baek , on the strength of a very similar view , that the disposal of church property should be localized in each parish ; the church being thus avowedly rendered , what it is in fact , a _federation of sects . The article in the Times , however ,

      marks the progress of the Convocation movement . The electoral farce has again been played throughout France . The Government have made no scruple of " recommending" their nominees for the municipal councils , and putting down any stray opposition candidate . " Recommending " we need not interpret , nor " putting down , " _undet

      the present _regime . But the strength and tenacity of the disaffection is proved by the immense number who abstain from voting . Even in towns where the President has been so " enthusiastically received , " the municipal _elections are declared null from paucity of voters . The protests of such men as Odilon Barrot are the surest test of the real

      nation ' s adhesion . The re-establishment of thc guillotine for the punishment of " political offences , " which , in a country like France , are simply the ups and down of rival factions , is a fatal error . " It is worse than a crime : it is a mistake . " For thus the seeds of terrorism are sown : and they " who use tbe sword perish by the sword . "

      D'Orsay has gone to another and a better world . The preux chevalier of Rotten-row , the art-model of good society , who showed how manly a man a fine gentleman could be , has passed through the last stage of valetudinarian feebleness , and has at last sunk to the undiacriininating attentions of the undertaker . Louis Napoleon , who did not scruple to bestride tbe eagle for his own share , seems to have hesitated about giving his brother-adventurer any real _cavalesque

      employment , and could do no better for hi . s patron in England than to perpetuate the fallen gentleman ' s modest resource , and put him into an official alms-house , as an inspector of Fine Arts ! It is not to be wondered at , from the man who made his genial hostess of Gore House , shall we say , liteterally die in chagrin , at being left to dance attendance in an ante-chamber ' I Louis Napoleon has not even thc _pirate'a virtue—open-handed good fellowship .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081852/page/1/