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• " Tr tE " one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into great r 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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News of thb Week— ~ Page The Exhibition of 1851 247 The Population Question 252 Books on our Table .. ; .. 258 Parliament 242 The Hippopotamus 247 Religious Alliance 253 Notes and Extracts Sot * India 244 A Tradesman Outwitted 247 What is Wanted to lteform the The Lyric Drama , > . 2 ;> 9 West Indies 245 Murders 247 People 253 Pkoqress op SciENCE-r . , !„ Invasion of Cuba .... 245 Miscellaneous 248 The Duty of Socialists 254 Water , Soil , and Climate .......... S ;* 9 , . France ' .-. 215 Public Affairs— The Word Socialism 254 Pom-folio— a ~ n ~ ¦' ¦ Germany ,,.. ; ... 245 The Church , Her Difficulties and A Proper Finance System 254 Vesta ....... 2 G 0 rke Church and the Law . 245 their Solution 251 Religious Federation 854 The Apprenticeship of Life .... ..... , 2 W ) , < Water lor London 246 Carlyle on Parliaments 251 Literature— Embittering the Sabbath J 61 Smithfield Market 246 Sunday Observance at Fulham .... 252 Knight Hunt ' s Fourth Estate 255 Commercial Affairs—Pauperism and the Labour Market . 246 Time and Wages 252 Sydney Yendys' Roman 256 Markets , Gazettes , Advertise- . A Story of a Shipwreck 247 Open Council— Newman ' s Phases of Faith 256 ments , & c 2 G 2-G 1
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^ Simultaneously rejecting the Bills introduced by the Bishop of London and Mr . W . J . Fox , Parliament has illustrated the tendency of the day towards a neutral do-nothing mediocrity : it will neither grant to the Church of England the faculty of defining its doctrine and perfecting its discipline , nor to tne people ^ f England access to our elementary system of . secular education . . _ The adjourned debate on Mr . Fox ' s Bill shared the destiny of all discussions so long put off : the continuation proved flat , and upon the whole it has left the question under an aspect less favourable than it would have retained had the promoters of the Bill contrived to bring on the crisis of division after the first brisk debate . It is a useful lesson for the future ; not only in the matter of this Bill , but in others also . The most signal opponent of the measure was Mr . Page " Wood , whose office , as representative of Oxford University , obliged him to descend to the place of opponent , and , by consequence , to the irksome duty of repeating commonplaces . Ministers maintained their stand against the separation of secular and religious education ; that is to say , they adhere to the contingent assent which they had given to secular education on an impossible condition . In the division the second reading was negatived by 287 to 58 . Of course the Lancashire Public School Association and its allies in the great towns of the North cannot suffer the movement to be baffled by these idle obstructions ; but it appears to us that , in order to push it forward with vigour , they must assume a bolder course than they have yet taken . They may rest assured that enlarged boldness , based as theirs would be on a real and sincere purpose , will command enlarged sympathies . In proof of that assertion we can appeal , not only to our own experience , we can appeal to the experience of the Association itself . By refusing the Bishop of London ' s Clergy Bill the Peers have maintained the decision of the Privy Council in the Gorham case , and have also maintained the status quo—the indeterminate doctrine , the denial of authoritative sanction , and the incompetency of the Church to define its own doctrines or constitution . Lord Lansdowne led the Opposition ; resisting the bill on the twofold ground of dreading a return to ecclesiastical domination , and of desiring to maintain " peace . " The decision of the Privy Council , however , does not leave matters precisely as they were , since the Church is not only hampered by incompetency , but this incompetency is declared , and the Church is proclaimed an easy prey to every schismatic who may choose to erect his own private judgment against the corporate authority . Ministers and Peers conspire with the Privy Council in giving up the Church of England i to contempt as the sole ecclesiastical corporation . [ Country Edition . ]
without the power of self-assertion . Such is the " peace " for which so much is sacrificed . In spite of the interests banded to obstruct the Metropolitan Interments Bill — the metropolitan Members uniting in that enterprise—the measure has made some way in committee . The other great metropolitan improvement , the purification of water , has advanced to the stage of a report from the Board of Health . The report points to Bagshot-heath , as a . vast field whence the rain-fall may be drained in a state freer from injurious adulterations than in any other-ground so " convejaiently situated , partisans and veste . d interests , and patrons of rival schemes , are preparing opposition to the measure ; but , if Ministers are'finii , the speedy accomplishment of some scheme which shall give London purer water will repay them in a return of popularity . The Exposition of 1851 also begins to assume a prospective shape in the suggestive report of a committee . It looms in the distance of speculation as a vast gallery with an arched roof and cross galleries ; a great dome in the centre of the whole . It will be , as it were , an immense backbone with lateral ribs , affording a fine vista of the hugest bazaar ever opened to a cosmopolitan public . ^ Oh ! the concourse and the commerce of next springthe carr iage hire and the lodgings—the trading bustle and the bills ! Already hearts beat high , especially about Kensington and Baysvvater , at the thoughts of that productive , that wonderful season ; one such as London never saw , and ^ assuredly will not be content to see for the last time . Talking of London improvements , the Commons have introduced a pleasing innovation in their practice . In their magnificent new House , —which is not very magnificent , but rather like a vast wash-house with a provisional array of handsome seats , —it seems that there is not sitting room for Members ; so some of them go up stairs and sit in the galleries ; and the Speaker has just decided that , as any Member may claim to speak from " his place , " within the area of certain supposititious " walls , " a Member may speak from the gallery . The plan will enliven tlie debates by a variety , at least in the quarter whence the voice strikes the ear . The new " dodge " is borrowed , we suppose , from the Adelphi Theatre ; where the actors sometimes speak from the audience part ; but , as is usual with Parliament , the idea is adopted when the novelty has worn off . However , it will add the zest of more difficulty to the favourite game of " catching the Speaker ' s eye . " Among the improvements of the day , that which Dr . Lardner declared to be impossible promises to outstrip every expectation : England is already brought within a week ' s voyage of America , for the " Asia , " it is said , has passed fr . > m land to land in seven days . Another sort of improvement is secured by the success of the Glasgow steamer , at something like half the fares of its rivals ; and if the projected Galway line should bring prosperity
to that cathedral town , it must do so by establishing a new bridge across the ocean . The Protectionists have had a great gathering at Liverpool ; the muster was much more imposing than the one held at the Crown and Anchor ; but the result promises to be quite as impotent . Cannot the farmers perceive that the landlords are only throwing dust in their eyes , to keep them from looking at the Rent question ? tf But let us leave child ' s play and go to pushpin" : the heartstirrihg business of the week has been the settlement for the Derby and Oaks ; which , in sjpite oif the vicisBttad ) B ^^^ oespeeted Tesints , aOd ihfe immense Sums to be transferred , jJhas been far " smoother" than was expected ; a sign of easier money market—somewhat out of the usual course of change , however . The smooth and honourable settlement on the abnormal soil of the turf contrasts curiously with the squabble between Lord Melbourne ' s coachbuilder and his executors . The case ia edifying . Either Lord Brougham ' s revelation as to the necessity for a receipt from tlie most " respectable " tradesmen should be duly studied by every gentleman who hires a carriage ; or Lord Brougham and his brother William , the Master in Chancery , should be exposed as conspiring to slander the said respectable tradesman . The public will decide on which side lies the balance of probability ; the court before which the case comes will probably decide on some point of law . Our Eastern visitors have brought with them a « atmosphere of Eastern customs . The Nepaulese Ambassador astonished the Cockneys the other day , —that is , all but the readers of the Arabian Nights , perhaps not a very numerous " , "—by suffering a Lascar crossing-sweeper to scramble into his carriage . It is an incident of despotic governments that rank is the absolute gift of the despot—a species of appointment leaving social relations in other respects more on an equality ; and we all know by the veritable record just cited , that it is the commonest thing in the world for crossing-sweepers to become prime ministers or even emperors . Our friend of Cheapside , however , it is said , has only become interpreter . But it i 3 a picturesque incident for the corner of St . Paul's . His Excellency ' s fellow-traveller , the hippopotamus , is duly lodged in the Regent ' s-park . He has received visits from Professor Owen and other distinguished persons ; the professor having become court newsman to the illustrious foreigner , and describing his movements with great gusto . It is an interesting infant , and the public is rushing to study beauty under an unaccustomed form .
The Government Bill For The Disfranchise...
The Government bill for the disfranchisement of some four or five millions of 1 ' rench citizens is now law ; and the citizens take it quietly—waiting either in cowardice or most sublime moderation for the further restrictive measures which the Go-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 8, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08061850/page/1/
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