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      ' * The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the bawierB erected between men by prejudice find one-sided 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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      OF THIWEEKNEWS PAGa . 862 . 862 . 862 . 863 Affair of the Lobos Islands The Kafir War •«*¦ Sir Harry Smith and Letters from Paris ... Continental Notes ... the Militia Meeting of the British Association The Birmingham Musical Festival .. Progress of Association Lord Lonsdale on Liquid Manure .. The Sanitary Reformers at Totten ham Peel's Birth-Place Destructive Storm ' ... „ The _Shottishain " ICracle" 864 864 865 865 eel's Birth-Place 866 estructive Storm ... _„ 866 le _Shottisham ** Miracle" . 866

      The CaaeofthePoitevins Electric Time Signals Railway Assurance European Races in the United States The " Wild Beasts" of London Murder near Sheffield Miscellaneous Health of London during the Week .... Births , Marriages , and Deaths ...... POSTSCRIPT PUBLIC AFFAIRS" The Order of the Lone Star" 869 870 870 870 871 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— " The Order of the Lone Star" 871 867 | 867 867 868

      OPEN COUNCILThe True Principle of Concert in Railway Administration Defence of the Temperance Cause ... The Recent Co-operative Conference 875 876 876 Railway Administration 876 Defence of the Temperance Cause ... 877 The Recent Co-operative Confereboe 877 The lsew . 3 i . ra Moloch Socialism and its Newest Traducer De Mortuis Hints to New M . P . ' s . By an Experi enced " Stranger" On the Cultivation of Flax War-ships made Useful in Peace .. Immoralities of the Marriage Law . 872 872 873 874

      PORTFOLIOLetters of a Vagabond 880 THE ARTSJackSheppard 8 g 2 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , & c . 882—884 _^/ -. mmcd _^ i & i _itc & i _nn-COMMERCIAL _AFrAius Markets , Advertisements , & c . 882 LITERATURETodd and Bowman ' s Physiology-Novels for Novel Readers Thomson ' s Travels in Tibet 878 879 880

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      E Ngii^D Remains Quiesce; The Movements ...

      E NGii _^ D remains quiesce ; the movements whieh * most concern her , comprised within the " Ne _^ of the Week" happening in lands distant ,, and in diverse quarters . Our ally , the great Republic of America , is continuing her _advraees—at present only on paper , but with action looming in a future somewhat more immediate than that of measures nearer home . In th _& £ * ape

      In a slight degree , _iijdeed , the American movement may he considered to incline backwards . Mr . Webster has virtually revoked his claim on behalf of Benjamin Morrell , as the * ' discoverer" of the Xobos Islands . He now contends that the Island * were habitually frequented by Americans , before Benjamin Morrell was " supposed" to have discovered them ; and he treats that habitual frequenting as sufficient to constitute the right of

      entry . \ contemporary has well likened hia claim to that of any Frenchman , who , happening to discover a piece of gold on the Isle of Wight , should insist ou the French right of access to that island . Mr . Webster has jnade another concession . He has declared that the American Government w « l not extend its protection to private adventurers who forcibly land on the Islands ; but that those adventurers will be left to run the risk on their own responsibility . This is to make a great retreat from the original position ; and although

      Mr . W «> W _«« . a *; _u ir _„^«„ _~~ * u _„ _* .: ... \ ... Mr . Webster still keeps open the question , whether or not America has a right to seize the islands _Without ihuch regard to the technical hold of eru , the present tone of the correspondence leads o the hope that more discreet counsels amongst merican statesmen may prevail over the rash advances of a gentleman distinguished for his Promptitude and power , rather than . for his discretion or his sense of the gravest of public duties .

      . ' r he question of the Lobos Islands sinks into _"significance , as compared with a great _spon-MMsoiig popular movement , now first disclosed authenticall y to the world . The secret society _bounded in New Orleans , to repeat the Cuban _ipeditum on a larger scale , and with greater reources , which we mentioned some time back , has _«« _w comp distinctl y before the public . Its en-* _« _numbwamomjt to _^ OOO _, it has branches ICovNTRY Edition . ]

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      throughout the Union , aaad it already includes within the compass of its influence such a mass of social power and activity , its to show that its ultimate success _^ certain . It may be said already to have tak « jjt possession of the Union at large ; and such bene the fact , the Union now being practically _comfnitted to the expedition , it mhst be understood Jpbat the next attempt upon Cuba will be made / under circumstances that will

      either ensure . immediate success , or the perseverance of the _Tfrhole _republic _unftSthi * _island shall hA _» ft _ft _^ _. fe _^ _o _^ y _c _^ L _TWe _motjrf pit , priety of the ixpedit _^ _fS * . still discussed , ih America as well as in England ; and in this country opinion v _^ ill very reluctantly acquiesce in any forcible appropriation of the West Indian Islands .

      But there is no doubt that in the English version the American grounds for the proceeding have been misrepresented , and we have endeavoured to explain that misrepresentation in a separate paper . Meanwhile , whatever the merits of the case , the resolution of so wide-spread and powerful a body is a fact beyond dispute , and the result must be already foreseen .

      It will be for statesmen abroad , therefore , to busy themselves less with the merits of this particular seizure , than with the consequences of it ; less with the statesmanship preceding that seizure —already out of date—than with the course it will become statesmen to take after the seizure shall have been effected . This much of the merits may already be taken into the account—that a

      party in Cuba , not inconsiderable , is disposed to the annexation ; and statesmen will have tbe right to lay what stress they please on that willingness within Cuba itself , when they are called upon to reconcile alliance between England and America , by acquiescing in the seizure . That they will be called upon to acquiesce , there is no question ; and it will be a great error in statesmanship to let that difficulty force us into impracticable

      enterprises . As we have repeatedly explained , this annexation will inevitably be followed , at no distant date , by another still more , extensive * - —that of the Mexican main . In _considering . the future course of statesmanship , it will be necessary to keep that in view , as an incident not to be avoided . Thc course of English statesmanshi p at the Cape is untoward . General Cathcart threatens to throw the Colonists on their ow » resources ; u

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      threat which the past history of the war must render peculiarly galling and exasperating . In fact , it ia impossible to \ imagine , a position of affairs more demoralizing to the loyalty of the settlers , than that now taken up by the Governor . * As we have repeatedly explained , the whole course of Border policy carried out by the servants of _rthe Colonial Office , has been against the counsel end wishes of the local statesmen . The frontier colonists were prevented , when philanthropy was

      in office , from settling the native tribes in their own way ; the military colonization of Gaffraria was a crotchet of the Colonial Office ; the Anglo-• Duteh Farmers , whom the official _philanthropy coupled with Black marauding , exasperated into emigration beyond the Border , who were warred upon as rebels , are now treated as an independent republic , and _Prsetorius , for whose head a reward was offered , is now in the receipt of complimentary official despatches as President ; the British , who have not rebelled , who have done much against their will to aid the ill-conducted war upon the

      Kaffirs , are now reproached with that war as an expense to England , and are almost accused of cowardice for not coming forward ; and in the mean time , the man who came , saw , and has not conquered , but finds himself nearly at the end of his resources , is preparing to bequeath to them the discredit and the consequences of defeat . It is one of the modern official lessons in rebellion .

      M . Louis Bonaparte is out of health , and chilled in mind and body , " nurses" for his journey to the South , where he is promised a warm reception . Whether it may be too warm for the budaifig Emperor , or only just so warm as to quicken the bud into blossom , or even so hot as to scorch the blossom into dust . Time and the Fates alone can tell . That we shall hear of

      overwhelming rural enthusiasm , of delirious civic transports , of intense popular manifestations , the story of past progresses is our guarantee . Probably the despatches arc already cooked by the forty-falsehood power of Prefeetoral servilities ; and those uncouth and monstrous lying machines of despotism , the telegraphs , will he set whirling their gaunt , weird arms almost to dislocation : silent ministers of fraud anil tyranny , apt to the hands of adventurism : impassive instruments of royalty und revolution , of Louis Philippe , Ledru _llolljji , aud Louis Bonaparte in turns ; a type of

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/1/