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      NEW 3-OF tub Wbek— ¦' .- ¦ - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ Pngi '" ' Queen ' s College , Cork ............ 1108 ' A GopV of Shakapeare for Kossuth 1113 . ; O ^ qanizations of thk Pboplb—Continental Notes ..,. 4 ' ^ iWi : t ) rifne and Suicide 1108 The Times " at Home " . - . * . 1113 To the Members ' of the '' National Koasuth P ^ per ^ ..... liOi .. Miscellaneous 1109 Military Costume ; 1113 Charter Association Wit Kossuth's Departure ..... \ .... » .., 1101 Public Akfaiks— .-, sT r , 0 ¦• <¦ ,-.. ,- \ LiTEaATUus— ' ' Nationat Charter Association .... 1117 T * eDeathbf the Kin ? of Hanpyer 11 Q 5 ; - , , The Situation .. S-. J-h ii . V . S- ... "« ' -. -1 H 0 - ¦¦ e Thtf Fissions of Animals 1113 Political Conduct of the Lancashire The British Navy an 4 the . Austrian . 'J . ' he V Times " v Ml I The Beauties of Beddoes .......... 1114 . ' ¦ . i . Working' Class to the Queen .... 1118 Blockade ...................... 110 ") . Our Costly Commercial System .... 1111 The Fair Carew 1115 Open Council—Lottery of . the Golden Ingots . at Paris 1 If 6 The BC | tublicaji ^ Mi ^ pmy " "in ' a ^ e . ' '¦ ¦ ' " < ' ; Tr £ * els £ a European Turkey 1115 The Power of Education 1118 Blocksof Gold .....,......... ; .... J 106 . French ' A . sseiribly .,. ^ .......... 1111 Thb AhtSt- The Catholic Truth 1119 Breaking up _ of Cast ' e £ jn-Madras ' .., 11 . 06 ¦ . Kossuth' dfiil Socialism ............ 1112 l'heTrumpet-call ( Theatrical ) .... 1116 Commercial Affairs— . ¦ , A Typhoon iii the Eastern Sea 8 ,... 1106 , Prpgress ot Assurance 1112 " Belshazzar " at Exeter-hall 1116 Market 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , Public Opinion ..... ; .......... ,. 1107 , Chivalry iaCotton ,. 5 ** ,.... . ..,. 1113 : , Dr , Majnzer , 1117 & c 1119-1124

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      ; . m . r . .. . ... , ¦ . s Hanover has lost her King , Kossuth , has l ^ eft England ; but the ^ most -argent political interest hangs , for the moree ' nk to the condition of affairs in France , which $ | s wwatched ^ th anxiety even more by the friends ^ of ^ Uropean ^ Freedom than by its enemies . ' . The firmn & s afcid njoderatidn of the Republican Opposition , have putwitted the machinations of the Royalist conspirators . The ; * Comedy of Terror * ' played bV'M . Thigrs and his friends at

      the house of theQuestors , ant ftfie appeal to '' principles" in the mouth of theJjrpan wlj < 5 « fe , whole career has been a frothy intrigue ^ jpf rdi $ @ £ jj ^ oii ^ t $ d ambitipn , have reduced the . ' . ' * Biu ^ aves ^ to the brink of political annihilation . , T # e reply > to . t |» e Proposition of the Questors was simple enough : ± ~ "If you have reason to distrust the -Ebceciir tive , bring forward a distinct accusation . We will not be privy to the furtherance ' your

      plots . It may be that the Republicphaa better cause for distrust than the Reaction ; but the ^ Republic has faith in the Constitution and in tfjef People' " So the command of a . I ' arliar ^ entar . y K $ & y is not handed over to "CKarigafnifrr , to sell FjiWce to jhe highest bidder , and to trample out the fcjat aparks of liberty . For the train was laid for nothing ' less than a military dictatorship . It has exploded with a Report . The Republican minority refuse all compromise short of complete abrogation . *

      The Mysteries of the Austrian money market are taking human shape , or rather the shape "Of " Bears , " who are driven from "Vienna in ' troops . Not exactly like the money changers from the Temple , for illicit speculations ; but because dishonesty is a privilege of paternal Governments . This phenomenon of Schwarzenberg drilling the stockjobbers has scandalized even his well-wishers l'Vomthe " Sacred Column " it has emerged" into

      the full glare of a " leader " , , Jh the Times ' .. The Olobe has come to the s ^ Rrtjfopg conclusion that Austria iH no longer tolerf tWe VIworse than useless and obsolete ; and recomiri ^ nds M . Kossut . h ' s Kel » iblic as a substitute " not wholly incompatible with the existing state of Europe . " This is . a confession in which large numbers of our countryn » en will agree : possibly , too , Somebody whom the G 7 o £ e has iri iW expansive eye

      T hroughout Italy the Royal reign of . Terror nold nan undisputed sway . s P » un is anxiously looking for the little event » o long announced in the Palace . " A little event , " H may be said , of very general and of very peculiar "Merest ; to her Most Catholic Majesty ' s lieges No where are the traditions of Royalty more lively wan at Madrid . Politically the death of King Ernest is of no peat monoent--too i ^& e to move our regret at what JJ P'opably a change . for the worse . The antiqua" « n Uttlei-tattjG about-the peccadilloes of the royal [ Country EditionJ

      drago oa > , death of Sellis , and other ugly gossip , have ceased to interest people—as much out of fashion as ghost stories or the Newgate Calendar . Old Radicalism painted Ernest as a monster ; but the opinion of our day , calmner , because freer , regards him simply as an obstinate old Tory , who was an Orangeman ftr Ireland , fought Napoleon in France , tried to abolish King William ' s constitution in Hanover , and was prepared to head a charge of cavalry against riot in all shapes . Having seen actual service ,, and endured a wound of no small

      severity , his arbitrary bearing acquired a certain chivalrous respectability . : It was tested after 1848 , when , he refused to join iri the counter-revolution . He was a good stalwart Tory , with a soldierly sense of right and honour , infinitely superior to the sneaking ,. intriguing , pettifogging form which Absolutism has adopted in these days of peace and intelligence . His son is a most amiable gentleman , suffering under physical infirmity , much attached to his wife , easily led , and expected to be much more tractable under , the hands of the Diplomatic craft which does the work of Austria and Russia .

      But if the day has gone when Toryism can alarm us as little as the phantom in the Castle of Otranto , \\\ $ pewer and : meaner Absolutism , needs alarm us as little . Although Kossuth has left us , the spirit which he evoked will not subside . On the contrary , we see putny signs of more activity and earnestness . He did not create the spirit : our readers know that we affirmed i < s existence long ago , even while it slumbered most heavily . It is awake now . Whatever may happen to the " Kossuth Fund , " over which certain most respectable gentlemen have been doping , we are aware that the more active , in various places , are contemplating measures to enforce the principle of free nationality . The spirit of Mr . Walker 8 speech will not evaporate with

      Kossuth ' 8 arrival in America : the great Hungarian has but to appear before the eyes and ears of an American assemblage to possess their hearts . Lord Palmerston ' a reply to Islington and Finabury shows an unconcealed sense of the growing spirit in this country ; and it is said that the Foreign Secretary is letting r the public yee the spirit in himself that has but awaited national encouragement to come forth . ' * : Jf so , < he' does mean to be the Cna ^^ p fjM ^'^ : * ^ nd if so , again he will t ^ ke ! , ft post '"' ofj honour aiid command such as no English statesman lias occupied within this century . ¦ ' The spirit awakened by foreign questions has extended , as was natural , to home affairs ; and the endeavour to filch some kind of public , support for Lord John ' s new Reform Bill will > be « iritot '* in a

      way to insure its failure . Manchester , " which ' used to lead in public movements , has ' now assumed the function of public damper . ' It is well known that , when Kossuth arrived in England , lie had an idea of founding an organization to promote his objects within this country : he has left us without founding any such organisation , and the negation i g ascribed to the gemug of Mftnchoster . The JBvil

      Genius of Manchester it may be called . How often . do stories tell us of the Old Spirit of Evil appearing in the guise of youth , beauty 3 and beneficent energy ? The same Evil Genius , —so it is said , —has endeavoured to steal a march upon the most promising and energetic movement of the middle class , —if we can , indeed , speak of it as limited to the middle class , —and has been laying trains at once to" stifle that movement , to oblige the Minister , and to set up a very mild Reform movement as a something to reciprocate the Russell Bill . But the Parliamentary Reformers have not

      been caught napping . Indeed , we hold that the manoeuvre of the Conservative Manchester menwho , sated with Free Trade , wish now to rest on Finality—will only serve the more active party , by spurring them up to the true mark . Hints have been thrown but that , if the Manchester men play false , those whose minds they hare thought to turn , " may take down the flag which they have hoisted for three years , and nail to the mast another flag that would rally to it larger numbers , "—make the Parliamentary Reform movement truly national .

      In like manner Alderman Musgrove ' a exclusive personal policy , and stealing a march upon the London Corporation , have evoked a municipal spirit in that illustrious body supposed to he quite dead . It seems that his evasion of the Aldermen and Town Councillors in Paris was a studied slight , quite counter to the tenour of trfe invitation from the Prefect of the Seine ; and his invitation to the

      Queen was expressly counter to the wishes of the Aldermen and Council . In Paris he was laughed at ; in London Ive extends to Royalty hospitalities for which the City pays . It is a lesson on the ethics of corporate life . Although corporations are not quite what Kossuth took them for , although Sir John Musftrove made an— did not do credit to himself in Paris , public attention has been drawn to the fact that there still are functions which

      corporations might perform , and which might yet warrant their pretensions to dignity . If they could really he spokesmen and . agents for tin ; People , they mi ^ ht yet save their existence ; but to do that they must' place themselves in real connection with' the People—admit the People to a full share in the election of the Councils , and really act for the People . Sir John is the corpus on which the London Aldermen have been experimentally

      illustrating that truth , e converso—backwards . The gold mania is setting strongly in , and tho miraculous accounts of blocks and masses of the tempting metal found in Australia add to its intensity . Mining of-all kinds is looking up . It is the talk in omnibuses , at street corners , and in the City dining-rooms . The elderly shake their headu at the stories of Kl Dorados , paying hundreds per cent ., and point ominously to 1845 'Hi .

      From all parts of Europe come prognostications of a s « vere winter—a prelude to brace action witjl fiterness ' . ior tl » e spring and summer of IdG 2 ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111851/page/1/