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      May Meetinp 483 " "Austria" At The Expos...

      May Meetinp 483 " "Austria" at the Exposition 488 The Fallacy that Harmless Errors Another Rulway Smash 48 j Poor La » v Progress in Coventry .. £ 1 489 should be Let Alone 494 personal News and Gossip 48 . 5 A Restoration without a lttvival 489 PaoGness of the People—Crimes and Accidents 484 Thiers a Socialist 489 Address to Rebert Owen . 4 i ) 4 Miscellaneous 4 i 5 Literature— Secular Education in Galashiels ' . 491 n ? , " ? , F l A 1 RS ~ . . Companions of my Solitude 489 The Ebenezer , near the Niagara Falls 495 I lie Heal Aggression on Liberty and Kelly ' s California 491 Open Council—England . 486 The Arts— The Malthus Controversy 403 V ,. . ? ,- * and lts Governor 3 *& ' ? Fidelio 492 Land and Numbers 49 T iniJlipssFire Annihilator 487 Only a Clod 49 . 3 Malthus among- the Sheep 49 u An Apology for Captain Somerset .. 488 The Chevalier Bosco 493 Churches Degenerate 4 j 6 Limitation of Ma ' . thusian Contro- Portfolio— . Commercial Affvirs vefsy 488 To Eliza Lynn 491 Markets , Gazettes , & c 497-8

      News of tub Week— Pa ° e Parliament of the Week 478 The Exposition Dinner at Richmond 4 T 9 Continental Aspects 4 S 0 Roman Riots and " No Smoke . " 4- ? o The Anti-Convict Movement 431 The Fall of the Edifice in Gracechurch-street 481 Metropolitan Fires ! . ! ... ! .. 481 Ep ^ ora Rices ' . ' ... 482 Workhouse Schools in Coventry . " . " . " . ' 48 J Church Discipline and Catholic Claims 482

      Vol. Ii.—No. 61. Saturday, May 24, 1851 ...

      VOL . II . —No . 61 . SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 1851 Price 6 d .

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      The Income Tax Bill Has Passed Its Secon...

      The Income Tax Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords , without even an anxiety pro form & : the debate was to be considered simply as an appendix to the previous debates , the whole treatment of the affair having been arranged beforehand . One year more of the income-tax and then a fight about it ; unless in the interval Whigs and Protectionists find their interest in combining against the public . °

      For the Protectionists are not to be trusted , even in their capacity of anti-Whigs . Their leader is no more than an exiled Whig , a Coriolanus amongst the Volscians ; hia opposition to the possessors of the Capitol is a perverted sympathy , rather than a genuine antagonism . His party for the time being neither trusts him nor understands him , nor comprehends its own vocation . When Lord Stanley was sent for to form a Ministry , he declared

      himself " not prepared : " when he had an opportunity of legislating , or trying to legislate on protective principles , he skulked below and shirked what « eemed to be the plain duty of a devout believer in the prime article of his party ' s creed . Now , when he has not the slightest chance of success , when even the forms of the House bar him from the attempt , when he cannot move , he comes out and declaims at the House in good set terms .

      Yet have these Protectionists a mission , and they know it—but know not how to perform it . Protection meant something more than '' rent . " It had a bright or rather a less dark side . What it seems to have meant was this : that tho cultivators of the land should have a full share of the fruits of their toil . We are now " prosperous , " gay , employed , and amused . But the season of distress which occurs periodically will assuredly return , like the typhus or the cholera , and then " prosperity" will vanish . The Protectionist party are still the landlords— still the respected patrons of the agricultural labourers ; they are on the spot , and , in that day of trial , the agricultural labourers will look first , to their " friends" for relief : those landlords must he

      prepared to solve the question then , or the exasperated peasantry will at once turn to others , the promulgate ™ <> f doctrines which have found thoii way into Wiltshire anil Soinernet . shiro ; into Hampshire , Devon , and Kent ; doctrines which teach that the land is man ' s , and that tho fruits thereof art ; the rightful property of industry . A perverse fate , self-provoked , obliges Ministers to go on with the UecloHiastical Titles Kill , painful even to thmiselven , despised by tlu'ir Niippnrl ,- ™ , ami successfull y obstructed by .. he , Irish mimbn-. s . Ihe Irishmen are < mil . e rijr | lt . The measure «!<¦ . ¦ -

      Hervea no respect ; tin- , ( Joveniinent which propounded it doe , not deserve to exist ; and there is no reason why conBcicntioun opponents should waive tho resources of an Opposition . They arc [ CoUNTItY iiUH'lON . j

      right to fight the Government on this bill , right to support Mr . Bailliein his Ceylon motion next Tuesday , because his attack menaces the existence of the Government . In order to make his attack effective they ought not only to give him their votes at a division , but to take care that he has' a House , and to keep it for him , even through the dinner hour . If the independent members had done their duty , they would have stood by Sir William Molesworth and Van Diemen ' s Land on Monday .

      A perverse fate deprives them of the courage to accept a rising movement , which would fall in well enough with their past , and with their general , views—the movement for secular education . Mr . Fox reintroduced it , with much ability , on Thursday , in a speech full of facts , clear and temperate . Lord John Russell must see , well enough , that the plan is not hostile to religion , but the reverse ; nevertheless , Sir George Grey committed the Ministry to the imitation scheme , which was devised , like the original in Manchester , but which has not , like that , the inherent elements of success . Ministers have taken up with cant and misconception , where an easy and most cieditable reform oilers itself for their adoption .

      I he May meetings are totally eclipsed by the Exposition and its appendages : even the Derby did not thin the crowd in the Crystal Palace on Wednesday—the greater , perhaps , for the expectation of more room ; and ordinary philanthropies gave place to the grand international dinner at Richmond , where Knglish Conservatives and Commissioners fraternized with foreign Republicans . Lord Ashburton , indeed , made the mistake in his

      congratulatory retrospect , of declaring that the press had been hostile to the Exposition whilst it was a project ; but the working commissioners must know better . Lord Ashburton has been misled by the temporary aberration of a distinguished journal ; his colleagues can tell him that the press was generally favourable , und sometimes UBeful at a pinch . As to the Exposition itself , the continued increase of numbers has [ suggested the very pertinent question whether further regulations may not be necessary when the admission shall be reduced to one shilling . Already the collection of the crowd is great at particular . spots within the building .

      I'Yeiieh politics an ; becoming wonderfully simplified . Parties clearly define their boundaries . " Fusion , " jls we have ; . seen , is Legitimacy in disguise ; " Revision" is Monarchy at any price . The principle of hofch is the . saint ; . For n long distance their route i . s coincident . The , Republic is no longer covertly ( railed " neutral ground . " It is now hostile territory openly ntUcked ; and the design in openly announced of conquering it by force or fraud . This , of course , Himplifien the position of the Republicans . Tlu-. y now know their low , and the de-signs of those foes . It in their turn to take up the strong position of legal resistance , and they will not be backward . They have , in effect , become the " Party of Order . "

      The mask of hypocrisy worn by the De Falloux and De Broglies is torn aside . They are now the enemies of constituted authority . The forged message hoaxed the Debats and the Constitutionnel , as well as the Chronicle and the Times . The Debots honourably inserted a letter addressed to it by Mazzini without comment , simply intimating , in a few introductory lines , signed " Arrnand Bertin , " that the forged missive

      was not inserted without doubts of its genuineness , The Times correspondent , however , suppresses one paragraph of Mazzini's letter , sneeringly doubts its authenticity , and tells us that in " official quarters " the message was held to be genuine . The Constitutionnel insinuates doubts as to the sincerity of the denial , and treats the whole affair maliciously . In fact , both in good sense and good faith , M . Mazzini has again surpassed these mighty paladins of the party of order .

      Rome does credit to French patronage and English tolerance . Roman is constantly fighting with Frenchman , and beating him , single-handed . Blood flows . The population exhibits its hatred , both of the Papal Government and its French ianisaries in many ways . Notably , by beating the French , and refusing to smoke Papal tobacco . Meanwhile the Pope walks before the Lateran in a high wind , with his major domo to hold his scarlet hat on !

      llie cunning old Germanic Diet has again set itself up at Frankfort . In the words of one of its own organs , it has " resumed . " What a long adjournment—three years ! Apparently its members have quite forgotten that Mctternich had to scamper from Vienna , and that they themselves vanished before the " Constituent" assembled in St . Paid ' . s Kirk ! Prussia , quite beaten and disarmed , flies into the arms of brother-in-law Nicholas af ;

      Warsaw . Austria , triumphant for the moment , will go to meet the effete Diet , prepared to enforce the execution of her Hcheme for the incorporation of the non-Germanic provinces . These German Kings have a curious and devout faith in dead institutions . We wish them joy of their transitory victory , and a light pair of heels in the coming day of retribution . Nearer home , the most stirring events of the week , perhaps , have been the Derby day without a great race , but one which piqued interest by perplexing calculation ; the fatal fall of u great building in Giacechurch-. street , a great range of chambers uncompleted ; two disastrous accidents on the Midland Railway through neglect of signals ; and more than one bad fire . The worst fire in the City is evidently of that class in which life would have been saved if one of Phillips '* " annihilators" had been in the house . In tho railway and building accidents , we see how tin ; commercial principle fail . s when it is trusted too / far . The love of dividends nudtiplieh trains too quickly on the lino ; parsimony of materials cuts too close for safety ; and in both instances life is sacrificed to the golcfen idol .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24051851/page/1/