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      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—rthe 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 . "—Humbolut ' s Cosmos .

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      News Of The Week— Page Openinsr Of The B...

      News of the Week— Page Openinsr of the Britannia Bridge .. 725 Law for the Rich 732 . Letters on Unitariamsm 735 The Papal Bull 722 BurglariesandltobberiesoftheNVeok 725 Confusion of Crime 732 Political Union 73 / Priestly Tyranny 722 Extraordinary Flight of Carrier Public School Morality 733 Literatukk—Austria and Prussia 722 Pigeons 726 A Hint to Capitalists 733 The Lombard Insurrection 737 Hesse-Cassel 722 Murders and Murderous Assaults .. 72 i > Ruinously Low Price ? 733 The Berber ....... 73 S Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein .. 722 European Demochact— Social Reform—XIV . —Communism A Northern Story 710 The Newest Parisian Fashions .... 722 Italian National Loan 729 as an Ideal 733 Til « A uts—Miss Martineau ' s Garden Farm .... 722 The ' Times ' Democracy in Europe 729 Open Council— An Old New Piece 740 Employment in Workhouses 723 Associativk Progress— Clerical Definition of Socialism .... 731 Portfolio—A Visit to the Shakers 723 Opening of Garratt-road Hall 730 Church Patronage 73 . "> The Princess 741 Present State of Things in Poland .. 724 Sir Benjamin Hey wood ' s Baths .... 730 Formation of Iliiinan Character .... 735 Vivian on the Wye 741 Our Oppressive Patent Laws 725 Public Affairs— Oaths and Open Speaking 735 Chants of the Angels 741 Prevention of Mendicancy and Des- The New Catholic Episcopacy .... 731 Social Reformers 73 . "> Commercial Affairstitution 725 Universal Suffrage and its Opponents 732 Lamartinc ' s Opinion of England .. 735 Markets , Gazettes , & c 742-44

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      No . 31 . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 26 , 1850 . Price 6 d .

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      Only A Few Years Ago The Admission Of An...

      Only a few years ago the admission of anything resembling a Papal Bull into this country was an offence gravely punishable at law . Since the establishment of perfect free trade , however , the Benevolent Pope Pins the Ninth , as Madame Tussaud calls him , has vouchsafed a document partitioning England into twelve goodly Bishoprics , with a Cardinal Archbishop at the head . Spiritually , the Bull converts England into a province of Rome , to

      be governed by a Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , and the Bishops of Southwark , Hagglestone , Beverley , Liverpool , Salford , Salop , Merioneth , and Newport , Clifton , Plymouth , Nottingham , Birmingham , and Northampton , The Bull includes a long preamble , reciting how the spiritual authority of the Pope was administered in England , in 1688 , by four Vicars Apostolic . In 1840 it was deemed advisable to encrease the number of

      Vicarages to eight . Ten years later we have the twelve Bishops and their Archbishop . The arrival of this Bull has , of course , excited very loud hostility . Some papers are fierce with sincere bigotry ; others put on against a minority politically feeble an affectation of Protestant bigotry , which is supposed to catch both the established Protestants and Dissenters . It is not often that both those birds are to be killed with one stone ; and the astute journalists accordingly seize the opportunity with an unction that attests their delight . "

      Impudence" is the term most generally applied to this spiritual invasion of England , and the Catholics are accused of very black ingratitude for thus behaving under emancipation . Some accredited writers of their persuasion , however , have shown that the Bull is not practically the usurpation of authority . It deals only with spirituals , and does not profess to interfere with the operation of the law in England . Those who are in subjection to it must be thoroughly volunteers ; and in all respects it claims no more authority before the laws of England than

      the regulations of any considerable body of Protestant Dissenters , the Wesleyans for example . While much of the indignation expressed is to be regarded as cant , some of the genuine alarm is unfounded . People forget that , in England , the Bull is wholly unarmed by those temporal powers which have lent real terrors to the Papal power . In fact , the largest proportion of indignation and alarm has been created by the verbal part of the measure . It is the calling of the officers " Bishops , " and the

      allotment of bishoprics with territorial titles that exasperates and frightens . Call the bishoprics "districts , " let them be numbered , and let the Bishops be called Vicars Apostolic , and by far the greater part of the anger would be disarmed—of the iear allayed . But the difference in words can make no real difference in practical results—the Pope is not really more formidable because his officers in this country are called Bishops than he [ Country Kdition . ]

      was before . If there is any access of social danger , it must be found in that constant encrease of the Roman Catholic Church by conversions which has invited this official invasion , and that encrease we should ascribe in some degree to the reaction against religious indifferentism , and still more to the excessively unreasonable and unsatisfactory condition of the English Church in regard to discipline . The Bull has not done half as much harm to the Church of England , its prestige , influence , and authority , as the decision of the Privy Council in the Gorham case , the quibbling

      decision of a civil body on a spiritual matter . Indeed more real harm is done to the Church which professes freedom by such scandals as that of the minister at Warrington , who has virtually excommunicated a man for marrying his wife ' s sister , than any extraneous influence could inflict . The worst dangers of the Church have long lain within . It is indeed a confession of weakness when the English Church , in the middle of the nineteenth century , confesses alarm at the resurrection of her elder rival ; and we are obliged to confess that if there were any danger to the progress of intellect or social freedom in this resurrection of the Romish

      Church , we should look for a rescue , not to the orthodox establishment , but to the great movements which that establishment affects to ignore . We are convinced , indeed , that injury to Protestantism as well as to the influence of England abroad will be inflicted , if Lord Palmerston persists with his petty intervention on behalf of Dr . Kalley . Dr . Kalley ' s history presents religious freedom in the shape of a reductio ad absurdum . In virtue of appealing to higher powers , the Bible included , he presumes to set himself above municipal law . Dr . Kalley was a physician practising in Madeira . By what means we know not , he effected the conversion of a native woman . She underwent some

      persecution , such as is natural in an ignorant and bigoted country , and Dr . Kalley sustained some injury from an indignant mob . He now claims compensation for these injuries , and Lord Palmerston justifies spiritual brawling so far as to back the claim for compensation . To the inhabitants of Madeira and Portugal , therefore , the

      disorderly zealot is accredited by the British Government as the representative of Protestant England , and British influence is brought to the standard of his influence . As Portugal is under obligations to this country , and is not strong , Lord Palmerston may extort reparation : it will form an ajjpropriate addition to the list of his vexatious victories .

      A victory not quite similar , but equally damaging to this country , is that of which Lieutenant John Bailey boasts in a letter to his brother . A few weeks ago we learnt that the English residents at Rio de Janeiro were subjected to violent indignities on account of attacks by English cruizers against Brazilian slavers : we now find Mr . Bailey boasting of the most rapid accumulation of prizes , and thu

      exasperation which he was inflicting on the Brazilians . His exploits , which are indeed brilliant , and justly claim the approbation of Government , present the Slave-Trade suppression policy in the strongest light as a policy of aggression on a country which ought entirely to be our ally . Brazil might have been persuaded into abolition of slavery , but is now persuaded into nothing except abolition of the English alliance and hatred of English proselytism .

      The election of Dr . Lang to represent Sydney in the Council of New South Wales is another sign of the suicidal tendency of the Ministerial policy . New South Wales asked a variety of reforms ; and the grudging policy of the Colonial-office sent back Dr . Lang , in the temper of the second Franklin , as he avowed in a long letter to Lord Grey on his departure . Lord Grey conceded a tinkering reform , which somewhat enlarged the Council of New South Wales . Among the first of the representatives elected by the capital is the Franklin of the East .

      The Marquis of Granby has consummated that shelving of Protection which Lord Stanley began , and the journals which remain faithful to the cause are obliged to enter upon the difficult and delicate course of covertly writing down the young nobleman . But these defections from the ranks of active Protectionists are not to be repaired ; and , if we hold the Standard by its declaration of last Friday , that there is no medium between Protection

      and Communism , we may soon expect to see that accomplished and Conservative Journal join our ranks in agitating for the principle of Association . The Standard was very right in its declaration , even more right than it supposed itself to be ; and as Protection is suspended for a tiiie , if not virtually defunct , we would seriously invite the editor to study the principles of Communism with a little less unscientific alarm than he betrays in his allusion .

      Practically , indeed , the principle is making way . It is the principle of association which is stimulating the enquiries into minute husbandry ; for it is only by recognizing the Communistic concert in labour that you can fully appreciate the advantages of minute husbandry : mere free trade in agriculture tending to large farms , minimizing the number of hands , and alienating the body of the People from the soil . The successful experiment , imperfect as it is , in the application of industrial employment to the management of the Kilkenny

      union-house , is valuable ; not only as showing the extension of the opinion which leads to these experiments , but also as improving the moral effect of truly beneficial and productive labour in stimulating the exertions and the more hopeful feelings of the labourers . We learn that an industrial farm has been established by the Thanet union with good promise , and we shall watch its progress with interest . Scarcely a week passes without some addition to the list of these intelligent experiments . Certainly the parish officers are before both press and Parliament in these practical enquiries .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 26, 1850, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26101850/page/1/