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      . ^_ y "The one Idea which History exnibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside th e distinctions of Reli 6 $ ion , 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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      © ontentg : News of the Wbek— Page Suicides 604 tion for the Workers 608 Art or Amusement ? 613 Parliament of the Week 598 The Exposition ( 504 A Russian Patriot delivered up by New Instruments 014 Continental Notes 600 Train on Fire 605 Austria 608 Progress of the People—Meetings of the Week 6011 Police 605 Social Reform . —No . II . " The Diffi- Political Danger of Doing Nothing 6 H The Great Fire in Southwark C 01 Public Affairs— culty . " 608 Open Council—The Church and the People ... 601 The Putting an End to the Euro- Literature— lhe Author of Yeast and me The Synod of Exeter ..... 602 peau Revolution 606 Lord Maidstone ' s Abd-el-Kader .... 6 0 Incumbent of St Johns 615 The Future of the Crystal Palace .. 602 The Whig 8 chool of Kebellion .... 607 Charles Knight ' s Publications .... 610 P ' rotection and FreelraUe ........ bit . Buried Alive ! -The Bedminster England for the Bich 607 A New Piopliet 611 Marriage with a Deceased Wife s Colliery Accident 602 The Depopulation of Ireland 603 New Music 613 Sister ..... »«» The Irish Convicts of' 48 603 The Crime of being Green 608 Portfolio— o ««« t » n . V ? Tir »^ iq . .... » " » Mock Auctions 603 The Controul of Fire 608 Imaginary Conversation 613 Commercial Affairs-Personal News aud Gossip 603 Refreshment Rooms at the Exposi- Ths Arts— Markets , Gazettes , &« ... „ . on is

      Vol. Ii.—No. 66. Saturday, June 28, 1851...

      VOL . II . —No . 66 . SATURDAY , JUNE 28 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      Unaccustomed Spectacles Have Been Presen...

      Unaccustomed spectacles have been presented this week—Queen Victoria walking among her subjects on one of the shilling days at the Crystal Palace , Henry of Exeter on his episcopal throne in Synod , and many other phoenomena , which have inorQ meaning in them than the fatigued politicians of the present hour care to read . Queen Victoria is one of the habitues at the Crystal Palace ; and from what we have observed throughout her public life , we are not surprised

      that she should trust herself freely even among the shilling classes . The shilling classes and the journalists seem to have been amazed at the condescension , and much eloquence is poured forth on the progress of social intercourse between our widely-severed classes of society . The very amazement shows how baseless the congratulation is : there is no such approximation amongst us as yet ; England is behind every civilized country in the world , from the Mississipi to the Adriatic , in respect of that distance between the social classes .

      Henry of Exeter has set about his work of restoring vigour to ecclesiastical government , with a resolution and fixity of purpose that we should rejoice to see on the side of freedom . In that respect we would hold him up as a model . He has opinions on the subject of a vital doctrine in the Church of England ; one of his own clergy asserts opinions diametrically opposed to him ; appealing to the law , the Bishop ia thwarted and opposed by the supreme government , which takes refuge from the responsibility of a decision by solemnly pronouncing a judicial equivoque . Assembled in convocation , the clergy of the province abruptly separate , to evade the same question . Thus disappointed , Henry of Exeter does all he can : he revives the Synod of his

      diocese , holds it with a pomp and ceremony proper to his view ,- and there discusses the doctrine of Baptism and the principles of Church government . Among the proceedings was a formal declaration meant to obviate misconstruction—that perversion to the Church of Rome involves abandonment of truth for error . It is a significant fact that , although the meeting adopted this formal declaration , as many as five hands were held up against it—five of the clergy in the diocese of Exeter avowedly object to that disclaimer .

      general terms , the mode in which he would preach the " Message . " Nevertheless , the incumbent of the Church , the Reverend Mr . Drew , thought it " prudent "to follow the benediction with a protest against the Message , as it had been delivered by the apostle . Several versions of the affair have got before the public : we understand that the preacher intends to give his own account and to publish the sermon . It is not for us to say whether the Christianity of the early Christians is orthodox or not ; but we have no doubt that the sermon will be well worth reading . And Parliament ? It has been uncommonly

      " ¦ busy " after its fashion—that is , the House of Commons has been busy ; but not much has been done towards the real progress of anything valuable . Lord John ' s Anti-Papal Bill continues its slow progress , and Ministers have as yet been successful in resisting Mr . Walpole ' s attempts to put some real efficiency into it ; but their majorities have not always been very large . The Jew Bill has passed the committee in the Commons . Ministers have succeeded in carrying their supply of £ 300 , 000 for the Kafir war , and in over-riding Mr . Hume ' s claims on behalf of the colonists to

      self-government ; but a have the more formidable antagonist to encounter in Lord Stanley , who has announced a motion of inquiry for Monday next . Is he going to take up the cause so well advocated by Mr . Adderley ? Meanwhile , Ministers have succeeded in balking Mr . Mowatt ' s plan for organizing a public water supply , by enforcing the " standing orders , " after consenting to let his bill go before the select committee on their own plan ; they have stopped Lord Ellenborough ' s pleading for Jotee Persaud ; they have put off Mr . Henry Herbert ' s pleading for the savings bank depositors of Rochdale , Scarborough , Tralee , and Killarney ; and Mr . Cowan has failed , by an adverse majority of 1 , to carry his bill for abolishing the antiquated tests in

      prison , while under sentence for " sedition . " The meanest persecution , in the shape of studiously bad lodging , clothing , food , and regimen , was inflicted on him for two years . He demands inquiry—a demand vigorously backed by the great public meeting in the National Hall , and promised good support in Parliament . It had better be met by compliance . The Revisionist party have sustained another

      semi-defeat in the Commission of the French Assembly . All the propositions developed before the Commissioners have been rejected , and M . de Broglie , the super-eminent " patriot" of an evening contemporary , was obliged to draw upon bis wits for a new resolution . This was agreed to , we suppose , on account of its vagueness , as , in effect , it only and simply declares that , in the opinion of the Commission , a revision of the Constitution , as

      permitted in Article 111 of that instrument , is desirable . But the decision of a Commission in which eight only are opposed to seven is not very weighty . And when we find that M . de Tocqueville receives eight votes as Report er of the Commission to five bestowed on M . de Broglie , we must confess that the legal chances of the Revisionists are at an end , the extra legal chances remaining as desperate as ever . Unfortunately for them , two can play at the game of " coup de main . " A buffet from the broad hand of the People is not to be despised , as the Barrots and Ue Broglies know a little too well .

      It must be gall and wormwood to the Bonapartists to have the report upon revision , which a De Broglie would have adapted so admirably to the hopes of the " Nephew of his Uncle , " confided to a De Tocqueville , an avowed opponent of the law of May , and by no means so firmly attached to monarchy as to reject the republic at any cost . Meanwhile , the Champ de Mars has been the scene of another review by the President , whereat

      " Vive Napoleon ! " was lost in " Vivo la Republique ! " The Assembly has reenacted the law prohibiting cluba , and is almost weary of petitions showered in upon it by " forty-prefect" power . It is startling news for § n Englishman to read over his breakfast , that Emile de ( iirardin denounced petitions as " revolutionary . " But it is all explained when we know that France swarms with OJovernment officials , that the screw has been applied , and

      of course not resisted . Again we have to draw attention to the silonb progress of the French People in Association . Iho facts contained in our ii « wh , though occupying but a small space , are highly important , Ihese Socialists of Paris , after all , arc doing , while the Anarchists of Order are always spouting and intriguing . Revision of the Constitution , reelection of Prince Louis , maintenance- or repeal of the law of May—the isnuo of these questions , great , though they be , is as nothing compared with the noiseless , persevering , inevitable spread of the doctrines of Association among the People , and the reduction of those doctrines to practice .

      the Scottish universities . The case of the savings bank depositors is one of great hardship ; by coquetting with the funds of those banks , and using them , Government has conveyed an idea to the public , that the banks give public security ; hence a trust which the institutions by no means deserve . The obduracy of Ministers is a double injustice—to those depositors who have been ruined , and to the humbler classes of the public , who have a rig ht to a public security for their savings equally with the richer fundholder .

      Among the " questions" in Parliament , in that respecting the treatment of M'Mamio , one of the Irish transported " rebels , " who had been compelled , for some technical act of insubordination , to walk si hundred and twenty-live miles to recoive punishment ! Great doubts are entertained whether the Governor acted legally ; but that in a triflo ia Van Diemen ' s Land . It is not much hotter in England , if we may tniHt the petition which Ernest Jones has sent into tho House of Commons , describing his treatment in

      While this attempt is made on behalf of High Church authority , other movements are taking place elsewhere . Perhaps the most remarkable is Charles Kingsley ' s appearance in the pulpit of St . John ' s ; Fitzroy-square , to deliver the " Message of tho Church to the Labouring Classes . It is well known that Kingsley ia the most effective preacher of that school which is endeavouring to restore the influence' of the ' Church , by restoring the principle « f Association that prevailed umong the early Christians ; and any one could tell beforehand , in [ CouNTitY Edition . ]

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28061851/page/1/