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      News of tub Week- Page An Humble Prima Donna 630 porate . ..... 635 A Reformation . i »> U Sheffield Industrial Farm 6 *> liailway Accidents 630 Working Men's Associations and the A Proposed Pme fcssay 611 The Freehold Land Movement .... 627 Kobbery and Attempt to Murder .. 630 Lav of Partnership 6 J 6 LlTRK . vrORE—. Irish Tenant League 627 Assumed Insanity 631 The Causes of Intemperance Mb The Varieties of Man 641 The Irish Amelioration Society .... 627 Two Shipwrecks 631 The Drennis at Play 6 d < Works of II . de Balzac 61-Competition and Combination 628 Associative Proorbss— Justice to Industry ........ 6 J 7 University Abuses ,-. *** The Teachings of Cholera 628 Working Associations of Paris .... 633 Social Iteform—X . —Capital 6 J 7 Tint Akts—The Last Show in Fr ; mc « K 28 Christian Socialism 634 Open Council— 1 he Drama t »* J The Premier in the Highlands 629 Life Assurance for the Working Condition of the Poor 638 Portpolio—Another German devolution 629 Classes 634 llobert Owen' . * irst Principle .... 649 J ^™ . ' • ¦ V V . J •' . v : • • •• 5 !! Germany . —Hesse-Cassel 629 Public Affairs— The Same 6 ^ 9 Confessions of a limid Lorer 641 Election of the . Recorder 629 Schleswig-IIolstein and Hesse-Cassel 635 A Free Press and a Free Expression Open b peaking- «*•> Lord Brougham ' s Poaching Quarrels 629 Lord Londonderry on Tenant-ltigJit 635 of Opinions 639 Commkkcial Affairs—A Wild Inuh Girl 629 " Perversions . " Individual and Cor- Teetotahsin and True lleform 640 Markets , Gazettes , Sec 646-48

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      No . 27 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 28 , 1850 . Price 6 d

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      " Tun one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throvr down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views : and by setting aside the distinctions of Hellion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' u Cosmos .

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      Land is the question of the day : much as it is yet ignored by leading politicians , it continues to demand more and more attention every week . Across St . George ' s Channel the Irish Amelioration Society has been demonstrating the willingness of the peasantry to work under fair encouragement as well as any of our Saxon tillers of the soil ; and thereby demolishing the fallacy that ascribes the poverty of the Irishman to his own idleness instead of charging it upon the accursed land monopoly . The Tenant League is also making sturdy

      trial occupation for paupers will not be suffered to lie idle any longer . It ' is a veiy remarkable fact , that , although the farm-labour is less odious than workhouse-labour , it operates as a better " test" to repel idlers ; it also operates as a training for genuine " independent" occupation . We shall continue to watch this interesting and most intelligently conducted experiment .

      Compared with these questions of the land , the elections that have just happened possess small public interest . Poole probably gains by having Mr . Seymour in lieu of Mr . Robinsoa ^ A * Jh £ , / is a Freetrader and more prepared for mdvMientr- ~ The city © f London may not possess in Mr . Wortley so matured a lawyer as in Mr . Law , the late Recorder ; but it virtually acquires the services of a man far more comprehensive in mind and larger in heart , and at the same time strengthens the hands of that man for useful services to the public . But these are only individual gains . The politician may take a more stirring interest in the half-covert struggle of the French pretenders . The Count de Chambord , with singular simplicity , is doing all he can to favour Louis Napoleon . A new and more formal declaration has been put forth on the Count ' s behalf , repudiating the will of the people in his favour . Some of his adherents are necessarily much scandalized and chagrined at this outrage on policy ; and it has had the effect of an excommunication" on M . de Larochejaquelin .

      fro gress , and bids fair to force the landlords of reland to come forward at no distant period with a liberal compromise . Nearer home the Freehold Land Association goes steadily forward without much enthusiasm as yet ; but there will be no lack of that most powerful impulse to the movement , when the working man is enabled to purchase , not merely the ground rent of a house as his freehold , but a farm of two or three acres , on which he may earn an honest livelihood and lead a healthy and happy life .

      The meeting of the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Association at Warrington , though connected with the land , suggests no very pleasant or profitable thoughts . A prize to Sir Thomas Joseph Trafford , of Trafford Hall , " for the best short-horned bull , " may furnish a very proper theme for an after-dinner speech , but that is not the business which ought to be occupying the landowners of England at the present moment . Much fitter work would it be for Sir Thomas

      The party , therefore , is broken up ; and its residue is pledged to an impracticable , anti-national , antipopular policy , —one which repels the nation , and treats the people with contempt . Possibly , the Count de Chambord may be induced to abandon his absurd obsolete position ; but for some time , at least , the mischief has been done , and , if the notion were now abandoned , the motive would be so transparent that the concession could not regain the favour which the manifesto must have lost to the Count . Meanwhile , through a flf > mi _ nffir > ifl 1 nVinmnel . Tamils Nanoleon is declaring

      de Trafford , and much more worthy of a prize , were he to produce at Warrington a dozen or two of healthy Lancashire peasants , whom he had transformed from a state of abject pauperism , into healthy , hard-working , well-paid labourers , by employing them , under proper guidance , in the reclamation of Trafford Moss . Lord Stanley , who was present at the gathering , might also do something in that way . He has much land which wants improving , his income has been greatly increased * by that increase of wealth in Lancashire which brings an increase of pauperism . Let him and Sir Thomas de Trafford , then , whose

      that the stoppage of supplies is illegal , and appear to be preparing for armed intervention If the Peoples of Europe had a common intelligence , these busy intervening Governments might have too much at home to permit their indulging in these extraneous vagaries—as in Mechlenburg-Schwerin . The intelligence from India would seem to speak of troublous times at no distant day . The closing of a frontier pass against the Afredees

      looks very like a confession of weakness , and eaa but postpone some further outrage j by that- pf ^^ datory tribe . Meanwhile , the army labours under serious demoralization , —evinced "by the indiscipline which Sir Charles Napier so harshly rebuked ; by the murderous attack of a detachment on an Indian village ; by the duels among quarrelsome officers ; and even by the tone of courts-martial coolly resisting a superior officer without explanation , or placed in antagonism to the civil power .

      The history of disaster and crime this week is uncommonly fertile vind adventurous . There is a perfect covey of Railway accidents , varying in kind , but most of them tending to show vices of inefficiency or bad arrangement in the managing . The robbery of Mr . Cureton , the medallist of the British Museum , by three " gentlemen , " who called upon him to inspect medals , and left him all but dying , rivals the . ploits of Jack Sheppard . The German youth who assumed insanity to escape capital punishment for murdering a girl , and who baffled the obstinate examinations of medical men for fourteen

      months , furnishes a curious chapter in medical jurisprudence . But the most interesting tale is that of the Count Forestier de Coubert , who made such an impudent attempt at the abduction of Miss Hamilton , the daughter of an English clergyman residing at Brussels . Ennuye with the fatigues of tending his dying wife , the Count cast his eyes upon the pretty girl of fourteen , who by no means repelled them . It was an additional

      that he shall stek for an extension of his power ; and that , if he finds any violent obstruction on the part of factions , he will appeal to the whole People . The Orleanists scarcely appear in the field , at least not overtly ; the Legitimists have been placed hors de combat by their " King "; the other parties opposed to the Prince President seem to be too weak to resist him alone ; but , if they should , " an appeal to the People" would be a very cunning device , and one very formidable to his opponents .

      temptation for the epicurean , that the young lady ' s father was a clergyman and an Englishman , " two animals I detest ; " and providentially grafted in one , so that he was enabled to kill three birds with one stone — to afflict an English father , mortify a clergyman , and obtain for his hareem a pretty infant . He had actually sent her off to an obliging friend at Paris , but the police found him out . He returned the young lady to her friends , pleaded before a jury the harrowed state of his feelings under the circumstances of his wife ' s mortal

      illincome has also increased with the progress of manufactures , unaided b y any effort of his , take an example from the guardians of Sheffield , and establish industrial farms on their estates , for the conversion of paupers into industrious workers , and the permanent improvement of the waste lands . We give an account of this experiment in a subsequent page ; it establishes conclusively three facts : that a return may be obtained for pauper labour ; that beneficial pauper labour is a better moral influence than resultless labour ; that union authorities can grasp the broad elements of such questions ; and that the neglected subject of indus-[ Town Edition . !

      Unless , indeed , with more perseverance , and discretion than they have yet shown , the Democratic party employ the whole interval before them to cultivate a thorough understanding with the People in every part of the country . In that case they may be beforehand with the Prince President . Hesse-Cassel remains much in the same slate that it exhibited last week j but many of the German Governments have placed themselves in combination against it , have issued a declaration

      ness , and obtained from them a verdict of " Not Guilty" ! As a witness at the preliminary examinations , the young lady told three different versions of the story—an uncertainty of memory which lTuiy be considered an " extenuating circumstance" in judging the lo # ic of the jury . Music occupies a political prominency this week . Not only has the Eisteddfod an * order I opportunity for the \ Vcleh to display their national airs and

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 28, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1854/page/1/