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      Land and its treatment continue to form the subject of discussion and practical attempts , in various forms and places , with a degree of sincerity and earnestness seldom shown in public affairs , except when strong conviction and a strong sense of interests are united . It is this question which has called forth the advice of Lord Stanley , at the meeting of the Bury Agricultural Society ; and while we may differ from some of his positions and

      expectations , it is impossible to deny that the candid and practical turn of his counsel will help to bring public attention closer to the pith of the matter . Lord Ward and Sir John Pakington at Worcester , and , indeed , many leading members of the Protectionist party , are fain to abandon their useless stand upon the old ground , and set the example of dealing fairly and directly with the work in hand . Their exhortations and endeavours amount to a

      resolution , that English farming , according to existing tenures and usages , must make a final trial of what it can do ; leaving ulterior questions in abeyance . We have no objection to see the English farming system brought thus fully to a fair test . In Ireland , as is natural , the question takes a somewhat more stirring aspect . The Irish Tenant-League has directed against Lord Clarendon an exceedingly well-written and forcible address , showing how some of the " rights " enforced by law are innovations on the ancient usage of Ireland . Even the official Encumbered Estates Act is stirring

      Irish society to its foundations , and in its revolutionary operation has drawn forth some of the Irish spirit in Conservative resistance : Mr . Thomas O'Brien , of Fairfield , calls upon his tenants to resist the invasion of his ancient patrimony in the true old Irish style . He will of course be put down , and the Encumbered Estates Act will proceed with its revolutionary working ; but we do not see how Lord Clarendon can arrest the tide of agrarian revolution exactly where he pleases , and stop the weighty arguments of the Tenant-League with trite trivialities from the commonplace book of political oeconomy .

      Meanwhile the League has received an accession of strength this week in the adhesion of three members of Parliament—the Honourable Cecil Lawless , member for Clonmel , and son of Lord Cloncurry , Mr . Scully , member for Tipperary , and Mr . Nicholas Maher , the other member for the county , and a large landholder to boot . Mr . Lawless and Mr . Maher have promised to attend the forthcoming Tipperary demonstration . The movement is now making rapid progress . It will soon have strength enough for the accomplishment of a Rreat work , if it only be guided by a due amount of wisdom . * J

      Indeed , other matters are working in the same direction . The example of the Cork industrial [ Town Edition . !

      of that employment to the growth and preparation of flax , for sale in the general market , is a great mistake , since the object should be to render such industrial establishment self-supporting ; but while we must still hold the Cork guardians to their duty as directors of the most intelligent and hopeful experiment , the model for the rest , we hail this spread of attention to the root of the matter .

      workhouse is telling pretty extensively ; and a solution of the difficulty of dealing with ablebodied labour , which created so much anxious debate in Parliament about the distribution of poorlaw assessments in electoral districts or township districts , is attempted in the way of providing industrial employment for the poor . The limitation

      of the Dahra . " Her Majesty ' dominions , indeed , incurred the taint , through Mr . More O'Ferral ' 8 cowardly repulsion of Italian fugitives who sought the shores of Malta , and our flag paled its wonted lustre at the claim of the Absolutist monarchs whom Lord Palmerston ' s affected Liberalism had served ; but our own land has not yet been stained .

      Not that its purity is unassailed . It is supposed that the mission of M . de Persigny to this country , ascribed to a money-raising project for his friend the President , involved also a negotiation for the expulsion of the foreign exiles in this counrty : so completely has the traitor Government in Paris identified itself with the reactionary party ; but there have been indications that our Government is firm in refusing . It is not yet so bad as that .

      It is to us , who cannot too strongly insist upon the necessity of regarding the land as the only sound basis of industrial employment , not less cheering than the progress of associative plans in the metropolis . One step beyond the mere association of particular trades is a plan by which the several trades may traffic with each other ; and such a plan is offered by the London Cooperative Stores , in Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-square . It has been remarked that the establishment of these

      On the contrary , there can be no doubt that our officials will have to obey the wish of the English people in welcoming to our shores the Hungarian leader Kossuth : who will then have an opportunity of thanking Lord Palmerston for his " spirited protest . ' * Prussia , wavering , seems just now , in the retention of the Manteuffel Ministry , to quail before Austria and incline to reaction—drawing back from Radowitz and hearty Germanism . And the Holsteiners are not making head against the Danes , — for they have been repulsed , with much slaughter , from Friedrichstadt .

      stores only brings us to the same point at which Socialism stood many years ago , when Mr . Owen ' s party established the Cooperative Bazaar in Gray ' sinn-lane ; but the remark looks truer than it is . There is an immense change in circumstances . At the time of the Bazaar , the Cooperatives were numerous , but the opinion was limited to avowed Cooperatives : in our day , Associative opinion is spreading into every class of society—even among political ceconomists and churchmen ; the doctrine is far better understood than it was ; and many

      The Hesse Cassel tragedy is turning to farce , and the laughing historian appears to take a pleasure in caricaturing the adversities of the Elector ' s righthand man , poor General Haynau : appointed com * mander-in-chief , he dons a crimson band to his trousers , and at that sign a dreadful insurance company offers him the horrid alternative of giving " up a policy , or " retiring from active service" ! A deputation waits upon him , and propound as proposition so startling , that he opens the window

      mistakes resulting from the want of practical experience can now be corrected . Still we repeat , and we cannot repeat it too often , even reformed industry cannot be considered as safely organized until it shall have fairly taken its basis on the land . In presence of these cheering signs we can view with equanimity a deficit in the ordinary revenue even though it exceed £ 350 , 000 . We have , indeed , small respect for the small anxiety which three months the tablesand is wuico

      and calls out " Treason ! " He orders a review , and nobody comes . He commands his officers to disarm the Burgher Guard , and , instead of obeying him , they get him indicted for treason . The next step would be for him to bring the whole army to a court-martial , and find himself in the pillory . In Paris , the Government is reported to be under coercion by th " e Committee of the Assembly ;

      everv cons revenue , every tnree niontns comb me r evenue , «*«« * o elated or depressed with every rise or fall . What is a falling off of one or two millions sterling ? It is but a reduction of one or two per cent , on the public income of the state , and has far less significancy than many other signs . Let , then , the worthy King of Holland boast a rising revenue unenvied by us ; nay , let him boast unenvied that marvel , a revenue derived from colonial possessions , which our management renders not profitable but

      which has threatened that , if Changarmer be displaced , it will summon the Assembly and endow him with extraordinary powers . Changarnier is a mere soldier , without resources , audacious , insolent—helpless in council , rough and ready with the sabre ; the obstinacy of a one-idea'd man , however , enabled him to obtain the advantage over the weak and shifty Government ; and he has become troublesome as well as insolent . But the timid

      costly in the highest degree . Rather let every penny of our revenue sink in the deepest Irish bog than our own soil be tainted with the bad loyalty that lends Prussian soldiers to Russian tyranny , hunting down Circassian fugitives , as we read this week , and slaughtering lives as Colonel Pdlissier burned the Arabs in the caverns

      majority of the Assembly does not like the idea of being exposed to the dreadful people without the shelter of his shadow ; and so it will not allow the poor President—such is the story—to oust tho impertinent Orleanist . The affair , how-

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      " Thb one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of HunLSty-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between menby prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Relis ? 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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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 12, 1850, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1856/page/1/