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      The Home-office haa got over its hysterical trepidations 3 and has ceased to advise Queen Victoria to open the Exposition of " All Nations " in private state . It has at last been made apparent to the official fuss-makers , that the exhibitors , the workpeople , and the holders of three-gjinea season tickets , would form a very strong body-guard should her Majesty ' s troops turn fainthearted , which does not commonly happen . The official programme of the ceremony has been published : it seems to us at once simple , and calculated to give satisfaction ;

      except that a very large number evidently desire a recognition of the religious feeling which will be common to the vast majority through all varieties of creed . The Times discussed this point last week , and seemed to hold the official clergy as labouring " under some incapacity , which certainly would not be felt in Germany or France . Dr . Emerton has suggested one mode ; and surely the national church might muster the faculty of contriving some expression of the great spirit which will move so many . jProbably the programme will be revised in this respect , as it has been in others .

      " Immense preparations , " we have heard , are made to render the access of troops to London easy during the season , in case of any tumu'tuary indiscretion . To speak our sentiment straight out , we hold that such preparation would be perfectly sound judgment in the responsible Ministers . It would be sounder than a system of espionage , of which we see signs ; probably , however , nothing more than the speculation of certain idle vagabonds , in blood-money . The true representatives of the people are as anxious for order , and the people as well disposed to it as the soberest inhabitants of Downini'

      street can be ; and the true leaders of the foreign patriots who have been driven to seek an asylum in England , men bent on calling forth nations and enthroning peoples , cannot but abhor such miserable mockery as mere rioting . But there may be brawlers of another sort ; and we all desire that any attempt against order , against the unity of nalioiiH , against the true chivalry of Democracy , should ht % from firHt to last , manifestly hopeless . If the reports of the military preparations are true , MiniHters and the precise old Soldier at the head of military affairs , are but doing their duly .

      Church discipline continues to render itself wanted by its absence . While Bishop Lee of Manchester is canning chagrin to liberal men by acts of petty oppression over a sickly Hi ^ li Church curate , at Wehthoughton , the Bishop of ltipon in avowing that he can do nothing to exclude men appointed to St . Saviour ' s Church , at Leeds , by the patron , Dr . usey—godfather of that Anglo-Roman faith of which Dr . Newman is the father ! TIiiim

      the eccentric Bishop of Manchester is taking vexatious steps for fear a surplice Hhould get into tht ) pulpit at Westhoughton , but the Bishop of Kipon [ Town Edition ]

      cannot close one of the newly-established posterns leading direct from the Church of England to that of Rome . Meanwhile , they are carrying on an active war of candlesticks , in St . Paul's , Birmingham , and in St . Barnabas , Knightsbridge : in the latter place , Bishop Blomfield has succeeded in ejecting Mr . William Early Bennett ; but he can't overcome the candlestick 1

      The Dublin Ladies are sending over a memorial calling upon the chief Lady in the land to defend them against the insulting implications of Mr . Spooner ' s Religious Houses Bill . Supervision of religious houses , which , whatever has been done , might be used as places of compulsory detention , is a most proper and needful object ; but the composition of Mr . Spooner ' s bill is preposterously inquisitorial and offensive .

      ( Economically , the transition state of Ireland is well illustrated by two simultaneous facts—while Connemera is still under process of depopulation by evictions , Lord Clarendon is lecturing the Irish landlords , at an unprecedentedly good agricultural meeting , against an obsolete feudalism . The Conservatives , aided by the sudden retirement of Mr . David Williams Wire , who had occupied the ground as Liberal candidate , have returned Mr . Fre 3 hfield as member for Boston . Meanwhile , in the capacity of Protectionists , the same party has had a great demonstration at Edinburgh—a demonstration which demonstrated nothing , except the lengths which Lord Naas , Mr . George

      Frederick Young , and Mr . Newdegate would go—by railway—to make vapid speeches , and to be cut out by the indigenous eloquence of Mr . SherifF-his torian Alison and Mr . Aytoun . The Scots would not listen to Mr . Young ' s interminable statistics , but received from Sheriff Alison , with natural favouritism , the elaborate disproof of that " prosperity" which Mr . Forbes Mackenzie had admitted ! The meeting was a gathering of persons banded for party purposes ; but its quasi-official managers must have felt that the less said the better was . The policy of the Liberals is , to get the Protectionists into " power , " then to make them talk and try to act .

      The old parties with new names are daily assuming more definite shapes on the Continent . Senility ih again in . the ascendant . The old gentlemen who were so rudely shaken in 1848 , have adjusted their milled robes , and ventured once more to present themselves as statesmen . M . ( iui' / ot , respectable at leant for hoiii « tlnngy , has succeeded in obtaining an organ , the Assembler

      Nationale , to represent the Doctrine under a new name . It now appears in the policy of fusion . The defeated Minister of the 24 th of February , — the Minister of one idea , Resistance , —has declared that France must not only have a Monarchy , but a Monarchy of the Bourbons ! He in joined by sardonic IJuchatel , by the tihiflinx Mole " , by the Legitimists , J ) e 1 ' antoret , Saint 1 ' riest , and © thorn . These chiefs of uxhuusted parties , and

      statesmen of defunct regimes , have sought in the armory of tradition for weapons of offence It was the press which overthrew the Restoration ; and it is with the press they hope to extinguish the Republic . Thiers , fiercely hostile to this coalition , conspires for the Count de Paris and the Regency . Meanwhile what becomes of France ? She is kept in a constant suspense by statesmen of the Monarchy who will not accept the Republic ; and by partizans of the Empire who can tolerate neither . Yet these are they who preeminently style themselves " the Party of Order" 1

      As incipient Guizotism is rising into notice in France , so complete Metternichistn dominates in Germany . The splendid ideal of the Fatherland has realised itself in the statu quo ante—the old Frankfort Diet is actually resuscitated . The solemn farce at Erfurt last year has its parallel in the Dresden Conferences this year , which have died of neglect and inanity !

      In Rome , Gregorism , with its inquisition , its spies , its mercenary and relentless police , its political proscriptions , its tortures , its banishments , its brigandage , and its mind-crushing slavery , reigns ostensibly supreme , and dreams iniquities under the protecting glare of French and Austrian bayonets . The Austrian stick , the future symbol of Absolutism , has replaced the sceptre in Tuscany , Milan , and Venice . And yet who doubts but that the people of Italy only await the signal fire which shall make a clean sweep of the Papacy as a temporal powerof the Bourbonite and the Hapsburpjher—of Guelfg and Ghibellines all ?

      The armed Ministerial crisis in Portugal is rot proceeding very favourably for the Opposition forces : Saldanha does not receive ho much support as he expected ; the Government shows an unusual command of men , money , and influence ; and the position of the insurgent is critical . Returning home , and descending to provincial matters , we observe with satisfaction that the Board of Health has so far complied with demands upon it from several provincial towns , as to present to Government the suqi / estion of a plan for

      abolishing intramural intermentH in country towns . We should have the more satisfaction il we bad any confidence that the suggestion would be promptly followed up ; but the issue of this Hcheme reminds iih of the Act for abolishing intramural internuMit . s : what has become of that ? People are beginning to inquire , rather curiously , When is it thai , we an ; to see some results ? Tho mild decline of winter and the we ! spring have lent a peculiar iioisoinencss to the exhalations of urban districts , und peculiar force to the impatience for practical progrtisw in the sanitary work .

      Indeed the spirit of sanitary reform , physical an well an moral , lias seized u ith too ( inn a hold upon the people to be dropped by the Government ; witnesH tho spirited movement in Muocleufield for a public library and park .

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      "Thk one Idea whicb History exhibits as 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 oy setting aaiie the distinctions of Reb . s 4 i . 0 n , 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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      VOL . 1 L—No . 57 . SATURDAY , APRIL 26 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      Sews op tub Week— Page A Baronet in Bridewell 385 Principle 393 All the Easter Pieces 397 Progress at the International Expo- Shocking Mistake .. 385 How to Give Leisure and Life to Operas of the Week 397 sition 383 Personal News and Gossip ........ 386 Hundreds of Thousands 393 H * nry Russell at the Olympic .... 397 The Kaster Holidays 383 Crimes and Accidents 386 "Why should Kotten-row go to Ken- Professor Anderson at St . James's Continental Affairs 382 Public Affairs— sington-gardens ? 393 Theatre 398 Church Discipline 383 It is Coming : 390 Litbraturb— Salter ' s Waterloo Banquet ........ 398 Catholic Claims 383 O "Ye of Little Faith 390 Life of Wordsworth , 394 Puogkess of the People—Election Affairs 383 The Social Disease 391 Yeast 394 Letters to Chartist 3 398 Labour and Pauperism 384 Progress of Industrial Association .. 391 Local Self Government 395 Open Council—A Scene on the Sacramento : Trans- Exposition Sunday 392 Portfolio— Suggestions to the Council of the atlantic Crime 381 Is the Rotation Visible ? 392 Godiva in 1851 396 National Reform Association .... 399 The Diurnal Rotation of tb < -Earth ... 3 S 5 Proposed Aggregate Meetings 392 To an Infant Sleeping- 39 ti Cremations Spiritual 399 The Guild of Literature at 1 Art ... 385 Grievances of the Cavalry Officer .. 392 Tub Arts— Commercial Affairs—The Late Lord Langdale ' . 385 More Discussion oil the Associative 8 chiller ' s Bobbers 396 Market 3 , Gazettes , &c 399-400

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/1/