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      " No House" on Tuesday was the passive declaration of the Faithful Commons on Mr . Hume ' s Lesser Charter—no House , even Mr . Hume himself being absent when the Speaker went to prayers ! The fact tells in two ways . It is true that Mr . Hume was engaged in a most useful public inquiry on army expenditure ; true that he might rely on the good faith of others to make a House for him , —in spite of an old experience in Parliamentary faith ; true that the committee rooms are at an inconvenient distance from " the House " : but

      those circumstances do not explain away the one broad fact , that the Financial Reformers neglected to secure a House for Mr . Hume ' s motion . They must know how long it takes to traverse the lobbies , and could surely have timed themselves more accurately for the race ; yet , of the twentyone ready to accompany Mr . Speaker in his devotions , only six were of the Radical party ! One cannot suppose , therefore , that that party held Mr . Hume ' s motion to be of paramount importance ?

      On the other hand , it is evident that the other parties in the House neither desired nor feared the motion ; they mustered not either to hear , to support , or oppose it . Probably , said Sir George Grey , because they expected no practical result , and Lord John had given notice of a measure for next session : if that is true , Mr . Hume ' s Charter already is ranked by the House below the shadow or a promise from Lord John 1 The Lesser-Chartists within the walls are an neiiner 01 trust 01 alarm

      oojeci nor ; tney are of no account . We have already expressed our opinion why that is so , —because they purposely keep short of measures which would have the sup-J » ort of the People ; they choose to stick to classegialation , and are positively afraid to propose anything which would be national . This is the reason why Mr . Hume ' s Lesser Charter is among the " annual inotiona "; why the idea that any Reformer of that school should be " sent for , " to put his opinions into practice , is Btill a joke .

      The Government make * such progress with its Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , as \ a t 0 be expected from the past . Monday ' s debate wan a lengthened squabble , in which Mr . Moore stood out for the Irish members on technical ground ; tho independent , and especially the Peelite members , kept the higher ground of fair open argument ; and Ministers shuffled between obstinacy and concession ; agreeing to adjourn the committee till Thursday njght , then again to adjourn , in pure helplessness . Lady Arundell of Wardour ' a letter , we would believe , was not without effect : the Commons had awakened to a full sense of the indecency involved in Mr . Spooncr ' a or Mr . Lacy ' H " llciligious Houses Bill" ; he was urged to withdraw it even by Lord Ashley ; Mr . Hume advised the Roman Catholic ( . Town Edition . ]

      Members not to reply to his trivial gossip and 8 candalmongering about conventual enormities , of which he avowedly had no proof ; Lord Arundel and Surrey did abstain from a counterstatement , as a superfluous extension of a debate which was in itself a public nuisance : and the bill was thrown out by a good majority . The numbers , 123 to 92 , are not great : but it must be remembered how much coercion any such appeal as an anti-Papal measure exercises over the average Member mind .

      Lord John Russell has reappeared on the old arena of the British and Foreign School Society , at i ; s annual meeting ; apparently to defend that arena , not long since the advanced post of Liberal popular education , against the still more advanced competition of the Public School Association . Lord John , alluding to the old orthodox National , and the new heterodox Public School parties , made good use of the popular predilection for a " middle course , " and rested confidently on the plea that the

      public will not be content without " a religious element" in education , excluded , he said , by the Public School Association . The religious element is no * excluded by the Public School Association ; it is distinctly provided : only it is kept separate , so that diversities in religious opinion may not interfere with the unity desirable in the matter of practical education . But Lord John is not a very formidable antagonist out of the arena to which he was trained—the House of Commons .

      The banquet of the Sanitary Association we accept as a sign that that body is prepared to reinvigorate its activity , in order to drive forward the Government . The ' public has been somewhat mystified on this subject of Sanitary Reform . It was supposed , when Government consented to eatablisb . the Board of Health , that a machinery had been made to realize sanitary reform , and , therefore , it was presumed that we should have

      sanitary reform : but a power-loom factory is not cotton cloth , a Board of Health is not Sanitary practice , as the public has learned . It asks why we have no cotton from the new factory—only bills of parcels , or samples . Is the Board incapable , or is it in duresse ? From the revival of the Sanitary Association , we infer that the establishment of that Board was one of the hollow " concessions " with which a feeble Government chokes oft

      troublesome movements ; and also , that the movement will revive a healthy troublcBotneness . A healthy troublesomeness also is set going by the Chartist meeting in John-street , to demand the liberation of Kossutli , which our Government could have for the asking' , if it supported Turkey with its own favourite auxiliary , " pressure from without . " Head Kossuth's address , in another page . The Times has been hoaxed by its " own correspondent , " omniscient purveyor of Parisian nows : this is , perhaps , in some sense , the most remarkable event of the week . On Wednesday a pacquot reached Printing-house-wquare , from Paris , marked " immediate . " It contained what

      purported to be a " Message from Mazzini to tne Central Committee in London . " A second edition gave that newest news to the public . Enormous , excitement ! But some persons , not unfamiliar with Mazzini ' s style and ideas , marvelled much at the missive ; and some few knew the hoax , without waiting to read the simple note from Signor Mazzini , informing the Editor of the Times that the " message" was nothing but a forgery . The party of " fusion " and the party of " revision " are each assuming a definite shape in France . Strenuous efforts are made , endless intrigues woven , and a world of correspondence kept up between Claremont and Paris and the Count de

      Chambord . As of old , these senile statesmen ignore the People ; and forget that the army may , nay , most likely will , defend the Republic if ever it be endangered . The monarchical and imperial factions desire the downfal of the Republic ; and they believe in the probability of what they desire . But the declaration of the Constitutionnel in favour of a return to universal suffrage , has given them a blow from which they will not soon recover . Dr .

      Veron is the reputed friend of Louis Bonaparte , and Dr . Veron commands the Constitutionnel , the organ of the liberal middle class . Opposed to this , we must place the telegraphic despatch from Leon Faucher to the Prefect of the Landes , in which he makes the maintenance of the law of the 31 st of May the test of fitness for election . This double policy—" officious and official "—is odd , but not new : " two faces under one hood " is a proverb

      as old as ambitious rulers and unscrupulous statesmanship . Meanwhile Cavaignac is forming a party , and it appears not at all improbable that M . Thiers will join it , through the intervention of General Lamoriciere . The intention ascribed to the Bonapartists is , to revise the Constitution early in June ; and to repeal the standing order of the Assemblywhich makes the lapse of six months necessary before a rejected motion can be again moved ; so reducing the time to one month . The object of

      this appears to be , that they may bring on the revision motion once a month , divide the minority , and carry the revision about September . Now what is all this manoeuvring but , in effect , a serious impediment in the way of returning confidence ? One advantage , however , will arise to the republican party . The formation of Bonapartist and Guizotine committees authorizes the formation of Republican committees for the repeal of the law of the 31 st of May ; and the Republicans are much more active than their opponents .

      Duke Saldanha is now the undisputed and virtual sovereign of Portugal . Count de Thomar landed in lingland on Thursday . The Queen thinks of abdicating in favour of her son . And , at » if this were not startling enough , it is said that Don Jose" I ' aHSOH , renowned as chief of the " plucky " Oporto Junta , in 1817 , is to be tlio President of the Council . Not tho least instructive portion of

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      I " Thm one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or I Humanity—tne 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      ';¦ VOL . II . —No . 60 . SATURDAY , MAY 17 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/1/