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      Thk Income Tax Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords , without even an anxiety pro forma : the debate was to be considered simply as an appendix to the previous debates , the whole treatment of the affair having been arranged beforehand . One year more of the income-tax and then a fight about it ; unless in the interval Whigs and Protectionists find their interest in combining against the public . For the Protectionists are not to be trusted , even

      in their capacity of anti-Whigs . Their leadens no more than an exiled Whig , a Coriolanus amongst the Volsciana ; his opposition to the possessors of the Capitol is a perverted sympathy , rather than a genuine antagonism . His party for the time being neither trusts him nor understands him , nor comprehends its own vocation . When Lord Stanley was sent for to form a Ministry , he declared himself " not prepared : " when he had an opportunity of legislating , or trying to legislate on protective principles , he skulked below and shirked what seemed to be the plain duty of a devout believer in the prime article of his party ' s creed . Now , when he has not the slightest chance of success , when even the forms of the House bar him from

      the attempt , when he cannot move , he comes out and declaims at the House in good set terms . Yet have these Protectionists a mission , and they know it—but know not how to perform it . Protection meant something more than ' * rent . " It had a bright or rnther a less dark side . What it seems to have meant was this : that the cultivators of the land should have a full share of the fruits of their toil . We are now " prosperous , " gay , employed , and amused . But the season of distress which

      occurs periodically will assuredly return , like the typhus or the cholera , and then , " prosperity" will vanish . The Protectionist party are still the landlords— still the respected patrons of the agricultural labourers ; they are on the spot , and , in that day of trial , the agricultural labourers will look first to their "friends" for relief : those landlords must be prepared , to solve the question then , or the exasperated peasantry will at once turn to others , the proniul gators of doctrines which have found their way into Wiltshire and Somersetshire ; into Hairp-Bfhire , Devon , and Kent i doctrines which teach that the land is man ' s , and that thefruita thereof me the rightful property of industry .

      A perverse fate , self provoked , obliges Ministers to go on with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , pninAU even to themselves , despised by their supporters , and successfull y obstructed by the Irish memborH . The Irishmen are quite right . The measure deserves no respect ; the fjjovernrnent which propounded it doot ) not deserve to exist ; arid there is no reason why conscientious opponents should waive the resources of an Opposition . They are I Town Edition ]

      right to fight the Government on this bill , right to support Mr . Baillie in his Ceylon motion next Tuesday , because his attack menaces the existence of the Government . In order to make his attack effective they ought riot only to give him their votes at a division , but to take ere , that he has a House , and to keep it for him , even through the dinner hour . If the independent members had done their duty , they would have stood by Sir William Molesworth and Van Diemen ' s Land on Monday .

      A perverse fate deprives them of the courage to accept a rising movement , which would fall in well enough with their past , and with their general , views—the movement for secular education . Mr . Fox reintroduced it , with much ability , on Thursday , in a speech full of facts , clear ana temperate . Lord John Russell must see , well enough , that the plan is not hostile to religion , but the reverse ; nevertheless , Sir George Grey committed the Ministry to the imitation scheme , which was devised , like the original in Manchester , but which has not , like that , the inherent elements of success . Ministers have taken up with cant and misconception , where an easy and most creditable reform offers itself for their adoption .

      The May meetings are totally eclipsed Ivy the Exposition and its appendages : even the Derby did not thin the crowd in the Crystal Palace on Wednesday—the greater , perhaps , for the expectation of more room ; and ordinary philanthropies gave place to the grand international dinner at Richmond , where English Conservatives and Commissioners fraternized with foreign Republicans . Lord Aahburton , indeed , made the mistake in his congratulatory retrospect , of declaring that the press had been hostile to the Exposition whilst it was a project ; but the working commissioners must know

      better . Lord Ash burton lias been misled by the tempornry aberration of a distinguished journal ; his colleagues can tell him that the press was generally favourable , and sometimes useful at a p inch . Ah to the Exposition itself , the continued increase of numbers has suggested the very pertinent question whether further regulations may not be necessary when the admission shall be reduced t < i one shilling . Already the collection of the crowd is great at particular spots within the building . French politics are becoming wonderfully simplified . Parties clearly define their boundaries . "

      Fusion , ' an we have seen , is Legitimacy in disguise ; ' * Revision" is Monarchy at any price . The principle of both jh the gamo . For a long distance their route is coincident . The Republic is no longer covertly called " neutral ground . " It is now hostile territory openly attacked ; and the design is openly announced of conquering it by force or fraud . This , of course , Hiinplifit'H tho position of the Republicans . They now know their foes , ami the designs of thont ) foes . It in their turn to take up the » trong position of legal resistance , and they will not be backward . They have , in effect , become the " Party of Order /'

      The mask of hypocrisy worn by the De Falloux and De Broglies is torn aside . They are now the enemies of constituted authority . The forged message hoaxed the Debats and the Constitutionnel ,-aa well as the Chronicle and the Times . The Debats honourably inserted a letter addressed to it by Mazzini without comment , simply intimating , in a few introductory lines , signed " Avmand Bertin / ' that the forged missive

      was not inserted without doubts of its genuineness , The Times correspondent , however , suppresses one paragraph of Mazzini ' s letter , sneeringly doubts its authenticity , and tells us that in " official quarters " the message was held to be genuine . The Constitutionnel insinuates doubts as to the sincerity of the denial , and treats the whole affair maliciously . In fact , both in good sense and good faith , l \ f . Mazzini has again surpassed these mighty paladins of the party of order .

      Rome does credit to French patronage and English tolerance . Roman is constantly fighting with Frenchman , and beating him , single-handed . Blood flows . The population exhibits its hatred , both of the Papal Government and its French janisaries in many ways . Notably , by beating the French , and refusing to smoke Papal tobacco . Meanwhile the Pope walks before the Lateran in a high wind , with his major domo to hold his scarlet hat on 1

      The cunning old Germanic Diet has again set itself up at Frankfort . In the words of one of its own organs , it has " resumed . " What a long adjournment—three years ! Apparently its members have quite forgotten that Metternich had to scamper from Vienna , and that they themselves vanished before the " Constituent " assembled in St . Paul ' s Kirk ! Prussia , quite beaten and disarmed , flies into the arms of brother-in-law Nicholas at

      Warsaw . Austria , triumphant for the moment , will go to meet the effete Diet , prepared to enforce the execution of her tjcheme for the incorporation of the non-Germanic provinces . These German Kings have a curious and devout faith in dead institutions . We wish them joy of their transitory victory , and a light pair of heels in the coming day of retribution . Nearer home , the most stirring events of th week , perhaps , have been the Derby day without a great race , but one which piqued interest by perbuild

      plexing calculation ; the fatal fall of a great ing in Gracechurch-street , a great range of chambers uncompleted ; two disastrous accidents on the Midland Railway through neglect of signals ; and more than one bud fire . The worst fire in the City is evidently of that class in which hie would hav « been saved if onu of Phillipa ' s " aniiihilators" had been in tho house . In the railway and building accidents , we hoo bow the commercial principle lulls when it is trusted too , 'far . The love of dividends multiplies trains too quickly on the line ; paraimony of materials cuts too close for safety ; and in both instances life i « sacrificed to the golden idol .

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      VOL . II—No . 61 . SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 1851 Price 6 d .

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      I News o * THB Week— Page May Meetings . 4 » 3 " Austria" at the Exposition 488 The Fallacy that Harmless Errors Parliament of the Week 478 Another Railway Smash 483 Poor Law Progress in Coventry .. ^ 489 should be Let Alone 494 The Exposition Dinner at Richmond 479 Personal News and Gossip 483 A Restoration without a Revival .... 489 Progress of the People — Continental Aspects 480 Crimes and Accidents .. , , 484 Thiers a Socialist 489 Addressto Rcbert Owen 494 Roman Riots and Ifo Smoke . " .... 4 * 0 MiFcellaneous . ' . 485 Literature— Secular Education in Galashiels .... 494 The Anti-Convict Movement ...... 481 Public Affairs— Companions of my Solitude 489 The Ebenezer , near the Niagara Falls 495 The Fail of the Edifice in Grace- Tlie Real Aggression on Liberty and Kelly ' s California 491 Open Councilchurch-street 481 England ...... 486 The Arts— The Malthus Controversy 495 Metropolitan Fires 481 A Colony and its Governors ..,.,... 487 Fidelio 492 Land and Numbers 496 Ep > om Races " ....... 482 Phillips ' s Fire Annihilator ... 487 Only a Clod 493 Malthus among the Sheep 496 Workhouse Schools in Coventry .. .. 482 An Apology for Captain Somerset .. 488 The Chevalier Bosco 493 Churches Degenerate 4 il 6 Church Discipline and Catholic Limitation of Malthusian Contro- Portfolio— Commbrcial Affaiks—Chums 482 versy 488 To Eliza Lynn * . 494 Market 3 , Gazettes , &c 497-8

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      "Thk one Idea -which History exmbit 3 as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour tothrow 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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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1884/page/1/