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      VOL . II . —No . 63 . SATURDAY , JUNE 7 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      Parliament makes such progress with its work as must be most satisfactory to Ministers , for it consists in a minimum of advancement , and they are frightened with no precipitate successes . It is thus that they get on with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , moving scarcely at the rate of a line a day . Indeed the principal progress consists in disposing of the bona fide amendments , like that of Mr . ^¦ ¦ .. ¦ - ^ Widlpole to lijnit the operation of the bill to Eng-* fc : ^ ffN ?» - * 3 f ^ ° W ^ fT ;?* more stringent ^ itlj&y&at Sw ^ 4 Bj | fci * $ B » - jj ^ inncio ^ ofctf roc | £ & , or ^ $ ^ ? v * r $ | j jitt ^^ ^ stefat it seems likely ' to-binder . rdtheV than arrest the progress of the bill . It was amusing to watch the coquetting of the Commons with Mr . Hume ' s motion on the Income tax . He proposed his committee ; but it no longer suits the Protectionist Opposition to raise any question on that subject , and they tried to shelve the motion without saying so . On the other hand , it is no longer necessary for Ministers to fence with the question , therefore they did not oppose Mr . Hume ; and he earned his motion . Part of the non-pro sress was effected by means of a count-out on Tuesd&y . This was foreseen : in one of the committees , we have heard , that a Radical Member asked an official , whether they meant to make a count-out of it ? and the reply was a significant grimace . Members , however , do say , that when they arc on committees , they have not sufficient notice of the Speaker ' s being at prayers . Ministers have carried the second reading of their unworkable Water Supply Bill ; and have successfully defended chicory against Mr . Thomas Baring ; which in much . Although supported by Ministers , Lord Mclgund has not been able to carry his Bill for general Kducation in Scotland—a measure providing for the development of the existing system . Minister ( supported the young nobleman , hut they did not make a majority for him . Educationists of all kinds seem able to get no further than negatives at present . The National Society , this week , considers itself to have achieved a great triump h simply in putting the extinguisher of a negative on the positive opinion of its own majority . Before the annual meeting , the most conflicting reports were circulated as to the intentions of the leading men—they intended a d ' lHCUHnion , it wan said ; they would not flinch ; they would flinch . From all that punned wo gather , that the Society i » divided into three sections , on a question , not of doctrine , but of policy—one party that is inclined to take a liberal view of the relation between the Society and the Committee of Council on Education ; one that rewentH all compromises , and wishes to exact a utato nub « idy for schools under clerical management ; and a third parly Hyin-ITown Edition ]

      patbizing with the second , but prepared to act with the first as the more prudent . These last were the deprecators of all " discussion "; Mr . G . A . Denison was the representative of the uncompromising ultra-clerical party . But it is not for us to retrace the whole of the great storm and its little episodical breezes : the reader will find a more detailed account a few pages on : the upshot was , that the meeting , under strong persuasion of Bishop , and with some doubt as to the balance of its own convictions , did agree not to affirm Mr . Denison ' s bold antagonistic course , and not to take any other of a distinct kind ; but simply to do nothing , —to ISSfiz ^ * ° reraam natf friends with the Committee ' 4 < j $ ^^ "« afe '' course ,, Among the most remarkable events of the week is Mr . Philip Pusey ' s open denouncements of " Protection " as henceforth a delusion and an impossibility . Even a five-shilling duty on wheat , he says , would not be worth disturbing a Ministry for ; there is already Is . of duty ; the foreigner would sell his 2 s . lower ; and so the protection would amount , for the grower , only to 2 s . ; and would , at the present prices , raise wheat jujst 2 d . above the rate , 40 s ., at which everybody on the Protection side has said wheat cannot be grown . This would secure to the grower a margin consisting of that same 2 d .: so that we are witnessing an attempt at national agitation for 2 d . The obituary records the death of two men , whose names have been familiar as household words—Richard Lalor Sheil and Lord Shaftesbury . The Peer hud creditably filled a troublesome office as chairman of committees in the House of Lords , but he had already retired from service . His death removes Lord Ashley to the Upper House ; to whose more fastidious ears he must henceforth deliver his descriptions of suffering among the poor . It is curious to nee the " serious" Lord Ashley succeed to the title of the more celebrated but sceptical author of the Characteristics . Sheil was Envoy at the Court of Tuscany , and was to conduct those negotiations at Rome which Lord Pahncrston will explain to \\ a , probably , in 1854 . The chosen man was a Liberal and a Roman Catholic , but a believer in Paluiernton , a debtor to the Wings for Irish emancipation , and not a man of inflexible Imrposc ; hence we should not be sorry to nee Lord NilmerNton obliged to employ , some less imposing instrument . From I'Vance we have some remarkable facts this week . The revision question is fairly under weigh . M . de Broglichus laid before the Assembly the proposition devised by the renowned Bonapadist Club in the- Rue < h \ s Pyramided This proposition , it will be remembered , differ . s from that agreed to by the Orleanists and the Legitimists ; but it is uuderntood that tliey will support it . We may note storms in the Assembly on the National ( Jumd Bill , and storms in the press apropos of the political event of the week—the President ' s speech at

      Dijon . This speech is not so marvellous , though sufficiently so , in its official form , as in the generally-received and commonly-reported account of it . According to many of the French journals , the President departed from the draft read to his Ministers in denouncing the factions of the Party of Order . Not one word was said of the Republic , or of the Electoral Law of the 31 st of May . The speech is looked upon as a declaration of war , and in spite of denials , so it has been received . \ Meanwhile , it is curious to note , how dmkl thitf crossing of intrigues and uproar of factions ^ J 6 nt | t < $ f this t * uge agitation of the party of order , the Associasbre principle flourishes , extends , and develops itjjggf among the Working Men of France . But it is not the first time that the only saving principle of society has been lecogn ^ tecl ana carried out by the People , while the men of aihhition andthQ ' roue ' s of party , have been pursuing a phantom " . More than one English correspondent has supr plied us with information on the subject ; and th « i letter which we publish amongst our news is the work of a friend who is master of the subject , both on English and French ground . Indeed , the circumstance that Englishmen of the classes which supply our legislators are now studying the development of the principle of Concert on French ground is in itself a " great fact , " and one that will have great fruits ; for the studies made on French ground will most assuredly be applied in England . Meanwhile , note how the French have surpassed our English Socialists , not only in political activity , but in perseverance , business management , and practical application . In Germany , the ; $ oth of May was signalised by the meeting of the Frankfort Diet ; and the : $ lst by the inauguration of a grand monument to Frederick the Great at Berlin . If the Diet does the work appointed for it , Prussia must necessarily be humbled . In fact , it is a reproach to Frederick William—the meeting of that Diet ; it is a stain , which the memory of " Old Fritz" will not efface , but deepen . The conquerer of Silesia would blush for the betrayer of Hesse Cassel . The Prussian People , much as they venerate the memory of the grand old despot who made them a nation , did not attend the celebration . " Res / xrcta-, bility / ' with endless gigts , was then ;; but the King suspected the People , aiul the People did not honour his festival with tlieir presence . The fart is significant of much . The Indian news gives us fuller accounts of the trial of Jotee Persand , the eminent , banker and contractor , whose services , yielded once more at the importunate entreaty of the Indiiui authorities , have been requited by a criminal charge of fraud iu his accounts . lie employed a British lawyer , who confronted the Court of Agra in the true Westminster-hall style , and wrung from the very jurors whom ho addressed as " servants" of " the Honourable" East India Company , a verdict for thu Hindu .

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      __ I "The one Idea-which History exnibita as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or I Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided I views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Reli £ ? 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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      I News op the Wbbk— Page The Belgium Murders 532 Asa Whitney ' s Railway 538 Cruvelli ' s Norma 543 I Parliament of the Week 526 Philip Pusey on Protection 532 Oriental Navigation 538 DonGiovanni 543 I The Industrial Congress 537 Personal New 9 and Gossip 533 Literature— The Duke ' s Wager 543 I Meeting : of the National Society 528 The Atlantic and Pacific Bail way .. 534 Swedenborg ' s Heaven and Hell .... 539 The Arctic Regions " . ' . 543 I The Exeter Synod 523 Ascot Races 534 "Violenza 539 Progress op the Peoplk-I Death of Lord Shaftesbury 529 Crimes and Accidents 534 The Erne Fly-Fishing 540 Liberation of Kossuth 544 I Death of Bichard Lalor Sheil 529 Mi ? cellaneoua 535 Portfolio— Open Council—I Continental Notes 530 Public Affaibs— The Society of Pumpkins 511 The Necessity of "War 544 [ State and Pjospects of Trance 531 The Labour Movement 536 Two Portraits of Mazzini 542 Progress of Opinion 544 English Law in India . —Jotee Per- The Most Liberal of Our Members 537 Charlotte Corday 542 2 John 10 . —Interpretation 544 ¦ sand 531 Captivi ty of Lieutenant Wyburd .... 538 The Arts— Commercial Affairs—Dartmoor Prisons 531 " Peace '' the Destroyer 538 Rachel and Racine 542 Market 3 , Gazettes , &c 545-8

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1886/page/1/