Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 14th June 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page unpag., Jgttns nf th 3©wit.

Page unpag.
Page 1
1 of 24

On this page

  • Departments (2)
    • Jgttns nf th 3©wit.
    • ©ontcnts:
  • Text (7)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      < mifah w ^ t > f ti >» ' / sw ^ m&jumS ^ Mb ^ C - ^^ ^ " ^ > A if - ^ ¦ y ^ ^^^^ J \ M &mT ) tcF f ^ ^^ /^^ Sk-V vV ^ M \ i / i

      Jgttns Nf Th 3©Wit.

      Jgttns nf th 3 © wit .

      Untitled Article

      Whitsuntide has been wet , bustling , chilly , and altogether out of lule . Politics are as flat , in the ordinary routine , as boiled mutton chops daily ; and it is only in the distance that some more movement and excitement are descried . The Exposition , true to its rule , has stultified expectation , by showing , in lieu of the excessive crowding anticipated , quite a moderation of multitude . The weekly subscription to pleasure excursions for the Monday was not to be set aside : Greenwich , Hampton Court , and such holiday places , were not defrauded of their company by that vast attraction which defrauds almost everything- else .

      Great banquets in the City continue to signalize , not the Exposition , which signalizes itself , but the good services of the officers connected with it ; Lord Stanley has confessed that fears respecting it have been negatived by the great reality ; Baron Charles Dupin has introduced his brother , President of the French Assembly , to Queen Victoria in the Exposition . The deplorable wet weather has done nothing for Colonel Sibthorp towards melting the glass or otherwise destroying the Crystal Palace ; the receipts- of which have nowcovered the cost , and people are asking what is to be done with the surplus ?

      Under cover of the great metropolitan gathering , the British Association for the Advancement of Science holds its meeting earlier in the year than usual : and Professor Airey delivered his inaugural address as President on Wednesday . The attendance of foreign visitors is numerous enough to frighten Absolutists on their thrones . Among the election affairs going forward , dull enough , for the most part , that at Bath creates some interest—more , perhaps , from the understood views of the candidates than their overt addresses . Mr . Sutcliife , the Conservative , is understood to decline any pledge to demand a renewal of Protection ; and Captain Scobell , who will « o for a large extension of the suffrage , is supposed to be willing to accept the largest . Bath should accure him .

      The friends of the Church of England , not less than the friends of " reliKiouB liberty , " should look after the sOhh of the Church , whose vagaries are doing it mom mischief than the most systematic opposition could do . For acting in the spirit which moved the Bishop of London , when he oilerecl the use of certain places of worship to foreign I rotcsiant divines—that is to say , for acting in a

      spirit of Christian fellowship with Protestants not lnlon ii ) g to the Church of Knglund , Mr . Wand lmn been forced to resign at Norwich . At Whitehaven , by dismissing a charge of assault , oil Lhc score of spiritual provocation , a zealous magistrate lias virtually declared from the bench , that the preacher of the Unitarian doctrines must undergo violence from any member of the Church of England who resents Ihh schism , and must expect no ITown Eim'ioN , ]

      redress . At Lincoln the Church-damaging process of extorting church-rates has been renewed , and has been self-defeated by excess . The frightful accident on the Brighton and Lewes Railway , briefly reported last week , still engages much talk . Possibly it was brought about by an act of boyish folly , which removes it in some degree from the common class of railway accidents . Perhaps an act of childish mischief never had a more frightful result . But the fact is far from

      certain . Several incidents illustrate the progress of Association . The congress held by the Leeds Redemption Society not only proves the activity which distinguishes that body , but also prepares a plan for concentrating the scattered Associative efforts . Some such concentration is very necessary . At present considerable numbers of Socialists throughout the country remain ignorant of what is done , even among the regularly-organized societies , still

      more among out-lying adherents . There is at present no effective machinery for bringing all those efforts into one view , although there can be no doubt that such a unity would be productive of the greatest advantages . Two advantages alone would repay any effort of the kind . It would fortify the confidence of Socialists , in all sections , by displaying their numbers . By the same process , it would at once draw in a number of adherents , who would avow themselves if they knew the numbers already prepared to stand by them .

      The morning journals have been chuckling this week over the real " Message " from the " European Central Democratic Committee . " It was published in the Vvix du Proscrit on Saturday , and will be found in our columns authentically translated . We have no hesitation in saying that it is the most comprehensive and catholic document yet issued by the Committee . The policy which it advocates has our entire concurrence . The aim of the Committee—a Holy Alliance of Nations—and

      the means proposed to attain it—Liberty , Association , Labour—have been and are the aim and ineana of tlie Jjeader . The declaration that the Committee not only do not desire but will combat " anarchy" and " terror , " disarms , in the face of Europe , the Reaction of its choicest weapons . Side by side with the dastardly policy of French reaction , of iron Absolutism of Russia , the servile oppression of Austria , and the mean treachery of Prussia , how brightly shine the frank and earnest declarations , the noble summons of these exiles!—not exiled , however , from the confidence of their countrymen . The crowned conspiracy at Warsaw and Olmutz bus resulted in a fixed determination on the part of Russia , Austria , and Prussia , to employ their united forces against all popular convulsions in Europe which may arise in 1852 ; presuming , of course , that the reactionary measures of the majority , and the imperial ambition of Louis Napoleon will , in that year , culminate , and urge France into the vortex of revolution . Tho Morning- Chronicle

      distinctly , and the daily journals generally , have announced this imperial resolve . We see an instance of the cordial understanding of the German Kings in the treatment of Bakoonin . He is a Russian subject ; his political offence was participation in the Dresden insurrection . For this offence against the King of Saxony he is sentenced to die by an Austrian court , and that sentence commuted by the Austrian Emperor into strict imprisonment for life—* ' carcere duro . " Meanwhile , with the consent of France and the Papal Government , Austrian troops

      are to occupy the Papal States . Austria occupies Tuscany , Austria occupies Hesse Cassel , Austria occupies Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg , and Austria is about to occupy the Romagna . The preparations for an Absolutist campaign are complete ; and where are the constitutional Governments ? England is isolated , and moreover bound in the bonds of Palmerston diplomacy . Switzerland is cowed , Piedmont overawed , and Belgium necessarily neutral . Where , then , are the avengers of Bakoonin , of the Hungarian exileB , of the Italian bondsmen ?—Waiting .

      In France the decision of the bureaux upon the revision question is tantamount to a defeat of the party . To report upon the various propositions for revision they have nominated a commission , which contains four Republicans and two Orleanists , opposed to all the propositions . The remaining nine are of various shades of the Party of Order , in favour of revision ; but for such various reasons that no union can be hoped for : there are three Legitimists , who will only consent to legal revision ; there are three in favour of revision at any cost ; and there are three of the dubious "

      tiersparti . " The debates in the bureaux were moderate in tone , but not lacking determination . The striking features of the deliberations were the severe attack which M . de Falloux made upon the Dijon speech , contrasting it unfavourably with the policy of the Ministry of which he had made one ; and the meek and ( mailing reply of M . Leon Fauchcr on the part of the Government . Another point to be noted is the open declarations of both the extreme parties , as well as of the Bonapai tists : General Cavaignac stands sternly by the Republic , his hand on his sword ; M . Moulin goes headlong for monarchy ; while M . Larabit frankly states

      that his object is the reelection of Louis Napoleon , to be effected by evading tho provisions of the con " Mtitution . The revision , i << ' « clear , cannot be carried without a " coup d ' etut . " It is clear , also , that the Dijon speech has estranged the Legitimists still further from the President : they would fight for the Republic rather than tolerate a bastard monarchy : hence , with the Republicans ever on the alert in front , with estranged and outraged Legitimists and disaffected OrleanintH on each flank of the Imperial revision party , a coup d ' e ' tat is impossible . Also , in tho teeth of the express provisions of the constitution , revision is impossible . We must not omit to notice the declaration of Montalembert ,

      Untitled Article

      VOL . IL—No . 64 . SATURDAY , JUNE 14 , 1851 . * Price 6 d .

      ©Ontcnts:

      © ontcnts :

      Untitled Article

      News of the Week— Page Crime and Suicide 555 Bailey ' s Theory of Reasoning 561 The European Central Democratic Parliament of the Week 5 ? 0 Police 555 Portfolio— Committee 566 French 1 ' olitics 550 Public Affairs— The Philosophy of Christianity 563 Progress of the People—Kaiser Joseph 55 L The Situation 557 The Banished Student ' s Lament .... 56 I Congress of the Redemption Society 567 General Continental News 551 The coming Struggle in Europe 557 The Arts— O'Connor and the" Dundee Courier" 567 ~ Hungarian Captives in Turkey 551 The World's Railways 558 DonGiovanni 564 Open Council-Gardeners' Benevolent Institution .. 552 Practical Working of the CoHstitu- II Prodigo 564 JNon-R . esist . ince aw * Religious Freedom in Norwich , tion at St . Alban ' s 558 Ingomar 565 Education of the People •*>» Whitehaven , and Lincoln 552 Progress of Assurance 558 Vivian not at the Play 565 The Socialist Cause » WJ Sir John Franklin 552 Progress of Opinion 5-59 Holiday Amusements 565 Life Assurance ot » B Railway Accidents 553 Competition in Lock-picking 5 > 9 Vauxhall Gardens 56 ( i Objections to Marriage with a De-The Exposition 553 Power and Peace 559 Cremorne Gardens 566 ceased Wife ' s Sister Jh >» Boiler Explosion 563 Literature— Surrey Zoological Gardens 5 G 6 Commercial Affairs—Personal News and Gossip 551 Mrs . Browning ' s New Poem 560 European Democracy— Market 3 , Gazettes , &c D 5 y-7 U

      Untitled Article

      "The one Idea which History exrmbits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all me burners erected between men by prejudice and . one-sidua 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 . "—Humeoldt ' s Cosmos .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1887/page/1/