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      Yesterday the session , was wound up with the customary formality and splendour of a state prorogation . The Queen's Speech will be found elsewhere . There was nothing to distinguish this ceremony from its hundred predecessors , except the appearance of the Commons " four deep , on the flats . For the rest it was splendid" and dignified .

      The business done at the Lords amounted only to what was obviously formal , except that Lord SHArrESBUKY , in the absence of the Earl of Harrowby , moved an address to the Crown , praying that our Ministers and Consuls abroad be-instructed to report on Protestant chapel and burial accommodation , and the state of the law with respect to the exercise of the Protestant religion in the countries where they are located . The motion was agreed to .

      In the Commons , various matters were gone through with . Mr . Wakley renewed the attempt to obtain an order to print the eridence taken before the Income-tax Committee , | and made a motion to that effect , which was rejected on a division by 62 to 52 . After this , the drawing of the names for precedence in attending the House of Peers was proceeded with , much laughter being excited by cries of " Dead " when Captain Scobell ' s name was drawn , that gentleman having previously complained that his name was placed in the obituary of the Navy List . The first name drawn was that of Lord Dudley Stuart , then Sir A . Brooke , and Captain Scobell . At the suggestion of Mr . Wakley the House permitted Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston to take precedence by courtesy .

      Sir jRoBEHT Inolis inquired whether , if a Protestnnt Church was erected in Rome , it would receive consular protection ; also , whether an application for Protestant burial ground at Madrid had been complied with , under certain objectionable conditions , and whether the correspondence respecting Captain Pakenham and Mr . Ilcaley , Protestants exiled from Florence and Home respectively , would be laid on the table . Lord Pat . mekston replied , that the correspondence was now in progress , and therefore could not be

      produced ; that with respect to erecting a church at Home , tho British residents had had n chapel there for some time ; " and if they applied to be allowed to place themselves under the provisions of the Consular Act , he was not uwavc of any reason why their application should be refused . " Ah to the Protestant burial-ground at Madrid , that had been undoubtedly granted , accompanied by conditions which her Majesty ' s ( iovernment had learned with puin and regret . Ho laid on the table the correspondence on the last subject .

      * ' Black Hod " shortly afterwards made his nppenrnnce ; the Speaker started off for the Lords at the head of the column in " ranks of four ; " Lord John liuBRcIl and Lord Palmerston leading . They returned in about a quarter of an hour , and the Speaker having fthuken hands with tho members , the House broke up for the holidays . Parliament stands prorogued until the 4 th of September .

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      The Daily News of this morning has an amusing paragraph respecting tin ; usual anticipatory announcement of the Queen ' s Speech by the morning journals . " A good deal of amusement wan caused in the City yoHterday by the Ministerial selection of a channel for the customary anticipation of the royiil speech . The Herald , which is Protectionist and ProleHtnnr ., —the Chronicle , which is Conservative nnd Papint , —theDaily News , which i ' h Liberal and progressive , —above all the Times , which is ull of these by tunm , —were exain ' ined with eager curiosity by the iunateurn of political KOHsip , and the npeculatorn in the funds und in uhurcH . In vain : nil these oracled were dumb as those of Greece at the dentine of Pan . At last the Ministerial revelation was accidentally discovered where nobody dreamed of Keeking for it , in the column * of that organ of genteel and , faded

      Toryism , the Morning Post , flanked by notices of balls , dinner parties , and projected fashionable marriages , the staple of the print : dear to the servants' hall . After the first explosion of irresistible laughter , the wags of the Stock Exchange began to speculate and wager about what this might mean . One thing appeared certain , that the Government , which at the outset , with ostentatious impartiality , communicated the anticipation to all the morning newspapers , had at last selected a special organ from among them . The only difficulty was

      to conjecture whether the' terms upon which this alliance had been formed were the conversion of Ministers to the doctrines of the Post , or the Post to the doctrines of Ministers—whether the Post was to be employed , in its official capacity , to announce and defend a new parliamentary reform bill , or to announce and defend a Whig bill to reenact the corn and navigation laws . Bets of oysters and champagne , without any odds , were freely offered and taken by the holders of either opinion . Sixty to one was offered that the selection of the Post as

      Government organ in the press foreshadowed an attempt to form a cabinet with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the head of it . But the preeminence given in the anticipatory notice to foreign affairs , and the remembrance of a curious consular appointment made some time ago to a great northern capital , seemed to render this view so probable that no one was found to take the bet even at these odds . " The fact is , that Ministers , . before 1841 , supplied their own party organs alone with important papers and anticipatory announcements . "When Sir Robert

      Peel came into office , he adopted the plan of supplying impartially all the morning , and some of the weekly journals , when papers , like the revenue tables , were issued at the end of the week . Thus the "Whiga found matters when , in 1846 , they happened to come into office ; and they have since rather broken the impartial rule of conduct adopted by Peel . It was , however ^ reserved as one of the " great facts " of the year 1851 for London to look , in vain for the anticipated speech in the Times , and find it in the Post . This gives colour to the suspicions that the Post is a quasi-ministerial organ ; and it shows that the Foreign Office is more faithful to its allies than the other

      departments . As to the Speech itself , it is unusally , and indeed intolerably barren and dull . Great licence is permitted , but the Whigs have gone beyond all licence , and outstripped themselves .

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      Mr . Thomas Ramsay delivered a lecture last night intheBlagrove Concert-room , Mortimer-street , on the subject of central cooperative agency among the working-classes in relation to { the duties of the Church . The chair was taken by Mr . E . Vansittart Neale . The lecturer commenced by defining the precise meaning of the word " socialism . " He then adverted to the principle upon which society is founded , and which is generally designated by the term " social contract . " This contract he endeavoured to show was not duly observed in modern society ; ^ and in proof of his view , he referred to the evils resulting from competition and the unequal

      distribution of property , lhe origin of these evils he stated to be the neglect of the Christian motive of love , and the adoption in its place of the principle of self-interest . The object of cooperaive societies was to relieve the working-classes from the thraldom of the competitive piiuciplc , by organizing a system which should secure to all the full reward for their labours , nnd a fair interchange of commodities . The principle of union was that which prevailed amongst the members of the early Christian Church , and at a late period gave rise to " guilds , " or associations for mutual protection and assistance . It was the great principle which was insisted upon in the Christian Scriptures , and was , therefore , necessarily in harmony with the doctrines of the Christian Church . In conclusion he avowed

      his belief that the principle of union was that alone to which we could look as the means of regenerating our social system . Mr . Lloyd Jones gave a few details connected with the socialist movement throughout the country . He stated that the working-men were joining together , and opening stores to supply themselves with food and clothing , in order to protect themselves from the numerous frauds of dealers . This , however , was but one step towards the full adoption of the cooperative system , but it wan a step which was being taken with eminent success by the industrious working-classes in almost every district of the kingdom . The chairman having made a Lew observations , the proceedings of the evening were wound up by a plentiful service of tea , coffee , and other refreshments .

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      THE MINISTRY OF THE RECESS . Ministers have secured for their existence another six months—the beloved six months of quiet ; period of holiday country sports , of Christmas and no crisis ! period in which no questions are asked ; in which Lord John has not to apologize for bills non-apparent ; in which Sir Charles Wood has not to explain the philosophy of a house tax based on the framework of a window tax , or free trade in chicory j in which . Lord Palmerston has not even to " throw himself upon the House . " For six months the conduct of the Empire is handed over to the departments and the Cabinet Council of her Majesty ' s Ministers .

      We all know the party . They have not been chosen as the best men for conducting the affairs of the Empire , or directing the influence of England in the precarious state of the Continent . Their existence in office has not been a choice even of evils ; they have simply happened there . Lord John Russell is at the head , the man who had the credit of Lord Durham ' s Reform Bill , which he afterwards stultified one way by finality , and has now stultified the other way by the adumbration of some great working-class Reform Bill for next session . It is the same Lord John who raised

      the country to resist the Pope , who introduced a bill that could have no effect , who has consented to carry the bill shaped by the Opposition , who commencing as Catholic Emancipationist became Anti-Catholic agitator , tried to evade in act the performance of his own threat , and now hecomes the tool of a persecution forced upon him by his enemies . Next to him sits that Lord Hovvick who was the champion of the Colonies , and is now their perverse , captious , petulant , and arrogant persecutor—who risks the integrity of the empire to carry out his crotchets , and stakes the welfare of whole communities to gratify his notions . On the other side is that most liberal of Ministers , who so directs British influence abroad that the result ia

      all but uniformly favourable to Absolutism ; uniformly favourable to the great enemies of freedom , Russia and Austria ; uniformly mischievous to nations struggling for their nationality ; discreditable to English influence and honour . Their Home Secretary has had little trouble ^ this year ; he is one of the most inoffensive of the set , though inconveniently warped on religious subjects ; an able public officer , but labouring , it is said , under a painful and dangerous malady which must soon withdraw him from active service . The President of the Council belongs to a past time ; be has sujiported the great measure of the session with a coldness confessing his dissatisfaction at his own position . Their Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland li »« disappointed expectation , and his friends desire for him a new field . Their Lord Chancellor is a wonder . Nobody knows how he came into the position , through those mysterious shifting ^ <> f ° " which let so thorough-paced Whigs into »

      many provision for life . He is distinguished ainonfjs Chancellors by the frequency with which , unintentionally , no doubt , he gives occasion to the laugh 10 of tin ; peers . Their Coiiiinunder-in-Chief is an alien to their party ; their Lord Privy Seal is »• " ^ whom they Kent to Italy to mystify and mystified , a . s their preface to setting Protest " against Catholic in the United Kingdom an « ' ¦' couraging popular movements in Italy which 1 abandoned at the critical movement ; their ly ''

      eellor of the Kxchequer is the author of the Budgets , tho free-trader in chicory , tho " "V Ut whose income tax is cut off for next wession wit i a substitute , the offerer of tho seed duties t <> distressed agricultuiiHtH . This in the party who are to have it all then <> ^ way for the next six months . We all rcin < 5 m r how they ciuno into oflice to fill up the gap » Peel hud accomplished bin great task and sj >

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      TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complaining of the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader , until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition of the Leader is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-agenksupplying the paper , and

      if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . In reply to inquiries we tn \ y state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , Strand . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; And when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication .

      Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellington street . Strand , London .

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      Mr . S . C . IIiir < lin « o , sou of Lord Hardinge , was to be nominated ycstciduy for Downputrick ; and nsthere "wua no opposition , he is no doubt returned .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the" Btrain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of ita creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold .

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      w SATURDAY , AUGUST 9 , 1851 .

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      The Sultan , it in mud , Una p ; iven a solemn promine for the liberation of Kosmit . h upon u fixed day , now not many weeliB oil . The Snltun * m own feelings of honour and Immunity chiefly weighed in the eK . se . He had conneuted to retain thin man for a time , but . could not . consent to be his gaoler indefinitely , in order to pleiise Austrian HUHcoptibililictj , with Kuropeun eyeH fixed on him moreover , nnd inclined to jud ^ e of hi « independence l > y Iiih treatment of KohhuiIi . The Jtoynl ComnuKHionerH of nil countripB Avere introduced to the rrvaident , of tlfe Jtepublic ou Thuruduy .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1851, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1895/page/12/