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      Defiance is audibly proclaimed by the leaders of the Roman Catholics , English as well as Irish , assembled in Dublin , at the great " aggregate meeting . " The preparations made beforehand to get up a counter demonstration among the Gregg School of Orangemen , were a mere local expression of the interest excited ; but when we see the character of the men present—when we see not " mere Irish" Members , but men who command the attention of the Commons—when we see the Catholic Bishops of England and Scotland as well as Ireland—when we see the unanimity , and the determined feeling to go all lengths in asserting the right of Catholicism to the free exercise of its own forms—we understand that the Catholics are not

      inclined to spare Ministers by winking at compromises , and suffering the new Catholic Coercion Act to fall into oblivion through a studied avoidance of its prohibitions . We should have been amazed at the Catholics if they could have abated their language and observances to the polite standard of Whig compromises ; assuredly , we should not have respected them . The key-note of the meeting was struck in the first words uttered by Lord Gormanstovvn , who moved , that "the most Reverend Dr . Cullen , Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland , " be requested to take the chair . Lord Gormanstown is liable to prosecution for the use of that forbidden title : will the

      Attorney-General prosecute him ? Will the Attorncy-( ieneral permit Mr . Tresham Gregg to prosecute ? Of course the Orangemen of Ireland will stand by their principles , and will press for permission to vindicate the law under Sir Frederick Thesiger'n clause . And occasions will multiply too often for Government to abstain altogether . JJut the first prosecution will be a declaration of war ; and from the

      spirit now evinced in Ireland , wo may guess the sequel . The touch of feeling elicited by Thomas Cooper at his lecture in Belfast—the prompt hot assertion of nationality—the admission , tacit or avowed , that the Protestants and Catholics , if free « " <> in EugliHh repression , would wage war to the knife—these traits , even in Saxonizuri Belfast , attest the smouldering fire Upon which Ministers Jiavc been heaping coals .

      41 " [| « nce a war against oppression in begun , the English Catholics can hardly hold back ; nor < 'o we BuppoHo that English lovers of freedom , However they might disclaim an influence residing Jl » alien Rome , would refuse to Htand by fellowcountrymen » i the struggle for the equal rights of "ligioua freedom . We can answer for the just feeling and hearty K ou will of the working classes in this matter . att « »• • e ( l UO 8 tion 8 of their own to raise when wiention u a little more awakened than it has been I Town Edition . ]

      this year ; but they will not forget the wants of their fellow-countrymen . Before this great contest , of Protestant against Catholic , the minor discords of English sects sink into insignificance for the moment ; yet are they fraught with much that will affect society at no distant date ; and , upon the whole , we believe the better influences are both the larger and the stronger . The correspondence between Bishop Thirl wall and Archdeacon Williams is one of those unpleasant occurrences which are so frequently contributing to bring discredit on the Church of England . The Archdeacon is somewhat coarse in his demeanour ; but no Churchman can blame him for that Which he seeks—to develope the

      machinery of the Church of England in Cardiganshire . Dr . Thirl wall has promised to remove legal difficulties in the way of doing so—difficulties arising from the very fact that the Church has been undeveloped in Wales ; during eight years that promise has been unfulfilled ; now the Bishop repays his Archdeacon ' s zeal with insinuations that he is not suited to promote the best interests of his Church : and still the Bishop withholds the required sanction ! We do not desire to be hard on Dr . Xhirlvvall : he is a distinguished scholar ; a man of truly generous intellect ; a politician , whose influence has , in the main , been exerted for good . But he is tainted with the Whig spirit of compromise and expediency . ,

      I he set-ofr against this Cardigan scandal is the honest act of Dr . Townsend , who recently visited Rome , in the hopo of closing the schism which has divided the Protestant from the Catholic Church for three centuries . He has not yet effected his object . Nothing daunted , he attended at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance , invited five of the members to spend some days with him , and ia to discuss with them the possibility of uniting the several bodies of the great Christian Church .

      1 he same spirit animated that remarkable meeting of the Church of the New Jerusalem , at which the followers of Swedenborg opened arms to all sincere seekers of truth . In short , under the mystical influence of Swedenborg , the New Jerusalem is one form in which a Catholic . Spiritualism is becoming embodied . The sentiment of Swedenborg obtains adherents , and the veracity of his feeling convinces the heart of many who might find a difficulty in reasoning out his exposition .

      In France , illegality ; in Germany , mystification ; in Italy , savagery ; these words describe the hindrances of Government of the " Partyof Order . " Such are the three strings of one eternal fiddlestick for war , scraping a monotonous tune of " Religion , Family , Property . " By the way , M . Thiera ' a own sister seeks u percarioun subsistence by advertising her next of kin . Who more fit than " the late Prime Minister of France" to vindicate " the family i , Franco ia divided into Constitutionalists and

      Revisionists ; the former comprising all shades of the Republican party , the latter all the Monarchical factions . Total Revision means a return to Monarchy—but to whjch of the three ? Partial Revision , a prolongation of the Ejlysee , et cetera , to M . L . Napoleon and his needy entourage . But so long as Article 45 of the Constitution , and the law of the 3 lst of May , Remain unrepealed , and 188 is more than a fourth of 750 , Revision is impossible . And who dreams of a coup d ' etat at the eleventh hour ? The most moderate men express disgust at these failures , these struggles for place and power , and at the selfishness of the man to whom France

      was so blind as to confide her destiny , and to whom the Republic restored a country . They say they now understand all the violence of the first revolution . Happily for Paris , the Government of conspirators encourage every plan of pleasure which can divert the people from their plots ; so that if a struggle be unavoidable next year , at least " the eve of their deluge" will be gaily spent , sans broyer du noir primaturement : or , as we say , without meeting troubles half way .

      Nevertheless , the Conseils d'Arrondissement petition , the Conseils G&niraux will petition , supplied with forms from the Prefectures . Their municipal bodies exist at this moment illegally , their powers having expired last May . They discuss political questions illegally ; yet if the burden of their song be revision , they are not connived at , but encouraged by the Government . It is only when , as at Limoges , they dare to apeak in favour of the Constitution , that a decree condemns and annuls the spontaneous vote . The preachers of order are the preachers of disorder , they agitate for agitation ' s sake . The French Ministry are visiting the Exposition by turns . May they return wiser from the spectacle of Order in Liberty !

      The new Legitimo-Bonapartjst league threatens to fall through , from the chivalrous repugnance ol the sons of La Vende ' e to ho unblest an alliance . The Prince de Joinville is decidedly a competitor for the Great National Stakes of ' 52 . But till the settlement of M . Creton ' s motion , to recall the proscribed families , he is to remain dark . His address is said to be already at Paris , patent to his select friends ; and expressions of devotion to his country , with bits of pathos on exile , arc oozing out confidentially . lhe

      disturbances in ISArdecJie are exaggerated by the reactionary press ^ into a fresh pretext for repression ; they seem to have begun with the Gendarmerie forbidding the Marseillaise - which is deemed a seditious hymn under Napoleon the Little I Ilia air next year will probably Tbe Partant pour la Syrie . The manifesto ( from the pen of Lamennais , and signed by some eminent names of the Mountain ) of a new " French , Italian , and Spanish _ Central Democratic Committee , ' * is noticeable for the largeness of its religious spirit : and the appeal to a democracy in Spain , so long bandied , about by

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      - ks « 'Thb one Idea which History exnibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or . - • • Humani ' tv-the 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 Is Jne ' brotherhood , having-one great object-thefree development of our spiritual nature . " -HuMBOLDx ' s Cosmos .

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      VOL . II . —No . 74 . SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      JVhws of the Week— Pa"e Crime in the United States 773 A Chcerin ? Fact 802 Tiik ArtsrT . l . niL A , if-. V ; , nin T . olan . 1 795 Polic" 7 . 17 News f . » r Yarrao . an 802 Country Cousins at the Theatres .... 806 ChurchVaTtSs : lieland ' . ? 9 l MiswlUnuou ' s VJ 7 Social Reform—Concert the Salva- The Musician in the Crystal Palace 807 Coninental Notes " '" .. ... 793- . Pinuc Afi'mks- tion of the Middle Classes 803 Euiiopean Democracy—Revolution * in the EaVt 7 s » i Catholic , not Protestant 7 : ) 9 Litrkatukk— The Central European Democratic The Formosa Massacre 793- Seizure of the Nizam ' s Territories .. T 39 Riiskin ' s Pre-Uaphaslitfcm 803 Committee 808 Notes ofTravcl " and Talk ' *'' . . ... Kail way Policy SOU Thornley ' s Lays and Legends 8 . 4 Organization of the Pboplb- . APo ' ishHCTO ...... " '•> ' > Mr . Gladstones Denier * 800 Revolutions of Italy 805 HiiHs to ward * rendering Local Agi-HaHfax and Qiiebe ' c " Railway ... 7 . ' 6 Progress ol" Assurance 801 Hooks on our Table 803 ta'ion effective ...... 809 TheCiiDDer Yacht "America . " .... -796 "Order " conducive to Crime 801 New Music 806 Commkkoial Affairs — Personal News aud Gossip *« G B . trayal of the Law by a Magistrate 802 Portfolio— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Bloomer Gossip 797 Prohibitory Postage Abroad 8 J * The Dog-cart 806 &c 8 o 9-12

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1897/page/1/