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      As to news political , this week may be said to be chewing the cud of last week ; for the events which are most interesting to the reader , such as the victory of the yacht America , or Albert Smith's overcoming of Mont Blanc , are not of the political order . Last week , indeed , had matter to spare . The ferment created by the Catholic Defence Association has not subsided , but grows with time . The absence of any obvious resistance from Government makes the Roman Catholics bolder and bolder ; they challenge prosecution with an audacity that may be regarded as the measure of the Government

      fear to enforce the Anti-Papal Act . The organ of the Ultramontane party declares the contest to be one " between Heaven and Hell . " The English Bishops of H ' exham and Birmingham are not behind their brethren of Ireland in daring the enforcement of the law—a step which will become embarrassing in proportion as it is delayed . Ministers , indeed , might proceed by a process of decimation ; but even that would be difficult , where the ringleaders are in themselves a multitude , and selection would be a most invidious confession of cowardice . The Roman Catholics perceive the advantage which has been given to them , and they do not scruple to use it unmercifully .

      The letter from M . Ronge , in our Open Council , confirms us in the view , that a state resistance to the " Papal Aggression " on Anti-Catholic grounds , was the very worst form in which to combat the progress of Romanism . It will be seen that Romanism is advancing on the Continent under cover of Absolutism ; that the Absolutists of Germany are resorting to religious coercion ; and that the only hope for freedom of conscience lien in a real freedom of doctrine . Under the pretext of resisting the Pope , our Government is giving its sanction to the system of coercing doctrine and

      repressing the development of religious forms . This is not the way to secure religious libertywhen we justify the tyrant in his courses by emulating them , and so help to keep down that very movement which would eventually overwhelm him . Let us all unite to obtain perfect freedom of opinion in religion , thorough separation of temporal adiniliiHtratiori from religious authority , and we supersede the Papal question in England by superseding it in the whole of Europe . The New Catholics of

      Germany , the ReligiotiH Reformers of Italy , the upholders of religions liberty in England , have all a common object , aH they have also , very generally , broad truths in which they all concur . Let the xeader watch the pausing news of the day , and Vee now it confirms this position . Above all , for this wqek , we recommend hun to read M . Kongo ' s Jotter . The oonfuaion goea on at railway meeting ** . This I Town £ omott . 1

      week we have Mr . Evelyn Denison following up Mr . Glyn , and confessing how the competition with the great rivals is very damaging to the Great Northern , but holding out little hope of coming to an agreement . According to the light furnished by these confessions of railway Directors , the public is able to observe the ^ destructive effects of competition , on one of the most important branches of the national commerce .

      Meanwhile , our readers will see how the principle of Association is continuing to gain ground on all sides . Almost every week we have to welcome some new adherent , such as the Wolverhampton Herald , which handles the subject so as to prove a real understanding of it ; and it is want of space alone which prevents our publishing in our present number papers already prepared , showing the progress on the Continent and in America .

      Continental politics have been a dead calm during the past week . In France the Conseils generaux have met , and are voting " revision" with laudable facility . But that the ignorant enthusiasm for the name of the nephew of Napoleon has abated , in proportion as his mere incapacity has had time and room for exercise , the result of the votes of the Conseils d'Arrondissement in favour of the prorogation sufficiently proves . Only 140 out of 3 ( 54 have obeyed the impulsion of the Prefectures .

      The trials at Lyons have dragged their tedious length along , relieved by the self-contradictory reports of the police agenle , and plentifully garnished by anonymous personal imputations more or less disgusting , not merely in themselves but as a caricature of justice . The divisions of the Royalists are breaking out afresh , at every attempt to disguise the ambitions of pretenders under the cloak of patriotism . The Berryer section , who are content to dally with the Bonapartists for a season , and the more romantic followers of De Larochejaquclin , are irreconcilable . Meanwhile , the more hasty partisans of M . de Joinville are refreshing tho seaports with anecdotes of the young hero of Tangiers and Mogador ! The Prince Admiral is a sort of outsider to the rest of

      his family ; for it cannot be supposed that the Comte de Paris , the heir , to the Throne of the Barricades , would ever put up with the fauteuil of a Republic . This young gentleman is waiting " to be of age . " France will " keep " of course . As to ' 52 , the law of the Mat of May is the key of the situation ; and it must either be peacefully unlocked , picked , or forced . The Royal Progresses in Germany have been

      di stinguished by the silence of the population . "The . silence of the People is the lesson of Kings . " " Prussia" has committed himself , in his usual high-flown and mountebank strain , to a most unguarded rebuke of bin Rhenish subjects for their liberal tendencies . M « has clearly forgotten tUu very rudirnenta of u constitutional education ; or , perhaps , the " draughts of Rhenish " were too strong for the uiucero bud faith of tho mun who

      deems his subjects as prone to bow the knee to Frederick as Frederick to Nicholas . The utter rottenness of Austrian Finance ia now beyond all cure and concealment . We recommend the loan to the attention of Mr . Cobden . The young Emperor ' s birth-day has been celebrated by the garrison at Milan and elsewhere in Austrian Italy , with severe injunctions to the natives to be merry on the occasion . All the windows were open by order , and not a soul was to be seen in any balcony . The party of Order are indeed all things to all men . Radetzky darkly hints at a repetition of the GalJician massacres in Lombardy to bring the rich to their senses , and , in

      behalf of property , preaches spoliation and murder to the peasantry . The Reign of Terror increases in violence at Naples . Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlets , wafted on the four winds of European publicity , have stung King Homicide to madness . He has just brought the prisoners in the affair of the 15 th of May into court . All their materials for defence were previously taken away from them ; so that even the mockery of a trial is spared them , and they have only to be sentenced . One of the accused is a paralyzed priest , aged 97 , who is charged with having been seen with his drawn sword "furiously driving" the people to the barricades .

      The Pope is uneasy in the midst of French bayonets , and negotiations for replacing them by the Swiss from Naples are still believed to be in progress . The occasional assassination of some minister of priistly and royal terrorism , throws a lurid light on the literally infernal condition of this beautiful country . The uiurdererers elude all discovery : and so crime begets crime .

      h roin the borders of civilization come reports of characteristic movements . In Cuba the insurrection languishes , if it has not been suppressed . The people of the United States are again playing their peculiar game : a contingent of 1500 was passing over from New Orleans and two other ports , to be under the orders of General Lopez ; and one body of 250 men had landed in Cuba ; but the Government at WaKliington had sent a naval force to intercept the rest . Judge Lynch is busy at California protecting the gold and horses of the lucre-huntinug popula tion . The regular law is too slow , too nice , and too / ecble for the rough work of a region where the vices of the old countries meet and combine

      with the rucklf . sKiiesH of the youngest ; and the regular judge sits by as an amateur while the mob administers the law of the imaginary Judge Lynch . In China the anti-Tatar rebellion seems to be gaining ground ; while in India the Nizam has had a reprieve , and is going to try to raise the money for his big creditor , i > m English Govern .

      merit . The completion of the means of transit between diutunt party of the globe bidVfair to make rani ^

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      VOL . II . —No . 75 . SATURDAY , AUGUST 30 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      News op tub Week— P * ° e Personal News and Gossip 818 The Second Reformation 82 i Opp . S Councilrw ?^ nnTiVT «« 8 U Fires « I 8 Marian Withers 821 Suppression of Religious Liberty in CaSc Defence Ii :: " 811 Fires atSea .. ! .... 810 Carpenter on Reformatory Schools .. 826 G-rmmy . By Johannes Knnp " .. 830 The last Vcent of Vlon ' t Blanc ...... 814 Miscellaneous . 819 Monk ' * Contemporaries 8 ? 6 Cooperative Association and Uni-ThlYlnke ^ Yadtvictoriou * S 13 Public Affairs- Books on oar Table 827 vers ., 1 Suffrage ag .-m . st Monopoly 830 Traii ^ HiitiAfTLils 815 Ministers and the Catholic Defence 820 Portfolio— lo the Workers 831 Bnechnensof' -Lviich " ' 81 ( J Explanation of Pahneratonism 820 Trials and Troubles of a Poor Work- Beligious Tracts 83 * iC ^ PrlssofFrance and of England 8 : 6 Central Cooperative Agency 821 ingr Ass 827 The Peace Question 83 a Anti-Truck .. 816 Progress nf Assurance 822 THE AiiTS— 1 he Power of Kduc . ition 832 Public ODinion - 817 Mr . Charles Hugo and Freedom of Otello 829 What , to d > with the Surplus Money News from the East !!' . ' . 817 the Press . 823 The Bateinans * 89 of the Crystal Palace 833 Constitutionalism in the Sandwich How to deal with the Debt 823 The Syro-Lebanon Company 821 ) Commkkuiai , Affaihs-Ielands 817 Kaihvjy Competition 823 Okcanization of the PEOnu— Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , A Lombard Martyr ' . " . " . ' 818 Literature— How to identify the Refugees 829 &c 833-36

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      —— v _ y "Tub one Idea which . History exoibits ' as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 tne Idea of Hurnanity-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views -and by setting a ^ de the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , hiving one great object-tlie free development of our spiritual nature . ' —Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1898/page/1/