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      the new spirit of the day . John Bright was present , and made a capital , hearty speech ; so did George Wilson . In short , Manchester has pronounced not less forcibly than Birmingham . Kbssuth repaid the delighted men of Manchester with one of his finest speeches ; only less fine than the one delivered at Birmingham—only less fine , because each day adding to Kossuth ' a familiarity with our language , gives freer scope to the play of his thought . He has fairly roused the manly spirit of England ; he has fairly shown Manchester that trade cannot be free while Despotism exist 6 to keep the nations apart ; he has proved that Despotism is chronic war under the name of " order " ; he has

      The visit of the Governor of Hungary to the North has been like a royal progress . Kossuth was received in Birmingham with a display rivalling in numbers that at Copenhagen-fields , but not so nearly limited to the working classes ; on the contrary , Birmingham was fairly represented . It combined Copenhagen-fields and Hanover-square in one . Manchester seems Jo have turned out in yet greater numbers , Potter notwith ' standmg . PotWr , in fact , has but served to mark the total failure ' of resistance to

      convinced Birmingham that its own history pledges it to keep a lead in the defence of freedom and of progress . He has stamped himself as by far the greatest orator of our day—the practical , far-sighted Peel , the noble Mazzini , the unadorned Cobden , the accomplished Macau lay , the cunning Thiers , the astute Webster , the poetic Victor Hugo , the statesmanlike Henry Clay , —all lack , severally , many qualities which Kossuth , as an orator , combines . He is a man to speak to nations . Many who understand not the subject , but

      rejoice in an " authority " on the side of their blind prejudice , are chuckling at his needless disclaimers against Socialism . Hungary , he says , has nothing to do with doctrines classed under that head , because she does not want them . For , he adds , utmost every Hungarian is a landowner , and all « N * y be so . Good . We shall recur to this point ; but the present is not the time for controversy on it : national independence is the question of the day ; and we , for our part , will not disturb that great acclaim with theoretical disputation . Set -Europe frtje , and We have no fcara for Socialism .

      Some speculotion'has been excited by phaenomena in the relations of our Foreign-office . Reports that Lord Pahnerston sent an apologetic note to Austria , en K ag > ng to keep down the Konuuth agitation , have been studiously contradicted . Report « arc oiicuculated that the Austrian Minister at Washington has conditionally demanded hia passports . An extremel y Ministerial paper is supporting Kossuth : » s studiously anHOciatirig Lord I ' ulineraton ' H naino with that of the Hungarian Governor . These ' signs JJerhaps , and some others , have occasioned a pro-ITows * Edition / I

      mising murmur that floats in the air , hinting that if such " support" be continued to Lord Palmerston , he will prove the true leader to give England her due position in the approaching sera of the world ' s history . Some corroboration of the murmur is afforded by the sudden turn of the Morning Chronicle , which has supported Kossuth , but now assails : because , some conjecture , the Chronicle must at all events be anti-Ministerial . We are expressing no opinion on these signs , all too vague to warrant any opinion ; we are only supplying our readers with the gossip of the hour , such as it is .

      The rumours that Palmerston is to be a Chatham of Liberalism stand side by aide with the authentic utterances of the Peace Society , who , through their secretaries , denounce war under any circumstances , and advance what virtually amounts to " passive obedience and rionresistance , " We imagine that these gentlemen , in propounding their theory of the influence of "ideas , " overlook the conditions necessary for the free play of that influence upon affairs . Ideas will never , unaided , drive Radetzky beyond the Alps , nor Prince Albrccht over the Danube , nor eject the legions of Nicholas from Poland , "

      nor set free the German people . A " sacred principle" is a fine thing when you can get room for it to operate ; but before Archimedes , even , can move the world , he requires a fulcrum for his lever . Anarchy of anarchies is the " situation" at Paris . Tbe war of the Legislative and Executive becomes internecine . The one is hemmed in between self-destruction and a Parliamentary coup d ' e ' tat ; the other between a bid for popularity and due subserviency to Austro-Russian patronage . Both are doing their best to prove one truth ; that forms of government are nothing , but the morality of governors everything , for the welfare of a

      nation . The President is playing an ambiguous game , and his fate may be to fall between two stools at last . To the Republic he offers the restoration of universal suffrage : to the Reaction he immolates the last remaining liberties . His new Ministry , mere awkward doubteurt of Lion Faucher and Baroche , inaugurate their brief campaign by a

      razzia against Republican journals and almanacks ; they invade a meeting oitaH electoral committee ( hitherto inviolable ) with commissaries of police ; they forbid the recitation of a few stanzas written by Victor Hugo for a musical festival , on account of an allusion to Italy , Hungary , and Poland ; they aid and abet priestly domination . Insulted by the inajority > whoae flag they are come to tear down , they are scouted by the Republicans .

      M . Louis Napoleon harangues imperially a few excited officers ; whereupon the Ministry correct the proof of said speech for the evening pauer ^ and interpolate a saving clause , as if it H \ % tMUt& wltat ho Haul , this imperial farceur , hero of Satory HausageH and of a hundred corks ! Still if he could onl y disappear altogether and leave his name at the l % tjee , it might yet bo reflected by

      the stupid idolatry of peasants . But the man . he is no longer a serious candidate , except to the bill brokers . The majority rejects the proposed abrogation of the law of the 31 st of May , but under cover of modifications there seems to lurk capitulation . Rather civil war than our vanity should suffer ! These are the men who have ruined or betrayed three dynasties .

      It must be confessed that the Opposition are now the true Party of Order . Their silent reserve intimidates the reaction , like the handwriting on the wall . They have resolved to protest simply , by the mouth of one speaker only , against the law of the 31 st of May , and to wait . The majority , divided , discouraged , and demoralized , will dwindle away into separate minorities , as this year closes in . The next year is the nation ' s .

      In Portugal we are glad to find the ProgreBistaa gaining strength in the elections . Dr . Lee , Bishop of Manchester , has " charged " his diocese with the purest Whiggism of the Church . Convocation , he thinks , would be " calamitous " ; but then , fortunately for his peace of mind , he thinks the movement for synodical action will be " unsuccessful . " It is " undesirable" also to alter what the " experience of three centuries has

      shown to be enough for securing among us the profession of the truth ; " namely , the rubric , the services , and the liturgy . And the surest hope of the Church is said to be to abstain from getting into collision with the State . Verily , it is to the more chivalrous spirit of the Bishops of Kxeter and Oxford , and men like Archdeacon Denison , that the Church must look for help in making itself honest before gods and men . Dr . Lee is not a Churchman —he is a State-Churchman .

      The City was eminently scandalized on Wednesday morning , to read in the journals copies of a correspondence between the London Dock Company , the Board of Customs , and the Treasury , apropos of the trials of February last . The Dock Company humbly applies for the release of the goods under seizure . The Customs consult the Treasury , and Sir Charles Trevelyan , in the name of" My Lords , " dictates conditions the most arrogant and barefaced conceivable , imposes a

      nominal fine , assumes the guilt of the Company , and talks down to them from his official Olympus . The Dock Company surrender the whole question by consenting to pay the fine—¦ under a useless protest . Victors in February , by some sleight of hand behold them the vanquished of November , apparently self-slain . Hut the points at issuei the gross laches of the Customs , and the oppression of the tmitH , are too interesting to the merchants of London to he suffered to rest where they are . Something effectual must he done .

      A murder in Marylebone , of more than usual atrocity and stup idity , has been committed . The characteristic of the crime is the intense astonishment of the murderer when ho came to reflect that " ho had the heart to dt » it . "

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      VOL . II . — No . 86 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 15 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      News of the "Wehk— *] Pn ^ e Murder Marylebone 1085 Social Reform . — " Notes of a Social Science ....... 10 J 4 Kodsuth ' s Welcome 1078 Police 108 fi CEconomist" 1089 Organizations of the Peoi-i-b ,. .. 1094 Mr . O'Connor and the Koasulh Miscellaneous 1086 Literature— Oprn Council—Demonstration 1081 Public Affaius— Progress of Physiology 1091 The Suffrage Agitation—Honesty Continental Notes 1082 England has Pronounced 1087 Priduani ' s Kossuth and Magyar the Best Policy 10 'Jl Church Matters ..... 108 * Are we Prosperous ? . ; 1087 Land 1091 Refugees and the Times 109 . v > The City Masquerade 1083 Our Colonies in the Coming Year .. 1087 Cheever on the Sandwich Islands .. 109 . J Homccopathy 1096 The Bpard of Customs and the Dock Our Street Folk 1088 Books on our Table 1093 Bakanin , the Russian Martyr 101 ) 6 Company V . 1084 A Lesson from the Lord Mayor ' s The Arts— Commercial Affairs—Addrefcs from the Peace Society .. 1084 Show 10 S 8 Jullien at Drury-lane 1094 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements St . Alban ' sCommission .. 1084 A Cheap Defence 1089 Orchestral Society 1094 &c 109 G-1 I 0 O

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      •• Taa oae Idea which History eXoibita as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea Of Humanity—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 as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our 3 Diritual nature . "—Hcmboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1909/page/1/