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      Hanover has lost her Kittg ; Kos _ sutli has left England ; but the most urgent political interest hangs , for the moment , to the condition of affairs in France , which is watched with anxiety even more by the friends of European Freedom than by its enemies . The firmness and moderation of the Republican Opposition have outwitted the machinations of the Royalist conspirators . The " Comedy of Terror" played by M . TbiM ^^^ ^ ir ^ tHi » afr tl ' l ) ouse or the QuestOTB , and the appeal to " principles" in the mouth of the man whose whole career has been a frothy intrigue of disappointed ambition , have reduced the " Burgraves" to the brink of political annihilation . The reply to the Proposition of the Questors was simple' enough : —•

      " If you have reason to distrust the Executive , bring forward a distinct accusation . We will not be privy to the furtherance of your plots . It may be that the Republic has better cause for distrust than the Reaction ; but the Republic has faith in the Constitution and in the People . " So the command of a Parliamentary army is not handed over to Changarnier , to sell France to the highest bidder , and to trample out the last sparks of liberty . For the train was laid for nothing less than a military dictatorship . It has exploded with a Report . The Republican minority refuse all compromise short of complete abrogation .

      Ihe Mysteries of the Austrian money market are taking human shape , or rather the shape of "Bears , " whoaredriyen from Vienna in troops . Not exactly like the money changers from the Temple , for illicit speculations ; but oecauae dishonesty is a privilege of paternal Governments . This phenomenon of Schwarzenberg drilling the stockjobbers has scandalized even his well-wishers . 1 ' rornthe " Sacred Column " it has emerged into the

      full glare of a " leader " in the Times . The wo 6 eha 8 come to the startling conclusion thsrt Austria is no longer tolerable : worse than useless Qn d obsolete ; and recommends M : Ko&uth ' N Republic as a substitute " not wholly incompatible wu 'i the existing state of Europe . " This is a confession in which large numbers of our country'nt'n will agree : possibly , too , Somebody whom the < j / o /> has in its expansive eye . t

      hroughout Italy the Royal reign of Terror ivokis an undisputed sway . kpain is anxiously looking for the little event ? ° long announced in the Palace " A little event , " u may be said , of very general and of very peculiar ! J cst to her' Most Catholic Majesty ' s lieges , nowhere are the traditions of Royalty more lively than , u Madrid . . . Voliticall y the doath of Ki ^ tiBSiyp . tfdDP H « t moment—too little to ot&IHiHRjfc at Wat rinS *? - ? i y a cna « ge for the Mg ^^ nRSaftktiquaan tlt * le-tattle about the pec&cWlDcs of the royal ITour * EemoN . l > 1 ¦ ¦ A '

      dragoon , the death of Seilis , and other ugly gossip , have ceased to interest people—as much out of fashion as ghost stories or the Newgate Calendar . Old Radicalism painted Ernest as a monster ; but the opinion of our day , calmner , because freer , regards him simply as an obstinate old Tory , who was an Orangeman in Ireland , ought Napoleon in France , tried to abolish King William ' s constitution in Hanover , and was prepared to head a charge of cavalry against riot in all shapes . Having seen actual service , and endured a wound of no small

      severity , his arbitrary bearing acquired a certain chmdrous respeetaWlityv I * wa » tested after 1848 ; when he refused to join in the counter-revolution . He was a good stalwart Tory , with a soldierly sense of right and honour , infinitely superior to the speaking , intriguing , pettifogging form which Absolutism has adopted in these days of peace and intelligence . His son is a most amiable gentleman , suffering under physical infirmity , much attached to his wife , easily led , and expected to be much more tractable under the hands of the Diplomatic craft which does the work of Austria and Russia .

      But if the day has gone when loryism can alarm us as little as the phantom in the Castle of Otranto , the newer and meaner Absolutism needs alarm us as little . Although Kossuth has left us , the spirit which he evoked will not subside . On the contrary , we see many signs of more activity and earnestness . He did not create the spirit : our readers know that we affirmed its existence long ago , even while it slumbered most heavily . It is awake now . Whatever may happen to the " Kossuth Fund , " over which certain most respectable gentlemen have been dozing , we are aware that the more active , in

      various places , are contemplating measures to enforce the principle of free nationality . The spirit of Mr . Walker ' s speech will not evaporate with Kossuth ' s arrival in America : the great Hungarian has but to appear before the eyes and ears of an American assemblage to possess their hearts . Lord Palmerston ' s reply to Islington and Finsbury shows an unconcealed sense of the growing spirit in this country ; and it is said that the Foreign Secretary is letting the public sec the spirit in himself that has but awaited national encouragement to come forth . If so , he does mean to bo the Chatham of Liberalism . And if so , again he will take a post of honour and command such as no

      English statesman has occupied within this century . The spirit awakened by foreign questions has extended , as was natural , to homo affairs ; and the endeavour to filch some kind of public support for Lord John ' s new Reform Bill will be met in a way to insure its failure . Manchester , which used to lead in public movements , has now assumed the function of public damper . It is well known that , when Kossuth arrived in England , he hud an idea of founding an organization to promote his objects within , this country : he has loft us without founding any such organization , and the negation is ascribed to the genuur « f Manchester , The Evil

      Genius of Manchester it may be called . How often do stories tell us of the Old Spirit of Evil appearing in the guise of youth , beauty , and beneficent energy ? The same Evil Genius , —so it is said , —has endeavoured to steal a march upon the most promising and energetic movement of the middle class , —if we can , indeed , speak of it as limited to the middle class , —and has been laying trains at once to stifle that movement , to oblige the Minister , and to set up a very mild Reform movement as a something to reciprocate the Russell Bill . But the Parliamentary Reformers have not

      been caught napping . Indeed , we hold that the manoeuvre of th « Conservative Manchester menwho , sated with Free Trade , wish now to rest on Finality—will only serve the more active party , by spurring them up to the true mark . Hints have been thrown out that , if the Manchester men play false , those whose minds they have thought to turn , " may take down the flag which they have hoisted for three years , and nail to the mast another flag that would rally to it larger numbers , "—make the Parliamentary Reform movement truly natinna I .

      In like manner Alderman Musgrove ' s exclusive personal policy , and stealing a march upon the London Corporation , have evoked a municipal spirit in that illustrious body supposed to he quite dead . It seems that his evasion of the Aldermen and Town Councillors in Paris was a studied slight , quite counter to the tenour of the invitation from the Prefect of the Seine ; and his invitation to the

      Queen was expressly counter to the wishes of the Aldermen and Council . In Paris he was laughed at ; in London he extends to Royalty hospitalities for which the City pays . It is a lesson on the ethics of corporate life . Although corporations are not quite what Kossuth took them for , although Sir John Musgrove made an did not do credit to himself in Paris , public attention has been drawn to the fact that there still are functions which

      corporations might perform , and which rnitfht yet warrant their pretensions to dignity . If they could really be spokesmen and agents for the People , they might yet save their existence ; but to do that they must place themselves iu real connection with the People—admit the People to a full share in the election of the Councils , and really act for the People . Sir John is the corpus on which the London Aldermen have been experimentally illustrating that truth , e con verso—* backwards .

      The gold mania is setting strongly in , and the miraculous accounts of blocks and masses of the tempting metal found in Australia add to its intensity . Mining of all kinds is looking up . It is the talk in omnibuses , at street corners , and in the City dining-room ? . The elderly shake , their heads at the stories of El Dorados , Buying hundreds per cent ., and point ominously to 1845 ' 4 (> . From all party of Europe come prognostications of a severe winter—a prelude to brace action with otwnnefls for the spring and summer of 1862 ,

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      VOL .-II . —No . 87 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 22 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      NB \ rs of THE W . BBK— Pnge Queen ' s College , Cork 1108 A Copy of Shakspeare for Kossuth 1113 Organizations op the People— - Continental Notefe ... HlW Crime and Suicide 1108 The \ Timet " at Home" ...- 1113 To the Members of the . National Koasuth Papers HIM Miscellaneous ' ...... .. . '• • ;; . 1109 Military Costume ..... 1113 Charter Association 1117 Kossuth ' s Departure HOI Public Affairs— Literature— . National Charter Association .... 1117 The Death of the King of Hanover 1103 The Situation . 1110 The Passions of Animals 1 ' 13 Political Conduct of the Lancashire The British Navy-arid the Austrian The " Times" 1111 The Beauties of Beddoes 1114 Working Class to the Queen .... 1118 v £ lockade .. . 1105 Our Costly Commercial System .... 111 ! The J " air Carewr ; ; ..... 1115 Open Council—Lottery of the Golden Ingots at Paris 11 < 6 . The Republican Minority in the Travels in European Turkey ...... 1110 The Power of Education 1118 Blocks of Gold ...... 1 IQ 6 , French Assembly- 1111 The Arts— - The Catholic Truth 1119 Breaking up ' of Castes in Madras- .. 1106 Kossuth and Socialism .. 1112 The Trumpet-call ( Theatrical ) .... 1116 Commercial Affairs — A Typhoon in the Eastern Seas .... 1106 Progress ot Assurance 1112 " Belshazzar " at Exeter-hall 1116 Market 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , Public Opinion 1107 Chivalry in Cotton ...- 1113 Dr . Mainzer J 117 &c 1119-1124

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      v ^ y "The one Idea which . History exoibits as Svermore developing itself into greater distinctness . is tne Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw ; down all the .. barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided view 3 ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Oou . ti . try , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race . as one Drotherhood , having ona great object—the free development of- our . spiritual nature . " —Hcmboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1910/page/1/