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    Varied , but not wonderful , is the character of the home news of the week : not so the Continental . Oa the Continent events have occurred daily for the last fortnight , upon which tlie future peace of Europe directly depends . In France , the conflict between the two great powers of the State waxes daily more flagrant , more venomous , more implacable . Former disputes have been hushed up after a few angry words

    and a hostile vote ; or the wound has been salved orcx by a tacit compromise , in obedience to a common hatred of the Republic ; or it has been suffered to fester and rankle under the surface of a coalition . Now it is a dead lock of antagonisms —neutralizing , discrediting , demoralizing one another in a sullen struggle of abortive menaces , 'and accusations no sooner fronted than disavowed—a struggle relieved onl y by an occasional armistice of muttering alarms and smouldering suspicions , to burst out afresh into attacks more deadly , threats more rash , and

    projects more insane ! The dignity of the Assembly is ill sustained by such abusive language as M . Cretcm employed to insult an absent journalist , who deserved to be summoned to the bar to answer for the most unwarrantable even of hh gasconades . Nor is the Posture of the Government more dignified in the Person of that most incapable of commix , M . David , who endeavours to shirk interpellations by shuffling and irrelevant counter-charges . Then , again , M . de * horigny aggravates in attempting to elude the grave lni P <> it of the challenge : the CansUtutumnel had , totidnn verbis , if not nominntim , denounced a

    con-N P'nu : y on the benches of the ljight ; the Minister nays , " [ f it wt . true , the Government would do its Uuty , " thus declining to relieve the Royalists of f ' " charge before the country . The loyalists "isiNt on an erratum in the Mtmitenr , and the ( io-Ver « unent meanwhile are distributing , not the diaav « wal , but the accusation , by thousands ! We '' I'l' ^ il to all honest men : where is the Anarchy 110 , and who are the Anarchists ? In high places , " < " ¦ in tho People : in the Royalist , factions , not in 10 ' ^ -publican opposition . Their attitude remains t lilt of calm resolve ; their citadel , the Constitu-011 ; their duty , to accept no coalitions , and to ' l' «»» l . all usurpations .

    nc . of the happier gleams in that murky and bisr ilCni !' Mky iH Lll (! xx - Al oi Llu ' ' x <;(' ' " ' An ; hli | | r ° ' iulH lo the Working Associations , and d ,. ? lllJi : ti <>» alM exhortations , so full of ( 'lnistian ^ /' " y . so instinct with gentle sympathy . 11 the U ut I WCrC mdced » 1 '« '" « " Vicar of Christ" »< - '(•() V " H : UK : U ( ic ! al ' <>» <> f property" and " <> nl «; r , " Hio ' ch- tO ^ a < il (! tz ky , « - » ' « the formulas of ymir fcjju ei'a B » K-ccHsorH of the Apostles . Monsignor r Wulk » where Jchuh walked , ami is received UWtf Eoituw . 'I

    gladly . At the distribution of the medals to the successful exhibitors , the Gallic Cock crowed , not unusually , but agreeably loud . If France had not all the prizes , she deserved all , facile princeps in everything . The President ' s speech was ( as we have heard it said ) full of hooks andl ' s . '" The Republic duly Napoleonized may do yet . " When he says , " Were it not for demagogic ( i . e ., democratic ) ideas , " it reads as if Mr . Croker were to say , " Were it not for the affectionate loyalty of her subjects , Queen Victoria ' s throne would be secure" ! Altogether , this ceremony was hopeful and encouraging—a recognition of the dignity of labour , and of its claims to the distinctions of military heroism .

    The system of compression and of persecution maintained by the Government in the departments under a state of siege is sowing hate and discontent ; the seeds of a detestable terrorism hereafter . The paw of the Bear is upon Hanover before the old King is cold . A reactionist Ministry within a week . The correspondent of the Dai / News- , " an ultra liberal journal , " according to the Times ( we had always considered the Times as the ne plus ultra of journals ) , is expelled from Vienna . The gentleman who represents the " leading journal , " near the Court of Austria ( diplomatic style ) , informs us of the fact : he is not expelled .

    Another member of the same honourable corps ( we don't mean of diplomatists , but of Times' correspondents ) acquaints us with the pleasant bit of news , that the " last of the St , at . ' prosecutions " of Naples is approaching . In a letter full of artful insinuations in favour of the Government of Naples , the father of the junior Neapolitan attache at Paris proinises to " state whether the trial be fairly eonducted "— " I will do so without favour or prejudice ; at either side . " —Alerei ! Only thirty-nine prisoners , and (>()() witnesses . Narvaex is again in the ascendant at Madrid ; and iSiddanhti , at Lisbon , seems to be half alraid of hi . s 1 ' rogressist majority .

    As Kossuth nears the American continent , heralded by the Mississippi , calumny , carefully wrought in Kurope , and diligently spread abroad by the Austrian press on both sides of the Atlantic , is obliged to hide lu : r head , at hast in the land where public opinion dominates , whatever she may do here . The . stories ol Kossuth ' s having quarrelled with Captain Long , having compromised

    I . Ik ; stars and stripes at Marseilles , and generally misbehaved himself , have been put t . o -flight ; and the ovation offered by a i ' eople will not be marred , hut enhanced rather , by this audacious attempt at . * ' evil-speaking , lying , and slandering . " On a cognate topic the speech of Lord I ' almerston to the Kiusbury and Islington deputation there has been some smart controversy .

    Reporting is an art . Very much indeed for tlu view taken of political events do we depend on the regular and ellicicnt , und irregular and inoflicionfc .

    reporters of the daily press . It happens that just now a " very pretty quarrel" is raging between the Times and the Post , apropos of the correctness of the report published in our last number , of the reply of Lord Palmerston to the Finsbury and Islington deputation—now famous throughout the world . The Post at once repudiated the report , and the Post represents alike Lord Palmerston and the Emperor of Russia . The Times of Wednesday contained a letter from "the Reporter" who , with a fellow scribe of the Daily News , took notes of the speech of the " noble viscount , " and sent it to all the morning papers , and in this letter the substantial accuracy oi the report is vouched for . On Thursday the Post , in the most obviously official way , again declared the report to be essentially false . Which is in the right ? Either or neither ? Speaking , in fact , furnishes a deal of news most weeks , and this is no exception . The Freehold Land Conference meetings have , of course , been fruitful in speeches , glorifying the freehold land movement generally . This movement sets itself up on the double ground of furnishing a good investment , and of purchasing political power . On the first we observe that , although investment of money in small plots of land may be good for the middle classes , it is not precisely the best for the working classes . To the second we object , that buying a vote is almost as bad an selling a vote ; that qualifying lor a vote admits the reasonableness of the qualification ; admits that property , after all , is the proper standard of fitness ; and that bricks , not brains , are the tests of capacity and . character . Obviously we need not discuss the commercial aspects of the agitation—without the bait of political power not a single society would have got , under weigh ; and as a political scheme for obtaining the franchise it is , and must always be , a small mattervery annoying to certain country gentlemen , but by no means dangerous even to them . H y the side of the talk about freehold land orators , among whom Mr . Cobden lioldu chief lordship , we find the talking of Lord Shaftesbury to the working men of the North , giving them lessons on Sabbath observance , and receiving their ovations gratefully offered . Possibl y Lord Nhnftesbury may be induced to reflect that it b not the poor alone who need he restrained from Sabbath breaking . Also , Sir . lames Krooke , with pictun'sque eloquence of the rough an'i ready order , has been throwing not pale liglu . on the doings in the matter of Government in lloruco ; and the Honourable Robert Walker has made an admirable free trade speech at Liverpool , lie ridicules the idea of sending a flret to the Gulf of Mexico to revive , the right of search settled by the Ashbiirlon treat y ; and denies tho report , ostensibly emanating fiom Fiance , that Kngland conjointly with France intended to enforce the right in reference to Culm . Smashing up the public at Weedon in a cool , buHiness-hko way , and nearly putting a decent finiuh to tho liven t » f two of . Uo coiuumiy ' u oilicora ,

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    ^^ mtmm ^' ? 'The one Idea which History exnibits a 3 evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea or 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 spiritual nature . "—Humbolut ' s Cosmos .

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    VOL . II . —No . 88 . SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 29 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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    News of tub Wsek— Past Great Council of Indians 1132 They never meant to < lo it 1135 Merry Wives of Windsor « ^\" Continental Notes 112 t > Kiilway Collision ; it WimsJ ' . m lYi ' Z Law for the Capital is t 11 , ' 5 'j Tender l ' n .-cautions lli-Ko « i 3 Uth ' s Visit to Anieriua 1127 Lnyinir the Foundation Stone of a Manchester Pauperism and Man- Oitrj . vNiZATioss oi' ru e PkoI'lk—Position of the Freehold-Laud New Mechanic ; , ' Inatituti .-ju , Chester Wag-e ^ 1137 The Chartists anil the Parliamentary Movement ! 1 ? 8 Uurnley 1132 The Church and its Men J 137 Reformers 1112 Metropolitan Interments 1 I 2 « The Trifal ^ iV Life A ^ sui-. mce The Vessel of the Stuto 1137 Oi'KN Council—The Wolverhampton , Combination Association 1133 The " Golden " Ag-c is before us .. 1137 The , Liou-and-Unicorn Gazette .. .. 11-13 Case . —Judgment .... ... 1129 I-Iorrible Murder in £ * sex \\ '& \ Social ltefonn . — " Notej of a Social Thu Athnnisian Creed 11-iiJ Lord ~ Shafte / oury on the Bitter Law and Police llo . 'i ( Economist" 1137 Books without an Index 1113 Observance of the Sabbath 1129 The Telegraph and the Sea 113-1 Literature— * Malt . lms Ii 43 Robert Walker at Liverpool 1130 Pobiic Ai'KAiits— Lucretius in English 113 D A Letter to Chartists 1153 An International Money-Order The Supply of "Reform" for Trench on Hie Study of Word 3 1140 Homoeopathy , 111-1 ( jffiue 1130 " Next Session" 1133 Two Stories ; French and English 1111 Commkkuial Affairs — Speech of Sir James Bi-oolioou Borneo 113 l > Progress of Imperial Revolution in Books on our Table llil . Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , Gold Regions of the World .. 1131 the Vienna Money Market 1133 Tub Arts— &c 1 U 1-1 U 8

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1911/page/1/