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      "Thorough" is the motto of M . Bonaparte . With unexampled vigour and directness , without visible scruples or emotion , yet with much unseen flinching , the army has done its appointed task of taking French society hy assault . For the moment , the blow of the 2 nd and the massacre of the 4 th of December are entirely successful . Wares glitter in the shop windows ; gay crowds throng the Boulevards ; the press is as an Eastern , mute ; the departments are bayoneted into silent acquiescence ; the remnants of the Imperial Guard banquet together , and applaud General Magnan for saving society ; the Church consorts with the Elysee ; and the Rentes are above par ! Is not this regal success ? France has become a " geographical expression "—it is not France but . Bonaparte . Meanwhile , the Victor sits in the Elysee , engaged with sage Councillors in drawing up a constitution . To-day the people will begin to vote " Yes " or " No "—for or against Bonaparte . The gentlemen in the grocery line are said to he all for the * ' Prince " —therefore his election is certain . How can it be otherwise , when the only journal which recommended the Republicans to vote " No " in great numbers , is instantly suspended ? When will the most Christum Emperor , Napoleon II ., take up his abode at the Tuileries ? But the fact of facts is the open coalition of " the Church " of the Jesuits witli the perjured ' President . The letter of M . de Montalei ' nbert reveals so much ! Kingcraft and Priestcraft hand in hand as usual—the terrors of earth and the terrors of hell saving society by menace and massacre , and combining to rule it henceforth . Profound is the sensation caused by this revelation of the identity of purpose existing between military despotism and p riestly domination . The Pope lias nothing to fear from the Prince . IJorniparte ' s famous letter to Colonel Kdgar Ney is emphatically a dead letter . This junction of the soutane and the sabre ntitn all doubt at rest as to the AustroltusHian conspiracy . But what does it matter ? Arc not Mr . Cobden and " England " nt jmice with all the world ? Madrid , ia its humble way , imitates Paris , and lias its miniature "coup d'etat . " Most curious of I'oincidcncoH ! General Narvur / : leaves Pariy a few < layw before the ' 2 nd of December ; and a few days after h ' w arrival in Madrid the Cortes is dissolved or suspended , because the " grave events in the nei ghbouring republic " are more ; important than public discussions . Cavalier , that . What a contemptuous mode of " cutting" the CorteH—it in "imply upokea of as the National Debating Society ! Well , perhaps , that is all it is kept for ! Pleasant , also , is it to read of the leniency with I Town Ejufviom . I

      which the amiable Pope Pius IX . regards the con- j duct of his fratricidal son . There is a sportive lightness of heart which is quite touching in the fact that the Pope ! good man , smiled down approval on the news , while the Cardinals sniggered with delight . Somehow , the sons of the Church who give most joy to their tender parent are those who crawl through the blood of their fellows to the feet of St . Peter . Thus the conspiracy daily unfolds itself before the eyes of Englishmen , who read the quotations of the Stock Exchange and take no heed . It is said that Schwarzenberg has demanded possession of a Piedmontese fortress for Austrian troops . The allied despots are drawing round Switzerland . Still , no one believes in the conspiracy . Some day England will be the last of the Constitutional states in Europe ; and , when we are quite isolated , it is just possible even the Stock Exchange and Lombard-street may believe—but will it not be too late ? The gloom louring over the whole European Continent is terrible . Midnight arrests ; middayjudicial murders ; blood flowing everywhere ; the conditions of peace nowhere ; neither life nor property secure . What a storm there is brewing ! When and where will it burst ? From the great transatlantic Republic we have a President ' s Message , not conveyed to an astounded people through the medium of hot lead and cold steel , but read peacefully to a listening Congress . What a document it is ! Prolix , smooth , carefully worded , an enormous but necessary platitude . Happy the people who can in these fiery days afford quiet Messages ! In spite of its dead level , there is vast significance in this state paper . It marks , in sharp outline , the termination of the policy of non-intervention bequeathed by the great chiefs of the Revolution , a policy which the nation has outgrown ; while the declarations of the Democratic party , now rising into power , bind them to the policy of intervention anil an alliance of Peoples . Koasuth has reached the " States , " ami much powder has been burnt at the Battery and elsewhere in his honour . Daniel Webster , it is said , is resolved to furnish a further proof that be and his are too deeply implicated with diplomacy to be fearlessly national . The valiant Secretary will not receive Kossuth officially . What a humiliation for the People of America : Webster aping Pahner-Hton I Home news * not striking , either in variety or interest . Mr . Bright has championed the Manchester Reform Resolutions at Stockport . One . sentence in bin speech requires explanation . Does Mr . John Brig ht zneaii to atigmatize all persons , who may not get upon the rate-book , under the operation of an Act founded on his resolutions , as bad , illiberal , and ill-intentioned ? It in probable that Manchester may know what good cotton in , mid bo infallible in that .

      : But , as Political Pope , damning and saving- the I reputation of thousands of Englishmen alive , we j certainly do not recognize her " authority . " If we j are to take Mr . Bright at his word , and judge these I resolutions by his character of them , then are they 1 and he condemned for ottering a gratuitous insult to the mass of the people . The Reform Campaign is likely to be supremely victorious at this rate ! Protection unfolded last week the mysteries surrounding its existence . What was revealed ? A great party in a state of the most promising anarchy , pretending to cling hopefully to an exploded theory and a disastrous practice ; while in reality the minds of the speakers wandered to Financial Reform , Rights of Citizenship , Emigration , the Republic , and—Association . The bonds of the party snap at every writhe of its huge body . Soon the elements , once so compact , will separate . What then ? They must unite again , upon the principle of Concert . They must act on principles similar to those ruling the Isle of Thanet Agricultural Association , which has actually made pauperism pay ! But how can landowners expect to prosper , either as individuals or as a party , while they uphold the atrocious game laws ? Read the accounts of frays in Notts and Norfolk . Police for the preservation of pheasants ! The policeman arrests , and the parson commits , the poacher . What a singular collocation of persons ! Careful in the preservation of game , and careless of the education of the People—is not that the characteristic of the Squirearchy ? Is or was ? Not so in towns . Some ellbrts are made there to instruct and educate the People . A Chancellor of the Fixehequer is found in a Mechanics' Institute at Halifax ; even Viscount Lewisham , M . P ., lectures at Bilston , on the happy subject of " Civility considered as Benevolence in Trilles " ; and Marl Fitzwilliam inaugurates new rooms at Northampton ; very laudable , but why deliver a lecture on the authenticity of Christianity , because Mr . hayard happened to be present ? Sir Charles Wood's speech was Whig to the kernel , but it did not touch any of the religious questions of the day . Perhaps the real reason of Karl Fitz \ villiain ' n wanderings is to be found in the fact , that the " 8 OO present " were " all in full dress " 1 More troops for the ( Jape . A rifle corps which has not been much nion ; than twelvemonths in England is ordered out . The alternative presented by the letter of a field ollicer is encouraging—inoro troops or an interminable war . Will Lord Grey require ; help from the Duk « of Wellington ? Strange success is that of Sir Henry Smith . Tho Kafirs are beaten at all points ; but they Kwaria everywhere . The Amatolas are swept ( dear of combatants ; Maeonio is driven from the Waterkloof ; but the Kafirs haunt the very camp of the Couimander-in-Chief , and assault bis sentries and olllcera on guard with a daring that makes said ollicers olcep under tho protection of revolveiH !

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      VOL . II—No . 91 . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 20 , 1851 . Price 6 d .

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      " The one Idea which History exnibits 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-sidea views ; and by setting a 3 ide 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 Dintual nature . " — Humboldt s uosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1914/page/1/