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      A week has elapsedjj ^ pnStf ^ i ^/ fed ^^ R * ^ f *^ all his Cabinet and ittfji J < £ n . ^ a ^ /^( d ^^^ P "t i 5 ^ scene , and Lord-Berb y ^^ up ie ^^ j ^ jgg jjoiid Mih a new Administration , ^ rfibjfc , coTnpJisition of , tfce Cabinet is in itself a curiosity : the list has undergone daily changes ; but while we write , this is its last form : — First Lord .... Lord Derby . Exchequer . . . . Mr . Disraeli . Lord Chancellor . . ? Sir Edward Sugden .

      Home Secretary . . . Mr . Walpole . Foreign Secretary . . Lord Malmesbury . Colonial Secretary . . Sir John Pakington . Lord President . . . Lord Lonsdale . Privy Seal . . , . Lord Salisbury . Board of Control ... Mr . Herries . A . ^ f Duke of Northumber-Admiralty . . . . . | ^ Post Office ... . Lord Hardwicke . Board of Trade . . . Mr . Henley . ' Woods and Forests . . Lord John Manners . The assortment of Under-Secretaries and Minissters not in the Cabinet is still more curious ; but public amusement has exhausted itself on the subject , and now awaits the development of the Ministerial policy . Lord John Russell threw up the government on Friday night ; the change of Ministry was formally announced to both Houses on Monday ; and both Houses adjourned till Friday ,

      to give time for the reconstruction of a Cabinet . It has proved an interval not at all too long , but still long enough for the public curiosity to die away considerably . Nothing is expected from the present Ministry , nothing feared from it ; but the general feeling is one of satisfaction at any change , and a h ope that a Tory Ministry may stimulate the dulled faculties of Reform .

      The two questions immediately before the public are , whether the Ministry will press its Protectionist . policy—whether it would dissolve Parliament at once ? Immediate dissolution , was impossible ; the Mutiny Bill , and various continuance bills , which are indispensable , forbidding so abrupt a termination of the session : but the west

      ne idea is , that the dissolution will take P ™ . " ? five or six weeks' time . As to the policy of Ministers , the organs of the party have been making preparatory apologies for any delay that may take place in the enforcement of Protectionist principles ; but no doubt much will depend on the [ Town Edition . ]

      reception which Ministers meet with from Parliament , or subsequently from the country . Some " of the absences in the - Ministry are remarkable . Lord Lyndhurst keeps away ; though he iB the only man that would have given force to the party ia . the Upper \ House ; . Derby ' s h # sustained force

      petuosity having no- quality- of Some infer that Lord Lyndhurst is not sufficiently satisfied with tlje prospects of thfe party to disturb his personal arrangements . " Mr . George Frederick Young is not well enough to en £ er office as Viee-President of the Board of Trade ; though one might have expected such An . offer . to . restore life under the ribs of death . Lord Jocelyn publicly

      and formally contradicts ,- as-an imputation ; a statement that he had accepted office under Lord Derby . Sudden political activity has followed the promulgation-of the extinguished Reform Bill and the fall of the Ministry . Manchester meets in hot haste , very resolute , indeed j bids Lord Derby to look out for squalls from the North ; and threatens to awaken , by decided passes , the " Old League " from its mesmeric sleep , and declares itself ready to subscr ibe quite a royal revenue , and so prevent the reimposition of the bread-tax .

      Yes : Reform is what it must come to—Corn Laws or no Corn Laws ! Finsbury , Marylebone , Lambeth , and Birmingham , are manifestly of that opinion . Finsbury and Birmingham will have manhood suffrage ; the other boroughs are contented with " extension , " as the phrase goes . Lambeth , indeed , calls for a " residential" suffrage , which is a term of wide meaning .

      In addition to these general outbreaks of suppressed popular feeling , we have the hearty meeting of the advocates of an untaxed press , in St . Martin ' s Hall . In fact , the week has been prolific in significant expositions of what is in the public mind . Close your ranks j Forward I—that is the watchword . Curious results of the masters' strike in the iron trades , are visible . Besides the great fact for us , that every day brings labour nearer to organization , in the form of Co-operativo Association , there are minor facts ,, not a ^ a ll consolatory to "

      masters , but cheering , to all others , —engineers setting out for Belgium ; failure "of the infamous declaration policy j generous assistance from other trades ; general sympathy of all skilled workmen ; failure of masters in obtaining hands from Scotland , and other places . Mr . Newton ' s summing up , on Monday , was encouraging ; and Mr . Coningham ' s speech useful and instructive . Meanwhile , the coalwhippers have successfully struck

      for higher wages . ; and the Hylton ship-carpenters continue as they were . Even the great pauper question is not without its bright side . The Bolton magistrates have wisely resolved- tb ^ tf reproductive pauper-labour is better than throwing away millions , year after year , to maintain able-bodied men in compulsory idleness . " Political ( Economy" must surrender ; or > ' rather , " false oeconomics must give place to € rue . It is too ridiculous to pay people for doing nothing , in Workhouses , although they do such things in Public Offices .

      The death of Archbishop Murray reminds us of the most . gr ievous of the laches committed by the Whigs . The discreet and enlightened Dr . Croly was succeeded by intolerant Dr . Cullen , of Ptolemaic astrondmy ; the mild and Christian Murray will very likely be succeeded by a priest of the same ultramontane stamp . If the Whigs had fostered that Liberal party among the Irish Catholics which has made so stout a

      stand for the Queen ' s Colleges—if Ministerial influence had been used in friendly spirit to modify the appointments of Rome , the half of the Church , headed by Dr . Murray , might have been converted into a liberal majority .. But that patr iotic encouragement of true religious freedom was abandoned for the political humbug of the " Papal aggression , " and Dr . M'Hale is dictating the growth of the majority on his own side .

      The latest reports of Louis Bonaparte discover him fortifying the Tuilerics , and turning palace gardens into shelving batteries . The enthusiasm of his seven million constituents is becoming dangerous . Or is he fearful of being besieged in the midst of his sanguinary splendours , by the common hate of France ? The reconciliation ( never so probable ) of the two branches of the Royal House portends a

      more sudden and a more speedy struggle . How long this man may last is no more a question of years , but of months : perhaps of weeks : for , in that volcanic land , change outspceds time , and moments of a nation ' s life are intensified into epochs . Antagonisms spring up around tlie Dictator in rank luxuriance ; the elections even for a Legislature created after his own imago , are dreaded and deferred , so clastic ha ^ s constitutional expe * rieuce made the resources of opposition .

      The darker the situation , the more desperate the policy , as the shadows of a rapid retribution are closing upon him , hemmed in by sullen and noiseless conspiracies within , menaced by dynastic

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      VOL . HI . NoJSjl ^; ' ' - * SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 28 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      news 0 FthcwEek- , « - i £ SSSSZS 5 gZ £ & ' SK 5 Sna ? tt 5 K ^ K ? £ rs =:::::::::::::: - The tfe ^ Mmifltiy 190 Wrongs of the « Busmen" 198 ' mers - 202 PORTFOLIOBeform Meetings ... ^ ...,..... _ .. 1 W Ireland 198 The Cruel Sect ....... 203 Magnetic Evenings at Home 207 BepealoftheTaieaonKnowledge ... 191 taeoa—i ! ddltion » i " ln > ormation ...... 198 Things and Thinkings .:........ 203 The Lost Angel 208 letters from Pans 19 J Birjbhn Franklin ' s Expedition 199 Free Trade in National Defence ... 204 _ - Continental Motes ,.. ; ,.. ; ......: U ...... 193 Miscellaneous ¦ .. 199 'Ware Hawk ............... 204 THE ARTS . _ p * T ^^ iS ? and' ^ he- Healthof London during the Week 200 ; Our « Favourite" " The Derby" 204 K"S& ^ "terf ^ ::::::: r :::::: 209 ^^ ffSST ^ Mm - . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ - ^¦? S » i * £ r * . ^ S . UTEBATUBE- COMMEBCAL AFFA . BS- . Progress of Association .... . o- ^ . 1 « 8 The Co-operative league ^ w flheuev ' Letters . ... 205 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements ,

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      - The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Ideai of j £ ™^ te £ ^ tt oS of ^ % So ^ to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one - sided vie Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development ot our spiritual . nature . "—Mumboldt't Cosmos .

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1924/page/1/