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      Ministers have not improved tjbeir position by their feats on the hustings . In their speeches , they have shirked the main tbpic , J ^ & ^^\ d y which occupies the public mind > and haVi ^ Bdden off on other matters . Mr . ^ ecretarJ ^ Fal polei Sir Fredenck 'Thekigerj '' ^^^^^^ Sk ^^^ I ^^ . relied on' antagonism w ^ yln ^ ni ^» QKi | lcJ thus doing the oest thingtlheycoulC ^^^ mii ^ John Russell to public'favour . Mr / Henley dex-: terously evaded all attempts to entrap him into a confession '; wjbile the late whipper-in , Mr ,

      Secretary-at-War Beresford , boasted of his intimacy with Lord Derby , and declared for a moderate fixed duty . Mr . Herries was as obscure as an ovacle , j but Mr . George Bankes beat nil his , colleagues in dexterity , showing how impossible it is for an election audience to fix a candidate who has temper and coolness enough not to heed any interruption or answer any question . The people asked for a definite statement of his views , and he gave them a string of jokes . Mr . Christopher comes before us again , but adds nothing to his previous declaration , —that Lord Derby will reif he

      verse the policy of Fre ^ -trade can , and as soon as he can . One thing is very noticeable in these meetings— -the absence of enthusiasm on the part of the audience . There was a gloom and tanaenesa around the hustings . It was only when a few farmers were gathered together at the market-table that the cheering was at all of the hopeful kind . The impression made on the mind is , that the constituencies are either depressed or * ninjterent , —depressed where favourable to any candidate , indifferent and disposed to jest where unfa vourable . This is significant . The Tories alread y feel the weight of office .

      In Ireland , Mr . Whiteside has carried the day by a bare majority of nine . Lord Naas meets with determined opposition , but anticipates a " respectable majority . " Apart from the ministerial appeals , there is a general electioneering ferment throughou t the country . And the Kussell interest is rising again . It is

      not only Lord iTohn that will not believe in his own death , but the " Liberals" of the old school chng to him with a widowed incredulity in Ins deceaje . The meeting at \ his house in Oheslmm-P'nqe shows how willing they are to accept a leader who lma already kept them bact so many years , £ Town Edition . !

      * ^^ Not that the party was unanimous j more than one man , better acquainted than Lord John- with the pppu ^ rfeelii ^ v plainly told hint that the old fruitless tactics would not dp . Still the general bod y * some hundred and fSty strong , went with him in adopting the tactics of the Manchester League , and making the whole policy of Liberalism turn at present on the maintenance of Free-trade . Reform itself is postponed , after all Lord John ' s nainsi on his great work , the Reform Bill No . II . has the extent which

      ^ i |^^ he discovered to that r M' «« isure would have enlarged the suffrage , and shrinks back from his own audacity . Be that as it may , Lord John adopts that mistaken policy which seeks to fight the new Ministry on the ground where they anticipate defeat , and are almost prepared to concede ; while it lets them off on the ground where-they are prepared to be obstinate , and could not escape by their own will . There is no serious alarm on the subject of Free-trade , but there is serious apprehension that the late Prime

      Minister is droppingthe subject of Reform , and that , what is worse , more ardently professing Liberals are prepared to connive at the desertion . But there is a Nemesis for all such outragers of destiny : if neither the Ministers nor the Anti-Ministers come before the country with a leading question , a host of questions will arise to distract electoral England , and the general election may return a parliament excited to be very troublesome towards the two great dinner-parties in the State who alternate on the Treasury and Anti-Treasury benches .

      The calling out of the Yeomanry to exercise , a concession to the recent call for activity in the matter of national defences . Rqcent , we say , because the interest on the subject has unquestionably died off in a great degree , and we see little of . ft except the reflex surviving in the advertisements of tradesmen who offer rifle uniforms for sale , or the meetings to petition against national defence . The public , exhausted with its effort at old English spirit , is content to await the coming

      of a calamity before it can be at the trouble of any . sustained exertion . Official men rejoice in that apathy of the public ; but if they were . moved by a genuine ambition , they would grieve over it ; since it is only an animated people that affords opportunity for greatness in its rulers . It is a miserable charioteer that prefers to drive dull horseB . The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire has established a case against Lord Campbell , who hadigmdc it a serious offence that a Roman-catholic sheriff

      should appear with a Roman-catholic chaplain ! Not only does the conduct of Mr . Scott ' Murray appear to have been ^ perfectly legal , and the remarks of Lord Campbell perfectly improper and constitutionally unsound ; but there are precedents for the course ' adopted by Mr . Murray . Lord Campbell ' s observations would repeal the Relief Act of 1829 . If the Protestant religion be the religion of the judges , obviously , no Romancatholic barrister could arrive at the honours of the Bench . Mr . Scott Murray convicts Lord Campbell of intemperance and bigotry—or the affectation of bigotry . .

      The growing interest felt in the question of reproductive labour for paupers may be estimated from the fact , that the plan has been smartly abused by a morning contemporary , and that it has attracted a considerable number of supporters from the ranks of the clergy . The Manchester meeting , this week , is a further test of the spread and acceptance of the idea . The calamity at Holmfirth has awakened attention to the state of the neighbouring reservoir , called the Holmstye ; which Captain Moody had

      pronounced to be unsafe . The local commissioners , in whom the management vests , had already begun to reduce the height of water , and at a public meeting of the inhabitants , they were compelled , by the general expression of feeling , to promise that it should be drawn off altogether ; the only course really secure . Meanwhile , the inhabitants petitioned Parli ament to enforce a stronger

      responsibility on the commissioners . To us it appears that the whole question of extensive works , where pr ivate interest and the public safety or convenience are in conflict , should be overhauled and placed on a better basis . There is something absurd in the presence of a government officer to look at a calamity after it has happened , or even to survey a work before calamity , if he has not power to enforce needful measures .

      If the pantomime of small men in large masks ( poor France being the Pantaloon ) were not destined to end tragically , we should be disppsed to laugh aloud at the gigantic buffoonery of Napoleonism . Mendacity , fraud , corruption , violence , are the foundations of sand upon which a new era of prosperity is tp bo autocratically raised—Jte envy and admiration of misguided constitutionalism . When we read of elections-being undertaken as a matter of business by thj | i -sanguinary farceur , M . Roraieu—of magn « n ^* noua '

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      VOL ^ III ; Ho . 103 , ] SAT UB DAT , MARfcH 13 , 1852 . [ Peice Sixpence .

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      , « ueArTHPWEEIt- WM Steam Comnmirioation with India The Pioneer Church of tHe Colomea Za r a upmions « o NEWS OF TH& WEEK _ ^ *^ D Australia ............. > .... - 243 Boebuck and Coppock .................. 249 Books ^ n our Table ,... 2 o 6 Ixjrd John and the ^ L . be « l 8 » . 238 MSyon Board the " Queen ' of the An Irish Amnesty 249 PORTFOLIO- . „ Parliamentary Bepresentation ...... 238 Wpat " tiveroool . 24 A Anarchy from an " Unknown Magnetic Evenings at Home 25 G 3 aeotionj ! J ^ MuS * m ? AlE ^ Tongie " .,..,........ ; .,... - 250 Peace the Accomplice 257 letters ^ m ParM ... v . ; .... : ;; ........ ^ 3 » Stohe-Throwine at Trains ........ ; ...:.. 244 Confederation of Popular Institutes 260 THE ARTS—^ tfeB ^ n ^ endhSocialism ... ^ SSS ^ IS ^ ; ,: L . v , 244 Social Hefbrm ..:.........,. 260 The Sicilian Bride ' . 257 Churcl ^ atter ^ ... T ;; ..... ^ .. ^ .. 241 i ^^ ay ^ etVHuaband ......... 244 Notes on War ............. ; ...... 261- Pr ^ denVs Don C ^ sar 258 Iiord Campbell and the Roman- a ^ celLneouii .. ............. 245 OPEN COUNCIL— ' ¦ James TI .., ; .. . „ ¦ 253 caAoMc ffigh Sher ^ .........,........ 242 Health of ^ ^ London durmg the Week 246 Vindication of the Peace PoUoy ...... 252 Our Clerks—The Keeleys 259 . * Pro ^ ess ^ ssoeiatapn . ^ .. 242 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ; .... ; 248 Begular Troops andVolunteers ...... 253 The Marylebone 259 ^ ^ " he" ^ d ^^ "' : «? ... ; puSlSaFFAiA-- Amended ^ wspaper Stamps Scheme 253 Ella's Musical Evemngs 259 Beproductxve Employment of Pau P ^ SiniS Crisis of Next Week 247 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSEqSationofth ^ Poor-Kate :: ; :::: ^^ The Parli amentary , Beformers and Bancroft ' s American Bevolutipn ...... 254 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements National Defences . ., ; ........ ; ....... ^ .. 243 ^ / t ^ Mervyn Chtheroe ¦ 25 a &e . . ¦ ....-.... ¦ . ¦¦ . ¦ 259-260

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      " The one Idea Which History exhibits as " evermore developing itself , into greater distmctnesa 13 the Idea of Humatn ^ r—the ndble endeavour to throw dovm all the barriers erected between . men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions . of Eehgion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual ' n ^ . tuxe . " --Simboldt ' a Cosmos . ; .-. .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/1/