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      The most startling incident of the week unquestionably is the announcement from the United States , that the British Government has ordered a fleet of armed steamers to the coast of British North America , for the purpose of resisting the encroachments of the Americans within the limits of the British fisheries ; and that the dispute had been placed in a highly practical form , by the seizure of the Coral , a fishing vessel belonging to the State of Maine , captured by a British steamer ,

      and carried into the port of St . John ' s , New Brunswick . The Americans and the English differ as to the intended construction of the treaty of 1818 , defining the limits , but the Americans admit that the letter of the treaty is with Great Britain . The greatest excitement prevailed , not only in the fishing districts of Maine and Massachusetts , but also in New York and Washington . The leaders of different parties vie with each other in assuming an " energetic" manner , and

      there is no doubt that the incident might become an important element in the rivalry which precedes a presidential election . Although some intelligent writers admit the validity of the treaty , the general impression seems to b 6 that the fishers of Massachusetts and Maine must be supported at all hazards . It is evident that the English are prepared for real action ; on the other hand , the Americans will not flinch ; and speculation is already rife as to the effect if Yankee blood be shed .

      Lord Malmesbury ' s friends , who boast that he is the man of the City , because he has settled the affair of the Mexican bonds , think that he will be equally happy on the banks of Newfoundland . But there is a difference between negotiating with the rough sailors of Massachusetts , and doing so with Mexican bond-holders , sickened with hope deferred .

      The Ministerial share in the matter is rendered the more dubious , since the rumours of a " split m the Cabinet" gain force ; and it is now said that , in about a week or bo , some serious disruption is to astonish the world . "What the split is , we do not learn j but the manner of stating it implies that some of the old-fashioned Tories declme to follow Mr . Disraeli in his new measures . [ Town Edition . ]

      The course of the latest political events indeed has not been favourable to the old-fashioned Conservatives or Protectionists : the veiy last election , that in Orkney , was a bad augury for them , the Free-trade Liberal Dundas , beating the Derbyite Free-trader by 227 to 194 . While the investigation is proceeding into the cause of the Anti-Catholic riot at Stockport , with some doubtful evidence imputing excessive malignity on both aides , the enquiry into the affray

      at Six-mile Bridge , near Limerick , lends additional probability to the tale , that the soldiers were employed in the most barefaced manner as an electioneering instrument of the Tory party . The present version of the story is , that certain voters were voluntarily submitting to a colourable restraint by the Liberals , in order to avoid giving their votes under coercion by their landlords ; so that their " rescue" by the soldiers , under guidance

      of a young Tory magistrate , became the transfer from , a friendly to a hostile arrest . The correspondence between the Priest Coghlan and Captain Smythe , in which the priest , while affecting to denounce Protestant habits and landlord tyrannies , really arouses the bitternesses of his countrymen , is another ugly sign of the degree in which malignant spirits are enjoying the storm raised by the Whig and Tory traders in sectarian differences .

      A spirit of a different kind is making way here in England : the election of proctors on the understanding that they shall convert the proceedings of convocation to real business , is making sufficient progress to alarm the advocates of the status quo , insomuch that the Times puts forth a strong paper against the movement . The writer professes not to understand its object . He contends that the Church of England subsists by a multiplicity of " compromises , " possible only while the formal character of Convocation favours the

      avoidance of encounter on points of difference ; implying , therefore , that to restore the vitality of convocation would be equivalent to disruption of the church . In other words , according to the writer of the Times , the Establishment is not a church , but only a variety of sects , who connive at each other ' s usurpation of the apostolical succession to church property . This is a view which we have not excluded ; but it does not follow from it that Convocation would have the effect of breaking up the national ecclesiastical machinery .

      If the writer were logically to carry out his own conclusions , he ought to arrive at the position of our correspondent " Catholic , " who suggested , some time back , on the strength of a very similar view , that the disposal of church property should be localized in each parish ; the church being thus avowedly rendered , what it is in fact , a federation of sects . The article in the Times , however ,

      marks the progress of the Convocation movement . The electoral farce has again been played throughout France . The Government have made no scruple of " recommending" their nominees for the- ii > MiMi ip il councils , and putting down any stray opposition candidate . " Recommending " ,, »> -naaA t »« + iritorornf Ttnr " miff incr down . " Under we need not interpretnor " putting down" under

      , , the present regime . But the strength and tenacity of the disaffection is proved by the immense number who abstain from voting . Even in towns where the President has been so " enthusiastically received , " the municipal elections are declared null from paucity of voters . The protests of such men as Odilon Barrot are the surest test of the real

      nation ' s adhesion . The re-establishment of the guillotine for the punishment of " political offences , " which , in a country like Fiance , are simply the ups and down of rival factions , is a fatal error . " It is worse than a crime : it is a mistake . " For thus the seeds of terrorism are sown : and they " who use the sword perish by the sword . "

      D'Orsay has gone to another and a better world . The preux chevalier of Rotten-row , the art-model of good society , who showed how manly a man a fine gentleman could be , has passed through the last stage of valetudinarian feebleness , and has at last sunk to the undiscriminating attentions of the undertaker . Louis Napoleon , who did not scruple to . bestride the eagle -tfor hi * own share , seems to have hesitated about giving

      his brother-adventurer any real eavalesque employ ment , and could do no better for his patron in England than to perpetuate the fallen gentleman s modest resource , and put him into an official alms-house , as an inspector of Fine Arts ! It is not to be wondered at , from the man who made his genial hostess of Gore House , shall we say , liteterally die in chagrin , at being left to dance attendance in an antc-ehambcr 7 Louis Napoleon has not even the pirate ' s virtue—open-handed good fellowship .

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      VOL . III . No . 124 . 1 SATURDAY , AUGUST 7 , 1852 . ' [ Price Sixpence . .

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      ,. « r tup WFEK— Progress of Association 747 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Pulpit Quackery / °° NEWS OF THE WEEK ^^ Coffee and Chicory 748 The New American " Difficulty" ... 754 The Von Beck Case 753 The Derby Government and the The Philosophy of Railway Acei- Whiggism in the Main Sewer 754 LITERATURE United States - 742 dents . 748 Our Favourite Tyrant for Home [ aTA * . Tr 760 General Pierce and the " Times " ... 743 Railway Accidents 749 Consumption 755 A Student s Life . ' « -The Raising of the First Column of Release of Mr . Cobbett 749 Army Purchase—Corrupt Practices 755 Books on Hungary /« J tneNewCrystalPalace * 43 Impudent Intolerance 749 The Movement in the Church 756 Books on our Table ' »* Letters from Paris .... 7 * 4 Murder : Madmen at Large 749 The Palace of the People 756 pqrtpolio—The Democratic Befugeo Committee Scaffold Penitence 750 Louis Napoleon and the Three rvn ruuu to their Fellow-Countrymen 746 Melancholy Child Murder 750 Northern Powers 756 Comte ' s Positive Philosophy 761 " Six Mile Bridge" ... « 74 s The Emigratioa Swindle , 750 The Co-operative Movement 757 The Stockport Biota ... 746 ¦; A Wife " by Commission" ... ! " 751 On the Cultivation of Flax 757 THE ARTSBribery . . -. '"' " 746 A Fire Fountain 751 Mutual Toleration 758 AmidtheFerns 762 Clerical Eieetioneering 746 " Model" Lodging-houses ! 751 Advice Gratis 758 A Word or Two about Junien and Irish Election Expenses 746 Miscellaneous . 751 Lines Suggested by Recent French « Pietro II Grande" .... 763 Corruption in Army Appointments 746 Health of London during the Week 752 Festivities 758 Excursion to the New Water Births , Marriages , and Deaths 752 OPEN COUNCIL— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMeSToliT ^ ^ ... .. 747 POSTSCRIPT 753 Protectionist Re-adjustments 758 Markets , Advertisements , &c ... 763-7 G 4 — . , . - i .. i ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ a —*

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctnessis > the Idea cf Humauity-theaoWeengwom to throw ' down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice : and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distincfcions ° L ^ ligion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object > -the free development oi our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' t Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1946/page/1/