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      * I ~ 1 NGLAND remains quiescent ; the movements Pi which most concern her , coniprised within the " News of the Week , " happening in lands distant , and in diverse quarters . Our ally , the great Republic of America , is continuing her advances—at present only on paper , but with action looming in a future somewhat more immediate than that of measures nearer home . In the Cape colony , General Cathcart is threatening to withdraw .

      In a slight degree , indeed , the American movement may be considered to incline backwards . Mr . Webster has virtually revoked his claim on behalf of Benjamin Morrell , as the " discoverer" of the Lobos Islands . He now contends that the Islands were habitually frequented bj Americans , before Benjamin Morrell was " supposed" to have

      discovered them ; and he treats that habitual frequenting as sufficient to constitute tha right of entry . A contemporary has well likened his claim to that of any Frenchman , who , happening to discover a piece of gold on the Isle of Wight , should insist on the French right of access to that island . Mr . Webster has made another concession .

      He has declared that the American Government will not extend its protection to private adventurers who forcibly land on the Islands ; but that those adventurers will be left to run the risk on their own responsibility . This is to make a great retreat from the original position ; and although Mr . Webster still keeps open the question , whether or not America has a right to seize the islands without much regard to the technical hold of l * , the present tone of the correspondence leads to the hope that more discreet counsels amongst American statesmen may prevail over the rasli

      advances of u gentleman distinguished for his promptitude and power , rather than for his discretion or bis sense of the gravest of public duties . The question of the Lobos Islands sinks into insignificance , as compared with a great spontaneous popular movement , now first disclosed "uthenticall y to the world . The secret society founded in New Orleans , to repeat the Cubun expedition on a larger scale , and with greater resources , which we mentioned some time back , has now come distinctl y before the public . Its enrolled numbers amount to 15 , 000 , it has branches [ Town Edition . ]

      throughout the Union , and it already includes within the compass of its influence such a mass of social power and activity , as to show that its ultimate success is certain . It may be said already to have taken possession of the Union at large ; and such being the fact , the Union now being practically committed to the expedition , it must be understood that the next attempt upon Cuba will be made under circumstances that will either ensure immediate success , or the perseverance of the whole republic until that island shall have been formally ceded . The moral

      propriety of the expedition is still discussed , in America as well as in England ; and in this country opinion will very reluctantly acquiesce in any forcible appropriation of the West Indian Islands . But there is no doubt that in the English version the American grounds for the proceeding have been misrepresented , and we have endeavoured to explain that misrepresentation in a separate paper . Meanwhile , whatever the merits of the case , the resolution of so wide-spread and powerful a body is a fact beyond dispute , and the result must be already foreseen .

      It will be for statesmen abroad , therefore , to busy themselves less with the merits of this particular seizure , than with the consequences of it ; less with the statesmanship preceding that seizure —already out of date—than with the course it will become statesmen to take after the seizure shall have been effected . This much of the merits may already be taken into the account—that a

      party in Cuba , not inconsiderable , is disposed to the annexation ; and statesmen will have the right to lay what stress they please on that willingness within Cuba itself , when they arc called upon to reconcile alliance between England and America , by acquiescing in the seizure . That they will be called upon to aequiesce , there is no question ; and it will be a great error in statesmanship to let that difficulty force us into impracticable

      enterprises . As we have repeatedly explained , this annexation will inevitably be followed , at no distant date , by another still more extensive—that of the Mexican main . In considering the future course of statesmanship , it will be necessary to keep that in view , as an incident not to be avoided . The course of English statesmanship at the Cape is untoward . General Cathcart threatens to throw the Colonists on their own resources : u

      threat which the past history of the war must render peculiarly galling and exasperating . In fact , it is impossible to imagine a position of affairs more demoralizing to the loyalty of the settlers , than that now taken up by the Governor . As we have repeatedly explained , the whole course of Border policy carried out by the servants of , the Colonial Office , has been against the counsel and wishes of the local statesmen . The frontier colonists were prevented , when philanthropy was

      in office , from settling the native tribes in their own way ; the military colonization of Caffraria was a crotchet of the Colonial Office ; the Anglo-Dutch Farmers , whom the official philanthropy , coupled with Black marauding , exasperated into emigration beyond the Border , who were warred upon as rebels , are now treated as an independent republic , and Prcetorius , for whose head a reward was offered , is now in the receipt of complimentary official despatches as President ; the British , who

      have not rebelled , who have done much against their will to aid the ill-conducted war upon the Kaffirs , are now reproached witli that war as an expense to England , and are almost accused of cowardice for not coming forward ; and in the mean time , the man who came , saw , and has not conquered , but finds himself nearly at the end of bis resources , is preparing to bequeath to them the discredit and the consequences of defeat . It is one of the modern official lessons in

      rebellion . M . Louis Bonaparte is out of health , and chilled in mind and body , " nurses" for his journey to the South , where be is promised a warm reception . Whether it may be too warm for the budding Emperor , or only just so warm as to quicken the bud into blossom , or even so hot as to scorch the blossom into dust , Time and the Fates alone can tell . That we shall hear of

      overwhelming rural enthusiasm , of delirious civic transports , of intense popular manifestations , the story of past progresses in our guarantee . Probably the despatches are already cooked by the forty-falsehood power of Prefeetoral servilities : and those uncouth and monstrous lying machines of despotism , the telegraphs , will be Net whirling their gaunt , weird arms almost to dislocation : sil cut ministers of fruud and tyranny , apt to the hands of adventurism : impassive instruments of royalty and revolution , of Louis Philippe , Ledra Kollin , and Louis'Bonaparte in turns : a type of

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      VOL . III . No . 129 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 11 , 1852 . [ Pkice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— pash The Case of the Poitevins 867 TheNewJEra 872 LITERATURES ^ Smith and the Mini ^ S "HE" " - ¦ ™ 3 £ tt ~ Ux £ W ~ V&Z Thorn ' s Travel , in Tibet 880 Letters from Pans 863 The » Wild Beasts" of London 868 enced « Stranger" 874 Continental Notes ....... 864 Murder near Sheffield 868 On the Cultivation of Flax 875 PORTFOLIOMeeting of the British . Association 864 Miscellaneous 869 War-ships made Useful in Peace ... 876 Letters of a Vagabond 880 The Bmmngham Musical Festival ... 864 Healtn of London during the Immoralities of the Marriage Law ... 876 Progress of Association 866 Weet B 87 O . Lord IJonsdale on Liquid Manure ... 865 Births , M ^ rri ^ gea ; and DeathB ' ..:... 870 OPEN COUNCIL- " . " , ^ The Sanitary Reformers at Totten- *»• - « . ~ Jack Sheppard ° 84 ham 865 POSTSCRIPT ~ ... 870 Tfce True Principle of Concert in Peel ' s Birth-Place 866 Eailway Administration 876 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSDestructive Storm 866 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Defence of the Temperance Cause ... 877 " ™ ~ !* , . . * oft- M * The Shottisham " Miracle" 866 " The Order of the Lone Btar" 871 TheBecenfc Co-operative Conference 877 Markets , Advertisements , &c . 88 SS-W *

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      11 The one Idea which History exhibits 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-sided views ; and by setting aside ths distinctions of Keligion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sftnboldt ' t Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1951/page/1/