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      IT is understood that Parliament will meet on the 21 st of this month , in order to expedite the preliminary arrangements , and to dispose of the funereal honours to the Duke of Wellington , before the more regular session . We have no high authority for this statement , but we have some reason to believe that it may prove correct . The Cabinet is to assemble for its own preliminary deliberations on . the 15 th .

      The most recent manifestations are far from being favourable to the position of Ministers . Lord John Russell's Perth speech has told very favourably for his pretensions ; although it is as yet unsustained by any corroborative manifesto from colleagues ; and we know that some of his friends are expressing grave doubts whether he meant all that has been inferred : and if he did , whether

      the more " Moderate" of the Liberal party would go with him . Some of these Moderate gentlemen are in a ludicrous position , half disclaiming their own leader , and half annoyed at the sudden echo of favour with which the public accepts his speech . The opposite extreme of the Liberal party is in a state of amused suspense , waiting to see how Lord John will follow up his challenge on behalf of the " Democracy , " quite ready to laugh ver y heartil y if he should fall back from the effect of his own eloquence .

      According to rumour various new combinations nr intended or sought . Lord Dalhonsie is to be recalled from the Governorship of India to be Governor of the Cinque Ports , and some Pcelite Duke is to take his place . We do not believe the » tory at si . ll as it is supposed to relate to the Duke ° f Newcastle ; who is a really upright man , and n « t at all likely to fall in with any party intrigues . Another idea , also shadowy , is , that Lord Pal-Mcrstou is about to join the Derby party in some new combination ; but it would be a surprise if he were to eut into a losing game .

      And nil the while Ministers and their friends ftro k «« ping up the spirits of their party after their own peculiar fashion . Mr . Robert Palmer assures the agriculturists of Berkshire that Ministers will take measures for the general prosperity of the countr y , and that in those measures the agri-? j ! ltlir'HtH wiU Mot 1 > e forgotten ; " at least , " adds Mr . Palmer , " at least , such is my hope ! " Ami r " dlinm Beresford , explaining nwny his conle * npt for the " vile rabble , " as a local censure [ Town Edition . ]

      specially applicable to Braintree , rebukes a labouring man at Dunmow , who cried out that he had only 7 s . a week , for not having a " contented mind : " "that man , " cried " W . B ., " "if he had 9 s . would not be content , but want eleven shillings a week . " Would Beresford be so ? Did " W . B . " find the voters of Derby so easily contented ? Probably not ; but the discontented countryman was only an agriculturist . It is like a scene in a farce you say : why , it is a farce .

      The working classes indeed are rising to a frightful state of independence . In Manchester and Leeds the paupers never were so few ; and it is the same in Ireland , the same even in the agricultural districts . Mr . Henley and Mr . Evelyn do not conceal their , vexation at the love of " gain" which draws the men of discontented mind from Oxfordshire to Australia . In

      Ireland , the outward stream appears to augment rather than diminish . Wages will probably continue to rise , and Mr . Bercsford's friend may ultimately find that eleven shillings will not content him . It is frightful to think of the independence which the common people may show under such circumstances ! We doubt indeed whether the members of the

      working class , assembled at the ^ eople ' s Institute in Pimlico on Monday evening , would have been prepared to declare their final contentment with the easy income of nine shillings a week , or even with the affluence of eleven . It is tolerably certain that the rate of wages amongst that assemblage ranged considerably above eleven shillings , and yet they were demanding the aid of public

      education ; nay , what is worse , they received their President and guest in a manner as independent as it was friendly ; and they evidently entertained a full conviction that he intended to keep his promise to them in supporting their main desire ; an impudent presumption in itself , fit to be encountered only by Liberal baronets , but scarcely possible towards a genuine agricultural

      representative . Mr . John Bright has taken a new stand on Irish ground . He appears in Belfast , makes a speech , adopts in a qualified sense the popular view which makes the land the fundamental question , preaches union of Reformers , ami so far copies Mr . Hume as to raise the Ballot by way of a common standard . On the other hand , he departs from the Hume course , in conciliating the Irish Members with marked attention . It is to bo observed that

      Mr . Bright speaks after Lord John Russell , and that Mr . Hume had the disadvantage of writing before . The election for the Oxford Chancellorship is fixed for Tuesday next ; as secure a moment for the perpetration of a job as could possibly have been selected . It will be an election after the reigning French pattern : the Hebdomadal ( block ) Heads ape the Prefects of Louis Napoleon . Elsewhere , we have exposed in detail this open and advised scandal , which we believe will do more to shake the public faith ( if any such remain ) in

      Oxford , than twenty Commissions , even as searching as the last . The Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall may claim the initiative in " starting" Lord Derby : is it . uncharitable to doubt the unmixed quality of his Tory zeal ? The High-church leaders—such as Henry of Exeter and George Anthony Denison ( that we should write his name \)—seem to have reached the bottom of their Anglicanism , and to have " brought up" in safe Tory soundings ; caught , by the feigned relaxation of the management clauses , and forgetful of the warnings of D . C . L . on the accession of the Derbyites .

      Lord Shaftesbury , it seems , was set up as a bogie to frighten the Puseyites into Derbyism ; though the appearance of the Warden of Wadham , and the Provost of Worcester , in favour of Derby , makes us wonder that they could be so duped . The Bullock-Marsham party was completely cowed by the triumph of Gladstone , and Shaftesbury was impossible . A knot of the more high-spirited and independent Puseyites , desired the Duke of Newcastle ; and Sewell of Exeter circulated his misgivings ; urging with rare sagacity , that the Anti 7 Reformers in uniting themselves and Oxford

      with Derby , were " like an exhansted swimmer clinging to another that is in danger of drowning . " However , the High-church dons in the country , being agriculturally minded , gave no encouragement , and were content with Derby . And what is more , Samuel Oxon , the model bishop of ah age of compromise , the Free-trader-Protectionist , Evangelical-Puseyite , had been hard ut work for Derby from the beginning , though he only appeared in the second act , at a " Caucus" of the party at Oriel , where he exerted ull his lubricating eloquence in behalf of Derby , as the defender of that church which was " dearer to him than hi »

      dearest friend . " The Liberals , a mere handful in the University could have no proper candidate ; but if the Duke of Newcastle hud been started by his natural sup-

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      " 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 Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' g Cosmos . .

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      MFWS OF THE WEEK- Miscellaneous 963 How to Meet Loui 3 Napoleon in the Books on our Table wo N paob Health of London during the "Week 964 Channel 969 «/ x « v «/ m tsx—Lord PaumureatArbroath 958 Birth 8 , Marriages , and Deaths 964 The True Attack of Austria . ... 969 PORTFOLIOJhI on the Disunion of the HowOldham Demonstrates m Letters of a Vagabond 975 T- £ rTlPartv 958 POSTSCRIPT 965 FavourofFox 969 Passages from a Boy ' s Epic 977 t iV Wat Bftifaat etna The Chivalry of Labour Exhorted to JSL 2 ^^ S ^ .:::::::::::::::::: £ 5 pUBLIC AFFAIRS - OP J" " , L" 970 the w < Sp of Beauty 977 Continental Notes 961 A People ' s Party and the New Par- Modern Manicheism ••••¦•••••; wu Agnation in Paris , 961 liament .. 966 Woman ' s Condition and Claims 970 THE ARTSA True Account of the Case of Mr . The True Democracy 966 itfratijrf— The Winter Theatres 977 Pa ^ et ... 96 1 The Chancellor Scandal at Oxford ... 967 ui i tim-i unc Mont St . Michel 978 The Westminster People ' s Institute 962 A " Warning" from Shoe-lane 967 Macgillivray ' s British Birds ............ 972 Monster Factory 962 How Shall Lord Dalhousie be Pro- The Landscape Painter m Calabria 97 < J COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS—2 SSr ^ SU-w =. - ::: % » K 5 fe ==: S "—• — -- — - " »*¦ "• *—* ¦ * - - —

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      VOL . III . No . 133 . 1 SATURDAY , OCTOBER 9 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/1/