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      / C ONVOCATION to meet " for the despatch of V 7 business /'—that is the most startling announcement of the week , although the announcement is startling rathev for professed politicians than for the publ ^ at large ; and it is contradicted by the M » rtlin 9 Herald , who discovers a new " plot v ' in tne assertion . The story came out grfidually , and it still remains in considerable obscurity . The Times was the first to announce it . It was then followed up by the Morning

      Chronicle , which seems to have had prior information , and which announces the business set down for the Convocation to be of a very limited character—only to consider the practicability of introducing reforms into the Church . The press has discussed the subject mostly in a tone of deprecation . The idea is suspected to be a concession by the Derby Administration to the High Church party , which forms the flower of the old Tory party ; but , as usual with these sectional

      concessions , that which pleases the select few , exasperates or alarms the many . The proposal almost looks as if it would turn the great body of the Church of England laity into dissenters , at the hare idea of such a " Church and State" convention . Robert Winston , the exposer of cathedral abuses , has been re-instated in the head-inasterxhi p of Itochester Grammar-school , by bis Bishop ; the vindicators of " the present system" signally defeated .

      J'eyond theseclerical vicissitudes , there is little in the home news , save to report progress respecting those schools of economy , the agricultural dinners , at which the pupils are getting on famously . J he true idea is making way , in spite of nil the disadvantages with which the pupils have to contend . At Waltham , we find Lord Berners and ''"• Chovvler deploring the rise in the price of mutton , as the consequence of a short supply ; ° ut they , instantly corrected by Mr . Bcaslcy , who

      gave Berners , Cliowler , and the other boys a t-sson in statistics ; explaining how the home Su lM » ly is really in excess of what it bus been ; 10 '' "'l eased price being the result simply of a Hotter demand from the more , prosperous country . At Hereford , Lord llateinan stood up for leases ' llul equitable tenant-right ; and even Mr . Hooker , lie a gricultural apostle of the Standard , declared l » t he saw " the dawn of improvement bursting [ Town Eihtion . 1

      upon the farmers "—as the stout North wind of Free-trade , we presume , dispelled the old clouds of Protection . But at Chertsey the best lesson was given . Mr . Evelyn was mourning over the condition of the farmer , while Henry Drummond held up to his stout-waisted hearers the example of a labourer—a man who had grown five thousand grains of barley from a single grain ! " He could not do it again , " cried some of the farmers . But he could . The same experiment has been tried with wheat , and the same result obtained many times ; and can of course be obtained again . " When farmers have made some advancement in

      that direction , they will be independent of questions concerning Free-trade or Protection . From these stray facts , it is evident that agricultural students make a marked progress every week . Another striking event is the appearance of the Duke of Newcastle at the annual meeting of the Sheffield School of Design , where he remonstrated with the local supporters of the institution for not rendering it thoroughly efficient , and supplied them with some admirable instruction on the use

      of art in handicraft trades , with a glance at its social bearing . It is very seldom that questions of art are handled with so comprehensive a grasp of the subject , or with so much power of putting the truth in plain language to the hearers . The Sheffield people have adopted the idea supplied to them from without , and have made a show of carrying it into effect by accepting patronage of the central government ; but their feeble efforts implied a deficient sincerity of purpose ; and the remonstrance which the Duke administered was

      advice of too wholesome a kind to be very often given . It is a good example , moral as well as H : sthetieul . Louis Napoleon ' s triumphal entry into Paris , the talk of the last nine days , has ceased to be news . Then ; arc few of our readers who have not already heard all about an event so long prepared and so much the theme of conversation from mouth to mouth . The magnificence of the living picture arranged for his entry into the capital was a successful contrast to previous attempts at the same species of exhibition , and this , at all events , docs not seem to have fallen

      off so flatly as the others . We have accounts from Paris which repeat the same assurances that the show of loyalty was hollow ; that the people were passive and sullen , and that the whole scene was but tht ! contrivance and performance of innumerable functionaries . We have no doubt that

      there is a great deal of truth in these assurances , but at the same time we are convinced that the acquiescence of the people has now assumed a more positive shape than it has possessed before ; that the coming glories of the Empire , in fact , have a positive attraction for Frenchmen ^ and that numbers are giving their adhesion to the ranks of the future Empire . The Senate is summoned for the fourth of the next month , the day on which our Parliament is to meet , and it is then expected

      to deliberate upon the Senatus consultum for the establishment of the Empire . That change will be of the greatest political importance . It will , to most practical men , cut off the past from the future in the career of Louis Napoleon . It will record the complicity of the nation , which has allowed it to go so far , at least without resistance , and from that period it will be useless to regard

      the defacto monarch of the French nation as the provisional usurper which hitherto he has appeared . Louis Napoleon is to be " King of Algiers , " which adds nothing to what lie has already ; but also Protector of the Holy Places , " which implies a resolve to take a sjiecial policy in the East . His uncle ' s dream of oriental supremacy is on him .

      The spontaneous and unanticipated liberation of Abd-el-Kader has snatched a grace beyond the reach of more legitimate and more liberal rulers . There has been no coup d'ttat in the Cape colony ; for General Cathcart ' s expedition beyond the Kei does not deserve that name . It has indeed amounted to a successful raid on the old Scotch plan . He succeeded in burning Kreli's " great place , " brought back 1 , 'MHH ) bead of cattle , and also a better idea than he had bad before as

      to the efficiency of the burgher levies ; whom lit ; praises publicly . Sir Harry Smith could have told him that if the burghers can be possessed with confidence for their leaders they are as brave and efficient as any men in the world ; and the burghers could tell him , that mi occasional raid into the country is not the way to master the natives . It is not by a war upon them that they

      are to be subdued , but by a constant exercise of the strong arm of the White man ; and it needs no army to do that , but the arm of the colonists themselves ; for they are properly trained for the work . Kaffir wars art ! tht ! nonsensical creation of a Colonial office , very familiar with the cab-stands of Westminster and the geography of " the moors , " but knowing little about the African border or the nature of the Black tribes .

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      VOL . III . No . 135 . 1 SATUKDAY , OCTOBER 23 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      •« The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity-the noble endeavoiii to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of oui spiritual nature . "—JSumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      - . T . urr u / cetf— The Murder in the Eue Vivienne ... 1011 A Voice from tlio Archdeacon oi Village -Lite m tLgyipz . w > - NEWS OF THE W * pAQB ra a Eailway Station a Cab-stand ? 1011 Wells 1017 Well ' s Brown ' s Three Years in Eu-T ? pnort » f the Revival of Convoca- The Eailway « Accident" System ... 1012 Abd-el-Kader and his Liberator ... 1017 rope 1023 t £ n 1006 Miscellaneous 1012 Taxation Eeducedto Unity and Books on our TaWe 1024 School of-Desi gn—Sheffield , 1006 Health of London during the Week 1013 Simplicity 1017 -rmnn Dying Glooms of Protection 1007 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1013 The People ' s Palace and the Eeli- PORTFOLIO Letters from Paris .- 1008 gious World 1019 The Haythorno Papers 1024 Continental Notes 1009 POSTSCRIPT 1013 Passages from a Boy ' s Epic 1025 Funeral of the Duke of Wellington 1009 ' affairc- OPEN COUNCILThe KaflrWar . 1010 ™ B LIC AFFAIRS The Morality of Woman's Eights ... 1019 THE ARTSThe State of Cuba 1010 The Meetmg of Convocation "for Disunion among Popular Leaders 1019 Medea 1025 News from South Australia 1010 the Despatch of Business" 1014 B * A Story of the Passport System ... 1010 Louis Napoleon Emperor 1015 LITERATURE— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSKuef atlgtm ° ! .::::::::::::::: iSi ^ ^^ A ^ ™ ...::: iSS Pochard's History of Animalcules 10 20 Markets / Advertisements , fto . 1027-1023

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/1/