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      VOL . V . No . 230 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 19 , 1854 . . [ Pkice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— pace ¦ Canada < 75 The Paternal Government 781 Fashion and Famine . 787 ; Continental N " otes 775 The Anti-Moloch Movement ... 7 S 1 Faith and Negation 788 ISotes on the War 770 Layard and the Hungarians 775 The Employers' lleport upon French Literature 789 Elections ................ 770 I The Cholera 775 the Preston Labour-Battle ... 732 Books on our Table Y //^ " . . ' . ' . ' . \ 789 Absurdities of the Bribery Bill ... 771 Mr . Edwin Chadwick 770 r > o-rvi rmiMrn The "Windsor Barracks Affair 772 Testimonial to Mr . Hume 77 G OftN COUNCIL- THE ARTSOur Civilisation 772 Miscellaneous 77 G The Domestic Moloch 7 S 3 _ . . . , , _ , . , „ , ' Napoleon-day 77 S ¦ India , ¦ 783 Oriental and Turkish Museum . 790 The E . G'Flalierty ' Scandai . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . " . ' . 774 i PUBLIC AFFAIRS— , j Do Surgeons Make Experiments Mr . George Grant ' s Cromo-Li- ' The Kcw Beer Bill -. 774 i Work for the Itccess 777 I- in Corpore Vili ? 783 tliograpluc of Columbus 790 Fete by Capitalists to Miners , &c . 774 i The Union , its 3 \ cighbpurs , and The Duties of the Clergy 784 — The Court 775 their Annexabilitv .............. 778 Sir B . Hall 784 ' „ .., ¦ ,, . ¦¦ , ^ ' * , ¦ „ The Turkish Loan 775 First Attempts at lilorality 778 The Naval Service 784 Bnthsr Marriages , and Deaths ... 790 ~^ $ * Z—Z ^ :=:: ^\ Vh ' ^^^^ t ^^^ ^ ^ BRATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSpain . 775 Act ...:.... ,., ; . 786 Summary ... 785 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-America 775 N . Cardinal "Wiseman Defendant 780 A Russian Pamphlet 785 I vertiseinents , &c ...... 790-792

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      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into urealer uist-. ricr . ness is the Idea of Humanity— the noblp endeavour to thjow down all the barriers erected betweea men by prejudice and ono-sidel view 3 ; and by settm" - aside the distinctions of Keligiou , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race" as one brotherhood , having one great object—the f"ee development of oar spiritual nature . "—Humbold&s Cosmos . ¦ ' i ¦

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      np . HE day after Parliament was prorogued , the X Thames , or a sewer— -which may be defined as a branch of the Thames— burst into one of the offices of the House of Lords , sliming and destroying innumerable documents , and impregnating the vacated Parliamentary atmosphere with even a more fearful steiich than was supposed to have been detected during the terrible session

      of the election inquiries into corruption . Gi'eat neglect is indicated in such a fact . ; but the neglect is constitutional . " When Parliament is . quite ended , and before the Recess is quite begun , public works and operations of every description : re nearly everywhere suspended . Therefore the invasion l ) y the sewer has its moral . The cholera , liowever , occupies this pcrio'd of suspense . In the metropolis it is raging as a plague—killing ofF in all the bad neighbourhoods ,

      choice , may be inferred from the circumstance that in almost every case there are four , five , or six candidates . At Barnstaple , where the registered electors do not exceed 700 , a great brewer is contending with a great architect , the one calling himself a Tory , the other denominating himself a Liberal—merely as a matter of form—and the electors denouncing both because , accustomed from time immemorial to receive 6 / . a piece for their votes , both candidates , giving themselves the benefit of doubts

      about the new Bribery Bill , decline compliance with any of the ancient formalities . At Cambridge , where an electoral body of about 2000 is equally divided between Liberals and Tories , the two men who were rejected at the last election , Messrs . Adair and Mowatt , have now come in triumphant over veiy attractive Tories—Lord Maidstone and ]\/ r . Slade , Q . C In such a borough we might be entitled to regard this fact as some indication of general political feeling ; but with the statistics which meet xis at Maldon

      and they are everywhere , the diseased and tho feeble ; the dissipated , the exhausted , and the diseased ; the very old and the very young . And actually nothing is being done : that is if we measure action by the danger . With the habit , which may now be described as a purely English liabit , so thoroughly have we lost our old national characteristics , the community is looking to the Government : —tl » e Government is represented by the Board of Health ; and tho new Board of Health limits its young and fresh encn-gies to

      ( an Essex borough with a traditional tendency to give the Liberals their chance on the condition of liberality with money ) , where two Conservatives , who are not at all atti'active , have triumphed over a Liberal und a Tory , —and another candidate , who unreservedly declared for tho ballot , universal snflrnge , and anything else that was particularly requested , only polling about ' 200 votes . The peculiarity in this instance is that the palpably pure candidate was tho one who has been most

      delt is taken for granted that these gentlemen have little real chance , and that Radical Canterbury- — the more Radical from its familiarity with the blessings of a cathedral establishment—will return , two Tories , whose chief principles—r-like those of Lord Maidstone and Mr . Slade—are confined to being ia favour of Lord Derby . Hull , the last and principal of the corrupt boroughs , appears to be preferring a Iloman Catholic barrister , and cheers a Mr . " \ V . D . Seymour , who , of all the candidates at any of the elections , alone speaks with statesmanlike clearness of the political principles applicable to the period . But these cheera may not correspond with the result .

      There are two other new elections to be separated from this batch of the corrupt . Marylebono has re-elected Sir Benjamin Hall neni . dis ., with the exception of an unpotential Mr . Dickey . But even here we can draw no political inference ; . In his singularly self-complacent speeches in tho borough , Sir Benjamin Hall failed to favour his countrymen with a single idea beyond his first principle—that he prefers local self-government to that centralisation of which tho very office he has accepted is the necessary exponent . Mr . Dickey , among much that was incoherent , seemed to divulge one distinct truth at the nomination—which was

      attended merely l > y butchers boys and costcrinongers , and the right hon . baronet ' s family —• that the groat borough of Marylebono knew nothing whatever oi ' the election , and was paying not the slightest attention to it : —Marylobono in so far accurately representing a national sensation . The election for King ' s-Lynn , rendered necessary by tho lamented death of the gallant Lord Jocelyn , will not take place till next-week ; nnd it also will be unindicative , for necessarily a nominee member will bo returned , either by the influence of the Duke of Portland or that of the Earl of Orford

      issuing a circular . In un-routine language , sinco the commencement of thq cholera era , we have ventured to express nn opinion that a national insurrection is required against " the groat internal enemy , " and it would soem , though , perhaps , tho discovery may be made somewhat , too late , that the boldness of some suoU course may arise in the end out of the panic . Our ncutc and accurate contemporary tho Builder \\ an suggested tin association for the preservation of Vile — to kill the cholera as u matter of commerce .

      eidedly defeated—Mr . Quintin Dick , who in three successive Parliaments represented the borough , and who now does not represent it only because he most absolutely refused to do out of principle what the unreserved Radical gentleman did out of " circumstances over which he had no control "—in fact not having any money . At Canterbury the confusion is still more perceptible . Mr . (< . Sinythe — the only man of talent

      pro-Lord Stanley , the second nnd remaining member , appears to bo establishing nn influence of his own in the borough . His gilt of J 0 O 0 / . Jims enabled tho towix . to establish nn Atheiucitin , which id to be connected with the education of tho working clus . seti ; nnd King ' . s-Lynn i * very gmteful to thy splendid young noble , whose nuinilicence is relieved from the clinnielor of n vulgar bid lor popularity by thu liu-l lli"t liin . \ yinputhy with tho people it « honest and hearty and active . Jt id iuiotlu ' . r question whether Mich a gilt might not techni cally he tortured within the cutcgory o ( " undue influence . " Tho greatest i > u / . zlo of nil , in connexion witli

      Hie batch of mew elections intorvenou also to provide some occupation for the relaxed public mind ; very slight occupation , however : for those elections havo proceeded upon the nmne principles of political anarchy on which Parliament triumphantly closed . I ,, nono iA > | 1 | O < . „ ,.,. „ ,,,, boroughs havo 1 V 0 observed any signs of orgnni-Bntiott on any Hido . That pommal-in which we may inuludo porluips pecuniury-and not political , reasons , have suggested contoata and produced

      diiced by tlio English aristocracy for thirty years , who has rendered hit ) commanding abilities more brilliant by his philosophical acceptance ! oi popular principles , nutl who wiih the pridu and glory of Canterbury lor ten years—had so slight a cliunco of success ( lml he appears to have crept out , oi' the town without , n canvass—being repudiiitcd ( hirt tiino not on account of hin duel with Colonel llomiUy . TIh » candidates who . obtained iho show of hands arc the candidates who declare in favour of tho Coalition Government—onu of thoao being an old ami exploded Whig hack ; but

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2052/page/1/