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    EEVEEW OF THE WEEK. ; I

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    Her Majesty has gone thro' the ceremonia...

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    [ ¦ ifMinii ii No . 14 .-Nkw Series ^ LONDON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 13 , 1852 . Price Foorpewje Halfpenny !

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    EEVEEW OF THE WEEK .

    Her Majesty Has Gone Thro' The Ceremonia...

    Her Majesty has gone thro' the ceremonial by virtue of which she opens the sittings of the legislative bodies by a speech . Eoyal speeches are proverbially unmeaning affairs , the object being , of course , to say as little as possible , so that the opposition may not prepare their plans with reference to the tactics intended to be adopted by the government . This particular speech does not disgrace its predecessors in that respect . It contains all the old

    formalities about " amit y , " of which every Englishman ought to be thoroughly ashamed ; and gratitude for homoepathic benefits . There are , however , three paragraphs in the composition which excite more than ordinary remark . One bears the mark of the literary tendencies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , announcing it ' as ifcdoes , that steps are to be taken to forward the advance . ' of art and practical science . The second relates to Ireland , and shows the disposition to deal firmly , if not severely , with the priestly party there . While it recommends in an undertone as it were , that the Sister Isle should

    he dealt with in a spirit of liberality , it bespeaks the co-operation of the legislature to put down turbulence and discontent . This part of the speech declares open war with the nominees of the Eoman Catholic hierarchy , and will ensure for the Cabinet their determined opposition . Perhaps , however , that was alread y decided upon , so that the tone of the speech may matter very little . The third noticeable paragraph is that , respecting which there has been so much of curiosity , and respecting which there have been so many prognostications and speculations . It relates to Eree Trade , and is to say the best of it exceedingly ambiguous . It does not express any opinion as to whether Eree Trade is beneficial or injurious . It leaves that as

    an open question—protectionists are still at liberty to make good their case if they can , and Eree Traders to make good their footing . If the battle had not been already lost and won beyond the possibility of reversal , it might be fought over again . The paragraph begins by admitting the prosperity of the people , an admission which the people themselves "would not be so ready to make , and then goes on to say that " if" the legislature should be of opinion that that is owing to Eree Trade and other causes , and if they find that the great fiscal change has inflicted great injury upon the agriculturists , it is hoped they 'will find some means of getting aid of the evil while they preserve the benefits .

    Here is , so far as English policy goes , the commencement of the debate of the session . There is a wonderous virtue in an " if , " and the "if" of the paragraph will be quite sufficient to wake the ready ire of the Manchester men . If our present position is owing to Eree Trade indeed , who doubts it ? Mr . Cobden will say . The answer lays in the three words " and other causes , " and a powerfid answer they open up , if handled by so acute a logician as Mr . Disraeli . When Cobden inquires to what you do attribute the

    decreased pauperism ? The reply will be to more general employment . To what is that more general employment by the higher wages which prevail to be ascribed ? The response may be to fewer labourers , in consequence of emigration and consequent diminution of competition for work . But , then what is to be said to increased exports ? Answer fresh markets opened up in California and Australia . If Mi * . Disraeli were to take that ground , it would be difficult to apportion what is due to Eree Trade alone , andwbatto the operation of other causes , but it is uncertain what course Mr .

    Disraeli has marked out for himself , and it is hinted , that if the protectionists will demand protection , they may get it for themselves without his assistance . It is certain that there have been grave dissensions in the Cabinet , t ] le thicker-headed portion of the Tories opposing Disraeli , and the most intelligent seconding him but luke-warmly . These are said to have gone so far , that the Editor of a morning paper vouches for the following little bit of political romance . Not many days ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer consulted one of the principal

    personages connected with the Times newspaper , as to the amount of support he ( Disraeli ) might expect , if he made a bold move and threw off the aristocratic dunderheads , by whom he is smTOunded altogether . What the magnate of the Times said we are not informed , but it may be inferred from the fact that a leader appeared in that paper exalting the intelligence of Disraeli , and deprecating the ability of his colleagues—the great danger of a split is evident

    4 „ . it i .,, , r ,, t ° . ii . j . , „ u + ovc nf & niicli fitopn rannot bear to all who think . The tenth transmitters of foolish faces cannot bear their conscious inferiority to the descendant of the Jew , and he , witli alHke pride of intellect , is not willing tamely to submit to the illsuppressed scorn and the covert insults of those whom he knows are as men beneath him . Such a union is as little likely to be happy as that o ? January and May , and the probable result is expressed in the scri ptural words " a house divided against itself cannot stand . Dukethe detai

    Pending the preparations for the funeral of the , s of which are too well known to be reported , there are some reports worth y of notice , as indicating the position our Government is prepared to take as regards continental powers , and the temper some ot those powers are likelv to display towards us , when the opportunity serves . We are told that the flags which commemorate the victories of the duke , me to be removed from Chelsea Hospital , for fear that their exhibition should offend foreigners . If this were prompted by tae motives which actuate the Peace Society , we could understand ^ d appreciate it ; hut as Her Majesty ' s ministers are not prepared to join Messrs , Fry & Co ., we can only ascribe it to downright cow-

    Her Majesty Has Gone Thro' The Ceremonia...

    ardice or to a desire to conciliate the Erench homicide , equally disgraceful . If there be fear of an invasion , the better way would be to say so at once , and be prepared for it . "If , on the other hand , we are to be called on to show consideration for the usurper , who has shewn none for others , the announcement of the fact would be desirable ; and if that did not cause Englishmen to rouse themselves from their degradation , we do not know what would . It is announced that the Austrian officers evince an unconquerable repugnance to shew their uniforms in London , and that no representative of Austria will assist at the obsequies . This is attributed by the Times to the remembrance of a drubbing Haynau got from the draymen . More

    likely the truth is , the hate they bear to even the semblance of freedom , and which leads them to cut down defenceless Englishmen in the street , will not allow them to have a share in the ceremony . Whichever is the truth ,, we can well bear to see the remains of the departed warrior borne to the grave , without the uniform of the tyrant mingling in the train . Spain has imitated the Austrian example . Three of the officers of her army to whom the mission was offered , refused it ; and at last it was deputed to the Duke d'Ossuna , who being in London , cannot well refuse the office . We need not point out the estimation in which Englandls held abroad , when a fallen power like Spain , feels bold enough to offer such an insult .

    The church is fairly astir , and there are symptoms of a pretty squabble . Covocation for the provinces of Canterbury and York have met . In the Canterbury assembly , the Commissioner of the Primate was uncompromisingly firm . He would allow nothing to be done . He would hear nothing . This assembling was a mere matter of favor ; there was no authority for them to do business , and no business should be done . The Puseyite arcbdeacons > tnd rectors , and vicars , who had come loaded and provided'with all sorts of arguments for synodieal action , were completely , " shut up , " and there was an end of the matter . The reverend gentleman who presided for his

    grace of York , was not so immovable , oblivious of the fact that all the danger of an action lies in the beginning , he allowed some of the provincial clergy to read petitions for a working convocation . The favoured gentlemen illustrated the saying , that "if you give some folks an inch they will take an ell . " They wanted to found a motion upon their petitions . This the Commissioner resisted ; they in turn protested , and the meeting was adjourned for a few days , when if the persons concerned were not clergymen , we should say there would be a row ; and even as it is , their " sacred" character notwithstanding ,

    that is very likely the proper term for what is coming . In the meantime the stream is moving in another quarter . The laity , with some of the clergy to back them , have held a meeting at Ereemason ' s Hall , the Earl ot Shaftesbury in the Chair . Here convocation was reprobated , and the practice of confession deprecated . The Bishop of Exeter , as might be expected , came in for his share of opprobrium . Mr . Prynne was put on a level with the literature of Holywell-street , and the puseyites generally , treated very

    uneeremomoniously . The hardest hit , however , was one aimed by Sir H . Verney . He said that there were abuses in the church , abuses not to be reformed by an assembly of ecclesiastics , but which laymen must put their hands to . The revenues of the church must be better applied , also a searching inquiry made into Cathedral trusts and Cathedral Schools . The spirit of Mr . Whiston is beginning to move even among churchmen , and if the puseyite efforts have the effect of rousing them up to see rig ht done , we may have to thank Harry of Exeter , and his colleaguesfor involuntarily causing a great good .

    , The deputation on behalf of the Madiais , headed by Lord Boden , have returned . The Duke would neither receive their petition nor grant them an interview . ' They had no right to question the laws of the state , or interfere between him and his subjects . He might extend his mercy to the " culprits , " but that was his affair , not theirs . The utmost they could gain was permission to visit the convicts ; and we are promised the details of the interview . Lord Cavan , who was at the anti-convocation , intimated some hopes that the sentence would be remitted * What those hopes rested upon , we have yet to learn ,

    equally so to understand the grounds upon which Lord Eoden feels the " respect" which he expresses fer the Ducal tyrant—a sentiment we will venture to say is not shared with him by any honest and real friend of liberty . . . As a commentary upon the peaceful professions contained in the Queen ' s Speech , some fifty thousand militiamen are being taught how to handle their muskets , and as a further symptom of confidence , in the good-will of Louis Napoleon , General Napier , our best living general , is appointed to the post of danger , the leadership of the men of Kent ¦ , „

    Mr Luwts , the advocate of Tuscan despotism , whose heartlesssness raised a shout of execration even among the better-disposed of his allies , has published a long letter to Sergt . Sfaee , for the purpose ol convincin g that learned gentleman that the difference between them is only apparent . He tells the Sergeant that he was mistaken in su pposing the conviction of the Madias to rest upon reading the Bible onfy . Their real offence was proselytizing . He feels certain , that the learned Sergeant will allow they ought to be punished for fhit heinous crime . We are curious to see what Mr . Shee will say £ ™ £ T I * he does agree with Lucas , we shall say , " sad that such difference should be W Tweedledum and Tweedledee . ' Mr . Lucas , however notwithstanding ; it is certain that in Tuscany and throughout Italy peop le are imprisoned for reading the Bible , without adding to that wickedness the crime , of proselytmng and Lord Cavaiu in his Freemason ' s Tavern speech , broadly stated the fact .

    Her Majesty Has Gone Thro' The Ceremonia...

    w ^ , . » , . ¦ ,., ¦ , , .,.. ., . ... -, ;_ - ¦ ,-1 The democratic event of the week is the meeting : of the Friends of Italy , at the . Music Hall , Store-street , on Wednesday night . Mazzini and Kossuth were there , and spoke , though they could hardly be said to have made speeches . Mazzini struck the key-note , and Kossuth followed it . Their grief was too deep for words—too burning for tear ? . They felt that while tyranny everywhere dyes its hands in the blood of the sons of freedom , while Hungary is crushed beneath the heel of Austria , and the blood of the bravest of Italy ' s

    children spouts forth in answer to the musket shots of the barbarous Croats , they have something else to do than to make speeches . That it is the time for efforts not for perorations . It is time we thought as Kossuth and Mazzini think , as some of the best among us begin to think with them , that the time for talk has gone by , and the time for deeds more than begun . That with blood-thirsty tyrants , who have neither hearts nor consciences , supplications for mercy are useless , the utterances of contempt and indignation ineffectual , nothing but the sword will prevail .

    Since our last the intelligence has reached this country of the death of Daniel Webster , themost $ powerful and influential of the American statesmen . In another column we give such particulars as are within our reach , of the life and last moments of the man who played so important and prominent a part on the stage of life . Till very lately his policy , considered from an American point of view , was the perfection of di plomacy , and we would fain believe that his recent mistakes , upon which we have had occasion to comment with some severity , were but the signs of the failing of that vast intellect which' the hand of death has removed from the world . It is a

    curious coincidence that England and America are at nearly the same moment performing the funeral rites of two men who have done so much to mould the past and to influence the future . The intelligence from the Cape leaves the Caffre war just where it was—unfinished . Beport says that the Commander-in-Chief returned from his " triumphant" expedition beyond the Kei , because

    the want of provisions would not allow him to stay any longer , not because he had completed his work . Another ugly feature which appears is that the -lingoes , like the Hottentots , are not trustworthy . They have been supplying the Caffres with arms and ammunition . AnuuiDer of them are in prison on the charge , and it is believed that many more will be apprehended . If there should be an open defection the whites will be left to fight their own battle single-handed .

    The die is cast so far as Louis Napoleon is concerned . The Empire may be taken to be proclaimed ; for when the Senate decrees , and the people are left to vote , of course all is settled . What with the iejp of bayonets and the managment of ballot boxes , there is no fear oFa majority . Poor France—she who spurned the Bourbon and banished the Orleanist . She who listened to Lamartine and trusted Louis Blane . She who proclaimed freedom and raised the trees of liberty , is now a the foot of a mountabank Charlaton , and a group of penneless , characterless , adventurers . She who abolished capital punishment bows , perforce before the cowardly kidnapper of

    her leaders , and still more cowardly murderer of her Citizens . Poor France!—Her degradation was marked in England by an earthquake . Oh ! there are more earthquakes , and not a few volcanoes in store . When a people cannot select , an army may , and there are hints of more and more military discontent . It is told that regiments are weeded and removed , | and that officers ,-aswell as men are , implicated . He who slays with the sword , by the sword shall he be slain . Louis Napoleon has drawn the weapon—it is beyond his powe to sheathe it ; and it may be that a stroke from it or a more ignoble weapon will , yet mingle the turbid puddle which runs . in , his v ns with the sea of bitter blood which he has caused to be shed . If o

    not , a tear will swell the torrent of tears which his ferocity has evoked . The accession to the throne is marked by disputes , and the " Im penal" family , Amity does not find a home beneath the purple . The Ex-king of Westphalia is indignant , that his family are excluded by the Senate from the succession . The cause is said to be the fear of the Bepublican tendencies of the young Prince , his son . It is supposed , however , that the wounded feelings of the Constable of the Senate will be arranged by lucrative posts being assigned to him and his offspring . It is hinted that he will be created President of France , and the young Imperial Bepublican be sent to govern Algiers .

    The Belgian Ministry have dared to propose a law fettering the press . It will be a crime , if the law passes , to speak the truth of the French man-slayer . The proposition was received by the legislators in dead silence . The plea assigned for such an act ( which is in direct opposition to the Constitution ) is that such a law exists in all civilized nations . Is this peace , or are Ave civilized ? If so , we had better relapse into barbarism . It is said that England has joined in forcing this enactment upon Belgium . Is that the shadow betokening cur own fate ? Dare any Cabinet propose such a law here ? Are any

    of [ our legislators base enough to suffer such an ukase to pass ? Would any court of law be bold enough to enforce it ? If so , we speak for ourselves , and we believe every English writer will endorse the sentiment . If so , let it be done ; but we will not be gagged . When a man breaks his oaths—plots against individuals and a peopledessecrates relig ion—and sheds innocent blood , we will ; : caU him perjurer , conspirator , blasphemer , and murderer , aware d i ^^ tfipse who would dared to punish such honest expressions of ^ nibj ^ Nvouid : bo hurled from power with all the force or contempt-of ^ oir e ^ ce . |^ ' ¦ . ' •; . .. ¦ ' . > . ¦ ' ¦ > . ' - .. t ' . ! ;• ; ' < ¦ - . , , ' :

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13111852/page/1/