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A Political Ai\ T]) Literary .Review. '*...
A POLITICAL Ai \ ]) LITERARY . REVIEW . ' * The one Idea which History exhibits as ever : nqre developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw- down all the barriers erected between , meii by prejudice and one -sidedvie \ v 3 ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , navmg one great object—the free development of our sointualnature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- pace ; Gathering from the Law and Po- I A Sardinia on the Daimbo 1-li } , /}! lel Llvos ¦ •?• , VV- - ' 426 Imncrinl Parliament no lice Courts .. 41 . ! ¦ . Scottish bVanclnscs 422 Publications and KepublicaUons ... 126 ttwktions ' Naval ami . Military 41 S A 1 'artU'l-iu I ' fivil t 2-J A Literary % agary 42 < 5 rhcorieiT .::::::::::::::::::::::::: " :::::::: ; t \ l 0 ™™™ ,.. - . . jis tikut ^ ryFumi . « 3 thearts-The Indian ' Revolt . 41-t ' , Jostsirillt " *' - ' - " '»« mterature- The ltoyal Academy 427 Ireland . 115 lobLsui )» t -UJ LITERATURE- , Exhibitions of the French School America .. 11 . - ) PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ¦ Summary -lit ' andM ' aler-Colour l ' aiivtvys 423 « ContinentalXqtes . iin >¦ The . Stati ; of Parties kK > 'J'lui Materials of ( . iunnau Poetry ... -Hi Accidents and Sudden Deaths -Hij , India Uills , One , Two , and Three ... lio Tlus-History of lviissia -1 : > 5 . COMW 1 ERCI ALCAFFAIRS — State of Trade < H 0 ; Tlie French Budwt -V 21 Immigration " ... 425 The Gazette 42 < 5 Criminal Record -no ' The Klet'tions in ' l ' aris 421 The Web of ¦ Lafe 42 (! City ¦ IntelHjrence , ^ Iarlccts , & c 12 !)
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BY many signs it has-been made manifest duringthe ¦ week that we are rapidly approaching the end of the ^ Ministerial tragi-comedy . Lord Dkkbv's position , but more obviously the position of his Chancellor of the Exchequer , is , at the present moment , barely tenable ; strength there is none in the Treasury benches , and any moment may see their occupants sprawling . Mr . Disraeli is preparing for ilie fall ; Lord Diiiun' dares it . Mr . 1 ) ishai-: li has discovered that the straw thrown to him by Lord John Husseli , will not keep his hoacl above valor , therefore he returns to the wreck which he had abandoned , and dctcriaiiu's ^ to go dow n at least witli Hie appearance of gallantry . In moving on Monday evening that the House should , on lYiday evening , go into committee for the consideration of the resolutions on the Government of India , he look occasion to tell ihc House a bit of his mind whh regard to the bill out of which tho . ^ e resoluiions have sprung . The bill had been abaiuluncil , ' murdered' Lord l \ vi / MEttS'i : ox said , by Mr . DisiiAKu ; but as his hope of realizing the object , for which the murder was committed has become fainter and more faint , he has returned ( o better feelings , and , at last , has made an attempt to resuscitate the memory , at least , of the destroyed measure . But the thing was a lifeless form , which no breath could reanimate ; and which , upon the whole , it -would have been more decent in Mr . Diskaku to have left in peace . One result of his move on Monday night is plain : it is , that while he lost by it , Lord Paxmkhston did not gain . The House , however , had no objection to his proposal of going into committee on Friday . But with the publication of the amendments to be moved in committee by Lord John Kusski . t ,, all hope of making anything out of the Indian resolutions must have passed away from the soul of Mr . DisitAv . u . These amendment s expose the utter weakness of the Government resolutions , and in effect not only set them aside , but India Bills Nos . I and 2 besides ; they may , in fact , be taken as tin * outline of Hill No .: ?; and , as Lord Pauit . hktox has amendments to propose , we niav begin io look for Bill No . 1—or 5 ? Upon ( he chief Hanso in the Oaths Bill by the House of Lords the Ministry 1 ms lost . way ' enormously during the Aveck ; Ihe opposition of Lord Dkiuu and his new Loud Cuancki , u ) K appcann " almost , reckless . '
Again upon Locki ; King's motion for extending the franchise in counties hi England and Wales , against which motion , after moving the previous question , Mr . Diskakli had not the courage to go to a division . In both these cases , again , Lord ¦ J-oiix gained to the full all that the Government lost : the rejection of the 5 th clause" pC his Oaths Bill , giving admission to Jews into Parliament , will j give him a large accession of popular sympathy ; and with reference to Mr . Locki ; King ' s proposed j extension of the franchise , his position "was that of 1 the director of the House of Commons . To Mr . Djskakli ' s tattle about a' ' •' larger measure , " lie j answered thai " a bird in hand was worth two in a ' bush , " and he advised the House to close-with Mr . ^ Locke Kino ' s instalment of the ' limg-comiiii * ; " more comprehensive reform : " the House at once accepted the advice . The church-rate question is one \ ip < m which ingenuity is put to ihe rack to invent evasions of the final result demanded—namely , total abolition . The latest move is that of . Mr . Puli-ER , who , if the dear church-rates must be given up , would substitute for them , on the pica of providing for therepair of churches and the maintenance ! of churchyards , a permanent renlehargc upon all property now open to assessment for church-rates . Onc pemiy in the pound upon all ratable property , saitl Mr . Pcujcit—only one penny in the poundwill give all that is required for the decent maintenance of our churches and churchyards ; but Jic did not take any pains to show thai , the effect of his proposition would be to make einirch-rairsunder another name—more absolute and offensive than ever . This is the sort of " compromise " which is again and again oil ' ered ; the only safe course is thai of Sir John Tkkl . vwnv and his friends—the refusal of compromise in any shape . Messrs . Spoon i : k andNi-: \ vni : c ; ATi : "have said their annual say upon the Maynoolh endowment , theme . The only difference between the speechifying of Thursday evening and of any other evening was , that , it was very much shod or and very much lamer limn the speeches we are wont to look for from those two supereminently Protestant orators . The House of Commons refused at once to stultify il self ill the request of a few ferociously conscientious religionists , and has recorded its feeling in favour ¦ of a just and liberal treatment of the Catholics of ¦ Ireland by a majority of 55 . . -Mr . MoNsr . 1 , 1 . has done good service in defeating ¦ ( he plan for doing away with the open and direct competitive system under which a youth , whether
| educated at liome or at any public seminary , might oiler , himself for examination , for a commission in the Koval . Kiminccrs . or Artillerv . 'Accordiney to the system-tlie Horse Guards would Substitute , no students but those ¦ educated at Sandhurst would be allowed to compete for commissions in the tvro corps ; thus giving a monopoly to the Government school , with manifest injury to all ihe other schools in the kingdom , but more especially to the service , by limiting the number of candidates . There was no apology for the attempted interference . The scheme of open competition had vrorked well ; and the majority against Government for its retrograde tendency has decisively marked tlie determination , of the House to preserve tlie system to bring about which so hard a battle had to be fought . Thursday night ' s discussion in tlie House of Lords , on tlie subject of our relations with Sardinia , | has certainly advanced , us a step towards a moi e ¦ satisfactory standing ' -point in that , matter . The j strong declaration of sympathy given by Lord Malmksuurv is worth much , if we take him as the representative of his parly with reference to foreign politics ; looked at in that light , it affords something like a proof of the unanimity of national feeling in favour of an active co-operation with Piedmont in her dispute with Naples . The shortcomings of the late Foreign Secretary have been fetched up ; Sardinia is no longer left in doubt as to the . course to be taken by her English ally , bat has been directly assured , of the moral support and good ofliees of ( his country in the prosecution of her claims for the rest itution of ihe Oagliari . Mcau while Sardinia has been advised , even in the event of a refusal on the part of Naples , not to go to war , but to call iu the intermediation , of io me friendly power ; and in this advice the \ iglish Cabinet is joined by the v "h Government . xlere , at all events , we have ar . ove iu ( he right direo lion . The feeling of the country is too earnest to admit ol' any more stoppages . It . docs not demand of its Government—whatever that may chance to 1 ) 0—a " spirited foreign policy , " of which its experiences arc not comfortable ; but if looks for frank and simple dealing in its relations with friendly foreign powers , more ( -specially with allies , and most of all will ) an ally bound Io us by interesls and sympathies no closely as Sardinia is . . From France rumours take , to sonn : extent , the place of news ; Uie . se- rumours nre many and the subjects towards which they point important , and may be summed up in two ^ orda— . " great changes . " The rule of brute ibr ^ c is to ho re- \ f" ¦¦ ¦' ,. i .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01051858/page/1/
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