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"The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and by setting aside tne 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 ' s Cosmos . ^
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K . « r » ., e nr rur weew » „ ,, Health of London during the ) Administrative Reformers 422 THE ARTSNEWS OF THt WEEK- »* oe Week 413 Reconstruction of the Indian The Royal Academy Exhibition 428 Imperial Parliament .. .. ^ . 410 Letters from Paris 419 Army 423 The Old Water-Colour Soc iety ... 429 The Sebastopol Committee 413 Continental Notes 419 Maynooth and Rome 424 The New Water-Colour Society 429 Tin * War 411 State of Trade . Labour , and the A Contrast 424 Mr-Albert Smith 429 Armv Reform Meetings 410 Poor : 420 Serjeant Brodie 424 Royal Gallery of Art ..: 429 The late Military Fracas at Can- Our Civilisation 420 " The Stranger" in Parliament ... 424 ASp ^ o A ^ sinate the Fre ^ h ™ > ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ *™ = ^ 21 ? UTERATURE- Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 430 Emperor 41 " Postscript 421 , j A Cheshire Tragedy 417 public AFFAIRS- i Summary 426 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-^ dTaSchPuT " 0111-: : . - ; ::: til TS L « <* «» ! i ^ i ^ e ^ .:::::::::::::::::::::::: W > c * y intern **™ , m ^** .. Ad-Ameri ^ ..... 7 T . ! . ii !! .. " ;! .. " ... !! .....- 418 Nation .. * 422 ¦ Books on our Table 423 ' vertisements , & c 430-432
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THE week which begins with the announcement of the attack on the French Emiveror closes with the attack on the British Government and "the system , " and the latter event has already become far more interesting to us than one which in these rapid days is already a week old . The meeting to be held in the City to-day would be important iu itself ; for London , which appoints Lord John Russell , to his place in the House of Commons ,
has always been regarded as a strong test of any movement that has become general — the Metropolis seldom being the first to move . The terms of the requisition by which the meeting is convened strikingly resemble in their tone and purpose the resolutions which Mr . Layard placed upon the notice paper of the House of Commons last week . The requisition is signed by many of
the leading City men : they are acting in unconcealed co operation with the independent Members of the House of Commons ; and the meeting is avowedly the commencement of an endeavour to organise a great association throughout the country . The provisional management , it is said , already has 10 , 000 / . of a subscrip tion at its command .
The crack of I ianoki s pistol , answering ominously to the hallelujah of our aristocracy and mob , has revealed to the conspirators of the coup d ' etat the abyss beneath their feet . To England , also , it has revealed an abyss , into which our politicians of course will plunge . IMuch stale commonplace has been talked about the threads on which the destinies of nations hung ; but it is the business of statesmen and diplomatists to
prevent the destinies of nations from hunging on threads . The Hash of that same pistol has discovered the pregnant fact that the most beloved of monarchs rides about the streets of his capital alone , guarded by the all ' ection of lii . s subjects — and by a . select corps of guards in various disguises armed with daggers . A i . kssandhi was one of them . They are called the Cor . siran guard . 1-ye-witnesse . s assert that it was not only " civili
sat ion" that started and turned palti-r-ileadly paU —at the sudden vision of retribution . All Frenchmen unite in rejoicing that Pi . vnohi missed his aim : the Bonapiu'tists for courtly reasons , others for reasons less courtly . Tho speech ol Louis Nai « olhon to his Senate on tin * occasion is that of a moral monomaniac , who iinngincn that
everything is permitted to him , and that no harm can happen to him till he has fulfilled his " mission . " And this is the man in whose game England—sober and law-loving England—has embarked all her fortunes . Our religious newspapers deserve great credit for the grace and readiness with which they worship fate and adore the star of an infidel . The Emperor ' s trip to the Crimea is abandoned for two reasons—first , that the Senate would not answer for the consequences to the most popular of empires ; and , secondly , . because the object of the trip was to reap other men's laurels , and unfortunately there are no l » urels to reap . Victory not having been won for him , the generalissimo remains at home , thereby damaging his " star" in the eyes of the army , to whom he had promised an avwtar . No little Boileau will be able to sing of the little Lot is Quatorze— " Ccst Jupiter en pcrsuniic , on c '< * t lr raiiii / ittur < Il Scbaslopo / . ' " The removal of Napoleon would have made a difference in the progress of the alliance exactly the opposite of that which would be produced if the siege of Scbastopol were to succeed . As it is , failing the attack of the assassin or the success of the siege , matters at Vienna , seem to go on very much as before—slowly and doubtfully . It is indeed reporte'd by the Pays and the- C ' oustitutioinul that the Austrian Government had signed rather an important convention before M . Droi'v . v i > k Liiuys quitted Vienna . "This convention stipulates that the Four Points of guarantee , laid down in the protocol of the 'i 8 th of December , cannot be separated ; and that the refusal of Russia to accept any one of these indivisible Four Points would create a casus belli provided for by the treaty of alliance of December ' 2 . The Pays also expresses its belief , that immediately nfti * r the conclusion of this convention , Austria sent oil' an ultimatum to Russia , putt in * " her own interpretation upon the Third Point , and signifying that the refusal of Russia to accept it would oblige , the Cabinet of Vienna to declare war . This news comes under the head of u important if true-. " Jt looks plausible , it was not included in the explanation of Lord . John in the House of Commons on Tuesday , nor in those of Lord Clakknoon in the House of Lords on Thursday ; but Lord P . vi . mukstox , last night , " came out strong" in the pacific lino ! The siege is really becoming a bore . The bombardment , renewed with such an enormous weight of metal , was relaxed at the period of the latest correspondence , in order to economise the store
of ammunition ; and the telegraph subsequently stafes that it had been dropped for a time , but awaited reinforcements . So that , notwithstanding the disastrous loss of months during the winter , the commanders had not metal enough to carry on the siege during the interval required for the arrival of reinforcements ! Still moFe ominous than any reports of this kind is a certain silence maintained by Government , notwithstanding its being in receipt of daily telegraphs from Lord Raglax . Unless , indeed , that silence exists on Lord Raglan ' s part ;* t > ut then why is he silent ? The Sardinian contingent seems at last to have
accomplished all preliminaries to its departure . The steam transports have taken the soldiers on board ; and the Genoese ladies , as well as men , are charmed at the comfort and courtesy which they found on board the vessels of the rough English —where some of them scarcely ventured to trust themselves . The Sardinian Government has undergone rather an unpleasant reverse . There are difficulties in getting ^ he Senate to acquiesce in the arrangement of the Convents Bill , and the C . vvovr Cabinet resigned , leavinrr General Dcrando the task of forming a new one ; but he failed to reconcile the clergy , and the Cavolr . Cabinet has resumed amidst a
' serious agitation . One of the most promising diversions for the Allies is the i nsurrection of the peasantry in the Ukraine . The first accounts represented this as provoked by a . want of salt , which is a government monopoly , and therefore not likely to be demanded by the insurgent peasants from their nobles . A more probnble story is , that the enormous exuetion from the peasantry to supply the war ha ye at lust become intolerable . The insurrection will p robably be put down , but it is perhaps not an unimportant sign of the extent to which the pressure fulls upon the humble classes throughout Russia
. Our own Parliament has been busy , but has not accomplished much work beyond forwarding the Government measures , and they proceed as if our Government were veritably strong . INo doubt it is so , comparatively , in contrast with the House of Commons . The Loan Jiill , wUh its
i 1 easy promise < o pay « million a year during peu-e h-is . '«> t clear of the lower House , without mutilation , and is handed over to the Lords . The Newspaper Stamp Nill has been shorn o ( ils copyrig ht clause , but is otherwise unaltered . The Education Hill , in which Sir John Takin « ton laudably endeavoured to reconcile tlio
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05051855/page/1/
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