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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- Society Tor the Encouragement of PUBLIC AFFAIRS- GOMMERCIALhome intelligence , page the Fine Arts ., >»* . A Glance at the War ... 593 Effects of the ranic ...... . 500 . Gathers from law and Police THEATRES AND ENTERTA . NMENTS- ^ j ^^ ^ ? . i :::::: " i" ^ "ggg ^^ «* ° ** ' , cSSSSa &^ d -:::::::::::::::: ^ gr - uSS ^ S-::::::: ; :::: f 1 ^^ * . ^ . ? ± *«™ : a * . 1 ^ ^ ¦ XS Accidents --.,.... 530 Monday Popular Concerts 5 Jo The Italian Movement .......... 59 i Railway Intelligence ! ! " 11 ft . 1 Naval andMilitary ............. 580 Vocal Association ¦ •>&> ««~« rao « Mn « if < F Joint-Stock Companies . ... 001 Ireland . .. 680 UTERATURE _ ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- Home , Colonial and Foreign l > ro-Election Speeches . 580 LlTERAi u « t Franco 505 duce Markets .. T &> 1 foreign intelligence . LiteraryNotes , *"' Germany .... 590 gSSSSSJ :::::: ::::::: f § «»«^ " ° ""^ . - ' -- ^ , nd 1 a and , , an proofs- — S ^ , w ^ sg ^^ iJS sr . ^^ J ^ fe :::::::: gE , BCg £ =.: """ = &
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Blood has been drawn upon both banks of the river Po ; so that the terrible game of -war has been commenced in desperate earnest . On the afternoon of Friday last , war was formally declared by the Austrian Commander-in-Chief , who crossed the frontier with a force , said to have been composed of twenty battalions and eight batteries of cannon . One of the first consequences of General Gyulai ' s movement appears to have been the act of levying on the unfortunate town of Navara a heavy contribution of provisions and forage , to be delivered
under pain of the infliction of a fine amounting to five times the value of-the supplies required . This hungry demand was followed by the publication of a proclamation , in which the invading General promises to the Sardinian population " liberty , honour , security of property , maintenance of Laws ; and protection ; " promises which the Piedmontese will no doubt estimate at tlieir just value , considering the experience of Austrian forbearance , which they have already had , and if there is any truth in a telegram , dated from Turin , on Wednesday , which states that the enemy had everywhere levied heavy contributions on the Sardinian population .
From the latest telegrams we may conclude that the Austrians are moving upon Alessandria ; but that up to Wednesday night they had not succeeded in crossing the Po in any very considerable numbers . Heavy rains had been falling for some days , and the river in consequence has presented an obstacle to the Austrian advance . Several attempts have been made , and it was in one of these
that the first blood of the campaign was shed . The point at which the Piedmonteso troops appear to have successfully repelled the enemy is called Frassinctto , and here , according to a Sardinian communication , the Austrians suffered severely . We must , however , be upon our guard , with regard to nil such statements ; Piedmont as well as Austria may be tenipted to " cook" its war intelligence .
The general opinion in Paris is , that a great battle cannot be delayed for many days , and that it will , in all probability , be fought upon the plain of Marengo , upon the very ground whore , on the 14 th of Juno , 1800 , the first Napoleon won the victory which made him master of Italy . It would look as if the Austrians were about to try the question over again $ to win back , if they may , the eagles whjoh wore enatohed from them half a century ago .
the Bucks County-hall , on Monday , ventured to express his belief that Lord Derby would re-commence business with a force of 300 votes . The returns , as far as we can make them up , certainly do not on the face of them show so favourably for the Tory Ministry- ; , but there will not be any long period of doubt as" to the relative strength of parties after the hew House assembles , for Loth Lord Palmerston and Sir James Graham have clearly intimated that battle will at once be given , and the weakest side driven to the wall . Mr . Disraeli ' s speech was remarkable for the hopeful way in which he speaks of the ¦ finances : . of tho country in the . face of the war-storm which is Jmrmng . over . Europe : according to his view there is not another country in Europe that Could sustain for- any lengthened period a heavy pressure . / upon its ¦
means . - The question of Reform , about which the country has certainly made up its mind , is making the Conservative party very uncomfortable , in spite of its success with the constituencies . Jlr Newdegate was at the pains to denounce democracy , and its chief apostle , -Mr . Bright , at the North Warwickshire hustings , on Tuesday ; "and Sir Hugh Cairns , at Belfast , looking with alarm at the probable consequences of a 51 . borough franchise , under which , he says , the new voters would completely swamp the old , exclaimed—* " tJiis would not be reform—it would berevolution ! " To which
a voice replied , " Manslaughter !"—a reductio ad ahsunlum which could hardly have failed to impress her Majesty ' s sharpwitted Solicitor-General . From India we have very brief but striking news : it is no less than the announcement that , at last , Tantia Topee , whom our wearied troops have been for so many months vainly hunting down , has been captured . How the capture was eflectecl remains to be explained ¦; the telegram , which reached the Indian-Office on Thursday , only stated the bare fact that , on the 7 th of last month , he was seized by Colonel Meade . The telegram conveying this intelligence is particularly obscure , but
though the latter portion of the French arniy were wanting their artillery , the passage of which over Mount Cenis had been a work of enormous difficulty , in consequence of the snowed-up state of the roads , arid althoug h a body of 4 , 000 men have been : engaged for the last ten days in clearing them . : . In France , in spite of the heavy conscription which is inevitable , and in spite of the unsatisfactory appearance of the vine , the popular enthusiasm is gradually warming in favour of the war , and the Imperial manifesto has been received in a way that must have given very pleasant assurances to the
inind of the Emperor , at the moment when he is quitting his capital , and leaving his wife . child at the mercy of a thousand accidents that may befal them in his absence . His manifesto is the boldest utterance which the European complications have yet called forth . "I wish not for conquest , " he says , " but I am determined firmly to maintain my- national and traditional policy . " And . again , " I respect the territories and the rights of neutral powers ; but I boldly avow my sympathies-with a people whose history is mingled with our own , and who now groan under foreign oppression . " If he takes up the sword in the cause of Italian independence , he
says , " it is because Austria has driven matters to such an extremity , that her dominion must either extend to the Alps , or Italy must be free to the shores of the Adriatic—for every corner of Italy which remains independent endangers the power of Austria . " There can be no mistake as to the drift of . this language . To deprive Austria of her pernicious influence in Italy is the object for which Napoleon goes to the wars : there are plenty who will doubt whether he has not some object besides . In England there is , happily , an almost unanimous conviction as to the duty of this country in
we are led to infer that Maun Singh , who is reported to have given himself up to Major Heed , has betrayed his fellow rebel-leader , possibly making the service he has rendered to the Indian Government the price of his life . Among the minor topics of the week , wo may note the activity , of the Court of Common Council . On Thursday it voted one hundred guineas to the Neapolitan oxiles , not alone from . motives of charity , but to mark its sympathy with the groat principle of freedom for which those men have
the present juncture of affairs : the preservation of a strict neutrality is what nearly all agree to demand of whatever Minister may hold office after the opening of Parliament . In addition to various expressions of this oonviotion ' drawn forth by the speeches of candidates at the elections , a great meeting was held at Leeds , on Wednesday , for the special purpose of pronouncing strongl y an favour of a perfectly neutral policy being maintained by llio is
suffered . Its activity in another direction has not been quite so praiseworthy . . One party ' in . the City , hu . aded by Sir 11 . Garden , has made a dead set at tho street sellers , ngaindt whom a complaint of " obstruction ' " has boon laid beibro the Council , in tho shape of a petition , bIotkhI , according to its supporter * , by persons of high Ktamlm tf m tho City , one of whom enjoys , it was observed , an income of 10 , 000 / . a year , Sir Jt . ( . ' union says that sympathy with poor peop le is » nil very well , but that it i « overdone in tho City , and that , for his part , ho believes that street Boilers come into the City , not to sell their wares , but for all sorts of baa purposes . Alter a very warm discussion , tho poitionurs ourriod tho day by a very small majority , and tho eubjeet was referred to tho proper committee . i < 11 *
the English Government , example one which we shall hope to soo followed by tno inhabitants of every largo city and town in tho country ? for it will need all tho strength of public opinion to hold this country socurc from tho attempts which will infallibly be made to draw her into tho great European quarrel . Few parliamentary scats now remain to bo filled , and the leaders of tho groat parties are counting their gains , for they all declare themselvos to bo gainers by , the election . . Mr . Disraeli , speaking at «•
Meantime the French forces are swelling upon the , soil of Piedmont . At tho commencement of tl * e week there wore 40 , 000 mon in Genoa , and a large number of men were assembled at Susa ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07051859/page/3/
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