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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble "» endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions © f Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development : of our spiritual nature . "—JIumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— i"aoe Naval and Military 537 \ The Sore Point 541 j Trans-Atlantic letter-Day Poetry .. 647 Imperial Parliament 531 Obituary 537 ; IndiaiiPubHc Work ' s !!!!! . !! . !! .. ' . ' ! . ' ! . ' ! . ' . ' 542 | The Municipal Directory 048 The Wellington College 533 Miscellaneous 537 j THEARTSCharitable Festivals 533 Postscript 538 , LITERATURE- The Picture Gallery at the Crystal ffigSSSSS ^ ias-B ^ d ::::::::: 3 j ™ blic affa . rs- \ sum ™ . « , T ^ ^ t ^^^ rme -::::::::::::: SS ^ eK Iization ::: : : ::: " •¦ : Si &&^ i ^ rB ^ :::::::= ™ ll & lFAl *^ - " / .:: 53 Rist ° » = 548 a ^ fftes ::....:..::::::... ¦ ..-..- gg ^^^ l ^ I ^^ . S : -: g ? i ^ £ tiffi £ oiz :::== 3 *™™™^ AF ^ IR s 7 * Ir ? tond .... ^! T . . !' . ' . !' . !' . " . ' . !!!!! . !!!!!! . ' . 537 A Challenge to the Revolution 541 The Sandwich and Society Islands 546 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 549
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¥ CESSATION of diplomatic intercourse with \ J America—that is the news of the week . Our Ministers would not recal Mr . Ckampton ; Mr . Cka-mpton , therefore , is reported to have been dismissed , and Mr . Dallas may or may not cross him on the high seas . The British representative retains with something more than an official censure hanging to his name . He is charged , by the United States Government , with having made ,
withdrawn , and denied an important admission . It is a question of practical falsehood between Mr . Crampton on one side , and Mr . Clayton , Mr . Mabcy , and Mr . Cass on the other , and the difficulty is to believe one witness in preference to three . But the personal matter is insignificant in comparison with the vast interests that now depend on the decision of the two Governments . Technically , the dismissal of the British Minister from Washington is a step nearer war ; essentially , it ought to tend towards a reconciliation .
The obnoxious agent has disappeared from the scene ; if negotiations are still carried on , they will be conducted indirectly ; America will not be required to receive Mr . Crampton again , and the general dispute is reduced to a point so fine , that it would be worse than infatuation to make it a cause of war . This is no time for England to be fighting across the Atlantic . Certain continental Powers might not regret to see the unworn Baltic armaments hurried into the western hemisphere ,
Europe free from the weight of English councils , Manchester at a stop-still , Lancashire in insurrection , Englishmen and Americans killing each other in the north , while Spaniards and Mexicans spread the battle southwards ; but we have interests at home which will not allow us , at this particular moment , to play that desperate game . There is little encouragement in the promises of the Morning Post , that Louis Napoi . kon would be . still our faithful and active ally .
The Kings are exchanging courtesies after the war . The Emperor of Russia , at Horlin , has saluted his brother of Austria . At Bmlin , also , Talma might piny a second time to a pit full ol royalty . Two sovereign princes , an empressmotlicr , a queen consort , one of the starry granddukoa of Russia , a group of the itinerant princes of Germany , and the diudemed of the other «> x , are glittering at the court of Fm : ni : iu » K
William . Friendly notes from Vienna and Paru have been addressed to the Pope , who has sent to Paris , in return , his sacred ambassador to christen the Child of France . Meanwhile , the Child of France promises to be but a sickly flower . Eugknie droops in the June sun , and Louis Napoleon himself , who rides the ark of the inundation , endui-es his old rheumatic griefs . He shed tears , say private letters of " our own correspondents , " as the echoes of welcome swept to him down the vale of the Rhone ; but the curious circumstance is that a nation so deeply moved by the love of this aguish C jcsak , is not permitted to speak , or publish , or elect , and is confessed by the flatterers of the Empire to bear a swarming
progeny of revolutionary societies . La Beauce , the Loinbardy of France , is a lake . The Loiret and the Rhone are united by vast streams of water . The wrecks of farms and villages float to the sea ; the population retires to the hills . In the midst of this ten-ible tableau appears the Emperor in Council , and ten millions of public money are voted for the relief of the sufferers . Somebody must be praised for this generosity , and , as Louis Napoleon officiates , the flattery falls to him . But the floods threaten the harvest , and the harvest threatens the revenue , and theMon ' dcur says there is no fear of revenue or harvest , and good people abroad believe the Moiiitein ; and tlie sceptics at home are sent to Cayenne , and irony wears the
crown . In the midst of irony serious events move on . The Russian journals in Belgium predict a disturbance in Italy " within . six weeks , " and though this is meant , probably , as no more than a taunt to Austria , the darkening aspects of the peninsula justify increased apprehension . The outburst of a popular war is not impossible ; the getting up of a few police insurrections is very probable indeed . Austria can then liang oil * the most troublesome patriots . She appears to have failed in engaging Russia to join the new Holy
Alliance , though Fkkdkiuck William ls ready enough to embrace his kinsman Amsxandkh , and utter a pompous speech on the necessity of keeping Europe in order . But Louis Nai-oi . kon thinks that to be his own task . It' only he could carry out a plan for the consolidation ol' despotic authority , and elect himself Chairman of the Company , it would much assist in suppressing the painful rumours- of revolution in Italy , I he continual irritation that pricks his power * in I ' ranee , the inconvenient , action of minor whiles ; and
notwithstanding the diplomatic disclosures of the Post , it might forward this scheme could Great Britain be disengaged from her European connexions , and induced to send our admirals drif ting in the track of the caravels of Columbus . The new sort of despot has already experimented upon Belgium , and lie , or some one else , has been tampering with Sardinia . But the plot of the two Powers—to which England only " adheres 1 '—is upon an elastic plan . Austria
" hurls back at Turin the accusations made by the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries , " and undertakes to defend , not only her own territories , but those of all the Italian princes , Yictor Emmanuel excepted . What do our Ministers say to this assumption of a general Italian protectorate ? What they do , and what they say , is known to them and to their correspondents , the foreign diplomatists ; the British people , one , vie may suppose , of the " parties concerned , " not being in the least informed of the proceedings taken in its august
name . Parliament , under the influence of the sudden heat , begins to grow weary of its toil , and to think more of the races and the moora than of dry business at St . Step hen ' s . It sits grudgingly ; and on Tuesday the faithful Commons were unfaithful enough not to " make a House . " The transactions of honourable members when they have met have not presented us with much that is either interesting or important . The Committee of Supply has been drudging through its work
much alter the usual fashion , with the customary amount of opposition from Mr . Williams and a few other watch-dog members , and the general triumph of vested interests in the adoption of disputed votes . Some criticisms , however , by Mr . Locke King on the unsatisfactory labours of the Statute Law Commission ( for which a vote of 1911 / . was asked and granted ) elicited from Sir Fitzroy Ki : lly a statement to the effect that the
Commission has in fact been making way ; that the work is mainly done ; and that we are shortly to see on the table of the House seventeen or eighteen bills for reducing our chaos of confused and contradictory laws to something like compact , harmonious , and comprehensible shape —assuredly , not before the need of some such arrangement was grievously felt , since - \ vc are only now beginning to eil'ect what Lord Bacon indicated " as a
necessity two centuries im < l a half ngo . A . bomb directed against' the unhappy little kingdom of Greece by Mr . James M'Ghkgok ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07061856/page/1/
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