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"The one Idea which . Hi 3 tory exhibits as evermore developing it 3 elf 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 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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XCE PCVIEW OF THE WEEK— i \* oe Gatherings from the Law and Po- Our Steam Troop-Ships 444 THE ARTSTmner al Parliament 434 lice Courts . ' 439 Prince Albert on the Georges 445 Royal Academy 451 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 435 Naval and Military 440 Up and Down London 4-15 The Operas — ¦•• ••• •• 451 ODPning of the Manchester Exhibi- Miscellaneous 440 Legalized Theft 440 ^ signs ior the New Government ?? on . 435 Postscript 441 The Italian Portsmouth 446 Offices 452 Three Visits ' to the Manchester Art open council- The Income-tax of a Town Doubled 447 Theatrical Notes 452 Treasures Exhibition 43 G urtN 7 ' , IL LITERATURE- StntpofTrade 437 Icaria at Tsauvoo and Iowa 442 mtuwiuRt Trpland . . 437 The Italians in Alexandria 412 Summary 448 -ThpOrient 43 V The Oxford Essays 449 The Gazette „ 452 America 437 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Kars and Kmcty 449 nnMMFaciAi apfairc ; - SBE $ T * EE ==. " Z « "S 31 SrSftSSSSrsa-hK-siiKi : JS Ts 3 $ gZtSSssj— = ZflSSi & SSgSU * -
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f fTlHE Royal Speech was given to Ministers to con-1 ceal their thoughts ; the Royal Speech this year , read with a little attention , amounts to a confession that our foreign affairs are in great confusion ; that Ministers do not intend to carry on the course of policy which they appeared to have taken up in 1856 , especially with reference to Italy , which passes sub silentio ; that the ratification of peace with Persia is in doubt ; that the
treaties with the United States , and with Honduras , for the settlement of the South-American question , are again all abroad ; that they do not intend this session to introduce any subject of political reform , but that they arc about to reproduce those Law Reforms on matrimony and divorce , and the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction , of which the public has been quite sickened . The Prime Minister , indeed , was a great deal more explicit than the Royal Speech . He called upon the representatives of the country to give him trust for a whole year , although he confessed that
he had got no further with Parliamentary Reform than an idea of ' considering' it during the recess . He is pledged to nothing but to consider , and the country id to give him credit for good intentions . Several of 1 he members had stood forward with notices of a motion on the subject—Mr . Roebuck , a general notice ; Mr . Locke King , a revival of his county franchise bill ; Mr . Bkrkkley , the ballot ; and we have yet to ascertain whother the entire House of Commons will be prepared to give Lord Palmkkston a blank acceptance to bo filled up at his pleasure . Mr . Roebuck , indeed , will have created some astonishment in the
country witli words which look like an announcement that he shall not press his motion , and will yield to the good-will and pleasui * e of the Minister for the time being . If this is the real purport of Mx . Rokbuck ' s declaration on Thursday night , it amounts to a more absolute submission than has been inado by any of the constituencies of the country . While the loader of tho House of Commons is
thus feeling a constant increase of his strength m that field , some events have conl . inu . od to show a dogrco of instability at the foundations of his government . Tho resignation of Mr . Frederick Peel , on tho grduhd thnt ho hud lost his parliamentary sent , has boon followed by tho resignation of Sir Robert Peel , ono of tho junior Lords of tUo Admiralty , on what ground is not explained . It
can scarcely be his indiscreet speech with reference to the Grand Duke Constantine , for if that had been the reason , it would have been consistent with sense to call for his resignation at a much earlier day . The manifesto of the Morning Post against Mr . Gladstone , who is warned as to the consequences of pursuing the course that he began last session , shows that the friends of the present Government are not without their apprehensions . And it is evident that Lord Palme rston ' s friends feel the moral effect which may be produced by the swaggering confidence and the coarse bravado of some amongst his retainers .
Meanwhile , all the world has gone down to Manchester , to forget politics in aesthetics . The Great Exhibition has been opened . Having got together a magnificent collection of pictures , statues , ornamental furniture , armour—illustrations of art , history , manners , and customs from the earliest ages — having displayed them in an arrangement which will upon the whole render the style of practical art
clear to tho meanest understanding—the managers of the collection invited the Prince Consort and a body of Jinn Majesty ' s troops to march up and down the streets of Manchester , and up and down the Exhibition building , while loyal and royal addresses were exchanged . There is an indelible propensity on these occasions , in opening any great work , to indulge the feelings in a systematic strut ; and Manchester struts as well as London , S (> .
Petersburg , or Paris itself . The fact that strikes the Cockneys most ; on arriving in the head-quarters of manufacture is , that the carriages are like carriages in London , and tho people in the carriages like the people in the London carriages . One use of the Exhibition has been to make Manchester and London know each other collectively . There is a report that the Emperor of the French will make a rush to Manchester some day , and that is not improbable , if he can leave tho entangled state of affairs in Paris . At present ho has enough on his hands . Besides the entertainment of the
Grand Duke Constantinb , who must bo amused without learning too much , the Empuror is involved iu ( i curious conflict between two great parties . For some time tho Bank of Franco has been defending itself against the encroachments of the Socidtd do Crddit Molrilior , but from the last reports it appears to have boon fairly beaten . In 185 G , it doolinod the offers of tho Sooiety to aid it with an advance of 12 , 000 , 000 ^ ., for railway purposes , or for general loans in tho prosont year . Tho Government requiring money , tho State Bank had made
arrangements for doubling its capital , which is now 3 , 600 , 000 / ., and lending the addition to the Government as a permanent loan , on terms mutually advantageous to the Bank and to the State . But the authors of the great joint-stock " Credits " which have been established in Paris , and are to be established hereafter , sit at the elbow of the Emperor , and , like Satan at the ear of Eve , teach him how to sratifv Jiimse If and to do evil . The
result is an entirely new scheme—an enlargement of the Bank capital to the amount of 12 , 000 , 000 ^—a favourite figure of the Credit Mobilier—and au admission into its directorate of persons connected with railway enterprises in France . According to this last story , the Credit Mobilier appears to have obtained actual possession of the Bank , presenting a large douceur to the Emperor in the form of an increased loan—4 , 000 , 000 / . sterling instead of a
smaller amount , with the advances of 4 , 000 , 000 / . for the general commerce , and an effective addition of 4 , 000 , 000 / . to the general discounting powers of the Bunk . The effect is a glorification on the Bourse , and a general rising of every kind of stock . The promoters of these Credit societies , which have already come amongst us in London in the humble guise of a General O m nib us Company , have seized the citadel of French finance , which is at the present moment the centro of European finance .
Peace concluded with Persia has not prevented another British victory . Sir James Outkam has cupturcd Mohammerah , a town of somo importance , near the mouth of the Euphrates , afterwards pursuing the defeated Persians further inland to Shustcr and Ahwas . Although happening rather late in the negotiations for peace , this victory may not bo without its use . Persia had yet to consider the terms of the peace and the ratifications ; and
the victory may assist both to expedite and inform her deliberations . The fact that Sir James Ouxuam did not receive the intelligence of tho victory until the day after the battle , although the same news would traverse in a fow hours greater spaces than the length of Asia , will teach the Government of that country , which history found amongst tho earliest examples of civilization , the importance of adopting the latest inventions of civilization .
Australian papers report a ministerial crisis in both Now South Wales and Victoria . That in Victoria was at onco the most remarkable and tho most complete , for the Government had given way , and had been sucacodod by a new cabinet . Tine pau . ora roport an attack upon Government , and a hdo scrap of npw § ftnjq . QunpQs . the final rppwlt , but v » 'U / u » M . | i , y \' . / f *^ 'ri i ~ ~ i , ¦^ Cj i w . ' ¦• •; \ . i « 3 ¦ , '
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/1/
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