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A POLITICAL AID LITERARY REVIEW.
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— vac.e Gatherings fro...
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VOL. IX. No. 429.] SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 18...
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A Political Aid Literary Review.
A POLITICAL AID LITERARY REVIEW .
•'The One Idea ^7-Hich Eciatory Exhibits...
• 'The one Idea ^ 7-hich ECiatory exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is fche Idea of Humanity—the uolile endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between naea by prejudice and one-sided new 3 ; 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 . "—Humholdt's Cosmos . '
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Review Of The Week— Vac.E Gatherings Fro...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK— vac . e Gatherings from the Law and Po- Sanitary Condition of iho Army ... 5 CG Publications and RepuMications ... 571 lice Courts 560 Discharged Prisoners . 167 Imperial Parliament .. 55-t Miscellaneous .... 561 Public and Press Privileges ......... 567 THE ARTS— «¦'¦ . " The Indian Revolt ..... 5 o 7 Postscript . 503 The Limits of Publicity 507 The Royal Academy 571 The Orient ............................ .......... C 5 S LITERATURE- Don Juan at the Thatre-PranVais 572 Ireland ...... 5 j > S puri \ c afpaibc- uiurbiwas . Tiiiisn . Miller RVZ State of Trade 55 S PUBLICAFFAIRS Summary 568 % j ; ' ^ T ^' w ' sN ' oVComedv "'" ' America ..................... 550 British Concession to the United Porester ' sKamblcs ...... ......: COS mi . xom xayiors JNowvomeay 573 Continental Notes 559 States .......... ... SGI Tl \ o Passionate Pilgrim ......... . ...... . "XiO COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS — Accidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 500 The Reform Debates : 5 G 5 A Matttcr of Fact Romance 000 Naval and Military ..... 560 JIow toMake Church Rates Popular 505 The Chase 570 Tlie Gazette ..... 573 Criminal Record ........... 560 State of the Indian Question ......... 5 G 5 The Heirs of Cheveleijdi ;"> 7 l City Intelligence , Markets , & c ...... 573
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A Ma.D World, Ray Masters!—At Least In P...
A MA . D world , ray masters!—at least in Parliament , where we fiud the rule of contrary governing ; a Tory Cabinet doing with , a will the work of the demented Iiibcral party , and Lord Gre y violently protesting against a measure of Reform because it will lead to other measures of Reform , andaccording to his new light—to revolution ! " What next ? and next ? " Gonjectui * e is idle . On Monday evening the Indian Resolutions were again taken in hand , resolution number three being the-first'in the order of succession . This resolution proposes that the Council which is to assist the Indian Minister shall consist of not less than twelve , nor more than eighteen , members . After a little jostle between Sir . Roebuck and Mr . Gladstone for precedence , the too-thoughtful member for the University of Oxford was let loose upon'the subject before tlie Committee . His tendency is always to pull to pieces every subject he lays hands on , regardless of the possibility of getting it together again ; and he did not contradict it on Monday evening . He will have it -that we are still so ignorant of Indian affairs as to be totally incompetent to legislate upon such a subject as that with which we are blindly dealing ; and moreover , it does not appear by his speech that he ever looks for our being better qualified for the task presented to us . But as we are determined to organize some sort of Government for India , the best thing he can suggest is for us to secure the services of the present India Board , at least till the end of the next session of Parliament . A majority of more than two to one , however , rejected the proposed arrangement . Mr . Roebuck ' s mode of dealing with the subject is exceedingly trenchant : lie is for having no Council at all , but for leaving the Home Government of India in the hands of one responsible and unaided Minister . His idea is that a Governor of India , " responsible for all his acts , and being his own guide and counsellor" would derive great mental and moral benefit from acting alone ; that lie would have " a more distinct and pressing interest in what he has to do than a man who had to share his responsibility with others , " and that , therefore , " he would be a stronger man and better able to carry on the government with vigour . " Mr . Houhuck very frankly admitted that he had no expectation that his views would be adopted ; but he was not on that account deterred from putting them forth , and that in his own strongweak manner ,
The main point of the discussion was ., the number of which the Council should be composed , and every number between the two numbers given was advocated by somebody or other , one fact beiiig . noticeable throughout the discussion , namely , that it was carried on by Honourable Members sitting anywhere but' oil the Treasury benches . The number that appears to be most in favour is twelve , and tliat ^ number the ¦ Government seem ready to accept , in spite'of ' the twittings they receive for their provoking readiness to comply with the demands of tlie Opposition . But , after all , the number was not adopted . Sir John Tuetawn y has piloted his Church ' Rates Abolition Bill through the shoals and quicksands of discussion in the Lower House , and at least safely run his vessel into dock ; that it will be overhauled and condemned by the Lords he does not care . All those who are for compromise , he says , leave the bill to the Upper House to " exercise their powers of invention , and then , when the bill came back , the onus would be cast upon its supporters of refusing that which might be a practical suggestion . " Sir John Tiuelaavny may reasonably be in good spirits even at the prospect of his bill being rejected by the House of Lords , for he has brought the question so nearly to the point at which—like the Oaths question—it must be settled , that it 13 now only a question of the time which the Lords may require to make up their minds finally . Another question standing for settlement , though it has not reached the forward state of xupencss which tlie Church Rate question lias attained , is the Ballot . Mr . Henky Behkkley ' s annual motion was discussed on Tuesday , and the vote was again adverse ; but the number of tlie minority shows a steady increase ; it stands now J 97 to 21 M :. The case made out by the Lords in favour of the Abolition of Property Qualification was ' complete , but contained nothing in the shape of argument or illustration that was either startling or new ; the law was constantly evaded by English members , and the Scotch law , which does not require mombors to possess a property qualification , was foun . il to act perfectly well , securing the fitness and respectability of Parliamentary representatives as well—if not better—than the Dliglish law . Whatever opponents it might have , they were hardly to be looked for i \\ the ranks of Parliamentary reformers ; but Micro not indeed in the ranks , but at the very head of the force—is its sternest opponent found , in the person of Lord Guuv . Jlis objection is striking and strange ; he " considers the measure paly one
of a series put ; forward by a party that desires to effect ; v complete alteration in our representative ¦ . sy . stuin ,. towards which the abolition of Property Qualification is the first step " and he further ; holils that "these proposals , considered as a whole , and without any compensating measures on the other side , would amount to a revolution . " Even while Lord GitEr was speaking , one of the dreaded measures was inoving revolution-wards . Mr . Locke King ' s 10 / . County ^ Franchise Bill passed the second reading in the Commons . Again the Ministerial benches were all but silent , and on a question more ¦ threatening to the influence of the landed interest than anything which has been done since the passing of the great Reform Bill : nothing to say but to murmur out a mild objection that the present measure might act as " an impediment in the way of the Government bringing forward a generul measure , as it was their honest intention to do . " This is is indeed a calamity t Mr . Locke King is the obstacle to the great Tory Reform Bill . Tlie state of our relations with America has been the subject of several questions to Government , the answers elicited being , upon the whole , reassuring . Government has not received any direct information as to the outrages said to have been committed upon sundry American vessels on the coast of Cuba and elsewhere ; but they have without hesitation acted upon the representations of the American Government , and sent out directions to the officers in charge of the protective squadron to " exercise with the greatest caution the powers entrusted to them . " Lord Mamiesuury frankly admitted , ia answer to Lord Clarendon , that if the outrages have been correctly reported and are proved to have really taken place , " her Majesty ' s Government are not prepared to justify them . " He stated further , that lie had had a conversation of a very satisfactory kind with the American Minister , and his impression was that , after what had been done , the country need remain under no apprehension that anything will occur to break the alliance which so happily exists between the two countries . " Lord Haudwicke added that if any excesses had bee 11 committed by the officers of the slave trndp preventive squadron , they wove no , \> in pq « s , cqucnpQ of tbc iust'i'UQtions they had , received , s- ^ CTS ^ - . Whatever may haVc befell theuneasin ^^ oyok ^ by the reports of the American cuptiugj , jfe ^ itlr _ W this as well as on the other side of iSc ^ M $ < £ }' . that fooling must bo moderated by the tfcj } j taw ^ M R ^ the afl ' air lias been discussed so far by flS fow ^ jWV ' - ' fepft
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/1/
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