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qfD Vf / mtluCt cy ^ o ^ W / V * ^ v > V ? A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is tlie Idea , of Humanity—the noble ' ' ~~ e : ? d ayour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by preju . dice ~ aiidon . e-3 id . ed views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one creat object— the free development oio ^ rspiritualnature . "—jgfH /» JoW «' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— woe Gatherings from tho Lavr and Po- i Slavery Abolition and Cotton Edinburgh Essays . 182 Imnerial Parliament -i < ifi lice Courts 152 Supply .... 150 Henry the Fourth and tho Leaguers 163 Election Intelligence ' its Naval and Military 152 The Grey Ticket-of-Leavo 157 Tlio Philosophy of Common Lifo ... 164 The Manchester Education Scheme :. " 143 ¥ * ffQ ell ?!\ e 0 US • }*? A Wcok . of Eloctions 157 BGranger's Songs .. 164 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 149 Postscript ... IBi Fraudulent Trustees 158 Lucy Aylmev . ... „ 164 Stanislaus Worcell 149 OPEN COUNCIL- An Ideal Session ........ 158 Tho Anglo-Indian Almanack 165 State of Trade ... ......... J "' . Z .. 149 The Laws Relating to the Property Wills , Wives , and Priests ICi ) THE ARTStrpi & nd 149 of Married Women 114 . Moldo-Wallaohian Agencies 15 !) . ; i nn « n . n > lS & v :: v . r : zr ::::.: v .:::::::.:::::::: IS impriSo , Ctr & " ::::: ; ::::::::: 1 st go *> - » # « ! ..,......,..... .... ; .. ; i «> . tuo sunbeam ^^ * ss America 149 Gold 154 Counter-Declaration of Persia 1 C 0 „ , „„ -.,, „„„ , ¦ 'XheOrient 150 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE— xno ^ azetio ibo Continental Notes . 150 The Financial Statement ... 155 Summary 101 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSOur Civilization 151 Moral of the Secret Treaty 155 Tho Indian " NapVerV . V . V . V . V . V . V . V . V . V . V . ' . "" 101 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 1 C 6
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fpHE pressure out of doors , aided by tlie ready A adoption of the Opposition in the House of Commons , has extorted from Ministers a large concession of the Income-tax , and considerable reductions of the military and naval estimates . The whole week has been one of bustle . To make a better disposition of the ministerial forces , Sir Geobge CobnewaxIi JjEWIs has waived his objection to bringing , forward the financial statements at this early day ; and estimates are produced with considerably diminished totals . The naval estimates will be only 8 , 109 , 000 / . instead of 15 , 812 , 000 / ., charged last year . The military estimates , army and ordnance together , 8 , 993 , 000 / . instead of 18 , 008 , 000 / . ; ji total of 19 , 000 , 000 / . in lieu of the 25 , 000 , 000 / . which Mr . Gladstone calculated . The reduction , ' as compared with the reduced peace estimates of last year , is 17 , 00 ^ , 000 / . This result has been brought about unquestionably by the demand of the public , with tlie assistance of the Opposition and independent leaders . Another of Mr . Disraeli ' s blows at Ministers has not been so happy : it has twice recoiled upon himself . Tlie story of a " secret treaty" between France and Austria , sanctioned by Lord Palmerston , still demands further explanation . Mr . Disbaeli professed to give a very elaborate account on Tuesday last , but it amounted to no more than a repetition of what he said last week , except that he supplied the date of the treaty—the 22 nd December , 1854-. Lord Palmerston instantly replied , that there was a Convention about that date , and he appealed to those who were in the Cabinet then , though no longer in the Ministry now . The Convention simply stipulated that if Austria should join the active operations against Russia in Turkey , and should be attacked in her rear by Italian insurrectionists in Russian interests , France would assist to protect her Italian provinces j a very proper provision during the progress of the actual war . Is this the Treaty that Mr . Disraeli exposes ?—or is there another Treaty ? Lord Palmekston tells us that "that limited Convention" expired with the close of the war . He added that it was never signed ; but he has since corrected that mistake : it was signed . And Mr . Diskajm insists that it has not expired . A new ground has been provided for him by the Moniteur . That Napoleonic journal has put forth u Pleading m favour of uniting the Danubion
Principalities , chiefly on the ground-that-they ' would thus be strengthened as a barrier to -future invasion . This is a common plea ; and it has been supported by the patriot party in the Principalities , who are anxious for union , in tlie belief that it would ultimately result in the formation of an independent state . Russia has always found it so easy to absorb conterminous 'independent' states of a minor size , that she , too , favours the union ; while France , in joining with Russia and the Moldo-Wallachian . patriots , derives tlie advantage , first of setting up an opinion ' by which she may balance the East of Europe against the West , and ultimately , it is supposed , she designs to place upon the Moldo-Wallachian throne a prince of the Bonaparte family ; realizing the dream of Charlemagne in the germ of an Oriental Empire . The Conslitutionnel boasts that Prance has with her , in the renewed Paris Conference , Prussia , Russia , and Sardinia , against Austria , Great Britain , and Turkey—four to three ; but adds , that there arc hopes of winning over Turkey to tlie same majority . If so , it can only be by intrigue . Lord Claiiendox , however , admit ted that the British Government had been taken by " surprise , " and practically confessed that they had been outwitted . The progress of business in the two Houses of Parliament has been of rather an important character . In the Upper House , indeed , the measures brought forward are rather acknowledgments of work that ought to he done than performances . They consist principally of bills introduced by the Lord Chancellor—reintroduccd wo may say , for they are only editions of last year ' s bills—to amend the laws relating to wills , marriage and divorce , and ecclesiastical discipline . But there is no prospect that the measures will be carried . The work , is still left open for Sir Ekskine 'Peiuiv and any other gentlemen that take it up independently . Government hits reluctantly accepted Mr . Napier's motion for establishing a separate department of Justice—the grand way 1 o legal reform , and to a good supervision of law , law administration , and law making . Sir GEOjirjii Grky ' . s bill to reconstruct the law of penal servitude has the merit of being compact , applicable to 1 he present moment , and certain to be carried . It ought to provoke more jealousy than it will excite , for it runs less against the theories of the reactionaries than against the pfimmnoit interests of the British Constitution . It is really a large measure in a . small shape—inoffensive on the surface though dangerous in its tendency . In brief ,
it abolishes the distinction between transportation and penal servitude , authorizing one kind of sentence ., and leaving the Executive to carry out the sentence , under certain limits , according to its discretion . In the meanwhile , however , Sir George promises that there shall be improvements in the disposal of prisoners , in the selection of convicts for Western Australia , and in the more effectual detention of incorrigibles . In a separate measure he provides for the establishment of county and borough reformatories for juvenile offenders . At present this Act is not to be compulsory , but should it work well it will eventually he extended to the wtiolo . country .
The Select Committee on the Bank Charter Act has been nominated . It comprises all the monetary notables in the House of Commons ; except Mr . Wkgdklin , who had not been . returned for Southampton when the Committee was appointed . J ? or , after all , Mr . IUciiaud Andrews failed at the poll ; though there was sullicient rioting on both sides to leave the return still under some obscurity . One important commercial reform is suspended . The complaint of the City men against the law
which leaves the ownership of dock warrants , & c ., in a state of doubt , has been already explained they desire that such documents should be placed on tlie same footing an bills of exchange , since they are practically to goods what bills of exchange ; are to money . But there has been some difference oi opinion , from an idea that the present law is a check upon fraud ; and talcing advantage of these diversities of opinion , Ministers abstain from interfering until commercial men can huv < m .
'Rather an important constituency has ut last preferred a bill of indictment against its representative . Certain electors of Glasgow , the friends of Mr . John M / ujukkuoji , have called upon him to explain his shun ; in the formation of the British J $ an"k . We told the story of that bank a few weeks sine * :, though we did not bring out all the facts whinli Mr . ' M kn / iks related . His difficult to
understand how Mr . Macgiieook could construct such an explanation as would be aceeptahlo to a commercial constituency ; and this dilfieulty perhaps accounts for the fact that the claim lias been under his consideration for three weeks , jm jtlj T ^ g ! JfiRtw produced no fruits . ^ JiC ^' f " ^' A \\ ^ The JJ . ouh-c of Commons has rW 5 »[ ?^ fe ^?^ 3 ^ Members , oonnpicuouAly amongst v £ u iJW ffiil * WpP ** 4 «\ " * ' ovciitu in commerce . Mr . Jou ^ 9 A ^ j 3 & |* j $ r ^ ^ i Member for Hligo , Mr . Jami ^ n W ^^ jjii ^ ffi & k'j >< - ' elected by Tipporury , Mr . John ^ mnuf ^ wS &^ f fjflQR * rf \ A ^ t & r ^ l ™
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14021857/page/1/
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