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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- " ~ THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- Facts and Scraps ........... 615 INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS-| SSEE ;;~^ . fc « ato--::: ; :::::::: S gg ^^ :::::::::: S —— _ .... „ Naval and Military . 608 Kobert ^ ornaV " 019 Money Market and Stock Ex-Volunteer Rifles 608 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . ^ o ^ frnTT ft ^ ratiire C 20 change 02 fi Political Foreshadowing 609 61 2 ¦ g ^ "J f ^*?™ ' ~~~ - ' ° ~ General Trade Report .. . . 056 The Elections ....... 610 GeneralSummary . 614 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Home , Colonial and Foreign Pro-^ o ^ ai rcl demy ... 610 OR . G . NAL CORRESPONDENCE- ^^^^^ SS ^ :::::: ^ ¦ B ^'&^ ' V / . V . * : """ VZ ! 2 ftrfffl :::::::::::::::::: So Germany ,. . ei * ^? £$£ 2 Fr £ i * Me :: 622 ^ f ^^ ffis •• ^ Society of Arts ..... 610 L- { Italian Liberty ...... 622 Joint-Stock Companies 0 ^ 9 Artists' and Amateurs' Society .. 011 ^ , . ^—m _——— —————— ——— - — i i ¦¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ' — - ¦ ii .-II- — .. ii ¦ _ i . . .
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of striking importance . It is pretty evident , too , from those movements , that the Gomniander-in Chief has either entered Piedmont on a mere freebooting excursion , or that he has fallen back in obedience to commands from Vienna , wnere , if we may trust report , his plan of t he campaign has been rejected—it is even said , " laughed to scorn , *' under critical exposure by old General Hess , who ¦ wouldbe at the-head of the army , in all probability , ' were he not a Protestant .
TT is impossible , at present , to make anything like a clear story out of the intelligence which has reached us of the early incidents of the war in Italy . The telegrams are multitudinous , but they serve only to confuse and to confound one another . One general notion , however , we get with tolerable Clearness ; it is that so far the movements of the Austrian army have not directly led to any events
According to the most recent advices , the Austrians had fallen back upon Vercelli , on the line of the Sesia , and were fortifying themselves with the greatest care , as if determined there to await the attack of the allied armies of France and Sardinia . A number of petty movements , hither and thither , are reported by the writers of telegraphic news ; but , for the most part , these movements are of no consequence if not executed for the purposes of plundering the poor inhabitants . So indignant at these razzias is
the King of Sardinia , it is reported , that he has sent to inquire of the Emperor of Austria , whether he intends to make war " as a soldier or as a brigand . " Some of the telegrams report the return into Lombardy of large numbers of wagons filled with Piedmbntese spoils . The Pays x in fact , declares that plunder has been the object of all the late movements , in order to provide the army with necessities which the bankrupt Austrian treasury is unable to supply . Tb , e treatment to which
General Gyulai is reported to have subjected the unfortunate inhabitants of Piacenza is so barbarous as to be scarcely credible . A pi'oclomation , said to have been published by him , makes it death for any person in the place to do anything that oan injure or even incommode un Austrian soldier ; so atropious is the whole document ) , that the Presse well says that , if it is really genuine , it looks like madness on the part of General Gyulai to have issued it . All the opening incidents of the campaign , in fact , have boon unfortunate to the Austrians . The plan of it has been found to be worthless ; in the first encounter with the Piedmonteee at Frassinetto they lost , at least , two men for every one
worthy proceedings in this direction was the meeting held by the University and town of Cambridge the other day , at which the Vice-Chancellor of the University presided ; at the conclusion of the business it was announced that seven hundred gentlemen had put down their names for enrolment . The Times well says : " The direct result of this call to arms , as we trust , will be the formation of rifle corps , which will cheerfully submit to instruction and . discipline , and the indirect consequeiicej that every inhabitant of the British Islands , within the necessary and obvious limits of age , will learn the use of fire-arms , if required . There will then be a deep and awful meaning in the cry " Riflemen , form I " _ _ . . 1 . _ _____ _ . — . , — . v 3«—— . —in Z- * r- » + ! - »» ct rt IWArt + lATl —l * TO O + li A
Very few elections remain to be gone through now , and the question of loss or gain is practically settled for both sides of the new House of Parliament . The great struggle of the week has been that of the West Riding of Yorkshire , and the result has been a victory forthe Liberals . Various demonstrations in connexion with the more recent elections have taken place during the week , the principal one taking the form of . a dinner at Carlisle , Sir Jaines Graham being the chief speaker * hindrance the
and speaking without let Or against present war , and against the despots who , he says , are fomentin g the trouble for their own despotic purposes . lie has not the smallest belief in the good intentions of the French Emperor , and while he insists on the duty of the Government of this country being to hold a perfectly neutral policy , he would , evidently , have them watch events with the most jealous suspicion . Sir James spoke , in fact , as if the world were foredoomed to be for ever under the governance of professional
diplomacy . Several notable criminal cases are before the public at the present moment . A Dr . fcJmethurst is charged with having poisoned a lady with whom he had for some time cohabited , and the details of the case bear a horrible resemblance to the Rugeley case . The evidence * already given goes to show that the deceased died from'the administration of arsenic in small doses , and suspicion falls very heavily on the accused , from the fact that , during her illness ,
he permitted nobody to approach her if he could prevent them . A clear motive for the commission of the crime has yet to be suggested ; but if a murder has been committed , it has been perpetrated with terrible sang froid . Another remarkable oase is that of a party of men ^ charged with carrying out a regularly organised plan for imposing on the London panics , by presenting forged cheques . The crime has been brought to light by tho voluntary evidence of a man whom the principals ^ in the scheme had engaged to assist them in passing the cheques .
A sad completeness is given to tho round of the week ' s news , by tho the occurrence of a horrible accident yesterday morning in Westminster . An extensive scaffolding , orootod on tho works of the Westminster Palaoo IloteJ , situate at the corner of Now Victoria-street , suddenly gave way in part , and fbur men wore in a moment killed , a Iflh died some throe hours after the accident , while oi" -ht others have been terribly injured . Of course ooinmont is out of tho question . Wo shall only bo too glad to find that the ' catastrophe has been ; he result of simple and blameless accident .
lost by their opponents ; in conveying troops to the field , a horrible accident occurred on one of their railways , by which a number of their men were killed and maimed ; and , lastly , we hear from Ragusa that one of their war brigs has been blown up , with a loss of some eighty mem The most important topic of the week ' s foreign news , however , is the departure of the Emperor to take the command of his army . He left Paris on Tuesday evening , amid demonstrations of popular enthusiasm not to be doubted , much less denied .
The Empress went with him a short distance on the railway to Lyons , and then parted with him , tearfully , we may suppose , and with a grave sense of the responsibilities that will weigh upon her during the absence of her imperial husband . She has been named Regent , and will exercise the powers pertaining to that rank under advice of ex-King Jerome , who is constituted her guardian , in effect . The Emperor made no pause on reaching Marseilles , on Wednesday at noon , but went straight on board of his vessel , the Reine Hortense , and steamed out of the harbour at two o ' clock .
Meantime his anny is rapidly approaching the degree of completenessi requisite before venturing upon offensive movements . General Canrobert has addressed to the division under his command a blood-stirring Order of the day , and active operations are not likely to be long delayed . . At home , events abroad are being watched with a most wholesome and necessary wariness . Meetings , haying for their object the presentation of memorials to her Majesty in favour of the maintenance of a policy of non-intervention , are becoming the order of tho day . But while __ tho coimtry is thus manifesting its desire to repain at peace with the rest of Europe , it is also manifesting an equally reasonable and commendable
deter-On , Thursday afternoon he was at Genoa , where double the number of persons composing the ordinary population were assembled to gfeet him . Of his welcome there cannot be the shadow of a doubt . Of the grand opportunity which now lies before him , there cannot be a doubt either ; but there is room to doubt whether he will take a noble advantage of it—whether he is the man to do it .
mination to place itself most effectually on the defensive . Few English people really dread the invasion of their country ; but all are alive to the dangers that may arise from tho wild excesses of armed potentates , carried away by the impulses of anger or of too much sucooss . Some bad versos , published in tho Times , and believed to have been written by the pootlaureato , call upon tho young mon of England to form rifle-corps , the burthon of every stanza being " Riflemen , form 1 " Tho same call has boon made in a more temperate and practioal way by tho authorities of tho War-office , who have published a set of rules and instructions for the formation of such corps , and evidence of tho popular readiness is rapidily multiplying . One of the most note-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14051859/page/3/
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