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T HAT Europe is in a state of agitation,...
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REVIEW OF TH « E WEEK— wos Tho History of British Jour- PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ¦ INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS—' Home Intelligence . nalism ................. ; 73 Royal Speeches—Sardinia and The New Year and the Coming _ HOJttiiHiwuwi-aL The Application and Language of Prussia . 81 Session 88 Political Foreshadowings ............ *>» Science ..... ; ....... -74 The Church in the City 82 Oude . — .. .. 88 Gatherings from Law aud 1 olice Redmarsh Rectory 75 Attempted Revival of the Slave Notes on Indian Progress .... 88 Courts .................. « " The Church and the Masses ...... 70 Trade in America 82 India , 89 Criminal Record «>•» . Life in Victoria ... 77 The Elbe Tolls 83 Cotton Cultivation -in Oude ...... 89 Ireland ' « Poems of Goethe .... 77 Thoughts , Facts , and Suggcs- China ..... 89 ftSSSTSftTBSfflS ?*^^ -:- ™ . SSEftfSafc ™ . ™ - ; :::-:: 51 & ° " ™>»«"'»^ - J ^;—— ¦ - ¦ " - ¦ IMu .... ZZ ., » pS $ p ^ S S = = r-=- % - SS ^ SS & fiS : If c ™^ j t i » dut , y ... g ?«*«¦¦ ' ¦* " •¦ " 81 Fr ££ nt ! ... . . . ' .. . ° .. . " n ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- gX ^ -SlifSe ' ZZZZZ £ Foreign Intelligence . The Town .. 79 France 85 Home . Colonial , aud Foreign Continental Notes .. 70 Mildred Norman "" . ' ... ' .. ! . ' ! . ' ... ' ........ 79 FINE ARTS— Produce Markets 91 America ... 71 Japan and her People 79 ti » ri-. r , i ^ ^ Wr * c sr London Gazette .. 92 Mexico 71 The Scottish Annual . ; 80 J ^ ° ™ i ¦ . « J ^'™ . ' . k ;«^» . « Money Market and Stock Ex-West Coast of Africa 71 Southern Lights and Shadows ... 80 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS— change 93 _ , ¦ _ ¦ Outlines of English History SO ! The Great Dodd and Cullenford Joint-Stock Companies 93 LITERATURE— A Song of Charity ,... 80 Controversy ... S 6 Bank of England 93 Literary Chronicle of the "Week .... 73 Books Received 80 Haymarket , Princess ' s , & c . ...... 87 Shares and Stocks 94
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T Hat Europe Is In A State Of Agitation,...
T HAT Europe is in a state of agitation , and deeply imbued with the idea that war is imminently possible , is an undeniable fact ; Wars and rurnours of wars are , of : course , the readiest and strongest levers that stock-jobbers can handle for moving the money-world . No doubt the present occasion has "been industriously improved , both on the Bourse of Paris and in the less volatile Exchange of London ; but it is idle to think that a stock-jobbing device could have brought about a fall of five per cent , in French funds , and a grave decline in our own stocks ^ with a eonthmed uneasiness that may
lead to still more- serious results ^ but for a general belief in the gravity of the present state of affairs throughout the Continent , and especially in Italy . War may be averted , the inevitable Italian struggle may be deferred or crushed at the outset , as in 1 S 4 S , but the fact is clear enough that , in Italy , more particularly in Lombardy , the Italians , not only of the so-called revolutionary party , but of the trading class and gentry , think the hour lias arrived when the Austrian tyranny is to be finally over thrown and Italy regained for the Italians . Austria
is profoundly sensible of the dangers of the time ; hence her vast military activity , the reinforcements of her garrisons in Verona , Mantua , and Milan , her military councils ( it Venice , and the dospatch of an entire corps d ' annee into Italy , in ¦ addition to the large force already there ; hence her anxiety to perfect her military resources and to increase her navy ; in spite of the difficulties presented by an almost bankrupt treasury . She is tomfied at the chance that the example of successful revolution may bo offered to the impatient
Italians , and therefore she hurries to put down the Servians , ; even at the risk of breaking the faith of treaties with the other great Powers parties to tho Treaty of Paris . Sho has sent roinforocments to Soinlin , two hours' march from . Belgrade , and directed the officer in command to occupy Belgrade , en requisition from the conunundor of tho Turkish forces garrisoning the eitadoJ . It is reported that strong representations havo been sent to tho Austrian Government on tho subjool , as to tho extremo danger of an infraction of tho Troaty of Paris . Report adds that Austria has refused to altor tho
arrangements sho has ma"do , her first thought being , at any hazard , to quell tho idea of sucoesaful revolution . Her real danger , howovor , manifestly arises from tno vapidly growing confidence of tho people of JUuy in thd Constitutional Government of King victor Emmanuel . The * distrust with which ovory movement of the House of Savoy had boon watohod wy tho democratic parties of nlmost all tho Italian Slates , would appear to havo been worn out or oust
be spared from Brest or Cherbourg is sent by rail to Toulon . The position which Prussia would take in the event of war is a matter of vital importance , and therefore the speech of the Prince Regent on . the opening of the Prusssian Chambers was looked for with eager interest . No language could be more guarded than that uttered by the Prince of Prussia
on Wednesday : " Nothing , " he said , emphatically , " has occurred to alter the peaceful relations of Prussia towards foreign countries ; but increased outlays will be required for the maintenance of the Hoyal dignity , for augmenting the army force , and for the support of the navy . " Preparedness for eventualities is obviously a dominant idea in the Prince Regent's , mind . . '
To another Hoyal mind the future opens up a prospect of terror . King Ferdinand of Naples , after so long scandalising Europe by his revolting treatment of political offenders , in spite of representations and remonstrances , has relented before the possible war-storm , and has released sixty-one victims , Poerio and Settembrmi being prominent names in the list . A notable sign , when the King of Naples takes pains to stand better in the eyes of the civilised world !
Our own part in the struggle , if it comes , will be determined rather for us than by us ; but the country will not tolerate intervention for the maintenance of such a huge and shocking tyranny as that which is driving the Italians to war as the only possible means of getting rid of it . In the mean time we have work for our
military in India . Tho news by the last Calcutta mail lias been , for tho most part , anticipated , and tho important item of new intelligence which it supplies refers to the appointment of an Enam Commission in the Madras Presidency . The old King of Delhi , it is stated , is on his way to tho Cupe of Good Hope , there ' to cud his days in exile / Mr . Gladstone's mission has given rise to all sorts of false impressions , or perhaps wo ought to say , speculations . In the early part of tho week , it was stated with apparent confidence that Air . Gladstone had been appointed Lord High Commissioner of tho Ionian Islands in the room of Sir John Young ; tho truth of the matter appears to bo , that Mr . Gladstouo will act in . that capacity for a short time , until tho arrival of Sir John Young ' s successor , but that ho will assuredly be back in England in timo to tako his part in tho great Roform drama . As to tho chief actors in tho said " action , " thoy koop well out of sight , and utter no word as to tho plot of their forthcoming novelty . Thoy have determined to open both their Houses on tho 3 rd of February , and tho new piooo will bo produood , it is oxpeeted , tolerably early in tho soason . Out of doors , where there is a clear stogo and little or no
away ; aud there can be but little doubt that the hopes of Northern Italy at this moment turn wholly towards Sardinia . Victor Emmanuel has earned this confidence . During the ten years he has been upon the throne of Sardinia he has held a perfectly just and temperate course with regard to Austrian-Italy , and that in the face of enormous temptation . . The hopes of assistance which the struggling peoples of Lombardy now ent ertain have been the spontaneous growth of opinions year by year tending more and more towards the
constitutional form of government , of which Sardinia is sole representative on the Italian .. peninsula . Victor Emmanuel , wisely following the c ouusels of his farseeing ¦ Minister , Count Cavour , has never uttered a word to awaken ill-timed hopes or to precipitate eventualities , He has bided his time ; but at last he has s poken in a way that leaves no doubt as to the future . I ! We respect treaties , " he said at the opening of the Chambers on Monday , " but we are not insensible to the cry of grief which reaches
us from so many parts of Italy . " The King ( says the Piedmontcse Gazette ) pronounced these words with great emotion , and the hall-resounded'with loud applause and enthusiastic cheering ; the echoes of such words , we may well believe , have reached to the farthest shores of the Adriatic , and been repeated aniicl the ruins of the City of the Seven . Hills . Henceforth , the King of Sardinia is the acknowledged champion of Italian nationality struggling for emancipation , and for the blessings of Constitutional Government .
It there is any point upon which a doubt , may hang with regard to the course , of * Sardinia , the approaching alliance with the present French regime may be called in question . Victor Emmanuel gives his daughter to Prince Napol con , a man more than old enough to be tho young lady ' s father , and the only conceivable object of this union is the support of Fraucc against Austria . \ t is to be remembered
that' tho close intimacy of tho Court of Turin with that of tho Tuilcrios has boon pretty much owing to tho way in which tho English Goyommont lifts held back , when solicited to give Sardinia a more open and active , support . Sardinia has , in fact , been thrown into the hands of Franco and Russia , with which Powers it rests to determine whether there shall bo poaoo or war .
In Franco , tho word most constantly on the lip is war . At a late ball at tho Tuileries it was romarked that nothing but strategic talk was heard throughout tho night . At all tho Government military workshops tliero is unceasing activity : in tho poroussion cap manufactories , for example , whore noithor gas' nor knips ' aro pbrmitted , tho hands are working double tides so long as dnylight lasts . At Toulon tho greatest possiblo oxpodition is made to got ready a number of steam-transports j and for this purpose overy ship-oarpenter that oan
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011859/page/3/
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