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A POIITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW.
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A Poiitical And Literary Review.
A POIITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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R i y S 7- WEEK ~ i ™? 2 ? Subscription for Italy 1089 | Wizard Harrison and his Accorn- A Story of Married Love and its Tuulic Meetings 1082 Naval and Military 1090 plices 1093 Troubles 1098 ICossuth . oiv the Italian Question ... 10 S 3 Miscellaneous ... 1090 Tho Evasions" :::::::::::: ; : ; :::::: ; ::::: ; 1094 A . Batch of AmericairiJobks ::::::::: 1099 XordMayorsDay . 1084 . Postscript .. . 1092 The Golden TJamily ..... ... . 1094 I State of Trade ........ ; ........... 1034 . OPEN COUNCIL— llavenswqrtli onUcvelation ......... 1095 THE ARTSISdenU - a ^ Sudd ^ D ^ to ::::::::: lots *** - ™< f ° S CJasses ' ¦«* " tie . ¦; . . ^ Austrian Tax-gatherer . - ..,-,. W 95 ; A Ne ^ -Entertainmenf .. 1100 31-cland ... -. 1085 : . TlS ^ oS Sit ^ i" - " - "" - """ - * iSSI . \ UTERATURE- - ^^^^ o ^ -CZZ-Z -r ; - . 1 ^ 0 America 1085 . . xno aioc m * vocation . ioj-J Summary ... 1096 Continental Notes ; ............... 108 G PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Coleridge on Shakspeare and Mil- The Gazette 1100 Obituary 1087 French Machinations against Eng- ton ... 1096 i Our Civilization ........ 10 S 7 land Detected ................ ; ........., 1092 Kathie Braiide ........... 1007 ' '¦ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Great Gold Robbery 1039 The Tourists'View of Politics ; ..... 1093 The Espousals ........................... 1097 « City Intelligence , Markets , & c 1101
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VOL . VII . No . 347 . 1 SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 15 , 1856 . PriceIS ^^^ ISSS ? 013 '
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It will , however , take some time entirely to dispose of Walbwskj ' s policy , for a single reason . When an American President goes out of office , it has been usual to dismiss a host of officials , and to replace them by another set of men for the four years' term . Now the Government of Europe , vnder diplomatists , has "become scarcely less personal . The Wai ^ wski policy having its subordinates throughout the globe , we may expect France to counteract us in every quarter , until the Walewski men are replaced by Persigny men—if they arc to be so .
A Franco-llussian alliance has always been suspected in Persia , has indeed been known ; but the details are given to the world by the Morning JPost . M . Bouhee , French Minister at Tehran , lias , it appears , advised the Shah to obey the dictates of Russia in making war upon Herat , and French officers are guiding the operations against the city of Dost Mohammed , whom we have guaranteed . Here is the Walewski of Tehran
acting with Russia to conquer England m Asia ; and it would seem to be necessary to put away the Walewski of Persia and all his men , replacing them by a Pjcrsigny and all his men , before we can expect to have France with us there . We notice a rather remarkable coincidence . Thopapor exposing this misconduct of Wai-kwski ' s men in Persia , appears in the Morning Post of the
12 th instant ; in an able Belgian contemporary of 'lie 12 th instant appears a summary of that very paper in the Morning / Post : the two come out simultaneousl y , in London and in Brussels ; the Morning Post , as everybody observes , echoing the "views ascribed to the French Embassy in London It is rather curious , too , that while M . dis Per-BiGNr is representing the Emperor as completely
English , the Emperor is representing himself to the new Russian Ambassador in Paris as an intermediator , softening the conditions"of the treaty to Russia , and so far separate from England or counter to her . The Credit Mobilier has , after all , received the concession of the Russian railway—at least such is the latest report , though we have it not yet on
the authority of that company . Unquestionably , the concession is made to the principal persons in the society , Isaac Pereire arid Thurneyssen ; they are associated with Stiegi , itz , the Russian capitalist , and they are joined b y Hope , of Amsterdam , and Baring , of London , who were to have stood aloof . The Barings , indeed , are considerably mixed up with French enterprise ; we find their names minded with others of the Credit
Mobilier in the Great Northern of France Railway , an undertaking which has hitherto paid very well . The concessionaries of the new Russian enterprise boast of having better conditions—the principal of winch appear to be the admission of iron into Russia duty free , and a longer time than the concessionaries expected for the issue of the first shares . These are to amount to 12 ; 500 , O 0 O 2 . ; but a term of ten months is allowed for the first
issue , which will give the moneyed men of Holland , France , and England plenty of time to operate upon the markets of the world . Unfortunately for them , however , railway shares are universally down , particularly in France , > Yhere the completion of ever } ' branch tends , not to feed the trunk lines , but to eat up the revenue of the trunk lines : so that the more their business
extends the more they lose . The most formidable fact is , that wo are to have these great capitalists in the market manoeuvring to get their twelve millions and a half out of it , and they are to be engaged in that work for any time next year . The very fact must cause a general depression of railway property , and must create a constant mistrust in the operations of the market .
It comes , too , at a time when throughout all Europe there is a derangement of the currency ; when our Bank of England is constricting its accommodations , in point of time ami in point of interest ; while financiers are discussing the necessity of changing the regulations of the Bank ; while the French Government is talking of buying up the railways ; and while , in short , the finance of Europe is under that formidable cloud which is officially called ' consideration . ' We need scarcely point out the manner in which
this constriction will meet tis at every -turn . The Board of Works , for example , will be calling up money for the execution of the improvements in Southwark and Covent-garden—agreed upon this week with Sir Benjamin Hall ; even if the great drainage improvement should be delayed . The money , of * course , will be forthcoming for the street connecting all the bridges , and the street connecting Cdvent-garden with the Piccadilly line ; but even the small sum required for those purposes must be at the moment asked for in the market . We know how the rate-collector is
regarded when he visits the poor ratepayer ; every householder knows at the present day how the tradesmen are sending in their bills ; the tradesmen know too well how slowly come in the answers to those bills ; and they know how , if they want accommodation in the City , the Bank will give it only to the aristocracy of commerce at 7 pev cent ., and they can scarcely hope to get it any longer at 8 per cent . Every man is solvent , is perhaps flourishing , on his boohs ; but ' where the devil is the cash to come from ? ' And it is at this time that we have agents of the "Napoleonic Credit Mobilier threatening the market with a Russian invasion !
Let the reader glance at the two important truths established by the series of public events which we have already summed up , and he will perceive that they are , first , the complete appropriation of England ' s strength and resources by diplomatic gentlemen , who conduct affairs in association with gentlemen of their own class on the Continent ; and , secondly , the placing of the 6 nancc of Europe in the hands of a diplomacy of money—a small party of men wielding millions , who can easily combine together on the principle of Isaac Pkheiuk ' s ' socialism of capitals . '
We turn , then , to the public guardians of this country—our Members of Parliament—and ask what they arc doing to enforce the public interests . Wo have several of them making statements to > their constituents ; but not one which is enouncing any pi * inciple by which a control can be recovered for the Commons of this country over the
Executive of this coun try . Mr . Apsx / ey Pe , * J 4 A . t . t » n Southwark , and Mr . Geoiige IIadfiejud m ^ Sheffield , are reporting to their constitufinitisiVery praiseworthy diligence in promoting -nieftil legislation on certain points , but everywhcjtfc , there Js a disposition to leavo the management of national affairs , the disposal of national rcjiourcea , tho . U 6 e of national influence , in the hands of the abtcpt
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/1/
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