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A POLITICAL AM) LITERARY REVIEW.
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THE news of the present week certainly does not improve the position of bur Government We cannot say of it , Nihil tetigit . The events which come before us are a painful commentary on the universal meddling and muddling . The Swiss settlement , which now seems to be settled , is arranged apparently much as our Government intended , hut not by our Government . The arbitration las slipped out of our hands . The termsthe quasi-simultaneous surrender of the prisoners by Switzerland , the abandonment of King
Fbedekick William ' s feudal lordship of the Cantonare what Switzerland suggested some time back , and what our Government supported ; while France rejected the proposal , as likely to be not accepted by Prussia . It dropped . It is now revived as an original suggestion by Trance , and accepted all round ; thus our illustrious ally appears as the dictator and arbiter , England sinking to a second place . How much this is like the position into which England consented to be driven in the Crimea , where we did tlie work , and France marched in the van to take the glory .
Naples and Piedmont arc contrasted commentaries on our intervention on behalf of Italy . With Naples we ' remonstrated , ' and threatened actual interference : what is the effect P King Ferdinand cannot safely walk the streets , board his own war-ships , or go to the theatre . The war-ship almost explodes under his feet—he has scarcely left it heforc it docs so ; his powder magazine is rattled
about his ears ; one of his own soldiers raises the bayonet against him ; it is only a system of espionnagc that makes him feel sale in his army . Governed by a King Log , who oppresses without guiding them , the Neapolitans suffer , and run away ; not because they arc the cowards they arc said to be , but simply because they have no guidance in the course to take . That is where we have interfered .
Piedmont asked us to support her in tlie Congress of Europe ; we listened to her , and ( diked for her , and there it ended . But , ns King Victok Emmanuel tells his subjects , "Ihe question of Italy has been brought , before a European Congress by an Italian Power . " His constitutional rule prospers . He has conferred a free press on Italy ; he is carrying out reforms , and tlie thriving of the Sub-Alpine kingdom ia an example which the other Italian provinces will not fail to emulate sooner or
later , especially if Cavotjb should be able to carry out that course of free-trade which is expected from Mm . But what have we done to help them ? Turn to the more distant part of the world—Canton . Our Hong Kong authorities have suffered themselves to be entangled in small questions about boat licenses , when the broad question of free intercourse with the Chinese millions was the one object which they should have kept in view . They are now claiming direct intercourse with the supreme authorities at Canton , as a treaty-right—the
treatyright , having slumbered for thirteen or fourteen years . By a lucky chance , it is reported , three Americans liave had their heads cut off in mistake for three Englishmen . The mistake was slight . No doubt if the men had been Englishmen , they would have suffered quite as much in the process ; and the men who slaughtered them obtained exactly the same price for the Anglo-Saxons that they would have obtained if they had been Englishmen ; but
the mistake has had the effect of rousing Yankee indignation to take its place alongside of English indignation ; and England and America are thus allied to break through the barriers which keep them out of the Chinese Empire . The fact that the Americans have been beaten off in the attempt to revenge another and more wanton attack , will but arouse their indignation to a higher pitch : it is a fact most fatal for China .
The East India and China Association of London makes hay while tlie sun shines , coming foi-th with propositions for a greatly extended enterprise in China . Direct intercourse with the authorities of Canton is not enough for them ; they must have also direct intcrcotirse , through an ambassador , Avitli the Imperial Government at Pckin ; more ports opened , besides the five already allowed ; freedom of trade for the Chinese at Hong Kong , and access 1 o the great navigable rivers . And Lord Pat /
mekston's Foreign Secretary appears , by the answer through Mr . Hammond , ready enough to take up these advanced principle ; - ; . The Americans have already heen observing that the Russians are heforc ns in Pckin and Chusan ; and it is quite possible that these two members of the Anglo-Saxon race , who were not long since placed in hostility to each other by our oflicial quibbling , may now be moving aide by side against our recent enemy Russia in the region of China .
A formidable word has been boldly put forward l ) y the Times . It is avowed that there is a great dciii of distress in the country , notwithstanding the * prosperity . ' The fact is obvious . "We leave
political economists to explain how it can be—politicians to reconcile it with reasonable government . The Unemployed working-men of London have met to form a " National Association of the Unemployed . " What an institution to exist in a civilized country , in the midst of / prosperity ! ' Great merchants , great speculators , great contractors , even farmers , are making fortunes , while 26 , 000 of the building trade , in London alone , are out of work . The working men do not meddle with political or economical theories ; they take the bull by the horns in a fashion thoroughly English and
likely to be effectual . Not that we expect employment to be provided for them on the waste lands , — that would be too like a theoretically correct procedure for our Government . But when the leaders of the working men tell them to go to the Poor-law for present relief—to take the loaf which is given , and go back for another when it is eaten—they do seize hold of-tlie lever winch we have long since pointed out as the one which is offered for the use of the working man—a proper use of the Poor-law by the governed as well as the governors . The meeting shows that the working classes arc beginning to move .
The Income-tax movement also goes on iavourably . Sir John Pakington ' s declaration amongst his own constituents shows that leading men in the Opposition sec the policy of connecting themselves with the movement ; and the persons associated "for promoting the interests of trade" in London testify to the interest which the middle class take in the matter . There ia to be a great metropolitan meeting- on Wednesday . The public meeting of the manufacturers in . the boot and shoe trade at Northampton is another illustration of our ' prosperity . ' Prices arc rising in the markets of the world , and hence the raw material of boots and shoes becomes dearer and dearer . This dearth has been increased by the reckless destruction of beasts in Brazil , by the war with Russia , by the diversion of industry from cattle-breeding to gold-digging in A \ istralia , and by some other causes . But there is a diiliculty in raising the prices of the trade correspondently with the prices of the raw material . The : intense competition , which sots one trader against another . ! has . taught the public to expect its booty uud ^ hoe ' s . "« it , , / ... only" some round sum ; and if bool make * 9 , cannot , ; , " / »•; ¦ provide Wellingtons for that price ^ 'omjjcathpr " , ; Ti , y , probably they will learn to do so \\\ i ^ spniC | latliep ,.. ' -1 | T nmtcrial , say paper ; for that is thewwyjol' £ ^ . * ji ^< $ j ., . " . ) £ under competition . y ' 'V' ' ¦ ' ]' : & ^ ¦ ' .. ' . '¦ i ' lV V , . ¦ ' . ''•• Q , _ j
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17011857/page/1/
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