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2 ^ c ^~^ V / ' ' V VVV / V" -V ? A POLITICAL AND . LITERARY REVIEW .
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"Tke one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developinEC itself into greatei distinctness is the Idea of Humanity— -the noble . endeavour to throw down all tUe barrasrs erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to . -treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our ^ ^ spiritual nature . "—jBumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— Tpaoe Our Civilization .. ........ 3 t 3 G The Sign to Parliament 371 Tlie Mystery of Sliakspeare . 877 The General Election .... 362 Gatherings from tho Law and Po- How we Christian People Spent the Vineyards and Wine-cellars 378 The New Parliament ...... 303 lice Courts 368 Dayof .. Christian . Mourning ......... 372 History of the EnKlish Constitution 378 Birth of a Princess ...... 362 Naval and Military ... 308 Letheby and the City Lethe ... . 373 THE ARTSThe Anticipated Murrain ...: 362 Miscellaneous 369 Political Points— The Ballot 373 Tiio Onpr-i * < W » State of Trade ... 363 Postscript . ; .... 370 Conspiracy against Conspirators ... 374 . ™ p ^ iamlpf 7 wwnV- " rVv < UnTT > n " Explosions ........ 363 Our Princesses ... ; ...... 374 iJc JlauUel l < ebtival . Crystal Pa- . ¦ ¦ A ^ a ^ ' » and Su dden Deatlia " . ; ..,..,. 8 © . OPEN COUNCIL- History in 1 SS 7 ....... 374 T 1 £% oi ^ o Ch ^^ Vvd ^ :::: ^" . S 79 I ne orient 363 The Laws Relating to the Property literature— - . : SS ^^ 'r ^ ==:= ^ Sl \ - . I 1 R ?^^^ r ---- " " - Sun ^ T ......... 375 ThoGazctte .... 380 Continental Notes . 365 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Mrs . Gaskell ' s Life of Charlotte COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSQualifications Of Staff Officers ......... 366 The Prance of 1 'o-day .................. 371 Bronte .......................,.... ; ... 376 City Intelligence , Markets , & c ....... 380
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¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ . ? ¦ ¦ ' ¦ '' . . ' fTTHE anxiety which , has been felt for a week or -L two was allayed on Tuesday , by the birth of a little Princess—the ninth of the Royal children for which the British tax-payers will have to provide , the fifth of the Royal consorts destined to some German state . This is the most interesting official announcement of the week . The six . hundred and fifty-three newly-bom Members of Parliament can in no respect vie with the members of the Hoyal Household in political
importance , partly because the constituencies have ^ o arranged the matter , that , as soon as the Honourable Members have fulfilled their duty of " supporting Lord pALjsuiBSTOisr / ' they will completely neutralize each other for any useful purpose . Our daily contemporaries , indeed , have some of them attempted to classify the new House ; but everybody
feels that the classification is a vain attempt ; aud even those who make it explain away their oAni divisions . The constituencies have exactly fulfilled what the managers of the elections in London contemplated and intended : the Tory party has lost exactly as much as it was expected to lose ; the future Speaker is already elected ^ and the divisions arc prearranged .
Next to the Princess and the Members , horned cattle succeed in importance . The Board of Health has published a repoi-t by Dr . Gi < . jeenhow , intended to explain away the panic created by the proclamation . By the Order in Council , the Grown has . prohibited the admission of cattle from the Baltic ports ; Mr . Gamger having previously announced to the public that the disease affecting the cattle of Holstein and the north and cast of Europe , was a typhoid of a very contagious and deadly character . Dr . Geeenuow qualifies this statement . The disease which has been observed in the imported
cattle is " the lung disease ; " a species of pleuropueumonia which has been very frequent in our domestic cattle for fifteen or sixteen years , is but slightly contagious , and is not of very great importance . Dr . Gueenhow admits that there is a far more virulent and dangerous disease prevalent iu the east of Europe ; that the authorities of Poland , Prussia , and Austria , liavc established a strong cordon militaire for the purposo of excluding the diseased cattle ; but that by somo means the infected animals have been suffered to pass the cordon ; and it was the announcement of this fact
which occasioned the royal proclamation . Dr . GKEEifhow ' s explanatory report amounts to the assurance that the disease apprehended by Mr . GA . MGEE has not yet been imported , but that if the precaution had not been taken in time , it might , and most likely would , have been imported . The explanatory assurance , in fact , confirms the impression that there is a good deal of disease among the domestic meat ; and if the graziers and butchers have any regard for their own business , they will take prompt steps , by a reform of slaughterhouses and an increased efficiency of inspection , to assure the public that the tainted is separated from
the healthy meat . Another explanation on an official matter is not quite so intelligible or so reassuring . We are informed that if the Legislature of Newfoundland objects to the recently negotiated treaty between France . and England on the subject of the Newfoundland fisheries , the new treaty between France and England will be disallowed . France having claimed the exclusive right of fishing for a considerable space along the coast of 'Newfoundland , to the prej udice of the English colonists , who liavc
always combated the claim , our Government lias recently taken the extraordinary step of conceding the claim in a formal treaty . The people of Newfoundland arc furious ; they are supported by the people of Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and Canada ; and they are to be tranquillized by the explanation , that if the people of Newfoundland do not like the arrangement , their representatives can disallow it . This is a new method ol making treaties , by Her Majesty ' s Ministers , subject to the approval of a colonial legislature
Something further has to be explained , —on what grounds it was that Queen Vicxobia ' s Ministers thought it necessary to interfere ; why the French Government desired the concession at this particular moment ? "We can indeed guess one among other reasons . There is in France at the present day a very considerable deficiency of provisions , —that is one difficulty with which the working classes liavc to contend . The increased means of the upper
classes have contributed to draw , a larger share of supplies for those who are we ' ll to do , leaving for the working orders diminished supplies and very much enhanced prices . Now , although the treaty recognition of a fishery which 1 ms existed until the present day would make no real diA ' crcucc in the amount of fish furnished for French consumption on two days in the week and during Lent , it would give the moral assurance that such a supply would
remain miabatcd , while it would flatter the pride of France by the belief that the great Emperor , " their good Emperor" who " takes & o much care for thenwelfare , " had by his power and influence obtained a new guarantee for the possessions of the French Empire , for the comfort of the French people . It is announced that the representative of this
country at Madrid , Lord Howden , has been exerting himself , in conjunction with the French Minister to reconcile Spain and Mexico , with a hint that the efforts of the two European Powei's are counteracted by the United States , which supports Mexico . \ Ve have no information on the point , but we are strongly inclined to doubt whether the Government either of President Pieiice or President Buchanan
has lent the slightest support to Mexico in the matter . It must be a matter of indifference to the citizens of the "United States whether Spain enforces her claims upon Mexico or not ; but it will probably require more power than Spain can furnish to coerce Mexico ; and the implied attack upon the United States we suspect to mean tliat , under the pretext of protecting Spain against an American ally of the . Spanish llcpublic , France and England arc about to send a fleet to the " West Indies . It is
quite natural that if Spain goes to war , she should feel anxious on the subject of Cuba ; but the present Government of the Union has given no just cause for that anxiety . President Buchanan has declared as a fixed principle of his government that he will not sanction any annexation of territory to the Union , except by the voluntary request from the inhabitants of the territory annexed , or by peaceful and lawful purchase .
Another diplomatic announcement is that the good offices of HYancc have made some progress in reconciling Austria and Sardinia . Credat Baron HoTHsciiiT-i ) . Even if Austria should be brought over , diplomatically , to relinquish her bullying , she cannot bo reconciled with Sardinia ? She has shown her teeth ; she has confessed that she intended mischief , if she dared ; and under those circumstances there is only one preliminary which would justify the Government at Turin in laying aside its armed position ; it would be the actual dismantling
of the forts on the Lombardo-Venetian fnmticij and the recal of a largo portion of the ^ lrt ^ r ^^ N ,. , _ . army from the Lombardo-Venetian TGyrWl ^^^^ i ^ AN - % protected Italian States . Tho EmpcrofeiSil ^ K'fi ^ -h attempts to win a low popularity in MilSf olnlvjeftTOr * ( 'I ™ rr > can have no effect in restoring coui ^ n % ^^&^ i ^^ ^ Italians . But while Sardinia is menaced ^ B ^^^^^ S fe continue her preparations againat uttac ^ n $ 2 . WBp 3 ^ 1 ^ 13 & ^^ i ^^ yS
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/1/
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