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' ' ¦ ' ¦ " LITERATURE- ~ ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- INDIA AND INDIANPROGRESSREVIEW OF THE WEEK- LITERATURE . France ...... 372 One Step Backwards .. 375 home intelligence . PA £ f . Literary Chronicle of the \ V eefc 363 Notes on Indian Progress 370 Imperial Parliament ....... - ^ J" Horace Walpole .. ...... 304 FINE ARTS— Latest Indian Intelligence .. 37 G Gatherings from Law and Police ¦ _ Sir William Hamilton ' s Lectiires . 304 Holland House .. 372 * ' rHm ^ KecoVd' * " ::::::. ' . ' . " . '"' ^ FaXtndKrXT "" If THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- COMMERCIALSclents ' : . ^ .::::::.--...---- ^ Post ^ r ? p d ?^ .. \ -:::::::::::::: 307 Covent Garden ........ 3 3 The Accumulation and Value of Siand Miiiiary :::::::::::::: - s » KS ° ^! : ; :::::::::::: & l gS ^^^ 0 ^ :::::::::::: ¦ % & pS & ffJffiSy .:.. --lg PUBLIC AFFAIRS- fo ^ a ? Sodation ! 373 Money ^ arkf . 378 The Neapolitan Exiles 359 Companions ' 369 Lyceum ......... . - >; :- . fit ' wS £ l ? ColonialfandFor ' tYa-u Pro ' foreign intelligence . The Battle of the Bill 309 Mr . Mason Jones' Orations ...... 3 , 4 Home , Colonial and lore igul rp-^ SS ^ SSSS :::::::::::::: 85 . SSSS ^ S ^^ sa ^ :::::: ™ i *^^ . *^*^ .. ** . «^ »* j ^ rsfcarc ^ r ^ Miscellaneous 36 > Street View of Italy-No . 2 372 I National Lifeboat Association 4 A . panics *> u
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M INISTERS have not much altered their position during the week , and their fate still hangs in the balance , Numerous rumours are in circulation as to the course they will pursue . . Early in the week it was rumoured that , at the Cabinet Council of Saturday last , there was a discussion as to the withdrawal of the Reform Bill ; but
on Thursday evening we had Mr . Ihsraeli promising to produce his amendment of the obnoxious county voters' clause ^ and stating generally that , in the event of the bill reaching the Committee state , Government will think itself entitled to go in for a thorough redbctoring of its measure . " When the Reform Bill is in Committee , " he said , " I have no doubt there is scarcely a member of this House who will not propose an amendment , and I have no doubt that many of these amendments will be favourably received by this House ,
and I hope that the hon . gentlemen will not grudge the same privilege to her Majesty ' s Government . " The drift of this speech would appeal * to indicate that the precedent of the India Government Bill is to be followed ; but such a proceeding is not likely to gain by repetition . In the event of a breakdown , dissolution is understood to form the dernier ressort of the ministerial Reform programme . With what hope of gain Ministers can go before the country , in the face of the late public meetings , it . is difficult to conceive . But the fact is not the lees
certain , that' retainers have already been given to some of the loading Conservative parliamentary agents j who are preparing fox sudden action . The feeling of the country is every day gaining strength against the present measure ; and . there is not the shadow of a doubt that , even if Lord John Russell ' s amendment were to have the effect of overthrowing the Ministry , and 60 of doing away with their bill , their successors must be prepared to naoke a very much larger concession to the popular demands than any which has yet been offered by the leaders of the " Reform party . "
The results of the struggle over the churchrates question show plainly the powerlossness of the present Government . A week ago , a majority qf 254 against 171 tlu'ew out the Government wieosure so desperately fought for by Mr . Walpolo . On Tuesday morning , at the special sitting of the House , Sir John Trolawny earned the second
" a part of Germany , " he says , " springs from reflections unjust and painful to France . " Therefore , the Emperor does not hold the whole of Germany responsible for these manifestations . Germany , he says , has nothing to fear from France . " Part of Germany " proceeds with its arming and day by day builds up new positions of defence and offence on the Kedrnontese frontier . In the middle of the week a telegraphic communication came from Paris , stating that the Sardinian
GovexTiment had formally demanded of France the assistance of a , complete corjps d ' armee , 75 , 000 men . This statement , however , has not received official confirmation . Letters from Northern Italy are ' filled with details of / the Austrian war-preparations , and of the enthusiasm with which Italian volunteers ai'e nocking to join the Sardinian standard . One of the latest facts reported is that the Austrians have mined the Bridge , of Buffalora , over the TicinOj ready to blow it up whenever it shall be necessary to check the advance of the Piedmontese troops .
In the meantime , the results of Lord Cowley ' s mission to " Vienna are the subject" of anxious debate . A report was current , yesterday , that so far from Ms journey having been fruitless , he Lad . re ^ turned from Vienna empowered to make such concessions as would remove all impediments iu the way of a peaqeful settlement of the Austrian differences with France . If such i . s l'cally the case , the truth is too important to admit 61 * . its being long kept secret . While this state of doubt remains with regard to the Governments immediately concerned in the present state pf complication , the other great of
European Powers are deciding upon the Hue policy they intend to follow . Russia , which had taken no direct share in the dispute , has , it is reported , communicated with the Prussian Government the views of the Government of St . Petersburg . The Emperor of Russia is strongly in favour of the preservation of peace , on the basis of the treaties of 1815 , and is ready to join with Prussia and Great Britain in then- cn'dcavourn to arrange present difficulties in central Europe ; he is also strongly of opinion that Austria ' s special Italian treaties ought to bo revised . The -weight of Russia ' s mediation thrown into the peace scale
narrow majority of five . There is a strong feeling in favoiu * of the more manageable scheme of Lord John Russell ; and the Attorney-General could only ask that , after the second reading , on Wednesday last , Lord John ' s Bill should not be considered in Committee until that day fortnight , by which time the Lord Chancellor ' s bill would have come before the Lower Plouse . . The Solicitor-General ' s bill , to facilitate the transfer of land , has been in Committee ; and its supporters have had to clo battle against opponents representing all those who dread change of any sort . The well-known success of the Irish
Encumbered Estates Court goes for nothing with men who think with Mr . Bowyer , whose strongest objection to the present measure is , that the Courts it proposes to establish are " utterly unknown to the jurisprudence of this country . " It is quite true that the pi'esent bill may not be all that it might be , but it is equally true that some such bill is wanted , and that , as Mr , Walpole remarked , " its advantages overpower any inconvenience that may arise from its operation . " If ingenuity could " save the present Ministry ^ would , no doubt , feel itself secure . One of the latest evidences of their possession of this
faculty , has been given during the week by Lord Derby , who has asked to have the Ionian affairs kept dark , forthe odd reason that they are in such a very bad state . Lord Grey had made some movement towards opening up the subject , when Lord Derby wrote him a private note , begging liim not to bring on a public discussion . It would involve the necessity of producing a great number of documents , which " would revive the recollection of facts and occurrences which would be better bxiricd in oblivion , and which would reflect censure upon "persons not now in a position
to answer in their defence . " Lord Grey very reasonably dissented from the conclusion arrived at b y Lord Derby , but did not feel inclined to take upon himself the responsibility of bringing on a discussion "which might be attended with such sinister consequences as those which were foretold by Lord Derby . The Ionian case appears from this to bo in a "very pretty condition 5 too bad to be meddled -with . The country , it is to be imagined , will be curious , not to say anxious , to know what is to be the upshot of the whole affair . Mr . Gladstone is silent , and agrees that it would make bad worse to talk about the matter ; From the outward signs , it is plain that affairs are ' not mending in Ionia . Sir Henry Stoi'ks has given
at the present moment would ; no doubt , have an important influence on the course of events ; but the report needs official confirmation . Public interest in the Neapolitan exiles has been largely exhibited tliroughout the week . Sumo of the party have reached London in advance of their compatriots , and these have received tho most marked attention from men of nil stations in society . Lord Shoftesbury and Mr . Gladstone woro among the earliest to wait upon tlio exiles at thoiv been
hotel . Circumstantial accounts have given of the means by which the destination of tho baud was changed from Now York to Qucenstown , Cork 5 the whole of their ¦ proceedings arc such as to command rospeot and admiration . Young-Sottombrini stands out ns tho hero of tho adventure ; and with tlio modesty of real heroism disclaims tho sinallosb praise . There is little doubt but that , when tlio whole party are assembled in London , bojmu { rrcat public demonstration will marlt the British estimation of those brave men , and of the cause for which . they have moat nobly 0 uflfera < JL .
two Jomans a strong taste pf his quality ; he has prorogued their Parliament for six months . Meanwhile , we learn that he has authorised the formation of a mixed commission to draw up a list of the reforms demanded by the Ionian people . Doubt still hangs over the question of peaoe or war , dodbts not at all disturbed by the pacific periods of the Imperial writer in tho Moniteur . According to this writer , France has had no other idea than to find a peaceful solution of the Italian difficulties , "It is impossible , " he says , "to show a more sincere desire to unravel poaoeably tho existing difficulties , and to prevent further com * plications , which are always the result of want of forethought and decision . " The mistrust of
reading of his total abolition bill by the' decisive majority of 242 against 168 . And the same results must take place in oyovy case . where the Government is unaided by tho tolerant assistance of the opposite benches . With regard to tho Lord Chancellor ' s Insolvency Bill there we already signs of danger . On Thursday evening tho tliird reading was carried in the House of Lords by the
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19031859/page/3/
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