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'' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humaruty ^ -the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers 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 brotb . erb . ood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . ' _
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M « rw < i rtP tue wfpic- paob Health of London during the The Non-commissioned Officer THE ARTSNEWS OF THE WEEK- * a ° = Week 7 . 465 in the Mess-room 470 The Royal Academy Exhibition 475 Imperial Parliament 458 Our Civilisation 465 "The Stranger" in Parliament ... 470 The Opera . ' ..... 476 The SebastopolCommittee 461 Miscellaneous 466 _„_ ,., - » - » ,, « , ^ n The Theatres of Paris 476 The War ... 462 Postscript 466 OPEN COUNCIL- Olympic Theatre 476 Fall of a Shot and Shell Foundry " The Leader" on Mr . Silk Buck- inSouthwark 463 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ingham ' s Autobiography 471 The Presentation of the Crimean ^ w , «* LITERATURE- Births , Marriages , and Deaths . „ 477 Medals 464 Neither Peace nor War 467 LITERATURE . SSSSSSfflJ-Ks ;" . — : 2 » Sg & grKgate :::::::::::::::::: iS wJE . irtH . i a * \ . » . ra « m .. t ., *> ** - #
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T 7 IXHIBITIONS lead the world just now ; the ITf French Government and our own vieing with Vesuvius and Mr . Chaeles Kean in splendours . The opening of the Paris Exhibition , however , has been a collapse . Cold and gloomy weather , fog and mud , chaos within the building , disaffection and indifference without : the Emperor pale as fate , slouching , haggard , and sombre , as if the ghost of Pianori were dogging him still . The very bees of his embroidered ( throne begin to
sting . Only his Empress was radiant with smiles and courtesies , but , it is whispered , a little overdressed , like a dynasty ppstiche . In the midst of all that brilliant vaUtdille there was a darkness that could be felt . The Emperor took his seat of state in a magnificent position , provided for him amongst the lumber and imperfect stores of the half-finished building ; the whole scene typifying very , well the mise en scene of Imperial France . The French are apt to be unpunctual : the carpenters had not swept away their sawdust , the
exhibitors had not unpacked all their cases , and the Emperor was twenty minutes behind time . This dereliction of Imperial duty was exactly noticed by the business-like English reporters , who remember that our clocks refuse to strike until Queen Victoria has taken her station , well knowing that they must be wrong if she is not yet at her post . There wore other things forgotten at the Paris Exhibition—such as gaiety
or spirit—indigenous to France , but at a premium just now : Item , the sunshine , which had not been procured for the occasion : Item , truth and verisimilitude : tho pinchbeck Cassa it proclaimed the warehouse to be the Temple of Concord , as if he desired to burlesque " tho situation ; " and he mado significant allusions to his " denr cousin , " the son of Jisromh—who condescends just at present to hide hia likeness to tho first JTa . voi-. kon
m an impenetrable board , though he has not the decency to conceal hia dislike of tho mun but for whom he would be nothing but a farceur , and anything but an Altesse . The fact is , that tho French capital is not just now in a condition for festivities . Tho Government has put forward a new improvement in the regulation of bread , which tells us much . When tho season of difficulty approached , Government fixed tho price of bread for tho public , and mado the municipality pay the difference between the fixed
price and the real cost . The law was praised as a grand tribute from the well-to-do class , who could pay the tax , to the poor and the people . The people had their " panem" in ; those days without the " Circenses ; " but unlike Imperial Rome , Paris cannot have both together . Your Caesar now vouchsafes the Circenses in the Exposition , but the " panis" is withdrawn . The law regulating the bread-price is repealed , and the loaf is left to " the higgling of the market' ?—
a reseryafcion being made for the poor , who are to :- be provided with bread-tickets as in 1847 . The plebs , therefore , is cut off the reduced breadrlist , which is only retained for the paupers . The Government journals , of course , are delighted at the wisdoni of the new law ; just as they were delighted at the wisdom of the repealed law . Czesar shows his face to France , and everybody is charmed at its wisdom and beauty . ( Lesar turns his back , and the journalists are more charmed .
The resignation of M . Drouyn de Lhuys has been followed up by two others of unequal importance . General Canrobebt has made way for General Pelissier . We have already explained that General Canrobeut was a man of merit in his profession , but of mediocre abilities ; and that lie was constantly assisted by Bosquet , whose republican antecedents lay under Imperial disgrace , and who had obtained service in the East only through the intercession of his friend . Cankohert ' s health has given way under tho trials of his position ; his fussy nature has worn down under that constant canterinjr about
the place with which ho endeavoured to supply the waut of real mastery . The repute of Pjujjissiur is tarnished by the cruel incident of tho Dahra , but ho knows how to strike an enemy , and how to make his own soldiers confide in him . Still more important is the resignation of Count NKSsur-aooK , tho Chief Minister of Russia ; and wo cannot dissever it from that of the lato French Minister . Tho two inon belong to an order which has , indeed , acted against tho public feeling of this country and against tho military interests of tho Weatern Powers . Some time since we
oxplaineri , wo behove with tolerable accuracy , how tho tendency of tho diplomatic profession is to constitute its most distinguished members into a species of guild ; how , when they meet in conference , those leading diplomatists feel that they , more than their own Governments separately , are ruling tho world ; and many , deriving power
from their corporate action , have acquired a species of allegiance to the guild of diplomacy which influences them in some cases more -than their allegiance to their own sovereign or to their country . We have little doubt that the professional diplomatists at Vienna would have been glad to settle the world in their own way , and that Nrssblrode not less than Drouyn dk Lhuys is angry at the wrong-headed obstinacy which prefers the authority of the sword to that of the guild .
Pianori has died bravely ; Louis Napoleon lives ; so does Cantiixon . The French official journals and their English compeers are in ecstasies of sycophancy . At present there is no more to be said than that Pianori and his country had received deep wrongs , and that the " dastardly assassin" faced certain death to avenge them . Our exhibition for the week has been the royal distribution of rewards to the soldiers returned from the Crimea in the Horse Guards Parade .
Her Gracious Majesty , in the presence of Lords and Commons , Officers of State , and " distinguished persons '—tho public being kept at a respectful distance—gave to the wounded veterans and returned soldiord the medal which is to distinguish them . This is an improvement upon " recent legislation" in" that behalf . Until now the gift of a commission to an occasional sergeant was the highest reward for the men enlisted in the ranks ; the commission being to him somewhat like the elephant-gift to the poor man in
Indiathe bounty which ruins him m the cost that it entails through the customs of a commission-purchasing mess . Before now the soldiers were only " inspected" by royalty , and allowed to have a dinner in the servants' hall ; or on occasions ot great bravery , a 5 J .-note was given to the British hero , as a landlord will give * 51 . and a dinner to his gamekeeper who knocks a poacher on tho head in plucky style . The soldiers' battles of the East , and the public opinion of the country , are teachin" ; manners to royalty .
But medals arc not the only reward . Death is given to . some hard-working men in the East . Captain CimidTiK , the Ilarbour-inast ^ ajU ^ nlaklavn , has been killed by tho censui ^ t ft cctUJ ^ N latodupon him . Ho is one of £ thfr ' J ^ gWvO thrown over by tho Government , ftQ ptppitia ^ irti ^ i . angry public . When it was fou ^ d ;^ h > t ' t ^< S ;*) i ^[| ohincry would not work in tho Ea ^ ty ^^ -vi t ^ ft ^^^ indignation of the country rose against ^ , j ^^^ petont Government , it was necesaa ^ 'to ^( t ^ aT ^ p 34 j ;
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Leader (1850-1860), May 19, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19051855/page/1/
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