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A POLITICAL ATO LITERARY REVIEW.
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A Political Ato Literary Review.
A POLITICAL ATO LITERARY REVIEW .
- "The One Idea Which History Exhibits A...
- "The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the nu ' jle endeavour to throw cLown all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-3 idedviews ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great obj « ct—the free development of our 3 pintualnatuie . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- paoe Gafcheringsfrom the I * awand Po- Signs and Warnings in Franco ...... 891 NcwNovds ; 5 VJ Imperial Parliament .............. 578 lice Courts .... 586 Spiritual Lorettes in Belgravia ...... 591 Publications and Itepublicfctions ... 697 The Indian Revolt ..... 531 . Accidents and Sudden Deaths 587 The Thames Pestilence ... 591 letters from China .. 583 Obituary 587 The Press Prosecutions ...... 593 THE ARTSTheOrient 584 Mercantile Marine .. 688 Sanitary Conditionof the Army ... 592 „ ™ ,.- . ' : V ,,. ¦ . " ¦ ... . The Queen ' s " Progress" .................. 5 S 4 Naval and Military . " The Merchant of Venice" at the ^ Ireland . 535 Miscellaneous 588 ¦ LITERATURE- ' Princess's Theatre .............. . 697 America 585 Postscript .. 589 Summary 59 * TueOperas 697 Continental Notes .. ..... 535 public affairs- legends and Lyrics .... ... 594 rftMMrifriAi « PPAIR < . State of Trade ....... .. 586 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Mr ! "Wilcoff and LordPalmorston ... 595 COMMERCIAL AFTAIRSCentral Criminal Court 586 Settlement of the American Diffi- Alexander the First 596 TheGaaette ...... ^ ...... ............. B 97 Criminal Record . „ 586 culty .. 590 "Williaun the Conqueror ................ 598 City Intelligence , Markets . & c .... 597
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THE present Session of Parliament may not afford quite as much fun as a pantomime , but it exhibits eveii more changes and transformations , if we may use such a figure of speech so soon after our late experience of Indian summer heat . 3 Trojn February to the present time the grand question before Parliament and the ; country has been the government of India . Long nights of talk appeared to bring the difficult matter no nearer to settlement . The House of Commons had determined to legislate / but in -what way ? The discussion of the resolutions was to settle all the principles upon which the new government of India was to be founded . Kesolutions one , two , three , four , and five had been conscientiously examined from all points of view , when , on Thursday , hold ! enough ! —at the sixth , Ministers and the House agreed to have done with the resolutionsj and to carry on the further discussion of principles in Bill No . 3 ; which was thereupon at once produced , ready cut and dried , and amid a good deal of laughter read a first time , and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday next ! But such a sudden change of plan could not have taken place without some very good reason . The reason appears to have been this . The House having pledged itself to the principle of a composite Council , partly nominated and partly elected , be-. came aware , on the production of the sixth resolution , of the enormous difficulty it would have to deal " with in settling the mode by which the elected portion of the Council was to be provided ; a load of questions-was found to hinge upon this onethe patronage , management of the Army , Secret Committee , salaries of the Councillors j in fact , the very heart of the subject was found to be enclosed iu the sixth resolution , and the House had not courage to probe it , with the prospect of having to perform the operation all over again . To a certain extent , indeed , it was settled that eight of the Council should be nominated by tiio Crown , seven elected at first by the present East India Directors out of their own body , and subsequently by the whole of the Council itself . We sec how much of reality there is iu this plan of " electing" the smaller half of the Council ! The remaining resolutions were set aside , and the Houso once more commences the labour of ' Indian legislation with BilJ . No . 3 . ~ A petition from St . Mary ' s , Jamaica , presented . .
to the House of lords on Thursday evening by the Bishop of Oxford , has opened out the question of the Slave Trade protectorate exercised by this country . The Jamaica petition complains that Spain violates the treaties under which she has bound herself to suppress the Slave Trade carried on through Cuba , and calls upon the English Government to compel Spain to fulfil the terms of her engagements ; and the Bishop of Oxford , -while urging the prayer * of the petition , used the strongest terms of reprobation against the conduct of Spain . It is plain that the subject of tie Slave Trade generally now stands for settlement . England is left alone in her defence of the Negro , and has to decide whether slie can claim to enforce her views of right upon other nations . But tlie language of the Bishop of Oxford , directed as it is against a weak State like Spain , is not of a kind to help in attaining either a just or reasonable settlement of the difficult question . It is not with Spain that the settlement of the question lies , and it is little short ¦' of cowardice to talk of coercing her to fulfil tbe terms of useless treaties , at the very moment , when we are using conciliatory lauguage to America , and expressing simply " regrets " at the prosecution of the French scheme of " free emigration "—which latter transaction Lord Guey , in this very debate on the Jamaica petition , described as gigantic slave trading . " It was remarked that the galleries on Thursday evening were filled with beautiful women , whose tender emotions were freely expressed during the discussion ; but the tcai-s of soft-hearted women will no longer serve for arguments in this question . Moreover , it is not clear that the sympathy of our English women , which has been so warm in behalf of the Negro , has been of any great service to him . Protection has exposed him to sufferings from which , in all probability , he would have been more secure in au unprotected state . In spite of the forebodings of lord Grey , the point of the bit-by-bit reform-wedge has been driven home : tbc Property Qualification Bill has passed the Lords , and only wants her Majesty ' s signature to make it law . English Members of Parliament may now take their seats without having to undergo the mortification of procuring—or of accepting—a qualification which had nothing to do with their fitness to represent their countrymen in Parliament . With the addition of Lord Brougham ' s promised measure to make members liable , under proper checks and cautions , to arrest for debt , every needful security will be given to
Parliament and to the constituencies for the respectability and independence of members . The next blow on the wedge will perhaps drive home the Counties [ Franchise Bill , which stands at the third reading-in the Lords . The House of Lords has been very active during the week , and has dealt with several important subjects ; one of these was the organization of the permanent staff of militia regiments . The statements of the noble Lords and Dukes who took part in the discussion on this subject , on Monday evening , made it appear that , both as regards the officers and men , the present militia system was a very costly and inefBcient means of recruiting the army , and nothing more . Enough was stated and admitted to show that if the militia is to be kept as a means of national defence , it must be placed under an entirely new system . Ministers have , already issued a commission on the subject ; and thesugge stions of the Peers—of the Duke of Newcastle especially—will probably help to expand the inquiring view of the commissioners . The TJndcr-Secretary of State ' s answer to Mr . Deasy , on Tuesday night , defines our position in the matter of the Cagliari . "We had sent to the King of Naples a note requiring a categorical answer , for indemnity to . engineers and the restoration of the ship arid crew . Sardinia was at the same timo to have presented a similar note , but it chanced that the Sardinian note was delayed for some days , and the King of Naples had banded over the ship and " crew to the British authorities before the Sardinian note was ready for prcsentatioJi . So far we have our own way , even if , as the irascible father in Paul Pry says , " we haven't our own way of having it , " and the Sardinian , representative at our court has expressed himself well satisfied . And it must be frankly admitted that Lord Malmesbury 1 ms brought the affair to this satisfactory conclusion i a way that is highly honourable to himself and to his Government . The terms of the note were such as a high gentleman conscious of being in the light , and of having the power to enforce it , would address to another gentleman of whom he had to make an imperative demand ; firm to the last degree , tempcrateness and politeness goierncd every phrase employed . The Queen ' s visit to Birmingham has passed off like a summer dream—that is , quite a ^ 5 » 3 ^^ 1 yv Any doubts—if indeed there were qmy >^ 'il »; Hg ^ jAy reception she would meet witl ^ -bM MfSSi ^ crnts of the midland capital ha ^ fiW & # ft santly disposed of ; Her M \ jjb ^ 5 | wm jWm ^ itd w w ^^ WM kJ v /^ r- ' ^ C- 'ki J ^ t ^^^ y
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061858/page/1/
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