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" Th . e one Idea ¦ which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the noble \ endeavour to throw down all the barrvara erected between meaby prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race aa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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rfv / iew OF THE WEEK- rAfle Postscript 683 OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTS- ~" REVIEW OF THE WEEK »*• " ¦ = N ti , Association of United Bistori in Comedy 692 Imperial Parliament 674 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Trades iUsoclatlon Ol United Mr . Robson ' s " irfedea" 692 America 678 * ; ™" ° "''" Her Majesty ' s Theatre 692 Continental Notes 678 Diplomacy and its Accomplices 683 LITERATURE— The Amateurs at Drury Lane - 692 * TheOrient 679 Italian Politics 684 Summary 688 ' Our Civilization 680 The Allegory of Apsley Guise 684 Southey and Water 688 Stateof Trade 681 Spanish . Politics 685 The American Expedition to Japan 689 The Gazette 693 Ireland 681 Federal Union of Trades 685 Heine ' s Book of Songs 690 .. „_„„ . . .-,- « . r , ^ Naval and Military 682 Half-pay Bishops 686 A Tragic Story 691 COMMtRCIAL AFFAIRSMiscellaneous 632 The Ituins of Parliament House ... 6 S 7 New Editions 691 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 693
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AS extremely old persons sometimes astonish the world by cutting teetb , so the session exhibits a wonderful number of new bills just towards its close ; the new bills being all of rather a strange order , as if the ruling power were not exactly conscious of its own purpose . Tt every day gets more plain that for some reason or other the Government does not intend to carry out tie principles which it was supposed to embody , or tli & t it has some intestinal difficulties which it
cannot surmount ; while it is not prepared to come to a clear understanding with the nation . Hence it compromises its largest duties , and endeavours to supply the deficiency by make-shifts . Ministers were called upon on Monday , in both Houses , for explanations respecting the course t akea in Italy . Lord IiXNDHUBST—certainly not a revolutionary man—laid before the House of Lords one of liis
lucid statements of the actual condition of the peninsula , with which indeed our readers are already well acquainted . Lord Joiijj Russell Bomewhat differently modified the story , going back to the past , and showing how this country has repeatedly come forward in apparent support of Italians , and has afterwards * by a sudden and unexpected abandonment of the cause , leit the Italians to be more easily conquered by despotical Austria or treacherous Naples than they would have been if we had never
proffered our help . A constitution is still the law of the land in Naples ; yet we , who hold ourselves pledged to fulfil our compacts with crowned persons , have connived at the royal embezzlement of the rights of the people . We are lukewarm in the support of the King of Sardinia , who has regenerated a portion of Northern Italy , because he takes the populni-side , while we are more than liberal in construing our obligations with Austria , for no other reason that we can perceive , except that Austria has been the most successful of n . 11
powers in stealing the rights of the people nnd in keeping up a great armed oppression . Lord John Russbli . showed how , at the Conference in Paris , Lord Cx ^ ahknjdon had displayed an apparently cordial satisfaction with the plan of constitutional reform in Italy proposed by Massimo d'Azeouo , and laid before the Conference by Count Cavoub . Ho showed how Lord Cr . Abendon had specifically spokon of secularizing the Roman Legations and " demandin g an amnesty "
from Naples ; and how there had been no results And he asked Ministers whether they intended now to abandon any further interference , or to persevere ? The reply amounted to much the same in both Houses ; it is this : Ministers have made " friendly representations" which Naples has answered t ^ y dilatory pleas , implying very little respect for the representations ; but it is hoped that the advice of Austria may do something ! The Pope of Rome has been somewhat more
favourable in his answers . And if Sardinia should be attacked , without giving any provocation , then Ministers will feel bound to support her . One thing , however , is perfectly plain—that when men like Lord John Russell , or ordinary Englishmen , talk about the rights of the people , and the faith of compacts with the people , they mean things much more substantial and binding than are meant by the same words when they are used in the mouth of a Kinnr of Naples or an
Emperor of Austria : now it does appear that Lord Palmerston ' s Government stands somewhere between these two sides , and that , upon the whole , our relations with France and Austria are much closer than those with Sardinia or the Italian people . Lord John moved for papers , and asked for an explanation . He had so much of reply as we have said ; and the motion for papers was negatived without a division . If he had pleased , he might have pressed the subject ; we believe that he roisht have carried it against
Government ; but he defaulted . It is difficult to find in the House of Commons , in the present day , a man who does not falter . In the meanwhile it appears that Sardinia is proceeding independently . The fortification of Alessandria is continued , in consequence of the menacing accumulation of troops on the Lombardo-Venetian border , and in Piaiccnza , which , in failure of the line of Parma , would revert to Sardinia . A new loan is to be levied for the cost . The reports of an Austrian withdrawal from
I nrrna were premature , perhaps false . De Cren-NEVH . L . K still remains , and dictates . And we believe that Lord Claiikndon ' s assertion , that Austria is diminishing- her troops in tlie Legations , ia baseless , save that there may have been some slight movement of troops for the present purpose of increasing tho guard on the Sardinian border . We have already explained how Austria dimi nishca her troops . Among tho measures which Iiavo been introduced at the cjose of tho sepsion is oao for making
a great inroad in the constitution of the Church . It is a measure , the principle of which we believe to be perfectly sound , and quite necessary if the Church of England is to be maintained in an efficient condition . Its purpose is to promote the retirement of Bishops whom age has rendered incapable of the performance of their duties , and to give those Bishops a retiring pension . Now , we say nothing for the moment as to the amount of the pension , save that it is as much a fallacy in a nation as in an individual when it doles out a mean
allowance . If the Bishops at the end of their life are to receive only a third of the salaries they enjoy—presuming that a major part of their allowance must be spent in state—it is still , we think , not a larger proportion than should be allowed to any retired servant . The bill , however , is limited to two cases—those of the Bishops of London and Durham ; and the valid charge
against Ministers is , that unquestionably they propose an immense alteration in the theoretical tenure of the Bishop's office , suddenly put forward at tho fag-end of a session , and to be hurried through on the plea that the poor old Bishops cannot yet be relieved . This would establish a precedent . Tbe bill has passed through committee in the House of Lords ; it has not yet passed any stage in the House of Commons .
Another measure brought before Parliament this week , on the second reading in the House 'of Commons , is the bill for organizing the Coast Guard Service into a naval reserve . In the last war our navy was recruited by voluntary enlistment , and we were enabled to raise the requisite number of soldiers by that means . However , it occasioned rather serious draughts on the mercantile service , and it is possible that there might be greater difficulties at another time . The Coast Guard has hitherto been a kind of somi-invalid corps , doing duty for the Customs and Excise . It will henceforward , although acting as a force at the service of the revenue , be placed under the Admiralty and be recruited by young men . So far it ia a decided improvement . But how it is possible to carry it in the proposed week , between the whitebait dinner and the prorogation , we do not know . On Thursday night tie bill for establishing a Vice-President of the Educational Coinmttie ^ i -J > v of the Privy Council was brought beCwrft-H 3 ^ 7 $ fr ^ JN ^ House of Commons—another inoasure ^ hlw ^|&^^ ' ^ x / tjfl been slumbering throughout the scsSMn ^ wK ^ SEij ^ nfm ^ " ' only now sent forward . It is , of courfin mhj wPlo \ jl > rjw I ^^^ Sa
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19071856/page/1/
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