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" The one Idea-which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—^ thc noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided vie W 3 ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to creat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object— "the free development . of our spiritual nature . "—Hutttboldt's Cosmos . .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- J-aqe Criminal Record ...... ... 490 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Country Life in Piedmont ..... 498 Imperial Parliament .. ,.... 482 Gatherings from the Law and Po- What is the Uroadesfc Basis of a Trench Finance and Financiers ...... 499 Tho Orient . ,. 485 lice Courts ........ .. 400 ¦ ¦ ' Liberal Ministry ? . 491 Aspects of Paris 500 The Indian Revolt 486 Obituary 490 Our Position in India " . * * . ' . " .. 4-94 letters from Constantinople 500 The Epsom Kaees 487 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 491 The O » sur < j Debate . ¦ ""* . 495 ITudors and Stuarts ... 500 State of Trade ...-. 487 Naval and 31 illtary ... 491 A Duel under the Empire * . ' 495 Mr . Broderip on Zoology 500 The People ' s Provident Assurance Mercantile Marine 491 A Congregation of Vapours" ! " " . 496 ' 1 ' ublica'tions and Republications ... 501 Society .. 4 S 7 Miscellaneous 491 The Vacant Garter ............ ' . ! . " . !!' .. . ' .. ' . 496 Ireland 4 S 8 Postscript 493 Sanitary Condition of the Army ... 497 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContin ^ iVaVKotos . " ! . ' . ' . ' !!! 1 !! . '"!! . " !! . ' . ' . ' !!!!!! 4 S 3 OPEN COUNCIL- LITERATURE— The Gazette ....... 501 The New Royal Italian Opera House 4 S 9 The Stamp Duty on Drafts 493 Summary 498 City Intelligence , Hlavkcts , & c ... . ... 501
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k S the week advanced , the fight between the . two XX . sides became one of more equal weight and strength , and the gro ^ md was considerably , and at "last not essentially , altered . In the first instance , the Opposition exerted itself to keep the merits of Lord Canning ' s Proclamation out of sight , evidently because many of the party could not agree in the propriety of the - ' confiscation . The re . was an all but unanimous feeling that , be . the Proclamation riglit or wrong , Lord Ellujtborough had no right to condemn it before explanation , his fault being aggravated by the publication of his despatch . It became , however , impossible to exclude that part of the subject from the debate , and while the merits of Lord Canning ' s Indian policy came to be the professed subject of discussion , the conflief . ing aspirations of party were also freely introduced into the open debating , and before the week closed , the speaking in anticipation of the voting derived 110 small part of its success from sx simple array of members on the one or on the other side . On the first night ; , the late leader of the House of Commons was seen with Lord John Russell by his side , and many leading Liberals attached to the late Government duly taking their places : Mr . Caudwell himself was a very important accession ; Lord Goderich stood for the moderate independent Liberals ; and the muster-roll of the Liberals appeared to be complete , saving a few scattered defections supposed to be rcpresente d by certain gentlemen who have held meetings in one of the committee-rooms . As the week advanced , that . section of the Liberal party was gradually losing its numbers for the benefit of the broad Liberal party under the PAiAtKiiSTON-HussELr , lead . On the other hand , tlic same march of time brought to the muster-roll of Ministers Mr . Hokbuck , with his radical purism ; Sir Rowsht Peei ,, with slashing hits at his quondam commander , Loi-cIPalmkksiw ; Mr . John Bright ,, with his powerful sledge-hammer strokes and peace doctrines applied against confiscation in Oude ; Sir James Giuiiam surmounting the weakness of disease , in order to bring his great administrative ability and no end o ? authorities against tlic principle of rigour in India ; and Mr . Gladstone ' s name figured in the bills of the Ministerial ma nagcr . In the course of the week , Ministers used every exertion to weaken their opponents and to beat up recruits ; their skirmishers were incessantly
hallooing against Mr . Vern" & n Smith ,, and demanding the production of the letter ,. until at last it was extorted from Lord Pai / sieiistost , - \ nth another letter for which 110 inquiry had been made . The delay , aud even tlic ultimate production of these letters , injured the Opposition ; for it was impossible , from the text , to discover any reason why' Mr . Vern ' os Smith should have hesitated to produce the hist and more insignificant letter at an earlier stage . Mr . DilLWYN had on the notice paper a motion conveying positive approval of Lord Canning down to the present , and expressly withholding any opinion of his Proclamation ; and lie asked Ministers whether they would support his movement as a subsequent proposition—stultifying half their argument . They purchased Mr . Dit-lwyn ' s support for the main motion , by agreeing to support his resolution ; and thus they engaged enough of recruits to effect a material modification of- the balance against them . Such was the position when the mail arrived from India with Lord Cannin g ' s explanatory despatch , and a most damnatory < c representation" by Sir 'James Outham against the whole policy of confiscation . By this time the question had become so embroiled that several Liberals protested against continuance ; Ministers found triumph enough in being let oil ' j and \ vit 3 i Lord Palmeiistow ' s sanction Mr . Caiu > well withdrew his motion . It was not the Ministers that were hcat . cu , but tlic Opposition that broke down . Sir Cuaulks Napier . ' s persistency in bringing forward his motion for a commission to inquire into the best means of manning tlic navy , while it , gave Ministers another night ' s graco on the subject of Mr . Cardwell's motion , was productive of a really excellent practical result . The commission was agreed to almost unanimously . Of course Sir CiiAULES Nalmum did not fail to make his case as strong as possible , aud , to take his simple word , it may ul the first glance appear that our navy is in a fearfully bad condition ; but , all due allowance made for the almost inevitable exaggeration of an advocate who has l ) eeu for forty years endeavouring to set forth his case , the condition of that important branch of the national service will not , appear to be so entirely distressing . Still tho evils arc suluciently great and pressing to culL for the earnest attention of those immediately charged with the administration of our navy ; and even if the fact staled by Admiral Duncombk—that four ships , the finest of their class in the navy , were , after being in commission for from three to six . mouths ,
unable to go to sea for want of men—were isolated and exceptionable , the formation of a commission of inquiry would have been highly desirable . The problem to be solved is , how to raise and to retain permanently a sufficient number of men for the adequate working of oar navy / without top .. greatly addiug to the cost of the service . Sir Chakl . es Napier , says boldly , that the thing may be done , and niayjirodu . ee a positive saving ¦ . iipon ; our present outlay . But whether such a result is attainable or not , the discussion of Tuesday evening ' . -brought out several suggestions that may help largely in getting over the immediate difficulty . Lord Claiui nce Pagei made one of those suggestions . We are paying , he says , some 500 , 000 / . a year for the liirc of transports , while our own ships and officers are lying idle ; the application of this sum to tlic keeping of more ships in commission would enable the ships of our navy to perform the transport service , and at t he same time would give us a considerable increase of tlie number of men permanently engaged . Again , Lord Clarence Paget suggests that a great deal of the work in our dockyards might be performed by sailors in the Royal Navyan arrangement which would place a large extra number of men at the disposal of the . ' Administration in cases of sudden need . . Altogether , Sir Charles Name jr . lias done the country good service in pressing his motion upon tli < 5 consideration of the House . V . Acting upon a principle over and over again admitted in the course of the debates on the famous Conspiracy Bill , Mr . ' Biland , the member for King's County , IrcLand , moved for leave to bring in a bill to assimilate the law of Ireland , with regard to conspiracy to murder , with that of England , '''he rnost objectionable result of the anomalous state of law of Ireland in practice is found iix the strong disinclination of juries to convict wliilc the crime is made a capital offence in the one country and merely a misdemeanour in tho other . On the understanding that Government would give the subject serious consideration , Mr . Bland consented to leave it in their hands . Mr . Lockje King was not successful with his hill to enforce a uniformity of practmy throughout the country in the sale of grain an $ J ' ruit by ' measure , grain being sold by weight hi A ^ lajge huliluDl' of towns , and by measure in an al ^ ost ^ equally large number of other towns . The opinion of those in the House who may be supposed . to bnvc r ^ prc- - scntcd tho Corn-trado wns strtiskfy 4 » verae to the :: "
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051858/page/1/
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