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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—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 wfciole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Bumboldt ' s Cosmos . - » -
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- » -aoe Gatherings from the Law and 1 > o- Sardinia's Danger , England ' s Dis- S S » S ? T ™ 1 ikn ' rf 'i & nMiJZt & ni '"' an Imperial Parliament 380 lice Courts 394 grace „ .... 398 Publications and Repubhcations ... 403 The International Hotel 389 Dinner to Sir James Brooke 395 Palmerston and liussell 399 -run-Ao-rc Tho Indian Revolt 390 Obituary 395 Thank Heaven we Have a House of TMLARib-TheOrient 390 Miscellaneous 395 Lords ! 399 The Society of British Artists 403 America 390 Postscript ... 396 Manchester and Borneo 399 King Lear at the Princess's Theatre 494 The Sardinian Conspiracy Bill 391 Public Feeling in Paris 400 Her Majesty's Theatre 404 Continental Notes 392 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The "Revival" in America 400 Olympic Theatre 404 StateofTrade 392 .,,.,- „» .,.. „ ,-Accidents and Sudden Deaths 392 Mr . Disraeli ' s Budget 397 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL "AFFAIRSTho Trial of Bernard 393 Trial of Bernard and Trial of the Summary 401 Criminal Record 393 Alliance 397 Historical ¦ Revelations of 1848 402 ; TheGazette 405 Naval and Military 391 The Rotten Liberal Benches 39 S A Lady ' s Story ofLuckmnv 402 i City Intelligence , Market s . & c ...... 405
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- TFTFi leading characteristic of the home and foreign / politics of the present time is unsettlement . In Parliament there is hardly a question of importance upon \ riiich an extremely unsettled state of feeling and opinion is not manifest . We have the India Bill , intended to furnish a Government for India , broken to pieces , its principles dissected , its whole scheme unsettled , subjected to treatment not very much unlike what it might receive in the . ventilation of a debating club . It is the same with half a dozen other questions : the movement against church-rates , about which there is the greatest wavering ; the Oaths Bill , which carries with it into the House of Lords no end of disquieting influences ; Parliamentary Beform , the national expenditure , — about all these matters we are at sea . Abroad , we see Frauce enlarging her army from 600 , 000 to 700 , 000 men , and adding to the strength of her navy ; Austria , suspicious , and siding with despotic Naples in her dispute with Sardinia , upon whose frontier she is placing an imposing force . Eagerly watching these movements , we sec democratic and revolutionary Italy ready to take heart of hope on the first glimpse of opportunity . Our own immediate relations with Prance arc obviously of a most unsettled kind , and arc not likely to become less so yet awhile . In America , those standing difficulties , Kansas and Utah , arc furnishing their quota of the political unscttledness of the times . The latest news tells us that the Congress has voted against tho admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lccomptpn constitution , so that the fovcr for which Mr . Buchanan imagined ho had found a remedy may bo looked for in a chronic form for a long time to come . Thus it appears to us that the politics of the bettor part of the world may bo fairly characterized as unsettled . Perhaps this unsettlcdncss , as far as wo aro directly concerned in it , finds its acmo in tho condition of tho great parties in Parliament , and in the position of the Government . Lord Derb y is holding office by tho sufferance of a majority whose duty it is to remove him from his post and to take ' ^^ Tn ^ r ^ wTliaTdrtlro ^ governmenlrof ^ tho-oouu .. try , but who , instead , lend him a hand with tho work whioh he would otherwise be unable to do for himself ; tho latest hand lent being to help his budget ovflr all stiles in its way , though tho assistance givon in this case was muoh loss than ho might huvo lookod for had ho needed it .
As Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . Disraeli bestowed all his skill this time , not in the design of a fanciful and imposing budget , but in the construction of a speech to neutralize any possible attack . His plan is as simple as it is possible to be ; and all his explanations were devoted to show the difficulties with . which he had to contend—special and peculiar difficulties bequeathed to him by the preceding Government . Thus he has an immense expenditure ; but it is not for him to reduce it , at least at present . " Reduction , " he said , " depends upon policy . " You have a certain policy which has been carried out , and which has cost immense sums of money ; you must reconsider that before you can venture upon reducing your expenditure . Reduction , too , demands nice thought and fine calculation , and needs great time to effect it in one point without injuring another part of public service ; so that Mr . Disraeli must be some time longer in office before he can be expected to manage that useful service . There is truth and force in the appeal . Then , again , the largest items of expenditure are the Army and Navy estimates , which every party in the House of Commons is for increasing rather than diminishing . The common idea is , that the Miscellaneous estimates arc the most open to reduction ; but here Mr . Disraeli warns us that they involve such large and complicated arrangements that they cannot be roughly handled with tho pruning-knife . A preceding Chancellor of the Exchequer had arranged that certain portions of the war taxes should be paid off ; and although Sir George Lewis would have suspended the operation of that arrangement last year , Mr . Disraeli prevented him , and insisted on " good faith , " so that this year there is the subsidence of the Income-tax to 5 d ., with one million and a . half to be paid into the War Sinking "Fund , and two millions of Exchequer Bills ; tho gross result being that there is an expenditure of 67 , 110 , 000 / ., while Mr . Disraeli only counts upon an income of 63 , 120 , 000 / . Even that latter figure involves rather a favourable estimate of tho revenue for the current year . How then shall ho proceed P Ho cannot take a loan to pay a loan . Ho shrinks from the unpopularity , perhaps inexpediency , of roimposing the twopence , oCIac 9 n * c- ] tftx , _ J ^ o pjrjoc ^ e ^ ls by a mixed cours e , socking such new taxos " as wiir"inflior ™ tlic ~ le " aSt * possible injury . Ho dofors until ' f > 2 and ' 63 the payment of tho Exchequer bonds , defers the operation of tho War Sinking Fund , raises tho tax on Irish spirits to a level with Scotch and English , and imposes a penny Btamp on bankers' cheques .
He calculates that the tax on Irish spirits will give him 500 , 000 / . and the cheque stamp 300 , 000 / . ; and thus , on paper at least , he has a surplus of 300 , 000 / . The Budget has been received with general indifference rather than otherwise . It injures nobody—except the bankers , who are loud in objection ; it probably will notinjurethe Irish spirit dealers at all—though they also are loud—for it will be accompanied by the removal of fiscal restrictions on the Irish spirit trade ; an improvement which lias more than compensated the enhancement of the Scotch tax . The Budget is least popular with the supporters of the late Government , who rather anticipated an opening for attack . By the public at large , since it leaves things much as they were , it is regarded with no feeling save that perhaps of relief at not finding it worse ; and of amusement at finding Mr . Disraeli getting on so well upon the throne of Pitt . The same sort of success has attended Ministers with their Army and Navy estimates ; they were to be let off easily , and so , although a good deal was said , very little opposition was meant ; and in spite of a somewhat tight exchequer , ample means are placed in their hands for carrying on the great services of the country in an efficient manner . On Monday evening last Mr . Disraeli laid his Indian resolutions upon the table of the House , and on Monday evening next he will move that the House do go into committee on the 30 th instant for the consideration of tho bill , the principles of which are set forth in these resolutions . The important modification of the original scheme indicated in these resolutions is the quiet abandonment of that part of the elective machinery which was to have lifted tho ten-pound householders of five big manufacturing cities into arbiters of the fate of millions of men . In fact , the changes proposed are intended to cover the retreat of Ministers . But while the right form of Government for India is under review , attention is directed to tho condition of India itself . Mr . Liddell opened up the subject of Indian railways , and slaved that the present system is one under which all sorts of impediments aro thrown in tho way of the formation of railways . Tho civil ongineer is overborne by the military inspectors employed under the "Iffdian "' Gtovernmen <) - ; --even-T . t ) jo ~ Cojnpany ^ . lja 3 _ tO- „_ wait upon the deoision of tho Government befartFjtf " -v ^ can enter into any contract or make a ^/^ pooJ ^^^^ N ¦>¦ monts ; and tho stores required can ' ^ j ^^^^^ ' ^ J ^ ^ tained from England with tho sanctio ^ fjraw' ^^ ic' /| tt ^ verhmont , and to got that sanction ^ bwra » i ^^^* p i 4 % 2
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041858/page/1/
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