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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself / into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the npt > le endeavour--to throw down all the barriers erected'between , men by prejudice and one-sidedviews ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , ana Colour , to treat the whole Human race as oiie brotherhood , having one great object—the free development " of our spiritualnatuie . "—Swmboldt' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE - Naval and Military 392 The Palmerston-Hay tor Conspiracy 897 A Batch of Boohs 403 Putolic Meetings 38 G Miscellaneous .... 392 The Neapolitan Apology 397 Embankment of the Thames .... 386 Postscript 393 The SiecleimG . the Times ............. 397 THE ARTSFuneral of Jean Baptiste Rougee ...... 3 S 7 Switzerland " Sold" again 398 Thp Onpras 403 The Royal British Bank 887 OPEN COUNCIL- A Great Act of Faith ..-...,.. ' . ..... 393 The Eouffes ' ParYsiens at '" tho " st Accidents and Sudden Deaths 3 S 7 "Candido" on the Elections ......... 391 The "Word '' in the Streets . 398 . James ' s Theatre ' ., ....... " 404 Ireland .... 387 Land Societies 891 Idols of the Horse Guards 399 America . 388 o -. Continental Notes 388 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATUREOur Civilization- , i ........... 390 Imperialism , Ancient and Modern 391 Summary 4 G 0 The Gazette ................................. 405 Gatherings from tho Law and . Po- Statistics of the New House ......... 395 The Life of Sir Charles James Nalice Courts .... — 390 England and the United States in pier ...... . 401 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAHurder in the North .. 301 Clrina ..- ..... 390 The Walpole Letters 402 City Intelligence , Markets , & c ....... 405
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. . . ¦ . •• . ^ - ? . fpHREE questions ought to be put to Lot d Pal-X merston before any other proceedings m Parliament - What he intends to do in Parlianientary Reform ? What he intends to do with Army Reform ? And what is the actual state of our foreiiyn relations ? Under all these heads the conduct of the Government is / at the present moment , a mystery ; a mystery it was at the dissolution , but it should not remain so if the ¦¦ new" members are prepared to support each other in doing their duty .
No man m this country who is not in the secrets of the Cabinet can just now describe the exact relation in -which we stand with any foreign country whatsoever We are in close alliance with France , yet how far we are acting with that state—which is exchanging courtesies with the Russian Government , is somehow patronising tlie Court of Spain , and is cultivating alliances apparently crossing our own—is a subject that demands fresh light , unless we are to incur new obligations without knowing what we are at .
It is openly the boast in Vienna that Lord Palmerston bas come round to the Austrian policy in Italy . The journals which arc under the control of the Emperor Prancis Joseph ' s Government distinctly make that assertion . What does this mean ? The King of Benmabk has just appointed a new Minister , after a long difficulty iu finding a successor to M . Von Sciieele . The ground on which the Danish Government resigned was , its repugnance to tke ' extension of " the Scandinavian Idea" —a project for uniting all the Scandinavian peoples under one crown as a means of resistance to Russia . Now
our Government , which was expected to assist in forming a barrier between the encroachments of Denmark and the Germanic provinces of that monarchy in 1849 , suffered the barrier to drop , and thus negatively co-operated iu submerging the Germanic independence of the provinces under a Danish consolidation . What course is our Government mow taking in relation to Denmark , and -what are the grounds for that course ? Both these quest ions arc shrouded in absolute mystery ; but certainly they very nearly concern the interests of this country , as a matter of commercial intercourse and also of future military expenditure .
Wlmt position has our Government taken , or maintained , with reference to Ncufchfttcl ? At ; wst it was supposed to be strikingly honest and
friendly to the Republic against the encroachments of King rBEDESUCK William ., wlio is endeavouring to convert his titular and antiquated Principality of ISfeufchatel into a sovereign right antagonistic to the federal Government over the Canton of ! N eufcliatel . - "The French Government proposed to mediate , and our Minister acquiesced in the French proposal . As a preliminary , Switzerland was
persuaded to surrender all her claims against the Prussian . King , with the prisoners that had rebelled against her , and . to leave the matter an open question . The mediating powers stood pledged by their honour to . - obtain a satisfactory settlement of the point in dispute ; but it is now reported that they call upon Switzerland to tolerate the continuance of Kimr Euederick . William as the
cc Prince * of Neufchatel ; " to pay him an indemnity where they might have claimed a fine for the release of the prisoners ; and even to recognise his authority , by giving a guarantee that certain charities will be administered as he pleases . Is it possible that our Minister has endorsed any such proposal addressed to the Republican Government ? Mystcry again ; but we presume that some Member of the Commons will have sufficient firmness , and sufficient English feeling , to extort an elucidation . The head of the Liberal party ought to do it—whoever he may be .
How do we stand with the United States ? The Government at Washington has been invited to join with France and England in a certain " demonstration , " or something of the kind , to the Chinese Government ; but President Buchanan is understood to have declined a co-operation which would have called upon him to declare war against China , unless he had been prepared , without taking iho privileges of a belligerent , to forfeit the privileges of a neutral , by covertly assisting the enemy of China . In fact , the American papers imply that the request must have been a very strange one , and we wisli to know how it stands ?
Tho Emperor Nai > olkon , who is bestowing ^ various grades in the Legion of Honour upon ] a great number of English soldiers , is also receiving the Grand Duke Constantino with distinction . So far as he has gone hitherto , Nayoi / kon the Third appears to be a complete master in the art of setting one influence against another ; but the question is , J » oyr for m stand officia ll y committed , - ^ plan { or maintaining " the balance of Europe . "
Ono project appears to have been knocked on the head by the effectual exposure which it lias received . It is the Grand Itussian Railway
Company . The promoters of it are employing device s hitherto left to the lowest of schemers . They are , for example— -at least the Times thus presents the case—getting up fictitious sales in order to fictitious quotations on the English Stock Exchange ; and the leading journal goes so far as to represent some clergyman as playing the " stag ' - in manoeuvres that would have suited Capel-court in 1847 . But these devices of the Imperial Itussian Hudson have not at all been , so successful as those of the railway speculators iu ' 47 . He does not get his money . We suspect ' that few English people will be willing that their means should be invested in this worse
than West Diddles ' ex . stock . We . ' suspect . that at home the absolute uncertainty which everywhere prevails , will very shortly find a termination in a rather more settled course on the part of our public men ; although the most recent manifestations arc more retrospective than prospective , speak more of unsettleincnt than settlement . Mr . Gladstone is drawn out by an admiring friend , Mr . Charles Butiaui , who wishes for some reply to Mr . James- ' Haix , the vigorous Welshman that , during the Flintshire election , challenged Mr . Giadston 32 as a trimmer on the subject of peace and war . Mr . Gladstone replies , that the proper notice of Mr . Hall ' s speech Avas delivered on the spot , and he insinuates that Mr . ¦ Hall ' s invective was nothing more than " slander /' but he tries to clear himself on one point . He insists that Lord Palmerston , as well as himself , resigned office in January , 1855 , rather than agree to Mr . [ Roebuck ' s motion ; Lord Palmebston informed him , he says , that he should continue liis resistance ; and it was Lord Palmekston that chanced his mind , not Mr . Gladstone , when the
latter resigned . This may be true enough , but the sole practical question is , -whether Lord Palmeiiston resisted the appointment of Mr , Roebuck ' s committee because he wished to continue the war , or whether ho resisted it because he wished to drop the war . lie might , indeed , have been actuated by a third motive , —he might have wished to continue the war , vet to screen the aristocratic persons
who were exposing their own inefficiency as officers , Witli respect to Mr . Gladstone there is no'doXibi that he did not wish to continue the waa & aWKougli he had belonged to the Government \ vtW « ii' & t <» iiY » it . > And be certainly in ; tkos Ail ttnsusWmcil ^ assertion , when ho says that as < i necessary ct 5 it ^ e ( jo ; chcc of adhering to his opinion , he was " deprived of oilice . " The expression is rcnmrknblc . ' 7 / il- ^" untrue as a matter of fact ; but it docs confirm tho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/1/
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