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A POLITICAL MD LITERARY REVIEW.
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A Political Md Literary Review.
A POLITICAL MD LITERARY REVIEW .
"The One Idea Which History Exhibits As ...
"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble * x 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 whole Hainan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NE ^ SOFTHE WEEK— f « o « PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE- THE ARTS'Phr » War 10 » 2 ; , „ „ . „ .., , „„„ Summary 1034 Tho Drama in Paris 10-iO TIh > Terav Republicans 1023 I Peace-or a War of Principles . 1029 Thomas Carlyle 1034 . The Reopening * 1010 v . \ u \ in TW * AKr ? Jk 1024 Survey of the Wai- 1030 Theological and Social Essays . 1035 Dca ho ^ sfr ^ flliamMoieswortii l ots ! I ^^ S ^ 'W ^ Cuba \^ HisUnrf of Psychological Me- ^ va ^ an ^ Sary News ::-:-:::::: loll IS ^^ SK ' theCea : Eafyeavs - ' - WandeH ^ " ^ ™« Births , Marries , and Death ,. 10 * 1 ContL % ^ tX ^ oteI ^ 7 . : " ::::::: ^ 1026 tralCnmmal Court 1032 Ceylon ............... 1037 COMMERCIAL AFFA 1 RSOMtuary 1027 OPE « M COUNCIL- Tlie Pur Hunters of the Far City Intelligence , Markets , Adg ^ a ^ ° " ? ..::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: ioH social Reform 1033 A B ^^ f B ^ ::::::::::::::: 1039 verti 8 o mont » , & c io « -mi
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A DECLARATION of war against Ambkica has been made from the office of the Times , and the greatest biow that has been given to the war in the East belongs to the present week . For while the Times is the first to utter the hostile declaration , it is followed up by an
explanation from the Morning Post calculated to irritate the Americans still more than the rough writing of the leading journal . There are several points in dispute between the Government ot this country and the American Republic . Tke Post only mentions some of them ; but of course if the scabbard is to be thrown away , every cnuse of irritation will be called out in full force .
The most obvious and most recent occasion for angry feeling is furnished by the trials that have taken place for offences against the Foreig-n Enlistment Act of Congress . An agent of the British Government entered the Union for the purpose of spreading information as to the Legion which avas to have been formed on British territory , and of facilitating the passage of any persons who might desire to enlist upon foreign territory . But the British a ent received offers of assistance from
men who . proved to be quite incompetent to fulfil their promise , and who , in their cleaire of fulfilment , unquestionably drugged him into complicity with their own offers of inducement to the citizens to enlist ; while one of them has turned informer . The British representative nt "Washington is charged with having some kind of communication with the British agent ; and it has been said , apparently without sufficient foundation , that the American Government has demanded his recai . That is the first dispute . The second point is the contest on tho subject of the Honduras settlement . The British had
undertaken by treaty not to make encroachments on the North American main beyond the bounds of the old settlement , which had established itself against treaty , and hud made good its footing on the principle of sufferance . Subsequently some of our West Indian settlers have sought to establish a now settlement at Ruabon , in the Bny of Islands , pleading that they had begun to do so before tho treaty , and that the compact did not out them off from fulfilling thoir project . The Americana contemplated some counter-occupation , und hero is tho next point on which collision may take place .
Our readers know the position of Cuba ; they know how recently disputes have been settled on the northern boundary of the Union ; they knew the constant pressure upon the Republican Government by an anti-Biitish party ; yet here is the English Government lending its countenance to the assertions of those anti-British parties ! It is probable that the Federal Government will feel itself compelled to take steps that may place it in collision with our arms . .
We may foresee some of the deplorable consequences . The first will be immensely to strengthen the German Powers in their hostile neutrality . If they refused to come out of it for England and France , are they likely to do so when America shall be jjlaced by the hostility of England in the same category as Russia ? It is in the presence of this intelligence that we have the news of the progress of our armies in the
Crimea . Were not so much ground lost in the West , we might rejoice at the gaining of ground in the East . The Allies are pressing Goutschakoff at every point . The success at Kinburn , which establishes the Allies on the main behind Perckop , is followed up by an advance from Euputoria , threatening the rear of Gortschakoff in the Crimea ; while on the opposite side he is pressed by the constant but steady advance of the French outposts .
The cloud in the West also throws a gloomy shadow upon other movements in Europe . Hitherto we have been arrayed against the Absolutist powers , and although France and England have abstained from placing themselves at all in relation with the Republican party on the Continent , they have not been acting against that party . On the contrary , however reluctantly , it sccincd quite possible that the Allies might be acting against the Kino or Naiu-ks , and , therefore , with the Constitutional party * in Naples ; in support of Sardinia , and , therefore , nguinub the Tuscan Government . Wo have observed the reluctance of
France and England to tako any part that could favour the Patriot party ; and we loarn with Homo surprise that , instead of supporting Sardinia in Tuscany , Lord Nokmakuy is accused of mediating between Tuscany and Sardinia ; Austria lending all her weight to Tuscany . Our readers know the nature of the dispute . A young gentleman in the Sardinian service had arrived at Florence us attache to tho Sardinian Embassy thcro ; hu is the eon of a Lombard noblomnn , naturalised in Piedmont . No difficulty was made by tho Tuscan Government
until a hint was suggested by Austria that he was the son of the enemy of Austria , on which the Tuscan Government vehemently and arrogantly demanded his recal . The Sardinian Government has shown every disposition to avoid any course offensive to that of Tuscany ; but Austria perseveres in her instigation , Tuscany in her violence ; and Lord Nokmanuy , ambassador of the ally of
Sardinia , talks about " mediating ! " Now in the West , England is seen on the point of war with the great Republic , and every embarrassment that can cramp her proceedings in Europe , as well as in the extreme East , must be further complicated with this new dispute . She is weakening herself for good , and destroying her means of resisting Russia , or the allies of Russia .
For it must be remembered that the actual state of things iu Europe is such as to present many elements of resistance to the Allies , if only some principle of unity could bring the elements into combination . Even at home , the French Government is not without its opponents : it has them in the dormant parties of Orleanists , Legitimists , and Republicans . It has new enemies in the dearth of food , and in the rigours' of winter ; and the recent decree published in the Monitcur shows that the Government is not insensible to the fresh
dangers that menace- it . The EMPEBon , who hud offered reduced railway tariffs for the conveyance of grain , who had already forbidden tho export of grain from Algeria , now forbids its export from France , with the export of buckwheat , maize , potatoes , and chesnuts . lie gives 10 , 000 , 000 francs to tho Prefects of departments to aid in the creation of funds for the assistance of the poor ; lie enjoins the Prefects to encourage every kind of charitable organisation and contribution ; und at the same time he confesses his fears
by threutemng agitators who may seize the opportunities of winter and dear bread to breed disorders . Tho position of France was already sufliciontly critical , while there were these internal elements of opposition , with the / front enemy , Russia , beyond tho frontier ; but now , by tho position of oui- Government , a now enemy if called forth for tho Allies in the West ; and certainly tho sanguine factions of Franco will not fail to understand tho change which this complication imparts to tho position of the Allies .
Wo must apply tho ' saino remarks to our'tyvn domestic condition . There really is no appro honsion that the supply of corn will full sh orj , — none whatever . Tlicro is no probability that -tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/1/
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