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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- i-ace fetato or Trade 1232 Last . Christmas . dny 1237 Twelve Mouths with [ the Bashilianquet to Admiral Sir Houston T ^ iJaSJ ^ r ^ -V-V " 12 S 3 . The Case or Mr . Henry Corfc ......... 1237 Bazouks ..,.. 1243 Stewart . K . C . B ..... ................ 122 S S ^ S ;^ ltary " * | * OPEN COUNCIL- Punch's Almanack 1243 S ^ e ?^^ bodies for Crime .. ............. VM THZA ^ TS-: ^ S ^ : ± : ^ = ^ EE : ^ > u BL . caf a . rs - Ll SSnw " i ^ ^ SSS & a ^ s : ^ 0 : he _ Conferoiices ... 1228 Switzerland , Prance , and Prussia . 1235 The Early Flemish Winters .. ' . " . " . . " 1259 Tho Oa ^ otto ~ " ioajl Continental Notes 122 S ; Christmas Games 1235 Letters fron * Head-quarters ......... 1240 lhe Gazcttc - 1244 OiirCivihzation .. 1229 | Elections under the Empire ......... 1236 Christinas Kovels and Tales . ; 12 « COMMERCIAL AFFAlRSAccidems and Sudden Deaths ......... 1232 i The Ditcher Decision ..... 1237 ¦! 13 aden Powell on Croation ............ 12 t 3 City Intelligence , Markets , & C ...... 124 S
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/ CHRISTMAS has not interrupted the course of \ J events abroad , or even at home . There has evidently beea less suspension of official activity than usual . Although the < lay for the Paris Conference is not yet named , the Continental papers teem with proofs of the strenuous exertions made by the several Courts to establish a good position in the meeting , and , we suspect , to mate it do more than Enerland desires . While Courts are
meeting , while Princes are plottin g ^ we have had our own meetings , in the family , in the workhouse . Pantomime has resumed its reign in the theatres , illustrating more closely than ever the way in which statesmen < lo their-work . For , while the sage journalist piques hiuiself oil being able to tell the world what ' s o ' clock , the agile statesman astonishes us all b y ¦ jumping through the clock , and the grim garotter , clown of the streets , treats us all as the ofl-hand passenger is treated in the pantomime .
The meeting of the Conference , we are assured , in only delayed but to be exactly as our M inisters have all along expected , if not bargained—a ibrmnl meeting to interpret the 20 tli Article , and nothing else . We shall see . But , in thii meanwhile , nothing i 8 more evident' than the necessity of a Congress to settle the quarrels that distract the whole of the Continent . The only objection to such a Congress would be , that the peoples would be absent from it . It would constitute a
representation only of the grand ticket-of-leave men—those crowned caitiffs who have been convicted already of doing violence and injury to . peoples , and yet go at large . ' Prussia ., ' for example , is mustering his forces to perpetrate violence and spoliation in Switzerland . But the Swiss seem likely to make a brave stand ; and the
best hope for them , and for the other peoples of Europe , is , that Fuedeuick Wjixiam tucty persevere ; the worst cliance for the peoples is , that other Sovereigns -will persuade him to end his blustering , and to put up with the loss of Ncufchiitel rather than to lose the tranquillity of the Continent .
Tho civic banquet given by the corporation ol Portsmouth to Captain Haktstmn and the American officers of the Resolute has necessarily been made to do duty for the whole public , since ho departs so soon ; but the Portsmouth men
managed the matter so handsomely , that the entertainment would speak very ^ vell for th e entire country . Few events which we have witnessed are so calculated to bring the two peoples together . Englishmen have seen the Yankee character travestied in the works of writers who ought to have known better . ; , but ¦ here they had many representatives of the American Republic , and if they could not catch the expression of heartiness ,
energy , and frankness , Englishmen : themselves must have lost their own sense of those qualities . There is more positive action on the other side of the Atlantic thau remains for the average share of life in England ;' .. there is , therefore , in some degree , a ceitain force in the American manner which , to our over-polished habits , looks like ' roughness ; ' but we see the same thing'in the English sailor , and prize it ; and the main qualities of the two nations arc the same' We hare
immense common interests . It may be said that a arge mass of English property exists in the Union , and that an immense amount of American property exists here ; for the ¦ manufacturers . England draw their value from American sale , and much cotton of the South would be worthless were it not for English consumption . In proportion as the people are brought together , -their Governments will be prevented from setting them at loggerheads ; and when the } - have the avowal of an earnest desire for friendliness from men of
approved independence and courage , like Captain HautsteiNj— ¦ when they hear the republican Lieutenant Welts avowing the satisfaction--which he felt at the reception of Americans from the Queen and people of this country , —when they have the American Consul , Mr . Ckosskhv , urging English and American mothers to teach their children that " Anglo-Saxons" should not " bark and bite , "when they sec a Dr . Otis confessing that the labours of a . Frankjmn were equally beneficial to America and to England , —the English people will find how untrue are the assertions of republican pride or Yankee jealousy .
Before an . entertainment like this , a simple compliment to Admiral Sir Houston Stkwart sinks into insignificance . It , is rather late to be repeating these compliments for the war of the Crimea ; especially if our officials arc about to stultify all the victories of that war in a Paris Confereneo , or to burlesque our vindication oi ' Turkey by a betrayal of Switzerland . Ministers , however , have ' come out strong' at some of these dinners ; most especially did some
of them ventilate their liberalism and their successes at the dinner given to Mr . Arthur Kra-2 TAI . RD by his Perth constituents . In Scotland they have a way of getting up these public dinners like school examinations , where the speakers appear in parts , and talk history in fulldress . The chief incident of ministerial activity before the public just now , is the success of Sir Benjamin Hall in bringing the London drainage question to a definitive issue . The Metropolitan
Board of Works has agreed upon the plan marked B * , which would provide an outfall below Eritb . and Purfleet . It has been suggested by Sir MoRrox Peto to continue the drainage to the German . Ocean ; and other plans might be proposed . The metropolis is not bound to go beyond the points indicated ; there is no existing power to carry the works further ; and what Sir Benjamin
proposes is this : He would submit all the suggestions to three engineers—two civil and one military— who will bo authorized to report upon the whole subject ; and their report , together with the formal proceedings of the Metropolitan 3 oard , and the request of tbat body for an advance of 3 , 000 , OOOZ ., will be laid before the House of Commons for a legislative judgment .
The finance of next session will be difficult ; for the constituencies are fastening upon the idea that they must get rid of the Income-tax , and a very good idea it is . We have a considerable list of towns this week which have joined in the movement . It would be well for the public to keep in mind four facts which prove the tax to be one improper for a -permanent impost . It can be evaded by dishonesty , and therefore falls with undue weight upon the honest . It is thus a
premium to demoralization . It is paid in large sums at once , —a plan very inconvenient and uncongenial to immense numbers of tax payers , who draw their salary at short periods , and find it so hard to live at all , that it is difficult to save . It necessitates a disgusting and injurious inquisition into private -affairs ; sin inquisition which is sometimes used unjustly if not vindictively . It is , aa so many a meeting has pronounced it to be , unjust , uneconomical , despotic , and un-English .
I here is , indeed , no saying how far the habit of lying cvnsion engendered by the Income-tax may not have assisted in producing the ¦ whoj £ salft ^ dishonesty that shows itself in so manyyt (^ m < 3 » i ^ W ^\ t- * have this week scarcely a movop ^^^ fiO ^)^( J ^ fj w towns protesting than of defra ^ ej 3 fl > i ^^( 8 r * OT \ ^ h and dcfalcators . "We cast asid ^ thW ' jrOTSfvCfiSi ^ T crKo 5 iL » ri ^ w . k ^ v ^ I a
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/1/
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