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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 tftrow down , all the barriers erected between men ' by prej udice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions . . of Keligion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ot ourapincual ix & x . \ xce . % r -Ifumfjui < lt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— ""age Miscellaneous 609 Subscriptions for the Sufferers from Memoirs of Doctors Wardlaw and r _ » j i n-ii .-,.- * CM Postscript 610 the French Inundations 614 Kitto 617 Imperial Parliament 602 v fnHiini Rift Administrative Reform 605 . PUBLIC AFFAIRS- OPEN COUNCIL- Uabnol oil * America 605 A Naval War 610 National Association of United THEARTSMiss Burdett Coutts and the Know- A Caution to Italy 611 Trades 614 The French Exhibition 61 * lodge of ** Common Things" 606 Sadleir ' s Art of Book-keeping 611 Ristori as Pia dei Tolomei 619 The Investiture of the Bath in the Protestant-Popery at Liverpool ... 612 LITERATURE— Egg's Council of War 620 Crimea 606 Why is Meat so Dear ? 613 Summary 615 Count Arrivabene ' s Lectures .. 620 "* Continental Notes 606 After Louis Napoleon—an Empress Two Philosophers 615 Our Civilization :.. 607 HegeiifcP 513 The Trade of North Africa C 16 ^ nwunjicor ^ iai « cf 4 idc State Of Trade « ... 609 TradesUnions 613 A Very Bad Book 616 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSNaval and Military 609 The Sultry House 614 New Fictions 617 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 621 .
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MR . DALLAS , the American Minister at our Court , whose duty it was to promote a friendly conclusion of all disputes , has created a new and wonderful burlesque upon misunderstanding between official people . The tale has been told in the journals , and it is very simple . Mr . Dallas bad appointed to present an American gentleman to Her Majesty at the levee on Wednesday ; the gentleman , it is understood , was there , waiting to be presqHed , but there was no
Mr . Dallas to present him . What was the l'eason for this extraordinary desertion of Heh Majesty and the American gentleman ? The Minister had been kept away by a difficulty , but it was one of his own creating . Besides the gentleman whose presentation had been notified to the Lokd Chamberlain , there was one whom Mr . Dallas brought impromptu ; by some unaccounted oversight , this gentleman , who is understood to represent some learned body in America , had been suffered by his official conductors to make his appearance in the antechamber clothed in a costume more suited for
a farce at the Adelp hi Theatre than for the ( Ruben ' s Drawing-room . He wore a black stock , a blue coat with metal buttons , a yellow , or , as he says , a ' * white" vest , trousers of unstated colour and texture , and boots" Boots ! " quo * he . 11 boots , " says she . The utmost consideration has been shown at our Court for republican punctilio on the subject of costume ; American gentlemen , we are convinced , will bear witness to this consideration shown to their countrymen . But the character of this costume challenged attention , and the visitor
tras stopped . Now it is very mortifying for a gentleman to be stayed ut the entrance to a ceremony in which he particularly wishes to take part , and wo can understand the irritation of the learned American . But it is , as everybody knows , quite easy to change any little errors of costuino without delay , and the republican could still have made his way into the Royal presence if he had followed an example which was set him on that very day . He would not , however , listen to reaaoii ; he would not qualify himself J , o enter ; ho insisted upon his " right" to go in without the qualification ; he ' did not oven wait to hear whether our Ministers would yield on the necktie
question , as they had on the enlistment question he walked off . There was one person who had distinct duties , and who was bound to take a course consistent with common sense . It was Mr . Dallas . We are not speaking too harshly of that gentleman when we say that he must huve known how doubtful was the costume of his friend when he came to Court . Mr . Dallas must have known that there was no absolute necessity to storm the presence-chamber in St . James ' s Palace , and to bring
in that particular American citizen . He must have remembered that there was an American gentleman waiting to be presented . He chose , however , to identify himself with the preposterous claim of his inexperienced companion ; and when the ultra-American citizen retired rather than reform his dress , Mr . Dallas retired also . He thus not only excluded himself from the levee , but passed a slight upon the Queen , and upon the American gentleman who was waiting to be presented . He has passed a slig ht upon
othersupon his own countrymen and upon his Government . Mr . Dallas was not simply the personal introducer of a fluttered American savant on his travels—he was the representative of the United States , bound to preserve the dignity of the republic in his own person : he chose to become a representative of everything that is undignified , unsuitable , obtrusive , and defeated . We do not see how he can settle that account with the Government and the community at home . We are quite confident that Americans , whether residing across the Atlantic or in this country , must foci
mortified . There is even a yet more serious question . Had Her Majesty chosen to take offence , which she might justly have done , it would have been only a direct retaliation for the dismissal of Mr . Cbampton if the Queen ' s Ministers had dismissed Mr . Dallas . Perhaps in the shrewdness of their statecraft they saw better . Mr . Dallas has " won golden opinions" at this Court , by the
manner in which heretofore he has cop ied courtly manners . It is quite the fashion in polite circles to contrast him with other Americans , who have been more stubborn on certain difficult questions . Our Government has not been well disposed to America , her claims , or her interests ; but has been well disposed to Mr . Dallas . To dismiss him would bo to elevate his lamentable blunder into a grave affair . A bettor nee far cart be made of the transaction . The American Minister ' s
misconduct will be overlooked . Now , what must follow from that treatment ? He will sit in the position of a naughty boy , who on the score of general good behaviour is forgiven for an act of silly rudeness . Mr . Dallas , therefore , will be permitted to remain at the Court of St . James , by the leniency of the British Minister . He will continue to draw his salary , to reside " near" a Court , and to enjoy all the privileges of his position , by the sufferance of the British Government . Is it possible that he could be otherwise than
grateful for this kindness ? Mr . Dallas , however , is charged by his Government with the duty of negotiating most important questions , on which he is bound to take a position adverse to that of the British Ministers . We need not point out how incompatible are the position which the representative of the United States ought to preserve , and the actual position into which poor Mr . Dallas has stumbled . We have Lord Clarendon's reply to Mr . Marcy ' s despatches on Central America and on CaAMrTON . The British Minister relies , for the
unflinching defence of Crampton , upon the worthless character of those men who are witnesses against him , after being agents under him . On the proposal to settle the difficult points in the Central American question by means of arbitration , Lord Clarbmdok agrees ; but he says nothing upon the suggestion that the referees should be not potentates , who are seldom learned in points of science , but scientific men . How completely would all the difficulties of the question disappear if the points were referred to men like HyMBOLDT . If Ministers have obtained a stronger hold over Mr . Dallas , they have not strengthened their hold over the House of Commons . Over the Lords of course they never had any hold . The victory of Monday must be ascribed to the Liberal party ; the position taken by Ministers being on one side of the contest . Our readers remember the resolution carried by Mr . Walpole , last week , which practically meant that assistance could be given to the Church Education Society , a society bent upon bringing down the national system of education . Ministers did not mnko the sli ff hteaV ^ ffi jy ^ -y attempt to provout Mr , Walpole ' s TOa < it I ^ C ^^^^ J ^ 5 § from being carried out by the presentation j 3 H ^^ l ^^ ffll S Qukkn . The address wua presented , nn ( W ^ jl ^ S ^> m ^ k r > 5 answered in general terms signifying nothinW J ^^ v ^^ P ^ lZj i-q 'In the mean while Mr . Fortkscub brou S ^ 4 ! S ^ gk ^^^^^ » £ ward his resolution , after much consultutiJm W ^^^ y ^^^ i jS
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Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28061856/page/1/
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