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mm ^^^^ m ^ mm ^ mmfy T ^ ea' & er . A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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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 whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—HwnboUU ' sCosmos . . . ...
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A Gale On The Coasts 1243 A Year's Campa...
A Gale on the Coasts 1243 A Year ' s Campaign ,. 124 G Knrly Greek Romance 1253 NEWS OF THE WEEK— page Miscellaneous 1243 Political Symptoms 1247 A Hatch of Books 1254 The Spitallields Weavers 1248 The War 1238 o /> . c-rcr \ DiDT Abraham and Naomi 1249 "War Miscellanea 1239 POSTSCRIPT— . Mr . John Thwaites 1250 _ ,, _ ADT e _ State of Russia 1239 Latest News from the East 1245 The Law of Partnership—Part II . 1250 1 n c . « i \ 1 a The King of Sardinia and the Street Kobbery near London- ¦ Christmas Week at the Theatres .. I 2 r > l Scotch JProtestants 1240 bridge 1213 Public Meeting 1240 Outrage on the Commissioner of iitcd & tiiop America .... ? 1241 Bankruptcy 1245 LITERATURE ' « auubda .., acca . dc Our Civilisation 12 a Summary 1251 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Late Count Krasinski 1242 num m « i-r > inc Tvriemilnv- 1251 . „ ., r ... » ,- , 4 . » Continental Notes 1242 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Eaaavs for ' thoA ^ e law City Intelligence . Marketa , Ad-Naval and Military News 1243 Christmasday in the Prison .... 124 G usays wr uic a vertisements , & c 12 oa
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TTOSPITALITY seems to be the business of life - * -- * - at present for our public men . They have been down at their country seats , leaving the world apparently to wag as it may ; though public men , especially at our day , have no real peace . The progress of improvement , with its railways , its post-office , and its telegraph , leaves no interval of blessed ignorance for them . Every clay has its despatches to be received and sent , and the incessant passing and re-passing of diplomatic agents between all the capitals of Europe proves that
instead of rest there is more action going on than ever . The rumours vary : we now hear that Russia will accept and that she will not accept ; that the secondary German Governments are uniting in a representation as well as Austria ; and that Prussia is considering finally whether she shall not abandon her neutrality , and take sides against her chief ally . This is the last phase of the peace rumours . On the whole , however , the expectation appears to be losing ground that Russia will really come in and accept the terms offered to her .
* Naples , the great model Conservative state of the South , has been playing high "jinks " in finance . She has been teaching Austria , Russia , and other States which nre hard up , how to make a short cut nt a subsidy . It is by clipping the coin . Not literally — that is a wasteful process left to Jews and Greeks . Naples goes about it in a more scientific manner—she clips the coin before it is minted . A new rule h / is been adopted , by which the Mint , pnc : i ! of silver is at 14 per cent , lower thim it was before , leaving the Mint profit on coin nt II 1 . ; iu
other words , that is the depreciation of silver m Naples as compared with other Stutcs , and the ? Government thus embezzles a s , wlio : i of all the silver mint to it for coining . This looks like a grunt booty , but it in rcivlly cutting up the golden goosi :. Of course , all foreign morehimts who have dealings with Naples will , in tin * firafc placu , hesitate to send silver where it is ut a , discount . In the second plnce , for nil the goods they snnd , they will charge in the nominal coin of Naples a sum equal to the real coin of other places , and tluis
Naples will get no more for its debased silver than the silver is really worth . The Neapolitans will suffer , because they will have to fulfil existing engagements in the nominal coin , and they will see their silver driven away bodily , while trade sails past their ports without entering it ; for they are discredited customers . So the King thinks it a wise course to impoverish the very people from whom he is to draw taxes ; and King Uomba . is the great ally of Russia in the South—the great sustainer of Rome in its latest vagaries . Whatever may be our critical doubts of Napoleon the Third , an act of our Post-office shows increasing connection between the two peoples , which must , to a gresit extent , bind him to the better part of his measures . A new newspaper and book-rate has been adopted of which , it may be said , the single postage for newspapers is one penny , and for books threepence . This , to a certain extent , brings France within a uniform system of postage , and it indicates a tendency to extend that benefit , which must necessarily btj accompanied by other extensions of commercial intercourse . An English governor has just invented a stroke of state rather on the Neapolitan pattern . It is Governor Dknisox , of New South Wales , who has been raising a tax as if for the very purpose of defeating revenue . There was a tax on spirits iu New South Wales and in Victoria , but the rates differed , the Governments beinj { independent of each other . The Victoria rate was higher , the New South Wales rate lower , and the couseipujnc . ! was , ' smuggling on the wild border between the two . ¦ It—would bu . n * ousy for the Metropolitan police to prevent trespassing on tlu ; ( iiviit Sahara , as to prevent sinugglin ;; on the waste lands halfway between Sydney and Melhounr . ; . It was necessary , therefore , if the . sinu ^ lhrr was to be stopped , U > ad' > p" sjim ; other measure , and the natural step was equalisation of the duties . If the Victoria d-. ities had been lowered , the object would be attained ; but Sir Ciiahi . kh Hotiiam , who after his first good hIiow on milking acquaintance with the inhabitant * has fallen from blunder to blunder , thnks to supply his want of cash by grasping at heavy tuxes . lie taxes the spirit - 1 consumer of Victoria sufficiently to induce
smuggling . Sir William Dennison has joined him , by raising the- New South Wales duties to the Victoria level , whicli will probably prevent smuggling at the expense of introducing illicit distillation , so defeating the financial objects of both governors . Thus Dknni . son and Hotiiam constitute a kind of twin Naples , imposing a tax that must cut off the sources of taxation , besides exasperating the people into contempt of Government , if not rebellion . They report from the United States that Mr . Crampton never intended to break the laws of
the Union , and that the British Government declines to recall him . The British Government was never asked to recall him , and nobody thought he meant to break the law . The agents , whom he sanctioned , broke the law , and it is a question whether a gentleman implicated in the ludicrous intrigues of the agent , Strobel , can command the respect of the people to whom he is sent diplomatically .
At home , our administrative business docs not get on so beautifully , however , that we can sneer at our dip lomntio-agents abroad , our governors , or foreign kings . Our Ministers rub on ( somehow in the war of diplomacy , and the patient people lets them tell us what they please , do as they please , and put up with the consequences when they come . We treat public aHairs , in fact , like railways . Shareholders appoint directors to manage for the shareholders , the director * appointed manage for the directors , and dividends and passengers are left : to shift for themselves . This is Captain JIwihu ' h account , imd he ought to know , as he i , s genera manager of the North Western llnihvny Company . There i * no real goiiur .-d government of the railways , » o they full U > fniarrrlling with ' ^ JLU ^ Uji ^' and waste the capita ) which ought tiM ^ o ^ o ^ ai ^ X , dends or inipn . veinuiilH , in ^^ "f ^ ' ^^^ M ^ ) fr form .-l of l ' nrlinmcntfiry warfare . 'ftfr P ^ fvS ^ Mk Z we see . 'flic Kastom Counties ») # typ « r W ^ » tp ! a plain that , f . lii-ir dividends are amh , compnltn iftfttT papers that they have approved means of prc-VJiit-
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 29, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29121855/page/1/
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