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      "The One Idea Which History Exhibits As ...

      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity-the noble pr . dea ^ oui to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of aSIIton , CoSry ? and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      Continental Notes 822 r France Imperial 330 Tlie Automograpny an . REVIEW OF THE WEEK- M ™ Our Civillatio ?! rTT . "" .. ' . 823 The Ingredients of Oude Sauco 831 Chief 836 The Dinner to the Guards 818 Naval and Military ¦ . " .: " ¦ . 826 Notes for an Italian 831 Home Travel 8 db Diseased Meat „ 819 Miscellaneous 836 Yachting » - > a Accidents and Sudden Deaths 810 Postscript 827 | LITERATURE— „ ,, _ .. RW Nobody , Somebody , and Everybody ... 820 pUBL | c AFFAIRS- j Summary 833 The Gazette 837 A ™ frij ! L 820 Reformatory ltesults 828 I Michelet as a Naturalist 834 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSSSSaSirai 5 flsiiii ! KKs ; 111 r sx y ^^ g ^ °° : « . I SiSs ^ i ^ o ¦¦ -=: a c ^ - »¦*¦»* ***** *< »

      Vol. Vii. No. 336.1 Saturday, August 30^...

      VOL . VII . No . 336 . 1 SATURDAY , AUGUST 30 ^^ 56 . Price { gStg E " ::: £ 5 S '

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      —?—However Rapidly American Questions Ma...

      —?—HOWEVER rapidly American questions may be approaching to a pacific solution , we rejoice to think that common sense has triumphed over stilted anti-American notions . There is no sign , yet , that the Western Powers , of whom our Government is one , have definitively determined upon any intelligible and popular policy with regard to the treatment of the European questions that press upon them . We are in the dark . It is said that the Western Powers have actually

      submitted the arbitration of Italian matters to Austria . This we do not believe , but it is possible that diplomatists , with closed doors , may negotiate away the independence and happiness of great nations . Some facts are obvious enough . Naples has as yet made no concession to the demand for better rule . If Austria has denied the murder of Cicebuacchio by a troop of soldiers with an Imperial cousin at its head—if she now affirms that the Roman tribune was drowned ' accidentally , ' how is it that , his fate being known , we

      never heard of it before ? The spirit of Austria towards Italy is shown by the steps taken to complete the sequestration of property belonging to Lombardo-Venetian subjects who have become naturalised Piedmontese subjects . In fact , the Austrian Government in Lombardy is confiscating the property of private persona because they are Piedmontese subjects . It has taken that step immediately after it has completed the fortifications of Piacenza and Imola , as if it apprehended that the Sardinian Government might at once march into its territory and make reprisals .

      In Piedmont they talk of reprisals upon the property of Austrian subjects within Sardinian territory . If tbo Austrian subjects say that they are blameless , their p lea cannot be admitted ; the natives of no country can claim to be irresponsible for the acts of their Government . A new light of a certain kind has been tlivcrwn upon the progress of events in Spain . We have

      from the French press a curious testimony to the fact that O'Donnfxl had contrived a coup d'etat upsetting EarAKTreao ' s Government , and that he had deliberately planned tho conspiracy during the two years in which he was Esvauticro's Minister of War . Whilo he hold that oflico under EsPAitTEito , he was debauching the- army and officering it with his own followers . It also appears that he had some kind of French

      assistance in that process . But we have treated this subject in a separate paper . The misfortune at home is , that we have no party which can stand up , in Parliament or out of Parliament , and call the responsible Ministers of the country to account . . They may be doing well , —though , if they were meriting the public

      confidence , we believe that they would be only too willing to lay their services before the country , and to claim credit for what they had done . They may be entirely departing from the wish of the people . It is true that the garrison at Malta is stronger than it has ever yet been , as if there were an eye to contingencies in Italy ; true , that notwithstanding certain manoeuvres , and the proposed

      dismissal of the Anglo-German Legion , we are not yet likely to see a reduction of our forces . But if Ministers were prepared to take a course consistent with the opinions of the country , they ¦ would most likely , by this time , have explained distinctly what that course is , or at least , what its principles were . As it is , they are shut up like other dip lomatists with closed doors , and we know that in that Parliament there is a majority against us .

      In our own Parliament we have no Opposition which can call Ministers to their duty ; for instead of demanding that the servants of the Crown should give effect to the national feeling , should defend English interests and influences abroad , the members of the recognized Opposition are quarrelling about tlio particular gentleman that , shall bn at their own head . Mr . Diskaeli is too clever for them . They want a plainer man , and respecting a question about as important as a parish

      election all their energies are absorbed . As to popular party , we have none . Italy might be extinguished before we should find any committee of popular members ready to stand forward as spokesman for tho country . Without a Ministry , then , or nn Opposition , or n popular party capable of speaking for us in Parliament , or in tho presence of tlio supreme authorities , we arc likely to see the national influence and resources embezzled for tho use of the despots of Europe . Well , it is our own fault if wo tolerate those who thus

      misrepresent uh ; for , again we say , no nation can claim to bo irresponsible for the acts of its Government . The German Legion , it appears , it ) to go to the Ciipe of Good Hope . Such is th « niodo i" which Ministers got out of any legionary difficulty , rhey endeavoured to raise an Ang lo-American

      Legion in the United States , and they obtained about 350 men at the expense of a serious and dangerous quarrel with the great Western Republic . It is with great satisfaction that we notice the gradual advance in settling all the questions with the United States ; but if those questions are to be settled satisfactorily to the people of both countries , we have a right to say that the force ot public opinion has been brought to bear most positively upon that result . Ministers succeeded in obtaining an auxiliary

      Legion from Germany ; so far they avoided the American failure ; but their difficulty , again , is exactly in proportion to the degree in which they neglected to consult really popular interests . They took the German Legion in such manner as to avoid displeasure to paltry German Governments , whose indignation they might have defied ! They sot such men ns they could collect . together by

      that kind of evasive process , and they brought over to this country a force consisting partly of high-spirited adventurous men , partly of scamps of the upper as well as the lower ranks , and partly of refugees who could scarcely return to their own laud . Yet Ministers could not constitutionally maintain a foreign force in Great Britain . What to do with them then ? While this

      subject was under consideration , arrives a proposal from Sir George Grey , Governor of the Cape of Good Hope , to send out Chelsea outpensioners as a band of military settlers , to assist in k roping the border savages off the colony . After having done their best to repress the military spirit and self-defensive vigour of the border settlers , Government is now actually invited by Sir Geokgk Gkev to send out a special body of military settlers to do that which the old settles were prevented from doing . If there had been twinges of conscience at this result of official philanthropy , they might have been allayed by the magnificent opportunity offered . Ministers at oncn Hent out word that they had no quantity of Chelsea pensioners on band , but that they hud u superior assortment of German soldiers , which they should be happy to place at tho disposal of the colony . Sir Guoitan Gicky dresses out this reply in a very telling speech to the two Chnnxby ^ of the local Parliament ; they « re ovcjgjfhgu ^ t- ^ with gratification at tho promiBO of t ^ coMfed --: ^ gent , ; the RoprosonMitivo Chamber votgl () , P 00 ^ tf , \ : to assist tho emigration ; and there isHlJgeuttyW £ , glorification in Capo Town and London . * . / ff & ffijA The grand banquet has been given to UrHQttnrQj ^ v * V-w ^ ¦ ¦>/•• ;¦ , £ _ - -V ^ vm :

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30081856/page/1/