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J P ^r ^^v- vV "V ^ v -v ? A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW. I
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J P ^R ^^V- Vv "V ^ V -V ? A Political And Literary Review. I
J P ^ r ^^ v- vV "V ^ v -v ? A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW . I
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fPHE little fairy of the German stories is the X model which Parliament adopts for itself in the latter days of the session—a sprite which mingles mischief with hard work , frolics with things in the kitchen during the night , and leaves the abode in apple-pie order for the astonished servants in the morning . After wasting months in " discussions" which had infinitely more premises than conclusions—and very ineligible
premises many of them were!—many more platitudes than arguments , the House of Cctmmons , rebuked by Lord Pai . mkkston ' s hint , that if it did not make haste it might have to sit till September , set itself to work in committee or otherwise to pass the Limited Liability lVill through its several stages , the Bill for rectifying the Beer blunder of last session , the better management of the Motropolis Bill , Lord Siiaftksiivry ' s Bill for removing penalties from congregations meeting
even in private houses occasionally , and others . The Lords have been registering the edicts of the Commons , in an obedient spirit . The faithful Commons have likewise passed almost without question the supplemental estimates of the navy , army , and ordnance , giving Ministers as many millions as they required ; ami have duly told Sir Gkor ( h : Cobskwam . Lewis to do what he proposed—to raise 7 , 000 , 000 / . on Kxchequer bill * or bonds . This is in lieu of tuxes , which arc
postponed till next session . The fidelity of the Commons is rewarded in the kindly accommodating spirit of Ministers . Lord I ' almkrston blandly reduced the claim for money towards the commencement of the now public oflices to be built around the butt-end of Downing-stroot from 90 , 000 / . to 40 , 000 / . — the . smallest amount needed for rendering the present unsafe and unoonunodious buildings simply tennntiible . The House passed , without much question , a curious little
vote of 40 , 000 / . for public buildings and educacation in Southern Africa—a new dodge on the humane tack for the purpose of diverting the Kaffirs from war ! To think of attempting the conversion of Kuflirs , Zulus , Hosjemans , and such races , to orderly citizens on an instalment of 40 , 000 / . ! However , Ministero might do worse with their money ; they would have done worse , for instance , if they had given the American the sum for which ho stipulated to exterminate the tribes .
Among the little questions which have been discussed have been the merits of Admiral Walcott and other naval officers , who regard themselves as having earned the Order of the Bath for an affair with pirates in 1846 . Admiral Walcott insists , nine years after date , on knowing why her Most Gracious Majestv did not smile benignant and shower ribbons upon himself and his brother officers . Even the statute of limitations might have shut him out . But what order of chivalry was ever created by act of Parliament or a vote of the House ? Was it thus that the Garter began ?
Major Heed ' s escapadftyras no exception to the smooth working . On" the contrary , it was a p leasing effervescence ; the laughter bursting out like innumerable bottles of " pop" at a militia jubilee . The Major gravely moved that the House should bind Ministers to an autumnal session . Promising to call Parliament , if he could not help it , Lord Palmekston asked the House to proceed to business , ami the Major to
withdraw his impediment . But it was Mr . Disraeli who showed up the gallant member most effectually . Solemnly and cieeronically did Mr . Disk . vki . i protest against the attempt of the honourable member to entrap the Conservative Opposition into a vote of censure . The House " laughed eonsumedly ; " but the grand Major , taking evervthinjr in tragic seriousness , rose up
to deny that he had intended any vote of censure , or thnt he wanted to place the Opposition in antagonism to the Ministry ; in short , he disclaimed any purpose of bringing about a state crisis ; and the House—laughing more than ever — believed him ! Some call him the enfant terrible of the House ; but there is a difference between this and the general run of that monster —no one is afraid of him .
Lord Derby has been at Goodwood ; the minorities who club together tor the purpose of harassing the Ministers have been nowhere ; the venison "Is ordered for the . white-bait dinner at Greenwich on Wednesday next , and the members are looking to the last grand division of the session . A <• -rtain mildness and courteous matter-ofcourse spirit has seize 1 upon the British people ; and public men go through the most critical stages of their lives without an event . Before our last nuinlu'r was in the hands of many of our readers , Sir HiirsJAMiN ILvi . i ., from a private citizen , had been remade member for Marylebono , not only
without opposition , but without the thought of such a thing . Lord Caxxixg receives his farewell dinner from the Directors of the East India Company , and sees occasion to rebuke them , not unjustly we must say , for the fluent facility of their personal compliments to him ; as if to hand over the welfare of 150 , 000 , 000 to the keeping of a single man were a courtesy that could be completed with a wave of
the hand over the wine-glasses . Nor is it only their welfare as a fixed and stationary thing which is entrusted to him . Perdition and glory are both in the scale confided to his holding . Our Government in India , which hangs entirely by the prestige of our management and our arms , and which mig ht be forfeited by the indiscretions of a foolish Governor , is gradually developing itself into a rule which this world has never yet
witnessed . A government by an alien race , entering more thoroughly into the business , feelings , and local interests of the natives than their own governments—not to be shaken by any native competitors because , the natives would not trust an } ' other government so well—introducing among them new arts , new habits , new associations , teaching them how to rule themselves in our own Anglo-Saxon fashion , and finding a certain success in the pupils—laying the foundation of something like a federative constitution . —training public servants , admitting Hindoos to an equality
of competition with British—in short , planning the expansion of a community far wealthier than fubled India , far happier than many that have lived in this changeful world—that is indeed a miraculous scheme to spring from the halfconscious head of old Routine ! And it is all placed under the guidance of one hand , hitherto employed iu steering our Post-office * one man now lias as many millions of Indians under his control as lately he h * $ J post-letters annually . But so smoothly do things work now-a-days , that the directors smile the last ceremonies of livery and
seisin amid the fruits of the desert . Sir Ororuk Brown , just returned from the Crimea , and welcomed by the grave residents of Leamington , can find nothing to say on returning thanks for the compliment to himself , N t to do . livor a brief but solemn lecture upon the uoMcjT <* , attempting no reforms in tho Brit « l « «»» y * ^ - , it jus as it is , he says ; for the ,,. ou Lkpto J * officered by gentlemen , and our own Ufio <»» rttsh on to glory iu a way equalled by no ptjw ariny . i * 3 ¦
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VOIi . VI . No . 280 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1855 . P * iC 3 { ££££ ? :::: Sx pSct
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- r * oE Imperial Parliament 731 The War 73 ( 5 Now War Projectiles 737 Farewell Dinner to Viscount Canning 737 Mr . Blcchi atTiptree Farm 737 The Police I nquiry 737 Our Civilisation 737 Naval and Militar y News 738 Continental Notes 738
Miscellaneous 739 Postscript 739 PUBLIC AFFAIRSSurvey of the War 740 The War in the North 741 Vulgar Impatience of Adulteration 741 The Polish Legion 742 ( Germany 743 Tiptree 741
Torture in India 74 * Progress of Russian Policy iu Central Asia 743 LITERATURESummary 747 Maud and other Poems 747 Last Year ' s Asian Cam paign 74 S Life and Opinions of Milton 750 A Batch of Books : . 750 Egypt ' s Place in Universal History 751
| THE ARTSI Mademoiselle Rachel 752 Births , Marriages , and Deaths .. * 753 * COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c 753-756
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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 tne 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 aa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development i . of our spiritual nature . " —Humboldt's Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2101/page/1/
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