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TjiINANCE appears for the day to be the poli-JD tical lever—a bad state for any country when its course of action is' determined by the money considerations . If an individual of , good education and repute can be betrayed into snatching the property of bis friend by the use of strychnine , nations themselves can be induced to strangle the liberties of other states by the loss or gains . What would it " pay" to support Italy ? AVhat may we gain by assisting Imperial France ? The best check that we find upon a fratricidal war with America is the tremendous sacrifices that it would
entail upon the manufacturing heart of the country . The sheet' anchor of the Government is Sir Geokge CoRsrEWALii Lewis ' s last loan . And a critical public is testing the merits of Lord Dai > housie because it is proposed to give him a pension . The loan is received by the City and the public as if the Chanceulob of the Exchequer had announced an immense surplus of revenue ; and , paradoxical as the fact appeal's , it is not without a practical sense . At the conclusion of a great war ,
it is most usual to have a large balance of costs to pay . In 1814 , as the Titnes reminds us , over and above the ordinary revenue of 83 , 000 , OOOZ ., we borrowed 36 , 000 , 000 * . ; and in 1815 , over and abbvc 87 , 000 , 000 / . of revenue , we borrowed 40 , 000 , 000 / . ; so that it is surprising if at the close of the present war , with nn ordinary revenue of about 70 , 000 , 000 / ., the Chancellor of the Exchequer only needs to borrow 5 , 000 , 000 / . at
present , and to raise perhaps 2 , 000 , 000 / . more at the end of the year in Exchequer Bills or Bonds . It is presumed , however , that Sir Georgjg Lewis knows what he is about ; and although his explanation in tho statement of the Budget is anticipated with as much interest as the solution of a puzzle—a puzzle , too , in which taxes are involved -J-tho City and tho commercial public are settled in the belief that roally he will bo able to cover tUe cost of the war without raising nny more taxes
than we already suffer , or borrowing more money than the 7 , 000 , 000 / . This assurance has increased tho steadiness of tho monoy-market . We have been promised , indeed , a sudden opening of the spring trade on the return of peace and tho arrival of fine weather ; but tho season seems tardy in all things , and the impatient commercial
public are now impatiently asking when the sunshine is to begin . = With regard to the minor operation of Lord D . 4 i . HOU 8 lE ' s peusion , it really is hardly worth discussing . It is true that many men have worked as hard for less wages ; true that men have suffered in broken health for services to their kind
quite as great , Without expecting more than * 'just three hundred pounds a year , " if so much ; true that Lord Dalhousie has had 25 , 0001 . a year for eight years , besides his private property ; but we must judge him as a lord and as a minister ; and while we customarily pay our public men in their thousands annually , pensioning tolerably meritorious servants for " three lives "—Lord Raglan
for example—5000 / . is not too much to give a hardworking man of the class . We do not grumble so much at the retiring allowance given to Dalhousie , as we do at the desperately stingy economy which seizes respectable people as soon as the claim is put jin for a , superannuated or crippled working man . War itself has put on the disguise of commerce .
A correspondence between Mr . Wallerstein , the agent of the Republic of Costa Rica , and his principals at home , has been published ; it comprises a letter from Mr . E . Hammond of our Foreign Office , and shows that before Costa Rica declared war against Nicaragua , our Government was supplying arms to the Costa Ricans . We supposed that in a war with Nicaragua and Costa Rica , our Government was bound to be neutral . However ,
we have handled this subject in a separate paper . Here we will only remark , that Lord Clarendon is playing the part of Lord Sandwich , in tho disguise of a pedlar . It is an attack on the property of Americans which has created a new complication in that part of the world . NAroLEON thjo First cnlled us a " nation boutiquiere "—a shop-keeping nation : tho shop-keeping impulse is that which Napoleon thm Thibd vainly strives to keep under control in France .
this year a profit of 978 , 000 / . on a fixed capital of 2 , 400 , 000 / . .. .. ' : ; Through whatsoever difficulties , the J&nperor Napoleon appears to be getting on as glibly in bis high politics as his people are in their trade . He has , it is true , been obliged to draw in his horns in the direction of Belgium . The journals at Paris , which write under licence , announce that Count Walewski gave too much importance to the question of the press in Belgium ; in other words , they intimate that the Government does
not mean to press its " representations . " The spirit with which Viscount Vilain XTV . declared that he would not submit to the dictation of a foreign Power in modifying the constitution of his country and its laws , appears to have shown Napoleon that he must not go too far with Belgium ; and he forbears—at least for the day . But he figures as a principal director in all the prevailing European partnerships . His representative was chief of the Conferences in Paris , in which
the Emperor of Russia made his submission ; he is a party to the separate treaty of Austria and Great Britain , guaranteeing the integrity of the Ottoman Empire ; a party , it is said , also to a secret treaty with the same Powers for purposes , unknown ; he is specially invited by the Government of Piedmont to assist in the regeneration of Italy ; and if everything else should fail , it is quite clear that the road is open to the Emperor Napoleon for establishing himself as constitutional King of Central Italy .
Through all these complications the Government of Sardinia perseveres with a traightforward and consistent course . On returning to Turin , Count Cavoub . made a full explanation to the Chambers , frankly avowed that the discussion upon Italy in tho Conference on tho 8 th of April had none but negative results , and that while the question of Italy has undoubtedly boon brought before the European Powers , the immediate effect 18 to render
the relations of Sardinia and Austria worse than they were . Tho note which Count Cavoub loft with the representatives of Franco and England shows that tho position of Sardinia , between tfre impatient hopes of the Italians on the one aide and the encroachments of Austria on the other , ifl one of extreme peril . In Turin tho Count has found all parties , from the extremo Right , with Cabtacinjdto for its spokesman , to its extr ^ n ^ Le ^ pr ^ aradL to' cb-operato in support of the- ItaUajwCrogyto ment ; he has had substantial evidonjS j < * r a £ Mj £ port from Milan , Naples , Patttyi , ' WW *^ » Bi ( ! T " ^ jHc ?
The Emperor has issued warnings against tune bargains , he has refused licence for tho establishment of now joint companies , ho has forbidden the Sociote do Credit Mobilier to double its capital , and it is said that he contemplates new laws for the restriction of the Bourse ; but in tho mean while tho French people have abandoned high politics for trade . Nothing can keep them from jobbing in stocks , shares * borrowings , and . landings , nil over the world ; and their favourite trading company , tho Societe do Credit Mobilior , announces
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as eVermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—the nobla * ¦'• ¦¦<¦¦ endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men b y 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 . "—HumbolaVs Cosmos . .. . , . *
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Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2141/page/1/
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