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1 _) A'RIjIAMENT was prorogued on Tuesday , A with " warm acknowledgments " from the Queen for " zeal and assiduity" in public duties during the session . It was a session during which a larger proportion of bills has been thrown out than in almost any on record ^ during which members have . talked ^^^^ agg » pTactical reforms , have quarrQnea ^ ov ^ fth ^^^ tical methods of affecting those r ^^ pa | t ? w || ave left them ungiven
done . If HmM ^^ T ^ Mifc to Parliament her warm ackrf # 8 ttfcpSSflt&" for words and worry , the gratitude mig ht be due for the work done . As it is , the speech makes the largest boast it can of the principal measures that have received the royal assent . They arc enactments beneficial to the Executive , to trade , and to those who <> o to college or to law . The improvement of the Coast Guard , and of the police , smooths ; tho way
of the Executive . Cambridge University is slightly improved—we cannot say " reformed . " The County Courts are further improved —a real advantage to the public . And the principle of limited liability is extended , though still with untoward restrictions , in the act for regulating jointstock companies . This is the work don < 5 : how long a list of pi-qjeets for all kinds of improvement , save political improvement , represents the measures abandoned or lost ! Of these the lloyal speech makes no mention .
Hick Majesty also tells the Lords and Commons that they have nobly answered the appeal made to them for the means to carry on the war with energy and vigour . The Commons have supplied the means in millions of taxation , the country has supplied the men , the CJovorninent has kept to itself , and to tho governing class , the advantages of military commission ;* with only slight relaxation for the benefit of the working soldier ; and we have yet to ascertain that the speech is true , when it tells n . i that , "the objects for which the war was undertaken have been attained" —unless , indeed , ( hose objects were i ' al .-ely stated to the public . Already Russia i . s contesting the observance of the treaty of peace ; slui lias not surrendered to Turkey the fortresses of Ismail and Kcni ; she has not evacuated Kurs ; she has once more taken possession of the Crimea--formally surrendered bv Sir ANii . u \ im CormiNGTON . So Parliament is dismissed for ( he season . It
has even during the last few days undergone a change . The Right Hon . Edward Steutt having been created Lord Bkjjpjer— partly to compensate him for being shifted about when his place in the Government was needed—he has been replaced by Mr . Charies Pagkt ; who , at the hustings , talked moderate liberalism after a good set fashion . The best part of his speech was that where he contended for the right of Manchester to make experiments in education separated from religious teaching ; but the new member for TSTot- ^ tingham will not materially alter the character of the House of Commons . We must go a little further in our choice of candidates , we must raise
some more stirring questions , > ve can expect the people to arouse themselves for the purpose of altering the character of the House of Commons . Indeed , it i . s a question whether we shall be able to do so until the suffrage be considerably extended . At Nottingham a people ' s man oilered himself in the person of Ekxkst Jones : the show of hands was for him ; the pol of the qualified electors was so certain to go for
Mr . Paokt , the middle-class man , that the Chartist leader judiciously declined to stand . From the experience of the last session , however , when intcrnal political questions were entirely shelved , we may conclude that the class in possession of political power does not intend to concede any extension of the suffrage until the misconduct of the members appointed by the present fractional
sufon horseback have nothing to do wUh-these matters . Such a notion is the more to be regretted , since , upon the whole , the public shows a strong sympathy with the Queen ' s desire to bring out the military qualities of the Englishman , and there is pleasure as well as amusement in the smile with which John Bulx sees the first lady in the land riding about with _ -- ;' a' general ' s plum « of featlifers on h&F ^^ 4 ^ 6 r A ^ n ^^ ' s ^ pfAr' of &ps . Uiettes drt ' lies-sborilders . ¦ ' / & ' ' * ¦ fi -- i-v ; , ' . ¦ -, •>/ sc--- ^ Vliiitever' her ministers -may : ' advise , Qi * een VrCroniA is . manifestly preparing the British army for -greater efficiency in active service . What service ? The question is practically important . In France also the soldiery , which has been disappearing in the Crimea , is reappearing on its native
soil , and there it hnds an important occupation . The Emperor Napoleon is forming a new army for a specific purpose—it is called an " army of observation , " and its purpose professedly is to watch the frontiers of Spain . Why ? The Emperor cannot anticipate any invasion of France from that distracted country , and , in order to ascertain what practical purpose he may contemplate in the arm ) -, which is constantly increasing in its numbers , we must see what is going on within Spain itself .
Here is chronic confusion . O Donnell lias not managed his coup if eta I with anything like the decision and completeness that crowned the cotfj ) d ' e ' tat of Louis Nai'olkon with such infamous success . There has , indeed , not been apparently the same indiscriminate slaughter of an unoffending populace , but there has been slaughter , and in numerical amount probably the Spanish slaughter exceeds that of Paris , as it has also taken place in a far larger number of towns . But OVDonnkjlj . hud not acquired such complete command over the army ; he had not procured ao well constructed an agency in the different provinces ; and , above all , Madrid i . s not Spain . Saragossu still holds out ; other ( owns in Urnniulu keep the royalists at bay ; in one or two places the General * of the army have been compelled to grant an armistice . Hire and there one roads of a General who has been arrested by the insurgents . The Governors of various municipalities have been superseded , in some places the Captuins-Gqnorfl have been superseded ; yet we do not , learn that ' all the . successors have taken the ptaee of tltq superseded men . The municipulity ^ ln MudfJa . has been abolished ; martial law , remitted in fcnA
frnge makes the bulk of the people angry . Every extension of the suffrage , since those statutes which took away the right of every freeman to a voice in the election of the representatives , has only been extorted by something like a resolution in this country , and it seems that our Conservatives are bent upon compelling us to keep up with untoward custom . As our soldiery is disappearing in the Crimea , it is appearing on the great parade-grounds which have become a new feature in the scenery of England . Alilershott was the theatre , on Wednesday , of one of the grandest military displays which the people of this country have ever witnessed , — or rather have In-anl oj \ for the people were prevented from witnessing the display for which they pay . The , sla'j ; e -niannucr on these occasions is General K ' nou . ys , a court , soldier who disUn ^ ui . slie . s himself by arrangements that , keep the general public at an enormous distance — . so far <> . ' ) ' ( lint , ( hey cannot really see , the . proceedings . It i . s evidently held that f . ho classes which cannot allord < o ride
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j | "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble hk endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men . " by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions m of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development M of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . '« _ .. ,
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; RrviEWOFTHEWEEK- i-aob Sanitary Matters 723 Parties at Leisure 733 i Lake Ngami 73 S I REVIEW OF THE WfctK Naval and Military 72 * . The Coming Bishop 733 Subalpme Pictures 739 $ Imperial Parliament ...... / 22 Miscellaneous 721 ) ; Nottingham Politics 731 i hssays m Philosophy 740 ? The Departure from the Crimea 72 . 3 Postscript 730 V The Orient r&i LITERATURE— •; Ireland * '*¦* PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ¦ ¦ „ » - » - ¦ i America 724 ^ "liu Hri-rtmj Summary 735 The Gazette 741 i ! StateofTrade 724 The Constitutional "War in Spain ... 731 ' The Lover's Seat 735 „ . — ,.-,.. f Our Civilization 725 ' The Political Season 732 Colonel Lake's Captivity 730 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinental Notes 727 The Defective Intellect Question ... 732 Sight-seeing in Germany 737 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 741 __ . — ¦ - g 0 E
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2152/page/1/
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