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A P 0 LITICA 1 AM ) LITERARY BEHEW .
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the Members of his party to be in their places on the 3 rd of February , he is mustering an .- army that may , perhaps , jnot be so strictly disciplined as it was last session . " Various considerations may Countervail the ministerial commands . There are constituencies , and , although we are assured that Parliament will not be dissolved in June , Members necessarily are looking for their own parliamentary death , and preparing to east up their accounts with their constituents .
TT we could trust to any of the ordinary signs , we JL might suppose the people about to awaken itself , and to take the conduct of business more into its own hands . At present , to all seeming , arrangements are making out of doors to determine what Ministers shall do in Parliament . When Lord Palmerston issues his circular , requesting
Now the constituents are already moving , and have apparentl y made up their minds on some few important subjects . The first of these is the Incometax . The same papers that put forward Lord Palslebston ' b muster-call , are filled with meetings in the several to \ ms of the country , all telling the same story , or very near it . If all speakers are not for abolition , all are for a very W ^ e reduction ; and there is a universal complaint that tbc tnx is unequal in its incidence , injurious in its mode of
collection . Thus it was remarked that the agricultural interest pays less than the one class of placemen in the country , and but a fraction of the amount paid by the towns . It is not lat all probable that the agriculturists would consent to an increase of their share ; but the impossibility is only a proof that it is not practicable to arrange the tax , so as to reconcile it to justice or to the public . The people are sick of it , and will only tolerate it if they sec it largely and rapidly diminishing .
week , appointed deputations , and are proceeding to Parliament for an act to settle the question . They wish such securities as we have described to be placed on a footing with bills of exchange . The necessity of settling the law , at all events , is the more important from the immense extension of fraud . . A . sentence , like that on Redpaih at the end of last week , of transportation for life , does not
cut out the diseased part of commerce . Kent was acquitted , on the grounds that he was not cognizant of Redpath ' s fraud , but had only been guilty of irregularities ; and a part of his defence rested on the facts that others had committed similar irregularities . [ Fraud is very extensive , " irregularities " still more so ; and , under such circumstances , it is important that at least the law should be fixed . '
The conflicts of law , indeed , liavc been numerous , and have not been confined to commerce . Sect has had its combat this week in the case of Alicia Race , the child of a Roman Catholic mother , whose Protestant school teachers claimed the right of keeping her at school against the mother ' s Avillj while Chief Justice Campbell has decided that the claim of the Protestant school , in contravention of parental authority , is not admissible . The intervention of the law has been claimed in a
The industrial classes do not find that they are at the present moment enjoying that rise of prices which is benefiting many trades , though not all . The boot and shoe makers , for example , feel a difficulty , created by the intense competition of trade , in raising their prices ; and the London meeting this week has not grappled with that part of the subject at all imperatively . It has simply recommended a rise , not the rise of twenty-five per cent , which was recommended at Northampton , still less the seventy-five per cent , talked about at that meeting .
Another dmeute in trade has been created by a decision some time since in the Court of Exchequer Chamber . As a commercial question the point is simple ; as a legal question , complicated . Mr . Kingsford , a manufacturing chemist , sold u quantity of acid , which passed from purchaser to purchaser , not bodily in bulk , but in the form of a delivery order . At last this delivery order found
painful case at Liverpool . Alarm was created by sounds of fighting on board the ship John L . Bogart , which was boarded by the police , and the bloodstrewn deck showed the savage nature of the conflict that Iiad taken place .. Mutiny was the charge advanced by ilic officers against the crew ; the crew , consisting , at least in part , of coloured men ,
They are answered by the press , that they would not make good labourers on the waste lands , and that to call for support when they are out of work is Socialism . " If the aggregation of wealth is the object of a nation , the economists are right ; if the welfare of the whole number of human beings collected on this spot of earth is the paramount object ,
then the necessitous condition of thirty-five thousand working builders demands instant measures for their relief , with the removal of any obstruction to a readjustment of their wordly condition . JPox let it never be forgotten that the working classes are made what tliey are , ?? o £ by the absence of measures to assist them , but by the enforcement of measures to restrain their free action .
retorted a charge of cruelty , and the facts are indeed most suspicious . It is asserted that some of ( lie officers had inveigled the men on board by answering to the name of another ship . At all events , pistols , knuckle-dusters , and other weapons appear to have been used freely ; and the case is under investigation . . The United States Government cannot desire that those who break the
itself in the hands of a Mr . Merry , who advanced 2000 / . upon it , and afterwards sold it to recover his loan , paying over the difference to the assignees of the borrower , who had become a bankrupt . That borrower had . been guilty of fraud , and the original vendor proceeded " against Mr . Merry to make good the value of the acid . Yarious decisions , ending with Chief Bnron Pollock , settled that Mr . Merry was exonerated , his own share in the
transnatural laws of justice and humanity should escape responsibility . A more hopeful " subject bringiKi 5 iQIj ^ t »^ 5 bQinmercc . Mr . Squier . has thispQtfj ^ ^ Affijffi ^ ^ ig to the Society of Arts the ^^ S ^^ pSSi © connecting the Atlantic andpfrj || \ ^ JS ^ WIli W a railway through the statftrf )| to 4 ^ I' ^^^^ ' ^ S particular line chosen is csvecill mSmMh | mtGPfHr the state is most desirous tp ^ iiS ^^ y ^ t | g § jv : BS across its territory ; the sierraWJ ^ rauilllfi ISip J natural break at the spot , Uic bi ^^ aQ ^ dM . qulties arc slight ; und even if « ship canal should
action having been perfectly regular ; but the judges sitting in error have reversed that decision . This judgment casts a doubt upon the valid tenure of all documents of title resembling delivery orderssuch , for example , as dock warrants , bills of lading , &c . ; but siheo an immense amount of trade is transacted by the sale or gpposit of such documents , the latest decision has created a panic amongst commercial mon . They have held a meeting this
That is one point ; another measure appears to have been settled out of doors , in fact by a fresh conference between Sir John Pakington and the people of Manchester . A bill has been prepared , and Mr . Cobden , it would seem , has consented to act with Sir John as the introducer of the bill to Parliament . It is customary for bills to have three names \ ipon them ; and that would indeed he a remarkable document if it bore on its back the names of Lord Jonw Russell , Sir John Pakington , and Mr . Cobden . Tho unemploycd-they too aro loud , and they wiU certainly come before Parliament by petition .
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The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeayqur to throw down all the barriers erected between men ' by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions or tteugion , Ooantry , an . d Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development or our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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VCXL . Till . No . 357 . ] SATURDAY , JANUARY 24 , 1857 . p RICE fUNSTAMPED ... FivEPBNGE . ¦ - * * ¦ - * . ¦ " . j- » ^^ j (_ ACampea .. ... Sixpence .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— tagb Our Civilization 80 Baron Martin and bis Assailants .. 86 PORTFOLIO' The Delicate question' ......... 74 MiJcJua ^ eJus " ^ ' " l \ ^^^ " ' 86 The Cry for Slaveiy 91 A Case pf Conscience 74 v ^ l ?^ if ^ " ot OPEN COUNCILSignor&affi'sLectures ... 75 Postscript 82 gt all Turkev be "Rp ^ » PratPv Rft THEARTSPublic Meetings . 75 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- bnall lurkey be Begenerate ? ... Eouestrian Statun of moid TWar State of Trade , ... . „ . 77 The Electoral Movement in Trance 83 LITERATURE- TaS HaSiSe Field - - Accidents and Sudden Deaths 77 I Success of the Income-tax Agita- Summary ........ . . rq Theatrical Notes * """"" America 77 . j tion 83 Alfleriand Goldoui I : /" . ' . ' . ' . ""' . ' . ' . ' ; ' . 88 ¦»¦»»; ........ ...... &fra $ ToV v ' JZZZ - ¦ " - ¦ El Q ^ S ?* 0 ^ - 84 Guizot on Peel " The Gazette ,. 92 The Tnal of Verger 78 j Work Wanted 84 . Pre-Kaffaellitism . 89 Continental Notes ... ,.... 79 j The Verger Trial . 85 ' 4 The Wandering J « w 90 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSObltuary - 7 S l 'Honestlago 85 Oliver Cromwell 90 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 92
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/1/
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