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fpHE Royal Speech was given to Ministers to con-1 Ceal their thoughts ; the Royal Speech this year , read with ft little attention , amounts to a confession tnat our foreign affairs are in great confusion ; that Ministers do not intend to carry on the course of policy which they appeared to have taken up in 1856 , especially with reference to Italy , which passes sub silentio ; that the ratification of peace with Persia is in doubt ; that the and with
treaties with the United States , Honduras , for the settlement of the South-American question , arc again all abroad ; that they do not intend this session to introduce any subject of political reform , but that they are about to reproduce those Law Reforms on . matrimony and divorce , and the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction , ^ of which the public has been quite sickened . The Prime Minister , indeed , was a great deal more explicit than the Royal Speech . He called upon the representatives of the country to give him trust for a whole year , although he confessed that
he had got no further with Parliamentary Reform than an idea of ' considering' it during the recess . He is pledged to nothing but to consider , and the country is to give him credit for good intentions . Several of the members had stood forward with notices of a motion on the subject—Mr . Roebuck , a general notice ; Mr . Locke King , a revival of his county franchise bill ; Mr . Berkeley , the ballot ; and we have yet to ascertain whether the entire House of Commons will bo prepared to give Lord Palmkxiston a blank acceptance to be filled up at his pleasure . Mr . Roebuck , indeed , will have created some astonishment in the
country with words which look liko an announcement that ho shall not press his motion , and will yield to the good-will and pleasure of tho Minister {' or tho time being . If this is tho real purport of Mr . Robbuck ' s declaration on Thursday night , it amounts to a more absolute submission than has been made by any of the constituencies of tho country . While the loader of tho House of Commons is
thus feeling a constant increase of his strength in that field , some events have continued to show a degree of instability at the foundations of his government . Tho resignation of Mr . Frederick Peel , on tho ground that ho had lost his parliamontary soat , has boon followed by tho resignation of Sir Robert Peel , one of tho junior Lords of tho Admiralty , on what ground ia not explained . It
can scarcely be his indiscreet speech with reference to the Grand Duke Constanxine , for if that had been the reason , it would have been consistent with sense to call for his resignation at a much earlier day . The manifesto of the Morning Post against Mr . Gladstone , who is warned as to the consequences of pursuing the course that he began last session , shows that the friends of the present Government are not without their apprehensions . And it is evident that Lord Paliierston ' s friends feel the moral effect which may be produced by the swao-o-erinsr confidence and the coarse bravado of some amongst his retainers .
Meanwhile , all the world has gone down to Manchester , to forget politics in aesthetics . The Great Exhibition has been opened . Having got together a magnificent collection of pictures , statues , ornamental furniture , armour—illustrations of art , history , manners , and customs from the earliest ages — having displayed them in an arrangement which will upon the whole render the style of practical art clear to the meanest understanding—the managers of the collection invited the Prince Consort and a body of Him Majesty ' s troops to march up and down " the streets of Manchester , and up and down
the Exhibition building , while loyal aud royal addresses were exchanged . There is an indelible propensity on these occasions , in . opening any great work , to indulge the feelings in a systematic strut ; aud Manchester struts as well as London , St . Petersburg , or Paris itself . The fact that strikes the Cockneys most on arriving in the hoad-quarters of manufacture is , that the carriages are like carriages in London , and the people in the carriages like the people in the London carriages . One use of the Exhibition has been to make Manchester and London know cacli other collectively .
Thero is a roport that the Emperor of the French will make a rush to Manchester some day , and that is not improbable , if he can leave the entangled state of affairs in Paris . At present ho has enough ou his hands . Besides the entertainment of tho Grand Duke Constantinb , who must be amused without learning too much , the Emperor is involved in' a curious conflict between two great parties . For somo time tho Bank of Franco has been defending itself against the encroachmonts of tho Soci « 5 td do Cr < 5 dit Mobilier . but from tho last
reports it appears to have been fairly beaten . In 185 ( 5 , it declined tho offors of the Sooioty to aid it with an advance of 12 , 000 , 000 ^ ., for railway purposes , or for general loans in tho prosont year . Tho Government requiring money , tho State Bank had made
arrangements for doubling its capital , which is now 3 , 600 , 000 / ., and lending the addition to the Government as a permanent loan , ou terms mutually advantageous to the Bank and to the State . But the authors of the great joint-stock " Credits " which have been established in . Paris , and are to be established hereafter , sit at the elbow of the Emperor , aud , like Satan at the ear of Eve , teach him how to gratify liimse If and to do evil . The result is an entirely new scheme—an ^ enlargement of the Bank capital to the amount of 12 , 000 , 000 / . —a
favourite figure of the Credit Mobilier—and an admission into its directorate of persons connected with railway enterprises in France . According to this last story , the Credit Mobilier appears to have obtained actual possession of the Bank , presenting a large douceur to the Emperor in the form of an increased loan—4 , 000 , 000 / . sterling instead of a smaller amount , with the advances of 4 , 000 , 000 / .
for the general commerce , and an effective addition of 4 , 000 , 000 / . to the general discounting powers of the Bunk . The effect is a glorification on the Bourse , and a general rising of every kind of stock . The promoters of these Credit societies , which have already come amongst us in London in the humble guise of a General O ninibus Company , have seized the citadel of French finance , which is at the present moment the centre of European finance .
Peace concluded with Persia has not prevented another British victory . Sir James Outram has captured Mohammerah , a town of some importance , near the mouth of the Euphrates , afterwards pursuing the defeated Persians further inland to Shustor and Ahwas . Although happening rather late in the negotiations for peace , this victory may not be without its use . Persia had yet to consider the terms of tho peace and the ratifications ; and
the victory may assist both to expedite and inform her deliberations . The fact that Sir James Outram did not receive tho intelligence of tho victory until tho day after tho battle , although tho samo news would traverse in a few hours greater spaces than tho length of Asia , will teach the Government of that country , which history found amongst tho earliest examples of civilization , the importance of adopting tho latest inventions of civilization .
Australian jmpers roport a ministerial crisis m bol h Now South Wales and Victoria . That in Victoiin was at once tho most remarkable and the most complete , for tho Government had given way , and had bcon succeeded by a new cabinet . Tho papora roport an attack upon Government , uud a Into scmj > of news announces tho final result , but without ox .-
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- ¦ ' *" Imperial Parliament 434 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ... 4 : 35 Opening of the Manchester Exhibition 43 o Three Visits to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 43 G StateofTrade 437 Ireland 43 ? The Orient 437 America *¦" Continental Notes 437 S "\ ... a / "S « ri llf 7 O + irill . 43 S
Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts . ' 439 Naval and Military 440 Miscellaneous 440 Postscript 441 OPEN COUNCILIcaria at Nauvoo and Iowa 412 The Italians in Alexandria 412 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe First Debate 413 Sir James Brooke and his Critics ... 413
Our Steam Troop-Ships Prince Albert on the Georges 415 Up and Down London 445 Legalized Theft 416 The Italian Portsmouth 446 The Income-tax of a Town Doubled 447 LITERATURESummary 448 The Oxford Essays 419 Kars and Kmety 449 The New Zcsilanders 450 A Book on Trout Pishing 451
I nc . / " \ rv ^—Royal Academy 451 The Operas 451 Designs for the New Government OHices 452 Theatrical Notes 452 The Gazette » 452 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , &c 453
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« 'T 2 ie one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside t . ne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the tree development _ . - of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/1/
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