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agp / ^ r JgtetLbtr A .. POLITICAL AND LITERARY . REVIEW .
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MINISTERS , Members , and all of us are about to be relieved of the session ; and a certain indifference appears to have crept over the body of the House of Commons in the treatment of the subjects before it ! There has been throughout the session a propensity to push forward business , but at present it is left more in the hands of Ministers ,
except when some few are instigated either by great earnestness on particular questions , or by personal objects . Thus , upon the whole , technical subjects are left very much to professional men , and the debates which have taken place on the Fraudulent Trustees Bill , or the Wills Bill , have been consigned to lawyers , on reformatory schools to reformatory authorities , or Scotch lunacy to Scotch members—the lunatics , perhaps , not being actually represented .
One result of this laissez-faire system has been rather unfavourable to the public . The Fraudulent Trustees BUI , for example , is passing through the House of Commons in a manner which renders it dangerous to a large proportion of the non legal public if it should pass , but likely also to be arrested in the Upper House from a stronger perception of its dangerous character . And again , the Wills Bill has been improved by the insertion of an amendment granting probate in the local registration courts above the sum of 1500 / ., which had been fixed in the
original bill j but this improvement so greatly alters the character of the original measure as to have provoked Ministers , apparently , to drop the bill ; so that the public will not obtain the advautago of the new law . This happened not in . a narrow House ; buifc evidently the members did not bestow their thoughts upon the subject , or gave them suporiloially in favour of * looal self-government , ' without reflecting upon the praotioal effect of the change on the passing of the measure .
The debate on the Lord Lieutenancy of Irohnd was amusing , but can bo soarccly regarded as a practical disoussion . Mr . Roehuck offered a resolution for the abolition of the Lord Lieu tenancy ; ho maclo a very spirited statement of the case on his side , but the strongest speakor on that sido wns Mr . Mx-Guinia , who made a slashing , dashing , smashing Irish spooch , which might have done in ono of the dobatos of O'Connem / s time , but ho wound up with the strange conclusion that he should vot , e for Mr . Lord Lioutendnoy ; but in the concrete it did not
TbRKENS M'Culiagh ' s amendment— ' the previous question . This state of things indicates the temper of the House . In the abstract , it was willing to listen to all kinds of spoken articles , satirizing the desire to enter into any subject of reform this session ; and Mr . M'Culiagii ' s amendment implied simply that that was not the proper time for entertaining the subject . It was carried by 266 to 115 . The electron committees have been going on , and have had some rather interesting results . There was an amusing announcement quite at the end of
last week . Mr . Omveira had petitioned against the return of Mr . Wood , the member for Pontefract , on the ground of bribery and corruption . The ease -was not proved ; but the committee had discovered that ' Benjamin Oliveira and Emma his wife' had expended something more than 6000 / ., after the last election for Poutefract , for corrupt purposes . So that Benjamin ' s mess was thrown in his own face , and the effect of the committee was to pronounce that he was not duly elected to the last Parliament , although * Emma his wife' had so faithfully assisted in both elections .
Mr . Charles Neate , the learned representative of Oxford city , who displaced Mr . Cartjweix , has been unseated , because his over-zealous friends took one hundred and fifty voters into their pay in the guise of messengers '—an appropriation of votes which more than secured the majority by which Mr . JNeate was returned . It is a curious thing , however , that a man may hire a cab and receive money for his travelling expenses , but lie must not hire himself and receive money for his own exertions . He may have cab-hire , but not self-hire .
The Mayo olection has had a sequel in situ . Two of tho witnesses who gave evidence before the committee havo been mobbod on their return by the adheronts of tho petitioners ; and tho Government has been obliged to interfere for tho protection , of tho assailed , and tho exocutionof justice upon the assailants . We are awaiting with anxiety the receipt of further information from India . The question is , whether tho
mutinous revolt has been confined to Delhi or not ? Even if it has maintained itaolf there , the example might bo very serious . Not that our Indian- Empire can bo for a moment in danger ; it is our pookcts that aro in danger . Every wook that tho struggle is prolonged will be so much more out of tho pockets of tho English pooplo ; for tho Indian financo is in a state of ohronio incitioionoy , and evory incroaso of expondituvo must full upon us , A further reason why wo should haston improvements that- would
prevent the recurrence of those disasters , and render India self-supporting in her finance . The fire in Italy has not spread to other countries , or even in that . The Continent is not disturbed generally ; but a kind of gloom and uneasiness are conspicuously . seen in Paris . Notwithstanding the improved state of the Money Market here , the Bourse continues to be depressed , and the feeling of those who attend it is evidently worse than that exhibited in the mere ' quotations , ' This arises from two
causes . The speculator class is excessively active just at present to maintain its ground ; and it is a question how long something like a crash can be put off . But independently of that , the very stability of the Government has been called in question . It is not indeed that ten or a dozen Opposition Members in the Corps Legislatif , headed by General Cavaignac , can upset the monarchy ; but it is , that the election of three Opposition candidates in the supplemental elections for Paris , as well as other Opposition votes in the provinces , prove both that very considerable numbers of the
people are adverse to the Government , and that electors and elected are beginning to assume * the courage of their opinions . ' The food question , too , continues to press upon the people of France . Louis Napoleont may hold his place while he seems to be the distributor of prosperity , but if Jupixer the Third were found incapable of distributing loaves and fishes , the working classes would begin to ask whether it was necessary to continue him as Emperor of the French by the grace of God and the will of tho people . This is another reason why the gloom on tke French money market continues .
The movement in Italy has not been such , as to be of any service to the Liberal cause . The plan appears to have boon extensive ; but extension brings weakness , unless tho organic tion was very perfect , and such was evidently not the case here . The police havo smothered anything that was contemplated in Paris . Tho conspirators did not even show themselves in most of tho places marked on the map of Italy . Thoy created a panic in the town
of Leghorn , and tho guard appoars to have undergone some kind of alarm ; but tho troops proved too many for the rioters . Tho revolutionists lundod parties on tho coast of Naples and liberated some prisoners ; tho most substantial rosuit being , that tho King has armed tho Lazznroniyto tho groqt terror of his rcspcotnblo subjoots . 'Bufc tjhe least successful aot of all was the attempt to create a rovolt in Qonoa , Goqtoa is a highly republican place ,
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VOL . VIII . No . 381 . 1 SATURDAY , JUI ^ Y 11 , 1857 . Price {^ I ^ ! ° ::. iS ^ S -
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- »* aoe Imperial Parliament 650 Election Committees .. 652 State of Trade 65 » Accidents and Sudden Deaths 653 Ireland 653 America 65 . J Continental Notes 654 Naval and Military 654 . . Our Civilization 655 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts .. 657 Miscellaneous G 5 S
Postscript 65 S PUBLIC AFFAIRS — The Story of Madeline Smith 659 The Court Bully in Parliament 660 Triumph of the . Opposition in France 661 The Italian Insurrections 661 Pall-mall Heformcra 6 G 2 Oh ! iio , Don ' t ! 662 AD—d Fellow' 663 Defalcations in Public Departments 663 An Incredible Rumour 6 G 3
OPEN COUNCILThe Latest Performances of the Patriot 663 LITERATURESummary 664 Moral Life in France 664 Memoirs of Crosse , the Electrician 665 A Book of Epitaphs 666 The Climate of North America , Canada , and Cuba 667 THE ARTSThe South Kensington Museum ... 667
NCE _ . m r . . eane s aa oa Madame Kistori as Lady Macbeth ... 668 Fra Diavolo at the Royal Italian Opera 668 Mont Blanc 669 Her Majesty ' s Theatre 669 Theatrical Notes .... < 669 The Gazette 669 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , &c 670
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the nobie endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside tne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spintualnature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 11, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2200/page/1/
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