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^ pe A after . POLITICAL ATO LITERARY REVIEW .
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself i ^ ^ ^ n ? u ^ of our spint / ualnature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— Vaob Imperial Parliament 746 Election Committees .. 7-J > S Mr . Bertolacci ' s Case 748 Ireland - - 748 America ; 748 The Revolt in India 749 The Orient 750 Continental Notes 750 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 751 Our Civilization ... 751
Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 7 .-5 S Naval and Military 753 Obituary 753 Miscellaneous •¦•• ' «<* Postscript 755 OPEN COUNCIL — The Duchy of Lancaster . 755 A Hard Case 755 PUBLIC AFFAIRS — The Divorce Bill 756
The Bengal Terror ' »" Prance on the Danube 757 A Plot in Parliament House 757 A House of Skeletons—and the Key 75 S Osborne Conversations 759 Torture of the Treadmill 759 Lord Granville ' s Rhadamanthus ... 760 Young Tory Garbling 760 LITERATURESummary 761
ZXU l / UUlWfjirt'Jf * * J ! ¦ * ' * ** ¦* ' * " m v A Company of Travellers 763 New Novels 764 Latter-Day Poetry 764 The Gazette 765 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Marhota , Ac 765
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VOIi . VIII . No . 385 . ] ~~ " SATURDAY , AUGUST 8 , 1857 . PBic ^{^ ^^; jg | g ^ _
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" VTEVER did Government more easily and suceess-J . T fully carry out the policy of doing what it likes , subject to the easy condition of doing what it must , than that of which Lord . Palmeeston is the head . It takes up , lays down , almost as a matter of taste . - Comparatively early in the present session , Lord Palmerston was extremely hot on the subject of the Jews . He brought in his Oaths Bill , and it was carried through the House of Commons by an overwhelming majority . The Lords chose to reject it , simply because they chose ; and the Commons spontaneously offered to stand by the Government if it pleased to carry on the contest . This appeared in a great variety of ways . The meeting of members in Palace-yard formed the nucleus of an active party . The declaration of Sir James Graham showed that the Minister would have an important accession from the lax part of his supporters . Mr . Diliavtn was ready with his resolution , Lord John Russell was prepared with his bill , and now another ingenious gentleman has discovered an entirely new course . There is a statute , passed in the reign of William IV ., which authorizes the universities of Oxford and Cambridge , ' all bodies politic and corporate , ' and ' all other bodies' having by law or usage the power of administering oaths , to substitute a declaration for an oath ; and the question is whether the House of Commons is not included among all other bodies . Should it bo so , the statute prescribes the form of tho declaration ; and it is a form which could be taken by a Jew as well as a Christian . An opposite question is , whether , after a speoinc mention of tho two universities , any body higher in authority than those two , can bo regarded as included in tho working of tho bill . Mr . Wiiiteside thinks not ; but it is a great question whether the bill intends to enumerate one class of bodies or three classes of bodies , —namely , tho universities for one olass , ' bodies corporate and politic' for another , and , for the third , all oath-administering bodies whatsoever , Tho suggostion , at nil cvonts , induced Lord John Russell , Mr . Dulwvn , and tho other friends of complete toleration , to try this now plan . Lovd Jojin Rus 3 Ell consented to bo tho medium for presenting the idea to Parliament ; , and ho proposed a select committee on tho subjoct , to consist of twonly . fi vo nominated inoinbors , and &U ' gentlemen of tlio long robo members of this Houao . ' Tho committee , therefore , would exceed
100 members ; nevertheless , the Opposition were not satisfied . They wished the twenty-five nominated members to contain a majority of persons opposed to the . admission of Jews . Lord John , however , was supported by the House in nominating the members that he had chosen , who were taken with perfect equity from both sides of the House . And what course did Government pursue ? It allowed Lord John to go forward , —opposing nothing , permitting anything ; not assisting , not resisting . We may almost say that it is tired of the Oaths question . A fortnight ago Government was deciding that it would not meddle with the militia , which some earnest persons in both Houses wished to be called out . This week it has introduced into the House of Lords a bill authorizing it to call out the militia during the recess , without convoking Parliament . The object is explained to be , that Ministers do not really intend to have out the general body of militia , which has been quite sufficiently trained , but that they have some idea of embodying the best regiments , as a ready mode of supplying the deficiency caused by the despatch of reinforcements for India . The Government has , in fact , fallen into a course of generally conservative and quiet policy , conscuting to execute those ' improvements' which the public imperatively doro . au . ds . It is supported in this course by the antagonistic forces between which it stands , and wo have had some curious evidences on that head this week . For instance , among the persons who are protesting against any democratic tendency for tho Reform Bill of 1858 is Lord Bkougjiam ; no relation , we might almost imngino , of that Henhy Bbougham who , uftcr speaking for seven hours , knelt upon the woolsack and implored the Peers of 1832 to pass the great Reform Bill . Tho Government does not intend , at present , to remove cither tho National Gallery or tho Veiinon collection to Kensington Gardens . Mr . Coningijam has clioited so much . He has also done signal service in dealing with tho National Gallery estimates , and tho public onoouvngo him in his attempts to oxorcisc the spirit of jobbory from Tnifwlgar-squarc . It is somewhat in the spirit of taisses fuiro that oven such subjects ns droimigo aro treated ; for wo Inust consider tho report of Sir Benjamin Hall ' s onginoor-roforcos as being a quietus of any plan at least for tho prosont year , if not for some years lo come . Tho' referees aro Captain Gaiaon , Mr .
Simpson , and Mr . Blackwell , —persons who undoubtedly know their business . They have condemned the design adopted by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers , as being entirely incommensurate with the requirements of our yearly increasing population . In fact , the Commissioners appear only to have provided for . the population which exists , and that imperfectly . The . referees demand a plan on a much larger scale , extending over 120 square miles of country , involving the use of 'lifting' power , and entailing an expense of 5 , 400 , 000 / . ; an outlay which might , says the report , be spread over at least five years . 1 ' arewell , then , to drainage for the present . The Commissioners evidently cannot proceed with their own plans ; in the faco of this censure , it is not likely that they will obtain the authority to spend between live and six millions from members of Parliament who are anxious to pack up their gun-cases . The Thames , therefore , must continue to diffuse its zephyrs after the established fashion for some more summers . The same peculiar kind of bonhomie presides over our foreign administration . A family meeting is arranged at Osbornc , where our Count Walewski meets the Paris Earl of Clarendon , in , the presence of the Queen and EaiPEiiou ; and of course the common interests of the two countries will be discussed precisely at the moment when the Englisb . public is perusing with astonishment the Act of Accusation brought by the Imperial Prosecutor against TiBALDr , Baktolottj , and Grilli . Tho Act corresponds to our bill of indictment , as the initiative of tho proceedings , but not otherwise . Tho case which it sets forth is that Tibaldi is the agent of Mazzini and Lxsuuu Roll n for tho purposo of Emperor-assassination in Paris ; that Bartolotcti and Giulw received largo sums of money —fifty napoleons apiece—to execute their duty ; that tho plan was discussed by Mazzini in the presence of Ledru Uollin , who assisted in the discussion ; that Ledhu Rollin or * St . James Stanifield , a brewer , ' who nets « s Mazzini ' s banker , suppliod the jnoncy ; and that Mazzini himself gave tho instructions to Baju'Olotti , who was to -wfttoh tho Emperor for tt Nionlbj and iijOiT to strike ' the blow . ' Tho po . siiivo uvidenco consists chio / ly of tho confession hy Baiu-olottj ^ jj discharged soldier of the Anglo- ! diliau lojgtCii ^ iWfho ' , , was found by another ngenl of Ma ' MUU , in ., destitution at York , and who conic-sacs i o lmvo . djo ^ is'flftynapoleons in Paris roort'iilioiiM . There iftfi . ajso jcMflfl . \ alleged to bo in the lmiulwril ing of M / tz | i * li / w | uoU' allude to 'the aflair of l ' urwj' but , o £ | n ^ 6 tate < J , ; ; - w ' . ¦ •¦ " £ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . ' ¦ ^^^ jj& y ' **
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/1/
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