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IN this , the first week of the recess , almost everything- seems cast loose from its ordinary course , except the concentrated attention to the subject of India and the requisite reinforcements . Parliament has gone , and the Queen was last week off to the Highlands ; but the Premier is detained in the neighbourhood of London as sentinel-in-ehief for the interests of India . Cabinet Councils are
held , and will continue to be held from time to time ; and the departments are working off the reinforcements—of which more , and yet more , have been announced this week—as fast as transports can be found . It is reckoned that something like 70 , 000 or 80 , 000 . will be assembled in India this autumn ; and the latest announcement is , that strong bodies of Artillery and Engineers will be sent over . Hot before they are wanted . The whole tenor of the news from the scene of war shows a more
alarming state of things than we had gathered , even from the late telegraphic despatches . The British army is broke up into small portions , the commanders of which arc defending themselves at Delhi , Agra , Lucknow , and other places . They have lost the character of assailants , and have fallen upon a merely defensive position . The one exception to this is IIa . vjelock , Vlio had marched upon Cawnporc , had retaken it from the atrocious Nena Sahib , and was pursuing that traitor , who had in his turn become a fugitive .
While the contemporary history of India thus presents the leaders of the British army reduced to the most painful straits , the interval is filled up with shocking outrages to defenceless officers—men who had surrendered on condition—to women , and even to children . But one striking contrast remains between the barbarians and the Europeans .
Throughout the whole of these horrors , while thinned by death and disaster to numbers purely fractional in comparison with their aggressors , ( he Europeans never seem to be cilher cast into despair or goaded into malevolence ; their courage lioldss good to the last , even when they arc Ihemselvey morlally wounded—oven when they sec women and chaldron the victims of baser passions .
or new elections , it appears to be having very much its own way — the present Government having the advantage of several strings to its bow , so that almost any candidate which can turn up on the Liberal side will ultimately prove to be a supporter of the Government . There have been two elections , and another is brewing . The removal of Lord Hobert Gbosvenor to the House of Lords has incited Mr . Byng -to abandon Tavistock for Middlesex . Mr . Arthur . Russell has scarcely announced himself for Tavistock ere Mr . Miah . aujuu uiiucu . jiimacju iui Aiivisujurt . cic xrxi . -L' -n n im
appears , competing with him for the same seat . Two Liberals are competing for tlie Greenwich , seat , vacated by the bankruptcy of Mr . Townsent * . Mr . Byng has found his place for Middlesex without a vote or a word against him . At Tavistock tlie onlyquestion was , whether the electors would prefer a Russell of really liheral pretensions , with all the prestige of the Bedfoed connexion , or a Mr all ? But in either case we may assume that the member will be found voting in reform questions with . "Lord John . Mr . Miall is by far the stouter Liberal , but he had against him a very strong influence in TavistockGreenwich has to choose between the
. iiivisbouK . vjrrecnwicn nas 10 unuusu uuuwcvn me son of Lord Cami'IJELL , whose ardour is understood to be greater than his discretion , and Mr . Salomons , a . tried Liberal , whom the House of Lords contiuuoa to exclude from the House of Commons " because he is a Jew ; and the question is , whether the elector yjx \\ ohoose a member who could take his seat but might not he of mu . oh use , or ;> useful member wlio might not be able to take ins SD ? All these men arc Liberals ; the Middlesex and ' $ jwistoek candidates were all ballot jnen ; eyen the Russell in Unit reaped ; going beyond his uncle .
the Euphrates project- —which Government seems to have dropped—appeared in the commercial columns of the Times , and reappeared next day as an avowed advertisement . Last week , at the very close of the session , Lord Palmeb . st . on declared that Government would give to the Hed Sea project such assistance as could be rendered without Parliament ; but the promoters of it are still looking out for ' support , ' as if it had not yet become a perfectly certain undertaking . Yet it could be carried out , we should
imagine , in a comparatively short space of time ; and it would , by the opening of next Parliament , place us in daily communication with India . " What stops it , then ? Arc there still some intrigues by which each line is preventing the other , neither one being realized for the public ? There are not wanting signs on the Continent that our Indian difficulty is raising the hopes of our enemies . The JTrencli press , no doubt , maintains a respectable demeanour towards England , but some journals protest against the destruction of
Delhi in a tone which implies that Prance has some voice in that region . Englishmen have uttered the same protest , and not without reason , but it is a question on which even so much as a remark by a foreigner is an intrusion . The Emperor of the French is assembling a great army , and is about to nice I ; our rival , Alexander of Russia , in one of the German capitals ; while there is a remarkable delay on the part of our Government in using the direct and rapid route of Suez for the transmission of troops .
But while Louis Na *> oLeon is founding his grain ) caxnp at Clmlous , and collecting royal suffrages to maintain his influence in Europe or in the world , new difficulties have sprung up in the capital . On Thursday . there was a perfect panic in Paris , created by the retirement of certain directors of the Credit Mobilier . The shares of that association instantly foil , and largely . Probably this is but the first beginning of that commercial crisis which lms 3 by one nuuiiKiivre or another , been so long deferred in I'Vjuico . Another painful incident attending the
The list of new peerages is hot yet completed . Lord Hobicrt Grosvknor is the only one that has been announced in a formal document .. The creation of Baron Macaulay out of the raw material of Thomas Bajungton Macaulay , has j .. oo been announced in si less formal but in an officuu way . The Dukedom of Kerry at ill hangs ovr ,. Lord Lansiiownh ; but we have not yet advanced furthur in the list . It would appear that some who hail received oilers of the peerage had declined ; Sir Fuan'cis Baring has been named nnioiiLrsli heso . AtanV- > . marino has been named amoiig-Mtt . Iie . se . At arty- v
blessed ini , i ' . rf ( ' ri > iH !(> nf innim-ml « v »»>« ii . if »« l ... c / -, / -. blessed interference of imperial magnates has occum : d in ilic Principalities . Long harassed to melancholy mildness by anxiety , goaded to frenzy by factious charges of peculation , Giijka , head of llu > , Unionist party in Moldavia , has ended law troubles after the old Roman fashion , hy killing himself . ] n the meanwhile everything- at home goes on prosperously . The Government gets on an smoothly ay during the session : whether it is new peerages
j .. rate , Lord Palmkrston will find liiiitori ^ s / Jfori ; ¦ •'• • ¦ ' ; ss- s creating as many Liberal Peers as J u ^^ W ^; : m : ; / , ¦ „/' mid if sonic- decline others can be lbuiuOoi ^ Jty ^; , ^ . . AM •" sacrifice . ^ w ^> " ' - ^ 1 ~ \ n the railway world , ( lit : grii ' nd subject i ^ lllCyya ^ .. ' 'f' ^ Vvf ^ tcrneeiuc ynw within \\\ v . Great Northern ^ CJ ^ tf ^ tJU X ^ A ^ pany . The original . shareholders are hy ifcni \ ei > i | a' v ' r ^ '/ V f 'J L-, ¦¦• ' * " s $ S <^ — . " x * _^ t ~^ ^
Subsidiary questions have assumed unusual interest . There ia some conflict going on in London , though not yet very intelligible , between j ho promotors of the telegraph by the Euphrates routo and that by the Rod Sea route . A long article , favouring
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'The one Idea which Iii 3 bory exhibits as evermore devslopins ^ itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men b-y prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Hainan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of ourspiritxialnature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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VOL ,. VIII . -No . 389 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBEE 5 , 1857 . PMOE ^ ga ™*
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- i-aob Naval and Military S 49 I . British Indiaand Algeria 856 Moore ' s IrishMelodies , andHaydn ' s gs § ss ¦ is- ^^™ . === tmaT :- • ¦¦ - State of Trade !!!!!!!!!!!!' . !" . " . " . !' . " . " !" . " . !' . ' . " . "" S 45 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- jPreemasons and Foresters 856 In Remembrance of the lato Mr . The Great Northern Railway 815 Regeneration of the Bengal Army ... S 52 > Ihe 1-oresters asb Douglas Jerrold 860 Eowthe Writer was Despatch-Boxed S 46 TheCamp at CliAlons 852 I , ___ _ .. „ _ The Tonic ; Sol-fa Association at tho A . ccidents and Sudden Deaths S « 3 Itetribution 853 LITERAi UKt Crystal Palace 860 Ireland 846 The Social Science Association 853 | Summary 857 America .. 846 The French in Algeria .. 851 j Buskin ' s Elements of Drawing 858 _ Continental Notes 847 New Elections for the New Parlia- I The Unknown Normandy 869 llie gazette Bbi Our Civilization 843 merit 855 I "Wild Adventure , ..... 859 /~« tuiiuic-or-iAi irraict Gatherings from the Law and Po- Lord Macaulay 855 j Educational Hooks 869 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS liceCourts 819 London out of Town 856 1 New Editions 8 G 0 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 861
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/1/
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