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.. ¦ - ' " ^ rmtMtt A POLITICAL AND LITERART HETIEW .
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"The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of \ Huonanity--the noale endeavour to throw down , all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , toy setting aside the di 3 tia . cti . on . 8 of Religion ., Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as on . e brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Huniboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— « aoe Criminal Record , . 490 ] PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Country X , m Piedmont 498 Imperial Parliament . 482 Gatherings from tlie Law and . Po- - "What is the Broadest Basis of a . Trench Finance and financiers 499 TheOrient . 485 lice Courts : 400 liberal Ministry ? . 491 Aspects of Paris ..... 500 The Indian Revolt .... 486 Obituary ............ 490 Our Position In India . 494 Letters from Constantinople 500 The Epsom ltaces 487 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ...... 4 !) 1 The Censure Debate . . .. .. . 4 S 5 ¦ Tudors and Stuatfts- .... 500 State of Trade 4 S 7 Naval and Military 491 j A Duel under the Empire ' . .. ' . 4 S 3 Mr - Broderip . on Zoology 500 The People ' s Provident Assurance Mercantile Marine 491 A Congregation of Vapours . . 4 ^ 0 Publications and ^ publications ... 501 Society 4 S 7 Miscellaneous ..... 491 The Vacant Garter ......... 496 Ireland , 483 Postscript .. 493 Sanitary Condition of tho Army ... 4 = 97 COMNIERCIA L AFFAIRSCont [ i * e * taYN ^ OPEN COUNCIL- LITERATURE— TheGazotte 501 The New Royal Italian Opera House 489 The Stamp Duty on Drafts ....... 493 Summary .... . 498 City Intelligence , Markets , Ac ...... 501
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TOL . IX . No . 426 , ] SATURDAY , JVfAY 22 , 1858 . Price {^ g ^^;;; Sg ^ -
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¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ .. ———?—¦—A S the week advanced , the . light between the two sides became one of more equal weight and strength , and the ground was considerably , and at last not essentially , altered . In the first instance , the Opposition exerted itself to keep the merits of Lord Canning ' s Proclamation out of sight , evidently "because many of the party could not agree in tlie propriety of tlie confiscation . There was an all tut unanimous feeling that , be the -Proclamation right or wrong , Lord Ei / t , Eifborough had . no right to condemn it before explanation , his fault being ag gravated by the publication of bis despatch . It became , however , impossible to exclude that part of the subject from the debate , and while the merits of Lord Canhisg ' s Indian policy came to be the professed subject of discussion , the conflicting aspirations of party were also freely introduced into the open debating , and before the week closed , the speaking in anticipation of the voting derived no small " part of its success from a simple army of members on the one or on the other side . On the first night , the late leader of the House of Commons was seen with Lord John Hussell by his side , and many leading Liberals attached to the late Government duly taking their places : Mr . Card well himself was a very important accession ; Lord Godkiucu stood for the moderate independent Liberals ; and the muster-roll of the Liberals appeared to be complete , saving a few scattered defections supposed to be represcnte d by certain gentle men who have held meetings in one of the committee-rooms . As the week advanced , that section of the Liberal party was gradually losing its numbers for the benefit of the broad Liberal party under the Paumeiiston-Hussell lead . On the other hand , the same march of time brought to the mustcr-voll of Ministers Mr . Uokbuck , with his radical purism ; Sir Robert Pkkl , with slashing hits at his quondam commander , Lord Palmkrston ; Mr . John Buigilt , with his powerful sledge-hammer strokes and peace doctrines applied against conlisoation in Oudo ; Sir Jatkus Grmijvm ' surmounting the weakness of discaso , in order to bring his great administrative abiUty and no end of authorities against the principle of rigour in India and Mr . Gladstone's name figured in . tho bills of the Ministerial ma nngcr . In tho course of the week , Ministers used cvory exertion to weaken their opponents and to beat up recruits j their skirmishers were incessantly
hallooing against Mr . Vernon Smith , and demanding the production of the letter , until at last it . was ¦ extorted from Lord Palmeuston , with another letter for which no inquiry had been made . The delay , and even the-ultimate ' production , of these letters , injured tlie Opposition . ; for it was impossible , from the text , to discover any reason . why ]\ Ir . Vernon Smith should have hesitated to produce the last and more insignificant letter at an earlier stag * 5 . Mr . Djllwyn had on the notice paper a motion conveying positive approval of Lord Canning down to the present , and expressly withholding-any opinion of his Proclamation ; and he asked-Ministers-whether they would support his movement as a subsequent proposition—stultifying half thchr argument . They , purchased Mr . Dii . lAwn ' s support for the main inotion , by agreeing to support his resolution ; and thus they engaged enough of recruits to effect a material modUication of the balance against them . Such was the position when the mail arrived from India with Lord Canning ' s explanatory despatch , and a most damnatory"" represent al ion" by Sir James Outraje against the whole policy of confiscation ; ] 3 y -this-time the question had become so cmbroiled that several Liberals protested against continuance ; Ministers found triumph enough in being let off ; and with Lord Paxmeuston ' s sanction Mr . Caudwell withdrew his inotion . It was not the Ministers that were beaten , but the Opposition lhat broke down . Sir Charles Napier ' s persistency in bringing forward his motion for a commission to inquire into the best means of manning the navy , while it gave Ministers another night ' s grace on the subject of Mr . Cardwkll ' s motion , was productive of a really excellent practical result . Tho commission was agreed to almost unanimously . Of course Sir Charles Nalue . ii did not fail to make his case as strong as possible , and , to take his siunplc word ., it m . 'ty at the lirst glance appear that our navy is in a fearfully bad condition ; but , all due allowance made for the almost inevitable exaggeration of an advocate who has been for forty years endeavouring- to set forth his case , the condition of that important branch of the national service will not appear to bo so entirely distressing . Still the c ^ ib are aulUcicntly great and pressing to cull f « or tho earnest attention of those immediately cluvrgcd with the administration of our navy ; and ctch if the fact stated by Admiral DtmcOM . BE—that four ships , the finest of their class in the navy , were , after being in commission for from three to six mouths ,
unable to go to sea for want of men—were isolated and exceptionable , the formation of a commission of inquiry would have been highly desirable . The proMem to b < s solved is , how to raise and to retain permanently a sufficient number of men for tlie adequate working of our 31 ' avy . without too greatly adding-to the cost of the service . Sir . Chahles Napier sajs . - boldly ,-that tlie thing may be done , and may produce a positive saving upon our present outlay . But whether-. such a result is . attainable or not , the discussion of Tuesday evening brought out several suggestions that may help largely in getting over tlie immediate difficulty . Lord Clarencic Paget made one of those suggestions . We arc paying , he says , some 500 , 000 / . a year for the hire of transports , while our own ships and officers arc lying idle ; the application of this sum to the keeping of more ships in commission would enable the ships of our navy to perform the "transport service , and at the same time would give us a considerable increase of the number of men permanently engaged . Again , lord Clautsncjs Pagei suggests that ji great deal of the work in our dockyards might be performed by sailors in the llo \ , al Navyan arrangement which would place a large extra number of men at tlie disposal of the Administration ¦ in cases of sudden need . Altogether , Sir Charles Napier has done the country good service in pressing Ins motion upon the consideration of the House . Acting upon a principle over and over again admitted in the course of the debates on the famous Conspiracy Bill , Mr . _ Bland , the member for King ' s County , Ireland , moved for leave to bring in a bill to assimilate the law of Ireland , with regard to conspiracy to murder , with that of England . The most objectionable result of the anomalous state of law of Ireland in practice is found in the ; strong disinclination of juries to coirvict while the crime is made a capital offence in the one country and merely a misdemeanour in Ihc other . On tlie understanding that Government would give the subject serious consideration , Mr . Bland consented to leave it in their hands . Mr . Locke King was not successful with his bill to enforce a uniformity of practice throughout tho country in the sulc of grain ancM ' ruit by measure , grain being sold by weiglit in £ lurg ; ft number oi ' towns , and by measure in an almost"Equally largo number of other towns . The opinion of thoso in the House who may bo suppoajij to have roprosonted the Corn-trade was strcMijty overso to the
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2243/page/1/
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