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C ^^ V '" V VV ~ V \< V ? A P 0 LITIC 1 L ATO LITERARY KEVIEW .
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A MAD world , my masters I—at least in ParliaxL ment , where we find the rule of contrary governing ; a Tory Cabinet doing with a will the work of the demented Liberal party , and Lord Ghe y violently protesting against a measureof lleform because it will lead to' other measures of Reform , andaccording to his new light—to . revolution . ! " What next ? and next ? " Conjecture is idle . On Monday evening the Iiidiftn Itesokfcions were again taken in hand ; resolution number three being the first in the order of succession . This resolution proposes that the Council which is to assist the Indian Minister shall consist of not less than twelve , nor more than eighteen , members . After a little jostle between Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Gladstone for precedence , the too-thoughtful member for the University of Oxford was let loose upon the subject before the Committee . His tendency is always to pull to pieces every subject he lays hands on , regardless of the possibility of getting it together again ; and he did not contradict it on Monday evening . He will hare it that we are still so ignorant of Indian affairs as to be totally incompetent to legislate upon such a sulijeot as that witli which we arc blindly dealing ; and moreover , it does not appear by his speech that lie ever looks for our being better qualified for the task presented to us . But as \ vc arc determined to organize some sort of Government for India , the best thing he can suggest is for us to secure the services of the present India Board , at least till the end of the next session of Parliament . A . majority of more than two to one , however , rejected the proposed arrangement . Mr . Roebuck ' s mode of dealing with the subject is exceedingly trenchant : he is for having no Council at all , but for leaving the Home Government of India in the hands of one responsible and unaided Minister . His idea is that a Governor of India , " responsible for all his acts , and being his own guide and co unsellor" would derive great mental and moral benefit from acting alone ; that he would have " a more distinct and pressing interest in what lie has to do limn a man who had to share liis responsibility with others /' and that , therefore , "he would be a stronger man and better-able to enrry 011 < the government with rigour . " Mr . Rokkuck . very frankly admitted that ho had no expectation that his viwg > you ) d be adopted ; but ho was not on Lliai account deterred troin putting-them forth , and that in his own stron ~ - weuk manner . "
The main point of the discussion was , the number of which the Council , should be composed , and evexy number between the two numbers given was advocated "b y somebody or other , one fact being noticeable throughout the discussion , namely , that it was carried on by Honourable Members sitting anywhere but on the Treasury benches . The number that appears to be most in favour is t \ velve , aud that number the Government seeni ready to accept , in spite of the twittings they receive for their provoking readiness to comply with the demands of the Opposition . But , after all , the number was not adopted . Sir Joun TitEiAWNY lias piloted his Church Rates Abolition Bill through the shoals and quicksands of discussion in the Lower House , and at least safely run his vessel into dock ; that it will be overhauled and condemned by the Lords he does not care . All those who are for compromise , he savs , leave the bill to the Upper House to " exercise their ¦ powers of invention , and then , Avhcn the bill came back , the onus would be cast upon its supporters of refusing that which might be a practical suggestion . " Sir John Trelawnv may reasonably be in good spirits even at the prospect of his bill bchig rejected by the House of Lords , for he has brought the question so nearly to tlie point at which—like the Oaths question—it must be settled , that it is now only a question of the time which the Lords may require to make up their minds linally . Another question standing for settlement , though it has not reached the forward state of ripeness which the Church Hate question lias attained , is the Ballot . Mr . Henky Berkele y ' s annual motion was discussed on Tuesday , and the vote was again adverse ; but the number of the minority shows a steady increase ; it stands now 197 to 29 ' 1 . The case made out by the Lords in favour of the Abolition of Property Qualification was complete , but contained nothing in the shape of : argument or illustration that was cither startling or new ; the law was constantly evaded by English members , and the Scotch law , which docs not require members to possess a property qualification , was found to act . perfectly well , securing the fitness and respectability of Parliamentary representatives as well—if not better—than the English law . Whatever opponents it might have , they were hardly to be looked for in the ranks of Parliamentary reformers ; but there—i not indeed in the ranks , buj , at tl )« very head of the force—is Us stoniest opponent found , in the person of Lord <* j * ev , His objootion is striking nnd strange ; lie " considers the measure only oiic
of a so lies put forward by a party that desires to effect ¦ a . ' complete alteration in our representative system , towards which the abolition of Property Qualification is the first step ; " and he further holds that " ¦ these proposals , considered as a whole , and without any compensating measures on the . other side , would amount to a revolation . " ' Even while Lord Gke y was speaking , one of the dreaded measures Avas moving revolution-wards . Mr . Locke King ' s 10 / . County IVanchise Bill passed the second reading in the Commons . Again the Ministerial benches were all but silent , and on a question more threatening to the influence of the landecl interest than anything ¦ which has been done since the passing of the great Reform Bill : nothing to say but to murmur out a mild objection that the present mcasxire might act as " impediment in the way of ; the Government bringing forward a generul measure , as it was their honest intention to do . " This is is indeed a calamity ! Mr . Locke King is the obstacle to the great Tory Kcform Bill . The state of our relations with America has been the subject of several questions to Government , the answers elicited being , upon the whole , reassuring . Government has not received any direct information as to the outrages said to have been committed upon sundry American vessels on the coast of Cxiba and elsewhere ; but they have without hesitation acted upon the representations of the American Government , and sent out directions to the officers in charge of the protective squadron to " exercise with the greatest caution the powers entrusted to them . " Lord Malmesbuhy frankly admitted , in answer to Lord Clarendon , that if the outrages havo been correctly reported and are proved to have really taken place , " her Majesty ' s Government arc not prepared to justify them . " He stated further , that ho had had a conversation of a very satisfactory kind with the American Minister , and his impression was that , after what had been done , the country " need remain under no apprehension that anything will occur to break the alliance which so happily exists between the two coun ' , ' , / Lord Haudwicke added that if n ^ ""'' , ' .. i -it i i ji re " ** y excesses had been committed hy the 0 *^ „ ., . . r . .. -, -queers of the slave ^ wraue V preventive sciu " ., ,, . . / C ! .. _ o .. ' N P ,, ^ . _ ... * uron , they were not in consid flvenefr •; i , , -o > 01 »' * jn&truotions they had received . PS > . /<>> ; ,, * - u * Wh alovttv niny have been the lincasineJ ^ viJ'&cd' ; I r ' ' \ "; r by the reports of the American captaifS ) bWfi out ' , S ~ -n ¦ / : this as well as on the other side of UmMM j ^ Xl ^ l ^ j £ that feeling uiust he moderated by the toffliiffimW / ' £ {\\ ~ Z the aflair lias been discussed so fur by tkffl ^ V ^ fiteiV . ' vV " - ' " " ) - ^ ¦ f ^ U : L ^ S ^ ^
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~^ VO ; L , IX . No . 429 . ] \ SATUHDAY , JTJKE 12 , 1858 . Pjiice { SSSff !^; :: SS ^ -
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"The one Idea which . Hi 3 tory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the liobie endeavour to throw down all tfc > . e barrier 3 erected between men . by prejudice and one-sidedviewa ; and , by setting" aside the distinctions ; of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- pa . ce Imperial Parliament ..... 55 * The Indian Revolt 577 The Orient 553 Ireland 558 State of Trade ...:... 558 America 559 Continental Notes 559 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 560 Naval and Military 560 Criininalllccord . ....... 560
Gatherings from the I < aw and Police Courts ................................. 560 Miscellaneous .... 561 Postscript .................................... 563 PUBLIC AFFAIRS — British Concession to the United States ................. 564 The Reform Debates 5 G 5 How to Make Church Rates Popular 565 State of the Indian Question ......... 565
Sanitary Condition of the Army ... 5 C 0 Discharged . Prisoners 5 < i 7 Public and Press Privileges 507 " The Limits of Publicity ............... 507 LITERATURESnmvnary 508 forester's Rambles ... ; ...... 5 « S Tho Passionate Pilgrim 5 ( 50 A Mattter of Tact Romance 500 The Chase ... 570 The Heirs of CheveleiBh ............... 571
Publications and Republicatious ... 571 THE ARTS- . / . >* The Royal Academy ..... 571 Do . u Juan at the Theatre-Francais 572 Luisa Miller ; .. 572 ¦' . '' ¦¦ Mr . Tom Taylor's New Comedy ...... 573 . COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSTlieGaxette ....... ... 5 ^ 3 City Intelligence , Markots , &c ...... 573
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2246/page/1/
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