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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— w * Home Intez-mgence . Political Foreshadowirigs 132 The Princess FrederickTWilliam ¦ ... 1 SS Anniversary of the Foundation of the Australian Colonies ..... 133 Captains Burton and Speko 133 ! Gatherings from Law and Police : Courts ............. 133 Criminal Record ........ ; ... 134 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ...... Ireland ,............. ......... 184 Dr . Bartlett ' s Invention for Economising Fuel and Consuming Smoke 134 The Late Henry Hallam .... ; . The Burns Prize Ode 135 Naval and Military 135 A Real Romance ...... ; 148 The Burns Centenary .................. ¦
Miscellaneous 137 { . Postscript ..................... 138 Foreign Intelligence . Continental Notes 135 West Indies ........... 136 America .... ' .,.. ; .......:...... ; ... ' . 137 Mexico ¦ 13 7 LITERATURELiterary Chronicle of the Week . 189 Diary of Lady Morgan .... 139 A Journal during the French Revolution ... 141 Lectures on Christian Dogmas ... 141 The Curiosities of Food 142 ¦ The Scottish Secession of 1843 ... 143 Alfred Staunton ..... 143 Poems by the Author of " Uriel . " 143 Washington Grange 143 Books Received ' . < .. ' ... 143
PUBLIC AFFAIRSLord Derby's Foreign Policy 144 Death-blow to Orangeism in Ireland 145 Code of Bankruptcy - 145 Scott v . Dixon . 146 Thoughts , Facts , and Suggestions oh Parliamentary Reform 146 Vital Statistics of th « Society of Friends 147 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEPrance 148 Berlin 149-Germany 149 FINE ARTSMiscellanies .... 149 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTSSt . James ' s Hall , Madame Tussaiid's , St . Martin's Hall , &c .. 150
INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSThe Great National Highway ... 152 Notes on Indian Progress 152 India 153 Cape of Good Hope .......... 153 . China 153 Egypt 153 COMMERCIALCapital—Debt—" War ... 154 Insurance against War ............ 154 General Trade Report 155 Home , Colonial , and Foreign Produce Markets 155 Railway Intelligence ... 156 Joint-Stock Companies 156 Shares and Stocks . < . 157 Money Market and Stock Exchange ... ; 158 Bank of England ... 158 London Gazette 158
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MINISTERS have certainly kept their own counsel unconimoiily well with regard , to their Reform Bill ; here we are within a week of the opening of Parliament , and not a whisper has jet got abroad as to the views and . intentions of her Majesty ' s advisers . But whether or not they have made up their minds as to the measure which they are gomg to propose , it is pretty evident that out- of doors the matter is all but settled ; whether Mr . Bright ' s scheme is adopted in toto , or only a modification of it , as the model ¦ of the popular Reform Bill , no bill will find acceptance by the country without it is a thorough , a real attempt , at least , to arrange Parliamentary representation on a reasonable basis of right and interest . There is no excitement ,. no extraordinary demonstration either for or against the great question , for the simple reason , that all parties are agreed as to the fundamental necessity for Reform . During the week , there have been at least half a dozen important public meetings on the subject , and the harmony of the opinions represented at these meetings is at once a remarkable and highly satis factory evidence of the new spirit in which great political changes are discussed by the million . Another notable fact in connexion with these meetings is , that although Mr . Bright's plan was not invariably adopted , his work was referred to with the highest possible respect , and he himself was rewarded by votes of thanks and confidence . Yesterday evening he was to deliver at Rochdale the last of his public addresses on the subject of Reform previous to the opening of Parliament , and ho comes to town immediately to commence his representative duties . He will go into the House , carrying witlx him a largo amount of sympathy and conndonco , and accompanied by a general feeling that ho has done his best to execute well a very diffi oult and onerous task . The period just before tho reassembling of Parliament is the time for deputations , inasmuoh as it is the time for batohing your Minister in town , and deprived , to a certain extent , of his natural defence ojf ' ' pressure of business . " On Tuesday , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was besot by a deputation to present a memorial ou tho part of tho British and foreign AuW-Slavery Sooioty , whoso promoters hold some extraordinary views with regard to tho labour wants of the British West Indies . The speakers informed tho Colonial Secretary that tho West India party , acting under a conditional sanction given by the late Colonial Secretary , Lord Stanley , * tQ endeavouring to got'the sanction of tho Government to a wholesale immigration from India , China , and Africa . Those descendants andropresontativos of Olarkflon and "Wilborforco boo horo little short of
an attempt to bring back the slave-trade ; Labour , they also say , is abundant in the West India islands ; but if this is really the case , the West India planters must be all Irishmen , for into what other brains-would the idea ever come of moving heaven and earth to bring labour from distant regions to double stock their labour-market ? Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was not to be hurried into any expression of opinion , and the deputation was politely dismissed , with the assurance thai , " the matter should receive his most serious attention . " In connexion with colonial matters , we have news ; from Ionia both curious and important . Sir John Young is at the present moment on his way to England , and Mr . Gladstone has taken his place , for a fortnight , at the end of which time his' successor will have been appointed and despatched . Meantime , Mr . Gladstone , by accepting office , has vacated his seat in Parliament , and his first business on his return to England will be to get himself re-elected * The whole course of proceeding , from the first appointment of Mr . Gladstone , has been extraordinary , but this last incident is the most remarkable of all . What is Mr . Gladstone ' s position to be with regard to the Government on his return ? Does he go back to his independent position , or does he intend to take office in-the Derby Cabinet ? On the 25 th of the present mouth lie opened the Ionian Parliament , and , it is to be presumed , brought before it , at least by intimation , some of those " primary measures connected with the better administration of the islands , " which have been suggested to him by his recent observation and experience , and towards which the Ionians do not show the smallest degree of inclination . The most recent news from India , that which has reached us in anticipation of the Calcutta and China mails , suggests , more than it actually informs . The campaign in Oude under tho Commander-in-Cluef is being severely criticised in India , one paper going the longth of saying that tho late movements of the British army have all been made with the puerile intention of attempting to awe the rebels rather than to overcomo them in the field , a course at which , it says , thoy laugh derisively . So far from the rebels being surroundod and brought to a deoisive struggle , Nana Sahib is said to have lately crossed tho Gauges at noon-day , at some spot botwoen Futtohghur and Cawnporc . This is a very different story to the one whioh was rocontly ourrent , to the effect that tho Nana and his family had boon suing for mercy . From tho Continent thoro comes still war-talk , more or less inflated , but not iusigmiioant . The most important of the rumours that havo come ovor tho Channel of lato is that notes , full of friondly advico us to tho prosout state of affairs in Italy , havo boon addressed to Austria by both tho Prussian and English cabinets . Thoro is tnlk of a diplomatic conference In London for . tho settlement
of the pending questions , and it is said that Austria has accepted this solution of one part of her difficulties . The price of Rentes on the Paris Bourse has improved in consequence of these reports , and at the latest quotation was said to be " very firm . " No overt act of rebellion has taken place in Italy during the week , and the Austrian papers are not slow to draw from the fact conclusions favourable to the idea of the Italian populations being contented with the Austrian rule . Foe the present , indeed , there seems to be a pause , during which attention is for the most part , centred in the marriage of the Princess Glotilde ! with Prince Napoleon . The Moniteur has given j what was possibly intended to be an indignant denial of the report , that the marriage hadbeen concluded on the condition that France should enter into an alliance , offensive and defensive , with Sardinia ; but the Monitetir only says , that no such alliance has been entered into . The general impression , both in Sardinia and in Paris is , that there has been an undex'stauding , if not the actual signing of a parchment treaty . Feeling in Piedmont runs strongly in favour of war , and the alliance pf the House of Savoy with the dynasty of Napoleon III . is accepted as assurance made doubly sure of the support of France under all eventualities . At the present moment , there ax-e preparations for eventualities going on . Letters from Marseilles state that daily and hourly convoys are arriving with all kinds of warlike munitions and hospital stores . In the naval yards there is great activity in the preparation of transports j and if war is not actually imminent , it might be , judging from the laborious exertions that are being made to perfect all the " means and appliances of war . " The King of Naples is not dead , and we have a striking proof of his recent vivacity in the shape of a decree establishing courts-martial as the tribunals before whioh political offences are to be tried . There are several articles in this precious document , the effect of which is to deliver over to the villanous lazzaroni and soldiery all those who are worth despoiling . It is thus that the Royal maniac guards himself against what ho thinks may bo the possible consequences of his lato fit of clenxenoy . The week ' s domestic news is led by the announcement of the accouchement of the Princess Frederick William , whioh took place at Berlin on Thursday afternoon at throe o ' olook . In seven minutes after tho time of her daughter ' s safe delivery , her Majesty was iuformod that a grandson had been born to her , and subsequent messages assured hor that both tho mother and child wore doing well . In this , country the affootionatc interest which we take in tho welfare of the Princess Royal is one of tho signs by wln ' oh wo may judge of tho regard in which her Majesty is held by her people . The Princess Fro-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2279/page/3/
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