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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— Latest Indian Intelbgence ...... 1126 Post Office Savings Banks . 1132 Quarterlies , &c H 3 fi HOMEINTELLIGBN-CE . PAGE rINEARTS " ^ bSSF * . ^^ . I . ? f 1132 Books KeoeivOd 1137 ^^ SSr ^^ T ..:::::: l ^ r ^ £ ^ SSs ite » . «* ORI ^ rL correspondence- commercal-¦ &is&SS-.::::::::..::: 88 "SgSLifffiJSS , ?^ -. ™ SaV ^^ --- 111 SS ^ Aftf ^ Sr ^ - Kfeand ^ suauiev ::::: S ^ ra ^ WSr : - : ^^ : i ^ 1 ^^^ : ^^! : 11 M . GSte ^ : r ::::: | j | General Home News 11 ^^ Postscript . , • - 1128 photographs in Natural Colours . 1133 Price List of Stocks and Shan .-s .. 11 -jS foreign intelligence . mioi w tcctiK ° ' ¦ JKailway Intelligence lJ- > & General Summary 1123 PUBLIC AFFAIRS LITERATURE- Joint Stock Companies \\ - £ Forei-n Incidents .... ..,. 1124 The Nations Fermenting : 1129 « - "J ««• ' British Maritime Supremacy .... 1 U Election Bribery 1120 ^ otes of the Week ll . w General Commercial News 11 Ji ) INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- Social Science 1130 The Italian Cause 1134 The New Sanitarium 1125 Judge Lynch at Doon 1130 Trails m Greece , &c 1134 Facts ^ scraps ... H 39 Civil Salaries . 1125 A Social Problem . 1132 Ecstatics of Genius liso . . _
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The latest news from France seems to foreshadow some impoi'tant events that it has not yet been thought advisable to make public . We learn that the Emperor Louis Napoleon has decided upon not making the speech at Bordeaux which was expected from him— -at least , he has declined the invitation to the banquet which that city had intended in his honour , and has signified his Imperial will that a ball should be substituted . — not a very likely occasion for viva voce political utterances , which possibly he thinks it advisable to defer for the present . The Constitutionnel is ,
nevertheless , instructed to make a most important declaration , to the effect that France ( that is to say , the Emperor ) will pursue a policy of non-interference in Italy . In a mournful tone he alludes to the valuable advice which he gave the Italians to restore their banished Princes ; he regrets' the rejection of that course , winch would have ensured the future welfare of Central Italy ; and , having in vain offered his counsel , he affirms that he has done his utmost—he will not attempt to dictate the course which the people of Italy shall pursue . How much of this moderation is due to Louis
Xupoleon ' s integrity and love of justice , it is difficult to say—probably the exciting cause of this manifesto may be found in the determined attitude of the Italian nation , and in the unexpectedly peaceful denouement of their bloodless revolutions , which afford no possible pretext for intervention in the cause of order . Whatever projects may possibly have been conceived of the establishment of an Etrurian kingdom under Priuce Jerome Napoleon , or of the more feasible restoration of
the Austrian Grand-Dukes , they have doubtless been abandoned by the astute citizen of the world ¦ who rules France because he perceives that lo Jeu ne vauC pas la chandelle ; thus with the public opinion of Europe enlisted in favour of the people of Italy , and their moderation in the hour of trial , they hnvo become masters of the situation , have defeated the schemes of Imperial councillors , and have raised themselves to a position which will make them respected in Europe .
The romantic idea 3 of the liberty of the press bus at length been thoroughly extinguished in France , and the discussion on the subject has been summarily terminated ; notwithstanding , several stinging articles against Government have this week made their appearance in Parisian and provinoial journals . One of the latter Jn particular , published at Annocy , is noticed for the frequency with wh { ch a portion of its columns are loft an blanc , thanks to the censure . Among oilier conspicuous items of intelligence we may also notice that the strength of the Frenoh contingent to the
allied expedition to China is now said to be fixed at 15 , 000 men , who are to be despatched from Marseilles to Egypt , and thence conveyed to their destination in English steamers . We leara , also , from Paris that old King Jerome , the youngest and luckiest of the great Napoleon ' s brothers , is very ill ; and , indeed , in the course of nature his lease of life must be near its end . From the Central Italian States we receive intelligence of the further progress in the establishment of the constitutional kingdom of Italy under the sceptre of "Victor Emmanuel . The standard of the House of . Savoy has been hoisted amid
popular rejoicings at Florence , Modena , and Bologna . Victor Emmanuel ' s name heads every instrument of government , and the coinage of the confederated republics is stamped with his effigy as their Sovereign . As if to complete the perfect unity of the nation in the choice of their ruler , we find that unquiet spirit , Giuseppe Mazzini , promising the adherence of himself arid the democratic party which he represents to the prince whom his compatriots have elected to lead them to independence and greatness . But ' this fairseeming intelligence comes to us chequered with tidings of another kind—blood has for the first
time been shed in the progress of this revolution . One Colonel Anvifci , a too daring emissary of the self-exiled Duchess of Parma , has ventured to return to that State in the vain hope of finding a sufficient number of traitors to their country to inaugurate a reactionary movement . He was detected by the infuriated populace , and his life has paid the penalty of his treason . The fickle character of the Italian populace has , we ave also told , shown itself in desertions from the army of the Confederation into the Austrian dominions ; and there are not wanting prophets of evil who declare that the reactionary spirit is spreading in the Duchies . Garibaldi and Fanti are not idle , and at the head of a well-disciplined and
enthusiastic force of 30 , 000 men , which will soon bo doubled , they will not be unwilling to meet the contest which is believed to be imminent , and which , there is scarcely room to doubt , will triumphantly establish the independence of Italy . The Pope , the prime difficulty and obstacle in the way of freedom , common sense , and good government in the Peninsula , has done his best to precipitate matters by dismissing the Sardinian envoy , and giving hostile orders to the Swiss leador of the Horde of ' ruffianly mercenaries which constitute the secular arm of the Vicar of Christ . The struggle will no doubt be a sharp one , since the high priest of fanaticism and credulity enthroned- in the Vatican * will bo at once elevated , in the eyes of his
appear to be of much the same opinion as sensible men in England—that the island is not worth disputing about ; only England must stand somewhat upon her dignity , to prevent future bullying on the part of Yankee adventurers , military or political , in matters of greater gravity . From India" has arrived , according to ' the Times , a piece of news of the greatest impoi ranee , which , if confirmed , will go far to counterbalance late disagreeable intelligence from that empire and from China ; it is to the effect that the disbanded European troopslately in the service of the East
, India Company , have taken the bounty offered , them by the Ciueen ' s Government , and have reenlisted for the Chinese campaign . If this be true , Government will have the means of ¦ immediately despatching to the flowery kin g dom such an imposing force of European and native troops as must speedily bring the Celestials to their senses . The overland mail brings no further news as to Chinese matters ; and we can hardly expect any incidents of importance until the ¦ ¦ instructions and reinforcements reach our minister , unless it be some further outrage on the ' -part of tho
Chinese . . The agricultural meetings of the past week have furnished a certain amount of talk for tin * columns of the newspapers , but polities have been , by general consent , but slightly touched upon . TIiiks , at the Buckingham meeting , Mr . Disraeli confinotl himself to combating the assertions of those who sneer at such associations , and only diverged fro ax this topic to eulogise the agricultural science oi the county which he represents . At Wokingham , ami
Mr . AValter made a curious , clover , cynical speech , in which he wondered how so much money was spent in the army and navy , while there was so very little to show for it , confessing also that he could not toll where economy was to be applied ; he frankly acknowledged the mischief done by the inflammatory speeches of members of i ' ailiiunent , and delicately touched upon the subject of > l humbugging constituents . " A propus of this latter uidcouibJiiK
point , Mr . Uigby Seymour lias noon . < - < . < his supporters of his " agony of care " as to whether he could obtuin sufficient pledges from Lord J alnierston to justify him in joining 11 k > combination against Lord Derby ; his consciences we uru linpmr to find , was satisfied , and so , we tm . , wuro In « constituents . The Indian Finance Minister has been speech-making at Manchester and ut Liverpool : ho is convinced of the increasing prosperity of old En » liind . mid of the bright future in store for India . ' his prognostications be verified I Grout activity continues to prevail m every
department of our arsenals and dockyard *—ami not without reason , if we are to believe the reports which arc duily transmitted of the enormous preparations of France , which , it would hoem , can only bu intended for a content wlih .-oine naval power of enormous Htronglh . Ah it is ^ ood t < - > up prepared ibr the . worat , wo may contra ! ulato ourselves upon thu increasing spirit whioli our young men show in volunteering , and upon their efficiency in drill and practice . \^ y high compliments have been paid to home of these by officers of
cxporivotarics throughout Europe , to the rank of a persecuted saint ; his myrmidons , lay and . spiritual , arc already busily at work upon the subject of his woes and injuries , with tongue and peji , in this country ana in France . Turning to our own affairs , the most immediately interesting question is that of our dispute with the United States , which " difficulty " appears to bo hi a fair way of settlement . General I lurnoy has , it appears , increased the number of Americans upon the inland , thrown up fortifications , and blustered " some ; " but has not suoceoded in his scheme of bringing about a vow , shedding a little blood , and gaining a vast amount of glorification in the Union , which would help . him on his way to the President ' s chair . Sensible men in America
The strike of the . builders is still unuminged ; and , in addition to the bad feeling which it has generated , this wouk a suicide Iuih to be attributed o ita baleful influence .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1859, page 1119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2315/page/3/
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