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      ; "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing- itself into greater distinctness is the Tdea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between , men by prejudice and one-sided views ; 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 oxir spiritual nature . "—JlumboiUt ' s Cosmos .

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page Miscellaneous 201 OPEN COUNCIL— 1 THE ARTSImperial Parliament 191 . * ••" . * ¦ " ' Letter from an " Old Soldier" 206 The British Institution 2 U warEceiiknea * :: ** :::::::::::::: iSS public affairs- literature- » . A ^« wrtitow « » u The Peace "' * 197 Summary 207 : America .. ! I ' . " . ! " . !! " !' .. - ! . " 1 I !!! " ! . ' 197 Eussia after the Peace 203 Rymer Jones on the Animal ILing- The Gazette .. 211 Ireland .... .. 197 Police Bill Resistance . 203 rh ^ S-. i "^'^"'"^ " ^^ onl * «»«**«« Our Civilisation , 197 Sadleir our Witness . 204 S "f ^ rFJ ^™ " alld SectS '' " '' ? ° * > nwilWlFCriAI ircA . D < s Continental Notes ... 200 The People's Sunday . .. 205 ^" x o ^ " Ill COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS— . The Orient .... 2 OI Education for Officers 9 n <; Jhe Inoas of Peru -.... 209 Naval and MiUtary News . ! . 201 tabuan and Borneo .. " ' . ... I ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . . 206 Two ^ orelaf " 4 Poetry pf America " 2 J « ^ vertSemS '& c Market 3 ) Ad "

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      VOL . VH . No . 310 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 1 , 1856 . Price [ S £ |* t 5 !? .:: ES « P -

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      "VTOTHING decisive from Paris ! The Pleni-- * - * potentiaries met on Monday , round a green cloth table , right under the dread eyes ofN . vpoLEox thsThird , whose portrait was the prasens dious , and they then and there agreed to an armisticeby land . Yesterday our own capital was full of rumours , —that one of our Plenipotentiaries had come home , —that Orloff had referred to St . Petersburg for further instructions : the Funds felt " affected , " but the official countenance was unmoved , and told nought . The first steps of the Conference have been watched with anxiety , and on the whole with a declining rather than an increasing confidence . If the signs of public trust have . continued , it is the result , less of belief in the proceedings of the Plenipotentiaries , than of self-reliance . The high price of the public funds after a loan is remarkable ; but to a certain extent this is a reproducing cause . Finding that neither a foreign war , nor doubtful relations with intermediate powers , nor borrowing " , can bring down the price of funds , people are astonished at their own wealth , their own courage , and thcii : own consistency ; they undergo a paroxysm of self-reliance , and speculate in the funds upon the strength of it . There is , indeed , another cause , in the unquestionable proofs that still continue of our commercial steadiness . The returns of the Board of Trade , show an increase of nearly a million and n half last month jis compared with the previous month , and an increase slightly above a million and a half on the month just concluded . The reaction is partly owing to the renewed exports on the expectation of peace and the armistice on the continent , anil partly to a satisfactory reaction after the fall h » the exports to Australia ; while the home consumption , with one striking exception , continues . The exception is sugar—a trade that has undergone violent fluctuations from speculative causes . Here , however , is substantial ground for public confidence , and our commercial world , like Bmhmn , hna so completely fallen into the habit of sclf-eontoinpliitioii , Unit uny upward tendency it exhibits \ a

      certain to be increased in an-impulse of self- sympathy . If commerce falls off , the commercial world is panic-stricken , and trade is more injured by the moral feeling . If commerce improves , the commercial world is intoxicated with hope ; and trade improves because it is improved . Looking to home affairs in the political world , there is nothing to cause an increase of confidence ; for if there is no crisis , there are many signs of mismanagement somewhere . The real fault in the Government at present seems to be in its not copying the trading world closely enough . Notwithstanding the power it has been able to obtain in Parliament by virtue of its military position , it shrinks from the exercise of that power . Thus , when the official Commissioners corroborate statements from the Crimea , and show that Sir Richard Aiuey , Lord Lucan , and Lord Cardigan , have been guilty of mismanagement—that they are inefficient in the very duties for which it is to be presumed the Horse Guards promoted them—Lord Pan m ure and his colleagues take upon themselves the responsibility of promoting the officers , and name another commission to revise the report of the first . They might have taken the matter into their own hands , have made inquiries , and dealt justice to the Horse Guards ; and Lord Pan mure would be supported in such a course . But it seems tobe too bold for them . The commission that they have appointed , headed by Lord Sea . ton , is respectable ; but it is more military than the first , and is more likely to sympathise with the Horse Guards , and is thus calculated to afford a less distinct ground for any further ministerial action . It is the same with the Wenbleydale case . The Peers have roundly asserted their right to set aside the prerogative of the Crown and the law of the land . They claim to decide the question in which they arc parties , without any appeal ; and Ministers , who could readily find a mode of confronting them and vindicating tho law , acquiesces ; simply , it would seem , because they are not prepared to be so audacious as Lord Lynducust and his colleagues . Do fis a ted last week in the Committee of Privileges , they did not venture to resist the reception of the roport by tho whole House , and they almost intimated their willingness to \> p along with Lord

      LYNDHURSTin a scheme for supplying the want of efficient appellate jurisdiction . Thus though : in enjoyment of a political power not possessed by any Government for a long series of years , they flinch from the exercise of the power they hold in their hands , and prefer to court the fate of weakness rather than enjoy the immunities of strength . The matter was taken , up by Lord Derby > on Thursday , with all the self-possession of confident success . With real majesty he dropped his friends , the oppugnant Law Lords , and uttered his dispensation for the defeated Ministry . What he pror posed was , a select committee to consider the necessity and mode of improving the judicial arrangements in the House of Lords . But he suggested a particular plan of doing it . It is to summon the judges in a bodj r , both from the Equity and Law Courts , to sit as assistants in the House , and to deliver judgments in the name of the Peers . For , if Lord Derby ¦ will not give up the nominal authority of the Peers , by this arrangement he would enable them to act through deputies , and would so place the House of Peers on a level with the Crown . Lord Oranville introduced an addition , charging the select committee to consider the effect of - proposed change on the House itself ; and vwt " at amendment the committee was agreed to The subject of local dues is w > . e complicated . If the passing tolls levied in the ; iAmes of certain ports on the Channel were not justified by any use in those ports for the shipping of our days—if the local dues levied by the maritime boroughs are in . many cases tho overgrown form of antiquated privileges by which moneys arc taken from tho shipping for purposes not naval , there are some cases in which the impost is justified bj r equity and expediency . There is unquestionably nbu . se _» but . it is not so absolute or unmixed by / otliejj : cbwsijiis rations that a enso cannot be prcswit $ Tjorf ^ hc ' p i < J < S ' ' ¦ ' of the towns , They have madp . it a - a ' ca ^ so /"| 0 . fi " local self-government" against Iccttlr & lifeftt & n . There were evidences that Mr , jCjaw ^ cpujd , ltftve rallied round him the inland bprowsfosu font his colleagues did not dare to suppjart wiin ^ 'Ovorwhelmcd by tho resistance on Momla ^ Mjlft , Lord- ' ,. C Pal . michston enrao forward in porson ^ rHFCTCSTrny

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01031856/page/1/