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r \ ochi rTkllNfll lne - J-. onaon juireciory NEWS OF THE WEEK- p aob POSTSCRIPT- WhSSSlwe gain by the War ? .. 11 M Three Almanack . HW The War 1142 Arrival of the King of Sardinia .. 1149 theory of Consumption 1154 PORTFOLIOKi ^ Sfn" ^ :::::::::::::::: liS public affairs- ?^ S $ 2 ? S ^ fte ™ ' :::. \\\\ i ^ G ran Kxpositi 0 n and it 3 The Star Chamber in Jersey 1145 The King of Sardinia in England 1150 America ., ... 1145 Religious Protectionists 1150 I ITCDATIIRF— Ireland 1146 The Spitalfields Weavers 1151 LiitK « iunt The Pope in Transports of Grati- Lord Palmerston and the Map of Summary .............. llo 5 Births , Brarriages , and Deaths UG 1 tude . 1146 Europe 1152 History of the French Revolution , Continental Notes 1146 Virtue ' s Misprision of Vice ll . > 2 by Louis Blanc . I } - ™ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSNaval and Military News 1147 Mr Isaac Ironside 1153 Robt . BrowninKVs Men and Women 1 . » 7 intoii ;< re ,, n * ArRii-rts Ad Our Civilisation ... 1147 What Sardinia has done and what The Unity of Matter •« City Intelhg ^ e , Almkcts . Ad-Miscellaneous 1148 shemaydo : H 53 Goodwin ' s English Grammar Jlo 9 vertisenu-nts , & c uoi
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C HECKERED is the character of the intelli-\_ J gence for the weelc . We have our ally of Piedmont coming to visit Queen Victoria , in the midst of the conflicting rumours that always multiply during the non-Parliamentary season , now adverse to the prospects of the allies ; we have the disclosure of the strange espionage kept up by the Prussian Baron Gerlach over his King and his King ' s brother and allies ; we have Ministerial changes , rumours of a dissolution , controversies over the price of bread , exposure of a great commercial company , a still roaring trade in exports , and an industrial civil war at Manchester .
There is something noble in the very simplicity of the course which King Victor Emmanuel , lias taken . As to his polic }' , we appear to understand it completely . lie determined to found constitutional government in Piedmont and its allied provinces , and he has done so . To do it involved the necessity of standing independent of Austria , of conceding representation with free discussion in speech and printing , and of independence from the dictation of Rome—hard matters-for a Roman
Catholic 1 riuce to grant . But he granted them ; and he accepted the consequences . He has sent liis contingent to the allied armieslnthe East ; he has identified himself with the Western alliance ; he has , in short , steadily followed the course of constitutional freedom , and he is essentially the opponent of absolute despotism . There i . s something in this simplicity of conduct which rebukes the complication and antagonism of our own Stutc .
When the tumult and bustle of the reception have passed away , the King , " Honest ; Man , " us his s ubjects call him , will perchance look a little beyond the surface , and try to find out how we stand in this country , what arc the conditions that may enable us to sustain our part in the conflict into which we have drawn him , and to do credit to thu alliance , lie comes amongst , us at rnthcr n . strange time , when public principles are thrown loose , nnd it is difficult to define the positions of men or measures . Never did we have a Minister with a more splendid opportunity than Lord 1 ' ai .
mkhston , who has high capacities , ijublic prestige , and everything except youth in his favour ; and yet somehow the Minister is not just now at a premium . There have been vacancies in the Cabinet , and , down to the end of last week , there was evidently some difficulty in filling them up . At last they have been filled ; but leading men of the highest rank have not rushed forward to take their opportunity . The Duke of Ahoy Lie , indeed , is not to be , like a bird , in two places at once ; for he replenishes his ducal revenues with the salary
of Postmaster-General , and leaves the Privy Seal to Lord Hakkowdy , who is succeeded in the Duchy of Lancaster by Mr . Mattiikw Tamiot Baines— quondam President of the Poor Law Board , and olin the Rccordersliip of Hull . Lord Stanley of Aldekley also , still keeping the Presidency of the Board of Trade , enters the Cabinet . The most positive result of the whole
movement is , that the Ministry is joined by Mr . Lauouciikkk and Mr . Bainich , the latter being a person who lias been thought to be ill used on former occasions , nnd who commands a considerable amount of public confidence . But while the Ministry i . s thus recruited with respectables , a member of the Government rushes before the public at Tumworth with sweeping attacks on the fleets both of the lialtic and of the : Black Sea , for
not having done what was expected of them . I he censor ought to know , for ho is Sir Ron hut Piciii-, a Lord of the Admiralty , and he must have official means of lemming both what tbo fleet has done , what was expected of it , and what it coulil liuve done . It is not . the first time that the Admiralty has distinguished itself as a censor of official proceedings . At the lust ministerial crisis , wIicmi tins AhLM-dccn ( ioviTiimcut went out , the
Secretory to the Admiralty , who jst Viceroy over the Junior Lords , suddenly mounted upon the roof of his building just before leaving it , and , looking down into the neighbouring Horse ( JtinrdN , exposed its corruptions and weakness . What Mr . Osiioknk did to the military colleagues of ( In ; Government that Ik ; was leaving , Sir Rokkkt Pkki .. docs to tlu ; fleets under the ( lovernnicnt in which he ri-innins . It is n dainty sight to set before tin ; King .
That we are firm in the rigorous prosecution of the war no one will doubt . It is the favourite subject with the people , and our visitors may see manv signs of it . .. Mr . Fox . has just been rendering an account to his constituents at Oldham ; and he is a man who can speak for the working classes as well as to them . lie speaks on this subject with peculiar authority ; he was a loading member of the Anti-Corn Law League—he has
had close alliance with the Manchester party—he is a thoughtful man ; yet , notwithstanding this association , he declares broadly that the war must be prosecuted until Russia be made to succumb , and to give some evidence of her succumbing , to the public law of Europe . Mr . Mi am ., appeals to his constituents at Rochdale , and they only f orbear to censure his peace leanings—pence proclivities which he softens to the Roclulide view .
Hitherto all that lias been wanted for the purpose , especially in the form of money , has been furnished cheerfully . The Morniny Post , however , announces , as if from positive knowledge , that another measure will probably be adopted us a means of recruiting a home defence force , and providing a larger nursery for the soldiers-It is a levy of militia by ballot . Now , the ballot has always been a very odious form of levy : it looks fair , but is practically very unfair . Its first effect is to make the levy fall entirely upon the poorer class , with an exemption tax upon the rich . Amongst the upper class there are many who are either too poor to undergo the tax , or upon uhoni the tax falls with tremendous weight . A far fairer arrangement is that adopted in Aini-ricn , when ; every man is enrolled , unless lit ; bo already enrolled in ii volunteer cor ])! - ; , and where every iiuin is ready if really wanted . Among the strange si ^ ns uliich I lie vi . wtor . i v . ill encounter is the continued pro-peel , of souk .- collision with America . T / ic Amciienii journals , indeed , an : not of o ik ; tone ii |> " <» ' In- ptthJQCt - of the warlike demonstration sent out , J ' l / ijr . w ^ ci ^ f .. ] rj t v since , by tlw l' ] ii ; , 'li , sh jmijilth . Some 49 tlrt ^ j ^ H * " ' ^ ! " > indignant enough ; otlici-s make a ^ Ac ^^ th ^ / , f > - ' JCnglisli bullying , and treat the idtfu of-ft ff . ni , '• '¦•{ / between ( lie . two countries as an Xlrawj ^ wtjy ,., ¦'• ; ¦ ' <) 'fl ! too ludicrous to he possible . It shoujd , be 5 ' r » i \ ' nO 4 l ' - ' '\ - > fr \ ' - ¦ it would l > c no , if the people of the tivt > eounU-jfc : * . . ; * Ac ~ itM ^ ' , ' r ' ' ' i , J fc _ 4 * L < v- ' ** ± ' \ S **
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 1, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01121855/page/1/
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