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A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW.
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page , • Obituary 10...
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A Political And Literary Review.
A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
"The One Idea '-Which History Exhibits A...
"The one Idea ' -which History exhibits as evermore devolopiuy itself nUo pjroater distinctness is the Idea of Humanibv—the nobio endeavour to tfirow down all the barriers crectod between m . jii \ rv pruju'iic ; rnul oric-sidel vicv 73 ; and , by setting aside the " distinctions of Religion . Country , and Colour , Ij ^ treat the whole Human rac " c u 3 o . io bi-. nix'jrh ^ ol , invm-j one great object—the freo doveloprner : t of cur spiritual unturc . "—lluuibul . ii's C-smus .
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Review Of The Week— Page , • Obituary 10...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK— page , Obituary 102 1 A Kinpuom Sequestrated 100 De la Rive on Electricity 113 Naval ami Military Xcwa 102 Harriot Martinesiu's Proudhonism no Tlie Constitutional History of Jersey 114 T „ , „„ Tlie Kpmtmce of" The Times" l' < 2 Candidates and Consciences : or , a I Latter-day 1 'oetry 114 WarM ^ cJlhmea' :::::::::::::::::: So SSSVmVut lo * Tale of » Trick no Tie Russian Settlement * in Siberia Hi The Peace 9 « J PoTsSt .: " - '' -V . " 10 . Drw rAllM , ll THEARTSThe Russian Acceptance <)> J lostbtiipT i" OPEN COUNCIL— The Paval Wizards \' . Q Peace Parliament in Manchester -. 09 _ ., „• i * v , rr « inp „ ., - » T- i « . r « i lv-n ,,. Administrative Reform 100 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— 1 be Misconduct of tlie VTar Ill Births , Marriages , and Deaths 117 Public Meetings 100 Our Relations with America 107 The Gazette 117 America - > }<>\ 'J he Peace in Parliament 107 LITERATURE— r nt \ flMFRr >! Al AFFAIP ^—The Orient lot The Claims of Sardinia 103 COMMERCIAL A F tAJKb Continental Notes . 101 J . ord Weiisleydale and Life Peerages 10 s Summary 112 City Intelligence , markets , Acl-Our Civilisation .... 10-2 The Poor Shareholders ....... ' - 10 'J The Lady iu . "Waitiiig hi the States l ! 2 vertisements , & c . In
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WHEN the Norman kings found tjieir Barons j getting troublesome at a distance they called i them up to Winchester . or ¦ elsewhere ,, in order that they might put them under the screw of the royal presence and authority . When John felt the j " strength of the Barons he summoned them to be put ; . under the foiee of lying . When Chahlss the Ss- ' - cond could not muster face to utter the pretexts for ; asking money , he took to the device of reading the ¦ , royal speech . ; and that great coup has been further ' improved by developing the forms of tlie House in | both chambers , to a trellis work which fences j against any pressure from without . Never < lid i session open with a better use of these defensive | ivorks—the speech , the etiquettes of administration , j and the forms of Parliament . We sill expected that when Parliament should meet , we should ! have sonic light thrown upon the progress of the war , the position of the Allied interests in Asia , j our relations with France , the state of the Baltic , the progress of the negotiations , and the intended j arrangements in the Congress of Paris . Idle j folly ! The royal speech is a becoming rebut ! for i our impertinent expectation . It indeed goes beyond j any that we have ever had for respond ing to public j expectancy with a mockery of reply that tells no- j thing . It informs us of what we knew already — to wit , that Scbsistopol has been taken , nnd that there is to be a conference at Paris , at which a treaty of peace will be negotiated ; the " preparations " for war continuing ; until the preliminaries bo signed—not the operations . Practically , the airmistice lias commenced already . Then the speech informs us of great boons for home—some touching up of the Limited Liability Acts of lust session , an improvement in the S cotch Commercial Law , Law Reform , Suppression of Local and Passing Duos upon Merchant Shipsi n Treaty with Chili ( for facilitating tho import o vinegar ?) , and the Treaty with Sweden ( which bccdis likely to result only in the encouragement of turnips ) . Tho one matter-of-fact information which wo gut out of tho speech is , that her M . vjkhty 'ittcmls to nppcul to "the nuuilv spirit mid en- ! ¦ | i j . . , C , 1 s I , v
lightened patriotism of the country , to continue ! i paying war taxes , while Ministers are compromis- j < ing the war in a peace . - j i Surely , some wag of a statesman must , at the . 1 last moment , have put the wrong draft of the j , speech into the Qcmkn ' s lianas ? The real speech , ! . of course , contains some allusions to the truly great : subjects that the people anxiously ask the Crown and i , Government to enlighten them upon . Suffice it j ; } ust to mention the heads of that information with- out which our interests are being disposed of while we remain in the dark . These subjects , at the least , nre—Kars ; America ; the actual conditions by which the Western Powevs are resolved to \ stand ; and at home , the long , long delayed Reform Bill , which Ministers have admitted to be necessary j for giving to the people their just share of the j suffrage ; and national education ; besides such | secondary subjects as abolition of Church-rates , railway reform , and administrative reform . Of j these not a word . Some member of the Commons ought to move for a copy of the real Queen's . Speech , if only to rescue the royal dignity from its false position before the public , in being made the instrument for publishing a solemn gibe , which i meets the representatives of an anxious people with st : ile news . If the Speech told us nothing , Ministers did not tell us much more . Their systematic principle appeared to be to withhold ; and it is remarkable that the leaders of the Opposition connive in that convenient practice of olhVinl life-to withhold . What about Kara ? ask Members in both Houses . It shall be told by-and-by . AVhy was not America mentioned in the Speech ? Vox no wsmt of respect , answered Lord Cl . uieniiom tuul Lord P . w-meuston , but because the correspondence is so bad that they thought it best to say as little as possible about it ; the Central American question , however , being referred on our side to arbitration . On all these things—in the suspension of the war " with Kussin , or the commencement of a war with America , — in the conclusion of n trenty of peace with the enemy , or the abrogation of a treaty with ouv 'Western ally — Ministers promised to lay mformation before i ' urlinu . eiit : when the misrhiei alinll be done . Mr . itoiiiJUUK wanted to get the in- ' I i ; i i , . " i i . 1 -
¦ formation sooner . "No !' says LordPALMERSTON " , " we will not throw the responsibility on Parliament ; " and the Ministers expectant will not refuse to aid the actual Ministers in excluding Parliament or the country from any knowledge how its affairs are conducted . Manchester is degenerating into routine , and we challenge Mr . Brigiit's attention to the fact . It is o-ettim ; the annual custom for the members to have some kind , of soiree of a peculiar fashion . In other places , members of an extraordinary popular pretension meet their constituents openly . It is a stale taint that at Manchester the meetings are held by some kind of exclusive admission ; but , although stale , the remark is true , and the speeches of the members are falling uito a kind of pattern . Mr . Milne a Gibson annually makes an agreeable speech , flattering his constituents with the sense that they have a o-entleman who is out of office voluntarily , because he will not ' join the set in office , while he makes damaging allusions to the office-holders , damnging allusions to the war , yet adroitly contrives never to commit himself a . Toutm-nce , against Whigs or war . Mr . Bright , too , works his standing \ subjects—the impolicy , cost , and horrors of the war , j and the impertinence and horrors of the press . ; To the tragedy of tlie war indeed , he lends i variety by presenting it in the comic vein , telling I some capital anecdotes by various hands , ( Sydney . Smith , XtouiiUT Walvolk , and other Punch I writers before their age . It is still true that thousands upon thousands of human beings have been 1 sacrificed ,--tlmt our war expenditure han probably ' eNoeedod a hundred millions ,--and that we really ' have as yet got very little for our money . Mr \ mm : UT * upholds cotton polities us opposed to old ' Lord polities , but he confesses that he is nslmmcil ' of what he meets will : in the press , what he hears in railway stations , where people most . do eongrcgngate . In short , Mr , Biuuiit is not with ( tho nation . . sir EiJMUNi > Lyons is . When pk Edmund returns to his uutivu place —Christohip ; . « l ) , in Jlampghi ^ . — it is ixfete for all classes . ^ N ^ f rcpc ' v ycji as ' if he belonged to one family throughout / hi ) place . Everything h « any a is the object of uitnTwwiwu *^ ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02021856/page/1/
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