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" The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea 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 vyhofe Human race a 3 one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—JSTumboldt ' s Cosmos . ______
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- page Meeting of English and Foreign PUBLIC AFFAIRS- : Two Novels 211 TheMinisfcrv 194 Democrats 200 The Czar is Dead ! 203 ! Curiosities of London 212 The KicFleet of 1855 194 Law Reform 200 The " Moniteur" on the British [ Foster s Pocket Peerage | 1 | Imperial Parliament 194 Health of London during the Constitution 203 i Books on our Table 212 The War 19 G Frost 200 The Papal Monitory in Piedmont 204 | THE ARTSKSgarrfSfSUissai-r ; & SjSffSvigsiasBSi ™ IS & SS « ir *^ .:= ISS g- * -- *!)— « Provincial Meetings on our Mill- Melancholy Death of an Officer The " Leader" and Lord Stanley 20 G Drury . bane zu tary System 197 from the Crimea 201 The" Stranger" in Parliament ... 206 Sta ^ of Trade , Labour , and the ^ ^™? J ^ £ ^ ™™ . * 2 O 1 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSKsTn ^ sSfa ¦ : i 8 Misc eSfeSs ^^ ..:::::::::::::::::: io ° i i ^ i ^ sr Eftraa ^ SK my intelligence . Markets , Ad . ¦ S ^ jVblffln ^ gyptV : " ::::: Z .. 200 Postscript 202 Reign of George III 210 vertisements , & c 213-210
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fTlHE death of the Emperor Nicholas , the re-X turn of Lord John * Russell to the Cabinet without yet returning from Vienna , whither he has been wandering by very slow stages , and the final construction of the Palmebstox Cabinet out of the old Whig Rump , and a few minor incapacities in subordinate posts , are the three grand events of the week .
Respecting the Czar , we only have what the telegraph could tell our Foreign Office—that he died yesterday morning , not quite suddenly however , of " pulmonary apoplexy . " How few words can tell events that involve the fate of empires ! Of the new Cabinet , we have more to say . If Lord Pai . merston could have formed a Ministry congenial with his own active and courageousmind i it is-extremely probable that it would have been such as might take up the
conduct of affairs at a point of difficulty in the history of England , and have wielded the power of this country with credit to itself and glory to the nation . But he is surrounded by gentlemen who " have claims ; " he has a House of Commons elected under the Derby regime . These may , perhaps , be reasons to account for the comparative failure which he has had in constructing a Cabinet to promise a courage equal to the occasion . The new Ministers in place of Graham ,
Gladstone , Sidney Herbert , and Card well , are Charles Wood , Cornewall Lewis , John Russell , and Vernon Smith . Sir Charles Wood has done much better at the Board of Control than he ever promised to do , and his return to the Admiralty does not indicate any improvement either upon himself or upon Sir Jamks Graham . The colonies thought well of Lord John Russell : they had no reason to think ill of Mr . Sidney Herijert ; on the contrary , they would have anticipated good administration
from the Duke of Newcastle ' s brothcr-m-nrms . Lord Stanley of Alderley , an elderly and experienced official , is not likoly to be any improve ment upon Mr . Cardwell attlie Board of I'm do ; Mr . Vernon Smith will scarcely do better than Sir Charles AVood at the Board of Control ; and if Sir George Lkwis is well up in questions of finance , ho is confessedly n peace ninn and u closet man , and we may look for a prolongation of an established passe" " political economy" spirit in Government . A hint seems to have boon given
to Lord St . Germans , that as his friends had left office , he must leave Dublin Castle , and he is replaced by Lord Carlisle , followed by the chivalrous Hobsman . The general rearrangement is not promising . The accession of Sir George Lewis does not strengthen Lord Palmerston ' s- hands , arid he has had little success in beating up recruits for the minor offices . Sir Robert Peel and Mr . Danby Seymour have been invited ; we do not know that they have acceded . Lord Duncan does take the place of
Lord Elcho as a Lord of the Treasury ; Mr . Will-ia ' M CowrER succeeds Mr . Monsell ; Mr . Layard and Mr . Laing have been invited , and have not accepted ; and there is a strong feeling out of doors that they occupy a position more calculated to advance themselves as public men , by standing independently , than if they had prematurely entered into office . On this part of the subject considerable light is thrown 7 \> ytheT speecliof Mr / LAYARD to his constituents at Aylesbury . The treatment which
he has received at the hands of official magnates is not of a kind to create confidence or to dissipate the impression that " the cold shade of the aristocracy " is really working mischievously for this counti-y , if not dangerously . Mr . Layard has distinguished himself by his official services in the East , and by the originality of his researches in a field which was there open to him ; and ho was offered a post under tfie IIusskll Cabinet , which he took . He went out with that Cabinet , and he had reason to consider himself a rccoirniscd adherent of the
party ; but ho was not invited to resume office under Lord John Russell , and he has been subsequently subjected to a scries of offers and retractations terminating in the proposal of an office for which his previous habits had not fitted him . Mr . Layard had a higher idea of the manner in which tho public men ought to-bu selected than the Minister who invited him ; so he declined office and remained an independent member of the British people . Respecting one man , at all events , we now hnvo the complete story . The offers made to Mr . Layard show that Ministers
no not think him disqualified for such posts ; the retractations proved that they think themselves free to take the grossest liberties with men who do not belong to u tho families . " And by keeping Mr . Lowe in a subordinate post , they proved that they do not really wish to let the " blood" take tho place monopolised by " blue " blood .
The proceedings of the week in Parliament have not been glorious . A new member has been added to Mr . Roebuck ' s committee in the room of Sir George Lewis , temporarily disqualified by his appointment to office , and translated to the highest ranks of the Government . More discussion has occurred on going into committee of supply , or in committee , about the mode of working the transport , the contract system , and the military administration in the East ; and the House of Lords have assisted in these-criticising debates . The Secretary for War , Lord Panmure , admits the abuses , and affirms that the are in course of being remedied . - Unluckily , after so much mystification , the English people will not be convinced without tangible results . We are sick of hearing it said that all the mismanagement in the East will be set right , as that Sebastopol will be taken , or that the Cabinet will bo invigorated by " new blood ; " when , in fact , Sebastopdlis not taken ,: and nothing -but -hoary locks are shaken at us from the mystic ( lows of the Cabinet ; while the immense sums voted by Parliament—far more than doubling the ordinary naval and military expenditure—form the most substantial test that the country is prepared to strengthen the hands of its Government . The division on Lord Godemcii ' s motion to revise the system of promotion in the army presents a more even balance of members than might have been expected . Lord Goderich had to steer his way between two difficulties ; if he had made a proposition so extensive as the interest of the case really demands , such a thorough reform
of our military system as would satisfy justice and the requirements of national safety , ho would have laid himself open to a change of hastily overturning the existing order of things . On the other hand , by rendering his motion very limited , only suggesting an extension of present promotions for non-commissioned officers , ho did lay himself open to the retort of the officials , tliat ho wan proposing ; i partial change where tho wliolo
sjstem would have to bo considered together . Tho retort comes with a very ill- ^ racu from those who uphold a system th / iL uninisjlrt thu sword of an officer only to men possessing w moneyed qualification ; but it sufficed , with n Ibw promises from Lord Palmkhston , nml the House was satisfied to leave our present absurd and mischievous army system unaltered . Lord Goderich ' s opening of tho subject , however , is a great fact ; it is a grout fact that ho had so many as 114
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031855/page/1/
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