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A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW.
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?—THE opening niglit of a new session of Parliament is very- like the first round of a pugilistic encounter , in which there is a good deal of play and feint , and a shrinking , generally on both sides , from coming to the scratch ; and so it mostly ends , without some hit a little too stinging to be taken quietly ' brings both men fairly to work . In the House of Lords , there was a good deal of light business done on Thursday night , and Lord Granville would have early" ended tlic round with a motion of adjournment , but that Lord Derby let fly at him a remark : he was surprised that the Government should let the night go by without offering any statement as to their views and intentions ; and then , having the floor of the House , Lord Derby kept it till he had made the speech which he had come prepared to make , whether her Majesty ' s Ministry made the statement in question or not . After a few hits right and left at the short-coming of the means supplied by the Government for the submission of India , ho addressed himself to the delivery of his final hit : the Government , he thought , ought to have . had something to say about the late attempt upon tlie life of the French Emperor ; but as they had notliuig to say upon the subject , lie would say something himself . So , having given Ministers a rap , ho came down heavily upon the French police and passport authorities for not conduoting their business better , and wound up by expressing himself satisfied that there was no fear of England being threatened into giving up her right to receive any nuinlor of exiles , on condition that they behave well while under our protection . This is evidently tho position to which both Houses incline . In tho House of Commons there was moro desire to come to business , and Sir de Laoy Evans led off with a motion for a Select Committee to inquire into roccnt Government measures for tho transmission of troops to India , to which Lord Palmerston made no particular objection . But Mr . Disraeli did strongly object " , " oil tho' ground flmfTlio motion " would bo carried in ft stealthy manner—that is , in a manner affording him no timo to got up a good speech . Tho motion was agreed to . Sir George Gre y then brought forward his mption for loayo v to bring m a bill for tho botter regulation of tho Corporation of tho City of London , tho object of tho bill boing to plaoo tho City of London moro noarly
upon the footing of other municipal corporations , only with a difference suited to its antiquity and importance . Out of doors the week has not . been an idle one for politicians . Several meetings on the subject of Parliamentary Kefonn have been held . The . most notable was the one at Manchester , on Monday , at which an attempt was made to make up matters between the Liberals and the Bright and Gibson -party . A resolution was' carried , after being seconded by-Mr . George . Wilson , to found a Manchester ~ Reform Association . A day later , and a letter from Mr . Bright was read in the Town Hall , Birmingham , which shows clearly the part which Mr . Bright is prepared to play in the discussion of any Reform Bill coming from Lord Palmerston ' s hands . He is vowed to opposition , unless the bill be thorough-going—a good extension of the franchise , redistribution of electoral seals , and ballot . The departure of the Princess Royal with her husband , on Tuesday , was so conducted as to increase the impression which she had made on the hearts of the people ; and the tears that were in her own eyes and in those of her father and brothers at the parting moment were not more genuine than those that filled the eyes of thousands who looked upon her for . the last time , on her way through London , on that inclement morning—on which , literally , like the love-linked pair in tho 'Eve of St . Agnc 3 , ' " These lovers fled away into the storm . " Tho attempt upon tho life of the Emperor Napoleon has furnished him with an occasion of which he is not tho man to lose a fraction of the advantage , or what appears to him . to bo the advantage . Amid expressions of foreign sympathy , noisy municipal congratulations at homo , and frenzied acclamations from tho army , lie double-knots tho bonds tied by him in 18 JL-8 . Yet thcro is in this haste to take advantage of tho popular sympathy a half-confession of doubt as to tho stability of his position ; it givos him the appearance of preparing for tho worst . Now arrangements secure to tho Empress tho absouto Regency in tho ovent of his death , two of tho lu ^ ditai ^^ iilcosTwitirothdr pcrsbris 715 eing named " to act as her councillors ; while othor new arrange-, ments distribute tho army of tho Empire over tho country in five groat divisions , each under a Marshal , and all under a * Marshal-General . ' But tho most important result of hia defensive and repressive determination is tho project of tho new law— - Loi des Suapeots . It is , in faot , a law to enable tho
French Emperor and the French police remove from France every person obnoxious to the present regime ; to legalize the power illegally exerted after the Coup d'Etat . But it would seem that patriotism is not ? yet wholly stifled by even the air of the Tuileries , for this projected law-has called down loud objections , and one man—let his name be ~ honoured—M . de Pabrieu , Vice-President of the Council of State , is said to "have refused to draw up the report which was to introduce the measure Jx >_ the Legislative Corps . In the meantime , the violent denunciations levelled at England by the officers of the French army have ceased to appear in the pages of the Moniteur , and within the last day or so we have been told that their appearance at all has been without the consent of the Emperor ; and the statement is one which will , of course , be generally accepted as satisfactory—by those who think it worth anything . If the latest news from India gives us no account of any large operations , it is made interesting by the fuller intelligence of two more of those brilliant successes that have so well helped to keep up the courage and spirit of our over-matched forces . Colonel Seaton left Delhi in the early part of December , with a column in charge of a convoy of provisions for the Commander-in-Chief . His little army was composed of European and Native troops ; of Europeans , one troop of Horse Artillery , one squadron of the Gth Carabiucors , and about 300 bayonets of the 1 st Bengal Fusiliers ; of . Natives , IIodson ' s Sikh Horse , the 7 th Punjab Infantry , and two companies of Sappers and Miners . Leaving Allohghur on tho 13 th , ho next day came up with , a force of 3000 rebels at Gungcrce , charged them with his handful of Carabineers and sent them flying , leaving several guns behind them , with a loss numbering between three nnd four hundred men ; our own loss being forty-eight killed and wounded . Following them up until tho 17 tii , Colonel Seaton found . ' them strongly posted in iVout of tho village of Puttealco . lie halted to rest and reconnoitre , and then advanced j but at tho first sight of tho dreaded bayonets giit"forlii ' g mTu'd morning sun / 'flioTnchi ' y flc 9 ~ iu Corr 5 r 7 " ~~ our guns playing upon them with treiuondous olFcot . Tho Hying mass was pursued by tho oavalry for bo von miles , and nearly six hundred of tho rebels arc supposed to liavo fallen either oij ,-tlj . 6 ^ /; field or during the pursuit . Thirteen gua ^ / arid ' ' ; ' ¦ ' /•" noarly the whole of tho camp equipage , anu ^ uli ^ B ; . ; . •¦« . ¦ .. & o of tho onomy fell into Colonel Seaton ' OttJMla )} - •» ; ( < - . ' \" ' - v \ - -
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06021858/page/1/
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