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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- wok , Our Civilization ... 30 . British Policy in China : 57 Poets and Plagiarists : Alexander Testimonial to Dr . Livingston ..... 26 i A Noble Act of Baring-. r . 2 -Ministers in A acation 33 ~ Smith 42 Sir Robert l ? eel in Cap and Bells . 26 ^ aval and Military . « ... 32 The 'Kun' at Southampton 39 Memoirs of Richard Cumberland ... 43 Sanitary Matters .... „ . " " 6 Accidents and budden Deaths 33 Insurrection against the Income-tax 3 'J Stateof Trade . ¦¦¦ . "'¦ . 27 ?^ u , , S 3 THEARTSfreland 97 Miscellaneous K 3 OPEN COUNCIL- ,, _ .,, _ ... , ,. _ , _ . ,, ,. ^ rienr : ; ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::::::: ^? Postscript ........... ... 35 TheMoon ' S Motion 39 Mr - mlkie Colhns s rrozen Peep ** AWlGnCft .... *• -, 27 niiDi if * a e ' eik id e ¦ - Nicaragua 28 public AFFAIRS- LITERATURE- The Gazette . 45 W . urder of tlio Archbishop of Paris ...... 2 S "Will the Senate Ratify ? . 35 Summary 40 '" Continental Notes 28 Legal Resistance in Prance 36 The English of Shakspearc ' COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Bank Forgeries .... 29 The Living Romance of Fraud 36 ' Monarchs Retired from Business .. ' . 41 City Intelligence Markets & c 45
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— : —? . . ¦ HpHE whole world sometimes seems to take to the X game of "high jinks "—to put its tongue into its cheek and "befool itself by making a jest of the most solemn affairs . The Plenipotentiaries sitting in Paris to settle the Bolgrad difficulty , and coolly preparing future traps ; Sir Robert Peel , colleague of Lord Palmersxon , lecturing on the Brummagem magnificence and impudent pretensions of Russia ; the unfrocked priest Vebgbb
carving Archbishop SiBoujt ' s heart by -way of retributive justice , and a final argument against the Immaculate Conception ; the German States arranging to keep Prussia and Switzerland from getting at each other in mortal combat ; Mr . Superintendent Bowbikg bombarding the Chinese , as a compulsory mode of making them receive his visiting card—these are incidents which make the Review of the Week read like an account of a nightmare .
The Conference in Paris settled exactly those tilings which the superiors of the Plenipotentiaries had already settled elsewhere ; that is to say , with the help of an abundance of maps produced in December , to correct the bunglings which the Russian Plenipotentiaries gladly witnessed in March , the assemblage solemnly retraced a new and practicable boundary , keeping Russia back from the Danube . But when they came to settle the evacuation of the Principalities by Austria , the evacuation of "the
internal waters of Turkey" by the British fleet , and " the iinal execution of the treaty , " they could only discuss , and write down that they had settled something , leaving the event to the chapter of accidents . The meeting in Paris was a solemn mystification , following on the mystification of March and April last , and prefatory to Ihc mystifications of April or May next , when the Plenipotentiaries will meet again and discuas what they have not done .
Sir Robert Peel's lecture at Birmingham is a commentary on this slowly consummated Treaty of Peace with Russia . The system of that magnificent Empire , he makes out , is a gigantic lie . Tho Czar is engaged in an hereditary attempt upon the liberty of Europe , just as his subjects arc engaged in a constant attempt to cheat the traveller . They made Sir Robebt pay 60 £ for a dinner , 100 / . for the hire of a horse 3 and , in fact , performed upon Sir Rouekt suoh tricks as make us ask whether their success proves the cleverness of the Russians , or something
else ? Their only magnificence , according to him , consists in the magnificence of their knavery ; and if Sir Robert was a dupe , lie had colleagues in the Paris Conference . But if Sir Robert sees through the trickery , how is it that his colleagues are so blind ? How is it that he can describe swindlers who excel the Redpatus and Sawards of our criminal life , aiid yet his chief , Lord Palmerstqm , permits us to be formally bamboozled in Paris ? Is not this like a nightmare incident ?
Like a nightmare , most certainly , is that scene in which Archbishop Sibottr enters to bless the assembled congregation of a church , and is literally stuck . by a butcherly agitator who had been expelled from the priesthood . It is Mercutio who says that " men wear their necks about them \" The French are a mercurial people , and they will completely appreciate this hint , that if dignitaries in church , or out of church , arc tyrannical—or even if they put down the absurd pretensions of turbulent subordinates—they may be made accountable in a very dangerous and painful manner .
King . Frederick Wiixia . m of Prussia threatens to go to war for a toy . He claims a right of rebellion for those who sympathize with him in Switzerland ; a right of rebellion which would unquestionably justify any Orleanist in France , any Montcmoliimt in Spain , to raise an insurrection , without liability to be tried for the crime ! The Powers cannot hit upon any expedient to arrest a King that is only marching to attain his right ; until at last they find that he cannot travel
from Prussia to Switzerland without trespassing upon intermediate ground ; and the people of that intermediate ground intimate , in a sufficiently intelligible voice , that they intend to forbid the trespass .- Here is a godsend ! Aust ria and Prance arc relieved from their difficulty because B « tlon , Wurteinberg , and Bavaria , expecting no profit from the Prussian recovery of Neufchatcl , decline to facilitate the passage of Prussian troops . So there is a prospect , that the affair may be settled .
The story of the Canton bombardment lias now been related to I ho public officially . Even now , however , we should prejudge the conduct of our authorities did we express a definite opinion before more complete information , arrives . Having begun , at the latest date Sir John Bowring was still going on . Yeii , Imperial High Commissioner , affects good manners at least . Being at peace with our honourable nation , aa he said , lie had instructed the soldiers not to resist us ! He persuaded the " fierce" natives of Quang Tang to
spare us ; and only drew the attention of Superintendent Bo-wring to the brutal fact that in return for this . Christian treatment we had " contused " the Chinese . The Imperial High Commissionerj who piqued himself on the propriety of his manners , ends tliis " necessary communication" by wishing Mr . Superintendent Bowrikg " prosperity !" Having been , smitten on one cheek , Yeh not only turns the other , but also his pigtail .
We have by the New York Hdrald a full account of the treaty between this country and the United States , and on the Central American point , and the details rather disappoint us . The Senate was jjoing over the matter very carefully , but so slowly as to suggest a doubt whether the opponents might not after all withhold the ratification . This would be deplorable . But if it should so happen , it must be ascribed to the construction of the Treaty . We have , however , handled that subject in a separate paper .
In the meanwhile we do not withhold a very strong approval of the choice made by our Government of the new Minister at Washington . The man is Lord Napier . The name was privately circulated last week , but it has now been expressly and publicly avowed . Lord Napier has not generally been known beyond the diplomatic circle ; but lie
is a man of high standing , excellent character , and good abilities . He is now in the prime of life ; mid even ihc Daily 2 Tews } which strongly objects to him , admits that he is dignified , courteous , and liberal . All these arc qualities that will be highly appreciated in the United States . Lord Napier ' s rank even will be a guarantee to the Americans that our Government docs not underrate the
imporiancc of Ihc post at Washington , The fact that the Daily News objects , will probably do the Minister no harm in Washington ; for , on the other side of the Atlantic , our most respectable contemporary is not regarded as a friend . Mr . John Lang records an affecting scene-at Broadstairs—the return of the life-boat , the Mary White , after a third trip to save the remnant oi the crew perishing on the wreck of the
Northern Belle , an American ship . The clanger and _ the exertion of the the two first trips arc ^ 6 tLch . jfe those only can understand who are fo ^ lt ) ili < MT 4 ' wjitiH , the elements in their destructive i ' urj . - ;} tfye ' ffcnifrd '¦ ' '_ trip was undertaken in a spirit of nnr ^ pp imiprmic ;• ¦; sacrifice : the master had refused to lcityc $ ^ i ^ ftV- ^ the pilot to leave the master ; and Ibj j ^ Ij ^ p ^ t ' ' , crew set out to persuade them . Tho gl ^ rt ^ iifltjj ^' were repaid by success . The AmciicaU Jg & Sjgjt * ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10011857/page/1/
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