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tae REV . EW OF THE WEEK- LITERATURE- ORDINAL CORRESPONDENCE- _ - ^^^ ^^ l .::: " ::::::: ^ ¦ EVIEV / LE ™ uOB NC , PAO , ^^ a ^^ tO ^ KS S 8 n ^ ARTS- ¦ ••••¦ - " 'NDiA AND . ND . AN PROGRESSImperial Parliament ............ 324 The Life SSd Ttoes of C . J . Fox 331 F Jolychroiny in Sculpture 341 "What has the Colonisation Com-Gatherings from Law and Police Personal Memoirs of Charles II , 332 snvestre c £ ^ rUn England ...... 341 ~ ™ inec n < H * ' rVo-ress " lH Courts - 320 The Riverine Republics .... 332 . fUphael d'Urbiuo ' s ^ Christ at Notes _ on Indian . liogress .. ' Stt Criminal Record .... , ; -32 C General literature .. 333 , 334 , 335 , 33 G ^ l « otha " . -....... • - • • 34 1 Latest Indian Intelligence ....... 3 i * Ireland ' i ' ' toy Milton ' s Genealogy .... 330 Monument to the Guards . 34 i COMMERCIAL—^ avKd - Mimar ,-:::::::::::::: a p ^ £ --- " 33 ( 5 TI JSrS ^" ^ ^ - " - : 8 SS ^ S ^ :::::::::::: » . ¦ ; foreign jnte ^ igence . Postponement of War . 337 Lyc | unv ^ . ^ - 341 Money ga ^ ct ^ V ^ orVignPro : ContiuentalXotes ... 327 The * Reform Bill-Opinions Re- . ¦ to- ^^ J ^^ - '• ] : 11 [; \[[[] ; . ' | g * d ^ ce Markets ..... T ....... 348 Foreign Summary 328 ^ eardmsf it ...................... 338 f-olvteclTntt .......... 341 Joint-stock Companies 34 » p ^ ia ' Maig ^ .:::::::::::: S ¦ ¦ i ^^ e ^ of ^ r ^ ^^ ? :: S a 3 S ? - ¥ S ^ uiV :: ¦ 3411- ^^ . ^ iw . ..., .. » *» , ' - ' - ¦ ' ~ . ' i- ¦ ¦¦ ¦ - ' .... ¦ .. a . n
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— ? - HA VING readied theverge of the precipice , Ministers turn back , iyith the desperate desire to . preserve themselves from the yawning peril . They have made a bold stroke for safety . On Wednesday , Lord John Russell intimated his intention to move ah amendment to the Government Reform Bill on its second reading , and named Thursday as the day on which he would state the precise terms of the proposed amendment . Thursday : night came ; the Opposition benches were packed in awful array , " and Lord John Russell wis on his feet . "I beg to give notice , " he said , " that , on the motion for the second reading of the Government Reform Bill , I shall ,. move as / a resolution , that this House is of opinion that it is .. neither just nor politic to interfere , in the manner proposed in this bill , with the freehold franchise hitherto exercised in boroughs in England and Wales , and no readjustment of the franchise will satisfy this House or the country that does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contemplated in the present measure . " Mr . . WyId instantly capped tliis Whig profession of- 'faith ,, by giving notice that he would move , as an addition to Lord John ' s resolution , " that in the election of any member or members to serve in Parliament , the votes shall be taken by ballot ;"—a pill both for Lord John Russell and for Lord Derby . The " natural " leader of the great Liberal party had fired his shot ; the smoke had cleared away : what liarnl had been done to the enemy ? Mr . Disraeli had nothing to say to Lord John Russell or to MI * . Wylde , but he was not floored ; cm the contrary , a question put by . Mr . Foljambe , with inference to a discrepancy between a jparlia-• mentary papor and a county register of tlic number of voters in the borough oi' East Retford , brought ¦ vh . im up firmly upon his legs . He was quite " himself . " He took the opportunity to explain t hat mover had nny proposition been more entirely . misunderstood , than that of the Government , relative to the alteration of the county franchise . Government never had the least intention of doing anything so wrong as to deprive country freeholders of the votes they already possess in the boroughs . The outcry against the Government Bill has been founded on an entire misconeeption . its purpose ? and , in short , since there had been this unlucky misapprehension concerning it , Government had taken upon itself the reconsideration of tlie whole seltemc , and before the period for the second reading of the bill , will iriako all right , and lay new clauses on tJho table—anew bill , perhaps ! In tho meantime Ministers hold their own , but it . must bo with fern' and trembling . On Wednesday evening , they sustainpd a staggoring defeat on tho motion for tho second reading of tlioir Church-rates Bill . Sir John Trelawny moved that it be read that day six months , and , a majority of 254 to 171 combined to cast out tho bill , Sir John I ' akington oriod out , that the question was boingv made the stalking-horse of party taotios ; but tho steady progress of opinion , in tho House as well as , out of it , on the subject , boars evidence against the supposition that flic yoto of Wednefld . ay wag merely a consequent
of the momentary state , of parties . In truth , the " no compromise " measure of Sir John Trelawny stands too well with the House for such a measure as that advocated by Sir Jolm Pakmgton to displace it . But a much more serious defeat is impending . The affair of the Charles-et-Georges lias been made the "round ' real party attack on the Ministerial position . In both Houses * on Tuesday evening , there were motions-, for papers and additional papers on the subject ; and the attack was . commenced . Lord Derby thoroughly appreciated the nature of the movement , and rightly designated it as an indirect mode of passing a vote of censure upon the Government ; but Mr . Disraeli was affected to see nothing , more in . the evenings proceedings than a " conversation " on the subject of " papers that had no existence . " Lord Wodehouse , the leader of the attack in the House of Lords , and Lord Grey , both denounced the Government for having been false to its treaty obligations to Portugal , whose rights , they declare , the British hovermnent was bound , to uphold , even : at the sacrifice of the French alliance . In the other House , there Avas the same outspoken coudemnaition . And in both Houses the defence was the same ; the assumed necessity for maintaining the French alliance by any and every means : the worst defence that could be set up in the face of the universal suspicion of truckling that attaches to our foreign diplomacy . Rumour whispers that there is a design to give Ministers the option of resigning on the question , in preference to standing the fatal hazard of the Reform die . The motion for the second reading / of the Indian Loan Bill gave rise to a strong debate upon the subject of the new Indian Government , the chief speaker being Mr . Bright . Lord Stanley ' s best endeavours to develope India , by means of a better system of Government in nil its departments , will be frustrated by the fifteen guardians of the old system by whom he is surrounded , is Mr . BrightV augury . Mr . Bright , however , does not despair of seeing India prosper , and he never hesitates to express his belief in the capacity of Lord Stanley for the fulfilment of the great task he has undertaken . To bring about a more healthy financial condition , ' very grwit retrenchments must bo made in the civil expenditure ; but , according to Lord Stanley , it is' to tho reorganisation of tho army that wo must look for the most mime- ' diato amelioration * of the present state of the Indian Exchequer . Lord Bury has drawn attention oneo more to the subje ' et of our differences with Franco respecting the ' Newfoundland fisheries . Tho fact is made apparent that , over since the Treaty of Utrecht was signed , 1713 , diplomacy h as been busy with the s ^ lbject . Tho most that recent diplomacy appeal's ' to have done ia , to have made unwarrantable concessions to France , to the sacrifice of British interests . In 1857 a treaty was drawn up giving to Franco great advantages over tho British fishermen , but tho unanimous opposition of tho Legislative body of Newfoundland , which , by a clause in tho treaty , had tho right of veto conferred upon it , has cavusocl it to . bo a dead letter . Lord Bury desires to have tho quostion ' discussed uno ** womo defined principle , and ho has therefoi'e very pertinently , demanded , of
Government upon what principle it is conducting diplomatic correspondence whieh is now in progress . The aspect of foreign affairs has not been greatly changed by the simulated peace-language of the Moniteur . Telegrams tell us that Lord Gowley has taken his departure fi-oni Vienna , on his way home direct to London , and the accompanying comments are , that his mission " has been entirely bootless . On the other side of the picture ,-we have the Prussian Goverment expressing its co nfidence that , m conjunction with England , the war-tide will be safelystemmed ; Keening our eyes upon theJ : wo powers most likely to Yall to loggerheads—France ana Austria—we dp not see any indications of either peaceful intentions , or sincerity of purpose . The precautions " which each of these two powers is taking are irritating to each . Within the week , we-have had some small glimpse at the behind scenes of French policy . Prince Napoleon ' s friends have , determined that their chief ' s retu * enient from the liig h official post which he has held for such a brief , period , and which was prepared for him with such elaborate pains , shall not be left a mystery . - Prince Napoleon and his cousin are at issue as to the Imperial policy with regard to Italy ; lie demands that the policy of non-intervention hi the affairs of Central Italy should be plainly expressed by the Imperial Government , and at the same time he calls upon his cousin to notify to the great Powers that he will firmly support the demands of Piedmont , ana give her assistance in the event of troubles breaking out in the Duchies of Parma , Piacenza , and Tuscany , or in the Romagna , " or should Austria de » ire to occxipy those countries under pretext of establishing order there . " Against this " dangerous policy , it seems , the Emperor ' s mind has been prejudiced by his advisers—MM . Fould and Walewski—supporters of " peace at any price ;" and hence the defection of Prince Napoleon , and the possibility of the gradual springing up of an Opposition that . cannOt be otherwise than beneficial to France . In the meantime , the question of peace or war appears to hang upon a breath . One ? oven t of tho week is of a strangely interesting character . On Sunday last , an American ship was seen to enter the h arbour of Queenstown , and a very little time elapsed beforo it was known that she had on board some seventy exiles , . lately captives in the dungeons of Naples , and that amongst them was wo less a person than the virtuous and heroic Poorio . Shipped by order of the Neapolitan Government for Amorica , they had reached tiic bay of Cadiz , when they made suuh nmnwentations to the captain of the vessel a * induced liuu to steer for the Irish coast , and tho . fugitives m ^ now safe , under the protection of . Britis h laws . ¦*•»{« »¦ ultimate destination i »| u yot undoUmnmcH ; but one thing is only too wall known , —that , , * r ° »| « £ long confinement they had endured beforo their liberation , they are many of thorn in a shattered condition of health ; and from the humodnoss wtfi which they wore sent out of then- own country and away ( Voin thoir friends , they n . ro many of thorn nearly 4 entitutQ of moans to provide or tho * W wants . This fhoC needs o # to ho known : there novor wore ox ^ e « thrown noon our shores who more onfrfooly dosewV Writiah sympathy .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12031859/page/3/
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