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Jik ^& U ^ Y " A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
"The One Idea Wiach. History Exhibits As...
"The one Idea wiach . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—th . e noble endeavoiir to throw down , all the barriers erected between men by preju . di . ee and one-sided , views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions . of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—HumbuUli'sCosmos . i ———— —r— ~ _^
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N REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Miscellaneous 345 The Police in India 350 THE ARTSImperial Parliament 339 I'ostscript 346 „ ,, ,, . , , , . « . „ _ „ „ --The Criraead Board of Inquiry .... 341 .. „ -....., ™ ^ ^ < V ? P hl Drama \ % ' The Peace 342 pnRi ia APFAID < i LITERATURE- 1 he Operas , ! htc .. 357 Ireland ........ 342 KUBLlt , Ah » -AINi >— The Argument from Design 351 America ... 342 The Intervention in Italy 313 The Court of Austria . ¦ . . . 352 The Gazette 357 Maval and Military News 342 The Exposition of 1 S 5 G at Chelsea .. 347 Colonial Constitutions 353 Continental Notes * ..,..: 342 Civil Service Superannuation 348 A Lady Among the Mormons . 354 r O M C \ fl P R PI Al AFFAIRSOur Civilisation ...... 314 Hieames on Religious Teaching .... 848 An Indian Drama 355 VrViVlwlfcKUI / U- f tirftlKO Obituary 345- Interrupted . Reforms 319 Anecdotes on Jurisprudence 355 City Intelligence , Markets , & c . 357
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npHEY call it peace , but that it is revolution every - » -day makes more clear . The difference between the present and ordinary revolutions is , that the Sovereigns are buying up shares in the revolut ionary projects , much in the same manner that the Panama Company bought up shares in the Nicaragua Accessory Transit Company , for the purpose of suppressing it- The director de facto of the enterprise is that silent adventurer who succeeded in converting France into a gambling table , entirely for the purpose of the croupier . It does not
thence follow that the popular interests will not ultimately obtain some advantage ; on the contrary , the Princes have evidently learnt the lesson , that in order to'secure themselves they must become , in fact as well as in title , agents for their own people ; and the question of the present clay appears to be , how much they can get for how little duty to be performed in . that iu ^ y profession ? The Emperor of Russia advertises the opening of a shop in this line . His manifesto announces to the people his complete success in being defeated by the Allied Sovereigns , and his determination to turn over a new leaf , and to enrich himself with the
peace winch has been forced upon him . This is really the purport of the proclamation with which the Cz ^ vr announces to his subjects the renewal of pence . Ho tells them that he intends to devote himself to internal organisation , and the social improvement of his people , through the working of thebv orthodox faitli . In other words , the Csaii is about to undertake an entire change in the manners and customs of the Russian people—to lead them into commerce Vy favour of peace , to
develope their public works , their trade , and their pacific intercourse with the West of Europe . This would be very profitable to them ; but evidently the object with the Czar is to sec what profit ho can make out of it for himself . It will not bo bad for the peoples if the Princes should tnk « up those clover ideas of benefiting tlicir countries in order to ( jet a good per centago . It really is the sound direction in monnrtliy , ns veil ns in commercial contests .
Count Cavour proposes no fewer than three fundamental reforms for Italy . Somebody asked him , it is said , what could be done for his native land ? And he replies that the Conference can lend its sanction and aid to a triple change , It is desscribed in the organ for information upon the subject—the Times newspaper . He proposes to establish " the unity of'Italy , " or an instalment of it , by a union of the several customs of the country , after the manner of the German
Zollverein . This would necessarily bring the central and southern Italian States into direct intercourse with Piedmont aud Genoa , that is , with Liberalism ; and free trade must inevitably be accompanied by a free circulation of that opinion which is printed by the presses of Turin and Genoa in the language of the whole peninsula . This , therefore , is a practical overruling of the Italian Princes . He next proposes that the Austrian influence should be counteracted in Italy ; a very
sound suggestion , entirely consistent with English opinion on t he subject . But as Austria is always the sovereign in the last resort , upon the occasion of any civil dispute in Italy , Count Cavouh really proposes a revolution against the supreme authority of the Peninsula . Thirdly , he would supersede the Pope as to his temporal throne and authority , and limit him to mainly spiritual functions , Tlic Po p b hasbeen dispossessed in the dominions of King Victor Emmanuel , with very great success , and
the most advantageous results . His Holiness exercises authority in several countries where he has no civil power . In fact he appears to occupy a more august position as viewed from the distances of Germany , Ireland , or Spain , than when viewed from the Corao or the outlying streets of Home , where his own subjects treat him with positive and personal contempt , allowing their cart-horses to
splash him with mud as they gallop by . A material tlnone , therefore , is evidently not necessary for the Sovereign Pontiff . The plan conjures up to us tlio idea of n spiritual authority on the earth , such a \ s theorists have dreamed , but few statesmen have yet distinctly proposed . Perhaps we roust take , along with Count Cavoub , the manifesto by the Archbishop of Paris , wl . o prophesies a unity of jull Christendom . The peace .
he says , is the first step towards that union . He affirms that nothing separates France and England , at present , as Christian countries , except "local prejudice ; " and as to Mahometanism itself , he asks , " what is it but a sect of Christianity ?' Russia has declared that the objects of the war are attained , now that the Orthodox Greek Christians are placed under the protectorate of the Allied Sovereigns ; the preamble to the treaty of peace is said to recognise the Emperor Napoleon as the author of the peace , the potentate whose good offices have brought about this union of Europe ; it is Napoleon's Archbishop who utters the word
of union , bringing together Papists , Protestants , Pan-Sclavonian Christians , and Mussulmans . Jews , also ., adds Mr . Milner Gibson j who should decidedly be added to the Religious Congress , or Supreme Council of United Christendom , foreseen by Archbishop Sibour . There is a grand truth in the Archbishop ' s Pastoral j but how strange to find it in an official church manifesto I —how revolutionary I With these revolutions , so strikingly dramatic , we
have two others thrown , in . There is every reason to apprehend that Austria is stirring up a revolt , ami namely , a revolt against the Conference . She hesitates , it is said , to withdraw her troops from the Principalities—those Principalities which are to be handed back to Turkey . England has recalled her fleet , abolished the blopkado upon Russian .
ports ; Russia has removed restrictions , and proclaimed peace ; but Austria lies upon her arma . Does she mean to play traitor 1 If so it will be a dangerous revolt for her- Already there are rapprochemens which seriously menace her . The Emperor Alexandeii not only crichanges the most affectionate demonstrations with the Einperor
Napoleon , but manifests peculiar affection for King Victor I'Immanuisl , whose capital \ % , * fl \ is ) ; " " 7 ^ N refuge of Lombard exiles , and whose W y ^ t ^ S ^ y ' /' JV *^ ^ proposing the triple Italian revolt . ^ Vij k ' ' ^ \^ >} I \ ¦ ' * In France , Liberty , routed by pvcctoriorvj WjJ £ ] H * " ' , <¦' . ;• ' I 1 ! ' i " nets , avenges her flight by Parthian arro ^ a ^ ^ j ^ vf ^ . / i ™ j |~ v the silence and the darkness epigrams fly fatsfc ^ pri ^; ' ;' . ' - '' ; . . * ;*}•"•{ £ - leave many a poisoned sting in the salon anq / . tlie V ' . ¦ •'•''; Vatelier . The poor little Child of France , wtfoja' " ' ' . ' _ ' j \? the vennl blasphemy of Court-rhymers celebrates ¦'» - ¦ = ¦*'
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12041856/page/1/
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