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Review Of The Week- Germany... 830 Posts...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK- Germany ... 830 Postscript . ... .. 8 M . A ^ E ssay ^ on ^ eg ™* ** ** " ^ HOME iNTEr . i-iGENCE . pagE irlolAAND 1 NDIANPROGRES 8 _ v , publ . caffairs- ¦ , / ¦ ¦ ¦ ? ff 3 ©? x ^ : ""^^ v :.:: S . Imp 2 rial Parliament ... 832 . The Peace of Napoleon .. 841 Quarterly Reviews ,. & c . .. 847 Naval and Military 834 Caste Disturbances & J 7 Middle Class Members 841 General Literature ¦ . 848 The Volunteer Rifle Corps 834 Latest Intelligence 837 Want of Seamen 842 v _ i Law , Police , and Casualties .... 834 ¦ The ~ DogDays 843 * - __ j ; , „ .. „„ ^ GeneralHome News ............ 834 FINE ARTS- Uncle and Nephew 843 1 acts and bcraps r . 84 S foreign intelligence . National Portrait Gallery ........ 838 Count d'Azeglio 844 COMMERC 1 ALLiterature and LordClive's Statue 838 : The Peace . ... 835 Mediae ' s Cartoon ....... 839 LITERATURE— The Duties on Fbreiem Wines .. « 49 General Summary 835 Money Market and Stock Lx-ChinescNews- ... ..... 836 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS— Notes of the "Week 845 change ..........-. " St ? Massacre at Borneo 836 Memoirs to Illustrate the History General Trade Report ........ 850 . War Incidents 83 " Olympic—Strand — Haymarket— of My Own Times 845 Stocks and Shares 850-Surrey—Adelphi—RoyalJLca- The Duchess of Orleans 845 Joint-Stock Companies 85 O ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- demy — Surrey Gurdens-Cry- a . Tour in Dalmatia , & c ! ......... 845 Railway Intelligence 850 . Florence .. 830 stal Palace 839 | A Treatise on Rifle Projectiles .. 840 j General Commercial News ,. 850 routine
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' + * - ¦ ' . mHE interview : which took place on Monday JL between Francis Joseph and Louis Napoleon has produced results which have astonished Europe , if they have failed to prove satisfactory to the Italian people and those who sympathise witl them . Contrary to the opinion which prevailed upon the receipt of the first intelligence of the armistice , there seems , from , the language of the . JUbniteur itself , good reason for the inference that the , peaceful overtures proceeded from , the Trench , and not the Austrian sovereign , while the official Vienna journals , somewhat ejtultingly , assert that every demand of their Government was conceded before the armistice was agreed to by their Emperor . What has induced this favourable disposition in the stern , unyielding , and inscrutable leader who now guides the policy of France , we may in vain conjecture—whether it be the enormous gaps in the ranks of liis army , caused by the bloody encounters it has passed through , and the ravages of disease , which tve now learn is making fearful attacks upon the French legions—whether the shattered condition of his Sardinian contingent , and the threatening , attitude of the great German Confederacy in addition , have rendered him fearful of the consequences of protracted sieges in the pestiferous marshes which surround the Austrian fortresses—or whether the possible results began to bear too much of a revolutionary aspect to suit the" views of him who rules " by the grace of G-od and by the national will . " Pos * sibly the ^ fear of another Solferino , in which fortune might favour his adversaries , and destroy for ever the popularity to gain which he has so lavishly poured out French blood and treasure : —has entered into his calculations , and he has determined disoreetly to withdraw from n . contest so profitless before his gory laurels fade ; perhaps , indeed , even in his bosom there may exist ijorae compunction for the loss of those gallant Frenchmen whose lives have been sacrificed , neither for the welfare of their own country nor of that which they believed they were rescuing from despotism . Whatever bo his motives , wo cannot consider that ho has tliis time shown that oareful regard to his own interests , and tho same extra * ordinary astuteness which has characterised tlfla principal acts of his former career . To judge by what we know at present of tho facts , Napoleon has stoppod , as it were confounded with tho magnitude of tho enterprise before him , and has patched up an unprofitable pcaoc when ho might have carried the campaign to a satisfactory and glorious conclusion . Ho has disregarded those sacred intercuts of Italy , of which ho so loudly proclaimed himself the champion , and has loft that unhappy obuutry in a condition little if any potter than that m which she was before tbo oommonoomont of hostilities . Austria is foiled , but scarcely humbled , by tho poaqe ; her hold on Venice is retained , ami eyon strengthened , by her new position as tho loading power of tho Italian Confederacy , while her line of
fortresses still remains intact to protect her communications between the Tyrol and the road to Milan or Florence ; the principalities of Tuscany Parma , andModena , are again to be ruled by Austrian satraps ; and thou gh perhaps they may be for 1 a time mocked with the semblance of a constitu-^ tion , the influence of the house of Hapsburg will not . eventually be diminished by the provisions of i the present arrangement . Lombard y ^ " beyond the line of the Mincio , ' J ,. ceded to Victor Emma-\ , nuel , as some return for the ruin of his finances , ! the almost annihilation of his army , and the -waste of his ^ Piedmontese territory—to be retained by him until time and circumstances shall favoiir its re-annexation by its former master . Cavour , the originator of this great national crusade , has been thwarted and deceived , and at this most important crisis has retired from the councils of his Sovereign , and thrown up the high position which he held in the eyes of Europe , unable to meet the indignation and reproach of those whose hopes he has excited . only to disappoint . The Pope , to crown all , whose government of his own petty sovereignty has been pre-eminently distinguished for its mingled barbarity and helplessness , is to be the " honorary head" of the Italian Confederation ; and the kingdom of Italy , under Victor Emmanuel , is henceforth to be- considered an exploded political chimera of the aspiring states in wliibh . it was fostered , Kossuth and his compatriot , Ivlapka , remain in , Italy to ponder upon the wisdom of putting their trust in princes ; the object of their presence as a threat to Austria has been fulfilled , and the revolution in Hungary , as far as they are concerned , appeal's" to be postponed sine die , their partnership with Napoleon to be dissolved , and they themselves free to return to -Gower-strcet or Broadway as soon as ever they please . From Germany we learn that the intrigues of Austria to place Prussia in a secondary position have been thwarted by the refusal of the Prussian ruler to take the command of the Federal Army . The news from the Continent generally , also , is of importance and interest ; in the North wo hear of the decease of King Oscar of Sweden , and in the South of another outbreak of Swiss mercenaries , but this time their energy , at Naples , has been expended against their own officers instead of unoffending women and children , as in their famous passage of arms at Perugia . The Commander of the Faithful is about to viait his faitli / ul pashas in Egypt and in Syria . Whether the projected tour is for health , or undertaken with political objects , we ajro not informed— -probably tho two arc combined . lit Syria it is possible that llussian or French influence may , before long , give rise to complications which may require greater energies than those of Abdul Medjid tivdoal with thorn , niul greater wisdom and , honesty than appears to belong to his present advisors . The Now York mails bring tidings of that singular adventurer , Walker , having again turned up , in connexion with n rumoured , attempt upon Mexican territory . Wo « . lso hear generally favourable accounts of harvest prospects , autl of the trade of our transatlantic cousins . A fearful railway calamity , upon tho great scale which is too common in tho United Status , 1 ms occurred , by which sixty lives ore said to have been sacrificed ! The sittings of the British Parliament have been J occupied this week with questions of importance , 1
, as . well as .-with a great amount of necessary business . The Roman Catholic Belief Amendment was ably opposed by Mr . White side and Mr . Walpole ; Mr . Disraeli acknowledged its necessity , but compromised his opposition to . the measure by proposing to . refer it to a Committee . Lord Palmerston was as neat and effective as usual in his speech in favour of the bill , which was supported by the Government , and will probably be carried . The Church-rate discussion , also , was conducted with vigour and some heat ; again the Premier supported the measure , and the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledged the necessity of an altered law ; but this debate afforded him an opportunity of ironically complimenting Lord Palmerston upon the liberal alteration in Jnis views upon the matter . The second reading of the bill is carried , and we trust the -vexed question will speedily be set at rest for ever . Supply has been the chief business of the Commons during the . week , and among other topics which hare occupied both Houses , niay be mentioned the Volunteers , and the Hudson ' s Bay territory , which the Government , in both cases , expressed their intention to interfere with no more than they can help . The rumour of an Autumn Session is beginning to be discredited , and , indeed , one weekly journal , which assumes to possess indisputable information , announces that Parliament- will not meet again , after the close of the session , till next year . The termination of the war- in Italy 1 ms given a fresh impulse to the question of our means of defence , both naval and military ; since that event leaves unemployed a French army of a quarter of a million , and a magnificent force of men-of-war and transports , which our faithful ally may , perhaps , have some difficulty to keep from becoming discontented , unless some vent can be found for their superfluous entlwsinsm . Under these circumstances , we are happy to be able to stato that ,.. at present , there is no indication of any flagging in the Gqyerauieut' measures . Lord Clarence Pftget announces that our navy is now in a state , befitting the honour of the country . We trust there may not be occasion to test the truth of his assertion ; but until the navy of England is in a position to give a satisfactory account of any two combined enemies at sou , the country "will not bo sntisfiedat any rate , in its present temper . London is ' taking tho lead in the volunteer question ; mid we hope that tho mooting at Guildhall next week will give a siUisf ' aefoYy fillip to the enthusiasm of the ' provinces , though in this ' mutter the Government have not done much , at present , to foster the patriotic ypirit of tho country . On JMouduy next ., , tho Chancellor ol the Exchequer 1 ms promisotl , if possible , to bring fbnv-nra his budget j when vrc ehnll probably have tho satisfaction ol' knowing that wo hnvo wore taxes to pay ; with the quoationublu advantage of ascertaining i » ivJuit manner thoy will bo levied , Tho sultry weather of tho lnst few weeks is producing «» imiiivourablo elloct upon the public Iiuallby which id aggravated by ' tho condition , of tho river rimmes , upon which stream remedial measures seom to have been laivi & licd in Vain . Deaths fi'oin sun-stroke , too , » most rare event in England , huvo boon registered , and the Htorais of layt week resulted in several fatal accidents from ightning .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16071859/page/3/
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