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      SIP vC ^ eafrsr A W . POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIE .

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      Review Of The Week- "-Aoe State Of Trade...

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- " -aoe State of Trade 176 The French Alliance .............. 180 Ll Summary MS nsiaiof the Roval British Bank Di- Ireland 176 Noble Pressure from Without 181 The New Wellington Papers ... 186 Motors Jintisn JJanK . ui America 177 Bankruptcy Reform 181 liberty of Conscience 186 A ^ f « tJrfaPrenchRefueee 170 Continental Notes 177 ' The Army Report 182 The Descendants of the Stuarts .:.... 187 teal andMiiitarv " 170 Our Civilization 178 The Indian Loan ---, J 83 Sporting in both Hemispheres 187 Ty £ npr £ lParl aS 171 Gatherings from the Lav and Po , Approaching Settlement of the NW Novels lfj telndianRevSt 173 lice Courts 178 Kansas Question .................. 1 | 3 Publications and Replications ... 188 sELaS \ iT ^ Jt ^ STfrom indi ^ 174 Miscellaneous 178 Lord John Russell ' s Oaths Bill 183 eftMM p | Ai AFFAIRS-¦ ffi ^ nifiSdnUnnf ^^ : ; ::::. -:::: 175 Postscript .... ; 179 Dr - ^ S ° " Commerce C ?! SSSSt e . 1 :. ^ . * ... * 189 S £ , OT 2 b ; S : - - •; :::: •;;;;;;;;;• " 5 ^ jfora ^ mL ^ nVlndia Bill 180 V & ^^ = ~ ==. " lit City Intelligence , Markets , ^ 189

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      9 T Ord Paiimerston Has Carried His Gove...

      9 T ORD PAIiMERSTON has carried his Govern 11 ment of India Bill on the first reading frj something like a triumphant majority , a majority all the greater when we consider the large combination of interests against him , and the comparative in difference with which most members > regard the distant subject of India . It is true that the mutiny has occasioned a keener attraction for Indian questions just at present , and it is true that the Premier commands a large following ; but both these advantages have been to a considerable extent neutralized by the dissatisfaction tod uncertainty introduced amongst the Government ranks in consequence of the French embarras , while the keener interest in Indian subjects is in a greater degree counterbalanced by the still keener interest in Company questions . Yet the debate was a dull one , because the subject was virtually decided from the moment when Lord Palmekston explained his bill ; and the real contest was transferred to a later stage . The measure is calculated to engage the general liking of the British public ; it is simple in its appearance , it looks effectual , it is ,. bold ; its provisions , in brief , amount to this : The Court of Directors is abolished ; so is the Court of Proprietors . The advocates of the measure represent that the East India Company is only decapitated , not destroyed ; that the great body of the Company—the shareholders and the limbs of the Company , its civil service—remain intact ; only it is deprived of its head—the Court of Directorsand debarred the power of spceoh in the Court of Proprietors . In lieu of the present administration , the whole authority , patronage , and power will bo drawn to the President , who is to bo assisted by a council ; for , instead of a Scorotary of State for India , wo arc still to have a President , only ho is to bo a statesman of higher rank than the one that has generally held the office before . The Council will oonsist of oight members at 1 OOQJ . a year each j it will have consultative powers , and in finnnoo it will have so much authority that the concurronoo of foug o £ jij £ jmgrob j ^ bo roquifccrTor nny net of the President . ™ It is not very likely , howovor , that gcntlomon accepting oflloo at 1000 / . a year , holding it by only an oight years ' tenure—for suoh is to be tlio rule—will bo anxious to thwart the Prosidont oven in financial matters . Honco the not ofl ' cot of the whole measure is to promote the Prosidont of the Board of Control to a

      higher rank , to relieve him of all conflicting or controlling authority in the Board of Directors , and to supply him , it has been said , with eight clerks to assist in his onerous duties . On the . subject of patronage which will be reposed in the President of tlie Council—videlicet , tiie President—no assurance has been given that there will be any check upon favouritism , corruption , or abuse of any kind . Although , protracted for three nights , and indeed for a fourth , since the motion for papers on Mr . Henry Baillie ' s part introduced a separate debate upon the question of Oude , the debate , we have said , was not animated nor interesting ; nor can it be said that the cause of the Company was sustained with equal power by those who represented it . Mr . Thomas Baring took the lead with a motion , " That it is not at present expedient to legislate for the government of India , " and he supported this proposition with very great power ; but in the subsequent debate the consistency of the argument fell off . If Mr . Whiteside galvanized it in a speech of large calibre , it had too much an appearance of procuration about it ; and subsequent speakers , even down to Mr . Disbaeli , diverted the pleading from the points at issue . Mr . Disraeli , for instance , indulged himself by a separate essay on , the subjeot of Indian finanoe , and the necessity for an entire x'econstruction of administration in India , arguments which so seriously weakened the position , that the subject ought , for the present , to be postponed entirely . On a wind-up , however , it was found that the interests of the Government transcended those which would have whipped tho Opposition ; Lord Palmejrston leading into the lobby 318 members , Mr . Baring only 173 . Neither in tho House nor out of it is there a growing fooling favourable to tho Conspiracy Bill ; on tho contrary , tho Opposition is becoming more determined . Some of tho signs may be noted in tho number of questions , directly or indirectly , bearing on the subjeot which have boon asked during tho week j mor * e notable still , as showing whioh way tho Premier thinks tho tido is setting , is tho tone in whioh ho has answerod—or rather attempted to silence—them . If the House wished to Jbreak off ^ Jno . l ^ . cnchj ^ lliaucOj . lct . it-do . sojand-tako-tiio-oonisc--quonccs j thoso attacks upon tho French Government woro short outs to that end . When Mr . Gmxtitm , on Tuesday , asked if anything had boon dono to induce tho French Government to givo publicity in tho Moniteur to Count Walbwski's apology , Lord Palmisuston roso in a pet , to . say that of course tho British Government had not

      donoand did not intend to do—' anything so excessively absurd . ' But his Lordship became positively indignant ' with Mr . Stirling for asking whether it was a fact that the legacy left by the first Napoleon to Cantillon for attempting the life of the Duke of Wellington had been paid by or Jer of the present Emperor ? Tie rules of the House forbade Mr . Stirling from pressing his question any further : but out of the House he has taken a course which has exposed the futility of the indignation . Mr . Stirling ' s pamphlet proves beyond doubt from the pages of the Moniteur that not only was Cantillon one of those who claimed under the will of the Emperor Napoleon I ., but that his was the only legacy oh which interest as well as principal was paid . It is now explained that the payment was made before the time of the present Emperor ; but he long had the credit of obeying his uncle ' s last wishes , and the Moniteur appeared to corroborate that impression in the most formal way . It is clear that LordPalmekston has determined to go to dangerous lengths to meet the views of the Emperor of the French ; at all events , he is as well aware as any one that so his conduct is interpreted in Paris , where the arrest of tho refugee Bbknabd has been hailed with satisfaction as the strongest possible proof of the good-will of the cluef of the English Government . It is even said that very warm cxpre ssions of thanks have been tendered to him for this service from the French throne ; and further , that the ex ample will be made immediate use of for the purpose of bringing the Governments of Switzerland and Piedmont into the same way of thinking as the British Premier . Tho expressions whioh Ma mode of proceeding with this hazardous subject lias called forth in various parts of the country are by no means complimentary , and these expressions arc to be . intens ified on Sunday afternoon next in Hydo Park , when tho People of London will moot to f enter thoir peaceable and orderly protest against the new Conspiracy Bill . ' Sir John Trelawnev succeeded on Wednesday night in getting -218 votes against 360 for tho second reading of tho Church-rate Abolition Bill . Tho stoady increase of tho number of votors on tljia 4 ong -dobatod-questionr ^ while-mnrking ~ 'tlro ~ pTOgres 3 " ^ r- ' of opinion in tho House , indioatoa the growing feeling out of doors . Tho timo is unquestionably ripe for tho change ; and if there was one domestic question moro than another to whioh moinbeja— , _ ... pledged thomaolvos at < ho hustings ,, it was thp'fpai ^^ N abolition of church-rates . Tho handaomoyfeXM ^* , £ < $ then , of Wednesday night were only cong & ttta yjfi * : &*¦ jm w ; r %# ii * $$ § 0

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20021858/page/1/