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¦ "The oue iaeawaich . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the npble endeavour to throw do to all the barriers erected between , men by prejudice and oae-aided views ; and , by setting aside tee : distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—tb . e free development of our spiritual nature . " —Hwh ' boldt's Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- . i-aoe Our Civilization 273 ] Political Aspirants 277 htiU ;—J > iay . " ££ . Imnerial Parliament -206 Gatlierings from the Law andPo- Great linlain at tho Hustings ...... ' 278 Irrigation in-feouthcru India 2 S 2 T ) he Approaching General Election ... 26 S lice Courts .............. 274 Lord John in tho City 278 THE ARTSIrelancl . .-. . 271 The lloy « U British Bank 275 The Operations in China .... ; .., 279 mL " ¦ t ¦ America " '""" 271 Naval and Military ..... 275 Army Education ltuform 271 ) llcr Majesty ' s Theatre 2 S ;> The Chin ' ese and Persian Wars ... 271 Miscellaneous .. 275 . _ RATURE _ theatrical ISotcs ¦¦¦¦ -- ¦¦¦¦ . . 884 The Persian Treaty 272 Postscript 27 G LITERATURE „ . „ , .. - 284 i The Orient 272 ni ' ibi i .- Ace & ibe Summary 2 S 0 Jlie Ga / . otte < : &* Continentai'iSrotes ..... 272 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- . Hair , Fa £ and Nails' - .. 2 S 0 COIV 11 V 1 ERC 1 AL AFFA 1 RSState of Trade . :.......... 273 The Tory Manifesto 27 G Life . in California 2 SL . ¦ CQWIWIERCIAL AFFAIRS Accidents and Sadden Deaths 273 The Truth about Naples . 277 Yrova .-Bombay to Busliire -282 City Intelligence , Markets , & c ....... 281
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1 ) ARMAMENT is dead ; the general election is Jl its stormy plicenix-nest , and we have only to Lope against liope that tlie next Parliament will be better tlian the one winch is extinguished to-day . In modem times , perhaps , no Pai-liament has been so sterile in good measures as the one -which has just departed . Its chief merit consists in the fact that . it has effectually destroyed the Conservative party under-whose Government it was born . The two leaders of that party , Lord Deiiby and Mr . Disraeli , practically avow that they have not a
point to stand upon . They are but the monuments of a departed cause . The '" Whig party had hecn demolished in the previous Parliament , and it is now attempting to revive by identifying- itself somewhat more with the hopes of ulterior reforms . The Peace prophecy of 1 S 51 has been completely destroyed hy the Hussian war . The House of Commons , which was elected under the auspices of Mr . Disraexi , and which hallooed Mr . Gladstone in driving that inventive financier from office , has witnessed the approaches of Mr . Gladstone as a volantecr to serve under Disiiaet ^ i , and has filially consented to be itself led by Lord Paxmehston , who is neither Tory nor Reformer .
Seldom has there been a more absolute confusion in the character of the addresses distributed to the electors . The Times remarks , after the oarcful perusal of a great number , that scarcely two of them are alike . This is the natural consequence , first , of the general break-down of party ; secondly , of an appeal to the country when there was no question to be referred . Professedly the dissolution was occasioned l ) y the defeat of Ministers on the China question ; Irat it is now well known that if they had replied to Mr . Cobden ' s motion by avowing the appointment of Lord Er-GiN" to he
Minister Plenipotentiary over Sir John Bowing , the House of Commons would have adopted any neutralizing amendment , and there would have been no occasion whatever for any Ministerial question . Tbe dissolution therefore takes pkoc , not upon the defeat of Ministers hy Mr . Cobden , but upon the preference Ministers have to be : defeated . In appointing Lord Elgin , a man whose antecedents as Governor-General of Canada and as negotiator in the United States render his success in China very probable , the Government has settled the question of ChLna . Its Liberal opponents in the Cobdkn
debate now express a general concurrence in the actual arrangement ; so that in very rare instances will any dispute about China serve to . guidc the choice of the electors . On the other hand , many of the constituencies whose nicmhers had voted -with Mr . CobdisiSj appear altogether disinclined to dismiss their representatives on that ground . Amongst the old members whose constituencies are not inclined to discharge them arc , Mr . Biugiit , Mr . Milneii
Gibson , Sir James G ha ham , Mr . Card well ., Sir Urskixe Perky , Mr . Sidney ¦ Heubeiit—indeed the list is too long for enumeration . Mr . Gobden surrenders the West Hiding ; but it is to Lord GoDEKicii , who voted with hira . Lord Godbiiicii gives up his scat for Huddersilcld , but Mr . Cobden is invited to take it . Aud in London City bets arc now favourable to . the return of Lord John Hussell , notwithstanding the concurrence of many influences to get rid of him .
China was to have been the question but that having expired , the question , which goes ¦ to the country amounts really'to " nothing hi particular . " Lord Palme ' iiston lias hitherto propounded up policy , except the great " I . " In his elaborate speccli in the House of Lords , . which was intended to have a powerful effect \ ipou the country , Lord Derb y does nothing more than bring old Toryism out again , just as it was ia the clays of Gjjojige the Tuihd . Mr . Disraeli drops that old-fashioned
notion of his noble friend ' s , and goes in for " social improvement , reduced taxation , and honourable peace . " There is in fact no question . The only reason for the dissolution is that Parliament was old , that Ihe Ministry and the House of Commons wore getting tired of each other , and that things were not ; going on very well in either House ; so the dissolution is virtually a little excursion into the country for the benefit of the political health .
There have ., however , been some rather substantial and important , concessions . The practical result of Lord Derby ' s speech ay as to draw out , from Lord Granvillic , by the taunts at Lord 1 \ vlmeuston as a n on -reform or , the explanation , thai , the Government intended to support t . he principle of Mr . Lock is King ' s Bill for extending the county franchise , but to alter it in committee—a course found to be impracticable from the details of the bill . It matters not -whether the explanation ia true or not—the important , fuct is , that Ijord Palmerston dares not go to the country under the imputation of being indifferent to lleform . Mr . Cobdun equally disclaims being a " PeacC'at . any-price man . "
Derb y and Disraeli themselves disavow any repugnance to " social ¦ improvements , " and they make it a reproach to Lord Paltmkrston that lie is " a Tory chief at the head of a [ Radical cabinet . " In all these admissions there is a great deference . for the settled public opinion of the-country . Thus iu . the meeting at the I ' reeinasons' Tavern , on the Persian , war and the Chinese war , Mr . Cobx » hn , Mr . Roebuck , and Mr . Layarb dwelt more oil the wanton character of the aggression , the wrong choice of opportunity , the . -lavish expenditure and-. ' mismanagement ,, than on simple Peace doctrine . '
Sir John M'Nki ' ix and Colonel Tulloen eontinuc tb ' -bc athomin the side of Ministers . Our readers will remember the correspondence published last week , showing how 1 lu ; Crimean Commissioners declined the 1000 / . offeretHhem eighteen months after their return , and how the House of Commons had chastised the Ministers by passing a resolution recommending the two Commissioners to the 3 loyal favour . Apparently in the desire to
soften the effect of the previous' correspondence , Lord r ? A . NM . uiui has addressed letters'to the two Commissioners , but without , bettering his position . Ho told Sir John M'Neilt , that lie wan hypercritical , because he had . construed the oiler of money to constitute a ' pecuniary measure for honourable services . In reply , Sir John expresses his regret that , " the proceedings in regard to the Commission have not been such as to entitle him
to assume thai . Lord Panmure ' s intentions were friendly or courteous . " . 1 . 1 , seeins , then , that for the last two years Ministers , especially Lord . I ' almkrston and Lord 1 ' anmure , have been racking thoir brains to iind out some fitting acknowledgment for the excellent services of Sir John M ' jMjsim , and Colonel Tuixoeir , yet thc-. y have not been able to contrive it . On the contrary , with all their cordiality and earnestness , they have . so managed it , as to sewn as if they intended to cut the acquaintance of the friends they prize so highly . Yet Lord Panmukh and Lord Palmek .-• st . on have generally been regarded as clever men .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21031857/page/1/
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