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      A Political And Literary Reyiew.

      A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REYIEW .

      "The One Idea Which History Exhibits As ...

      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i » . the Idea of Humanitv—tfco nnHY * endeavour to throw down all tfie barrxers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided , views ; and , b / settiSL Sid ^^ e ^ distinctions - ' S 5 SS 3 feSnS ^^ aSSlSt ? aSS . ^ ° HUman raGe S 3 ° *«**»*«** , * " »»« « k greafobjectl ^ feerde ^ me" ?

      Contents; ;

      Contents :

      Nce Review Of The Week- Tage Naval And M...

      NCE REVIEW OF THE WEEK- tage Naval and Military News 272 The Cloud of Companies 278 THE ARTSMiscellaneous 273 mt nma S ^ ir ^ . ^ . ? .:::::::::::::: SI Po 8 t 3 cript ' a 74 literature- E S itionoftheNationalIn 8 tit * - ^ o r ^ is 5 £ Il a : ne a 267 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Portrait of ChaVtes ' Dicfcens ' . ' . ' . ' . WW 284 ine reace ......,.., ......... . 267 Summary 279 Theatre * ia Paris 284 lie Destruction of Coventgarden The Child of France 275 The Art of the Ancients . 279 '"• ' ?* Theatre . . 267 The Latest Amerioan Diplomatic Hussia South of the Caucasus 280 — ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ The Orient . ...... 268 Papers .... 275 The Londesborough Collection .... 281 T / heGazetfce *& V America 268 Prussia . . at the Conferences ........ 276 British Historians . ... 282 Aae uazette .... * $$ Ireland ... _ . 2 M Our Hamburg ExportTrade 276 A Bat « h of Books .. 282 rnMMCDrii ! accaidc Continental Notes 268 The Collapse of the Administrative Civilisation in Bombay 283 VOWIWIEBC . 1 AL AFFAIRSOur Civilisation . ..... ; 270 Eeformers 277 A Tea-table Novel .... 284 City Intelligence , Markets , & c ... 825

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      T>Eace For Europe Is To Be Presented To ...

      T > EACE for Europe is to be presented to the ¦*• " child of France" as a papspoon . Europe may be glad that his first toy is not a rattle . So entirely has England abandoned the " situation ' * to the arbiter at the Tuileries that Peace itself has become a mere effect in tlie Imperial mise en scene .

      Another " effect" is the amnesty which is extended to the few victims of the Coup d Etat who have not been already amnestied by deaths and who assuredly will not accept it , when Lamaetine writes from his retreat that , if he were of the religion of Cato , he would die'the death of Cato , so siek is he of the servitude of the age 3 and of his own loneliness .

      The Prince has now become the prominent object of cariosity to Paris , and really it is a most lucky advent for the Emperor . Any " novelty" will take in the capital of Gaiety , and a Prince Imperial is a novelty of that kind , that he might fairly be ' reckoned the most precious of Mrennes . It is the op « portunity for which Louis Napoleon has awaited ever since his marriage . Fortune never

      favoured him so much , but , to the very latest , disappointment seemed to be threatened . Ilia equivocal position had originated reports which , if not contradicted by the facts , would perhaps have haunted the Prince throughout his life , and thrown doubt upon his legitimacy . Hence it was necessary to adopt an excessive publicity ; henco it was necessary to visit the very chamber of the Empress with ceremonies and crowds and visible

      anxieties that created a new danger , a new chance that the hopes of the Emperor would he frustrated ; but . oven those complications , which obstruct the exercise of his arbitrary power , have been surmounted . Ho liaa a son , ho has an heir , he has bestowed a Child upon France ; he Iiaa seized the occasion for bringing together the ceremonies of tho Napoleonic Empire , of the French Monarchy , of the earliest Prankish Empire ; he has ravived tho royal habit of fraternising with tho market-women in tho palace ; ho has exchanged oomplimouts with all tho public bodies of France

      he has seized the occasion for passing to them hints as to the light in which he desires the young Prince , the dynasty , and tlie policy of the Emperor to be regarded . The Prince is to inherit the vote of 8 , 000 , 000 , and to be by inheritance the elected of December . The dynasty receiving its fourth member is to be considered as permanent , and the policy of the Emperor is , that the

      Napoleon for the time being shall be regarded as acting for the whole body of the people , for the interests of all , in short , as the geneial agent . When Paris and France have any pretext for festivities their hearts open , their wits become quicker , and then is the time to insinuate these delicate hints . Never did a public man know how to hit his time more adroitly than this man , or watcli for it more patiently .

      The crowned heads , with their servants , the official statesmen , have come to the wise conclusion that they must not risk another year of war , that they must not be found at loggerheads by the summer of 1856 . Brother , brother , we are both in the wrong , has been the burden of the concerted music in the Conference , and as Russia had most broken the compact of the band that is in pdssession of liurope for its own profit , it is Russia who has had to pay tho largest amount of penalty and

      to make the largest concession . It is now admitted by general consent ? that before this cold , dusty , anil blowing month is ov ; er , Paris will be illuminated for a peace concluded , and it seems probable that the illumination , the rejoicing , the welcome of that peace , whatsoever may be its terms , will extend not only to Turkey , to Austria , and to Germany , nil of them trembling for the consequences of a protracted war , but to Russia , glad of peace at any price , and eyen to England , glad of peace for the sake of the thrones at stake .

      Prussia has been admitted , judiciously , to a participation in tho final formalities of the Paris Conference . This admission completes the consent of Europe to tho Treaty signed this day . But the Prussian King ia ill at case in his own capital . The death ofHinokkldy ia an incident which disgraces the community in which it occurs , but it ia more detrimental ns an evidence of impaired authority . He was ( he Director-Genernl of Police , charged with

      many duties that are in this country performed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department . He . was a reformer , and to him is ascribed the merit of many improvements in the Prussian capital . He has been said to belong to that class of men " who have made Prussia great . " It is probable that he carried out his administration with something of the priggish spirit that distinguishes the executive officers of German States , but it was part of his pedantry to impart equal justice to all , high or low . It was perhaps some spice of party

      feeling which induced him to carry out the laws against gambling , upon young noblemen as well as upon the vulgar sportsmen . He had instituted a crusade against a Jockey Club in Berlin . The nobles connected with that club , mingling , perhaps feelings of personal irritation with partj' feelings , organised a conspiracy in which" the conspirators had arranged to offer a series of insults to the minister , for the purpose of forcing him into a succession of duels until he should fall . They succeeded at the first blow . All this is bad

      enough , but not so bad as the sequel . The young officer who shot the Minister of Police has become an object of favour with the Conservative party of Berlin . After a formal arrest , they procured his release on parole , they attended assemblies at his house ; the President of the Upper Chamber expressed regret at the disagreeable circumstances which had rendered it necessary for the young gentleman to be absent . In short , the majority of the Upper Chamber , and the Conservative party , recognised the young officer as the Mutitjh S / evo ua , of bureaucratic Prussia , and in adopting

      him tliey adopted the killing of IIinciceluy as an act of capital justice executed oa their behalf . While the Tory party was thus triumphant in the justice inflicted upon their enemy , the King gave weak tears to tho fate of his servant , follovvgdjuix ^ to tho grave ia . black garments , and frowjfteu ^^ Aflht ^^ v H . \» pon hia banded murderers , who C' ^ iPiSa ^^^ jfe ^?^^) CL the King ' s tears as they do for his bj ^ l % pp !^ top JffljT ^ We have this week had a change ^ ra ©! i & nj $ | 3 ir (§ j || C £ can Minister liere . Mr . ^ UCUANA ^ J ^ b ^ is !^ w ^^^ M £ > been beseeching hia Government to ^^ ^^ K ^^^^ h ) nt last sot free by tho arrival of his iT ^ f ^ TOJ ^ . lBwt ^ S ^ Dallas . We do not know what effect w ^^ T ^ K'H / ' ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22031856/page/1/