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'' ncum ^^ Tur wcFt- ¦ ¦ ' -INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRES r- Horticultural Society 983 The Cruise Of the Pearl Round REVIEW OF THE WEEK- , North-west Province of India .. 081 Polytechnic . 983 theWord 000 . ThesS . ^ S ^ -- ^ ilSt Indian intem euce Q 82 public affairs gg 5 S ^^ d :::::::::::::::: > £ : LW & ' ^^ i ' TL » v 1 c " tory " atBrescia .-Sale M ^ der ^| lnce ^ .::::::::::: || COMMERC IAL- ' The Volunteer Kifle Corps ...... at Lord Northwicke ' s : —Fine- The Modern Don Juan O » G . The Carron Conspiracy 093 Law , Police , and Casualties ...- 977 art Scraps . —The Art-Union of Koptane Bouted . - ....... 98 b Tne Trade of Jufy ...-- .... 093 Ireland 977 London .--Mr . Scott and the S , < 5 jCapp ^ i ^? l ? lly , ' Vl" ; 2 f £ Money Market and Stock Ex-Glneral Home News ............ 977 New Foreign Office . - The Pohtics aHd _ NaturalHistory .... 987 ^ change 00 i The Navies of England and - " Duke" anofthe Indicator ..,. 983 Alessandro Manzon . ..,. 988 General Trade Report ...... 094 France . ...... 978 tufatres AND ENT ERTA 1 NMENTS— J . He Galw ay contract v » J Stocks and Shares ¦ ««* . foreign INTEM . IQENCE . THEAT £ ES AND ENT brtaiNMbN » LITERATURE- Joint-Stock Companies «) 1 General Summary .. 978 ^ r e * K of the Three Choirs Notes of the Week 0 S 9 Hallway Intelligence 004 ° T ^ n C ^ . ^ ! . ' .... 079 S . aS ^^ . ^^^ . rf-WS F romicany S ^ f ^ eTfl ^ d 989 I GeneralCominor ^ alWB ¦ 005
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w ¦ "DlROM the French capital , this week , there is J- little intelligence of interest or importance . The Emperor and his fair consort are at St . Sauveur , seeking that repose , both of mind and body , which the turmoil of recent events has rendered an " imperative necessity . The camp of St . Maur is broken up , and the regiments which composed its population have been distributed among the various military commands into which fair France is now divided . Paris is at length deserted by all except the shopkeepers , the police , and the English and German excursionists whom the cheap trains of the season bring , to taste its gaiety and its dissipation .
Whatever motives may have influenced the ruler of the French in his late declaration of amnesty for political offences , that measure can scarcely be considered a successful stroke of policy ; nor has it apparently , as far as we can at present judge , in any way strengthened his posir tion , or increased his popularity . The vague and ambiguous terms in which it is couched have aroused the suspicions of those whom it was intended to conciliate ; and the most respected and influential of the refugees , in this country and in Belgium , refuse to accept the proffered boon at
the hands of the man who has so deeply injured them , or to place any confidence in his promises , until he gives some satisfactory guarantee for their fulfilment . Louis Blanc , Victor Hugo , Pyat , and other leaders of the constitutional and republican parties , have published their rejection of the Emperor ' s overtures in eloquent and spirited language , which cannot fail to have a powerful effect upon their less celebrated fellow exiles . Louis Napoleon is defeated in his great object , which was , doubtless , to induce the return of these distinguished Frenchmen to their native land under
his rule , a course which would seem to imply a tacit admission of the permanence of his dynasty ; and the adulation of M . de la Cruerroiudre and similar eulogists , will ill compensate for the rebuff which has been bestowed upon Ms apparently humano and conciliatory offers . M . Louis Blanc s second letter upon this subject , which has appeared in the English newspapers this week , gives the Emperor full credit for the motives which seem to actuate his policy . ' * He could hardly have done more for us in the present conjuncture , " says TVT T . niivo Til a tt ^ Vwii 4 lir * itnnanfa 4 T » o-f flin nvilftfl MLouis Blancbut repeats that the exiles
At home our members of x < i :-.. / r . ^ nt . . ts is their wont when deprived of the arena of Westminster , contrive to pour their eloquence and wisdom into the willing ears of provincial audiences . At Winchester has been a gathering of parliament men to dine and talk to then- constituents . The speeches were characterised chiefly by taunts and abuse of their political adversaries ; that of a minister , however , ] Mi ' . T . Baring , contained some plausible promises of parliamentary-rrefornx measures to be introduced by Lord Palnierston ' s GovernmentAt Tynemouth , Mr . Lindsay addressed
, some sensible remarks to the working-men who had presented him with a testimonial . His text was the strikes ; and lie showed in what degree combinations injured , and how much they benefited , the workman . Judge Haliburtoii , who was also present , in a short speech combined wit and wisdom in his usual happy manner , and remarked that the possibility of men remaining out on strike for three months together was an evidence of the wealth of England ; in America , added he , the " strikers " would be starved out in a week—an assertion which is novel , to say the least of it .
While on this subject we regret to say that the dispute in the building trade still remains unarrari ^ ed ; though both parties are . heartily tired of the ° stpppage of business . The operatives continue to carry matters with a hig h hand ; successful appeals have been made to their fellows in the country to support them , and a considerable sum has been subscribed for their assistance . Rumours have been again current this week of an approaching reconciliation , and we hope they will prove to be well founded . The TyritJ shipbuilders have eained their point and returned to work at
increased wages ,. and the Birmingham gun-smiths have dropped the disputed points and have , many of them , recommenced their labour . . The latest Indian mail brings the intelligence that from eight to ten thousand British soldiers have accepted the discharge which the tartly justice of the Government has proffered them , and are on their way towards home ; and thus is satisfactorily ' closed another disagreeable chapter in our Indian history . The skiraiislnng with rebels ii ) detached parties continues with the same unvarying result of slaughter and dispersion of the wretched
upon the 20 th of September , but the measures which are announced to be taken with that object are neither very extensive nor very re-assuring to those neighbouring States who regard with , anxiety the gigantic military power of France . The extent of the reductions seems to be the discharge of those soldiers whose term of service has expired ,, and who would . have been released from service if they wished it , as a matter of course ,
without any regard to the war or peace footing . Meantime the activity in the French dockyards is unceasing , and every resource of which modern science can boast is brought to bear upon the construction , for the imperial navy , of iron-plated frigates and floating batteries , which it is supposed , when armed with the most destructive artillery yet invented , will make France as terrible at sea as her most ambitious sons can possibly desire .
The affairs of Italy seem to be rapidly approaching a crisis . The will of the people has been expressed by their representatives in the parliaments of Tuscany , Modena , and Parma , without a dissentient voice ; and the forfeiture of all claim to their sovereignty by the Hapsburg-Lorraine princes , unanimously declared . This has been followed by a resolution of union with the kingdom of Victor Emmanuel on the part of each of these States ; in which also the } : > rovisional junta of Bologna has joined . A central league of defence has been formed ; the energetic and patriotic Garibaldi has been placed at the head of
the united forces of the duchies , and has reviewed the various corps , who have received him as their commander" with an enthusiasm that bodes well for success if a struggle be at hand . At Modena , Farini has been re-invested with the dictatorship which he wielded so ably , and so gracefully laid down at the meeting of the National Assembly . All this looks well ; but the friends of Italy anxiously inquire what part the Emperor Napoleon will take in the arrangement of her affairs . He is said to have declared that' he cannot interfere to prevent the armed intervention of Austria to enforce the provisions of the
Villafranca treaty , according to winch , the Austrian princes are to be restored . He has also said that it is impossible that the State of Tuscany can become a par ' t pf the kingdom of Northern Italy ; and the arrival of General Bourbaki at Parma , at the head of a French division , is a very significant fact . Active intriguers are at work in Tuscany to bring about the restoration of the young Grand Duke , with the promise of constitutional goyeVnmont , and an offer to erect Venice into an independent State under another Austrian arch-duke . These meet with email encouragement , however ; and Prince Poniatowski , who has been sent to succeed the unsuccessful Roiset , and to feel the way
outcasts . .. , , Volunteering still goes on with some display oi spirit in certain parts of the country ; m many localities , however , it is fluk ing , . and it w to be feared that tho results will bo nusorubly insignificant . Too muoh attention appears to ); u paid to neat uniforms and smart aoGouijroinoiitb ; . while a en-eat error has been committed m fixing * ao amount of subscription in most cases at too lugUarate . In connexion with the subject of national defences we observe tho Ouzoita of yesterday , contains the Royal proclamation of tho commission to inquire m oolSll ' oSn ' g diameter of the ovidonco at the trial of Dr . Thomas Smothurst has rendered the public dissatisfied with his conviction of tho crime oi ;« .. i . « W . and oroat oxcic « munt has boon tho result .
for the establishment of tho meditated kingdom of Etruria under Prince Jerome Napoleon , has been greeted with a similar coldnoss . We can but hope that Louis Napoleon docs not intend by force to establish in Central Italy a puppet soverei gn contrary to this avowed determination . If tliis unhappily be his intention a sanguinary contest must follow , tho extent and x'esults of which it is impossible to foresee . Victor Emmanuel makes no sign at present , further than a vague appeal to the Italians to have faith in him , " and an assurance that ho will do all in his power to promote tho welfare of Italy .
Memorials have been numerously signed to obtain a commutation , if not an entire annulment , oi tho sentence ; and wo hoar they have boon so tar successful that n roprlevo has boon granted , lor tho purpose of making a otriot inquiry into tho ftintfl and tho medical evidence .
. , no have no certainty of safety if thoyr return ; and that while they cannot serve their country at homo , it is their duty to serve her abroad , where they arc under tho ennobling protection of tho law , and can speak their mraa freely . Victor Hugo , in brief but emphatic terms , deolaros it impossible for him to acknowledge any other duty than that of absolute and inflexible protest against tho wrongs of Franoe , or to re-enter his native country until tho cause of liberty is again in tho ascendant , Tho Mohitenr has officially declared that the disarmament of the French army is to commence
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081859/page/3/
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