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The One Idea Which History Exhibits As E...
The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble n < £ ?* 7 our l ° throw do-wn allthe barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-aided views ; and by setting aside tiie distinctiona or Keu . fti . qn , Country , and Colour , to treat the wh-jle Hainan race a 3 oae brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ox our spiritual nature . "—Jfumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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HEWS OF THE WEEK- - * o . Vacancy of her Majesty ' s Oppo- LITERATURE- Ristori and the English Com-„ . Imperial Parliament ,... , 10 . sition 7 l 6 Summary 723 pany in Paris 723 y -ISff ^ Sr OfJ / 0 rd ' BMglBn i ! i Palraerston on Limited Liabi- The Future of German Philo- ...- „ ... ¦ Hie War 712 jity 717 sophy 723 PORTFOLIO—25 * S ^ IS ? * 5 » ully ZJI "The Massacre at Hango " * . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . !!! 718 Essays from " the ' "Edinburgh The Golden Age 728 - - OU » CivUfaation ^ 713 Whom Shall we Hang * 718 Review" 7 ... 724 S £ v < yL 5 L nd tHU Ury Ncws 1 ™ New Income-tax Victims 719 The Manhood of Newton 725 The iToiicn . Loan 713 Russian Policy in Western Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 729 Continental Notes 714 Asia f . 720 AleccaG 726 Miscellaneous 714 Mr . F . O . Ward on the recent A New Poem 727 , ~ rt , u , Mr «> i ~ i * t . . Postscript ..., ^ 715 Pollution of the Thames ; its _ , _ . _ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPUBLIC AFFAIRS- Cause and Remedy 721 THE ARTS- City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-The Duty of To-Day 716 " The War in Asia" 722 The French Exhibition 727 vertisements , & c 729-732
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A DISSOLUTION has been thought of , perhaps universally , and the week opened with some expectation that Ministers might retaliate the surprise on Friday night by sending members to their constituents . Few punishments could have been more apposite or more severe , if the minority alone had been concerned ; but Government would hesitate to put the public to that inconvenience which inevitably results from a dissolution at harvest time , when everybody who is not engaged in business has his heart in the Highlands , or some other scene of delectation . Besides .
the majority of the House rallied to its duty on Monday , and showed that it did not share in the treachery or tho un-Knglish feeling which dictated the manoeuvre of Friday night . We acquit at bace Mr . Coodes and other members of a certain economical party , that has always , by its genius and antecedents , been alien to the irar , if Joot adverse to it : they were an augmentative of the minority who had no mains Qnimus of their own , although the manner in which
tile Tories used that Radical and economical jrarty jfaft about as strong an instance of political iminorplity as we remember . There were , indeed , many kinds of morality current on that notable Friday tught . In tho first place , Mr . John Lkwis Iti-< UKJ > 0 lent the illustrious traditions of a banking Mme to back the figment that the Anglo-Gullienn endorsements of the Turkish note of hand in
Raping money was a " subsidy in disguise . " The I & ench and English Governments have good tf # tion to know that Turkey commands resources , ' will ; of which sho could pay tho money , and that b ^ T . iraproving relations with tho rest of civilised . Europe arc likely to increase her resources . la ttjr case , however , the money must be had lor the ; J $ * jpo 8 O specified—the payment of the Turkish k & $ 9 ps ; and if they arc not paid through the ' Bojwak , they will have to bo paid through our ' Oobmjissioners * > f ° t » o Allies cannot spare them .
, | f ^ n « way other , therefore , England und Franco j « W > , defactO ) answerable for furnishing a , requisite ^ WWUht of money . They have reduced their 10-, " ! RTOMbility to a minimum , by making the loan the . $ » fr of Turkey , and obliging the Forte to under-JJwjpayment in tho firat instance Whoever pay * bW ^** O ney , it will bo most easily paid if raised on "fW ! « n «* pest twins ; and the terms arc rendered -SfS ^ ' ^^ aper by the guaranteo of France and wJrUiuJ . Suoh is the whole rationale of tho loan-¦* $ ' ' ' . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' .. J ' . V ..
A subsidy is an advance of money in order to purchase the military aid of another power ; and we might have assisted Turkey in that way , but as little is the loan a subsidy as such a subsidy would have been a loan . Mr . Disrajeli was to blame on Parliamentary grounds . No man knows better than that quondam candidate for the office of Speaker that there are understandings on these occasions , and that it would entail permanent inconvenience upon members of Parliament if
repeated breaches of the understanding prevented anybody from trusting to it * . Moreover no man knows better than he , that whatever may be the particular plan most recommended by abstract reasoning , it is un-English to bring about a default in any engagement of the kind where the executive Government has undertaken a pledge in the name of the nation , and it is the fact that many of his party positively refused to follow him —deliberately refused , in spite of remonstances . He committed a worse fault than even these two .
He , being a party leader , exposed himself without a party — incurred a failure on Friday night , to be followed up by a still more signal reverse on the Monday . For on the Monday the agents of Ministers had repaired the neglect of Friday . Members on the Speaker ' s right hand were diligently whipped into their places , and a crowded array showed before Mr . Wortlk y stood up and formally expressed his regret at the occurrence of Friday night ; so that no repetition of the surprise
could be thought of . The remainder of the debate consisted either of complaints at the surprise or the avowal of speakers , like Sir Dk Lacv Evans , that they would have attended to support the state vote in such a case , if they had thought of a division ; the excuse of some financiers , that they had a right to express and to sustain their opinions ; ami the angry allusion of one speaker , who stands conspicuous above the rest , at the anomalous position into which he has drifted . Mr . Glapstonk , adopting an expression used out of doors ,
confessed that the House of Commons is almost a menagerie of curiosities iu matters of opinion . " He himself , late member of a War Cabinet , workin" for peace!—an English statesmen , advocating acceptance of Russian terms !—a financier confounding subsidies and loans , and cultivating fallacies in money business!—is , perhaps , the strangest of all the creaturos exhibited in that menagerie . It , perhaps , most strongly shows tho feeling that prevailed at that hour , when wo find Mr . Layabw rebuking right honourable
gentlemen for trying to bring about a default as a means of embarrassing the Government ; accusing Mr . GtADSToxE of being " unwise , unstatesman .-like , and unpatriotic , " and telling the . House that if the vote of the minority had prevailed , Turkey would have mourned " the sick man , " and St . Petersburg would have been illuminated . In fact , the Irish Liberal Shee , the Administrative Reformer Latabd , the county Conservative Deedes , the independent and patriotic veteran De Lact Evans , the decorous spokesman for the dissident Conservative Wobtcey—are men whose
very names prove that the overwhelming majority on Monday night , which received , as matter of course , the report that the minority had resisted on Friday , was actuated , not by the feeling of party , but by that of Englishmen . One at least of the evenings was wasted in a useless discussion , since Monday only unsaid what had been said in the first , and that , at a time
w hen the session is drawing to its shortest span , and several subjects of importance still remain for practical treatment . There is Limited Liability in Partnership , which Ministers are trying to carry against a band of capitalists professing liberal opinions , but in tfiis case supporting a course anything but liberal . The Times strings up Mr . Montz , Mr . Gjlyn , Mr . William Brown , Mr . Strutt , Mr . Spooker , Mr . Bass , Mr . JoBUf Foksteb , Mr . Mitchell , and Mr . Hastie— " all
capitalists , " who strive to prevent small capitalists from investing their money , unless they will also undertake to invest everything they have , and be ruined upon failure . Lord Palmebston roundly declares that he will prolong the session sufficiently to carry the bill ; but wo somewhat mistrust these threats , since Pximo Ministers can be subjected to pressure . But he is right in taunting the advocates of free trade , with resisting a great application of the very principle of free
trade . Another parliamentary scandal is the withdrawal of tho Tenant Compensation Bill ; and here Government bas not so clour a case . Before Sir Edward Lytton ' s motion , various Irish members waited upon Lord PaVmicrston , and drew Ins attention to tho merits of the 14 th clause , it had ^ then been struck out of the bill . The clause fi ^ A retrospective compensation . Lord x AL ™?» JMS was struck with the beauties of retrospect ! V « ponsntion for Irish tenants , and restored ^ hM ^ j Irish members were » iueb p leased ; tkoy qfWMtfgj " confidence" in Lord Palmerston . Bul ^ iy $ &
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28071855/page/1/
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