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A POLITICAL AND LITERAKY EETIEW.
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A Political And Literaky Eetiew.
A POLITICAL AND LITERAKY EETIEW .
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VOL . VI . No . 297 . ] SATURDAY , DECEMBER 1 , 1855 . Price t ^^ . " . - .- £ ^ p JSBg . E-
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/^ HECKERED is the character of the intelli-\ J gence for the week . "We have our ally of Piedrhont coming to visit Queen Victoria , in the mi < lst ,- ¦ of the conflicting rumours that always multiply during the non-Parliamentary season , now adverse to the prospects of the allies ; we have the disclosure of the strange espionage kept up by the Prussian Baron Geklach over his King and Ins King ' s brother and allies ; we have Ministerial changes , rumours of a dissolution , controversies over the price of bread , exposure of a great commercial i ¦ company , a still roaring trade in exports , and an industrial civil war at Manchester . There is something noble in the very simplicity of the course which King Victor Emmanurl has taken . As to his policy , we appear to understand it completely . He determined to found constitutional government in Piedmont and its allied provinces , and he has done so . To do it involved the necessity of standing independent of Austria , of conceding representation with free discussion in speech and printing , and of independence from the dictation of Rome—hard matters for a Roman Catholic Prince to grant . But he granted them ; and he accepted the consequences . He has sent his contingent to thcalliedarmicsln the East ; he has identified himself with the Western alliance ; he has , in short , steadily followed the course of constitutional freedom , and he is essentially the opponent of absolute despotism . There is something in this simplicity of conduct which rebukes the complication nnd antagonism of our own St- » te . When the tumult and bustle of the reception have passed away , the King , " Honest Man , " as his subjects call him , will perchance look a little beyond the surface , nnd try to find out how we stand in this country , what arc the conditions that may unable us to sustain our part in the conflict into which we have drawn him , nnd to do credit to the ' II alliance . lie comes amongst us at rather a strange ; I time , when public principles are thrown loose , and j H it is difficult to define the positions of men or measures . Never did we have a Minister with a more splendid opportunity than Lonl 1 > ai ,
aikr-| ston , who has high capacities , public prestige , 1 everything except youth in his favour ; and yet somehow the Minister is not just now at a premium . There have been vacancies in the Cabinet , ' and , down to the end of last week , there was evidently some difficulty in filling them up . At last they have been filled ; but leading men of the highest rank have not rushed forward to take their opportunity . " The Duke of Ahgyle , indeed , is not to be , like a bird , in two places at once ; for he replenishes his ducal revenues with the salary of Postmaster-General , and leaves the Privy Seal to Lord Harhowby , who is succeeded in the Duchy of Lancaster by Mr . Matthew Talhot Baines—quondam President of the Poor Law I 3 oard , and olirn the Recordership of Hull . Lord Stanley of Aldehley also , still keeping the Presidency of the Board of Trade , enters the Cabinet . The most positive result of the whole movement is , that the Ministry is joined by Mr . Labouchic jrb and Mr . Uainkk , the latter being a person who has been thought to be ill used on former occasions , and who commands a considerable amount of public confidence . But while the Ministry is thus recruited with respectables , a member of the Government rushes before the public at Tamworth with sweeping attacks on the ileets both oftlic Baltic and of the Ulnck Sea , for not having done what was expected of them . The censor ought to know , for he is Sir Kohkiit Pisur ,, a Lord of the Admiralty , and he must hnvc official means of knowing both what the fleet has done , what was expected of it , nnd what it could have done . It is not the first time that the 1 Admiralty has distinguished itsdf as a censor of ' official proceedings . At the last ministerial cri « i . s , ' when the Aberdeen ( lovcriuuciit went out , the I Secretary to the Admiralty , who in Viceroy over the . Junior Lords , suddenly mounted upon the roof of hi . i building just hefon ; leaving it , and , looking down into the neighbouring Horse Guards , exposed its corruption * nnd weakness . What Air . OtuioitNis did to the military colleagues of the ( Government that lie was leaving , Sir Konrcirr 1 ' kki ,. does to the fleets under the Government in . which he remains . It is a dainty si jf ht to set ' before the King . j
i That we are firm in the rigorous prosecution of ; the war no one will doubt . It is the favourite I subject with the people , and our visitors may see ! many signs of it . Mr . Fox has just been rendering an account to his constituents at Oldham . ; and he is a man \ vt \ o can ' spfiak' / or the working i classes as well as to them , lie speaks on this subject with p eculiar authority . ; he \ ya « a leading . . member of the Anti-Corri Law League—he has had close alliance with the Manchester party —he is a thoughtful man ; yet , notwithstanding this association , he declares broadly that tlic ivnr must be prosecuted until Russia be made to succumb , and to give some evidence of her succumbing , to the public law of Europe . Mr . Miaij < appeals ' to his constituents at Hochdale , and they only forbear to censure his peace leanings—peace proclivities which he softens to the Rochdale view . Hitherto all that has been wanted for the purpose , especially in the form of money , has been furnished cheerfully . The Morn in // Post , however , announces , as if from positive knowledge , that another measure will probubly be adopted as a means of recruiting n home defence force , mid providing a larger nursery for the soldiers . It is a levy of militia by ballot . Now , the ballot has always been a very odious form of levy : it looks fair , but is practically very unfair . Its iirst cfl ' ect is to make the levy fall entirely upon the poorer class , with an exemption tax upon the rich . Amongst the upper class then ; are many who are either too poor to undergo the tax , or upon whom the tnx falls with tremendous weight . A far fairer arrangement is that adopted in Amriim , nhi'iv every man is enrolled , unless he be id ready enrolled in u volunteer corps , and when . ' every iiihii is ready if really wanted . Among tlic . strange signs which the visitor .- * nill encounter i . s the continued pio-pict . of noiiic collision with America . Tins Aiiicnciiu jimftmlM .. indeed , aie not of one tone upon the * Jjubje *^ . v of the warlike demonstration muiiI . Otit , ftmvvt iftfuf . "'> , - ' " since , by the Unfjliah pupa * . Sortie of fliM&' ^ rep * . indignant'enoug h ; others make fl joluj' 0 r "( 7 i 4 . ' . • ; English bullying , and trait the itk-it of n _ ijvaj- ¦ ¦• •' , "' between the two countries ns ii ^^ exVr ^ JJW ^ jf \ ( , '*' too lii ( lieroii « to be possible . It slioulrt by W >/ 1 ' iin £ l ' .. it would be so , if the people of thc ^ tvvv coiuitriowJ , ¦ ' ^ —
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MEWS OF THE WEEK— i-age The War 1142 "War Miscellanea 1143 Public Meetings 1144 The Star Chamber in Jersey 1145 America 1145 Irelend 1146 The Pope in Transports of Gratitude 1146 Continental Notes 1146 Naval and Military News 1147 Our Civilisation 1147 Miscellaneous 1143
POSTSCRIPT- OPEN COUNCILArrivaloftheKingof Sardinia .. ll «» ^^ fff ^ SSS ^^'" "» 1 ..... .. .-r-Ain ^ The Austrians in Italy n 54 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Lord John Russell ' s Lecture 1154 The King of Sardinia in England 1150 Religious Protectionists 1150 I ITFRATIIRF Thetspitalfields Weavers U 51 LllfcKAIUKfc . Lord Palmerston and the Map of Summary .. .............. " 55 Europe . 1152 History of the French Revolution , Virtue ' s Misprision of Vice 1 K > 2 br Louis Blanc 115 C Mr . Isaac Ironside 1153 Robt . Browning ' sMen and Women 157 What Sardinia has done and what The Unity of Matter { 58 she may do H 53 Goodwin ' s English Grammar 1159
The Post-office London Directory 1159 Three Almanacks 1159 PORTFOLIOThe Grande Exposition and its Results 1150 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 11 Gl COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c 1101
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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavor to throw do ^ all thebamera erected between menT > y prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the . distinctions of RehgSn , Country ^ mi Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the ftee development of our spiritual nature . "— Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 1, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2117/page/1/
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