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    • A POLITICAL AND LITEEARY EEVIEW.
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      A Political And Liteeary Eeview.

      A POLITICAL AND LITEEARY EEVIEW .

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      he has seized the occasion for passing to them hints as to the light in which he desires the young Prince , the dynasty , aad the policy of the Emperor to be regarded . The Pjiince 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 Empeeor is , that the Na .-

      T ) EAGE 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 the Imperial mise en scene . Another " effect" is the amnesty which is extended

      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 pnrty 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 party feelings , organised a conspiracy in which the conspirators had arranged to oflfer 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 wlio 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 , nnd the Conservative pnrty , recognised the young officer as 1 # the Mutius

      S / kvola of bureaucratic Prussia , and in adopting him they adopted the killing of Hinckek-dy as an act of capital justice executed on their behalf . " While the Tory party was thus triumphant in tho justice inflicted upon their enemy , tlio Kino gave weak tears to the fate of his sorvanj ^ ft ^ o ^ a ^ ikn to the crrave in black garments , ^ fii ^ w ^ EflT ^ JbA - upon his banded murderers , xy "p ^ ^ m ^^^^ M ^ . the King ' s tears as they do for > Ws | Pwf lfa&api . ill || I We have this week had a C ^* SK »^' ^^^^^ H 3 *" can Minister here . Mr . BucHjWft ^^ Mre ^^^^ M Y been beseeching h is Qo vernn » on ^ qf ^^^ ' ^^ T ^^| u at last a « t free l ) y the arrival o f mk ^ m ^^ S ^^ fj ^ l £ Dallas . We do not know what efreCT ^ wicjBHWpJe

      to the few ¦ victims of the Coup d 'Etat who have not been already amnestied by death , and who assuredly will not accept it , when Lamartine writes from his retreat that , if he were of the religion of Cato , he would die the death of Cato , so sick is he , of the servitude of the age , and of his own loneliness .

      The Prince has now become the prominent object of curiosity 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 opportunity 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 . His equivocal pos ition had originated reports which , if not contradicted by the facts , would perhaps have haunted tlie Prince throughout his life , and thrown doubt upon his legitimacy . Hence it was * necessary to adopt an excessive publicity ; hence it was nec essary 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 tho Emperor would be

      frustrated ; but oven these complications , which obstruct the exercise of hia arbitrary power , have been surmounted . He has a son , he has an heir , he haa bestowed a Child upon Franco ; he haa seized tho occasion for bringing together the ' , ceremonies of tho Napoleonic Empire , of tho French Monarchy , of tho earliest Frankish Empire j ho has revived the royal habit of fraternising with the market-women in tho palace ; ho has exchanged compliments with all tho public bodies of Franco ,

      poleon for the time being shall be regarded as acting for the whole body of the people , far the ! interests of all , in short , as the general 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 watch 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 possession of Europe for its own profit , it is Russia who has had to pay the largest amount of penalty and

      to make the largest concession . It is now admitted by general consent' that before this cold , dusty , and blowing month is over , Paris will bo illuminated for a peace concluded , and it seems probable that the illumination , tho rejoicing , the welcome of that peace , whatsoever may be its terms , will extend not only to Turkey , to Austria , and to Germany , all of them trembling for tho consequences of a protracted war , but to Uussia , glud of peace at any price , and oven to England , glad of peace for tho sake of tho thrones at stake .

      Prussia has boon -admitted , judiciously , to a participation in the- final formalities of the Paris Conference , This admission completes the consent of Europe to tho Treaty signed this day . JBut tho Prussian King is ill at oaso in hia own capital . Tho death of IIinckkld'y ia an incident which disgraces tho community in which it occurs , but it is more detrimental ns an evidence of impaired authority . Ho was the Director-General of Police , cluu'ged with

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      " Tlie one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided , views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as oae broth . exh . ood , having one great object—the free development of o-ui soiritual nature . "—HumboldC * Cosmos . J *

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      VOL . VII . No . 313 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 22 , 1856 . Price ]^^^ :: I ^^ -

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— **< " » Naval and Military News 272 The Cloud of Companies 278 THE ARTSMiscellaneous ...... 273 Where to find Nurses 265 Postscript 374 Exhibition of the National Institu-The War .... 266 LITERATURE— tion 284 War Miscellanea 267 PUBLIC AFFAIRS Portrait of Charles Dickens 284 The Peace . 267 ruouiv nrrmno Summary ' 379 Theatres in Paris . . ..... 284 The Destruction of Covent-garden The Child of France 275 The Art of the Ancients 279 Theatre . 267 The Latest American Diplomatic Russia South of the Caucasus 280 ———___ . The Orient ' . .... 268 Papers .. 275 The Londesborough Collection 281 The Gazette ... S 85 America 268 Prussia at the Conferences .. 276 British Historians . 28 a * ••••••••• Ireland . 26 * Our HamburgExport Trade 276 A . Batch of Books 282 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinentalNotes ... 268 The Collapse of the Administrative Civilisation in Bombay 283 wramtKUHL aithiks Our Civilisation .... 370 Reformers .. 277 A Tea-table Novel ......... 284 City Intelligence , Markets , &c ... 825

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2133/page/1/