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w fJlHANKS hare been the business of the week— - JL thanksgiving on Sunday in the Church for the peace ; thanks to her Majesty in both Houses of Parliament for communicating the treaty of peace and the papers accompanying it j ^ anks in both Houses of Parliament to the British army , the navy , the marines , and the militia , for earning the peace ; thanks to General Wiluams , with a baronetcy and a pension , for having been so gallantly victimised at Kars ; thanks even , e converso , to
Smith O'Bbien , Fhost , and other " political offenders , " whose respectable class of offence enables her Majesty to adorn the victory by the grace of an ¦ amnesty , without any undue interference in the conduct of the ordinary prisoners ; thanks to the Opposition for having arranged itself to be so completely smashed ; and thanks to her Majesty ' s people for looking on and acquiescing in everything that is vouchsafed to it from head-quarters . Thanks , too—we were almost forgetting this—to Lord Ldcaw , for having so completely crushed Colonel Tuixoch as we crush a snake on our hearth .
The debates on the Address to the Qubkn consisted entirely of matter jso stale , that in the House of Lords the grand Opposition speech was that of Lord Malme 6 bodt , which he intended to deliver last week upon Kars . Lord Dkbiit in the House of Lords , and members of his party in the House of Commons , set themselves to find fault with details of the treaty , —such as the omission of any stipulation on behalf of Circassia , the want of some guarantee that the hattee-schereef will be carried out in Turkey , the doubt whether the neutralization of the Black Sea vrill not operate injuriously to the interests of this
country . For , as Mr . Sidnkt Hkbbekt said , it is not the interest of any commercial country to have the free range of the seas circumscribed . Lord Abbbdbbndiscovered with characteristic impartiality the danger that Russia might be exposed to attack from Turkey without defence from other Powers . So completely , however , was the Opposition crest-fallen , that no amendment could be found in the House of Commons except a purely critical correction which Mr . Robert Philumorb desired , as a doctor learned in the civil law , to record a slight objection to the Executive for having surrendered the rights of seizing
an enemy's goods in neutral ships without consulting Parliament . As if to make this fallen state the more positive , Lord Claude Hamilton proposed an amendment—to strike out the words "joy and" before " satisfaction , " as he considered the peace dishonourable ; so that he could not consent to express more than " satisfaction" with
it . That the lead of the Opposition should be left to Lord Cjlatlde Hamilton , that it should sink to this little quibbling , and that the amendment should only be proposed to be withdrawn on the second night of the debate , prove how entirely the revived strength of the party was imaginary . The country must even do without " the Country party . "
Yet there was stuff in the debates . Lord Clabendon was taken to task by Mr . Layabd and other members , for having consented , even in a modified form , to the remonstrances with Belgium on the subject of the press . Mr . Monckton Milnes showed that Belgium had already taken special precautions to keep a control over the discussion of French affairs in the press . Mr . Gladstone explained these precautionary measures with great minuteness , and there was evidently a feeling in the House of Commons , not limited to the Radical Members , that in
subscribing to Count Waleswsk . i ' 8 menacing complaint against Belgium , Lord Clarendon had joined in an outrage upon a friendly power , and had in some degree surrendered an outpost of constitutional liberty . Much also was said upon the subject of Italy , but we learn nothing from this debate . We turn for information to the reports of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin , which have , however , while we write , only reached us in a very imperfect form . So far the intelligence is quite satisfactory . While Naples is niggling at small promises of clemency to political
cause that they pretend to serve—for that is what we are threatened with . There is a serious chance that the cause of Italy will be compromised , not in the sense of yielding half and obtaining half , but in the sense of forfeiting all . In the mean while , however , Count Cavoub has stated to the Chamber of Deputies at Turin the course which he has taken in Paris ; he has said something ,
which is not yet very intelligibly reported , as to the support which he receives from the Western Powers ; he has announced that it is the intention of his Government to persevere in the course of policy which they have marked out with reference to Rome ; and , confirming what we have said above , he has avowed that the relations of Piedmont with Austria are not improved .
Another gallant nation has shown that its independence is not to be invaded with impunity . In the Belgian Chambers , the Minister for Foreign Affairs has been questioned on the subject of Count Walbwski ' s speech . No notification of that speech , he said , had yet been made to the Belgian Government . When it should be made , the Government would maintain the rights of Belgium as an independent nation . ' No power , " added the Minister , " has ever demanded a modification of the law of the press in Belgium , and the country will never submit to such a
pretensionnever / " We rejoice to hear it . While , we can confirm the statement that the press of Belgium is regulated by laws passed independently and spontaneously by the national legislature , we declare our firm conviction that the time has come when upon peoples like the Belgians will have to depend the support of constitutional freedom in Europe . For already it has , we fear , suffered a serious inroad through th . o yielding of a British Cabinet , which very imperfectly represents the opinions of constitutional freedom in this country , and has a still more imperfect relation with the great body of the people .
prisoners—promises intended only to shuffle out of any demands upon her—Austria is strengthening her position in Parma , and is manifesting , both by act and speech , that she does not intend to yield in the slightest degree . Wo therefore entirely disbelieve the statement which was made that Austria is prepared to co-opcratc with the Western Powers in improving the condition of Italy . She may be preparing to get up some appearance of co-operation in order to entangle the friends of Italy in false alliances , and perhaps to justify any Conservative statesmen who may affect to unito with Count Cavoub in compromising a
We see how imperfect ^ that relation is , first in the excessively guarded and equivocal position of Ministers towards Italy , where prudence would permit so decided a course of co-operation ; we-see it in the willingness to let France threaten Belgium , whose elected sovereign is the uncle of our Queen ; wo see it in the readiness on our side to keep open a paltry quarrel with the United Statga , which any really business man of high feeling ami sound sense could close in an hour ; and wo flc © painfully in the avowed incapacity of all parfltm in Parliament to guess at the true direction " of W h !
J ^ . -¦ ¦ , ¦/' ¦ ' ^J Leaft A C R. ? Political And Literary Review.
J ^ . - ¦ ¦ , ¦/ ' ¦ ' ^ J leaft A c r . ? POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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"The one Idea -which History exhibits as evermore developin g 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 jthe distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sumboldfs Cosmos .
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VOL . VII . 3 STo . 320 . ] ~ SATUKDAT , MAY 10 , 1856 . Price SSSSS ^ zSSSS ^
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— man Miscellaneous 441 OPEN COUNCIL— The Praise of China 400 Imperial Parliament « 4 Postscript 442 ^ ^ . ^ ^ Patient Grissell 451 ThS Sn ^ Du ^ erof the A < £ do « y ** ™* UC AFFAIRS- Twinkle-Crafts 446 THE ARTS- v <* , . . of Arts .. 438 The Peace Debates 443 i i-ttd atiidf— The Water-colour Exhibition 462 Our Civilization 438 Our Relations with America 444 - •• tK / Munt America . ' . 439 Ecclesiastical Reform 444 Summary 447 The Gazette , < 453 Continental Notes 439 An Invitation from the Tories 445 The Oxford Essays 443 r . n * aua * ar * im . t . ccaidc Naval and Military 440 Progress of Police Rule 445 Moore ' s Journals 449 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS— ¦ Obituary 440 The Indian Army 446 A Primitive Republic 449 City Intelligence , Markets , Ac ........ 453
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2140/page/1/
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