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      V piES&ATION o f diplomatic intercourse with \ J America—that is the news of the week . Our Ministers would not recal Mr . Champion ; Mr . Champton , therefore , is reported to have been dismissed , and Mr . Dallas may or may not cross Mm on the high seas . The British representative returns ¦ with something more than an official cen-8 pre hanging to his name . He is charged , by the tjnited States Government , with having made ,

      withdrawn , and denied an important admission Iti » a question t > f practical falsehood between Mr . Ceampton on one side , and Mr . Clayton , Mr . Mahct , and Mr . Cass on the other , and the difficulty is to believe one witness in preference to three . But the personal matter is insignificant in Comparison with the vast interests that now depend on the decision of the two Governments . Technically , the dismissal of the British Minister from Washington ia a step nearer war ; essentially , it ought to tend towards a reconciliation .

      The obnoxious agent has disappeared from the scene ; if negotiations are still carried on , they will be conducted indirectly ; America will not be required to receive Mr . Cbamptos again , and the general dispute is reduced to a point so fine , that it would be worse than infatuation to make it a cause of war . This is no time for England to be fighting across the Atlantic . Certain continental Powers might not regret to see the unworn Baltic armaments Lurried into the western hemisphere ,

      Europe free from the weight of English councils , Manchester at a stop-still , Lancashire in insurrection , Englishmen and Americans killing each other in the north , while Spaniards and Mexicans spread the battle southwards ; but we have interests at home which will not allow us , at this particular moment , to piny that desperate game . There is little encouragement in the promise of the Morning JPost , that Louis Napoleon would be still our faithful and active ally .

      The Kings arc exchanging courtesies after the war . The Emperor of Russia , at Berlin , has saluted his brother of Austria . At Berlin , also , Talma might play a second time to a pit full of royalty . Two sovereign princes , an einprcHSmotber , a quoen consort , one of the starry gnuiddukes of Russia , a group of the itinerant princes of Germany , and tho diademed of the other sex , « ro glittering at the court of Fkkokkick

      William . Friendly notes from Vienna and Parij have been addressed to the Pope , who has sent to Paris , in return , his sacred ambassador to christen the Child of France . Meanwhile , the Child of France promises to be but a sickly flower . Eugenie droops in the June sun , and Louis Napoleon himself , who rides the ark of the inundation , endures his old rheumatic griefs . He shed tears , say private letters of " our own correspondents , " as the echoes of welcome swept to him down the vale of the Rhone ; but the curious

      circumstance is that a nation so deeply moved by the love of this aguish GossAjt , is not permitted to speak , or publish , or elect , and is confessed by the flatterers of the Empire to bear a swarming progeny of revolutionary societies . La Beauce , the Lombardy of France , is a lake . The -Loiret and the Rhone are united by vast streams of water . The wrecks of farms and villages float to the sea ; the population retires to the hills . In the midst of

      this terrible tableau appears the Emperor in Council , and ten millions of public money are voted for the relief of the sufferers . Somebody must be praised for this generosity , and , as Louis Napolkon officiates , the flattery falls to him . But the floods threaten the harvest , and the harvest threatens the revenue , and the Moniteur says there is no fear of revenue or harvest , and good people abroad believe the Moniteur , and the sceptics at home are sent to Cayenne , and irony wears the

      crown . In the midst of irony serious events move on . The Russian journals in Belgium predict a disturbance in Italy " within six weeks , " and though this is meant , probably , as no more than a taunt to Austria , the darkening aspects of the peninsula justify increased apprehension . The outburst of a popular war is not impossible ; the getting up of a few police insurrections is very probable indeed . Austria can then hang off the most troublesome patriots . She appears to have

      withstanding the dip lomatic disclosures of the Post , it might forward this scheme could Great Britain be disengaged from her European connexions , and induced to send our admirals drifting in the track of the caravels of Columbus . The new sort of despot has already experimented upon Belgium , and he , or some one else , has been tampering with Sardinia . But the plot of the two Powers—to which England only " adheres "—is upon an elastic plan . Austria " hurls back at Turin the accusations made by the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries , " and undertakes to defend , not only her own territories , but . . those of

      all the Italian princes , VipxoK Emmanuel excopied . What do bur Ministers say to ttjs . assumption of a general Italian protectorate ? What they dp , and what they say , is known to them ' and to their correspondents , the foreign diplomatists ; the British people , one , we may suppose , of the " parties concerned , " not being in the least informed of the proceedings taken in its august

      name . Parliament , under the influence of the sudden heat , begins to grow weary of its toil , and to think more of the races and the moors than of dry business at St . Stephen ' s . It sits grudgingly ; and on Tuesday the faithful Commqna were unfaithful enough not to " make a House . " The transactions of honourable members when they have met have not presented us with much that is either interesting or important . The Committe ' e of Supply has been drudging through its work

      much atter the usual fashion , with the customary amount of opposition from Mr . Williams and a few other watch-dog members , and the general triumph of vested interests in tho adoption of disputed votes . Some criticisms , however , by Mj \ Locke King on the unsatisfactory labours of the Statute Law Commission ( for which a vote . of li ) ll ^ was asked and granted ) elicited from Sir Fitzhov Kiii . LY a statement to the efiect that the Coi »»» w--ivn Imw »» f » 9 * V ??» mnkin £ TT »;; ftf * the wurk ih ihiiiniy done ; and that WO ftl'C ph prtly fo see on the table of the House seventeen or eighteen

      failed in engaging Russia to join the new Holy Alliance , though Fjhsuubick ; Willjam . is ready enough to embrace his kinsman Alexander , ami utter a pompous speech on the necessity of keeping Europe in order . But Louis Napoleon thinks that to be his own task . If only he could carry out a plan for the consolidation of despotic authority , and elect himself Chairman of the Company , it would much assist in suppressing the painful rumours of revolution in Italy , tho continual irritation that priclcs his power in France , the inconvenient action of minor states : and

      notbillti for reducing our chaos of confused and contradictory laws to something like compact , harmonious , and comprehensible shape — assuredly , not before the need of some such arrangement was grievously felt , since we ure only now" beginning to effect what Lord Baoon indicated afl a necessity two centuries and a half ago . A bomb directed against the unhappy little kingdom of Greece by Mr . James M'Urhgob ,

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      VThe one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i 3 the Idea of Humanity—the noble ' * endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-3 ided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions < , « ff Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race sls one brotherhood , having one ereat object—the free development Of out spiritual nature . " —Humboldt ' s Cosmos . *

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      " REVIEW OF THE WEEK— vage Naval and Military 537 | The Sore Point 541 Trans-Atlantic Latter-Day Poetry .. 547 Im perial Parliament 531 ^ Obituary 537 Indian Public Works . " 542 The Municipal Directory .....:.., " ...... $ 48 Sfce WeHtawton College 533 91 * Miscellaneous 537 THEARTSCtaritjAle ^ tv al s 553 Postscript 638 LITERATURE- The Picture Gallery at the Crystal '" " ffiS 3 BSK ^ ifiA " Bvd ::::: ' :::: Si PUBLIC affairs- summary *« ^? Z £ ^ & ^^ £ g-&lr CMUfcation 7 . 534 America 538 Froude ' s History of England 543 The Axnateur Pantomime 548 America HT . 535 The Great Secret Society 539 A Lady in Persia 544 « -wtori ° *» Continental ftotes 536 The Services of the Army 539 Imaginative Artists 545 rftMM-Briai Arramc sSSeofTrade 537 Palmer-as an Artist 540 The Manstei . i Memoirs 546 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSIreland ........ 537 A Challenge to tho Revolution 541 The Sandwich and Society Islands 546 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 549

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2144/page/1/