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      A MERICA and Europe stand rather curiously XjL contrasted in the aspect of this week ' s news . In America we see the republic master of the situation , prosperous , laying down its own coarse , and surmounting its domes tie difficulties with the innate force of a gre . it people . Europe

      is less torn by disorders than harassed by cross interests , the intrigues and treacheries of her official governments . The Message of President Fierce is a picture of the Union , its prosperity , its incessant activity , and its victory over sectional interests . Kansas has been quieted . The conflict within the older states of the Union on the

      visionary question of extending slavery , or of placing a restraint upon the institutions of the South "by the will of the North , has been overridden "by the steady progress of material activity , and by the good sense of the great bulk of the Union . President Pierce describes the attitude which the Union preserves towards foreign States

      —peaceful on all sides , declining to recognize the petty governments of Central America , watchful towards Mexico , whose feeble Government cannot maintain order at home or abroad . He justly points to the recent Presidential election as establishing the triumph of attachment to the Union over geographical distinctions .

      We point , however , with peculiar satisfaction , to the address delivered by Mr . Buchanan to the students of Franklin and Marshall College , with which lie is connected . A numerous band of youths went to congratulate him , on his election , at Wheatlands , his own house in Pennsylvania , and the reply of Mr . Buchanan , the first and only manifesto which he lias made on the principles of his future administration , will bo found to read like an echo of those views which , on a knowledge of

      his character and a long ohservation of liis public services , we have already put forward . The object of his administration would be , he said , to destroy any sectional party , North or South , and to harmonize all sections of the Union under a national and conservative government , as it was fifty years ago ; for James Buchanan closely connected his own principles with those which were uphold by " the Father of his Country' *—Wasu-IHOTON . And as a sign of the general spirit with which tho American Republic is behaving in the world

      in local purposes . In point of fact , the suzerainty was si mere augmentative of the Prussian dignity , the very troops being under restraint as to tlieir service , especially against the interests of the republic .. Daring the disturbances of 1848 , the canton broke loose from its regal tie , so totally incompatible with its essentially republican relations ; and the King so far condoned the proceeding as to give an express permission that the officers heretofore named by him , and the persons who professed some reaiaining allegiance- —the scanty local Tory party— -should execute their duties , and obey their superiors in the canton or the republic , the severance notwithstanding . In May , 1852 , dnriug the distinguished residence of Xord Maimesburx" in the Foreign-office , the Chevalier Boxsex made a formal , declaration of King Frederick William ' s rights as suzerain over the province of Neufchutel ; Lord Malmesbuby and certaJnforeign ministers sitting in the conference on other subjects , received this declaration on the part oftlie ChevalierBuKSEN , and in a protocol on their part , recorded the formal declaration that Prussia had made a statement . Everybody knows the

      Pourtales insurrection of this year—the ludicrous discomfiture of the insurgents , their imprisonment , and their trial , now actually commencing , on a charge of treasonable rebellion against the republican authority . Frederick William has professed to be excessively reasonable on the point ; he will do something gracious on one condition , and that is that the prisoners be released unconditionally . The ground for this preposterous claim is , that although they are traitors to

      we can take nothing better than the little incident of Captain HABTSTErif ' s mission to present Queen Victoria her own ship—the Resolute . Our own Government has inflicted upon that of America incompatible wrongs—it has mistrusted her , and has at the same time treated her with bad faith . The United States have preserved : their own course unaltered ; they maintain a friendship which we had forfeited , and have taken their revenge in this return . It Is . not a bad example of results which flow from government by the ' people , as compared with government by Beljjravia .

      We are at war again . It is not Queen Victoria , indeed , that has declared war , but Lord Canning has dona so , as proconsul of the Indian Empire . War has been definitively proclaimed against Persia , and " Jill pretences of a minor operation , a mere local suppression of disorder at Herat , have been abandoned . The grounds of Avar have been explained in our own columns ; we ai * e not , however , at the present moment dealing with the merits of the question , we are only noting the military fact that we are at war in Central Asia .

      In Europe , too , the duration of the peace is virtually called in question by the practical impossibility of definitively executing the terms of the Treaty of Paris . " \ Vc hear nothing more to re : issure us on the subject of the 20 th Article , which Russia has explained in a sense apparently more consistent with the actual terms of the avtiule and with the geographical features of the proposed frontier , than our own plenipotentiaries and Ministers have done .

      And while the plenipotentiaries arc preparing to reassemble , our nearest ally , the one to whom we liave most absolutely trusted , has struck out a new course , in a matter quite as interesting to Ivuropo as the integrity of the Ottoman Empire , namely , the integrity of tlie Swiss republic NcufeliiUel is the principality of that Turkey , and Prussia plays there the part of Russia . The case is more paltry , bait more barefaced . As Itussia

      the l'epublic , they were only too faithful to him . That , the authorities of the republic will deal leniently with the prisonei-s , is a matter of certainty ; they have already treated them with striking indulgence ; and King Fredericic Wil lAATst etivmot possibly feel the slightest real anxiety on their account . He is only demanding an act of absolute deference from the republic as an

      inferior to himself as a monarch . The federal Government has replied to him with courtesy , and has even put forward distinct explanations for the purpose of proving that it has been vcgular ^ Jajacjfill , and lenient in its conduct towards / fl ^ J ^ i ^ X ^ turcd insurgents . In this country thp ^ '' <^ 0 ^ j ^ . - {" p ^\ £ « j but sympathy and respect for meiKyli ^ s ^ few ^ S- 'k * X ^ understand their duty . Not so ii ^ oMs * ISyV tiiilM k * 2 European countries . Wo alrendj ^ kno ^ vwi ^ vTii' } £ 5 ? King Frederick William had Q $$ 1 'b <^ $ J ^| : ^' ij ? rtf the German states which lie botvv ^ 4 ^ * 5 r 4 : ' vM fc * J

      claimed to exercise some degree of protectorate over the Danubiau Principalities , so the King of Prussia claims to exercise a lordship over the canton of NeufcMtel . Tho canton originally owned some kind of lordship in a French family , whoso inheritance by the female line devolved upon the house of Houknzolx , eiin . The King appointed certain officers , and had a certain fee as lord or suzerain : which fee he entirely expended

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- vagb ; Out Cinbaation ....:......,..,... ; . M 206 - - ¦ America ' s Gift to England ' s Queen 1214 ! Sir Robert Peel as a Typo of Dr . ¦ Livingstone's African Discoveries 1202 Occidents and SuddeuDcatus ...... 1209 A Question for Missionaries ::....... 12 U I Statesmanship .. . . .. 1219 The Arrival of tlie Resolute ...... 1203 ij- « iT ¦ ""• 1209 ¦ . ••¦¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ . •¦ . ¦ - | ¦ ¦ The American President ' s Message . 1203 Miscellaneous .... I 2 t >» LITERATURE- THE ARTSV America :.. ... ? ,... 1203 1 ostsenpt ............ 1210 Summit- -iv , e i The Gallery of Illustration ......... 1219 The Orient 1204 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- WlAr " orsir Joiin MaicoiJii ills ! ¦' T ^ - ^ -SSTf ^ r - TVi VM ThcPresidentVMessago ., 1211 Confessions o ^ offl ^ ter" : "' ill ! ¦ ' ' . - . ——' Subscnptions for Italy J ^ f The Fox at theTuileries .. 1212 ¦ England ' s Greatness . ¦ 1217 Thc fi - .. . ¦ „ , _ ¦ Coutineufcal Notes 1204 Dr . Livingstone ......................... 1212 The Cambridge lissnvs in 7 Gazette 1220 « V ^ f « «? t w ^ ltar y-- —••••••••• -- J 20 C Persia , and our North-west Eron- CUristmas Reading tor " Old ' and . " ¦ ¦¦') COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- ' ' Stato or Trade .............................. 120 G tier „ : ¦ . ; ,... ...,............. ¦ :....,. ¦ ........ 1213 ¦ : .. - Young 121 S j City Intelligence , Markets , &c ...... 1220

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      VOIi . VII ; No . 352 . ] SATURDAY , DEGEMBEH 20 , 1856 . Price { SSgJg ^^ SgSS ^ - , "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2172/page/1/