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\ VOL . VIII . No . 376 . ] SATURDAY , JUNE 6 , 1857 . TBxmi ^ SSS ^ = SSSSS tm r _
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t T IKE a giant refreshed , Parliament lias come I \ j back from the Whitsuntide holidays ,. and it I has proceeded at once to grapple with all sorts of ; subjects , from the Board of Trade to the Board of I County Cess in Ireland ; from the sale of poisons to \ the divorce of married couples . Although this is I to be a short session , the number of subjects discussed , at least , is great . Nothing would satisfy I Mr . Hoesfam . but an inquiry with a view of re-1 modelling the Board of Trade—about the most harmless and the most useful of all the official dell partments . The very proposal evoked an outcry from the friends of Huskisson and Potjletx Thomp-I son , and there it ended . Lord Robert Cecil P wanted us to take votes at Parliamentary elections [• in counties and universities by means of voting I papers , as in poor-law elections ; but Government [ showed many reasons against thus voting by ' general ticket , as the Conservative Lord proposed . And the attempt to convert Parliamentary election into a really domestic institution , with jf paper proposals passing through the hands of the maid-servants of the country , does not improve on further acquaintance . Paper does not prove to be ; an effectual safeguard against fraud , even in the : ppor-law elections ; how much less in the election I of honourable members ! Lord Granville ' s bill i ; to restrain the sale of poisons by regulating their ; custody , their packing , up , their colour , and the I certificates on which they may be sold , is referred h . to a select committee , for the consideration of practical details ; the Peers not being apothecaries . ,: And Lord Brougham has thundered down upon m jthe House of Lords , with a protest against ono of f ? the many detestable amendments in the Divorce li Bill—that one whioh prohibited the re-marriago of , J a condemned ' party . ' Lord Brougham ' s speech , f ! although delivered after tho debato in the Lords , will be effectual to prevent tho consummation of 'I that preposterous pieco of Canterbury-Red Bail DALE law . i Government hns been drawn out until it has become quite a rofonning Government ! Lord Pal-I &LBR 8 TON has announced a bill on Church rates , and jij ho will settle it . Sir Fuedbiuck . Thesiger haa virtually intimated that the Opposition in tho pom-\ mons do not intend to resist the Oaths Bill . They I\ will try once more to keep in tho un-Christian ' Christian' quibble whioh oxoludos Jews , but more 1
they will not attempt ; and everybody believes that the matter lias been settled in the Peers . What other measures are there that have been long standing , and long wanted ? It would be quite worth while to ask Lord Paxmerston to undertake them . Mr- Slaney failed to persuade either Government or the House of Commons to appoint his c standing committee' or unpaid commission of Notables to deliberate on improvements for the working-classes , yet improvements for the workingclasses , and for other classes too , are going on . One of the most considerable is the increase of public parks and places of recreation . If the employing classes desire to keep their workmen in a state of allegiance not only to the Government but to the avocations of this our working country , they will continue in the course laid down by Mr . Adderley , and other Liberal-Conservatives , at Birmingham . Lord Calthorpe has given to the people of that town a new park , which the Duke of Cambridge has opened with so excellent a speech , full of hearty sympathy for the working classes , and of good instruction for their employers . The Court is under the sun of popularity this week . The work cleverly and kindly done by ' our cousin' at Birmingham has scarcely pleased the public more than the excellent manner of dispensing English hospitalities to tho Grand Duke Constantine at Osborue . We may assume what tho object was to offer a royal hospitality , without pledging too much of national sympathy—to receive an Imperial Grand Duke aa an Imperial Grand Duke should bo received , but not to welcome a Russian and tho representative of aggressive Russia as England should receive him ; since that would be to meet him in Haynau fashion . For it is impossible to say that others than draymen might not have forgotten themselves when they saw himunless , indeed , wo had played traitor to tho country , and given liim tho run of our araenals and ports . Wo arc at peace with Russia , but not in alliance with that distant country , as France appears to bo ; so tho hospitulity thrown open to Constantino was that of Osborno , whoro ho found tho requisite splendour of dinner , tho full allowance of porsonal courtosy from hostess and host , a ploasaut trip in a royal stoamor to look at tho picturesque coast of Portsmouth with its shipping , and a courteous loavo-taking , Ho has gone ! Tho English Government did not invite tho Grand Duko to overhaul its armouries , as if it wore planning tho next campaign in concert .
Everything is growing so popular amongst us that the Tories themselves do not like to be left out . 'We are no longer Tories ! ' cries the Duke of Cleveland at the Darlington dinner to Mr . Farber . Mr . Farrer is the late member for South Durham , and it is consistent with the Conservative party always to celebrate some ' late ' person or ' late * event . However , on this occasion the gist of the speaking was , that they were only too anxious for the Reform Bill of 1858 , to which they hope to become godfathers for the express purpose of gifting it with certain endowments of their own . They want to say to the franchise , So far shalt thou go , and no farther ; to upset the Whig ' oligarchy , ' and to provide for the representation of the minority . What public-spirited , modest people those Tories have become ! If anything could really make English Tories heartily popular in their feelings , it would be the spectacle of France at the present moment . It is peculiar . By the avowals of the Emperor ' s own supporters , in the press as well as in public , the coup d'e ' tat is rendered permanent in its rule ; and this week he is again appealing to the millions for the vote ' Yes or No . ' He does not do this in person ; he does it by deputy , in the persons of the members of the Corps Le " gislatif , whom the electors of Franco are now invited to re-elect . There are exceptions : the Government displaces some of its candidates , and proposes others ; and it calls upon the millions to rally round the Emperor in order to carry on the administration as ho has administered it . There has seldom been a manifesto more outspoken . It is a renewal of the first proposal by the Elected of December , ' after a lapse of more than five years . And really Louis Napoleon has some right to consider that Franoo has endorsed his decrees at least upon sufferance It is true that the Army now stands confessed as his accomplice in tho couj ? d ' e'tat ; but thore is no army in tho world more popular than that of Franco ; and it is inoonccivable that if nine millions and a half of men really resent the present state of things , and desire something different , they should lock either the will , tho clcvornoss , or tho courago to overthrow it , and establish what ploasos them hotter . Tho condition of France is most important in connexion with a neighbouring country . Bolgiuin in in a state bordering on revolution . The clergy liavo for years boon endeavouring to incroaso tjioir con- ^^ trol Over tho pooplo , and ospooially over ^ ° /^^^ ' ^ *^\ tion of tho pooplo . Government lms w'fe ^^ rf ^ : ' . £ " ' compromise botweon opposing parties ; P * T ^^^ HT ^ y ^ 'W £ paS 2 L « 'Fyfet > ^ — V , I VyO 1 " Lmi -i - - ca r ^~ ™ i ^ r ^ v ^ i / tt . j p * a r * Vjjji . # * £ ya w jri 7 * 3 ^( hR \ « f && ' P (^ T&Tfyfc 8 #
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Imperial Parliament 530 The Duchy of Lancaster 531 ) Accidents and Sudden Deaths 531 < Great Handel Festival 531 ; State of Trade .. ¦ 532 Ireland 532 America ; . 532 The Orient 532 Count Cavour on Sir Robert Peel 533 ; Disturbances in Belgium 533 ; Continental Notes 533 Oar Civilization 534 .
Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 535 Naval and Military 536 Miscellaneous 536 Postscript 539 OPEN COUNCILThe Laws Relating to the Property of Married "Women 540 The Income-tax of a Town Doubled 540 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe End of the Superannuation Controversy 541
! The Comedy of Elections in France 541 ! The Native Armies of India 542 j The Demonstration in Belgium 542 University Education for the Middle Classes 543 LITERATURESummary 544 The Life of Handel 545 China and its Inhabitants 546 Mr . Hill ' s Suggestions for the Repression of Crime 547
THE ARTSRoyal Academy 548 Her Majesty ' s Theatre 548 The Whitsuntide Amusements 548 The Gazette 549 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence . Markets . &c 549
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"The 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 barrisra erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the 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 . "—JIumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2196/page/1/
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