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      A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .

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      THE news brought by the extra mail from Calcutta , while it increases our anxiety for the fate of the defenders of Lucknow , is cheering as to the general state of affairs in India . The whole of the country was rapidly settling into quiet , with the exceptions of Rohilcund and Oude , which will be the centres of the great operations preparing for the final overthrow of the mutineers . By the Bombay mail we learn that Sir Colin Campbem , reached Cawnpore on the 3 rd or 4 th of November , from whence he was to march to the relief of Lucknow , with a force of five thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry ; whether this number inclndes two thousand men under Colonel Gbeaxhed , who reached Cawnpore on the 26 th of October , is not quite clear . The number of men in Lucknow , under Generals Outram and Havelock , is supposed to be about fourteen hundred . At all events , it may be reckoned that between six and seven thousand men are being rapidly brought to bear upon the enemy , and if tlic brave garrison can only wait till th 6 ir friends can come within bayonet reach of the seventy thousand miscreants surrounding the place , we shall have no further cause for anxiety . The movements of the second column , under Brigadier Showers , which left Delhi in pursuit of the flying rebels , and about which the late intelligence left us in doubt , have been entirely successful . After several engagements with the enemy , he had taken possession of Jhujjur , captured five lakhs of treasure , and taken , prisoner the Nawab , who surrendered . The one dark spot in the picture is the want of positive intelligence as to the actual state of things in Lucknow ; one account states that two convoys of provisions had been successfully got into the place ; another , that its defenders were running short of food , and liad commenced to slay the gunbullocks . The communication from Cawnpore is reported to be still open to within three miles of Lucknow . The most important meeting of the week has been that held on Wednesday evening at the London Tavern , on the subject of Indian llcform . ThTTnccessity for an enlightened single Government was the leading argument advanced by the speakers , and the India Company received some rough handling . One of the most interesting speakers was Mr . Meade , lato editor of the Friend of India ; he looked upon the Company as wholly incompetent to

      govern India , or to develop its resources . His concluding words— " The people of England have in the hollow of their hands the destiny of 200 , 000 , 000 people , in the name of God do them justice "—were received with loud cheers . The brave and true-hearted Bishop of London has made a practical endeavour to minister to the spiritual wants of the desolate poor . His first essay is memorable , from , its complete success . ' The common people heard him gladly . ' The large church of St . Matthew , BetJmal-green , was filled to overflowing with a crowd of labourers , whose demeanour was such as to satisfy any who may have been in doubt , that it only needs a frank invitation and an honest welcome from the disciples of Jesus Christ , to make the pastoral labour entirely successful , which it never can be while it is administered coldly and ce remoniously . The monetary crisis in Hamburg is the most important topic of the week ' s foreign news . Between forty and fifty firms have stopped payment within a few days . The greatest efforts are being made to afford assistance to those requiring it , and the Municipality has determined to grant 15 , 000 , 000 of marks to the Discount iBank for the purpose . Monetary difficulties of not so blameless a kind had led to the arrest in Rome of that elegant and generous dilettante the Marquis Campana , bead of ' an official Deposit Bank and pawnbroking cstabishment , called a Monte di Pieta . His accounts exhibit the modest deficiency of a million and a half sterling , the loss of which would plunge thousands into misery if it were not made good by his virtu , or by the State . Two items of political news are interesting , one of them particularly . Lord Palmekston has made a statement in the House of Commons which confirms the dark reports that have so Jong been current concerning the treatment inflicted upon the English engineers in Naples , which he described as only fitting a barbarous nation . But in . the present state of the case , he says , nothing could be done by this country but to see that the men arc trictl wilhout unnecessary delay { after Joe months' imprisonment ) , and that they arc provided with the best legal assistance . So that an opportunity is yet wanting to bring the Neapolitan barbarian to account . The second item is , that the Poms's Nuncio is to stand as sponsor for the interesting little fathcrmor * stranger in the palace at Madrid . India has figured in Parliament , in reference to special cases . The Quuen has conferred baronetcies on Sir Henky Have lock and Sir Abchdams

      Wilson 3 and the House of Commons was invited by the Crown to give a pension of a thousand a year for life to Sir Henry ; the East India Company , it is understood , making the like allowance to Sir ArchdAle . Probably it will give more , especially as Members on both sides of the House have protested against the smallness of the allowance to Sir Henry—given " for so short a time , " said Mr . White , the member for Plymouth . The feeling is , that Sir Henry-, not being highly connected , has not been highly treated by the Government . At the last moment , however , Lord Palmebsxon consented to grant a pension for two lives . The chief of the other questions is the old dispute about the despatch of troops by the Overland route . The Opposition has spoiled its case , by telling- a silly story—how Mr . Yernon Smith applied to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to suggest some arrangement for sending troops at a time when the troops were already going witliihe- knowledge of Government ; and the tale turns out to have been a mere fabrication . The excuses of Government—that there was no sufficient transport on the other side , that the route is unhealthy in the summer , that troops must have gone in light marching order , and so forth—arc insufficient , l ^ jihaps there are other reasons , u ^^ but ccitain it is that the defence of the Government is as weak as the attack of the Opposition . The principal business before the two Houses in reference to banking matters has been reduced to the single object of passing the Indemnity Bill—for Ministers have observed the agreement with Mr . Disraeli , last Friday , that they should separate the question of the Indemnity Bill from the ulterior question of the Select Committee on tie Bank Act and the whole subject of the crisis . The debates upon the point during tlic week have been slight and not very interesting—both Houses reserving their strength for a . " grand display last night , the Lords on the third reading of the Bill , tlic Commons on Mr . Disraeli ' s amendment in favour of ' immediate legislation' respecting \\ u \ Bank Charter Act . There , was an understanding on all sides that the Indemnity Bill should pass almost as a matter of course , so that there has boon no real contest in regard to that essential measure . ^ — vT " --When collateral subjects have been bitmcmt ^ xi ^' ^ both Houses have . shown a dcci < lc ^ d m ^> a rli ^ . 4 p ^ ' 6 o f ^ set them aside , as in the case of iMJr . l ^ A $££ jjtrflf } fli * ~ motion , advocating limited liabilitj ^ oif- ^^ n 3 E ^ 0 K [|[ fr ' banks as safer than the delusive r ^ Jc ji ^ rfMraMjA ^ *~ c liability . Powerful reasons were 8 te ^^ gJww ^ y ^ / £ * , _ . lidd

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      VOL . VIII . No . 403 ] SATURDAY , DECEMBER 12 , 1857 . Price { Sg 5 gjg . g ? .: ;|^ gN ° - -

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      REVIEW Of THE WEEK- ' •*<" State of Trade ..... 1178 Imperial Parliament , 1179 The Indian Revolt nso Accidents and SuddeuDeatha ......... 1181 America .. 118 I The Orient ., 1181 Continental Notes 1181 Our Civilization . H 82 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 1183 Naval and Military ... 1184

      Miscellaneous 1184 Postscript ..... 1185 PUBLIC - AFFAKtSFree Trade in ( fcold ............. 1186 Transmission of an Army to India 1186 Indian Debate 1187 The New Religious Liberty Clause 1187 A Word for the Thief Interest ...... 1188 The Oaths Bill Debate .......... 1188 liOrd Palmerston ' s Citizens at Naples 1188

      Public Spirit in Prance 1189 Smithtield Club Cattle-Showj 11 S 9 The Siamese Embassy 1190 LITERATURESummary ,.,.. 1191 Montaigne the Essayist 1191 New Novels ...... 1192 Northern Travel 1193 The Adventures of two Russian ! Princesses .... ... ; ..... 1193

      Outram and HavelocVs Persian Campaign ....... 1194 New Editions and Reprints ......... 1195 THEARTSProfessor Wiljalba Trikoll ............ 1198 TheGazette .............................. 1195 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , &e 1190

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      'The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the-110 Me 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 , an . d Colour , to treat th . e whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "Sutnboldt's Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2221/page/1/