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      SIP . C A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .

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      " Toe one Idea which Hutory exhibit . » . evermore developing itself into greater aiatinotn . aa ' «>• itSttfi ^ JSethldTatSicSmt endeavour to thron ion all the barriers erected between men » r prejudice and one- » ideaine ™» i » nS . I > y i , a ~? £ thS SJ ? aeyeloiSnt of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Humin race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the tree development of our spiritual nature . "—Bumboltit's Cosmos .

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      m SSSSU £ a'W ^ ^ 'z r . » KS !!^ .:::::::::::::::::::::::: aS ^ f ^ ra ^ - pw S " % **** pp-sn at HeS Sneoial Letters from India 74 Gatherings from the Law and Po- Havo we a Resident Minister at Majesty ' s Theatre—Mr . Kean and ¦ Sraval and Military Letters from lice Courts 80 Washington .- —' .- 86 the Court—A New Drama at the China 75 Obituary 80 What we have to do in dmu . 8 « Adelphi ................... 90 America . 75 Miscellaneous 80 The Spanish Dancers „ 87 Mr . Leigh Hunt ' s New Play 91 The Attempted Assassination of Louis Postscript 81 Frugal Marriage 87 The Drama iu Pans » i o ^ K ^ tlK'ifiSSS ' chM ^^ :::::: ?? publi c affairs- literature- Se of Tr ^ ° 78 Our ^^^ S ^ .. — -- """ . II S ^ ii ^ B ^^ yW ^ C :: " : " i COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-^ tt ^ S ^^^ : " =:: 8 % SX £ S £ Z ^\ 83 fi ^ :=: II tp 5 s 2 i * 3 & f ^" =::::::: § The « a tte . ... .. « Ireland . 7 .. ?^ T ... I ! .. ! . ! " . !!!!!! " ! .......... 79 The Empire of Eventualities ., 84 Publications and Republications 90 City Iutelhgence , Market 8 , &c 92 roli

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      VOL .. IX . No . 409 . 1 SATURDAY , JANUARY 23 , 1858 . Price { SSgg ^ : 3 gS £ '

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      T HE Emperor Napoleon has seized the opportunity made for him by the purveyors of handgrenades , and , besides introducing more repressive measures , has drawn the sword of the Empire , and placed himself in an attitude of defiance before all his enemies , at home and abroad . Detestable as the mode of attack unquestionably was , and from the details it appears to have been still more brutal than in the first account , he is not to be permitted to snatch an unfair use of the crime , and to get out of it the results which the assassins themselves would have obtained . If he were permitted , he would be prepared , while immolating the robbers , to take their booty to his own share . We described the attack last week . It was , in many respects , more concentrated in its murderousness and more reckless than we thought . The grenades , whether three or four , were of the most destructive kind that could have been employed for the purpose . The plan was so laid that they could be dashed on the ground in front of the horses' feet exactly as the horses approached . Pierri , who has been seteed as one of the assassins , stood ready with a pistol and a poniard to strike the blow in the confusion ; for , the assassins appear to have calculated , first , upon the chance of blowing up the Emporor with the Empress , and anybody who might have been near ; and , secondly , of getting to his heart , hand to hand , in the tumult that would have followed upon the explosions . It is quite possible that the ferocity of their purpose defeated their design . It is well known that detonating powder , although more instantaneous and violent than gunpowder , imparts less momentum to the substances which it projects . The grenades , violentl y as they tore whatever fell hi their way , probably oreated less commotion in the air , loss commotion in the minds of the orowds , than if they had been made of the more clastic material . A few men wore killed , a few horses , groat numbers —nearly 150—wore hurt , but the man at whom it _^_ wasall aimod escaped with a wound only in his hat ; "" and iriKolSmpress was stalne"d " witjrthe ~ blood-ofthe wounded near her , the speotaole that she presented on entering the Opera by the sido of tho Emperor , clothod in white , with tho rod stains still upon her , was tho . first incident in tho drama that Napoleon has founded upon tho facts supplied lam by Obsini and his aooomplicos . In less than four days afterwards , ho opened tho session with a tolling speech , in length and

      explicitness between our Royal Speech and / the American President ' s Message—in spirit the speech of a chairman in a joint-stock concern which has just o-one through a dangerous crisis , and knows how to take advantage of the opportunity . He boasted of what his Empire had done for France—a boast the more telling , and , let us confess , the more legitimate , since he has done a great deal in the way of promoting public works—allowing Pereire to assist agriculture by mortgages a I'Anglaise ^ and exciting a commercial feeling amongst the uncommercial French people . Are you prepared , he exclaims to his party and to the interested classes—are you prepared to part with a rule that confers such benefits upon you ? You see the danger to which I am exposed , and in me , too , the peace , order , trade , and prosperity of this country . If you would not have a revolution to-morrow—expensive things in which the glass is broken and business is suspended—you must supply me with more repressive laws to keep down disorder ; you must make every candidate at the election of representatives swear to my constitution ; you must put down any papers that raise discussions against me , even covertly ; and I have also other plans of the same kind which you must give me . Everybody is charmed with the spirit of this glorious effusion , and in tremor at the prospect of a disturbance , and is quite prepared to do what he asks . The two Chambers are ready at once to register his edict respecting oaths at elections . His Minister , by existing laws , has already suppressed tho Spectateur and the JRevue de JParit ? . We have discussed in another column tho extraordinary pretentiona made by this lucky predecessor of Orsini —for Louis Napoleon himself only seized power by meaus of a more gigantic hand-grenade than any whioh Orsini could have thrown at his feet—the hand-grenado was called St . Arnaud . Had Spain one great , or oven one patriotic politician in her councils , there would bo hope for her future , and a world of scorn and contempt saved to her present . But it is too dear that there is not a single man in Spain strong enough , or good enough , to make head against tho monstrous ' influences ' -whioh 4 iavo 4 obauched-tUe ^ v ; UQlo , ppUtiQft ^ f ^^ J ^ oountry , and make its Court a crying scandal to tho rest of Europe . Wo last week reported tho latest change of Ministry ; ' wo now learn how that ovont was brought about . At tho opening of tho Cortes , tho Queen delivered a long address , full of exaggeration and falsehood , on tho stable and gratifying position of hor country and Government . A vory few days lator , hor Ministry wore defeated by tho

      tactics of the Opposition and the * Influence / and tendered their resignation . The Queen refused to accept it or to send for Bravo Murillo , the Opposition chief . The Ministry then drew up a decree , ordering the dissolution of the Cortes . But , again , pliant to the will of the unseen ' Influence , ' she refused her consent . Letters reached her from private hands , beseeching her not to dissolve the Cortes . These she showed to Armero , who boldl y accused the King-Consort of being at the head of a conspiracy to place the Count of Montemolin upon the throne . This moved the fickle Queen to sign the decree ; but , like everything else in Spain , the execution of it was delayed for a few hours—long enough for the right time to pass by . The * Influence' had time to exercise its wonted power , and the Queen revoked her decree . What then ? The Ministers took leave in ' high dudgeon , ' and flung their resignations at their mistress ' s feet . And so Spainthough she loses li ttle by the loss of Messrs . Armero and Mon—is handed over to the handiest Court tools , Sefior Isturitz and his coadjutors—and the governing ' Influence . ' For how long ? While , happily , Europe does not supply a single parallel to this degraded Court , it furnishes many contrasts , none more striking than that presented by the Government of Piedmont . There we see at work a vigorous policy of reformation and progression which , wielded by the firm hand of Count Cavour , promises to stand , at no distant time , as a model policy for liberal continental Governments . In the circular addressed by Count Cavour to the Int endants-General and Provincial Intendants , in his capacity of Minister of the Interior—which office he holds pro tern ., in consequence of the retirement of Signor IIatazzi—ho expresses firmly his determination to pursue the path upon whioh the Government has proceeded so far upon the road of political and social development , and ho declares it to be the « duty' of the Government ' to promote that policy and cause it to prevail , whether in Parliament , in tho electoral committees , or before the supremo tribunal of public opinion . ' That is a manly and trustworthy acknowledgment of a high obligation ; " no ^ iieriirwiO ^ — - interest nnd confidence than in this country . Another frank out-spcakor is Mr . Bvchanan , ^^^ Ho has addressed a message to Congrosa on theism . £ ! - ¦ q TX k ? j cot of Walker ' s capture by Commodore ^ W $ 3 ™ k v * $ ffl pr < Without attempting to oxoulpate his ofi | cj | r fifti \ Vr& M & tho charge of having committed an Ulogjiji 4 t ; ^ W . ^/ C C 3 00 landing uninvited upon the territory of NMWffi »/ j ]^*^ 2 ;

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 23, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2227/page/1/