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/ / TB ^ C r ^ A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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THE opening night of a new session of Parliament is very like the first round of a pugilistic encounter ^ in which there is a good deal of play and feint , and a shrinking , generally on both sides , from coming to the scratch ; and so it mostly ends , without some hit a little too stinging to betaken quietly brings both men fairly to work . In the House of Lords , there was a good deal of light business done on Thursday night , and Lord Gkanville would
have early ended the round with a motion of adjournment , but that Lord Debby let fly at him a remark : he was surprised that the Government should let the night go by without offering any statement as to their views and intentions ; and then , having the floor of the House , Lord Derby kept it till he had made the speech which he had come prepared to make , whether her Majesty ' s Ministry made the statement in question or not . After a few hits right and left at the short-coming of the means supplied by the Government for the submission of India , he addressed himself to the
delivery of his final hit : the Government , he thought , ought to have had something to say about the late attempt upon the life of the French Emperor ; but as they had nothing to say upon the subject , he would say something himself . So , having given Ministers a rap , ho came down heavily upon the French police and passport authorities for not conducting their business better , and wound up by expressing himself satisfied that there was no fear of England being threatened into giving up her right to receive any number of exiles , on condition that they behave well whilo under our protection . This is evidently the position to which both Houses
incline . In the House of Commons thero was more desire to come to business , and Sir de Lacy Evans led off with n motion for a Soloct Committco to inquire into recent Government measures for the transmission of troops to India , to whioh Lord Falmerston mado no particular objection . But Mr , Diskae li unit
urn strongly onjoci ; , on mo grounci mu muuuu would bo carried in a stealthy manner—that is , in a manner afibrding him no time to got up a good . speech . The motion was agreed to . Sir Geokgk Grey then brought . forward' his motion for lcavo to bring in a bill for the hotter regulation of the Corporation of tho City of London , tho object of the bill being to place tho City of London moro nearly
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upon the footing of other municipal corporations , only with a difference suited to its antiquity and importance . Out of doors the week has not been an idle one for politicians . Several meetings on the subject of Parliamentary Reform have been held . The most notable was the one at Manchester , on Monday , at which an attempt was made to make up matters between the Liberals and the Bright and Gibson
party . A resolution was carried , after being seconded by Mr . George Wilson , to found a Manchester Reform Association . A day later , and a letter from Mr . Bright was *< ead in the Town Hall , Birmingham , which shows clearly the part which Mr , Bright is prepared to play in the discussion of any Reform Bill coming from Lord Palmerstqn ' s hands . He is vowed to opposition , unless the bill be thorough-going—a good extension of the franchise , redistribution of electoral
seats , and ballot . The departure of the Princess Royal with her husband , on Tuesday , was so conducted as to increase the impression which she had made on the hearts of the people ; and the tears that were in her own eyes and in those of her father and brothers at the parting moment were not more genuine than those that filled the eyes of thousands who looked upon her for the last time , on her way through London , on that inclement morning—on which ,, literally , like the love-linked pair in the 'Eve of St . Aguc 3 , ' " These lovers . fled away into the storm . "
Tho attempt upon the life of tho Emperor Napoleon has furnished him with an occasion of which he is not tho man to loso a fraction of tho advantage , or what appears to him to be the advantage . Amid expressions of foreign sympathy , noisy municipal congratulations at home , and frenzied acclamations from tho army , ho double-knots tho bonds tied by him in 1848 . Yet there is in this haste to tako advantago of tho popular sympathy a half-confession of doubt as to tho stability of his position ; it gives
him tho appearance of preparing for tho worst . Now arrangements secure to the Empress tho absouto Regency in tho event of his death , two of tho hereditary priiicos , wiiirblhor por ' aons ^ Uoirig named to act an her councillors ; whilo other now arrangomonts distribute tho army of tho Empire over tho country in five great divisions , each under a Marshal , and all under a ' Marshal-General . ' But tho most important rosult of his defensivo and ropressivo determination is tho project of tho now law—Loi dos Susjpecis . It is , in fact , a law to onablo tho
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French Emperor and the French police to remove from France every person obnoxious to the present regime ; to legalize the power illegally exerted after the Coup d'Etat . But it would seem that patriotism is not yet wholly stifled by even the air of the Tuileries , for this projected law has called down loud objections , and one man—let his name be honoured—M . de Pabrieu , Vice-President of the Council of State , is said to have refused to draw up the report which
was to introduce the measure to the Legislative Corps . In the meantime , the violent denunciations levelled at England by the officers of the French , army have ceased to appear in the pages of the Moniteur , and within the last day or so we have been told that their appearance at all has been without the consent of the Emperor ; and the statement is one which will , of course , be generallyaccepted as satisfactory—by those who think it worth anything .
If the latest news from India gives us no account of any large operations , it is made interesting by the fuller intelligence of two more of those brilliant successes that have so well helped to keep up the courage a-ftd spirit of our over-matched forces . Colonel Sjeaton left Delhi in the early part of December , with a column in charge of a convoy of provisions for the Commander-in-Chief . His little army was composed of European and Native troops ; of Europeans , one troop of Horse Artillery , one squadron of the Oth Carabineers , and about 300
bayonets-of tho 1 st Bengal Fusiliers ; of Natives , Hodson ' s Sikh Horse , tho 7 th Punjab Infantry , and two companies of Sappers and Miners . Leaving Allehghur on the 13 th , ho next day came up with a force of 3000 rebels at Gungcrce , charged ' j ^ ou with his hnwdful of Carabineers and sent them flying , leaving several guns behind them , with u loss numbering between three and four hundred men ; our own loss being forty-eight killed and
wounded . Following them up until tho 17 th , Colonel Seaton found j them strongly posted in front of tlio village of Puttealee . He halted to rest and reconnoitre , and then advanced ; but at tho first sight of tho dreaded bayonets glit"Tcrin " g " uTTho inorning " sun , tlio enemy flccl ' in'torroiv' ' our guns playing upon them with tromonilous effect . Tlio flying mass was pursued by tho cavalry for seven miles , and nearly six hundred of __~ - tho rebels arc supposed to have 1 ' allon cither oytV ^ -- '~ -y- \ field or during tho pursuit . Thirtoon gpp /^ id | j - ,, ' ?"* nearly tho whole of tlioeump equipage , anu ^^ MflWr- ' ^ ' , /*' &c , of tlio onomy fell into Colonel SxiAXON' ^ qtofl ^; ~ 7 . T (— - ' w ^ M ^ s hJ-. //¦>^^< J ' X
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity-th £ m £ Ie e o ? Sli U o ^^^ of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- -ace Accidents and Sudden Deaths 128 g ?™ r ? oH ^^ motolA &mi ^ teil 134 ^ yalX-ncelses ^ ' . ! ::::::::::::::::::::: 140 General Van Cortlandt 122 Naval . and Military 128 S j ? ° " ^ S Campaign 1 J 4 £ y dent > g Manual of Geology 140 &e riil " FarHament 123 g ^ n ^ from -iho Lawand Po " ^ IaiKt c ° y arm \ ::::: ; ::: ; :::::::::: ig Publications and ^ publications ... 141 5 raianiieVoit ::::::: " :::::::::::::::::: If M i ^ a ;;;; 18 ¦ SS SS ^ 'ii&S ^ Fu ^ ::: 3 ? the arts-Special Letters from India ... 124 Postscript 130 Aliens and Alienation 137 Mr . WestlandMarston ' s New Play The Marriage of the Princess Royal ... 12 o o 1 ! r , r flrrAiRs- at the Lyceum 141 I £ g 2 H ^^ ^ . .= Z ::.: \ M P Z ' LS ! e HouSeofCommons 131 U I ^ Ir U v " 138 COMMERCIAL AFFAIR 5-H |^ eS ; :::::::::::::::: « SS S ::::::::::: | ^ Eg ^ g ^^ ^ tSS ^ ZE : gJggH ^^ fiteCT ^ t- ^ r .::
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2229/page/1/
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