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      J § £ C & ft t X . ___ POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIE .

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      THE fate of the India Bill is decided , so far as the House of Commons is concerned , in the way that everybody must have anticipated : it was read a third time and passed on Thursday night . Mr . Disraeli , on the part of Government , tendered his thanks to the House for the candour with which it has treated this extraordinary measure , and Lord John Russell gave a final word of commciidation to it ; nay , even Ijord Paxmeuston , while still maintaining his objection ito the constitution of tlxe Council , cordially gave liis assent to its passing : after the storm , calm , and promises of fair weather . So the Bill goes up to the Xorcls for approval , and there are very few who doubt that it will be accepted by that august body , and hecome law before the session is over . Mr . Roebuck raised a loud raven-cry of dark , foreboding ; bat Lord John Rtjsseli , while expressing his belief that tlic measure was far from iinal , was of better cheer as to its present usefulness . Experience , he said , will no doubt discover that the scheme will require revision , and that such great questions as the tenure of land , the army , the opium and salt tax , and other matters , will hereafter require profound attention . But the feeling of the House is clearly that , out of very discordant elements , and under circumstances of great difficulty , a constitution lias been furnished to India which will operate beneficially for the peoples of that great dependency , while securing it to us by firmer ties than , any by which we have hitherto held if ; . The East India Company has , of course , fouglit for a continued existence ; but its death will rclco . se it from many cares inevitable to its advanced ago of nearly two centuries and a half . It has long , indeed , been incapable of independently managing its own affairs , and its interference , in consequence , productive of the gravest inconvenience . It dies in time to save for itself the honourable remembrance of its youthful acts ; and it dies so far in comfort as to be assured that its dependents will be well provided for by the administrators of its estates . Peace to the departed : the future is everything to India . In the further stages of the Jews J 3 ill nothing lms occurred to raiso doubt as yto the linul settlement of the question of admitting Jews into Parliament , but Lord LvaimuiisT lius pointed out Hint the operation of Lord Lucan ' s bill is dependent upon the acceptance by the House of Commons of

      the Oaths Bill as amended by the Upper House . " If that bill , " lie said , " does not become law , the effect of the second bill will be entirely destroyed . " He is tolerably assured , however , that the two bills will be accepted by the House of Commons , and this is the expectation of Lord Derby . Opposition , in fact , is no longer thought of , and the Duke of Majri / borough ' s last anxiety , that Jews should never have the power of advising the Queen in Church affairs , is set at rest by the introduction of a clause securing the Church from such dangerous interference . How impossible it is to touch upon Irish affairs without awakening ill-feeling in Irish breasts has been once more shown . Lord Naa . s has a bill before the House the abject of which is to improve , as lie conceives , the efficiency of the Irish police force , by amalgamating the Dublin metropolitan police with the constabulary . He thinks that the adoption of his plan "would , moreover , be advantageous in other ways , as in the reduction of local burdens . But the question is widened outright , and left by the Irish members , who will see in it nothing but a brutal attempt to press upon llouiau Catholics . However , the bill was read a second time , and the debate adjourned , the opponents of the measure—which , as Mr . "VVhixkside made it appear , is a , very sensible one—being- reduced to that last resource of a failing opposition , an appeal against " proceeding with the bill at this advanced period of the session . ' Sir Edava-iid Btjlwer Lvtton has inaugurated his rule at the Colonial-office by the introduction into Parliament of a bill to establish an organized government in Kcv , ' CMedonia , a wild and almost desert land , lying between tiie Rctky M ? 1 " ^' ^ and the Pacific , which lias suddenly become a place of world-wide interest from the discoveries of gold which have been lately made . The country has hitherto been claimed as belonging to the possessions of the Hudson ' s Bay Company , but the Company ' s title is something more than disputable , and Lord Derby ' s Government , which has bocu solicited by persons representing large interests in that country to tnkc it under the direct protection of the Crown , has iiiatlo the first decisive step towards that end . A large emigration of persons in quest of gold lms set in , and there ' is very reasonable cause for apprehension that a bloody strife may ensue between these persona and the unlive Indians ( by whom tkeir presence is jealously regarded ) , unless the restraints and protection of | i Icgitininto government urc provided ,

      The Conferences at Paris—which are occasionally held elsewhere , as for example , at a country scat of Count . Walewsju ' s , at Etoiles—are making progress with the eternal Danubian Principalities question , we are told . It is said , that the Union idea has been entirely given up , but that it has been determined that Moldavia and Wallachia shall have a common Senate , and a common High Court of Appeal ; and , in fact , the two Governments are to be as nearly assimilated as they can be . Turkey , while holding firmly to her claim to be protected in the possession of her dominions in their perfect integrity , has , it is said , undertaken that the Governments of the Moldo-Wallachian countries shall be purified from all the abuses of the old system . But the proceedings of the conferences are not yet really known , and conjecture is not a guide safe enough to trust far into the subtcrrain of diplomacy . We stand upon surer ground while observing' the proceedings of the Imperial Government . The appointment of Prince Napoxeon to the government of Algeria has caused all sorts of difficulties in the redistribution of offices , and the Emperor appears to have enough to do to make matters up pleasantly . Perhaps , at the present moment , the most interesting , and it may be important , matter of foreign news is that Her Majesty has accepted the Emperor ' s invitation to Cherbourg . The meeting is expected to take place on the 5 th of next month . The other continental news is of small interest , with the exception of that from Denmark . We learn by a telegraph from Copenhagen that the Ministry—an extremely popular one— -is in a state of crisis , in consequence of its policy towards the Duchies . This question of the Duchies , owe of chronic danger to Europe , promises to be as iliflicuir , 01 bw 1 « wC « 1 !! ^ Moldo-Walluehiau question . At present the King of Disnmabk : seems mclineu to yield to the pressure of the Germanic Confederation , an influence against which , it is said , the Emperor of the Fiusnch is determined to iimku a strong stand . An event at home , connected with foreign politics , is of much greater and more immediate interest : this is tbc dinner of tho new American Association , which took place at the London Tavern on Monday evening , in celebration of . JJ ^ ci ghtysucond anniversary of the dccluralitJiTlif iftjifcidcttUj independence . The intimate inii ^») o |' t h ^ , ^ vf if ^ ioju >) r tries , both us regards kcl ' itrff c ^^ TOkt ^ rfet ' . his torest , was strongly illustruWd fty JnV ^ V ^ . . Qordiiility of ull the sjxiCchcB . $ for ; ' [ tid $ fa / -tp » diJ ! ji great point in uuuouncing- ttfiU % ] $£ rb «* k « W # i >* W \ ;;''•? . ; ¦ $ > r ^ ^ ftu ' ^ V

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      VOL . IX . No . 433 . ]

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      "The oae Idea which History- exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—tlie noble endeavour to throw -iowa all trie b . irrier . 3 erected between , men by -prejudice arid one-sided news ; and , bvsetting' aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Hainan , race a , " * one brotherhood , having one sfreatobiect—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Hnmboldt ' sCosmos . " . '

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      KtVILW OF THfc WEEK- -AOE , Imperial Parliament 650 The Indian Revolt 052 I State of Trade 054 ! . The Mercantile Marine Service Asso- j ciation ..... 054 Ireland 65 . 1 America 655 Continental Notes 655 The Queen at Aldershot 655 The Atlantic Cable 656 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 650 The Story of Peter Thellusson ......... 650

      A ' Scandalous Prosecntiou" 656 Gatherings from the liaw and Police Courts ... 656 Criminal Record 658 Central Criminal Court 65 S Naval and Military ... ; 658 Obifciiary ...... C 59 I Miscellaneous . 653 Postscript C 6 O PUBLIC AFFAIRSTlie American Dinner 061 Tho Railway Difficulty ... ' ,.. 661

      Propriety at Largo C 62 The Jews 662 The Water of Oblivion .. G 63 Services and Pensions C 63 Church Rates Doomed 664 Parliamentary Poinmican ............. 664 LITERATUREBriahnonl's Wellington 665 The Siego of Delhi 605 Main Drainage Engineering 666 Latter-Djiy Poetry 606 The Eclectic Review 667

      Salmon Casts and Stray Shots ...... 608 Two Practical Guides 688 Handbook of British Flora .... 668 The Stereoscopic Magazine 668 Tho Ladies' Treasury 668 ' THE ARTSThe Operas . —Mont Blanc 66 ft COMMERCIAL A . FFAIRSThe Gazette .... ; ......, ; .... 609 City Intelligence , Markets . &c 670

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2250/page/1/