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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Home Intelligence . Imperial Parliament v-v . v- " Gatherings from Law and Police Courts .. . .. > ,..... ¦ 19 7 . Criminal Becord -- J » 7 Ireland ... ; .... 197 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ...... 197 Naval and Military 108 . Miscellaneous ; ; 200 Postscript 208 Foreign Intelligence . Continental Notes ........ 198 The Einporor Napoleon ' s Speech ... 11 ) 9 America 200 Servia 200 i

      West Coast of Africa 200 The : German Diet 200 Mexico ., 200 LITERATURELiterary Chronicle of the "Week . 203 Civilised America .... 4 . 203 The Trade of Russia 1 204 Philip the Second 205 "Winter Evenings .... ; 205 | Life and Organisation 206 j Unprotected Females in Sicily ... 207 > Right or Wrong 207 ! Who ' s Who in 1859 ; ... 207 , liooks Received . 207 j PUBLIC AFFAIRS— j New Complications 209 ¦

      Administrative Patronage , 209 The ' . Condition of the People-How to Improve It 210 " The Organ of the Mandarins" 210 Schleswig Ilolstein 211 ORIGINAL CORRESPOIMDEWCEFrance ....... 212 Germany -... 212 The " Parliamentary" and the "Board's" Main Drainage ...... 213 FINE ARTSThe British Institution .. 213 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINIVIENTS-. Lyceum and Olympic Theatres , St . James ' s Hall , &c 215

      INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSLord Stanley and Indian Public Works ....... 213 Notes on Indian Progress 216 India .- 217 China . 217 COMMERCIALBankruptcy Bill 218 General Trade Report 218 Railway Intelligence 218 Joint-Stock Companies 219 Home , Colonial , and Foreign Produce Markets 219 Commercial Treaty with Russia . 220 Cotton Supply for England 220 ~ Money Market and , Stock Ex- . change 220 Shares and Stocks 222

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      . —¦* - ? : ¦¦ . . ¦ ¦ ' ' fpHE titles of nearly a score of bills on as many A different subjects , entered on the books of ' ¦ the House of Commons , attest the activity of the i present Ministry ; whether they anticipate a long j tenure of office or not , they have cut themselves out a good stiff piece of work , and they are vigorously setting about its accomplishment / The Lord Chancellor has brought in the first instalment of i the measure referred to in the Royal Speech , abolishing the distinction between bankruptcy and insolvency . The measure will retain the present distinction between traders and non-traders ,, and the main effect of it will be to give the creditor much j greater power over the estate of the debtor than he j has at present ; his facilities for the realisation of the debtor ' s estate will also be improved , and the estate will be relieved from the heavy official fees which now dip so deeply into it . Two of the bills introduced by independent 2 ncmbers have special claims on the interest of the House and on that of the country generally ; these , are Lord f ury ' s bill to legalise marriage with a I deceased wife ' s sister , and Sir John Trelawny ' s j bill for the total abolition of church-rates . Lord 1 3 ury ' s motion for leave to introduce his bill was earned by the large majority of 155 to 85 , indicating the progress which is being made towards a settlement of the difficulties which at present beset this important subject . After the decisive manner in which tho House of Commons pronounced itself last session on Sir John Trelawny ' s bill , the intro-. duction of the bill has-naturally awakened lively hopes of its more successful passage through the Upper House The answer of Mr . Secretary Wnlpole sets one point at rost : the bill will not bo opposed by Government , if tho second reading is not unduly pressed , to do wJu ' oh , in the prosont state of the question , there can bo no nbecssity . An answer given by Sir John Pakhigion to Sir Charles Napier ,, draws attontion to a fact which is too little considered by gentlemen asking for all sorts of returns ; to prepare theso returns costs uo small sum of money . Tho papers askod for by Sir Charles Napier , for example , will cost tho country C 00 / . A question put to Sir John Pakington has drawn forth something like data upon wluoh to culculato the probable advent of the Reform Bill . " You'll bo disappointed if you ox poet to see it bofore tho Pirst Lord of tho Admiralty has mado his statement , " said Mr . Disraoli to Lord Pahnorston ; the uavy estimates will bo presented on tho 25 th of tho pvosont month , said Sir John Pukinglou to Lord John Russell ; " . argal , " wo may laok for tho introduotion of tho groaVmoaauro sometime oarly in Maroh . Tho interval will not bo inaolivcly spent by tho movers in . the Reform question out ol' tho

      | ! House . Already the stream of petitions has begun j to flow in upon the House ; and " demonstrations , " j in favour of Mr . Blight ' s measure for the mostj part , are . the order of the day . Not the least re- 1 markable of recent occurrences in connexion with j Reform is the letter of Richard Cobden , addressed to the Ballot Society , excusing himself from attending the annual dinner of that body ; Mr . Cobden , draws a parallel between the course of Mr . Bright j since he has taken charge of the Reform Bill , and his own course in connexion-with the Auti-Corn-Law League . Both , he says ^ have been subjected to the same sort of misrepresentation and clamorous opposition ; and he anticipates the same sort of triumph for his friend as was ultimately achieved ; by himself . Mr . " Cobden confirms a report which j has been for some time past in circulation , to the j effect that he is about to visit the United States , j "I hope , " he . says in his letter , "to . be able to ,. report to you that I have witnessed the operation j of the ballot in that country . " His testimony , •' either w . ay , will be hig-liTy valuable . The news from Ionia is notable . Her Majesty has answered the Memorial from the Ionian Islands j praying for annexation to the kingdom of Greece , | and has refused to grant its prayer . Mr . Gladstone ! has , therefore , addressed another message , to the j Ionian Parliament , culling upon it to set itself calmly to work for the accomplishment of certain necessary reforms ; but that body has taken time to j consider what answer it will return to the British Lord High Commissioner . The dilemma is one of ' peculiar difficulty ; no doubt the lonians arc pcri fectly in earnest , and not at all unreasonable , in their desiro to oast off the protection of England ; but , on the other hnnil , England is at the present moment specially bound to maintain inviolate the treaty engagements entered into by her in 1 SI 5 . Very little news is brought by the Calcutta mail . Tho most important announcement is that the Punjab , the Delhi torritory , the " Traus-Sutlej " aud " Cjs-Sutlej" states arc to form a separate ) Lieutenant-Governorship . By the Bombay mall , which arrived a few days earlier , we learn that tho first half of the Oaclo campaign is successfully finished , what romains to bo dono being rathor the work of the cohstablo than Of tho soldier . Tantia Topee still figures as tho chief of tho rebels remaining in tho fiold ; and onco morcwo have tho in > tolligonoo pf hia having boon fallen on and bcaton , but it is followed by tho old announcement , that ho manngod to avoid capture A scrap of news from China suggests tho possibility of moro intorcsling nows to follow . Lord Elgin with his steam flotilla has ascended aboj ' c Nankin , though upon what orruncl bound , wo arc loft in doubt . VVlmtovor it is , tho French Ambassador and tho . Ghinowo Commissioners huvo delayed thoii' doparturo from Canton until tho results are known . From Iho Continoat tho nowa is still , of warliko

      preparation ,. the latest alarm being that Russia is I arming ! The speech of Napoleon III ., which was looked for as the index of the probable course of events , has not settled the question on . the side of peace . It is in vain that the Imperial speaker once more declared that " L'Empire e ' est la ' jpaix f * The tenor of the speech is not peaceful ; and when coupled , as it is , almost universally with the manifesto of M . de la Gu 6 ronniere , it conveys no sort ; of assurance that war is not at this moment determined on . The Paris papers during the week have been busily attempting to show that war is all but impossible , as being utterly opposed to the known and obvious policy of the Emperor ; but against their word we may place the curious fact that , in all the printshops and booksellers' windows there is exposed , by tacit permission , at least of the police , a coloured map , entitled "Map of Europe for ISGO . " In this map an entirely new partition of Europe is suggested : France modestly retains its present boundaries—perhaps to . reassure the rest of the groat Powers as to the perfect disinterestedness of its foreign policy ; the whole of Northern Italy is given to Piedmont , ' Austria being compensated by the gift of Bosnia and Servia . A good many minor changes in the present arrangement of the European sovereignties are suggested ; but enough , has been noted to indicate the ideas that find countenance at least in imperial Paris . A much franker mode of dealing with the events of the present hour is adopted by Count Cavour . Speaking on the subject of the loan of 2 , 000 , 000 / . which has just been voted , he says , " Oar policy is not defiant ; we will not excite to war , but neither will we lower our voice when Austria arms herself and threatens u . s . " In a circular addressed by him to the diplomatic agents abroad , he has drawn a striking picture of the war measures taken by Austria at the beginning of the present year . In tlui first days of January an entire corps cl ' arn ^ o of 30 , 000 men was despatched into Italy , and foe many days " the left bank of tho Ticiuo presented tho appearance of a country in which war is about j to break out , " and many other circumstances occurred to strengthen tho like supposition . The loon is avowodly , thei'oforo , to meet tho demonstrations of Austrian power . " Piedmont , " Count Cavour further says , " strong in her good right ; , and aided by the nllios which tho jiistioo of Tior cause can alone procure hor , is rcady ^ to combat every elomenfc of disordor in tho peninsula , from whatovor quarter it may come—from Austria oc . ' from tho revolution . " 'ihis is no vnin boast j tho j loan was voted by 110 against 35 j tho fooling in . j Sardinia is for war , and tho Government is strtiiu-; ing ovcry noi'vo to get itself in roadiuoss to take tho Hold . Ono of tho hitost fuofcs confirmatory of ! this vicwis that ly » r agonts aro busily engaged in . buying horsos in Switzerland . Austria is not turned from hor purposo of preparing for ovontualitics by tho pacific utterances of emporors and queans , contradiotod as they aro by facts apparent , to all the world . After providing foi ' tho doronco of hor Italian territories , she has moved I into Austria ln'opor a vory largo part of tho army ot

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1859, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2281/page/3/