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REVIEW OF THE WEEKHOME INTELLIGENCE . PAGE Imperial Parliament ' :.. . 324 Gatherings from Law and Police Courts .-. 32 C Criminal . Kecord « ... ; 3 SiC Ireland ...................... ^ ... 347 Accidents 327 Naval and 'Military 327 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . Continental Xotes ....... ... 327 Foreign Summary ... 328 Mazzini ' s Manifesto 329 Political Meetings 329
LITERATURELiterary Chronicle of the Week 330 Sir William Hamilton ' s Lectures 3 : JO The L > fe arid Times of C . J . Fox 331 Personal Memoirs of Charles II .. 332 The Riverine Republics . ' . 332 General Literature .. 333 , 334 , 335 , 33 G Milton ' s Genealogy ........ 33 ( 5 Postscript ... 330 PUBLIC AFFAIRSPostponement of War 337 The ltetbrm Bill—Opinions Regarding it ... 338 The Justices and the Highways .. 330 Street View of Italy .............. 339
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE-.-. ' France 340 FINE ARTSl'blycliromy in Sculpture 341 Silvestre on Art in England .. 341 Baphael d'Urbiuo's" Christ at Golgotha" 34 i Monument to the Guards 34 i THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- ^ HerJUajesty ' s ........ ; .... 341 Lyceum • . 341 fijt . James ' s Hall 341 Mr . Howard Paul .... , 341 Polytechnic •«• 341 Madame Tussaiid's 341 J
Death of Lord Murray ........... . .... 342 Miscellaneous .............. J ..... 343 INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSWhat has the Colonisation Committee done ? ; .. 344 Notes on Indian Progress .. 344 Latest Indian Intelligence ...... 345 COMMERCIALOur Railways in 1858 34 G General Trade Report 347 Money Market 347 » . Home , Colonial and Foreign Produce . Markets 34 S Joint-stock Companies 34 i > , Railway Intelligence 349
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TJTAyiNG reached the . verge of the precipice , . ¦ ¦ ¦ ; ' Ministers turn back , with the desperate desire to preserve themselves from the yawning peril . They have made a bold stroke for safety . On Wednesday , Lord John Russell intimated his intention to move ah amendment to the Government Reform Bill on its second reading , and named Thursday as the day on which he ¦ would state the precise terms of the proposed amendment . Thursday night came ; the Opposition benches were packed in lawful array , " and Lord John Russell was on his feet . "I beg to give notice , " he said , " that , on the motion for the second reading of the Government Reform Bill , I shallmove as a resolution , that this House is of opinion that it isjncither just nor politic to interfere , in the manner proposed in this bill , with the freehold franchise hitherto exercised in boroughs in England and Wales , and no readjustment of the franchise will satisfy this House or the country ' that does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contemplated in the present measure . " Mr . WyId instantly capped tliis Whig profession of faith , by giving notice that he would move , as an addition to Lord John ' s resolution , " that in the election of any member or members to serve in Parliament , the votes shall be taken by ballot ;"—^ a pill both for Lord John Russell and for Loi-d Derby . The " natural " leader of the great Liberal party had fired his shot ; the smoke had cleared away : what harm had been done to the enemy ? Mr . Disraeli Had nothing to say to Lord John Russell or to Mr . Wykle , but he was not floored ; oil the contrary , n question put by Mr . Foljambe , with inference to a discrepancy between aparlia-• mentary papor and a county register of flic number ¦ of voters in the borough of East Retford , brought \ h . hn up firmly upon his legs . He was quite" himself . " He took the opportunity to explain that mover had nny proposition been more entirely . misunderstood , than that of the Government , relative to the alteration of the county franchise , Government never had the least intention of doing anything so wrong as to deprive country freeholders of the votesithey already possess in the boroughs . The outcry against the Government J 3 ill has been founded on nn entire misconeeption . of its purpose ? and , in short , since thero had been this unlucky misapprehension concerning it , Government had taken upon itself the reconsideration of the whole seltemc , and befbro the period for the second reading of the bill , will inako all right , and hay new clauses on tiho table—a now bill , perhaps ^ ! In tho meantime Ministers hold their own , but it , . must be with fear and trembling . On Wednesday evening , they sustainpd a staggoring defeat on tho motion for tho second , reading of thoir Church-vates Bill . Sir John Trelawny moved that it bo read that day six month * , ami , a majority of 254 to 171 combined to cast out the bill , Sir John Ptikington cried out , that the question was boing made tho stalking-horse of party taotios ; but the steady progress of opinion , in the House as well as , out or it , on the subject , boars evidence againwt the supposition that flic yote of Wednesday , < wa 8 merely a consequent _
of the momentary state , of parties . In truth , th < " no compromise " measure of Sir John Trelawnj stands too well with the House for such a measure as that , advocated- by Sir Jolm Pakington to 01 splace it . But a much more serious defeat is impending The affair of the Charles-et-Georges lias been mad < the ground '' of a real party attack on the Ministeria position . In both Houses * on Tuesday evening there were . motions-, for papers and . additional papers on the subject ; and the attack was . commenced . Lord Derby thoroughly appreciated the nature . of the movement , and rightly designated ii as an indirect mode of passing a vote of censure . upon the Government ; but .. . Mr .. Disraeli . wajaffected to see nothing . more in . the evening ' s proceedings than a " conversation " on the subject of " papers that harl no existence . " Lord Wodehouse , the leader of the attack in the House oi Lords , and Lord Grey , both denounced the Government for having been false to its treaty obligations to Portugal , whose rights , they declare , the British hovermnent was bound , to uphold , even - at the sacrifice of the French alliance . In the other House , there Avas the same outspoken coudemnar tion . And in both Houses the defence was the same ; the assumed necessity for maintaining the French alliance by any and every means : the worst defence that could be set up in the face of the univei'sal suspicion of truckling that attaches to our fbreign diplomacy . Rumour whispers that thei-e is a design to give Ministers the optiou of resigning on the question , in preference to standing the fatal hazard of the Reform die . The motion for the second reading , of the Indian Loan Bill gave rise to a strong debate upon the subject of fiio new Indian Government , the -chief speaker being Mr . Bri g ht . Lord Stanley ' s best endeavours to develope India , \ ry means of a better system of Government in nil its departments , will be frustrated by the fifteen guardians of the old system by whom ho is surrounded , is Mr . BrightY augury . Mr . Bright , however , does not despair of seeing India prosper , and he never hesitates to express his belief in the capacity of Lord Stanley for the fulfilment of the great task he has undertaken . To bring about a more healthy financial condition , ' very gront retrenchments must bo made in the civil expenditure ); but , ' according to Lord Stanley , it is' to tlio reorganisation of tho . army that we must look for thy most iinmc- ' diato amelioration * of the present state of the Indian Exchequer . Lord Bury has drawn attention once more to the subject of our differences with Franco respecting thoNewfoundlnnd fisheries . Tho fact is made apparent that , over since the Treaty of Utrecht was signed , 1713 , diplomacy has been busy with the s ^ lbject . Tho most that recent diplomacy appeal's ' to have done is , to have made unwarrantable concessions to France , to tho saci'iflco of British interests . In 1857 a treaty was drawn up giving to Franco great advantages over tho British fishermen , but tho unanimous opposition of tho Legislative -body of Newfoundland , which , by a elauuo in tho treaty , had tho rig ) itof veto oonibrrod upon it , has caused it to bo a dead letter . Lord Bury desires to have tho question ' discussed " . pan Homo defined principle , ana ho has therefore , very pertinently , demanded of Govern-¦ ¦
2 ment upon what princip le it is conducting the 7 diplomatic correspondence whieh is now in proj gress . The aspect of foreign affairs has not been ' greatly ' changed by the simulated peace-language . oftlxaMoniteiir . Telegrams tell us that Lord j Gowley has taken his departure fifoni Vienna , I on his way home direct to London , and , the accompanying comments are , that his L mission " has been entirely bootless . On the other side of the picture , we have the Prussian ; Goveniient expressing its confidence that , in corii junction with England , the war-tide will be safely : stemmed ; -Keeping our eyes upon theJ : wo powers 5 most likely to " fall to loggerheads— ± < ranee and Austria—we dp not see any indications of either ! peaceful intentions , or sincerity of purpose . The L precautions which each of these two powers is ? taking are irritating to each . Within the week , we -have had some small glimpse at the behind scenes of French policy . Prince Napoleon ' s friends have determined that their chief ' s retirement from the hig h official post which he has held for such a brief , period , and which was 2 ) repared for hini with such elaborate pains , shall not be left a mystery . -Prince Napoleon and his cousin are at issue as to the Imperial policy with regard to Italy ; lie demands that the policy of non-intervention in the affairs of Central Italy should be plainly expressed by the Imperial Government , and at the same time he calls upon his cousin to notify to the great Powers that he will firmly support the demands of Piedmont , and give her assistance in the event of troubles breaking out in the Duchies of Parma , Piacenza , and Tuscany , or in the Romagna , " or should Aurftria desire to occxipy those countries under pretext of establishing order there . " Against this " dangerous " policy , it seems , the JBmperor's mind lias been wejudiced by his advisers—MM . Fould and W alewski—supporters of " peace at any price ;" and hence the defection of Prince Napoleon , and the possibility of the gradual springing up of an Opposition that . cannOt be otherwise than beneficial to France . In the meantime , the question of peace or war nppoua \ s t hang upon a breath . One oyeiit of tho week is of a strangely interesting clmra ' ctor . On Sunday last , an American ship was seen to enter the harbour of Quecnstown , and a very little time elapsed beforo it was known that she had on board some seventy exiles , latuly captives in the dungeons of Naples , and that amongst them was wo less a person than the virtuoiw and heroic Poorio . Shipped by order of the Neapolitan Government for Amorica , they had reached the bay of Cadiz , when they made suuh ropnwenttttions to the captain of tho vessel as induced nun to steer for the Irish count , and the fugitives uro , now sale , under the protection of Uritiuli laws . J | 1 OI » - ultimnto destination i » ng yot -undotonnimHl ; but one thing is only too wall known , —that , iroai tho long confinement they had endured before their liberation , they are many of thorn in a ( shattered condition , of health ; mul from tho hurriodnous WJ * U which they wore sent out of their own country and away town their friends , they wo n \ any of thorn nearly < lentitutQ of moans to prgv ^ do ior thoir daily wants . TliiB fhoC needs o ^ ly . to bo known : thoro novor wore o « i \ ea \ hvomK upon our shores whomore ontU ^ iy dosow ^ vV Writish sympathy .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2285/page/3/
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