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      "The One Idea Which. History Exhibits As...

      "The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Uumbold fsCosmos .

      Contents.

      Contents .

      News Of The Week— «-*Ok Miscellaneous 73...

      NEWS OF THE WEEK— « - * ok Miscellaneous 739 Torture in India 744 ! THE ARTSImperial Parliament s . 7 S 4 * Postscript 739 Progr ^^ . Russian Policy ia ^ Mademoiselle Rachel 752 Sew ^ warp ^ ject iics ::: ::::: .: . .:: ? g ™ BL 1 C affairs- literature- ' Farewell Dinner to Viscount Can- Survey of tho War 740 Summary 747 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 753 nitiK 737 The War in the North 741 Maud and other Poems 747 __ Mr . Blechi at Tiptree Farm 737 Vulgar Impatience of Adultera- Last Year ' s Asian Campaign 748 The Police Inquiry 737 tion 741 Lifo and Opinions of Milton 750 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSOur Civilisation 737 The Polish Legion 742 A Batch of Books 750 wuwmwwmu nrrnms Naval and Military News 738 Germany 743 Egypt's Place in Universal His- City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Oontinental Notes 738 . Tiptroe 74 * | lory 751 vertisements , & c 753-756

      Vol. Vi. No. 280.] " Saturday, August 4,...

      VOL . VI . No . 280 . ] " SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1855 . Pmoe { S ^^^ SxpS ^ t

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      fpHE little fairy of the German stories is the A model which Parliament adopts for itself in the latter days of the session—a sprite which mingles mischief with hard work , frolics with things in the kitchen during the night , and leaves the abode in apple-pie order for the astonished servants in the morning . After wasting months in " discussions" which had infinitely more premises than conclusions—and verv ineligible

      premises many of them were ! — many more platitudes than arguments , the House of Commons , rebuked by Lord Pai . merston ' s hint , that if it did not make haste it might have to sit till September , aet itself to work iit committee or otherwise to pass the Limited Liability Bill through its several stages , the Bill for rectifying the Beer blunder of last session , the better management of the Metropolis Bill , Lord SiiArTEsnuRY ' s Bill for removing penalties from congregations meeting

      even in private houses occasionally , and others . The Lords have been registering the edicts of the Commons , in an obedient spirit . The faithful Commons have likewise passed almost without question the supplemental estimates of the navy , array , and ordnance , giving Ministers as many millions as they required ; and have duly told Sir Georgk Cornkwali- Lkwis to do what he proposed—to raise 7 , 000 , 000 / . on Exchequer bills or bonds . This is in lieu of taxes , which are

      postponed till next session . The fidelity of the Commons is rewarded in the kindly accommodating spirit of Ministers . Lord Pamvikiiston blandly reduced the claim for money towards the commencement of the now public offices to be built Around the butt-end of Downing-street from PO . OOOZ . to 40 , 000 / . —the smallest amount needed for rendering the present unsafe ami uncommodious buildings simply tenant able . The House passed , without much question , a -curious little

      Vote of 40 , 000 / . for public : buildings and educacation in Southern Africa— . a new dodge on the humane tack for the purpose of diverting the Kaffirs from war ! To think of attempting the Conversion of Kaffirs , Zulus , Hosjeinnns , and mw \ i races , to orderly citizens on an instalment of 40 , 000 / . ! However , Ministers might do wor . se with thoir money ; they would have done worse , for instance , if they had given tho American tho sum for which ho stipulated to exterminate tho tribes .

      Among the little questions which have been discussed have been the merits of Admiral Walcott and other naval officers , who regard themselves as having earned the Order of the Bath for an affair with p irates in 184 G . Admiral W . vlcott insists , nine years after date , on knowing why her Most Gracious Majesty did not smile benignant and shower ribbons upon himself and his brother officers . Even the statute of limitations might have shut him out . But what order of chivalry was ever created by act of Parliament or a vote of the House ? Was it thus that the Garter began ?

      Major Reed ' s escapade was no exception to the smooth working . On the contrary , it was a pleasing effervescence ; the laughter bursting out like innumerable bottles of " pop" at a militia jubilee . The Major gravely moved that the House should bind Ministers to an autumnal session . Promising to call Parliament , if he could not help it , Lord Palmerston asked the House to proceed to business , and the Major to withdraw his impediment . But it was Mr . Disraeli

      who showed up the gallant member most effectually . Solemnly and cieeronically did Mr . Disrakm protest against the attempt of the honourable member to entrap the Conservative Opposition into a vote of censure . The House " laughed consnmedly ; " but the grand Major , taking everything in tragic seriousness , rose up to deny that he had intended any voto of censure ,

      or that he wanted to place the Opposition in antagonism to the Ministry ; iu short , he disclaimed any purpose of bringing about a state crisis ; and the House—laughing more than ever — believed him ! Some call him the enfant tcrrihlc of the House , - but there is a difference between this and the general run of that monster —no one is afraid of him .

      Lord Deriiy has been at Goodwood ; tho minorities who club together for the purpose of harassing the Ministers have boon nowhere ; the venison is ordered for the white-bait dinner at Greenwich on "Wednesday next , and the members are looking to the last grand division of the session .

      A certain mildiuMS and courteous matter-ofcourse spirit has rtoi / . e I upon the British people ; and public men go through the most critical stages of their lives without an event . Before our last number was in the hands of many of our readers , Sir Bunjamin Ham ., from a . private citizen , had been remade member for Marylobone , not only

      without opposition , but -without the thought of such a thing . Lord Ca > "nikg receives hLs farewell dinner from the Directors of the East India Company , and sees occasion to rebuke them , not unjustly we must say , for the fluent facility of their personal compliments to him ; as if to hand over the welfare of 150 , 000 , 000 to the keeping of a single man were a . courtesy that could be completed with a wave of the hand over the wine -glasses . Nor is it only their welfare as a fixed and stationary thiag which is entrusted to him . Perdition and g lory are both in the scale confided to his holding . Our

      Government in India , which hangs entirely by the prestige of our management and our arms , and whych might be forfeited by the indiscretions of a foolish Governor , is gradually developing itself into a rule which this world has never yet witnessed . A government by an alien race , entering more thoroughly into the business , feelings , and local interests of the natives than their own

      governments—not to be shaken by any native competitors because the natives would not trust any other government so well—introducing among them new arts , new habits , new associations , teaching them how to rule themselves in our own Anglo-Saxon fashion , and finding a certain success in the pupils—laying the foundation of something like a federative constitution—training public servants , admitting Hindoos to : in equality of competition with British—in short , planning

      the expansion of a community far wealthier than fabled India , far happier than many that have lived in this changeful world—that is indeed a miraculous scheme to spring from the halfconscious head of old Routine ! And it is all placed under the guidance of one hand , hitherto employed in steering our Post-office ; one man now has as many millions of Indians under his control as lately he had post-letters annually . But so smoothly do things work now-a-days , that the directors smile the last ceremonies of livery and

      aeisin amid the fruits of the desert . Sir Gkorgk Brown , just returned from tho Crimea , and welcomed by the grave residents pi Leamington , can find nothing to say on lefuruing thanks for the compliment to lnmso & . lHW tO « £ liver a brief but solemn lecture upon , the pof i ^ Q * T ;^; r ^ z ; : ^^' :: ^ m . fS ^ K ^^^ F *"

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081855/page/1/