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      1 Political And Literam Eeyiew.

      1 POLITICAL AND LITERAM EEYIEW .

      •The One Idea -Which History Exhibits As...

      • The one Idea -which History exhibits as evermore devrslopixiE * 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 settingaside t . ne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the Iree development of our 3 pintualnature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .

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      NCB RFVIEWOFTHE WEEK- .-ace Naval and Military 849 . ' British India and Algeria S 56 Moore s Irish Melodies ^ nd Haydn s Ktvitw wr inc . wE . crt Miscellaneous . 84 < J : Seasons , The Indian Revolt .... . 842 Postscript .... \^ 7 ^ 7 . \\\ 3 . " . " ; . ' . ' ! . ' . ' . ' . 851 | OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSStateofTrado " 845 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ) Freemasons and Foresters S 5 G In Remembrance of tho late Mr . The Great ^ orthern"ii aiKvay ::. '" : ; :::::: 845 Regeneration of the Bengal Army ... 852 j lhelorestcrs 8 ^ 0 Douglas Jerrold 8 G 0 How the Writer was Despatch-Boxed 846 The Cam pat Chalons .. 852 . . tfratiirf- Tlic Tome Sol-fa Association at the Accidents and Sudden Deaths 846 Retribution 853 LITERATURE . or ~ Crystal Palace 860 Ireland 846 The Social Science Association ...... 853 Summary ... 857 America " 846 The French in Algeria 854 Buskin ' s Elements of Drawing 85 S R 1 Continental Notes . 847 New Elections for the New Parli . i- The Unknown Normandy S 59 TheGazette .. 861 Our Civilization 848 ment 855 Wild Adventure 859 commercial AFFAIRSGatherings from the Law and Po- LordMacaulay 855 Educational Books . 860 C ° ™ f . AL * FFA _ ~ , . . „ liceCourts 849 London out of Town 856 New Editions SCO City Intelligence , Markets , & e 861

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      VOL . VIII . No . 389 . ] SATTTRDAT , SEETEMBER 5 , 1857 . Price {^ SS ^ : ; 1 JS ™ -

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      ¦» In This, The First Week Of The Recess...

      ¦» IN this , the first week of the recess , almost everything seems cast loose from its ordinary course , except the concentrated attention to the subject of India and the requisite reinforcements . Parliament , has gone , and the Queen was last week off to the Highlands ; but the Premier is detained in the neighbourhood of London as sentinel-in-chief for tlie interests of India . Cabinet Councils are

      held , and will continue to be held from time to time ; and the departments are working off the reinforcements—of which more , and yet more , have been announced this week—as fast as transports can be found . It is reckoned that something like 70 , 000 or 80 , 000 will be assembled in India this autumn ; and the latest announcement is , that strong- bodies of Artillery and Engineers will be sent over . Not before they are wanted . The whole tenor of the news from the scene of war shows a more

      alarming state of things thaxi we had gathered , even from the late telegraphic despatches . The British army is broke up into small portions , the commanders of which are defending themselves at Delhi , Agra , Lucknow , and other places . They have lost the character of assailants , and have fallen upon a merely defensive position . The one exception to this is Havelock , who had marched upon Cawnporc , liad retaken it from the atrocious Nena Sauib , and was pursuing that traitor , who had in his turn become a fugitive .

      While the contemporary history of India thus presents the leaders of the British army reduced to the most painful straits , Uie interval is filled up with shocking outrages to defenceless ofliccrs—men who had surrendered on condition—to women , and even to children . But one striking contrast remains between the barbarians and the Europeans .

      Throughout the whole of these horrors , while thinned by death and disaster to numbers purely fractional in comparison with their aggressors , tlu < Europeans never seem to be cither cast into despair or goaded into malevolence ; their courage holds good to the last , even wh « n they arc themselves mortall y wounded—even when they sen women and children the victims of baser passions .

      Subsidiary questions have , assumed unusual interest . There is some conflict going on in London , though not yet very intelligible , between the promoters of the telegraph by the Euphrates route and that by the lied Sea route . A long article , favouring

      the Euphrates project—which Government seems to have dropped—appeared in the commercial columns of the Tizzies , and reappeared next day as an avowed advertisement . Last week , at the very close of the session , Lord Palmerstojt declared that Government would give to the Bed . Sea project such assists ance as could be rendered without Parliament ; but ' the-promoters of it are still looking out for '

      support , ' as if it had not yet become a perfectly certain , undertaking . Yet it could , be carried out , we should imagine , in a comparatively short space of time ; and it would , by the opening of next Parliament , place us in daily communication with India . What stops it , then ? Are there still some intrigues by which each line is preventing the other , neither one being realized for the public ?

      Ihere arc not wanting signs on the Continent that our Indian difficulty is raising the hopes of our enemies . The French press , no doubt , maintains a respectable demeanour towards England , but some journals protest against the destruction of . Delhi in a tone which implies that Prance has some voice in that region . Englishmen have uttered the same protest , and not without reason , but

      it is ii question on winch even so much as a remark by a foreigner is an intrusion . The Emperor of the French io assembling a great army , and is about to meet our rival , Alexanbek of Bussia , in one of the German capitals ; while there is a remarkable delay on the part of our Government in using t he direct and rapid route of Suez for the transmission of troops .

      But while Louis Napoieon is founding his grand camp at Chalons , and collecting royal suffrages to maintain his influence in Europe or in the world , new difficulties have sprung up in the capital . On Thursday there was a perfect panic in Paris , created by the retirement of certain directors of the Credit Mobilicr . The shares of that association instantly fell , and largely . Probably tliis is but the first beginning of that commercial crisis which has , by one

      manoeuvre or another , been so long deferred in France . Another painful incident attending the blessed interference of imperial magnates lias occurred in the Principalities . Long harassed to melancholy madness by anxiety , goaded to frenzy by factious charges of peculation , Giiika , head of the Unionist party in Moldavia , has ended hi . troubles after the old Roman fashion , by killing himself .

      In the meanwhile everything at home goes on prosperously . The Government gels on as smool lily as during the session : whether it is " new peerages

      or new elections , it appears to be having very mnoh its own way — the present Government having the advantage of several strings to its bow , so that almost any candidate which can turn up on the Liberal side will ultimately prove to be a supporter of the Government . There have been two elections , and another is brewing . The removal of Lord PtOBEKT Gbosvenoii to the House of Lords has incited Mr . Byng to abandon Tavistock foi Middlesex . Mr . Arthur . Russell has scarcely announced himself for Tavistock ere Mr . MiALli

      appears , competing with Mm for the same seat . Two Liberals are competing for the Greenwich seat , vacated by the bankruptcy of Mr . Townsend . Mr . By ' ng has found his place for Middlesex without a vote or a word against him . At Tavistock the only question was , whether the electors would prefer a Russell of really liberal pretensions , with all the prestige of the ISedfokd connexion , or a Miall ? But in either case we may assume that the member will be found voting in reform questions with Lord John . Mr . Miall is by far the stouter Liberal , but he had against him a very strong influence hi Tavistock . Greenwich has to choose between the

      son of Lord Camimiiill , whose ardour is understood to be greater thau his discretion , and Mr . Salomons , a tried Liberal , whom the House of Lords continues to exclude from the House of Commons because he is a Jew ; and the question is , whether the electors will choose a member who could take his scat \>\\ t inig ht not be of much use , or a useful member who might not be able to take his scat ? All these men ate Liberals ; the Middlesex and Tavistock candidates were all ballot men ; even the Hussell in that respect going beyond his uncle .

      Ihe list of new peerages is not yet completed . Lord Robert Grosvenob . is the only one that has been announced in a formal document . The creation of JBaron Macaulay out of the raw material of Thomas Babingion Macaulay , has also been announced in a less formal but in an official way . The Dukedom of Keiuiy still hangs over Lord Lansj ) OAVNr- ; but we have not yet advanced further in ( lie list . ' , It would appear that sonic who had received oilers of the peerage had declined ; Sir Fkancih . " Bahing has been named amongst those . At any rate , Lord Par : \ tEKSton will find materials l ' or creating as many Liberal Poors as Jie ehoo . sup , and if sonic decline others can hv found ^ ibr tilt ; sacrifice . ¦ ' * < . In the railway world , tho grand subject is-tJie-Hlternecine war -within ( lie ( livid Northern '' Cdinpany . The original shareholders are by lto-inoiilia ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/1/