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      'The one Idea which . History exhibits as everrnore developing itaelf into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the noble : e 5 T ? a , ? toiihraw down , all the barriers erected "between men " by prejudiceana one-sided views ; and , by aettmg aside the distinctions " . 01 . . Religion .,. Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development oi our spiritual a . ditxae . ' *—Bum 6 oldt ' s Cosmos . ' ¦

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      ' ' ¦¦ * % h $ 8 ! £$ L $ n £ WEEK- va « b State of Trade 1185 Lessons to Journalists .: 1189 ] An Admirable Book on Geology ... 1192 '¦ ' ¦ ¦ flSAo ^ fi ^^ nS ^' n " -Kk "'^""" """ i ? 3 S Obituary 1185 Pens and Daggers ; . 1189 i Miscellanies light and Learned ... 1193 ¦ Wffi ^& T «&;"' "? 12 v ' Miscellaneous . 1185 The Northern Trades 1190 j Oracles from the Colonies ............ 1194 A'Good Samaritan Institution 1179 Postscript 1186 The King of Prussia's Question ... 1190 _„_ _ - xreiana ..., ..... ii / y The Resolute 1190 ' irit . MKis>— . America ........ ....................... ... 11 S 0 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- — i ™ -- "The Cagots . " —Mr . Dillon as Address of the -Emancipation , of . v « wnrrnms OPEN COUNCIL— "Othello" ... ...................... 1195 Italy Fund Committee 1180 Electors Alive ......................... 1186 The Moon ' s Rotation 1190 Notesof the Week ... 1195 The Insurrection of Sicily ... 1181 More Prophecies on the Buchanan - _ ¦ . Continental Notes 1181 Policy ...... 1187 LITERATURE- Tlie Gazette .... 1196 Shipwrecks 11 S 3 The Sicilian Insurrection 1188 Summary 1191 # . «„ -. ¦ - „ -., ¦ -. ..-,- . „ ¦ Wavaland Military . 1182 Cheek ' s * " Stunner" and the True The Wise Physician 1191 COMMERCIAL AFFA 1 RS-- Our Civilization ... ; .......................... 1182 Life Preserver .. 1188 Barry Cornwall ' s Poems ............... 1192 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 11 OT

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      rpHE blow has failed , and King F . ERDraA . xi ) still _ L lives . While he was reviewing the troops on the feast of the Madonna Immaculata , a soldier ia the ranks struck at him with his bayonet , but ineffectually , and the assassin was either arrested or killed on the spot , for the accounts differ . The manner in which the intelligence has been received shows haw worthless is the King ia the eyes of tlie world . There is a standing horror of assassination , partly technical and formal as well as real . It is forgntfpn that in these cases the man who is struck at is himself an assassin , only on a much larger scale than the individual who strikes at liim . It is forgotten that while he invades the peace of families and of communities , and causes unoffending citizens to be summnded by a , brutal soldiery whom , the spies have led to their duty , he , coward-like , surrounds himself with guards , and strikes from behind a shield . The cowardice and the cruelty are on the side of the tyrant whose last remaining responsibility on earth is his responsibility to the tyrannicide . The tyrant constitutes himself an outlaw under the code of caramon chivalry , common justice , and common humanity . These circumstances 3 however , are usually forgotten , especially if tlie tyrant be in other respects a man at all of a respectable order . As it is , no regret is expressed , except , perhaps , some slight regret of an official kind , or a regret at the calculation that the attempt , failing , may prove an impediment rather than an impulse to the Liberal cause in Italy . We doubt , however , whether it will do so . It lias been asserted that the act had no connexion with the revolt in Sicily , or with any discontent among the king ' s subjects . Cralat Disraeli . It way be so ; but it is a curious fact , which has already been mentioned , that last week there was a report In London of an attempt made to assassinate the King of Naples . Certainly the attack had no connexion , with tlie agitation for constitutional reform , and it is barely possible , and we doubt even whether it will have any effect as an obstruction to that movement . The true merits of [ the case are too well known . It would be a Mousing for Italy , under any circumstances , if King Fbbdinand were to cease ; only the worst of . it is , that this process of individual execution would subject the country to a renewal of

      Fcrdinandism under some other prince of the wretched crew . ' ' ¦ ¦ . " , '¦ - ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ . ¦ ' - ' . : . ¦• . ; The accounts of this event with no sequel , stultifies the course taken by the Western Powers in Naples . Where was the use of the demonstration ^ where was the effect of the warning , ' if it is to end in this anti-climax ? All we can say about Sicily is , that the insurrection is not suppressed . That seems to be the most pi * obable report ; and if it is not suppressed while the Neapolitan Government strives to make the world believe that it is , then we infer that King Bomba must be afraid in the midst of his defences . If Russia does not make out a better ease for herself in her newly published Note , she makes out n bad case for the plenipotentiaries of tbe other powers . The obj ect of the Circular appears to have been at once to press the reassembling of tbe Conference , and to urge the reasons why the Bolgrad point in particular should be reopened ; and Russia has at least shown that the 20 th Article of the Treaty , being inconsistent with the facts or the states of the country , could scarcely be carried out . She proves that the plenipotentiaries of the other Powers lost themselves in the endca-i vour to settle the boundary of a country whose conformation they did not . understand . " We are assured by the Memorandum that there are not two Bolgrads . The confusion of the Western diplomatists is much as if some Russian -plenipotentiary had conceived the idea that there was a place in England called " Grimsby Hull , " situate where the old town of Hull is situate . In that case , upon reaching the ground , he would have found Grimsby where it is , upon the coast , antl Hull more inland ; and tlien he would have claimed to take Grimsby Hull , l ike " Bolgrad Tabac , " as the l andmark intended when Grimsby was named . But the Russians , who saw liow the other plenipotentiaries were confounding tlie topography of the place , stood by without correcting them , only taking advantage of their ignorance to strengthen the choice of Bolgrad as a . boundary mark ; while the Western plenipotentiaries assented to the Russian request for Bolgrad , under the belief that it is situated at the point where they now find Tabac . This is the mode in which the Russians explain the present difficulty . It does not exonerate them from the charge of being knaves , but appears to establish against the other plenipotentiaries the charge of being the opposite of knaves .

      In order to reconcile the other Powers to the retention of Bolgrad as tlie bouadary mark , the Russian Government offers to enter into pledges for keeping it disarmed either of fortifications or flotilla ; but we all know tte value of Russian contracts in this respect . According to the current description , the new Conference is nothing but the old Conference revived . It was to have been assembled after the completion of the boundary business ; but on this insuperable difficulty , it has been called together to settle the dispute , or , more correctly , to do its work over again . There is an impression on . this side of the Channel that the Conference will be restrained from considering any other points whatever , — -even , for instance , the Government of the Principalities , to which the Russian Memorandum alludes . It will only declare what ia the . proper interpretation of Article 20 . But that Article 20 may be as incapable of interpretation as it is of execution ; in fact , it may have to be re-opened ; and if it be reopened , possibly other questions may be introduced through the opening . On both sides there seems to be an . impression that the question will be settled by a ; simple vote , and that Russia will be outvoted in the proportion of b to 2 . Louis Napoleon has been lecturing his prefects through ¦ M . Billavi-t . The governors of departments have not understood the principle of the Imperial Government , which is , to let the people manage their own affairs so long as they do not interfere with the Emperor ' s . That is , they may look after their own watching , lighting , and paving , so long as they leave public order to his Majesty , with tlie distribution of railways , regulations of joint-stock , & c . Sauni cuujue / Let the Mayor look after the Municipality ; the Empire is the Emperor ' s ; and Prefects who meddle too much in local affairs , and get the Emperor disliked , are not the servants with whom ho is pleased . That is the drift of M . Bixlault ' s Circular to the Prefects . It looks as if our Government saw duties taperform abroad , and either lacked the capacity to shape out a course for itself , or the courage to follow that course ; and there is something of the same kind at home . We have in divers directions movements of the people evincing the reati ^ s ' ^* ^<> v desire for certain public improvements ^ au ^ yftfc *; o V A * - those who profess to be our leaders are . "Ba & Mildjgf 1 / ' , - V ^ about the mode of executing obvious woffis . /^ lli'ljw ;¦;'„ •! , •; ;" drainage , about which , there is so much ^ cjjjsbjooj _ , ^ f" ~ r--is the very simplest and Lowest illustration $ &; # !& i ¦ " * : - > p- > jHis & - - {>& r ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/1/