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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— t * oe j Who is Oneral O'Donnoll ? « . V > Divorce " next Session" fifii pnDTcnl , Parliament of the Week « so Tho Children of the Poor 05 < 1 JJow are of tho l ) ot ¦ " cr > PORTFOLIONotos on the War t Madame Sonta ;; 657 by an English Resident . — Heads or Tails ? 6 ( 5 S TheCourt 051 The Camp at Boulogne 657 Letter II . ' 061 Perfect Confidence ... . 668 The Minister of War ; .... ; 651 Miscellaneous 657 " Les Diamans de la Couronue 6 S 8 The State of the Militia 654 iixtdatubc Otello '" grs A Missing Official 651 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATURE- Maurice s last Lecture — College Summary 065 of Working Men 655 What is the Duty of the Liberal History of Charles I . " and " the Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 670 Our Civilisation . .... , . 635 Party ? 1 659 EiiRfish Revolution 605 Kossuth on the British Constitu- The Bribery Bill 659 The Roving Englishman 66 ( i COMMERCIAL AFFAIRStion 655 How Briti ; h Officers ' are Grown 660 Satire and Satirists ' .. . ' . ' 66 i > Citv InteUin-onpf T \ riH ,- £ >( - « \ ri Something about the Czar ......:.. 656 Adulteration of Society . ..... 661 Books on our Table .: S .. "Z \ " . C 67 vertisemcut" ? & c . .. . * :.. _ C 70-672

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      rtONFUSION in official proceedings — doubt Vy and discontent in the public thought—appear to be the characteristics of affairs this week . la regai'd to the war , there is negotiation going oa ¦ while " hostilities" are at the same time ¦ ¦ pushed forward ; couriers are passing between St . Petersburg ; and Vienna , and St . Petersburg and Berlin , the different emissaries with different instructions ; a special envoy starts from ' Berlin to London ; and , concurrently , English ships are

      taking in French troops , from French ports , to be directed on unknown points of Russian territory in the Baltic ; the public , here , watching all this , yet watching it witU distrust , as unable to realise what our Government is actually intending—while rowing one way and looking another . Government becomes more and more damaged , as the session proceeds ; and doubts of its hearti ~

      ness and earnestness , in carrying on war , are seemingly justified by the evidences which it assiduously supplies , that it is playing with Parliament and carrying on " business , " which is always abandoned , without . an object . A debate , injurious to the Cabinet's claims to good l ' uitli , impends for Monday night next , on the occasion of th . c vote of 17 , 000 / . for the new ollice of Secretary of State for War ; the public having meant something more than the creation of a new ollice

      —having meant the amalgamation of several of the old offices . And on Thursday nigho the Opposition in both Houses made successful attacks on the management of the Administration in the affair of the Irish Tenant llight bills . Certainly there is not one class , and not a single man , if it bo not Mr . 'Napier , who is loth to part ¦ with the only measure that he was ever equal to organising—having done that so us not to satisfy — with any real reason to regret tlui disappearance of those bills . The Torv peers and landlords , who

      for Opposition purposes have murmured through Lord Mulmeabury and Mr . Disraeli , can have no anxiety fur the progress of measures which , however ( lefectivo from the- tenant ' s point of view , arc much too good to suit Irish proprietors . The- Enylish mombcra have as little concern in the nuitti-r us they have in the Lower Canada ' s agitation about suignttur ' uU tenure . On the id I unhand , the Irish tenant-right , members , such as Serjeant Shoo and Mr . Lucas , with the best reasons for scrupulosity , because owing their uunto

      to the popular agitation , have indicated candidly that they preferred waiting till the question had made more way among English members , rather than grasp at this " concession " — which is destitute of nearly all they ask to be conceded . Whatever impression , therefore , has been produced to the discredit of Ministers , in connexion with the abandonment of these bills , resulted , altogether , in the first instance , from the ungraceful and uncandid way in which Sir John Young threw up his brief ; and , in the second place , from the

      astoundingly confidential way in which Lord John Russell , in the course of his manifold explanations on Thursday , conveyed , in an cnlre nous manner , hi 3 own private opinion that it was sheer folly trying to legislate upon llie matter at all—thus recklessly and unkindly casting distrust on the repeated declarations of his colleagues , the Dukes of Newcastle and Arg ' yle , that they had gone into the committee boua Jide , taken up the . bills heartily , and wished them thorough success . A tendency to " shannnina" earnestness

      was likewise detected on Monday , in the Lord Chancellor ' s affected reluctance to ]> nrt with his Divorce liill ; he had to be , as it were , soothed and coaxed into not going on : all the grave Lords and truthful Bishops who participated in the nll ' eotionatu teasing knowing well that the coyness was premeditated , and that the bill had been doomed by well ascertained arrangements : —the desertion of the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill , which affected the state of the Ecclesiastical

      Courts , necessarily loading to the abandonment oi a Divorce Bill dependent upon the fate of those Courts . The Government could very well afford to speak out openly ns to what it thinks itsell bound to do in this exceptional war-session : and it ia obvious that all this confusion in details , forcing on criminations angry and hurtful , is the consequence of Lord John Russell ' s failing to deliver the usual periodical sketches of *• 'business" and " ¦ intentions . " In former years wo have had an honest and a hearty wholesale massacre of ( ho innocents ; but , now , Lord John thinks i ( . mililer to cut his little ones up separately .

      Mr . Disraeli did not , on Thursday , indicate that he i . s the sort , of English statesman who always keeps the mtlioit ' . * interc ^ ts in view in bis Parliamentary action ; ami be did nothing tow units organising bis party , offering a policy , respecting a princi ple , or ncaring power . IMr . Disraeli is merely a foreigner amusing hinmelf in English public life ; and the English public must not look

      for English conscientiousness in him . But what lie says is true or untrue , without reference to his own character ; and it is no answer to his exposure of . Ministerial , chiefly Lord John ' s , blundering , to point out that Mr . Disraeli is a reckless politician . The effect of his satiric criticism on Thursday night is palpable ; the House was amused ; the world laughs ; and Lord John Russell was angry , and made a poor defence . He has botched the session ; and we arc not comforted by knowing that lie means to l ) c faithful to his Reform Bill and to the principles of John Somcrs .

      The Bribery Bill is getting through the House with success ; improved , in strictness and efficacy , at each step ; so elaborated into excellence by the committee " up-stairs , " to which it had been referred , that the consideration arisesshould not all bills pass through ; a committee ' s alombic in the first instance ? We have suggested elsewhere why we doubt if this bill will produce a true House of Commons ; but its merits , within its scope , are so great , that we hear

      with regret the general opinion that it , too , will fail of the Royal assent this session . The Oxford University Bill has passed ; Lord Derby—painfully convinced by his career in the committee , that he has lost all his hold on the Peers , who gave him his chance and found him wanting—not even caring to appear at all at the third stage . The Board of Health Dill , continuing the department for sonic years , is not safe : Mr . Clnulwick ' s enemies are as numerous as the evils

      bound up with the " vested interests , " which he has ovox'thrown , or is lighting : and it will require all Lord Puhncrston ' s tact to prevent the sanitary movement being arrested . The Radicals have made only one movement in the House this week : on the lnisgoverninont of India in the Madras Presidency . It is obviously logical for this political confederation to- attend to the misfortunes of England ' s own Hungnryw- before arranging for Austria ' s and Russia ' s : and Mr . IHaekott is to be

      applauded for his conscientious labours m creating a public opinion here , and bringing it to bear upon the En . st India . Company . He failed in < be direct object of bin motion , ( ihliiiiiing ihe appointment of a coinmisMon to j ; o out mid enquiry :. Vut he succeeded in his indirect , highly jn'fyier , aim . Mr . Bright made a . speedi M ^ iulicuiitly vigorous :-. suggesting that Manchester Uuidera with India , though defeated on In * I yoar ' sfJniVia Bill , are ' determined to take the rule of , Hindoos , and their tariffs , and their capacity to ' gjow cotton , out of V ¦*> *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15071854/page/1/