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      J§A Iz Aft E R. Political And 1iterary 1...

      J § A iz aft e r . POLITICAL AND 1 ITERARY 11 EYIEW .

      'Tne One Idea Wnich History Exrubits As ...

      'Tne one Idea wnich History exrubits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour uo throw down all the carriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided vie ws ; and , by setting aside the distinctions ot ttengion , Oountry , and Colour , no treat the wnole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development oi our spiritual nature . —Humboldts Cosmos . e

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      Kiview Of The Week- Pace Naval And Milit...

      KiVIEW OF THE WEEK- pace Naval and Military . 681 | The Massacre at Jeddah 686 The People ' s Bluo-Book 691 , .,,,,. u ¦ ¦ ,. ¦! ^"" niii al ltecord 681 The Jews Bill and the Lords' Eddies Hound the Rectory 691 Imperial Parliament .... 674 | Gatherings from the JLaw and Po- Protest . 686 Illustrated Handbooks ...... . 691 The Orient 677 hceCourts ... 681 Crystal Palace Prospects ... 68 G Clare the Goldseeker ... 691 India 677 Tho Assm-s .. 682 The Social Evil — its Foreign State of Trade 679 Miscellaneous 6 S 3 Element ..... . " .. 6 S 7 THEARTSIreland 679 Postscript .......... 683 Ars est CelareArtein 6 SS ¦; „ , ! , „ ,, „„ , „ „_„ America . 670 Varli-iinmitnrv Ppmmirin fiss l'lie Operas 692 Continental Notes Z . ZZZ . ' Z . mo - pimiir afchibc Inrliamuitary Pemtmcan ^ Theatrical and Musical Notes ...... 692 Explosion of Firework Factories 6 S 0 public AFFAIRS- literature- ~ .... „ ... . Accidents and Sudden Deaths . 680 New Encounter of England and | COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS'¦ ShT ^ 'lIfth '!! 6 ""*!; - " - ! " ^""! ™ ° - America in the West 684 ' Cosmos 690 The Gazette ................ 693 The Ca * o ot the Rev . Allred Poolo ... 681 i Hudson ' s liny—at Bay 685 i . . - The Pyrenees 690 City Intelligence , Markets , & c . 693

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      VOL . IX . No . 434 . ] SATURDAY , JUXY 17 , 1858 . Piiick {^ g ^^^;;; gJS ^ -

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      o ¦ ¦ ; ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦ ON Wednesday afternoon the Speaker was kept . waiting fifteen minutes before enough members could be assembled to form a House ; and even ¦ when "that result was .. obtained , it was found •< hat the right number was made up of flic Mioug men ; so that , not only had the Sp eaker to kick his heels for a quarter of an hour , but the business first in order on the hooks had to be thrown over for want of the mcii to conduct it . Tilings being come to this pass , the . consummation most devoutly to be wished is , speedy prorogation . To ' that desirable end all tlie work now being , or to be , done , is made to tend . Government lias asked for all the money it will -want till next year , and has been supplied . to almost the full extent of its asking , the sum refused being no less than three hundred pounds—1 he salary of I-Ierr Mundler , " Expert , dc la Galcric Nationale de Lomlrcs , " whose special services arc , for the present at least , declined by a majority of 12 S to 110 , on the ground that they do not find any satisfaction in paying a gentleman to go about the Continent raising the price of all the pictures they have a fancy 1 o purchase . Having arranged money matters and cleared tip the most pressing work—a little hastily , perhaps—Parliament will most likely be in a condition to shut up the ofiicc about the end of the month ; at all events , very early in August , work must he struck , because a lot of the partners have determined to charter a steamer for a pleasure 1 rip to Cherbourg to meet ITeii Majesty , who is to be at that , interesting place of reunion on the 4-th . First in importance in the week ' s Parliamentary transactions lias been the progress made with the India Bill in the Lords . Still the course of that great experimental measure is unchecked , and still its prospects are as bright as Lord Stanley , or even Mr . Disraeli , can wish . Head a second time without a division , tho little show of opposition offered by Lord Ei . i . ekuorough will not cause much anxiety to Government . With , at the most , some veiy trifling amendments , the India Bill will in all probability be ready to receive Hisii Majesty ' s signntm-o in 1 lie course of a very few days . Next , and certainly of more immediate import mice to us of London , is the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exciiequeh for furnish , ing tho money to drain the metropolis and to purify tho Thames . At lust tho thing ia

      to be done . Some system of drainage is to be decided upon , the money for carrying it out is to be placed in the hands of the executive , and in five years arid a half from the moment of commencement the work is expected to be done . Bravo ! A rate of threepence in the pound levied on the metropolis -will , in forty years , not only furnish the required annual outlay while the work is progressing , but will supply a ' sinking-fund out of which the principal and interest of the 3 , 000 , 000 / . permitted , will be honourably and punctually repaid in forty years . The Times says gallantly , never mind if the works cost more than the estimated sum , only let the 3 , 000 , 000 / . be spent in such a way that the work produced may be ¦ . comprehended in a larger scheme , and that is the best advice that can be given at the outset of such a vast experiment . The majority against Mr . IIutt ' s motion on Monday evening need not disquiet any one . That a large number of the present House of Commons arc content to back Lord Paljierston and Lord Derby in the maintenance of their anti-slavery policy , goes for little against the rapid advance of public opinion on the slave question . The Times , which always aims at representing matured , or almost matured , public opinion , has of laic come to hold exactly the same views that have been all along expressed by this journal on the slave trade ; and even the Globe , with all its partiality for Lord Palmkrston , is arguing in the abstract from our point of view . These are successes on the side of broad public opinion that far outweigh in importance the Conservative triumph of Monday night's majority . Lord John Russell has admirably defined the relative positions of the two Houses on the Jew question . After all the tender regard which has been shown it by the House of Commons / the House of Lords has placed itself in a most undignified , not to say absurd , position by the course it has taken with regard to the Oaths and Jews Bills ; it has passed a measure designed expressly to enable Jews to take their scats in the House of Commons , and as a reason for adhering to its own amendments of the Oaths Bill it has expressed itself strongly of opinion that . J « ws arc morally unfitted , by the nature of their religion , to take part in " the legislation of u professedly Christian community . " Lord John Russklt , is wisely of opinion that the best thing to he done is to accept these two hills , which at least cfVcet the two main objects for which the one was designed : they secure , as he snid , " an alteration of the Oaths and the admission of Jews into Parliament . "

      The news from India , without being positively bad , is of a kind to cause anxiety for the British troops ; labouring as theyareunderfearfuldisadvantages . The heat is terrific , and it is only wonderful that Europeans are able to perform any duty requiring bodily exertion ^ Our army is thus terribly overworked , and can only hold its way by sheer force of courage . It is easy to see that the mode of warfare adopted by the rebels will enable them to hold out for . any length ¦ of time , for they can never be decisively beaten . After being driven out of Calpee , the Gwaliormen marched straight upon the country of our ally S cindia , whom they fought and compelled to fly to Agra , after two-thirds of his men had gone ovev to the enemy . They were in . possession of Gwalior wlien the latest accounts left India , and Six Hugh Rose was moving forward to attack them . Meanwhile strong bands of rebels arc ravaging the country cast and south of Oude , which , however , remains tranquil , as also docs Rohilcuiid . The most notable point of the news , perhaps , is , that the enemy is once more in great force around Lucknow , and is intercepting the communications with Cawnporc . Sir Colin Campbell had gone to Allahabad . From Asia the news is of a wild and distressing character . Mahometan fanaticism has once more been doing bloody work . At Jcddah , on the Red Sea , nearly the whole of the English and French residents have been ruthlessly massacred ; and at the whole of the Red Sea ports the lives of the linglish and French Christians are in peril . The action of the British Government has been prompt and energetic . Three ships of war arc ordered to Jcddah , with instructions to use the most forcible and coercive measures if necessary to bring the authors of this atrocity to justice . In Candid also there has been a slaughterous rencontre between the Turks and Greek Christians . The Mahometans have attacked both the French and English consulates , and there is a general emigration of the Christian part of the population . So much for the results of treaties nnd conferences -. tho " affairs of the East" have still to be regulated by the strong himd and firm will of the Western Powers . In America thero has been bloodshed arising 1 out . * of fanaticism of another kind . A Idler from Tiimna ^ in Florida ( an unimportant town , distant sra Cy seven hundred miles from Savannah ) , ahpj s / l'i ; the state of political feeling " down SoufH * r ~ For some time there had existed in tho to ^ ap an executive or vigilance comniiU . ee , " hotUkt ^ to the " American / ' or law'respecting paWJJ'V ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071858/page/1/