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      Businessit Review Of The Week- ; India A...

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- ; INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- LITERATURE , SCIENCE , ART Th " P ^ riS * . "" "V . " ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ t ! home intelligence . page j . „ . . ., r di . m A ( 1 _ Literary Notes i 748 J landel Choral Society ... 7-V 2 Imperial Parliament ............ 730 ^ mistratfon .. ? . „ . 741 The Vicissitudes of Italy 748 Kt . James ' s Theatre ... , ? : * . The New Ministry 73 < i rJaiw Votes ^ ii Memoirs of Robert Houclin 7 J'J Princess ' s :: > ± Law , Police , and ' Casualties ? : J « Indian ixotes <¦* - Theology of Geologists 750 Adolphi .... :. ) - ¦ Naval and Military 73 < 5 . The Navies of the World 7 oO Itobert Brough's Heading 70- ' Volunteer Rifles . 737 The English Bible < 5 O COMMERCIALIreland 737 Facts and Scraps ¦ . 744 Miscellaneous Literature < ol ^ ummt ^ mL General Home News ... .. 737 Postscript ........ 7 i' -i _ .. Ir- , The Effects of \ Var on Trade ~ i . ' The New Atlantic Telegraph .... 73 S - FINE ARTS Money Market and' Stock . Kxforeign intelligence . PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Captain Peel 751 change ^ ....... . T jVj The War 738 Palmerston ' s" Woolly Horse " .. 745 Water-Color Society ' s Exhibition 7 , 1 ^^ S ^^ SSi ^^ l \ K-i r & Stateofthe Belligerent Forces .. 73 ' . ) France and the Nationalities .... , 4 o THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- Kailway Intelligence 7 . H General Summary 740 The Principles of Politics ........ , | b Covont . o-arden 751 Joint-Stock Companies 7 M ORIGINA ^ CORRESPONDENCE- ^ ^ ISn Liblrty-No ! Vi' ! i !!!!! . * 7 W l ^ ury-lSiie ^ . ' .. . 731 General Trade Itcport ¦•• **

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      riXHE victorious advance of the Franco-Sardinian ¦ army continues , and indeed , from ¦ the ¦ latest accounts would appear to ha ^ ve assumed tlie guise of a triumphal procession . AYliat course , indeed , the defeated Austrians will now take it is difficult to conjecture ; - \ vLether the veteran Hess and his lieutenants , Benedek and Hamming , will venture another great engagement with the morale of their army injured , if not destroyed by the incapacity of Gyulai , or whether they will at once retreat to the shelter of the fortresses which

      have before successfully defied the enemies of Austrian dominion in Italy . The whole force of the _ allies has now crossed the Adda , and the" line of that river is _ turned ; it cannot be defended by the Austrians with Garibaldi in the possession of Bergamo ; and it would therefore seem their only resource to fall back upon the line of the Mincio , and the fortresses of Peschiera , Vci-ona , and

      Mantua . These places of refuge were considered well-nigh impregnable , Verona in particular , being styjled a second Sevastopol ; but if Louis Napoleon ' s wonderful siege trains of rifled ordnance , which are now being hurried to the scone of action , answer but a part of the expectations which have been , formed of their powers of execution , the campaign , may be brought to an earlier close than the Austrians perhaps imagine .

      WhileGaribaldi is threatening the SouthernTyrol , we learn that Prince Napoleon , in the south is at the close of the present week to commence his inarch upon Piacenza , and , perhaps , upon Venice , to which latter spot is also directed the powerful fleet which the Emperor Napoleon has despatched to the Adriatic . In order thnt no clement of combination may be wanting against Austrian dominion a Hungarian legion is forming at Genoa , whither the valiant Kossuth is proceeding to assist in their organisation , while Klopka has issued a spiritstirring appeal to Magyar patriotism , which will bring many from their forced allegiance to Francis Joseph .

      This last-named potentate ' s position appears daily ta increase in difficulty . The recent Imperial decree for tho payment of interest on the national loan in paper instead of specie , oxposen , too plainly , tho national bankruptcy } while his German allios seem to bo wonderfully cooling down in their enthusiasm for tho preservation ot tho integrity of Austria . Russia looks upon in'm . witli nn iinfm-irivinor and iinnitvincr oyc , and him-with nn unforgiving and iinpitying oyo , ana

      probably endeavour to carry on business . It seems to be impossible for Lord John Russell to come into office without flying to the old aristocratic and obstructive Whigs , and continuing the same old routine of family appointments . The best friends and'well-wishers of the now Government cannot flatter themselves , Ave fear , that it is established upon anything like a broad basis ; hoyr can Mtfner Gibson and Cobdon , with their advanced political ideas , ever pull together-with the Whig and . Peelite noblemen and baronets who arc ° form part of the same Government , team with them ? Not a very lengthened period is likely to expire ere one section or the other will kick over the . trace * and upset the coach . It is , doubtless , true tlu > t the boast in of its members

      new Government can some " greatadministrative ability , parliamentary talents and statesmanlike reputation ; " but unless the great political questions which have so long " agitated the public mind are brought by them to a satisfactory and speedy issue , the country will not , perhaps , be inclined to seeany great , benefit from the dismissal of the prctical , if U ' -f-s .. oratorical Cabinet-which preceded them . ( . Jrrntas are the ability and experience of some individuals in the . new Ministry , they carry a considerable amount ol ' dead weig ht with them ; and i f we gain by Lord John ns Foreign Secretary in place- of Lord Malmesbviry , we have substituted for tho energy , perseverance , and adm inistrative ' powers of Lord Stanley the stolid feebleness of Sir Charlc . i Wood , who having failed notoriously at the Admiralty

      and the Exchequer , will prouaoiy muK « a * great a hash of the affairs of India . Sir John Pakington and General Peel have left tho navy and ihc army in u condition worthy of the position and resources of the empire . Pray heaven that the Duke of Somerset and Mr . Sidney Herbert nmy keep thorn so , and that the experience of the . Crimean war has not been lost upon the hitter statesman ! On the subject of neutrality it will bo well to recollect that the blue-book just published shows Lord Derby and Lord Malmesburv to have done their utmost ( as it is allowed on all sides ) to keep England out of tho Italian difficulty .

      Two most important enterprises are thin woek announced , to which nil must wish wucoess . Tho iirst is tho laying down by tSovorninenl . of a telegraphic cable from Falun miUi to Gibraltar , which cannot fiiil to odd fo tho security oi' our Mediterranean niul Indian possessions ; tho other is a new fniin-vUluntic cable , v / liich , avoiding tho faults o /' conslruction in tho former enterprise , and bemu submerged upon sounder principles , will , it is hoped , prove an enduring link between Kngl . ind ami America . The accounts from the North ot Ireland show that the pseudo-religious agitation oi tho lust low week * in rapidl y subsidim * ; iuiinUowiu having produced ila unlluling result of a cerium amount of immorality and lunacy , tho embers oi tho fitful fire are happily dying out . ¦ Tho liiiitory oi crime has received sotna Junriul additions , Two murders * , under droumntuiKion of foiirAil U-utrJity , in different part oi' Iho provinces , aro recorded } while in tho metropolis a poor mnd woman Iiun destroyed horsolf and two inJUnt children . Tho trial oi' Adams lias resulted in a Verdict of guilty and a , sentence of death ; thnt of SinoLhurut , accused of poisoning , is to stand over till next HCHsion .

      Italy appears the very essence of moderation and justice , and there are not wanting many who are disposed to put faith in it as a ge nuine exposition of his policy . Most men , ' . however , who have watched the career of this extraordinary individual , will be inclined to place it in the same category with the former declarations he has made'to the world , which will be considered by him just so Ion" - as consists with his ambition or his policy .

      The- Emperor disclaims all motives of territorial aggrandisement and personal ambition . His aim is only to free the Italian so il from foreign pppi-essors , and then to give the people their choice what form of government they will ado ] # , and whom they will take for their head . Perhaps the French garrisons which will be left , merely to preserve order , when the Austrians are' driven out © f Italy , may exercise some influence upon public

      opinion ... The rumour of the approaching ¦ return- of Napoleon to Paris is not without significance , when combined with . the fact of the mobilisation of six Prussian corps d ' armee . The tone of the Prussian journals continues to become daily more warlike , though it is obviously not the interest of that State to interfere in the belligerent arena . Should the Emperor be really on his way to France , it is probably with a view to the direction of the corps of observation towards the Rhine , at the same time that he is superintending tho movements of * he army in Italy ; and Paris would certainly be the only place where this could be effected .

      Foreign news , except in respect of the war , is of no great interest this week . The King of Naples we find has ' already modified the objectionable ministry which he had formed ; and we hear of an amnesty and a release of many thousand " suspected" from police surveillance . Let us hope this is not too good news to be true . In fact , it comes qualified witli the intelligence of further nolitical arrests , and hints that Francis II . dislikes

      the society of the more liberal members oi his family , and is oven suspected of a tendency to tho views of his departed sire . From the East come accounts of the brilliant state in which tho liiwsmn Grand-Duke Constantino haa been visiting tho holy shrines , and of tho largesse in gold , diamonds , and orders which ho has lavished among pashas , bmhops , Greeks , and Turks ; and of tho contrast drawn in the oriental mind with tho unpretending visit and humble state of tho English Queen's sailor son .

      At homo the ousted Conservatives are watching with malicious satisfaction tho attempts of tho two leaders oi' the late opposition to form a compact Ministerial phalanx out oi' the discordant forces by whose aid they gained their recent victory . * Lord Derby ' s manly speech in tho City hns pledged him and his party not to oiler a factious opposition to thair successors ' government , which has therefore now to show to tho country m what wav those threat measures will bo earned out

      which have formed tho foundation ot so ninny philippics against tho Tories . Few politicians , however , win expect nny great measure of reform from a Ministry which comprises Lord Campbell , Lord Pnlmerston , Mi . Glad » tono , und the Duke of Newcastle ; nor ia tho prospect ol neutrality much brighter from tho change of administration . The strongest point in tho programme ol , tuo now men is probably their anti-Austrian tone ; and upon , this , email stock in trade they will

      by her roCQnt circular declares him to bo altogether in tho wrong , and Napoleon ' s cause to bo that of justice and right . Still tho rocourocs of lus empire aro groat ; with hia Gorman subjects at least ho is popular , and his natural obstinacy and courageous disposition will , it ia to bo feared , prevent his listening to nny terms of treaty until his cause appears absolutely hopoless ; and in the moan time' muoh good powder must bo wasted and many innocent lives sneriiiood . Napoleon Hi ' s proclamation to tho people of

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18061859/page/3/