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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- vaoe ' . ¦ S ^ S ^^ p tion ..... _ ... 896 The Philanthropic Congress at Napoleon in Russia . 907 The Working Classes of Eugland and Nav ^^ Ttfifcv ! Beeatta —— f » 8 , Brussels „ .,...... so The Camp and the Cutter . 908 Italy .... 890 Naval and Military ..... 898 Mr . Disraeli ' s Friends 903 The Catiline Conspiracy ........ 908 State of Trade ....... 890 Miscellaneous .. 899 News for Cayenne 904 , , „_ . « -,. . v f «* w The Coronation of the Cza . r . 801 Postscript 900 OI » E |\ 1 COUNCIL- THEARTSThe Chartist Gathering .................. 892 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Order in American Disorder « m Portrait of Slaazini ..... 908 America 893 Coronation Policy 900 American disorder ... 304 Theatrical Notes ... ; . 908 TneOrient 894 Reverend Abduction and Irreve- LITERATURE— ¦ _ , ¦ ' ——, Ireland .... ;„ .... ; ... . 894 rend Deduction 901 Summary 905 The Gazette 90 & ' ¦ A ^ Sffl ^ rK ' tr ;' - 'SJ - £ , he £ ? nio . - - - - 901 Pictures of " German " LiSV : ;;" : ' " ;; : " SOS COMMERCIAL-AFFA 1 RSAcoidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 896 The Chartists and the Charter 903 A Matter-of-fact Metaphysician ... SOB City Intelligence , Markets , & c ..... 909

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      NEV ER , perhaps , did the world present itself more in the light of a toy for imperial arid royal play -than at the present moment . The grajid feat of the coronation pageantries at Moscow consists in the befooling of the outer world / and of some clever competitors , by Alexander II . Hapoubon III , sits by the side of his lovely Empress , amusing himself with the adroit killing of "bulls by Spanish bull-fighters . And Ferdinand of Naples is getting up the grand soldiering display against the threats of the Western Powers , which threats he believes in even less than we do . And all the while the world , the great nations of living souls , who have intellect and heart , aspirations and necessities , remain wondering what tbese mighty players intend to do for them . " The Czab is the Lord's" anointed , says Mr . William Kusseud , the prince of ' gentlemen connected with the press ; ' for it is the greatest honour that Axexandeb II . has received , that his coronation has specially attracted ' our own correspondent . ' The same brilliant jjjen -which described the mode of battering down the Czar's Walls at Sebastopol , now paints for us the gilding and the glitter which the same Czar has managed to get up for his own coronation at Moscow . Everybody knows Moscow town—its semi-oriental architecture and its irregular plan ; but everybody does not know all the costumes of all the tribes over "whom the Czar presides . We might conceive a very fair idea of the whole pageantry if we can recal any of the grand pieces at Astley ' s 1 —The Fair Princess of the White Hone , with the procession of all her subject tribes . They used not in simple days to be particular about chronology at Astley ' s ; anything passed , if it brought out nil the helmets , all the gold , all the robes , all the bows and arrows , and the guns , and the swords , and the cocked-hats , the feathers , the spangles , and the dancing-girls , the priests' gowns , the monks' hoods , and though last not least , all tlie horses . Exactly of the same kind was the display at the coronation 5 the grand difference being tlie enormity of the cost , which lias certainly been understated at one million ; for even if the Czab spend no more , all the courts who sent their ambassadors , all the tribes who sent thoir chiefs , all the visitors who have flocked to witness , mpst have spent immense sums besides . And what

      for ? Alexander II . said his prayers , as he is presumed always to say them ; put a gewgaw upon his head ; touched the Empress ' s head with it , and then caused a smaller gewgaw to be put upon hers ; kissed his family all round , arid it was over . : " . . ¦ ' ¦ ' ' . The coronation was adorned with the custo ' maTy act of grace , only this time the act is of rather a comprehensive kind . The Emperor remits arrears of taxes to the amount of 24 , 000 , 000 roubles ; lie wsuspend recruiting for four successive years ; he grants immunities to Jews , Poles , and various other somewhat oppressed races and classes ; and he undertakes to invoke the blessings of Heaven on all his subjects—a promise which , considering his eminently exalted position , will no doubt be accepted by multitudes of Russians as the highest favour of all . And it was for this we sent Lord Ghanvillb with an expensive retinue to Russia ! Louis Napoleon knows the way to the hearts of the Spaniards . We send ambassadors to lecture them , our papers write about the barbarism of the bull-fight ; Louis Napoleon marries the daughter of a Spaaish grandee , and sits to witness a bull-fight , enjoying the sport . Montpensier could not have done it better . Spain alread y begins to regard itself as in some degree the protege of France , and parties look up to the arbitration of that man who never lets people into the secret of his purpose until it is felt . Inscrutable are the ways of Napoleon . The fact has come out , however—has been broadly stated in . the columns of our ministerial Qlobe—that the Emphroii has not approved of tlie conduct of his Ministers , but particularly of his Foreign Minister . This is the second time of a difference . It will bo remembered that wo intimated when the dispute occurred on the first occasion . It seems that while the Emfekob -was at Biai'ritz , things were done of which he afterwards disapproved . Nor i 3 this remarkable . The French Government prohibited the collection , of the subscription set on foot by Signor Manin for the artillery of Alessandria—of that fortification which Piedmont has been forming to counteract the aggressive fortifications of Austria . Napoleon has disapproved of the prohibition , and has caused it to Le taken off " . Is ho then anti-Austrian I Tlie simple question proves how completely he has made himself a riddle to the world . What lie is to Franco is proved by the constant efforts of

      the police to count the men who would be bis assassins . The position of Naples is . strange and not altogether clear . We will first state the facts . It is well known that the Western Powers addressed to Naples such a remonstrance as might be filtered through the fine tissue of Count Walewshi ' s diplomacy . It was of course a remonstrance not likely to strike with the effect of a thunderbolt . King Fekdinand is in a position which perhaps no monarch of Europe can parallel : he has imprisoned , alienated , or frightened away the respectable men -who are usually chosen for -the advisers of a king ; he has around him the refuse of such classes as furnish statesmen ; they are persons who take their tone from , the dictate of a man who is notoriously an idiot . We are therefore more correct than in any other case wlen we speak of the King and the Government as the same thing . The King replied , in a note "which the Times has described as " pert and insolent . " The note has been more minutely described in a German paper , and the adjective ^ of the Times are within the mark . After he had sent that note , he showed it to some of his German advisers at Naples ; they were alarmed at the outrage upon royal decorum , and they advised him to send an apology . He did so , praying that if there were any offensive expressions in his note , they might be considered to be withdrawn . The Western P owers consulted , and they agreed upon a note in which they told the King that theypaid . no attention to his improper language , but that they did not find in his apology any assurance for that better government which they advised him to adopt . These are the facts . It appears to be considered that the King will bo alarmed at his position , and will give way . Ho would do so , probably , if the advice of Baron Hubnek , the Austrian Plenipotentiary , should prevail ; bo cause Austria will see that if he perseveres , it is likely enough to lead to a revolt in Naples—a revolt in Naples would spread to Calabria , Sicily , ltomagna , perhaps Tuscany , ccrtuinly Modena , Parma , Lomhardy , and Venice . Austria cannot wish that . We think that the King will persevere , and tve think so on one ground : he has not enough intellect to understand the x-easonsjaj li ^ rho should not . The . jargon about 'tJio '' iiQ > e ^ pendent rights of kings' he will accepT ^ lit ^/ J ^; : and he will go on . If he Bhould do s < £ ? t jj $ } jn $ S * mated by journals which speak as if oAuiWr ^ ¦—the % 'bnes and the Globe—th ^ t tlrt ^ W ^ t ^ t ^ - ' £ 3 ^ ' ^; - ;;";'; ** "' iv ' ' ' ' ¦¦¦¦ ,. i ~ y

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/1/