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    Dcuicu / MTHEWEEk- LITERATURE— Vocal Association . ¦ 278 INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSREVIEW OFTHE WEEK ^ Literary Chronicle of the Week 260 Improved Electrical Cable . 278 Lord Stanley on India * Finance 279 Tm ™ -ial Parliament .... 260 Memoiriof the Court of GeorgelV . 266 _ ' .. — „„ Arrival of the Bombay Mail .... 270 GXerlng ^ froZLaV ^ d Police The Arinies of tHe Great PoVers 268 Postscript 273 Notion India 279 Courts -. 262 Oceola . . ... .. 269 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- COMMERCIALCriminal Record .. 262 Kussia ^ oj ^ -i . ^ j . o vnrritm T » olicv 273 Shares and Stocks ..... ^ .. 285 ¦ 2 Sftav ^ -K ^ i « ffi ; :::: a- . i ^ p ^ bVschmer' :::::::: !? SS ! S " ffi :::::::: 3 ^ #£ Z 3 ^» im * :: S W ^ SSS ? gfeS « oi * " ^ o ^ J ^ ares ... 277 " ^ £ ^ eSiru ^ es ' ^ ^^^^ T ^ e ^ PrO : ^ Continental Notes 263 Crystal Palace Art Union 278 cl £ mETof ^ Public ' Servants ' . ' . ' . ' . ... I 275 d «« e Markets 2 S 1 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE- THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- Schleswig-Holstein 275 Money Mautt ^ ... ..... ^ France 2 & 3 Musical Societv of London ...... 278 Epilogrue to the BiogTaphy of _ MisceUaneous . 204 Germany ............ ........ 270 Palace of the People ............ 27 S German Princes 275 Jusceuaneous zo *

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    ' ¦ .. . ? —T _ ¦¦ •¦; ¦ Shadows of coining events are falling duskily athwart , the Ministerial benches . Lord . Palnierston —likened by the Economist to the stormy petrel , a bird whose wild cry presages the coming storm- ^ - is getting ready to make his long-deferred onslaught , and other hard-hitters are preparing for a set-to on the N " avy Estimates , on the Ionian imbroglio , on the question of Reform , or , in fact , upon any subject that will afford a pretext for attacking the holders . of much-coveted " Office . " There have already been several little sparringbouts , in which the men showed what a trifle it would take to warm them for the more serious impending struggle . Sir John PakLngton is irritated , and on Wednesday evening threatened that if Lord PaUnerstoii with his " State of Europe " questions , should prevent him from making his statement on . the USTavy Estimates by . eight o ' clock ¦

    on . briclay evening , the JLteiorm JLsill , which stands for Monday evening next , will have to be postponed . The House appeared to enjoy this little interlude , and cheered and laughed when Lord Palmerston said , in his frankest and most ingenuous manuer , that " of coui'se he couldn ' t answer for other people , but that , as far as he . could judge , his own proceedings would not interfere with the arrangements of the Right Hon . Baronet . " To drive Ministers into putting off the production of their Reform measiwe , and so to involve them in discredit with the country , which such a proceeding on their part would be certain to entail , would be a glorious hit for the Cambridge House circle ; . but Lord Palmerston , course , is too frank , too " English , " to think of playing such a game , even though the Premiership were staked upon it ! But while the storm-clouds are gathering over . Downing-strcet , Ministers are not loft wholly without hope of bearing up against the storm whenever it bursts . The unanimity with which the House voted Lord Stanley his 7 , O 00 , 00 OJ . loan for India Avas a real homage , to tho respectability of one very important member of the Cabinet ; ATI /] v \ n rfivtnll stt «« -ir 4 i 4 * l ^ fin l ^^ im ^ # "¦• . m *^ 4 ** - * 14 * f \^^ t \ *»

    * 4 * 1111 IIU DIIIIHl U 1 UULIV UilO UCUU p lYtll IAJ 111 UU 111 ; - count of tlie Solicitor-General ' s bill for thc settlement of titles to land . It must further bo admitted that they have shown a degree of moral co \ irago , as commendable as it wns unexpected , in their voluntary-recognition of tho claims of a nonprofossional improver of war materiel . They » avo knighted Mr . Armstrong , the inventor , or perfector , of rifled-cannon , presented him at Court , and , in defiance , . of tho prejudices of United Service Clubs and of fogeys in ofllec , have made him Chief Engineer to the . War Department for Rifled Ordnance . Tho act is a remarkable concession to the representations of tho Administrative Reform party , which -were disregarded equally by tho wtooratio Whig Government , and by that of Lord Aberdeen 5 and , whether Lord Derby ' s policy lias oeen simply to advance a great engineer , or to conciliate the manufacturing interest , it is not tho * a * entarkable and statesmanlike . . Uiq week has been a busy ono , and largo interests have been dealt with by both Houses . If signs may be trusted , tho settlement of tho Church ; Wfttos question ( which Sir Roborfc Pool , a quarter w a century ago , said no Ministry could avoid ,

    I but which still stands for settlement ) will be dealt with ,, if not finally , at least in such a way as to satisfy both parties for a time . The Government proposals , brought forward on Monday evening , are intended for a liberal compromise ,, and hold in view the assumption that " religion "—id est , the " Church "—must not be left without the support of law . The main features of Mr . Walpole ' s measure are , that landowners may charge their estates with the average amount of the rates ; that the rate may be done away altogether by an Order in Council ; that the tenant shall be allowed to deduct the rate . from his rent , when he is riotof the same religion as his landlord ; and that dissenters shall be pennitted- ^ - " not as a matter of right , but as a favour "—to claim ¦• exemption , upon signing a declaration of conscientious objection . Discussion has been postponed upon this measure until the second reading of Sir John Trelawny ' s further-going bill on Monday next ; but the subject is .-clearly ripe for settlement on a liberal , not ¦ *^ t ^ m — * -M M m ^ f ^ ^» I ft ^ ^ m ¦ ^ i ' "

    it can be ascertained or guessed at by passing ; signs , is strongly against war . For the first time in its history , France is tasting the blessings of peace , marred and perverted as the fortunes of the country are by the instability of its political institutions . The voice of the French people will not be loud enough to drown the warcommand which may now , at almost any hour , issue from the Tuileries . It may cost Napoleon his throne , but he may will to give the word that would convulse Europe . There is little doubt that he is pledged to the King of Sardinia , and a letter , purporting to be written by that Sovereign , is printed in the German and Italian papers , upbraiding his Imperial ally for the lukewarmness he has latterly appeared to display . The King ( supposing always that the letter in question is genuine ) even goes so . far . as to . tlireaten to abdicate , if his new relation does not afford him a more earnest support in liis defiance of Austria . On the side of Austria there is evidently no KnriArlSnna in + ll £ » . YYvh . ii-1 favnaTI i ? A Clf : nPSlftP- Sllft IS

    ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ *^ . Another question also affecting conscience has to be finally disposed of ; and Mr . J . Fitzgerald , on Thursday evening , made a move towards reopening it for renewed discussion . He moved that the House should go into Committee on the oath required to be taken , instead of the oaths of allegiance , supremac y * and abjuration ; his object being to relieve Roman Catholics from the degradation to which they are now subjected in being compelled to take a special form of oath . Lord John Russell went to the very heart of the matter when he said that it is unwise to keep up an oath in a form which is offensive to any party . He suggested that the House should consider " whether it is not fi t , from time to time , to review the oaths which are taken , to see if any pai * ts of those oaths are unnecessary , if any . parts are insulting , if there are any parts of them which might be removed without removing any security whatsoever . " This , we take it , is the true principle upon which this and all questions of conscientious scruple should be dealt with . A majority of one hundred and twenty-two , against one hundred and thirteen , decided to give Mr . UStwnvo'nlii tlin innnirv l-io Una VOW nrmwrlv askml

    rapidly perfectuig her defences in Lombai'dy and distributing her forces . The note , reported to have been sent by Count Buol to the minor German powers , appears to have been actually sent with the object of ascertaining the policy which those States would adopt towards her in the CA ent of hostilities ; and it appears that in not addressin" - itself to Prussia , as the head of the Germanic confederation , the Austrian Government was acting in accordance with its knowledge of the real feelings of the Prussian Government towards Austria . England , it appears , is not alone in her efforts to make peace . Letters from Berlin speak of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha busying himself as a general pacificator . He is reported to have gone to Vienna with some scheme for the " godly thorough reformation" the Papal States by means of a great European Congress ; but the report altogether needs confirmation . But , meanti me * the work of the Paris Conference which is to assemble shortly , is increasing at a great rate . The " state of the East " appearsto be as bad , or worse , than it was three or four years ago , when the " sick man , " in whom all t . hf > p . vil ftfiiitros . was said to be at death's door .

    \ •*>¦ * U # * q " W * « b * Vli fe « - * % / * AA VI V « . »» f » V **» fc * trf » W » I JL JL J wrwm — w - » for . Tho aspect of affairs abroad has certainly nob changed for the bettor during the week . The sudden visit of Lord Cowley to London , and his equally sudden departure '' upon a mission to Vienna , have by no moans helped to produce a more hopeful anticipation o tho uture course events . Nothing is positively known as to tho nature of Lord Cowloy ' s mission 5 but tho general belief ia that its object is to induce the Austrian Government to modify its Italian policy to such an extent as will deprive the Emppror of Franco of any oxcumq for maintaining tho warlike attitude which he at present holds . This is , most likely , very near to tfho truth , and tho successful issue such good offi ces would probably not bo unwelcome to the Emperor Napoleon , who can have no great wish to fight for fighting ' s sake . But thore is little to bo hoped for from diplomaoy in dealing with Austria , w |» oh has , so long doggodl y , and in tho face of a thousand reasons , rorusea to modify in tho smallest degree her tyrannous Italian polioy . In Fro-noG the reeling of the people , as far as

    The course taken by tho Principalities in direct contradiction to tho arrangements arrived at by tho Western Powers at the former Conferences at Paris , points a moral , over and over again practically suggested by the course of events in tho East , that it is impossible to bring Turkey-, in ^ its present barbarous condition , into tho circle of the Great European Powers . The condition of tho Government at Constantinople is hopeless ; and it is an insult to civilisation that such u / state ot things should exist as tow . arrantour ambassador ju remonstrating with-tho Sultan on tho extra vngimoo and financial disorder of his Government , llio poaco of Europe ought not to bo Jufl at tlie mcroy of such a Government ; tho " sick maii , V i , i u lopov whom it would bo morciful ns well as ) unt to remove . At tho present ; moment there ih as mucli , if not moro dang er to tho peace of tho world on account of the state of afliurs in Mnklo-Wnllnehiiitho Sultan ' s ill-govorned bordor-landfl-r-tluui tlioro is on account of tho state of Italy . I'Yanuc , wlio wan won from tho position which pho had taken up at tho last Conference in favour of tho union of tlio Principalities , is suit ) to bo dctorininud now U >

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26021859/page/3/