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      The Leadeb.

      THE LEADEB .

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      - " — ¦¦ ¦ . . „ . ' _• INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSREVIEW OF THE WEEK- LITERATURE- FINE ARTS- Indiaih aWar .................. 569 Chronicle of the Week ........ ;; 555 Exhibition of the Society of Bn- The Pedagogue System in India .. 569 home nmsiMOEKCE . page Chadwick ' s Life of Defoe ... ; 555 tish Artists ... 563 East Indian liailways , 570 «& S KS ^ |^ di ^ oi ^^ y :::::::: THEATRES AND ENTERTA , NMENTS ^ CO ^ ERC ¦ ^ Naval and Military 551 AFFAIRS- ^ Mot & iyhy ^ foreign INTELLIGENCE . Warinltaly .. - - 561 Haymarket .. ; . ; .... 565 stocks and Shares 573 n «« n ^ t lNotes 551 Borough Elections 561 strand .. » .. ¦ .,......... ..... 565 Railway Intelligence 573 SS— ::::: ::::::: & ¦ . g ^« to :-::::::::::::::: « BoardofTradel { e ^ - ..... 565 ^ SSSSSSTSSf ^ , ^^^ O ^^ ^ OM ^ f ^^ ^ X-- ^ orres ^ ndence ::: ; . ::: ; . 563 gg ^ gaggggfa ;; : ;;;;; : ; gg ^ Markets ......,. ¦¦¦? ...,.. 57 *

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      T He Events Of The Week Have Been Such A...

      T HE events of the week have been such as might well keep Europe in a state of moral ferment . The feverish alternation of hope and fear , as to the result of the Austrian demands upon Piedmont , was rudely ended b y the news of Thursday morning . We were then informed that the Austrian threat of proceeding to extremities , in case of Victor Emmanuel ' s refusal to disarm his soldiers , and disband his volunteers , had been acted upon , that , on the night of Tuesday , 120 , 000 white coats had crossed the Ticino , and were on their road to Turin . The latter part of the intelligence was subsequently found to be incorrect , but , in the main , the facts had been correctly stated . Telegram has followed telegram with almost bewildering haste , but , checked by the slower and surer postal communications , we are enabled to form a tolerably clear notion of the course of late events . Three hours before the expiration of the three days' grace allowed by Austria , Victor Emmanuel issued a proclamation , in "which he declared the Austrian demand to be an outrage upon himself and nation , and that he had repelled it with disdain . In doing so , he appealed to the valour and patriotism of his people , tried in the battle-field , under the eyes of his " illustrious father ; " and on the banks of the Tchernaya , in company with the allies who were at that moment hurrying forward to protect them . lie called upon them to adopt . for their war-cry , " independence of Italy . " An act of the Piedmontese Parliament had previously invested him with absolute power , and the national enthusiasm was boundless . The ' news of Thursday morning told us that the French were not only landing at Genoa , but that , by way of Mont Cenis , they had reached Turin . The Emperor Napoleon , as might have been expected , has ridden over the difficulty of . having to cross the track of neutral ground that lay between him and his threatened friends in Piedmont , and it must be noted that the Swiss population , so far from showing any alarm or anger at the invasion of their territory , cheered lustily the passage of the JJVenoJi troops , regiment after regiment . The good Swiss are inolined to believe that their French neighbours are going to fight simply for the emancipation of Italy from the Austrian yoke ; and Italy itself is growing truatM . Tuscany , acting under the impulse given by ^ Ue leader of its littfe army of 15 , 000 men , has formally linked its fortunes with those of Piedmont ; the Grand Duke Leopold preferring to bo escorted by

      a guard of honour to Bologna , rather than to abdicate , or to conclude an alliance with Sardinia . Further , we , learn that the populations of Massa and Carrara have revolted , and established a provisional government ; and in Palermo there have been disturbances , followed by hundreds of arrests . These are the more immediate sighs of the revolur tionary fire which is presently to blaze forth , and to repress which , says the Austrian Correspondence , " Austria must draw the . sword . " Meanwhile , we have to do with the preparations for the coming struggle . The part of France is now clearly denned . Whatever her ulterior objects may be , she is now evidently determined to take the field in earnest against the pretensions of Austria in Italy . A new loan of 500 , 000 , 000 francs , or . £ 20 , 000 , 000 sterling , bears witness to the reality of the French interference ; and we have a further evidence in the unanimity with which the Legislative Assembly voted the increased contingent of 140 , 000 men . In the speech delivered to the Assembly by Count Walewski , by direction of the Emperor , an expose ] of the course of the negotiation s * previous to the presentation of the Austrian ultimatum , appears to show that outwardly , at least , the French Grovernment has acted with moderation . Appealed to by Sardinia for protection against an "invading army , France has poured her troops into Piedmont , and even the British and Prussian Governments admit that , under the circumstances , the French Emperor has done nothing more than he has the right to do At the eleventh hour the light of a last ray of hope pierces the gathering war-clouds . England has made one more appeal to Austria , and , if we may trust to rumour , in the absence of direct intelligence , Austria has , at least , refrained from pushing on her army to the attaok of Turin , France , it is said , has not refused to entertain this last friendly office of diplomacy . But too much must not be expected of any attempt at renewing negociations ; the Prussian Minister , addressing the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday , frankly stated his belief that the hope of any successful result of the present attempt was extremely small . Still , hostilities are for the moment delayed , and in delay there is hope . Tne most important political consequences at present apparent , as arising out of the state ot affairs in Italy , are , the alliance of Franco with Russia , which was first announced in the postcript of the Spectator , on Saturday last ; and the alliance , offensive and defensive , between France and Denmark . These alliances put an end to the old arrangements under which the " balance of power" in Europe was settled ; and they will furnish the ground of no end of diplomatic doubts , jealousies , and suspicions . Russia lias" a quarrel to settle with Austria , beside other ends to servo in forming this league with Franco , and she is giving signs of her intention to make her co-operation immediately effective . She is to move four corjps d armoo on the frontiers of Austria and Prussia , and already wo learn that she has sent 60 , 000 men across the Dneipor , thereby threatening the Galioian frontier of the former power . The treaty with

      Denmark suggests : the wide-spreading dangers of a war such as Europe is , now threatened with . Without some such alliance , what , indeed , has Denmark to hope at the hands of the Germanic Confederation , in the event of the war becoming general . For the moment , thene appears to be ground for hope that England may be enabled to maintain a neutral posit ion . The demand for this neutrality is becoming daily more positive throughout the country . The influence of the present condition of affairs upon our funds and best securities , is of itself enough to enlist the feelings and interest of the majority of thinking men on the side of peace . Upon the Stock Exchange there has beenv throughout the week , something very like , if not absolute panic , and the timid and reckless speculators have gone to the wall , as must happen in such times of trial . These " failures" really need not alarm the country , and the resolution of the Bank Directors to raise their rate of discount from 2 £ to 3 £ per cent ., if rightly appreciated , will give confidence , to the prosecution of all legitimate business operations , preventing as it will any undue and dangerous demand for money , an occurrence so likely to take place at moments like the present . In the midst of these serious divisions there would be great danger of the business of the general election being neglected by the constituencies , jf the feeling of the country were riot , fortunately , tolerably decided as to the importance of the proceeding . The results of the elections , as far as they are known , are such as the Liberal side were prepared for ; out of twenty-six persons elected up to the middle of yesterday , twenty-three were Liberals . In fact , as far as we are aware , there is no chance of any important seat being wrested from the Liberals , while there will be several in > portant accessions to their side of the House , Richard Cobden , as the representative of Rochdale , being the most important . The movement in favour of Lord Stanley , first in the City of London and then the borough of Marylebone , we look upon as a gross liberty token with a man whom the country greatly would regret to see unreturned ( supposing such an event to bo possible ) , but who has no claims upon the political sympathies of such . constituencies as his over-officious friends have clumsily attempted to throw upon hint . It must not be forgotten that Lord Stanley , in both cases , entirely repudiated the acts oi these too zealous friends . The only news of interest brought by the Calcutta and China mail is that the river Pearl , in Southern China , had been explored by a party of the British to tho distance of 195 miles . The expedition was everywhere well received : but found that , under the attacks of the " rebels , " almost the whole of the native trade hnd ceased . But tho Emperor Ms lately published a proclamation , in which ho expresses lwnself strongly in favour of carrying out his Into treaty engagements ? and it is possible , therefore , that our acquaintanoo with Southern China may nt a future tjmo be more satisfactory . The commercial community of India arc in excitement at tho now imposts levied by the Govern or-General } and the feeling is gonorul in India that Lord Canning's scheme for regenerating tho finances of the country is a great mistake as it stands .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30041859/page/3/