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      Review Of The Week- Page Our Civilizatio...

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Our Civilization 514 | Courts of Industrial Arbitration ... 519 THE ARTS- . Imperial Parliament 50 G Jipsom llaces 515 The" Prnvinw of Ourio" nia tut ai \ tm i ™ i *< w Stateof Burmah : 507 Statoof Trade 515 i X C ^ rovmce or Uude 51 » MadUe . Piocolomim 524 Xfcrt and Military 508 Miscellaneous 515 \ , ,-rFRATlIRr ™ l % ^? v \ £ }? ° mime tit Trial of William Palmer 50 S Postscript 516 ' LITERATURE- Madame Ristori .... 524 , Ireland 511 mini ir » irrsmc Summary 521 The Peace Rejoicings 512 public aj-haikj > - Haxthausen ' s Russian Empire 522 The Gazette 524 Character of Count Cavour 512 The Blazes 517 The Microscope 522 ^ „ „ ;„ The Escape of Felice Orsini 513 Palmer ' s Story—the Untold Part ... 517 I Modern Greek History 523 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinental Notes 513 The Tripartite Treaty 518 j Swedcnborg on Love and Marriage 523 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 525

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      VOL . VII . No . 323 . ] SATURDAY , « 1 AY 31 , 1856 . Price { $ X ^™ . j ™ jbnce .

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      ? THE dark v ( Kl of the London sky was rent by the glories that threaded the streets and burst from the parks on Thursday night , while Palmer , the elect representative of our criminal class , was gnawing the chain of convicted crime in prison . The people nocked to view the splendours in celebration of the peace , while the

      Emperor of the Fbench is planning that vast scheme of " international mediation , " which is to hand over to the bureaux of Paris , London , St . Petersburg , and Vienna , the management of the world . London was called forth to witness Queen Victoria ' s feu de joie for peace , while Queen Victoria ' s Ministers are brewing a quarrel with America which may embroil us in a war more deadly and'destructive than the diplomatic conflict with Russia . The scene was characteristic . We

      had the contented enjoyment with which the people took the amusement provided for them , heedless of the national objects missed during the late contest , and of the national calamities impending through the turn that events have taken at Paris . But the scene was enough to command attention . Memory itself can scarcely recal the most

      steadfast purpose , when the eyes are dazzled with a splendid gaiety and the air is filled with the sounds of a multitudinous pleasure . For such was the fact . There was scarcely a sign to tarnish the satisfaction of the people at the amusements afforded to them ; and the amusement itself was really of a grand and beautiful character . The Government had done its best to make the

      display brilliant , as one of the means for reconciling the people to an imperfect peace . By a concession to the spirit of the times , the exact counterpart of thd displays in the Green Park before Buckingham Palace , in Hyde Park before the fashionable world , was given in Victoria Park for the Bctlmal Green side of human nature ; and Primrose Hill Was made the fountain-head for those aerial

      displays which wero visible from the entire metropolis . The spontaneous loyalty , the advertizing instinct , the changeful passion of egotism embodied in clubs , trader . * , noblemen , patriots , tavern keepers , gaining - house keepers , and others , converted all the thoroughfures to streams of light ; and at rapid intervals , for two hours in the dark , the aky was flooded with flashing fires ,

      with sudden bursts of golden wheat , constellations of innumerable stars , volcanoes ^ of countless rockets , while in the intervals some star hung for a few moments like a new planet and slowly descended . Such a display could not be constructed by any one man , or even by a few combined ; it requires a state and a community to illustrate by this magnificence what may be done by the principle of co-operation .

      While gas and gunpowder were set on fire to illustrate the magnificence of the peace recently concluded—a peace which has omitted Sardinia from its benefits—the shadow in the West grows darker . We have many new evidences to confirm our continued representations under this head . We point to the conversation in the House of Lords on Tuesday last , when Lord Elgin asked an explanation touching the sending of troops to Canada , which hfid been construed as the commencement

      of preparations for defending the British colonies against the United States . He vouched for the friendly feelings of the Americans , if they were met in a proper spirit , at the same time that he asserted the capacity of the colonists to defend themselves if they should be attacked . Now Lord Elgin speaks on both subjects with high authority . He has been Governor-General of Canada , and he has witnessed what wo may consider the least favourable aspect of the Colonial character ; be found the colonists rally round the union with

      England as soon as they were treated Avith common justice . He knows their bravery , for he has seen it . He has seen their means increasing under an improved rule . Lord Elgin is n British Peer , son-in-law of the Earl of Dubiiam ; and he is , therefore , a witness uniting remarkable characters . Ho has been in the United States ; ho negotiated that treaty which , in fact , established free-trade between the Union and the British Colonies ; he then saw for himself the manner in which Americans are prepared to meet

      Englishmen who address them frankly . He is perfectly acquainted with the requirements of his order ; he is trained to judge political affairs from an English and even from a Conservative point of view ; and this is the witness who vouches for the loyal truth of the Americans and their frank friendship towards our country . Wo need not say that wo could endorse Lord Elgin ' s representation ; but we do say that ho is a witness who ought to be trusted by the English p ' coplo . It is rather romarkablc that the nobleman so popular in Canada , and so popular in the United States , should have

      been excluded from the Queen ' s councils . The only offer of place that was made to him was , ifideed , remarkable . It was made by Mr , Labott cheee , the Colonial Minister , who must know what were Lord Elgin ' s services in America ; and he must , we know by the offer of the appointment , consider Lord Elgin to merit the thanks of the country . But to what post did Mr . Labouchere feel himself free to appoint Lord Elgin at this day , when the questions which press upon the country are our relations with Italy and Austria and our relations with North America ? It was

      the Governoi'ship of Victoria , on the other side ol the world ; as if the desire were to get rid of Lord Elgin ! Again , let us observe , that Lord EtoiN , thus positioned , feels it necessary to demand explanations from Government on the subject of out colonies and of our relations with the United States . We have Lord Clarendon ' s reply , that the troops sent to Canada are only to replace those withdrawn for the war in the East . This is true ; but the sending of troops has not been the only evidence of some remarkable mistrust . Lord Clarendon declarer that every means of

      satisfaction has been exhausted , every reparation offered which gentleman could offer to gentleman , for any grievance real or imaginary that baa been offered by our Government to that of America ; while he complains that American statesmen use Lostilc language . We are not prepared to vindicate the language of American statosmon , still less that pf our own statesmen . Thoy speak in -words of studied courtesy j but how can Lord Clarendon assert that all the means of reconciliation have been exhausted , when the eimp le admission of tho acts of Mr . Crampton would carry with it all that the United States have required in the most irritative of the questions between tho two countries ? By tho latest American news we have a sharp debate in the Senate on a statement ascribed to Mr . Crami * ton , that Mr . Clayton had admitted the right of England to the possession of Ruatan . It i » perfectly incredible that Mr . Clayton could have made any such statement , and wo hove no hesitation in saying that wo should presume the assertion ascribed to Mr . C ' kamiton to bo untrue .

      But we doubt whether there has not been some mistake . The single word " not , " omitted from a reprint , would auflicc to explain the whole mystery . If there is not that explanation , we can only aajrr " . ¦ ¦ ' « ¦ " •"" ¦ * % that Mr . Cbami'ton ' s heedlcsanesB , which inadp- , ' ¦ . •/>> . . V- *! s ^ ftSI

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31051856/page/1/