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    THE Ministerial plan for re-constructing the Government of India is before Parliament and the public , in an enormous speech by Sir Charles Wood , more than half of which consisted of laudatory apology and of what may be called official self-praise . The plan is neither an abandonment of the present system , nor a retention of it , but a compromise between continuation and reform . The Directors , with their present election by a small but miscellaneous body of stockholders , are retained , but reduced to twelve , and

    recruitedvvjyfb ,. .. six Government nominees . Thftir fpjpit ^^ are retained , but scholarships in the <» vil and military colleges with the scientific miutaryi ^ ppointment ; s , are open to public cpmpetitiQn . Macaulay ' s code of law is to be brought ittf $ ; prance , sotn $ ^ pfoveinebts are to be made in . th ^ v- ^ jbief' « ffices civil and judicial of India , and iustfcad of fixing the present arrangement for a given period , it is open to amendment from time to time . This last is its great recommendation ; hoVtr it will work , —whether theGovernmentnomri ^ es vjjJAjprove to be dummies , or will eat up the po f-fftJyt , directorate , remains to be seen . The eu ' i'V \ &M ;*/ . Vr - « wsaul ^ . 's code aid

    is nothing b . ut . Jjbe peii . ¦ J ^ ' ^ l . 4 debt . The other improvements are * &ifc . ^§ fc * - as they are insufficient ; but the opening or "fne path of reform is in itseif a considerable gain . The subject is too large to be dismissed witli an opinion offhand , and we , at least may be permitted ' to sleep upon its consideration ^ Next to the Indian Government , the most startling event has been the enhancement of discount in the Bank of England from three to

    three-tattl-a-half per cent . This was agreed to at the meeting on Thursday . As usual , although it hai been expected , the public suffered itself to ffeejj surprised . The obvious reason for the step is , that the commercial public , although it took n # C marked exception to Mr . Gladstone ' s scheme < $ conversion , has not frhwyn a © y general willing&mb to accept his alternative and therefore tJtfiW ^^ U be a little more than . 3 , 000 , 000 / . to bej ^ -Jf ^ ofc ' } account < rf lixphequer-bills held ^ ^ gf ^^^^ fwr It is possible , hi so , that there is aqx 0 ^^ tmH ^ f ^ i

    money , not because it is really *^^» « ftfty ^ - j trade ia at present so very ext j ^ fc ^ j | K 5 ^ K ) Ving at ao great a puce ; and , r ^ sM ^| j || e ^ y be ^ M iome commercial grnndeos in difflcnjtie ^| vh 0 ^ op * to avoid the overt disaster pf . the Mil iron speculator , Mr . Attwood , and to aotrti ^ that timely mark of confidence wnich ' wai ^ accorded to j

    a very great capitalist some years ago , whose halfhour of mortal anxiety in the Bank-parlour is a matter of familiar history . That this pressure can be very general does not seem to be probable , since the rate of discount has not obviously advanced outside the Bank . It is possible that the managers may have their eye upon contingencies in the East ; but the one manifest reason of providing for the Exchequer-bills is sufficient . As . to the East , the sensitive beings on the Stock . Exchange and in the clubs permit themselves to have a different calculation every six or

    eight hours . Russia has broken off diplomatic relation * -with the . Porte , and . Turkey refuses the conditions , without which Russia will aot be friends . In that statement we express the whole of what is really known ; beyond it , all is surmise atid inference , obscured , not cleared , Joy tb ^ paesiiled , manceuvrpat statements which are '" iiwhis ? triotttty * pr , «^ mlP ^¦ jfa l # u $ pa .. Russia p ^ fesfse&to be excessivery ' iapderiite , an 3 > according to her own account , abe Attfc xn&aaged to preserve

    considerable moderation © 4 the face of the record of tbft tffplomatic correspondence ; but it is well known that Prince Menzschikoff ' s bearing and verbal demands were the reverse of modernte ; and in refusing compliance , the Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid is supported by the unanimous voice of all his statesmen , apd by the ambassa&prs of France

    and England , with the concurrent of the other European representatives . Thief ; reports indicate warlike activity on all sides ; , Jtuasia is said to be preparing for an advance *; 'flje Porte is putting its troops and militia in readiness , the French fleet is near at hand , and it is expected that the

    English flag willy&Jp / jear in the Dardanelles . Yesterdayj , the aeoduntgave a slightly more pacific turn £ p thW Imports ; but really the indications of a ^ ht < H $ conciliatory spirit in Russia are too trjirfyl fat * otiee ; and to-day tl * e , report is of an rfa&Y 9 % ' $ * march against 'Vytkay If theqe is any 'MjtJUlaprig the probablejafrtivementaof his Imperial Ptajjesly , it must resj ^ jlrtbe belief that , to use a Ylp | Wt * ""ism , he wptfllff' " hardly be such a fool" as TO provoke ajg ^^ with all ' Europe ; yet therejjis no saying toV ^ Wiftt'lengths pride may not 'betray a many ^ O ^ Swrou ^ ridcd by the manifestations of his mlAm * . > - ¦ - , ; .. ; ¦ . :. .-. ¦ : . ¦ - ¦

    flThte ^ Winor dispxit / fe between Switzerland and AwtriA | eem « likelyAo be suspended by the renewal ^ . ^ ij ^ lbiiwatic / relations ; but Austria bos not yet rem 0 ¥# d the 'species of industrial blockade with which she harasses the frugal Swiss . The latest portents of political combinations of the Continent only serve to incrersc the confusion which courtly equivocation , diplomatic reserves ,

    and political intrigues , render so complicated . Austria , who is harassing Switzerland and worrying Sardinia , is giving a Princess to the Duke of Brabant , heir to King Leopold of Belgium , and cousin to Queen Victoria ; our Queen is giving her hospitality to the Duke of Genoa , brother to the King of Sardinia , and himself Lord Palmerston ' s quondam nominee for the throne of Sicily ; and the

    Minister of Austria who recovered Hungary by the help of Russia , appears to be siding in Constantinople with the Ministers of England and France . How much of these apparent co-operations is real , how much false , it would be idle to guess . One thing alone is rendered tolerably certain—in all these combinations the people seldom go for much . Their rights are seldom remembered , save as those of somebody ' s " subjects . "

    In England we shall scarcely forget how little the people are regarded ; or if we were . so oblivious , Laird Carlisle ' s speech on Cuba would supply us with a double taemo | randum . . Some time since , the West Indians possessed slaves , and the British Parliament—which possessed no slaves , but is to this day reluctant to repeal , or even rentier' certain , the laws that unjustly forbid the working man to combine in the face of his Combined

    employers — resolved to emancipate the 'Blacks Having deprived the West Indian planters suddenly of their labour , Parliament forbade those West Indians for some time to get labour else-I where , under whatever guarantees of freedom . Then , in the height of the Free-trade madia , Parliament violated the precept of the mosC distin * guished Free-traders , by exposing the West Indies to competition with slave-grown sugar . And now , years after the event , Lord Carlisl ^ candidly

    confesses that he Tuay have been wrong ! But the tale' of absurdities is not ended yet . England has persevered iri defending Cuba against tile United States , Cuba being a rival of Jamaica in ' the sugar trade , and qncouraging that slave trade which she is bound to aid us in suppressing . Lord Carlisle has discovered that that alliance also may be a mistake . But whore , while British statesmen and Parliament were thus acting , was the deference for the people of Jamaica ? Where the deference for-the voice of Cuba ?

    Where is the deference for tint voice of Ireland , in that English statesman , who persists in maintaining for Catholic Ireland an expensive Protestant establishment ? We know too well that Lord John Russell is right when he says , in reply to Mr . ( 3 . II . Moore ' s motion for ( inquiry , that it would not be practicable to attempt the abolition of that establishment ; but why 'I Because the representatives of the enfranchised classes in -. .. ,. «» w ^ . « ^

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    "The one Idea which History exhibits a . 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sutnboldfs Cosmos .

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    NEWS OF THE WEEK— loss of a Liverpool Ship 538 Progress of Irish Conversion 510 An Art-Student in Munich 647 pagb Oath-taking 538 Prosperity , Prices , and Wages 511 New Books o 48 The Week in Parliament 530 Miscellaneous 538 No Criminal Appeal 542 THE ARTS _ Election Exposures . . 535 Health of London during the Week 539 The Knight of Derby 512 TVnani 549 Letters from Paris . ' .... 536 Births » Marriages , and Deaths 539 "A Stranger" in Parliament 542 Real Pig " and the " imitation " . ' . ' .. 549 Continental XntP * M 7 The Liverpool Election Committee 54-5 „ . , s cjr , JafcTtestl chin ; ::::::::::::::::::::: S ? public affairs- The pu ^ Government **«!» ... 515 *»** 549 Bad News from Burmah 537 Fair-weather Strength of Russia and i itpraturf— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe National Public School Asaoeia- Austria 539 UltKAiUKt city intelligence , Markets , Advertion 537 | Debate on the Surrender of Cuba ... 540 . Books on our Table 547 tisernents , &c 550-552

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    VOL . IV . No . 167 . 1 SATURDAY , JUNE 4 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1989/page/1/