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      IF Parliament were only judged by last week , it would be accounted a very idle school indeed ; but if the immense duration of the session , which bean in November last—if the amount of vyork O .... ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦ ' done—if the solid character of that work , and , more especially , if the general practical tendency of the whole session be taken into view , this Parliament , elected under the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet , will be accounted one of the best that has recorded its achievements in the recent annals of the country .

      There is scarcely a department that has not received important additions to its reforms ; and it is to be observed of the reforms effected under the present regime , that they bear no character of finality , but on the contrary , that they are all of them of a nature to be followed by still larger improvements . After the fallacious Ministry of Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , which was to stand or full by the project of that novelist-statesman for reconciling" conflicting interests by a new

      species of " unrestricted competition , " and so to retaliate upon the towns the injury sustained from free-trade by the country , we had a Budget which lias made a marked progress in the improvement of our system of taxation , and has not by any weans closed the door against continuance of these improvements . The abolition of the soap duty , the gradual but rapid reduction of the tea duty , the extension of the succession duty to real property , the adjustment of the income tax with a

      view to its final extinction , the sweeping from the tariff of many petty duties which still encumbered it—are reforms which will facilitate those to follow , as they themselves were facilitated by the measures of Sir llobert Peel . The improvement ° f the Customs is a commencement in departmental reform likely to be followed by others ; for the whole subject , we are well aware , has been under consideration . We have great improvements for manning the navy ; and the militia

      enrolment has been followed up by a measure for Enrolling volunteers to defend our coasts at sea . Ijavv reform has been well followed up j and one of the hist statements by the Lord Chancellor , is ° report the progress made by the newly-appointed commissioners towards arranging a congelation of the statutes—a progress which really Promises to compress " tho statutes at large " mto a compass portable and intelligible for the Public as well as the profession . The India Bill , w from , effecting nil that we believe to have been

      possible , nevertheless introduces an immense improvement into the central administration , infuses a knowledge of India into the Board of Directors , renders that Board more responsible , introduces a certain legislative capacity into India itself , and in short begins what must prove a much larger series of reforms . Of the colonies , to many of whom have been given long-promised constitutions

      ---the Cape , New South Wales , New Zealand- — with the cession of Clergy Reserve lands to Canada , it may be said , in the words which they write at the Cape , that " Government has been reconciled to the people . " Transportation abolished , arrangements have been made for establishing a new system of penal industry likely to be far more effectual as a corrective .

      For next session , Ministers stand pledged to Parliamentary Reform , Ecclesiastical Courts" Reform , Education , Local Representation in connection with local rates , including something of a municipality for London ; and Sanitary Reformof which indeed considerable instalments have already been realized in the already decreed abolition of metropolitan smoke , and in the closing of metropolitan grave-yards . Private

      Members also carry over to next session important reforms , such as Mr . Adderley ' s Bill to amend the correction of juvenile offenders , and several bills to improve church property , management , &c . ; besides the half official bills on the still vexed questions of land in Ireland . This rapid survey justifies what we have already said—that Ministers have done great work , and have excellently smoothed the way for doing work as profitable next session .

      One of the last acts of the session has been their explanation of the state of the Turkish affair —an explanation which we cannot characterize otherwise than as a mystification . Lord John , indeed , does not add anything whatever to our information on the subject . He only gives an official authentication to the facts as we understood them before , and proves , as Lord Clarendon did last Friday , that Russia was false in her pretensions to move only for certain rights in the Holy Places , when Prince MenacUikoff ' s imperious summons came upon the Porte and the Governments of France and England in the shape of totally new demands .

      Lord John admits , what we have already said , that even supposing the Mcnschikofl * affair be closed in the manner proposed by the Four Powers , there will still remain the evacuation of the Principalities ; and there is a striking change in the tone of Ministers , na Lord John Russell speaks for

      them , in comparison with the tone used by Lord Clarendon . Lord Clarendon has said , that the " immediate and complete evacuation of the Principalities would be & sine qua non in any agreement with Russian" whereas Lord John Russell implies , that Ministers will regard as a settlement something respecting . the . evacuation , though it be neither " immediate" nor " complete . " His words are : " No settlement can be satisfactory which does not include , or immediately lead to , the evacuation of those Principalities . " Thus the public is to understand that Lord John Russell , for one , would consent to a

      settlement not involving the " immediate and complete" evacuation of the Principalities , but only leading , to that evacuation . The signs from Turkey itself are not favourable to the supposition that Russia intends immediate evacuation ; but her preparations indicate the determination to make a protracted visit . This week the instructions from Count Nesselrode to the Consul-General at Bucharest have been published in the London papers , and in that correspondence the official is thus instructed : —

      " There is , however , another question upon which wo must express our opinion beforehand to the Princes , that they may act accordingly . We allude to thoir rotation ' s with Constantinople and . tho Ottoman Government . Those relations must necessarily cease on tho day upon which our troops take military occupation of tho land , and when every action , every influence o ( the ruling powers , must bo suspended . Another consequence of thia state of things must bo tho stoppago of the tribute which tho provinces are bound to pay to the Porte . Tho amount , which must bo collected as usual , must bo handed over to tho Imperial Government to make such use of as it mny think advisable . "

      The Emperor has ordered his thanks to all the officers of his army in the Principalities , for the rapidity with which the occupation wns effected , and a small gratuity is given to every soldier . This is one of innumerable traits , showing how anxiously the Emperor ferments the anti-Turkish spirit in his subjects . Austria has made an offer to occupy Servia ; an offer which must be understood at present in

      a friendly sense , although it is evident that an Austrian occupation of Servia might be converted to the account of any of the Powers engaged , according to the turn of events . General Prim has been authorized by the Queen of Spain to take a commission in the Turkish nrmy , and he has been sent to Sclmmla . The Sultan lias issued a manifesto to his own people , explaining how matters stand , tind assuring them of a vigorous

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      YOL . IV . No . 178 . T SATUEDAT , AUGUST 20 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      mFWS OF THE WEEK— * agb Husband and Wife . . 800 [ Responsibility for " Accidents" — Tha Week in Parliament 794 , Death at the Crystal Palace 801 A -Barrister ' s Dutyto his Client ... 807 An Autolycus in Literature 812 Mother ^ LarStrConvoeatio ; . 797 The Working Classes ...................:. 801 Convocation Agaui .. 808 The Development Hypothesis of the Anotnerina . il Great Fire at Dover .. 801 How Peace is Secured 808 " Vestiees ' . .. 812 ^ rlh ^ un "' ¦ " ¦¦¦¦""" w Curiosities of Justice ..................... 802 Public Killing in Scotland 809 s " / J ? tS 9 P "" " 7 ^ 7 Criminal Record 802 The « Accident" at the Crystal ~ tetters from Pana ........ ...., 797 journal of Railway Accidents ......... 803 Palace 809 Health of London during the Week ... 814 usSa '""""" 799 Miscellaneous :..... " ; . ; ....... .... 802 A Word for the Doctors ... 810 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 814 . Indian Wars ' andIndian ' "Justice " ' ' 799 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Suicide in the Army 811 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSHistory of the Winds and Waves ... 799 The Camp and the Fleet .... 804 OPEN COUNCIL— » j The Lost Arab Ship ....:.... „ ......,... 800 Workers Work Best when Fed ...... 806 Smyth , v . Smyth and others 811 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver- _ A Yacht Race . 800 Lessons in Christian Humility ...... 806 A Couple of Rectifications ,. 811 tisements , &c . .. ¦¦¦ ... 814-810

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

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 20, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2000/page/1/