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    • A POLITICAL AND LITERAEY EEYIEW.
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      A Political And Literaey Eeyiew.

      A POLITICAL AND LITERAEY EEYIEW .

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      VOL . VII . No . 314 . ] SATURDAY , MARCH 29 , 1856 . Price 1 S | ^^ : : ?

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      Figaro expiates its name , if not its wit , by suppression , in the name of good morals . Nevertheless , some good journals contend for a revision of that electoral law , which simply " serves the right of voting against the Government candidate . A case under this law is actually before the Court of Cassation , and affords a comment on the authenticity of the eight million votes .

      by one of her proteges to exhibit her unehastised arbitrary policy in Italy . We have no doubt that , if she could have deferred that demonstration , she would have done so . » But there was no help for it . Parma has been placed under martial law and handed over to the keeping of an Austrian General , because one man—a Lieutenant Bosdi—has been assassinated in the streets . The very statement looks like a contradiction in terms . Of course the

      most arbitrary government could not , for such a reason , make martial law usurp the function of criminal law . There must be something more than the assassination of the man ; and . we believe it . Boroi was an officer of a military commission which was established in 1854 to deal with rioters during a temporary dearth of provisions . The commission has subsisted ever since—a sufficient proof that Parma has not been soHamely Submissive as some pi * etend . Lanati , the President of the Commission , was assassinated ; Gobbi ,

      another officer , was severely wounded ; Giovannini has been , reported among the persons killed , but erroneously . It is evident , however , that the report was not a simple fabrication : there must have been a reason why Giovaninni was marked for destruction . There is a method in , these things It is impossible to disconnect these political assassinations from the assassination of the Duke , though that was , at the time , said to be the result

      of a personal squabble—a tavern dispute . It is a fact , however , that , at that time the people of Parma were prepared to rise : they only deferred the movement ; but they could not induce the person who * was appointed to dispose of the Duke to defer his part of the entertainmeut , and ho proceeded alone . Parma has not yet riscjn ; but its state has compelled Austria once more to exhibit the mode in which she is ready to put' down any Italian protestations that are too much for the

      native Government . ' In the meanwhile the IVanderes ^ ifT ^ is ^^ t in affirming that some " Italian ^ x ^^] fl ^ 5 s ^ h ^ l > e \ ^ brought before the su ^' com ^ it ^ ; ^ K ' ^^|^^ fe' EVi the Conference , or before som&jnaw }|| i <* f |« W : 3 ma ( d be held in Paria . Jj H ^ Sii t ? t Absolute tranquillity is the c ^ WiM ^^ i ^^^^| L j own country . There is scarcely aOg ^^^ f ? a ^ pa fcrj

      np HE struggle now is , to close the Conference ¦ * - without leaving open any great question that can disturb the Governments of Europe . Paris is filled with rumours that are inexplicable , except upon the supposition that the Plenipotentiaries are more anxious to agree amongst themselves than to attain the particular objects of their own Governments ; yet difficulties confessedly arise in putting the finishing stroke to the Treaty of peace . We

      were to have had it last Saturday ; it is now promised indefinitely . The continental Governments which are to he parties to it are , in almost all cases , threatened with troubles in their rear . The pressure upon the Russian Government is an old story ; the state of Berlin is such as to show that Prussia must dread any ex . tension of the contest to the centre of Europe . A Government whose Tory Opposition causes its Ministers of Police to be shot ; whose agents are now trying to bush up further suicides or duels ; whose other

      Agents are selling the reports of its own spies upon its own ministers and its own royal family—for amongst the documents lately in the market was a report upon the . Prince of Prussia , to General Oerljvch—is certainly not in a position to confront any turn-of affairs in Europe that might call out the populations . Since 1848 the Prussian Government , which then created , a transient popularity , has been treacherous , arbitrary , and it is now contemptible ; its own officers and the parties favoured by its own . King setting the example of treating his authority with contumely .

      Napoleon the Third at present commands the situation ; and yet even in Paris there are little incidents of a disagreeable lund . The press begins to show its teeth in spite of warnings , suppressions , fines , and imprisonments . The polished and discreet Chief Editor of the Dtbats , M . dib Saoy , a Member of the Academy , ! is summoned to the Police to answer for a few words of just nn < 1 honest reprobation , addressed to the foulmouthcd intompernnco of abuse lavished on all independent men by the immaculate M . Granikr db Cabsaqnac . The sprightly

      Turkey , which was the object ] of the treaty , has its own local difficulties . Some of its Christian clergy are protesting against the hattee-shereef ; and some of its Turkish ^ patriots are protesting against the proposal to distribute the army of the Allies in different portions of theftemtory . The Principalities constitute an unmanageable part of

      the Turkish question . To leave them as they are , is to leave them exposed to the same kind of insidious invasion which Russia has carried on so long . To unite tliem would be to render them independent of the Poute , and to effect that " spoliation " of territory which it was the object of the war to prevent . Yet the Koumanians are

      canvassing support in many parts of Europe for their independence ; not semi-independence , but absolute separation from the Porte . They have five millions , they say , who , in race and ideas sympathise with the Anglo-Latins of Europe , and constitute the proper vanguard of civilisation in that quarter . They hare rivers available for military and commercial purposes ; they could exist as a nation , if they were not forbidden by the conspiracy of Governments ; and they now claim their independence in the name of policy as well as justice .

      Austria , who is affecting to arbitrate between contending states , is herself between two fires . It is reported — and with great probability — that Russia resents that act of < f immense ingratitude " which Swarzenberg foresaw—that hostile alliance witjh which Austria has repaid the power that retained Hungary for her . There are those who expect that , aa soon ns the war with the Western Powers is concluded , Russia will be found somewhere in Hungary , or Gallicia , or on the Military Frontier , unsottling the tenure of Austrian Power over the Sclavonic populations . In the meanwhile Austria has been called upon

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      11 The one Idea which History ; exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i » the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw dovnx all the barriers erected betfreen m « n by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , hy sattizu ? aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , arad CoLo \^ to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free derelopment

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- * aoh Miscellaneoua 29 fi OPEN COUNCIL- Natural History 308 Postscript ... 297 Permitted Traffic in English Girls .. 30 a «» ™ wa » wry . „ . 30 s The Wind-up of the War .. 390 LITERATURE— THE ARTSI ^^ ia " - " --- " - II ™ B 1 JC AFFAIR * - Summary 303 S £ S 2 l ^? U % &t 2 ^ '& & . 2 S ^ T !^ :::::::::::::::::::: . S 5 . A *» t * i w * . .. 299 & ^« S&& ^^/ .::::::::: SR TheO ^ -- 30 * ^ * J ° * 1 295 Prussia and jthe Priaces 3 Koyal .... 299 Life and Politics in Syria 3 . 05- The Gazette .. 309 XheOrteat . 295 The Sign at Baniror ................ 300 The Antigone and its Moral 306 ineuazeue 303 ContoneiitftlNotes ., - •" ¦ 2 ^ Marti al ! Law at Parma 801 Three Novels .. rnMMPPMAI AEVAtnn— "¦ Obituary 296 A French Aggression ...., 301 A New English Greek Lexicon .... Su 7 CVWllOTtKUIAL Arr / UKJ » Naval aaid Military New * ...... 296 Trial of William Palmer 301 TravelTalfc 307 City Intelligence , HarietSj &c ..... 309

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2134/page/1/