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    • A POLITICAL AM) LITERARY EEYIEW. Ii
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      A Political Am) Literary Eeyiew. Ii

      A POLITICAL AM ) LITERARY EEYIEW . Ii

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      A BUBST of sunshine in the money market is ZlL the harbinger of a change in commerce , and we have promises of a brilliant change in the aspect of next session in . Parliament . There Trill indeed be some substitutions of members , evea if we do not lave a general dissolution . Mr . Cobben has retreated to his Sussex estate , apparently for life ; he disclaims the West Riding any furtler . He contents himself with writing general tetters of advice -to his beloved countrymen , this time

      endorsing President Piekce ' s insidious proposal to disarm our marine on the strength of humanity secured to private property at sea ^ Mr . Bright , too , is off in the far East , touring it . Lord Paxmebston will enter the House of Commons virtually , if not legally , as the Member for Manclester , with Sir John Pakington as his colleague I Cockbuek being removed to the celestial region of the Common Pleas , will most likely be replaced by Mr . Wegujbixn , a bank director and Russia merchant , of high probity .

      The impression that the peace will not again be interrupted strengthens , although we have no positive evidence or guarantee . The reports of a ' second Congress' gain ground , still without any authenticity . Russia has been said to liave given up the Bolgrad point ; but all that we are certain of is , the strong desire of each party in the system of European Governments to feecp the peace , —if possible to retain or gain its own objects , but whether gaining or losing , to keep

      the peace . All sides have something to lose , should there ho a more general conflict . The ingenious but precarious arrangements which liave been patched up in Constantinople , "where Aam Pacha goes in and out of office according to the greater strength of aboriginal Turkish punctilio or Sthatioiid i > e Redcxiffe ascendancy , show the card-building nature of the ' settlements ' in Europe . Anything like a popular movement

      France , the popular discontent is becoming so evident , that the Government seeks to strengthen its outer alliances in all directions . Hence , probably , tlie continued equivocation of language in which the representatives of its several Ministerial parties speak . r The touchstone of ridicule has been applied to the sfca-bility of the Continental system . Mr . Morris Moore goes to Berlin for the purpose of making researches in art . He is well known personally ; but he is suspected of two most

      dangerous qualifications : he is supposed to have acquaintance with foreigners not exclusively on the side of Continental Governments ; he has spoken disrespectfully of persons that have' -held office under German authorities—both in Germany and in England . He has not chosen his Italian acquaintances solely by the test of their legitimate politics . He has not had an official reverence for a "VVaagen or a Mundler . He arrives at Berlin ,

      speaks -with a frankness customary amongst Englishmen , and is lodged in prison ! The police of Berlin , in their wisdom , do not think that the system of government is safe while Mr , Morris Moore is at large and his tongue at liberty . The Governments , therefore , are resolvent to make peace after this fashion . —( adjuvante Blomfuxd ;) but we "have some doubt whether the peoples are entirely of the same mind .

      It is enough for the financial speculator . He sees an opportunity opening : discounts have fallen to six or even five per cent , in Holland ; the rate in London in the most respectable quarters is "below the Bank level ; the money market is easier ; ' there have been large arrivals of gold from Australia . " It is coming . '" says the commercial man ; the sunshine breaks , the storm is passing , and we are to have a new flush of prosperity . Already arrangements are made for taking up shares in the new Russian Steam Navigation Company . TUere are hopes that

      vigilance may be lulled asleep , and that the Perew . es , IIorES , and Barings may obtain something towards the first instalment of the Russian railways . The Bull party in the money market will of course trumpet the note of ' peace , * if it bo only for a time . It is in these fitful intervals that great capitalists make their large fortunes . We hear , for instance , of a gentleman who was supposed to hold largo property in a foreign railway . No such thing ! Ho did suddenly become the admirer of the Government which conceded the railway , and likewise a pro *

      prietor ; but , long before any question had arisen as to the ultimate level which those * shares ' would find in the market , he had parted "with , them , and retained only the immense profit on bis part of the original concession . This is the plan . The great men deal only in large schemes , their market day lies in the interval between the panics of the world ; and they would lull a continent to sleep , in a false reliance upon peace , if they could snatch a profit while the world was dozing . The position of Switzerland becomes more important , and the Administrative Reform Association will do ¦ well to loolc to-it . Prussia has before

      the Federal Government a formal demand for the surrender of the prisoners who were taken , when the rebellion in Neufchatel was put down . Our readers may remember the case . One of the Pourtales family made a revolution on purpose to-snatch back the canton for the royal possession of its c suzerain ^' the King of Prussia . It was a decided breach of the law—high treason , indeed ; but the Kin < r of Prussia has declared in a State

      paper that , although the rebels "were guilty of irregularity , they are really meritorious persons : he has demanded their release from prison uncbastised . The Swiss Government , on the other hand , while treating the prisoners with conspicuous humanity , has insisted upon carrying out the process of law to vindicate its sovereign right over the canton as against the archaeological suzerain right , said to reside in the private family of Kin « r Frederick William . The claim of Prussia

      has at last been sustained by Austria , Bavaria , and Baden , and it is said that France , if not our own Government , has also endeavoured to pro cure the release of tlie prisoners . The movement of the German Governments implies that Prussia may bo supported in a resort to arms . Wtat part then will France take ? What England ? It is , we say , one of the first subjects to which the Administrative Reform Association should

      attend . That Association has established a species of administration for the people , classified in departments , in some degree corresponding to our Government , for the purpose of inquiry into the conduct of public business , but also , in some cases , to conduct properly that public lousiness which the Government neglects . For instance , it will havo agents abroad who would move for

      redress in cases of injury to private individuajs ^ . ^; - ^ A Morris Moore would havo had some 5 ^^^ 6 ftAN ^ to go to in default of Lord Bjlomfikld . - ^ 1 ^ % ^ ' ^^^ Association has but just put forward ; : ftn ^ TO ^ /^ f ) ? * ¦ sssofe

      would soon replace these court manoeuvres by stronger measures . There is a territorial lahn dispute between the Danish Government and Hol-Btein—Holstein relying on its German affinities . J-he Spanish Court is patching up intermarriages between the reigning line and the line of Don Carlos —a marriage between the grandchildren of Fermkand ' b brother ; a family arrangement "tot cannot survive , and which appears to place the mark of doom upon Isabella ' s Court . In

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      VOL . VII . 3 STo . 349 . ] SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 29 , 1856 . PBiCE { g £ ^^;;; lgS ? v

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      Sfcr :-if :- » gter = r ^ = SB" * & ^^ Consecration of Bishops .... ... ' ... 1130 public affairs OPEN COUNCIL— The Draper ia Australia ... .... 1147 State ofTrade ... . 1131 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ortw council The Climate of Egypt ..... 1147 Accidents and Sudden Deaths . ... 1131 TheLmll .... ; ... 1137 ^ no Moon s Rotation . 1141 THEARTSIreUnd ... 1131 Lord John . 1138 litpratuhe- Mont Blanc . . 1147 America -.....,... 1132 Ecspousibilities of Liberalism iu uitRniwnt . ¦¦ Theatrical and ' Musicalifotes '"*' . 1147 The Colonies 1132 France ; ............. 1139 Summary 1142 _—Continental Notes . 1132 TheRising agaiust the Income-tax 1139 Aurora Leigh .... 1142 The Gazette ........ . . ..... 1148 OiiTOiviliMtaon .................. ....... 1133 Franco in Persia ...... ; ............... 1140 Prescott on the Retirement of _^ . ^ - ^ ,, . ' ¦'¦ ¦ '¦ Naval and Military .. .. 1136 The Working of the County Police Charles V ..... .. 1144 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSObituary .... 1136 Act 1140 Bomance for Old and Young ......... 1145 City Intelligence , Markets , &c ...... 1148

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2169/page/1/