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      — —»¦ - ¦¦ : ¦ ¦ rilHE pressure out of doors , aided by the ready X adoption of the Opposition ia the House of Commons , has extorted from Ministers a large concession of the Income-tax , and considerable reductions of the military and . naval estimates . The whole week has been one of bustle . To make a better disposition of the ministerial forces , Sir Geqbge CoKNE ~ WAiiii Xewis has waived his objecttoiiwWaging forward the financial statements at this early day ; " and estimates ate produced -with Considerably diminished totals . The naval estimates

      Will be only 8 , 109 , 000 / . instead of 15 , 812 , 000 ^ ., charged last year . The military estimates , army and ordnance together ^ , 8 , 993 , 000 / . instead of 18 , 008 , 000 / . ; a total of 19 , 000 , 000 / . in lieu of the 25 , 000 , 000 / . which Mr . Gladstone calculated . The reduction , as compared with the reduced peace estimates of last year , is 17 , 000 , 000 / . This result has been brought about unquestionably by the demand of the public , -with the assistance of the Opposition and independent leaders .

      Another of Mr . Disbaeli ' s blows at Ministers has not been so happy : it has twice recoiled upon , himself . The story of a " secret treaty" between Prance and Austria , sanctioned by Lord Palmer-8 TON , still demands further explanation . Mr . Disraeli professed to give a very elaborate account on Tuesday last , but it amounted to -no more than a repetition of wliat he said last week , except that he supplied the date of the treaty—the 22 nd December , 1854 . Lord Palmebston instantly replied , that there was a Convention about that date , and he appealed to those who were in the Cabinet then ., though no longer in the Ministry now . The

      Convention simply stipulated that if Austria should join the active operations against Russia in Turkey , and should be attacked in her rear by Italian insurrectionists in Russian interests , France would assist to protect her Italian provinces ; a very proper provision during tho progress of the actual war . Is this the Treaty that Mr . Disraei-i exposes ?—or ia there another Treaty ? Lord Paxmerston tells us that "that limited Convention" expired with the close of the war . He added that it was never signed ; but lie has since corrected that mistake : it was signed . And Mr . Disraeli insists that it lias not expired .

      it abolishes the distinction between transportation and penal servitude , authorizing one kind of sentence , and leaving the Executive to carry out the sentence , under certain limits , according to its " . discretion . In the " meanwhile , however , Sir Geo&ge promises that there shall be improvements in the disposal of prisoners , in the selection of convicts for Western Australia , and in . the more effectual detention of incorrigibles . In a separate measure he provides for the establishment of county and borough reformatories for juvenile offenders . At present "this Act is not to be compulsory , but should it work well it will eventually be extended to the whole country . . ' >

      The Select Committee on the Bank Charter Act has been nominated . It comprises all the monetary notables in the House of Commons ; except Mr . Weguelin , who had not been returned for Southampton when the Committee was appointed . For , after all , Mr . Hiciiabd Andrews failed at the poll . ; though there was sufficient rioting on both sides to leave the return still under some obscurity . One important commercial reform is suspended . The complaint of the City men against the law

      which leaves the ownership of dock warrants , &c , in a state of doubt , has been already explained they desire that such documents should be placed on the same footing as bills of exchange , since they are practically to goods what bills of exchange are to money . But there has been sonic difference of opinion , from au idea that the present law is a check upon fraud ; and taking advantage of these diversities of opinion , Ministers abstain from interfering until commercial men can agree .

      Itather an important constituency has at last preferred a bill of indictment against its rcpresentat ivc . Certain electors of Glasgow , the friends of Mr . John Macgregoh , have called upon him to explain his share in tho formation of the British Bank . We told the story of that bank a few weeks since , though we did not bring out all the facts which Mr . Menzies related . It is difficult to understand how Mr . Macgregoh could construct

      palities , chiefly on the ground that they would thus be strengthened as a barrier to future invasion . This is a common plea ; and it has been supported by the patriot party in the Principalities , wlio are anxious for union , in the belief that it would ultimately result in the formation of an independent state . Russia has always found it so easy to absorb conterminous ' independent' states of a minor size , that she , too , favours the union ; while JFraace , in joining with Russia and the Moldo-Wallachian patriots , derives the advantage , first of setting up an opinion by wliich she may balance the East of Europe against the "West , and ultimately , it is

      supposed , s 3 ie designs to place upon the Moldo-Wallachian throne a prince of the Bonaparte family ; realizing the dream of Charxemagne in the germ of an Oriental Empire . Tlie Constitntionnel- boasts that Prance has with her , in . the renewed Paris Conference , Prussia , Russia , and Sardinia , against Austria , Great Britain , and Turkey—four to three ; but adds , that there are hopes of . winning over Turkey to the-same majority . If so , it can only be by intrigue . Lord Clarendon , however , admitted that the British Government had been taken by " surprise , " and practically confessed that they had been outwitted .

      The progress of business in the two Houses of Parliament has been of rather an important character . In the Upper House , indeed , the measures brought forward are rather acknowledgments of work that ought to be done than performances . They consist principally of bills introduced by the Lord Chancelxor—rcintroduccd we may say , for they are only editions of last year's bills—to amend the laws relating to wills , marriage and divorce , and ecclesiastical discipline . But there is no prospect that the measures will bo carried . The work is still left open for Sir Ersiune Peurv and any other gentlemen that take it up independently .

      Government lias reluctantly accepted Mr . Napier ' s motion for establishing a separate department of Justice—the grand way to legal reform , and to a good supervision of law , law administration , and law making . Sir George Grey ' s bill to reconstruct the law of penal servitude has the merit of being compact , applicable to the present moment , and certain to be carried . It ought to provoke more jealousy than it will excite , for it runs loss against tho theories of tlie reactionaries than against the permanent interests of the British Constitution . It is l'cally a large measure in a small shape—inoffensive on the surface though dangerous in its tendency . In , brief ,

      such an explanation as would bo acceptable to a commercial constituency ; and this difliculty perhaps accounts for the fact that the claim has been under his consideration for three weeks , andJLia « ujuit produced no fruits . y ^ gjd * £ r \ , The House of Commons has aj ^ aijw ^ m ^^ Kjj ^> y . „ * Mcmbors , conspicuously amongst U {^ iicl ^ is 5 ffi 6 ^ rf * E ^ events in commerce . Mr . JoiiNppAiS ffl ^ fft ^ l'X ' ' ^ r , r Member for Sligo , Mr . JAMKs ^^ Aj ^^ tt ^\ Vji ^;; U" *^ elected by Tipperary , Mr . JohnM ^ JX 0 ^ M i ^ b }> 0 : ' S k . Ti ¦?•*•> ¦ » - w ' )'' ¦' uA *^ \ ** , fr ^ m : CJ

      A new ground has been provided for him by the Moniteur . That Napoleonic journal has put forth a Pleading m favour of uniting the Danubian Princi

      J§It & '{R E R. ¦ A Political And Literary Keview.

      J § it &' { r e r . ¦ A POLITICAL AND LITERARY KEVIEW .

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      '' The one Idea-which . History exhibits as evermore developing ; itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble e ? i ? Vo ! llr ^ ° "AIOW down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one brotherhood , naving one great object—the free development of < mr spiritual nature . "—HumboUlt ' s Cosmos . ,

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— vxav Gatherings from the Xaw and Po- i Slavery Abolition and Cotton Edinburgh Essays 168 Tmnerial Parliament i 4 « lice c ° urts 152 Supply .. 156 Henry the Fourth and the leaguers 163 VlfSticm Intellie ^ nce " ' ils Naval and Military 152 The Grey Ticket-ot ' -Leave 157 The Philosophy of Common Life ... 16 * TheManchester Education Scheme " its Miscellaneous 153 A Week of Elections 157 B 6 rangev ' sSongs .. 1 « 4 Accidents and ^ SuddeS ^ Deaths HI Postscript 154 Fraudulent Trustees 158 Lucy Aylmer ... 164 SteniSworcell . ' " ••¦ lt | OPEN COUNCIL- An Ideal . Session . 158 TbAnglo-Iudian Almanack ......... 165 8 tate of Trade ¦ .. \ . JZ ^" . ' . ' . " . " . " . 149 The Laws Relating to the Property ^ iUs . Wives , and Priests . 15 U THE : ARTS _ Ireland 149 of Married Women . ! f . 154 Moldo-Wallachian Agencies 159 JT ^ . , aK Australia ..... " .. " I " . 149 Imprisonment for Debt 154 Go to-Bath I 160 The Sunbeam .. 165 America . "" .. J ^ Z ^ lZ . Z ^ ZZZlia Gold .. . 154 Counter-Declaration of Persia 1 G 0 vh « Cattle - ~ " ifiS The Orient ..... 150 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATURE- llie Gazette 105 Continental Notes 150 The Financial Statement .... 155 Summary 161 COMMERCIAL AFFAIR . SOur Civilization 1 S 1 Moral of the Secret Treaty 155 " . Tho Indian NapierV . V . V . V . V . V . " . " 7 . "' . ' . "' 161 City Intelligence , Markets , &c . 168 0 H

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2180/page/1/