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    ¦ ' ¦ •//Kdmrtuna Mc^St^/H/ R M ^≪S&^^ Sip % R Vm^Autt ^ Z ^V^A^W^V ^ -V ? A Political Am) Literary Review.

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    ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . . . ¦ ? . . P AKLIAMENT is dead ; the general election is its stormy plicenix-nest , aiid we have only to hope against hope that the next Parliament will be better than the one which is extinguished to-day . In modern , times , perhaps , no Parliament has been so sterile in good measures as the one which has just departed . Its chief merit consists in the fact that it has effectually destroyed the Conservative party under whose Government it was born . The two leaders of that party , Lord Deuby and Mr . Disraem , practically avow that they have not a

    point to stand upon . They are but the monuments of a departed cause . The Whig party had been demolished in the previous Parliament , and it is now attempting to revive by identifying itself somewhat more with tie hopes of ulterior reforms . The Peace prophecy of 1851 has been completely destroyed by the Russian war . The House of Commons , which was elected under the auspices of Mr . Disraeli , and which hallooed Mr . Gladstone in driving that inventive financier from office , has witnessed the approaches of Mr . Gladstone as a volunteer to serve under Disiiaelt , and has finally consented to be itself led by Lord Palmerston , who is neither Tory nor [ Reformer .

    Seldom has there been a more absolute confusion in the character of the addresses distributed to the electors . The Times remarks , after the careful perusal of a grent number , that scarcely two of them are alike . This is the natural consequence , first , of the general break-down of party ; secondly , of an appeal to the country when there was no question to be referred . Professedly the dissolution was occasioned by the defeat of Ministers on the China question ; hut it is now well known that if they had replied to Mr . Cobden ' s motion by avowing the appointment of Lord Elgin to be

    Minister Plenipotentiary over Sir John Bowiung , the House of Commons would have adopted any neutralizing amendment , and there would have been 110 occasion whatever for any Ministerial question . The dissolution therefore takes j ) lace , not upon the defeat of Ministers by Mr . Cobden , but upon the preference Ministers have to be defeated . In appointing Lord EizGiN , a man whose antecedents as Governor General of Canada and as negotiator in the United States render his success in China very probable , the Government lias settled the question of China . Its Liberal opponents in the Couden

    dc-Derby and . Disraeli themselves disavow any repugnance to " social improvements , " and they make it a reproach to Lord Palwlekston that he is " a Tory chief at the head , of a Radical cabinet . " la all these admissions there is a great deference for the settled public opinion of the country . Thus in the meeting at the Freemasons ' ' Tavern , on the Persian war and the Chinese war , Mr . Cobden , Mr . Roebuck , and Mr . Layahd dwelt more on the wanton character of the aggression , the wrong choice of opportunity , the lavish expenditure and mismanagement , than 011 simple Peace doctrine .

    Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch continue to be a thorn in the side of Ministers . Our readers will remember the correspondence published last week , showing how the Crimean Commissioners declined the 1000 / . offered them eighteen months after their return , and how the House of Commons had chastised the Ministers by passing a-resolution ' recommending the two Commissioners to the lloyal favour . Apparently in the desire to soften the effect of the previous correspondence , Lord Panmum has addressed letters to the two

    Commissioners , but without bettering Ins position . He told Sir John M'Neill that he was hypercritical , because he had construed the oiler of money to constitute a pecuniary measure for honourable services . In reply , Sir John expresses his regret that " the proceedings in regard to the Commission have not been such as to entitle him to assume that Lord Panmuius ' s intentions were friendly or courteous . " It seems , then , that for the last two yeur . s Ministers , especially Lord

    ba , te now express a general concurrence in the actual arrangement ; so that in very rare instances will any dispute about China serve to guide the choice of the electors . On the other hand , many of the constituencies whose members had voted with Mr . Cobden , appear altogether disinclined to dismiss their representatives on that ground . Amongst the old members whose constituencies arc not inclined to . discharge .-them arc , Mr . Bbigjit , Mr . Milneb .

    Gibson , Sir JAiJtEs Graham , Mr . Cabbwell , Sir Ebskine PjEMty , Mr . Sidney Heiibebt—indeed the list is too long for- enumeration . Mr . Cobden surrenders the West Riding ; but it is to Lord Goderich , who voted with him . Lord Godebicii gives up his seat for Huddcrsficld , but Mr . Cobden is invited to take it . A-iid in London City bets ar 6 now favourable to the return of Lord John Russell , notwithstanding the concurrence of many influences to get rid . of him .

    China was to have been the question ; but that having expired , the question which goes to the country amounts really to " nothing in particular . " Lord Palsierston has hitherto propounded no policy , except the great " 1 . " In his elaborate speech in the House of Lords , which was intended to have a powerful effect upon the country , Lord Derby tlocs nothing more than bring old Toryism out again , just as it was in the days of George mie Third . Mr . Disbaeli drops that old-fashioned

    notion of lus noble friend's , and goes in for " social improvement , reduced taxation , and honourable peace . " There is in fact no question . The only reason for the dissolution is lhat Parliament was old , that the Ministry and the House of Commons were getting tired of each other , and that things wore not going on very well in cither House ; so the dissolution is virtually a little excursion into the country for the benciit of the political health .

    Palmkkston" and Lord Panmuius , have been racking tlicir bruins to find out some fitting acknowledgment for the excellent services of Sir Joiik M'Nkill iiiul Colonel Tulloch ^ yet they have not been able to contrive it . On the contrary , with all their cordiality and earnestness , they have . so managed it , as to seem as if they intended to cut the acquaintance of the friends they prize so highly . Yet Lord Panmujve and Lord Pamwejiston have generally been regarded us clever mcnr _; t _ After wuny changes iu the aspect of the ^ afff ^ tJ ^ l ^^ X ^ the , latest report is , that the NeufcMtol jSfI ) J # C-&S ^ M ) 2 likely to bo settled amicably . The previ < j ( ffp r ^^ 3 ^ W j ^ ** was -very adverse . The King of Piujbkia ^ B |^^ ks ; SUl (/ : ¦ ' have made an exceedingl y absurd ^^^^ W ^ f ^ W ^ M \ P that the starting point for ilio ncgotiatiffej WP ^ i $ pil §® £ 3 be , not the concession which Switzerland da ^ MM ( jJfrf ^ 0 i f * ' 'jjfTf in referring the question as an open qucsnonN ^^ js ^^^/ f ? conference at Paris , but the recognition by Swuzer ? "' * '' ^' ^

    There have , however , been some rather substantial and important concessions . The practical result of Lord Derby ' s speech was to draw out from Lord Granvilli :, by the ; taunts at Lord Pax-MERston as a non-reformer , the explanation that the Government intended to support , the principle of Mr . Locke King ' s Bill for extending the county franchise , but to alter it in commit tec- " -a course found to be impracticable from the details of the bill . It matters not whether the explanation is true or not—the important fact is , that Lord ¦ Palmerston dares not go to the country under the iinputatiou of being indifferent to Reform . Mr . Cobden equally disclaims being a " Pcacc-at-any-price man . "

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    ¦" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers elected between men . i > y prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Keligion , Country , and Colour , to treat tlxe whole Human race as oae brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of omr spiritual nature . "—Sumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    VOIi . VIII . No . 365 . ] SATURDAY , MAECH 21 , 1857 . Pkici ^^ S ^^;;;!^ ^ -

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    REVIEW OF THE WEEK— paoe Our Civilization ........ * ... 273 Tolitical Aspirants ......... 277 Still Waters . —May Hamilton ...... 282 Imperial Parliament 266 Gatherings from the Law awdPo- Great Britain at the Hustings 278 Irrigation in Southern India 282 * The Approaching General Election ... 268 lico Courts .- 274- lord John in the City 278 -rue adt-c — Ireland ..... 271 The Itoyal British Bank .... 275 The Operations in China .. : 279 IMLARIS America .. 271 Naval and Military 275 Army Education , Reform : 27 a Her Majesty ' s Theatre . .. 283 The Chinese and Persian Wars ... 271 Miscellaneous ; ... 275 , 1 TCD . ,, . Theatrical Notes .. ..... 283 The Persian Treaty .. 272 Postscript ..- ... 276 literature— _——TheOrient 272 Bnm ^ « rc » iDc Summary 280 The Gazette ... 284 Continental Notes 272 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Hair , Fat , and Nails 2 S 0 ¦ - „_ . » . _ ,,, » .., . „„ ,,, „ Stateof Trade . 273 The Tory Manifesto - ... 276 Life in California 281 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAceidentsand Sudden Deaths ......... 273 The Truth a"bout Naples . 2 >? 7 From Bombay to Bushiro 282 City Intelligence , Markets , &c 284

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2185/page/1/