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      ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . '¦ . ¦ " .. ¦ ¦ ?— : — : . ¦ 7 TKREE questions ought to be put to lord Pal-X bteeston before auy other proceedings in Parliament : "WTiat he intends to do in Parliamentary Reform ? "What he intends to do with Army Heform ? And what is the actual state of our foreign relations ? Under all these heads the conduct of the Government is / at the present niomentj a mystery ; a mystery it was at the dissolution , but it should not remain so if the new members are prepared to support each other in doing their duty .

      No man in . this country who is not in the secrets of the Cabinet can . just now describe the exact relation , in which we stand with any foreign country whatsoever We arc in close alliance - with Prance , yet how far we are acting with that state—which is exchanging courtesies with the Russian Government , is somehow patronising the Court of Spain , and is cultivating alliances apparently crossing our own . — -is a subject that demands fresh light , unless we are to incur new obligations without knowing what we arc at .

      It is ^ openly the boast in Vienna that Lord Palmerstw has come round to the Austrian policy in Italy . . The journals which arc under the control of- the -Emperor Francis Joshi-h ' s Government distinctly make that assertion . What docs this mean ? The King of Denmark has just appointed a aicw Minister , af ^ er a long difficulty in finding a successor to M . Von Scheele . The ground on which the Danish Government resigned was , its rcpugnauce to the ' extension of " the Scandinavian Idea" —a

      project for uniting all the Scandinavian peoples under one crown as a means of resistance to Russia . Now our Government , ^ vhich was expected to assist in forming a barrier between the encroachments of Denmark and the Germanic provinces of that monarchy in X 84 . 9 , suffered the barrier to drop , and thus negatively co-operated in submerging the ' Gcrmanio independence of the provinces under aDunish consolidation . What course is our Government note

      taking in relation to Denmark , and what arc the grounds for that course ? Both these questions arc shrouded in absolute nvystcry ; but cevtitinly they very nearly concern the interests of this country , as a matter of commercial intercourse and also of iutnre military expenditure . What position has our Government taken , or mmntamed , Avith reference to NeufcMtcl ? At urat xt was supposed to bo strikingly honest and

      pany . The promoters of it arc employing device ? hitherto left to the lowest of schemers . They are , for example- —at least the Times thus presents the case— -getting \ rp fictitious sales in order to fictitious quotations on the English Stock Exchange ; abd the leading journal goes so far as to represent some clergyman as playing the " stag" in manoeuvres that would have suited Capel-court in 1847 . But these devices of the Imperial Russian ' Hudson have not at all been so successful as those of the railway speculators in ' 4 : 7 . He does not get his money . We suspect that fcAV English people will be willing that their means should be invested in this worse

      than West Diddlcscx stock . We suspect that at home the absolute uncertainty wliich everywhere prevails , will very shortly find a termination in a rather more settled course on the part of bur public men ; altiicmgh the most recent manifestations arc more retrospective than prospective , speak more of unscttlcmcnt than , settlement . Mr . Gladstone is drawn out by an admiring friend , Mr . Charles Butler , wlio wishes for some reply to Mr . James Hall , the vigorous

      Welshman that , during the Flintshire election , challenged Mr . Gladstone as a trimmer on the subject of peace and war . Mr . Gladstone replies , that the proper notice of Mr . Hall ' s speech was delivered on the spot , and he insinuates that Mr . Hall ' s invective was nothing more than " slander , " but be tries to clear himself on one point . He insists that Lord Paltuekston , as well as himself , resigned

      friendly to the Republic against the ' .. encroachments ; of King -Frederick William , who is endeavouring to convert his titular and antiquated Principality of ISTeufehatcl into a sovereign right antagonistic to the federal Government over the Canton of INcufcMtcl . The ' . French Government proposed to mediate , and our Minister acquiesced hx the Ereiich proposal . As a prenminary , Switzerland Avas persuaded to surrender all lier claims against the Prussian King , with the prisoners that had rebelled against her , and to leave the matter an open

      question . The mediating powers stood pledged by their honour to obtain a satisfactory setttfljj ^ iit of the point in dispute ; but it is now reported that they call tipon Switzerland to tolerate the continuance of King Frederick William as the " Prince of NcufchateL ;' to pay him an indemnity Avherc they might have claimed a fine for the release of the prisoners ; and even to recognise his

      authority , by giving a guaranteg that ccitain charities will be administered as he . pleases . Is it possible that our Minister has endorsed any such proposal addressed to the Republican Government ? Mystery again ; but avc presume that some Member of the Commons will have sufficient . firmness , and sufficient English feeling , to extort ar ^ elucidation . The head of the Liberal party ought to do it—whoever he may be .

      How do Arc stand with the United States ? The Government at Washington has been invited to join with France and England in a certain " demonstration , " or something of the kind , to the Chinese Government ; but'President Buchanan is understood to have declined a co-operation which would have called upon him to declare Avar against China , unless he had been prepared , without taking the privileges of a belligerent , to forfeit tlic privileges of a neutral , by covertly assisting the enemy Ol Chiiid . In fact , the American papers imply that the request must have been a very strange one , and avc wish to know how it stands ?

      office hi January , 1855 , rather than agree to Mr . Roebuck ' s motion ; Lord Palmerston informed him , he says , that he should continue his resistance ; and it Avas Lord Palmerston that changed his mind , not Mr . Gladstone , -when the latter resigned . This may be true enough , but the sole practical question is , whether Lord Palmeiiston resisted the appointment of Mr . Roebuck ' s committee because he Avishcd to continue the Avar

      or whether h « resisted it because he wished to drop the Avar . He might , indeed , have been actuated by a third motive , —he nyght have wished to continue the Avar , yet to screen the aris ^ rat : tcBCiionii who were exposing their own iucmclcncy / ii / o ^ rg With l-espoet to Mr . Gladstone there i ^ iql jdpT $ » t that he did not Avish to continue the wapaijiift ^ ll he hud belonged to the Government Mj&ich ; b ^ fj $ it ; . And he certainly makes an tinsitsl , ^ q | & « ffi'fefo tion , when , he says that as a necessary co »^ fcc ' n _ CjC ? of adhering to bis opinion , be was " dcpVUfc ^ ttif office . " The expression is remarkable : it isT'tirrtruo as a matter of inct ; but it docs confirm the

      Iho Emperor Napoleon , who is bcstOAving jvarious grades in the Legion of Honour upon } a great number of English soldiers , is also receiving the Grand Duko Constantino with distinction . So for as he lms gone hitherto , Napoleon thu'Thikd till pears to be a complete master in the art of setting one influence against another ; but the qucation is , how far m staud officially committed to this modern plan for maintaining " the balance of Europe . "

      One project appears to have been knocked on the head by the effectual exposure which it has received . It is the Grand Kussiau EaUway Com-

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      "The one Idea which . History exhibits as eyerm . qredeveLopin . sj itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down , all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views and , by settingaside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , haying one great object—the free development I ' -.. - of our spiritual nature . "Sumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      yQ L . THI . yo . 370 , ] . SATTJRBAYY APRIL 25 , 1857 . I ' RieE ffiS ^^ : !^^ '

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— woe Naval and Military .... 302 The Palmerston-HayterConspiracy 397 A Batch of Books 403 Public Meetings 386 Miscellaneous 392 The Neapolitan Apology 31 ) 7 > . . Embankment of the "Thames 38 G Postscript .................................... 39 s The Siccleandtho Times .. 397 THE ARTS—3 ? uneral of Jean Baptiste Rougee 387 Switzerland " Sold" again ............ 398 The Operas . 403 The Eoyal British Bank ..... 337 OPEN COUNCIL— A Great Act of raith .. . 398 GL'he liouffeS Parisiens at the St . Accidents and Suddea Deaths ......... 3 S 7 "Candide" on the Elections 39-4 Tlie . ' ^ yprd" in the Stree ts 398 James ' s Theatre 404 Ireland . 387 Land Societies .. ... 391 Idate of the Jlorse Guards 39 s > ) J - Continental Notes 388 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- . . - LITERATURE- -h , Our Civilization „ ... ; 890 Iniporialism , Ancient and Modern 394 Summary 4 C 0 The Gazette ... ' ... " ........................... 405 Gatherings from the Law and . Po- Statistics of the New House ......... 395 The Life of Sir Charles James Nalice Courts .. 390 England and the United States in pior 401 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS— ' AMurdcrinthegrorth ............ 391 China .... ¦¦ .... 396 ThoWalpolo Lutters 402 City Intelligence , Mavkets . &e 405

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/1/