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      BLINK-BONNY is the most distinguished individual of the week . Having judiciously reserved herself in the Newmarket race , having abstained from snatching the tempting prize of one thousand guineas , she has enjoyed a'dark ' reputation by her apparent defeat then , and was entirely omitted in the calculations of rational bettors ; thus , when conscious of her strength , she entered into the race for the Derby . Those who knew her qualities were able to obtain odds of a maeriiificent kind .

      Great is the fortune of those that believed in Bonny-Blink , notwithstanding the adversity that appeared to come over her at Newmarket . It is sometimes useful to believe even in those who appear to be under a cloud for a lime . ThatBl ' uik-Bonny should win , however , and that neither Tournament nor Skirmisher should be ' placed , ' is an amazement for the whole world : it has completely upset everybody , as much as if Palmiuiston had resigned —much more than if there were a revolution in France .

      Having suspended business in order to witness the solution of that important trial at Dpsoin , Ihc Parliament has proceeded with the business of the country . Some daring members have endeavoured io defend the interests of the country either abroad or at home ; but the House of Commons at large is not at present disposed to be popular in its attentions . When Mr . Roebuck asked for a select committee on the subject of our relations with Brazil , he made out a strong case ; but he could only find 17 members to stand by him against 312

      with the Government . The state of Ihc case is this : Brazil lias been bond ' Jide for a long time discontinuing slavery , both in policy and in fact . She has a constitutional Government , closely resembling our own , in matters of legislation and commerce . Her leading men are virtually bent , upon a close alliance Avith the community of England ; but the Government stickles at ; being called

      uppn as hIio has been for some years past , to tf ivo English cruisers right of seizing Brazilian vessels in the very waters of Brazil , and judging them to be slavers . Brazil is willing to make new arrangements for the suppression of the slave trade ; haa deehired the slave trade piracy ; haa always treated her negroes with remarkable humanity , they onjoying a social recognition not allowed to them anywhere clao , without excepting

      even the West Indies . And altogether we have , and on the very subject of slavery , the sympathy aud co-operation of Brazil . But our officials insist , ia the most arrogant manner , that Brazil shall submit I-o them as an inferior submits to a superior ; and they have broken off the official intercourse with the country , except of the formal kind , until Brazil shall give in . Mr . Roebuck asked for inquiry . Lord Palmkrstok says that to grant a select committee Avill seem to give encouragement to the slave trade ; and the House of Commons follow like sheep .

      Mr . Disraeli ' s inquiry about the Dallas-Clarendon treaty was quite natural ; the only surprising fact is , that it should not have come out before . Has the treaty between this country and the United States respecting Central America been ratified or not ? Everybody knows , through the United States , that it has not : everybody might have assumed that it was not , from the silence of the Government when the lime for exchanging the ratifications expired . But the House of Commons has not felt interest enough in the subject to inquire , until the very close of this week , when Mr . Disuaeli is calling upon the Government to

      explain . The House docs not think it worth while to inquire into the state of our relations with Brazil , which takes annually 12 , 000 , 000 / . of our exports , although the Government might embroil us with that independent , state , and bring about a state of things that might transfer its commerce to the United States . Again , the Commons did not think it worth while to inquire why our Government has not concluded t lie Dallas-Clarendon treaty , which settled some dangerous subject of dispute , although the United States take the largest portion of our exports , and send to us an enormous proportion of our raw material and supplies for every household in the country .

      The army estimates have been debated , or rather they have been brought forward by Ministers ; and some members who take a professional or amateur interest in such matters , have made a few remarks upon points here and there . A great reduction is boasted sineo last year , —as if the reduction between a period of warfare and a period of peace must not necessarily be large . The true comparison in with a year of peaoe , and here , instead of reduction , we have a largo increase . The- increase amounts to 1 , 600 , 000 / . ' upon 7 , 400 , 000 / ., the amount of the last peace estimate , and llicro arc C 000 men retained in a permanent augmentation of the ariny , more especially in its artillery . Several excuses

      were advanced for this increase , in the shape of improvements ; but surely the House of Commons onght to have said a word or two more about the ' improvement ; ' but perhaps some of them are not improvements at all . For instance , one of the excuses for the increase is the expense of the camp at Aldershot ; but Aldershot is becoming not a camp . It is , as the Times says , a town of huts , and

      it is likely to become a town of barracks ; so that the camp at Aldershot , for evolution of armies , is degenerating into an ordinary barrack-yard ; while the squadron of evolution at sea has been given up , or at least suspended . With regard to the other improvements that adorn the Ministerial statement , we have not yet got them : the stall" school is oneand where is it ? When it comes it will probably form the apology for a further increase of the expense . Here , again , the House of Commons made

      no quiry . Sir Charles Naimer is among the few who have the courage to stand out . He wanted a select committee on the organisation , of the Board of Ad miralty , and he showed how ill-constructed the Board is , how con dieting are its orders , how productive of waste and expense . The reply of Mr . OsiiojtNE was simply the production of authorities to prove that the Board of Admiralty is the most perfectly formed administration which human ingenuity could construct , and that Admiral Naviek had not been a very good commander in the Baltic .

      Mr . Osijornk once distinguished himself by metaphorically mounting on Ihc top of the Admiralty , and looking over into the Hor . se Guards to spy out abuses . Perhaps tin : Secretary to the Horse Guards , or Sir John Bamsdicn as Under-Secrotary for War , could mount the top of his own mansion and tell us something about , the Admiralty . However , the question for the House of Commons was to decide upon the two statements before it , after inquiry into the facts , the very thing which Sir Ciiahles N aim Kit invited . He could only obtain . " 55 to 152 to vindicate the duty of the House of Commons as ' the grand inquest of the nation . '

      Mr . Coningiiam challenged a debate on the dowry for the Princess ILoyai ., and Mr . Mac ; uirk would not let . it puss without some consideration ; the one proposed to reduce flic annuity from SOOO / . to 0000 / . ; the other to dispense with Ww ( 10 , 000 / . down . But , minorities resembling that which stood by Sir Cham . ks Naimkr and Mr , Kokjiick were all that could bo found to fulfil the duly of watching our public expenditure . In fact ., < ho new Members and the old . absorbed " > " > c ono ( luiv of

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      VOL . VIII . 1 * 0 . 375 . ] " " " SATURDAY ^ MAY 30 , 1857 . PBiCF 4 gStg ::: SiSS 5 -

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- i-aob Imperial Parliament 5 UG The Princess Royal . —Division List ... 50 . 3 Third Visit to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 509 StateofTrade 510 Ireland 510 The Orient 511 America 511 Continental Notes 511 The Epsom Races 512 : Loss by Fire of the Joseph Somes 513 ; Naval and Military 511 i

      : Obituary 514 Our Civilization 514 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 515 Miscellaneous 515 Postscript 510 PUBLIC AFFAIRS — Liberal Bolters in the House 517 The Prisons of the Pope 517 1 Trustees an 1 Bankrupts 518 Employment of Criminals 513 " Where are the British Bank Directors ? 519

      The Tyranny of Silence 519 ¦ LITERATURE—: Summary 520 j Romanv Rye 520 I The Memoirs of St . Simon 521 | Home Education in Trance 522 Mr . Readu ' s Poems 523 1 THE ARTS — ' The Operas Concerts , &c 523 I Tho Cologne Choral Union 524 The Bouiies 524 .

      Theatrical Aotcs . 524 Dramatic Entertainment at Camden House 524 Crystal Palace . —Great Handel Festival 524 Burford ' s Panorama of Sierra Leone 524 Flower-Show at the Crystal Palace 524 The Gazette 525 | COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSI City Intelligence , Markets , Ac 525

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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 erected between men by prejudice " and . one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of . Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2195/page/1/