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      ^ J lt &ier . POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .

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      "The erne Idea which History exhibits as evermore dereloping . itself into /« ater distinctnesa >| \ he "ea ^ Humanity ^ tiiC iioge of our spiritual nature . " —H-umboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- pa « Miscellaneous 297 The Oaths BUIRebate 301 ]^ Tm \ TZr ^ ^^ : 7 " . r" : " 307 Naval andTVfilitary 290 Postscript 297 £ 0 1 hanks to Dowi ng-street JOi The Geology of CentralFrance 307 S ^ a ^ . : :: : : : :: : : : :::::::: l 3 ope * council- , ^ % ^^ & == »* Wa «« £ . nd R « uMto ^ n . ... E ^^ lssd ^ -iJ ^ ta" ::::::: g 2 council conciliate 298 ; ^^^^ i ^ :::=:: z ™ . the arts-Pub , ic MeetinSS » * . PUBLIC AFFAIRS _ % ^^ Z ^ === % 8 ^ JRI ^^ ntt . ! f . . r ? . ? . r :::::: SS BsaS " * ::::-::: 2 * i Sx&atioiis ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SS literature- _ r ^ tinentai Notes . " ¦ " . 295 The Bank and the Bill-Brokers 299 Summary 304 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSWk&j ^ HEZ \ ^ sje ? -: ^ ::: g ^* &g ~ g = a sw ^^^ s

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      r- < i mrrrx-n . ^ 7- ^ T « - A T » riTT Ctrt TOKO T > mf » r < f UNSTAMPED ... I"IVEPENCE . VOX .. IX . No . 418 . 1 SATURDAY , MAUCH 27 , 1858 . . Price { stamped silence .

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      A STRONG proof , if not of their inherent weakness , at least of their want of united powers , was given by Lord Derby ' s Government on Monday evening . In the absence of Lord Ellenbokough , and under circumstances that appeared to admit of no delay , Lord Brougham put a question to the Government . He had just heard , he said , that it was in contemplation to send out two military officers to Accra , on the west coast of Africa , for the purpose of recruiting negroes for service in India ; the officers alluded to were , he had been informed , to start from England on the following day . Was it true that such an enterprise was on foot ? Not only had some such rumour reached Lord Brougham ' s ears , but it was pretty widely bruited , and Lord Brougham , after fifty , years' endeavour to put down the African slave trade , might well put his question to the Government with something of anxiety . How thoroughly assured and satisfied ho must have been with the unhesitating answer of Lord Derb y , backed by Lord Hardinge ! Lord Derb y actually interrupted him to answer that he had ' never heard' of the report until Lord Brougham himself had communicated it ; and Lord Hardinge bore witness that the War Department knew nothing of such a report , which , in fact , he believed to be wholly without foundation . What could Lord Brougham : do more than to express his satisfaction at having been misinformed ? So the mattor ended—for that night . But on Tuesday evening the proceedings of the august House of Lords were opened by Lord Ellen - uonoVGH , who gave a flat contradiction to the denial of his colleagues , informing Lord Brougham that ho had been perfectly woll informed , for that her Majesty ' s Government had intended to send out to the Gold Coast two military oilicers , though the Negroes to have been enlisted were 'Kroomeu , ' a class of Blacks very commonly engaged for servioe ou board ship on the west coast of Africa . The Presi-—* denUUho 4 JoaKU £ X ! ontart ^^ the departure of the officers was only prevented by some difficulty with regard to tho mutiny laws . Suoh , at present , is tho way in which tho Government of tho country is carriod on—by consent of the Opposition . Tho passport nuisance was brought under tho notice of tho House by Mr . M . Mjlnes in tho form \

      of an application for copies of the correspondence , &c , which has passed between the English and French Governments relative to the recent alterations in the passport system . It is clear , that while an incalculable amount of injury is done to the people of this country by the new regulations , France is not iu the smallest degree benefited by the working of the change . The difficulties placed in the way of obtaining a Foreign-office passport prevent no one from entering France with sinister purpose . The same trick that was employed by Orsini , who entered with a passport furnished to Allsop , can be employed by others with similar motives , or the device could be varied . But the question is not as to what restrictions France may please to put upon the right of strangers to land upon her shores , but as to the useless difficulties placed in the way of English travellers by their own Government . An English passport , or permission to enter France , can never be made a guarantee of the character of the person presenting it ; all that it can be made to do is to furnish a sort of testimony to the traveller ' s nationality . It is for the Erench authorities to decide whether the bearer is to be credited . Meanwhile , whatever may be the inconvenience and distress suffered by Englishmen , the effects upon the pockets of a vast class of tradespeople in France will tell in a way not likely to be advantageous to the Imperial Government ; while even the larger commerce is hindered , indirectly by impediments to travelling , directly by tho feeling of apprehension which exaggerated precautions engender . From the exhibition of argumentative power displayed on Monday night , ou the bringing up of Lord John Russell ' s amended Oaths Bill , it is plainly impossible to come to an amicable settlement of this quostion ; opinions can never be brought into agreement , or oven harmony . Opposition , through thiok and thin , appears to bo looked upon as a duty by various ' representative' members , aud their grounds of objection are as various as their personal appearance or their sectarian attachments . Still , tho course of tho bill ( which is perhaps as good a one as could have boon framed , with any cliSnc ^^ f ^ h ^ ainTfits ^ way -through-the-House ) has been steady and sure ; and the majority of 297 to ldi-db in favour of tho admission of Jaws into Parliament , and of permitting them to take tho oaths , omitting tho words " on tho true faith of a Christian , " must carry considerable weight with it into tho Uppor House . Mr .

      Walpole hoped that that was the last time on which he should have ' the pain' of debating the question : the cheers of the majority implied what the Lords will probably consider ' culpable expectancy . ' 1 A measure likely to provoke an opposition quite as determined , and even more bitter , is that of Lord Bury , to legalize marriage with a deceased wife ' s sister . Like the Jew Bill , this measure , whatev er form it may take , will be met by cutaud-dried arguments , iterated and reiterated with all the force of obstinate and unconquerable bigotry . Eno ugh for the present to record that a majority of 105 against G 2 gave Lord Bury permission to introduce his bill . Mr . Ayrton ' s motion for leave to bring in a bill to remedy the present inequality in metropolitan poor-rales must be taken as the first step towards a very great reform . The operation of the proposed measure is to be confined to London , but the reasons which make such a reform desirable with rcfe mice to the metropolis will hold , more or less , with regard to every town in England . That the rich quarters of London , after driving the poor out , should get off scot free , while the parishes into which the ejected poor have been driven should be made to bear the increased burden , is a position indefensible on any ground of reason or justice . The model of Mr . Anyton ' s bill has been that of the bill carried by Sir Benjamin Hall for the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works . T here is a second important reform which the principle of tho present bill could and would help to p romoto—the establishment of a groat central municipality , of which the City of London would naturally form tho nucleus , and the beneficial influence of which would bo immense . Tho little progress which has boon made , indeed , towards the fulfilment of such a scheme is attributable to tho jealousy of Parliament , which fears in it too near a rival to the throne . Tho annual tilting-nmtch about tho Irish Viceroy has been this week as mild as tho Eglingxoun tournament , where the lances to bo shivered were sawn half-through . Sir Corniswall Lewis made a businoss-like statement , showing some advantages . and-propriotyJbirQnwvingftn . pffloo >^ httdits uae and dignity beforo the Union , but is now outof * " " date ; yot ho oould not agree to the inotion ^ T ^ 8 jf ?> ^ removal , bocuuso a fifth Secretary of ^^^ % ) J 3 ^ m ) 2 luoky , or some reason equally vulid . ST Ofii ^ fiK 3 ilussEU , also halted between two c &jif | J ^ B PJ \ en Lord Falkjsusxon , wot actually d ^ ^ Sv ^ S |^ v 3 T ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2236/page/1/