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      " The one Ideawhich History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humaruty . —ttic 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 3 piritua . lnature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos . ——

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      ¦ - ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ - " ' . ' ' '" ' " — ' ' "" ¦ i | ------1 - - ¦ -- — — . ... .. . . .. © onttnts : REVIEW OF THE WEEK— pxoe Gatherings from the Law and Po- Government of the Army ... 542 Intellectual Education ...... — . 5 * 2 ¦ Ireland . 530 lice Courts . 538 Tests for Liberal Members 542 . Will He Marry Her ? 5 * 8 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 5 S 0 Ascot Races ... 539 Sir William Peel 542 _ ... „ -., __ Imperial Parliament ; . 530 Naval and Military ......... ; . 539 The SuezQamal Debate .... 543 THE . ARTSTheOrient ..... 534 Mercantile Marine . 539 Breaches of Privilege .... ..., 543 New Pictures at the French Gallery 548 The Indian Revolt ......... ..... 531 Obituary . 539 Sanitary Condition of tl » e Army ... 543 The Photographic Society ..... 548 Letters from China ..... 536 Miscellaneous ..... 539 ,. _ . _„ . _ .. _ _'¦ Theatrical and Musical Notes 548 America .................. ..... 537 Postscript .. 540 LITERATUREState of Trade .... 537 ¦ A _ _ _ . Summavy 545 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinental Notes .......... 5 * 7 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Cardinal Meszofanti .... ¦ 5 * 5 Public Meetings .. 538 Tlie American Demands . 5-1 . 1 Triends at their own Fireside 546 The Gazette . . 54 a Criminal Record . 538 Something too Much of Slough ...... 541 The World and his Wife ..... 547 City Intelligence , Markets , &c ...... 54 ft 0 E

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      ypii / IX . No ; 428 . ] - SATURDAY , JUNE 5 , 1858 . Price { gg ^^ . ;;; glg ^'

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      ¦ ¦ ¦/ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - —? " r . ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ¦ OUR honourable Members of Parliament do not , in the intervals of debate , complete their arguments by the help of revolvers , bludgeons , or bowieknives , as ^ ieir cousins acro& ' s the Atlantic arc wont to do on . exciting occasions ; but the experiences of the last few months , and particularly of the last few days , demonstrate tliat Parliamentary courtesy is fast giving place to vituperative personality , and Parliamentary gallantry to low craft and shiftiness . Honourable gentlemen seize the moment of an opponent ' s absence to attack him and to make charges against him , and when they are called to account , deny , quibble , attempt to " explain" black into white , without a blush , and generally with the satisfaction of raising a laugh in recognition of their wit— -or impudence . If chivalry is not dead , it is at present sleeping very soundly on the benches of the House of Commons ; may we hope that the over loud brawling of some of the Parliamentary swashbucklers who have lately been biting their thumbs at one another will , ' before long , wake the slumbering genius . But while the members of Parliament have retrograded in their treatment of one another , the House of Commons has still preserved its civility for the House of Lords , and has shown the strongest disinclination to doing anything likely to wound the delicate susceptibilities of that august assembly . It has done everything it could thin ' , of to adjust the Oaths Bill difficulty , so as to save « hc amour prop re of the objecting Peers ; its virtue seems in a fair way to reap its due reward . \ 'he suggestion of Lord LtrcA-s on Monday night really oilers a practicable solution of the question at issue between the two Houses : it is to abandon the fifth clause of the amended bill , and give to each House the right to modify the oaths to be taken by its members . There is a strong opinion that the House of Commons already possesses this power , but the sanction of the House of Lords to a legislative recognition of its authority would bo a result ovci which tho Upper aud Lower Houses might wcl ] shake hands , and no love lost . It is to bo hoped that the House of Lords wil deal gently with Mr . Locke King ' s bill for abolish ing tho present property qualification of member ; of Parliament , upon the expediency of which th < House of Commons expressed itself very stronglj on . " Wednesday , on the motion for going into coin nuttce . There cannot be much doubt that the pro

      sent ; property qualification is worse than useless , r Tlie example of the Scotch members alone suffices i to show that it is needless , nobody pretending that c members from the north of the Tweed are less honest , solvent , or independent than those from the south of that legal as well as geographical boundary , t It is a curious sight , however , to see the Conservative split upon this question : Mr . 1 >» fmmond sees nothing before him but anarchy , ruin , and the overthrow of the constitution , if once men are admitted to Pai'liament without giving the solemn security of a property qualification—real or fictitious , as at present ; 31 r . Keb Seymeu and .. Mr . WAia ? ouE ' see in Mr . Locke King ' s reform a great Parliamentary purification and stepping-stone to higher morality and independence . Captain Vivian has induced the House of Coinaiions to express its opinion , by a majority of two , that the better government of the army demands tlie abolition of the office of Cpmmaiider-in-Cliief . The idea of Captain . Vivian is that , although by the changes made in 1 S 55 the various departments of the army were brought into better working order , there is still too great a division of responsibility , and that , therefore , it is desirable to bring the i whole army under the control of one [ Minister , who shall be directly responsible to Parliament . J 3 ut the advantages of the proposed arrangement do not appear to the official mind so obvious as the disadvantages . Such a minister , say the denizens of office ., would , with few exceptions , be a civilian ; and if he succeeded , his labours would , in all probability , be rendered nugatory by his removal from office just when he was becoming fitted to discharge its duties efficiently . One hundred and four luembers , however , out of two hundred and ten , liiiuk that the Army would be better placed under the control of one responsible Minister , and the motion ; was affirmed . It is recorded , and tliat is all ; for Ministers , relying , on the support of ? the ex-Atinis' ters , resolve to take no measures in consequence ; . and as they will not be in very long , perhaps it docs . not much matter . The farce of imprisoning Mr . Washington [ Wilks for a breach of tho privilege of the House of Commons has been played out , M > . "Wilks being I liberated from the custody of the Serjcant-at-A _ nns , . after retracting the libel of which ho admitted himj self to bo the publisher—and " payment of his fees . " ) The ofl ' once which Mr . Wilks had given was the ! publication of an article in his paper , the Carlisle . Examiner , accusing Mr . Cj , ive , tho member for - Hereford , of using his influence , as chairman of a

      ailway . committee , to damage the case of one of the interested railways . Mr . Wilks has retracted the offensive charge ( of which lie was not the author ) , » aid his ' fees , " and gone his M ay , Mr . Clive ex-> ressing himself quite satisfied , and the dignity of lie House being fully vindicated . But there is , not in end of . the matter , for Mr . Denison , the chairnan of the North-Western , sends such a letter to he Times as must be balm , or at least Dutch drops , o the chafed spirit of the editor of the Carlisle Examiner ; " his determination , " says Mr . Denison , peaking of Mr . Cjlive , to decide against the Nortli British case was so apparent throughout , and he majority of a committee so rarely stand out igainst a strong opinion of the chairman , that it vas clear from a very early period that the North . British Company had a very small chance indeed of success in such a committee . " But the great business of the week has been the xttack , three times renewed , by members of the iate Cabinet on the Chancei / loii op the Exchequer , for the more than liberty that he took with their names and reputations at . Slough last-week . Even Lord Derby admitted that his leader in the " other House" committed an indiscretion over his wine ; he wanted , however , to laugh the matter oil ' on that ground , but he failed . The exhibition at Slough was too ^ cold-blooded an affair to be set to the account of the " Bacchic gifts , " to which Lord Palmehston alluded . Always as dangerous to his friends as to his foes , Mr . 'JDisraeiiI has -managed once more to foul the repute of his party ; for he has made any decent defence of himself impossible , and to become liis advocate is to be tainted with his oJlencc . 13 eUvcen the loud confidence of the charges made bcjfbre the gaping Buckingham shire fanners to tlie wriggling , shuffling evasiveness of the defence before the Opposition of the House of Commons , perhaps a stronger contrast was never before seen . The announcement of the deaths of Sir William Peel and of Brigadier Adiuan Hoi > h gives at the first glance a gloomy appearance to the news by late mails from India ; but although the news is chequered , the successes of the British army outweigh the reverses which it has sustained ajjon ^ -or ^ two points . All is activity—and what activity . j ^ in ' ' , ' ^\ ,, India in hot weather Mr . llussEix of ^ $ itha ? $$$ 9 : ' ¦ - ' / •' --with a graphic force that makes onc ^ r ^ iiic'Jmt'lii / ' \ - " the mere labour of reading . All is sysl ^ i itU ^ jn ^^ C—i " /•"' among the generals , whose opcraliou ^ ^ ' ^ tfA ' t ^^ ^ 'i . ^ the bringing of tho largest forces Pfu ' ife ^^ i ^ j ^ li ^ ^ the now great centres of rcYoJt-Sf 1 ^^*^^ - ' ^ '" ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/1/