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      CONTENTS : , ' .. ' " _ , . „_ " , nrn 7 il '¦' .. .- . 1057 Weedon 10 C-1 MERCANTILE AND COMMERCIALREVIEW OF THE . WEEK- ¦ »« Wes t Indies . " - 1057 The Russian Imperial Agitator .... 1005 India ...:... ; ., . ' . 1072 Political Foreshadow . ings .. io . > 2 America 105 T Portraitures , of the Royal Family Tea and Coffee in the Himalayas ... 1072 The Education Movement 10 oJ Miscellaneous 1000 of Prussia 1005 Notes on Indian Progress ...... ' . 1073 Lord Canning ' s Defence 10 ^ 3 postscript 1062 Trifles Light as Air 10 G 6 Taxes on Trade „ 1074 St . Thomas ' s Hospital lOjg .,.....,.. " rnpoFisPOWBEMCE- . i-r-. rr /« i-iiDr Quantities versus Value 1075 Naval and Military . 10 . _ > 4 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE LITERATURE- General Trade Report 1075 Aceidents and Sudden Deaths . 10 o 4 France ™ 5 * Mr . Carlyle ' s Life of Frederick the Home . Colonial , and Foreign Pro-Ireland V " Ti"iw Germany 10 a 9 Great 1007 duce Markets' ° 1076 Gatherings from kaw and Police in < i , a , 10 ^ 9 Notes on Cherbourg IOCS Money Market and Stock Ex-Courts „ " in =- China 1059 The QuarterHes . 1069 change 1077 Criminal Record ' " ¦ £ ? PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The Magazines for October 1070 Ordinary Shares and Stocks 1078 Continental Notes woo France Meditate War with A ___ Railway Intelligence 1079 India * . ¦• " in-7 us ? 1062 THE ARTS— Bank of England 1079 China * " ? ' The PriissianRegency 1063 Theatres and Public Entertain- London Gazette ..... 1079 C ° of ' Cood Hope 1057 Lord John Russell and Lord Derby 1003 inents ... 1071 Books Received this Week 1079

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      T HE country is fast warming oir the subject of Reform ; the word is becoming a cry , rising louder and louder every day . Reconstruction of electoral districts , extended suffrage , and the ballot , these are the elements of the popular programme ^ as far as it is at present arranged . How far will Lord Derby ' Reform Bill go towards satisfying the demands of the people ? Up to this time , Ministers have succeeded in keeping their reformatory intentions entirely to themselves , not without exhibiting a somewhat comical timidity on the subject , as when Mr . Disraeli and Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttonthinking discretion the better part of valour—stayed away from their customary dinners at Aylesbury and at Hertford ; the turbot , if not the wine , might have set them talking ; it was safer to fly from the risk . But whatever the Government Bill may be , it must be in the main a reasonable approach to that which public opinion is making ready to demaud , if Lord Derby and his friends are not bent on flinging away their offices and their political vitality at the same time ; for Sir George Corncwall Lewis no doubt saw correctly into the future when lie " said , at the Radnorshire Agricultural dinner , the other day , " In whatever form a Reform Bill may be introduced into the House of Commons , it will come out of that House a real Reform Bill , increasing the popular character of the Legislature . "

      In the meantime , and in the absence of the least word of intelligence from Ministers , rumour is as busy as a bee , buzzing about possible and impossible stones of the parts to be played by various great actors in the coining drama . The most prominent of these stories is that which relates how Lord Derby and Lord John Russell have been in consultation on the subject of the great Bill . There appears to be . no truth in the story , and its promulgation lias not done much as a party move in the way of damaging Loi'd Johu Russell with the Liberal section of the country . The animus is strong , however , in that direction , as we see by another move which has been made to give an appearanco of friendly understanding between Lord John aud . tho Government . A fow days back it was stated in certain circles that Lord Bury was going out to Canada on " a mission of great commercial and politioal importance , " for no less a purpose , in i ' net , than to obtain for tho Colonial-oflico tho opinion of tho Canadian Legislature and poople on tho ra-oposod confederation of the British North American provinces , which Mr . Carticr , and some othors of tho Canadian Administration , have coino over to this country to negotiate Lord Bury was nt ono time privnto secretary to Lord John Russell , and is ^ oll known to act in concert with him ; tho inforouco intended to bo suggested , thoroforo , was ) , that , in ftpoepting an appointment from tho Tory Government Lord Bury was aoting as Usual with tho ooueurronQo of Lord John RussolL Tho fact . on whioli this canard has been founded is that Lord Bury has gono over to Canada with hia wifo on a

      private visit to Sir Alan M'Nab , his father-in-law . He , also , lias some affairs on his hand as a Director of the Gal way Steam Company—a very different thing , however , from the turn given by some to the original report . As to . Lord John , he is as silent as the gentlemen in office as to what he is going to do on the Reform question ; nothing is known of his plans ; it is , however , supposed that he has plans , though he has not explained them . The two documents received from Lord Canning in answer to the famous Ellenborough despatch are such as a thoroughly honest aaid earnest man would . write . under . similar circumstances of provocation . Lord Canning ' s defence is powerful , and will be to his friends and supporters in spite of its length , satisfactory . It does away with Lord Ellenborough's direct and pointed censure , and it throws Upon him and upon those who gave effect to it the responsibility of ¦ much | of the difficulty which at this moment has to be dealt " with in Crude . By the ktters of Mr . Montgomery and . other Commissioners he shows clearly that great advances were being made in bringing the rebellious-talookdars-to tender their submission under the terms of the censured proclamation j and that , on the . other hand , the publication of the Ellenborough despatch not only all but put a stop to the progress making towards pacification , but was taken as an encouragement to continued hostility by many of those who were wavering on the borders of submission . But , like a man who feels that his case is clearly made out in his own favour , Lord Canning states his determination not to mortiucalion

      desflBfcliis post in consequence ot any whienhe may have felt : the great want is British troops to defend those who may submit to the clemency of the British authority , aud he says , " When the season shall arrive at which the troops can again movo rapidly over the country—when the largo police force now being raised- by the Chief Commissioner at Luckuow shall have reached its complement and received further organisation , and when it shall bo manifest that wo have the moans of protecting or supporting thoso who return to their allegiance , I cannot doubt that tho spirit in which the proclamation has been accepted in many quarters will doclarc itself genorally through * out the province . " Among the meetings of tho week one is specially noteworthy j it took place at Worcester on Wednesday ovoning , and tho occasion was tho oolcbration of tho union of fourteen Mochanics' Institutes around Worcester . Tho scheme of this union , which promises many advantages , was set on foot some mouths since by Mr . J . S . Pakington , a son of the First Lord of tho Admiralty , and tho meeting on Wednesday evening was addressed by Sir John Pakington . His views on tho subjcot of popular oduoation are woll known , and his speech at Worcester contained nothing remarkably new in tho way of argumont or illustration ; but it was an camost recognition of tho duties of all " as citizens , as philanthropists , and as politicians , to promote education and tho gonoral diffusion of knowledge" as a security against tho headstrong passions and prejudices of iguorauco—tho true " root of oJU oyil . "

      If any of the poor shareholders in the Western Bank of Scotland were hugging themselves with the comfortable belief that they knew the worst of their calamity , they have been unpleasantly undeceived , within the last few days ; the publication of the report of the liquidators conveys to them the miserable fact that hundreds of them are ruined . Every calculation of the value of the assets has turned out to have been beyond the value realised : the consequence is , that , after paying the call of 25 / . per 50 / . share , the unfortunate shareholders are now called upon to pay another 100 / . per share ' . —nearly a million pounds of liabilities remaining yet to be liquidated . And the authors of this havoc ? . —of the corruption which , as the Times says , will leave its taint for many years on the mercantile character of the entire city of Glasgow ? - * they are , " as the world goes , " very honest gentlemen , who may get up another Bank at their convenience ; "justice , ' meantime , being done on the legally liable shareholders . Stern justice , we take it , will be meted out to some other gentlemen who have incurred liabilities of a somewhat different kind , Discoveries made at Birmingham and in London have brought to light the fact of a well-organised conspiracy to defraud . the Turkish Government by the manufacture in this country of a large amount of spurious coin . Another ease discloses an attempt to manufacture fictitious Russian bank-notes , and in this instance there is reason to believe the work has been successful to an enormous extent . Two Frenchmen and a Greek

      are in custody lor the lurkish iraud , and it is expected that some persons of much greater consequence will be found connected with the transaction . The decision of the Lord Mayor in the case of the man Johnston , whose brutality drove one of his daughters to attempt self-destruction , has given universal satisfaction . We are all too well aware that there arc brutal husbands and fathers enough in the world , but happily we do not often sec a case of such poculkuc ^ blackness—we do not hear of fathers in Johnston ' s position in lifo , not only neglecting his children , but driving them from his house—telling the girls to " go upon the town" for a living , and tho boys to steal . Tho month ' s imprisonment with hard labour as a rogue and vagabond is but a small punishment with reference to his doscrts , but it has a morit from the unflinching way in which tho Lord Mayor dctorminod to indict the severest chastisoment which tho law allowed him to award . For tho poor girl , the hcroino of the dark domestic history , public sympathy is ilnding substantive expression in subscriptions which already rcnoh to between two and thrco hundred pounds , which aro to bo applied to her benciit , as tho Lord Mayor may think best ; probably &ho will be established in business , and so put beyond tho need of seeking or of receiving assistance from her bruto father . In foreign politics tho most interesting topic at tho present moment is tho nttitudp taken by tho En \ - pcror of Russia on ' tho subject of ' sorf-cjmuwcipation . During a tour whioli ho lias lately nmdo through several of tho governments ol' his empire , ho has

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1858, page 1051, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2263/page/3/