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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 bamer 3 erected between , men by prejudice and one-sided view 3 ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one brotherhooi-, having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— ^ oe " The Sanctity of Domestic In- The Spirit of Law 614 Lamartine ' s Celebrated Cliarac-~ j . ^ . ^ riu ^ -xxr ^ ir cm tercourso . " ; 610 A " Stranger" hi Parliament ...... 615 ters ,. 618 B ! 2 ^^ Stt « S ^\ " \"" :::: 8 S B ssa » 5 sr and Ame * en open council- 7 HEARTS _ : ° SoSS ! . ^ . i ^ .. ^ : C 07 SaSS ^ 'ifiiiWfS ^ ::: 81 B ^ S 35 £ " ! y ! T . . ^ ! !!!? 816 I *** Courier of Lyons 619 The Anglo-French Allianco COS The Co-operative Association in i Continental Notes 608 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Paris and Limoges 616 I _ . .. „ . , _ . „ ... The British Cauap at Aladyn near Literary Club . 616 | Uirths , Marriages , and Deaths ... 620 Varna 609 Austria in the Principalities ... 613 htcditiipc ' '" . ¦ rnMiwcpciAi acpaip « letters from the Baltic 609 Why England AVaats Police LITERATURE- , COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSIndia and the Russian Squadron . 610 Bills 613 Summary 617 \ City Intelligence , Markets , Ad- / Maurice ' s Lectures .,..... ; .. 610 Partnership Law for tiio People 614 Guizot ' s Cromwell 617 vertisementSj & c ... 620-624
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rTIHE head of the British Government has de-X clared for a prosecution of the war to extort effectual security from llussia ; the declaration ¦ was made witbin a few hours after the electric telegraph had asserted that Russia had sent to Vienna an acceptance of the Austrian propositions , and while the despatches from the East continued to report the progress of the Russian defeat and the evacuation of the Principalities . The telegraph was most likely false . It told tig , some days past , that the purport of the Russian reply was , that in deference to Austria , the Principalities will be evacuated . We have yet to learn whether the reply is so or not . . If it were , the message would he the most impudent
pretence of which even Russia has been guilty . The Principalities are in course of being evacuated in deference to the valour of the Turkish arms , commanded by Omar Pacha , and supported as they are by France and England . Austria cannot possibly regard herself as more than the last feather—a weighty one , no doubt—which has broken the stout back of Russian endurance . Should the despatch be a verity , we have yet to see whether Austria would , in consequence of so impudent a pretence , retract from her position , or whether she will not go forward in allianco with the Western Powers , and put upon Russia that restriction which the conduct of Nicholas has rendered necessary for its moral effect as weLLas military safety .
_ With respect to Lori Aberdeen , we have no disposition to copy the carping spirit of Lord Clnnricarde , ov to call the new speech a " retractation . " We have still our doubts whether Lord Aberdeen , a minister with peace in his mouth , is the best suited for the present time ; but that question may l > c said to be placed out of the field by the unhandsome party attack upon him , which condescends to misrepresent his language . The new speech ' was not n retractation ; and we cannot , Consistently with the trust wluch _ gentlojnen must place in tlio -words of gentlemen , receive it as anything more than a complete proof , that whik ; the
language of tho venerable nobloman was imprudent to tho last degree , rash in the mannerism of moderation , —while ho approaches the Turkish question from a diirerent , point of view , his meaning and purpo . se nro identical with those nt present coiittti » plnt ** J-4 >^ kmu 4 .. ^ hn Russell , Lord Clarendon , anil by the Kngli « li public generally . KusBia , he hhjb , having om-o declared war , must be compelled to fool that the power of tho allies is greater than her own ; imil she- mu . st yield a security that she will not ugmu atkmipl . ( ho invasion of Turkey . Whether < n > not Lord Aberdeen ou . U ina colleagues arc prepared to nun , boldly and unflinchingly , ftt tho only tangible means for
securing the objects they have in view , we must judge by the sequel . But that is a subject which we have discussed in a separate , paper . We still suspect Lord Aberdeen of moderation at a time when moderation would be as inopportune as reflection , in the mid-career of a charge of cavalry . The despatch which Lord Aberdeen produced , as written by himself in 1829 , after the treaty of Adrianople had been concluded , cannot be rejected as evidence to his character . He was at that time the Foreign Secretary of a Tory Ministry ; Russia victorious , she might have dictated terms at Constantinople ; and Lord Aberdeen was obliged to con-line himself to criticising
the terms of pretended moderation which Russia had extorted . In this despatch he' shows that ; , although she hrul taken no territorial acquisitions , she had secured the keys of military enti-auce into all the territories of Turkey , and had , by false pretences , established liersolf in the position of a conqueror ; that the Russian war was declared against Turkey as intended only for the purposes of redress , professedly with objects of the most moderate compensation , and with the fixed condition of not injuring the territorial independence of the Ottoman Empire . Now that he is chief of a Liberal Ministry , Lord Aberdeen has a right to bring forward this despatch , written in so totally different a position , as a proof that the opinions avowed by anti-Russian parties at the
present day are tho same with the opinions which he had formed even tlien ; and we say it would be an outrageous exaggeration of just suspicion , it would he a violation oi thcfeelingovenof the poorest chivalry , to suspect a statesman who can bring evidence to character like this . We agreo with ^ Lord Lyndhurst that tho true policy of Englishmen is to persevere in "jealousy , " rather than in " confidence , " not because wo suspect English statesmen of treachery , but because we may reasonably suspect them of mistaken judgment at a critical moment , of too great timidity , and , most chiefly , of sympathising with the governing class of any state rather than with the people of thoir own country , still less Avith the people of any foreign land .
explanation as would have been a formidable protest against the supposed meaning of Lord Aberdeen ' s language ; but his second speech has allayed the storra , and Mr . Layard ' s withdrawal of his notice is learned with approval . Government must not suppose that , because the people are not ' assembling ' . at public meetings , they are indifferent or asleep . Any serious misconduct on the part of Ministers would soon , arouse a correction of any such mistake . The Russians being undoubtedly in retreat , both on the main road from Kalarasch to the Sereth , and through the Dobrudscha , the most interesting question is the next line of operations on both sides . For a new Poiv ^ r has entered into the quarrel , and for good or evil the . Austrian army will march down the left bank of tho Danube and occupy Wallachia .. What the effect of this will be is matter of . muclr speculation . Austria , it is said , is acting in collusion- with Russia , and will dictate a peace from Bucharest . Let us see . First , so far as we can learn , the Russians show no symptoms of abandoning the mouths of the Danube ; nor even , of abandoning Moldavia . On the contrary , recent intelligence indicates rather a design to stand on the Sereth , and hold the Lower Danube than a design to take post behind the Pruth . Secondly , " the march of Russian troops upon the Austrian frontier shows an intention , of drawing down to the support of the army now in retreat , and menacing Gallicia at the sumo time . Should the Russians stand at the Sereth , and the Austrians cross the Turkish frontier , that would amount to a declaration of war against Russia . In point of fact , Austrian collusion is not necessary to account for the Russian retreat . Beaten at Silistria , with a storm gathering on the Balkan ,, the Russians had no course open but to retreat ; and the line " of the Danube once abandoned , Wallachia offered no position , and the line of the Sereth was tho onl y alternative . The entry of the Austrians , it is said , is intended to chock the pursuit of tho Turks . But how could the Turks harass tho Russians when the former Avere miles in tho rear ? And how could Austria shield the retreat when not a bayonet or sabre had crossed tho frontier ? Assuming that iVu . stria is sincere she will bo "usoful enough in ilia Principalities , because her presence will sot free the allies for ulterior operations ; such as the reduction of tho Crimea . Supposing- tho Austrians do not fire a whot upon tho Kuasiajm , still a Russian jinny will be needed to watch those now troops , to secure the loft bank of tho Lower Danube below tho eon / luencc of the Pruth ; for it . is confessed that Austria aims at tho freedom ox the Danube . Wv . have no means of judging of the sincerity of Austria ; avo alllrm nothing on tho subject f we only say that collusion with Russia is not needed to account for tho Russian retreat or tho Austrian occupation . As to tho reported reinforcements which arc to bo scut to
Whatever may havo boon Lord Aberdeen ' s mistakes in language , or in poliuy , he has now been straightforward and outspoken ; and such bearing lin . s its usual dtW't . Undue siiHpieion and reproach arc at once disarmed . Mr . Layard withdrew the motion of which he had given notice for Thursday last , for demanding an explanation in the House of Commons , and he declared himself satisfied . The cheers with -which this announconfent was received allowed that ho ivau correct in anticipating the wishes of the Ikmou . We havo reason to know that , inlluenlial persons amongst , the public , who heartily shared Mr . hazard's divsire for explanation , have been for tho time equally satisfied . In Nowonsllo , for example , men of all parties wero prepared to come forward with such n demand for
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Leader (1850-1860), July 1, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01071854/page/1/
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