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SfP ^* C ey ^ D ^^ VV ~ V \ s < V ? A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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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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NEWS OF THE WEEK- not The Promotion of Labour 836 Archdeacon Denison 842 Horace Greeley 847 The War 830 The Battle of the Tchernaya 837 Prince Albert 842 Addenda 848 The Last of the ' Fe ' tes 831 Examination Tests 837 Sunday Trading once more 842 Books on our Table 848 The Italian Nightmare " . ""; " !"""! 832 Disraeli and Bolmgbroke S 3 S _ „ _ THE ARTSContinental Notes 832 Victrix Victoria Victa ....... 839 LITERATURE « Eli" at the Birmingham Fes-Our Civilisation 833 The Last of Young Ireland ...... 839 Summary . 843 tival „ 849 A Reverend Magistrate * i 34 Marshal Radetzki and Lord John Heine's Poems 843 Naval and Military News 831 Russell 840 Reed on English Literature 844 Obituary 834 General Pepc » 4 l The History of Napoleon Bona- Births Marriages , and Deaths ... 850 Pofts iriX" ^ " //// :.::: //// " /// .:. V .:. " . ' .: SJ OPEN COUNCIL- Thf ^ igariaiTtheTurkVand 845 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPUBLIC AFFAIRS— Italy for the Italians 841 the German 846 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-The Perils of the Nation 835 Miss Nightingale 842 ' A Batch of Books 84 G veriisemeuta . & e 830-852
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IF anything could corroborate the popular desire for a winter session , it would be the movements on the Continent , which have so much the aspect of new combinations , but which are reported and explained in a manner so distressingly imperfect . Paris is becoming the centre from which the campaign , diplomatic as well as military , is directed . The visit of Queen Victokia . was not the first that the Emperor Napoleon has received , though by far the most
important ; it promises not to be the last ; and amongst the crowned heads who have actually consulted the reigning Empekob of the French , or are to follow , we may enumerate the King of the Belgians , the King of Poutugai ,, Queen Victoria , the King of Sardinia , the King of Bavaria , and the King of Wubtembekg . To the list we may add the Queen of Spain ; for although her Majesty has not come , her position is such as would make her readily enter into any future congress of Paris for the settlement of the Continent .
Dilatory as the conduct of the war may have been in all quarters , it is not to be denied that the Russians are losing ground . This is rendered certain by their own reports as well as by the reports of the Allies . Every fresh account from the Tchernaya proves not only that the last engagement was of much greater importance than we at first imagined , but that the defeat was yet more important . We have already explained the general nature of the attempt , and our interpretation is confirmed by the plan discovered on the
body of General Read ; only that the design was yet larger than wo supposed it to bo , and the failure , therefore , proportionate . The plan was to mako a sortie from the town on the extreme left , another on the extreme right , with the broad attack across the Tchernaya on the right flank 5 and if those simultaneous attacks succeeded , to advance upon the rear , take possession of
Balaklava , enclose the Allied forces , drive them into the soa , and raise the siege , —or pack up the Allies aa prisoners for exportation , with a royalty on the export . The plan was not carried out the sortie s from the town wore not made , but ; Gobtschakofjf ' s army for the attack across the Tchorn aya was strengthened by newly-arrived reinf orcements , mingled with tho pick of the troo ps already in tho Russian camp ; the men wore
primed with brandy , and with superstitious expectations ; they were led with great valour , and they could only be repulsed by a still greater valour , with the strength that the Allies derived from a higher discipline and morale . The Russians were driven back three times before they retreated , and even then their overwhelming numbers prevented the Allies from following them . It is clear ,
therefore , that the Allies are in no state to take possession of the Crimea ; but it is equally clear that the Russians , for some reason or other , no longer retain the strength to bide their time ; and still more evident that they want either the command , the morale , the discipline , the skill , the supplies , or all these things , to maintain an effective equality with the besiegers .
It is very much the same in the Baltic . The report of General De Berg on the bombardment of Sweaborg is clearly intended to make light of that continued attack ; and as we know how false are his accounts of destruction to English ships , we may imagine that his accounts of immunity for Russian stores are equally inaccurate . We also
know how to estimate the " one Cossack , " who is , as usual , killed on these occasions . But General Dje Berg admits great destruction ; and the report that more Russian war-ships are to appear at some period not yet fixed , for the purposes of assailing the Allied fleet , must be taken as a symptom that the Russians grow uneasy under the protracted efforts of non-action .
The exactly opposite policy in Asia appears now to be equally unsuccessful . General Mouit . vvieff , endeavouring to bo strong on too many points , has succeeded upon none . Russia , therefore , wo may regard as decidedly losing ground . Even the satisfaction expressed in Stockholm and Copenhagen is another sign , and a very satisfactory sign , that Russian shares are . falling in the market . The Aflonhladt does not scruple to come out with a declaration that tho Swedes rejoico at tho success of the Allies before Sweaborg ; tho Faidreland gives a very similar expression to Danish feeling ; and there is a talk of a Scandinavian alliance against tho tyrant of the Baltic !
If Russia is losing ground , ho is that power whom wo arc beginning to regard as her last convert , her ally—Austria . Tho Government at Vienna 1 ms been thrown into a doubly .-sinister and npologetical position , at tho same time that it iw detected in movomonts quite inconsistent with tho friendly expressions towards tho Western Powers . Not that it has abandoned its claim as
our ally ; on the contrary , explanations have been used to draw forth from the English Government assurances that nothing hostile is intended by the formation of the Anglo-Italian Legion in Piedmont—assurances , we should ha < re thought , quite unnecessary . When men form a band for mutual protection in passing across a difficult country , one seldom turns round to a companion at his side and asks for an explanation why he wears a sword or a pistol . The very question would show" an alienated state of mind , which would make suspicion recoil upon the inquirer . And so it is with Austria . If she doubts the motives of forming an Anglo-Italian . Legion , we have a right to doubt why she is arming Verona , Pola , and other places which equally menace Piedmont , the Adriatic , the Milanese , and the Venetian territory . H er attitude is that of a state who regards the forces in Piedmont , Italian or English , the people in the Sardinian States , the vessels sailing on the Adriatic , the inhabitants of Venice , and the people of the Milanese , as her enemies . Before we leave the question of threatening aspects we must glance at the new insurrection in India . Not that wo join our contcmporai'ies in hastening to presume that it is tho outburst of a Russian conspiracy . The Santals who inhabit a hill district of Bengal have risen in thousands under a divine mission to expel the invaders , British , and we may suppose Mussulman and Hindoo , and to re-establish some ancient regime , about two hundred miles from the capital of the British Presidency . These Santals belong to a race supposed to be primitive ; its origin not being known , but being apparently anterior to that of tho Hindoos and Saracens . They have by great exertions of British " reformers" been settled down upon the land , tho British reformers in most cases being the head collectors of that revenue which partakes of tho nature both of rent and taxation . In other words , tho Santals might say that they have boon inveigled to abandon their manly nomadic existence in order that they might bind themselves to the land , and bo taxod by alien invaders . Perhaps some recent offences havo stirred them up . Labourer * on the railway which is forming through their di » lricl ., it ia said , have meddled with their women ; which JS likety enough , as tho Hill men of oimown IDkihus could testify . Heneo they havo mu . itorod , as th ^ jiimrY ' men did in ( ho ltofonn . Hill < luys , and oth | r , tU « C * ' . of tumult ; but tho Indiana are armed witittjbauj *} . ' i axes , bowh , and arrowy . They havo a ^ BtvUeiX ; y ju 14 s v- ' j /
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091855/page/1/
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