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TJEWS OF THE WEEK- t * . ob The Eonaan Catholic Parlia- , Men and Horses for the Army 1140 Children ' s Books 1146 Meeting of Parliament 11 : 50 ™ M « i ^ J ? e * £ er JJ'H I 3 ; he Bessarabian Campaign ... lUO Books on our Tables ' ... ' . * ... " . " 1147 The War 1130 The Patriotic Pund 1137 Sweet-lived Evans 1141 ' Continental Notes ...... " !! "' . ' . " . ' . . 1132 Ei SS ^ C * j—; u — n" - - "i 1137 OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSAustralia , iv 4 J | le Bishop and the Burial Jt , ~ ,-,.,... , Spain m Board .... ; 1137 Babel 1141 High Art of a New Kind 1147 Anniversaryoftho ' Polish In : " - ' Miscellaneous 1137 LITERATURE- Theatres 114 T surrection .... ; H 33 _ .. „ . . _ . « . „ , Summary 1142 — China ..... 1135 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Heinricfi Heine 1143 ^ MMCB ^ ,, „ Ireland ... 1138 Public Opinion 1138 The House of Baby ...... 1144 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSOur Civilisation . 1137 r J ? fre Luader Policy in Oliice ... 11 S 9 ASeholar ' s Life 1145 City Intelligence , Markets Ad-Ireaks of Fortune at Bristol ... 1137 The Volunteer Force 1139 ¦ Some Political Books ............ 1146 vertisernents , & c . ..... . 1148 . 1152
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fTlHE war-plot thickens : there is a singular X alteration in the position . Russia is now the aggressive power in war , and the positive power in politics : as her ships corne out from their ports in the northern sea , and as her besiegers become the besieged in the Crimea , so she gives up her negative attitude in diplomacy , and begins to propose peace . On the other hand , the relative position of the Western Powers and their peoples alter : the Governments are sinking back , and the
peoples are coining forward ; the Government of France , like that of England , throwing itself on public opinion and soliciting the co-operation of its legislative council . —sometimes called Parliament . Again , it is not France and England which are treating -with Austria and Prussia ; it is Austria and Prussia which are endeavouring to modify the action o > f France and England . In short , the war is , in all its aspects , assuming a new shape . Events are drifting
despotic France and aristocratic England into a revolutionary war out of a mere Turkish warthe Eastern question bccoming \ the European question ; and it is at such a moment that liussia , which has succeeded in keeping the Western and German Powers apart , is now seeking to divide the Western Governments from the 'Western Publics . These Publics will speedily have the opportunities of putting their Governments to the teat . The Emperor Louis Napoleon proposed last week a campaign on the Danube : this week that project is vaguely and sceptically
spoken of . Why this change of plan ? Have the proposals of peace intervened ? Last week the English Government was contemplating a loan 5 this week the Government organ , which had made the original statement , denies , oa authority , ' that there will bo any necessity for a loan . The statement of ( ho one day is , doubtless , that of a Minister , and the next day that of the Minister's colleague : the hesitation indicating the vacuous inanity of the cabinet councils which ai'o now almost daily—and dnily beca \ iso the Governmont is without a master mind to dictate—to d « -
cido , and to act . Now , it is very clear thnt if Louis Napoleon , maintaining his feoblo conception of the war , confines his cflbrta to the Crimea , reserving hia strength for a possible Ilhino campaign , lie cannot bo very earnest in the alliance with us against Russia . It is quito as
clear that if our Government insists—with the Parliament that is not , ready with a party to succeed them , and with the press ( of London ) , which is almost as exclusively a Governmental press as that of "Vienna—that the petty pedantic and peddling finance which has hitherto prevailed during the war , must continue to the end of the war , then the intention is to limit the war—to grasp at a peace—and to delude the people . Certainly there is no immediate fear : that Ministry which did not repair the disasters of the Crimea , and maintain the national honour by actual success , and
not by mere glory obtained by reckless waste of gallant life , would , in the present ternper of the people , run the risk of impeachment . Troops , in great numbers , are being poured into Balaklava ; and in good time we may hope to see Sebastopol taken , and the mistakes of our excellent general , in putting Sebastopol into such admirable connexion with Russian resources , rectified , But , after that , Lord Aberdeen would be impetuous for an " honourable peace ; " and let us not make any mistake—Lord Aberdeen is , under existing arrangements , the governor of this country .
Kossuth in his speech at the Polish celebration on Wednesday evening , has inflicted a heavy blow on the Government . In his general argument he was illogical ; but in his detailed criticism he wa s acute , convincing , crushing . A great strong man , speaking of the hysteric doings of little men , his genius rebuked the blunders and the crimes of the year ; and though it is highly desirable that England should not be led by a foreigner , yet if the Radicals , if there be ^ such men , hide away in insignificance and silence , the people will listen to
him -who does speak out . We venture to think that , in the main , Kossuth ' s speech will fasten itself in the hearts and brains of the country ; ' and of this we are sure , that his marvellous review of the events of the year will constitute the text of most of the Parliamentary criticisms now impending —a uniform viow of the Government failures being probable from all parties—from Mr . Layard and from Mr . Disraeli—from liberals of the Seymour
and Blackett School —and from the conversationstatesmen of the Clanricarde class . Right or wrong , there is a strong feeling growing up against the Government—not against its statesmen —but against its administrators , a fooling of which the Whigs , who have had notliing to do with the manipulation of the war , will possibly sock to take advantage . The heroea who lie buried on the heights of the Alma , in tho gorges of the Inkerman ,
m the flats of Balaklava , in the cemeteries of Tarna and of Scutari , appeal from their glorious graves against those weak and wicked men , who have dared to play with history , and have assumed with insolent incapacity the grand duties of a great nation ' s government in a European crisis —which they created by their politeness , and would control in a gentlemanly manner . The relatives of those who have fallen feel some sensations of revenge while ; they mourn- ;; and earnest will he their protest in Parliament . Absolute distrust of the
capacity of the Government to manage even the smallest affairs is visible in all directions ; and it is with a sensation of relief we hear that the nobles have actually summoned Mr . Peto and his Coadjutors to go out with , their navvies to work the siege . The public look , to Russian and A « strian arrangements to provide us with the bare news of the war ; our Government does not hear from
Constantinople under eleven or twelve dnys , and when it gets a despatch hasn ' t the hardihood to publish it—even cooked . Then the public looks to itself to provide winter comforts for the army in the Crimea ; and Miss Nightingale writes to the Voluntaries for lint . No one thinks 6 f trusting to the Government . Its plans about wooden and iron houses are laughed at : its statements about ample accommodation for the sick arc disbeliuved . A
" Crimean Fund Society" is established to organise Christinas presents to the army ; and books and papers are sent gratis by the publishers . It would really seem as if this Government , so crowded with experienced men , and possessing one man , the Dulce of Newcastle , young , vigorous , and capable at least of spending the unlimited national funds—there being no reserve whatever placed on expenditure—was carrying on the war with the aid of newspaper correspondents—a cabinet council being called to consider the last new project ventilated in the morning papers ! Thus Mr .
Nastnyth ' a letter about wrought iron guna oxcitea the nation , which demands to know why tlio cast iron system has not been done away with—or why is it not a Nasmyth , in place of a 1 ) uke of wpj » .- " / castle , appointed to carry on thu war ? © urs is j a very clever public , cautious and ncuftc ^ an 4 Vfhcn ¦> . a Perkins writes , with groat popularly * to sUgg ^ st , ' how to take Sehaiutopol , ( luting from ,. »/ ' ^ i'Vrii ; t "() j [; .. > apparatus manufactory , " the Govqr ^ mo ht / m ^ BC ' have got into a public position ignottniflioupry ' ludicrous . / : Secret diplomacy is rampant iti Ge & Q ^ yj . T Prussia undertakes to obtain peace for Russia ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02121854/page/1/
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