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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 betvveen . men by prejudice aad one-sided views ; aud by settm ° " aside ttie distinctions of Hehgion , Countrj ' , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Uumbol & t '' s Cosmos ¦ .
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NcWS OF THE WEEK— »» oe What is being Done by tho Who Gave the " Timid Coun- Henri Heine 1047 Central Association for the sels w 1040 Tho \ n < rel in the House 1048 A National Party 10 : 54 Aid of Soldiers' Wives and Miscellaneous [ .. [ .. 1040 Habits and Men 1043 The War 10-3-A Widows .. ; . 1037 r- > i , Oi , „ « ,-,-., me Irvine and Suiritu-vl Riu'iv-Vl " 1 O 4 Q 3 Tho »! v , Mr . Whi 8 ton 1034 Public Opinion in America ... 1037 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- £ rvn ^ and fc ^ n ME cv ival . 1049 J ¦ Testimonial to the Rev . R . Canada , 103 S Louis Napoleon and the United Three Novels 1051 Whistou 1034 Our Civilisation 1038 States 1041 Disfranchisement of Freehold "Norton Street , " Marylebone 1038 The Newspaper Stamp Kc- PORTFOLIOLand Voters 1034 Catholics in Municipalities ... 1038 turns 1042 Underneath ... . 1052 Reinforcements for the East ... 10 ; 5 i The Danish Struggle , 1039 The "Working Man and his _ , _ . _ Odd Proceedings 3034 The Sydeiiham Pete .... 1039 Teachers 1042 THE ARTSlord Palmerston at Roinsey U 0 S 5 The Czar ' s own Account of his Increase-of the Army 1043 DruryLane . 1053 The Loss of the Arctic . 1030 Mission . 1039 China Made Useful 1041 > Mr . Peto and the King of Den- Germany and Russia 1039 « DrM / . ftinv . ^ n " mark 103 G Another Arctic Expedition ... 1039 opeim council- Birtlis , Marriages , and Deaths 1054 Mr . BernalOsborneinTipperary 1086 The Public Health 1039 Babel 1044 , __ „ ,- „_ « Mr . TJrquhart ; at Newcastle ...... 1037 Labour Movement in October 1040 ... _ . „ . _ . „ . COMMERCIAL . AFFAIRS"Working Men ' s College ............. 1037 The Patriotic Fund 1040 uitKAi-URU- City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-The La . te Mr . Geach , M . P 1037 National Defence 1040 Summary .. 1045 vertiseme ' nts , & c . 1054-105 G
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THE official telegraph lias not yet reported the fill of . Sebastopol . In fact , tlie siege has turned out a much more tough affair than-we- — home-keeping and sanguine speculators — had imagined . Our accounts come down to the 25 th ; at that date the fire had been going on for sevea days . Shoitld the place have been taken in ten or twelve days ,-the result will be extraordinary in the annals of war ; should it hold out longer , the fact will not be out of the usual course . Lord Raglan , we are told , had quietly determined to spare his army—an army not easily recruitedand to take the place by sap and cannon . The
French attaclc , it would appear , had not been so successful as the British . The obstacles raised by the Russians to the west , would require much time and labour to overcome . With regard to the reports from Russia , that the sillies had lost four redoubts and eleven guns , we simply disbelieve them . Most soldiers light well behind entrenchments ; whether the alleged Russian attack took place near Inkerinan or Balukluva , the result must have been achieved , if at all , by fighting , not manoeuvring ; and ivo leave our readers to jvdge "whether tlie men who failed before Silistria are likely to succeed against the soldiers either of England or Franco . This disbelief docs not extend to the assertion—that there
was some affair . What Omar Pasha may bo doing in the Principalities we know not ; but notwithstanding the report of the movements of Sadyk Pasha 0 : 1 the SeretL , and Iskender Bey in the Dobrud . sch . ii , we cannot imagine for one , moment that Omar JL ' iisha contemplates any extensive operntions in Bessarabia . That he should resolve to Imve complete control of the Danube is not wonderful , but that the Turks can retake . Isnmij , or overrun the adjacent country , wo do not believe . The Baltic Fleet , is on its way homo . Sir Charles Napier has been tlie unobserved of all observers at Hamburgh . Whether Austria and ltussia will have recourse
to tho bloody arbitrament , of sariufl is one question ; that "both are prepnring , is another . In tlie kingdom of Poland , Kuss ' ui has gathered "iOO . UOO men facing the Austrian frontier . Austria luis cmbattlod along her frontier , from Cracow to the Danube , 200 , 000 mun , and 25 , 000 in the Principalities . Both sides show great netivity ; and Gallicia , aa a field of war , should not bu overlooked .
Monnwhilo tho Czar , jit iiia Court Junrual of St . Petersburg , ia appealing to lUi . sHiun public opinion—more , to European public opinion , for ho represents tho war as a war against democracy and avarice , England being the ooiUro of J * uvoliitionary and plutocratic movements , and ho fteeniH to regard himself , in a double aspect , as chief of conservation , and as champion of man against
xnoney—a . political comprehensiveness which would puzzle even Mr . Disraeli . Criticising the contributions of a Czar is serious work ; but may we not say that the Romanoff Court Journal talks nonsense ? Potentates should keep away from pens ,- ^ -as Louis . Napoleon has also recently ascertained . Though the political world stops whirling to watch Sebastopol— though the guns , playing in tliis great siege , have stilled the air—yet some little attention is being paid to the fracas between Mr . Soule and the French Government . Mr . Soule
returning from London to Madrid , wished , as usual , to go via .. France , but was refused permission to pass beyond Calais ' : and his cause having been taken up by other * representatives in Europe of his Government , the demand made on the French Government is for an apology . The charge against Mr . Soule is , i \ wt he is coalesced with revolutionists , Spanish and French : this he denies : and unless the Emperor lias the courage to got out of his perplexity by candour , the " difficulty " may be exasperated into one of a serious international character—affecting , directly , current history .
Three Ministers , " to three several counties born , " have been dilating upon the "topics of the dny . " At the City of London meeting in aid of the Patriotic Fund , Lord John Russell appeared not less as member than us minister to get the people to . subscribe for the widows and orphans oi Queen Victoria ' s soldiers . Thus it appears that the live soldiers—efficient instruments for workare paid for out of Queen Victoria ' s Ministers ' public means , but the dead soldiers ( represented by their isunilie-s ) , who arc useless , fall back upon public charity . In such a position , it of course became Lord John's duty to utter nothing but the
most obviuus and universally received common sense , and it is impossible for any man to execute commonplace more abjectly than tlie Lore ! President . The well-written letters from tho Crimea of tho private soldiers have had a most surprising effect . Nobody knew that our army wns so civilized . These letters hauntJLord John Kuasell , and oblige him to tell everybody whom he meets — and his public meetings tire numerous—bow much uilocation hat ) been getting on in the army . Mr . BtTiml Ouborne , the Sccretury to the Admiralty , lian also been talking of education—cultivating 11 n Irish Athonouum at Clonniol . Mr .
Osborne ' n speech wiin excellent : but what , ia ho doing at Clonniol , when si 13 altiu lleet in coining lionte—urid coming homo , it mny be , despite JS ' iipier , to do something ? Lord I'ltlniL'rHton is tlio great shining light on tbo , subject , of education , on which lie dilates du'eringly to the Labourers' Encouragement Society , ut lloinsey . The society is 0110 which » ivi ! S men premiums of ' J . I .,, or more , for working thirty yours under tbo huiuo employer , whatever wugcH Ihsit , employer may give : iuxU it is to people lima benighted on comuteruiul principles that Lord
Palmerston has lectm'ed this week . He puts the whole rationale of ., it in an extremely small compass . The whole duty of man , he says to tlie laboua'er , is to avoid the tobacco-shop and the beer-shop , arid educate his children . The oddity is , that Lord Palmerston presumed all his hearers to need this advice , so he carries this wonderful counsel exactly to the men who do not want it , in order that they may tell it to the men that do .. Over a glass-of good ale he tells them to avoid the beer-shop , and they will probably chew his advice about to oacco over ' their pipes ; but he
supplies them with a new principle to start from in teaching their children . All babies , be says , are born good . This frightful heresy at once receives an indignant protest , through an orthodox contemporary from " One who believes in the Bible , " and " the father of twelve children . " \ VV leave Lord Palmerston to settle his quarrel with his opponent " who believes in the Bible , " and we can imagine the amusement of the ga y discount contending with one who begins the combat by hampering himself so much . The father of twelve : children accounts for Lord Palmerston ' s doctrine
by presuming that Lord Pahneiatun has nevci hud any children himself . Such is the evidence with which men venture into public ( ontroversies But Lord Palmerston sets the example of' ail-( lacious levity' —by starting , in an after-dinner chat , such theories as this and the suboi'dinatr axiom—that there must always be encouragement to labourers * societies , because the mass ot men will idways be very poor—as strange a doctrine for 31 Reformer as the other is for a Christian . Wlio but a "Viscount could thus ohirpingk dispose of the question of Baptismal Kc ^ L-noni t ion ?
I he state of trade still culls for attention , and is such as to justify some apprehensions for the winter ; although it must settle the extravagance created by the Liverpool suspensions . Tho real nature of these disasters ia now understood . Tinfust trading ; tho excessive individual speculation without capital to support it 5 the rash presumption of certain returns- in the shortest possible space of time , urn proved not only by tbo facts ,
but by the examination of the accounts . The impropriety of these transactions is established to the commercial mind by the fact of non-success . The large deficiency in Mr . Oliver's estate ^ Is worth a year of sermons . England and America are not going to break down bcouusci 11 i ' uw ^ Jjj & jTS ''" )> -. _ merchants break down . Novci-iIioIchu '' hu ^ W- ^ iTf , y \ ^ working short time in sotno purtrt of Wio jgpttm ^ ; («/ i . jjjy ,- ^/ . districts , exports are diminished by f ^ Oft'QOp ^ v « jjjf £ to China , and tho forced consigiinientpjreu ^ ra ^ V QIM . £ » than a deficiency . The temporary d « pjwl ^^ ty > . *! , ^ & the provision trml « of Ainwriuii » l > tillk VV |^ #% ^& 1 g £ consignments in that , direction . War ' ^^^^ S ^ ^< S CJ taxes mi » y bu increased , nnd Jill ttystyc l $$ B ( i $ ^ tf # p' & happon juwt as prudent folks , drawing in ^^^ FiWtSH ^ / $ F nouses / or winter , lend an impulse to that U ^ GotUwB ^ ww ^*^ of trade which they themselves deplore .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04111854/page/1/
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