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g60 THE LBADtR. [No. 289, Saturday,
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pendent sections . Through the Credit Mobilier and analogous societies the Government can positively control ail the joint-stock undertakings of the country , —diminish or extend their capital ; and therefore it can , to a certain extent , regulate the action and purchase the assent of the whole mercantile body having interests engaged in joint-stock
undertakings . Through his relations with the army and with the Prefects of towns , joined with the public works that give employment to the inhabitants , and even to the capital of local contractors , the Empeboe exercises a political influence of a very similar kind . The clergy are ready-made instruments for a moral influence .
TJie same principles are capable of application to the foreign relations of the country . "We have two examples of such an application . In the first plan , the now celebrated Socie " te de Credit Mobilier becomes a direct instrument . That society buys up shares , not only of French undertakings but -of foreign . It has bought up the shares of the Society for the Canalisation of the Ebro . It has made offers to advance capital—the
whole , for anything we know—for the American scheme to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic by a great commercial railway , —not the beggarly affair which now exists , but something which will do as well as the canal that now appears to be impracticable . The society has been making overtures to capitalists in Northern Italy . Already , therefore , there exists in Paris a design for the same kind of concentration abroad , which exists within France .
The other application of the principle is more striking . England has certain interests in the IJevant—in the transit to India , the maintenance of the balance of power , and so forth . Independently of Austria , and in spite of her , the constitutional kingdom of Sardinia has been founded ; and it has extended into powerful proportions under protection of the league with the Western Powers . Spain , which is now furnishing France with corn to the profit both of the French and Spanish , has a princess married to a French princelooking forward to the throne ; and
, she possesses liberal statesmen who can only expect to maintain their position against the Carlist party and the revolutionists , while they are sustained by France and England . Naples has given offence to both the "Western Powers ; they could blow the Kino off his throne with a single cannon shot ; but they abstain from giving any encouragement to the revolutionary pnrty of Italy , apparently bent on holding the balance , and only permitting any party to exist which shall feel that its existence pledges it to amity with the "Western Powers . In like manner
the Emperor Napoleon is by degrees extending a Free-trade intercourse with England . He has made Turkey feel that the integrity of her empire depends upon him , personally ; for remove him , and the ' Western alliance with which Turkey is sustained fulls to the ground ; Russia and Austria march over Eastern Europe , and England is placed in a state of isolation . Liberalism is then
set free . Egypt , which chums to be independent of the Porte , ia made to feel that she has much material power and prosperity through the favour of Franco , but that she must not dictate any other existence than that permitted to her by the "Western Powers . We are not now prniwmg this application of the Napoleonic principle of solidarity of interest ; wo arc not condemning it ; we are neither exposing it nor preaching it : wo are only describing the facts as they are unfolded before the eyes of every one of our readers aa well aa our own . We havo posted up the account as fnr as we havo the materials .
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SURVEY OF THE WAR . Active warlike operations , suspended for a moment after the crash of Sebastopol , then merging into silent preparation , have again begun in the Crimea . No longer bound hand and foot in the trenches , no longer " chained to Sebastopol , " the Allies and the enemy have once more gained " mobility . " That is a choice term used by Prince Gortschakoff in congratulating his army on their escape from Sebastopol . " Gained mobility ! " but it would seem likely , from present appearances , to be the mobility of defeat .
For , as we have stated , the Allies are again in motion . Indications of the fact , from all sides , some brief and obscure , others more detailed , and one authentic , have accrued this week . The German newspapers persist in assuring us that the enemy is stealingoff byPerekop , convoy by convoy , troop hy troop . We do not give much heed to intelligence from these sources ; but they are somewhat supported by statements from Odessa , that General Annenkoff . the Governor there ,
has ordered that no more stores should be sent to the Crimea , and has suspended the march of troops . From the plateau above Sebastopol the correspondents of the English papers see the enemy driving laden waggons from Fort Constantino and the storehouses on the shore of the north side — French shells from the batteries
established in Sevastopol dropping among the long lines of carts , and breaking through the roofs of the buildings . These stores , so leisurely carried off , were placed in depot , it was conjectured , on the plateau of the Belbek ; and meanwhile earthworks still continued to spring up , aud masses of troops to gather here and there on the heights of Inkerman . Such are the indications of movement ,
whatever they may portend . The military operations already in progress have been important , so far as we can guess from glimpses of them . Thus , on the 22 nd , we hear of French troops moving on the Russian left by the Itaidar Valley—apparently engaged in discovering the extent of the Russian position . " We find them , as Prince Gortschakoff reports , coming within sight of the outposts of the extreme left of the enemy as far eastward as the heights of Urkusta , that is , the hills above the sources of the Cbuliu which close in tho Baidar Valley .
From this fact we may assume that at that date the enemy ' s troops were extended in a long lino from Urkusta to Fort Constantino ; the main body remaining encamped on tho Belbek , and tho reserve holding Baktchi-Scrai and Simpheropol . But another movement is in progress . On the 21 st the last detachments of tho French troops of all « rm » nailed from Tvamieseh for Rupatoria . On t lie 22 nd , such as had arrived , together with n portion of tho Turkish
garrison , moved inland in two bodies , one advancing as far as the village of Sale , the other going northward on the Porch op road as far aa Orta Mnnun . Thene operations ho seriously threatened tho Russian lino of communications that it is probable Prince-GoiiTaonAKOTTF immediately strengthened the Russian forces watching ' Eupatoria . But be that as it may , on the 29 th of September ,
General d'Ai / lonvilt / tc , at tho head of the French cavalry surprised tho Russians under General Kokp , killed 50 , made 105 prisoners , and captured G guns , 12 cniusons , and 250 horses , with the moderate loss of 0 killed and 27 wounded . We may , therefore , infer that tho Russian army is assailed on both flanks , and tho more strongly on ita nldsfc vulnerable point , the lino of retreat . Of course the Allies on tho Tchernnya are so posted as to bo in roadirieefl to take
any advantages which apprehensions for hie rear may cause Prince Gobtschakofp to give them . If hardly and ably pushed by well-concerted and steadily-executed movementa l / the Bussian Goneral must be far stronger than , he appears to hold his ground . In Asia there also have been movements of some moment . Omar Paoha * is assembling a considerable force at Batoum , with the intention of holding Chefkatil as a base , and threatening , it is said , the Russian rear . But how he is to accomplish thisj at the present season of the year , ie at the present season of the year , ie safetv
a mystery we cannot solve . The of Ivars is , of course , tho object of his operations . But if Kars be not sufficiently well provisioned to hold out until the snow falls , we fear that Omar Pacha ' s presence at Batoum "will not much avail the garrison The fall of Sebastopol and the proximate fall of snow may possibly cool the ardour ol MouEAViErr , and form imperative reasons for putting his men in quarters ; and as the latest accounts from Ivars are encouraging , wo have great hopes that the enemy will retire with frustrated hopes back upon G-umri
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GERMANY—DYNASTIC AND NA ^ TIONAL . Thebe has sprung up , iu this country , a justifiable suspicion of secret diplomacy . The nation thinks its own practice weak and immoral , and that of America at least dignified and successful . Our statesmen have , since the outburst of war , illustrated with strange effect the vices of their profession . Standing iu need of dynastic alliances—that revolution may be unnecessary—they have alternately wheedled and bullied the German
Governments , acting upon their selfishness , or upon their fears , exactly as the occasion seemed to suggest . Liberal and far-sighted men have detected the profligacy as well as the vanity of this system ; but is the conduct of the English press more consistent or more generous ? It also has been engaged in flatterinn and insulting the German nation , inciting it to a war of independence , taunting it with apathy , and confounding its principles with the Russianised policy of its rulers . Thin is neither a wise nor an honest policy . It ia not for men of earnest convictions to echo the
variations of cajolery and insolence that issue from the secret cells of diplomacy . Wo ought to understand the German people and their Governments , and to choose between them . But , as there is no identity between the Germany of courts and cabinets and the Germany of living and generous nations , it is as much a proof of mental an of moral obliquity to repel the sympathies of the one because wo cannot gain the co-operation of the . other . Only a puerile and tVoblo race would be piqued into action by sarcasm or by rhapsody .
When have the Germans exhibited Russian tendencies ? Since 18 . 15—it is suggested- — because RuRHinn crosses Rparltloon tho bivaata of men and women throughout tho hi ^ ranks of German noddy . But a distinction is necessary between tho dynasties , with their titled cntourrtf / r , and the ' nation , which has never , by a Hin ' tf In motion , advanced the European intrigues of tho Czarn . If the peoplens a body , worn infected with this
, political corruption , it ; would not bo the interest of their Governments to utiflo their activity , to prohibit the utterance of their opinions , and to cut them off from all participation in iftgiFjlntivo or administrative power . Tho Diet , the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets , the kings , princes , and dukes of thirty petty states , jncoHMantly work to ft common end—¦ that of destroying the institutions established in 18 J 3 O or in 1843 . In Austria tho reigning
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101855/page/12/
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