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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all tie barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided view ? ; and by setting aside the dutanebona 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 , "—ffitmboldt ' s Cosmos . ¦
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— riox Our Civilisation 319 The Reform for To-day .. 325 Velasquez ...................... 330 The War * ., 314 AuTiK CaJes ..... i 319 What will Become of the Mi- Mountains and MolehQls 331 lilH ^ * ^" ^ I « A C oS & . ... ^ .. ° . ... 3 , 0 Su ^ r ^^ - and - Mond ^ th ^ tT IK aer £ abour ; -and the Health of London during the T ^^ rt ^ im $ — W ^^ heatre 332 A £ t ^ ia " . " \\\ V . \ " \\\' . ' . "" . ! . . . " ! . " - ' 316 Miscellaheou 8 \ ' :. " ; .: * .::::: " . ' . ' . ' . / . ! r . " . ' . S 20 The New Newspaper Stamp Act 327 Royaf Italian Opera .... 333 India andJChiiia ";;!!"" . ' . !! !!! ... " ! . ! ... 316 Postscript 322 OPEN COUNCIL- Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 334 . Belgium ^ 110 FeeUng m il ? PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Observance of the Sabbath 328 cOMMERCAL AFFAIRSOontinentalNotes . „ . ...... 318 S ^ lf ® f * t e h Yf ^ - ; V " m » lit LITERATURE- City Intelligence , Markets , AdthS ° .. . l . ? . lJ . * . ° . ™ : 313 The Tory Party ... ^ ™ .::::::::: Ill Summary 329 vertisements , & o . 334-336
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fnHE 3 rd , not the 1 st , April is named as the JL day for the grand assault at Sebastopol . Omab Pacha is marching from Eupatoria southwards ; all war ships are ordered to approach Sebastopol , as if _ to assist in surrounding the place ; an enormous besieging force has been brought to _ bear upon the walls ; and really appearances do half make us believe that the Allies intend to try taking the town by he ht of strengthNot long
t dead weig superior . since there was a very general impression , that , while the occupants of the town were to be kept in play by a certain portion of the besiegers , the Turks under Omar Pacha , the Piedmontese contingent , a portion of the Allied forces , a new French division specially sent for the purpose , and perhaps an Austrian army , were to grapple with the enemy in the open field , and to decide the question of ~ SVb ^ topoir ^ F' ^~ g ®; iS 6 i ' ial engagement , at a distance . The latest preparations look as if the game were still to be kept up where the Kussians have been allowed ample
time to prepare , with an entrenched fortress , and unlimited resources . There is no placing any bounds upon the possibilities of French or English daring ; but the supposed experiment looks something like trying how English and French soldiers can stand being dashed against artificial rocks . Wo have no belief in deliberate treachery at hend-quarters . Wo do not readily credit any reports , that Austria intends to play traitor . But
the aspect of affairs in the Black Sea , with the particular dates laid down for the performance , come before us curiously in the enlarged interval of time allowed to Russia at Vienna . The Congress has suspended its labours until the arrival of M . Dkouyn pe Lhuys , so that more than a week longer has been allowed to Russia ; the plenipotentiaries have adjourned until the 9 th instant . The grand display of fireworks at Sebastopol on the 3 rd—reassembling of tho Congress on the 9 th .
The proceedings of our own Government appear to exhibit a curious mixture of real purpose and no purpose at all . From some of their moat recent acts , it might be supposed that they contemplated a greatly extended wnr , and were prepared , by adequate measures , to earn immortality for themselves and honour for their country ;
while from other acts it looks as if they were trifling with the gravest emergencies . The offer of the North American Colonists to volunteer for service in the East , it appears , has been accepted , and corps are there to be formed of Canadian or other British North American colonists , and of Foreign volunteers who may be collected from the wide recruiting field of the United States . This looks like business . So does the admission of Lord Habeowbt into the Government , after his recent and public declaration in favour of the " oppressed nationalities . "
Yet both these acts would become pieces of " gag , " * if Government really means-nothing by them . And if Ministers positively intend great political and military operations , how is it that they are still haggling with the militia about petty niceties as to the conditions on which the men enlisted , while they are refusing a really comprehensive Militia Act for the whole of the United Kingdom , including the necessary , . complement of Volunteer corps ? There are great numbers amongst us , not of extreme opinions , who feel that
they have not fulfilled their duties as men while they have failed to learn so much of the military art as to enable them , in time of necessity , to play the special constable against the foreign invader , as well as the inward disturber . Short blue batons and a white band round the left arm would be but a sorry array against any suddenly introduced army under Prince Gortschakoff or Osten Sackbn . In vain would the " Peelers " tell those barbarians that they " must move on , "
or that they " must not crowd the thoroughfare . " Such things have been , as unexpected arrivals : and if any Sir Cjiakles Napikk , less lucky but not less " indiscreet , " wore to loseone-and-twenty sail of the line in some unhappy fog , "there is no tangible reason why some Paskiewitcu or Suwabbow should not contemplate a grand tour of the United Kingdom . If , therefore , the prospects of war aro really , such ns the Canadian corps and the addition of Lord Harkowby to the
Government would imply , why does Government still keep down tho willing malo population of this country ? While wo are asking the question , the militiamen , who enlisted under the belief of domestic service , and whom tho War Oifico hns tried to seduce into permanent f oreign service , have seized the opportunity to throw up their enlistments , and return home . Several of tho regiments have
almost disappeared ; others are seriously weakened in numbers ; alid the effect to foreign eyes must be , that Englishmen arc too timid or too selfish to care for the defence of their country or her flag . The departure of the Fleet for the Baltic on Wednesday , and the gallantry still exhibited by our soldiers at Sebastopol , might be evidence to the contrary ; but it is" to what we are doing at home foreigners will look . These , they will say _ of the sailors and soldiers , are the few whose numbers the English Government can scarcely keep up , and who have to suffer reverses
or to undergo more painful retreats , for want of sufficient strength , while-the English people look on . Mr . Beande , a new Lord of the Treasury , is re-elected for Lewes—without a question . Mr . Price , one of the hut contractors for the Crimea , is reinstated by his constituents of Gloucester , as a matter of routine . Even the boys of Glasgow University do not call to account the Duke of ABGYiiB , and have nothing more discriminating to utter on the state of public affairs " than hisses at the name of Lord Abehdeen ; upon which , of course , the youthful Duke had an opportunity of displaying his fortitude and his -fidelity by vindicatinor his friend .
It seems as if our Government had made a mistake in calculating the odds between Spain and tho United States . The relations of thosu two countries arc in a \ ery curious position . The latest report from America is , that President Pierce ' s Government intends to propose , as the concession by which Spain is to purchase indemnity for the past , complete commercial
reciprocity and freedom of intercourse between Cuba and tho United States . This is a proposal which looks likely to bo dofcated , both in Spain nnd at homo . The Americans already show that it has disgusted them in wearing so much the nspect of concession . Spain is hardly in a position to grant the demand : she cannot give free ingress to strangers , lest thoy should sec the oppressed , and therefore tho anarchical state of Cuba itself ; nor is Spain ,
in her fatal pride , likely to make a While tho Government labours under tho unceasing threat of a Cnrlist reaction , -white more than one of its members wus lately proposing to resign , as a sacrifice to propi t iate the National Guard clamouring for the dismissal of some of tho ¦ Minisjord , —the Spanish Government has had tho audacity to demand the recal of Lord Howi > en , because ho had publicly stated tho truth respect-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07041855/page/1/
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