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T ) AHLIAMEKT meets oa Tuesday next , and it JL appears impassible that the interval before our next publication can . pass without some explanation from Ministers on the question , what they have been , doing at Sebastopol , at Vienna , # nd in the City ? Whether the question comes from Mr . Disraeli and his party , or from some independent member—whose intervention that party would " prefer "—it does not matter . There
are Englishmen too anxious of the mischief which arises from temporising , too suspicious of any compromise 'with Austria or Russia , and too much impressed by the sacrifice of life , to separate for the Christmas holidays without some explanation that would be intelligible in itself , and trustworthy . These questions for next week are the subjects of the present week ; the events that have occurred only excite curiosity and do not Satisfy ,
It has been from time to time reported that the bombardment at Sebastopol had ceased . This is entirely without foundation . The bombardment still continues , though , perhaps , not so actively as it has been ; the progress of the entrenchments is acknowledged by Princo McnschikofFin a despatch to St . Petersburg ; the Allies still anticipate the probability of a final attack . Wo cannot therefore charge Ministers with having given up the
siege of Sebastopol 5 bu . t they will have to explain why they did not take it , if their means were sufficient ; or why , if its strength exceeded the means , they did not take sufficient means from tho first . They will also have to explain whether it ia their intention that the remainder of the army shall be sacrificed , or "whether the siege to which Lord Raglan ' s army is subjected shall bo raised by some diversion in his favour .
The next question turns upon the Austrian treaty . How do we stand with Austria—what are tho terms of tho treaty , or general heads and objects ? Various accounts have been givon , but they are contradicted as totally inaccurate , and wo are loft to infor only , that the treaty will enable Austria to resume tho aggressive against Russia after a comparatively brief space shall have been allowed tliat power for tho option of submission . As nobody expeots tho submission , tho preparation for it seema objectlesH , and provokes suspicion . The remaining question for Parliament , still
much discussed , is—Do Ministers intend to take a loan ? We assume that they must , go on with the war , and that the war must be extended . They cannot intend to disgust the English public with it by proportionately extending taxation for immediate payments ; but they do not wish the subject of the loan discussed . At all events they are reluctant to state their own intentions , perhaps because they have no intentions , but intend to fish out a design by drawing out the public mind . It will be observed , the authoritative contradiction to the loan which has been transmitted to the Times , applies only to the statement that Mr . Gladstone wanted means for immediate purposes ; whereas the loan must relate to the campaign of next year . Looking to the public mind , as being more important than the ministerial mind , we gather that the loan is intended ; and tho only question is , in what way Ministers will conceive the necessity forced upon them at the usual period for contracting the finaiicial Administration . There is an episode in the war—that terrible gale that lasted from the night of the 13 th
throughout the next day , and partially continued for two days more . It . carried away some sixty English vessels , and damaged many others . It wrecked a smaller number of French vessels , but destroyed the great war-steamer Henri Quatre , as well as the English contract ship Prince . Tho Prince had just landed the 4 (> th Regiment , and when it went down it had on board stocks of winter clothing and of provisions—all gone . Add to this the loss of 701 ) tons of gunpowder in thu Resolute , und a mass of shipping valued at 15 , 000 / . for tho lvn # lish i and almost as much for the French ,
It is said that tho French and English Governin onts are preparing to make good these disasters . Tho restoration of Poland is discussed in many places . It is a fact of some meaning that tho Emperor of the Fx'ench has Polos in liis service ; and one of the mj'Sterions pamphlets of Paris , printed in tho official press only to be called in , suggested tho resurrection of Poland . But a moro notable fact still is , that a memorial by the lato Prussian Field-Marshal Knosebeck , recommending tho same mode of strengthening the military
frontier of Austria , haB boon reprinted as a pamphlet to circulate in Merlin ! The Prussians will think , although King Frederick ¦ William only " thinks he ' s thinking . Tho Spanish Cortes have politoly resolved to rotuin Queen Isabella and Kspartero \ although the former at least was vehemently opposed by tho republican Marquis de Albaida , who found HI to stand by him . The debate w » a rcnmrkublu for a directness and freedom of speech , now unknown anywhere save in America . Looking homo again , upon tho whole we find tho public eeoras inclined to bo good-natured if
Ministers will only behave sufficiently well to justify continued good humour in the BritishIiion The electors have been exercising their privilege in several of the places for which seats in Parliament have been vacated by death , and the candidates elected appear generally to be mild and impartial people . They also seem to feel bound to express a sympathy for the war , bound not
to prejudge the conduct of Ministers ; bound , however , to exact an account of the war stewardship . Mr . JS ~ orris , the newly-elected member for Abingdon , a worshipper of Lord John Russell for " twenty years , speaks in that sense ; so does Sir Joseph Paxton , the new Member for Coventry , who , although he is of all others the man that lives in glass houses , is for flinging something worse than stones at Russia with all the
force that modern science can supply . Bedford has not elected John Trelawney , one of the men who knows most about such affairs ; b ' ufc the reason is obvious . Bedford is peopled by genteel folks who throng to it for the purpose of lodging their children and dependents in the schools and charities that are so numerous in the town ; the late member , although a Tory in politics , acquired a strong personal popularity in the place , from his very
courteous manners—even opponents liked him ; and courtesy goes a groat way with genteel people of narrow means and not narrow pretensions . Captain Stuart , the successful candidate , now inherits , we do not say his father's disposition , but his father ' s name , and some of the popularity that the father acquired . Thus the Radical John Trelawney failed , although supported by the Russell interest—a combination which , renders tho Bedford election a quasi-Ministerial defeat .
The war fever , too , is rendering the corporatrions loyal . Mr . John Bright , who has mistaken old Nicholas for the Angel of Peace , has been the pretext with some people in Manchester for not contributing to tho Patriotic Fund . Because John Bright thinks that our Cabinet ought not to have gone to war with Russia , those logical gentlemen in Manchester withhold their mite from the suffering widows and orphans—a new form ol political justice ! Tho Town Council , however , duly ashamed of tho paltry sum sent up by Manchester— 15 , 000 / . —organises a ward collection , and in tho debate proposing the collection , tho
injudicious member is freely criticised . Tho London Aldermen wax so loyal , that while Colonel Wilson otters the survico of the City Militia to go a-soldiering , or to do whatever Government may wish , thu Aldermen will not even debute Mr . Alderman Sidney ' s motion of an address to tho Queen for tho removal of Lord A . bordecn . They scorn almost to debate tho question whether tho motion shn . ll bo debated ; and as Alderman Si < lncy withdraws hit ) motion , some of those epicures in voting regret that they arc not allowed the opportunity " to kick out" tho rudo questioner of Prime Ministers .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09121854/page/1/
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