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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 between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of ReUgi ^ i CoimtryTand Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—HumboldPs Cosmos . ' ¦ —
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New ' Metropolitan Commission Revolution...
New ' Metropolitan Commission Revolution by the Aristocracy ... 132 Monumental History of Egypt . 188 NEWS OF THE WEEK— " « " of Sewers .-Mr V O Ward ' s Why we Support Sardinia 133 A new Bookselling ; Dodge 139 Imperial Parliament 122 Statement . * ..... ' 129 To Bomarsund and Back 133 Books on onr Table 140 TheWar 123 Our Civilisation 130 General Guyon and Sergeant Promotion for Sergeants 125 The Public Health 130 Sullivan ........ 134 . H-. ARTSContinental Notes 126 Russian Account of Inkerman ... 130 The Tluof Factory ....... - •••••• 134 . The British Institution 140 The Hospitals in the East 127 The Times on the Aristocracy ... 130 The "Stranger" in Parliament ... 135 Sir Charles Napier and Lord Car- The South-Sea House .. 130 «„ -., « ,, M ^ ,, digan at the Mansion House ... 127 The Duke of Newcastle " ..... ISO OPiN COUNCILLord Elgin and his Canadian . Miscellaneous 130 General Milbitz 135 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 141 Policy 128 Postscript 131 French Opinion of the English piir fii ^ rc AiRs- LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAriDy 128 rwD ^ iw nrrnirxy Archdeacon Denison and Convoca- The Palmerston Cabinet 131 Summary 130 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad- , ____ tion 128 Examples to England 131 The Chinese Empire 136 vertisements , & c 142-144
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fTTHE PAiiMEESTON Cabinet takes the place of _ L the Abbbdeen Cabinet , and although the bullc of the two Governments is the same in its personnel , the aspect is quite different when -we have the inspirited vivacious countenance of Lord Palmerston at the head , in lieu of the sober , respectable , but scarcely hilarious countenance of Lord Abebdeen . The Cabinet appears to have been constituted on Wednesday last , and it involves some changes besides those of chief . Lord
JoaN , who had been commissioned by the Queen to form a Cabinet , does not appear to have obtained so much success in collecting support as Lord Dkbbt did , nor does he take a place in the present Cabinet . From what has been said in public , it might be supposed that if Lord John had appeared in it , it wouldl ^ not have included Mr . Gladstone , or several others that are now there . By taking Lord Aberdeen ' s place , Lord Palmerstoj * vacates the Home-office , and is succeeded there by Sir Geobge Grey . Other
arrangements leave the two secretaryships , "for and " " war , vacant ; and they are consolidated in the person of Lord Panmube—a Whig of some experience in the War Department , of considerable ability , but no longer young , though twenty years younger than the ever youthful Pai-mebston . However , as Lord Panmube was the person whom Lord John
consulted on the subject , and as Lord Palmebston is the man whom he pointed out for controller , it is to be supposed that Lord John at least is contented with the result of his retiring from the Treasury bench to the back bench . The Presidency of the Council , vacated by Lord John , is resumed by Lord Gbanviixe , who vacated it to please Lord John when Mr . Stbutt was ousted to make room for Lord GaANviM . ni in the
Chancellorship of Lancaster . Mr . Sidney Hebbebt succeeds to the Colonial-office . Tho present Gove rnment has the appearance of being stronger for working purposes than the Aberdeen Government . Lord Palmbbston is a man to manage better , if he does not always got his own way ; and there will bo at least tho appearance of greater efficiency nnd unannnity , if there is not the reality . Probably , ' however , the sense of a great opportunity may operate as a » spur , and we may get some renl work out of tho Palmiobston Cabinet .
Amongst those who retain their post is Sir James Graham , Chief Lord of the Admiralty , who returns to office under the fiercest challenge that any public man has received for a long while . The challenger is Sir Chabi-es Napier , who accuses Sir James , as we may express it , of " conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman , " and certainly not becoming a Minister of State . The tribunal in which this charge was preferred was curious : it was the Mansion
House—not the police court , indeed , but . the banqueting room . Keturning from the Balticnot victorious , no bells ringing , no eager people to take the horses from his carriage ; irritated , bursting with the sense of injury , Sir Ciiabi . es is invited to grace the hospitality of Lord Mayor Moon ; and to the Moon accordingly he pours forth his plaint . The story is this . Sir Chabi-es went to the Baltic in a fleet which he pronounced to be " splendid" before he saw it , but which -proved to be ill-disciplined and ill-manned ; - he had much trouble to get it to the scene of action
in safety ; when there , he found some slight difference with the French Admiral , and with the clever French General of Engineers , whom he accuses of sending home " base" reports . He looked at Swcaborg , but found it unattackable ; yet he sent home a statement of the means requisite for taking it . The false report of the fall of Sebastopol had raised expectations in this country , and now began that series of " insults " of which Sir Chabjces complains . He had " goading" letters from the Admiralty , asking him why
lie did not take Sweabprg ? Insults followed insults , until " humiliated and degraded , " he was dismissed . " And now from the banquet in the Mansion House ho challenges Sir James Graham , either to retire into private life or to remove him from the Navy List . Pending Sir James ' s reply , Admiral Bebk . ei . ey states in Parliament that Sir Chabi . es Napieb has not been " goaded , " has not been " dismissed . " His assertion is denied point blank on tho simplest matter of fact !
Lord Cardigan , " in the very uniform he wore at Balaklava , " was a conspicuous contrast , in his unaffected and affecting modesty , to tho her * of Boraarsund , that unsatisfied Byng of the Baltic , who has been consigned to half-pay , pour encourager les attires , as an example to admirals who aspire to the command of a fleet of heavy line-ofbattlo ships in shallow seas , with a Coalition flag at the fore . Lord Caboigan appeared to tho company a hostage of death , as ho told , with a chastened and almost solemn ' sadness in the voice
and on the brow of tho fiery sabreur , the sudden epic of that sublime despair . War is not all evil , it it can lay the true heart of bravo men bare to their countrymen , stripped of artificial
disguises . It has been remarked that many a curled darling of society has returned from-Alma and Inkerman , saddened into the stern simplicity of manhood , having lost in that rude companionship of arms all that was not the man . As to . the recriminations of the late Ministers , they have quite lost their interest . Lord John made more explanations on Monday night , without however altering'the-relative position of himself or the Duke of Newcasti-e . He has now discovered that the Duke " resigned " before Mr . Roebuck ' s motion , and that the Cabinet generally was not informed of the fact . In truth the fact
did not exist . The Duke had not " resigned , " but he had told the Earl of Abebdeen that , happen what might in the House of Commons , he should resign after the motion . This was to tell the Premier that the Duke would not run away from the inquiry , but that after taking his share of that trial he would disembarrass the Ministry of his presence , and continue to assist it as a Peer in his place in Parliament . The Duke ' s conduct is exactly the reverse of Lord John ' s ; and the reason foivnot announcing his - intenti . _ befpx § hand is equally contrasted with the reason for Lord John ' s resigning .
Accusations against the Government continue to pour from the Crimea , where it is said that the number of the effective force is reduced to 11 , 000 ; Colonel Dunne , however , reducing the number to 2000 . The reports are exceedingly contradictory . According to one account , the English cannot defend their own lines ; according to another , tho whole line of the Allies is ready for the attack . Pushing the two accounts to their ultimate results we are told to expect , simultaneously , that the English army will " melt away , " and that it will storm Sebastopol . From the Continent we have more Prussian
Notes—Notes issued in Berlin , or received there . There is another Prussian mystification addressed to the German Courts , and there are two more despatches by M . Dbouyn de Lhuys . One , warns Prussia , for the last time , that she may make a separate treaty with the Western Powers if tho terms are such as to entail upon her exactly the same obligations as Austria has taken upon herself ; the Three Powers meanwhile proceeding with perfect unity of counsel and act . Tho other note , besides once more exposing tho
position of Prussia to herself , makes two important announcements of fact—that tho relations between the Courts of Berlin and St . Petersburg aro understood to be peculiarly delicate ; and that Russia , is ready for a campaign in Transylvania . 1 here is a report , both in Vienna nnd France , that the French Government is to march an army across Austrian territory to take that position on the frontiers of Poland which Prussia hus not vet promised to tako as ally—tho frontiers of that-Polund which tho . Emperor NAroucoN has agreed * to re-establish if ' necessary .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 10, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10021855/page/1/
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