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LORD MAYOR'S DAY. The Inauguration of Mr...
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, NOTICES TO GOHBESPONDENTS. No notice c...
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1855.
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Miscellaneoijs. Indxa And China.—-The In...
The Kane Arctic Esmedixtoij . — -The l * ew York papers contain some Interesting details respecting this expedition , which , it -will be recollected , was despatched from the United States in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions , and-which has recently returned with fhe loss of its vessel frozen np in the Arctic Sea , and of three men who died . The expedition , though failing in its great object , made some interesting discoveries with reference to Greenland . They are thus noted : —" The real discovery of the expedition is the open Polar Sea . Th § channel leading to those waters are entirely free
fromiee , and this feature was rendered more remarkable by the existence of a zone ,, or solid belt of ice , extending more than one hundred and twenty-five mile 3 to the southward . ( This sea verifies the views of Dr . Kane , as expressed to the Geographical Society before his departure . ) Tte lashing of the surf against this frozen beach of ice , was impressive beyond description . An area of three thousand square miles was seen , entirely free from ice . This channel has been named after the Hon . John P . Kennedy , late Secretary of the ( American ) Navy , under whose auspices the expedition was taken . The land to the north and west of this channel has been
charted as high as 82 deg . 30 min . This is the nearest land to the Pole yet discovered . It bears the name of Mr . Henry Qrinnelj the founder of the expedition , known by his name . Serious Accident to Mr . Locke , M . P—A very serious accident occurred to Mr . Locke , M . P ., on Thursday week , while engaged in inspecting the works of a tunnel on a railway in the vicinity of Rouen . Mr . Locke , accompanied by Mr . Brassey and several other scientific gentlemen , had , left Rouen in . the morning , for the purpose of examining the works of a railway now in progress of construction . They had ascended a platferm in one of the tunnels , -when the scaffolding gave way , and precipitated the whole party from a height of twelve feet to the ground . Mr . Locke sustained a severe fracture of both bones of the leg below the knee . The otherjgentlemen escaped with contusions
Explosion on Board Ship . —Owing to gross mismanagement , a large quantity of gunpowder exploded on board the ship Abbotts Reading , of Liverpool , on the 12 th of September , while the vessel was lying in port of Valparaiso . At the time of the catastrophe , 1 , 315 kegs of gunpowder were on board , eaclr keg containing twenty-five pounds ; and these were placed indiscriminately amidst the general cargo . The entire contents of eight kegs were strewa loose among the goods ; and , on
some of the kegs being removed , the friction set fire to the scattered powder , and an explosion ensued of such violence as to blow up the deck , to kill two of the crew , and seriously to injure several others , of whom four , at the date of the communication from Valparaiso , were in a very precarious state . It appears that this reckless mode of stowing inflammable matter is very common among merchant vessels employed by the government to take out powder to our naval stations .
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Leat > kr Office , Saturday , November 10 . WAR MOVEMENTS . Vienna , Thursday . The Bourse to-day has been rife with a rumour of a Bharp engagement in advance of Tchobotar , on the road to Simpberopol , in which the Russians have suffered heavy loss . The expeditionary army of Eupatoria has pushed forward to the north , to possess itself of the double route from Adjaman Ashagi and Temesch to Simpheropol . The Emperor of Russia has returned from Nioholaieff , direct to St . Petersburg , without visiting Warsaw .
Lord Mayor's Day. The Inauguration Of Mr...
LORD MAYOR'S DAY . The Inauguration of Mr . David Salomons' civic reign , which took place yesterday , was shorn of the magnificence which is generally associated with the Lord Mayor ' s show . Instead of men in armour and gorgeous devices , which , have sometimes exoited ridicule , the procession yesterday was of a simple and unpretending character , the new Lord Mayor , it is sftid , preferring to present the sum saved ( 2 , 000 / . ) to the officers of the various wards , for distributing during the ensuing winter nmongst the poor inhabitants of their respective districts .
At Westminster Hall , the civio authorities were received by Lord Chief Baron Pollack , Mr . Barn ? . Parko , Mr . Baron Alderson , and Mr . Bun ); -, Jviartih . The Recorder presented the I ^ a Mayor to the learned Barons in a b »^ addreBB , la the course of which he referr ^ to the fuct of his lordship being a Jew , a pvoof of the ndvanco this country was making * C > ards the establishment of the great principle of religious liberty . Ho adverted also lo the fact that the Lord Mayor is a barrister , a circumstance not generally known . The Recorder , likewise , in the name of tfco Iuord Mayor and Sheriffs , invited their lordships to tfco banquet , to be given in the evening in tlte Guildhall , to which the Lord Chief Baron replied , that some of tike learned judges would attend . —Globe .
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, NOTICES TO GOHBESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Wh atever is intended fur insertion must ba authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but a » a guarantee of bis good faith . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed owing' to a press ot" matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite iude - pendent of the merit ? of the communication .
We Owe It To Some Of Our Readers To Apol...
We owe it to some of our readers to apologise for several errors , both of external appearance and of verbal typography , which appeared in a portion of ow last week ' s impression , cund wJrich resulted from certain changes in connexion with our printing department having led to a temporary disarrangement .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the sfciain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of itB creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
Results. Cohsh>Er, From A Continental Po...
RESULTS . CoHSH > ER , from a Continental point of view , the position of England . Is it better or worse than at the commencement of the war ? We flatter ourselves , but for prestige we depend , not on our own estimate of our own performances , but on the judgment of other nations , some enemies , others allies—all rivals . The truth is not to be learned ia London , but in the great capitals of Europe .
" The sorry figure made by England , ' is a permanent topic abroad It is to be explained by the existence of an evil somewhere , and many , who are not optimists , content themselves with a cry for administrative reform . We want a better organization of our official system ; we want a sounder basis for our army ' , we want more recruits . All this we do want ; but administrative infirmity is not the only cause of our present humiliation .
The reality is worse . England has been subordinated to France , and France , stifled by a Government which it does not so much detest as despise , regards English credulity , and English enthusiasm , as subjects for ridicule . How far official alliance leads to international friendship , may be learned by any one who studies the universal under-current of opinion on the Continent . Not ouly in the authorised press of Germany , but wherever public feeling takes any form , in satires , pamphlets , conversations , the war comes to the surface , and Groat Britain is taunted as a secondary and subservient power . It is frequently suggested as one obstaclo r _^ an
immediate peace , that it would \ eavo England in the roar of Eraucp j and that the English people ^ coul « I not close a war in which thei r last cntorpvise was a failure . There would be moro value in this idea , had we not sacrificed position and prestige , on greater occasions than the defeat at the Redan . We wore suppressed in the Cabinet before wo wore eclipsed in the field . The initiating power , nt the outset , was in Paris . The Turkish question was first disturbed and forced to a crisis by the Fiench Government . If the Emporor Nicholas had an apology for the course he took , it was the conduot of M . Dh La-VALbtte . Tho expedition against Sevastopol
was hurried forward : by a dying Marshal of France , who had a spectre in bis memory , and to whose recklessness Lord Kaglaj ? sacrificed his judgment and his responsibility . Lord Raglan considered the scheme untimely and ill-prepared . St . Arnau » , though when another field was in view , he declared the invasion of the Crimea a desperate enterprise , reversed his opinion as the season ebbed away , and hurried the allied armies to an unknown coast . Step by step his impatience prevailed , and from that surrender of duty on the part of the British Commander dated the preponderance of the French in the Crimea .
Finally , the French took Sebastopol . The British army , in all the operations , behaved magnificently ; but there was wanting either the genius or the sincerity necessary to success . France led the war . England failed to create a force commensurate with the exigencies of the times . How was it in 1804 , -when within a year , sixteen hundred thousand men enrolled themselves in Great Britain , to accept the conflict proposed by Napoleon ?
Perhaps this was inevitable . The French military organization is on a larger scale than our own . If our national character had not suffered from the sacrifice of the army last winter , and if the troops who assaulted Sebastopol had been well commanded , there might have been little reason to complain that Marshal Pelissier is Generalissimo in the Crimea . The real peril is , that our governing class , exaggerating the necessities of the French alliance , will make infamous concessions of principle .
The expulsion of the refugees from Jersey was an act which the Ottoman Government , except under irresistible pressure , would not have committed . Was pressure felt , or anticipated , in this instance 1 Clearly , the vindictive extradition of a few homeless exiles was intended to conciliate the goodwill— " the confidence "—of Imperial France . It might have been remembered that , what with " England" bowing to an effigy in the vault of the Invalides , doing penance at a tomb , and dancing with Persigny , conciliation had gone far enough . But imitation is admiration conattest
crete . How could we more cordially our veneration of an autocrat than by accepting his lessons , and authorising a Jersey prefect to decree the expulsion of thirty-seven refugees ? The appendix of the story is dramatic . The high officials of an English island , bearing this edict to the proscribed , had not been taught that the police of Europe are copies of the mutes of Asia . . They submitted to the crossexamination of M . Victor Hugo ; and M . Victor Hugo , before he obeyed the governor ' s decree , learned that the governor's agent con-, sidered him an injured man , and tlie Emperor of the French " a criminal . "
Possibly , a connection n \ £ y be traced between this unhappy event . ^ oid one which preceded it . The British Government , forgetting its allegiance to tho December dynasty , had vended upon an act of independent policy . It was tho moro servile to the desires of despotism in Jersey , because it had rot yet atoned for a stroke of intrigue which had been resented by tlie semi-official journalism of France . When the King of Naples had lashed his people almost to robellion , tho mercy of Europe
interposed after tho Russian fashion . It was cssoutial to tho tranquillity of the Italian states that Ferdinand should suspend his whip . All that was said , was said in the interest of the executioner . Tho criminal ( i . e ., the people of Nap les ) was loft prostrate , bound , gagged , —only relieved , lest ho might bo tortured beyond human patience , and flogged into an inconvenient frenzy . Nothing was further from the policy of the intervening Cabinets — Groat Britain acting in bland unity with Austria—than to
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111855/page/10/
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