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THE country is enduring , heroically , the suspense ; satisfied of the result . Tbe last news is from Sebastopol , to the 3 rd . TLey were still " pounding away ; " the assault , it was supposed , would not take place for several days . What is to follow the capture of the place- ^ what is the force of the Russian army in the field—and what this army will do , or attempt to do , —are points left to the grave doubts of Europe . It is admitted , on all hands , that the . Russians have fought well at Sebastopol . They have developed the resources which , their failures , up to that point in the campaign , had induced the tyorld to question , and they have reproduced that terribly enduring , apathetic , courage , which won for Russia her place in Europe . They have done everything well ; they have fired well , engineered well , and their sorties have been bold , vigorous , and , here and there , successful . Our ships have made an attempt on their stone walls , and the caution of the discreet Dundas has rebuked the dashing Lyons : for the attempt ( it might have been with a different result had the whole fleet gone to -work at once ) was so far a failure that our broadsides seem to have made no impression upon the fortifications—which are something very different from Bomarsund . And the Russians have fought under disheartening disadvantages exceeding the ordinary misfortunes of a siege . The firo of the Allies , precise and tremendous , has razed the town : the slaughter of course being so considerable thut , all ideas of hospitals being abandoned , the dying are loft among the dead , and the dead , strewed in the ruins which arc all that ia left of the streets , are allowed to pollute tho ah-, heavy already with the smoke of incessant gunpowder . The lust story , which has animated the eouruge of the Allius , is that a portion of tho garrison , wearied out nnu despairing in sight of such horrors , had attempted a . revolt—a story always probable of a ltusaian garrison , numbering in its ranks the onsluvud Polos . But the Allies will persevere to the end , without such aid . Diplomacy , fatigued by its long rust , is beginning to reappear in impatient mischief . The conjunction of Louis Nupoluon ami Lord Vu \ - naeratoh , at Paris ( announced for next Monday ) , is ominous : for among other things indicated , a suspicion is engendered that the Emperor ' s visit to England has been prevented . As we arc
a self-governed people , it is of course an impertinence in the public to pry into these mysteries of haute polklque : but all such movements perplex a nation which has so much reason to dread secret diplomacy ; and the apparition of a Palmerston in Paris , and of a Von der Pfordten in Vienna , tend to produce nervousness . The lead of the Leader in demanding a November Session is being now very generally responded to , and more particularly in that press which represents Tory magnates who are weary of unusual unfamiliarity with state secrets . But our Government is taking its course in perfect independence of possible Popular or Tory opinions . Our Ministerial journals arc beginning to denounce Austria , liaving , poor innocents , ascertained that the Austrian sirmy is not aiding Omar Pasha , and is intensely anti-English and pro-Russian ; and when the Times is told to take that tone , something very serious is apprehended . Yet , no November Session—no consultation of Crown and Cabinet with England . What is to be the solution of the Prussian difficulty , even our Ministers do not seem to know . They appear to have discovered that what the injudicious Economist said was so necessary—to stop Prussian profits out of Russo-Britishtra . dc—is not so easy ; and , on this point , too , the sagacious Ministerialists in the press are unsaying what they had insisted on . Mr . James Wilson , who had originated the delusion , seems to have been on his travels ( in Belgium and Holland)—by way of penance . Diplomacy broke down on the affair of Mr . Soulc : Louis Napoleon had tho vigour to get in the best way out of a false position ; and though it is possible that he is angry with England and her Government for so frankly condemning the blunder , yet he is not at war with the United States—and this unexpected result baa bewildered various diplomatists , Russian , Austrian , Brazilian , and Spanish , who were playing Mr . Soule as their last card . Spain ataggurs ow under too much constitutional canvas . Tho Queen has mot her Cortes , K . spurtero declining the coup ( Ftkcit that was to bo ufTuctcd for him , hud he kept hex away and himself opened tho Parliament ; and affairs arc drifting into tho inevitable diflicultios—how to appease thoHo Spaniards , probably tioav a , majority , who are passionately disloyal without being republicanund how to avoid , in the Cuban question , thu claim of England—thut , tlio slave trade h 1 i » 11 bu declared piracy , and the claim of the . United SuiU . 'B that thu island shall be sold or ¦ Tho United States are engaged with the elections , with results which bo far cannot bo clearly dunned : this ono fact alono standing out prominent ^—that the Whigs are more and more pledging I
themselves , as a . party , to Abolition—a serious and sad fact in politics , and in morals not delightful —for this assumption of a premature virtue is proof merely of electioneering dexterity . But in Canada ( whicli was preceded on this po int by New-Brunswick ) there is a great resolution to be pure : the Assembly has voted an anti-liquor law by 90 to 5—a fact that will sustain our own Beer Bill heroes— -a fact that likewise suggests the reactionary twists of which the nineteenth century is susceptible . The other American it « m of news is Mexican . As slavery is going out , kings are coming in . Santa Anna has proposed to the diplo-1 matists of Europe to guarantee him against the ¦ States while he consolidates his bankrupt system [ into a Monarchy , the condition being that he will name as Heir , to succeed him , a Prince of a ' European royal house — say a Coburg . Santa Anna must have a fine contempt for Europe . 1 At home we have few incidents . Trade is uncertain , unsatisfied , but not unsound . The Stock Exchange has been puzzled by fluctuations in Turkish serip a decline of nearly 2 per cent , having been brought about by a panic originating in a whisper tfiat tho bonds were not signed according to loans - precedents . The Stock Exchange bus also been excited by the conduct of the Greeks ( cam they have beared Turkish scrip , by way of spite ?) who tire not depressed at rumours of Russian successes , and whom patriotic stock-brokers would therefore lynch . The Corn Market has also undergone fluctuations and excitements—corn trying to find its legitimate level in price , and corn merchants , with insufficient information , and erring views about the war , gambling meanwhile in their commodity . City after city is meeting to subscribe grandly to the Patriotic Fund . The Lord Mayor ' s Day did not much occupy London ; and Lord Mayor ' s Night did not produce much thought for the nation . The speeches at tho banquet were pointless : Lord Aberdeen , who answered to the toast of the Ministers was , as usual , cold , but , as usual , safe . The Arctic discoveries are completedthat is to say , Captain CoHinuon and hia " Enterprise ' are found to bo safe . They had , like M'Clurc , hit upon the North-West Passage- ; but unlike M'Clure , they had got up a mutiny—fortunately , a . new variation in life in the . Arctic Seas . We asked last week if the families of tho Franklin Expedition " wcr « J t ° . 'biun » any o ) : ; il "~ . ' 3 the Patriotic Fund ?—but nothing suciiin settled for or against tho suggestion . Tho subscribing claHsus arc intent cm oiuj objecttho war ; but JCngliwh charity is comj ; £ dh ^ r » uaj . For instance-, this week , Lord ShaftesUui ^ hiuU ^ tlv Hhowing to philuntropiwta some ^^ ^ t ^^ ^^ Jr ^ of his Improvement SocictioH Jnw ' ^ 8 d ^^ J (|^ ^ 1 Dnuy-Iano court—foul and lnde < W /;'; 5 ^ "GJ )^ ' | mirt ^ r . tends converting into happy dwhicilOB "fbi ** tiwHl lr , working-classes—cheap and clcan ^ l ^ k ^ Sjm ^ SM & I is a good Fairy . ^ ^'' MMplgX fc ^ Ji- ^^^ OS
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 11, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11111854/page/1/
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