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'' The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into rreater distinctness is the Idea of Hun-jamtv—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected betvveen ine-u by prejudice aiid one-sided views : and bv setting aside the distinctions of R . eli £ ion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great" object—the free development of oar spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— ** ea Beverley Election 752 The President of the Board of PORTFOLIO'The Suspended Boroughs 752 Health . 755 , ^ , . t < Kussian Possessions in America ... 746 Robert Owen ' s Petition ; 75-2 British Progress in India 757 A Clergyman s Experience of Parliament of the Week 748 A Tory View of the Period 752 Austria—For and Against .. 737 society ¦ . 7 bo ' . Testimonial to Mr . Hume ....... 749 An M . P . ' s View of Parties in the Moral of the Hume Portrait ... 753 X 1 J _ . „ .. Our Civilisation ........ 749 House of Commons :. 753 ,,. _ . . arts—Notes on the War ^ . 750 The Windsor Barracks Affair ... 753 LITERATURE— The Opera 766 Continental Notes 751 The Court ..: ..... ' .... 753 Summary ..... 759 Italy ..., ; 751 Miscellaneous , ... 753 Russia and Turkey 760 !| XdstaVes : ; :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: . III public affairs- - ' 5 £ S ¥ ^*? ° Tt \ t :-- III B ^ hs , m ** v * , ** ii > nn * : ~ ™ C & eolPlM ^ h ^ os o ^ Un n : 751 | The ^ ew Elections 754 ^ ov ^' .. ^ . ^ .. ^^^ 7 Gi COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSday . 751 . f . Results of the Session ... 754 Diary and Xietters of Madame City Intelligence . Markets , Ad-TheCholera 751 i- The Spirit of the Army . 755 D'Arblay ,. 764 vertisements , & e 766-768
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IN VENTS " are leading well up to give eclat to J the Queen ' s speech in proroguing Parliament to-day : Ministers managing admirably so as to part with us under good appearances . Her Rlajesty will be enabled to state that the Turks have driven the Russians out of the Principalities ; and Lord Clarendon has already stated that our Cabinet relies on the good faith of Austria , who is declared to be as averse as we are to the
establishment of the status quo ante belltitn . This looks like a happy state of tilings ; and the prospect is even pleasanter , for we now daily expect to hear of coincident grand coups in the Black Sea and in the Baltic . Bat some doubt and hesitation ma } still be entertained . Russia has withdrawn the oiTence for which we went to war with her : for
what , therefore , are we going to bombard Bomarsund and Sobastopol ? The English nation will not find fault with our admirals for being illogical in their operations ; but it ivill be rather illogical to destroy Russian fortresses before we have considered our object in those pi'oceedings . We are now at war with Russia : what fur ? That is a
question which Austria , master of the situation in consequence of our felicitous negotiations , will now bo entitled to put to France and England ; - —whence the probability that new negotiations will now begin , and the possibility thsit at whatever nominal sacrifice Russia may arrest the war . Considering that Lord Clarendon , on his own confession , made sucli a complete miscalculation as to Russian movements on the Danube , ought we now to trust his opinion of Austria ?
I ho onuasion in his otherwise rather confiding and singularly simple speech of all reference to Prussia will bo noticed ; what that indioatus is very ovidonfc . Throughout tho Foreign Secretary ' s soliloquizing answer to Lord Clanricanle , there is no trace of the idea having as yet occurred to him or his colleagues , that the difficulty has begun with the Russian ovncualion of tho disputed
territory . ^ It may be that the Russian notification to Austria has taken our Ministers by surpr ise ; but from all wo hnvo recently hoard , wo have inferred that the Cabinet has boon calculating on a long war . Mr . Gladstone has declined in a innrkod manner to proffer hia ready-money maxim about war finance na applicable to next your ; and it is notorious that seven or eight more regiments are boiug got ready for the East , and that tho
Militia is to be embodied . On the other hand , Prance accepts war as a permanent social condition . It has been said that France with the consent of the English Government , has entered into a separate treaty with Austria , guaranteeing her , in the event of her joining the Western Powers in active war , the possession of Lombardy against Italian patriots : —^ will English Liberals approve of that ? Lord Clarendon says that Austria can only be expected to adopt a policy suitable to her interests ; and how can English Ministers seek an Austrian alliance , knowing what Austrian interests mean ? Prussia has similar rights of choice of friends ; and it is not honourable to us that the King and his Ministers ground their reluctance to join the Western Powers on the " proverbial faithlessness and instability " of England . Success , or apparent success , in war and foreign policy , compensates Ministers for their not victorious aspect in Parliament . The public" comprehends and condemns sucli cases as that of Lawlcy and OTlaherty ; and the impression is unfavourable , not only to the political pretensions , but to the personal character , of Ministers . The public likewise appreciate the influences which have elevated an ignorant and incompetent man into the office of Minister of Health . The folly of the Bribery Bill—a bill to purify a general election , and limited to one question—is perceived , tho more clearly that the Lords , who can rely on intimidation , have insisted on improving the measure iu stringency : the silliness and false pretences of the Russian Securities Bill wore ascertained before tho weighty opinion of tho Chief Justice was tendered to tho Lords that the law would not bo worth tho paper it was written on . Nevertheless , there is one parliamentary incident of tho week which has given satisfaction . Sir Charles Wood ' s statement of the affairs of India indicated how considerably the public opinion of justice-loving Englishmen—nnd on this point " party" bo slightly influences , that Lord Stanley and Mr . Bright work together—has forced Cannon-street and Londenhall-strect into generous statcsuianrihip . Evidently " Young India" was ngreoubly surpritioil by tho tone Sir C . Wood assumed ; and , in their sturlloil paUsfact ' , they wvi'o perhaps too complimentary , nnd made too few conditions ; far ( his party is beginning to sue thnt , as a party , it is in its power to compv ! good government of India . Another clear nnd comforting Ministerial statement waa Lord John's on
the slave-trade , in connexion with Cuba ; liis lordship hinting to Espartero that now that Christin ^ is down the traffic ought to be stopped ; Sir Joshua Walmsley , a Long Parliament sort of member , commenting pithily : — " If the Spaniards don't stop the trade , let us make them stop it !" The remainder of the parliamentary news affects bills hurried through , or hastily dropped , because
of " this late period of the session ; ' and even an India Budget did not collect a House of more than fifteen members . It is considered ridiculous and preposterous for a senate to sit more than six months ; " popular members" are even as eager as Ministers to & et into the recess when the people cease , except through an unrecognised press , to have any control over the governing classes .
Spanish affairs have merely passed out of one state of unsettlement into another state of unsettlement . Espartero , an amiable man , with his common sense modified by a papaish sort of feeling towards the unhappy young Queen , is endeavouring , in the weak benevolence of age , to make a mild revolution , and , very naturally , he is breaking down . O'Donnell continues the man of the crisis , seeking to coerce Espartero into severe measures in relation to those who have sinned so scr iously against the nation—prominently against Queen Christina , who ought to be tried and punished . Espartero hesitates : as a constitutional admirer of rose-water regimes , ho thinks everything ought to be left to the Cortes—whom O'Donnell has a masculine tendency to do without alto gethor ; and the result will probably be that Narvaesc will come in , after more bloodshed—Queen Isabella ' s chances disappearing with Espartero . What then ? Tho American news supplies one event . Lord Grey appears to havo cursed every place he touched , nnd lie touched every place ho could ; Grcytown ( nnined after him ) , in the " Mosquito territory , " lms been bombnriU ' d and reduced to splinters by a Yankee man-ofwar I'aptJiin , who lost his temper -with the ludioroti . s authorities of that
locality . The net was infamous , nnd »» 01 ' stupid than infnmoun ; but United Stilton journalism relieves us in Hnglnml from tlio duty of protestthey have nonrly nil denounced ( lie dull atrocity . Tin " Amurii-iin " uow . s »!*<> fmpplii'tf «» exciting rumour , that tho C '/ . nr luis oilorcd to null to the Federal Government all his American territories throwing in n little island by way of what aomo Americana cull " a bittook . " In America , where tho people luvvo something
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 12, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12081854/page/1/
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