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NEWS OF THE WEEK- tags Naval and Military News 341 Tho Imperial Visit 348 Handbook of Fainting rf 55 vZ mr The Halfpenny Newspaper Exclusion of the Middle Classes 349 North and South 356 The War . ^ .. ^ ............................ 338 Stamp 345 The " Moniteur" on the War \ .. 350 Books oil our Table 356 ^ fiSfiaSfiaE ?^ Jg ¦ ^ a ^ l ^ bonr -dlOb . ^ SSSSS ^ : I ? THE ARTSSSn ^™ ::::::::: IS ****;« ™>* k da ™* «» . ^ 2 Shg ^^ . ^!^ .:::::: & ^& l £ ^ £ T ™ . ~ III Co ^ inTntafNotes ^^^ Zl HI Theyirit ^ -thSF » Mh " Bmpe « r OPEN COUNCIL- The Easter Pieces 357 The Hopwood Will Case 342 Mfs ^ ellSu ^ 345 Observance of the Sabbath 352 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 357 The Case of Mrs . Karosbotham ... 343 TW ^ . r ?? t 34 7 Have we a Rule of Faith . ? 352 -. « , „ -., » , «_ .- » , _ , « . Trial and Condemnation of Bura- Postscript > 347 LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSnelli . ........ . 343 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ' Summary 353 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Spe ' eSesoTpubuc Men :::::::::::: " : HI Are we to have an Aristocracy ? 347 WhitelocWs Swedish Embassy 354 vertisements , & c 357-360
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" \ TEVER was there a press of business more imiM portant or more various tban that which will fall -with accumulated weight upon Lord Paj > merston next week . There is the Emperor of the Fbesch to be provided with a state reception of cordial welcome , and a route for avoiding any unpleasant demonstrations that might salute him by the way . There is the Congress at Vienna , ¦ whither a Dbouyn » e Lhuys has gone to make up
for the deficient represenDfction of the Western Powers , where Turkey shows so strong a disposition to call even her allies in question , and where ftussia is so gratuitously obstinate . There is the Crimea with the disclosures of the armistice , during which we have discovered that the Russians and their fortifications are in prime condition . With a war on hand threatening to increa ^ ei 6 "" five : iold 3 s "" p e ¥ eM-diinensions ,- 'there is the War-Office bare of its chief , who lingers on
the couch . of gouty sickness . There is the Budget to get ready , and the newly-announced Loan to arrange with " the City . " And there is the House Qf Commons about to reassemble with all the bickerings of all the factions , new combinations threatened against the Minister who was actually nominated by the majority of the House , and new difficulties in getting through public business without any Easter recess to break the strain . Here , certainly , is enough of business for
one man ! We do not know how Ministers have been employing the recess to strengthen themselves against the renewed labours of the week ; for profession and fact are as little in harmony as the profession and fact of our groat public . Then there is some mystery at head-quarters which we have yet to penetrate . The people of this country professing to be Christians kept Good Friday as a gay holiday , a first burst of spring festivity ; while
the Easter Sunday , which should be the greatest festival of the Church , fell comparatively ilat upon British Christians . If a people professing pure Christianity , and comporting itself with so little reference to that creed , is governed by a Ministry whose acts are equally inconsistent with its professions , we may indeed anticipate some startling eventualities in Vienna , in the Crimea , and perhaps in other scenes . There are reports to which at present we attach little hoed , of all sorts of compromises . The only evidence that we can
descry in support of these rumours lies in the excessively belligerent language ascribed to Ministers and their underlings . We must confess , however , that appearances in the north-east of Europe as well as in the southeast , run strongly against peace : The final instructions are still withheld from the Russian plenipotentiaries . Now it is true that the-real decision of-peace lay with the Emperor Alexajtdeb . There are certain essentials to-be
conceded without which there can be no guarantee for peace ; and the only question was , whether in general terms he was prepared to make those essential # ncessions . Whence , then , these tedious deliberations ? Evidently he has not yet made up his mind ; and the nature of his position is such , that if he should continue in the same mood he will probably at the last moment send hasty instructions telling the Plenipotentiaries to persevere in a course that cannot terminate in peace .
In the -meanwhile flie- . instructions .... given by Turkey to her ambassador have been published . The document , indeed , has not been formally authenticated , but there is no reason to doubt its authenticity . In these instructions the Turkish Ambassador is told to guard the sovereignty and independence of the Porto against any encroachments through the administration of the Principalities , the regulation of the Dardanelles , or the security given for the Christian subjects . The Porto also demands that any project for the
settlement of the Four Points shall be submitted to it , and discussed with the Allies before it is offered to the acceptance of Russia ; and in all cases the Ambassador is to refer to his own Government . Turkey , therefore , gives no carte blanche to Congress , and in some respects claims a place of consideration before Russia—all very properly ; but it is very likely to exasperate the son of that Czar who was so excessively irritated because the proposition of the Allied Powers in the first instance was submitted to the Porte simultaneously with himself .
Wo can then have no expectation that Russia will amend her position towards the other powers ; nor ostensibly baa the position of any of those powers altered . Prussia is still coquetting through diplomatic missions to Paris uud by correspondence . Saxony has through its ministers boon throwing out a hint to the Gorman Governments , that they should exorcise independence of Austria in the control and use of tho foderul army ; a new 7 'us " e by the ally of PruBsia fof securing Prussian ,
and therefore Russian , objects . Bavaria is said to have proposed to Austria that , satisfied with the concessions on the two first points , which concern her , she should proceed no further with the Western Powers , but be neutral as to the rest . And Austria , it has been reported , signified her acquiescence in that proposal . But the report stands as absolutely without a shadow of evidence for itsbasis as any that have gone before .
As to the French Government , it is contemplating some new move , T > ut as yet has given us no sign what that move is to be . ' The-Emperor is preparing for his visit to this country in imperial magnificence , which is in itself an important state proceeding . He has also permitted the publication in the Moniteur of a Memoir , explaining the progress of the War down to the present point . Ostensibly , this Memoir has the appearance of a simple narrative , admitting many things , sucb as the part which the Emperor took in instructing his own generals for their course first of all in 'Julrkeyr" ^^"'^^^^!! ' ^^^ " !!! the Crimea ; the
change of plans which took place from time to time , and the comparative failure of tho expedition . The Report , however , is almost as significant in its omissions as in its direct statements ; and the true use to be made of it—the force and meaning of the whole representation and course of action in which it forms only a fragmentary part—will not bo understood until we have the diplomatic sequel already promised , and the course of action with which the Emperor may design to follow it up . It is recorded for a purpose ; and we shall understand the purpose when we know its author ' s mind .
It is possible that the attention absorbed by the Imperial visit , the demand that it will inako on the time of tho officers of State , and the generally distracted condition of tho public mind , may stave off some of tho questions that would otherwise encounter Ministers at tho reopening of Parliament . Mr . Bouverijb , who has been reelected for Kilmarnock , after his appointment as
Vice-President of tho Board of Trade , might be asked to explain how it comes that , if , ns he showed " in tho Scotch town , he ' so thoroughly understands the reasons for the bad working of our n ' ublio ^ d- ' U /^ ^ J - " pnrtments , ho should consent to take a place under" \ ., . v . ' •' . •' ¦ Government without a thorough pulling down : ;' , - * •" ^ - -- i ! r and reconstruction of tho whole system f ? £ ** $ ¦ J , '* ; $£ J ; 1 . ' ,., Pai . mkrston pointed out that tho syirtom liaa ' ''' s "' .. f r ; . broken down in those departments -vf * itch ore- ¦ ' ? . ' ¦ ^^ ofliccred by tho middle class . Tho cominigtMfryrf ; ' . ; - ' ¦ ¦ ' < S &
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Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14041855/page/1/
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