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THE LEADER. [No. 277, Saturday, 664 '
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THE WAR. The war news of the past week h...
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I . OB 1 > JOHN BUSSEU . AND THK ACSTRIAN PBOPOSAXS . . I ^ ord PAuonno * having brought , upthe supplessss ^^ -y SSI S gKSsS = S « Sir E . Bul £ <* £ , "" time should be allowed for gSJS confIteration of the documents just nrlseS burGovernoient were willing to afibrd JveS fad it v for a debate on the question next week . Sd John Russell , replying to Mr . Disraeli ' s Question on Tuesday night , said that , in his speech on Friday the 6 th inst ., he had communicated nothing
new iii affirming that the last Austrian proposition had been discussed in the Cabinet , and been rejected , but that he had since obtained her Majesty ' s gracious sanction of the statement which he then made , borne erroneous inferences had been drawn from Ins speech , which he desired to correct . In April last , it was true that he considered the Austrian proposition offered a satisfactory basis for peace ; but it was contrary to the fact to assert that he believed so now . His opinion on that point bore reference only to the bygone position of affairs . At present , he was convinced that the best prospect of peace couldbe obtained only through a vigorous prosecution of the war . Mr . Disbaeij said he did not perceive that the
statement which Lord John Russell had just made at all altered his situation with regard to the House . The people of this country had been gre atly startled and disquieted at finding that one of the ministers of the Crown had recommended a project which his colleagues refused to adopt ; that he had not thereupon resigned , but had remained in office , and had actually , shortly after recommending the Austrian proposal for peace , made a speech in that House , which conveyed to the country the impression that he was an uncompromising advocate of war . Under these circumstances , Mr . Disraeli did not think Ms lordship ' s present announcement to the same effect would go of the
far towards reassuring the daunted spirit nation . The proceedings of Lord Palmerston , with respect to Sir E . B . Lytton ' s motion , were equally reprehensible . He ( Mr . Disraeli ) had received authentic information that it was originally the intention of Government to go into Committee of Supply the following ( Friday ) night , when Sir E . B . Lytton ¦ w ould have had an opportunity of bringing forward his motion ; but the Premier had altered that in tention in order to stave off the motion . As for studying the papers now presented , members might arrive at a much better judgment from the confessions of ministers themselves . He called upon Lord Palmerston to promise a motion for supply on Monday , so that the discussion on the vote of censure might
come on . Lord Paxmerston reiterated his opinion that it was absolutely necessary that members should have time to read the official papers presented to them , and undertook to make an opening for the discussion on Monday next , if Mr . Roebuck , who had also a motion of censure , would agree to that arrangement . —Sir E . B . IntTTON and Mr . Roebuck having assented to the offer , the papers were ordered to be laid on the table . TENANTS IMPROVEMENT COMPENSATION ( iREI-AND )
BILL . On the House going into committee on this bill , Mr . Hobsman moved that the Chairman should at once report progress . —Mr . Malins referred to the fact of a deputation of Irish members having waited on Lord Palmerston , and obtained from him a promise' that , if any independent member reintroduced the 14 th clause , which had been struck out , the Government would support it provided it were accompanied by the amendments of Mr . Horsman . This arrangement Mr . Malins attributed to the desire of the Government to obtain support on the coming motions of want of confidence . —I < ord Pai ^ mkkston said that , as he had always supported the amended
14 th clause , there was nothing extraordinary in his attempting , if possible , to restore it ; and he denied that any bargain had been made . —A long and angry discussion ensued , in the courso of which Mr . Di 3 RABi . r denounced the practico of transacting legislative business behind the back of the House of Commons ; and I ^ ord Pauweuston , on the contrary , contended that there is nothing unusuul or improper in deputations waiting on ministers . —Mr . Horsman said that the deputation was determined on before Sir E . B . Lytton gave notice of his motion ;
on which he was met with cries of " Roebuck !"Mr . Brads-, as one of the deputation , bore testimony to no bargain having been made ; and Mr . V . Soui-ly defended the conduct of the Irish members . It was , however , the opinion of several members that it was highly unconstitutional to endeavour to make a Prime Minister attempt to rescind a decision of the House . Mr . Gcinnissb . in particular , denounced thia proceeding as " disgraceful and disgusting . " Ultimately , the Chairman was ordered to report prog * eSB . ~ -THE Coai . Mines Insfkotiokt Him ,, was rend a third' time and paaRed .
The Leader. [No. 277, Saturday, 664 '
THE LEADER . [ No . 277 , Saturday , 664 '
The War. The War News Of The Past Week H...
THE WAR . The war news of the past week has been slight ; yet it contains one or two points of interest , showing satisfactory progress . On the 9 th of July , the new Commandor-in-Chief telegraphed that he intended to open a heavy fire on the Redan the following day ; and on the llth he communicated the fact that the fire of the pdreccduua : day had had good effect on the fort acahist which our special efforts are now directed General IVlissier , writing at the same time , savs— « Th * firing has boon very brisk all day between the £ n £ lUh and the Great Redan . This evening that work is sufficiently silent . In consequence , our allies will be able to advauce their works . Whether , as a consequence of this " silencing ( real or apparent \ we are to have another assault , or are to proceed by more cautious steps , is not at present revealed .
An alleged despatch of Pelissier , dated the 9 th , conveys a brief notification of a defeat of the Russians on the preceding night , in a grand sortie made against the Mamelon and the Rifle Pits ; but , as this de spatch has not appeared in the Moniteur , the affair is involved in doubt . The French works in Careening Bay are progressing , despite the heavy fire of the Russians . The new works of the English are also being pushed forward ; and everything indicates the determination of the Generals and men not to flag in the smallest degree undeT temporary defeat .
" During our late attack on the Redan ( says the Daily Neics Correspondent ) we suffered sadly from a small six-girn battery on the immediate right of that work , towards the Malakoff , as it kept up an uninterrupted storm of grape upon our men , without being at all effectively commanded by any of our own guns . _ We have , therefore , begun the erection of a six ( or eight ) gun-battery slightly ahead of our old advance opposite the Redan , -which will be able to give back a direct fire to this small work at an effective range of seven hundred yards , and also to bear upon the left flank of the Malakhoff , at the distance of some fifty yards more . "
The war in Asia continues , though languidly . The Russians have entered Asiatic Turkey , under the command of General Mouravieff ; but advices from Kars of the 16 th of June state that theirvdemonstrations against that town had been repul ^ fl , and that the assailants withdrew to Agdja-Kaleh . The health of our troops before Sebastopol has latterly been such as to c reate considerable feelings of uneasiness . From the General-in-Chief to the humblest private , the fatal influe nce of cholera has passed like an Angel of Death , and has seemed to threaten a repetition of the fearful mortality which last year struck down so many of our men at "Varna .
But we are happy to see that , in his last despatch , General Simpson states that the cholera is on the decrease , and that the health of the army is satisfactory . General Simpson , in one of his recent communications , also speaks of a proposal from Prince Gortschakoff for an exchange of prisoners of war at Odessa . The Russians will no doubt be glad to get back all the men they can ; for already the want of soldiers is being felt . As an evidence of this , we hear from Kbnigsberg that a decree of the Czar orders the Governments of New Russia and Bessarabia to reinforce the army as soon as possible ; and that the Cossacks acting on the banks of the Danube are enrolling volunteers from all classes .
A letter from Trebizond of the 24 th ult ., published in the Moniteur , contains an assertion which we would fain hope to be incorrect , though it is put forward as being positively true—namely , the death of the prophet warrior , Schamyl . THE QUKEN ' s SYMPATHY" WITTI HER TROOPS UNDER
DICFKAT . The annexed general order was promulgated a few hours before Lord Raglan ' s death : — " The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publishing to the army the following extract from a telegraphic despatch from Lord PanmuTe , dated the 22 nd of June : — " ' I have her Majesty ' s commands to express her grief that so much bravery should not have been rewarded with merited success , and to assure her bravo troopa that her Majesty ' s confidence in them is entire . * "
THE LATE COMMANDICIt-lN-CHIKF . Within a very few hours after this order liud appeared , the electric telegraph brought the melancholy and startling intelligence from hoad-quarters to the various divisions that the Field-Marshal was ' dead . It would appear that he has lately—no doubt from the constant strain on his mental and bodily energies—been far from well , und the doath of General Etttcourt , to whom ho was mucli attuched , the unsatisfactory result of the- attack on tho 18 th in » t ., and the un healthy weather since , broke down a constitution already enfeebled by ago and long service . Tho causa of liis death is ntuted to havo boon diarrhoea , which terminated in cholera . Tho body is to bo convoyed to England in hoj MaJoHty ' s ship Caradoc , and will leave very shortly . It will , I hoar , bo accompanied by tho whole of his lato lordship's personal staff , whoso
duties will then , of course , cease . Colonel the Hon . W . L . Pakenham will conduct for the present the duties of the Adjutant-General ' s office . —Times Correspondent . On the very morning of his death , Lord Raglan seemed so much better that his physicians thought all danger was past . But in the evening he was seized with a fainting fit ; and two hours later he expired with great calmness . A mistaken impression existed during last week that the deceased Field-Marshal would be buried at
Balaklava . Such , however , was not the intention . The remains of Lord Raglan have been consigned to the famil y vault at Badminton . It would doubtless have been more in accordance with the wishes of the people of England , had they been placed side by side with the ashes of the General ' s great chief in St . Paul's cathedral ; but family feelings in these matters ought to supersede national desires . The ship Caradoc was the vessel which conveyed Raglan first to Varna and afterwards to the Crimea , and with whose commander , Derrinane , he was on terms of affectionate friendship .
It is understood that the Emperor of the French has written a letter to Lady Raglan , in which more than ordinary feeling is displayed . The Spanish Cortes have unanimously passed a resolution , in order that , ' J In remembrance of the services rendered by Lord Raglan , who defended in his youth Spanish independence , and to the day of his death the liberties of Europe , they may proclaim the regret with which they learned the melancholy death of that excellent General . " The Minister who proposed this resolution , guarded against its being supposed that the Cortes desired to manifest any opinion concerning the present struggle in the Crimea . Yet the phrase , " defending the liberties of Europe until his death , " can hardly be regarded in any other light than an expression of opinion , and against Russia .
A THUNDERSTORM AND HURRICANE AT BALAK 1 . AVA . June 23 rd . —At eigbt o ' clock this evening , a thunderstorm , advancing from the mountain ranges over Bal ; iklava and Mackenzie's-farm , burst on the valley of thu Tchernaya and on the southern portion of the camp . I never beheld such incessant lightning . For two hours the sky Was a blaze of fire . The rain fell like a great wall of water behind us . Not a drop descended over the camp in front , but ire could see it in a steep glistening cascade , illuminated by the lightning , falling all across the camp from sea to land , just in front of Lord Raglan ' s , and nearly in a straight line , as if marked out by a ruler . The rain is a great relief to our parched
reser-. June 25 th . —The storm which burst over the southeastern portion of the Chersonese on Saturday night has done more damage than we could liave anticipated . Men were drowned in ravines converted by the tornado into angry ¦ watercourses , were carried cuff roads by mountain torrents , and dashed against hill-sides ; beasts were swept away into the harbour and borne to sea ; huts were broken up and floated out into the ocean ; the burialgrounds near Balaklava were swept bare , and disclosed their prrim army of doaii
in ghastly resurrection , washed into strange srape .-s from out their shallow graves ; and , greatest calam'tyuf all , the railway was in various places deconv , O'f 1 , ripped up and broken down so as to be unservicenl If at our greatest need . Orders have been sent down to urgo on the necessary repairs ; for the demands of the batteries for shot and shell are pressing , and the electric telegraph lias been repeatedly in use to-day to force on tho attention of the authorities at Bnlaklava the nceossity there is for their promptest exertions , and to order them to send up supplies of mntifriel for our fifth bombardment as speedily as possible . — Times Correspondent .
I-IAOS OK TUUCK . The Kuswian Minister of War , in a letter addressed (< i Admiral Dundus , lays down the following rules to which his Government ha . s determined that flags of truce shall conform : — " Flagsj ^ f truce can only he sent to three places , namely , OWhstadt , Sweaborg . and Iievcl . Ships ho presenting thcmselvcH -will have to carry a white flag of a large size , to stop beyond the rnngo of heavy ordnance , and to wait for a lmat to put ofF from tho placo under : i white flag , in order to receive a written message . I
have to inform you , Monsieur TAmim ! , that tho Imperinl Government has decided on not recognising tho Hug of truce , should vessels bo sent toother localities than thos « I havo just stated , or should they fail to observe rigorously tho regulations proscribed in this letter . " In reply to this , Admiral Dundns Hays that ho leaves upon tho Itunsian ( Jovernmont tho responsibility of any disasters which may take place in consequence of tho restrictions thus imposed ; and that he regrets th < i Hussian minister Iijih not pointed out any specific ense , of misconduct on the pnrt of English officers , as such wouhl immediately ho investigated . D 10 ATH <>» ' A BA 1 U > INIAN Ojrj'ICJCIt . A telegraphic despatch received In Paris announce * tho death of one of the bravest ofllccm in tho Sardinian army , the MarquiH Victor do Suiut-Marsan-CaraU . gmndaon of tho French ambassador at Berlin under tli «' ICmpiro , and son of tho First Equerry of tho Emperor Napoleon I . Ho linn been killed under tho wulli * of 8 « ba » topol in tho roidat of tho French troops , having
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/4/
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