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"The one Idea which Historv- exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the nobl < = endes-vour to throw down all the barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the wiiole Humau race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free develonrren' - ¦ of oar spiritualnature . " —Hicinboldt's Cos mos . - a . j ± --
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- page Over-Xegislation 870 The Mormons ... ; 873 The Seat of War ...... 880 „ ,, , „ iicon-. iaucher on Russian Fi- Norwich Free Library- 874 Ida May 881 TheJVar . _ . „ ....,.... 866 nance ....:... 871 Miscellaneous 874 Tory Journalism " 1 " . 882 S ^^ . ^^ ,:::::::::::::::::::::. IS' 2 Sga "Si 2 S £ ffi ^ pss : ™ buc ^ s- ^ Aeh df »»** .::...,::..::::::::::: Ill law ^ ndOraer .. 866 tugal 871 A November Session 875 PORTFOLIO— '¦¦ The Price of Provisions ...... 866 Attendance of Members of Par- Who is'M ^ ster of the House ? .. 875 The Prejudice of Kac « ............... 86 G ^ liament during la ^ ti Session ... 872 The Russian and tile English Underneath .... 884 ^ lT ^*^ ™/; v - ^ - ••• ! : •'" a S (? 7 Grisi and Mario rated by Dol- : Methods of Carrying on War 876 Sydenham Papers .. , 885 v . ^ ¦ l ?^ y ? r ofth ? French and 6 ^ lars ..,,...:.,.. „ ....,.....,.......,.... 872 Cleanlhiessv . Godliness ; ........ 87 G ' ¦¦ ¦¦ - ¦ v _ hisSt ^ ... 807 Russian Title to the Critnea ...... 872 Building Associations .... 876 ——I a C ^^ neFS al ?< i Mora —•• ' I *! Statistics of Friendly Societies . 873 The ^ Cry ' from the Loom ............ 877 Births Marriaces and deaths 88 S ¦ ' nF * TF ^ K ^" ' ** -tf" & 'V " a 868 Prince Ozartpryski and the Poles 873 Native America ... 878 iJircns , Ja . arriases . anajJcaths ... 885 « f ^ f " ' P * " RSnl ie t 6 d o ^ o A ^ MercantileYieW of Opera . ¦ „ , 873 Toleration and the Mormons ; ... 878 . ' . COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-_& w * xqb ... * ....... „ .. < ..,.. ¦ .,........ 863 The Bisliop of Oxford and . "¦ . ' ¦ ¦ . " ' . t . ¦; Pubho H « althr-the ; pholera ., ; . ; .. - .. 869 Thanksgiving for tlieHarvest 873 tITERATURE- Citvlhtplli ^ nop . MarliP ^ AH Our ^ ivihsatipn ...,.... ^ .....,.......... ^ ThePrus ^ n CircalaV Note ...... 873 ; Sumrnary .. - ..... ; .............. ,.,.... 879 ™ rt ^* !! l _ 8 S 7-888
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rpHE Queen and tie Prince have this vrcek gone JL to their JJighland retreat , Balmoral : and the fact indicates ,, as annually , the intensity of the Recess . The darkest hour of the nigLt is the hour before day ; politically , too , let us bope : for a London iiftwspaper is bound to be interesting-, and cannot close * - —like a theatre , a Parliament , or any other public anlusenlent . The Bishop of Oxford proposes , to pass the time perhaps , t ; hat we should have a national thanksgiving to Providence fov the blessings of the abundant harvest . The proposal does not come
quite apropos ma "week distinguished for bread riots , and excited by a national spite against the baker , -who , though a Christian , endeavours to intercept some of the blessings of the abundant harvest;—in the way of trade corn-merchants also not feeling grateful . The proposal , it may likewise be observed , is not put in the syllogistic way to ensure its . adoption in a country so rcmax ^ kable as ours for practical sense . In Ireland it is objected to the jubilee required by the Pope , that the Roman Catholic peasants will be called to
prayer fcftd religious exercises at the very moment when they are greatly required in the field , or the " haggart ; " and in the same way Protestants hero , uninthnidated by theological agreement with S . Oxon , should remark that the six weeks gorgeous sunshine which ripened the harvest into such grand proportions , -was also the cau 3 e of tlic fearful spread of the cholera in the close town streets . Then comes the question— ' inasmuch as free-trade forbids famine—why n thanksgiving one year more than another ?—a -thanksgiving this year would
be merely a thanksgiving fox 1 a reduction in the price of the popular loaf . There is no irreverence in suggesting theso things : the irreverence nppoara to us to bo , in S . Oxon ' s suggestion thnt there ia irregularity in natural laws , and in forgetting that Providence takes larger " averages " —centuries instead of half a dozen luivvosts — thim tho corn trndo . The Bishop ' s appeal iloos not sc < sm to have mot with a very hearty , nnd certainly not a n official , response ; this is , perhaps , because aProtostarxt country will not pay on the invitation of a Puseyito Bishop .
Tho Pope is more comprehensive than the Puaoyito : in lus jubiloc , tho Pusoyito overlooks tho great horror-in presence of which a thanksgmng ahould be analytical—of tho war . Is not
the inevitable slaughter at Sebastppol to balance the blessings of . an abundant harvest . Marshal St . Arnaud does not consider that point : in a few flays vt-e may expect news of a landing in the Crimea ; and when Sevastopol is taken the Ministerial difficulty in England will begin . Metuiwhile , difficulties exist in connexion with ihe war . D ' Hilliers , after Bbmafsund , journeyed from Stockholm to Paris with a precipitation that looks like a flight or a fright ; the French army' is coming home top ; and Sir Charles Napier has
clearly given up all thoughts of Crbiistadt . - ' W ^ at is the explanation of all this ? On the Danube the Austrians have made their move , have got hold of the Principalities , and commence their occupation of Bucharest by little eccentricities which recal scenes in Milan —\ yith insolence , bullying , and brutalities—in the manner of conquerors , not of protectors . Omar Pacha seems to submit to their military pre-eminence , contenting himself , for the present , with tho mere assertion of his rights as Civil Governor ; and , among other humiliations to which the Austrian alliance
exposes him , is this—that ho is compelled to give up , or save , by sending away , the Italians ; Poles , and Hungarians , who wore Austrian political refugees with commissions in the Turkish army . Wlmt ia Omar Pacha to do next ?— . that is a question the answer to which not even " foreign correspondents" attempt to guess . In Asia the Russians seem to have outplayed thoir luck . Sduimyl is roported to have come up with them , and beaten them at a great battle ( Tiflis ) , anil incidontly , if not consequently , comes the telegraphic despatch thnt the Russians have made o , retreat before tho Turkish forces in Asia . Tho Fabian t : \ ctics sire
universally those of Kussia just at present . Odessa ia to be evacuated merely because a renewed visit of tho squadron is suspected : tho inhabitants , large numbers of them foreigners , being ordered , by the military regime , to burn down the houses , sack , and who—ho that tho invmlcrs would find a small Moscow . Tho difliculties of the war tire perhaps loss xopresontud ia ( his complicated reaiiltlosHnoss of
action , or upprohundod action , than in the secret diplomacy which ia hero mid there revealed to x \ s sclf-govomoti people , by u " note ' in ft Belginn or Cologne paper . Tho Prussian circular noto puts the position of Prussia , and puts it vory woll — so woll that there is no-English answer possible . Prussia attends to her own interests ; and her own interests roquiro that ehe should keep
quiefc wbue the Western Powers are cheeking Russian predominance ; she , during the time , affecting mediation , and professing friendship for Russiay Austria continues not to see n .-casus belli in anything ; but comes in , fox-like , to seize the plunder the nobler animals have fought . 'for . The English press is enraged that the German Powers are not ntore chivalx-ously eager to defend civilisation by upholding the Turk ; but theEnglish , press should be more practical , and obtain some
guarantee ; that it , and the public it represents , should have 21 Qwer * in directing the Government which plays the game of Austria and Prussia . The Hussian note , responding to the last Austrian proposals , has been published , and is also the theme of vituperation for the British journals . The pretexts " of Russia are annihilated . But does our Government resort to no pretexts ? Is it quite untrue that while the English Lord John Russell talks of the destruction of
Sebastopol as a safety to Turkey , he really means a safety to England ?•—a danger to us being the existence of a Russian fleet so large that , if * combined with that of the French , it could beat ours . Certainly , the assumption is a compliment to Lord John Russell ' s not frequently manifested far-sightedness ; nnd it is odd that the Duke of Cambridge was veiy earnest , in the councils of war , in urging the abandonment of the Crimea expedition .
That is a rumour . Another is that Mr . Cobden is about to publish a pamphlet on the war , illustrating all this " muddle , " pointing to all this incoherence . The war is a muddle ; but why ? Because it is carried on by a Government which contemplates , something totally distinct from the results oontomplatcd by this English people . A 3 STo > vember session might produce a bettor under standing . Spain is settled—in unscttlemcnt ; and tin chaos being authorised by what ia fawlkiusl } called " the Government , " the . Republicans , u-itli sonic French inspirations , nro conspiring . In tho United States tho Know-nothings uro boiiifj encouraged by the story that President 1 ' iVruc insists on tho complete expulsion of u Uriti . sli
inlluonco" from Central America— . Mr . Huoluiuuu vonvoying this . insistnnco 1 o I-unl Clurcnilon , un . l Mr . Huchnniun and Lord Claivinlon luwnlinyly quarrelling , llorowosoo tin . Ainorioans suilVrin « r , like ourstilvos , from ttoon-t « lij > lunmi'y—thoir afliiii's , ft possible rui ) tiivo to nnsn out of tho dispute , loft to tho disposal of a couplo of porsonagos of vory inferior natures uik ! Uiorvfo-ye ot vory ' bad to in pur a .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16091854/page/1/
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