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NEWS OF THE WEEK— - **<« Election Intelligence 151 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATURETheWar 146 Canada 152 The Insolvency of our Govern- Summary 161 The Baltic Meet 1 * 8 fi"M , ? ViZ ing Class . 155 The Governing Classes 162 liord Raglan in the Camp 148 California 152 A National Party 156 Lady Blessington 162 The New Secretary at the War- Sir Charles Hotham ' s Policy ... 152 . Survey of the War 157 The Warden .. 164 , office ™ 148 Louis Napoleon's Victims at The Boot of the Evil 157 Sir De Lacy Evans and the War Cayenne 152 The House of Peers 158 THE ARTSDepartment .... 1 * 8 Ministerial Appointments 153 Heresy and Convocation 158 m » T , _ , ma in Paria 165 The Earl of Cardigan at North- Our Civilisation . . ... 158 Lord Goderich ' s Motion and the The Urama in rans lea ampton .. 7 ~ . 148 Fall of a Jtouse and Loss of Life Public 159 The Real Solution of the Army at Islington ... 153 The Unpardonable 159 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 165 Dilemma .......... 149 The Militia 153 The "Stranger" in Parliament ... 160 ^ Continental Notes .....,.. ; 149 The Public Health 153 ° COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSTbe Governing Classes ., 149 Fateof Sir John Franklin ... 153 OPEN COUNCIL- cit intelligence . Markets , Adftg ? aSfi 53 & -i !? := ^ : S pgripr ^ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: OS a voice from the Mountain mo &**«»* +. *> wmb
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fllHE pAiiMEBSTON Cabinet is the Russeli . i Cabinet newly decorated and repaired ; but some of the outw rd changes are considerable . Lord Paxmebston has sent the late Premier into private life * and the Premier expectant—Lord Johk RussBXir—to Vienna . He has lost one of the most remarkable . men of the present day , who was buried in a subordinate department ; and if be has done something to retrieve that department and the Government by placing in the vacancy one of the most promising of our young noblemen , lie has failed .
Lord John Russell's mission to "Vienna is the foremost topic of the week . He will be accompanied by Mr . Hammond , a permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office , who goes out , as it were , to nurse the noble Lord in his diplomatic apprenticeship . What reasons induced the Preinierto select-Lord John for this , gr , eat . responsj . bility is not exactly known , but popular suspicion points , first to the advantage of exiling a troublesome rival in the House of Commons , whose cooperation might have a disagreeable patronising
appearance , whose opposition , backed by 140 Whigs , would be troublesome as well as vexatious , and whose criticisms would perhaps have the Sting of slighting friendship . Again , another suspicion arises . We have , in former times , pointed to the habitual delight which Lord Pai-mkrston takes in making moves of apparent , energy , while , by an energetic countermarch , he neutralises the effect of his own vigour .
Like the over-strong man whom some imaginative student of art portrayed , the muscles of his policy are in such portentous development , that by their antagonising each other he is incapable of action . This propensity of Lord Palmerston might explain the selection of Lord John Rusbbix . The object is to make it appear that the war is to be pushed with vigour , and a peace dictated upon terms suitable to the Lord High Admiral of the Channel Fleet . At the same time
It was desirable to have the appearance of great respect for Austria , which would be evinced by , . sending a statesman of such importance as Lord * John . On tho other hand , the almost offensive i ; one in which he has spoken of that power might lead , to the expectation that ho would bo more inclined to make a concession to Russia , than to ftct cordially with Austria . It is not reported
that Lord Pauhebston ' s new War Minister has done anything energetic towards those reforms without which the war cannot be vigorously prosecuted , even if our troop 3 in the Crimea be rescued ; and it would not astonish the world if Lord Pai-mjebston ' s Vienna Minister Plenipotentiary were to come back in a huff with Austria ,
reporting that power to be as reactionary as he has always supposed , " pleading for a generous treatment of Russia 5 and thus , neither concluding the peace that this country expects , nor continuing a vigorous prosecution of the war . In the absence of obvious reasons for appointing Lord John to such a mission , these naturally occur to the mind . In Paris , the mot is Si vis pacem , para
JPalmerston . The further changes which have taken place in the Cabinet belong to what are called the subordinate ranks , but they are not unimportant . The mission of Lord John virtually connects him with the Ministry , although he is not in the Cabinet ; and the ^ net resuit ^ iSj the ^ onl y seceders from the late Ministry are LordL ABERDiEN and the Duke of Newcastle , two of the honestest men that have been in office for a long while . Thus Lord John ' s victory over the statesmen against whom
he was acting when he sallied from the Cabinet has been completed by Lord Palmebston . There was a report that Mr . LATABD was to be appointed Under-Secretary of State for War , and if that had been the case we might have inferred that the Government really intended stirring action ; but Lord Panmube ' s old habits of office , somewhat deadened , perhaps , by increased years and more continuous gout , will be supported only by Mr . Frederick Peel , who is reputed to be a very nice young man of the red-tape school . The change is not reassuring . The accession of Lord Gopebxch , an Indian reformer , as Secretary of
tho Board of Control , would in itself have been promising , if the post wore not so characteristically remote from subjects with which he is still more familiar than with Indian business—the reform of the army and the improved condition of the working classes . Wisely , as wo think , he has not accepted . The offer to him was preceded by the retirement of Mr . Robert Lowe , whose presence in tho Government at one time lent a hope that it would be as vigorous as a Colonial Government ; but what can one man do against incorporated routine ? The present modifications of the Government , therefore , are not cheering . If the Government should fall short either in
prosecuting the war or in exacting terms of peace commensurate with the just demands of this country , it will not be for want of support in any part of the empire . We have not an important colony that has not evinced the heartfelt sympathy of the people for the stake which we have thrown against Russia . From Derby and Tyneniouth , and many other English towns whe re the English townsfolk have declared the same feeling , to Bombay , 'where the venerable JAmsetje Jeejeebhoy gives 7507 . towards a contribution for the war , the feeling is unanimous . From the seat of war we have news by
telegraph through St . Petersburg , down to the 6 th February , in the phrase now stereotyped , " nothing important had occurred . * The accounts by letter are more favourable in tone ; there seems to be no doubt that the military position has been improved ; at the same time the situation substantially remains unchanged . The affairs of Piedmont march with a consistency and vigour truly admirable . The monitory letter of-the Pope has called forth a popular
feeling -which will evidently support the Government against any measures of Rome ; a fact which more than confirms the wisdom of the Piedmontese Government in freely permitting the public discussion of the Pope ' s letter , although its promulgation from the state pulpits was prohibited . There is an expectation that the Pope may resort to an interdict , which would prevent some of the sacramental blessings for Piedmont ; but in the present temper of the people , such a measure would be more fatal to the
authority of Borne than to the King or his Government . The Royal House of Piedmont is sorely tried of late . Within a month Victor Emmanuel has lost his mother , his wi fe , and his brother , th « chivalrous and brave Duke of Genoa , the hero of Custozza and Novarra , tho beloved of the nation , the idol of the army , whoso glories and whose reverses he had shared with all tho enthusiasm of an ardent soldier , and all tho devotion of a true patriot . He had only asked for life
enough to lead the flower of that army to new fields of honour side by side with England and Franco . But in this , at least , his death is happy : tho sanctity of sorrow surrounds the throno with a nation ' s sympathy . Let Papal and priestly insolence profane the tomb . Meanwhile the debates on the alliance of the Western Powers have been conducted , on all sides , -with , remarkable capacity . We include the
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 17, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17021855/page/1/
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