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¦NOTES ON THE WAR. England has obtained ...
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The present fact of tho war is, that the...
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J; rom tho Kant tho news i» Icsb douisiv...
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The Russians are reported to have gained...
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A contemporary is thus informed, under d...
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Schamyl is said to offer the Porte 50,00...
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There lias been a slight" affair" at Seb...
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ELECTIONS. Tub elections for tho " corru...
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Rithe. Day After Parliament Was Prorogue...
these new elections , is as to -whether the new Bribery Bill has been a failure or a success . Outwardly there is a result . The elections ax-e ' -dry " and they are " slow "—there is no music , there are no banners , and there is less row . But it remains to be proved whether * that moses-qciiet am & . rasre serious appliances of corruption ; have nofein each case been brought into play- 3 Ir . ' Coppock , the greatest of all authorities on Bfeitish political viiv lainy—a man who "weeps ovei ? the sins of biff country while mal 4 &^ a co arf & rtable forfruse : out of the sinners—has emphatically declared , through
the Times , that the Bribery Bill need not , necessarily , in any degree , repress the old system . Mr . Coppock ' s letter , in fiiet , is as it -were an advertisement to all his clients , that he conthmes to undertake to return 7 iis men . ]\ Ir . Cappock is probably right , and if Mr . Coppock has been the Liberal agent in any of the elections , we may safely infer that the purity has not been painful , and that if there has been any over-anxious avoidance of corruption upon the Tories' side it has been merely from bewilderment ¦ withrespect to the actual meanina and bearin g of the new measure . In
regard to all these elections , however , there is this improvement : that the public tone nbout bribery is greatly raised , and that on the hustings the homage which vice pays to virtue has been remarkably exuberant . We must have taken a great step in political *' purification -when we observe a man like Mr . Coppock finding himself sufficiently backed by public opinion to allow him to ¦ venture on so striking 1 a sneer at the pretensions of the House of Comiiions as that with which he closes his remarkable letter—' a sneer which implies quite as much-as '' The Stranger" has ever suggested . Mr .. Coppock only reflects a now general tendency — -vsrhichL for several years we have done our utmost to intensify—to face the facts of our civilisation . " We take from the same number of the Times
¦ which contained" J . C . ' s" letter , a sentence which * suggests that a nation frequently glorying in reflections upon the blessings of its reformed religion has not yet quite perfected its arrangements . " If the clergy , " says the Times , " are worth anything , why don ' t they try their hand with this scandal to their religion and their country ? ( meaning the corruption of their picked electoral body ) . Should tuey succeed , the people will begin to put a little more faith i « them and their mission !"
Great war events were due this week ; but the war , like everything else , is now in suspense . There is . no news whatever of what Omer Pasha is _ doing , or of what Admiral Dundas is doing , or what Lord Raglan is doing ; from the whole East we only get a rumour that the Russians have gained a great victory over the Turks in Asia , and that a great French force , which was to have sailed on Napoleon ' s day is about to advance into " the territory ( possibly the Crimea ) of the enemy . " From the Baltic we only have news that a small force lias been landed in the Aland Islands , and that Bomarsund
is to fall—this , after all , constituting but a slight operation , though a very necessary one in the course of a naval blockade , with which to close a season so elaborately arranged and so conspicuously misused . But we have , at least , some prospective satisfaction . The circular of M . Drouyn de Lhuys ( which tvg take for granted expresses the feelings of the English Government ) at last announces to England ( it is thus we get news of the movements of our
own Government ) what England is at war for . 'JChe Ifrench Minister for foreign Affairs stipulates in advance with groat clearness what are the indispensable terms of a peace with Russia . These do not include all that English Liberals have hoped for ; they may probably be greatly extended and enlarged by events more influential than diplomacy j but , assuming that the French Government ia leading ours , they suffice to case the English mind during tho daily increasing pressure of the war .
France has this week boon one vast fete , this year ' s Napoleon ' s day being celebrated under auspices which indicate tho firm establishment of tho empire . Tho Emperor himself , as wo see in his answer to the Bishop of Bayonne , has assumed tho language of tho representative of an enduring dynasty : and the manner in which ho i « passing his recess , " - —in nil tho careless security ol Hcr-eno and fearless royalty , and in those picturesque and domestic circumstances from which we take a now <& n < l pleasant view ofhia diameter—is porlmps not altogether unstudied for effect on Europe . Spain ftloo submits oven in revolution to tho oxigemcios
of the period : taking , at . political siesta . All the circumstanoas of ^ tliato * country suggest a speedy recurrence * to disturbance . At this moment we consider BTspartero to have utterly fiiiled , and we beliexKe'Esparttii'o will drag down vrittahim not only rsabellivubut O'Eionnellv In Germany there is visible no political action whatever . Elrom Italy / we hear uo more of the insurrectionary movements ^ which a fortni g ht ago seemed to 1 signify so much . GarrHaaldi has repudiated ! anycomplicity in these premature " ebullitions , " we are in hopes that events will prove that the name of Mazzini has been used with as little authority .
From America , comes information assuring us of the rapid accumulation of difficulties towards the Cuba crisis . The English people are helplessly withheld by the hands of secret diplomacy from taking their part in insisting that the crisis be left to the uninterrupted arrangement of Spain and the States alone ; but knowledge of the very positive and clear views of the English public on this matter will , let us trust , deter our Government from the madness of attempting in any manner to save Spain from losing a territory to which she has only the riglit of a proprietor whose lands are to be traversed by a x * ailway—the right of sale at a valuation . There has been a ready ratification of Lord Elgin ' s reciprocity treaty—a great and happy act which should constitute a precedent for all future difficulties between th <>
two Governments —and the successful Governor ^ General of Canada is about to return home triumphant . The story in Montreal is , that he is to be the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . May he be as successful there as in Ganada .
770 The Leader. [Saturda Y ,
770 THE LEADER . [ Saturda y ,
¦Notes On The War. England Has Obtained ...
¦ NOTES ON THE WAR . England has obtained an important document In the letter of M . Drouyn de . Lhuys to the French Minister at Vienna : this ^ prospectively , informs us what the war is for . M . Drouyn de Lliuys specifies the indispensable conditions of peace .: — " It may be said , I tliink , tb . at the conirnon interest of Europe demands this . "I . That the protectorate exercised up to that moment by the Imperial Court of Russia over tho principalities of Wallachia , Moldavia , and Servia , cease for the future , and that the privileges granted bytlie Sultans totliose provinces , as dependent on their empire , by virtue of an agreement concluded with the Sublime Porte , be placed under tho collective guardianship of the Powers . " 2 . That the navigation of the Danube , -to its mouths , bo freed from all restraint , and subjected to the application of the principles established by the acts of tbe Congress of Vienna .
' 3 . That tho treaty of July 13 , 1844 , be revised in concert with the high contracting powers , with a view to establishing an European equilibrium , and of limiting the power of Russia in tho Black Sea . " 4 , That no Power claim a right to exercise an official protectorate over the subjects of the Sublime Porte to whatever sect they may belong , but that Franco , Austria , Great Britain , Prussia , and Kussia , shall lend their mutual aid to obtain in tho initiative from the Ottoman Government a respect for and observance of tho religious privileges of tho different Christian communities ; and to turn to advantage in the reciprocal interests of their co-rcligionists , the generous intentions manifested by his Mnjosty tho Sultan , without there resulting any attcmpL to control tho dignity and independence of tho crown . "
The Present Fact Of Tho War Is, That The...
The present fact of tho war is , that there baa been an attack on Bomarsund , and a landing of troops in its neighbourhood . " Tho landing of the expeditionary corps was cflocted on the morning of tlio 8 th , at a o ' clock , without resistance , at two points of the Islo of Lumpar , situatod to tho north of tho Archipelago of Aland . A battery of live guns wns nuiakly destroyed by tho French stonm corvctyc Phligeton und It . M . S . Amphion . Tho guns , which had been covoiod with tho debris of tho carriages , and with tho earth torn up by tho balls , wore afterwards spiked by tho men of tho two Hhips . Tho troops marched on the heights which crown tho fortifications . Admiral Parsovnl was about to establish communications with tho General iu-Ohjof in order to bo
able to forward him tho materiel necessary for carrying on operations . Three thousand French infimtry and Kuglish marines hud lauded at tho north of tho islnnd . Two or thrco ships wero attacking tho forts which cover JtSomarsund with guns of very largo calibre " " It has boon announced from tho pulpits of all tho ohurchos m tho IhIos of Aland that tho /( uflsian sway iw ut an end . Tho RuHtiian authorities aro flying from tho Alnnd Ialoa ; tho peasants Uneaten them and plwoo them in I ' vnr . Homo of thorn uro at thi . i phiao . No ounnuiuiding wits hourd lutit night . " " Tho position of tho iolnndH in valuable to a foreo ongufjod , as tho combined floot « arc . in tho prosecution « f a nyrtt < im _ of naval blockado ; ami , furtlior , it uffordu a point UUtppni , in tho ovont of more- active operations , fur tho troops who now furm bo coiwidcrablo an oloinentin tholialiio expedition . "
J; Rom Tho Kant Tho News I» Icsb Douisiv...
J ; rom tho Kant tho news i » Icsb douisivo , but hopo-AiL No nowa yet what has bocomo of tho great
force wliiohNieft . Varna ; "but the Crimea is loo-ked to , and the adfiress of Marshal St . Arnaud promises a greateundartaking-. THisdsiBSSirehal St . Arnaud ' s address to the allied armies *—" Soldiers of the allied armies ! We shall soon advance into thetenritory oE our enemy . I rely on your obed ience , on your bravetgr , and steadiness in the figlit . The task we have to complete-- is > no light one . The enemy we have to encounter is steong . and- numerous . The 40 years of peace passodiby-Tis iiupyomoting commerce , industry , and the arts , have-been spemVbyhim in tiro ^ study of the art of war and in military preparations . From your bravery and energy France and England awaifca victory . The eyes of all Europe are on you . Show yourselves the worthy sons of your bravo fathers . We march into the land of the enemy , resolved on victory . As conquerors must we see our fatherland , or never more return . "
The Russians Are Reported To Have Gained...
The Russians are reported to have gained a great battle over the Turks in Asia . " Advices , dated St . Petersburg , 14 th inst ., announce that the Russians , under Gen . Wrangel , were victorious at Bayazid on the 1 st of August . The Eussian version says that 3000 Turks were slain , tour guns , seventeen colours , and two camps captured . The Russians , says the same story , subsequently occupied Bayazid . The expected battle thus appears to ' have been fought , but beyond this the Russian despatch is hardly to be relied on . We were lately told , on the same . authority , that Kars was invested , and then that it , had fallen ' \
A Contemporary Is Thus Informed, Under D...
A contemporary is thus informed , under date of Vienna , Wednesday : ^ - " Yesterday evening Prince Gortschaltoff received despatches from St . Petersburg-, and there is reason to Tbelieve that he this morning informed Count Buol that , as long as the Turks were in Wallachia , the Russian troops would retain certain strategic points in the Principalities . "
Schamyl Is Said To Offer The Porte 50,00...
Schamyl is said to offer the Porte 50 , 000 men , if it will recognise the independence of the Caucasus .
There Lias Been A Slight" Affair" At Seb...
There lias been a slight" affair" at Sebastopol . A letter in the Times describes it " in a naval way : — Early on the 26 th we arrived off Sebastopol . As we had never appeared in so small a line of battle—13—many of the ardent indulged in visions of glory , and thought that at length the Russian would come out of his den and fight it out ; but our four screws were quite enough to shut him up there . Tlie Fury , Terrible , and a French steamer were purposely sent in somewhat ahead , so as to arrive at early dawn . The moment they showed themselves there were commotion and preparation in the harbour ; steamers se : nt up tall
columns of smoke , to jielp out the largo ships , which unfurled sails , & c . But before they liad sallied oat to chase away these impertinent foes with an overwhelming force , to be recorded in a magnificent despatch as a grand -victory , the signalman on the hills above descried the fleet coming in ; . so the steamers moved up into tho dockyard creek and put their fires out , the ships furled their sails , and we were tranquilly allowed to make a narrow examination of them and their prison from sunrise to sunset of a beautiful clear summer ' s day . Before wo came up the Fuly , Terrible , and Frenchman had ventured in rather near to the north side of the
harbour , and several shots were fired at them . The distance might have been about a mile and a half , and the Russian fire was so good that the rigging of tho Terrible was cut immediately , and the little Fury was hulled just below thcwater , tlie ill-conditioned shot destroying two jars of tho midshipmen's butter in their berth . Luckily nobody wtia touched . Tho fire was returned , and tho stuuuners moved on . The works on tho northern shore have been much strengthened since my lust look at tho place , and the strength of tho sea batteries is undeniable . Inside tlio Russians have , of course , a complete sense of security at present . force could them without itself to
No sea damage exposing destruction . With telescopes wo could sco tho man bathing from the two or throe liners behind the booms i \ t tho harbour ' s mouth . The sailors were in ccstacy at tho beauty of some of those fillips—after English models , but longer and handsomer , and preserving quaint old fashions of rigging , <& c , in uso with us thirty yeans ngo . In tho evening we stood out to sesi , and at niglit the Fury was sent buck to rouse tlncm . np hi tho middles of tho niglit by firing a gun . C « ptnin Tialmm UcNcribes tho effect as very beautiful . In an instant all tho hugo triple stong Latteries woro lighted up , and all lnmda under arms .
Elections. Tub Elections For Tho " Corru...
ELECTIONS . Tub elections for tho " corrupt boroughs" aro great incidents this week . Tho re-election of Sir 1 ) . Hall for Marylcbono , which does not come under that category , claims precedence in narration . It took placo o-u Wednesday , and was eauily managed . " Twelve o ' clock was tho hour appointed for tho legal proceeding connected with tho nomination , and whortly buf ' urc that , tiiuo hord Dudley tttutirt ; , aocompanioJ by Lady Hull of LlnnoviT , tho ltajii of Coorg , aittirod in IiIh splendid full , drnriH Eiistorn costume , and accompanied by attendant s ,
together with a largo number ol other Indies and goiilluincii arrived , mid took up their slatiorm on tho bulcmiy at tin ) inantiioa of Mr « . Slurgoa , whoso fiunily aro eoxnutctod with tho Iiouho of Baring and Co ., ut tho north-oj » Htorn cornci ' of rorthuid-placo and Turk-orescent . Tlio ladiim wen ; attired in whilo witli wplondid liink ribbonn , tho colom ' H ol ' tho lion , baronet , willful , all tlio gontlomon woro on tin" ' broitstti very nofitly mndo artificial rows of tUo hhiiio ) " ><'• About ji ijuartor before twelve o ' clock tho cIuiith of 11 » o pooplo iinnounced the arrival of Sir licnjiwnUi Hull . 'l' '
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19081854/page/2/
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