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July 22, 1854.] THE LEADER. 677
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NOTES OH THE WAR. The English, fleet wit...
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for that was a question rather for the House of Commons than a meeting like the present ; but , having observed the public conduct of the Dtvke of Newcastle now for ten or twelve years , he was bound to say he had always f ound him laborious , intelligent , sincere , and anxious to make himself useful to the country in . the offices he had held . And , since nobody could bring a single charge against him of incapacity or inattention , he thought it unfair to propose that his place should be filled by some one else who was presumed to be more fit for it . He then referred to the war ; and hoped Lord John would be able to tell the House what the war was
for , and upon what terms peace would be accepted . If Turkey was cleared of the Russians , and certain treaty guarantees agreed to , would the war be brought to an end ? If it were to be carried on with a view to the dismemberment of Russia , no man could foresee the end of it , or the calamity in which it would involve both this country and all Europe . As to Lord Aberdeen , lie had , for his part , great confidence in the noble earl ; and was extremely sorry to see the bitter and malignant attacks which were made upon him without justification . He could only express his scorn for the -violent and improper manner in which the noble earl had been assailed . " Lord Dir 3 > t , EY Stuart had only one thing to observe ; relevant or irrelevant : " Why wasn't Lord Palmerstoa the Minister of War ?"
Mr . Latakd expressed some apprehensions with regard to the conduct of Austria ; which , evidently , was the " ( juestion . " He also indicated what aremarbly self-governed people we are ; for be , like Mr . Bright , asked— " Would the Government have any objection to state what the war was about ?" Members began to f eel it was getting too ridiculous , and , upon winks from Mr . Hay ter , moved off . Then that great Irish orator , Mr . Vincent Scully , rose , and bounded into the question of Tenant Right . It is rumoured that no one was present during this speech but I * ord John himself ; and that Mr . Hay ter had to send a footman into the room to turn the orator out . I « ord John then went to his early dinner .
July 22, 1854.] The Leader. 677
July 22 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 677
Notes Oh The War. The English, Fleet Wit...
NOTES OH THE WAR . The English , fleet with French troops has sailed from Calais for the Baltic : Napier awaiting them still in the backward position , at Barosund , which he took up to keep his crews clear of the Cronstadt cholera . Sir Charles , meanwhile , is supposed to l ) e carrying on political negotiations with Sweden , the rumour being that the Swedish Government consents to give aid against Russia only on condition of a subsidy . Public opinion is rampant against Russia throughout Sweden . The " French of the North" ( as the Swedes like to be called ) are especially eager for the French alliance . At St . Petersburg itself , " suspects" are being placed under arrest . There is military activity at the capital , and perfect preparation is supposed to exist at Cronstadt .
At the other end of the theatre of war there is activity bo far as the Turks are concerned ; but the allies on shore seem engaged in mere make-believo movements ; and as respects the fleets , there is no news of them . The Turks have beaten the Russians along tho left bank of the Danube ; and the latest accurate accounts leave the Russians falling back falteringly to Bucharest , -whither the Turks were pushing on , ready , it was supposed , to Visk a grand pitched battle , which th o Russians would not well bo enabled to avoid .
But , so far as we know , the English are very far indeed from being near Rutschuk , which may bo roughly said to be half-way between Vnrna and J 3 u . charest ; and the French ( whom the AfonUeur carried on an impossible 100 miles too much ) can claim no credit for the action at Giurgevo ( on tho 7 th or 8 th ) which tho Turks won unaided . The English troops had broken up their encampment at Varna ; and thence tho sudden hope : that they would push on towards Bucharest , and drive the Russians before them . But they moved only about ton miles , forming two camps , at Dovno and at Aladyn ; which is just such a movement as when the Lancexa change barracks from Hounslow to Hampton , This ia unaccountable . According to tho
Times" At tho enmo time , wo cannot wonder that this delay has occasioned tho surprise and suspicion of our Turkish allioa , who may not unreasonably conclude that a rough and ready army , whioli moves without baggage , and often fights without tood and pay , ia somotimoa preferable , for tho rude and more desultory purposes of war , to tho elaborate organiunuon and equipment of European troops . " The Times speaking with authority , oxpluins this want ol ' energy in tint , way : —tho English and A ranch Govcrnmenta have roaaon to tmat the Aua-S « « \ , ^ <>» V bocauao of iu intercstB ,-wS " w tl 10 Rw «> mns from Wallachia may ioon S , \ ° , V ° » 8 t »« h wl » oBo Emperor will iho afi S ° fe Wl M , tU ° houd of hia annieH :-nnd tho allied < oxccb will concentrate all their energy on
Sebastopol . But if the allied armies are to be taken to the Crimea , how is it that they move away from the coast ? Omar Pasha paid a visit to the English headquarters on the 4 tb , when a council of war was held . The Duke of Cambridge has been to Constantinople , consulting M . de Brucfe , the Austrian Minister . In "Vienna the Government is waiting the English and French answers to the Austrian comment on the Russian reply : —meanwhile the diplomatists , in that pleasant city , dining are together—the Austrian po . tentates entertaining the Russian special-envoy ( Gortschakoff ) who seems to have taken up a permanent residence in the Austrian capital . Austrian public opinion condemns the young Emperor for being induced by Prussia to delay the entrance of his armies into Wallachia on the 3 rd of July : he would hare settled the campaign .
The Sulraa mouth of the Danube is occupied by British and French troops .
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The Empress of Russia has addressed her Prussian royal brother an affecting letter . If he goes to war with her husband , she will be unable to go to the German baths—and her health requires them ! The Presse states that Omar Pasha gives his own loss at Giurgevo , on the 7 th and 8 th , at 1700 killed and wounded . " The Russian troops are returning from Moldavia into Wallachia . " ( Telegraphic ) . Lord Stratford de Kedcliffe has obtained from the Sultan for the English . Government a concession of valuable coal-mines in the valley of Heraclea . They are to be worked by an English company , and will supply the allied fleets at the rate of ll . a ton—31 . a ton being now paid . Who is to get the fortune from our Government ? .
Colonel Manteuffel , the Russian diplomatist , left Berlin , not , as supposed , last week , for London , but for Vienna . . Count Bernstorf , however , is in London from the King of Prussia , and has been busy all the week with our Court and Ministers . An extraordinary letter ( which we must believe to be a forgery ) from Count Nesselrode , the Chancellor of the Russian Empire , to Baron Biidberg , has heen intercepted and published . It is insolently significant , as indicating reserved Russian intentions , viz .: to keep the Principalities : — " His Majesty the Czar does not consider it permissible that in such times as the present persons of the same faith as
his Orthodox Majesty should be under any other than a Christian government . If the 'Wallachians are too much under the heterodox influence of the west of Europe , his Majesty cannot , as the head of the orthodox Christians , relinquish the task intrusted to him by Heaven , which is to deliver for ever the followers of the true Christain—namely the Greek religion , from the suzerainetd of Turkey . Since the glorious accession of his Majesty the Czar this thought has occupied him , and now the time has arrived for accomplishing his Majesty ' s so long entertained resolve , in spite of the opposition of the other powerless states of neterodox Europe . Only be severe , Baron , towards these lawless Wallachians 5 the severer yau are , the better . Such is the will of his Majesty tho Czar . "
The visit of Louis Napoleon to the English ships in Calais Roadstead is pleasantly described by the reporter of the Daily News : —• " The Emperor and party were received at the grangway of tho Hannibal by Commodore Grey , and liad all ttie officers presented to him . He went carefully over the whole ship , and examined minutely the arrangements for tho accommodation of the soldiers , with t lie whole of wliich ho expressed his entire satisfaction . The Emperor partook of no refreshment on board tho flag-ship , but after some short and friendly conversation with Commodore Grey and his officers , returned to his yacht and sailed Blowly round tho fleet . On parting company the usual royal salute was tired , and La Koine Hortcnso nmdo rapidly for the harbour . The afternoon was beautifully line , and this , with the noiso of tho great guns , liad attracted u . 11 unusually largo company to tho pier , wliich , as is well known , ia one of tho largest and tincst in Europe . As tho 3 'aclit steered slowly up the outer channel the crowd , fashionable and unfashionable , pressed to tho edge of the
quay and cheered lustily for the Emperor , who stood alone on tho top of tine deck saloon , taking otF his hat repeatedl y in acknowledgment of theso notes of welcome . It was at first thought that tho yacht would go up to tho inner harbour , where royal oarriagea wore in waiting and a small military escort ; but a ( sudden thought seemed to strike hia Majesty , an order w . \ a . given , tho jnoht haukd iilongsido the pier , jind tho Emperor , in full general's uniform , s . oppod on shore , and without usmglo attendant plunged Lmklly into tho crowd . Tho effect was electric . A . cheer rose that might havo been mistaken for an English cheor ; exclamations of admiration were hoard on every side , Jind tho Einporur hustled his way cheerfully along with hardly elbow room enough to tako Ilia hat off now nod then in acknowledgment , ot tho loud and repeated cries of ' Vivo I'limporeur 1 ' Mingled with tho crowd wore an . immense numhor of English visitors , who # avo it as their universal verdict that tho Emperor ' s ' pluck * was a fact never to bo guineayed from that day forward . With tho French , this impromptu act of conlidonco uud ¦ courage raised a complete hurricane ) of excitement . "
A letter from Vienna in tho 1 ' nris papers says that M . Gotlard , tho turormut , haa proposed to employ balloons iu military operations , and ha . a induced tliu Austrian Government to supply him with largo funda for tho experiment . Letters fronn tho coast of Abasia dated the 25 th
ult . states that Schamyl bad forbidden the sale of women in all the tribes that recognised hia authority . In various English ports Eussian ships hav e this week been seized ; they were trading under false ( generally Prussian ) colours . Count Baceiochi , Louis Napoleon ' s intimate friend , has received a secret mission in Italy . On the 1 st inst . some more vessels , with Eussian prisoners arrived at Constantinople . These men having been questioned on many points relating- to the present condition of the Eussian army , declared , without hesitation , that the losses and misfortunes sustained during the siege of Silistria had produced such an effect , such utter demoralisation in their ranks , that those divisions could no longer take the field without being remodelled , and drafted into other regiments . "
Captai n Nolan , whose name will be remembered aa the author of an authoritative yet popular treatise on Cavalry , " has been appointed by liord Eaglan to the responsible office of collecting horses in Turkey suitable for our dragoons . Captain Thompson of the 10 th Hussars , the son of General Thompson , has been associated with Captain Nolan in this work .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . I The Paris correspondent ( always lively , if not always reliable ) of the Morning Advertiser , says : " A marriage took place here to-day which has excited much sensation , inasmuch as the fair bride has had as many suitors as the fair Helen in the olden time . Miss Corbin , the daughter of that most hospitable of American citizens , Francis Corbin , after having rejected the offers of one-half of the members of the Montard and Jockey Clubs , has at last bestowed her hand and heart and fortune on the vlcomte de Dampierre . The marriage ceremony was attended by a vast number of the noblesse of the Faubourg St . Germain , and by a small number of Yankees , whom Mr . Corbin receives in his salons . " The same writer says : " The Emperor has at last succeeded in converting Paris into a sea-3 > ort . Yesterday a large war steamer , the Galilee , of 120-horse power , belonging to tbe Imperial navy , com * manded by Lieutenant de vaisseau Lafond , arrived at Faris , and anchored opposite the Tuileries . This vessel , which has been constructed to work by the steam of water and the vapour of chloroform combined , has come to Paris by order of the Minister of Marine , in order to have some improvements made in her machinery , which , from their special nature , can be better done in tbe capital than elsewhere . " . The Pope has sided with the Bishop of Priburg against tlie Baden Government ; and a crisis will now be forced on .
The groat camp at Marseilles , delayed by apprehensions about cholera , which wad rife in the port , is to be formed immediately . General d'Hautpol is to command until the Emperor arrives , which will be in about a fortnight . He and the Empres 3 left Paris on Wednesday for the Pyrennees , where the Empress will pass the summer and autumn . The Leipsic fair has been a failure , in consequence of the war . According to a letter from Athens , the " purity " of the new Ministers , in suppressing the sale of public offices , & c ., in causing great discontent :
" Would you believe it that this new system not only meets with no approval on the part of the employes , but in many cases is opposed as much as possible ? 1 give you one cose : —Perhaps of all branches of administration the church is the most corrupt , and there are only two bishops who havo not paid for their places . Now , the Archbishopric of Corinth is vacant , and tho Ministry wants to put in a man known all over tho country for his integrity and honesty , but the Synod has tho right of proposing three names , from which the Minister of Public instruction has to choose . They proposed three names , the first two the greatest
scoundrels known for simony in tho church of Greece , and an insignificant third man . Of courso , an honest man should get into the important josition of Archbishop of Corintb , it would bo a death blow to the system of corruption in which every one ot tho bishops is more or less concerned , " Scarcely less curious than tho ways of tho church of Greece were , and are still , tho ways in which foreign affairs are conducted . The Minister of Foreign Affairs was indeed a " ministre < lcs affaire ? gut Iui dtaient 6 trangeres . The king scut liia agents about , had his own correspondence with the Ministers at the foreign Courts , and was , in fact , hia own Minister .
" Thus , for instance , tho Queen whenever she meeta m public 0110 of tho now Ministers , not only docs not solute him but tarns away . Thoy have not yet been invited to the pulace . and tho ladies over whoin tjiogranda mattrwe has even tliti slightest influence are forbidden to grace with their presence ttie parties of tho foreign Minister * supposed to bo contrary to tho urdont wishes of tho Court , and other such like absurdities . " All theso chlUlisli dornonstrationH would bo of little importuned , especially now . when it in too hot cither lor eating Ministerial dinners or fi > r dancing : but , unfortunatoty , tho animosity of tho Court , ia not conlinod to thorn ; it carries tho spirit of annoyance and vexation into all lta dealings with ilia now Ministry . " Tho King of l ' ortug-al is on liis tour in Belgium and Uornuuiy . It is suicl Unit hu proposed to L . ouia Napoleon to visit him « t l ' aris , and tUut tho Emperor wrote buck that ho was going to tho Pyronneoa and could not wnitl A letter from Avignon says : —
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Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22071854/page/5/
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