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ifcmitetion ' i coifcerniaag a treaty between the ( Mbinetftiiof iSfc Petersburg and - London « wlricfe # iaiMJttteeB from attack the American fifittleiiSentst of Russia . ¥ e have not the emaBest faith in the existence of such a convevAaxmpJxrhikih . . would seem to justif y TOEMtstiihsi 3 ! matioB & of the party of suspicion . iCeirfkinly : w » are . advocates of violence against Sailing villages . But Sitka is fortified to a considerable extent , and on the island of IKodJak ^ he Bussian citadel mounts upwards dbf ajhiindredicannon . If such places ,
therefore ^ are : not reduced , magnanimity has little iodo ^ witlutne neglect . It maybe that the . Allied 7 admirals have sufficient motives for their " reserve 3 but it is impossible to disprove dbhe . necessity <>& watching those stations , and <& dismantling ^ practicable , the works at Amoori' : *•¦• - . In Canada a strong party has risen , which
advocates the conquest of the Russian possessions in America . The exponents of this idea propose ; to raise a colonial force to act 3 isi an auxiliary of the fleet , and to annex the territory , Jrom New Archangel to the country rxtf the ; -Esquimaux , to the Government of Ganada .: 'In addition to the pure colonists there : & £ & numbers of half-breeds , of adventurous ;; character—the Bed River hunters
eainong / them- — who would enlist , without . reckoning the Indians , though in Brazil an Indian corpa ^ f 6000 men has been regularly strained ; andr armed . " We suspect that the -Americans would regard with great jealousy iany such project ; They also have their lalterknr views upon Russian America ; but -thejf trat difficulty in the path of these amjbitious Canadians is the policy of the Allied dPowers . From the first it has been deidared by . Great , Britain and France that
-for no purposes of aggrandisement have they undertaken the Russian war . Their course of action has been determined by 'the resolution to uphold European rights and laws , and not by schemes of territorial jaequisition . Moreover , were it even clear zthatj-t & extort from Russia an equivalent for " $ heu sacrifices imposed on England by this ^ struggle ) her North American colonies were -forfeited , ; what , would be the share of France ?
fReinqte ; as . these considerations are , they arise whenever welook distinctly to the issue ' . ofrthe present c ' onflict . It is another thing tb ; iiisist that , awhile the conflict lasts , every . effort fof violence that involves no dispro-Eporfcionate loss should be applied to the . ' coercion , o £ ' Russia . It will , therefore , be a disappointment and a blunder if the naval ^ campaign in the Pacific be adjourned without . establishing thei Allied fleets afc the mouth of iihcAmoor . ; u * . ? ¦ ' . ¦ ' ' : : ' ..
r . ; There ia a strict propriety in thus' connecting : the circumstances of the Chinese & nd Turkish-. Empires ^ Both are ' decaying . , In both the military ruling class , separated by a thousand differences from the mass of tifij © population , have excited its hatred . From ino ^ h has Russia , acting upon their fears in - | laetmidst of their dissensions , obtained grants . tiWS territory and political privileges ; for ,
though the fact be not widely known > it is t cefitom ) that the . border races of Tartary live nndertthe mixed influence of the Russian protectorate and of the Mantchu mle—the Jiuaaian protectorate signifying , of course , an alternate process of oppression and cajolery , ffiheiudefinito , extension , of this process must ieawiijbyrjthe logic , of events , to the subjection itf'JSbxfcWn China .
i'TKe' jiwtiquisitions of Russia in Tartary are «| lfeady / Voqual ^ in extent to the whole of JTurke ^ aaiilEJuropej added to Italy and Spain . ^ hew / Stretch iu' / a broad curvilinear belt , from Wl 3 S "/ 6 rfchern end of the Caspian Sea , to the ( bbi rdersfof i China , and comprise a prodigious arari et ^ oflsoilsliind populations . 'No sooner
does this shifting frontier i ; ouch the qonfinea of a petty independent state ; , than it passes onwards , blotting" out of the desert sovereignty as easily as M . Coq ^ when he desired to impose on the King- ofMoboccoj blotted out France and Spain on the map , and added them to the territories of Belgium . But these vast spaces are of little value unless with outlets ta the several oceans . Russia has advanced in actual possessions a thousand miles towards Teheran , but the land-locked Caspian is of ; little value- compared with her ulterior objectsin that direction— Bassora on tb . e Persian Gulf . A
course exactly identical has been pursued at the north-eastern angle-of the Chinese Empire , where the Amoor was ^ envied as the parallel of the Euphrates . If it be doubted that these mighty schemes exist , the proof is given in the undertakings already attempted . Timeoxtski years ago , and Levchine more recently , have described the incessant war kept up along the Tartar and Russian frontiers . Siberia having but one water-way to the East—the Amoor-- —Russia pushed along the borders of that stream , through the
territories of insignificant tribes , until she Teached the boundary—formerly impassable—of the Chinese Empire . If events have any meaning , her further purpose is to secure a local influence on that coast , which will radiate over those neighbouring regions where , while the soil is prolific and the position favourable , the governments are falling to decay . Russia , like Austria , is composed of fragments , torn from weak hands—such hands as rule in all quarters- of the East , except those under the British or Dutch dominion .
It will suffice , however , if our plain-sailing admirals—while the war continues- ^ -will visit the Russian settlements on the Amoor , on the Aleutian Isles , and at Sitka , and take possession of all armed places belonging to Russia in the North Pacific .
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THE ADMISSION TO THE BATH . It has been discovered that when a TCnight Grand Cross of the Bath is admitted , he pays 1 G 4 Z . 13 s . 4 d . in fees to the officers of the Order—to the Dean , for his benediction ; to the gentleman usher , for his introduction ; to the messenger , for his assistance ; to the Bath King of Arms , for being Bath King of Arms , and also a separate sum for furnishing " the book of the statutes ; " arid to the Secretary , for being Secretary , and for furnishing "
notice of election . " When an officer" has per formed some great achievements for the service of his country , the Country , through the Sovereign / expresses it gratitude by conferring upon him a new title ; and the grateful but Commercial country at the same time sends in its " little bill" for the expenses of the gratitude . The little bill is conceived with all the art of the innkeeper , only the waiters of the hotel will envy the vails taken by the waiters of the country . It has been known that individuals have declined the Order
because they could not pay the fines . In other words , they could not afford to accept the acknowledgments of their grateful country . Wo have heard , indeed , of individuals receiving the honour , and declining to pay the bill , on Paul Pry ' s princip le , that vails are " optional ; " and the story is , that the refusal was held to be good . Sometimes the fees are voluntarily remitted by royal command . Of courseiyou will suppose in the case of persons who aro ' poor , though' heroes : not at all . The remission is made in favour of
foreign Sovereigns . Our contemporary , the Times , who " takes up "' this important subject , supposes that the remission is made for the x > urpose of saving the
dignity of the country , in-Mj & e >' ' % nat ^ f 6 ^ ig $ potentates may not 'knorv 7 ( : 0 t ^' -i '< m & fiom < jif presenting a little-bill * ofcliarge ' si for the state gratitude ; but we doubt the reason ^ We suspect that it lies in the strong r sympathy whieh prevails in high quarters for Sovereigns ; a class who never , have enough money in their pockets ; and thley vrill resort to any shifts to get or save cash . We only remember to have heard of one who was ashamed to ask his people for money , arid that was the scapegrace Cha . bi . bs 4 the Second . But , scapegrace as he was , he had
something human about him , and he had not only state feelings . More respectable Boyereigns never evince that kind of bashfulness ; but an Emperor , who will persecute the poorest of his subjects for his dues , will thankfully accept remission of the fees which are paid by mere nobles . The Times justly thinks this price put upon gratitude disgraceful , and seeing the necessity of some such institution as these orders of chivalry profess to be , it calls- for
" a fourth class of the Bath , or a new order which should date from the era of a great achievement and the reign of a respected Sovereign . " That is , the instituted Order of Chivalry being quite converted into antiquated lumber , and retained only as a humbug , the Times proposes to annex to the old ruin a new order of genuine chivalry—of real distinction . Thisis placing " the right manin the right place "—the true beneath the spurious ! But has not something of the kind been attempted ? There was a civil class of the * Bath , merit
which was to-be an " order of , " there were extensions of it . The difficulty , however , appears to have consisted , first , in breaking through routine so as to confer the distinction upon people whom the country regards as actually distinguished ; and ^ secondly , in giving any real value to the title . The plan has been rather to let this supplemental honorarium fall on the heads of those who were the hangers-on of grandees ; and some pushing Smith or Beown , that could get himself into the managing body of some favoured humanitarian or scientific " dodge , "
enjoyed the privilege of letting other people put " C . B" after his name . Where is the substantial enjoyment ? One " John-Smith : " receives letters with * - / ' after his name , and another " John Smiths Esq ., ' * receives letters with the further initials " C . B . an » - nexed , and there the distinction ends . Nobody calls him C . B . ; nobody says " Companion John , " or " Bath Smith . " He is not even a common " Sir , " , really , he scarcely attaches more value to the literary augmentation , than he would to the " riband " for which he sees great lords contend .
It is strange that so inventive a country as the British' cannot hit upon any well-designed plan of marking the national approbation of distinguished services . We have no provision in the case of women , except giving them money . There was a proposal lately to prove that the country is not unworthy of Florence Nightingale , by making her a Peeress , Now , a PeereBS is no such " great shakes" after all ; and the gift of the title to Miss Nightingaxe would character of tar
rather tend to redeem the a - nished institution , than to elevate her . But it wns thought too much . The gif t of a title to a woman not more wealth y than Fj & obknoe Nightingale , or not more immediately connected with high families , would bo a precedent for giving up ^ f ^ Z tov ^ niBters and those connected with il > ° . * ° ™ £ ; ment are inclined to refuse ; and they ^ d refuse . There was f »» » , CSSh bStS isisssa ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22091855/page/13/
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