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NEWS OF THE WEEK— The Working Classes 1015 OPEN COUNCIL— PORTFOLIOrAaE M ^ S . 5 SiT - loie The Greek Empire Notion 1022 Letters of a Vagabond 1027 Public Opinion on the Eastern Ques- Miscellaneous >¦ The Wages Movement and the Po- _ ,, _ . „ _ tion 1010 PUBLIC AFFAJRS— litical Economists 1022 THE ARTS Obsequies of Protection in Essex ... 1011 Destiny of Christian ^ Turkey •••••¦ - 1017 Hotel Charges 1022 The Olympic and ih New Mana ^ 'Our Sanitary Condition 1011 Austrian Loans and Loans that Pay 1018 Government Neglect of Scottish ment 3 moq Letters from Paris 1012 Hail Columbia m Japan . 1018 Rights 1023 10-8 Continental Notes ..... 1012 The Brass-Button Pohcy •¦• ] % ] % A New Invention ... 1022 SH £ 0 ^ ::: r 'B ' ^ B ^^^^ Z L , TERATURE- S ^ S ^ SS « S TMAnonymous Slanders " of Bakou . ioi 4 ^ X ^^ Books on our Table 1024 ¦ COMMERCIAL AfFAlRSThe WeiiinH ; on Monument "iii ' So ^ G . CB . . 1020 The Religion of the Heart 1024 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-^ ersltS !! .. ™ . ! .. " ... „ . 1015 The Farmer and his Friend 1022 Ailietbrd ... 1026 tiscments , & c io 29-1034
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VOL . IV . No . 187 . 1 ~ SATURDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1853 . ~~~ [ Peich Sixpence .
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NOT the slightest novelty has been introduced into the' Turkish affair ; only some of the illusions which beset it seem at last to be gradually disappearing . The pacific disposition of Russia is now denied by the Morning Post , in terms which leave little expectation that the Czar will justify the dilatory indulgence of the English Government . According to the Post , whatever the Czar may have said in loose conversation to intimate his readiness to receive new negotiations ,
he has really exerted himself at Warsaw and Potsdam to effect an " alliance , " a conspiracy it should be called , between Kussia , Austria , and Prussia , against Turkey and the Western Powers against . Europe . Prussia was the difficulty , not Austria . Prussia held aloof , and that Power it was necessary to bribe . The Czar , therefore , offered to resign possession of Warsaw ,
and thus to abandon Poland to the House of Brandenburg . The King of Prussia is reported to have been too discreet for this desperate game . It is not wonderful that with the appearance of timidity in our own Court , with her success in Hungary , and now in Turkey , and with the subserviency of the second greatest empire in Europe , -Russia should suppose herself strong enough to dictate to the Continent and the world . The
King of Prussia does not livo quite so far north but that lie knows something more of what is going on in the west , and he holds aloof . The attempted alliance was a failure ; Prussia remains effectively neutral , andAustriiisinralatesthe course taken by the most moderate of kings , also remaining neutral , and also , it ; is said , sincere in that neutrality . If this should bo ho , Itusaia will be unable to traverse the territories that cut her oil ' from the refit of Europe , wivo by the routo of tho . Baltic and tlvo Black Sea . . But wo confess
that wo put no faith whatever in the neutrality of Austria , and none in . tho persistency of Prussia . Tho chief value of tho report is to Ntrongthon tho suspicion that . 1 tuns i a will go forward , whatever negotiations utay be attempted . The proceedings on the . panubo equally indicatethis probability . Tho recruitment of forces , the appointment of MenHchilcoff aft superintendent of t ! io iVmcipaUlies , tho construction of barracks foi" the troops , the exile of two Wallachians who "imply presented , tho one a Btafcoment of griovwiw a , and tho other a translation oi' that
ntutoment , indicate that Russia is not only preparing for a winter residence in the Principalities , but is actually acquiring the habits of government in that quarter . The intrigues of Hussia amongst the Christian population have perhaps been checked by these examples of her tyranny , but Austria cannot yet have given up her hopes of annexing Servia , and perhaps Bosnia , notwithstanding the difficulties inherent in such enterprises . Austria may be neutral now , but she will , no doubt , wait a time when the force of circumstances will oblige her to take sides with her protector and accomplice , Nicholas .
The position of our own Government is not more clear than it lias been for several weeks . W ^ ellinformed people aver that it is more firm than it professes to be . The newest report is tho revival of an old one—that on some occasion in the last war Lord Aberdeen saw a number of dead bodies , and was so impressed by the unwholesome spectacle as to record a pledge
against any conduc t that should lead to war , as death was the worst evil that could befal humanity . Another member of the government is loud in declaring for peace at all price . Lord Palmerston is reported to hold conspicuously aloof . Wo know nothing of the truth of these reports , save as to the loud-apeaking of the peace declarations of the Minister in question .
The departure of Count Monsdorf from tho Ccmi't of our Queen to his own in Austria , and tho subsequent departure of an Austrian Monsdorf from Vienna to thoCourt of St . Petorsburgh , causes a suspicious watchfulness . By favour of secret diplomacy , wo shall know nothing about tho result of all tlie . so nuinoouvres . They will remain unknown until the whole of the mischief shall have been doxio .
Notwithstanding tho fact that meetings havo been held this week , the most important agitation in favour of a right course with respect to Turkey , is tlio movement in Edinburgh , la-st week , for poaco . At present tho public , is still disinclined to move , uncertain of the facts , and willing to Iiopo that Ministers are roally
proceeding in aright course . Tho public , therefore , stops at homo , and loaves tho platform to tho comparatively low moving men wliono very nuim ' S give a certain peculiarity of colour to the ostensible proceedings . There are few men of what are called " station . " who havo the courage to come forward , iilco Mr . Blackett , tho Member for Newcastle , and to take their pCwltf publicly as
Englishmen in declaration of a national duty , while so many of their order remain at home , each man ashamed to more unless everybody else will stand by him . But what' public declaration . has failed to do in the positive form , the Peace Party have succeeded in doing by the negative process . Mr . Cobden , by putting the doctrine of non-intervention in its most naked shape , —by declaring the conduct of Ilussia to be " selfish , "
and yet surrendering the world to the mercy of that policy , —by the gross sophistry with which he represents resistance to Russia as the maintenance of Mahommedanism in Europe , has roused the public to feel the total untruth of these representations , to feel even an indignationat the attempt to palm oiT fallacies so transparent . In like manner , Mr . Bright ' s
upholding of the American model for military expenditure , while deprecating that same model for military organization , has drawn attention to that important subject by a new and an amusing illustration of the shifts to which its opponents were driven . The Peace Party did not go to Edinburgh for nothing ; they havo convinced the public that their doctrines are unattainable in England .
In home politics we have nothing more amusing or politically significant , than the meeting at Castle Iledingham , where tho Hinekford Agricultural and Conservative Association held its annual banquet . In former times this periodical feast has been attended by those stanch Parliamentary Protectionists , who Avcre called tho " Essex Ten ; " and it was in the same place that Mr . Disraeli first propounded his plan of
transferring local burdens to ( lie Consolidated Fund . Those were tho days , however , when the Protectionists , by the weakness of the Whig Government , the supposed audacity of Lord Derby , and tho dramatic ingenuity of Mr . Disraeli , appeared to be making a real onward march . They havo marched into office only to show what they were ; and Essex , powerfully represented in the Miiiinterial party of the Derby da , y , had if : s full share
of the glories . Mr . Disraeli benuuo Chancellor of tho Exchequer , and did not . insert the Ifedingbam speech into his Budget . Lord IWby became Prime Minister , to rest ; his Cabinet , on the policy of Mr . Disraeli , and yet to talk at that Minister in a manner more curious than conducive to re : ! poet ; for the leader of tho Tlouso of Commons ; and to ahow flint whilo ho dwtirkl to be " autW ciouV—as iu breaking down iriah 6 ( l ; pcft $ < % *** '¦ ... ., ¦ i - /¦ . , , ; ) j , (;;?
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101853/page/1/
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