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ITpHE news of the week may be put thus : It is X probable that Sebasiopol is taken , and it is certain , that Lord Aberdeen has not resigned . The question of policy raised by our success at Sebastopol must now be discussed by the public , aa well as by the Cabinet . For the present , it may be regarded by large classes , who hav 6 been
oddly misled Vvith , respect to the character of the wisest and most conscientious of our public men , aa a hopeful s . ign fox the future of the war , that Lord Aberdeen , about whom there have been strange rumours tlie last few days , holds his post while Sebastopol is being besieged , and while Cronstadt is being pointed to as the next doomed fortress .
It is the leading journal which has begun to talk of Cronstndt . But we are not excited by that emphatic reference , because the ., leading journal is , aa usual in that portion of the recess when official news is scarce , elaborately attempting the " popular "—in the same day in -which it hailed for Cronstadt it sneered at the Austrian alliance—and because , also , -the leading journal is , at present , rather incoherent . Judging from this sentence , which occurs in a literary review , it is competing by an occidental vagary with Mr . Disraeli ' s Asian mystery : — " Tlve conclusion arrived at is the
conclusion to whidi we are brought by all intelligent writers upon the coming destiny of nations , whether they bo tourists or historians , men of science or m « n of tUq world . If we . would nourish a hope of cc brighter future , ive must follow the sun and look still westward . " Then our stupendous contemporary is weak in his gossip about the divisions among the generals who have gone to Sobastopol ; for if hcj knows of a co-ward and a fool—and his romarks point ; to soino * ' distinguished officov" who ia . both—among our generals of division—suroly he has tho courage to name the man ?
• Clio groat , event in tho Crimon fills tho week ; and tliplomncy , entirely dependent on it , 5 s suspended 5 so that , at leant in England , wo have tho tuno and opportunit y to decide for ourajlvos on tho turn our diplomacy is next to take . Tho King of Belgium is certainly moving about ; but that is a matter of courso—ho wus nlwayn a commu-voymjeur in his way . Everywhere tlioro is obuervablo a decided pause . Wo disbelieve all tho stones of Prussian and Austrian
approximation : both are waiting and watching . So in the Baltic : the Scandinavian States are neutral to an agonizing point—to themselves . Holland is proclaiming through her King ' s address to the States G-eneral that she is neutral—a communication parallel in importance to that of King Soulouque ' s to the same eifect . Holland ' s neutrality in all politics is not temporary—it is historic . Nearly the whole of the King ' s address is occupied with details of happy material improvements . The apparence of pause , as a characteristic of tlie time
is observable in States altogether detached from the immediate European war . Sardinia , for instance , appeal's this week on the stage , but only in connection with an intention—^ an intention to enter on an intensely serious struggle with " the Church "—Rome herself pausing for a jubilee . Even on the other side of the Atlantic there is a re- " internal . " The States have no more actual public work on hand than to cheer the " progress , " great as Kossuth ' s or as Meaglier ' s , of Grisi and Mario ; their real work is
prospectivethey are preparing for the elections . These elections turn apparently on points of subordinate influence on the world , and , therefore , perplexing everywhere beyond the States , even to the Americans in Europe , as the " American" who last week instructed the leading journal fully testifies . Know-Nothingism , the Nebraska Bill , and the Maine Law , arc tho points . Aa we have a Sabbatical Maine Liquor Law of our own , we may endeavour to comprehend tho last point , « uid apply to our own country the moral . An
interesting contrast might be made between theso American " reforms , " with analogous reforms of our own—wo being the champions of civilizationand tho roforms decreed by the last Turkish hattificheriflf . Contrast Know -nothingism with the appointment to tho Turkish Commission of an Armenian and a Jew . Contrast , generally , tho enlightenment visible in tho Sultan ' s decree with
the enlightenment of our gazetted " Thanksgiving . " What in the history of Eastern delusions can surpass tho follies of the English people in undergoing varieties of cures —such us tho caiator-oil poison—for tho cholera of 1854 ? " What in thu history of Turkish barbarism can exceed tlio idiotoy of tho English pooplo in leaving their groat civilised towns so peculiarly built , uoworud , and inhabited , as to tempt , to create-, cholera ?
I ho Thanksgiving for a good harvest ought now to bo connected with national gratitude for tho subsidence of cholera : thoro is illogicality in tho
Thanksgiving altogether , and it would scarcely strike the pious , were the Pope ' s comprehensive Jubilee imitated , were we to be called upon to thank Providence for both heat and cold—thu cold , as far as the cholera is concerned , being necessary to counteract the baleful effects in towns of the extreme heat . ThePositive Philosophy is not yet in the ascendant : and Thanksgivings are likely to last so long as peers , like Lord Derby , do not blush to announce at scientific meetings such as the oen this week at "Liverpool , that they know
nothing of science ; or so long , indeed , as a ' scien tine Congress is converted , as was this at Liverpool , into a meeting for vulgar enjoyment ( Liverpool is the most provincial town in England ) of the sight of " unsciehtific" peers . We do not remember anything for a long time so degrading to this country as the scone at Liverpool—the business being that of tlie British Association—when Lord Derby proposed thanks to Lord Harrowby , when Lord Harrowby thanked Lord Derby , and when the public present , great merchants ami their wives—vulgar and dull—¦** cheered . "
We And in one or two official papers some official news . We gather , from tlie guarded Globe , that the Perry Case has had its moral effect on tho Hoi-se Guards : the organisation of the Courts ¦ Martial is to be modified into some nearer resem - blance to a . common sense process . From another statement in the same paper , we infer that thu Duke of Newcastle has been compelled ^ probably by the objections of his elder colleagues , wlio were backed by the odd opposition of some " liberal " papers , to resign his groat scheme to revolutionise the civil service . The Duko of Nowcnstlo does
not confine his communications to tho Govern ment papers ; the despatch received by the . Government , with ruapcet to tlie landing in the Crimea , " was sent from tho oliico of tho iMiiiiatci of War to all tho morning papers . Very proper ; but if the Cabinet thus condescends to break through tho routine of wocrol , diplomatic reserve , why not give us < tll tho iicwn it get a V . And if a purveyor of ntiws , why not , have i \ newspaper ? Why not a daily giizutlu m wmtiino ?
Tho most iniportnnl , of ihesu ( , uvurnmeiit hints to its " oi- «« nn" i » ll " ' reioiriiiij to Lho rumours thnt our < Jovoniim' » l wiih / ore , d to consent to lho expodilion nirmiwt th « Lnnu > a . A trusted organ Buys : ~ tuo order U > v th « uxpiMhlion wont direct j ' rom tho two courts . Xct bt . Arnnrtu may bo entitled to tltu credit of vigour and bold iR'tja—and tho "J'imcH should really bo aslcod s " Who is tha coward among our eonenvlat "'
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23091854/page/1/
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