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802 THE LEADER. [Saturday.
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THE OAKDINAL AT HOME AND ABROAD. "All th...
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Survey Of The War. Wis Resume Our Survey...
anything at Balaclava wpuld be impossible unless we had first secured it by operations on . the land . . There remains only Kaffa 5 perhaps , on the -whole , the best point of debarcation . But the officers who have recently surveyed the coast may have discovered suitable places of landing nearer Sevastopol . Once at the place itself , it is conceived that there would be little difficulty in carrying it , after beating the Russiao army , and mastering the weak defences
on the land side ; as Sevastopol , like Boniarsund , is commanded by heights and poorly defended in the rear . IJet us wait patiejn ^ tken , while tlie combined expeditirt ^ ' ' ^ 7 ' w < tik . It is no child's plav ^ J ^ < loe 8 ? think it mMte haye » :. ' ' . - > m * those ™ 3 Ji <) w an imfr ^ '' . ¦ ¦** e n ; undertaken sooner oic ) p | a : —"' " ''" , ^* - cunate ignorance of the enbr" ^ ^ , pyepara | bion . required , and the unerring tbresig %% wHdh should forget nothing . Beiore the army moved , the AustrianOecupat £ oii ^ o £ Wallachia must hav e become a
certarnty i : / sin < L every conceivable hazard riausfc haVebeen well weighed by the commandierSi . ijtrb so fortunate has been the careerof the GParks ini Asia . - There th . e army , stationed aJ 3 tie winter at Ears ^ having . been broughtinio fine order by the exertions ofvGierieral GHqycm , fetas been rendered useless , by tne timidit y ^ ignorancey and weakness of the epmmander , Zarif PaaKa . At theopening of tte eampaign the Jurks occupied -an extelided position . One corps was stationed at Bayazee 3 ,
oit the e ^ tretne righ ^ i coveringthe roads and passes leading toSyria . The centre stood at Hairs ; tibie left at Ar & ahan . Selim Pasha , who commands at Batoiim , may be considered as heading an independent army . A ! glance at a good map will show that the fortune of the campaign depended on the conduct of the army at 3 £ ars . The wtdlepiain in front of that
town ^ waai' ra & eecl commanded by the works at < Jumri on the left ? bank of the Arpachaj , which even as Sevastopol dominates over the 31 ^ ckt Sea , cominands the plain of Kais . lEarly in July , the Turkish general drew in liis left from Ardahan , and marched the army to Hatlji-veli-Ehoi , where there is a good position . The Bussians , under BebutofF , marched from G-umri to meet them . Here
for at least twelve days the two armies , stood face to face , " and now the telegraph tells us that the expected battle has been fought , and that the Turks have been defeated . At IB ' ayazeed there seems no reason to doubt tfei ' eir defeat ; and thus the Ituasians have gained incontestable advantages in Asia , compensating somewhat for their losses on the Danxibe . For they have gained the pass at Bayazeed , ; and they have overthrown the sole living obstruction , the , army of ICars , that
lay between them" and Erzeroum . Should the telegraph prove correct , the Turks have lost the campaign in Asia at one blow . But we also have our advantages . We Have ta ] ien . Bomatswnd ; and have loarnfc a ) , good lesson , in the art of dealing with the casemates of the Czar . Uomarsund "was a granite fortress , looking out ffrirnl y , vvith
upwards of a hundred guns , upon a deep ind ^ niatip ri , of the shore of the largest of the Aland islands . Aboye it the ground gradually rose to a considerable height , and on these hills the Ozar had raised three forts , constructed of granite , solid-looUing enough t < j > the o ' yo . What was the course of the Allies ? On the tfth of August they landed 10 , 000 men in throe hours and a half . By the 13 th the French had constructed a
"battery of eight guns , four mortars , and four 32-jK ^ uriderB , bearing nguinst the western fort , the key of the wholf > i ^'" 4 : " * **' ' * ' ' . .. ,, ^» nun . opening thoir a ** o '' oxrtHfW day , they brought their pieces to ifffaVupontheVound tower , nnd fired with little irtterriviijsibri all that day nnd the following night ; the Prench riflemen , meanwhile , sheltered -under the rocks , keeping up such a
patter of bullets on the embrasures as made it . ' djifecult foj ? the Russians to load . In the morning ih ' e £ orj ; ^ ee ^ p d to fire ; its face was dreadfully bartered ' j the i > i # e # } pn walked in , and the ibrfc was won . 6 n the l $ th tlie Engi lis l * , ^ bb had lauded upoi ^ . the north , of the island ,-oj > ened fire upon the eastern fort from a six-gun battery , and in about eight hours they had knocked away on © a ™ U * . * - ± -l «» ¦& " •* surrendere d to the niarines and blue Jackets ! All that day- ^ t intervals , tl * e ships had " thrown ® " ^ 'iS' 115011 the main fort ; and Captain x'elham , who had landed a 10-inch gun ,
workeq . it gallantly in an , exposed position against the west face of the great fort . On the 16 th , after a few hours' firing , the fort surrendered , and 2000 men became prisoners of war . The whole operations had occupied only eight days ! ] Now , when we look at the small number of gtups iised to batter the towers , vrhen we find tnat they knocked out the granite blocks in masses , and the-rubble : at their back in heaps ;; whfen we see how th . e einbrasures
were almost rendered , untenable by the fire of / the sliarpshopters , wfe ar 6 disppsed ^ o agree ^ i ^ the ^ mark ; of an . - eye-witnesSj ^ hatthis siege has dispelled the illujaion of ilnpregnable graiiite fortSi lii this brilliant exploit , after all only the prelitBinary sfeirniish ^ the preface to greater enterprises , Aye see Svha . t can be ddne "by ships and soldiers . "W ^ e s ee cdurage , and-strength , and gaietyl and invention , side by side , and Tv : e belieye that the union of such forces can nowhere be resisted . The
merest tyro must makei this ^ reflection— -are all ^ the forts ^ of tlie Gzar as weakly Built , an ^ as / badly placed , as ! 0 omarsund has proved to be ? Is Sveaborg impregrjable ; to a , land and aiayal attack , conducted by the same ? men F Is Cronstadt ? Then take the Bus sian target practice , "When the Penelope was aground the great fort fired 123 shots at her . How many hit the mark ? twenty' -three The conclusion is irresistible that if
Boniarsuud is > a specimen of Bussian building ; if the fire on the Penelope , and on Captain Pelharn . ' s one-g ^ un battery , be a specimen of Russian target-jGrihg , Heither Sveaborg nor Cronstadt can fail to share the fate of Aland .
802 The Leader. [Saturday.
802 THE LEADER . [ Saturday .
The Oakdinal At Home And Abroad. "All Th...
THE OAKDINAL AT HOME AND ABROAD . " All things to all men" is no doubt a perfedtly apostolical maxim , and one singularly befitting it ; Prince of the ( D \ nxtch , inp i aWibtisi ) ifi ' deliuni . Tlie Church of the Sword whoso hilt is-at Borne , and whoso point is oxer all the world , fights under the shield of an . inflexihle dogma ; but With ' weapons polished aild suppJo as the steel of Damascus . Universal in her claims and . operations , the Church is Protean ,
in her disguises and cosmopolitan in manners . To the severity of extreme old ago she unites all the pliancy of eternal youth . Bun your eye through the lives of tho Popes , arid in thoso mysterious impersonations you will find epitomised all tho vicesand almost'all tho virtues that can . dignify or degrade that human nature -Which they half abjured . Examine the traditions of that Power Whosa
sovereignty demands all intellect , all art , all science for its accomplices , all human laws , institutions , and authorities for ita instruments or , vassals , you will find every form and phase of human strength and weakness forged into nn armoury of sacerdotal despotism . I ) emocrntio , absolutist , reactionary , pro <*»•< - ^ r .-flatterer and betrayer of ail tyraniP " * . ' ?' liberties m turns , fosi ; f » " n ii < ^ obj a oil nroservm . r * P i . n -, fcmo ,. mr of tho arts , Ac
. .., ~« v /^ cteTS , n , 4 . uge of tl \ o scieucGB , Fngan , Atheial ; ^ a 8 o jOtic , dobauohed , sangviinnry , obftcunw ^^ t , according to tho ago , tho clinanto , and tho natiioix—tho Church that boasts of l \ or majestic unity has nourished "by tho vijgo ' ar- of hor infinite varioty . It ^ a nothing new ( iu principle at loafct ) to
find a real live Cardinal , an ultramontane Car-IPfv m P P le ai ? d red , hot from the College of the Propaganda and the Congregation of the Index , lecturing in the guise of a sober . hnghsh clergyman of liberal-conservative tendencies on the advantages of education . Even Mepbistop keles is a perfect gentleman nowo ' -days , 0
., protest against any ultra-Protesfcant ; howl at the disguised Jesuitry of the Cpuncil of the Society of Arts , for having invited the most distinguished representative of " Anti--Christ" in this kingdom to " distil the slow poison of his ideas , drop by drop , " into the minds of an unsuspecting audience . "We leave to the Record the congenial office of vituperation . For our own part , we offer his Eminence a cordial and respectful welcome in . the not
rdle he lias assumed ^ without a certaipcu success . ¦ . Jjet- it noi W forgotten that the Cardinal is the highest expression in this country of a party , which , througlioait tb . e Continent of Europe , is identified with re * action , oppression , and miBgoyernnieiiCy h $ their niost cruel and iorfjiddiiig aspects : of a party which anathematises \ . the very name " of iiberty , the very idea of progress 5 treats science asi an ^ eneaay , the printing press as an
invention of the Evil One , and persecution of heretical opinions as a sacred obligatiori . It is the par ^ that , t 6 quote ] 1 ^ has " systematised the philosophy of perjury for ¦ monarchs / ' and elaborated , ' . th ' e oppression aiid degradation of peoples : the party that in Kande applauds the Bbvoeation of the Edict of USTantes , and prays for-the return of " the good old times Of Hiiguenot massacresand dragonnades ; It is the party that glorifies the Inquisition ^ and thinks the sport of burniiig heretics alive far more edifyin g th an bullfights , and equally auiusingv It ; is ., the
party that with pens ever steeped invenom , and lips ever tremulous with insult ; libels and defames all the glbrie s and conquests o £ civilisation for tlie last three hundred years . It is the party that falsifies history today and invents a miracle to-morrow . It is tlie party of bleeding pictures , and nodding images , and winking , wax-works , adept in all the chemistry and in all the pathology of " ecstatics . " It is tho party of organised ignorance , reaction , servitude , corruption .
May we not he pardoned for congratulating one who so worthily represents hi » party —by contrast ! What will not change of air do—even for a Cardinal ! Whatever he may be at Home , in England he is a . champion and advocate of popular education . Cardinal Wiseman has on . more than one occasion , and in many ways less public , shown himself a man of the nineteenth
century , and not personally hostile to civilisation . The authorities of the Oystal Pal « co have reason to acknowledge his frank and zealous co-operation . That he is a man of deep and discursive learning , of refined taste , mid J | an eloqyonco at once copious and graceful , a subtle thinker and a powerful writer , jft known to all the world of intelligence The
Council of fjhe Society of Arts acted ^ fc Onco in a truly Catholic spirit , aud ^ n Wtcious appreciation , when +- eolicitei so important a persona ^ ; . ¦ ¦• ' - \ i in connexion w ^* - , j * " . * deliver a Jeciuro tuto . A" 7 , i- '"" ¦ « neir Educational Instit *\ a " * il . j « ' 18 ' I 3 ) ininbnco with oqiial sense . courtesy accepted the invitation . It there is ono popular error more than another li , o is doubtless anxious tp explode , it is tlio Protosbant idoa of n Cardinal . In no other
country but England , wo may suppose , could auch a phenomenon aa a Cardinal lecturing to a Protestant audience on the ndvantngon of popular education ho witnessed . Lot ua maltd the- most of our opportunities . It ; iu not oi ' ton we got a Prince of tho Church in our grip . It ia worth while to examine with
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26081854/page/10/
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