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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Hiimaiuty—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by settine aside the distinctions SJS ^ t 2 SlSS ?^ Sk & cg ^ ^ UmaU raCe " ° br 0 therhood ' havi ^ °° grea / objectitae free development
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MEWS OF THE WEEK— pace Elections 1016 Mr . Landor ' s Proposal to As- PORTFOLIOThe War 1010 3 vJlQ £ ? urfc 1016 sassinate the Czar 1019 iT . uWn ^ tfc i < v > r The Patriotic Fund 1011 ? J - - »? to ! l ° V- 1016 Sea Bl"eezes for the British # , " . ? t ^^ nHo Sohnni of i \ i »* in 1097 Lord John Bussell in Motion ... 1012 M . Itoritz Hartmann 1016 Constitution 1020 The Romantic School of Music 1027 Sir John Franklin's Party 1012 Bear Bread at Nottingham ... 1016 Nursery Republics 10-20 tup art « The Protection of Women and Our Civilisation 1016 THE ARTSSerjeant Adams 1013 The Cambridge Asylum 1017 OPEN COUNCIL— Vidona 1028 Continental Notes lOU io . ss-of-the Steamer ^ -ctio ... 1017 Babel ion Th « Trustee " ..... . . """ . . 1028 The Emperor of the French in Re-Emigration from America 1017 JS ' ' ™ - The Summer Storm 10 ' 8 England ^—^ and Uelgium ... 1014 Miscellaneous 1017 LITERATURE- storm .. ± y . » The United States' Babies 1014 Dimnc . rt . ir . . c nmm ! iro , „„„ i ^ SS Dinner ¦ loi ^ T ^ 7 wt . , W c ^ isie -in the East :::::: i ° ol Births , Marriages , andDeaths 1029 a . Jmssionstpy 1015 The Chances of a Nationa l More Versifiers iosm , The pubUcHealth : dge ~ " low w ^ r « f v-- , ^ - .. ^ ..-... ^ 101 S T ^ RrtaS ^ " of ' HiraW . COMMERCIAL / VFFA . RSuleifMS " " 1016 Horn Soitqui Mai yPenso ... 101 S and Contrast of Colours .... „ 1025 City intelligence * Markets , Adillegal Marriages 1016 ^ 3 Bit byBit W 19 Books on our Tal ) le 1026 vertisemeiits , & c . 1029-1032
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BY the latest news , it will be seen that the siege of Sevastopol Iia < l tit last commenced : and tihat already it had been varied by a sally of the besieged in such a force as almost to entitle us to speak of the repulse being a battle . Of the result ifc would be disloyal in us to have a doubt : and advancing beyond Sebastopol , our nation is calculating already what further R . ussian troops , Osten-Sacken ' s reinforcements , are to be encountered
and beaten at 3 ? erekop . How long will it take to dear the Crimea ? Is it . to be left in possession of a garrison , army : and what will be the work for Lord Raglan after his Crimea' achievements ? Menschifcoff being still missing , our public , and probably even , our army , is in doubt as to what is the Russian position northward of Sebastopol ; and Omar Pasha , motionless , does not seem quite certain of what is in contemplation in Bessarabia .
Events , as was anticipated , arc drifting the German Powers out of their neutrality . Austria seems , at last , preparing to join against Russia and among the reasons why she takes this course , one , perhaps , is that Russia , striking the first blow , is concentrating troops on the Austrian frontier , as if to force her into action . An Archduke or two , preliminarily blessed by the Czar at St . Petersburg , is appearing at Warsaw , where a vast army is being collected , with facilities for operations with Prussia against Austria ; or , for defence against both ; or , as a Moscow trick , for the vindication of a re-created kingdom of Poland . Meanwhile , Austria is into condition for action b
getting a y getting money , through the French Credit Mobilicr , upon tho mortgage of the State railways in Hungary and Bohemia : the operation huhig clever as stn original piece of finance , only likely to be thought of by a painfully embarrassed Govcrnjnont , but being uppbiuded by Western Europe aa indicating that the Court of Vienna , thus encouraging French capitalists , trusts moro to reliance upon Paris than to t ' uith in St . Petersburg . Wo shall aoon know . A great military council , the second since tho Russian invasion of the Principalities , has been held at Vienna : and tho result must , ere long , bo clour to Europe . A council of war novor fights—i , o , if it can avoid fighting .
Prussia is not yet suflioicntly near direct diuiger to induce her to take a sido : but ; what tho Secretary to the Treasury wouhl call the " screw" is being contemplated by tho Engl ' mli Government by meana of a modification of those enlightened maritime laws so unanimously agrcod to hurt , session as wisest and best , and of which it , w . ia foreseen aa inevitable that Prussia would bo enabled to take advantage—a circumstance to which our merchants have reconciled themselves , by tho consideration that those laws have done us the least
possible mischief _ consistent with a condition of war . The Prussian press rebukes the nonsense which some of our journals have written on this subject ; and mercantile opinion in England is assuredly too strongly in favour of the compromise with war to permit any change . Lord Palmerston owes all Iris position , such as it is , to rendering politics carefully subservient to commercial interests , and he surel y would not sanction a reactionary barbarity , the defence of -which might be that it would injure Russia , while its obvious
condemnation would be that it would also injure us . Meanwhile , Prussia issues marry-come-up manifestoes and petulant protocols , wrangling with Austria , and sneering at England and France the Prussian monarchy going down so thoroughly in European estimation—it is as low now as it was before that battle of Jena which Napoleon bulletined as having destroyed at one blow the monarchy and the army—that even Manteuffel , disgusted , makes an effort to escape his post , —returning to it only in compliance with the maudlin entreaties of the bemuddled king .
Ike alliance between France and England , daily more and more close , so that it is one public opinion , like tho one army , whicli faces Russia , is , will , it is announced , bo confirmed in solemn festivities at Windsor , when the Emperor and Empress of the French are to be the guests of Queen Victoria and her husband . Another story is , that the houses of Napoleon and Coburg and Orleans , aro to be allied by tho marriage of Prince Napoleon , heir presumptive to the French throne , and tho daughter ( by the daughter of Louis Philippe ) of King Leopold . Suuh a fact
would doubtless present , possibly , a new prospect in French politics : but there are many signs that Louis Napoleon is not tho man to trust to marriages for the consolidation of his dynasty—or rather of his system . Aa ho commenced lie is continuing—securing predominance by rigorously suppressing dissent . His management of tho pi-ess is still the management of an Attila ; and tho refusal Avhich his Government has this week given of permission to talkative M . Soule to enter Franco , suggests none of the sagacity which is tho characteristic of men who fool sufe .
J he English nation will , however , makes no objection to tho proitUHtid Christinas fcHti \ ities at Windsor Cnstlo . Some of our journalists seem to think that broad is going to bo very dear this winter , and that would bean element in tlio popular contemplation of Court banquets . Hut this frightened uxnnctntion doos not suem justified by a reviow of all the facts . Tho 4-lb . loaf is now 1 Oil ., and may bo Is . 3 d . within ton days : but thifl may bo becuusu avo aro now living on tho last sneks of the last two harvests , —which wore bad . Almost every autumn sees a riso in the price of broad , whether tho harvest bo bad or good : and as tho present harvest is being hold back altogether trom tho market , in a stupid anticipation
of " war prices , ' the passing stress may be accounted for , — -and as merely episodical . The whilom Protectionist journals are being galvanised into some sort of vitality in the presence of such circumstances : it does happen that they predicted that Free-trade would ruin the farmer ; but that does riot withhold them from the argument , that the hopes held out by the Free-traders to the people have not beenxealised . No doubt certain Free-traders afford some excuse for this nonsense by talking parallel
absurditiesas that the golden harvests of California and Australia have tempted masses of men away from agricultural labour ; or as that the war with Russia has restrained Russian supplies . For the last few years corn has increased in marketable value ; and there can , therefore , we may rely upon it , have been no diminution in the production . As regards Russian supplies , what restrains them , when our corn can come from Riiru ? Odessa has no
corngrowing lands belnnd it—the loss of Odessjm supplies is not the total loss of Russian supplies . The best defence of the Free-traders is in the question — What would just now he the price of grain under a Protectionist system ? As to the farmers , the traditions of their fathers are not applicable : the valley of the Mississippi was not thickly populated when Marengo , Jena , and Austerlitz -wex e being fought .
" l ) omestic movements" are few- The public ts occupied in subscribing to the Patriotic and other funds ( among them the Cambridge Asylum seems to us tho most practical ) with a prompt profusion which does tho nation credit , and will get it the bettor served in this war . Can any money be spared for a monument to Franklinfor pensions to the widows of the poor seamen who died of cold and starvation with him ? These
poor fellows , too , were serving their country : and the earnest grief which followed the announcement of the discovery of their remains shows that tho country is not ungrateful for a self-devotion even more sublime than that which cai'rics men into a battle ; —facing tlio ice of the Arctic seas is more dreadful than facing the fire of a battalion . Lord John Russoll ia , of course , a domestic movement ; ho lias passed tlio recess in advertising himself in all parts of tUu country . But at liedford and Bristol ho has not boon felicitous j for in
both places his buld ooiunion-pluco was contrasted with tho vigorous and hearty tulle of men —Sir Horace Seymour and Sir Robert Pool—each of whom carried aiway tho lionising of tho evening from their noble friend . JSv wonder : at I 3 rwtol Lord John hud iiotliinj , ' bettor to say than to compare tho JSritinh Constitution to " a ncighbourinir building" whioh l « i < l boon—propped up and repaired—and to BiiyguHt that a good History of En « hind b ' not yut boon writtun-forgetting that (" von Lo .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 28, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28101854/page/1/
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