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A POLITICAL MB LITERARY RETIEW.
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A Political Mb Literary Retiew.
A POLITICAL MB LITERARY RETIEW .
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' The one Idea -which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotb . erb . ood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritualTiature . "SitmboldtfsCosmos .
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~ T \ UMOURS from the Crimea distract attention ; JtL but the storm of the 8 th , and the entrance of the 9 th , are still the grand events . The complete accounts now give us , for the first time , the teal history of the attack ; and present to us the picture of the gigantic scale to which modern warfare has' developed itself . Seven or eight hundred cannon on each side were arrayed in the final bombardment . Not only is it clear that the balance of bombarding power , of weight and
destructive efficiency , lay with the Allies ; but they were not encumbered , rather than sheltered , by the buildings of a town . The barren . plateau could not be set on fire , nor could it be torn to pieces as the walls of the city were . The general disposition of the attack was known weeks ago ; but we now can follow the movements of the men . It is a cold blowing day , clouds of dust overhang the sky and blind the assailants . Precisely at
noon , the French are seen swarming up to the foot of the MalakhofF battery , streaming in , disappearing , then appearing above ; and the tricolor floats over all . A fierce combat , foot to foot , ends in driving back the Russians . Bosquet continues to aend reinforcement after reinforcement ; and as the French pour in , the Russians give way ; sending off their numbers to points more defensible—the Little Redan and the Great Redan .
On the actual capture of the MalakhofF , Pe-U 8 SIER gave the signal for the English attack on the Groat Redan . The story is painful . The men mustered in the nearest trenches , from which , however , they had a longer strip of ground to traverse . When they approached the angle that projected outwards , they found the sides of it swept with artillery from the curtain wall . The ladders proved to be few . When some men scrambled over , they found themselves enclosed in the inside
of an open triangle , crossed by a breastwork at ita base , behind which a great body of Russians stand in a compact mass , bristling with bayonets , and pouring forth a deadly fire of musketry . The breastwork might have been taken with a rush ; but notw ithstanding the exertions of Wikpham , whose daring rivals the stories of knight-errantry , the . soldiers ennnot form or make that rush which miglt have placed the battery at their command . They maintain their stand for an hour , paying heavil y in losa . Windham , his mossongors killod ,
goes to fetch supports , but before he can return , while still he is talking with Cooking ton , the men leap out , and the ditch is strewed with the bodies of the Englishmen and of theLr pursuers . Our troops are driven back from the Great Redan ! The attack by the French and Sardinians on the Central Bastion was the same story in little , save that while Sijipson confesses that the confusion prevented him from organising a second attack , a fresh attempt by the French with the Sardinian supports was stopped by Pjslissier—the capture of the Malakhoff having given him all that the Allies required . For by this time the French had , as it were , turned the Malakhoff against itself , and held felie means of entering the town . Niglit closes ; next day the city was deserted ; and the Allies entering , found what had been the condition of their enemy . The supposition that , as the attack undermined or threatened the outworks , the Russians formed a second vrork inside ready for a defence as formidable as the first , was confirmed . Amongst the buildings that had attracted attention , was a long range which proved to have been used as a hospital , it was filled with the dying , the mutilated , and the dead , abandoned by their countrymen ; a horrid evidence of the sufferings which the Russians had endured , and of that worst suffering which they sustained through the hardness with which the Russian officer rccrards a non-eflective soldier as lumber . The
handsome town is smoking in every part ; its ornamental verdure is reduced to ashes ; and it is now peopled only by the invader . If Russia is losing in the Crimea , tlio Russian interest appears for the moment to be gaining ground on the Continent ; but we are inclined to doubt whether the gain is so great as it looks . If wo wore to trust the reports from the money capitals , we might say that the groat "Boar " party is in possession ; but wo believe that the Bear is always destined to be defeated in the end ,
and that in the present case his growls indicate the agony of coming defeat more than the oxultation of victory . Wo have discussotl the subject of Corn and Cash in a separate paper ; here wo narrate only evonts as they present tliomsolves . There is a difficulty , but there is evidently also a set and organised ondeavour to magnify the difficulty , for obvious reasons . . There aro classes who find their profit in any rapid fluctuations . Take corn alone . Not long since thoro was a report of a fine harvest in this country ; then oauio the
report of an excessive deficiency ; then a full harvest ; now a slight deficiency . Simultaneously there was a report of a great surplus in" the United States , of a disappointment , then again of a surplus . In France they apprehended a deficiency , next they reported that the harvest would after all yield an average ; then the Government confessed a deficiency , with almost a corn panic following the announcement ; then it is found that there are supplies to be had from Spain , and the price of corn suddenly fell more than three francs in price .
As with corn , so with Consols ; only that in reality the good information , which has been established , both in London and Paris , tends to check the endeavours that used at one time to cause such rapid transfer of groat sums of money . Nevertheless , there is a decided want of cash on the Continent . Every government , Russian included , tries to raise the wind . When cash is deficient , banks , like those of France and England , begin to be drained ; money is in demand , stocks fall , and thus we find the Bank discount of London and Paris raised to five per cent ., Consols down to 88 £ , the French Rentes down to 65 , and a talk for tl » e hour , of something like a panic to follow . The apprehension is increased by the restriction which the French Government has put upon some enterprises . The refusal to allow the issue of 240 , 000 / . worth of obligations by the Socidte * de Credit Mobilier , is now an old story ; the stoppage put to some enterprises in public works is more recent . At homo we have a parallel stoppage on u small scale , in the bankruptcy of Messrs . J . C . Mark and Co ., who have had Government contracts on hand . The firm found itself snort ofcashj . it could not meet its liabilities punctually . A creditor for 9 OO 0 J . or 10 , 000 )? . would not wait 5 put in an execution , a « id threatened to sell . The works would hat ^ v ^ n stopped , and the whole of the contracts that the house had on hand might have been suspended , with immense confusion to those with whom the contracts were made—to the work-pcop lo —and to all persons with wliom the very extensive firm is in business connexion . An tippeal to the Court of Bankruptcy has prevented the catastrophe ; and the accountgyt ^ l ^ S ^ J ^ NL the firm is in reality not hankviigt r ^^^^^^ C ^ solvent , " and only hampered for a ^ T ^^ i ^ M ^> i ^ extreme tightness of money , Y ^ p ^ jgmty & M ^ PC everybody . Wo view theso rojjoapsijjuflj ^^ tipt ^ / P * cies , however , with distrust , aijji vfa / Xlp ;| K ^ £ iroTt / fc ? v ^ gj ^ y
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29091855/page/1/
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