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WAR advances with slow and uninterrupted strides in the East ; daily there is some report of a new turn to the dispute between Russia and Turkey , but each of these flying rumours is refuted by the next . Yesterday evening , by no means for the first time , it was reported that Russia had accepted the mediation of Austria —ft rumour which the news of this morning does nothing to confirm , and which has been many times contradicted during the past week .
These incessKmt fluctuations are a consequence of our improved machinery for transmitting news , and they will not distract a very moderate degree of attention . Practically the position is this . RuHsia has made her preparations to march in and take possession of the principalities on the left bank of the Danube , as a means of coercing Turkey without actual warfare . But it is an act of war , and the latest accounts leave the French
and English ships ready to advance in support of the Sultan , who is fully armed , and is said to be sustained heartily by his Greek population . The 16 th was the day on which , according to calculation , the Emperor ' s notice would expire , and the rejection of his ultimatum would be the signal for that new stage of the affair upon which ftU speculation would be idle , and we must even wait patiently for real intelligence .
Amongst the reports in which we put little faith , is one to which our Tory contemporary , the Press , appears to have lent the impulse of its young and vigorous promulgation . It is , that the Russian Minister in London some Months since intimated to our Foreign Office the intentions of the Russian Emperor , and that Lord Aberdeen induced Lord Clarendon to express acquiescence in those intentions ; an acquiescence which the two Ministers were afterwards obliged
to retract under the compulsion of remonstrances from their colleagues and the manifestation of public opinion . The Times explicitly denies this gtorv : the approval conveyed by Lord John Rus-* elL for he was the then responsible person , related to what Russia demanded in the matter of the Holy Places ; and that question was
closed before Russia raised the other one , of her protectorate of the Greek Christians in Turkey . The story indeed obtained no credit , even before this denial came forth ; it was only regarded as a proof of the readiness with which a reckless party can bring accusations against the Ministers , merely because they are the Ministers ,
and of the tact with which Russia can employ her agencies to sow divisions even in countries where her effect is scarcely recognised . . Russia , however , if we may believe appearances , is not at present enjoying her wonted success in these delusions . In Parliament , the general progress has been favourable to public business . The new Spirit Duties , the Soap Duties , the Succession Tax , are all proceeding smoothly , and almost without debate . The Succession Tax , indeed , has been the subject of a more serious contest , which served
to ' show the weakness of the Opposition . The second reading had been suffered to go by default . Sir John Pakington made a valorous stand on the motion to go into committee , which he proposed to do on Monday six months ; and he advanced a number of objections against the Bill . He complained that timber would be taxed " at every succession ; " that the charges for life interests would be equal on healthy men and sickly men ; that Corporations sole would be exempt , and he had a special fling at the Bishops , who had given a vote in favour of the tax . Sir John did not
explain why timber should be exempt from taxation at each succession any more than other property , the soil for example , or a leasehold . He did not explain why health or sickness should make a difference under the Succession Tax any more than under the Income Tax , or any other tax . If that plea were allowed , we might have many an honourable Bullcalf putting forth a valetudinarian plea for exemption . But Sir John ' grand point was that attack on the Bishops ; he was for raising
the country against so unjust a tax ; and he wanted to know what rig ht the Corpora tions sole had to pronounce a judgment upon the matter ? Sir John Trollope put this last question more explicitly , as if he had an eye to revenge the vote of the Bishops by moving their exclusion from the House of Lords ! Lord John Russell made the most of this revolutionary language , and the House of Commons declined by 268 to 185 to support Sir John Pakington ' s anti-episcopnl und anti-fiscal obstruction .
One of the most telling speeches on the Ministerial plan for continuing the Indian Government , was delivered by Lord Ellenborough in the House of Lords on Tuesday , with a glance at a plan of his own , the chief feature of which was to have a Minister for India , " representing the English mind , " and a council of notables for India , representing the Anglo-Indian mind . Lord Ellenborough is so thoroughly master of the whole subject , that however we may distrust the general political principles of one who ia a Tory in the
best and worst sense of that word , we must confess that his principal disadvantage is , that he has nobody to give him a real opposition . Ministers take refuge in comparative ignorance . One of the Peers who most usefully discusses Indian subjects is Lord Albemarle ; but the fact is , that the subject possesses no interest for the House of Lords . Lord Ellenborough spoke in the presence of six peers ! A principal subject of debate this week has been the ballot , raised by Mr . Henry Berkeley's annual motion for leave to bring in a bill . The
arguments on either side received scarcely any variety . On the side opposed to the measure two principal arguments appear to be the old " English" one , and the one against concealing the exercise of the franchise so long as it is a trust . The arguments on the other side receive many illustrations from the late elections .
Another might have been added to the list—the unseating of the Tory members for Clare on the ground of intimidation , and the unseating of Lord Adolphus Fane , member for Durham , on the score of bribery ; while the doubt as to the expediency of issuing a writ for Harwich , shows how conscious even Lord John Russell is that the
present system is intolerable . To these arguments we might add that one which Sir William Molesworth addressed to Lord John on his defeat for South Devon in 1835 , a prophetic reproof , which we have reprinted in another column . The division , however , shows that the number in favour of the measure is growing . In both Houses the ex-Ministers have been
abetting Lord Westmeath in an attempt to Wast the character of Mr . Keogb , as a-meem » of injuring Ministers ; Lord Derby , Lord Eglinton , and Sir John Pakington , taking a foremost part . In proof they allege seditious language in Lord Eglinton ' s time , which he had not prosecuted ; while Lord Naas had used such language to Mr . Keogh as imp lied the hint of an offer to join Lord Derby ' s Government . The impotently malignant Tories make themselves a laughing-stock ; and Mr . Disraeli will not be pillowed with them ; lie boldly declares his esteem for the man who is assailed in so cowardly a way .
The Duke of Genoa ia succeeded at Court a « chief guest by the King of Hanover and hii Queen and their children ; a family visit . In presiding at the laying of the first stoue of the Idiot Asylum , Prince Albert has graced a really noble work . The provision for that peculiar form of human ill which this building will aid , is still very deficient amongst ttsv ifbdOTO
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VOL . IV . No . 169 . ] SATUKDAY , JUNE 18 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- ' pagb Hints on Law Beform 585 Confessions of Parliament about In- The F « mtiers of Christian a ndTork | 95 The Week in Parliament 578 Wages 585 to ........................... MJ Rev . C . Beecher on Spirit Eappmga 695 letters from Paris 682 The Botherhithe » Conspiracy" 585 Ballot and Extended Suffrage .. 589 . Continental Notes 583 Collegiate Authorities . 686 Revival of the Wages Movement ... 589 THE ARTSflh « eamp " 583 English Society . 586 Molesworth to Russell : a Prophetic Lady Tartufe 598 India and China 584 Miscellaneous 586 Sermon ... ................... &w Sardanapalus 597 SSEa -N oto ! S * Health of London duriugthe Week 587 The Present State of the Turkish A Gorman ' s Idea of Time 597 TheMonal Society and the Church Births , Marriages , and Deaths 587 M IlE ^ . Wp £ u ^™ . ~ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCatechism 584 , . , "Young Ireland" in London 584 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE— City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Schoolboys once again 585 The On-Coining of Russia 587 Books on our Table 595 tisements , &e 697-800
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* ' The one Idea -which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia 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 ths distinctions or riengion . Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Kumbcldt't Cosmo * .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1991/page/1/
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