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AFTER receiving innumerable and very diverse accounts , we are able to collect the general fact , that the Turks have not only crossed the Danube in four places , and established themselves in considerable force . on the left bank , but , if they have taken the fort of Giurgevo , it seems probable that they possess the whole line from
Silistria to Widin . They have also , it would appear , beaten a much larger force of Russians , in a battle of some duration , and they have defeated their invaders in every encounter . This statement is subject to confirmation or correction ; but , in the main , it is that which is most probable . Our waiters on Providence , at liome , are
charmed at the prospect , that Turkey will settle her own question for herself , prove her strength , and be , in fact , as well as by courtesy , a Power in Europe . It also appears probable that the Russian force which is in Asia Minor , to the South-West of the Caucasus , is hemmed in between Schamyl ' s forces , which have crossed the mountain , and a hostile Turkish force , arid is maintaining its position with difficulty . It is at this time that we receive from St .
Peterahurgh a direct and defying declaration of war . Hitherto the Emperor has maintained a considerable degree of reserve , on the subject of his own rover . se in diplomacy , and of the necessity for talcing more extreme- measures . He appears , now , to have thrown off this reserve , both towards his subjects and his allies , as lio calls tlioao states which act as his allies , although he 'i (!( ,. s as their enemy .
l ^ l * o position of the oilier Powera i » scarcely bo RJilwIiietory as optimists profess to find it The Note which the Baron do Uriick , with tlio concurrence of PruHHia , endeavoured to force upon tlio Porto ,-haa been published , and it in anything Wl ; u creditable document ; . In general terms , it profoHHOH to declare that tho "Vienna Note wim
innocuous , and not Hiiscoptiblo of the intwprotut'ioii put upon it by the Porte and the Czar ; but since , by common consent , all parties have put tiittl , interpretation upon tlio text , Uiih nirriplo ^ jfjitivo is either cajolery or n niaisorie , and it uouhl have no force whatevor as a guarantee for tlio Porfco . But the endeavour to force aueli a fallacious guaranteo upon tho Sultan , coupled
with the interpretation of the J ^ ote which Austria adheres , shows that the neutrality of the Emperor Francis Joseph is by no means so veracious as it lias been considered . Whatever side he may profess to be on at the present moment , in opinion and aim he still is on the side of Russia . That fact is disclosed in the Note of the Baron de Briick ; and Prussia , to all appearance , follows in the wake of Austria .
While the Emperor Napoleon is understood to be losing his patience , and is known to have sent out a General Officer as Ambassador , much against the wish of the Russian Ambassador in Paris , it is certain that our own Government still lags behind . Not , indeed , departmentally ; for there is every reason to suppose that the instructions actually issued enable our officers to act in concurrence with Prance . Lord John
Russell has not yet recanted his manly declaration ; X / ord Pabnerston ' s views are known ; but it is reported that Lord Aberdeen once saw some dead bodies , and he has a consequent and invincible repugnanco to war . He is a most unfit man , therefore , to bo tho Chatham of his day ; and it can only bo hoped that when we have arrived at a moi'e advanced stage of action , Lord Aberdeen will consult his own conscience , and relievo tho Ministry of War from the encumbrance of a Peace Minister .
For wo are not inclined to suppose that Russia will so readily accept tho judgment suddenly adopted by English politicians , that Turkey haa established herself as a . Power in Europe , and that Russia must submit to withdraw her forces from the Principalities , and accept terms dictated by tho Porto . Tho Emperor Nicholas is not tho man to yield so promptly as that implies , and it is likely that ho will throw away a few more Cossacks , if not a fovv more seasons , before ho succumbs . It is tho more likoly that ho will do so , since ho has tlio British Minister to turn
upon ; and honeo , by tlio joint effect of Russian perseverance and British repugiuuico , we may expect a prolongation of the Russo-Turkish campaign . Tho only roleaiso from such am embarrassing and disguHting ineuinbranco of dilatory war would bo an opon and vigorous action on tho part of our Government and that of Franco . But we have no prospect of any such aggressive vigour while we have a Peaeo Minister at tho head of affairs . Wo carry tlio sword to war with a cork upon the point ; wo shoot with blank cartridge , and endeavour to got through a campaign
with feiix dejoie . It will of course be slow work while our gunpowder is thus administered ; and as Russia will have many opportunities of working upon her nearer allies , there is no probability that we shall have done , before Austria and Prussia have taken sides , and are arrayed against Turkey , France , and England . It is the dilatory policy which will drag us into a European war ,
and even then we may anticipate that the tender scruples of our Ministers will prevent their handling such a war so as to bring it to a prompt conclusion . They might well do it , if they were prepared to rattle the houses of their opponents about their ears ; and as the houses are ill-built incongruous edifices of ill fame , no one would regard the demolition , except , perhaps , our Peace Minister and our Anglo-Russian
statesmen . There is an ugly movement going on in Washington , which we do not understand , and with which as yet we cannot quite sympathize . The Union is actively endeavouring to persuade tho Americans , that the English Government is working with the help of Franco and Spain to ostablish a free Black population in Cuba , for the annoyance of tho United States . Now , although vro have no great confidence in tho American
policy of Lord John Russell ' s colleagues , although wo totally difler with Lord Palmerston in his Abolitionist notions , we do not bolievo that any project so mad and suicidal is entertained by tho present Government . We recognise the story as tho repetition of an older one from which it scarcely differs , and which runs to the effect , that the importation of Africans , either na slaves or froc emigrants across the Atlantic , w ns to I ) o encouraged by any moans whatever ; that the blacks were to bo set Froo , endowed with universal
fluflrago ; and thus established us a free nigger fltato just off tho shores of Florida . That report w e know to have been a wore invention , and wo fliispect , this of being nothing hotter than a renewal of it . There is one ground which may give it a shadow of plausibility . Sinco the futilo attempt at an appropriate treaty between
England and the United States , to necuro Cuba to Spain , the Spanish officers in Cuba have committed gross outrages on our anti-slavery warslii ]) B , bavo been detected in sharing in tho slavetrade , and have in short behaved witli such groan impropriety as to have ( tailed forth strong romoimtranco from our Government , and a respon - sive promise from tho Spanish Government to
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— " Dovering" and other City Mys- The Governing * Classes—No . IX . — PORTFOLIOPAGE teries 1087 The Right Hon . Sir James . Gra- A Scottish Philosopher ....... 1000 The Ninth of November .. 1082 Miscellaneous 1087 n hs ^ Bart . ........... . ........... 1093 . The City Commission 1082 Bussian Serfdom . —Second Article 1093 iHtAHTb-Letters from Paris ... ! .. " . ! . " .. " ! ... ! .. 1082 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Lord Brougham's "Valete" .. 1094 How to jnake Home Happy 1099 Continental Notes . 1083 Wednesday Evening-Concerts 1100 Mr Eoebuck oa Education . 1084 Dr . Jelf and Professor Maurice 1088 OPEN XCOUNCIL— The Theatres in Paris 1100 Another IrishBow 1084 Villa VolpiceM , 1089 The Use of Inventions 1094 - Pencil Notes , noo Thames Improvement 1084 Turkish Degeneracy ! .. 1089 NewXvemeS ^ feA ^ su ^ ce '' 1094 Photography .. 1100 "A Gentleman at Large" in Austra- Touching the Russian Commissariat 1090 JNew movement m late Assurance iuv % . lia . 1085 Progress of Opinion respecting LITERATURE— Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1100 Our Sanitary Condition .... 1086 Strikes » ... ; 1090 . " * ¦ «« Mi .. rn / M « . « r-- « TheStrikes . 1086 Gog , Magog , and Agog 1091 Books on our Table 1096 COMMERCIAL AFFA IRSThe Burnham Abbey Murder .. 1087 Aristocracy in Australia ... 1091 Russian Shores of the Black Sea ... 1097 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Criminal Record ........................ 1087 " ¦ The Public House Blue Book 1092 A Glance at New Books 1098 tisements , &c ...... 1101-1104
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VOL . 17 . No . 190 . ] SATUKDAY , NOVEMBER 12 , 1853 . [ Paici Sixpence .
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"The one Idea which HiBtory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity— -the nobls endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between meo 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 brotherhood , having o » e great object—the free development of our spiritual nature , " - —Sumboldt ?* Cotmot .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2012/page/1/
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