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the hands of the Board of Control . Mr . Whiteside ' s Bill ( on Nuns' Property ) has been withdrawn—and appropriately on the great " Orange " Irish anniversary , the 12 th of July , -when , indicating an improved state . of society in Ireland , the " Grand Master , " Lord Enoiskillen , advised the " brethren , " who so hate their brothers , nott to " walk" in the customary offensive procession ., tSO
often , in so many districts , tU © occasion of loss , of life . The Peers have passed 4 iie Bill abolishi ^ g ^ he dog-cart system , sbut nat \ -yrfthout a * Jqfei * e in which there was ingenious argument , used "with as much solemn earnestness as though the question affected the constiution , to show that the . measure would throw 1500 people out of occupation , cause all the disharnessed dogs to be hung , and eaninise our pork-pies for a considerable time to come . Last nisrht the House of Commons
continued the analysis of the Bribery Bill . This is the Parliamentary work of the week . There has been a singular absence , during the week , of questions on Foreign Affairs ; notwithstanding that the incidents abroad are numerous enough to excite curiosity , and some of them sufficiently serious for anxiety . The Spanish throne maybe in direct danger from , a Spanish insurrection , -which , despite the absence of news , -we cannot yet consider as a failure ; and Spanish interests , as connected with Cuba , are being directly brought into consideration by the judicial proceedings in New Orleans against assumed
agents of the Cuban annexators . Then there is the second American annexation question ; the " authorities " in the Sandwich Islands having pronounced for the protection of the States : —the iact , and the future it indicates , raising the whole question—can the United States , which cannot annex . without extending the United States * institutions , take an outlying island , —scarcely yet in a condition to send members to Congress ? What , however , is most remarkable , is that no one , in either of our Houses of Parliament , has intervened for explanations about the political crisis in Canada .
The Foreign Question , the war , does not appear to be & Parliamentary question , at all . T $ o one asks what is Colonel Manteuffers business in " London . ; no one inquires—what is the real answer given by the Czar to Austria , and " what is the other answer which he has sent to Berlin ?—and can Austria be relied on ? It is left to an accidental personage , of no political Sts ition , like Mr . Isaac Butt , to « ' move" the ouse of Commons on the current diplomatic doings ; and Mr . Butt fixes merely on such ah incident as an old Russian Count ( Pahlen ) being seen , or heard of , in company , about town , with that civil Cabinet Minister , Lard GranviUe .
Lord Granville thinks it right to reply , in his place , to the insinuations against his patriotism ; and he is supported by a mass of lordly evidence to character in assuring the nervous nation that the Count is not a spy , and not a di p lomatist — but merely an " old friend "—an invalid— " drop-S ing in" on our aristocracy , as he passes through jondon from . Madeira , to the German baths . Mr . Butt is laughed at ; and very properly . But it should be remarked , as all the world suspects that every -Russian , allowed by his master to travel , is an agent of the Russian syBtem , there ¦ w as some justification for the impulsive terror of the patriots—who , however , are not anxious about the more accredited diplomatists , such as Colonel Manteuffel , who can be invited to court .
Among foreign affairs wo muat count the varieties of " loans" which are in the market Russia ' s having failed : Austria ' s being forced ; Francois suggested second one not yet clearly ascertained as even a probability . There is still a dropping fire of paragraphs in the papers about the Turkish loan ; but thoro is no information as to the Financiers either of England or France contemplating any -veritable guarantee which would enable the Sultan to riuso money , Tho funds ai * e not in a position hero to indicate that tho Liborals could carry out a project which is a
common topic of conversation : that the French and English peoples should subsoribo a loan for Turkey . There is , indeed , great uneasiness in trade j for reasons requiring development . But because wo cannot raise a Turkish loan there is all tho greater reason why wo should cease to pay tho Itusao-Dufcch Loan . It is nn old Whig principle , we are aware , to keep up punctual payments under that head to tho Czar ; but does tho precedent bind the Coalition P The Pun ' s press insists that Qucon Victoria is going to visit the French coaofc , during Louis
Napoleon ' s sojourn in the neighbourhood of his two grand camps—' Boulogne and St . Omer ; the circumstance that the royal yachts are being kept "in readiness" affording some evidence that . lihe expectation is aiot altogether . absurd ; and this meeting of the imperial -allies cwcould , probably , ,-not offend the quidnuncs whp are hunting Count Pahk ^ n xmt of his comfortable ¦ wesfciend &Qtel ; while -the -two peoples < gRpuld , no tflpub ;! ,, 1 be please , < L The English shjjfig ,-siwith the ^ Sjjj ^ nfih infantaysand -ftntillery on hoard , sail to-day , ( or sailed yesterday ) from the Calais roads ; and the " uniqne event " ought to have a -fiae day for .. its ; eojjsummation— 'for , then the fleet could be seen from the shores of both countries aa
it passes up that channel which has been the immemorial battle-stage of British and French sailors .
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The first thing to be remarked in surveying the map of war is still the fact which we pointed out last week—that the Russians have not retreated in any way that can . lead to the belief that they intend to abandon Moldavia or even Wallachia . All that they have done is to withdraw from the Danube to securer positions on the northern roads leading to Moldavia . Alarmed by the first report that an Austrian division would enter Wallachia by the Danube , and defeated before Silistria , there is some reason for believing that they withdrew rather hastily at first from . Kalarasch , and hastened the transportation of the wounded and the stores towards Fokschany , the point of concentration on the north of Wallachia . But that this retrograde movement did not continue we have now abundant
evidence . So little indeed did the generals think of retreating behind the Pruth that their Cossack outposts at Siinnitza and other places were not withdrawn ; for the Austrian steamer , Arpad , proceeding down the Danube with the military men appointed to consult wi £ h the allies , was recently fired on from the left bank , and forced to return . Subsequently Prince Gortschakoff pushed forward a strong column from Urshitzeni upon Bucharest , and finding that the Turks had abandoned Lesser Wallachia , or at least had not passed the Aluta , he even threw out his pickets as far as Slatiaa , and spread Cossack patrols down the left bank of that river . Should this be
correct the Russian forces are still in possession of the great road leading to the Rothen Tlitirm Pass 5 and may be said to make front to the Austrians on all the practicable points along the mountain barrier of the Carpathians . Of course the line of the Jaloniintza is still maintained , and the extreme right at Kimpina has been strengthened by the erection of a battery of twenty-four guns at the Tomosch Pass—the centre road in the break of the mountain ridge , leading directly upon Cronstadt in Transylvania . In the rear of the line of the Jalomintza , stretching across Wallachia , the Russians have strengthened the line of
the Sereth , and have increased the army of Moldavia , by the addition of the force hitherto encamped at Odessa , which in its tura has been re l ieved by troops from the interior . Besides this , the massing of troops round the Austrian frontier continues without abatement ; and should Austria actively co-operate with the Western Powers , there seems little doubt but that her Polish provinces would be speedily occupied by the enemy . As wo remarked last week , Russia holds in bd hand all the great lines of operation leading to the heart of GaUicia , by holding both banks of its rivers . Such would appear to bo the
position of the enemy . If wo may believe the telegraph , the . allies have commenced offensive operations by striking a blow at GLurgeyo , and again crossing the river at Oltenitza . As it is now stated , the former operation involved a serious battle . Tho Turks , under Omer Pasha (?) crossed tho Danube and " surrounded" the Russians under General Soimono'ff ; tho latter only escaping by cutting through his foes with « , heavy loss . Prince Gortsohakoff was said to bo marching down from Bucharest to deal
with tho Turks , who are said to be supported by an Anpjlo-Frenoh force at Rustchuck , 15 , 000 strong . Xhese statements do not seem accurate . It is not likely that Omer Pasha would abandon the muin body of his troops to head an expeditionary assault upon Giurgovo ; nor do wo know how tho 15 , 000 British nnd French troops could lmvo reached Rustchuck , weeing that Itustchuck is at least , one hundred miles from tho carnp of tho rfUlies Hear Vnrna , whore they lay 01 * tho 20 th oi June , sadly in want of a waggon train , n , nd
Bufleripg under -the terrible mismanagement of the Commissariat Department . Still it may be as the telegraph Reports ; and the Light Division , or some other oCorps , repeatedly under marching ordei ? s , n # ty have ^ actually got to tbe Danube . But the probability jis that the telegraph is not accurate . " WSJjat is certain is , that Lord Cardigan , w , ith somejUght horse , had been sent towards tbe Danube ,, ^ wjith . the view of obtaining information . J& s&m . rufiftr ^ Varna jjhere were not less than < j # sOO 0 French $ nd British troops ; and we must wait patiently for intelligence of their doings .
The Black-Sea fleet is again before Sebastopol ; Sir Edmund Lyons is reported to be engaged in the reduction of Anapa ; and assisted by some small heavily armed Turkish steamers , some menof-war ' s boats have penetrated the Sulina mouth of tbe Danube , and have completed the blockade of that river . Better news has arrived from the seat of war in Asia . Although a division of Selim Pasha ' s corps has been defeated near Ivutais , the army at Kars is in . a state fit for active operations . The Russians , as we have before stated , are acting on the defensive ; and the Turks , anxious to take the
offensive , are only restrained by the dissensions and want of military aptitude of their commanders . General Guy on , indeed , has brought the army into a state of efficiency ; and General ELinety has reduced the Bashi Bazooks to order and proved their metal , but the Poles intrigue against the Hungarians , and -whatever the latter propose , the former declare against . We must not expect much from the army in Asia until it receives better leaders . With respect to Schamyl the news is obscure . He is reported to have been roughly handled on the road to Teflis ; but these accounts are , of course , Russian in their origin .
The war in the Baltic is about to assume grand proportions . A corps of French troops , under Baraguay d ' Hilliers , collected at Boulogne , and destined for the Baltic , were reviewed by the Emperor on Wednesday . British ships of war and French sailing transports will carry this army to its destination i , the first corps starting to-day . Admiral Napier , -who with the combined fleets lay for twelve days before Cronstadt , defying its fleet , and flinging down his challenge , surveying its forts , and sounding its waters , returned on the 6 th instant to Barosund to w . ait for the troops . Should the report prove true that Sweden will furnish an army of 40 , 000 men , great things may even yet be done . At all events there will be no troops to spare from St . Petersburg and Finland with which to reinforce the armies on the frontier-
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PARLIAMENT OF THE WEEK . There was to have been a great "debate this week on the whole question of the war and the Government ' s position , the opportunity being afforded , by the new vote in supply for the new office of Minister of War . But the vote , which waa to have been taken last night , stands over until Monday . TENANT ItlQUT ( iBEJkAN ©) BIIXS . CONDUCT OJP THE GOVERNMENT . Tho first of these important measures was Tbrought before the House of Commons on Tuesday . Mr .
Serjeant Shed , entrusted with the question by the indopondont Irish party , immediately insisted upon the bill being withdrawn ; arguing , that at that period of tbe session it was a farce to pretend that tJio code could bo passed . Other members took the siimcvicw ; and , apparently as if by arrangement , Sir John Youncj , the Secretary for Ireland , consented to " withdraw . " This was considered dis- < graceful to tho Government , wliich had pledged it * self to tho committees of Lords and Commons , -who have sat on tho bills , to press on the question .
On Thursday , the " grievance" produced lengthy acrimonious conversations in both Houses . In the Lords , Lord MAMirisanimy , who , in Lord Derby ' s absence or disgust , would seem to be leader of the Peers' Opposition , opened fire on tho Duke of Newcastle , who , on Tuesday , had spoken of the bills in a precisely opposite tone to that of Sir . T . Young —admitting that tho bills were Government bills , -while tho Secretary for Ireland had affboted to deal with thorn ns " stray" bills , the responsibility of withdrawing which ho was ready , under a pressxire , to take , but tho going on with which ho would loavo either to Mr . Serjeant Shoe or to Mr . Napier ( tho guardian and tho putative father ) , if they liked . Tho Duke of Nicwcahti . ic defended himsulf as well as ho could , nnd , having no dofonco , rather lost his temper . Lord Donoughmoke , Lord SAiJtsiuritY , nud Lord M 0 NTJSAG 1 . B took part in the " row , " blaming tho Govormnont and l aying Mr . Napier , nil whoso
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650 THE LEADER . . . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2047/page/2/
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