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wn numbers , while many clergymen of the Church of ingland had refrained from full statements . Lord Granillb , for the Government , refused the return : it couldn't e obtained ; or , it could , it would bo too expensive ; and aere the matter dropped—no doubt as the bishop intended , ord Granville paid a high , compliment to the administrative enius displayed by the Registrar- General ( Mr . Farr ) in rganising the returns . Doo-Cakts . —The Lords had a laughing debate , on Monay , in committee on the bill to prohibit generally in England 'hat is prohibited in and near the metropolis , viz ., the use of og-carte . The bill was opposed by various peers—conpicuously by the Earl of Eglintoun ; the grounds of objecon being , that the bill would throw 1500 people out of their rdinary occupation ; that the bill would cause 20 , 000 dogs ) be hung up immediately , Lord Eglintoun suggesting that lie community would consequently have to be careful about ie pork pies of the period , and that it was absurd for the
igislature , which allowed cruelty to cab-horses , and to foxounds , and to industrious fleas ( the last was Lord Lyndurst ' s ironical suggestion ) , to be so generous to dogs . The ill , however , passed : dogs are to be taken from carts and ut upon gallowses—which will at least be a blessing to the sing generation of dogs . The peculiarity of the debate was lat the dog-cart question was an " open question" with the ' abinet . Lord Gkanvillis was in favour of continuing the se of dogs for draught—the Duke of Aiigylb was eloquent i behalf of the dog—and one Cabinet Minister thus answered aother ; also voted against one another . The Coalition is ot coalesced—even in going to the dogs . Propkrty of Nuns 13 ills . — On Wednesday , Mr . frirrBsi'SE gave up the bill which , earlier in the session , tcited such bitter feeling in the Roman Catholic commuity . The Irish independent members ironically complilented him on his charity ; the fact being that Mr . Wtiftede found that there was not quite bigotry enough to carry im through .
Commercial Patriotism . —In the House of Commons ord Dudley Stuart has obtained leave to bring in a bill jndering it a misdemeanour for British subjects to purehase r deal in securities issued by the Kussian government during ie present war . The penalties attaching ta hign treason re threatened by the law officers of the Crown against British subjects who may subscribe to new Russian loans in tie present position of relations between our Government nd that of the Czar ; but there is at present no legal enactlent sufficient to prevent such securities from coming into ie hand ' s of English holders through the intermediate gency of continental dealers—a process which , of course , ¦ o uld help the Russian treasury almost as much as if the loney were raised directl y in England . Can such a bill be ecessary ? . While our aristocracv is coquetting with Count
' amen , can our Changes be flirting with the Russian inance Minister ? Count Pahlen . —Count Pahlen , a Russian gentleman , ¦ ell known to the English nobility , and n great favourite , s we judge from the parliamentary encomiums passed upon im , is iu London this week , being on his way from Maeira , where he has been sojourning for his liealth , to the lontinent . While hero , he paid his usual visits , and received 36 usual attentions from our governing class ; and , among bher attentions , he was nominated by Lord Granville for ie usual courtesies of the Travellers' Club . The fact enaged attention : the Herald gave cry about a " Russian py , " declaiming against the want of patriotism and proper
onduct in a Minister , who thus cultivated the society of a ussian . Mr . J . Butt , who represents the Herald in Parament , asked a question , and threatens a " notice ; " leanwhilo , Lord Granville has offered his vindication to the . ords , who cheered him , expressing their disgust at the ttack , and endorsing all that Lord Granville hud to say of ' ount Pahlen being a pqrson as innocent of politics as he 5 delightful in society . Lord Brougham , Lord Lansdowne , x > rd Ellesmere , and Lord Malmesbury , spoke of their long nd intimate acquaintance with Count Puhlen ' s harmlessess ; and , of course , Lord Campbell , with obsequious alucity to Bay a . courtly thing to a powerful class , pronounced a erdict of acquittal on Lord Granville .
Tub Oxford University Bili , has been read a third me and pass * J . The Guild op Literature and Akt- —The bill of his confederation , which enables them to commence operaions , has been passed by both Houses , and lms received the toyal assent . UNIVBKSXTV OF LONDOX . ' —MlCDIOAL I ) KG RISKS . TliO iledical Graduates Bill introduced by Mr . Boll has received ho sanction of the House of Commons . This measure , it is nticipated , will have a most beneficial influence on the inerests of both tho medical profession and the public at large . tB leading feature is to pluco tho graduates of that
institulon on a looting m all respects with tho graduates of the Jnivorsitics of Oxford « nd Cambridge—thereby breaking [ own a monopoly of interest which has so long interfered nth tho advancement of rnodicul reform , nnd , at tho sumo imo , exerting n most snlutnry check upon the College of 'hyaicinns ot London—an institution which hns greatly lamngod itself by its illiboml management . Lord Pahnerton him undertaken , to logialato on tho whole question of ncdical roform next session 5 nnd Mr . Brady , ehirnrgienl oprcsontativo in tho House , will coinpeto with a second > lun .
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NOTES ON THE WAR . Him Morning Chronicle saya ;—" Tho disappointment bit by tho Czar ivt tho course which ovonta have taken is significantly displayed iu the disgrace which ms fnllon on tho lato coinnmnuor- ' m-chief . It seems that Prince Paskiewitach has boon directed not to return to Waraaw , but to roaido for tho present on Ilia estates in Podolia . Tho fall of the veteran iloldniarshftl is tho more conspicuous from the steadiness which his master haa always shown in his personal
and official predilections . It is one of the most respectable fe atures in the character of the Emperor Nicholas that his great officers of state have generally enjoyed a permanent tenure of their rank and influence . Three successful campaigns in Persia , in Asiatic Turkey , and in Poland , had raised t he Prince of Warsaw to the highest position which a subject could hold in ; the empire . For more than twenty years the alter ego of the Sovereign has lived in almost Imperial state at the capital of his viceroyalty ; and when the short campaign in Hungary was terminated by the submission o the insurgents , it was generally understood that the aged commander-in-chief asked and obtained exemption from further ' active service . In common with the most
eminent Kussian statesmen , Prince Paskiewitsch is believed to have regarded the present war with disapprobation , and it was only in obedience to the Emperor ' s solicitations that he accepted the conduct of the campaign which has redounded so little to the honour of the Imperial arms . It is at present difficult to say whether his failure is to be attributed to defective generalship , for no movements have taken place in the open field which could adequately test the skill of the hostile commanders . " Omer Pacha is said to have lately received a letter from Abd-el-Kader , dated Broussa , the 18 th :-
—" My very dear-brother ,- —The gates of Paradise opened themselves for me , when I had a conversation with the only prophet in a dream on the eve of the 1 st Ramadan . I leard all the great and holy souls who repose in Abraham ' s bosom proclaim your name with shouts of joy , and I saw a large rainbow extend across the striking ranks of * the holy souls when they called you by name . God is with you , my brother . Wherever you go , glory and victory will attend you . I envy you . Carry off the camps of your enemy by your troops . May my blessing accompany , you . The enemies will fly before you like jackallsj and our children ' s children will glorif y your name . Dp riot draw back , but march your troops forward . The Prophet wills it . The day of expiation is arrived for the giaours of Moscow . — -Blessings on you , my brother . —Abd-kl-Kauer . "
This is apocryphal ; or proof that the Emir is mad . It is disgrace ul to our British press how it revels in conspicuous canards . Every day it has some new " striking f act , " the last is , that " A proposition has been sent to the Admiralty by an officer or the Navy of high standing , for the perfect sealing up the entrance to Cronstadt , by doing which the Russian flfeet could be kepfethere for years , and if necessary for ever . If carried out , it will release nine-tenths of our fleet from that part of tho Baltic . " The Fresse learns from the Lower Danube that the Sultan intends to go toSilistria , in order to distribute rewards to the gallant garrison . When is he to advance to Adrianople ?
-According to the Debate , the German sovereigns have exhausted servility in their politeness to the Czar . The official communications made by the German Cabinets to the Russian Government subsequent to the Convention o Berlin and the interview at Tetschen were in each case accompanied by confidential autograph letters , in which the imperial and royal correspondents addressed the Emperor Nicholas in the most affectionate terms , protested that they had no inclination to make war , entreated his Majesty to condescend to accede to their solicitations fo r peace , and offered in that case to constitute themselves the mediators at a congress , at which all pending questions were to bo discussed and arranged . It is even added that the King of Prussia had tho
inexpressible meanness to beg his imperial brother-in-law to honour him with a personal interview on Ins recent visit to tho frontiers of East Prussia—a request to which the Emperor Nicholas sent a flat refusal by one of his aides-de-camp , —and indeed tho Czar , this account is at all to be believed , appears to have taken no further notice of these peurile appeals to his compassion than to give fresh instructions for the movements of his troops , nnd to send as his representative to Vieimn a mnn well known to be a partisan of the war , and u member of the ultra-Muscovite party , while ho reminded the sovereigns of Austria and Prussia that they owed their existence to his protection , and threatened to punish their ingratitude by some tremendous manifestation of hid power nnd
vengeance . A question lias been asked , in the IIoubc o Lords , by the Bishop of Oxford , whether tho slnve trade ( that ia , in young girls for Turkish harems ) is not on tho increase from tho Circassian coast , sineo tho Russians hnvo been cleared out of the way ? The
Foreign Secretary does not deny the fact , but intimates that " friendly" effor ts will be made by our officers and agents to put a stop to the traffic . Why merely " friendly" e orts , that slare trade is w rong ? But have we any right to meddle with Turkish customs ? An . imperial decree , published in the Monileur , confers on Marshal Omer Pasha , general-in-chief of the Ottoman army , the dignity of grand cross of the imperial order o the Legion of Honour . The officers of the Tiger , who were prisoners of war at Odessa , have been exchanged and released .
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M , DE PJRSIGA * Y AND HIS MASTER . Politicians in Paris cannot solve the mystery of Persigny ' s retirement ; and the Paris correspondent of the Times labours to assure us that—he knows no more than anybody else . He says : — The absolute devotedness of which the late Minister of the Interior had given so many proofs to the Emperor is , no doubt , remembered by the personage who has benefitted by it ; but whatever may have been the confidential intimacy of their relations , I think- that those who attributed to the ' ex-Minister an exclusive or a very high influence were in error . I have never believed that any one possessed an influence of such a kind over the mind of the Emperor . The alliance between England and France is for the interest of those countries and for Europe at large ; and such is the best influence , and the surest guarantee for its duration . When an alliance exists between two great nations
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on such conditions , and produces such results , it can scaixely be supposed that it depends on the mere personal influence of any friend or Minister whatever . Besides , it was not in his capacity as Minister of the Interior that M . de Persigny could exercise any influence on the foreign policy of the country , and the same influence he was supposed to possess might be exercised in tho Council , in which , as is well known , the Emperor was desirous of retaining him ; and we may presume that if M . dc Persigny did not accept the offer made him , it is because he was convinced that his retirement would not produce any change in the policy of the Government . It is a labour of supererogation to seek about for the reason of that retirement . It is , in fact , to bo found in the last report which bo himself addressed to the Emperor . Whatever merit belongs to M . do Persigny for liis devotedness , his patriotism , and political ability , his friends admit that ho had neither a taste for nor experience of the details of administration . His peculiar aptitude was no doubt of value during a certain period of the present regime , but now tluit tho itation of
ag parties Ins subsided , a prompt and judicious expedition of the current business of tho country is absolutel y necessary . " According to a correspondent of the Dehats spoaking ot gossip at St . Petersburg , onu thing certain is tho profound irritation ofjhe Czar , which attacks both men and things ; irritation against tho soldiers , who are not invincible , and who arc under tho enemy ' s sword , or struck down by contagious diseases ^ irritation against the generals , who allow themselves to to stopped by obstacles which they ought to have foreseen and . overcome ; irr itation against tho administrative departments , which are not able to provide for the necessities of the army , and which have not calculated in time tho nocessary provisions nnd maldriel ; irritation against Austria and Prussia— -that is to say , against the movement of public opinion Mbich has manifested . itself in Germany ; against tho Governments , who were either unwilling or unable to resist that movement ; and against tho two Sovereigns , whoso iYierulsliip and gratitude the Emperor Nicholas fluttered himself ho had secured forever . " On what can
oho reckon henceforth , he exclaimed , " if tho Emperor ot Austria and tho King of Prussia are wanting in tho most honourable and dourest sontiincuts ? Autstria employe ngsiinst mo nil the resources of lier traditional utility . Siio cuitios Prussia along with hor . 1 know it ; but wlxtt ingratitude 1 The King of PiuKisiu ami 1 ho Emperor of Austria have tlion forgotten all that they owe mo . Without mowithout my armies—tho on « uiuf llio other . would luivo cousod to roign . Alone , I emvoU tlioin ngainat tho world ; but do thoy boliovo that all in ended , mul ih .-il . thoy iuo in mifuty ? It 1 only thought of von / jounco , 1 would lot tliuir enemies do what they liked , and , tho ullitir would not bo a long ono . " Tho Ihuh / Xcir . t Buys : — Thoro is what is called in India a bazaar report that in tho ovuut of tho Allies making a ticrlima linprimsion on St . - Peterituuvg , tUo Csuw h » s propurou u force of JO . OOO Tintiirrt . who iuo U > pillugo tho pluco and h'dVo il iu tho condition « "i » t calculated to bo of advantage to tho ooinm- 'rora . la short a copy of the Moscow history .
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July 15 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 653
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THE NEW ELECTIONS . Though not clearly yet within reach of the writ , Hull is making ready for an election , and the liberals , in a considerable number , are in favour of a generous requisition to that gallant Radical , General Thompson .
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HEALTH OF LONDON . ( From the Registrar- GeneraTs'Return . ') The present return affords very satisfactory evidence of an improved state of the public health ; the mortality which has been long above the average having fallen last week below it . The number of deaths registered in London last week was 984 . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1844— -53 the average number was 951 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1046 . Last week ' s registration , therefore ,, exhibits a number less by 62 than the calculated amount .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2047/page/5/
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