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for'that was a 4 , uestiioh rather for tie House of Coririmons than a- meeting like the present ; but , having observed the public Conduct of the Duke ' of Newcastle now for ten or twelve years , heVwas bound to * &j liei had always found him labdrfous , intelligent , sincere , and anxious to make himself useful to the country in the offices he had held . And , since nobody ; could bring a-single chargfe against him of incapacity or inattention , he thought it unfair to propose ih ^ t hjs place should be filled by some one else wh 6 was presumed 1 to be more fit for it . He then referred to the war ; and hoped Lord John would be able to tell the House "what the war was
foTjand . upon what -terms peace would be accepted . If Turkey was cleared of the Russians , and certain treaty guarantees agreed to , would the war be brought to an end ? If it Were to be carried on with a view to the dismemberment of Russia , no man could foresee the end of it , or the calamity in which it would involve both this country and all Europe . As to Lord Aberdeen , hg had , for his part , great confidence" in , the noble- eartj and was extremely sorry to see the bitter and malignant attacks which were made upon him -without justification . He could ^ nly express his scorn for the violent and improper manner in which the noble earl had been assailed . " Lord Dudley Stovabt had only one thing to observe ; relevant or irrelevant : "Why wasn ' t Lord Falmerston the Minister of War ?"
Mf . 'L * TARD expressed some apprehensions with regard to the conduct of Austria ; which , evidently , was the " question . " He also indicated what a remarbly self-governed people we are ; for he , like Mr . Bright ; asked— « Would the Government have any objection to state what the war was about ?" Members began to feel it was getting too ridiculous , and , upon winks from Mr . Hay ter , moved off . Then that great Irish orator , Mr . Vincent Scully , rose , and bounded into the question of Tenant Right . It is . rumoured that no one was present during this speech but Lord John himself ; and that Mr . Hay ter had-to send a-footman into the room to turn the orator out . Lord John then went to his early dinner .
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NOTES ON THE WAR . The English fleet with French troops has sailed from Calais for the Baltic : Napier awaiting them still in the backward position , at JBarosund , which he took tip to keep his crews clear of the Cronstadt cholera . Sir Charles , meanwhile , is supposed to be carrying on political negotiations with Sweden , the rumour being that the Swedish Government consents to give aid against Russia only on condition of a subsidy . Public opinion is rampant against Russia throughout Sweden . The ' < French ot the North" ( as the Swedes like to be called ) are especially eager for the French alliance . At St . Petersburg itself , " suspects" are being : placed under arrest . There is military activity at the capital , and perfect preparation is supposed to exist at Cronstadt ,
At the other end of the theatre of war there is activity so far as the Turks are concerned ; but the allies on shore seem engaged in mere make-believe movements ; and aB respects the fleets , there is no news of them . The Turks have beaten the Russians along the left bank of the Danube ; and the latest accurate accounts leave the Russians falling back falteringly to Bucharest , whither the Turks were pushing on , ready , it was supposed , to risk a grand pitched battle , which the Russians would not well bo enubled to avoid .
But , so far as wo know , the English are very far indeed from being near Rutachuk , which may be roughly said to bo half-way between Varna and Bucharest ; and the French ( whom the Monileur carried on an impossible 10 O miles too much ) can claim no credit for the action at Giurgovo ( on the 7 th or 8 th ) which the Turks won unaided . The English troops had broken up their encampment at Varna f and thonce the sudden hope that they would push on towards Bucharest , and drive the RusBinne before them . But they moved only about ten miles , forming two camps , at I ) ovno and at Aladyn ; which is just such a movement ns when the Lancers change barracks from Hounslow to Hampton . This ia unaccountable According to the
Times" At the aamo time , we cannot wonder that this delay 1 ms occasioned the surprise and suspicion of our Turkish allies , who muy not unreasonably conclude that a rough and ready army , which moves -without baggage , nnd often lights without tood and pay , in uomctimoa proforable , for the rudo iind moro desultory purpoBOH of war , to tho elaborate organisation anil equipment of European troops . " The Times spunking with authority , explains this want of energy in this ways—the English amd Jtfronch Governments have reason to truat tho Austrian Government , if only because of its interests , — i ? , nr ° f P ulB » 0 " of «»« Ruasiana from Wallachm may therefore bo loft to Austria , whoso Emperor will tCnjf 7 / lme 0 ^ , Rt tho »»««« of hia armies :- *™ tho allied forces mil concentrate all their energy on
Sebasfopdli But if the allied armies are to be taken to the Crimea , how is it that they move away from theeoaW ' ¦";¦ " •• • .. •>• ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . r . Omar Pasha paid a visit to the English headquarters on the 4 th , when a council of war was held . The Duke of Cambridge has been to Constantinople , consulting M . de Bruclc , the Austrian Minister . In Vienna the Government is waiting the English and French answers to the Austrian comment on the Russian reply : —mean-while the diplomatists , in that pleasant city , dining are together— -the Austrian potentates entertaining the Russian special-envoy ( Gortschakoff ) who 6 eems to have taken tip « permanent residence in the Austrian capital . Austrian public opinion condemns the young Emperor for being induced by Prussia to delay the entrance of his armies into-Wallachia on the 3 rd of July : be would hare settled the campaign . The Sulirift mouth of the Danube is Occupied by British and French troops .
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Tiie Empress of Russia has addressed her Prussian royal brother an affecting letter . If he goes to war with her husband , she will be unable to go to the German baths—and her health requires them ! The Presse states that Omar Pasha gives his own loss at Giurgevo , on the 7 th and 8 th , at 1700 killed and wounded . " The Russian troops are returning from Moldavia into Wallachia . " ( Telegraphic ) . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has obtained from the Sultan for the English Government a concession of valuable coal-mines ia the valley of jBteracIea . ' They are to be worked by an English company , and will supply the allied fleets at the rate of 17 . a ton—3 / . a ton being riow paid . "Who is to get the fortune from our Government ?
Colonel Manteuffel , the Russian diplomatist , left Berlin , not , as supposed , last week , for London , but for Vienna . Count Bernstorf , however , is in London from the King of Prussia , and has been busy all the week with our Court and Ministers . An extraordinary letter ( which we must believe to be a forgery ) from Count Nesseirode , the Chancellor of the Russian Empire , to Baron Budberg , has been intercepted and published . It is insolently significant , as indicating reserved Russian intentions , viz .: to keep the Principalities : —
" His Majesty the Czar does not consider it permissible that in such times as the present persons of the same faith as his Orthodox Majesty should be unde . r any other than a Christian government . If the Wallachians are too much under the heterodox influence of the west of Europe , bis Majesty cannot , as the head of the orthodox Christians , relinquish the task intrusted to him by Heaven , which is to deliver for ever the followers of the true Christum—namely the Greek religion , from the suzerainete * of Turkey . Since the glorious accession of his Majesty tlie Czar this thought , has occupied him , and now the time has arrived for accomplishing his Majesty's so long entertained resolve , in spite of the opposition of the other powerJess states of Jieterodox Europe . Only be aovere , Baron , towards these lawless Wallachians ; the severer you are , the better . Such is the will of his Majesty the Czar . "
The visit of Louis ITapoleon to the English ships in Calais Roadstead is pleasantly described by the reporter of the Daily News : — " The Eniperor and party wore received at the grangway of the Hannibal by Commodore Grey , and had all tlie officers presented to him . He went carefully over the whole ship , and examined minutely tlie arrangements for the accommodation of tho soldiers , with the whole of which he expressed his entire satisfaction . The Emperor partook of no refreshment on board the flag-ship , but after some short and friendly conversation with Commodore Grey and hjs officers , returned to his yacht and sailed slowly round tho fleet . On parting company tho usual royal salute was tired , and La Heine liortonae imulo rapidly for the harbour . Tho afternoon was beautifully tin *? , and this , with the noise of tho groat guns , had attracted an unusually largo company to tho pier . which , as is well known , is ono or the largest and linest in Europe . As tho yacht steered slowly up the outer channel the crowd , fashionable and unfashionable , pressed to tho edge of tho
quay and clieorod lustily for tho Emperor , who stood alone on the top of tho deck saloon , taking otf hia hat repeatedly in acknowledgment of those notes of welcome . It was at first thought that tho yaclit would go up to tho inner harbour , where royal carriages were in waiting and a small military escort : but a auddon thought seemed to strike hia Majesty , an order was given , tho yacht hauled alongside tho pier , and tho Emperor , in full genoral's uniform , s . cppod on shore , and without a single attendant plunged bfllUly into tho crowd . Tho effuct was electric . A . cheer rose that might have boun mistaken for an English cheer ; exclamations of admiration wero hoard on every side , nnd the Kmporov hustled hia way cheerfully along with hardly elbow room enough to take hia hat off now and then in acknowledgment or tho loud und repeated erica of Vivo l'Jfonpercur 1 ' Mingled with tho crowd were an immense number of l&ngliali visitors , who gave itaa their universal verdict that tho Emperor ' s ' pluck was a fuot mover to bo gainsayud iroin that day forward . With tho l'Vouch , this impromptu not of confidence and courngu vuiiittd a complotu liurricano of excitement . "
A letter from Vionna in tho Paris papers says that M . Godurd , the iuromiut , haa proposed to employ balloons in military operations , and has induced thu Austrian Government to supply him with largo funda for the experiment . . Letters from tho coast of Abasia dated tho 25 th
ult . states that Schamyl iad forbidden the « ate : © f women in all the tribes that recognised his authority . In various English ports Russian ships have this week : been seized ; they were trading under- ial ^ e ( generally Prussian ) colours . , . ,. ^) H ' , Count Bacciochi , Louis Napoleon ' s intimate friend , has received a secret mission in Italy . .. . .. ; . $ On the 1 st inst . some more vessels , TCith . Rugsi # n prisoners arrived at Constantinople .. These , jn ^ n having been questioned on many points relating- < to the present condition of the Russian army ,, decl ^ rgd , without hesitation , that the losses and misforfcujaes sustained during the siege - of Silietria . had prpdu ^ ed such an effect , such , utter demoralisation ; in 4 h ^ ir ranks , that those divisions could no longer take fite field -without being remodelled , and drafted into otfaer
regiments . . , . ' , Captain Nolan , -whose name willbexemembeml as the author of an authoritative yet popular , treatise on " Cavalry , " has been appointed by jWdj ( Raglan to the responsible office of collecting horses in , T < urkey suitable for onr dragoons . Ckptain-Thprnpson < # tfae 10 th Hussars , the son of General Thompson , b . as been associated -with Captain Uoian in this work . ;' -
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CONTINENT At NOTES . dent livelif
i The Paris correspon ( always y , not always reliable ) of the Morning Advertiser , snyi \ ¦ ¦ " ¦ " A marriage took place here to-dajr which . has ezclted much sensation , inasmuch as the fair bride bas fiad aif'm ' any suitors as the fair Helen in the olden tiihe . 'Miss GoVBin , the daughter of that mast hospitable of American citizens , Francis Corbin , after having rejected the . offers of onertalf of the members of the Jlontard and Jo « key Clubs , has at last bestowed her hand and lieart and fortune on the yicowte de Dampierre . The marriage ceremony was attended Ujr a vast number of the noblesse of the Faubourg St . Germain , and by a small number of Yankees , whom Mr . Corbih . receives in his salons . " ,. . ... ' : ' The same writer , says : , , _
" The Emperor has at last succeeded . in converting J ? aris into a sea-port . Yesterday a large war steamer , the Galilee , of 120-horse power , belonging to the Imperial , navy ^ fibiimanded by Lieutenant de yai&seau' Lafond , arrived up Tatis , and anchored opposite tlib "fuiieries .. " Tn ! s vesselj TfKich has been constructed to work by the steam of water ' arid the vapour of chloroform combined , has come to Paris by order of the Minister of Marine , in oider to have some improvements made in' her machinery , which , - from their : special nature , can be better done in the capital than elsewhere , "! The Pope has sided vrith the Bishop . of 3 ? riburg against the Baden Govertunent ; and a etiais will now be forced on . . ; •" - ¦ : . ¦•
The great camp at Marseilles , delayed by apprehensions about cholera , viiich wad rife in the port , is to be formed immediately / General d'Hautpol is to command until the Emperor arrives , which will , be in about a fortnight . lie and the Empress left -Paris on Wednesday for the Pyrennees , where the Empress will pass the summer and autumn . , . ' The Leipsic fair has been a failure , in consequence of the war . ¦ ' ¦ .. ; . According to a letter from . Athens , "'the " purity " of the new Ministers , in suppressing- the sale . of public offices , &c ., in causing great discontentii n ¦ ¦ ,-. •' . !
" Would you believe it that this new system hot ctrily meets with no approval on the } mrt of the enwldj / VJ , hiii in many enscs is opposed as mnch as possible ? 1 give ? yott < ine case : —Perhaps of all brandies of administration the chutch ia the most corrupt , and there are only two bishopa "tfho have not paid for their places . Now , the Archbishopric of Corinth is vacant , and the Ministry wants to put in . a man known all over tho country for hia integrity and ; l ) onefl | ty , but tho Synod has the right of proposing three , naintsa . from which tho Minister of rubl ' ic instruction ha , s to cjio ' oise . They proposed three namos , the first two the ' great ' est ' acoundrels known for simony in the church of Greece , atiA an insignificant third man . Of course , if an honest man should get into tlie important position of Archbishop of Corinth , it would bo a death blow to tlio system of corruption iu'which every one ot tho bishops is more or less concerned . 1 > ¦
" ( Scarcely less curious tlian tho ways of tho phuroh ! of Greece were , and are still , the ways in which foreign flftaira are conducted . Tho Minister of Foreign Afikirs was indeed a " ministvc des ajfltirep-qui lid claicntctrahgirGs" , f *' king sent HU agents about j had lua . own correspondence with tho Alinistcra at tho foreign Courts , und was , in filed , jiis own Minister . ' ' " l ' " Thus , for instance , tlio Queen whenever she meots in public ono ot tho new Ministers , not only does not shluto him but turns away . They liavo not'yet boon invited to the palace , and tho ladies over whom tie ffiwido maitrtsstt has even tho slightest ) influence ) nro forbidden to grace with their picaenco the pnrtioa of tlio foreign Miniatord punposed to bo contrary to the ardent , wiuhoa oi the Court , nmlofclior such liku iibHurdities .
" All thouo childiah demonstrations would bo of httlo importance , ospcoially now . wlien it is too Hot either far catjng Rliniatorial dinncrB or for dimcing : but , nnfortunatoty , the animoaity of tho Court is not confined to thorn ; it carries tho spirit of nnnoynnco « nd vexation into all Sta deftlinga with tlie now Ministry . " Tho King of Portugal la on hia tour in Belgium und Gonnuny . Jl is said that ho proposed to LouiB Nupoluon to viwit him at Paris , and that tho If . nrpetfor wrote bnck that ho was B » > B to tho Pyronncen and could not wait ! A letter from Avignon saya : —
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Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2048/page/5/
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