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T ^ OTWITHSTANDING- war —its expenses , — _ L 1 the doubts about it , —distrust of the ministry —and with public feeling made up of political apathy or political timidity—England commercially continues to flourish . Trade is quiet , satisfactory , and . ; steady . Ease in the money-market is indicated by the late reduction of the Bank ' s rate of discount . The Board of Trade returns
show an amount and value of exports exceeding those of last half-year , which again exceeded those of any preceding half-year in English history . This is " prosperity ; " and the mercantile community—whichi is the preponderating community •—do not analyse this sort of " progress . " Socially they are unconscious of , and politically they lire indifferent to , any of the drawhacks which may be detected in this civilisation by trade .
As respects the "war , there is no reason why our community should pay any particular attention to it ; for the expenses of the war we find can be borne ; and it is assumed that the Avar is necessary ; while it is perceived that it is eventless . England and France are doing so little in aid of their ally or against the enemy , that it is not without cause that the unintiundated Czar is principally
occupied for the moment in organising battalions of fskaters to operate in the coming winter , and that the Sultan ' s best friends in . Constantinople are cursing the influence which induced their sovereign to solicit and to depend on European alliances . Sir Charles Napier has now for ten days ut least boon in possession of all the additional forces and means which ho demanded , and still
there is no news of his doing anything ; while rumours , to bo traced to his o > yn officers , are Hying about this country that ho is not the man for the occasion . At the other end of the theatre of wtoy ¦ Lord Raglan is quiescent , at or near Varha , and the expedition to the Crimea ' being . atill niero hopeless talk . In nil fcl 1 < i . o 5 p ' qsVo . * ior » 3 or non-operations of our generala
t ^ ndadinpii ^ ls , aa well «< = i in the conduct of the negotiatio *> B with Austria . ^ n ! d Prussia , the influence of ' age , ati <\ pf its pyer-paiienco and unnecessary wisdom ,,, jujvy ,, bo detected . Meanwhile Omar Pacha , relying'qntiroty on his own forces , is boating the Kuan's , tf $ ore lum wifyi sW * rapidity , And so effectually , tbat it j ^ fv / depends on the Emperor Of Austria ; ypjtojk ^ M * to pluco hiin - solfUt the head of hia pnutf whether or not the
Turks are to be tempted so far into the Principalities ( where they would suffer all those deficiencies of commissariat to which may be ascribed the Russian catastrophe ) as to imperil the future . Ihe heat lias been 10-i in the sliade , arid perhaps that at leaat may bring cautious lassitude to the Turks : ' also arresting all military movements whatever on any side for the moment . Our contemporaries still decline . to admit any connexion between the diplomatic intrigues or the political passions fomented and raised by the war and the revolution in . Spain . It would be
premature to pronounce positive judgment , ' one way or the other , until the drama is further developed : Espartero ' s entrance into Madrid , his appearance with the queen on the palace balcony , and the proclamation of a new ministry , being a mere tableau ; what he may decide on doingwhether to be a Cromwell or a Warwick—remaining doubtful . But it can at least not be contended that the ferment in Italy , here and there coining to a head in a popular and unsuccessful insurrection , may be traced to the hopes raised in lier many subjugated provinces by the
disaster , is , indeed , highly humorous . Nothing can be more convenient than to make it a crinu in Mr . Lawley , that he didn't refuse a good offer because he knew he didn ' t deserve to have it made to him—might not he , like Mr . Gladstone , have remembered that colonial governors are always incompetent , and unfit—that is , -at the outset ? It is denied that Mr . Lawley used his official knowledge as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in trafllcing in the funds ; and it is no crime iu a public man to be on the " turf , or , indeed , to be of a villanous private character ; for we have
danger of Austria , —whose position is , after all , a Hobson ' s choice . In Prussia , discontent at the true German tergiversation of the king is obviously increasing , to a point at which even Germans , the most enduring and Iea 3 t manly of mankind , begin to express opinions . The , King of Prussia is at Munich " conferring " with the crowd of other Gorman kings—all of whom think the young Emperor of Austria too " hasty . " We , in England , laugh at this Teuton tediousnesaj—bufc what is the , position of Europe , including that of England , but that of an armed ?« conference ?"
consented to give -way ! We sy mpathise with Mr . Lawley , as we did with Mr . Stbnpr , and as we may with Mr . Jeremiah Smith—¦ theser are the victims of a system who are here and there sacrificed to preserve and colour that system ; and the public anger -with Mr . Xiawley , -because he asked for a place iind took one as , soon , as he could get it , appears to . us . rather illogical . Mr . Gladstone ' s , expression of hope that Mr . Lawley will recommence a career , and not allow his mind to he crushed by this
had , and have , great statesmen and popular men , whose career outside the " House " , and their bureaux , has been the career of sharpers and debauchees . Wo cannot , therefore , see any fault to be charged against Mr . Lavrley ; and Mr . Gladstone answers Mr . JSright ' s point ,. thnt Mr . Lawlo > was brainless as a public mnn—by suggesting , " very true ; but docs the honourable ge , ntk > man forget that it is always the rule , to Jippoiut dull dogs and fifth-rate fellovs to the colonial governorships ? " Wfya ^ evcr . crirne there is in the transaction attaches itself to the
Government ; and , as we beliove , the conduct o the Government is such as would justify serious " on 4 « iry " -- takin ^ the' hist case with StonorV mud both" as "the te \ elnti ' ori of a system disgraceful to the Knglish people , wha mny see in the quiet arrangements of tliu Colonial-oflice , in regard tc appointments , how little they , their colonial fiillowsubjeots , or the Crown , have to do with what wo
In Parliament not a syllable has been said about the war . Parliament , indeed , - , eycn in dpinestic affairs , has been utterly unhistorical : but still in this , the penultimate , week of the session , has continued to he interesting' --for reasons not contemplated by its" loaders . -,. A more disastrous week for revelations of , the . infamy , of the aristocmtic . sysiehi of government cannot' be
ave pleased to call 6 ur self-government . . JKomovod from the ulmosphoro of smooth cant hi which the llouso of Commons , which is beooming strangely " courteous" for tho popular senate of . unrepresented puoplo ( condescended to canvnsa tho question , wo iu-o onnblcd tp nrrAvo ^ at cool , oven if uncordiul conclusions ; and the idea is forced upon us thai ; the DnUfi of Nowcnstle , Mr . Gladstone , and tl \ o colleagues of those genfc ] ejfaen , could not huvo ' bcen unaware of the oliivracW and
remembered ; Day after day has been occupied in the detection and tho defence of a job—tho corruption suggested pointing the mora \ of the Parliamentary attempt to provide , in a bribery bill , for tho purity of tho people . The Lawloy job is , of eowrse , the most conspicuous : < ita ( l tho oxposurcj in thnt case , hns been so complete , thftt tho aristocratic jobbers have been enabled to make , it a merit , as a proof of their lolly public vivbue ^ that they have
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MEWS OF THE WEEK- «« ^ S ^^^ rZ .:=. gj I ° * '"" T ' m \ i * ' TT ^ " ' T ¦ Sabbatrianism and Pish . . 73 «) I Tho Domestic Molocb 73 t A Clergyman a Experience of Parliament of the "Week 722 Miscellaneous ' .. ' ... .. 730 Society 740 Our Civilisation 72 ( 5 LITERATURE— THE ARTSTjje Windsor Barracks Affair .... . .. 72 S PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary .. 735 The Theatres at Home and Uiolera .. 723 Revival of the Press in France . 737 Abroad " 74 " > Notes on the War 72 S !¦ The Day after To-inorrov , 7 SI Recent Publications on Russia " ¦ ' * Spam . 723 The Militia Barracks Bill 731 and Turkev 737 — Movements in Italy .......... 729 The Gardens of Private life 732 Table Traits * ¦ ... " ¦ ......:.... ¦ ... 7 SS Births llarria ^ es and Deaths 74 <> Anti-Slavery Conference 729 The Spoma Manufacture for tho Lewell Pastures 739 r * ZllTl'Jr * , *! 1 ? I Tenant Right m Ireland 729 Army ..... .. . ... 733 A Batch of Books 740 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- ^ The Law of Musical . Copyright ... 729 j The Trade of Hull in Kanger .:. 733 Christian Records " ' !' . [; . '" . "' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . 740 Citv IntelHscnco , Markets Ad-CanadaElections 730 ' The Public Health ..... 733 * Books on our Table . 740 1 Vertisemehts , &e . 74-V 744
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VOL . V . No . 228 . ] SATUHDAY , AUGUST 5 , 185 ^ . [ Pkice Sixpence .
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'Theona I ,. lea which Iiistor-r exhibits as evermore dei-elopin s * itself into c ^ reater uistn . ctr . ess is the Idea of Hurrari' -v— the noble endeavour to throw djwn all tne barriers erected betvveen . men . by prejudice afid one-sideii viows and "by < = ettir > r > - -s dc the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one e > eat obi ^ ct—tile * free develonment of our spiritual nature . "—BumholdVs Cosmos . e . e « odj-ct me tree development
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2050/page/1/
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