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VOL . V . No . 229 . 1 SATURDAY , AUGUST 12 , 1854 . [ Price Sixpence .
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N '" V 5 OF THE WEEK— pvoe Bevevlcy Election 752 The President of the Board of , PORTFOLIOThe Suspended Boroughs <* lai Health 756 < . ~ , , _ . . IV . issian Possessions in America ... 746 Robert Owen ' s Petition 752 British Progress in India 737 A Clergyman s Experience of Parliament of the Week 740 A Tory View of the Period ....... 752 Austria—For and Against 757 society , 7 « a Testimonial to Mr . Hume 749 An M . P . ' s View of Parties hi the Moral of the Hiune Portrait ... 753 ^ . . , „_ . Our Civilisation .. 740 House of Commons ; ... 753 , . __ .. _ ,.. _ ihc . akij >—¦ Notes on the . War ..... 750 The Windsor Barracks Atl'air ... 753 LITERATURE- The Opera 766 Continental Notes 751 The Court 753 Summary .., 759 Italy 751 Miscellaneous 753 Russia and Turkey 760 * * & * i ^ -: r ^~ z =. lll PUB uc affa . rS- ' ¦ - ¦ m £ S ? U £ . ^* s =- ¦? & > Births - ^ «¦ «* Deaths - Esyp't 751 Fifty Years in both HemiSr ^ AMiuicD (> iai arcusc Closing of-Public-houaes on Sun- The New Elections 75 A pheres ..: 7 G 2 1 COMMERCIAL AFFAJRSday .. ^ .- 751 [ Results of the Session 754 - Diary and Letters of Madame j City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Tlioeholera ...... 751 I The Spirit Of the Army ............ 755 D'Arblay 764 i vertiscments , &c 766-768
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore d-: \ . 'e ! onins ; i ' self into areater distinctness is the Icon of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all th 3 barriers erected bet . voca mo . i by lu-ejudice and one-sided vicv / s ; and by seating aside Uie distiuctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Hatniu race as one brotherhood , having one great ' object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Hitmboldt ' s Cosmos-.
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"B 7 VENTS are leading well up to give eclat to A . ' J the Queen ' s speech in proroguing Parliament to-day-: Ministers managing admirably so as to part with us under good . appearances . Her Majesty -will be enabled to state that the Turks have driven the Russians out of the Principalities ; and Lord Clarendon has already stated that our Cabinet relies on the good faith of Austria , who is declared to be as averse as we are to the
esta-Militia is to be embodied . On the other hand , France accepts war as a permanent social condition . It has been said that France with the consent of the English Government , has entered into a separate treaty with Austria , guaranteeing her , in the event of her joining the Western Powers in active war , the possession of L&mbardy against Italian patriots : — -will English Liberals approve of that ? Lord Clarendon says that Austria can only be expected to adopt a policy suitable to her interests ; and how can English . Ministers seek an Austrian alliance , knowing what Austrian interests mean ? Prussia has
biislunent of the status quo ante bellum . Tins looks like a happy state of things ; and the prospect is even plcasauter , for we now daily expect to hear of coincident grand couj > s in the Black Sea and in the Baltic . But some doubt and hesitation may still be entertained . Russia has withdrawn the olFence for which we went to war with her : for what , therefore , are we going to bombard 13 omarsund and Sebastopol ? The English nation will not find fault with our admirals for beincr illo £ rical
similar rights of choice of friends ; and it is not honourable to us that the King and his Ministers ground their reluctance to join the Western Powers on the " proverbial faithlessness and instability " of England . Success , or apparent success , in war and foreign policy , compensates Ministers for their not victorious aspect in Parliament . The public' comprehends mid condemns such cases as that of Lawley and O'Flnherty ; and the impression- is
in their operations ; but it will be rathor illogical to destroy Russian fortresses before we have considered our object in those proceedings . We aro now at war with Russia : what for ? That is a question , which Austria , master of the situation in consequence of our felicitous negotiations , will now be entitled to put to France and England ;—whence the probability that new negotiations will now begin , and the possibility that at whatever nominal sacrifice Russia may arrest the war . Considering that Lord Clarendon , on his
unfavourable , not only to the political . pretensions , but to the personal character , of Ministers . The public likewise appreciate the influences which have elevated an ignorant and incompetent man into the office of Minister of Health . The folly of the Bribery Bill—a bill to purify a general election , and limited to one question—is perceived , tlio more clearly that the Lords , who can rely on intimidation , liave insisted on improving the measure in stringency : the silliness and false pretences of the [ Russian Securities Bill were
ascorthe slave-trade , in connexion with Cuba ; his lordship hinting to Espartero that now that Christina is down the traffic ought to be stopped ; Sir Joshua -Walmsiey , ¦ a Long Parliament , sort of member , commenting pithily : — " If the Spaniards don't stop the trade ,-let . us make fheaystop it !" The remainder of the parliamentary news affects bills hurried through , or hastily dropped , because of " this late pei'iod of the session ;" . and even an India Budget did not collect a House of more than fifteen members . It is considered ridiculous
and preposterous for a senate to sit more than six months ; " popular members" are even as eager as Ministers to get into the recess when the people cease , except through an unrecognised press , to have any control over the governing classes . Spanish affairs have merely passed out of one state of unsettlement into another state of unsettlement . Espartero , an amiable man , with his common sense modified by a papaish soi't of feeling towards the unhappy young Queen , is endeavouring , in the weak benevolence of age , to make a mild revolution , and , very naturally , he is breaking down . O'Doimell continues the man of
the crisis , seeking to coerce Espartero into severe measures in relation to those who have sinned so seriously against the nation—prominently against Queen Christina , who ought to be tried and punished . Espartero hesitates : as n , constitutional ad mirer of rosc-wnter regimes , ho thinks everything ought to bo left to the Cortes—whom O'Donnell has a masculine tendency to do without altogether ; and the result will probably be that Narvacz will come in , after more bloodshed—Queen Isabella ' s chances disappearing with Eapartcro . What then ?
own confession , made such a complete miscalculation as to Russian movements on the Danube , ought we now to trust his opinion of Austria V The omission in his otherwise rather confiding and singularly simple speech of nil reference to Prussia will bo noticed ; what that indicator is very evident . Throughout the Foreign Secretary ' s soliloquizing answer to Lord Clunricarde , there id no trace of the idea having as yet occurred to him or his colleagues , that tho difficulty liaa begun
tivined before the weighty opinion of tho Chief Justice was tendered to the Lords that tho law would not be worth the paper it wns written on . Nevertheless , there is one parliamentary incident of tho week which has given satisfaction . Sir Charles Wood ' s statement of the affairs of India indicated how considerably the public opinion oi justice-loving Englishmen—nnd on this point " party so slightly inlluonccs , that Lord Stanley
The American news supplies one event . Loi'd Grey appears to have cursed every place ho touched , and ho touched every placo ho could ; Grey town ( named after him ) , in tho u Mosquito territory , " bus been bombarded and reduced to fiplintors by a Yankee inun-of-war captain , who lost his temper with tho ludicrous authorities of that locality . The act was infamous , nnd more stupid
with tlio Russian evacuation of the disputed territory . ^ It may bo that tho Russinn notification to Austria baa taken our Ministers by aurprisc ; but IVoiu all wo havo xocuntly heard , wo have inferred that tho Cabinet has boon calculating on a long war . Mr . Gladatone has declined in a marked manner to proffer his ready-money maxim about war finance as applicable to next year ; nnd it is notowous that so von or eight more regiments aro hams got ready for tho East , ami that tho
and Mr . Bright work together—has forced Cannon-street ami Loadenhnll-street into generoua BtatcHinaiialiip . Evidently " Young India" was njjrecably mirprised by tho tone Sir C . Wood UHsuincd ; imU , in their startle . 1 sat ' iHfaction , they rn'i ' u perhaps too complimentary , mud made too few conditions ; for this party is beginning to hoc that , ( is a party , it in in its power to compel good government of India . Another cloar and comforting Ministerial statement was Lord John ' s on
than infamous ; but United States journalism relievos us in Knglnml iroin tho duly of protestthey havo ncnrly all denounced lli « * 1 "H atrocity . Tlu < American nows nlno mippliud nn oxciting rumour , that , tho C / . nr has olll-rod to soil to the Federal Government all his American territories throwing in a little wlnnd by way of what some Americana oall " a bittodc . " In America , where tho people have somothing
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 12, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2051/page/1/
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