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nu-. ftlU . KKaw the nation is requested by the X authorities to prostrate itself before the Almighty in prayerful acknowledgement of th « bountiful harvest . But the nation , though verj hypocritical , will do nothing of the kind ; only the 6 hurch-going classes , to whom the price of bread is not a vital social question , will join in thanksas they would join in anv other respectable
movement . The large classes indicated by the Census as not sensitive to the blessings of systematic piety will stay in their dirty homes , or lounge at filthy street-corners , enquiring as to how many " " souls " the cholera is killing daily , and logically surprised at the misappropriateness of the respectable classes in acknowledging gratitude for the cheapening of provisions at the very moment when the 4 lb . loaf
is somewhat going up . There will be , probably , this addition in appropriateness : news of Sevastopol is due , and if a battle be won , or the fortress taken , there will be bub little national humility . Until this news rings in all the capitals of Europe , diplomacy is suspended ; and as everything turns on the Crimea , we confess that we differ altogether from our daily contemporaries in regard to the Austrian Circular of the 14 th insfc ., which we cannot consider as of the slightest importance on events , though it suggests , what wo must all admit , the consummate tact of the Austrian diplomatists in
attempting to retain , at great hazards , the position of avbitratWe musters of tlio situation . The Ministerial journals insist that the circular demonstrates Austrian good faith— -as if history allowed us to bolicTO in such ft thing ; and the Times a-skfl , " How can you Liberals contend Umfc Austria is aiding Russia by occupying tlie Principalities , when you sco GcMicsral Ilcsa allowing Omar Pasha to push into Bessarabia ?"—the Tim en , perhaps , not knowing that Gonuml Hess i . s too uuti-Rusaimx to bo admired cither by the Au . slriiui
diplomacy or by the Austrian uriny , anil the Times not perceiving that the advance of tho Turks on Bessarabia means , in n political sense , even if true , just nothing . There still arc RuRoian disasters in . Asia ^ tho Russians aro on the defensive against both Turks nnd Sohnmyl ; and that change m their gnme j a fatal to them in a . part of the world where little depends on resources and everything on prestige . There ia a mystery about too Baltic allied fleets—something wrong ; but it
would be unjust to charge failure against Napier —he is a blundering man , but a good sailor , and if his ships could have done anything he would have given them the chance . The firm neutrality of the ^ Northern Powers deranged his calculations , no doubt ; and the English public should inquire if we have not lost Sweden and Denmark because our Government declined to give those countries permanent guarantees against Russia- What was the use of sending out a bold admiral if our Government was timid ?
The Crimea expedition has inspired the country with confidence in the Government ; but , as we have suggested all along , the difficulties of the cabinet commence after Sevastopol . The Sheffield meeting on Monday was a failure , because it was anti-ministerial- —there being really no anti-ministerial ground whatever to take as yet . But Sheffield might try ngain ; when the perplexity comes to be realised , there will be plenty of meetings : the cabinet itself will probably split onthe Austrian alliance , and then Whigs and Peelitcs will be
apand those of the Ministers who go north , are caught by Scotch corporations and enslaved into having the " freedom" of various cities ( which natives leave with great alacrity ) , inflicted on them . Sir William Molcsworth is undergoing this operation at Edinburgh : and will seize the occasion to point out how , in his person , Radicalism has advancedforgetting that he is a wealthy baronet , and overloooking the letters of Liberal electors of Frome . The Perry ease ( we hope ex-I-ieutenant Perry is now behaving morally , so as to be woith the
fund that is being raised in his honour ) has been balanced by a case , at Gosport , in which a prostitute , the associate of dashing officers , drinks and fights herself to death on board an H . M . S . Society is again indignant : Lieut . Knight is regarded as a blackguardly young man , deserving transportation ; and the press is horrified to find that the " officers " of the navy are just as indifferent " gentlemen" the officers of the army—the press , in its virtuous
indignation , not observing that Lieut . Knight is a Marine , and in that respect a fit address for their virtuous homilies . VVe have elsewhere suggested the affectations of this " public disgust ; " we may remark , in addition , that public despair of officers might be suppressed while the country has sent our armies and navies to defend civilisation ; and it will not be out of place to hint that journalists arc not professionally bound to cant .
pealing against one another to those sections of the country which are in their confidence . Meanwhile the country is intent for news of the war , — is not in the least analysing the politics of the war . The agricultural interest has been having its meetings , to talk good crops and bad English : not a word anywhere about the Austrian alliance ; so that Mr . Disraeli , finding that the time had not yet arrived to give any cue in public affairs , has missed , for the first time for five years , the annual BuL-ka Farmers' Dinner . Two Liberals
1 ' roin America we get a new story about Cuba , We get facts about Canada . There is a Ministerial crisis of a strange fashion . The chief minister is ousted and his policy is retained ; nay , some of his colleagues form part of his new Ministry , under his old antagonist Alan M'Nab : as 5 f Lord Derby , having defeated Lord John Russell in the late Ministry , hud walked to tin-Treasury with some of Lord John's colleagues and adopted the Cabinet programme of the Whigs in block . The principal measures of the Into Government nre : the secularisation of the Clorgy reserves ; the act of the I mporiul Parliament , substituting election for nomination , in the appointment of the Legislative Council of tipper Canada | the tion Iroin sci
have been out , but have talked abjectly vial a propos . Mr . Hume has made a speech , in which ho seems to take for granted that " wo are all Reformers now , " that the business of Radicalism has been done in his time ( and , indeed , in one sense that is true ) , and so on , in Mr . Hume ' way ; whilo Mr . Frederick Peel , invited to a public ball , and requested to speak before dancing begun , lectured young ladies nnd gentlemen of Bury on—Lord John's lust Reform Bill . Can " public opinion "
emancipa gneurinl rights in Lowcji Canada ; and the authority for carrying out the Elgin treaty , establishing reciprocity of commercial intercourse with the United Stfttua . These were the Hindis' measures , those aro tho M'Nub measures , and why , then , hua Mr . I linden boon excluded from thu load of " majority oloctod to support his Ministry , ho being in ho csloomcd that leading men in tho colonial I ' urlimnoHt hIici ! teara on his resignation V The story if , that Mi \ , Jlindcs had promoted tho development of u Canadian railway nyHtein by tho hol p of London directors und London contractors , while tho I ' m'lijunont men in tho colony wished tor local contracts , louul conaidorationf ) for claims to diversions in tho course ) of tho rnihvnyn . A grudge nmwnist thu chief
Minisbo gathered from these- imbecilities ? And thorn is nothing else going on . There in , to be sure , tin election fur Froino impending : Liberal electors writing to London papers to groan over the dictation of tho ISnrl of Cork , und wondering that no public spirited Reformers will go down and contuMt ; tho borough . Is everybody out of town ? Not a . briefless banister left to advertise his » entimenl »? " Our Ministers aro all in deep retirement —oven Lord Aberdeen lms left town ;
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VOL . V . No . 236 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBBE 30 , 1854 . [ Price . Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- tvoe Keform at Oxford QH English News from Russia 921 LITERATUREm „ ' , „ , , .. Open-Air Preaching—with a Dif- A Staff tor Old Ago ' . ' 921 Slimmm aaa K « 5 £ ™ = L-: ~ : 851 ^ & : rr .::: r .:::: r .::::::::: SB JS ^ SSSSS ^ Sf ^ : Si f ^ ssssassata - Continental K Notes .. 914 , Political Movements in Ireland 919 Lord Dernnn . il 921 The French " inAl ^ ria mu | SS » . p .::.. ; ::::::::::::::::::::: Hi p £ SS $$ ^ ™ ° ^ S ! IfeSKKS :::::::::::::::::: SS fffiSSSSZi-isis ; - SS ^ gSSftissa-:::::: lit atSSK'iSSf . ^!^ SS ? SKiX MtaT ° ' PI ^ II'SSFt ^ P Registration of Voters 911 Assaults on Women 920 ' ' . J ' Contract of Colours and their War to the Ministry 915 The Sabbath at Dover I .......... 920 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Application to the Arts 931 Officer and Gentleman A&ain 917 A National Party via the Coali- After Sobastoppl-What ? 923 . Baton of Books 932 The St . George ' s Hall Failure at tion 920 Tho Thanksgiving—and How it . Liverpool ..... ..... . 918 Oar Civilisation .... 920 Should Be . , 925 Births , Marriages , and . Deaths ... 933 Mr . Hume and Mr . F . P « el m the XJItra-Protestantisin . in Ireland 920 Denmark Friend or Foe 9 ii _ ¦ Provinces ...... 918 Elections 920 Emigrate Still . . P 24 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS—81 ™ » llia ™ MoleSwPrth and the An American liitliculty 921 Good Stabling ..... ! ...... L ^ . S . 925 City Xntelligeuce , Markets , Ad-^ ofEl 1 918 Monboddo Refuted 921 Gentlemen and Officers 925 vertisements , &c . „ .. 933-936
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw dpwn all the barriers erected between men b y prejudice and one-aided views ; and T > y settiiu ? a ™ etoedutoS
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 30, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2058/page/1/
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