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WAR , victorious or otherwise— " tightness" in ttLe City , crash at Liverpool , money apprehensions throughout—diplomacy , intrigue , and retribution for political subserviency in Germany —Popish plots in the Cabinet and amongst the licensed victuallers - —Eglinton insurrection for Scottish rights in Scotland—rdisclosures amongst officers , and , under cover of those disclosures , outrageous libels on gentlemen in uniformenough in one "week of exciting realities " , and overexriting fictions . In the first engagement with tht Russians the allies have conquered , and the
victory is rendered more glorious by the obstinate resistance which they encountered . The armies first met on the high grounds by the Alma river , about half-way between the place of landing and Sevastopol , probably somewhat to the left , towards Baktschi- Serai , They met about mid-day . The enemy stood above their assailants ; the French and English , however , emulated each other in the precipitancy of the assault , and the entrenched camp was carried at the point of the bayonet . The battle lasted four hours , and in the course of it the loss in killed and wounded is estimated at nearly 10 , 000 , somewhat differently
distributed—about 1400 , 6 r more , to the Englisli ; the same number , or less , to the French ; and about 6000 to the Russians . From this point the Russians retreated , but in what direction does not precisely appear ; nor is the course taken by the Allied forces indicated with clearness . There have been reports of a decisive battle on the 22 nd of September , but those reports were followed by others—that Fort Consttvntine had been invested on the 24 th , and that Scbfistopol itself was in possession of the Allies on the 25 th . Now the authenticated intelligence down to the 28 th shows that these last
events had not yet taken place ; and although it is probable that encounters had occurx'cd between the armies , wo have no report of i \ regular engagement after the 20 th . The story was , that MenschikoiT was entrapped in the hurbour of Scbiistopol , and was there threatening to blow up his ileot , whereas he is at the head of an army in the field , expecting to ho reinforced by tho garrison of Anapa—a place which the Russians themselves had blown up before leaving it . Tho true act in
advance on tho part of the Allies , which is last stated , is their taking possession of Balakluvm : this gives them a commanding position , aud wiU enable them to pursue the war with full support from tho fleet and ita resources . Here , then , we leave them , landing their heavy artillery , amd awaiting reinforcements , but still proceeding with energy to prepare the groat path by which they intend to arrive at victory . Practically , they arc about to receive still greater enforcements from Austria ; for evidently
negotiations are proceeding which , if they are successful , would terminate in a , new alliance between that Power and the Austrian Government —a cotirse of more active aggression on the part of Austria with newly defined objects , and probably -with a distinct plan Of attack upon the great outlaw . Meanwhile the young Emperor Francis Joseph has so far committed himself as to congratulate Napoleon on-the successes of the Allies m the Crimea I
Whale the great archetype of Russia , Menschikoff , is still persevering in a desperate resistance by which he may inflict mischief on the allies , although he cannot hope to save the Crimea , the left-handed Minister of Russia , King Frederick William , carries on his meddling , pettifogging intrigues by the help of diplomacy . He has three irons in the fire , and seems likely to burn his fingers with them all . One is to represent Austria , before the German Courts , as involved with the Allies in some intrigues dangerous to German interests . In a note addressed to the German Courts , replying to that of Count Buol ,
Baron . Manteuffel pours forth a mass of darklyhinting circumlocutions , calculated to excite fears that Austria intends to possess the Principalities ; thattbe Allies will take possession of the Danube ; that tho navigation of that river—so beautifully protected by Russia !— will henceforth be denied to Germany ; that Austria , in fact , is quite alienated from the Diet—a dangerous stranger who ought to be excluded from the federation . That is his first iron . His second consists in an attempt to bring the German Courts into his own course , and he manages it thus . He points out that the present time is inconvenient for tho interference of
his subjects , have been drawing a profit by helping Russian merchants to trade with England through Prussian neutrality . It was not a real Prussian trade , but Prussia only became the pipe through which the enemy was able to evade the blockade in the Baltic by England and France . The inconvenience of being frustrated in a blockade is evident , and it is probable that this consideration , amongst others , has expedited the peremptory summons which Prussia seems iohaye received .
There is a report that the Schleswig-Holstein treaty—the London treaty settling the relations of the Duchies subject to Germany—is now to undergo revision . It was a bad treaty , -violating the distinct rights of the Duchies , favourable to the Danish Crown and to Russia , inconsistent with English . constitutional principles which the people of the Duchies had been sustaining in . the . field , And discreditable to the Minister who took the most active part in it—Lord Palmerston . We lenow nothing about the truth of the report , but we do know that at the present moment the
Danish Court is endeavouring to carry out one main purpose of that treaty in suppressing erery relic of constitutional government in Denmark , as well as in the Duchies ; that the King is doing so , - \ ve may say , in the presence of the English fleet ; and that lie is doing so in the teeth of English interests—for he is daily making himself more and more identified with our great enemy , Russia , in policy , sympathy , and action . It would be poor work to put tho screw upon Prussia , and to let the paltry Danish Court bo free in its despotic combinations against liberty and tho West .
Germany , and that as Russia has refused tho four conditions , and tho Western Powers confess them to be not sufficient for peace , Germany can pronounce no decision upon them ; but ho proposes to go on " mediating , " and we all know what mediating means . Uis second iron , therefore , consists in tho attempt to inveigle Germany to follow the Prussian lend ; and if tho sheep can follow the wily wolf now , thoy arc likely enough to find the wily wolf at their head when the whole affair is over , should Russia be victorious . His third iron lies in tho said mediation , which evidently he perseveres iu urging upon tho Western Powers .
The tumult in the City arises from manifold causes ; but we believe the great money-centre to be like a stormy sea , —rough on the surface , substantially untroubled below . Tho trouble bogins with America ; and . unlike the report , that some quarrol was brewing between the United States and this country on account of the sale of Sitka to tho Russian Government—a stupid story without foundation—the report of tho drought has so much foundation in fact , that lack of rain in some cases sufficiently damaged the crop , and there will bo an abstraction from that resource . Some probable diminution of tho cotton
Luckily ho has had his rebuff . King Frederick William has boon told that his proposals of mediation will not bo listened to , and clearly ho now knows that if ho does not join tho Western alliance ) he must bo perfectly quiescent axnd noniuterforing , or bo treated as an enemy . Tliis . now attack upon Prussia was auooinx > anio ( l , or rather preceded , by another agitation amongst commercial men and politicians whoso attention is chiefly dovotod to commerce , on tho subject of Prussian neutrality and the transit trade . King Frederick William , his exchequer , and some of
crop , with a crash following over-speculation in railways , renders some Americans unable to moot their engagements } houses in LivorpooUind themselves unable to meet thcira ; Iiousos in London have Liverpool bills returned ; l . ! io general " tightness" of the money-markot is n ^ ruvatod ; and just at that moment cornea , or does not come , until four o ' clock in tho afternoon , of Ihursdav , tho statement Unit Sevastopol hm not been token . Tho City is wild in donunoiation against tho Government clerks , who kept back tho new , — dark ia suggestions uh to tho motives for the delay ; aud' in the murmur of indignation that resounds upon Cornhill may bo discerned Bnoor-
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity th-e noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views : and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—HumboldFs Cosmos . *
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- ' tags Tory Policy next Session 942 What is the Matter in the City ? 947 The Census - . 953 The War 938 Russian and Finnish Prisoners . 942 Scottish Rights 947 Penn ' s Compendium ' ... ' 953 Continental Notes 940 The English Prisoners in Russia 943 The Last Card 918 Books on our Table 953 India and China 940 Australia 943 Mr . Hume at Aberdeen 940 £ , T - , m' l"i 944 OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSThe "Public Meeting" in Madrid . 940 The Irish Tenant League 941 «» iLi ' QIQ PhotocranhiV Viows in Rome Mr . Cobden and tho " Crumpling Mr . John Macgregor at Glasgow 944 Baud 949 JPhptoerapluc Mews in K © me Up" of Russia ..... 940 Postscript 944 TheK ^ UivaY" IU The * Public Health 940 ¦ _ , _ flcealDC LITERATURE- The Kings Rival 954 Our Civilisation . 941 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary .. 949 — Kfimark ^ ble Cases . 941 The Campaign in th-e Crimea— Oldham and his Poetry .......... 949 * .. « ¦ '„ . , The Dauntless Affair . 941 What it Leads To 945 School Experiences 951 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 955 The Dutee of Cleveland and Colonel Cutting of the Austrian Knot ... 945 The Countess of St . Alban . ' . ' . ' . ;"" 952 ^« rrc , ^ . « . «•?* ., < , » ¦ . S 5 S ^ - - 4 B-V" -- ; Y-V-iJs--1 " 9 i 2 War as a Sanitary Exercise = - 945 Pictures and Dift " ....:.: 952 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-. &r William Molesworth at Edm- Investment of Sebastopol , Com- History of the Chartist Move- City intelligence ^ Markets , Adbux - - • •• S 42 meraally . ., 946 ment 953 vertisements , &c 95 S-90 O
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VOIi . V . No . 237 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7 , 1854 . [ Price Sixpence ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2059/page/1/
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