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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WAR . Map of Sebastqpol . —Mr . Wyld , of Charing-cross , has just published a very careful map of Sebastopol and the surrounding country , on which tlie position of the allied army may be easily and accurately traced . The Battle of the Alma . —A lithograph drawing of the battle of the Alma has been produced by Messrs . Maclure , Macdonald , and MacGregor , of Walbrook .
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THE FALSE REPORT OF THE CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL . The source from whence the false report first origina ted has been discovered . It was at first suspected that some unprincipled speculators in Bucharest and Vienna had fabricated the news ; but the following passage in a letter of the 25 th , received by the Ost Deutsche Post from Constantinople , clears up the mystery : — •*¦ ' At sunset a report spread with the rapidity of lightning through the city that a steamer had jiist brought the news of the taking of Sebastopol by the Allies . It has , however , been discovered that the author of this ' little joke' is M . So ; nm ! iriva , the correspondent of L'Impartial de Sniyrne The effects of this silly falsehood were , however , tremendo-us . "
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THE PRIME MINISTER AT ABERDEEN . Oit Monday last the citizens of Aberdeen were enabled to obtain the Prime Minister ' s presence at wihat is called the inauguration of his own picture in the Town-hall * An address was presented , highly eulogistic of Lord Aberdeen ' s services to his nation and country , and expressing great confidence in his ability , liberality , and spotless integrityas a Minister ] paying " a hearty tribute of approval to his policy at home and abroad , while placed in the most trying ' circtunstarices , and harra . ssed . by- - the attacks of
unscrupulous opponents , " declaring , that with those attacks his countrymen had no sympathy , arid . concurring in the sentiment of another great statesman , that the highest eulogy of a British Minister is his haying been actuated by the love of peace ; they appreciated his lordships's ceaseless efforts to avert from this great empire the horrors of war , while preserving its honour untarnished ; and they did justice to the unparalleled promptitude and vigour with which , after war became inevitable , our great armaments , both by sea and land , were despatched to tlieir respective fields of action .
JLord Aberdeen , while expressing 3 iis pleasure at his cordial reception , declared that the address was couched in terms above his deserts , for , said he , " Although I yield to none of my predecessors in office , and shall yield to none who may follow me , in the earnest desire and honest wish to promote the welfare and prosperity of this country , still , when I consider the means which are necessary to give effect practically to this desire , I cannot but speak with feelings of deep humility . You have been pleased in this address to Tefer to the portrait which I now see before me , and -which you have done me the . honour to place on these walls . My Lord Provost , if I refer with feelings of
some pride to the fact that your vote was passed and the ¦ work executed at a time when I held no political office , still it is with equally gratifying feelings that I find my conduct in , office haa not been , such as to diminish , those friendly feelings which induced you to confer this distinction upon mo . Gentlemen , I greatly value this address ; and good reason is there that I should do so . First , it is preaentedl to me in the locality whore I am best known , and you are aware that this is a test which it has always been considered somewhat difficult to meet ; but especially I value it as coming from a body of men who have every claim to my greatest respect and honour . "
He then referred to the advance made by the city of Aberdeen , not " by royal favour , or the special protection of any Government , but "b y the inclustr-y intelligence , and integrity of its citizens . " When he was last in that hall it vrns on the occasion of tho freedom of the city being conferred on Sir Robert Peel . Then , said Lord Aberdeen , ' * I well remember , on that occasion , the unanimous and tho enthusiastic feeling with which you conferred on him tho honour of your freedom . Since that time it has pleased her Majesty to place mo in tho position which ho occupied for several yoara , to hia OAvn . immortal honour and with incalculable advantage to hia country . I am need not
sure I say how utterly hopolcss and vain it would be in mo woro I to presume to expect to establish tho same claims to public gratitude us ho has done , or to carry into ofloct such measures as ho siccompiishod ; but at tho same time I may Ibo permitted humbly to hope that tho recollection of his example and of his friendship may not altogether bo without its fruits . Gentlemen , when it pleased her Majesty to place » ne in tho situation in which I now hnvo tho honour td stand , I thought it my duty , briefly and gonornlly , but explicitly , to doclaro tho principles on which tho Government , at tho head of which I wna placed , would bo carried on . I have aeon no reason to ewervo from -these- principles or from that declaration . On tho contrary , it ia to these
principles that I desire to adhere . No doubt our first great object naturally was to maintain and to extend the financial and commercial system of my late lamented friend , which at that time had been recently established ; but , gentlemen , that has now become superfluous work . There is no occasion now for any one to constitute himself a champion or defender of the commercial system of Sir Robert Peel , for , at least in this country , that system has been universally adopted . Even by his enemies it is avowedly and professedly adopted , or at least silently acquiesced in . I declared , too , that the main principles on which the measures of the Government would rest were the principles of Conservative progress . Now it has been attempted to cast doubt on the meaning of these terms , and it has been pretended that they are vague , and not easilv intelligible . Now , what I mean
by that expression is this , that while the great institutions of the country , and the fundamental principles of the constitution shall be religiously preserved , I would nevertheless fearlessly carry the hand of reform into every department of the State . I am satisfied it is only on these principles that any Government can long exist in this country or deserve the support of the people . We have endeavoured to act on these principles to a considerable extent , and I may look back with satisfaction to measures which have been carried for the advantage of the public at large , and which appear to me to merit the approbation of the country . Even in the last session of Parliament , although from circumstances of a peculiar nature it was not possible to give full development to the projects of her Majesty ' s Government , nevertheless various measures were carried— -commercial ,.. fiscal , and legal , —all of which were fraught with advantage to the general public , and , in ordhiary . tim . es , would have been considered : to furnish materials for public thanks , and occupation sufficient for a session of Parliament . " He then referred to the question of the war . • " It is true , also , that , on that occasion , I felt it my duty to declare that the policy ofjthe Government was a policy of peace . I believe it will be admitted that to that policy we have endeavoured to adhere . Nay , more , I am featisfied that the great and universal support-we now meet with throughout the country in the war in which we are engaged , is due to the belief that -we sincerely did our utmost to avoid the calamities of war . The moment it became necessary to declare -war , I then , although I can truly say that I clung to the hope of peace with an almost desperate tenacity- —still , when war
became inevitable , I declared that , so far as I was concerned , it should be carried on with the utmost vigour and energy of which the Government was capable . Gentlemen , perhaps the moment is not inopportune to ask whether that pledge has been fulfilled ? If , gentleman , you will only consider what has been done in the course of six short months , I think you will admit that this country never made an exertion at all comparable with that which she has just made . An army has been collected , arid transported from the shoves of this country , such as never left them in preceding history—an army such as the Duke of AVellington never commanded , and appointed in all its parts in a manner which , humanly speaking , is calculated to insure its ' success . Gentlemen , conceive what the extent of preparation must have been when you are told that not less then 700 vessels were engaged in tho same operation . The difficulties connected with it and tho time required indispensably for such an undertaking muBt strike every man of common candour ; and yet wo hear people talk of delay , as if there had been delay ! I will venture to say that such an effort as has now been made was never "before in the history of the world made in so short a time , " On the recent events in the Crimea , he observed : " Our army has cone forth and has achieved its first
great victory in conjunction with our gallant allies , our strict concord and union with whom have been fully established from tho vcTy first moment , and which hold out tho moat encouraging prospects to all Europe . Wo know not tho details of this evont , but they appear to mo to be most important , and , I trust , decisive ; for , although by tho natural impatience of tho public , in which I mysolf partook , wo -wore led to boliovo tho reports from different quarters of tho consequences—tho immediate consequences of this victory , which are now found not to bo confirmed—still lot us vonturo to hope that what has boon reported without foundation may in a short time become reality . At tho vory moment in which I am now addressing you tlioro ia no reason not to hope that that ovont , -which in tho courac of laat week waa orronoonsly reported , has now become a fact . I have said that tho war would bo continued with the utmost vigour and enargy of which tho country waa cnpablo , but in thia 1 do not abandon a paGiiio policy . I boliovo that , to carry on the war in thia manner nilbrda the boat prospect of arriving at ain early and a tsutisfactory conclusion . I believe that pence , altliough sought by different moana , in Hought a » afloctunlly , under present circuinetnncQH , by thia courno , aa it would bo by written nOlTOtidtioilH . Or ( llriinlvtflf tf > rlLmmuinnu T it * nwi *\ l iuf « i * -irf %
neutrals , and we have by our example put an end to privateering , a most dreadful relic of a barbarous age , and which the world will now probably never see revived . I say , then , that they have endeavoured to miti gate the horrors of war even while carrying it on with the utmost vigour , and , in so carrying it on , I repeat , that I , for one , shall never lose sight of the only legitimate object of all war , that of arriving at a stable , just , and honourable peace . Now , gentlemen , I -will say that war , when it ceases to be a necessity , becomes a crime . I should consider any one who had prolonged the horrors of wa r for a single day , when it was in his power to make a just , safe , and honourable peace , would be greatly guilty in the eyes of God and man . "
that , in carrying on tho war with thia vigour and thta energy , wo luivo novorthclona do » o Homething to doprivo war of it « horrorn , to hmnanlHo ittt operut . ions , and to mitigate thoao atrooitios with which it . is inevitably accompanied . At tho rials and at tho snorifieo of woino belligerent rights wo huvo admitted the- commerce of
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EARL GRANVIIXE IN STAFFORDSHIRE . The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has been patronising our constitutional forces . He was at a , review of the Staffordshire Yeomanry a few days ago , and dined with the officers . He responded to the toast of " Her ftlajesty ' a Ministers / ' and discoursed of the war , saying : — " There is one feeling which I entertain stronglythat if her Majesty ' s Ministers could reproach themselves with the loss of those precious lives which have been sacrificed in the Crimea , by the reflection that they had in the slightest way let . slip any opportunity of maintaining peace , I believe if they could have forgiven themselves the country never would have forgiven them . I believe that peace being no longer possible , they acted in unison with the opinion of all political parties in this country when they felt that the war must be
vigorously carried on , not only for the maintenance of the honour of this country—not merely for the settlement of the present question , but with the hope of maintaining peace for many years to cpme . I believe I may say that the finest army has gone to the East which waa ever sent to a foreign country . Lord Raglan has under his command 102 guns of very heavy calibre . When you compare these with the six guns which Wellington was able to collect in battle array , it does show that at all events we have not fallen into that great error which , characterised the Government of that day , when the greatest commander , which this country ever knew was in cotmnand . I am almost afraid to state the great amount of ammunition which has been sent out ,. If I were to state it to you it would almost sound like the tale of Baron Munchausen . I may , however , say that if it is all used it will actually wear out those 102 guns to which I have referred . "
Government did not underrates the difficulties connected with the expedition to Sebastopol , but they believed it would be successful ; and the victory already gained presaged something more . He went on : — " Certainly it is not for me , nor any one else , to boast of success until it has been achieved . If we should not be successful in tlie attempt , I believe that Government would ill understand tho principal characteristic of Englishmen should they be easily discouraged by any temporary defeat . If , on the other hand , we should be successful , I believe the Government will act only in accordance with the public feeling of the country , by showing that we must not rest on our oars , but that we must redouble our efforts to gain tho victory ; and I cannot help feeling
that though it would bo highly criminal in any Government to be carried away hy the excitement of military gloiy , of which , God knows , wo have had enough in this country , and to refuse to make a peace when that peace could be made perfectly consistent with the honour , dignity , and interests of this country , and with the interests of Europe and the cause of justice and humanity , yet on the other hand I do feel that if the horrors of war are unnecessarily prolonged by tho enemy—if those terrible sacrifices of treasure which , oven according to tho resources of thia country , arc considerable , are rendered necessary , and if precious lives , both of our own soldiers , and , I will add , tho soldiers of tho enemy , ato sacrificed , it must bo folt that tho rigour of tho terms imposed should bo in proportion to tho sacrifice occasioned . "
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MURDERS IN HIGH AND LOW" LIFE . At Brixworth , in Northamptonshire , Major Isham was residing with hia brother . Ono day at dinner he booaino fearfully oxcitcd , and left tho dining-room with a knife in hia hand . II < jwaa followed by Mr . Wood , his brotherin-law , who endeavoured to persuade him to rotum , upon which ho atabbed him turco times in tho arm , and ono of tho thrusta dividing tho brochial artery , Mr . Wood died from loss of blood shortl y afterwards . Major Ishum 1 ms boon committed for trial .
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At Barford , near Nottingham , a man was found in tho river Lea with hia throat cut . A labouring man liad mot liia wifo , who had doaortod him , walking with tho dcooHHod ; on -which he uttnolced him , and they wore aeon lighting . Nothing waa soon of either of tho men till tho next , morning , when tho body was found « t a abort cliatnneo from tho apot whoro they fought . Tho tuiupcotod man ia in custody .
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968 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 14, 1854, page 968, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2060/page/8/
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