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VOL . V . No . 240 . ] SATUBJ ) A . Y .-OCTOBER ' 28 , 1854 . JPigLCB Sixpence .
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BY tlie latest news , it will be seen that the siege of Sebastopol had at lust commenced . : and that already it had been varied by a sally of the besieged in such a force as almost to entitle us to speik of the repulse being a battle . Of the result it-would be disloyal in us to have a doubt : and advancing beyond Sebiistopol , oin * nation is c ; ileulating already Avhat further Kussian troops , Osteai-Sacktin ' s reinfoi'cements , are to be encountered
and beaten at 1 erekop . How long will it take to clear the Crimea ? Is it to be left in possession of a garrison army : and what will be tlie -work for Lord Raglan after his Crimea achievements ? MensehikofF being still -missing , our public , and probably even our army , is in doubt ; is to what is the Russian position northward of Sebnstopol ; < md Omar Pasha , motionless , docs ; not seem quite certain of what is in contemplation in Bessarabia .
Events , as was anticipated , are drifting tlie German Powers out of their neutrality .. ' Austria seems , at last , preparing to join against Russia and among the reasons why she takes this course , one perhaps , is that Russiii , striking the first blow , is concentrating troops on the Austrian frontier , as if to force her into action . An Archduke or two , preliminarily blessed by the Czar at St . Petersburg , h njipearing at Warsaw , where a vast army is buiug collected , with facilities for operations with Prussia against , Austria ; or , for defence against buth ; or , u . s u Moscow trick , for the vindication ( if a re-crt'iitotl kingdom of Poland . Meanwhili ; , Austria is condition for action b
getting into a y getting money , through the French Cralifc Mobilier , upon the . mortgage of the State railways in Hungary and Bohemia : the operation being clever us tin original piece of finance , only likely to be thought of by a jmiufully embarrassed ( government , but being applauded by Western Europe as indicating that the Court of Vienna , tints encouraging liYanch capitalists , trusts more to roliancc upon Paris thnn to faith in tit . Petersburg . "Wo shall soon know . A great military council , the second nince tho Russian invasion of the Principalities , hits been held at Vienna : and tliu result must , ere long , be eltiiir to KurojH ' . A council of vrnv never lights —/ , c . if it can avoid fighting .
Trussin is not yet auflkiuntly near direct dangor to induce her to take a side : but what , the Secretary to the Treasury would cull U « c u r * cn . 'sv" is being contemplated by tlio ICuglirtU ( Jovurmaicnt by nieuuH of n tnoditicution of those onUghlouud maritime laws so uimniinouHly agrewl to lust , sua « i < m as wisest and best , and of which it wan foreseen as inevitable that Prussia would I > o enabled to take advantage—a circumstnnuu to which our merchants have reconciled themselves , by the consideration that those luws lmvo done us the least
possible miscliiof consistent witk a condition of war .. The Prussian press rebukes the nonsense which some ; of our join-nals have written , on this subject ; and niercxntilc opinion in England is assuredly too strongly in favour of the compromise with war to permit ' any change . Lord Pal merston owes all his position , such as it is , to rendering politics carefulhy . . subsorvient to oounnercial interests , and he surely would not sanction a reactionary barbarity , the defence of which might be that it would hriure Russia , while its obvious
condemnation -would be that it would also injure us . Meomvhile , Prussia issues marr _ y-conie-up manifestoes and petulant protocols , wrangling with Austria , and sneering at England and France : the Prussian monarchy goinir < lown so thoroughly in European estimation—it is sis low now as it wjis before that battle of Jena which' . Napoleon bulletined as having destroyed at one blow the monarchy and the army— -that even Manteufl ' el , disgusted , makes an effort to escape his post , —returning to it only in compliance with the maudlin entreaties of the bemuddlcd kinar .
Tho alliance between Franco and England , daily more and more close , so that it is one public opinion , lilte the one army , which faces liissia , K- ; , will , it is nmunmcoil , be eonl ' inncd in solemn festivities at Windsor , when the Kinperor and Empress of the French are to bn the guests of Q . I 1 eon Victoria and her husband . Another story is , that tlie houses . of Napoleon and Cobnrg ami Orleans , are to be allied by the muiViagc of Prince Napoleon , heir presumptive to the French throne , and tho daughter ( by the daughter ot Louis Philippe ) of King Leopold . Siu ; h a fact
of " Wai * prices , the passing stress . may . be accounted for , —and as merely episodical . The whilom Protectionist journals are being galvanised into some sort of vitality in the presence of such circiiinijtjiHCcs : it does happen that they predicted that Free-trade would ruin the farmer ; but that does not withhold theni from the ai * gument , that the hopes held out by the Free-traders to the people have not been realised . No doubt certain Free-traders ailbrd some excuse foi" this nonsense by talking parallel absurditiesas that the golden harvests of . California and Australia have tempted j-Wassus of men away from agricultural labour ; or ad that the war with Russia has restrained Kussian supplies . For the last few
years corn has increased in marketable value ; and there cm , therefore , we may rely upon it , have been no . diminution in the product ion . As regards Russian supplies , what restrains them , when our corn can come from lfcign ? Odessa has no corngrowing lands behind it—the loss of Otlessan supplies is not the total loss of Uu . ssiau supplies . Tho best defence of the Free-traders is in tli , e ( question — What would just nuiv be the price of grain under a Protectionist system ? 'As to the farmers , the traditions or ' their fStthursarc- not applicable : I he vall , ey of tin ; ISLid ^ issi j > i « i was not thickly populated ' when ^ larengo , Jena , and Austurlitz were being inu < rht .
" Domestic movements''' are iV . sv . The public is occupied in subscribing to the Patriotic anil other funds ( among them the . Cambridge Asylum . seems to tin the most practical ) with ji prompt profusion which does the nation credit ,, and -will gut it the better served in tliitf war . Can any money be spared for a monument to Franklinfor pensions to the widows of the poor seamen who died of cold and starvation with him ? These poor fellows , too , were . serving their country : and the earnest grief which followed the announcement of tho discovery of their rumain . i shows that the country is not ungrateful for a KoU ' -dcvotion even more sublime thnn that which curries men into a battle ; —facing tlie ice of the Arctic seas i . s more dreadful than facing ih'jliiu of u battalion : of domestic
would doubtless present , possibly , anew prospect ; in French politics : but there are many signs that Louis Napoleon is not the man to trust to marriages for the consolidation of his dynasty—or rather of his system , As ho commenced he is continuing—securing predominance by rigorously suppressing dissent . His ninnngeimint of the press is still the management of an Attila ; and the refusal which his < joverniiionfc has this week given of permission to talkative M . Sonle to enter France , suggests none of the sngjucity wliiohjs tho characteristic of men who feel safe .
Lord John Russell u , course , a niovoment ; he has pushed thw recess in advertising himself in till purls of tlie country . \ it \ t at , IJodford ami UrinUil he has not been felicitous ; Jin 1 in both places his bald uuiiiiiion-phic-i ! wits _ contrasted wit . li this vigorous and lieart . y tulk <>/ mm — Sir Horace Seymour and Sir Kulujrl Pcel—cauli of whom aimed away tint lionising ol' lUu evening from their noble friend . No wonder : ««< A ^ 'iatol Lord John litid nothing butler to . say than t . <» compare the llrili . ih Con . il . iliition to " a neighbouring building , " wliidi l «« d bwn—propped up and repaired—uimI to h » £ K ' lllll ( ' " « ( . Ul'sLVv ofKii'Miiiidlmil not vol Ikscu written--iorgcttiny that mruu Lord . i"hn HuhsuII has trnd—and ungi-Ht « fiil tor U » c sacrifieu which Mueiuuuy hats made of gunius aud eoiiscionco to Whiggery .
Tlie Ivlnglirtlii nation will , however , uuil < e no objection to the ]) roiiii ^ ed ( Jliristinns festivities ut Windsor ( Jnstle . Some ofour / journulistes scum to think thiil , bread is fining to be very dear this winter , and tluit . would be an el « emcnt in the- popular c . ji > lemplut . ioii of Court buiujuctu liut , this frightened cMixietation docs no-t seom justified by n review of all the fuet . s . Thu -I lb . loat' is now 10 d ., and iiiuy bo la . . ' 3 d . within ten days : but tliirf may be because wo arc now living on tJio last siichs of the lust two luirvostrt , —which were bud . Almost , every ituliiinii sees a rise in the price ot brciid , whether the harvest be bad or good : and us the prosuiit harvest is bciug held back altogether from the market , in ft Htupid anticipation
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M EWS OF THE WEEK— vage Elections .... ' litlf . ; Mr . Lsindor ' s Proposal to As- I PORTFOLIOTheWar 1 OIO Tlie Court ion ; I sassiiiate the Cz : ir 1010 | T * ndci neath 102 G The Pa-triotic p ' uiid ' 1011 ]\[ r . Stoiior 101 ( 5 ; Soa ISi'oe / . es i ' or tlie liritish mi ,., i ? ,, i 11 ' . « - ' i ' iV > iiViVnniV » i ' " ' \ TiisVi » in- ' ? Lorcl ^ . Tohn Russclitin Motion ::: \? m M . MoriU Hartmami toi . i Constimtion 102 ,, lho Bomaiitic bchool ot Muwt 10-, Sir-John .. Franklin ' s Party 1012 Bear l ? rcaaat Nottingham ... ion ; Nursery Republics 1020 THEARTSThe Protection of Women and , Our Civilisation low , „_ . - >^ ,... _ .. Serieaiat Adams 3 013 The Cambridge Asylum 101 / OPcN GOUNCjL— Vidcna 102 S Continental Notes " .. ' ... ¦ . ¦ ... 1014 i Loss of tho Wtoamnr Arctic _ ... 1017 BaV ) el 1 O . The Trustee ..: 1028 The Emperor of the French in lic-liraigratiQU from America ioi ( i ¦ . " The Summer Storm 1028 EiiRland i and Bojgiuni ... 101 t ' Postscrij ) t 1017 ; LITERATURE- ______ The tJnitcd States'Babies ...... 101-t i „ ,, ¦ -, ' ¦ ,, — » - _ . » . „_ ¦ Smnmiirv iiv > - > Agriculturists at Dinner 1015 ! PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LoToSlisiohi thoE ^ t " liw * Births , Mar liases , and Deaths 1029 A ^ issionary low | The Chances of a National More Versifiers ! ' . ' . '" . ' . 1021 commercial affairs- ' Oxford andOambridge 1015 . Party lois The iVinciplcs of Harni > nv COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSTM-Public-Health iokj i lloni Soit f [ ui Maly Pcnse ... 101 S and Contrast of Colours ..,. ' .. 1025 City Intblliiseucei IMiu-kcts , Ad- ' Illegal Slarriages lOlt ! IJit . by- _ it ¦ JOID ' - U . boks on our Table 10 _ ii vertiseinciits , &c .-1029-1032
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"The one Idea ¦ which History exhibits as e ^ armore developing itself mto greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected betweea men by prejudice a , n . d one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions ^ of Kelisfion , Country , and Colour , to tTeat the whole Human race as one brofch . erh . oocl , having one great object—the free deveiopinent of our spuntual nature . "—ITumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 28, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2062/page/1/
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