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by the Russians to the west would require much time and labour to overcome . With regard to the reports from Russia , that the allies had lost four redoubts and eleven guns , we simply disbelieve them . Most soldiers light well behind entrenchments ; whether the alleged Russian attack took place near Inkennan or Balaklava , the result must have been achieved , if at all , by fighting , not manoeuvring ; and we leave our readers to judge whether the men who failed before Silistria are likely to succeed against the soldiers either of England or France . This disbelief does not extend to the assertion—that there was some affair .
fFHE official telegraph , has not yet reported the A fall of Sebastopol . In fact , the siege has turned out a much more tough affair than wehome-keeping and sanguine speculators — had imagined . Our accounts come down to the 25 th ; at that date the fire had been going on for seven days . Should the place have been taken in ten or twelve days , the result will be extraordinary in tile annals of war ; should it hold out longer , the fact will not be out of the usual course . Lord Raglan , we are told , had quietly determined to spare his army—an army not easily recruitedand to take '* the place by sap and cannon . The French attadky'it would appeal " , had not . been so successful as the British . The obstacles raised
What Omar Pasha , may be doing m the Principalities we know not ; but notwithstanding the report of the movements of Sadyk Pasha on the Sereth , and Iskender Bey in the Dobrudschn , we cannot imagine for one moment that Omar Pasha contemplates any extensive operations in Bessarabia . That ho should resolve to have complete control of tlio Danube is not wonderful , but that the Turks can retake Ismail , or overrun the adjacent country , wo do not believe . The Baltic Fleet is on its way homo . Sir Charles Napier has lieen the ?<» observcd of all observers at Hamburgh . Whether Austria and Russia will have recourse
to the bloody arbitrament of anna is one question ; that both are preparing , in another . In the kingdom of Poland , Russia has gathered 200 , 000 men facing the Austrian frontier . Austria lin . s embattled along her frontier , from Cracow to tho Danube , 200 , 000 men , and 25 , 000 in the Principalities . Both Bides bhow great activity ; and Gallivia , an a field of war , should not bu overlooked . Meanwhile tho O . ar , in his Court Journal of St . Petersburg , in appealing to Ku . s .-iun public opinion—more , to Kuropeim public opinion , il > r ho represents tho war aa a war against democracy and avarice , England being the centre of revolutionary and plutocratic movements , and he seoma to regard himself , in a double aspect , aa chief ol conservatism , and ns champion of man against
money— a political comprehensiveness which would puzzle even Mr . Disraeli . Criticising the contributions of a Gzar is serious work ; but may We not say that the Romanoff Court Journal talks nonsense .. ? Potentates should keep away from pens , —as Louis Napoleon has also recently ascertained . . Though the political world stops whirling to watch Sebastopol—though the guns , playing in this great siege , have stilled the air— -yet some little attention is being paid to the fracas between Mr . Soule and the French Government . Mr . Soule
returning from London to Madrid , wislied , as usual , to go via Trance , but was refused permission to pass beyond Calais : and his cause having been taken up by other representatives in Europe of his Government , the demand made on the French Government is for an apology . The charge against Mr . Soule is , that he is coalesced with revolutionists , Spanish and Trench : this he denies : and unless the Emperor has the courage to get out of his perplexity by candour , the " difficulty " may be exasperated into one of a , serious international character—affecting , directly , current history .
Three Ministers , " to three several counties born , " have been dilating upon the "topics of the day . " At the City of London meeting in aid of the Patriotic Fund , Lord John Russell appeared not less as member than as minister to get the people to subscribe for the -widows and orphans of Queen Victoria ' s soldiers . Thus it appears that the live soldiers —efficient instruments for workare paid for out of Queen -Victoria ' s Ministers ' public means , but the dead soldiers ( represented by their families ) , who are useless , fall back upon public charity . In such a position , it of course bocamo Lord John's duty to utter nothing but the most obvious and universally received common sense , and it is impossible for any man to execute commonplace more abjectly than the Lord President . The well-written letters from the Crimea
Palmerston has lectured this week . He puts the whole rationale of Sit in an extremely small compass . The whole duty of man , Jie says to the labourer , is to avoid the tobacco-shop and the ¦ ¦ beer- shop * and educate his children . The oddity is , that Lord Palmerston presumed all his hearers to need this atbvice , so he carries this wonderful counsel exactly to the men who do not want it , in order that they may tell it to the men that do . Over a glass of good ale he tells them to avoid the beer-shop , and they will probably chew his advice about tobacco over their pipes ; but he
supplies them with a new principle to start from in teaching their children . All babies , he says , are born good . This frightful heresy at once receives an indignant protest , through an orthodox contemporary from " One wl ) o believes in the Bible , " and " the father of twelve children . " AVcleave Lord Palmerston to settle his quarrel with his opponent " who believes in the Hiblei" and we can imagine the amusement of the gay Viscount contending with one who begins tliu combat by hampering himself so much . Tlic father of twelve children accounts for Lord Paltucrstori ' s doctrine
by presuming that Lord Pahuerston has never had any children himself . Such is the evidence with which men venture into public controversies But Lord Palmerston sets the example of audacious levity — by starting , in an after-dinner chat , such theories as this and the subordinate axiom—that there must always bo encouragement to labourers' societies , because the mass of men will always be very poor—as strange a doctrine for a Reformer as the other in for a Christian . Who but a Viscount could thus chirpingly dispose of the question of Baptismal Regeneration ?
r lhe state of trade still calls for attention , and is such as to justify some apprehensions for the winter ; although it must settle the e .-stnivnganee created by the Liverpool suspensions . The mail nature of those disasters is now understood . Tlu fast trading ; the excessive individual speculation without capital to support it ; thu rash presumption of certain returns in the short-eat possible space of time , are proved not only by the facts , but by the examination of the uoeount . s . The impropriety of these transactions is untublisliud to tho commercial mind by tho fact of iioii-hijwcshs . Tin ; largo deficiency in Mr . Oliver ' s cnlntu i *
of the private soldiers have had a most surprising entect . Nobody knew that our army was so civilized . These letters haunt Lord John Russell , and obligo him to tell everybody whom he meetsand his public meetings are numerous—how much education has been getting on in the army . Mr . Bcrnal Osborne , thu Secretary to the Admiralty , bus also been talking of education—cultivating » n Irish Athonunnn at Clonuiel . Mr . Oabornu ' H speech was excellent : but what is he doing at Clonmcl , when a Baltic ileet \» coming hoinc—and coming home , it may be , despite Napier , to do something" ?
Lord l ' nhncTfiton in the great shining light on tho , Hubjeet of education , on which he dilutes eliuuringly to tho Labourers' Encouragement Society , at Ronisuy . Tho noddy ia one which jiivon men premiums of i >/ ., or more , for working thirty yours under tho tuune employer , whatever wugcH that employer may give : and it in to people thus benighted on commercial principles tliutLord
worth ax year of sermons . Kriglund and America are not going to break down bceniiHu a ' niwli merchants break down . Nuvurtln'lu .-u lli <\ y arc working short time in boiiki jmrt . s of the cotton districts , exports arc tliminislied by 1 , 000 , 000 / . to China , and the forced conwigainuinU arc worntluui si deficiency . The tempomry depreciation in the provision trade- of Ainurjcu . spunks * ill fur our coiiHignniunlH in that direction . War is extending , tuxes nniy \ m increased , and all Uiohc thingn happen just as prudent folks , drawing in their oxpcnHu . i for winter , lend atn impulse to that decline of trade which they thcinaelvea deplore .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— page What is being Done by the Who Gave the " Timid Coun- Henri Heine 1017 AmtionalParty ' . 103 * SS ^ B ^^ iSf £ S ™^^— == 3 S ^ S ^ t ' ^^"" " ££ | hlS ?; . iir : whiston - -:::::::::::: $ 2 PuE ^ n ^ AVsr ::: iffi p « bl . c affairs- fS&SIKKfi ^ " 1 SS Disfranchisement of Truehold " Norton Street , " Marylebone 1038 The Newspaper Stamp Re- PORTFOLIOLand Voters 103-i Catholics in Municipalities ... 1038 turns 1042 Underneath .. , 1052 Reinforcements for the East ... 1034 Tho Danish Struggle 103 a The Working Man and his _; ., _ - „_ ,. Odd Proceedings 1034 The Sydenham Pete .... 1039 Teachers 1012 THE ARTSIiord Palmerston at Itomsey 1035 The Czar ' s own . Account © f his Increase of the Army 1043 DruryLane . 1053 £ he Loss of the Arctic : 1035 Mission ; 1039 China Made Useful 1044 Mr . Peto and the Kins of Den- Germany and Bussia 1039 «» - « , miiu / . ii _ mark ..-.. 103 G Another Arctic Expedition ... 1039 OPtN council- Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1051 Mr . BernalOsborneitiTipperary 1036 The Public Health 1039 Babel 1014 „„ . « . ¦ -. « -.. . Mr . Urquhar-t at Newcastle 1037 Labour Movement in October 1040 llTCO . TllB - COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSWorWMeii ^ College 1037 The Patriotic Fund 1040 LITERATURE- City Intelligence , "Markets , Ad-TheLateMr-Geach . M . P . 1037 National Dcfon . ce 1040 Summary 1045 vertisements , & e . ... 1051-1050
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The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity the noble e u ea ; vour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions or Kengion , Country , and Colour , to treat th , e whole Human race as one broth . erh . ood , having one great object—the free development or our sjpmtual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos . ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/1/
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