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VOX ,. V , No . 242 . ] SATURDAY , NQYEHBEB 11 , 1854 . [ Price Sixpence .
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HP-HE' country is enduring , heroically , the sus-X pense ; satisfied of the result . The last news is from Sevastopol , to the 3 rd . They were still " pounding away ; " the assault , it was supposed , would not take place for several day 3 . What is to follow the capture of the place— "what is the force of the Kussian army in the field—and what this army -will do , or att em pt to do , —are points left to the grave doubts of Europe .
It is admitted , on all hands , that the . Russians have fought ¦ svell at Sebastopol . They have developed the resources -which their failures , iip to that point in the Campaign , h ad i nduced tbe w orld to question , and they have reproduced that terribly enduring , apathetic , courage , which won for Russia her place in Europe . They have done everything well ; they have fired well , engi neered well , and their sorties have been bold , vig orous , and , here and there , successful . Our ship s h av e made an attempt on their stone walls , and the caution of the discreet Dundas has rebuked the dashing Lyons : for the attempt ( it might have been with a dill ' erent result had the whole fleet none to work at
once ) was so far a failure that our broadsides seem to have made no impression upon the fortifications—which are something very dillevcnt from Bomarsund . And the Russians have fought under disheartening d i s a dvanta g es exc e edin g the ordinary misfortunes of a siege . The ( ire of the Allies , precise and tremendous , has rase ^ tlietown the slaughter of course being so considerable that , all ideas of hospitals being abandoned , the dying aro loft among the dead , and t h e d ead , strewed in
the ruins which are all that is left of the streets , aro allowed to pollute the air , heavy already with the smoke of incessant gunpowder . Tho last story , which has animated tlie courage of tliu Allies , i . i that a portion of the garrison , wearied out and despairing iu sight of such horrors , h ud a ttem p ted n revolt—a story always probable of n Kunsian garrison , numbering in its ranks tho enslaved Poles . But tho Allies will persevere to the end , without such aid .
Diplomacy , fatigued by its long rout , is beginning to reappear in impatient nuaohiuf . Tho conjunction of Louis Napoluon and Lord Pnlmeraton , at Paris ( announced for next Monday ) , is ominous : for among other things indicated , a suspicion ia engendered that the ^ Emperor ' s visit to England has boon prevented . As wo are
a self-governed people , it is of course an impertinence in the public to pry into these ' mysteries of haute politique : but all such movements perplex a nation which has so much reason to dread secret diplomacy ; and the apparition of a Palmerston in Paris , and of a V on der P f or dt c n i n Vienna , tend to produce nervousness . The lead of the Leader in demanding a November Session is being now very generally responded to , an d more particularly in that press w h i c h re p res e nts T or y magnates who are -weary of unusual unfamiliarity with state secrets . But our Government is
taking its course in perfect independence of possible Popular or Tory opinions . Our Ministerial j o u rnals are be ginning to denounce Austria , having , poor innocents , as c ert ai n ed that the A ustrian army is not aidin g Omar Pasha , and is intensely anti-Eng lish and pro - Russian ; and when the Times is told to tnke that tone , something very serious is apprehended . Yet , no November Session—no consultation of Crown and C abinet w i t h E ng land . What is to be the solution of the Prussian dilliculty , even o ur M inisters do not seem to know . They appear to have discovered that w h at the injudi c ious Economist sa i d w a s so
necessary—to stop Prussian profits out of llusso-Uritish trade—is not so easy ; and , on this point , too , the sagacious Ministerialists in the prows arc unsaying what they had insisted on . Mr . James Wilson , who had orig inate d th e delusion , s eems to have been on his travels ( in Belgium and Holland)—by vny of penance . Diplomacy broke down on the afllur of J \ lr . Soule : Louis Napoleon had the vigour to get in tho best wuy out of a false position ; and though it is possible that he is angry with England and her Government for sofnuiklyeorideiniiing the blunder , yet be is not at Avar with tho United States—and thin unexpected result has bewildered various
diplomatists , Kussian , Austrian , Brazilian , and Spanish , who were playing jSJlv , Boul < 3 as their hist card . Spain staggers on under too much constitutional cunviis . The Quoon has met her CortijH , E s p artero d eclin i ng t h e coup < l \ 'LuL that was to bo clHicted for him , liiwl ho kept her nway and himself opened the Parliament ; and afiuir . s arc drifting into tho inevitable difficulties—how to appease tljo . se Spaniards , probably now a majority , who arc passionately disloyal without being republicananil how to avoid , in thu Cuban question , tlie claim of England—that thci slave trade ahull be declared piracy , and tho chum of tho United States that th « island shall bo Bold or
themselves , as a party , to Abolition—a serious and sad f a ct i n po l i tics , and in morals not delightful —for this assumption of a premature virtue is proof merely of electioneering dexterity . But lii Canada ( which was preceded on this point by New Brunswick ) there is a great resolution to be pure the Assem bly has voted an anti-liquor law by 90 to 5—a fact that will sustain our own Beer Bill heroes—a fact tliat likewise suggests the
reactionary twists of which the nineteenth century is susceptible . The other American item of news is Mexican . As slavery is going out , kings are comin g in . Santa Anna lias proposed to the diplomatists of Europe to guarantee hint against the States while he consolidates his bankrupt system into a Monarchy , the condition being that he will name as Heir , to succeed him , a Prince of a European royal house — say a Coburg-. Santa Anna must have a fine contempt for Europe .
At home we have few incidents . Trade is uncertai n , u n satisfied , but not unsound . The Stock Exchange has been puzzled by fluctuations in T urkish scri p , a decline of nearly 2 per cent , having been bro ught about by a panic originating in a whisper that tho bonds were not signed according to loans-precedents . The Stock Exchange has also been excited by the conduct oi the Greeks ( can they have beared Turkish scrip , by way of spite V } who are not depressed at rumours of Russian successes , and whom patriotic stock-brokers would therefore lynch . Tho Corn Market has also undergone fluctuations and
excitements—corn trying to find its legitimate level in price , an d corn m e rc h ants , with insufHricnt information , and erring views about the Avar , gambling meanwhile in their commodity . City after city is meeting to subscribe grandly to tho Patriotic Pund . The Lord Mayor ' s Day did not much occupy London ; and Lord Mayor ' s Night did not produce much thought for the nation . Tho speeches at the banquet were pointless : Lord Aberdeen , wh o answered to t h e t oa st of tho Ministers wns , a s us u al , c old , hut , as usual , safe . Tim Arctic discoveries are completedthat is to say , Captain CoUinnon and his Enterprise ' ' are found to be safe . They had , like M'Clurc , liit upon tho North-West 1 ' u . H . sngu ; but
unlike JYK "lure , they had got up a mutiny—fortunate ly , a new \ aviation in life in thu . Arctic tte .-ia . " We asked lust woolc 11 " tho families of the Franklin Expedition wen ) to obtain any nlmre in tin ; Patriotic Fund V—but nothing . scorns « ottlcd for or Jigiunttt tho suggestion . Tho subscribing clauses are intent on onu objectthe war ; but English charity i . s wmiprohonhivL ' . For instance , thin week , Lord Shitftenbury liusbuen showing to philantrnpiNtH noiiio Iiouhoh which one of his Xinprovo / nout SociislioH ban bought , in a Drury-lanu court—foul and liideoim : therto ho intends converting into Jmppy domiciles for the working-elMHHOM—chcup and clean . His Lordship is a good Fairy .
The United States are engaged with tho elections , with results which so iar cannot be clearly defined ; this ono fact alone standing out prominent—that the Whigs are more and more pledging
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 11, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2064/page/1/
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