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rFHERE -was another Cabinet Council , wliicli Xagain sat for several Lours , yesterdaj' afternoon . A . self-governed people watches such consultations with singular interest ; for how much our fate , as a free people , depends upon the decisions of these our governors—our Parliament for six months in the year—and in the other six months , the managers of atix Parliament ! The subjects for consideration yesterday must have been grave enough . The news of the battle of Inkerman could not have
raised the spirits of our governors , whose petty policy it was which had given heart to Kussian generals to pour down their legions on the English handful . But there was comfort for the miscellaneous Ministers of War in the assurance that they had got over the worst . In the ten days which followed the dreadful 5 th , nothing , says the telegraph , occurred ; and by the 15 th reinforcements must have arrived sufficient , at least , to bring the Allies up to a force equal to that of MensehikofTs —whether equal to taking Sebastopol is another question . But there were , doubtless , some
awkward points on which to prepai-e for Parliamentary explanation . What to say to the House of Commons , generally , of the miscalculation as to Sebastopol ? What to suy —to him—of the French Emperor's proposed march of two divisions to the Danube—the chancos being that this would provoke Austria out of neutrality—the certainty being that France , overshadowing us already in the Crimea , would thus assume a preponderating attitude in the war . What to say of the blunder at Petropaulovski ¦— the attack on a fortress of which the miscellaneous Ministers of War ,
who had sent out no steamers to poor Price , had never beard ? What could bo said on that point but that Price , as conveniently as Nolan , is dead , and was exclusively responsible — the fact , nevertheless , being that the ships fought for some days after Price was dead ? What to say to the Member for Montroso , of the Rof bnn Bill , which has been put down ? "What to say to
Lord Derby ( that will , no doubt , be loft to VVntion , or sonao one "who understand *) figures ) of the free trade that keeps up the prieo of bread P Wlnit to say to the Member for Manchester , of the apathy which has left our trade at Canton to bo annihilated ? Wluit to say to the members for the North of Ireland , whose constituents arc running up the price of flax on tho assurance , which will novcr bo realised , tliat the Government is coing
to stop the Prusso-Russian transit trade ? Lastly , hut firstly , the question before the council must have been—What shall our Budget be—what to say to Mr . Gladstone about the inevitable loan ? The battle of Inkerman seems to have been a battle in which a small English force was enabled , by the bad Russian generalship of the Eussians , to beat back an enormously-superior Russian force . The English and French liad to defend a pass on a large scale , and by their wonderful " pluck , " superior style of weapons ,-with the aid of "well-played
artillery , they kept their ground . They did no more : but they killed two Russians ? for every one of the Allies they lost ; and we may infer , from the Russian inaction for the ten following days , that this sufficed , the moral impression deepening the disappointment produced by the actual numerical loss to the Russians , to turn the fate—that is , if adequate reinforcements arrived—of the campaign in the Crimea . The result of the day showed that the Allies were safe . The attack on the 5 th of
November was on the same point—though in fur ' greater force—that was assailed on the 2 Gth of October , when Sir De Lacy Evans' guns di'ove back the advancing squadrons in confusion ; and as there has been do real attempt—that on tho 5 th was but a feint—to turn the lucky position in the rear of the Allies defended by the Highland Brigade , we may take for granted that at the point at Inkerman lies now the oitfy danger , liven there , safety might have been secured—so says the cautions and reliable correspondent of the Times—had Lord Kaorlan taken the advice of
are coping with , while the French and English sailors are heartily allied by having fought toge ther . That gain , indeed , was specially obtained at Inkerman . The French and English were not fighting as at Alma , at different wings of the same battle—they were in the same ranks of the same regiments—the light of battle glared on a line of mingled uniforms—they charged together , their battle cries mingling . That ought to obliterate Waterloo . The news of the week is almost exclusively
warlike , liven from America the only news that we can handle is of a grand vote of the Canadian Parliament of 2 O , O 00 J . to the widows and orphans of those , French as well as English , who fell at Alma—a vote indicative of the grand , nation-like style in which the rapidly-rising colony does business—a vote singularl y appropriate from the senate of a state which consists of two different races , Gauls and Britons . In our Australasian colonies
progress is as remarkably evidenced by the promulgation of a project such as a European would never venture on , or , at least , would never get entertained , as witness the project of a railway to India—this being a plan to construct a line of railway to connect the capitals of the three colonies , with vast docks and warehouses , and all the machinery of a commercial depot as grand an Liverpool , at each terminus . The colonies propose
Sir De Lacy Evans , and formed proper mtrenehments , —the very intrenchments that we hear are noiv being made — Lord Raglan adopting the policy of his Government and contriving to be too late : and this matter , as well as tho Light Brigade blunder of the 25 th , ought to be inquired into , if only in justice to Lord Raglan , who , though by no means a great man , and quite incapable of writing a despatch , is evidencing many
this to the capitalists of the world j all they ask of England is that her credit may be pledged to the shareholders . So far our city men sneer at the latter condition of the plan , and if the House of Commons should not reciprocate the enthusiasm evidently growing in the colony in favour of an idea which has assumed , in the colonial eye , tliu dimensions taken by the Darien scheme in Scotch history , then some ill-will may arise .
At home the nation seema almost exclusively engaged in shipping reinforcements , in organising militia embodiments , in enlisting , or in subscribing to the Patriotic Fund . What attention is not monopolised by these matters , is directed tq some causes uHehres , — such as the Thornhill case , and such as the Denison case . But even in such a week we ought to reftd the speeches delivered at Preston and at Boverley by Lord Stanley , Sir . Robert Peel , and Mr . Arthur Gordon—the two former on educational and social topics , tho latter on the subjects of War and Heforiu . ' . 1 heso are our young statesmen : men who are not yet too deep in the
admirable qualities on which his countrymen are placing full reliance . Lord Raglan has one great merit—it has saved his army—ho keeps quiet , attempts no generalship , p laces his trust in the bull-dog courage and tenacity oftho troops ; nnd if he continue to display this merit to the end , the CJovernmcnts will have time to turn the Russian position—a strategy with which tho French divisions spoken of for the Danube cannot be disconnected .
'I ho attack on the lvamschatkan Torts is an unp leasant incidont ; and the tone , of regret about it is deepened by tho _ fear Chat the impulsive Admiral committed suicide ,. But tho incident onds in the unpleasantness ^ there ia no losa worth mentioning , there ia no 'iiongor to our commerce ; and the actual gain \ $ the same , on a smaller theatre , as at , Ooi ^ tadt ; tho enemy ' s ships are driven behind batteries , the Russians arc persuaded of the ,, grand courage of tho enemy they
cold shade of aristocracy to loao all thu heartiness of their natures , and all the virilif . y of tlieir— - intellects . These—certainly Lord Stanley , and--Mr . Gordon—arc our future Cabiiiot-GovernorS ; ; and they so pleasantly refresh that ntinoBphe ' reJbf Governmental old ibgydoiu in which yvo lfojj ; and have what buing it i » respectable to hoyu ,, tha t * ,. one mournH that tl » e . s « are not , the htiUeHinen . \ ' \ , , vain -wiuh ; when th < iir time comus— -wh ' Cw $ jC ]) S » . \ arc sixty or seventy—Lhey will be , prou ^ Ur $ Jfy , ? liko their fttthoro before them . / - ' j ¦
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- * io . Health of London 1112 Obituary . 1 HG Selections Grave and Gay 1122 The War 1106 Going a-headiii Australia 1112 Church Conflicts 1116 Home Life m Russia ..... 1124 The Kussian Army 1110 American JSotes .... 1113 Lunatics Criminal and Matri- A Batch of Books 1124 The Allied Forces in the Pacific . 1110 Egypt 1113 monial 1117 A Book of Illustrations .. ' . ' .. ' .... 1125 Intended Marriage in High Life 1111 Spam ... —••• .. — - Ill ;* The Lady Ferrers Case 1118 Books on our Table 1125 Our Civilisation llll Continental Notes 1113 Ap-M rruiiur-ii BSllTthrfehaUinAidof Death of Lord Dudley Stuart 1113 ° B ^ ef ' iii « THE ARTSmcfiiSSS BS our ^ oun ^ statesmen :::::::::::: JHs ^ a ^ -sas ^ -css : ^^ i ^ k * uu ^ esTa ^ dVlSin lreiand " ma Miscellaneous 1114 TMarri ^ eLaw " itin Tho Balance of Comfort 1125 Archdeacon Denison and False .,. „ ..-. „ ., „ . 1 he Marriage Law mo Doctrine 1112 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATUREThe Conference at Ostend .. 1112 Conduct of the War ..: 1114 Summary 1120 . COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSlord Raglan ' s Order to the Where to Get ^ Reinforcements 1115 Sirs . Jameson on Things in City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Cavalry to Charge ....... . „ . 1112 England's Little Bill 1116 General .. ; 1121 vertisements , &c . .. ; .... 1125-1128
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VOIi . V , No . 244 ] SATURDAY , NQYEMBEB , 25 , 1854 . [ Price Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 25, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2066/page/1/
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