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OMAR PACHA in the camp of the Allies , — the Austrian Minister , M . de Bruck , making a war speech at a diplomatic dinner in Constantinople T —the Emperor Nicholas reiterating to every public man in Europe who will stand up and listen to him , vis-a-vis , his sincere intentions of peace , — King Frederick William prevaricating without
remission in treacherous neutrality , — -Sardinia working out her Protestantism-and Her European alliance , —the Emperor Napoleon receiving the Loan direct from the bourgeoisie of France , and offered four times as much as he wants by his own people , —Mr . Cobden discovering that the people of the West Riding will not swallow a rejected doctrine , —these are the scenes that illustrate the last act of the world ' s drama .
Yes ,. Qmar . Pacha has _ . been _ t _ o . Ae _ camp _ of _ the Allies , has frankly placed himself at the disposal of the commanders , has entered heartily in their councils , and is prepared to join in that combined action which will probably not be explained to us until we have the record of the events . Nothing go novel nor so pregnant as that has reached us from the Crimea , where the great event is still to be .
The diplomatic incident at Constantinople is really striking . M . de Bruck gave a banquet just before his departure ; the Grand Vizier was present , and other official guests . The Austrian internuncio , expressing admiration , for the Sultan and the army of Turkey , declared that his Government intended to 6 ght on the side of the Turk , and , whether it be peace or war , he said , the result
will be the same ; for in either case Russia must succumb . M . de Bruck is the man appointed by the Emperor of Austria to take the post of Finance Minister ; the department of Finance being one closely connected with the plans of improvement said to be entertained by the present Government of Austria , and certainly having a most intimate connexion with the vigorous prosecution of the
war . It is only in Berlin that they really contemplate peace as possible , that they talk of it among future events , as we say that " Spring is coming , " or that " Good Friday will fall at such a day . " But the philosophical residents of Berlin can ratiocinate with so much ability , they will to a certain extent be independent of events ; a happy condition , since they cannot make
themselves independent of their King , nor independent of Russia . The last moody whisperings from the capital of the North convey those mingled assurances that the Emperor really means peace , with angry murmurs because he is not believed . It is admitted that Russian preparations for war continue without the slightest abatement . It is admitted even by Russians that the result of the negociations in " Vienna will be modified by the fall of Sebastopol , or the retreat of the Allies ; for Russia still talks of the retreat of the Allies as possible .
The Allies , however , have increased in number . We cannot yet add Prussia , nor Denmark , nor Sweden ; but we may add one Government which is rising in international importance . We mentioned the adhesion of Sardinia last week : it now takes its place by the side of the Allies in the field , with a contingent of 15 , 000 men . It is important , both because the Piedmonte . se army is one of the finest in the world : because we thus
obtain an accession of so many soldiers readymade and hardened , in lieu of the raw recruits who go out to die ; because a state of the second order has set an example of decision and intelligence ; and because the Government of Count Cavour , with the sanction of the King , has thus practically testified to the opinion , that no state in Europe is alien from the cause of right and wrong now at issue between Russia and the Allies .
Perhaps there is not a more striking scene on the face of the Continent , than the French Emperor receiving his loan direct from the body of the French people . It is one of the most subversive measures in the constituted order of finance . It is a perfect coup de Bourse . The loan of last year was regarded as an experiment ; no one expected that it would succeed . The request for the loan of small sums , as it were , from the householders of every parish , looked like
a joke . Whoever was the author of the plan , however , he has evidently hit upon a golden vein . Last year the subscriptions to the loan greatly exceeded the amount ; this year the Emperor doubles his stakes ; he then asked for 250 , 000 , 000 francs , this year he asked for 500 , 000 , 000 francs ( 20 , 000 , 0002 . ) The actual subscriptions amounted to 2 , 170 , 000 , 000 francs , 87 , 000 , 000 ? . The English capitalists , who offered to take 6 , 000 , 000 / . of the loan—doubling the amount they first contemplated—are quite cut out by the small moneyed
men of France . The subscriptions for 500 , 000 , 000 francs will be taken entirely from that class of lenders . Baring Brothers and Co . have their 10 per Cent , deposits returned to them , with thanks ; Rothschilds are not wanted . Parish grandees , well-to-do shopkeepers , persons who put their little economies _ in savings banks—he trusts them ; and they trust him . They will stake their money on his occupation t ) f the Tuileries . He laughs at the Bourse and its quotations , and he _ pockets the money of the confiding multitude .
Mr . Cobden ' s appearance before his constituents at Leeds is a scene we could well have spared . It was entirely his own arrangement . His friends , we are convinced , must have endeavoured to dissuade him from it . Some of his political supporters , like Alderman Carbutt , publicly declined to support him now ; but he persevered . The scene is not entirely without redeeming aspects . It was ^ f ^ ditable ¥ oMK"CdD"den : ' s 6 ~ far ~ asit ; display ' ed "
his frankness , his faith in his own opuuons , and his courage in stating them . It was more creditable to the people , who , notwithstanding the general and strong disssent from his views , gave him . a fair and good-tempered hearing . It was not less creditable to those who gave him a direct opposition . What we regret is to see a man of Mr . Cobden ' s influence going so far North for the purpose of proving to the United Kingdom how a man who has known how to measure the will
and wishes of the English people , at one time and for one purpose , can totally mistake the occasion and the intentions of the people at another time . Mr . Cobden disapproves of war ; he shudders at its horrors ; it is a mode of doing business he does not like , thinking that he can realise the profits in a safer and quieter manner . He cannot sympathise with the chivalrous determination to defend the weak , where we have no interest to resist the oppressor , whore he does not hurt us ; or to combat that which is
monstrous , simply because it is monstrous . All this is intelligible enough ; but the mistake lies m supposing that such feelings , such views , are those ofthe English people . It is like Blacklock , the blind poet , writing upon colour ; only the blind man consented to adopt other peoples ideas ; the safer ' plan when wo are deficient in some particular sense . The result of the meeting was totally the , reverse of Mr . Cobdon ' s anticipations . While he endeavoured to get on the weak side of the English people—tell-
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- rxaM The Indian Civil Service .. 57 Statesmanship and Journalism ... 61 THE ARTSThe War 50 New Mail Route to Australia 57 What is Heresy ? 61 The War Diorama 68 Slt ! SlS ^ SiS ra " ^ fe ^ Tan ^ th :::::: < S | % gar ^ & ^ r *» 2 ^ SS&EE j ^^ i ^ te s ^ rs ;; ::: S KHaff 8 & ~ I = S . uteratu ' rZ Ife ^ &SSn ^ niMon - or » . % 5 $ ^™—^™ - ~ Z § Sum-ry 6 S Births . Marriages , and Deaths ... 69 ^ Sewers—Mr . P . O . Ward ' 3 State- Postscnpt 59 ^ S ^^ WvZllZZl ^ Z : " 65 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSment »••••••• • ° * J PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Miscellanea 65 Continental Notes oe parliament 60 The Druses 67 City Intelligence . Markets . Ad-& %£ ^ c ^ :::::::::::: = S w ^^ le p ^ sv ::::::::::::::::::::: S Books on our Table es verti » e ments , &c 69-72
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" The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Mumbotdffs Cosmos .
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VOL . VI . No .-252 , 1 SATURDAY , JANUARY 20 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2074/page/1/
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