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T ^ VENTS crowd upon one another thick , J-J that the striking incident of one day is obscured by the startling intelligence of the morrow . When the House of Commons assembled on Monday evening to resume the debate upon Mr . Latajid ' s motion " 021 the state of the nation , " the proceedings were suspended , in order that the report , fresh from the Sebastopol Committee , might be read at the table . Before the public lias grown tired of discussing that long anticipated story , the Morning Post reports that the
bombardment of Sebastopol has recommenced ; and ere we learn the truth of that rumour , fresh iiccounts from Hango Sound disclose one of the bloodiest incidents of the war ; then comes the report of the serious reverse before Sebastopol on the 18 th ; and then those humiliating details of outrages by the Allied soldiery at Kertch ; and while we are roused by tales of this kind , we turn to note the sudden fall of the French Funds , consequent on the mysterious malady of the Emperor . The Government at home continues to meet the pressure of party and popular attacks by mustering every sign that it i-s active in reforms .
And all the while our heaving commerce exhibits from time to time some of those startling irregularities -which have this week p laced three bankers before the criminal tribunal . Enough of news certainly for one week 1 Indeed , unless some crime bursts upon the public from the placid fields of-fashion or commerce , —some bankrupt goes , not into the Gazette , but into the criminal courts , —some bloody encounter is reported from the seat of war , or some empire totters in the balance , the satiated reader , accustomed to be stimulated by " latest intelligence " three or four times in the la } -, declares that " the papers arc dull . "
The renewed bombardment of Sebastopol was lumounced early in the week , and yesterday we loomed the result in a serious check to the Allies . r bombardment was renewed on the 18 th ; find the French and English made a fresh movement , to complete the real but still partial success of tlio 7 th . An immense force of the ; French was Hung forward to seize the Mnlukoll tower , tlie FnglLsh threw themselves upon tho Kudan buttery ; but tho 1 J ussiann , who have never censed to contest that part of the ground wilh "" flinching courage and vigour , brought numbers
and daring to the resistance . And after a long and very bloody contest , the Allies were obliged to fall back , with an immense loss . They retreated in order to their old position ; but , for the first time in the history of the war , they have been obliged to yield bodily before the Russians . So say the authentic accounts , but there is a strong suspicion that the real intelligence is worse . The event happened on the 18 th ; we first hear it on the 22 nd—and nothing more ! To account for this backwardness , it is surmised that the French Government wishes silence—on the Bourse . Pjjlissieu is sustaining his repute as a . " grand maitre en tucrie , " but the slaughterous faculty id disastrously exhibited in its effects on his own men ! Next in interest is the tale of the Hango massacre . It is a short story , but one full of meaning . The British squadron has been filling up its time by harassing the coasts , suppressing anything like real commerce , and making the llussians feel that t * ie crimes of their Government entail maritime imprisonment upon the Empire ; for to such the possession of the Black and Baltic Sea amounts . Admiral Dimdas , however , has carried out his hostilities with extreme leniency towards the poorest classes of inhabitants . Fishing boats were not molested ; prisoners were restored to land , and it was in landing a small party of the prisoners on the shore at Hango that the tragedy took place . A few Finhmders remained on board the Cossack , and Captain Fansuawk was instructed to land them under a flag of truce . A boat was sent in command of Lieutenant Gk-NpsTis ; he approached tho shore without perceiving any signs of inhabitants ; tlio weapons on board were not loaded , and 11 ilag of truce was displayed . No sooner , however , liad the party begun to land than a strong body of Russians started from an ambush , an . l tho whole party were murderously attacked . Oue man alone escaped ; and he reported thut all the rest had been killed . The llussians did not know that this witness survived , and they have put forth their own story through the Invalidc , representing that the boat ' s crew effected a hasty landing with all on board armed . From this version it would appear , however , that cloven of tho party remained prisoners ; and the . Russian Government , unless it wishes to be branded with infamy , will at once bring forward these prisoners to confront the survivor who escaped . With respect to the honesty of our own officers there is do room for tho
smallest doubt , and they appear to have taken a ^ necessary precautions Tor apprising the Russians that they came upon a peaceful errand . It is possible that the traitors presumed treachery , and would not see the signs of peace , or even their own unarmed fellow-subjects . The Russians also give us their account of the brilliant successes in the Sea of Azof . The St . Petersburg Journal ^ describes it as the " awful desecration of the coasts , the destruction of a few small magazines , and a small number of vessels intended to carry provisions to the troops . " This follows after General Goktschakoff's report , which , reached this country lust week , that the enemy had destroyed " all our ships , " and it accompanies the report of Lieutenant - General Kkasnov that the enemy have kept up an infernal cannonade at Taganrog " for six hours and a half , ' ' being however repulsed by the courage of the Russians ; who lost " a Cossack . " The Russian oificial accounts have now quite a habit of admitting the loss of one m : in . It is a miserable duty , however , to confess that in one respect they seem to be only too true . The acquisition of Kertcli was disgraced by some of the worst excesses among the Turkish soldiers ; and even French soldiers took part in the fiendish orgies which are reckoned among " the right * of the conqueror . " The bad news from the Crimea is 'hot likely to influence our position with Austria very favourably . Already there aru signs of backing out on the part of that Power . A despatch to M . Hun-Nicn , written on the 20 th of last month , is just published . It constitutes a kind of remonstrance with France for not linving accepted the propositions of Austria at the last Vienna Conference ; and while Austria still professes to stand to her pledges , she speaks in an apologetic tone , implying that she will do nothing until tho Allies put themselves in u . stronger position . The reduction of her forces at the snmo time is a hint that this announcement is not confined to words . From an ally , Austria is sinking into a neutral , and tho Western Powers are told they are too weak to expect more assistance . There in no wonder if tlie Kinperor NAroi . JSow ' w Mlron" franuj given way under those anxieties . Ho luiH , it is said , suHercd under an attack that is usually agonising , and nlways dangerous ; and although he showed himself nt a theatre on Monday evening with the Empress , it is not presumed in Paris that ho w , therefore , quito restored , Tho
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"The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 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 aid 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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VOL . VI . No . 274 . ] SATURDAY , JUNE 23 , 1855 . [ Pkice Sixpence .
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NEWS Or THE WEEK— noi Imperial Parliament 590 The Report of the Sebastopol Committeo 691 The War 592 Letters from the Baltic 594 Sir Charles Napier and Sir James Graham 594 The Oxford Commemoration 695 America 695 Our Civilisation 595 Letters from Paris 695 Continental Notes 596 A New Conveyance Association ... 596
Tho Failure of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Co 596 Health of London during the Week 597 Naval and Military News 597 i Miscellaneous 697 Postscript 69 S PUBLIC AFFAIRSHoreditary Government 599 The Sebastopol Report 600 Church Diffusion 600 Austria Stands at Ease 601 Wanted , Able Civil Officers 602
Oxford , Old and New 602 i The Baltic 603 OPEN COUNCILA New Parliament G 03 The Honesty of the Clergy 603 LITERATURESummary ' . 604 Eustace Conyers 604 A Batch of Books 606 PORTFOLIOFrench Criticism on English Pictures 606
the arts-Two Plays at the"Francais" ... 608 Monti ' s Lectures on Sculpture ... 608 The Theatres 609 Births , MaTriages , and Deaths ... 609 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements 610-612
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/1/
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