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VOI.. VI. No. 275.] SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1855. [Price Sixpence.
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rpHE summer sun shining on the bloody conflict JL at Sebastopol does not create a more bright and glowing scene for humanity to struggle in than our own country with its summer sun , its grand hopes , its paltry obstructions , and the seething of the political and social caldron . Never , perhaps , in the history of mankind , has one week exhibited the ferment in greater activity ; never has the human heart been more pained with the
sense of obstruction and vexatious distraction ; but never have more large and expanding prospects been in sight than we now discern . Everything , we may say , is working well , although everything just at present is at fault . The statements look inconsistent , but they are not more inconsistent than the times . The mob in Hyde Park to hoot the aristocracy who were not oppressing them in the particular case ; the Bishops asking for the reform of the lower house of Convocation : the
administrative Reformers , hindered in their great and really prosperous work by their own mistakes ; the British army recruiting more slowly than it loses in the field by the penury of a Government newly awakened to its failures ; the bankruptcy that is the canker of a gigantic and not declining trade ; the defection of Austria from real alliance ; the accusations of treachery against our own Government , which seems to be persevering
faithfully in a course without clear-sighted objects ; Russian fictions , nationalism from Lyndiiurst , drowning debate upon the dead Maynooth question once a week—these , and other elements of present conflict are working clear , and _ converting doubt into hope before our very eyes ; and we potty men , who are elements in the ferment , aro blest with a consciousness that may make us feel the pain of the day , but know also the grander destiny before us .
The news of this week , therefore , is a chapter in the history of mankind , as checkered as a wholo volume might bo , and as full . Parliament itself booms to be but the typo of the country which it represents more correctly in tho unconscious exhibition of its own weaknesses and tendencies , than in any technical reference to tho sull'nigo , or in the acts that it is accomplishing . It is overy year trying to do more than it can—bringing in hundreds of imperfect bills to throw over half / and thus to perform infinitely loss than hulf of
what it really could do if it set about the task in good faith and settled purpose . It is prevented by the hypocrisy which restrains members from saying out what they think , and makes them pretend to do what they dissent from . —adopt a " dry" instead of a mission , and become the tools of election agents or jobbing constituents instead of the representatives of the country . So Lord Palmehstos announces , this year , that we must throw over education ; throw over an improvement in the jurisdiction over wills—which was only to begin an improvement in the laws relating to family matters ; throw over those and many other measures which Ministers and members
thought it necessary for their credit to " take up , but which they are not strong enough to go through with . Yet none of these subjects have really declined . The very incapacity of Parliament is making men understand how much more important it is to get at education and the better laws for the regulation of family matters , than to keep up the present particular franchise , which places the election of members of Parliament at the mercy of professional agents . If you want better statutes , says Lord Pai . merston by the very act of " massacring the
innocents , " you must have another Parliament ; for this Parliament cannot do your work . Yet it still promises to do some good work , in passing a statute to facilitate a consolidation of the war department by transferring to it ordnance land in giving a local Government to the metropolis , and in . adopting the principle of limited liability for corporate partnerships and individual partners—a section of free-trade which will do somethin" - towards releasing commerce from those marantees upon which it foolishly relies to its own injury and loss .
Lord Lyndhuust gets up in the House of Lords , recapitulates the actual position and course tnken by Austria down to April last , shews that she appeared to be consistent in her alliance with thiti country , and asks Ministers what they mean to do , now that she has withdrawn from her pledges ? Austria , answers Lord Ci-aiuondoiv , was consistent
down to the close of tho Conferences ; but because this country would not accept the impracticable compromise which she suggested between Kussia and the " Western Powers , she holds that . 1 'Vance and England are responsible- for the failure of the negotiations , and that she- is not , bound to undertake those active operations which she had jroviously and protectively volunteered There
are excuses for her , says Lord Glabendon : the language of the people and press in this country has alarmed and alienated friendly German Go < - vernments , who might have sided along with us in opposition to Russia ; we have not been so successful as we might have been in the Crimea , and cannot march up to the support of Austria if she were attacked by Russia . Good ! If Austria pleads fears , she may excuse her bad faith at the expense of her chivalry . But it is not a day in which any timid Government on the Continent can be safe . Lord Clarendon ^ however , states that the refusal of Austria exonerates this country from the four bases . Good again ! But he says nothing yet about what , being free , he thinks of doing next . We have lost the alliance of Austria—a very
embarrassing alliance , which brought some doubts upon those who felt compelled to put faith in her professions , because they manifestly went along with her interests . But if she has parted from us , she has parted exactly in the same proportion from her own interest . If she cannot meet the expense of keeping up her army by abandonin" - the friendship of the West , she forfeits the very basis of her renovated finance by weakening her hold over Hungary and Italy . The loss of the Austrian alliance is a trouble which threatens
Europe with new complications : it means , that , if our Ministry do not play dastard and traitor , and give up the war , it will continue to spread ; but if they go on , it means that the Western Powers must be thrown upon other alliances ; and then it would mean that Poland , Italy , and Hungnry—to which the Conservative and aged Lyndhuust has more than once alluded—may become substantial states , and make tho world once more feel their value . The pross Jitis been censured by Ministers for telling tales to the enemy . The press may throw that reproach in the face of Lord Panmure , who proclaims that the enemy is killing our soldiers fast enough to neutralise our recruiting ; while some of
our contemporaries arc telling the enemy that the sons of our aristocracy and moneyed classes , for whom military commissions are reserved , are too cowardly or too luxurious to venture to the seat of wir Sad confessions these ! Yet , what is the practical result V A healthy reaction . Tho sons of the aristocracy come out , and declare that they deserve and desire to deserve commissions in the East Ministers have before assured us that tho workin" soldier shall be admitted to the rank of ollieer T and now there is many a man with an epaulette on liis shoulder who wont out to the Crimea in the working ranks . And Lord Panmiikk adds , this week , that the nay of the soldier ldoubled
fi . rlitin « r before the enemy shall > o , m on lor that tlm new lmlf may be laid by as a store whun he returns from the field , or as a provision for his family . Seven shillings a week is thud adiU'd to tho pny of l ^ English soldier . Tho chivalry of the working classes , therefore , is really
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NEV / S OF THE WEEK— page PUBLIC AFFAIRS- OPEN COUNCIL— THE ARTSImperial Parliament 614 Realities 620 How the Successors of the Signor Monti on Christian Art ... 632 Convocation .... 615 Survey of the War 620 Apostles Travel on a Sabbath 626 The Theatres . — "Helping The War 015 Sunday in Hyde Park 621 General Guy on 626 Hands . " 632 Administrative Reform Meeting at Mr . Charles Dickens a Reformer 621 _____ Drury-Lane 617 Drifting 622 LITERATUREA Working Printers * Association ... 617 The Austrian Debate 622 Summary 627 Births Marriages and Deaths 632 Our Civilisation 617 The Suicide of Commerce 623 Danby Seymour ' s Russia on the Continental Notes 617 The Von Beck Case Unmasked ... 624 Black Sea 627 rnMMrRnai affairs—Nwal and Military News 618 How to Organise an Army 624 Letters of Sydney Smith 628 uwmm _ iwi «_/ M-r « ms » Miscellaneous 618 The German Liberal View of the Russian Conquest of Finland ... 629 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Postscript 619 Russian Question 625 Four Story-Books 631 vertisements 633-6 S 6
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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 treafc the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . ' '—ffumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Voi.. Vi. No. 275.] Saturday, June 30, 1855. [Price Sixpence.
YOIj . VI . No . 275 . ] SATURDAY , JUNE 30 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2097/page/1/
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