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TIIK Parisians love a holiilay , and they h : ive taken ample advantage of that aflonlufl to ibem by the conjunction of p lanetary Crowns — Louis Xapoi-kon and Victoria . , Paris was summoned to show itself in its host pa ^ oantry , and it never looked so wi-11 as it did in the eyes of "Victoria . For the time , party distinctions appear to have been laid aside . In f . \ ct , the onL > overruling instinct of the Frenchman , and of the Frenchwoman , mastered the entire people ; and , however some may theoretically disapprove , practically they countenanced whatever was goiti £ forward . The republicans , we are told , . stayed awav ; but , if there was that < rreat concourse , and no republicans , where , indeed , is "the Ilepublic ? " We doubt the statement . The republican was merged for the moment , and the Frenchman was under the mastery of liis , si <> ryc—the impulse to crown ev . ry festivity by the pre .-enee of nmi . The nun welcomed her— in every form that » ir can assume — Empe : or , created nobles , ollicer , tiub-ollicor , garde national , niaire , tradesman , ouvrier , gamin , jtriost , prelate , professor , student , journalist ; and lhe . se not only in their individual capacity , hut also in their corporate capacity—academy , church , muirie , garde I iiiitiouale , army , government , einj > ire . Present it in whatever pha . se you will , there stood France , amd there came Queen Victoria , with an amount of smiling all around that Paris has never witnessed . The Orleanists alone bore really a distinct and gloomy countenance , for the Orleanists have a positive proximate inter , . st , and every 1 smile given to imperial France from regal I -Rutland was a nail in the eoilin of the Or . leaniat hopes . What boots it , to repeat ( lie tal I of 1 lie pomp which our abridgment tellri — ] of all tliut passed from the lime that Queen Victoria landed at Houl . igue until slrr found herself in the imperial arms , and was conveyed to St . Cloud—nil that In-fel as she has gone through the round of Mght -seeing V The , fact , is , thai ; on an occasion like this there is a concurrence of movements and not one movement . The ( in ken come . s to see the Fmim : iioh , and be takes licr to see the sights of Paris , that i . i one fact . ( The Hi ^ ht-loving folks of Pnri . s go again to sec the i Im position , because l {«> yallv and Imperially sit tho fawhion for the week . Others go to see the i
crowd at the Exposition , -with the Queen and Kmi'kbob at the head . Activity stimulates itself ; delight glows upon the countenance of Paris , and we are told that France lias welcomed Kngland , and has condoned the cv . ' . y ? il ' c ' . al — that there is , in s ! : orf , an Imperial millennium — a millennium of the Champs Flysc-es : an Klysian jeraoflove , that might he represented , after the infernal mummery of the si .-ge , at Creniornc . ^ Vhatever may be the uncertainty of apparitions at courts—whatever may be the hypocrisy lurking in councils that direct the war—there is no mistaking tbe stern reality itself , or the spirit of the men that confront it bodily . It lias been remarkably cliaractv-rlstie cf the present contest , that the reality has alino > t invariably transcended the imagination of tlio .-e win ) had the . early and imperfect rumours of the events . We und ^ rr-Ucd the Alum ; imagination had to be .-purred by repeated descriptions before it could contemplate the -wonderful lolly , and extraordinary heroism , which directed and executed the charge at Haniklava ; the surprising omission in guarding the point at I nkennan , ro fur excelled by the devotion in the soldier which made g . iod the fault in the ollicer , seemed at first , bevond all reasonable belief . And so the earliest idea of the second battle of the Tcheruaya falis slior :. of the simple narrative in the official » lesi > a : clu's . The position of the Uu ^ ians has already been fairly conjectured , for the oflieial accounts atrtrnglv e . mlirni the original interpretation . They had just received large reinforcements oC men , and probably of ammunition ; they felt stronger than they had ever been , but already they were on r-hort commons , and reinforcements at a stinted lizard are formidable to friends as well as lues . They had tried their ban ' s at sorties , but here was the opportunity for a great sortie , ri-i it were , in fltmk — a great sort ie . of a whole army iViiin the interior . The immediate scheme appears to have beca this : ( ioin'scn . VKorr intended to f > rce the Tehernaya . and to occupy the old position held in the winter bv Liikvnmi . For this purpose they had brought a mass of materiel . Their m . iin attack was directed against ( bo bridges of Traklir . ( ioRTsciiAKorr mustered some <>() , <> 0 (> men , and mi the night of the l . ) th , and ut dawn on the lo ' tli , he fell uj » on t ! io four r ' lviudi divisions and Sardinian trix ^ ps that lined ( he left bank of the Tehornaya from Tehorgoun to Inkerinan valley , The Fivnrh mviipu'd ( he left . jwul centre , forming \) i \ a low line of hills just above the river ; the Sardinians continued the position by holding tin :
heights near Tehorgoun . We assume that the Allies were plentifully supplied with artillery , and j we know that an English battery of position—32-! pounder guns—were advantageously posted on 1 the bill of tho Sardinians . Gortsceakoff ' s devoted soldiers were slaughtered as they advanced under the fire of the Allied aims . Unable to ad-J vance , or to retain their ground , they retreated with tremendous slaughter . They left 3300 upon the field , besides some hundreds of prisoners . The last reports , therefore , leave the . Russians under tremendous pressure ; the Allies appear to be well furnished with everything that can be required , either for the purposes of the siege , or for the maintenance of the position ; and Dr . Sutherland , whose authority is deservedly ranked as complete , reports that all the sanitary regulations with respect to the removal of nuisances , water supply , clothing , and shelter , are such as to minimise the . pestiferous influences -which cannot be eradicated upon the spot , and probably to counteract anv perils to the health of the men from tho winter . I > Sir Ciiari . i : s Wood has promised a great supply of gunboats and mortar-boats for the Ualtic next ' \ ear . It is this promise for next summer which lends tho only practical importance that we can attach to the assault upon Sweaborg as it is de-; scribed in the authentic reports . It has been said thai the fortress was gutted , and that is about the truth of it . The fortifications , which bar the entrance into llelsingfors , had been elaborated as Russia has elaborated all her coast defences . They had been connected by outworks , and filled with stores of ammunition . Against , these stone torts ships could not be brought without something like a certainty that the vessels must be destroyed , the fort remaining uninjured . It was not even like Iiomnrsund , which was really so little touched—for the fortress could not be taken in the rear , nor was there an island to surround . The channel would have been a trap for any vessel that should have entered it . Tho gunboats , however , even when they went within range , could continually shift their ground , and iormulg a smaller mark than the entire forlre .-is , they eluded the missiles oC the IJussi ' . in ^ wliiie . the iixvd mid broad ground ol ' the enemy received ( lie deadlv bail of the British . The red-hot shot of _ the Russians u ere cooled in the w . iler ; tin' exphw- ^ ^ , ^ . sions of ( he lirilish fell amongst , the buWirtS g Jgrp ^^ f * and th .- p lace was gnttcd by eon / I ^ rnUoUd fc ^ o / tW ^ . £ J explosions . Tho Won- »< IK ¦ fcingfora is an CJjpiptf ^ , > ' V {~ - > ¦ i V , ^ U S V . AT Vj ^ - X
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VOL . VI . No . 283 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 25 , 1855 . Pwce !«« MSe
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NEWS OF THE WEEK- no « Tho War 807 3 'htt Qiu-en's Visit to Franco 80 S Til" Mechanics at Knowsloy 810 Mis-s Nightingale H 10 A Horrible Story 810 The Poisoning Case in Somersetshiro H 10 Our Civilisation Ml Th <; Italian Nightmare 811 Obituary 811
ContJiiental Xotos 812 j Naval anil Military News 812 i Miscellaneous 812 ! i ' ostscript bl 3 PUBLIC AFFAIRS — l ' oaco or " \ V : ir : SI 3 'J'lie Fifth 7 ' oiiit sl-l i Two Coups d'Klat S 15 I A "Won ! to our Tourists bio I llaihvay Management and lto-| venue SIC
: Tho Rorbuck Testin . onirxl 817 Ti p Independent Stales of india 818 OPEN COU . NiCILItaly Tor tho Italians S 10 i LITERATURE-; Summary 820 Love in the Drama S-JO Nortt's AmbrosiaiKu .. x ~ 2 \ Aristotle on the Vital l rinc ! j ) lc s ^
The Picture Galleries of Europe 823 M . Forpties on the Caricaturists ' . of England 823 Stories in Verse 824 liussia and her Czars 825 i 15 ' u-ths , Marriages , and Deaths ... 82 G COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS — City Intelliironee . Markets , Advertisements , &c . S 2 G-S 28
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"The one Idea which TIi 3 torv exhibit ' s as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men byprejudice and one-aided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the vvaole ilarnan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2103/page/1/
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