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^e&acx;. A POLITICAL AW) LITERARY REVIEW.
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A DECLARATION" op war against America has been made From the office of the Times , and the greatest blow that has been given to the war in the East belongs to the present week . For while the Times is the first to utter the hostile declaration , it is followed up by an
explanation from the Morning Post calculated to irritate the Americans still more than the rough writing of the leading journal . There are several points in dispute between the Government of this country and the American Republic . The Post only mentions some of them ; but of course if the scabbard is to be thrown away , every cause of irritation will be called out in full force .
The most obvious and most recant occasion for angry feeling is furnished by the trials that have taken place for offences against the Foreign Enlistment Act of Congress . An agent of the British Government entered the Union for the purpose of spreading information as to the Legion which was to have been formed on British territory , and of facilitating the passage of any persons who might desire to enlist upon foreign territory . But the British agent received ofl ' crs of assistance from
men who proved to be quite incompetent to fulfil their promise , and who , in their desire of fulfilment , unquestionably drugged him into complicity with their own oH'ers of inducement to the citizens to enlist ; while one of them has turned informer . The British representative at Washington is charged with having , some kind of communication with the British agent ; and it has been said , apparently without sufficient foundation , that the American Government has demanded his
recnl . That ia the first dispute . The second point is the contest on the subject of tho Honduras settlement . The British had undertaken hy treaty not to make encroachments on tho North American main beyond tho bounds of the old settlement , which had established itself against treat }' , and had mado good , its footing on the principle of suflbranco . Subsequently aouio
of our West Indian settlers have sought to establish a new settlement at Ruabon , in the Bay of Islands , pleading that they had begun to do so before tho treaty , and that the compact did not out them off" from fulfilling their project . The Americana contemplated some counter-occupation , and here is the next point on which collision may take place .
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Our readers know the position of Cuba ; they know how recently disputes have been settled on the northern boundary of the Union ; they knew the constant pressure upon the Republican Government by an anti-British party ; jet here is the English Government lending its countenance to the assertions of those anti-British parties ! It is probable that the Federal Government will feel itself compelled to lake steps that may place it in collision with our arms .
We may foresee some of the deplorable consequences . The first will be immensely to strengthen the German Powers in their hostile neutrality . If they refused to come out of it for England and France , are they likely to do so when America shall be placed by the hostility of England in the same category as Russia ? It is in the presence of this intelligence that we have the news of the progress of our armies in the Crimea . Were not so much ground lest in the West , we might rejoice at the gaining of ground in the East . The Allies arc pi * essing Gtojitsciiakoff at every point . The success at Kinburn , which establishes the Allies on the main behind
Perekop , is followed up by an advance from Lupatoria , threatening tho rear of Gobtsciiakoff in the Crimea ; while on the opposito side he is pressed by the constant but stcaiJy adviuioc of the French outposts . Tho cloud in the West also throws a \ gloomy shadow upon other movements in Europe . Hitherto we have been arrayed against tho Absolutist powers , and although Franco and England have abstained from placing themselves at all in relation with tho Republican party on tlie
Continent , they have not been acting against tiint party . On the contrary , however reluctantly , it seemed quite possible that the Allies might be acting against tho Kino or Naixks , and , therefore , with the Constitutional party in Naples ; in support of Sardinia , and , therefore , against tho Tuscan Government . Wo have observed the reluctance of France and England to take uny part tluit could favour tho Patriot party ; and we learn with some
surprise that , instead of supporting Sardinia iu Tuscany , Lord Nobmani » y is accused of mediating between Tuscany and Sardinia ; Austria lending all her weight to Tuscany . Our readers know the nature of the dispute . A young gentleman in the Sardinian service had arrived at Florence sis attach ^ to the Sardinian Embassy thero ; ho ia the son of a Lombard nobleman , naturalised in Piedmont . No difficulty was made by the Tuscan Gu-vcrniaunt
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until a hint was suggested by Austria that he was the son of the enemy of Austria , on * which the Tuscan Government vehemently and arrogantly demanded his recal . The Sardinian Government has shown every disposition to avoid any course offensive to that of Tuscany ; but Austria perseveres in her instigation , Tuscany in her violence ; and Lord Normanbt , ambassador of the ally of
Sardinia , talks about "mediatingI" Now in the West , England is seen on the point of war with the great Republic , and every embarrassment that can cramp her proceedings in Europe , as well as in the extreme East , must be further complicated with this new dispute . She is weakening herself for good , and destroying her meum of resisting Russia , or the allies of Russia .
For it must be remembered that the actual state of things in Europe is such as to present many elements of resistance to the Allies , if only some principle of unity could bring the elements into combination . Even at home , the French Government is not without its opponents : it has them in the dormant parties of Orleanists , Legitimists , and Republicans . It has new enemies in the dearth of food , and in the rigours of winter ; and the recent decree published in tho Moiliteur shows that the Government is not insensible to the fresh
dangers that menace it . The Empebob , who had offered reduced railway tarifls for the conveyance of grain , who had already forbidden the export of grain from Algeria , now forbids its export from France , with the export of buckwheat , maize , potatoes , and chesnuts . He gives 10 , 000 , 000 francs to the Prefects of departments to aid in the creation of funds for the aasistunoc of the poor ; he enjoins tho Prefects to encourage every kind of charitable organisation and contribution ; and nt the same time he confesses his feaiv *
by threatening agitators who may seize fcho opportunities of winter and dear bread to breed disorders . Tho position of France was already sufficiently critical , while there were these internal elements of opposition , with tho groat enemy , Russia , beyond tho frontier ; but now , by tho position of our Government , a now enemy ia called forth for the Allies in the West ; and certainly the sanguine factions of Franco will not fail to understand the change which this complication imparts to the position oC tho Allies .
Wo must apply tho same remarks to our own domestic ) ' condition . There really ft no approliension that the supply of corn will fall short- — none whatever . There is no probability that tho
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VOIi . VI . No . 292 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 , 1855 . Price { %£££ . ^ xpeuce /
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• 'The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men byprejudiee and on . e-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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NEWS OFTHE WEEK— rxas TheAVar 1022 The Jersey Republicans 1023 Public Meetirigs ~ 1024 Death of Sir ' Williani Molesworth 1025 Our Civilisation 1025 Naval and Military News 1028 Continental Notes 1026 Obituary 1027 Miscellaneous 1027 Postscript 102 S
THE ARTSThe Drama in Paris „ ... 1040 The Reopening * 1040 Births , Marriages , and Deaths .. 1011 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c . 1041-1044
: PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE—; _ , » ,,.., ,- >„ , » Summary 1034 Peace— or a War of Principles . 1029 Thomas Carlyla 1034 Survey of the \ Var 1030 Theological and Social Essays . 1035 English Meddling in Cuba 1030 History of Psychological Me-The Catholic . Eclipse . ; 1031 thod . 1036 Spain and England at the Cen-, Eight Years' Wanderings in tral Criminal Court 1032 Ceylon . . 1037 O ? EM COUNCIL- ' ' tt : ' ^ ! .: ! . ! 1 !! . !! 1038 Social Reform 1033 A Batch of Books 1039
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/1/
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