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pHces will rise materially beyond their present level ; on the contrary , we must have large supplies ; and the withholdeis have probably overreached themselves . Trade continues " sound , " and employment is li * w ^ to . « # ^ n . B « 6 | tet » oife £ / i new blow is to be struck afcbtrade ! Ifuml ^ s who withheld their sympathjr ^ from the Czabbsof Russia and his absolute 0 > wev will owntfi a ~ strong sympathy < i »* fch tbe ^ pipubUcan ^^ dpf the West , and will be quite prepared to impart some more political spirit to out-of-door agitations than could have been given to these bread riots in London by the factitious bitterness of speculatfrfe
agitators . Again , the raiswig ^ of the . Eanfc disQOunt . had . nQ power to create -a panki- «»• > thi *< 5 ountryi ^ h © public knew well that it was intended to cheek the drain of gold to the Continent , and-to create that reaction which has begun . Themembers of Chambers of Commerce' in the ^ STorth who have already been crying out against I ^ bl's poluJy , in respectof ittlUon , will take this opportunity of otr ganising a settled agitationtoupset the Bank A « t . of 1844 ; but they are a minority , and theycan do ¦ no more than make ratter an imposing kind ^ of noise . > Trade ,, inay : sufiec slightly from the enr . bancemenfc / 6 $ ^ discount : it -has seareely - suffered
anyJthifig-irsoianth ' e ^ warwith ¦ Russia : ; but suppose OJir' ^ BiiieifjictBaU ^ proceeded to hostilities with America ^ imagine , the . stoppage in the supply of : cpttpn , ; a » 4 the expprt of cotton goods . The * Russian na . yy has been shut up in its own , forts ; ^ jl' ^ Mj ^ blnjnon ^ to say ^ that the Amerigari navy j is ^ alppsfi a »^ dec ayed as the Russian . " Oredat j&k&usi" But ! we make no account of
privateering ^ or of jia ^^ hostilities ; these , if necessary , we would gladly face ; but the direct . stoppage of * trade ,... by the quarreling of the two countries , is not ; a thing that Lancashire , or ; Cheshire , or Ayrshire , or Lanarkshire will be ; disposed to face . There will be a strong commgrcial antipathy to anything like a war such as the Times has declared . '
We have laughed at " the Coalition , " and it was laughable . Its own . friends were ashamed of it . We have affirmed that Mr . John Bright did not represent Manchester ; and it is only to refute this statement , after repeated taunts , that he is about to hold a public meeting in the town' that elected him . But if there be anything like quarrelling and ' war with the United States , the real Manchester people , " the whole boiling of them , " as they ^ Bay in-Lancashire , will' speak out : Liverpool and' West Lancashire will be placed in alliance with the enemies of the Government ; for we need not point out the totally changed relations of parties in Parliament , if Lancashire ,
Cheshire , and Lanarkshire should be placed in opposition ; by the side of the Conservative Party , and augmented / of course ; ipso fixcto , by the Peace Party . And let us note that that Peace Party , instead of being- reduced to its smallest numbers , would at once find recruits from many who will not ndw- declare against the councils of their countrywUile the CaAn is its' enemy ; but who would' protest ! , on ¦ practical grounds , against any hostilities between 1 England '' and America . It is a kind of recruitment for the political' ' parties of opposition at home , ' which * would at once consolidate' smell and scattered factions , and give' them really respectable-ground to net upon .
This as a state of affairs which-makes-us regard with more regret the * death , of Sir Wwxtam 'Mojobbwobtbt . He was'a 4 oss't 6-the'oountry ' in ' any ease . Born of an old family ^ possessing rank and fortune , endowed TvuthVan- elaborately comprehensive education ) by disposition studious * Moxjsswobtjo , pos * seised an ambition-of- acting with perfect independence ; of reasony . and ' in a manner at once worthy of hifli esoutcheoa and of' an Englishman , Hft-was / aristocratic ini-hia tendencies , democratic in his ^ ooDmotfona c and while his aristocratic feet-
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SuccEss .-1 ft $ UQW « success in the vicinity of the Blac Sea ; and :: the IBtjssians are being fast reduced t desperataiextretnrties . Since last we addressed ov readers , Sinbum has been captured by the Allie and Otcbakoff has been blown up by the enemy him self , who isr . beginning to despair of opposing ou attftckai = TBft . details of the first of these successe will * 'be found Below ; o&the latter , we have as ye searcelyjany particulars . ' Si « Edmund Lyons , writin ; from offthe mouth of the Dnieper on the 18 th inst says : — " Tliis morniug , the enemy blew up his forti fications on Otchakoff Point , mounting twenty-thre guns , which were assailable by our mortar vessels . The possession of these two important places give ; us a-command of Nicholaieff , the contemplated ne \ Sebaaiopol : ; : and . it is - therefore , obvious that th Russians Have reeeived- ' another-heavy blow .
On the evening of the . 224 ^ Prince Gortschakof telegraphed that , up to that date , nothing fresh hac occurred between Kinburn and Nicholaieff . Sonn vessels attempted to enter the Bug and Dnieper , bu retired . We still continue without any definite intelligent from the Crimea } but various cirisumBtandtes poim to the probability ; 6 f some important .: change in th < posture of affairs taking place there shortly . A correspondent o ^ : the 7 iwics saysj— ¦ - / " The latest intelligence from the Crimea received vii Germany is of the 14 th . It states that on- that day tin second French corps , commanded by- General Bosquet occupied the passage of Diana , near Alsu , and the ex cellent positions of Tchquliou and Chamli , on . the rout < leading to Aitodor , and-the passage- of Maubug-Kaleh the heights of which , as well as-those of Kerman , an occupied by the Russians to the number of 24 , 000 . Thi reconnoissances made by the sejtjond' corpsnear thai
passage were terminated , and the Trench were engaged in fortifying the roads which , lead from the valley of the Tchouliou to Chamli , They had , at the same time , completed important operations between Skelia , at tht entrance of the valley of Baidar , Kaleh , and the Belbek They have explored the countryto a distance of fourteen leagues , without meeting with the slightest resistance from the enemy- It was only when the French began to retire to the heights of Baidar , on the 13 th , that a Russian corps appeared disposed to attack them . Marshal Pelissier still had his head-quarters at Skelia on the 13 th . The reconnoissances on both sides give-rise to almost daily skirmishes on the route from Skelia to Kaleh . The only place where there had been no fighting was the passage leading directly from Tchouliou towards the north , and terminating in the country of the Tcherkess-Kerman , in the interior of the principal position of the Russians . Marshal Pelissier was making preparations to winter in the Crimea . It was believed that the autumn
campaign would be closed by the capture of Baktchiserai . The Russians continue to fortify the forts to the north of Sebastopol . " It has been suggested , however , that this continued fortification of the northern works is a ruse , and that the Russians design to evacuate their portion of Sebastopol , and to retire towards Perekop . We have heard this statement , it must be admitted , several times before ; but movements are now observed in Gortschakoff ' s army which give to the rumour greater worth than it previously possessed . The semi-official Morning Post has the following : —
" We understand that advices have just been received from Vienna and Berlin , which state that , at both those capitals it was expected , and the expectation was derived from Russian sources , that the forces of the Czar were about to evacuate the whole of the Crimea . We look shortly for stirring news thence . The Russians will not be allowed to leave scathless , but tlie amount of damage we can do them must , of course , bo decided by the fortune of war . Generals d'Allonvillo and Spencer have now a large army menacing tho rear of the Russians ; and the latest intelligence states that more troops have gone to swell their numbers . Our positions at Kinburn
and Otchakoff are very threatening ; and , in short , the crisis ia approaching which will determine not only whether the Russians can hold the Crimea , but whether they can save the armies which at present occupy it . " A despatch from Marseilles , dated the 23 rd , mentions that numerous Russian waggons appear actually to have begun the evacuation of tho northern forts . Wo must , of course , take care not to bo over sanguine ; but that the Russians are placed in a position of the greatest gravity is manifest from tho annexed telegraphic message derived from St . Petersburg itself through Berlin : —
"On the 22 nd , about 40 , 000 of tho Allied forces advanced from Eupatoria to Tulat . The next day they reached the heights at Schagadiandn , but retreated beyond Andatotschi on perceiving bur ([ Russian ) Lancers on their left flank . " A place named Tulat—probably the locality indicated in the despatch—is situated about halfway between Eupatoria and Simpheropol . Rumour at Berlin- states that Prince Gortseliakoff lias represented to tho Emperor Alexander the great diul-
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ings made him * take \ a thigh standard of conduct , his democratic sympathies made him defend the most liberal standards of our constitution , and rendere&ihim incapable -of fear when . he had a cauaette supipprt . It J ^ wellvunderstaod ^ tli&ti Sir WituAM BlikLEswoifafc had not given , up jauny of his opinions * , political dcreligious : although Jife had entered theM 3 abinet , anil had 4 faced the presence of deafhii . HSf-was afirnfcsupppcter of Low 1-53 *
xmerston , and he accepted the war against Russia as a necessity ; he well understood our relations in America , and . no ^ man was more likely to mitigate thfe / aristocratic ^; anti-ftefmooratic , anti-Aineriean prejudices . of pur . titled . Ministers . He had success sively , compelled ^ Crovernmenta to , respe « t . pppulai ; wHH& ' 0 anadav :, td-abbl * sh an infamous insttSation in Australia , to treat the Cape with justice ; and it is ~ -quite possible- that he might considerably have modified the councils of-Lord Pa ^ mebston ' s
Cabinet , if he-had not been taken from us just at the point when he was most wanted ... ¦ - It ' i » ott different grounds that we regret the ileath of L ' ord Whabncmfpb ; A Tory by-birth , a Liberal in feeling , he had devoted himself latterly to subjects unconnected with political parties ,-and chiefly relating to the material and moral improvement ofhis countrymen . - Mr . Lxjcas , the Member for Jkleathi frequently provoked our dissent from his opinions and course of action ; but he possessed one rare quality in tEese days—a decided opinion , boldly uttered , and consistently followed up in action . J ? or this we liked him , and we regret that he has gone .
By these deaths vacancies are created for Meath and South work ! A third is created by the death of Mr . Tudwat , for Wells . The declaration of Mr . Rust , just elected for Huntingdon , in the room of Lord Mandkvim / e , who has become the Duke of Manchester , is a proof that even members of the opposition must accept the war , the hopes of Coalition notwithstanding . Both the candidates for Southwark , Mr . Scovem ., and Sir Charles Napieb , are supporters of the -war—Sir Charles , with the disadvantage of being a man
considered to be past active service ; Mr . Scoveijo , with the advantage of a new position and much local influence .. It is , however , difficult to say what may be the effect of the American complications on subsequent elections . Commerce has been represented in another place —in the Central Criminal Court ; where an unusual number of cases have referred to commercial and monetary offences . Many persons have been tried for the utterance of false coin , and at the police court this week they seem to have got hold
of a wholesale forger ; which is rather an improvement upon the dabbling in punishment of paltry utterers , when the makers of the coin escape . Cortazar and Massif represent our foreign commerce , which they extended at the cheap cost of the paper bearing other men ' s names , forged by them . There is no doubt that they are connected with a gang on the Continent , whose
operations may be guessed from toe magnitude of those brought before the Court . Strahan" , Patji ,, and Bates represent our doinestic finance ; that portion in which regular banking business is mingled with the trust of private property * and the loss of that property . ITho Reverend Mr . Griffiths represents " the publio' * which has so often , from Capel-court to Temple-bar , found itself " done . "
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1022 m THE LEADER . [ No . 292 , Saturday , ^
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Thb Huwtxnghjonshibe Election . —Tho olootion of a . member for Huntingdonshire , in the room of V iscount Mandoville , who has succeeded to the Dukedom of Manchester , took place on Tuesday , when Mr . Rust , of Aloonbury , , a Conservative , was returned without opposition . Rbbbkskntation ; op Southwabk . — A mooting of tho electors of Southwark has resulted in a determination to support Mr . Scovell as successor to tho late Sir William Molesworth in the representation of tho borough .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1022, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/2/
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