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VOIi . VI . No . 267 . 1 SATURDAY , MAY 5 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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ri ^ HE week which begins with the announcement X of the attack on the French Ebo ^ ob closer ¦ S )« r *^^« 3 b ^ dr * ¦ week old . i The meeting ^ S ^ S ^ C ^ y ip ^ r ^ buld be im ^ rtatit ^| l ^*^ r $ 6 n | U > ri * ^<^ ^ p ikj ^ L ^ ^ b ^ BwMKjii- to his place in the House of Gommons ,, has a&niiyB been regarded as a strong test of any movementthathas become general— . the Metro-. polls seldom being the first to move . ' ¦' " Thf& ) tegg of the requisition by which the meeting is -Cclm- ' vened strikingly resemble in their tone and purpose the resolutions which Mr . Latabd placed upon the notice paper of the House of Commons last week . The requisition is signed by many of the leading City men : they are acting in unconcealed cooperation with the independent Members of the House of Commons ; and the meeting is avowedly the commencement of an endeavour to organise a great association throughout the country . The provisional management , it ia said , already has 10 , 000 / . of a subscription at its command . The crack of Pianori ' s pistol , answering ominously to the hallelujah of our aristocracy and mob , has revealed to the conspirators of the coup d ' etat the abyss beneath their feet . To England , also , it has revealed an abyss , into which our politicians of course will plunge . Much stale commonplace has been talked about the threads on which the destinies of nations hang ; but it is the business of statesmen and diplomatists to prevont tho destinies of nations from hanging on threads . The flash of that eninc pistol has discovered tho pregnant fact that the most beloved of mpriarcbs rides about tho streets of his capital alone , guarded by the affection of his subjectsand by a select corps of guards in various disguises armed with dng ' gcra . Ai . kssandri was one of them . They nro called tho Corsican guard . Eye-witnesses assert that it was not only " civilisation" that started and turned pale—deadly pule —at tyq sudden vision of retribution . All Frenchmen unite in rejoicing that Pianori missed his aim : the BonapnrtiBts for courtly reasons , others for reasons loss courtly . The speech of Louis Napoleon to his Senate on the occasion is that of a moral monomaniac , who imagines that
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everything is permitted to him , and that no harm can happen to him till he has fulfilled his " mission . " And this is the man in whose game England—rsober- , and lawrJoving ;; ; ^ hf ^ taiid : Te ^ 8 ^ iA ^
of the little Loois Qcatorze— " CPest Jupiter en personne , ou e ' est le vainqiieur de Sebaslopol . " The removal of Napoleon would have made a difference in the progress of the alliance exactly the opposite of that whicb . --ould . be produced if the siege of Sebastopol were to succeed . As it is , failing the attack of the assassin or the success of the siege , matters at Vienna seem to go on very much as before—slowly and doubtfully . It is indeed reported by the Pays itnd the Constitution nel that the Austrian Government had signed rather an important convention before M . Drouvn de
Lhuys quitted Vienna . This convention stipulates that the Four Points of guarantee , laid down in the protocol of the 28 th of December , cannot be separated ; and that tho refusal of Russia to accept any one of these indivisible Four Points would create a casus belli provided for by the treaty of alliance of December 2 . The Pays also expresses its belief , that immediately nftcr the conclusion of this convention , Austria sent off an ultimatum to Russia , putting her own interpretation upon , the Third Point , and signifying that the refusal of Russia to accept it would oblige the Cabinet of Vienna to declare War . This news comes under
the head of " important if true . It looks plausible . It was not included in tho explanation of Lord John in the House of Commons on Tuesday , nor in those of Lord Clarknuon in the House of Lords on Thursday ; but Lord Paj-mbRston , last night , " came out strong ' in the pacific line ! The siege is really becoming a bore . T ^ ho bombardment , renewed with such an enormous weight of metal , was relaxed at tho period of tho latest correspondence , in order to economiso tho store
of ammunition ; and the telegraph suDseqit *|» p states that it had been dropped . ; i fiM ^ g ^ ac ^^ te awaited ^ f j ^ gj ^^^^^^^^
mmmm ^ m ^^^ ^ ^^ sw ^^^^^^^^^^ ffi . ^^ a ^ r ^ e ^^ f ^^ oe - ^ a ^ Ta ^ -c ^^ fi 2 ^^^ ^ '^ ESf y ^^ S ^ S ^^^ &m : mtem&ieiiilf ' -W Lord Ragman ' s part ; butthen why is ^ « fent- ? The Sardinian contingent seems at last fo haye accomplished all preUnSmaried , ^ to ; ^ M » r ^ departure . The steam twrnspoFts ^ av 4- ; ta % ' etft the soldiers on board : andthe Genoese ladies , a $ well
as men , are charmed at the comfort and courtesy which they T * found on" board tire [ vessels of the rough English ^—where some of " them scarcely ventured to ' trtist ^ themselves . ' The Sardinian Government has ' undergbne rather ah unpleasant reverse . There are" difficulties m " getting the Senate to acquiesce in the arrangement 6 f the Convents Bill , and ; the Cavour Cabinet resigned , leaving General Ddbando the task of forming a new one ; but he failed to reconcile the clergy , and the Cavour Cabinet has resumed amidst a serious agitation .
One of the most promising diversions for the Allies is the insurrection of the peasantry in the Ukraine . The first accounts represented this as provoked by a ' wfi ^ t of , salt , which , is a government monopoly , an , d therefore not likely to be demanded by the insurgent peasants from their nobles . A more probable story is , that the enormous exaction from the " peasantry to . supply the war have at last become intolerable . The insurrection will
probably bo put down , but it is perhaps not an unimportant sign of the extent to which the pressure falls upon the humble classes throug houtllusshi Our own Parliament has been busy , but has not accomplished much Work beyond forwarding the Government measures , and they proceed as it our Government were veritably strong . No vr \«» ^— i \ j ^* __»_» v ^ -- *» - — - the
• " 11 doubt it is so , comparatively , in contrast with Ilouse ' of Common * . The Loan Bill , with its easy promise to pay a million a year during pence , has got , clear of the lower House , watt out mutilation , and is handed over to tho . Loid * . Tho Newspaper Stamp Bill has Wfen shorn ,.. of its copyright clause , but is othorwi »* naltpi ^ tf The E ducation Bill , iii' which Sir Jq « 5 ^ -I kington la udably endeavoured to ,- $ ocoftc *\ 6 tho
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•• The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble Jj | || endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tne distinctions *| 8 ||| of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development Jill of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos . . , . ^^ P
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— ** ob Imperial Parliament 410 The Sebastopol Committee 413 The War 414 Array Reform Meetings 416 Tho late Military Fracas at Canterbury 416 Attempt to Assassinate the French Emperor 4 l £ A Cheshire Tragedy 417 Execution of Buranelli 417 India and China 418 America 4 i »
Health of London during tho Administrative Reformers 422 Week 418 Reconstruction of the Indian Letters from Paris 419 Army 423 Continental Notes 419 Maynooth and Rome 424 State of Trade . Labour , and the A Contrast 424 Poor 420 Sergeant Brodie 424 Our Civilisation ' . 420 "The Stranger" in Parliament ... 424 Naval and Military News 420 Miscellaneous 421 LITERATUREPostscript 421 Summary 426 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ^ Lyell ' s Geology 427 The Falling Sickness of the Israel Potter 428 Nation 422 Books on our Table 428
THE ARTS— W jgk The Royal Academy Exhibition 428 r Wm The Old Water-Colour Society ... 429 $ m The New "Water-Colour Society 429 ~" £ & Mr . Albert Smith 429 JSS Royal Gallery of Art 429 * M ______ ji * 2 S , Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 430 ^ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Ad- ^ vertisements , Ac 430-432 ;
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2089/page/1/
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