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      News Of The Week- Our Sanitary Condition...

      NEWS OF THE WEEK- Our Sanitary Condition 1161 Where is the Russian Route to In- Miss JJarttoeau ' s Translation oi NEWS OF THE WEEK J > -g ^ ^^ ZrZ 3 S Th ^ rning "< -= £ *& Xli ! - ^ sSfcta ' iZ & T ^ ZZZ WA The Wreck of the Meridian 1154 Criminal Keeord . 1163 Lord Henry Lennox ... 1167 THE ARTSLetters from Paris , 1 J * Miscellaneous 1163 The-. Times on the National Cause m Much Ado about Nothing 1173 Continental Notes ....... .... 1157 Ita ] y 1168 Wednesday Evening Concerts 1173 ¦ 8 ?^ £ E ^ iS ^ . ..::: iS pl i BUO AFF /' s ~ fth Abso . o PEN council- ^^ A im British Subjects Abroad . —The Pro- Progress andj ) ifficulty of the Abso- Scotch Orthodoxy 1168 ' ¦ — - - testant Alliance 1160 Jutist Conspiracy 1164 LITERATURE— Births , Marriages , and Deaths 11 / 3 Theatre of War in Asia 1160 The Reform Question 1165 LITERATURE COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Oxford Tutor ' s Eeport ..... 1161 Russia * Genfrals 1165 %£ ^ ™ T ^ ZZ \ ZZ \ ZZ \\ llS City Intelligence , Markets , Adverffi'SSSSXta- ofIndia 3 £ : ; Pfro ' rce ^ LuTy for - &&& ' 1166 Arnold's Poems ....:............ 1169 tisements ^ c ^^ : i :::: n 73 1176

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      YOL . IV . No . 193 . ] SATURDAY , DECEMBEK 3 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence . =

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      Notwithstanding The Comparative Novelty ...

      NOTWITHSTANDING the comparative novelty and tlie practical importance o £ tho new contest on tlie Upper Eliine for spiritual ascendancy ; the dispute between Turkey and Russia , with the imminent consequences , is still the absorbing question of the day . On the ground o . f armed contest , the fortune of war is not materially changed ; the niost recent advices , while we write , ascribe the success of the moment to the Russians . After many oscillations of fortune at the island near Giuvgevo , the Russians

      appear to have remained masters of that limited ground ; but the constant wavering of fortune shows how nearly the forces were matched ; and , upon the whole , the balance of loss in killed and wounded appears still to side with the Russians , who repeatedly find themselves in detached parties confronting a superior force of Turks . Tho Turks also still remain in possession of

      Uppor Wallaehia ; but both sides appear to bo rather retracting from the lino of conflict and falling back for tho winter . There is some anticipation that after the rains , when the frost shall have set in , formal hostilities will be renewed ; but wo must anticipate rather a succession of nkirmiaheH—a species of armed recreations—than pitched battles , or any contest which can decide

      possession of the territory . While tho Russians and tho Turks aro at their old game of fighting , new propositions are said to agitato the councils of tho Grout Powers . From St . Petersburg in announced as forthcoming another circular to tho Kuropean Courts , and another manifesto . It is one of the most entcrpriHing of the groat publishing fmnH ; dealing , like some of our own London publishers , principally in fiction . Ifrom Austria , in said to emanate A now proportion for negotiations to be carried on in London "

      —an old idea , at which Austria might very likely uateh m -a , means of prolonging the fruitleHH palavers with which nbo has hitherto subHervod M" purposes of Russia . l < Vom Austria , nlno , ( ' <>»> e . H , it in Hiiid , another proportion—Mini tho 1 W Powers should back out of every intervention , and leave Russia , and Turkey to content the Gutter alone ; but thin wo suspect to bo no more tl » mi the repetition of mi old titovy . Whenever it may have happened , it in understood to bavo heen Bcoutod by Franco : and if our Government

      wavered f or a moment , - ultimately it agreed with our ally . From France is understood to have come a proposal for a treaty between the two Western Powers , laying down the basis on which they would unite to enforce a conclusion of the contest upon that Power which has provoked it ; but we do not learn that our Government has signified its assent to this proposal , which has , however , so far as it has been promulgated in England , obtained a ' very general approbation . These few facts appear to embrace the salient points in the present position of affairs .

      That Austria and Russia have conceived newhopes of sxibvcrting France , and so defeating the Western alliance , appears to be established by the countenance which tho Emperor of Austria gives to the union between the Count de Chaiuhord and the Duke de Nemours . The most ostentatious publicity is given to the most trivial forms in tho interview between those two

      potentates out of work . Punch has ridiculed this ceremonious puffing of " Henry the Fifth" and his cousin , by announcements of the compliments which they exchanged , tho history of their reciprocal brandy-and-water , and the joint stirring of tho sugar therein . But in fact tho jokes of Punch scarcely transcend the elaborate solemnity with which some wandering court newsman tells how the Duke called the Count " My King ;" and the Count called the Duke " My Cousin ;" how the Puke would have kneeled , but tho Count took him by both hands ; and how tho Count walked fifteen paces in order to receivethe Duke exactly within tho door . The court newsman , however , in but tho tool ; the Duke rnii . sfc be tho prime mover of Bonding round theso announcements , in order to impart to his enterprise and to tho gracious favours vouchsafed by Henry V . as much as possible the appearance of a legitimate reality and of an important event . Tho eireumatancen of the reconciliation have been communicated to tlioso French Generalb , Cliangarnier , Ijaniorioiero , and Hedeau , whom Louis Napoleon exiled ; and they aro understood to have expressed their satisfaction at the ro-union . Thin would imply that a military connexion in to be formed in France ; Chan garni or being the model of aristocratic diHeiplinariaiiH ; . Laaiorieiere , a popular General , friend of " sas vnfans , " tho Holdiora ; and . Hodoau , the huh fere type of Duty . Tho Emperor of Auntria Hupplietf tho locale for this reception , invites the JL ' rinoon to dinner , and is evidently giving them assistance

      in a new conspiracy to subvert the French Government . Some anxiety has been created respecting the position of Servia . The province has long professed a neutrality totally inconsistent with fealty to the Porte . She has not only refused to permit the passage of Bosniac troops in support

      of Omer Pacha , but has claimed the right to receive a Russian consul without the exequatur of the Porte . And people are already anticipating a declaration of independence placing Servia in the position of Greece . The province has no claim to such a position , and could scarcely sustain it , but may be the instrument for the enemies of Turkey .

      In Vienna , where the greatest efforts aro made to prevent extremities , the hope of averting a wide and lengthened contest in rapidly dying away . People now say , in that optimist capital , that affairs must take their course ; and although Austria has the deepest stake in the preservation of tranquillity , she is making up her mind to let the Czar and fate have their fling . Our own Government appears to drift towards tho same conclusion , with

      sorriest reluctance ; and we do not wonder . Although public opinion hero is rapidly becoming reconciled to the prospect of being ; obliged to maintain the position and fume of England , and the honour of her ilsig , habit is strong with your Englishman , and 'ho habit of peace sticks to him like a tourniquet Occasionally a little incident helps thin . The meeting in commemoration of tho Polish revolution in 18 . 10 , although it is an event of no political importance .

      limited , in its bearing , to the exiles avIio have , m it were , n personal interest in that unhappy laud , and to those who aro connected Avith them by individual friendship , yet it ban served as a , bugbear for some , who are terrified even at tho board of a revolutionist ,. or who are misled by indifferent reports of speeches in " foreign language . One phrase in an address , which was really admirable ,

      has been grosaly misapprehended , and it has boon supposed that tho guillotine was recommended by tho or / itor , as the legitiniatoinNtniinent of revolution . The meaning of the phrase was almost tho reverse ; but tho rise of tho word was unfortunate , and the exulting uproar which it created among the histrionic disciples of Robespierre , gave countenance to the misapprehension . Nor can we attach much more hnport / aneo to tho mooting of tho Protestant Alliance , at the

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121853/page/1/