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LEAinSS OlriftciB , Saturday , ! Nbbft . SIJ €€ ESSMIIi , EN ^ AGEMEM' BEF 0 & E ^ fe . AQlTAP'At . SEJaA & AUrUjU The ftjiUpwing intelligenee readied I-ord Panmuiiej late iyesterslay : ^ - " A 8 hta * p' ^ gag 6 toeilt tobkplace on the night ( if thelstdif Mayia 5 fiibnt a & dKft attack . Thewnole of tfie Russian rifle : pits were taken , eight light mortars , and 200 prisoners . The whole affair was brilliant for the Allies . "
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CONTIOTATIGM OF TfiE OOOTES-T . 0 y SubmarineTelegraph . " ) The I > aSy Newshas the following : — ** l ^ ore Sebasiftpbl , " Friday Morning , May , 4 . "tfa tie nrgHt of ^ dnesday last , May 2 , the French under-General Eelissier having taken up a position- before the Quarantine Bastion , advanced briskly upon t & e Bastion No . 4 , attacked the advanced works which the Russians had raised to protect that Bastion , and carried them at the point of the bayonet . " In this attack the French took twelve mortars from the enemy . The Engineers immediately 1 occupied' the ground , and began to carry on a flying sap . At daybreak they had succeeded in establishing themselves in the conquered works .
" Last night ( Thursday ) the Russians made a general sortie , with the object of retaking the lost ground . After a sanguiuary combat , they were driven back into the place . " Our losses have been great , but bear no proportion to those of the enemy , nor to the advantages gained . " This ( 3 ? riHay ) morning , the Russians have neither p , man nor -a gun outside the regular enclosure of the place . "
Insurrection In The Ukraine. Piavatofc L...
INSURRECTION IN THE UKRAINE . PiavAtofc letters from St . Petersburg ( says the Daity News ) confirm the telegraphic announcement of the insurrection of the peasants in the Ukraine , and state further that it has already extended to the governments of Poltawa , Tchernigoff , and Kharkoff . Great cruelties have been committed . At St . Petersburg , evejy article is at famine price .
Geei-ono and TttBtBOtfiRlNK Railway . —This line , the pioneer of the railway system in Australia , is in course of rapid construction , and by the last advices the opening of the Harbour branch and a portion of the lino w 49 expectedto take place early in June next . Prince Luoien Bonaparte . — On Saturday last , Princo Louis Lucien Bonaparte met with a serious accident at his residence in Westboume-grove West . He was ascertding some steps in his library to reach a book , when , accidentally slipping , ho fell and broke his leg . He is going on well .
Alarm of Firje at DituKYrLANK TinBATRK . —During the performance of La Sormambula on Wednesday night at Drury-lauo Theatre , an alarm of flro was caused by a gentleman in the boxes , who fancied ho saw smoke arising from a part of the proscenium . A great many of ttto audience rushed out of the theatre , and the crush at the doors was so great , that it was feared some fatal result would have occurred from the pressure ; but fortunately no accidents happened , and the alarm proved a false ono . Mr . Stirling , the stage-manager came forward on the stage , and assured those who remained that there was no cause to be alarmed ; and Mr . Smith , the ltesBd *; gave'the annfe assurance from one of the private Ibtortk 'Oiwr wtaih-coTMieqtrenco riftter * a sliofttlme restored , and the performance proceeded .
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SERIt itfS DISTURBANCES IN THE WAR PRISON ATLEWES . XESTBRDATC . tUe Russian prisoners refused to pump water from , the wells , and ¦ were deprived of some of their meals until they should become more orderly . They then drew forth knives , and attacked the guard of pensioners . The Sussex militia were sent for , and arrived by special train . Ultimately , the prisoners 1 'Were disarmed of their weapons , and about a dozen Were placed under restraint .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of it 3 creation in eternal progress . —De . Aksoid
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most abject sycophants were telling us the other day that he was , in the new slang of political rogtiery , " Master of the Situation ;" and who is most earnestly recommended to our absolute confidence by those who owe him a peace-offering for having treated him as a wolf . Our national name has passed away like a dream ; we are sinking deeper into the mire of debt ; our military resources and levies seem exhausted ; and We have every prospect that a spring drought can give of a wet summer and a bad harvest . And what does
THE FALL-ING SICKNESS OF THE NATION . We are engaged , and wellnigh worsted , in a vast war , of which , so far from seeing the end > we do not even know the object . Officially it is the integrity and independence of an empire which we all know very well we intend ultimately to partition , and which we do not and never shall allow to have a will of its own . According to some , it is the promotion of the interests of civilisation , a noble object , but somewhat extensive and scarcely military . In the eyes of the mass of the people it is a crusade against despotism , in which we are embarked with the despot of Turkey and the liberticide of France for our actual allies , and the absolute Emperor of Austria , the wonld- ^ be Autocrat of Prussia , and ~ the Shah of Persia , if we can get them . " We have lost one army . "We are in a fair way to lose another . A \ Te have become the vassals , not of France ( we would it were of France ) but of the French adventurer , of whom his most intimate confederates and
this situation evoke among our statesmen P Greatness or resource equal to the emcr-, gency ? Not even serious apprehension of it . Not even a < manly sense of the dangers ; of the country . "Nothing but Byzantine rhetoric and Byzantine intrigue . Between i the shallowness of pilblic men and the giddi-i ness of the people , very few—very few
indeed—have eyes to see , or hearts to feel , the horrible , jjoeition into . which we are drifting . Th © most promising thing visible ia the movement against aristocratic incompetence in high places . But even this movement is carried on with a miserable narrowness of scope , And a miserable blindness to . tibo vcaal ( Bource © f thoovil . » Its > leader * tone mincer © , . but ? short-sighted and noisy -men , "without "
greatness- of purpose tut fcigfc . morals , who Tiartow the isstte d 6 wn "fo pe % ; p & flso * mli < ssea and whet ,, % fte ) a 'they are ^* dy £ tL Wrong ia those personalities , have not £ ne ienee and manliness , Hot to say the honest y ^ tonwtxaet . The foHoAfrets a * e , foi » the > most q & tefc , men quite as enargestbte Vtftih the inefficiency of our public men . as the artetbctja ^ y theinselires . They are City inejGenania ^ who never send to Parliament atfy- to a very tsitsh man . They are corisfcftuenefes of « a * aft venal boroughs who send to PatliaineriJb any aristocratic or moneyed blockhead w-ho will buy them . They a *© fanatics who decimate the
ability of Parliatiaerit in the interest of their fanaticism . The merchants of Liverpool are very forward in the crusade against nepotism ; but did they not turn out Mr . Cabdwell , one of our most valuable and upright public servants , and put some nameless respectability in his place oecause he would not degrade himself to the level of their bigotry about Eoman Catholics and Maynooth ? There is a general want of political virtue . There is levity , sycophancy , cupidity , bigotry , indifference in the people , as well as incompetence and frivolity in the rulers . "What sort of Ministers does a nation deserve or
expect which elected the present House of Commons ? We have met with reverses , and under the guidance of our Imperial patron we shall meet with more . And how will this nation bear them ? We are not like those republics which had soldiers as long as they had men , and the simple lives of whose citizens placed all their wealth at the disposal of the State . Physical courage we still have , and our noble soldiers have displayed it in as high a degree as ever it was displayed by man : their
valour , appreciated by our ally , is a surer protection to . our coasts than his caresses . But as a nation , we are luxurious and effeminate ; we all live up to the very utmost of our means , and feel every penny of increased taxation . We have already come to loans . We went swaggering into the war , with the Times blustering at our head ; but we do not swagger now . How will it be if we find ourselves alone in Europe , without an army , and " with all the world our enemies ? It is as well to be prepared even for that situation .
We are tired of crying exoriare aliqitis-l What is not in the House of Commons cannot come out of it . If there had been a great man there , he would have shown himself long before this . He would have come forward to define , with authority , the real object of the war , and to take its conduct into his own hancfe . We repeat , with the weanuesfc of despair , the roll of too familiar nnmea . Mr . Bmght and Mr . Cobden might help us
if they were not Quakers . Mr . Gladstone might help us , if he were not checked by Puseyite casuistries and Conservative qualms . They have all their ife . They have all there personalities , their connexions , and their hitches . The whole political world is lull ol intrigues—W ( higs jobbing for then * clique , and Tories shamming democracy to trip up the Whigs , and restore the glorious reign ol promotion bv merit and political integrity in administra
the persons of tho old Derbyite - tion . A dissolution would be an-appeal to tho people to send up some good men , it tlioy have any ; and they would probably rcsponfl to that appeal by sending up a largo majority of . sona of peers and directors of joint-stooK companies , pledged to support Mr . Spoottbb on tlie question of Maynooth .
Administrative Reformers. " The Men Of T...
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMERS . The men of tho middlo class who havo taken up tho taak of , roibrming fcho Adminieti ;» tioa > , . ^ alLifincL . tlio . work . as slow * « uid toUaoin > e m tlie'Bkjge of a stwmg town . The enemy-w
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05051855/page/14/
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