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      Cuontcntg. El Jlliami Pai-Lin, T:'.O I O...

      CUontcntg . El Jlliami Pai-lin , T : ' . O I OP £ l \ i COUNCIL— i PORTFOLiOIMEWS OF THE WEEK- ' ¦« <> ! ¦ C : inipb ; Ml * s Mmmmont 7 : iO ! _ , _ . , . -, , . . , r , ., . , r . . Sabbatrifinism aud Fish 730 ! The Domestic Xolocli 731 i O' ; r ? yman ' s Lxpcmence of Pavliamontoftlie Week ¦ 71-2 Miscellaneous ... ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . 730 j , _ . _„ . _ , __ ' Society 74 O On .- Civilisation 7 : X \ ¦ LlTERATUP . c- ; THE ARTSTim Windsor Biirracks Aflair 72 S PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ¦ Summary 735 I Tlif > Theatres at Home and Ciiolera 72 . S ; Ilcvival of U 10 Press in France 737 | Abroad 74 ° Notes on the War ' . 7 iS ' Tlie Day after To-morrow 731 > llecont Publications on Paissia * * " Spain ..:.,... 723 | The Militia JSarraoks Hill 731 I and Turkey 737 . Movements in Italy 72 a The Gardens of Private-Life 732 Table Traits ' 73 S 1 Births Atarriaces and "Deaths 74- > Anti-Slavory Confcroi . ce 729 Tlie Spoon Manufacture for the LeweU Pastures ' 730 [ " "" ' ' ^ Z fl ' f * ' ^ US - ~ Tcuant Right in Ireland 720 ¦< . Army 733 A Batch of Books ... 7-10 ! COMMERCIAL AFFAI-RSTlie L , a \ v of Blusical Copyright ... 729 I The Trade of H-uHiii Danger ..... 733 Christian Ilecor-ls 740 ' City Intollisrence , > Iarkcts Vd-Canada Elections 730 The Public Health ., 733 ' Books on our Table 740 ! v ' ertiseraeiits , & c 742-74 i

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      VOL . Y . No . 228 . ] SATUKBAY , ¦ AUGUST ' 5 ,. 1854 .. [ Price Sixpence .

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      TfOTWlTIISTANDING war , —its expenses , — JS the doubts about it , —distrust of the ministry —and with public feeling made up of political apathy or political timidity— England commercially continues to flourish . Trade is quiet , satisfactory , and . | steady . Ease in the money-market is indicated by the late-reduction of the Bank ' s rate of discount . The Board of Trade returns

      show an amount and value of exports exceeding those of last half-year , which again exceeded those of any preceding half-year in English history . This is " prosperity ; " and the mercantile community—which is the preponderating community —do not analyse this sort of " progress . " Socially they are unconscious of , and politically they are indifferent to , any of the drawbacks which may be detected in this civilisation by trade . A a respects the war , there is no reason why our community should pay any particular attention to it ; for the expenses of the war we find can be home and it is assumed that the is iie aim it is assumed mat tuc is

      : war necessary : nox' ; war necessary ; while it is perceived that it is eventless . England ; nd France are doing so little in aid of their ally or against the enemy , that it is not without cause that the unintiuiidated Czar is principally occupied for the moment in organising battalions oi ukater . s to operate in the coming winter , and that tlio Sultan ' s best friends in Constantinople are cursing the inlluoncc which induced " their sovereign to solicit and to depend on European alliances . Sir Charles Napier has now for ten days

      at least been in possession of all the additional forces and means which he demanded , and still there- is no news of his doing anything ; while rumours , to bo traced to hid own officers , are Hying about this country that ho is not the man i \ yr the occasion . At the other end of the Ihcdlro of war , Lord Itaglun is quiescent , lit or noar Varna , and the expedition to the Crimea being atill mere hopeless talk . In all

      tho operations or non-opcrution » of our generals und admirals , 113 well as in tho conduct of the negotiations with Austria and Prussia , tho inlluence of of / a , and of its ovor-pntienco and imuuwHsary wisdom , may be detected . Meanwhile Omar I ' nchn , relying entirely on his own forces , in beating the Russians before him with such rapidity , and so cifectually , that it now depend * on the Emperor of Austria , who ia shortly to place liimflolf at tho bond of hia armies , whether or not the

      Turks are to be tempted so far into tire Princi . p-alities (\ vhere they would suffer all those deficiencies of commissariat ' to which-may be ascribed the Russian catastrop he ^' as to imperil the future . The heat has been 10-i in the shade , and perhaps that at least may bring cautious lassitude to the Turks : also arresting all military movements whatever on any side for the moment . Our contemporaries still decline to admit any

      connexion between the'diplomatic intrigues or the political passions fomented and raised by the war and the revolution in Spain . It ' would be premature to pronounce positive judgment , one way or the other , until the drama is further develojied : Espnrtcro ' s entrance into Madrid , his appearance with the queen on the palace balcony , and the proclamation of a new ministry , being a mere tableau ; what he may decide on doing — ¦ whether to be a Cromwell or a

      "Warwick—remaining doubtful . But it e : in at loast not be contended that the ferment in Italy , here and there coining to a head in a popular and unsuccessful insurrection , may be traced to the hopes raised in her many subjugated provinces by the danger of Austria , —whose position is , after all , a Ilobson ' s choice . In Prussia , discontent at the true German tergiversation of the king is obviously increasing , to a point at which even Germans , the most enduring and least manly of mankind , begin to express opinions . Tho King ot Prussia is at Munich " eonferrinir" with the crowd

      of other German kings —all of whom think the young Emperor of Austria too " hasty . " " We , in England , laugh at this Teuton tcdiousness;—but what is the position of Europe , including that of England , but that of an armed " conference V In Parliament not a syllable has been said about the war . Parliament , indeed , oven in domestic affairs , has been utterly unhistorical : but still in this , tho penultimate , week of the sossion , has continued to be interesting—for l'easons not contemplated by its leaders . A more

      disastrous week for revelations of tho infamy of tho aristocratic system of government cannot be remembered . Day after day has been occupied in the detection and the defence of a job—the corruption . suggested pointing the moral of the Parliamentary attempt to provide , in a bribery bill , for the purity of the people . The Lnwley job in , oi course , the most coiiHpicuoiis : and tho exposure , in thut case , has been so complete , that , the aristocratic jobbers have been enabled to make it , a merit , ns n proof of their lofty public virtue , that tluiy have

      consented to give way I A \ e sympathise with Mr . Lrawley , as avc did with Mr . Stonor , and as we may with Mr . Jeremiah Smith—these are the victims of a system who are here and there sacrificed to preserve and colour that system ; and tlie public anger with Mr . Lawley , because he asked for a place and took one as soon as he could get it , appears to us rather illogical . Mr . Gladstone ' s expression of hope that Mr . Lawley Avill recommence a career , and not allow his mind to be crushed by this disaster , is . indeed , hinhlv humorous . Nothing disasterisindeedhighly humorous . Nothing

      , , , can be more convenient than to make it a crime in Mr . Lawley , that he didn ' t refuse a good offer because he knew he didn ' t deserve to have it wade to him—might not he , like Mr . Gladstone , have remembered that colonial governors are always incompetent , and unfit—that is , at the outset ? It is denied that Mr . Lawley used his official knowledge as seci'etai'y to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in traflicing in the funds ; and ifc is no crime in a public man to bo on the " turf , , indeed , to be of a villanous private character ; for we have had , and have , great statesmen and popular men , whose career outside the " House" and their

      bureaux , has been the career 01 " sharpers and debauchees . " Wo cannot , therefore , see any fault to be clmrgod against Mr . Lawley ; and Mr . Gladstone answers Air . Bright ' s point , that Mr . Lawhy was brainless as a public man—by suggesting , " very true ; but does the honourable gentleman forget that it is always the rule to appoint dull dogs and fifth-rate fellows to tho colonial governorships ? " Whatever crime there is iu the . transaction attaches itself to tho

      Government ; and , as we believe , the conduct at the Government is such us would justify serious " enquiry "—taking the last ease with Stonov ' .- - , and both as the revelation of a system disgraceful to tho English people , who may see in tho quiet arrangements of the Coloninl-olliee , in rognrd to appointments , how little they , tlimr ooloniiil Ibllcnvsubjcct . H , or the Crown , have to do willi wluifc wo nre pleased to cull our sell- 'fovcnnnont .

      Jvemoved from tho atmosphere of . smooth cant in which the House of ( AunmoiiN , which is becoming strangely courtoou ? " for tho popular senate of nn unrepresented peoplo , condescended to canvund the question , wo nre enabled to arrive ill coul , even if uncordwil conclusions ; and the idea is forced upon us tlmt the J ) ukc of Newcastle , Mr . ( Gladstone , and tlio colleagues of those gentlemen , could not have boon unaware of the character ami

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05081854/page/1/