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she participates in the increasing solicitude of moneyed men . It is , however , natural that any belligerent , after a Jong continuance of theinir , shouldlhegin to feel the demand for cast ; antl it is < juite certain that the Allies do not feel it half so severely as Russia , nor even so strongly as Austria . We have already mentioned the failnre of the Austrian plan for establishing railways InNorthern Italy , and hypothecating them to the money-dealers of the West . It appears , however , that Austria has been endeavourinsr to raise means through the
ubiquitous Society de Credit Mobilier , but has failed in doing so . The very attempt shows the pressure ¦ which is felt in " Vienna , and may partly account for those large sales of horses in the reduction of cavalry which have furnished beasts at once for the Allies in the Crimea and for Russia . Su-Geobge Cornewall Lewis has appeared as
the apologist for the war and its management , speaking as a Radnorshire Member to the local Agricultural Association . The whole moral of his representation is , that Ministers could not have done better for want of experience in war , and that a judgment must not be pronounced on the officers , even for the failure of the Redan , without waiting for the defence of those officers .
In the meanwhile , Her Majestt , through the Gazette , has pronounced the severest sarcasm that has yet been uttered on General Simpson . The public had given to him the title of G . C . B ., it was his due , " if not a baronetcy or a peerage . The man who had led the British in the glorious capture of Sebastopol deserved no less , yet what has been done for him ? He has had one step ; just the promotion that an officer might have had for his duties at Chobham , no peerage , no baronetcy , and he is
not rewarded as having shared in the success , but as ' " commander of her Majesty ' s forces during the late arduous , and finally successful , operations which have led to the fall of Sebastopol . " Yet , the impulse of promotion was not satisfied with the amount to be bestowed upon Colonel Windham , who was made a Major-General . That was so perfectly natural , that something more was required to satisfy the ardor promovendi . It was felt that after such a victory
somebody must be made Marshal ; and accordingly , Her Majesty , for want of any present provender , picks out three old Generals of the last war , and marshalises them ! Stapleton Cotton , Byng , and Haedinge , Generals of the Peninsula , known to our forefathers by those names , but to us as Viscount Combebmebe , Earl of Stbafford , and Viscount Habdinge , are made Marshals , as if on purpose to mark the rank to which Simpson is nut elevated .
Whatever may be the ultimate opinion of the public on the subject of the war and its management , and the terms of peace , it id quite evident that next session Ministers will not be allowed to get off" upon the plea that they can attend to nothing else . At the meeting of the Friendly Societies in Manchester , Mr . Bright , touching the subject of the war , alluded to the shortcomings of Lord Pajlmerston as Home Secretary in handling the subject of Fi-iendly Societies . He spoke home to his hearers , which must know how oven the Limited Liability Act was clogged with restraint to prevent the humbler classes from sharing the advantages offered to capitalists ; but Lord P ai « - merston helped to relax those restraints . Aguin , at Rochdale , where wo find Mr . Bright associated with Shakman Crawford , wo bcg that the working classes aro prepared to come forward with their claims , nnd not to leave matters entirely in tho hands of the middle claswes and the aristocracy because we are at war . Birmingham , too , ifl stirring in another movo-, ' - ipenfct . A public dinner was given on Thursday to « *¦» ^ Mi pjb Ikfecrz , tho founder of Mottray , and around ". c ' :-u- ! . r- ""' ; . . ' -V ' ff . ¦ * V " . - - ¦ ¦ \ zi-iftiv / , *' '¦ . >•; ••>¦; , V . ' , . .: ' ' . , ' , <¦ ** " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ( ml * iw . J .. ^ . . vl' ^ j 't
him gathered all tho English promoters of reformatory institutions— Addbblet , Svoney Turner , Pakington , Eardl ey Wilmot , Lord Cax-TttOBHBjLord Lyttelton , Spooneh , B & Acbbridgb " of -Scutari ; " Mr . D . Hux was kept away by illness . Our readers must know the name of De Mbtz—he is the founder of one of the most successful reformatory institution in tho world ; Met tray is the place where the school is situated . The plan is one of strict discipline , but unbroken kindness . The 3-011112 ; prisoner is received as
if ho wore admitted into a family , which the organisation of the school is made to resemble as much as possible . He finds in De Metz an unwearied friend and advisor ; but he finds also that his own personal comfort is essentially connected with his attention to the rules of the phice . Still tlie most powerful incentive amongst the scholars is the approbation of De Metz : nnd many a time have boys spontaneously
come forward to confess their errors rather than ilesen-c his disapprobation . Our own reformers , Mr . D . Hill , Sydney Turner , Ellis , and Aoderley , have copied the spirit rather than the letter of the French model . As we find that the French produce admirable dramas , but that their p ieces have to be altered as well as translated for a successful appeal to an English audience , so the
principle of paternal kindness is as successful at Redhill as it is at Mettray , because the manager knows how to seize the idea , though he does not place English boys under French rules ; which would be as gross a mistake as to place French boys under English discipline . Never was there such a confusion of political parties as we mig ht see in the representative men at Birmingham ; never was there such a real moral order in an assemblage of men . But
they were obeying a hig her idea than that of party ; and if , still overruling the distinction that divided them , they can continue in their union , they must do more than party can do , anil recover for mankind what selfish and narrow legislation gave up to perdition . Suspension of Patmest of De Lisle ani > Co . —On Wednesday morning , an announcement was made of the suspension of Messrs . De Lisle , Junvrin , and De Lisle , foreign merchants and bankers , with liabilities for 100 , 0110 / . The house was among the oldest and most respectable in London , nnd it is believed , apparently 011 better grounds than are usual on such occasions , that the
liquidation will not prove disastrous . 1 he circumstances under which the stoppage was resolved upon appear to harmonise with the reputation for honour the house has uniformly enjoyed . It appears that they had a large balance at their bankers , as well as money at call in the hands of discount brokers and in other available quarters , to the extent of nbout 100 , 000 / . ; but that , being involved in large advances in Canada , which assumed a more serious complexion on Tuesday on tho arrival of the American mail , they determined at once to suspend , instoad of risking th « property of their creditors l > y nny uncertain attempt to sustain themselves . — Times City A rticte .
TiiUNDKiu-rroRM at Livkiu'ool . —A tern he thunder storm broke over Liverpool on Thursday , and continued to rago with great violence from half-past twelve to halfpast one o'clock . Rain and hail descended in sheets , accompanied by frequent flushes of lightning and volleys of thunder . In addition to an accident at a h ' rowork manufactory where thoro was an explosion which injured several persons , tho whip Mary Halo , in the Victoria Dock , had her mainmast shattered . Many minor casualties occurred during tb . 11 continuance of the atonn , which abated as rapidly «« it had sprung up .
Collision at Ska . —The l ' rinccss Itoyal , ( . ranton and London steamer , on it « way south , camo into collision on Saturday , near tho Fern Islands , with a brig , name unknown , which wan understood to bo Hailing for some northern port , and to belong to Dundee . Tho weather wan very fogfjy nt tho time , which was ( lie cauHO of tho accident . Neither vessul was seriously injured . Mr . Siiaiiman CiiAWVUren , who for eleven years was member for Itochdalo , hfl » received a testimonial from tho inhabitants of tho borough , in tho shape of a silver candelabrum , of tho valuo of a hundred guinoaft . At tho meeting , Mr . Crawfurd , Mr . Miall , and Mr . Bright delivered speeches ngninut the war , the lust-immod gentleman including a Mow nt the newspaper pfo . H .
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The War. The Bombarfroent Of Riga By The...
THE WAR . The bombarfroent of Riga by the English is the only piece of certain intelligence in connexion with the war which wo have received this week ; and it is notwtwth much . It appears that four liners , one frigate , and . three corvettes , bombarded the batteries of Dunamunde and Virrage-Boullen for three hours on the morning of tho 27 th or 28 th ult ., without , however , doing much damage . On the 2 . } th , two frigates appeared before Old Salis , where ten ships were burnt .
In the Crimea , all is still uncertainty and darkness . Operations apparently ln < r , but perhaps in reality do not . In the meanwhile , however , the public mind is painfully agitated by rumours and guesses . A private despatch received at Vienna from Bucharest about the commencement of the week , states that the bombardment of tho northern forts commenced on the 2 'Jth of September ; that the Russian army was in full retreat ; nnd that the Allied fleet had sailed with troops , whose destination was unknown . This announcement was to . a certain extent confirmed by a similar despatch from
Turin ; but no official warrant for the news has been published , and the report is already fast lapsing into the limbo of all such shadows . There seems , however , to be no doubt that the Allies keep up a considerable fire ugainst the north side of Sebastopol , which is feebly returned by the enemy , and that General Niel is constructing on the coast of the bay several batteries of mortiers a plaque of large calibre and of longer range than ordinary mortars . Concerning the present positions of the opposing armies and the probabilities of the future , we read as follows in the Vienna Military Gazette : —
li The demonstration—so often declared and so often denied—of the Allies from Kupatoiia appears , after all , to be really about to be made . Prince ( Jortschakoff reports on the 23 rd ult , that nearly 30 , 000 men are concentrated at that spot , that his left wing is repeatedly alarmcd , and that on the 22 nd there was a eottision with the Russian infantry , after which the Allies withdrew to L ' rkusti ; descended , however , the plateau again on the 2 . 1 rd , and repaired a roa < l . Since Urkusti , or
Kiukasta , lies to the north-east of the right bank of the Tchernaya , and Kussiau detachments stood before the 8 th of September near Biuk Miskamia , on the left bank of the Tchernaya , it results from the above despatch that the district of the Tchernaya is in the hands of the Allies , and that the Russians have stationed their left wing in Tchulia and Kundi , their centre near Maugup Kaleh and Mackenzie ' s Farm , and their right wing beyond Inkerman as far as the north forts , while th < - bulk of their army is at Uaktchi-Serai . " Admiral Bruat , it is stated , has left for Kupatorhi with the last ships of the expedition ; but tho statement may be worthy of no greater credit than others which have gone before it . The Daily Scu-s observes : — " What we know of the positions occupied )> y fh < army in the Crimea is . gleaned from the Matemeiits ol travellers and couriers ; but all their statement ¦< agree . They tell us that tho main body of the Ku- > iaii army occupies a line from Duvankoi to Avankoi , IJaktehi-Serai , and Simpheropol , and that strong cavalry corps are advanced from Sarabus , by way of Led and Tulat . on the road to Kupatoria . " A Russian paper asserts that no official account of the fall of South Sebantopol had been published at Odessa up to the 19 th of September . The people , however , are , of course , acquainted with the fact from other sources , and must sec plainly from this silence on the part of their rulers the deep mortification and shame that are felt at the event . Two significant facts are talked of at Odessa : the first , that General Anncnkofi ; the Governor of the Crimea , has made it public that no more goods , provisions , Ac , are to bo sent to that peninsula ; the second , hat tho march of troops to the seat of war has been suspended . Stung with these facts , the Russians comfort themselves ua beat they can with gloating over " a successful skirmish" which took place at Kortch between tho Cossacks nnd a foraging party of the Allies , and which ended in the capture of twenty-five English and French Hussars . The Muscovites do indeed need some comfort ; nnd therefore , according to a report , which , however , bears improbability on its . face , the Czar hiqgfcclt' is going to the Crimea to nnimuto tho troops . Ho has already been to Moscow , to pray to " the Godot ' Russia" in Russia ' s ancient capital ; nnd , while thero , ho addressed a rescript to tho Military Governor ol the citv , in which , alluding to his visit , ho said : — 11 My happiness would have been complete if recent events had not dimmed the satisfaction of those , sweet moments . My order of tho day to tho Russian armies has already made public that , after an unexampled siege of eleven mouths , tho garrison of fcjobastopol , after bnving given unheard-of proofs of courage and sell denial , and having successfully repulsed nix dc ;< pe . nit < ' I
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101855/page/2/
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