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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the nob } . ' endeavour to throw down all the Darners erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Beligion , Coantry , and Coloiir , to treat the wJaaLe __ Huffian ra , g _ e _ a = Lxine brotherhood , having one great object—the + ree development of our spiritual natvire . "—ffumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— paos Tory Policy next Session 942 Investment of Sebastopol , Com- The Census 953 The War 938 Russian and Finnish Prisoners .. 942 mercially 948 Fenu ' sCompendium .... ' . !" .. " .. 953 Continental Notes 940 The English Prisoners in Russia 943 What is the Matter in the City ? 947 Books ou our Table 053 IndiaandChina 940 Australia 943 Scottish Rights 9-17 Mr . Hume at Aberdeen . 940 £ , t ?\ ™ 944 Tho Last Card _ . 943 THE ARTSThe " Public Meeting" in Madrid . 940 The Irish Tenant League 944 OPEN COUNCIL- Photo-rawhie Yiows h , Como Mr . Cobdcn and the "Crumplhiff Mr . Jolm Macgre £ or at Glasgow 944 tLwi « o andVenice fl = u Up" of Russia 940 Monastic Orders in Ireland 914 Ba - ™ M * Tho kK Rival S The Public Health 940 The Queen on the Railway 944 LITERATURE- Xho iLmg s Kival 951 Our Civilisation .., 941 Miscellaneous ... , 944 Summary ..... . 049 Remarkable Cases ..... 941 _ .. _ .. _ . „ .. „ Oldhatn and hisPoetrv <> W Tho Dauntless Affair , 941 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- SchooPExperieiices ' ¦ " ¦ " 95 L Births , Marringea , and Deaths ... 955 The Duke of Cleveland and Colonel The Catnpaign in the Crimea— TheCountess of St . Alban .. ' :::. "" : 932 nn « . MFprifl i flcrA . u .: Garrett .... ,.-.. 942 What it Leads To 945 Pictures and Dirt 952 COMMERCIAL AFFA 1 RSSir William Molesworth at Edin- Cutting of the Austrian Knot ... 945 History of the Chartist Move- City Intelligence , Markets , Adou * 6 " 942 J \> ar as a Sanitary Exercise 945 ment 953 vertisemehts , & c 955-9 G 0
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WAR , victorious or other-wise— " lightness" in the City , crash at Liverpool , money apprehensions throughout—diplomacy , intrigue , and retribution for political subserviency in Geimany —Popish , plots in the Cabinet and amongst the licensed victuallers —r-Eglinton insurrection for Scottish rights in Scotland—disclosures amongst officers , and , under cover of those disclosures , outrageous libels on gentlemen in uniformenough in one week of exciting realities , and over-6 xcitmg fictions . In the first engagement with the Russians the allies have conquered , and the
victory is rendered more glorious by the obstinate resistance which they encountered . The armies first met on the high grounds by the Alma river , about half-way between the place of landing and Sebastopol , probably somewhat to the left , towards Baktschi-Serai . They met about mid-day . The enemy stood above their assailants ; the French and English , however , emulated each other in the precipitancy of the assault , and the entrenched camp was carried at the point of the bayonet . The battle lasted four hours , and in the course of it the loss in killed and wounded is estimated at nearly 10 , 000 , somewhat differently
distributed—about 1400 , or more , to the English ; the same number , or less , to the French ; and about 6000 to the Russians . From this point the Russians retreated , but in what direction does not prccisoly appear ; nor is the course taken by the Allied forces indicated with clearness . There hnvc boon reports of a decisive battle on the 22 nd of September , but those reports were followed by others—that Fort Constantino had boen invested on the 24 th , and that Sevastopol itself was in possession of the Allies on the 25 th . Now tho authenticated intL'llisrenco down to the 28 th shows that these last
events had not yet taken place ; and although it is pi-obable that encounter * hml occurred between the armies , wo have no report of a regular engagement after the 20 th . The story was , that MunscliikofT was ontrnppod in the harbour of Sebnstopol , and was there threatening to blow up his lloet , whereas ho is at tho head «( ' an army in the Hold , expecting to be reinforced by Iho garrison of Anapa—a place which tho Rubs ' iiuis themselves
had mown up before leaving it . The trim net in advance on tho part of tho Allies , which is last Htftted , is their taking posHostiion of BiilukJuvu : this gives them a commanding position , and will enable them to pursue the win * with full support from tho ileol ; nnd its resources . Here , then , wo loave th _« m , luuding their heavy artillery , and awaiting reinforcements , but Htill proceeding with energy to prepare tho great path by which they intend to arrive ait victory . Practically , they ai'e about to receive still greater , onforcoiwenta from Austria ; for evidently
negotiations are proceeding / which , if they are successful , would terminate in a new alliance between that Power and the Austrian Government —a course of more active aggression on the part of Austria with newly defined objects , and probably with a distinct plan of attack upon the great outlaw . Meanwhile the young Emperor Francis Joseph has so far committed himself as to congratulate Napoleon on the successes of the Allies in the Crimea !
While the great archetype of Russia , Menschikoff , is still persevering in a desperate resistance by which he may inflict mischief on the allies , although he cannot hope to save the Crimea , the left-handed Minister of Russia , King Frederick William , carries on his meddling , pettifogging intrigues by the help of diplomacy . He has three irons in the fire , and seems likely to burn his fingers with them all . One is to represent Austria , before the German Courts , as involved with the Allies in some intrigues dangerous to German interests . In a note addressed to the
German Courts , replying to that of Count Uuol , Baron ManteufTel pours forth a mass of darklyhinting circumlocutions , calculated to excite fears that Austria intends to possess the Principalities ; that the Allies will take possession of the Danube ; that the navigation of lhat y ' wqv—so beautifully protected by Russia ' . —willhenceforth be denied to Germany ; that Austria , in fact , is r | uit <« alienated from the Diel—a dangerous stranger who ought to bo excluded from the federation . That id his first iron . His second consists in an attempt to bring the German Couiis into his own course , and he manages it thus , lie points out that the present time is inconvenient for tho interference of
Germany , and that as Russia has refused the four conditions , aiul the Western Powers confess them to be not miflioient for peace , Germany cam pro no-unco no decision upon them ; but he proposes to go on " mediating , " and wo all know what mediating moans . ljis second iron , therefore , consists in the attempt to inveigle Germany to follow the Prussian lend ; and . if tho sheep can follow the wily wolf now , they airo likely enough to find tho wily wolf at their head when tho whole nlliii . r is over , should Russia bo victorious . His third iron lies in tho said mediation , which evidently ho perseveres in urging upon the Western Powers .
1 , / iii ' kily ho has hud his rebuff . King Frederick AYiIlium haa been told that his proposals of mediation will not lie listoned to , and cl < s » rly he now knows that if he does not join the Western alliance be iuuhI bo perfectly < jniu « uont , and noninlvrfbrin ^ , or bo treati ; il jis an enemy . This now attiick upon Prussia win ui'unnipaniud , or rather preceded , liy another agitntiou amongst eonunurcinl men and politioiann who » o attention is cliielly ihjvotcd to commerce , on the subject o ( l'riiH 3 inii neutrality and tho trnn » it trade ' lvin / , ' Frederick WiHimn , his exchequer , and some "'
his subjects , have been drawing a profit by helping Russian merchants to trade with England through Prussian neutrality . It was not a real Prussiantra . de , bnt Prussia only became the pipe through which the enemy was able to evade the blockade in the Baltic by England and France . The inconvenience of being frustrated in a blockade is evident , and it is probable that this consideration , amongst others , has expedited the peremptory summons which Prussia seems to have received .
There is a report that the Schleswig-Holstein treaty—the London treaty settling the relations of the Duchies subject to Germany—is now to undergo revision . It was a . bad treaty , violating the distinct rights of the Duchies , favourable to the Danish Crown and to Russia , inconsistent with English constitutional principles which the people of the Duchies had been sustaining in the field , and discreditable to the Minister who took the most active part in it—Lord Palmerston . Wa know nothing about the truth of the report , but wo do know that at the present moment the
Danish Court is ' endeavouring to carry out one main purpose of thait treaty in suppressing every relic of constitution nl government in Denmark , as well as in the Duel lies ; that the King is doing so , we may say , in the presence of tho English ileet ; and that he is doing so in the teeth of English interests—for he is dsiily making himself more anil more identified with our great enemy , Russia , in policy , sympathy , and action . It would be poor work to put the screw upon Prussia , and to let the paltry Danish Court bo free in its despotic combinations against liberty and the West .
JLhe tumult in tho City arises from manifold causes ; but we believe the great money-centre to be like a stormy s ^ ea , —rough on the surface , substantially untroubled below . The trouble begins with America ; and unlike the report , that soinu quarrel was brewing between the United States and this country on account of the sulo of Sltku to the Russian ( Jovonnnunt—a stupid stoi'y without foundation —the report of tho drought has so much foundation iu fact , Unit luck of ruin in some ouho . s MtOicicntly damaged tho crop , and there will be nn abstraction from that
resource , Soino prububle diminution of the cotton crop , with a eriiuli following over-. spitciilnlion » n railways , renders aouio Ainericuns unnblc <<> incut their uiigngciiKtiit * ; hoiiaus in Liverpool find thei >' selves uiuible to meet theirs ; house * in Lf haivo Liverpool bills returned ; ilin ^ oacrc , ness" of the nioncj ' - inurkvt , in n ^ y lt tii / iiljust at , that moment ; comes , or ,. * ival ' od $ unJ until four o ' clock in thcultc" 0 o ' | u >( J ol ,, tluj statemont tlwl Sdm * ' . noon , of Thursday ' Tho City is wild > - . „ ,, „! | , uut Icon taken . ' < jovcrimujnt clor - ., ifeuiiiieiuiiun against the dark in nu < f" .. * , who kept buck tho injwb delay ; p- .-, om ( ion * as to the motives fn ~ •' « py ,,. . < ii ni lliu murmur of in , * : , -. inO 1 .. ida upon Cornhill n » jjv - ^ nation Una ¦ ' »« J «» co * noa ttioor -
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07101854/page/1/
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