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      _. .. Riflssea S6t The Common Health. .....

      _ . .. riflssea S 6 T The Common Health . .......... 9 ? 1 PORTFOLIONEW / S OF THE WEEK— tT Z ^ T ^ f the North -West ; Secret Diplomacy .. 9 * 2 Letters of a Vagabond 4 & ft „ , ' „ , r , , « j + i . Uiscovery 01 xuv qgT Changes at the Spanish Court 973 tuc adtc The English pe ople and tl *> . Passage ................ .-JOT ^ Driu V Meriouethahil ftr 3 THE ARTS-^ Eastern Question ............ 96- Our Bamtery Condition 9 G 7 Solution of the Russian The New Management at the The JSngliBh Press and American Criminal Record .... •«» Question 97 ° Mavyleboue OU - ^ Opinion ................... 963 , - Miscellaneous ... * , »^ Tho ^ Governing Classes ' . —No " V . Smith on Europe ysi Bussia the Civihzcr ............ 963 New Railways • ¦ '"' ' % * T > io F-irl of Oarlisle 074 Lebtere from Paris ............ JM , •; A Distinguished Husband ...... 969 ^ ^ sei a « Mowl ii ' anipU" Health of London during-tho Continental Notes ... 90 a ¦ ¦ " . . ¦ nuannxv o > m * Week 9 SI Napier to his Soldiers .......... 966 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— an JaU-squaxe , Glasgow ...... 97 a Birtha . Maiiiagos , and Deaths ... „ 981 Tha Irish ten . ant-Right Party .... 966 ^ 4- ^ ^ ni « inftft 000 0007 bv War 970 Th . La ^ ou Observatory ........ 906 ^^ S ' SaS S "LITERATURE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-. Ameviean Trade in Andia 966 * " Cobdon ' a Forthcoming Plan Theodore Parker ' s New Work 977 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-Terrible Accident on an Irish ¦ ' . „ .. „ . .. 971 Life : its Dangers and Duration .. 978 tisements . tc a 31-: >; vi Railway ... 9 G 6 Ol r . ™ " 11 _ L _—— - — - — : - - " -

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      fOR- one more week we are compelled to appear before our readers in . a provisional , and therefore an imperfect , condition . The temporary lodging which wo have found -incur burnt-dut state is still our abode ; and even the composition of our paper is obliged

      to conform itself in some degree to our provisional machinery . Thus the woodcut which has replaced our ordinary heading must for another week remain wood in lieu of the perennial metal now familiar to our readers . ¦ EVerytlnng will be set right , however , hj the day for our next number , which will be ar-And

      iviyed in all the brilliancy of new type . if , in the meantime , our endeavour under so severe and unexpected a difficulty has earned Hs-aTj increased confidence—if our trouble has procured for us an increased sympathy from our readers , we shall not regard even a Fire as an unredeemed calamity .

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      A Ccording To The Latest Report, The Jx ...

      A CCORDING to the latest report , the JX position of the Turkish affair in Constantinople and St . Petersburg !! has totally changed ; tho Sultan is for war , # sciinetar iu hand ; and tho Emperor is for friendly negotiations instead of war . Let us at once express our own belief that these representations arc false , in bo far as they pretend that there is any real change in the course of

      events . Tho Sultan has taken tho advice of his Grand Council , a body comprising about one hundred and twenty persons of tho highest rank iu liia ^ dominions , assembled ou such occasions to give him counsel . They have confiidorcd tho actual state of affairs—have concerted dofensivo measures , and have recommended tho Sultan to mako a formal declaration of war . Tho report that ho has actually

      done so i . s a . presumptive inforonco from tho ^ c proceedings ^ The Sultan , h owever , could hunlly do otherwise . IIo has for many months tolerated the presonco of an invading force within his own provinces ; in deference to his "Western allies , ho hiWASuapondcd what tho Sovereign of -ovory country might have boon « XpoctoU to begin on the instant—activo moans $ or expelling tho invader . Nogotiatioius have boon tried ou tho advice ot two , and then of four Powers , and havo only givon Huaaia timo . Under those circumstances

      he could make no representation to his natural advisers against resorting to tho ordinary course of resistance ; probably he could not even tell them that ? his own conviction was adverse to war ; and we may suppose that the resolve now taken is regarded in Constantinople as the only step open to the Sultan , according to tho unanimous opinion of every party in his capital .

      With respect to the probable result of the war , wo do not share iii the feeling of those who take a gloomy view . The Turkish army has , been strengthened to a considerable force ; it appears to be in tolerable health ; it is noted for its power of attack ; its artillery is strong ; it is on its own ground ; and the Turks possess the means of crossing that barrier which English writers have recently represented as keeping the two armies asunder—tho Danube . The Russian army , on the other hand , is great upon paper ; it is known to be enfeebled by disease , and decimated by desertions ; it is strong in brute endurance , but not in attack ,

      It is perishing like rotten eheop . Politically tho situation of Tnrkoy is far stronger than writers have recently allowed . It is nonsense to talk of the Greeks as a power in Sclavonian Turkey . Greece proper is torn with factions ; out of that kingdom the Greeks aro a sliopkocping class , and nothing more than that . The Sclavonians themselves aro too heterogeneous in race , in degrees " of civilization , and in opinion , to bo " a State , " though they in in-lit bo n federation . Tho Turks aro still

      the ono great minority among am all or ones . Let war be commenced in Turkey , and Hungary would be : iu ally outflanking tho invader—tho reason , probably , for tho strange disposition of tho Russian army , with its right wing bent back liko that of a lame duck . These facts , and others that wo all know , may account for tho report from Olmutz that tho Emperor , good-natured man ! in moments of unguarded conversation , has been hinting that her would accept afresh Note , composed

      by Franco and England according to tho flens , o which those Powers intended to give tho Vioumi Note . It i « evident that this report dcHOKVOH no other name than that , of humbug . There is not an authentic document ¦ issuing from the government of Nicholas that has not distinctly repudiated ovorything that thin rumour implies ; and tho Notes of JsFoaaolrodo not only agree with each other , but they agree With tho Willof Potor tho Great , If indeed NoflHolrode ' a explanation on tho Turkish modification hud novov beou iiuulo public ^

      Russia might now have backed out , disclaiming her treacheries ; but that explanation nailed her false colours to the mast . Russia does not mean to yield ; she may mean ' to cajole , and to gain time if wo will allow hev . If our ministers are drawn into new negotiations-, they would buy a gross of green spectacles on the strength of " tho Cosmogony . " There appears to be but one course open to our Government , which would not involve our being duped as well as dishonoured ; it . , steadily to support Turkey in demanding , before : any other negotiation or condition whatsoever , tho evacuation of the Principalities . In point of fact , Russia never had any right to negotiate while she had a soldier on Turkish ground . She has lost the opportunity allowed to her ; and having attempted to bully other independent 1 , powers , she mu . st now be made to feel the humiliation that she sought to inflict . If we permit Russia to diipo us again , we are disgraced and paralyzed iij . the eyes of tho world ; if wo go forward , wo are sure to reduce her to our terms . She has tried to make herself the half of Europe , stretching from north to south , from Baltic to Mediterranean ; and as she was already formidable from the extent of her territory wo must meet her attempts at farther aggression by stripping her of something that sho now holds . As Austria is her accomplice Austria ., moroovcr , must be treated in tho samo fashion . England can redress the wrongs which those two Powers havo inflicted upon

      Europo can reduce them to dimensions ot luirinlcasncsH . Being able , England , to whom Europo , looks as tho champion of freedom is bound to accomplish tho deliverance . Wo must not only " maintain tho equilibrium ot Europe as iixod by treaty , " but wo must g . vo to Europo a better equilibrium—a fiiiror foundation— a more generous . spirit—a safer lile . And , if we tuko tho opportunity which Uussia and Au . stria have given us , wo can

      i , i « . ^ ,,, 11 . ! i-n ^ i in flinir original . roduco thoao great empires to then- original limits and at once mit free tho enslaved nations of Italy , Hungary , Hohp . ma , 1 olaiid , Lithuania , Finland , Livonia , besides relieving many others , Sweden , Norway , tho Danish nation , Northern Germany and Tyrjcoy , of thoir apprehension <> f » * >( > <* oo . ' AU of theao countries would furnish contingents ; all would hail us a * their saviour ; all would ivlnrlU tnko our counsel in arranging their

      constitutions upon our own prhiciplos . ; .. all would givo uh , after thwir moans , aiKjt many oi them iu the richest degree , tho trodo wliioh W

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08101853/page/1/