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"The one Idea which . History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity— the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— * age Ascot Races ! 539 The Gibraltar Censor 544 THE ARTST - , -d v + E-ft Our Civilisation 539 "The Stranger" in Parliament ... 544 Signor Monti's Second Lecture . 549 Imperial Parliament 5 oO Naval and Military News 540 Levassor at the St . James ' s 549 The War 534 Miscellaneous 540 LITERATUREriowersaWMusicattheCrystai ^ Postscript 540 Summary .. 546 Palace .. 537 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Baden Powell on Development .. 547 Births . Marriages , and Deaths ... 549 The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland The War Debate 541 1 he Zulus £ >*» upon Tenant-Right 538 The Nation of Refugees 542 i pnRTFO , , n _ COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAmerica " . 538 Limited Liability in Partnership o 43 r « - »« . ¦ rwi-i ^ ,., ,. - >»¦ , j . » j The Carlist insurrection " in Spain 538 The Old and the New Dean or Tho Exposition of the Fine Arts City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Continental Notes 538 Christchurch ..... 543 I in Paris 548 vertisements 550-55 ^ 5
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VOL .. VI . No . 272 . ] SATURDAY , JUNE 9 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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TiTEGOTIATIONS with Russia , under the me-J . ^ diation of Austria , closed at Vienna on Monday last . The last of the Conferences was held on that day ; a new proposal was made by Austria ; the Russian Plenipotentiary asked permission to refer it to St . Petersburg ; the AVestcrn Plenipotentiaries declared- that they had no instructions to countenance such a reference ; Count Buol pronounced the further holding of the Conferences to be useless , and they were formally closed . Down to the latest moment , therefore , the relative position of the Powers appeal's to have been the same ; the Western Powers adhering to the position taken up on the 23 rd of April ; the Russians still trying to gain time by a reference to St . Petersburg , the nature of which wo well know ; and Austria proposing peace , but . confessing the uselessness of the proposal . The grand fact , however , is , that the Conferences are closed , and that we are released from the hinderance and distractions of the futile attempts to conclude peace with Russia . ¦ But we are not released from the futile discussions on the subject in Parliament . The fact was announced to the House of Commons on Monday ; it was more formally repeated on the Tuesday , nevertheless on both nights the discussion upon the several motions ; the House still consulting with itself whether it should , with Sir Fiiancis Baking , express regret fliat the negotintion had not been successful ; with Mr , Lowe , indignation that they had failed through the refusaj , of Russia ; and with Sir William Hjoathcotk , a hope that they mig ht still suecoeil . For two nights the House discussed these opiestions ; listening to speeches which had about as much relation to the resolution as they had to the actual position . For instance , Sir Jamics Ghaiiam followed the lead of Mr . Gi-adstonb , and ranged himself with the party whoso resolution Sir Wu--lum Hi 3 A . thcotk moved , expressing a , hope of obtaining peace—throug h the negotiations now closed . But Sir Jamics ' h argument went entirely to reconcile his present position with his having commenced the war ; it turned principally on the viow that Russia had boon chastised enough , and that it was not necessary to humiliate her further . This argument , it will bo seen , very little supported Sir Wujjam IIi . jATncoTi 5 ' fl amendment ; since Russia is neither humble nor Avilling to
make terms . The most striking speech on that side was Mr . Cobden's . He devoted all his skill to making up a statement , and to collecting recent facts ; all his power of language to presenting those facts in a popular and facile exposition ; in j setting- forth a formidable array of difficulties in 1 the course taken by Government . Prussia is jealous , because she fears France upon the Rhine ; Austria is insincere , because she dreads to have the nationalities take advantage of any difference between her and Russia ; Turkey is a miserable i Government , unimproving , impotent to maintain her own rights , while the preponderance of Russia is inherent in the nature of things , because her I trade or . the Black Sea has increased , is increas-! ing , and ought not to be diminished . Mr . Cobben accuses Government of vacillation , and of having submitted to the dictates of the populace and the press ; but by deprecating the ' attacks upon his party for assuming an impracticable humanitarian position , he implied that he was no absolute peace man ; and he promises that if Russia should invade Portsmouth , he would not discuss what ought to be done , but would work , " if not in the field , in the hospital . " — " The right man in the right place . " This was unquestionably the strongest speech on that side ; but it was open to obvious replies , such as the remark that the preponderance mig ht be very well as long as it was only commercial ; and that even in commerce Russia wus always gigantically one-sided , while Turkey is a free-trader , and has by no means been so absolutely unimproving as Mr . Cobdkn pretended . Turkey kept the mouth of the Danube free when it was in her possession ; it was Russia that let the mud accumulate . Mr . BnicaiT sounded a parallel of Mr . Coiidion in trumpet tones — a strong utterance of a weak policy ; Mr . Sidnicv Hehijkrt a less sectarian version of Mr . ( Jr-ADSTONu ' d appeal to Christian feeling against keeping up the war or humiliating Russia . Sir Jamks . Guaham was open to a still graver retort of contracting his present tame and feeble speech with his stout language nbout the " glorious Hi-ilL-ili il . ig" at the Reform Banquet . It is to bo noted that , there is a decided though small Peace Party on thoTory side , which found mouthp ieces in Lord Stanmcy and Lord Rohhkt Ckcii .. The common sense of the IIouho , however , found voice in several speakers , who showed that , apart from formal questions respecting tho mismanagement of the war and the claims of Turkey , this country had at all events committed herself
to a contest out of which she could not retreat until its objects were attained . The members supporting this view were not only the Ministers Sir Wii-liam Mojoeswobth , Lord John Russell , and Lord Palmerston , but the independent Roebuck , the strange literary romantic Tory Sir Edward Lyttox , and the Peelite Lord Eicbo , with several independent members . The Government has now got credit for vigorous determination to carry on the war , and it will probably be all the more willing , at the next opportunity , to accept terms of peace , which , while it was suspected of cowardice , it would have been compelled to refuse . Toward the close of Tuesday evening , it was discovered that some news had arrived from Vienna , which rendered the amendments rather out of date ; and the House adjourned till Wednesday to think about it , not however with much profit , for on Wednesday the debate continued as we have described it . The whole coui'se of the debates had been rendered more irrelevant by the further news from the Euxine , where the successes in the Sea of Azof have been followed up with vigour . More Russian ships and stores were destroyed at Genitchi ; and Soudjak-Kaleh was taken and restored to the Circassians . Detailed reports threw further lig ht upon the engagements of the 22 nd and 23 rd , and proved that the advantage , strongly contested by the Russians , was very important , while the telegraph announced that the bombardment of Sebastopal recommenced on the 6 th inst . The suddenness of the series of attacks , the immediate surrender or flight of the Russians at the seaports , the fact that Kertch was the depofc for hospital patients from Sevastopol , the repeated petition of the Russian commander to bury the dead after the engagement of the 23 rd , are amongst the evidences that these blows have cut deep . Nevertheless , we have not the slig htest sign that the Czar , whose person the sword does not roach , relaxes either in his obstinacy or in his exertion . New requisitions arc made for men and stores ; the Pleni potentiaries , as we have seen , persevered to tho lust moment of the Conferences in evasive attempts to obtain time ; and a " Memoir , " apparently a kind of non-o ( liciul postscript to the note of Count NicssiciaiowB , has been circulated in Germany . Its direct object iw to represent the Allies as contemplating some subversive movement in Europe , and France as intending to
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Leader (1850-1860), June 9, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09061855/page/1/
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