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      "The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the nobJe endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected betw-een men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions

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      N : Y , 'S OF THE WEEK- pace The Irish Land Tontine ............ '¦ 97 *) . Tha First Footstep of America Turkey—Its History and Pro-Mr . Disraeli's Political Capital ... 970 in Europe . „ 972 cress * " » " » * auu . jriy ThsWai 902 Slc ^ iolls « -ivv 9 " ° War as a Moral Exercise " ' .. ' .. 972 A Batch of Books 9 Sft The Battle of tho Aima 9 G-2 W . B . ut Castle Iledingham 970 The Patriotic Pund .... 973 Cholera in the Crimea 967 T « e Dauntless Affair— Courts- Tho War among the Journals ... 973 THE ARTSV ^ SSt ^ JT & iS ^ i 96 ' ThS ^« taffi « -tffi : Sirth " . 970 OPEN-COUNCIL- A Heart of Gold 981 of Sebastopol 903 The Court 970 S . ab , y vj ;— ° ' ^ The Prime Minister at Aberdeen . 983 Continental Notes 970 hlieliield and 3 Ir . Ro . ' . buclk 973 ~ ~~ Ou rCMlL aHon ° — 'g £ Miscellaneous 970 goto ^ jf ^^^— :: ^ Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 981 Tho Public Health ' ... ! .. * . !! 9 G 9 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- tion . 975 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSHorrbrsof Peaco .... 9 G 9 The Question of the Day ......... 971 LITERATURE- Citv Intellicronep TVIarkpfs Art Movements of Kotabilities ; ........ 9 GJ _ linglatid in the Crimea I Vll Summary ... ; .. 976 ^ S ^ S ! . : ^ OSi-984

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      VOL . V . No . 238 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 14 , 1854 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      |F We Needed Confirmation Of The French ...

      | F we needed confirmation of the French and J . English claims to a victory at the Alma "¦ if T / ould be obtained in the Russian account of the battle which has at last been received , and in ¦ which even Menschikoff admits that , after several hours' fighting , he withdrew ( zuruckgef Iihrt ) his army behind the Katcha . For a Russian general this is a considerable concession to fact : it enables us , in this country , to realise the grandeur of the courage of that army which has appalled a Russian journal into facing the Czar with a truth .

      Yet we are impatient : £ t is a fast age ; and we expect to have a campaign knocked off like a Crystal Palace . The day of the Alma will fill a page in history , but our people are not satisfied with even that much work in a week . There is actual disappointment tliafe Sebastopol has not yet been taken : there is some risk that all the popularity of Lord Raglan will disappear if he be more than six days in taking a place which twelve months ago all England believed to be impi'egmble . While this is the spirit of the day there

      js a tendency to great injustice towards individuals . The leading journal has been sufficiently base to pander to this spirit by hinting that Admiral Dundas , because he is cautious , must bo a coward 5 and it is the melancholy gossip of society that the Duke of Cambridge lost his lioad because he did wlmt overy general has done before him—halted his men under fire to re-form . England was wont to expect every man to do hie duty : ft good deal more is expected nowadays .

      The position of the armies j in the Crimea is vary clear : In another column wo sketch the battle and the Thai'ch to Balakluvu ; and hero we may doacribc the approaches on Sobustopol . A military writer in the Morning Chronicle saya : - ¦ * 'On the 28 th ult ., the fourth division of the English army , which formed tlio roar-guiml during the flunk march to Bnlnkluvn , was in advance nt n place

      called Khutor Jeuzdootiiv , within throo milos cf the town nnd docks . On its loft , and rather in thoronr , was the third division ; nncl on lho right , nearer to Balaklavn , lay the first mul hcuond . Tho Ircnch nrmy was also in the immediate vicinity of Balaklavn ; but H was expected our allies would extend themsolyes furthoy < o tho right , so ( lint tho uncs of tho besiegers would reach i'i-oiii tho Tchcrnayft nvor to tbo :, I 3 uy of Strelotska—thus completely enclosing Sobnstopol on tho aouthurn side ,

      and commanding the principal sources from which the garrison and the inhabitants derive their supplies of water . It appeal's that an attempt was made by tbie enemy to . entice our fourth division within range of theii ' lieavy guns ; but Sir "George Catheart prudently abstained from needlessly exposing his men without an adequate object . Little is said , in the accounts that reach us , of the fortifications to the southward of Sebastopol ; and there is no reason to suppose that any formidable works were found by the allied generals on that side—rat least , in a finished and serviceable state .

      We hear , indeed , of a loop-holed wall round the town , and of earthworks recently erected ; but if the wall spoken of is that which existed before the war began ,- it is perfectly useless , and the first step towards fortifying the place would be to remove it . The powerful artillery which opened upon these defences on the 4 th or 5 th instant must have very soon swept away whatever portion of them was destructible by * such means ; and when the proper moment arrived for making the final attack , no very formidable obstacle could remain to task the boldness and perseverance of the assailants . '

      lhere seems to be a general impression in London that Lord Raglan expects a . rapid success at Sebastopol . There is no doubt tliat Menscliikoff should have offered a second battle at the Katcha , and Lord Italian . m : iy be counting on the total demoralisation of the Russian troops . But , regarded fioin a distance , the circumstances aft Sevastopol suggest that tho allied armies are in an unexpected position . The assault must now be a land attack ; the fleets cannot co-operate otherwise than indirectly . The Russians not onlyshut out our fleet , by sinking some of their own ships of war at the mouth of the harbour , but by liberating tho crews of those vessels they gainod au increased force of 10 , 000 for the garrison . Thoy

      uiive , thon , provisions and men for a siege . It is not credible that the Allies can have out oil ' tho whole of tho water supply ; and , while cholera is decimating tho ijYeneh and English , tho Russians have to count , it is supposed , on reinforcements from St . Petersburg . Thus tho chances of the Allies would appear to depend on speed ; in any case , a bloody struggle is certain ; and , at the worst , Tartar Mcnachikof r ( in whose Roman suicide it is premature ) to bo interested ) has a resource doniud to him at the Alum—lie may Imm down the city , and blow up tho forts— -Fort ' Constantine , no doubt , inclusive . And in any easts must tho AHu . 'sbo prepared for a winter in the Crimea —iv winter sill the more inisdbiovous to thorn if the Czar can sund no othor army against thorn .

      Sir C . Napier is giving him tho chance ; ibr doubt-loss excellent reasons , which , however , ro main to bo explained , ho haa finished his aoason in tho Baltic and will have nothing to do until next year—unless ho gets a clmnco of attacking tho Prussian coast . At tho other points of tho war

      there is no observable motion . Omar Pacha , also doubtless for excellent reasons , has not made the diversion that was talked of in Bessarabia ; and Sohamyl and the Asiatic army of the Turks are watching ' and waiting . In Bucharest the Austrian general and the Turkish authorities are quarrelling ; tlic Austrians have insisted on bringingback to office Prince Stirbey , who , it is scarcely concealed , is a Russian agent . But'then , the last Austrian circular : —is not that boldly anti-Russian and anti-Prussian ? "We must admit that the Austrian diplomatic literature is excellent : and we do not doubt that Austria will

      adhere to the Western Powers , and that her adhesion will provoke a crisis in Prussia , awkward for Frederick "William . Pnnica Jides and Prussian protocols are coming to mean the same thing . Yet is Prussia move contemptible because she is less clever than Austria ? Does that portion of our press which is triumphing in the Austrian junction really . see anything noble ,. heroic , or amiable in the eager haste' with which Francis Joseph rushed to congratulate the Allies on having beaten that Emperor who had preserved to Francis Joseph an empire ? Do they really think Austria is . thinking of anything beyond her own

      interests ; and if only hex' own interests , why be so complimentary to her ? Tho war is inducing some of our best journalists to be interestingly illogical . We do not join with certain fast liberals in denouncing the Austrian alliance : we see great mischief to Russia in our restraining Austria from a Russian alliance ; and we would urge our Government to be perfectly frank in hinting to the unknightly and ungrateful Francis Joseph tliat vtv are entering on a political war against absolutism . The Premier suggests in his speech nt Aberdeen

      that it is his opinion peace may follow tho fall ol Sebastopol . Diplomacy will no doubt renppear now ; and tho country would have for the winter a new phase of excitements in watching the Conference that must assemble to re-map Europe . Is the United States' Government to take part in that Conference ? The question is being answered at a preliminary conference of tho American Ministers , accredited to tho diiftrcnt European capitals . The only public movement nt homo 5 s connected with the war . There has boon a shockiir '

      neglect on tho part of tbo Government in tin provision of medical attendance for tho contingencies of wav ; and tho slaughter nt Alula lin .-i been followed by a more sickening carnage—that made among tlio nminmil by Noglcct . The evil i ' h done ; there should bo heavy punishment / l > r tho . . 0 to whom tho futnl stupidity can be traced ; nnd nil tlmt tho shocked nnd pitying intljHc can attempt in nllovintion of « ho miacliiufo of nn exclusive , incapable , and ( in < lu > alwenco of Parliament ) irrenpoimiblo Ciovorninont , is to mitigoto Downmystrcot and tlio Ilorso ( Jimrds by-a subscription . Lot us all subtferibo .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 14, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14101854/page/1/