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MEWS OF THE WEEK- * a Tho British Democrats 1083 The First War Winter 1092 Reprints Reptiblications etc 1098 The War „ 1062 Parliament . 1091 ) Development of the Army .. .. 1093 Mr Moo 3 f Amone tho Suppression of Betting-Houses . 1087 Health of London 1091 ) Captain Nolan 1093 Authors Among tlio The Court and Press iu Den- The Wear Shipwrights 1090 Insurance for the Working Jinirte 4 iifln mark ..... ... 108 S Ireland . 1090 Classes 1091 Books on our ' " Tallin iifift Continental Notes < 108 S Insurance for the People ...... 1090 iW * . Books on our laole 1100 China 1088 Prince Albert a " Question . " OP £ N COUNCIL— „ THE ARTSGreece 1088 Again 1090 _ , , , mu 1 . Sweden . 1088 The Liverpool Free Library ... 1090 Babel . 1094 Ineatres 1101 Spain 1088 Latest Edition 1090 , . * - RA ^ , „ Scraps 1101 America . 1088 Postscript 1091 LITERATURE- American Plots , 1088 Summary 1095 Jewish Emigration from Europe 1089 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Ifew Zealand . ' .. " ' """ 1096 . COMMERCIAL . AFFAIRSOur Civilisation 1089 Where is the House of Com- A Talker Worth Listening City Intelligence , Markets Ad-Cowell 1089 monsP 1091 To 1097 vertisemeuts , & c . .. . ...,.. 1101-1104 ,
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V CABINET COUNCIL met yesterday afterjLjL noon in Downing-street , and sat for some hours . At the same moment , Lord Palmerston was in conference at Paris with Louis Hapoleon . We may infer that the same subject was discussed by the two Cabinets ; ancl we may likewise take for granted that it is the decision at -which the Paris Cabinet may arrive which will be adopted by the trvvo Governments . It was veiy clever of Lord Palmerston , finding himself somewhat suppressed at home by the Peelite administrators of the war , to run over to Paris , and thus to take
practically the position of English Premier by becoming ( with a dexterity Lord Brougham must envy ) first Minister of our " dominant ally . " The conjunction of the Emperor and of the English statesman who carried English opinion in favour of the coup d'etat of 1851 bodes no good to Lord Aberdeen ; and it is not incredible , tbc Belgian story , that his colleagues did their best to keep the Home Secretary at his proper work . But of course they had to give way : November is very near December , and Lord Palmerstou always resigns in December—if he hnsn't his own way .
Our Cabinet Councils havo but one subject to discuss—the war . We can conceive Lord John , with his usual conscientious adherence to the impossible , entreating the Ministers to let him lead the schedules of the new Reform Bill , to ¦ which he has devoted those spare evenings on which he has not been writing the Memoirs of Fox or of Moore , or advertising himself tit an Athenaeum soiree . But wo can also conceive Lord John being put down by the Ministers . The last consultation of the Cabinet socincd to result in much
official talk about reinforcements : it vms a question about men : and very likoly the consideration yesterday ^ was as to money . The Government has Boon its great error in attempting to conduct a great war on a small scale : jind even Mr . Gladstone must now be giving \ vn . y on the < meatkm of var finance . The rumour on the ' Changes of
. London and Paris is that the two G overnmentB ai-3 about to raise loans : and this wo fully believe . "W \ know that Mr . Gladstone could not ; hold his office if ho faced Parliament again with an oflbr to na- ; ready money for tho war . 31 ' a loan -was decide } on yesterday , then we shall probably hear of Parlumcnt being summoned for an curly date after ChrVstmafl-day . Wo want Parliament , if only as n machinery for gotting tho news of the war from tho
Governterial explanations to the House of Commons would also obviate the obvious cooking of the despatches . The French Government does not disguise that it edits General Canrobert ; and there is internal evidence in Lord Raglan ' s despatches that he is allowed to tell Ins countrymen very little . The Duke of Newcastle has obtained a good deal of praise for his supposed readiness in communicating -with the public ; but what is the meaning of our getting his despatch to Lord Raglan , conveying congratulations on the battle
nient . " Ministerial explanations" on various points are much wanted , and there should be such a thing as consideration for the public , as well as consideration for the public service . This is the 18 th of November , and , including the Extraordinary Gazette of last night , we have had no news from Sevastopol later than the 3 rd , except a telegraphic despatch that there was a great battle on the 5 tli—a great battle meaning great slau g hter of bur friends and relatives . Were Parliament sitting , some better arrangement would have to be made than that which leaves us for a whole fortnight in acute suspense .
Minisof Alma , via Balaldava ? Surely he could have gratified the country with a copy ere this . ! N ~ that we think the despatch docs him great credit . There is not much masculinity in the style of liis compliment to Lord Raglan ; and some better and healthier phrase might have been chosen than " gracious approbation , " in speaking of the feelings with which the Queen of England hoard of the valour of her army . Some six or seven hundred gallant souls gone , for England's glory , and his Grace the Duke of Newcastle makes his Sovereign aay—much obliged !
The Extraordinary Gazette of last evening brings us no details of the buttle of the 5 th . It merely enumerates " casualties" up to the 3 rd , and not very clearly describes the position on that day . The Allies will no doubt have boon sustained , and tho Russians checked , by reminiscences of tbu affairs of the 2 Gth and i ? Gth . In morale sind physique the Allies , on these occasions , as ait Alma , proved their enormous superiority ; and , so far , there may be , nationally , some compensation for tho waste of gallant life in Lord Cardigan ' s heroic but insane charge with his 800 of the light brigade . Let the blunder b' accounted for : Jet
him ( if it bo not Nolan ) who " d responsible bo punished : but let us not malto too much of tho afl ' air . Wo have forgotten our war annals so completely that we talk of n mud charge of cavalry as " unparalleled , " and speak of every now act of bravery us a miracle . On tho other hand , wo uro disposed to undcr-csthmito the Turks , because certain Turkish troops did not defend with groat valour their redoubts on tho 26 th . Now there is nothing more common in war than a panic , oven among good soldierw , and tho Turku who Hod wore ruw recruits , badly officered , and who had ro fur a justification for their retreat that moat assuredly they could not have hold
their posts . These Russians , that we are beginning to respect , have exhibited quite as much craven discretion as the Turks . On the 26 th , when they -were arrested by Sir De Lacy Evans guns , they never attempted to fight—they ran without thought even of a manoeuvre . The Turks , as tlie Danubian campaign indicated , are excellent soldiers when well officered , and in fair circumstances ; to test them , or even the Russians , by the French or English standard of military excellence , is unjust and misleading .
We may hourly expect telegraphic news of what happened at Sebastopol after the 11 th—up to which date we have accounts , via Russia , so far clear that they do not speak of anything more than the regular siege . Detailed news of the 5 th , and of occurrences between the 5 th and the 11 th , we cannot hope for , under present arrangements , before the middle of next week . One way or other the siege must soon end , and the , war be spread beyond shattered Sebastopol ; and the movements of Omar Pasha , nearing Ismail , suggest the quarter in which the flaine will reappear . Austria , at present , holds her position consistently : sympathy with Russia , but absolute neutrality—a position , so far , as favourable to us as to her . But if the war should
commence in . Bessarabia , her difficulty would be very great : and we can afford to wait for her perplexity . Prussia , in a very Prussian way , has defined her intentions . She is with Austria so long as Austria is neutral if Austria be attacked , she will aid Austria : —and , thus , if Austria , certain of being attacked , -were strutegotiuiUy to make the first move , Frederick . William , declaring for Russia , would drink his
cliainpagini with a clear conscience that he hud done his duty to Germany and to God ! Meanwhile there is a fatuous talk setting in of tlio C ^ ar being ready to renew negotiations with Austria . Via Sebastopol , we have got Europe quite clear of the diplomatists ! In Sp « in , the dynastic and constitutional struggles is recommencing in a way that will < juito sullioientl y occupy the protocolic intellect . And the Austrian statesman-mind is receiving « . hint
from Italy of tho desirublerj & is of deserving « ri Anglo-French iilliance . LouisT ^ jipolcor * in quietly * , withdrawing his troops from Homo ; mid as th <) y go , rebellion rises behind them . Jilscwhcro in 1 taly there is incessant whispering tliat the inexorable Mnzzini is on tho watch . Tho cloud between Eu « lund and America , has floated irwny . Great Britain withdraws her n »; lo-( Jnunatic protectorate of tho Mosquitinn niytli ; and the Cuban controversy seems , for tho pro-Hunt ,, to bo put on oims bidu . Hut it would be yood , us wu havo al , other times urged , if th « ulliunce woro converted from the negative to the positive . The news fYom China still continues to \ m Unit tnuk ) is flloppwl by tho rebels : —why cannot J ' nduJxl and the Suites take joint pos-HCtfHion of China ?
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 18, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18111854/page/1/
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