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rpHIS week has been a crescendo upon last week , X with the same objects of public attention presented in a present and intense-aspect . From a speculation , the Imperial visit has become a reality ; there is a diplomatic crisis in Vienna ; a military crisis in- Sebastopol , with the renewed bombardment , ' -a crisis in our money market with , the Loan and the Budget ; and a crisis certainly in the overexcited state of the metropolis , and no inconsiderable part of the country .
An event like the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the . French must necessarily have absorbed the attention of the multitude ; but besides the impressions always produced by the sight of power concentrated in individuals , —besides the vulgar adulation of exalted rank , —there were special reasons why England should give something more than a cordial welcome even to the man whom personally they would repel with execration . There was common curiosity ; the
week has been infinitely more gratifying to public curiosity than a visit to Madame Tussaxtd ' s . There was the embodiment of the French alliance , so gratifying to the people of both countries . There was also the spirit of hospitality , excited by the arrival of such a visitor , and afterwards self-excited by its own indulgence . John Buix invites a friend to take a glass of wine with him , and finishes with an orgy , because his own hospitality has fired his own brain ; and so it lias
been from Monday till Saturday . Louis Napoleon was lost in the crowned Emperor , and the people gave the chief of the pageant a round of applause throughout the whole winding line of his tour . He landed at Dover on Monday , under a cloud ; for the shores were veiled in an ominous fog which kept him lute ; but Dover was thronged with soa-sido holiday-makers and sightseers ; the corporation vied with the landlord of the Lord
Warden in the fervour of their obsequiousness ; the JfiviNCK Consort came down specially to meet the Elected of December ; and the short journey from the inn to the railway-station , —the whole line of the railway where tho people could collect to sec tho royal party flash by , —the Bricklayers ' Arms , tho impromptu procession of tho travelling carriages and csoort through Charing-cross to tho Great Western station , —were ended by passing under a "triumphal arch" at Windsor—a trophy
to commemorate the hero of a day , and then to be consigned to the lumber warehouse . The Emperor—formerly Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte—and the Empress—not long since a Spanish young lady familiar to our society—were guests for whom a part of the royal Castle of Windsor had been specially prepared ; the whole week was arranged for their delight and entertainment - * there was a royal hunt on Tuesday , only the Emperor was too tired to join it ; a review and installation of the Garter on
Wednesday ; the presentation of the City address , the State visit to the Opera House , on Thursday ; the Crystal Palace on Friday ; departure on Saturday . The main thoroughfare of the metropolis on Thursday , during the visit to the City and the return , forcibly recalled to mind the last occasion when a great throng lined that road—the funeral of the Duke of Wellington . The next to follow the Hero of Waterloo along that path , so prepared ^ - w as the"nephew of the man whom he had sent to St . Helena .
While the Emperob was here , rather startling intelligence arrived from the seat of negotiations . The real state of the case at Vienna has not yet been publicly explained . The reports that have flocked to this country , from that capital , from Berlin , and from Paris , are so mingled with manifest fabrications , that no one deserves much attention . Yet taking thorn altogether , and coupling their purport with the silence of Ministerial organs both in Paris and London , it seems to be evident
that something has occurred unfavourable to the position of the Western Powers . It cannot be the refusal of Russia ; for that has not yet been formally delivered , and has long been anticipated with certainty . The assertion is , that Austria is drawing back ; and the worst evidence in support of that assertion is , that it has not yet met with any direct contradiction . Whatever has hap » pened , it seems to have been notified to the Western Powers while tho Empkrou Napoleon
was in Lngland ; and it may have been earnestly discussed in the intervals of State festivities . Tho news from the seat of war is scarcely less stirring , and scarcely less uncertain . The bombai'dment of Sebastopol recommenced on tho i > ch instant ; it was continuing on tho 14 th ; it was then reported that Omar Pacha had received a requisition" to send a picked body of men to Kmniesch Bay ; two breaches hud already been made in the walls ; tho cannon of tho Allies , it is said , proved immensely to outweigh those of tho
Russians ; the approaches had got so close , that the regular day's work began to assume the fashion of fighting in the field ; and the assault appeared to be impending . The anticipation created by this announcement , however , only serves to arouse ; and not to satisfy , anxiety . If the southern side be taken , what will the Allies do with it ? Highly probable descriptions of the fortress make it unlikely that the south could be held " while the north side is still in thre hands of the defenders ; and the attempt at occupation would only expose the invaders to still greater slaughter than 4 hey have yet incurred .
The Loan is already a matter of history , although the money has not yet come in . The City men met the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday , and heard his proposal . He told them that he wanted 16 , 000 , 000 of money , that for that he would give them 16 , 000 , 000 of stock at three per cent . ; and since no City men would give 100 Z . in full for -100 Z . Three . perXent . Stock , with prices scarcely above 90 , he added as an inducement a " terminable annuity" to last for thirty years . The questions of the money
men seemed to place the Chancellor of the Exchequer in some difficulty . At all events , his manners indicated no confidence , and City men did not display greater confidence . Did he intend to admit bidders for small portions ? Sir Cornewall Lewis rather thought so ; but when tho City men demurred , he consulted his chief , Lord Palmerston , and gave way . Catechisings about possible subsidies to foreign nations , cross-quedtionings about the inconvenient nature of the terminable annuity tacked on to the perpetual
annuity , reiterated inquiries about tho sale of Stock on Savings Bank account , and a doubt whether the declaration of a Government intention was to be regarded as a pledge , wore incidents which showed an uneasy , almost mistrustful feeling among the City men ; and Sir Cornwall Lewis's manner was not calculated to remove that mistrust . He did not seem to bo at home . Howeverthe City men went away , leaving an
, impression that tho money would bo had ; and the funds in the City began to go up and down under tho alternate influence of endeavours to depress them , in order to got tho bottcr terms from Government , and tho purclmses of tha undisciplined public . Tho terminable annuity is regarded aa an unfair pretext for using that popular name , and as a paltry innovation not worth tho inconvenience and disturbance which it creates in tho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041855/page/1/
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