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      "The one Idea -which . History exhibits as evermore developing' itself into greater distinctness is thfe Idea of Humanity-i-fehe noble .-. endeavour to throw down all the barraers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided view ? ; and , by B . etfcpxg , aside the digtiiictiorLS .,,. of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Htiman race as one brotherhood , h . aving one great' object ^ -tne free developzrient of our spiritual nature . "— Hwnboldt' s Cosmos . • '

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— , p-mje Naval and Military 392 The Grissell Contract 398 THE ARTSImnerial Parliament ' . .. $ 87 JJost in a Coalpit < 392 Lord John ' s Failure . .... 3 S 8 • * ... - .. ... The Crimean Bmrd of Inquiry "Z ' . Z 388 Oiir Civilisatiou 392 PiUnit ^ War at Oxford ..... 38 9 The Socie ty of'British Artists ; 404 ThlT ^ ty of ptace ' . I ™ .. Z "" . ssl State of Trade U ... 394 iit - . The Boyal Raliaa Opera 40 * Count WaWski on the Greek and Miscellaneous 391 LITERATURE- Italian Questions 389 Postscript 395 Summary . 400 The Czar ' s Sermon oh the War S 90 . afpairs- Archer Buyer's History of Philo- The Gazette 405 The Crimea , .... 390 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— sophy J 400 . . -uazerae 4 U & The Naval Ifceview 390 TheTreaty 395 Story of a Blue-bottle . ... 401 rfiwiMroriai flPFaiRc ' : Continental Notes 391 The Walewski Plot ' . ..... 396 Bichard Cromwell ...., 402 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSAmerica 392 The Cabinet 397 The Travels of an Australian 403 City Intelligence , Markets , & c ........ 405

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      VOL . VII . No . 318 . ] SATtJBDAT , APRIJJ 26 , 1856 . ^" S ^^ S ^ B ^ l ^ SS ^

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      . . .. > ¦»— - . , Tp NGL AITD has "been at sea this week . Not figu-JLJ ratively , this time , in the Crimean Commission sense : although the recital of the sufferings and misadventures of the Lords spir itual and temporal , and of the faithful and / much-enduring Commons might be fitly described by that lively metaphor . But on Wednesday England took to the sea as to her native element , and , let us hope , caught strength from the maternal "wave , like Antaeus from -the touch of earth . The truth is , our island race is a race of sailors at heart . Were we Pagans we should pay the highest honours to the sea deities , and our metropolitan cathedral would be the Temple of Neptuue . Not being Pagans , we pay sacrifices occasionally to the majestic god 3 but we love him not the less in his terrors and his smiles as our national proteotor and avenger . Just as the Frenchman is a born soldier , your Englishman is a born sailor ; our Gallic friend , for all his brasswork and drums , looks at best a Surrey-side theatrical tar . We all love ?' , thp service" too , and

      naval estimates , prepared by the most lavish , or the most incapable Board of Admiralty , excite no jealousy even in Marylebone , no grudging even in Lambeth . An army , a standing army ( we do not say & British , army ) , may become a royal plaything , an aristocratic' toy , a satellite of unrighteous authority , a menial to the insolence of office ; but in our wooden walls there is neither faction nor servility , nor corrupt ambition , but , a steadfast love of country , a loyalty without alloy , a pure devotion .

      Perhaps the Review on Wednesday lacked something of that stirring interest which belpnged to the armament of three yearn ago , when war . was , looming , and we were collecting ourselves for . a gigantic contest . But in magnificent array the present Review of ' 56 was almost as superior to that of ' 53 as the defile of General Codrington ' s army tne ' dther day may have been to

      an ordinary field day in Hyde Park . In August , ' 58 , we wore rejoicing in the march of our screw leviathans , no visible aid propelling ; but not only have we launched double the number of that fleet since then , but wo have built and equipped for instant service , a ewnrm . of gunboats , without which the strength of the lino leviathans is a hrnluni fulmen , except for the purpose of blockade . Those who wore at Spithcad Una week must have boon more struok by the

      wicked gallop of those gunboats than even by the superb , proeessipn of . the line-of-battle-ships 5 in those moving towers was the image of supremacy , but in these sea-h . ornets is the sting , of war . ¦¦ - We cannot find it in our hearts to echo the snarl of those pure Tory jpurrialists "who affect a lofty contempt for the gratification of a " sightseeing'rabble . " We do riot write in the service of a faction , and we are free toifeel and express the simple pride of Englishmen ( a pride in which there need be no bluster and no bloodthirstiness ) when we say that the spectacle at Sp . ithead was worth a pilgrimage to see , and a- ' lifetime to remember . It is well that our allies and our

      enemies should know how the Treaty finds us armed . It is well that ^ we should take stock , as the Times has well said , of our national resources in the face of a Continent only half at peace . It is well that for one day we should forget our party feuds and political denominations , to reniember only that we have one country , and one flag . The Review was , generally speaking , a decided success . The day , like all the Queen ' s days , was sunny and genial , with a light breeze to gladden the waters and to blow the bunting clear . The

      stately line of war-ships , stretching over twelve miles of sea , was scarcely more remarkable than the colossal fleet of private steamers which attested the grandeur of associated enterprise , and the universality of British commerce , and the graceful yachts which , like the thorough-breds at Epsom and Ascot , spoke of a race of gentlemen famous by field and flood . The remarkable points

      of the spectacle were the ships opening fire in succession to salute her Majesty ; the towering procession of the line- ^ of-battle ships ; the attack of the gunboats on the forts , and the parting cheer of the thirty thousand gallant follows as the royal yacht steamed slowly to the van . But to a practised eye , nothing was more admirable than the precision with which each ship took up her berth again at sunset .

      It is evident that our ships were never better handled ; the old " salts " of the last generation have no degenerate successors in the more refined heroes of our day , who beat to action in " white kids . " We believe that of tho quartor of a million people who lined the shores of Southsea , and blackened tho Solent with human freights on Wednesday , only a few thousand remained to sec tho most strikin g apeetnelo of all , when , nt the signal of a rocket , in the twinkling of an eye , the

      whole fleet was illuminated as if by enchantment and Spithead streamed : like some city of the stars all radiant with palaces of light : aud when from the throats of those lusty tars . came forth a cheer that might almost have shaken ISFelaoti from his glorious sleep . "VPith jfcha $ sturdy , acclamation closed a memorableday .. What is the moral of that , day ? What l > ut this ? A giant ' s power is more despicable than impotence when it is but despicably used . There is the power , what hasbeen the use ? The fault is not in that gallant navy , but in the nation -that confides its destinies and its principles to men without capacity and-without conscience .

      The Treaty of Peace has been published by the Daily News , before either the French or English Governments have produced it in due form . It is long , yet it is not complete without appendices , and the work which it chalks out is in some part only beguiu It is the exact counterpart of the contest and its results , with one exception—Kara does not remain in the hands of the Russians : Otherwise , if is exactly "what we might have expected from the dead results of the wai * . Marine fortresses are not to be maintained on the shores of the Black Sea : -the restoration

      of parts of the Crimea to Russia is purchased by the surrender of a strip of Bessarabia ; the Danube is placed under a European commission ; the hattee schereef giving certain immunities to the Christian subjects of Turkey ^ is annexed to the treaty as being communicated by the Sultan ; war ships are excluded from the Black Sea ; a separate convention between Russia arid Turkey to regulate the force of the two Powers for the ' simple maintenance of order , is another appendix to the treaty ; the arrangements for the Aland Islands forming 1 tho subject of a third appendix in the shape of a convention between Russia and the Western

      Powers . Besides the commissions for tho putposes already mentioned for the settlement of tho Asiatic boundary , of the Bessarabian boundary , and of tho Danube regulations , there is also to bo a commission for the settlement of the Principalities , in conjunction with tho Sultan ' . The representatives of the Allies had already considered the future Government of tho Principalities , in conference with tho Ministers of tho Sultan , and we now have the memorandum which was the result of that conference . Its general tendency is to systematise the local government of Moldavia and Wnllachia , and to increase tho seouritiea for law . Among tho details is a proposition that fo-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26041856/page/1/