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      "The One Idea Which History Exhibits As ...

      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity-the > noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men ^ . prejudice and one-sid ed views ; and by . setting aside ^ *^ ? £° * 2 4 % K £ l Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Swmboldt'a Cosmos .

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      .__. _,,_ Xucctr Vxa-B The Workinc Glass...

      . __ . _ ,, _ xucctr vxa-B The Workinc Glasses . . .. 822 The Earl of Stirling and the Russell PORTFOLIONEWS OF THE WEEK- * A < JB J ^ iSof Justice 822 Convention ...... ; 828 Iximaya and the Aztec Lilliputians 835 Prorogation of Parliament . . . 818 Cunosite ^ of Justice ........... •" ££ ¦ ,. Women ... - 828 The Ballad of the King ' Daughter 836 The Rival Yachts ..... 818 Cnminal Record . 823 The Wilkinson Case - 829 „ .. „__ ¦ Letters from Paris 819 Miscellaneous ... ..... 823 The Session . 829 5 L Oplraleason 837 Continental Kotes ............- ^ ........ PUBLIC AFFAIRS- OPEN COUNCIL- _ Landscape Painting ' ' ISkC !"""'! 837 Perkin Warbeck among the Fishes 821 r Sunday in Glasgow ... 830 p . irTO > fTii + ~ + - ™ »¦« The Lord Chief Justice and the . Rationale of Strikes ..... 7 .......... 824 An Unstamped Press ..... 831 Gallery of Illustration .-. 838 -Parish Priest ............ 821 A British Statesman ' s Idea of the Ion ' s Review of Wendell Phillip 3 ' s ¦ _ . . ¦ _ ,....-,,. OQO _ f arisn ± riesc ........ j . r » ., oaHV ™ « 9 < s Snpeoh 831 Health of London during the Week ... 838 £ - £ ffiS &?*™ r _ ::: £ - ¦ - jSSSSSS & sz & s-x : ut ^ rST "" . ¦ , **»*«* * . P * l ~* ** ^ ow the Irish are Taueht 822 vorce ....................................... 826 Books on our Table ... 832 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSNew Way to Dig ' '"* " 822 How to Cheapen Blood .................. 827 Lamarck and the Vestiges ... 832 City Intelligence , Markets , Adver- '• Improvements m ' printing " 822 How to Dress a Soldier ...... 827 j A Batch of Kepublications . 834 tisements , & c . 838-840

      Vol. Iv. No. 179j Satueday, August 27, 1...

      VOL . IV . No . 179 J SATUEDAY , AUGUST 27 , 1853 . [ Pkice Sixpence .

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      While The Turkish Government Is Reported...

      WHILE the Turkish Government is reported to have accepted the .. " . proposition- : of . the Four Powers , with a very slight verbal emendation —an acceptance which would settle the Menzschi-r koff stage of the Turkish question—new difficulties appear to arise . A third Russian army has crossed the Pruth , whether to help in retaining the Principalities notwithstanding the settlement , or whether to help their comrades in removing , who can say 1 Possibly , it may only be to show the quantity of men and arms which Russia can pour into the

      territories of an ally . In the meantime the ruler ofServia , Prince Karageorgewics , who has recently manifested some disposition to preserve his allegiance to Turkey if he can , has been obliged to remove from the capital of his dominions to a mountain fastness ; giving way before his rival , the son of Prince Milosch . The latter has long been known as the tool of Russia ; and , in his

      perplexity , Prince Karageorgewics declares that he will accept as friendly aid the entrance into his Principality either of a Turkish , or an Austrian , force . Strange alternative between his Sovereign and the doubtful ally of that Sovereign ! The temper of the Turkish people in Constantinople is said to be uncertain ; they have fretted under Russian insults and West European delays ; and " insurrections" in this or that quarter are now the form which constant rumours take ; butthis " settlement" may have killed such talk for the present . Hegardless of policy , certain foreign powers

      appear determined to drag the United States into European quarrels . The republicans are almost forced into action by the taunts which they receive ; Juul we regret to say that these taunts emanate 4 * T iroi n London , as well as continental States . The Austrian Government has issued a diplomatic note to other European Powers , representing that the conduct of Captain Ingraham of the corvette St . liouis , in demanding the surrender . of Kossta , was

      an act of " war , " doubly aggravated by the fact ?•'• at it was . committed in the port of a neutral and friendly power . This is well answered by the hftcle . Forcible protection of a person colourably ' - "j oying the protection of American citizenship is not " war , " or wo might extend that dignified e pithet to the most improbable street-rows . It yiay bo an illegal action , and that point would mu the proper subject of negotiation between the Austrian and . American Governments ; but this

      appeal to foreign courts on such a subject at once betrays the weakness of the Austrian Government , and is an impertinence to the United States . Another provocative we notice in the columns of the leading English journal . A pretext is found in the manly language of Mr . Soule ' , on taking leave of his fellow citizens ; a speech in which he makes a declaration , as " the fixed idea of his life , " of what is an unquestionable fact , that " the American nation cannot be chained now within

      the narrow limits which fettered the Young Republic of America , " and in which he affirms , " a small whisper from this country will decide the fate of nations , more potently than the decrees of Emperors . " This is seized as the pretext for condemning the administration of that same President Pierce , whose proceedings and appointments not long since were represented as wanting in character . President Pierce , who has thrice in the space of a life , not yet extended to the age at

      which Presidents have hitherto been chosen , achieved public distinction , entirely by his personal ability and energy ; that Franklin Pierce who rose to high distinction in the Senate of his own State , and then of Congress , at a very youthful period of life—who rose from being a private volunteer to a Brigadier-General in the Mexican War—and who was again dragged out of private life by the almost unanimous vote of his countrymen to take his place at their head—that man is systematically disparaged bv the leading English journal , as " a

      man of fair ordinary capacity , " and so forth ! The same journal which declares the Pierce policy to be without mark , couples these declarations of SouM with " passages , " not quoted , in Mr . Piercc ' s inaugural address , " creating an impression , " says the writer , " that the democratic party now in power are disposed to modify , considerably , the principle of non-intervention . " The words of Mr . Soule * are true j and America is a country in which an earnest man never will think it unpatriotic , or wrong , to declare the truth . President Piercc ' s words are not inconsistent with the artf . s

      of his administration , with the energy which has been imparted to every branch of the American service , whether we look - to the . patronage of scientific activity , which has descended from Jefferson , or to the decision which makes the American ilag respected in the East . America is the champion of liberty ; America is unfettered by the treaties that firmly bind those who might champion liberty in Europe ; and unquestionably her influence can , and will , make itself felt . If

      it be impeded instead of recognized , perverted instead of invited , it may be the worse , not for America , but for those who attempt to thwart Tier . We cannot understand these systematic attempts to sow ill-feeling between the actual , and the popular , administrators of America , and the English people . We know , however , that they appear in the same quarters where there have been systematic attempts to soften national English feeling

      at the conduct of the Emperor of Russia . We also know that in the United States there have been systematic attempts to sow bad feeling against England and her Government , and to hint that a Russian Alliance would promote the objects of the Republic . We believe that these attempts in America are seen through ; and we do not think that the English people are duller than their brethren across the Atlantic .

      If a report from Paris may be trusted—and we must confess that we are not yet able to ratify it —President Pierce has already taken a step which will show that the Republic recognizes her natural duties in the world , and does not shrink from taking her position on that ground which would to her be the most congenial vantage

      ground in Europe . The Government of Switzerland , menaced by the Absolutist Powers , sent , sometime since , a representative to the Government at Washington ; and the American President , it is said , has replied , that in the case of an actual struggle , Switzerland shall have the active cooperation of the United States . We only trust that this is true .

      The Pope of Rome has taken rather an important step , if the intelligence be confirmed , in authorizing his bishops , in Holland , to take oaths entailing civil responsibilities . This concession of the Pope is explained , perhaps , by the vigour with which , under a strong Ministry , the new Parliament of Holland is , by large majorities , pushing forward a Ministerial bill to prevent the assumption of ecclesiastical authority in Ifollarid without the consent of the civil powers . >»

      Other Continental news pales its ineffectual fire before these inore important proceedings . The retreat of the Emperor Napoleon with his Empress to Dieppe , where he is enjoying a half-holiday case , and " endearing" himself to his subjects by enquiring minutely into their locul affairs : —the marriage of the Duke of Brabant with an Austrian Archduchess ; that of the Austrian Emperor to a Bavarian Princess—are events not without their significance . Would the time were come when

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081853/page/1/