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"The one Idea -which . History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men bypreju . dj . ee and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt's Cosmos . ¦ .
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jiWS OF THE WEEK- * aob Continental Notes 394 The Crisis of Diplomacy 399 THE ARTSImperial Parliament 386 Our Civilisation ..... 394 Copyright in News 399 Royal Italian Opera 404 ThaSebastopol Committee 389 Miscellaneous 395 "The Stranger" in Parliament ... 400 Drury Lane and the Haymarket 404 The War 390 Postscript 395 , itebature - The Vienna Conference 392 onai i / - ac-c-a . oc LITERATUREMr-Layard at Liverpool 392 PUBLIC affairs— Summary 401 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 405 Departure of the Emperor 393 Are we to have an Aristocracy ? 396 Les Idees Napoleonienne 3 402 More Army Scandals 393 Revelations of the War Ministry 396 A Batch of Books 403 Jlealth of London during the Reconstruction of the Indian Wanderings in Corsica 403 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSNSandMiiitaVyNews-:::::::::::: S Tt ^ i ^ oi ^^^^ ni ^ i 397 PORTFOLIO- Ci ^ tiSlments & c MarketS > Ad " 405-408 The Paris Exhibition 394 Week 393 Eug 6 me ; 404 vertisements , < kc ro wo
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"J 7 VERY THING converges to a political crisis . Hi The evidence of tlie Duke of Newcastle discloses the totally disorganised state of the public departments . Lord Palmerston took the lead of the Government to introduce vigour and sincerity into our war administration : he has not proved equal to the task . It is no reproach to him that he is not ; his age is not in fault . We believe that no man can do the work thrust upon him , except he be prepared to take a totally now position ; to break entirely with the organised upholders of the present corrupt " system , " and to claim a support from the country .
Mr . Layard has laid upon the table of the House of Commons a series of resolutions which he is to move .. They correctly describe the actual situation : we do but follow their words , and state the one notorious fact , when we say , that tE € T ~ manner * in ""' 'Virhich--fitncss--and-efficiency-havc been sacrificed to party and family influences , and to a blind adherence to routine , in the appointments to the great offices of State , of diplomacy , of the army , and other branches of the
public service , is destructive to the best interests of the commonwealth . It has already given rise to grave misfortunes , threatens to bring discredit upon our national character , and to involve the country in serious disasters . It will not be denied , by any but the purely official mind , that at all times the administration of public affairs should be entrusted to those best qualified to discharge the duties imposed upon them ; how much the more necessary , therefore , it is , that such should bo the case at a moment
of'groat national emergency . At such a moment , then , Mr . Layabb invites tho House of Commons to make this declaration : —That this House will give its support to any Ministry , which , in tho present emergency , shall propose to itself no other object but the efficiency of the public service in every branch , nnd the vigorous prosecution of the war , as the only means of securing an honourable and lasting pcaco .
Parliament has been engaged tins week m exposing its total inefficiency and insipidity . Of "business" it has done little , —trifling with "deceased wife ' s sister , " pottering over newspaper stamps , and doing as it is bidden , " postponing " decisions like a bankrupt schoolboy;—but asking
the news from Ministers as recognised editors of the " latest" telegraph for the evening . The most like real business has been the second reading of the Cambridge Reform Bill in the House of Lords , without opposition : the discussion is to be taken in committee . The Chancellor promises amendments , which we hope will include a freer constitution . Lord Lyndhtjbst lost the opportunity to pass a eulogy on the old " solid" system of University education . Does he know what a " passman ' s" education was ? Surely it is time to have done with such cant . —
Oxford Convocation has passed by a very small majority a statute exempting Dissenters from the Divinity Examination . Mr . Hey wood , attempting a further removal of academical and scholastic tests , in the House of Commons , got upon a mud-bank of technicalities and foundered . The Articles are still to be signed by Masters of Arts " with a smile or with a sicrh . "
.... TheJXVTar . L . Budget was scarcely before the whole public , ere we had the report that Russisi had broken off the Conference at Vienrra ; and that roport was preceded rather than accompanied by another more painful , that Austria showed signs of departing from her good faith in the alliance ; while the opening of the telegraph from Balaklava to London discloses the ominous
fact that the siege had proceeded down to the 25 th without any material change . This state of affairs increases the feeling of uneasiness and dissatisfaction in the public . The position of Russia appears to bo characteristic and very intelligible . The epurso of the concessions will be remembered . Russia had consented to negotiate upon the basis of the Four Points , and tho first Protocol of the Plenipotentiaries recorded that first step in their proceedings . Tho Plenipotentiaries then proceeded to consider the four points separately . Russia provisionally accepted the principle involved in the two first—the withdrawal of her intervention
in the Principalities , and the complete freedom of the Danube navigation ; but on tho third pointthe reduction of Russian power in the Black Sea —her Plenipotentiaries professed a necessity' of referring home for instructions . This is oxtraordinmy , hiiico the point wns , of course , involved in " tho Four Points , " and it might have been supposed that tho Plenipotentiaries had at least enough information respecting tho views of their own Government provisionally to accept
that principle as a basis of further negotiations . For to such acceptance the first admission of any one of the points only amounted . The nature of the " further instructions" is disclosed in the fact , that the Russian Plenipotentiaries declined to make any proposition upon the third point , and there the Conferences were broken off . The chief Plenipotentiaries of France and England , Lord John Russet and M . Drooyn . de Lhtjys , were expected to leave Vienna on Monday ; but on Thursday they report from that capital that the departure of M . Dbooyn » e Lhuys had been delayed , and that Russia had made new propositions , which the Allies summarily rejected . For the moment this last report possesses
peculiar interest beyond that which appears on the face of it . It seems to bear collaterally upon the position of Austria . The Austrian Government was the moving cause of these Conferences ; the Western Powers having been quite prepared to proceed without further negotiation ; and , indeed , it may be said that it was Austria who converted the question of-the- Principalities into , a directly European question . From the first the interests of Europe were involved ; but , as the case was treated by the Western Powers , the action remained , to a certain extent , local , the attack upon Russia jn the north being only an auxiliary proceeding , and not involving any but purely Russian territory . It was at the request of Austria that the Allies considerably moderated theii
demands upon Russia ; and these concessions were no doubt made under the impression that Austria was meeting the Western Powers more than half-way , first in pressing coercive denuuuls upon Russia ; aad , secondly , in preparing to act with arms if Russia should refuse compliance . Russia has refused compliance ; and now it is reported that Austria , instead of preparing for instant action , deliberates and debutes . It is said that she put to the Allies tho question , whether enough" had not been gained by the Russian
. _ _ i > ii . _ T > ..:., « :.- > fJWif » q nnd of the IJluck evacuation of the Principalities and of the JJIuck Sea , and by tho excited jealousy of Germany against the advances of Russia in tho northern part of Europe ? There is no statement that Austria appears to bo in direct and separate communication with Russia , or this new attitude on her part would unquestionably assume the blackest diameter . Tho renewal of tho ollbr on tho part of Russia afforded «» opportunity for tlio Allies again to present themselves side bysklo ; and there is no evidence that Austria too .: a dif-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 28, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28041855/page/1/
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