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A BACKWARD Spring , suddenly bursting forth J \_ with sunshine , Whitsuntide , the Queen ' s birthday , the Epsom race week , form a conjunction within the fortnight too much for sober Englishmen ; and with the most important interests at stake all over the world ; with our own finances in the su ^^ fi ^ se df dejBate j "" with , our arms nijtr ^ b ^ lately Victorious in tnclia ; arid an actual
threat of war in Turkey—still Parliament could not resist a little more play ; and as for the non-Parliamentary classed , they have taken a wide margin of sportiveness , stretched to its utmost latitude on Wednesday . Epsom Downs were alive with heads ; the roads were a living stream at morning and at night ; and the name of " the winner" was of more importance , for the hour , than any political event .
At the first , the encampment at ChoWiam has been regarded as a part of the holiday resources of the season ; such a display of red coats , mounted and dismounted , of tents and evolutions , on such picturesquely broken ground , is new to London eyes . In practice it has proved to be no holiday work . The stern realities of war begin to make themselves apparent in the hard labour of pitching
tents , building stables , digging wells ; and the growing uncertainty as to the . state of Europe gives a fiercer meaning to this holiday display . At the Fishmongers' dinner , Lord Haidinge emphatically declared the army to be in a state of perfect efficiency ; and at the same festival Admiral Sir Charles Napier declared that " at last we have a navy . "
These assurances are opportune , just as we receive the ominous intelligence from Constantinople , that the Russian Government lias assumed a position usually considered as a preliminary to a declaration of war . For some time , Prince Menzschikoff—who came to the Turkish capital with a most undiplomatic retinue of Generals and Admirals—has been urging upon the Turkish Government demands , the cession of which would have
amounted to a surrender <> f the government of the Christians in Turkey to the Russian Emperor . These demands were pressed with an insolence of demeanour which gave ; to them a still more humiliating air . At last , acting on the advice especially of the English and French ambassadors , the Sultan positively declined compliance with the Hussiau demands , re-appointed to the chief post in the Ministry Ilcdshid Pacha , the statesman
whom he had displaced to please Russia , and prepared himself for the worst consequences . Prince MenzschikofF continued to be very overbearing in his manner , but he had not yet carried out his threat of departing . There had been despatches to bring up Russian ships on the one side , English and French ships on the other ; but the general
expectation , was , that Russia would not proceed to the very last extremities . Nevertheless , these movements necessarily exeite the strongest feeling of uncertainty . Our own Ministers , in both Houses last night , stood firm to , their groundthe maintenance of treaties and of Turkey , her integrity and independence .
Austria has broken with Switzerland diplomatically , only diplomatically . Austria will not carry it further , her diplomatists assert . For " will not " read " dare not . " According to the electric telegraph the idea of terminating the Burmese war , with the annexation of Pegu is given up : the boundaries cannot be settled ; the new King reclaims the whole territory ; the Indian Government , on the other hand , is committed to conquer and annex the whole ; and more troopa will be wanted" for the purpose . This is a demand that docs not fit in very well with the state of affairs in other quarters .
Our warships in China too have got entangled with the civil war tl » ere , and have been going to the support of the Government ; notwithstanding the Christian" character that the rebellion has assumed . Our hands , therefore , arc getting rather full for a " time of peace . " India continues to rise in interest . Out of doors the activity of the Indian Reform Society makes itself felt in meetings like that at Bristol , where one of its most distinguished members , Mr . John
Bright , explains the main points of the Indian case , and obtains the support of a large meeting , comprising all parties . The annexation of Pegu ; the absurd Anglo-British laws of inheritance , intended to protect the convert to Christianity , but really offering Christianity as a refuge for the rogue and the violator of all faith , have been among the subjects glanced at in Parliament .
jj |' In other matters Parliament has not done much . Monday night was given to the Incometax Bill in committee—Irish and Protectionist amendments , already decided , being renewed in a slightly altered shape , and decided again ; lust night , also , on the same business , Mr . Disraeli left Mr . Butt to be the leader of the Opposition , and the bill has nearly passed that troublesome stage . Thursday was given to Church-rates , and to rival plans
for their abolition—one by Mr . Robert Phillimore , to accept a declaration in writing of a man ' s being a Dissenter as disqualifying him either from paying rates , or interfering in the ecclesiastical business of his parish ; the other by Sir William Clay , to place the cost of the Church repairs on Church property and pew-rents . Neither proposition found any real support in the speeches , although each obtained a considerable number of votes ; the fact being that there is a desire to get rid of the rates by any mode—details to be settled afterwards . They stand good for this year—but not for many more .
The Lords debated the tax on successions , last night , with some spirit ; but Ministers carried their point by a net majority of 13 . The Dockyard committee have issued their report , adding nothing to the evidence , not even a judgment on the case ; but the story looks more ugly in a consecutive shape than it did as it came out piecemeal . Perhaps more than the dishonesty of the late party " in power , " its incompetency stands forth : Mr . Stafford , getting entangled deeper and deeper in his own irreconcilable
statements ; Mr . Disraeli theorizing on the causes of Mr . Stafford ' s difficulties , which any ordinary moralist could have touched at once ; Lord Derby declaring that he left all to the poor Duke of Northumberland , and the poor Duke pleading that he had no experience , —all these form a quartet of varying parts , with a certain harmony of cross purposes as clever as any vocal fugue , and each p art tells more forcibly for being brought together with the rest . The House has now to report on this report .
" Uncle Toms Cabin" has been converted to a new use : a concert has been given in Stafford House for a lady whose claims to musical fame rest on her having a black skin , and who is called " the Black Swan ; " and Mrs . Stone was necessarily a guest , from her connexion with Abolition and the Duchess of Sutherland . Railway artists are attempting- new modes of anatomy , witli great success . One achievement
has been to cut up an unfortunate man into 140 pieces—an American triumph of railway management . Another ingenious invention is English : when a passenger train is expected to stop at Lea (* ate station , a survey train dashes past , and thus fatally circumvents a poor porter who thought that he had got out of the way . Hut the third plan , also English , is exceedingly ingenious : just as an express train is about to pass another , a guard cries , " Don ' t get out ! " on
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VOL . IV . No . 166 . 1 SATURDAY , MAY 28 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— iagb American Notes 512 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— " A Stranger" in Parliament .... 520 The Week in Parliament 506 ANew Low Church National Society Russian Aggression on the Peace of ; OPEN COUNCILLetters from Paris 508 for Education 513 Europe 516 j The Law as to the Administration of Continental Notes 509 The Holyoake Testimonial 613 The Oxford " Derby . " Names of I Oaths—III 522 Chinese Proclamations 510 Mr . MaccalTs Lectures 513 the Winning Horses 517 The " Army and Navy" at the Fish- Oxford as it is , Painted by a Friend 513 Austrian Piracy : the Sichel Case ... 518 LITERATUREmongers'Feast 510 " TheDerby" 514 Progress of Christianity in the East 518 Two Books about Goethe 524 " The Friends of Italy" 511 Wages 514 A Public Ministry of Costume 513 Aristotle ' s Politics 525 Mr . Koundell Palmer 511 Journal of Railway " Accidents" ... 514 Church Movements : Old and New 519 Gerstaecker in the South Seas 526 English Opinion on India 511 The Story of Mendaco ' .. 514 Resume " . —Russia ' s Increased Power The English Camp 512 Miscellaneous 515 —Policy of Necessity—Imperative COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS The Second Address to the Ameri- Health of London during the Week 516 Demand for a Change in our Po- City Intelligence , Markets , Advercans against Slavery ... 512 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 516 Key . —Letter III 519 tisements , &c 526-528
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n Th 5 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 by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside ths 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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Leader (1850-1860), May 28, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1988/page/1/
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