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      THE choice or the Czar is awaited with impatience , not only by those powers that have submitted various propositions for the settlement of the Turwsh question , but also by the public , with very different feelings , The impatience for a definite answer has heea so great as to have created many supposititious answers , the result of guesses , of presumptions , or of those activities which have been incessant , to modify the quota * tions of the different money markets , and accommodate the gentlemen speculating alternately for a fall or a rise .

      While awaiting the reply of the Emperor , the parties to the dispute have somewhat modified their own position ; Turkey in particular has undergone movements which , if they have not directly advanced Russian interests , have done so negatively , by weakening her opponent . Irritated at the appearance of compromise , the old Turkish party has attempted a coup-d'&at , and has got up a conspiracy , at the head of which appeared certain young ecclesiastical students , to dethrone

      Abd-ul-Medjid , and to place at the head of the Ottoman Empire Abd-ul-Asis , the brother of the present Sultan . The conspiracy was discovered , the students were put to the bow-string , and Constantinople was quieted . The worst shake to the Turkish Government was the momentary dismissal of Mustapha Pasha , the Grand Vizier , with his eminent and able colleague Itedschid , and the substitution of Ali Pacha , who seems to be the same Governor of Smyrna that was recalled as a

      satisfaction to Austria . This would be inexplicable if it were not understood to have originated in the movement of the old Turkish party resenting compromise with the Giaour . The fact is , that the same movement which has been necessary to call out Turkish forces has roused the old Saracenic spirit . The Government , strong only while it is exercising its military lead , becomes weak when it resorts to diplomatic niceties , which the semi-barbarous Saracens cannot understand .

      By a very opposite process , the Christian subjects of Turkey appear also to be waxing bdld in the confidence of an anticipated triumph . Russian agents have been very active in Bosnia and Scrvia . One Russian of rank is travelling with some very mysterious object , and has been receiving almost Royal honours at the hands of the Sclavoman chiefs . He appears to have gone to join Prince Gortschakoff . That commander is occupying the

      Principalities with an air of much more decided military possession than is avowed at St . Petersburg . His line of army extends from Jassy to Bucharest , and thence to Ismail , a triangle of which the foremost point approaches very close to the Danube . Eighty thousand troops are now said to be in the Principalities with heavy guns . They are fortifying their position , and great pains are taken to celebrate ostentatious religious ceremonies in honour of the Czar .

      Although we ; do not pay auyjeal attention to the reports which come , from St . Petersburg , alternately in favour of peace and of war , it is not doubted that the position of the Russian forces in the Principalities gives plausibility to a report received within the last , few hours , that the Emperor of Russia declines all the propositions which have been submitted to him , and offers to

      submit the question to arbitration , naming Austria as his referee ; Turkey to name her own ; but intimating that after the arbitration he shall demand compensation for the trouble of moving his army . This is after the fashion of those dogstealers who first take Mrs . Baker ' s favourite , and then ask a reward for the trouble of returning

      it . The most plausible supposition is , that the Czar is making a waiting race of it , by shaking the Turkish Empire for a few months . That the Western Powers could agree to any such proposition as that which we have just named , seems impossible . We do not believe that there is any party in England , or even in London , that would consent to so degrading a submission .

      The little dispute at Smyrna has drawn attention to the position of the United States in this affair . A probable report is , that Kossta , the Hungarian refugee , has after all not remained in the custody of the Austrian officer , but has been handed over to the French Consul until further instructions from Constantinople . It is quite certain that the American officer behaved with great spirit , a nd the complaints made in Vienna , respecting the conduct of the American Consul ,

      also testify to the national feeling of that gentleman . Thes , e facts go to confirm the report that General Pierce has exercised his authority in consular matters , with a view to the effective assertion of American independence ¦ abftftMli ' V-jU y consular appointments he has exercised , fow i ^ ftpej with a view not only to ability , but alap to the capacity for a spirited representation of the Republican policy . Orders have been issued to protect American citizens wherever they may be , found , and M . Kossta bears an American passport .

      It is alleged , on the part of Austria , that by a conventional understanding , the several powers represented in the Levant are permitted to exercise an authority over their own subjects , —an authority which the Austrian officer claimed to exercise over M . Kossta as an Hungarian : we do not know whether the United States have been a party to any such convention ; but if not , the officers of the Republic cannot be expected to depart from the usual public law which recognises the constituted authority of the Government of the place , as the proper referee in such matters . It has been

      said that the Americans are instigated by a prejudice against Austria . We trust that the policy of the Republic will continue to be so strictly in contrast with that of the model Absolutist power , as to render any cordial unity of action between the two impossible . For unless the Western Powers depart still more energetically than they have yet done from the compromising policy which has disgraced them , it is very necessary that freedom and independence should find some champion in the world ; and we hail the appearance of America in Europe as a guarantee that political freedom will not be suffered to expire without a vigorous

      stand . The rebellion in China appears by the last accounts , which are more authentic than usual , to continue in fair progress , although in one respect it appears aa yet ttt' $ && } -I ^ aa- nfrfWg ^* M *\ l It may be said to havfe been eating up the Chinese population , but we have no trustworthy account of its having come fairly into contest with the Tartar soldiery , upon whose fierceness and prowess the Government really depends . Sir George Bonham , and an interpreter , have actually had a conference with the rebels ; and it appears to be a fact that they arc united in support of some kind of Christian doctrine , but what that is , does

      not yet appeal-. There are various reports . Jesuits have long since planted the seeds of a Christianity which has 'been slowly making its way in China ; the Gutzlaff distribution of London Bibles haa probably contributed its effect ; it is now reported that Russia emissaries of the Grfcek church have been helping ; ond , in short , aided

      by American traders , this Christian insurrection nppenra to be a very mongrel affair indeed . | Thb Australittxi ; -I >» JM $ * 8 send oftt ;; ft ,. . Sj ^ flge compl < iin ^—that ^ p ^ l * i »« i ! a ;' wb ^ ' ar perhaps the moat ¦« flush of money" of any in the world , is troubled with a short supply of goods in its ^ markets ! Of course the deficiency will be curcw . as soon as it in known . But these complaint *

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      VOL . IY . ^ . 174 . 1 SATURDAY , JULY . 23 , 1853 . [ Peice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— . A Duplicate Dukedom ........ 706 Health of London during wee * ua PAGfl ' Miscarriages oftte Cab Act 706 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ...... 708 The Week in Parliament $ 98 Irish Priests and Italian Kefiigees ... 706 Letters fr ^ I ^ S ; ., ^ . ;;^^ - 706 PUBLIC AFFAIRSCoi ^ entalK < rte 9 ViV . ' . ' . ; .: ? .. iii .. ^; iJ . i 702 Ocean Penny Postage . offered by Crops and Trade : Spring after The Eittry of the Russians into Mol- ' PrivateEnterprise ..................... 706 Winter 709 davia . ;„ ............................... ; ... 703 The Parson ' s Hand in the Labourer ' s The Moral of Tory Triumphs at The NewTroops at Chobham ......... 704 Pocket .... ;;„ ............... ; .... 707 Liverpool .. 709 Site CanterburyColonist . . .............. 704 " The Deluge" , 707 Rescue for Children in the Streets 710 '? ome for Siok Ladies ; i .-.- ... . ; . v ' . i : v ; . ; -70 S "Workmen and Wages 707 Treatment of Women .................. 711 ^ eModeO > me ^ The Assizes . 707 The Police taking Orders 711 The Crusade in China ............. ; .... 705 Brutalities towards Women .. 707 An English Landlord ..... 711 News from Australia . 705 Miscellaneou * 707 "A Stranger" in Parliament .....:... 712 .

      Mr . Serjeant Adams ...... ; ... 713 LITERATUREBooks on our Table 714 Haydon ' a Autobiography .. 714 Eng lish Philosophy 716 . THE ARTSOlympic Theatre .. .... 717 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , : &c ... 717-720

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      . . " The one Ideii . which History exhibits as evermore developing , its elf into greater ^ sknetness is the Idea of H ^ ' ¦ to throw down aU the barriws erected between men by ¦; . . . Country , and Colour , to-treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development ol om spintuax v fiatare . --ittt »» &oAfc' « Cosmos . r . '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 23, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1996/page/1/