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LORD CLARENDON has despatched a messenger to St . Petersburgh , bearing instructions to Sir Hamilton Seymour , who will demand of the Emperor Nicholas an explanation of the proceedings in Moldavia and Wallaqhia , which have just come to the knowledge of our Government . It is but a few short weeks since any representation that Russia intended to incorporate- these Principalities , was scouted and set down to Russophobia . It is indeed but a few short months
since Lord Clarendon declared that he relied upon the word of the Emperor . The Emperor declared that he intended to make no war upon Turkey ; to commit no territorial appropriation . It now appears that not only has he advanced his army in strong positions towards the inner frontier of Turkey—the Danube ; but that he has superseded the Hospodars , appointed commissioners to govern
in their stead , seized the revenues , and discharged the allegiance of the Moldavians and Wallachians from their lawful sovereign , the Sultan . Great pains have been taken in London as well as in other places , to represent that the Sclavonians of Turkey were highly favourable to the Russian Government , and we may well understand that numbers of these races have been bought over ; but we are well aware also that the Sclavonians
entertain projects of their own by no means dependent upon the intentions of the Czar , and that subserviency to Russia has not become a national feeling is shown by the coercive measures which his officers have found necessary to take . Some of the young Boyards who had signified their dislike to the invader , have been seized and impressed into the service of the Russian army . It is natural that the Turks should resent these
gross outrages upon their national independence and honour . They have been mustering in considerable numbers , and they are anxious to attack the enemy . The proceedings of the Emperor are totally at variance with good faith and the usages of an armistice ; they have thrown discredit upon the counsel given to the Sultan by his Western advisers , and British influence has been damaged by the turn of affairs . The Sultan has an increased difficulty in keeping back the impatient Saracens from a new combat with their ancient
. It would seem that events are marching faster than the somewhat tardy manoeuvres of the Four Powers . While they are chopping red tape at Vienna , the Czar is striding on , and it would
seem that his advances are by no means limited to Turkey . Denmark has already been shaken by his intrigues , Sweden is threatened with an army which is mustering on the Northern frontiers . But we are not at all sure that his newest and most active intrigues are not pushed beyond the visible limits of ostentatious aggression . Without desiring to put constructions too wide , let us simply
observe facts . The Princess Olga has come to England with her husband , for her health ; so has the Duchess of Leuchtenberg , the Emperor ' s most diplomatic daughter . She has been received by Baron Brunow , and , as is natural with a person of her rank , she is at once welcomed at Court , and surrounded by the representatives of good society in England , Lord Aberdeen being amongst that select number .
An anecdote has been afloat , and it reaches us , not for the first time , through a channel which appears worthy of credit . It is to this effect : Lord Aberdeen caused Mr . Cobden to receive an invitation to make a Peace movement in Parliament , and it is said that Mr . Cobden declined , on very intelligible grounds , —that if he succeeded ,
Lord Aberdeen would reap all the credit , but that if he failed , the Peace doctrine would incur all the discredit . Mr . Cobden ' s reply shows a due sense of the current of public feeling at present . Lord Aberdeen ' s invitation , if it is truly reported , shows a strong , and not a national , tendency in his own mind .
For gossip of this kind we cannot vouch , but what we observe is , that our Government has been extraordinarily slow ; that it is awaiting the suggestion of Austria , —a power which would compromise any interest rather than take a decided position against Russia , or risk an European movement . We observe that our Government has carried forbearance to a point which we do not like to characterize ; that it has counselled Turkey to forbear until that Power seems likely to have worn out the patience of its own subjects , and to risk its own existence . We observe that our
Government , through all these phases , if not insincere , .- —if not sharing in the delusions which have been practised , has been the victim of them . The explanations given in both Houses of Parliament by Lord Clarendon and Lord John Russell , have been the moat important subjects in Parliament ; for the record of the week is not particularly interesting . A fact indeed of corresponding importance is Sir James Graham ' s declaration , — very handsome in him to make and very useful to the country—that he was deceived in supposing that there waa not sufficient
ardour in the population for volunteer enlistment in the militia . The volunteer principle has worked so well there , that the ballot is superseded , and Sir James Graham , who doubted the Militia plan , now relies upon the same principle for his own coast-guard volunteers—an enrolment of seafaring men on the coast , to be ^ trained during twentyeight days in the year to the use of the great guns , and thus to be prepared for enlistment in
active service , with a bounty , should necessity arise . Although we do not believe that a Militia can be relied upon for marine purposes , as it can for land service , yet the proposed reserve is likely to be of great use in the event of hostilities , and we have no doubt that every appeal to the national feeling in this shape will meet with a practical response , the only obstruction to which has consisted of that hateful economy which has combined penny wisdom at all price , with limited Radicalism . As a o-eneral rule , the Government measures are
getting on without let or hindrance , and amongst them it is especially incumbent upon us to notice the Royal assent to the abolition of the Advertisement duty . A number of Bills have been turned over to next session , with more or less of present assent to their principles , and a probability that they , or something like them , will come to pass before many years are over . Of this number are Mr . Adderley ' s Bill for the industrial correction of juvenile offenders , Lord Blandford ' s for placing episcopal and capitular property under the
management of paid lay officers , to the great relief of the present spiritual managers , and the great advantage of the property ; the Bishop of Oxford ' s Bill for the better regulation of the Church in the colonies , giving the members of the Church the faoulty of self-government and establishing synods ; another Bill emanating from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , to appoint missionary bishops— - that is to say , persons with episcopal authority over missionary clergy , where they have no territorial footing ; and in this class , too , may be reckoned Mr . Phinn ' s Bill to secure personal
freedom to the inmates of religious houses . The Charitable Trusts bill proceeds with an amendment , exempting Boman Catholics from its operation . The bill would huve brought under legal notice some trusts which , under the statute of superstitious uses , are strictly illegal . Lord John Russell proposed a general exemption : by an amendment of Mr . Hoodlum ' s , the exemption is limited to two years ; sufficient to allow time for enabling the Romanists to revise their own regulations , or to modify the statute if necessary . The House of Lords has lent its connivance to
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VOL . IV . No . 176 . T SATURDAY , ' . AUGUST 6 , 1853 . [ Pkice Sixpence .
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Mew * OF THE WEEK- * ACffl The Von Beck Affair again ..... 753 The Church in the Colonies . 758 Lrfe and Times of De Stael 764 S ^ V ^ W 746 Conspiracy tom Napoleon IIL ... 753 Eussian Advances-Usurpation of Home Life in Germany 764 , The Week in Parliament 746 PainM sine at Niagara ... 753 the Sovereignty of Moldavia ...... 759 PORTFOLIOIjettersfromPans ............ ' £ g Journalof Railway Accidents .. . 753 « A Stranger" in Parliament 759 ^ adne ' s Dream .. 765 Continental Notes 750 Curiosities of Justice ... ... 763 Wendell Phillips ' s Eeply to the Let- Anadne s Dream The Camp ........... 750 Criminal Eecord .... 754 ters of " Ion , " on the American Incidents at Spithead ................ 751 mBCenaneQVL 3 - . ......... 755 Anti-Slavery Leaders .................. 761 Health of London during the Week ... 766 American Bepresentatives Abroad 751 ^^ T ™~^ ' Births , Marriages , and Deaths .. .. 766 " The House of Noble Poverty " ...... 751 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATUREWages and Workmen .................. 752 America versu * Eussia ¦ """ ' 'Vt -n -, « , w " *« COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSGood Sense in Bad English ....... 752 Cobden on the Eangoon 757 Books on our Table . 763 ¦ ¦ _ . The Cabmen ' s Eeturn 752 " The Northern Dykes against the Burton ' s Scottish History , 1689- City Intelligence , Markets , Adver-A Gauge of Prosperity 752 Bussian Flood 758 1748 ..... .... ¦¦¦ ¦¦ .... — . ¦ ... 763 tisements , &c ¦ . 766-768
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" The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of H umanity—thenob leisndeavour tothrowdown all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions ° 4 ^ bgion 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), Aug. 6, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1998/page/1/
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