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Leader (1850-1860), 24th December 1853, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1234, Untitled Article

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      been found near Constantina , in Algeria , in the tertiary formation . There are thigh and leg bones , the vertibrae , ribs , upper part of the head , and several teeth . Alexandra Dumas has written a letter to a friend in New York , in which he says : — " Find' for me , on the borders of the St . Lawrence , the Hudson , the Delaware , or , the Ohio , a corner where , surrounded by niy chosen friends , I may spend my last days , and die in tranquillity under the sun of liberty . It is stated that M . Dumas has already confided several manuscript works to the hands of his agents , who have established a publishing-house in New York , for the p urpose or bringing them out originally and exclusively in this city . The manuscript of his comedy , the " Youth of Louis XLV ., which was prohibited at the Theatre Fran cais , is in t he hands of his agents . Several of our managers are in negotiation for its production . —New York Tribune .

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      Saturdat , December , 24 . The secession of Lord Palmerston has , developed into a Ministerial crisis , which rumour interprets and intensifies according to the fears and wishes , the jealousies , the antipathies , the predilections of the various sections of the political world . If Lord Palmerston caii be coaxed back into the Cabinet ( a supposition not easily compatible with his personal dignity ) , it will scarcely be to re-appear in the Homeoffice , or indeed in any post under the present Chief of the Administration . At all events , Lord Palmerston bids fair to be doubly avenged for the dynastic intrigues to which he fell a victim two years ago . trifle

      We do not live in t imes when Royalty can with good report , even in England : these last days'have brought the highest personages in the land under discussion , in a form most destructive to that loyalty which was once a sentiment , but is now nothing more than a sense of utility . If the Queen ' s Government is to be carried on at all , it must be on a national , not a dynastic , basis . This is what men of all sections of opinion are agreed upon , without equivocation or compromise . In the present-Coalition Cabinet the Peelites are , perhaps with a single exception , Russian in policy : the old Whigs _ are neutralised ; and the solitary Radical is , we believe , the Russian pur excellence .

      It has been suggested that the Metropolitan Borough , which rejoices in the patronage of a Privy Councillor , should call a meeting on the Russian question , so as to provoke an expression of opinion from the Minister , whose devotion to selfgovernment at home secured the votes of a Radical constituency . It is the talk of the salons that Sir William Molesworth is more Russian , in his

      unofficial parlance , than M . de Brunow himself . And , by Avay of a tour d ' esprit , a man not recommended to official life by his rigid orthodoxy , denounces the Turks , as infidel ? , to the just reprisals of the Christian Czar . Perhaps Sir William Molesworth may be considered as a representative man of that doctrinaire class of Liberals which an educational suffrage would be likely to increase and multiply in the newly-reformed Parliament .

      The Vienna Conference is already distanced by events . Although La Presse says that advices from Constantinople to the 12 th inst . do not confirm the report of the entrance of the fleets into the Black Sea , we have no reason to doubt that they had entered the Euxine before receiving orders to that cfFect from home . The instructions given to the Admirals are said to be to the effect that they

      shall stop all Russian ships found cruising in the Black Sea , and force them to return to Sebastopol , which port they will not be allowed to leave till the conclusion of a treaty of peace . Contrary to the tenor of our letters from Paris , the correspondent of the Mornimj Chronicle says he has reason to believe that Louis Napoleon has at length resolved on an energetic resistance to Russia , and is making quiet , but effectual i ) rci > arations for war .

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      It is stated that Lord Clarendon has disavowed to M . IJ > rouyn de l'Muys the statement of the Times , that Admiral Dundas had been hampered by the opposition of General Paraguay d'llillicrs .

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      General Hugo , a most distinguiHhed Colonel of the [ Empire , and uuelo of Victor Hugo , has died , at an advanced ngc , at Tulle . lie was neglected by Louis Napoleon , ou account of'his nephew ' s ( ilu ; poet ) implacable roHistunoe to the second Empire . The Baltic arrived at . Liverpool yesterday , from New York . Tho latest date in the loth . ( She brought a million dollars on freight . A Treasury report presented to Congress contains tho proposed alterations in the tariff ; referred to by the I ' resident in his Message . The free li . st is to bo enlarged to Kiich an extunt , that it ; will allect the annual revenue to the amount of eight millions of dollars . All

      dutiable articles are to be 25 per cent , or 100 per cent . AH such articles as are included in the highest duty-bearing list and the free list , are to be specified . Those not so named are to bear an ad valorem duty , except , perhaps , the article iron .

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      There were many serious typographical errors in our last number , especially in the article beaded u The Governing Classes , " owing to the unavoidable omission of the usual revision in proofs . These errors , however , were , for the most part , too obvious to require correction .

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      our own Government are in the future tense—it is always about to do something decisive . The history of events in the East constitutes a painful accusation against England , which will require some very unforeseen explanation , or some striking act of compensation , to atone for it . In March last the question arose ; and , while this country has remained perfectly still , effecting no practical advance , Russia has , month by month made an onward move . In tho meantime our

      MINISTERS , RUSSIA , AND OUR COURT . Although the public does not appear as yet inclined to come forward for the purpose of forcing our dilatory Government to its duty , there is no doubt that a serious uneasiness begins to prevail at the results of that policy ; disastrous as those results are to Turkey , and , dishonourable to this country . The differences "between the courses taken by Russia and by our Government may be said to consist in a difference of tense : while Russian actions are always known in the perfect tense—Russia has struck a new blow , —those of

      diplomatists have been steadfastly engaged in persuading Turkey not to use that strenuous action which would have been , not only justified , but demanded for her self-defence . After assurances that she would only occupy the Principalities as a material guarantee for the fulfilment of certain treaties , Russia has successively set aside the Government of the Principalities—has impeded the commerce of Kurope as well as of Turkey—and has now made mi attack upon the Turkish fleet under circumstances which stretch the treachery of war and its ferocity beyond the bounds pf civilised license .

      A contemporary contrasts the deference which the Porte has shown to commerce with the treatment of . Russia , and the contrast is remarkable . In a note to the Baron de Briidc , the Austrian ambassador , Redschid Pacha declares that a rumour of rigour on tho part of the Turkish Government , towards Russian ships was a malignant invention ; and he has u right to call it ko . Jlow has Turkey treated commerce P She 1 ms allowed Russian vessels in ¦ Turkish ports fifteen days to clear out , with instructions to the Admiral , in the event of delays , to refer each cane to the Turkitih

      Government for consideration of any unavoidable protraction . The Eorte has , moreover , granted to Russian vessels bearing grain for friendly countries in the Black Sea or Mediterranean , a further time of forty-five days , and for vessels to Africa or Europe a further time of' thre § months , to go and return through the Dardanelles . ^ accusation even has been made of any har sh and

      vexatious proceedings on , the part of Turkey to Russian subjects . How has Russia behaved ? Turkish vessels have been required to clear out from the Principalities : —Turkish provinces in the unlawful possession of Russia— -within forty-ei ^ ht hours . The whole grain trade of Europe drawn from the Black Sea has been impeded by the malignant and vexatious obstructions of Russia . And in St . Petersburg !! itself the Russian

      Government has absolutely refused to give for British vessels any guarantee of safe-conduct , in going or returning by the Baltic , with Russian produce . But the distinction in commerce is not more remarkable than the distinction in war . The Turks have fought as bravely as the Russians by land and b y sea . After the battle of Oltenitza , the Turkish gunners

      held their hand , by command of Omer Pacha , in order that the Russians might bear their wounded and slain off the field . At Sinope the Turks fought against a superior force with a heroism which would have extorted admiration from any noble enemy ; but the Russian Admiral Nachimoff pursued carnage to extermination , and stained victory-with the basest cruelty .

      It is under such circumstances that our Government is still enforcing diplomatic appeals to reason ; but which of the two does it address ? Does it go to the assailant , and bid him to hold his hand while negotiations proceed ? Does it remonstrate with the power that commits wanton aggression , vexes commerce , and outrages humanity in a base prosecution of the war ? No , it goes to Turkey , who is already reasonable . She has held her hand only too long , and she is urged to hold it longer . She has evinced consideration ,, even on the battle-field , and she-is urged to be more considerate . She has seen ber blood sacrificed to the laAvless invader , and she is urged to

      sacrifice more blood ! After Menschikoff ' s diplomatic i nvasion , the Four Powers interposed with their conference to arrange the matter peaceably ; and then again , on the 5 th of December , they assembled at Vienna ,, for the purpose of " seeking out means of smoothing down the difference which has arisen between the Court of Russia and the Sublime Porte . They repeat the assurances given on several occasions by " the Emperor of Russia , " which excludes the idea that that august sovereign entertains any Utto

      wish to interfere witli the integrity of the - man Empire ; " and this is said after Ins acts tor seven months had constituted a gross and an increasing interference with " the integrity ottne Ottoman Empire ! " In December , the * our Powers are still negotiating , and offering goou offices , " after Russia has seized the Principalities , undermined the loyalty of Servia , invaded luricey in Asia , and committed this butchery at Sinope . Such is the double course of events m the **** when our Government betrays signs of some fa - rious internal disorder . One of its most unpoitnnt . inpmlinrft i « suddenly compelled to leave r

      and his departure is accompanied by offi <» llJ . " . presentations of the reason—those representation evidently false . We say so , not only because tn y receive direct contradiction from well-mio » sources , but because they are manifestly »' sistent with themselves . The Times admittc tn existence of a difference in the Eastern qucj * > while denying that it had caused ^ J . "' ' ; t ston ' H retirement . There has been no differento , said , on that subject , " of such force ' as to oct * the retirement of any Minister . We at o T |) C tooted the admission conveyed in that P ""^' l ] lC tecteu the admission conveyea in mi « u i" ~ , t jlC natuic

      Mormnq Tost observes that from the , case , regarding a Cabinet Minister wh . oS 0 / ^ cnt tion had not yet been announced , this fei , ^_ of the Times must have been derived 1 Vo » ' " v (> > cial source ; and tho Post affirms with . coni . ^ " that , from tho first , serious differences ot oj , with regard to the course to bo pursueu w ft Russia existed between L ord Pahncrflton ( t certain section of the Cabinet , and that tuc ^ ( , Secretary ' s viewn of foreign policy were 11 ^ to those of tho Premier . " There is , f ' oUr something more than this confirmation ^ doubt . It has been stated , also on olho ju ^ , lC rifcj ' , not only that the new Reform 1 « jlll ( , s 0-sole cause of the split—not , only that tin ,

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      An insurrection avjih apprehended at Lyons on the night of the 20 th . A military demonstration , it is ¦ protended , crushed the design . Arrests were made , : md the city was undisturbed .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We have received several letters confirming the sanitary advantages of the " Beard Movement . " " An Organologist" will find the subject of liis letter ( for which we-xannot find room ) fully considered in our next number . We are unable to decipher the purpose of Mr . Pauls communication . Will Mr . Thornbury favour us with his address ? It has been mislaid .

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      " More Russian Generals , " " Ultramontanism in _ Germany" ( concluding article ) , and other papers , unavoidably omitted this week .

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      SATUEDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1853 .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to ke ' ep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —DR . Aknoid .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1853, page 1234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2018/page/10/