On this page
- Departments (2)
-
Text (12)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
^^ rv4T\ TlkUo SH ^ ^?rl C^ gJ V-/ \-. _ /Si" -^ ' j^f' J| ^ *Y** V7TV"V V^V 1 'V %r ?- *fa i^ J - * ^^ ^ -
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
^ ' ' ^ 1t It 11T* ^3 ff IT t f tX 4m U UI i i ^V U U ? i Zt ? * •
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
principal objection being to the power _ given to committees to Beat an unsuccessful candidate who had obtained tyro-thirds of the number of votes , as the successful candidate , when the latter was unseated on petition ; and it was much urged tjiat the ! best protection for the voter against intiinidation j&nd , , all other influences was the ballot . . Among the miscellaneous subjects touched upon were , tit
Lord 4 QKsr , Russell stated that the fleets had returned to Be ^ cos Bay in consequence of * the admirals thinking that ~ tbeir remaining at Sinope would tend to disable the fleet ; hut that stpamers could be sent to command the Black Sea . Mr , J . V ftLsos intimated that arrangements were in protgreas to establish a uniform sixpenny colonial postage ^ . La answer to Mr . Roebuck , Lord XBus % Lt . explained -that the American Minister when he riceive&a catcLjor the opening of Parliament ^ on-which the words f fujldregs ' * Were written , had aot inquired whether he could appear in plain stress , but * t ayed away altogether .
Untitled Article
Mr . M . Baines obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the settlement , removal , « nd changeability of the poor in England and Wales . Heproposeii that the power of compulsory removal on the ground ^ of settlement should be taken away , and that Tiuions should be made the area of chargeability 5 'while , in order to equalise the rating , he proposed a graduated scale , which yrould have the effect of niaking the assessment uniforiri in the course of ten years- . -t . ¦ " " ; ' \; '" A desultory discussion followed , in which : some of the detail * of the bill were canvassed ; bat the general opinion of the House was most favourable to the principle of the bill , and the speech of the Right Hon . Member was much cheered . This closed the business of importance , and the House adjourned .
The French ocean squadron sailed from Brest at eight ju& . on the 6 th inst . It is composed at present xtfthe-MontebtUo , Zfugueeelitt , Austerliu , Hercule , and J ' ea ^ ^ ar ^ Bhips-of-the- line ; the Pomone and CafarelK gteaa * -frigfttes , and the Hdand steana-sloop .
Untitled Article
The following telegraphic despatches reached IiOndon firom Vienna in the course of yesterday . We give them for what they are worth , without for a moment guaranteeing their authenticity . We may caution oar readers , that whatever comes through "Vienna bears the Russian stamp : — Buohar&st , Jan . 31 . —Prince Stourea has gone to Constantinople . He has offered 200 , 000 ducats , attd has been , made a Pacha by the Forte . General Xaprandi has superseded General Anrep in Lesser Wallachia . Prince GortschakofT has declined the services volunteered by Prince Milosb . Widdin , Feb . 3 , —Omer Pacha is suffering firom typhus fever .
Co » fBtfirrrNopi . E , Jan . 30 . —GeneTal Klapka and © there have become Mahomedans . English influence at Teheran is increasing ; . The latest advices from Odessa , of the 23 rd ult ., state that the engineers conveyed to Sinope by the combined fleets are drawing up plans for the fortification t > f that port . The eon of the Imperial Russian Chancellor of State ( Count Nesselrode ) , an adjutant of Prince MenschikofF , has arrived here ( Odessa ) . Works for strengthening the fortifications of Sebastopol are in couse of execution . Ostnan Pasha , who was made prisoner at Sinope , is out of danger .
The first' portion of the military force to be despatched to the East will consist of four battalions of the Foot Guards and six regiments of Infantry from Ireland . These troops will embark with the least possible delay for their destination , which will probably be Malta in the first instance . — Globe .
Untitled Article
Iiord Aberdeen ' s hopes of peace , which appeared to the House of Lord ' s * ' top like despair for prudence to smother , " are pSrtially sustained by the latest advices from Vienna , which go so far as to hold out hopes to the patriots of the Stock Exchange , that the rejection of all terms by the Czar is not final ; that the German Powers offer mediation , and propose that Deus ex machind , King Leopold , as the arbitrator . Those who know the personal character of the Czar affirm most positively , that he
may be reduced to reason , but that he will never recede from the position he has once asserted ; while pothers , looking rather to the traditional character of Russian diplomacy , than to the personal character , of the arbiter of European peace , profess to believe that Russia will be content to leave Turkey to her allies , reserving Moldo-Wallachia to herself . But will the Western Powers be content with the status ' m qu 6 ante after the ' . disasters occasioned to Turkey by twehre months of a life and death struggle ?
Untitled Article
Wo have authority to state , that the Crystal Palace will be opened next May . The 24 th of May , her Majesty ' s birthday , has been named for tho solemnity . The greatest exertions are being made to accomplish this earnest wish of the Directors .
^^ Rv4t\ Tlkuo Sh ^ ^?Rl C^ Gj V-/ \-. _ /Si" -^ ' J^F' J| ^ *Y** V7tv"V V^V 1 'V %R ?- *Fa I^ J - * ^^ ^ -
1 vz&bzv . —— —
Untitled Article
THE WAR OF PRHTCIPIiES . If not positively at war with Russia by the clawn of this day , we have approached the very last stage before the war . Peaceful relations nave ended ; the Russian ambassadors in London and Paris have withdrawn ; and instructions have been sent to the French and English ambassadors at St . Petersburg to do likewise . While Ministers still hesitate to declare that on no consideration would they refuse to listen if Russia again offered peace , it is Russia , and not England or France , who
keeps up the fallacious semblance of negotiation ; and tbe French and English Governments do not dissemble their conviction that peace will not be restored until the close of a great war . And a great war unquestionably it will be . We who have so ardently desired the time when the organised hypocrisy of a delusive peace on the continent should oe broken up ; and when England , roused from her lethargy , should be again called upon to raise the national standard and take her side , have no desire to dissemble either tiie
momentous character of the war or the embarrassments which attend both English statesmen and foreign patriots . The latter have deep interests at stake in the opportunity which appears to offer itself for rescuing peoples too long prostrate under tyrannical and alien rule . But it is in the hour of storm and darkness , of confusion and doubt , that the one unerring guide is found valuable . It must be confessed that the principle which should govern , states , whether in peace or in conflict , has not yet been discovered ; Ike truth—that xb all truth , and the final net result thereof—will perhaps never be attained by any test which human wisdom can devise . But in order to control the
shifting and wandering steps which states * may take in their march through the perplexing field of time , with its trackless future , it is essential to their dignity and safety that they should possess a principle . Finally right it may not be ; but they must not throw away their compass until they get a bettor . We do not know that any state is coinpatent to possess a better principle to guide it in its relation with others than that which guides its own steps . England , nt all events , has hers . For ccnturieH , ever since England became England , and was known by that name—she bus been guided by one principle . It is expressed in different forms , but has been repeatedly recorded on
Untitled Article
that Statute Book which embodies her jri ghts and her rule of conduct for Tierself » nfl ner childriaL I 11 Magna Charta , in the Petition of Biglit , in ^ o BH 1 ofKights , in the Reform iBuVan&in matiV minor auxiliary statutes , England has recor ^ ea the principle , of her political being , wTuchisiacaJt of self-government by < he people , ttirough Its' igpresentation in Parliament , according to ft&lsrtts agreed upon by successivesenerations and lay all classes thus represented . The principle of English
political existence and action is repTesehtauvfe self-government , securing freedom , 'for all classes within established law . That is the principle which has . guided E ng land herself and in het in > tercourse with foreign' countries she , ¦ cannot $ fc > cover- —for she has not { done so—a better prihctpife as the standard of constitutional freedom . It IB because she has lowered her national flag Tindet * the standard of despotism , m the period governed by the counsels of 1815 , that she has lost her le& 3 in Europe , and isjao ' w obliged to recover it tf ^ main force , sword ih hand . ' ' '
The battle will he one of great scale , with im > mense force arrayed against her , and with consequences which neither side can foresee ^ either England nor Russia , the two most opposed adversaries in the contest , can eit down / beforelianii and calculate the results which either sid ^ ishafl win for-itself ; or will lose , what shall bB $ ife fftfci inflicted upon states that stand "between tne twt £ and over whose heads the storm must rage ; or what healthy blessings may follow after the pasf sage of the red' thunder cloud . - But into thia doubtful contest England enter ' s with luster hopefc
than Russia , since she undertakes her action nqt for selfish purposes , which merit , as dbulbtiesstfrey willjncur , the abhorrence , of manfcmd , ^ Ti 6 t fot her own privileges and aggranddBement , —but fat the right , as in her conscience she believes it , and for the welfare of others even more than her own . Thus strengthened , England can truly count that the beneficial results of the war , for the furtherance of her just influence and for the good of man ^ kind , will depend upon her own energy $ x& hc £ own resolute determination to extort from contest
all the blessings which it can yield . We are far from , being appalled by thfe forc £ arrayed against our country ; for ye believe thai nothing can be more Salutary for this country than to have its national virtue ones more tried by th ^ harshest of dangers and troubles , ^ nd that in proportion to the greatness of the danger wiH be the opportunity which she can command . W ^ e set aside for the moment any question about thevAiiBtrian alliance , with this single remark ; that in p * 6 » portion as England exhibits her strength bo as to
be « terror to her enemies , she "will become a shelter to her allies ; and exactly in proportion a » she does so , must the rulers Of AustmajHenreeivft the policy of being on the side of England , rather than against her . But even if Russia ytete not enough as an adversary , it is oply too probabh that Russia will have allies . In the exceptional condition of that state , some of its weaknesses are resources in the hands of an irjiscrupuloas ruler . If her people are ignorant , servile , politically naught , they can the more completely be useel ; ana there is the less reason why , in a desperate strugf gle , a chief should scruple to use them .
Contending for existence aa he is , the Czar may pour hi » armies upon the civilised world , and niav Teck little whether ho spends those armies to their total loss ; for what are Russians to the Emperor ? He can lavish them by tens and hundreds of thousands ; he does it > and has been doing it for years f and it is we , his enemies , who feel compassidnfor the miserable wretches thus squandered on unjust or hopeless enterprises . If he is rich in armies ' and munitions 0 * war , he is not less rich in unscrupulousness ; t here is reason to suppose that he has bo extended the net of his agencies as to have
the material for unscrupulous strategy every country of the world . , ' As to his allies , their name is legion ; for the allies of Russia are everything that is base , unscrupulous , and anti-national . Drive him . to the contest , and he will not , for an instant , hesitate to use against the civilised world every resource of barbarism which civilisation has permitted td lurk
within its bosom . We have heard it said with . hope , that if Austria should remain true to the alliance of the four Powers , it will be good for the nations , because Russia , rendered desperate , will rouse the Revolution throughout the continent . It is possible that she may attempt it . The Revolution has in many countries—we believe we may except Italy—been disgraced by a degraded few , whose very object has been , not freedom , but
Untitled Article
Febbpaky 11 , 1854 ] THE I , JiA . P > E ^ . 13 i
Untitled Article
NOTIONS TO OOltltESI'ONDENTS . Wlc have to request correapoiidcnta not to « onu us letters in duplicate . The difficulty of finding space for letters exceeding the briefest limits la increased during the Parliamentary
Session . TFerhwieu therefore , to Impress ta > o 0 our oorrespondeato'the neteanty orcoB 0 » re ? 8 ic > . ii , J ui many . ewes where wi * h « ul ^^|^ WimSt ^^ et ! t « r ^ e «^ e , ' *© « re icomp ^ lltfi fea ^) DBt& » imr xaiOecKWitik'tknaAiatraat « nrlyv . We have reoeived two letters on the subject of our rectot artioleakbfjOfthe- Prince Coosort . The one , a- ^ writer who ^ ril £ S > t 4 *> oBteHAed if w « describe him <* b a " Radical , " considers it quite incomprehensible that * liberal journal . should disseminate such , " opinions , " and treats Trlnce AflJ 6 rt « s a ^ Qennan ^ over ; thetrtbar , Mr . Oliver Brad-« & » # > desoandant of the veoioide . wbq prof ewes himftelf & "JtopubheanSusentiment , ' having " uo faith in Vtxaaea m a « laaC " heartily ooneurs inJHOstxaapeots in the views of * Non-Elector' respeotiug the Pnuce Albert Question . " We trust ve may be pendtted to set the concurrence <* f the " RepubBcan" against tne surprise of the " Bacacal " correspondent . A fortnight sinoe , in noticing the meeting of the Manchester Scholat the Albion Hotel in that town saidthe
o , , we , ' . Great Manchester partyTesolved to ask for an increase of members for Lancashire— -flfty at least . " "A Constant Reader" disputes our interpretation of the passage tn Mr . . GJeorge "Wilson ' s speech , from which we derived this statement . We beg to . refer him to the text of that speech . 3 * he same correspondent informs us that the Free Trade Hall it mot ondergoioK repairs . E . A . Deans , —Declined witk thanks . - Ehhata . —In the notice of the Co-operative Flour Hills , at Leeds , the lastyear ' s profits shoiila have been stated -as 2947 * ., not VZIfil . Without this correction the figures would not show accuracy . In No . XII . of "the < German Bowers ; " 'pa ^ e 113 . third column , line 30 from top of the page , for '' never be dislodged , " read " now be dialodjsed •** Jane M ^ for "« alle , " r * td "bullets ; " line 74 , for " South , " r * ad . 'SSundj" lineQO ^ Jbr " B-ussian , " reod "Prussian . ^ ' i - -,. In the report of a speech at the conference at "the Society of Arts , last week , "Mr . &owen" should have been "Mr . B . Owen . "
^ ' ' ^ 1t It 11t* ^3 Ff It T F Tx 4m U Ui I I ^V U U ? I Zt ? * •
fvhlit Mcirs .
Untitled Article
SATUBPAY , F 23 BEUABT 11 , 185 * .
Untitled Article
Ibore ip , nothing so revolutionary , Decanse : th . « re is nothing ao uxuoatural and conTudsive , as the strain to fceep things fixed wken all the world is by the very law of its creation ia eternal progress . — Db . Abxfoicd
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 11, 1854, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2025/page/11/
-