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word , after al l , affected as it wems ) will be produced by photography : and thus such an illustration as the Ptec * de Cent Florins , of which the present value is not much less tian 50 ? ., may be obtained ia this nev edition for five shillings . If the pillory were a public punishment ( and it's a pity it has been put aside ) , the miscreant contractor who would provender artillery horses with dead lam !> , even in spring , would be voted there by public disdain . There's dire
apprehension on all sides by the Provediton of the Committ « e of Inspection . Since the days of Alderman Scales , the batchers and salesmen haven't suffered so severely at the striet scrutinj promised them . Throughout the entire marine service there needs close investigation of their supplies . Emigrant and transport ships should all turn out their larders and ships' stores . I have a nephew in a merchant vessel , who lives during two-thirds of the voyage on coffee and smoke ! The only good meals he gets are stolen
from the steward s pantry . Badgered as I may be by Committees on Privilege , I hardly like to repeat what I hear of the leader of the Protectionists . Keeley , in the new play at the Adelphi , says , u Talking politics is like drink : it grows upon yon . ' * It is proclaimed abroad that Mr . Disraeli ' s speech is the failure of the week . He failed to make the House listen—only the walls were unexhausted . He is in the " delirium -tremendous" stage of politics . His drams are killing him as u public man * Somebody onc € told Sheridan that brandy destroyed the coats of the stomach ; " then my stomach , " said the wag , " must go in its waistcoats : " Mr . Disraeli is beginning to dabate in his shirt sleeves .
There has been a fresh attempt to open the question of delaying officers ordered on foreign service until the claims of their creditors have been settled ! The impudence of Issachar !! Israsl and Levi applied to the Chief Baron to grant the detainer necessary , in the first instance , against certain gentlemen , of the first contingent . Bat the grand old judge told the locusts " that the soldiera were obeying the call of their country , " and not leaving their native land to evade anybody's claims—usurers or otherwise ; so there's teen a rare lamentation in Jewry , Old and New .
' Government is busy with its inquiries on all sides respecting improvements in every description of artillery . There is a whole army of employes from the Patent-office collecting specifications of inventions in fire-arms and cannon latel y registered . Captain Nolan , whose sensible book on Cavalry is worth everybody ' s notice that cares for a soldier or his steed , has made an impression on the authorities . Why not appoint iim as inspecting aide of accoutrements generally for the service ?
I can't hear much about the Great Exhibition Commissioners . Is Air . Pennethornc , very clevor and economical , to be the architect of the English Sorbonne at Brompton ? The master mind to this body moves also the society in Jolin-street , Adelphi . I hear of him , though I seldom see Iiim , wherever I go . So quiet ; subtle as the ex-Secretary of the Poor-law Board , whom happily I , as one of the poor people , am glad to leave in the London kennel , which ho has undertaken to clean .
The old panorama of the Overland Mail , as far as the arrival at Malta , is to be re-employed in the forthcoming illustrations of the route totlie seat of war in the Black Sea . Hector Berlioz commends pi-ecisely , and with emphasis , the singing of Bonnehee at the French Opera , in Spontini ' s Vestale , as that of a pure , fresh , and charming baritone , better than any he has heard during the last twenfcf-fivo years . Pray that he may come over here , at what price he will .
1 lie Artists * General Benevolent Institution places Disraeli in the chair at the anniversary dinner on the 8 th of April . That is hia place : he ' s a real artist about men and manners : paints clever portraits , and has ever at haul the accessories of the studio . k M . M .
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The Sixth Article by Mr . James Lowo on the Strikes and Look-out is imavoidabl ^ oimtted this ^ eek .
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RUSSIAN POLICY AND ENGLISH IMPOLICY . In the newly-published correspondence , hitherto kept secret , our Ministers recover credit for independence and straightforwardness , at the expense of their credit for sagacity and vigour . " We do not indeed fall in with the accusation that they were monstrously credulous because they believed the specific assurances given them by the
Emperor . According to the usages and data of the respectable society in which they have lived , they had some right to lay aside suspicions excited by mere movements of troops or any other unexplained facts . Sir Hamilton Seymour being a diplomatist , was naturally more alive to signs of duplicity in the Emperor Nicholas , and repeatedly hinted that the Emperor might be pretending to feelings which he only acted : but it is the custom of
respectable society not to carry duplicity to extremes , not to place falsehood in . the direct form , and especially not to risk frauds which can be instantly exposed . The idea of getting up a vast plot , in order to set t ; he potentates of Europe at loggerheads , and to abuse . their minds as to the honesty of one JEfcoyal ( 3-overnment , while the rest should be kept aloof by jealousy or delusion ,, is a course of action which , in tjiis country , belongs to criminals and disreputable persons ; and the whole
chasociety , and we suspect to all society bred lip in quiet times . It is that of believing that things not usual are not possible ; or of believing that things which are not ph ^ sicpi l ^ impossible are morally so . It is a mistake . The only impossibility is that which is counter to the laws of physics ; that which is physically possible is also morally possible .
It is lucky that the country , aa well as its statesmen , has discovered that truth in . ita application to Russia ; or the Czar mi ^ ht have carried physical possibilities further than he has yet had the opportunity to do . English Ministers have been called credulous , but their real defect was incredulity ; and by virtue of that incredulity the Emperor had
made great w * ay in the process of bamboozling them . With extraordinary perseverance , wilh a comprehensiveness of view *' worthy of a better cause , " he had set on foot a general plot to explain away any cry of distress that might arise from his victim , bV preparing English statesmen to believe that , Tfid ^ jjr . would call out" wolf , " injbrder to be rescued from her honest liabilities . He had trieiirifco
set the poweTS of Europe against each othejc , by summarily appropriating Austria , hypodrt *' tically wheedling England , malignantly pointr ing out France as a dangerous adventure ^ and tacitly treating the acquiescence ' of ^ rqs ^ sia as a matter of course . Affecting to act as companion of England in putting on an p | of good-fellowship , he perpetrated the * plct " dodge' * of getting England to let him see the course wtrich she would pursue in refine
ence to Turkey ; and , in short , by pretending great frankness , he combined the sjp ^ lvra ^ the conspirator , and supposed Jiimself ^^ f ^ mastered the game in which . all the ' Pp ^ eiSB ^ Jl Europe were to be deceived . He thougHt it quite possible to compass great objectjs : ot empire by the arts of the common swindler , and the met that ; j ^ n ^ &h ' 'statespis ^ p ^^ such an mcident ^ greatest resources . r f i : ' '; '
It is true that English statesmen flaw through the basest part of this attempts When he alluded to France , saying that '"'i& looks as if she tried to embroil us all " -- —obi served that there were circumstances at Constantinople and Montenegro " extremely siii ? picious "—hinted that he wojuldAssist Turkey against France , but that Engjlaud might ; take Candia and Egypt if she liked—he betrayed his belief in the turpitude ^ human nature , and provoked a distinct refusal . It is strange that statesmen did mot see in such proposals the full turpitude of the man before them .
To such a man they had no scruple , in opening their own heart . Sir Hamilton Seymour explained how England had tried . to moderate the action of France ; " how she £ ad tried to obtain satisfaction in Constantinople for Russia ; and declared that he could ' substantiate his assertion by written evidence ,- — in . other words , that he could prove to the Emperor that England was acting just as her enemy could have wished . Lord Clarendon to tell the
instructed Sir Hamilton Seymour Emperor that " Her Majesty ' s Government were anxious above all things to preserve peace ; " that they " could not look without alarm" to a European congress , on account of " the jealousies which would be invoked ;" that they apprehended a revision of the . treaties of 1815 , if there should be a European war ; and that they dreaded questions in the West , as " every great question in the West assumed a revolutionary character , and would embrace a revision oi the entire
social system , for which the Continental Governments aro certainly in no state of ' preparation . " In other words , they let the Czar seo that they were under the very feare which he had tried to excite . Now , why should they have had those fears ? It is true that if there were an Europeai
racter of the training on the part of English statesmen must naturally incline them to disbelieve the possibility that any person well brouglit up could so risk his personal repute and his position as to enter into frauds of the kind . Tbe Emperor had always appeared to be a > respectable person ; he professed religious sentiments ; he cultivated polite relations with other courts , as with personal friends ; he was rather attentive to the social duties with brother monarchs and
sister monarchs . In short , he dressed well , kept Lis carriage , limited hia improper conversation to the proper time—after dinner , went to church on Sunday , and left his card at the proper places and on proper occasions . Now , when such a person appeared before Engliany Ministers , claiming to be believed " as a friend , and a gentleman , " they naturally supposed that he understood the responsibilities of his high position , and that it was impossible for him to go so far wrong as to be actually a criminal—a low , fraudulent
criminal , such as would deserve to be sent to Botany Bay or to " penal servitude . " He diffors from us , they might say , in his opinions , and even in his habits ; but there are differences between men ; and it would have seemed foolish as well as unjust to suspect him of crimes , just as it would have been to expect that the late Duke of Newcastle , who claimed to do wliat lie liked with his own , and who carried out his claim practically in a manner harsh to his dcpendcntH and his family , would one day figure in tho dock at the Central Criminal Court .
Yet that which our Ministers would suppose to be impossible hna occurred . The mistake they made is common to all English
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SATURDAY , MARCH 25 , 1854 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , aa the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the -veryla w of it 3 creation in . eternal progress . —Db . Abkoxb
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TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It ia impossible to acknowledge tho mass of letters we rocoivo . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of tho merits of the communication . N ° "otio ° ca *> b ° taken of anonymous communications . Whatever ia intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and addrosa of tho writer ; not neoossarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . "Wo cannot undortako to return rejected communications . All letters for tho Editor should bo addressed to 10 , Wollington-stroot , Strand , London . Communications should always bo legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases th . o difficulty of Hading space for them .
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March 25 , 18540 THE LEADER : & 7 f :
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Leader (1850-1860), March 25, 1854, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2031/page/13/
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