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VOL . V . No . 234 . ] SATUItBAY , SEPTEMBER 16 , 1854 . [ Peice Sixpence
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rpHE Queen and the Prince liave tins -week gone JL to their Highland retreat , Balmoral : and the fact indicates , as annually , the intensity of the Recess . The darkest hour of the night is the hour before day . ; politically , too , let us hope : for a London newspaper is bound to l > e interesting , and cannot close , —like a theatre , a Parliament , or any other public amusement .
The Bishop of Oxford proposes , to pass the time perhaps , that we should have a national thanksgiving to Providence for the blessings of the abundant harvest . The proposal does not come quite a propos in a week distinguished for bread riots , and excited by a national spite against the baker , who , though a Christian , endeavours to intercept some of the blessings of the abundant harvest : —in the way of trade corn-merchants also not feeling grateful . The proposal , it may likewise be observed , is not put in the syllogistic
way to ensure its adoption in a country so remarkable as ours for practical sense . In Ireland it is objected to the jubilee requii'cd by the Pope , that the Roman Catholic peasants will be called to prayer and religious exercises at the very moment when they are greatly required in the field , or the "haggart ; " and in the same way Protestants here , unintimidated by theological agreement with S . Oxon , should remark that the six weeks gorgeous sunshine which ripened tho harvest into such grand proportions , was also the cause of the fearful spread of the cholera in the close town streets . Then comes the question—inasmuch as free-trade
forbids famine—why a thanksgiving one year more thon another ?— -a thanksgiving this year would be merely a thanksgiving for a reduction in the price of tho popular loaf . There is no irreverence in suggesting these things : tho irreverence appears to us to bo , in S . Oxon ' s suggestion that there is irregularity in natural laws , and iu forgetting that Providence takes lnrgor " nvuniyes " —centuries instead of half a dozen harvests — than tho corn trade . Tho Bishop ' s appeal does not seem to have mot with a very hearty , and certainly not am official , response ; this ia , purhupy , because a Protestant country will not pray on the invitation of n Pusoyito Bishop .
the inevitable- slaughter at Sebastopol to balance the blessings of an abundant harvest . Marshal St . Arnaud does not consider that point : in a few days we may expect news of a landing in the Crimea ; and when Sebastopol is taken the Ministerial difficulty in England will begin . Meanwhile , difficulties exist in connexion with the war . D'Hilliers , after Bomarsund , journeyed from Stockholm to Paris with a precipitation that looks like a flight or a fri ght ; the French army is coining home too ; and Sir Charles Napier has
clearly given up all thoughts of Cromstadt . What is the explanation of all this ? On the Danube the Austrians have made their move , have got hold of the Principalities , and commence their occupation of Bucharest by little eccentricities which recal scenesin Milan—with insolence , bullying , and brutalities—in tl : e manner of conquerors , not of protectors . Omar Pacha seems to submit to their military pre-eminence , contenting himself , for the present , with the mere assertion of his rights as Civil Governor ; and , among other humiliations to which the Austrian alliance
exposes him , is this—that he is compelled to give up , or save , by sending away , the Italians , Poles , and Hungarians , who wove Austrian political refugees with commissions in the Turkish army . AVbat is Omar Pacha to do next ?—that is a question tho answer to which not even " foreign correspondents" attempt to guess , In Asia the Russians seem to have outplayed their luck . Sclmmyl is i'eportcd to have come up with them , and beaten them at a great battle ( Tiflis ) , and incidently , if not consequently , comes the telegraphic despatch that the Russians have mado a retreat before tho
Turkish forces in Asia . The Fabian tactics are universally those of Russia just at present . Odessa is to be evacuated merely because a renewed visit of the squadron is suspected : the inhabitant : * , largo numbers of thorn foreigners , being ordered , by the military regime ,, to burn down the houses , sack , and raze—so that the invaders would find a small Moscow . Tin ) didiculties of the war are perhaps less
represented in this complicated resultlcissness of action , or apprehended action , than in tho secivt diplomacy which ia hero and there revealed to us Hell-governed people , by a " note " in a Bulgian or Cologne paper . The Prussian circular note puts the position of PniHsia , and puts it very well — ho well that there is no Knglish answer possible . PruHsia attends to her own interests ; and her oavu interests require that she should keep
quiet while the Western Powers are checking Russian predominance ; she , during the time , affecting mediation , and professing friendship for Russia . Austria continues not to see a casus belli in anything ; but comes in , fox-like , to seize the plunder the nobler animals have fought for . The English press is enraged that the German Powers are not more chivalrously eager to defend civilisation b y upholding the Turk ; but the English press should be more practical , and obtain some guarantee that , it , and the public it represents , should have power m . directing the Government
which plays the game of Austria and Prussia . The Russian note , responding to the last Austrian proposals , lias been published , and is also the theme of vituperation for the British journals . The " pretexts" of Russia are annihilated . But does our Government resort to no pretexts ? Is it quite untrue that while the En glish Lord Jolm Russell talks of the destruction of Sevastopol as a safety . to Turkey , he really means a safety to England ?—a danger to us being the existence of a Russian fleet so large that , if combined with that , of the French , it could beat ours . Certainly ,, the assumption is a compliment
to Lord John Russell ' s not frequently manifested far-sightedness ; and it is odd thatthe Duke of Cambridge was Tery earnest , in the councils of war , in urging the abandonment of the Crimea expedition . That is a rumour . Another is that Mr . Cobden is about to publish a pamphlet on the war , illustrating all this " muddle , " and pointing to all this incoherence Tho war is a muddle ; but why ? Because it ia carried on by a Government which contemplates something totally distinct from the results contemplated by the English people . A November session might produce ft bettor under standing .
Spam is settled—in unsettlement ; and the chaos being authorised by whcit is facetiously called " the Government , " tho Republicans , with Homo French inspirations , arc conspiring . In tho United Slates tho Know-nothings siru being encouraged by the story that President Pierce insists on the complete expulsion of " Uriti . sli influence" from Central America— . Mr . IJiichnmin conveying this insistanco to Lord Clarendon , _ ami Mr . Ihiclmnnn and Lord Clarendon accordingly quarrelling . Hero wo sou tho American * Miitforing , like onl'sclvo . H , from sec-rot di p lomacy— -thounfluir * , n possible runUiro to nnao out , of the dispute , lull to tho disposal of u couplo of peruonnjros of vory inferior natures , and therefore vt ' very " bad tempers ) .
Tho Pope is more comprehensive than tho Pusoyito : in his jubilee , tho Puseyito overlooks the great horror—in presence of which a thanksgiving should bo analytical—of tho war . Is not
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— page Over-Legislation 870 The Mormons 873 The Seat of War 880 „„ ™ Leon Faucher on Russian Pi- Norwich Free Library 874 Ida May 881 j . ne vvai * S 68 nance 871 Miscellaneous 874 Torv Journalism 882 Tl . o rou ^ 1 ^ 68 IS Officers and Gentlemen 871 PUBLIC AFFAIRS iK ^^^^ Z :: Z : Z' :: 'Z 883 jluc court SG 6 Attempt at Abduction in Por- public AFFAiRb-Law and Order 866 tugal 871 A November Session S 7 o PORTFOLIOTlie Price of Provisions 8 GC Attendance of Members of Par- Who is Master of tlie House ? 875 rn ? H reju £ i c or liace - 8 < £ liament during last Session ... 872 The Russian and the English Underneath 884 ^ ^^^^•^ n" ^^ ' -- ! 7 Grisi and Mario rated by Dol- Methods of Carrying on War 876 Sydeiiham Papers 885 T 1 ) eBm ^ tt > r or the French and lars ...:............... 872 Cleanliness v . Godliness , $ 76 i ? J ^ u Sr «"'« « Vi"xi- " - ; %£ Russian Title to the Crimea 872 Building Associations .. 876 A ? ne ^ UW ? w ? nd M ° ralS - 121 Statistics of Friendly Societies . 873 The Cry from the Loom .,... ..... I 77 Births Marriages and Deat hs 886 Viro ^ wWotlVn ^; - nt iVpTTV . H- ^ 8 ° 8 P"nce Czartoryski and the Poles 873 Native America 878 iJirths , Marriages , andDeatlis ... 886 ffi ;? 0 ! 1 ! i : 1 E 8 intlieTJnlted 868 Thf Son oT OxS ? rnd 87 S Toleration and the Mormons ... 878 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- ' O ^ SvStfon theChOlCra" - " - " ItT T Thanks ^ ing forthq Harvest 873 LITERATURE- City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Vuruivmsauori ............. 870 The Prussian Circular Note ...... 873 Summary , § 79 vertisements , &c . .. .... ! , 887-888
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Hummtv- £ hr nnMP endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views andITy settme uSSe Inl ~ , Jt ?^ R ? i ® of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development or our spiritual nature . "—Ilumboldt's Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2056/page/1/
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