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VOL . V . Ko . 246 . 1 SATTT&DAY , DECEMBER 9 , 1854 . Rkicb Sixpence
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¦ pARLIAMENT meets on Tuesday next , and it X appears impossible that the interval before our next publication can pass without some explanation from Ministers on the question , what they have been doing at Sebastopol , at Vienna , and in the City ? Whether the question comes from Mr . Disraeli and his party , or from some
independent member—whose intervention that party would prefer "—it does not matter . There are Englishmen too anxious of the mischief which arises from temporising , too suspicious of any compromise with Austria or Russia , and too much impressed by the sacrifice of life , to separate for the Christmas holidays without some explanation that would be intelligible in itself , and
trustworthy . These questions for next week are the subjects of the present week ; the events that have occurred only excite curiosity and do not satisfy . It has been from time to time reported that the bombardment at Sebastopol had ceased . This is entirely without foundation . The bombardment still continues , though , perhaps , not so actively as it has been ; the progress of the entrenchments is acknowledged by Prince MenschikolFin a despatch to St . Petersburg ; the Allies still anticipate the
probability of a final attack . We cannot therefore charge Ministers -with having given up tho siege of Sebastopol ; but they will have to explain why they did not take it , if their means were sufficient ; or why , if its strength exceeded the means , they did not take sufficient means from tho first , They will also have to explain whether it is their intention that the remainder of the army shall be sacrificed , or whether the siege to which Lord Raglan ' s army is subjected shall bo raised by some diversion in his favour .
The next question turns upon tho Austrian treaty . How do wo stand with Austria—what are tho terms of tho treaty , or general heads and objects ? Various accounts have been given , but they arc contradicted as totally inaccurate , and we are left to infer only , that the treaty will enable Austria to resume the aggressive against lliissiix after a comparatively brief space shall have been allowed that power fox tho option of submission . As nobody expects tho submission , tho preparation for it seema objectless , and provokes suspicion . Tho remaining question for Parliament , still
much discussed , is— J > o Ministers intend to take a loan ? We assume that they niust go on with the war , and that the war must be extended . They cannot intend to > disgust the English public with it by proportionately extending taxation for immediate payments ; but they do not wish the subject of the loan discussed . At all events they are reluctant to state their own intentions , perhaps because they have no intentions , but intend to fish out a design by drawing out the public mind . It will be observed , the authoritative con . '
tradiction to the loan which has been transmitted to the ' Times , applies only to the statement that Mr . Gladstone wanted means for immediate purposes ; whereas the loan must relate to the campaign of next year . Looking to the public mind , us being more important than the ministerial mind , we gather that the loan is intended ; and the only question is , in what "way Ministers will conceive the necessity forced upon them at the usual period for contracting the financial Administration . There is an episode in the war—that terrible gale that lasted from the night of the 13 th
Ministers will only behave sufficiently well to justify continued good humour in the British Lion . The electors have "been exercising their privilege in several of the places for which seats in Parliament have been vacated by death , and the candidates , elected appear generally to be mild and impartial people . They also seem to feel bound to express a sympathy for the war , bound not to prejudge the conduct of Ministers j bound , however , to exact an account of the war stewardship . Mr , JSorris , the newly-elected member for Abingdon , a worshipper of Lord John Russell for twenty years , speaks in that
sense ; so does Sir Joseph-Paxton , the new Member for Coventry , who , although he is of all others the man that lives in glass houses , is for flinging something worse than stones at Russia with all the force that modern science can supply . Bedford has not elected John Trelawney , one of the men who knows most about such ' affairs ; but the reason is obvious . Bedford is peopled by genteel folks who throng to it for the purpose of lodging their children and dependents in the schools and charities that are so numerous in the town ; the late
memthroughout the next clay , and partially continued for two days more It carried away some sixty English vessels , and damaged many others . It wrecked a smaller number of French vessels , but destroyed the great war-steamer Henri Qu ' atrc , as well as the Lnglislv contract ship Prjnce . The Prince had just landed the 4 Gth Regiment , and when it went down it had on board stocks of winter clothing and of provisions—all gone . Add to this tho loss of 7 O 0 tons of gunpowder in the Resolute , and a mass of shipping valued at 15 , 00 OJ . for tho English , and almost as much for the French .
bor , although a Tory in politics , acquired a strong personal popularity in the place , from his very courteous manners—even opponents liked him 5 and courtesy goes a great way with genteelpeoplc of narrow means and not narrow pretensions . Captain Stuart , the successful candidate , now inherits , we do not say his father ' s disposition , but his father's name , and some of the popularity that the father acquired . Thus the JUadical John Trelawney failed , although supported by the Russoll interest—a combination which renders tho Bedford election a quasi-Ministerial defeat .
It is said that the French and English ( xovcrnments arc preparing to make good these disasters . Tho restoration of Poland is discussed in many places . It is a fact of some meaning that tlie Emperor of the French has Poles in his service ; and one of the mysterious pamphlets of Paris , printed in tho official press only to be called in , suggested the resurrection of Poland . But a more notable fact still is , that a memorial by the late Prussian Field-Marshal Knosebeck , recommending the same mode of strengthening the military
The war fever , too , is rendering the corporations loyal . Mr , John Bright , -who has mistaken old Nicholas for the Angel of Peace , has bet - 'ii the pretext with some people in Manchester for not contributing to the Patriotic Fund . Because John Bright thinks that our Cabinet ought not to have gone to war with Russia , those logical gentlemen in Manchester withhold their mite from the suffering widows and orphans—a new form of political justice 1 Tho Town Council , however , duly ashamed of the paltry sum sent up by Man cheater—15 , 000 / . —organises a ward collection , and in the debate proposing the collection , tha injudicious member is freely criticised . The London Aldermen wax so loyal , that while
frontier of Austria , has boon reprinted as a pamphlet to circulate in Berlin ! The Prussians taill think , although King Frederick William only " thinks he ' s thinking . " Tho Spanish Cortes have politely resolved to retain Queen Isabella and Espartero ; although tho former at least was vehemently opposed by tho republican Marquis de Albnida , who found 21 to stand by him . Tho debate was remarkable for a directness and freedom of speech , now unknown anywhere save in America . Looking homo again , upon tho whole wo find tho public oeems inclined to bo good-natured if
Colonel Wilson offers tho service of tho City Militia to go a-soldiering , or to < lo whatever Government may wish , tho Aldermen will not oven debate Mr . Alderman Sidney's motion of un address to the Queen for the removal of Lord Aberdeen . They scorn almost to debate the question whether tho motion shall bo debated ; and as Alderman Sidney withdraws hit ) motion , some of thoau epicures in voting rogrot _ that they are not allowed the opportunity "to kick out" tho rude questioner of Prime Ministers .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2068/page/1/
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