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Queen Victoria , abed Santa Anna . —Accoiding to a Mexican correspondent of the New York Herald , her Majesty Queen Victoria bas refused to accept the grand cross of the Order of Guadalupe from Santa Anna . Colonel Colt . —This gallant officer has written -to the Times denying most decisively that he is manu facturing arms for the Russian Government . Working Mali ' s Emigration Society . —This society has had a narrow escape from , being broken up , owing to the difficulty which members find in agreeing as to rules . At a recent meeting-, Sir John Shelley and some other directors wrote to say that they would resign if certain rules were not altered . The meeting refused to alter them , but doubted the right of the directors to resign .
The Bukeal Ground Question . —The Torrington Burial Board is quietly taking a decided course , in opposition to the Bishop of Exeter . That prelate has , in reply to their respectful remonstrance , approved of the conduct of his Secretary , and says he cannot consecrate the ground at Torrington because of the 85 th canon , which requires churchyards to be " well and sufficiently fenced and maintained with walls . " The Board having obtained the approval of the Home Secretary in respect to the ground intended to be consecrated , have applied to the parish vestry to -vote the requisite funds . Before tie
Vestry meeting the Board pledged itself anew to carryout their design intact—to spend no more on the episcopalian than on the dissenting chapel , and to build tie two chapels in all respects alike . The Vestry voted tie sum required with the utmost readiness , and without offering any exception to the Board ' s plan ; and the usual notices for raising the money and for contracts have been issued . Should therefore the Bishop persevere in his refusal to consecrate , there is a prospect tHat the inhabitants of the place will , nolens volens , be all buried in unconsecrated earth .
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PROCEEDINGS AT ANAPA . A letter from Malta says : — " On the morning . of Nov . 12 , when H . M . ships Tribune , Highflyer , and Lynx were cruising off Anapa and the Straits of Kertch , a large white building , which was afterwards discovered to be a martello tower , was observed on a spit of sand about ten miles to the westward of Anapa ; as the ships neared the shore two smaller ones , so placed as to flank the approach to the larger one , came in view ; and when within half-a-milc from the beach a gun was fired from the tower .
" The ships were immediately anchored in four fathoms of water , with their broadsides bearing on the tower , and after a few rounds of shot and shell the party in charge evacuated it , and fled along the sands in the direction of Anapa , leaving behind them many accoutrements , muskets , &c . Tho boats were then manned , and a piivty landed to destroy tho works , and endeavour to bring oft * the guns , one iron 30-poundcr , and one brass 18-pounder , with instructions to blow up the fort afterwards . The brass gnn was lowered down and placed in a cart ; but the wind and sea had increased so quickly that all hope of carrying it oiF was abandoned , and tho bouts' crews woro compelled to rc-omburk as speedily as possible .
" The tower , with tho ammunition within it , was blown up and destroyed 5 but from somo unexplained cause the oxjiloriion took place prematurely , and Capt . Moore und Uout . Smith wore both most severely scorched and injured . " Tho Avgsburp GazeUe publishes the following letter from Vienna of the 22 nd : — " The accounts from St . Petersburg , which are in circulation at many of the embassies hero , agree m saying that tli « Czar rojectn all idea of concession , and that ho 5 s resolved to prosecute tho war with vigour . Tho roports from dallicin , in their turn , stnto that tho Austrian troops are abandoning their winter quartern , and concentrating themselves at CJracow , Lemberg , and Stunisliwlo \ v . General IIohh in about to establish hia headquarters at Lomborg .
It 18 stated in the diplomatic circles of I ans that the Prussian Cabinet has made indirect propositions to thoso of London and Paris , which , if they should bo Huccessful , would secure its adhcHion to the trenty of Vienna , It Appears that tho 1 ' russwin Government , junloua of tho influence acquired by that of Austria in taking under its protection tho interests of Southern Germany , is desirous of constituting itself tho protector of German interests in the North .
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SATURDAY- DECEMBER 30 . 1854
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so-unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arkoi . 1 >
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CONSPIRACY FOR PEACE . The Emperor Nicholas is winning the game . The English Government , which , went into the war with reluctance , and which has conducted the war with a stupidity that , at times , has looked like treachery , is conspiring for a peace . An " honourable peace , " of course : was there ever a peace which was not " honourable , " according to the diplomatists ?
There is no doubt that a great change has talten place in the public mind in respect to the war . Mr . Bright and Mr . Cobden have influenced thousands who have , all their life , been laughing- at the Peace Society . The officers of the army write home letters which bring family circles to the conclusion that Lord Aberdeen is a safe statesman . Military opinion is asserting that Russia is unassailable . Conservative opinion is asserting that Poland would cost a twenty years war . The financial-minded are observing the
prices of the winter , and fearing new taxes . The aristocracy knows it is unequal to the war , and that it would be dangerous to its prestige to go on much longer . The democracy knows that a war with liberal " eventualities" cannot be trusted to an aristocracy leagued with French and Austrian despotisms . In short , " the feeling" is for peace : and the Government is attempting a peace . The Emperor of the French does not act as if he believed in peace . He ordez-s a new conscription , and commands a great loan . But France does not look warlike . Franco , has had no
stimulating glory since j ^ lmn . battles of Balaklava and of Inlcerman were English battles . France has a , horror of a conscription for a wax Frenchmen do not quite comprehend . Tho funds go down on the announcement of the loan . The press ( of Paris ) does not take advantago of tho permission given it to write freely about tho war . France is n nation of military critics ; and they do not think the war lias been well managed , or that it ovea can be well managed under tho genteel and old English generals , or tho brave French mediocrities to whom the jealous Emperor has confided a great army . We have vet to aco
how the loan will be " taken ; " afc present it would appear that public opinion in France is not enthusiastically warlike . His Majesty Louis Napoleon is observant , and may be induced by circumstances to aid the English Government in a conspiracy for peace . The Parliaments of Fiance and England are alike delusive representations . The press of
the one country is fettered , and the press in London seems as if it were gradually being bought up by the Government . Dip lomacy is , consequently , in the ascendant ; and Diplomatists are always in favour of geace . Austria would consummate her cleverness by effecting a peace . Prussia is confessedly seeking "honourable" conditions for Russia . The
mission of M . von Usedom was laughed at ; but it appears to us that M . von Usedom came to London at a moment peculiarly favourable for his purpose : and we do not doubt that he has been enabled to send to his master a very explanatory report of the aspect of affairs at Windsor and in Downing-street . His report of the public Opinion in England would not be
altogether discouraging- All foreigners think that the Times is public opinion j and the Times is daily saying that for saying which , the Leader is considered Republican- —that the English aristocracy has neither the intellect nor the energy for the war , and that the prospect is a prospect of disasters . The Times has an object in its argument that all our generals are cowards or fools—and that is- the infamous
argument of the Times . The Times , interested in an English statesman who is convinced that England is wrong id the quarrel , is seeking a peace ; and it is therefore very weak in the ministerial journals to abuse the Times which is thus , with a craftiness the ordinary ministerial journalist cannot comprehend , so effectually and so unscrupulously doing the Government ' s work .
What is to prevent a peace—an "honourable" peace ? The pride of the Czar , who , though he may appreciate the illusions of the four points , may resolve to wait for a better opportunity of going into negotiations—when the French and English Governments may be entreating rather than demanding' a cessation of war . There is , however , let us hope , another obstacle to peace—the conscience and honour of the English Liberal party . The Liberal party is no doubt disgusted with the war , while somewhat alarmed by the
Foreign Legion measure t— a measure rendered necessary , the Government alleges , by the failure of the recruiting among our own population . The Liberal party detests the Austrian alliance . The Liberal party is impressed -with the notion that an English Government with despotic allies must be a Tory Government , and they do not enjoy the function of clearing the road for Lord Derby ' s return to power . They object to tho establishment of arbitrary Government , and in tho late short
session arbitrary Government was established . The probability , therefore , is that the Liberal party in Parliament would not oppose the Ministers who accomplished peace . "When Lord John Russell was speaking , the othor night—a speech which came strangely from , the man . who had declared , four months previously , for the destruction of Sebastopol—ho was cheered by tho Liberals . When Mr . Bright was speaking , yostorday week—a speech of conspicuous illogicality and painful pathoshe must have felt that the Liberal party had
come round to him . But the Liberals of England havo a duty to Europo to discharge . A peace now , a treaty drawn up by Austria , would bo a treaty to consolidate despotism in Europo , England being n party to that consolidation . Russia might bo humiliated j but the Itueaiau system would bo triumphant .
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Leader Office , Saturday , December 30 . THE CRIMEA . A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople says : " Admiral Dundas goes home . He is to be succeeded by Sir Edmund Lyons . " Admiral Harnelin , will shortly be relieved by Admiral Bruat . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 30, 1854, page 1235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2071/page/11/
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