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      W AR was all in the ascendant last week . Peace , without interrupting the action of the armies , steps into the foreground , though , as yet , covered by a mask of diplomacy . Such is the -rapidity of- € V « nts resulting in the report that a congress is to assemble on the 1 st of next month to arrange the peace between the belligerent parties . Russia has astounded the world by a new invasion — invading the proceedings of the Allies by the sudden , unexpected , unprepared declaration that she accepted the four points as interpreted by the Protocol of the 28 th of December . Down to that very day the Emperor was haranguing the population of , all the Russias in the most warlike tones . Since it is not understood that the Allies have at all departed from the substance of the conditions which have been so often published ,. the . sudden changeof , counsel in Russia occasioned natural astonishment , and has been followed up by a still more natural suspicion . That she has meant mischief ever since Peter the Great bequeathed to her the enterprise of undermining every other- authority in Europe and taking possession of the Continent for herself , is believed as devoutly as ever ; and when the Russian Envoy suddenly announces , on the 7 th of January—seven days before the term assigned to his reply—that Russia abandons her refusal to listen , accepts all preliminaries , and desires peace , it is palpable that some new scheme against the independence of Europe has been devised at St . Petersburg . The conduct of Prussia in part explains , though it does not clear up , the proceedings of her ally . Prussia , who lately refused to supply the contingent Austria claimed in defence of Germanic territory , has recently been mustering all her disposable forces , and putting them in a state of preparation , without declaring for what purpose ; intimating that the preparation is only transitory , and evidently being prepared to fall in with the alliance , or to desert . Subsequently , it is reported that she has given her adhesion to the treaty of December 2 ; which places an agent of Russia once more completely in the council of the Three Powers . The representatives of those Throe Powers , however , had not taken a position which entitled them to repel the overtures for peace . The apparently complete acquiescence of Russia would have disarmed resistance , and the Congress

      appears to be the natural consequence of the present turn of affairs . Whether the . Allies will be more strong in Congress than they have been in the Crimea remains to be seen ; but the gravest fears must be entertained that they will now enter into a contest favourable to the enemy . In the mean while none of the three Allies desist in their active proceedings . In a speech to the Imperial Guard on the 9 th instant , the Emperor Napoleon cheered them by ^ the promise that they should soon be assisting their comrades to plant the Eagles of the Empire on the walls of Sebastopol ; and our own Admiralty has issued an announcement , that the ports of the Black Sea , ami the sea of Azov , in the possession of Russia , will be strictly blockaded . The United States propose to offer a mediation between the belligerent Powers . This proposition is the result of a natural movement in the United States ; it follows from the meeting of American Ministers at Ostend . And whether or not the lnediati 6 n ~ Be " " eptedi ~ Tt" is a step that promises great results for Europe and for America hereafter . It is true that America is acquiring interests in every country where her ships seek trade ; it is true that the Atlantic cannot divide her from the interests of Europe ; true that her own prosperity and power entail upon her the duty of sustaining in other less fortunate countries the political influences from which she derives such benefits . There is no doubt a disposition in America , and in our own land , to deal with foreign States too much as if they were unquestionably represented by their constituted Governments . Technically , this is correct and safe ; practically , it violates the very spirit of those institutions which regard the people as greater than its officers . There is more than one people on the Continent which is less fortunate than America , in being saddled with a Government that it docs not choose , because foreign States have conspired to keep that Government upon it . Take Naples as an example American politicians can string up a list of such countries . It is not every state in Europe that has c ombined the intelligence , the public spirit , the common sense , and the good luck , to form for itsolf a representative Government like that of Sardinia ; but to sustain Sardinia * against her externn , l enemies , and hold out a hope that the people of Naples would receive a sympathetic support it they could show themselves independently of their base Court—theao we conceive to bo the duties

      of Americans , greater than that of mediating between their felon-flatterer Nicholas and the Britons who share their blood and their political feeling . We hail the intervention of America on the Continent ; we must hear more of this ediation before we can be sure that it would command our approval ; but in any case we have the utmost confidence , that leading and influential men in America cannot really mingle themselves in European affairs without effecting good . The story of Sardinia even within the single - . . . week is a great and noble episode in the history of Europe . Continuing the development of its representative constitution , softening those . extreme desires which might otherwise divide a generally liberal people , Sardinia has placed its Government in such a position , that it is able to undertake the suppression of convents and monasteries ; while by her adhesion to the alliance of France and England for maintaining in Turkey the principle of national independence andinternational justice , she has become an example , and an auxiliary to the upholders of public law in Europe . We respect individuals who conduct themselves well , and so act as to promote the welfare of others as well as their own : can we apply an opposite principle to States , and equally encourage those who are the murderers of States and those who are the regenerators of States ? Lord Panmure , speaking at the Edinburgh Bible Society , cuts the ground from under Mr . John Bright . It will be remembered that at a recent meeting of a Bible Society , Mr . Brig ht stated , amongst other extenuating circumstances in the case of defendant Russia , that the Emperor Nicholas encourages the consumption of Bibles , and subscribes to the Bible Society . Lord Panmure seems to convict Mr . Bright of an anachronism . The Czar who encouraged the circulation of the Bible in Russia , was , not Nicholas , but , Alexander ; and Nicholas positively prohibits what his b rother promoted . Indeed , the sup pression o f any printed writing goes so far , as a contemporary observes , that a censor took exception to the Lord ' P rayer , 11 For , " said he , " ' give us this day our daily bread / savours of Socialism , and 'thy come , ' implies that the people are dlscon with their present Emperor . " The sort tiaiuty which the Emperor really oncour embodied in the doll and raki that ho stimulate the religious instincts and the the soldiers before Inkerman .

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      VOIi . VI . No . 251 . ] SATURDAY , JANUARY 13 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK- ** Police Cases 33 ^ " ^ i ' ? J LITERATUREBenewed Blockade of the Danube . 26 The Rev . Mr . . Davies and the Miscellaneous 38 Summary 42 The War 26 London Mission ............ S 3 Postscript < $ e Social Aspects of German Life ... 42 The Queen and the Army 29 Cardinal Wiseman and the Im- purlic affairs- History of Political Literature ... 43 Arrival and Departure of the maculate Conception .. 33 PUBLIC AFFAIRS A Batcii of Books 44 Crimea Ships 30 Proceedings Against Archdeacon Russia Winning the Game 37 Adventures in the Sun 45 Shipping Speculations for the Jtemson «** The "Immaculate Conception " ... 37 Crftnea 30 The Emperor and the Imperial The Ditcher-Denison Case 38 Messrs . Price and the Ordnance- Guard .. . 55 Underneath the Pall 89 office ... 8 ° Metropolitan Commission of Memoir on the Conduct of the Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 46 The Hospitals in the East 31 m ^ TiV ^ w ^ iVh % l War ... 39 SatafSoT ^ ?^ .:.::::::: S SL ^ & ^ &- » ni » OP £ n council- commercial affa . rs-

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      •• The one Idea which fiStory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humatuty-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development nf our soiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2073/page/1/