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VOL . VI . No . 276 . ] SATURDAY , JULY 7 , 1855 . ^^ ce { g ^ g ^ JK ™ gg-
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known generals , takes the chief command of the English army ; but whether he has got the scarf of real knighthood over his shoulder , or only a belt of red tape , no one can yet affirm . Another doubt remains , behind . It is evident that the conquest of Sebastopol will require a great increase of strength , if it be taken by a direct pressure ; or that our armies will require an immense increase , if we are to abandon the siege , and , only keeping a guard upon the spot , to grapple with Russia in the open field . Either way the English public will have to pay in 1856 , and subsequent years , for the mistakes that prevented our Government from closing the war , as it might have done , in 1855 , if not in the previous year . We are paying something like twenty or thirty millions a year for trimming ; and trimming will cost us yet more before we have done with its consequences . Already we see the financial effect . The revenue tables for the year and quarter have been published , and we are crowing over the " increase on both , year and quarter ; " forgetting that the increase is an increase of taxation . If such are causes for crowing , we English shall have to crow still more lustily . It is true that our trade can bear it—that our exports and imports have not seriously diminished ; that the commerce of the colonies , and of the United States , is , according to the very latest accounts , assuming a more healthy aspect—that Australia promises us more wool and America more corn and cotton ; and that our own harvest is abundant . T 5 ut the fact is , that the produce of this-increased prosperity will have in great part to be expended in war , and that we shall spend the more , not for good honest fighting , but for dishonest attempts to evade fighting when the evasion Avas impossible . In France , already , the financo of war comes upon the people in the shape of a new loan of 00 , 000 , 000 / ., and new luxes to am amount not exactly stated , but seizing upon every railway traveller when ho pays his fare . Natoleon thk Thiki > has just summoned his senators and legislative corps to countersign his edicts of new taxes and loans , lie did it in a well-etiulied speech , inveighing against Austrian want of faith , and intimating his determination to exact more from Itussia than the Four Points . Not a word about Poland . If the nationalities are thought of , Louis Napoi-kon docs not yet talk of putting himself at their licad .
The state of the Continent , indeed , like that of countries in other directions , is such that few men could venture to calculate where there will be war , or between whom . Both Austria and the French Emperor point to the more than neutral position that Prussia has assumed . While-our fleets have taken possession of the Baltic , and scoured every Russian vessel from its waters , a ship occasionally shows herselfj perhaps under Norwegian colours , and creeps into the " neutral" port of Memel . Our Ministers still say , Speak not harshly of the Prussian Government , lest the people should resent it nationally . Trimming is still the dominant policy , and nothing decisive can be done , because Governments still desire to keep well with Governments against nations . In France the nation does not really support its ruler ; and if these defeats are to be repeated , the Imperial master will soon hear more of his subjects . Nay , if Russia persevere , if Austria be not facilitated in becoming an effective ally , other allies must be found ; and then Louis Napoleon must speak to the nations . How will they receive him ?_ Italy , indeed , is prepared to accept almost any suggestion for getting out of her present intolerable condition . Naples , true to Russia , is half-accused by Rome of being unfaithful to her blind devotion . Rome itself is so torn by intestine anarchy , that the inhabitants of Bologna dare not travel unguarded , for fear of the brigands ; and the inhabitants of Rome have been leaving it in fear of a sack . Piedmont , alone reforming and active in the war , possesses a Government decidedly more popular than it has been for many generations ; but no \ indecidcd is every Government , except that of Piedmont , that oven , the next future , the course of to-morrow , is an avowed mystery . Austria deprecates any encouragement of Polish insurrection , lest it should weaken her ; and our Government not only permits Austria to trim , though reproaching her for it , but sets the example . We forfeit one set of allies and obtain no other . Even nt homo our G ovcrmnent has occasioned before the enemy , who can read the Times newspaper , the appoarnnco of division between tho Government and pcoplo . Lord Kodjbbx Gkosvknok ' s Sunday Trading Bill—a little measure to accommodate the wcll-mtcntionod scruple * of certain small tradesmen in some parts of Eoatorr hau boon the means of raising » popular ^ ijpult tor two succeeding Sundays . After def ^ iflg the
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— rxos Imperial Parliament 638 The War 039 The Sunday Demonstration in HydePark 641 Our Civilisation 641 ( Obituary 642 Opening of the French Legislative Assembly . —Speech " of the Emperor 642 Continental Notes 642 Naval and Military News 643
Miscellaneous 643 Postscript 643 PUBLIC AFFAIRSHyde Park Legislation , 644 The Solution of the Sunday Question 645 Survey of the War 645 The Debt to . Lord Raglan 646 Convocation under Weigh 647 The Civilisation We Defend 647 Inquiry into the Conduct of the Police 647
Austrian Confederation in Italy 648 Developments 648 OPEN COUNCILSabbatarianism 648 The Indian Army Debate 649 LITERATURESummary 650 The Biography of a Museum 651 Lord Brougham ' s Literature 652 A Batch of Books 653 Miller ' s Elements of Chemistry 655
The Monarchy of Prance 655 Books on Our Table 656 THE ARTSLaRistori—Mirra 556 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 657 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements 657-660
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I " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble I endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside tne distinctions I of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development I- ¦ ' of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt'sCoimog .
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4 T ORD RAGLAN is dead , and buried , and his I _ Li widow is pensioned . It is but a week since we # heard that he was recovering . Short work with m ?; ' the fate of men in the Crimea ! A nation easily K shuffles a hero into the grave , and then turns to m- the business of the day without much regret to " oppress its energies . No sooner is Raglan dead , I p / than we begin-to understand the misconceptions Ifpwfc hat- suppose-. ; him to be responsible for the very ^^^ Blamitiefl s 6 nder which he has been sacrificed . ^ Th e con $£ ^^ ac _ c £ unt of the attempt on the 18 th IJP f- ^ hich / vf ^ npjv-fiave , would by itself suffice to K | t ^ cbrre < it mttolic-bf this unjust obloquy . He recoia-I ^ pi jjjbnded a general attack , such as those that suc-I $ if $ ejeded under the most adverse circumstances in I f iSpain , where the assault upon one point might I 'succeed , though all the rest failed . But the French I ¦ " : ' QQmmander preferred a double concentrated at-1 -feck . It was more showy , more conspicuous , more V suitable to the " elan" in which the spirit of one man sustains the rest ; and English sagacity yielded to French impulse . The troops stood ready on Im the night of the 17 th to pursue the Pklissier ;| j j > lan ; but the French Chief ' s own officers were III Faithless to his scheme , and Mayban , accepting iM any signal as the signal , rushed with his troops I § upon the Russian works before the time , com-I jj putting suicide by wholesale , and ensuring the II I jferfect failure of the whole plan . After that futiil II ' j ^ sconduct , the English assault became little I ' ^ jnore than an act of sacrifice for the sak e of I | ^ omrades . It was done in right earnest , to take any I l ^ an co ; and General Evhe succeeded in making ' i || good l"s entry into part of the town , remaining I i | tbere tho whole day on the 18 th . But if I a | # &M 86 * EB hftd chosen the less probable plan of I ^ tack , Mayhan had rendered victory impossible ) , § 11 ; $ tou" the descendants of those who suffered nt I I ^ WTftrterloo succeeded in dragging defeat \ ipon the 1 1 JlJiOjH paniona of Wellington at the expense of | jl | $ ^ r ing it themselves . IJ f ^ It has been the duty of the Ministers who sent ¦ If ° ld Raolan to n > 3 sacrifice , to lay his services l l' ^ f oro Parliament ; and , asking the poor coiu-I 1 {^ Onsation of pensions for his widow anil hninelilpKte heirs , to load tho way in eulogising the ¦|| OT < 5 tim . Also to appoint a successor . General ¦ I $ | p » iWON , a meritorious officer , with certificates llffeW ^ Charles Jamics Nai'ikb and other woll-Hfc ^
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Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2098/page/1/
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