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      of death on Monday night , when Sir Edward Ltttobt brings the conduct of Lord John to a positive vote . Events move rapidly in these days . Lord Johh ' s relation to the Conference at Vienna was only understood on Friday night last week , and even then but imperfectly . He confessed to the House of Commons that he had . like M .

      DBOintN dk Lncts , approved of the Austrian proposition ; that he had signified that approval to the English Cabinet , and had upheld it in council ; but ho somewhat obscurely intimated that , although he was prepared to support the Austrian compromise in April or May , he did not think that it could be sustained now , and he was favourable to " the vigorous prosecution of the war . " Nevertheless , the public had some difficulty in understanding how a Minister who had

      been instructed to support a totally different proposition at Vienna could have returned the advocate of the counter-proposition , and , notwithstanding the rejection of the Austro-RussELi , plan of equipoise , could still remain a member of the Cabinet that rejected that compromise . Either the Cabinet , it was inferred , must agree with Lord John , and bo thoroughly insincere ,

      continuing tho war only to keep up appearances and retain office ; or Lord John , compromising his own convictions as much as ho had his office of Plenipotentiary , had so completely forfeited the character of an English statesman as to entail disgrace upon tho Cabinet of which ho still remained a member . This was the general impression early in the week .

      Mr , Roebuck ' s motion for passing ft vote of cenduie on all the members of the lato Government connected witli the war hung over Ministers as nn opportunity for pronouncing judgment upon Lord John , and upon tho colleagues wUo tolerated him . In order to givo greater solemnity to that \ oto , Mr . Uokiiuok moved on Tuesday that there should bo a call of tho House oft tho evening of the 17 th , whon liis motion is to bo brought forivnrd . Ho presumed , howovcr , ns much earnestness in tho House of Commons as thcro is in

      Sheffield , as much boldness to do the work thoroughly amongst members around him as there is in his own breast ; and the calculation was erroneous . A call . of the House implies a great deal of inconvenience to members . It is true , as he said , that the means of locomotion in the present day render it easy to come up to toWn : but it also renders it easy for members to travel over the kingdom and every part of the

      habitable globe . There are many members in Paris , in India , America , and the Crimea . In fact , there is always a standing call of the House , only it is centrifugal rather than centripetal ; and members -would hold it a . breach of privilege to bring them up to town for a small thing . Mr . Roebuck , therefore , was not permitted to give his vote of censure that paramount importance which a call of the House implies , and his motion was negatived by 133 to 108 .

      To a great extent the interest in his motion was superseded by the " resolution of which Sir Edwakd I / xtton gave notice—a declaration that the conduct of Lord Jonw Russkll at Vienna , and his continuance * in the Ministry , have deprived the Government of public confidence . That motion ^ vas to have been brought on last night ; but when Sir Edward Lytton asked a day for its discussion , Lord Palmkrston declined to accommodate him ; and even went so far as to declare that there should be no motion for a

      Committee of Supply on Friday night , according to the constant custom . The refusal was imputed to alarm , And Ministers were accused of fencing with a vote of censure . The implied answer is , that votes of censure have become so common that a day ca nnot be found for every honourable member who thinks it necessary to visit Ministers with his indignation . But , in truth , Lord Pajlmhrston was only acting according to his constant habit . Ho has himself , on more than one

      occasion , taken his departure from a Government , but ho has boon conspicuous amongst leading statesmen for standing by a colleague in difficulties ; and some humble public servants have favourably contrasted him even with the very man whom ho wiis now shielding . The sense of tho House of Commons and of the public , however , was too powerful : Ministers wore at last obliged to plead , and thoy have consented to take their trial on Monday next .

      In tho meanwhile , tho papers embodying the communications with tho Austrian Government , in which Lord Ci-akkndon and Lord John

      Russell took part , have been laid before Parliament and the public . They are the connecting linis between the published protocols , which they transcend in interest ; and they throw a new light upon the whole subject of the Conferencesincluding the conduct of Lord John Russeix , of Lord Palmerston , and of the Cabinet as a whole . The arrangement , like that of the last proposition at the Conferences , was suggested by Austria some time previously , in the private Conferences , which were alternating with the public Conferences . The basis was , that Russia should be

      restrained by a treaty with Turkey from increasing her naval force to exceed that maintained by the Porte ; the other powers having tlie freedom to enter the Black Sea on the summons of Turkey . As early as the 30 th of April , Lord Clarendon tells the Austrian ambassador that he receives the suggestion " with " surprise and concern , " since it was nothing less than an announcement that Austria did not intend to maintain her pledge on the Third Point . He showed that in fact it was to establish the status quo ante

      bellum , only giving to Turkey the permiss ^ a to increase her naval force to an equality with that of Russia , and the Western Powers permission to enter the Black Sea—permission for which neither the Porte nor the AVestern Powers had waited . The Western Powers had insisted upon putting an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea , with a pledge that Turkey should not overwhelm her ; while Austria proposed , not to terminate the preponderance of Russia , but to permit Turkey to equal her . Lord Clarendon saw throug h this dodge , and Lord Palmerston s Cabinet refused to fall in with it .

      Lord John Russell appears to have gone to Vienna fully charged with the duty entrusted to him . In the earlier communications with Count Buoi . and Baron Pbokbscii , he faithfully represented the arguments on tho English side ; but by decrees , in long conversations—he passes over one with tho parenthetical remark that it would be useless to report tho details of a conversation tlurt endured for four hours-he beca . no impressed wiU . tho view of Count Buoi- ; and ho thought that it tho Austrian proposal v « ro made an » ltjl " ^' ,, it ht to be accepted by the Western lowers

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      VOL . VI . Ho . 277 . 1 SATURDAY , JULY 14 , 1855 . Price { ££ 3 ?;; SgKSSg

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK- p * o « Im perial Parliament 602 XheiWsr 66 * The Sunday Riots 665 'Oar Civilisation 66 » Obituary 666 Naval * nd Military News 666 Continental-Notes 666 Persecution of Protestants 667 Miscellaneous 667 Postscript 667 PUBLIC AFFAIRSShall wo have the Tories P 668

      Lrord Janus Russell 60 S Survey of the " War 669 Some Results of Convocation ... 670 The Confessions of Marshal St . Aruaud 670 Mrs . Norton ' s Appeal for Divorce 671 Italian Necrology 672 Austrian Finance 673 A Problem for the " Profane" ... 673 OPEN COUNCILThe " Comic Old Gentleman" ... 673

      The Sunday of the Shopman 674 Naval Cadets 674 LITER ATURESummary 675 Pliny as a Naturalist 676 Varieties ' . " .... 676 Pictures of Palestine . 677-History of the Crimea 678 Dorking and its Neighbourhood 678 PORTFOLIOThe Grande Exposition 679

      THE ARTSPrivate Theatricals at Kensington 680 Signor Monti's Lectures 681 The Musical Union : 681 Operatic Gossip 681 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 682 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements 682-684

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

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      THE " totum , " says Lord Palmerston , includes the pars" but sometimes the pars is the germ of the totum . Lord John Russklz , is the ministerial crisis" which is now impending , and should he remain a member of the united Cabinet , it is probable that the Cabinet will be in the article

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2099/page/1/