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the story of each . -Could we only get at the ful romance of the bankruptcy courts ! But the difficulty which is felt by France , anc to a certain extent by this country—a difficultj which may make the j > reasure ^ rfydbaxation .-and th < demands of war be felt 4 wnne « Sffaat more-SjeHrerfflyis occasioned by the still gaeater pressure aapoi the enemy , and is so far an . index that we = » r < beating him as well in the mimey market asan * h < fort or the field . Not that he gives way . On the contrary , ther < are evident signs that the combination whicl Canning foresaw is forming , at least on tin Absolutist side . The relation of Naples with Russia we know . Tuscany is inflicting bct rigours and ^ exactions upon English as well at French travellers ; -but the working < of Absolutis relations appears most distinctly in Spain . There it is said , [ Queen Isabexjla has been again disappointed of direct issue—this lends new probability to "the hated succession of her sister , the Duchess of MoNTEEsrsiER , whose features have so little resemblance to the Spanish Bourbons , although ski is the daughter of Queen Cscbistina ; hence greal verisimilitude in the story that Queen Isabeixj has been , through her husband , in communication with the Oount of Montemoun , for the purpose of suppressing her own Government by a new Palace coup d ' etat , like that which formerly drovt out Espartkbo ; Royal Spain thus distinctly allying itself to the Absolutist connexion . Again , this week , persons of distinguished position stand forth conspicuously . We have a report , thitherto softened or suppressed , that the King or Sardinia has been seriously ill , and we infer from the statement that he is not yet out of danger . His loss would be grave , £ for Italy and for Europe , at this moment ; for although Piedmont possesses statesmen who could carry on the affairs of Pied < - mont under a minority , they could not offer to Italy that leader which Manin again calls upon Sxajg Victor Emmanuel to become . . Conspicuous , too , amongst the signs of the ( times , is Sir AubxAndeb Mat < kt , that hearty Scotsman who represents ]! England at the Frankfort j ) iet . A dinner was given to celebrate the taking of Sebastopol , and some fifty English , French , and Sardinians sat round the table . Germans ajppear not to have been present , so that the Allies had it all to themselves . Sir Axbxandeb was in the chair , and he " rappedout" expressions which will go round Europe like wildfire . He accused Prussia , by her trimming , of having plunged Europe into a state of war , called her scrujples pitiful , praised the King of Sardinia , and spoke of " the most remarkable man of his age , " the Emperor Napoleon , in a manner calculated to identify that monarch with some ulterior projects . And Sir Alexander is < a high diplomatic character . Besides , although his language is imore outspoken , it is not at all inconsistent with that attributed to Lord Paukerkton on his return from Northampton , when he laughed at a paacespeaking farmer for belonging , to " the ; Manchester Sohppl . " Wh ^ le the Premier is falling . in with the humour of . Ifce 4 ay as , it . exhibits , itpe } f . ttt jmil way-stations —and in . the ! Crjmpa- ^; theIdisJti » . guiahed commoner wh , o Ie . a 4 s , tho OppQsition of the House , appears in his annual capacity , ns owe of the JJoy . al Buoks Agricultural Society , at AyAesbury , vindicating the aooiftl privileges of that body , namely , to distribute the society's " coat and buttons , valuo-2 Z ., " to " . faithful farm servants . " Notwithstanding the shafts of ridicule , says Mr . D * 8 babi , t , rtho society has " flourished for , a quarter of a oen-Itlijry , ' * in $ he pursuit of its object "to cherish and enqo . ura , ge good feeling and brotherhood among various classes of the community . " J £ the society g ^ ej ^ jqpat and buttons , ; says Mr . Disjraobm , does ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ?
not the Queen give a -riband , and is not an assembly of officers especially convened on the field of the Grimea to receive the riband ? Prizes are pleasing to the competitive mind ; why not , then , a » e-jasks , a coat sand buttons ? ^ 3 he argu ment appeetrs to us tolbe complete . Hut ai ithat same Conservative meefing oi Royal Buj&s , Sir Haarar Vernmt " drew attention" to i& point in ^ connexion with agriculture — " the tjpsfly and tedious process necessary for th « transfer of landed property . " " Land , " says Sit Harry , " should be cheap and easy of transfer . " So that tfhe subversive reformer would set floating the great basis upon which stands our landed gentry ! A ^ ciDulfcuBe , indeed , takes iihe lead in philosophy- Sir James Kat SmrmEWOBTH graces . the dinner of 4 he Agricultural Societies of Lancashire with a lecture on large bones and small bones in labouring and feeding cattle ; ' and on the application of intelligence to maintain that happy condition of England which renders it the envy of Europe . And Lord Stanley presides at the first anniversary of the Farming Society of Tipperary , and speaks on the possibility of teaching the Irish , whose industry executes the railway and the canal , and the hard work of all the great towns , in England and America , to render Ireland , " what God and nature intended her to be , the garden of Europe and of the world . " " Ireland for the Irish , ' ' O'Connell used to say ; the Conservative Saxon Stanusy is teaching the Irish how to appropriate Ireland to themselves , and to make it worth the having . When we get into the field of the Church , we know that personality becomes fierce ; and , accordingly , at a recent meeting of the " Exeter Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts , " the JBishop attacks the Queen and Government , because this year the Queen ' s letter begging the subscription of the congregation for the incorporated societies has not been issued . If we enter into the region of the aristocracy , we may expect personality to become not only fierce , but offensive ; and so it is . A hostile correspondence has been published , in which the Duke of Somebsbt figures not as principal , but as recalcitrant . The ^ . story is simple . A Mr . Alfred HAMiLTOT ^ saUs rifgn'the Duke , sends in his card , and is told to wallcTnto the Duke ' s room . Such is his own account , and it is not contradicted . The Duke tells us the next stage . The Duke supposed that it was a Mr . Hamilton with whom he was acquainted ; he gave orders for the gentleman to be introduced , and when he found out his mistake , told the gentleman to leave the house . We understand the offence which Mr . Hamilton had committed , and it was serious : it was that the Duke had blundered in his own mind . A Major Green calls upon the Duke for explanation or satisfaction ; he is mot by reiterations of the statement which we have just repeated , and finally by silence . The Tines and other journals are writing at the monstrosities of wife-beating and other unmanly praotioes . It has been remarked that officers are rather too willing to return from the Crimea . Another remark has been made that the men , of the present day are capable of an indifference and rudeness towards women , whioh their'forefathers would have blushed to imitate , and in some cases would have chastised . It is the commonest thing in the world to see in that machine for toaohing bad manners—the omnibus — a man pushing forward to enter before a woman , who remains without a place . Wo have long heard that " the nge of chivalry is past . " We had supposed thftt some remnant of it remained with Peers , who ore proud to bear arms ; but in this extraordinary correspondence wo find " the proud Sombb 8 jhx" engaged !
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OOA THE LBIA-BIE . [ No . 288 , Saturday ,
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The det&aled accounts of the combined operations on the © fib . of -September have been published in the coureetftf the week ; and we are now enabled to form somejtij&igg-like a correct idea of the victories and the ¦ defeats , the " glory and the mortification , of that memoraMe day . The discomfiture of the Russians stands . oat yet more clearly ; the brilliant achievedttents of thesFrench are beheld in glowing colours ; tout the reverse which our countrymen experienced has received a still darker shade from the narrative of one -who was all but an eye-witness . It would be difficult to exaggerate the feeling of excitement and pain which has been created by the letter of the Times Correspondent . His account of our operations at the Redan ( which will be found below ) throws a slur upon the English Commander-in-« hief , and on -the English . army ; yet , upon an ¦ attentive consideration of the facts , it will be found that the craen were set upon doing an impossible work , considering the force in which they were despatched . The conditions under which the French , and those under which the English , made their attack , were totally different . The French approaches were within ten yards of the point of attack ; they had only to cross a ditch in order to enter the work , and , once in , -the attacking party were protected by walls against reinforcements . The English had to cross two hundred yards under fire before they reached the salient angle of the Redan ; the ladders were found too short ; and , when at length ~ by great efforts the men contrived to enter the fortification , they found themselves opposed to large reinforcements of the Russians , released from the Malakhoflj -which was by that time in the hands of the French , and unprotected from the artillery at the open base of the triangle . They were but a handful , and were not reinforced . The result of such an unequal contest could be only as it turned out : still , if the allegation of the Times Correspondent , that the men refused to advance at the command of their officers , be true , a stain attaches to the English scarlet . The assertion that the soldiers were chiefly boys does not harmonise with the statements of other witnesses . A correspondent of the Daily News says he saw the heaps of slain , and observed scarcely one beardless face amongst them . That they fought with desperation against superior numbers seems evident ; and the onus is again thrown back on those who made such "bad arrangements . It has been stated that the French Commander made frequent remonstrances against the danger and impolicy of not pushing the sap close up to the ditch ; but in vain . General Codrington , according to the Daily News Correspondent , kept back the troops which crowded the trenches till the Russians had time to bring up their reserves , and even then his aides-decamp , ignorant of the topography of the trenches carried his orders to the wrong regiments . The trenches , says General Simpson in his despatch , were so overcrowded that a second attack could not he organised ; and when Pelissier sent to inquire whether he intended to assault again , he said , not until the following morning . But the satisfaction of retrieving our military character was not accorded us . The Russians , as we all know , abandoned the south side , and the Redan fell into our hands , but was never taken . The Morning Post is highly indignant with the Times Correspondent for the charges he brings against our men ; but it happens singularly enough that one of the Post ' s accredited correspondents gives a precisely similar account . The great work , however , has been accomplished ; and that is the main consideration . Of the scene disclosed to the Allies after the raging fire permitted thorn to enter , it is scarcely possible to speak , not for want of details , which are abundant , but from want of the power to endure their repetition . A concentration of all the unutterable desolations , miseries , and agony of war was there beheld . ; and the stomach aickens at the recital . A town battered by shot and explosions , still roaring and wasting in the ravenous flames that enfolded it ; the dead lying about in loathsome heaps , . bloody , distorted , and half decomposed ; the wounded writhing in inconceivable spasms , or paralysed in despair $ the odour of corruption poisoning the air far and wide ; the wreck and ruin both of rnaikand of man ' s worke $ —such wore the sights that me ^ the oyea of the conquerors . The Russians , with their usual heartless disregard of their wounded , had left the inmates of the hospital without attendance , without food , without water , without any alleviation of their fearful state . The condition in which theso wretched beings wore found by the correspondent of the JHmes was so frightful that the mind is stunned by the contemplation . Wo forbear to reproduce the details : ilet it suffice it to say that war has never been aeon in more appalling deformity . And , as if no element of horror should bo wanting , a Btorm of rain , amounting to a bricl dolugo , undiaccompanied by thundor nnd lig htning , burst ovjcr the conauorud city ; and the ilroa 01
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 926, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/2/
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