¦ / " i ~^ " 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 betvveen. men by prej udice aad one-sided views ; aud by settm°" aside ttie distinctions of Hehgion, Countrj', and Colour, to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood, having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature."—Uumbol&t'' s Cosmos¦. (Stantrnts. NcWS OF THE WEEK— »»oe What is being Done by tho Who Gave the " Timid Coun- w Henri Heine 1047 Central Association for the sels 1040 Tho \n<rel in the House 1048 A National Party 10:54 Aid of Soldiers' Wives and Miscellaneous [..[.. 1040 Habits and Men ival 1049 fc^n " 1043 The War 10-3-A Widows ..;. 1037 r->i, O i ,„ « ,-,- ., me £rvn^andIrvine and Suiritu-vlME Riu'iv-Vlcv . 1O4Q J3 Tho»!v, Mr. Whi8ton 1034 Public Opinion in America ... 1037 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- ¦Testimonial to the Rev. R. Canada , 103S Louis Napoleon and the United Three Novels 1051 Whistou 1034 Our Civilisation 1038 States 1041 Disfranchisement of Freehold " Norton Street," Marylebone 1038 The Newspaper Stamp Kc- PORTFOLIO— Land Voters 1034 Catholics in Municipalities ... 1038 turns 1042 Underneath... 1052 Reinforcements for the East ... 10;5i The Danish Struggle , 1039 The "Working Man and his _,_._ Odd Proceedings 3034 The Sydeiiham Pete.... 1039 Teachers 1042 THE A RTS— lord Palmerston at Roinsey U0S5 The Czar's own Account of his Increase-of the Army 1043 Drury Lane . 1053 The Loss of the Arctic. 1030 Mission . 1039 China Made Useful 1041 > Mr. Peto and the King of Den- Germany and Russia 1039 «DrM /.ftinv.^n " mark 103G Another Arctic Expedition ... 1039 opeim council- Birtlis, Marriages, and Deaths 1054 Mr.Bernal OsborneinTipperary 1086 The Public Health 1039 Babel 1044 ,__ „,-„_ « Mr. TJrquhart; at Newcastle...... 1037 Labour Movement .._.„._.„ . COMMERCIAL . AFFAIRS— in October 1040 uitKA. i-URU- "Working Men's College............. 1037 The Patriotic Fund 1040 City Intelligence, Markets,Ad- The La.te Mr. Geach, M.P 1037 National Defence 1040 Summary.. 1045 vertiseme'nts, &c. 1054-105G VOL. y. No. 241.] SATURDAY, ^QYEMBEB 4, 1854. [Price Sixpence. xnoney—a. political comprehensiveness which Palmerston has lectm'ed this week. He puts Mtws nf tlje Wnk. would puzzle even Mr. Disraeli. Criticising the the whole rationale of .,it in an extremely small contributions of a Czar is serious work ; but may compass. The whole duty of man, he says to THE official telegraph lias not yet reported the we not say that the Romanoff Court Journal talks tlie laboua'er, is to avoid the tobacco-shop and fill of . Sebastopol. In fact, tlie siege has nonsense ? Potentates should keep away from the beer-shop, arid educate h is children. The turned out a much more tough affair than -we-— pens,-^-as Louis .Napoleon has also recently ascer- oddity is, that Lord Palmerston presumed all his home-keeping and sanguine speculators — had tained. hearers to need this advice, so he carries this won- imagined. Our accounts come down to the Though the political world stops whirling to derful counsel exactly to the men who do not want 25th ; at that date the fire had been going on for watch Sebastopol— though the guns, playing in it, in order that they may tell it to the men that sevea days. Shoitld the place have been taken tliis great siege, have stilled the air—yet some little do. Over a glass- of good ale he tells them to in ten or twelve days,-th e result will be extraor- attention is being paid to the fracas between Mr. avoid the beer-shop, and they will probably chew dinary in the annals of war ; should it hold out Soule and the French Government. Mr. Soule, his advice about to oacco over ' their pipes ; but he longer, the fact will not be out of the usual course. returning from London to Madrid, wished, as supplies them with a new principle to start from Lord Raglan, we are told, had quietly determined usual, to go via..France, but was refused permission in teaching their children. All babies, be says, to spare his army—an army not easil y recruited— to pass beyond Calais ' : and his cause having been are born good. This frightful heresy at once re- and to take the place by sap and cannon. The taken up by other* representatives in Europe of ceives an indignant protest, through an orthodox French attaclc, it would appear, had not been so his Government, the demand made on the French contemporary from " One who believes in the successful as the British. The obstacles raised Government is for an apology. The charge Bible," and " the father of twelve children." \VV by the Russians to the west, would require m uch against Mr. Soule is, i\wt he is coalesced with leave Lord Palmerston to settle his quarrel with time and labour to overcome. With rega rd to revolutionists, Spanish and French : this he denies : his opponent " who believes in the Bible," and we the reports from Russia, that the sillies had lost and unless the Emperor lias the courage to got can imagine the a m usement of the gay discount four redoubts and el even guns, we simply dis- out of his perplexity by candour, the " difficulty " contending with one who begins the combat by believe them. Most soldiers light well behind may be exasperated into one of a serious inter- hampering himself so much. The father of twelve: entrenchments ; whether the alleged Russian nat ional character—affecting, directly, current children accounts for Lord Palmerston's doctrine attack took place near Inkerinan or Balukluva, history. by presuming that Lord Pahneiatun has nevci the result must have been achieved, if at all, Three Ministers, " to three several counties hud any children himself. Such is the evidence by fi ghting, not manoeuvring ; and ivo leave our born ," have been dilating upon the "topics of the with which men venture into public ( ontroversies readers to jvdge "whether tlie men who failed dny ." At the City of London meeting in aid of But Lord Palmerston sets the example of' ail- before Silistria are likely to succeed against the the Patriotic Fund, Lord John Russell appeared (lacious levity' —by starting, in an after-dinner soldiers either of England or Franco. This dis- not less as member than u s minister to get the chat, such theories as this and the suboi'dinatr belief docs not extend to the assertion—that there people to .subscribe for the widows and orphans oi axiom—that there must always be encourage- was some affair. Queen Vi ctoria's soldiers. Thus it appears that ment to labourers* societies, because the mass ot What Omar Pasha may bo doing in the Prin- the live sold iers—efficient instruments for work— men will idways be very poor—as strange a doc- cipalities we know not ; but notwithstanding the are paid for out of Queen Victoria's Ministers' t rine for 31 Reform er as the other is for a Chris- report of the movements of Sadyk Pasha 0:1 the public means, but the dead soldiers (represented t ian. Wlio but a "Viscount cou ld thus ohirpingk SeretL, and Iskender Bey in the Dobrud.sch.ii, we by their isunilie-s), who arc useless, fall back upon dispose of the question of Baptismal Kc^L-noni- cannot imagine for one, moment that Omar JL'iisha public charity. In such a position , it of course be- t ion ? contemplates any extensive operntions in Bes- came Lord John 's duty to utter nothing but the I he state of trade still culls for attention , and sarabia. That he should resolve to Imve complete most obviuus and universally received common is such as to justify some apprehensions for the control of the Danube is not wonderful, but that sense, and it is impossible for any man to execute winter ; although it must settle the extravagance the Turks can retake. Isnmij, or overrun the ad- commonplace more abjectly than tlie Lore! Pre- created by the Liverpool suspensions. Tho real jacent country, wo do not bel ieve. sident. The well-written letters from tho Crimea nature of these disasters ia now understood. Tin- The Baltic Fleet, is on its way homo. Sir of tho private soldiers have had a most surprising fust trading ; tho excessive individual speculation Charles Napier has been tlie unobserved of all ob- effect. N obod y knew that our army wns so civi- without capital to support it 5 the rash presump- servers at Hamburgh. lized. These letters hauntJLord John Kuasell, and tion of certain returns- in the shortest possible Whether Austria and ltussia will have recourse oblige him to tell everybody whom he meets — space of time, urn proved not only by tbo facts, to tho bloody arbitrament, of sariufl is one question ; and his public meetings tire numerous—bow much but by the examination of the accounts. The im- that "both are prepnring, is another. In tlie king- uilocation hat) been getting on in the army. propriety of these transactions is established to dom of Poland, Kuss'ui has gathered "iOO.UOO men Mr. BtTiml Ouborne , the Sccretury to the Ad- the commercial mind by the fact of non-success. facing the Austrian frontier. Austria luis cm- mira l ty, lian also been talking of education—cul- The larg e deficiency in Mr. Oliver's estate Is battlod along her frontier, from Cracow to the tivating 11n Irish Athonouum at Clonniol. Mr.