m t/&dJd-HUu4'Jkif tmf , ) 'iMuafify ^€e/^anJ The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity the noble e eavour to 5 u ; throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions or Kengion, Country, and Colour, to treat th,e whole Human race as one broth.erh.ood , having one great object—the free development or our sjpmtual nature."—Humboldt's Cosmos. ^ ©on tentss. NEWS OF THE WEEK— page What is being Done by the Who Gave the " Timid Coun- Henri Heine "" 1017 A mtional Party '. ™^^—== ^^" 103* SS^B^^iSf £S p«bl.c 3S ^S^t ' " " ££ |hl S?;.iir: whiston- -:::::::::::: $2 PuE^n^AVsr::: iffi affairs- fS&SIKKfi^" 1SS1 Disfranchisement of Truehold " Norton Street," Marylebone 1038 The Newspaper Stamp Re- PORTFOLIO— Land Voters 103-i Catholics in Municipalities ... 1038 turns 1042 Underneath .. , 1052 Reinforcements for the East ... 1034 Tho Danish Struggle 103a The Working Man and his _;.,_ -„_ ,. Odd Proceedings 1034 The Sydenham Pete.... 1039 Teachers 1012 THE ARTS- Iiord Palmerston at Itomsey 1035 The Czar's own. Account ©f his Increase of the Army 1043 Drury Lane . 1053 £he Loss of the Arctic : 1035 Mission ; 1039 China Made Useful 1044 Mr. Peto and the Kins of Den- Germany and Bussia 1039 «»-«, miiu/.ii _ mark ••. .-.. 103G Another Arctic Expedition ... 1039 OPtN council- Births, Marriages, and Deaths 105 1 Mr.Bernal Osborne iti Tipperary 1036 ¦ The Public Health 1039 Babel 1014 „„.«.-.«-.. Mr. Urquhar-t at Newcastle 1037 Labour Movement in October 1040 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS- College 1037 The LITERATURE-l lTCO . TllB- WorW Meii^ Patriotic Fund 1040 City Intelligence, "Markets, Ad- The Late Mr- Geach. M.P. 1037 National Dcfon.ce 1040 Summary 1045 vertisements, &e. ... 1051-1050 VOL. V. 3Sro. - -2Al.JV SATUHDAY, NOVEMBEK, 4, 1854. [Pp,ice Sixpence. money—:a political comprehensiveness which Palmerston has lectured this week. He puts Wxm 4 tire Wnk. would puzzle even Mr. Disraeli. Criticising the the whole rationale of Sit in an extremely small contributions of a Gzar is serious work ; but may compass. The whole duty of man, Jie says to fFHE official telegraph, has not yet reported the We not say that the Romanoff Court Journal talks the ¦ ¦labourer, is to avoid the tobacco-shop and A fall of Sebastopol. In fact, the siege has nonsense..? Potentates should keep away fr om the ¦beer-shop* and educate his children. The turned out a much more tough affa ir 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 atbvice, 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 th at 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 seven days. Should the place have been taken this 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, the result will be extraor- attention is being paid to the fracas between Mr. avoid the beer-shop, and they will probably chew dinary in tile annals of war ; should it hold out Soule and the French Government. Mr. Soule, his advice about tobacco over their pipes ; but he longer, the fact will not be out of the usual course. returning from London to Madrid, wislied, as supplies them with a new principle to start from Lord Raglan, we are told, had quietly determined usual, to go via Trance, but was refused permission in teaching their children. All babies, he says, to spare his army—an army not easily 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 attadky'it would appeal", had not. been so his Government, the demand made on the French contemporary from " One wl)o believes in the successful as the British . The obstacles raised Government is for an apology. The charge Bible," and " the father of twelve children." AV c- by the Russians to the west would require much against Mr. Soule is, that he is coalesced with leave Lord Palmerston to settle his quarrel with time and labour to overcome. With regard to revol utionists, Spanish and Trench : this he denies: his opponent " who believes in the Hiblei" and we the reports from Russia, that the allies had lost and unless the Emperor has the courage to get can imag ine the amusement of the gay Viscount four redoubts and eleven guns, we simply dis- out of his perplexity by candour, the " difficulty " contending with one who begins tliu combat by believe them. Most soldiers light well behind may be exasperated into one of a, serious inter- hampering himself so much. Tlic father of twelve entrenchments ; whether the alleged Russian national character—affecting, directly, current children accounts for Lord Paltucrstori 's doctrine attack took place near Inkennan or Balaklava, history. by presuming that Lord Pahuerston has never the result must have been achieved, if at all, Three Ministers, " to three several counties had any children himself. Such is the evidence by fighting, not manoeuvring; and we leave our born ," have been dilating upon the "topics of the with which men venture into public controversies readers to judge whether the men who failed day ." At the City of London meeting in aid of But Lord Palmerston sets the example of au- before Silistria are likely to succeed against the the Patriotic Fund, Lord John Russell appeared dacious levity — by starting, in an after-dinner soldiers either of England or France. This dis- not less as member than as minister to get the chat, such theories as this and the subordinat e belief does not extend to the assertion—that there people to subscribe for the -widows and orphans of axiom—that there must always bo encourage- was some affair. Queen Victoria's soldiers. Thus it appears that ment t o labourers' societies, because the mass of What Omar Pasha, may be doing m the Prin- the live soldiers — efficient instruments for work— men will always be very poor—as strange a doc- cipalities we know not ; but notwithstanding the are paid for out of Queen -Victoria's Ministers' trine for a Reformer as the other in for a Chris- report of the movements of Sady k Pasha on the public means, but the dead soldiers (represented tian. Who but a Viscount could thus chirpingl y Sereth, and Iskender Bey in the Dobrudschn, we by their families), who are useless, fa ll back upon dispose of the question of Baptismal Regenera- ine for one moment that Omar Pasha public charity. In such a position , it of course bo- t ion ? cannot imag r contemplates any extensive operations in Bes- camo Lord John's duty to utter nothing but the lhe state of trade still calls for attention , and sarabia. That ho sh ould resolve to have complete most obvious and universally received common is such as to justify some apprehensions for the control of tlio Danube is not wonderful , but that sense, and it is impossible for any man to execute winter ; although it must settle the e.-stnivn ganee the Turk s can retake Ismail, or overrun the ad- commonplace more abjectly than the Lord Pre- created by the Liverpool suspensions. The mail jacent country, wo do not believe. sident. The well-written letters from the Crimea nature of those disasters is now understood. Tlu 1 The Baltic Fleet is on its way homo. Sir of the private soldiers have had a most surprising fast trading ; the excessive individual speculation Charles Napier has lieen the ?<»observcd of all ob- entect. Nobody knew that our army was so civi - without capital to support it; thu rash presump- servers at Hamburgh. lized. These letters haunt Lord John Russell, and tion of certain returns in the short-eat possible Whether Austria and Russia will have recourse obli go him to tell everybody whom he meets— space of time, are proved not only by the facts, to the bloody arbitrament of anna is one question ; and his public meetings are numerous—how much but by the examination of the uoeount.s. The im- that both are preparing, in another. In the king- education has been getting on in the army. propriety of these transactions is untublis liud to dom of Poland, Russia has gathered 200,000 men Mr. Bcrnal Osborne, thu Secretary to the Ad- tho commercial mind by t ho fact of iioii-hijwcshs. facing the Austrian frontier. Austria lin.s em- miralty , bus also been talking of education—cul- Tin; largo deficiency in Mr. Oliver 's cnlntu i* battled along her frontier, from Cracow to tho tivating »n Irish Athonunnn at Clonuiel. Mr. worth ax year of sermons. Krig lun d and America O abornu'H speech was excellent Danube, 200,000 men, and 25,000 in the Princi- : but what is he are not going to break down bceniiHu a 'l!W niwli palities. Both Bides bhow great activity ; and doi ng at Clonmcl , when a Baltic ileet \» coming merchants break down. Nuvurtln 'lu.-u lli< \y arc Gallivia , an a field of war, should not bu over- hoinc—an d coming home, it may be, despite working short time in boiiki jm rt.s of the cotton looked.