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      "The One Idea Which. History Exhibits As...

      "The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing it 3 elf 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 Religion , 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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      News Of The Week— Page Health Of London ...

      NEWS OF THE WEEK— page Health of London during tho The Chartist Terror 517 PORTFOLIOThe "War 506 Week 511 lievelation of Archdeacon Sin- A Week in Paris and tho Grande "War Miscellanea 507 State of Trade , Labour , and tho clair 517 Exposition 623 The Baltic ' 508 Poor 511 Board and Lodging 518 The French Repjy to Russia 503 Letters from Paris 511 M- Manin and Austria 519 THE ARTSIndia and . China 503 Continental Notes 512 Aristocratic Reformers 519 Monti ' s Lectures on Sculpture ... 524 America ZY ^ y ^ Z '" . 500 Miscellaneous 513 I COUNCIL- The Operas and the Theatres ... 524 The Humanity of a Cosmopolite ... 509 Postscript 514 OPEN COUNCIL Administrative Reform 509 ... . „ . . _ . „ . . __ me lones oia Two Cases of Parricide 510 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- LITERATURE- Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 525 Our Civilisation 510 Survey of the War 514 Summary 520 ,. < s . 1 , Mrn /« . Ai acc-aidc The Registrar-General's Quarterly Healthof theCamp intheCrimea 515 The Plurality of Worlds 521 COMMERCIAL AFFAlKb—Return 510 The Right End to begin at 515 War Literature 522 City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Naval and Military News 511 Radical Monarchists 516 ' Books on our Tablo 523 vertisements 526-528

      Vol.. Vi. No. 271.1 Saturday, June 2, 18...

      VOL .. VI . No . 271 . 1 SATURDAY , JUNE 2 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      rFHE intelligence from the Crimea is of the JL highest interest , although , transmitted by telegraph , we still lack the details . In the immediate vicinity of SebastojDol those attacks upon the outworks commenced on the 1 st of May have been pressed with continued progress , and General Pjelissier has made his mark upon the stronghold . On the 24 th of May an expedition , in steamers of light draught , accomplished the

      approach to Kertch , an Allied force was landed there , and the Russians , after blowing up their works and destroying their stores , fled . The place "was taken without a blow . Thence , on the following day , the expedition proceeded to the armed station of Yeni-Kaleh ; two days afterwards it appeared on the point of coast to the north at Berdiansk , where the Russians sixain destroyed

      their ships and some gram ; and on the -JStli , . Sir George Brown went to the very bottom of the Cay of Arabut , where a hundred of the Russian transport ships were destroyed . This gives the English the command of the Sea of Azof , and oi the road along the spit of land by which reinforcements have reached Simpheropol . Nor is tliia slII . An advance has been made on the

      Tchernayji , of which the right bank remained in possession of the Allies , bringing them closer to the Russian forces in the central part of the peninsula , and in fact marking to that extent a retrograde position for the Russians . The efl ' ecLs of this success are obvious ; the Sea of Azof is under our guns ; all the Russian trade that passes through the Straits of Yeni-Kaleh—by" which 1000

      vessels entered and issued last year—is closed ; the Russian power towards the Caucasus is weakened ; the inlet to the Crimea by 1 ' erekop is narrowed ; the channels for conveying reinforcements arc greatly diminished ; the confidence oi the Russian troops must be proportionately depressed ; the moral effect in Russia it , self must , be very considerable ; and the inllucnce will not be . unfelt in Vienna and Berlin .

      The signs of trouble in Russia had already hue n increasing . Tho Emimcuob and his brother Con . stantinm have been to Cronstadt examining the defences . The comparative weakness in the Crimea is not , concealed , and reports of distress from St . Potorbburg do not diminish . The Russian loan , so . long in the Dutch market , and sustained by so many . eHbrts to keep up the

      quotations , has undergone a new shock , and declines . The Austrian Government has put forth a German version of the Protocols of the Conference ; and in doing so has accompanied them by a note , with the signature of Count IJuol , explaining that the issue has been rendered necessary by the publication of the Protocols in England . A Ministerial contemporary writes as if this remark of Count Buol ' s were only a pretext to be pleaded before certain German * Courts who

      might object t 6 the publication , and as proving that the Austrian Minister does not feel sore at the publication of the papers by our Ministers ; but the general impression is , that the irritation of the complaisant Count cannot be concealed . If we were to suppose that Count Buoi . was prepared boldly and steadily to act upon the plain interests of Austria , there would be no question that the publication of the documents must be beneficial to his Government : but it . is evident

      that the Count is strongly impelled by three desires , which he displayed at the Conferences in a greater degree than his colleague the Baron I ' jtoKi-scn-OsTKX : they are , the desire to place Austria in a course advantageous for her material interest and Jier influence inKurope ; the desire to maintain good faith with the Western Powers ; and the desire , above all things , to avoid giving ollenee to aui / hodi / , Russia included . Now the protocols have given offence to Russia , and therefore to Prussia and Saxoivy .

      The Sardinian Chambers have , closed their sittings , after having passed the bill for the regulation of convents and the suppression of a considerable number . The measure was not a strojiy one , and it was not rendered stronger in the Upper Chamber ; nevertheless , it is a step in the direction of the English Reformation of Hi : nhy tun Eighth ' s time , and we must remember that its ellect is likely to be much more powerful . Opinion , aided by constitutional freedom and the circulation of the press , may give to nuked enactments a . hundred-fold the moral and practical ellect in Northern Italy , in 1855 , that would have been "riven to them even in Enurland three

      hundred years ago . The last part of the contingent has left ; Genoa , and the Government at Turin i . s busied in recruiting to supply the deficiency occasioned in its own army . When the vessels bearing the soldiers passed through the Straits of Messina , they were cheered by the resident subjects of Ei ; uj . > inani >

      the Second , one of the many signs of popular feeling in the Two Sicilies . The King is known to be Russian in his sympathies ; the people have some idea that the Western Powers may want them , should the hesitation of Austria convert the present contest into " a war of nationalities . " If Europe is agitated , America is not less so . The " Know-nothings" have become decidedly a power in the United States . One of their conventions has put forward a new epitome of their principles , " Americans shall rule America ; " there shall be " no North , no South , no East , no West ; " there shall be no sectarian interference

      with legislation or administration , but hostility to the Pope , and reform of the naturalisation laws . We have already explained how this movement arose , out of the endeavour of the Toman Catholics to encroach in the management of the free schools , followed up by the endeavour of the Irish emigrants to exercise an influence in the public affairs of the Union . Against this intcrfernnce the Know-nothing move is . a reaction ; but while the Yankees are . about it , they also propose to stop anti-slavery agitations and to moderate immigration of labour , which is beginning to tell upon the native-born Americans ; hence the proposal not to irrant naturalisation under twenty years '

      resilience . . But as usual with such bodies , particularly when they have grown fast , and work in a free country , the Know-nothings are getting tyrannical . A part of one of their committees Iatelv visited a convent school ; the members thrust themselves into every private corner , invaded the sick room of young girls , and bullied the nurses . The Irish who went to the U nited States as to a land of freedom find Yankee

      tyranny even worse than English . M ' - Darcy Mac Gek , who has sent home u letter on the subject , is not the first Irishman to raise the cry of oppression against ; " the S . ixon" on the western , -ide of thuAthmlie , and to advise Irishmen nut to emigrate , to America f . » r freedom-religious or political . He hints ( hat < ' annda is u pluco of -rcater toleration , althon-h under , tfiu royal flag

      of England . The Know-nothing party , however , is not strong enough to keep down the emigration from Europe . It . wns cheeked for a lime , but it has renewed ils stream in full force . The fact is , that-the fertile lands which are still unoccupied are a prize too rival , to be neglected either by native-born Americans or by industrious Europeans ; and there is no influence in tho Union which can act as a

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 2, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02061855/page/1/