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    lid i THE WAR IN THE NORTH . J ^ A . STTPPiiBMEKTAii war-estimate has been laid ibefore Parliament in addition to the votes , inching to something like 20 , 000 , 000 / . and ithe' loan of 16 , OOO > O 0 OJ . on war account . < * Cbe addition is not very agreeable , but it is Enough to make the tax-paying public ask -whether at last Lord Pax . siebston ' s G-overnctnenfc has determinedfrupon if course of action t'tfhieli is calculated to attain the objects of ithe war in the shortest time . Hitherto his oOovemment has suffered from equivocal eoncduct as well as language , and we want lan-~& 6 age as well as conduct that is tmequivocal . c § ir WixtiAM Moii ^ swoBTH spoke stoutly on the subject of the war , and gave his valunble Toucher for Lord Palmebbtow ' s sin-Ajerity and energy . A correspondent of the j & ail y News calls to mind that in June , 1854 , j ? I * drd John Rtjssei , i » spoke grandiloquently i ' ati Guildhall of making no insufficient ]> eace , tand then in April last , when he was drifting into approval of the Austrian equipoise , he Iwas acting in favour of a peace which Lord GPaxmebston" pronounced to be neither safe . lior honourable . In the same way , Mr . G-lajd-^ 8 ? t owb , when in and out of office , may be > 5 eontrasted : in office he was for the vigorous prosecution of the war , out of office he sneered fiat the dislike of the equipoise plan . Lord : John Russei / l was in favour of the equipoise - in Vienna , against it in Downing-street ; Mr . ' Gladstone was against the equipoise in Downing-street , in favour of it below the gangway . Are there anymore of these in-• compatibilities to be discovered ? Lord Pax-. MBUBton ' s Cabinet has had its greatest ¦ traakness in embodied vacillation , which made cthe Cabinet appear to oscillate between ^ Bussellism , Gladstoneism , and Clarendonism ruL-PAj . MEB 8 TON Premier over them all . We shall know that the Government has adopted ifk positive course—that the incompatibilities \ $ iave been absolutely weeded out—when we isee that its conduct is in harmony with its ^ d rda . How far , then , is the Government -pt ^ pared to act upon the larger opportunities ttfnd necessities that call for a new course , > abtd a new declaration of that course ? o . UWo have several times had occasion to - 'taiake a survey of the Continent with refer--ence to tho alliances available in lieu of that ?> which we have , perhaps , happily lost—the ^ Austr ian alliance . The resources that exist * for us , however , are no longer a matter of inference to those that watch closely , but they eglare upon the most careless reader of every « 3 aily paper . To say nothing of Hungary or * the provinces included in Austria proper , or ifche provinces most closely annexed to the -Austrian Crown , Italy , Germany , and the ^ Scandinavian kingdoms offer material ground a * 6 work upon , much of it quite ready for { ^ Statesmen ' s handling . ' > 'l 'The state of Italy is familiar to our readers ; but before wo proceed further , wo must P refer to the eloquent letter by Joseph oOMjlzzini , which has been published in the uZtofy JSTcios . Mazzini renews his complaint <* h « fc the King of Sardinia was bent on the ( C reation of a Piedmontese kingdom of the f north and not on tho creation of an Italian i nation . Tho whole drift of his letter is , that the policy now should bo to constitute Italy " 'republic one and indivisible . Many of those 'W ho have acted with Mazzini , ami whe Wtill retain , as we do , sincere respect foi hia character and affection for his person . |

    protest in word and act , as we do , against his endeavour to anticipate the revolution of Italy , and to reject the possible in favour of that which , if not impossible , is out of sight . The kingdom of Piedmont is established on bases that have secured the independence of that limited realm against powerful foreign neighbours ; the people have been called out to take a large share in the government , and have placed the liberties of the ' nation in a course for rapid—very rapid—and steady development . Blessed , we say , would be every part of Italy if it could be placed upon a level with that half of the north . What , then , is the actual state of the other provinces ? Naples sympathising with Russia , avowing her resolve to follow Austria , causing her police to arrest her own soldiers , refuses to the British export of grain to the Crimea . In other words , she arrays herself on the side of Russia and of Austria against the Western Power , her own people , and her own army . The state of Rome is anarchy . Tuscany waits upon Austria , and oppresses her own subjects , who find refuge and livelihood in Piedmont . In Austrian Italy the Government is summoning the Central Congregations , a body which possesses consultative powers for the communication between the people and the Government , and some functions in the distribution of the taxes demanded by the Imperial authority . The summoning of the body is nothing more than to assist harassed Baron Bbuck in raising money , and to conciliate the Lombardo-Venetians . The Lombardo-Venetian railway scheme proves a failure . I At that very time the Milanese Government 'is sequestrating the property of Milanese now residing and naturalised in Piedmont , to : make good balances removed from the Ira-; perial chest during the revolution ; a spolia-! tiou in breach of a treaty by which Sardinia stipulates to pay 3 , 000 , 000 ? . sterling for damage inflicted by the war on Austria . ! The disaffection in Germany is not so irritated , but perhaps it is more formidable . The 1 Germans are a soberer people , but they are acting on convictions firmly established before 1848 . The people of Hanover resist the Tetraction of liberties conceded to them by their Government during the disturbances ! of that season ; the people of Wurtemberg are urging their Government to claim the constitution for all the German States which ! was promised in 1 S 48 . There is no prospect ! that these claims will be conceded . In the meanwhile , the German Governments cannot I conceal their weakness . They truckle to '¦ Prussia , they truckle to Austria ; they pro-! mise to obey the dictates of the two German ! Powers , that they shall keep their forces in a ' I state of preparation for war , and nevertheless , ' they are disbanding those forces in order to ! recruit local industry and to save expense . Tho minor Governments confess by their acts that they have not a firm hold over their own resources , and that they cannot fulfil their obedience to the two great Powers whom they dare not openly disobey . The sentiments of the Prussian people we know ; tho Schloswig-Holsteiuers are recovering the hopes which were crushed by the action of ; our Government in 18 * 9 ; we need not call to mind Hesse-CaaBel ; we need Bay , nothing about the state of feeling in Bohemia , or the Saxon States ; we need not say much , about the sympathy of the Danes for const 1-. tutional freedom it * their national jealousies could bo assuaged . Tho Swedes are with ; us though the Government vacillates . The refusal of an American ship to pay the i State duos claimed by Hanover on the Elbe , » is only the prelude to carrying out tho noti-• iioation which Denmark has already received , that the United States will no longer pay

    the ^ Sfi ^ tf ^^ f ^^^^^^^ with no money to spare , ; 4 tfi asking' ^ Russia to procure from her some compensationr for the loss of a revenue secured to heir under the European system . Ifor Denmark cannot fight the American republic ^ and Russia will not declare war against President Piebce for the sake of the Sound dues . Denmark can have no claim upon the Western Powers , and she must submit to see her exactions reduced , confessing that there is no power to sustain her authority . The JGbrman Governments are combining together as mucli against their own peoples as against tW Western Powers . They are allying themselves with Russia , leaving their own peoples to be the allies of the West if the West choose . Our Government has entered upon some new activity of a nature not yet explained . The outward signs , however , are such as to command attention . In the House of Commons , the tinder-Secretary for War has stated that the Government has abandoned- its former intention of not admitting Italians to the Foreign Legion , and that Italians will be so admitted . Poles and natives of Northern Germany have never been excluded . The dep & t is on the island of Heligoland , which is about to be fortified-r-at once the Malta and Gibraltar of the German Ocean . It is not certain that the destination of all the corps thus formed witt 4 > e the Crimea . jNW these preparations might , be ^ made , there might be this expenditure in recruiting men , in building fortification ^ and In parading camps , ^ fleets ; and castles ^ only to satisfy-the public mind . All the preparations might be employed by some Gladstone of the Cabinet only for a " moral" purpose , to extort from Russia exactly what Russia is willing to give ; or a Johjt BuffSELi might use the fleets and force as the material means for establishing the equipoise which has been talked of Tor the new engines may De intended for use . Is it so , or not ? If they are intended for use , upon what field ? The danger to Europe lies , not only in the preponderance of Russia m the Black Sea , but fh her preponderance in the Baltic , and 011 the land frontier . We have natural allies as much in one part as in the other . If the engines are intended for use ,-we must see them employed before very long ; but , even before that day , the Government might anticipate some of the advantages to be calculated from the use of the engines , by declaring the purpose to which they are destined ; might , at all events , call out all the confidence of _ a nation only anxious to give credit to its executh'e . It might instantly realise those great advantages by the simple declaration that , after the conduct of its German allies , it will henceforward , in the formation of its alliances , be bound by military considerations alone .

    Vulgar Impatience Of Adulteration. Just ...

    VULGAR IMPATIENCE OF ADULTERATION . Just a year ago the subject of adulteration was rife iu public notice . We then had had tho Lancet performing its invaluable services by exposing the actual quality of gooda sold and used for fpod , drinks and medicaments , & e . We then pointed out how the worst adulteration was not that limited to jellies and pickles , apices arid preserjoa , but that the very body of the disease must bo found in society itself . In nine cases out of ten , wo then said , * the customer . afco adulterates ; the butcher , tho baker of society , the whole round of tmdeamen—the Jint aw , tailor , apothecary , ploughboy thiet , each StJSwSiSs

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081855/page/9/