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      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness i . 3 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 tne distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Hainan race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . " —Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      NFwqoFTHEWEEK- p * . oe Obituary 787 Mr . Bowyer and our Popularity Barbaric Pearls 797 ,. ' ,. " ,. „ , Miscellaneous 787 in Italy 793 Romaic and Modern Greek 798 Tho War ' 783 Postscript 78 S OPEN COUNCIL- Books cm our Table 793 ' Sir ° Janies " Brooke" !!!! " !!!!!!' . !!!!!!! " 781 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Italy for the Italians 794 THE ARTSAccident at Cremom © Gardens 784 The Queen ' s Visit to France 78 S De Quibusdam Rebus 7 ' Ji French Criticism on English The Slow-Poisoning Case 7 H 5 , Survey or the War ... 7-SU literature- Pictures 798 Our Civilisation 785 The Policy of . Suspicion 780 LiiMAiuttt The Reign of Terror and Folly in Our Military Resources 790 Summary < 9 o Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 801 Italy 7 S 6 The Limited Liability Act 791 The Novels of M . Hendrik Con- -. ^ -.. u .- r . ^ . * . „ ,-,- « . „< - Mademoiselle Doudet 7 SG The Plague of Rhetoric 791 ' science 793 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSContinental Notes .. 7 S 0 " More Honoured in thelJreach" 792 ] Adventures in the Province of j City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Naval aiid Military News 737 ' The Independent States of India 7 !) : ! ' Assam 798 i verbiseinents , & c 801-804

      Vol. Vi. No. 282.] Saturday, August 18, ...

      VOL . VI . No . 282 . ] SATURDAY , AUGUST 18 , 1855 . Price {^^^ . yggggjgg- /

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      G REAT news has come to us from both ends of the war , north and south , and if the officials make the most of the intelligence and of its first effect , it must be admitted that either one of the successes is a satisfaction , and that Loth together they cannot be without a considerable moral e fleet , upon the enemy , as well as upon our own force . Sweaborg has been mauled ; and the Russians , attempting a grand attack upon the Tchernaya , have been driven back with serious loss—these two considerable blows being , us our readers already know , connected with a chain of similar successes that must have intlictcd each day a heavier burden on the spirit of the foe . In the Crimea the Russians had continued their efforts ' . It was only a day before we heard of the grand battle that we had a despatch from General Simpson announcing a sortie of the Russians in force : the attacking party , consisting of ' 2000 men , with strong reserves , made their approach with shouting and bugling , as if they expected to frighten the A Hie . * , but they were repulsed as usual . Meanwhile , the lleet in the Sea of Azof had continued a progressive consuinp 4 ion of their food and forage , -which must have mnde them feel the I ' ritish attack in the stomach , the tenderest of all organs in the besieged . It may be true that reinforcements have arrived byway of Perekop—reinforcements for an ill-fed garrison being the most unwelcome uf guests ; and while we know well that the Russians can bring supplies by way of Perekop from the North , with great trouble and slowness , we have also had evidence that they depend for thfltr supplies upon the Sea of Azof , where the English have made so effective a razzia . "NVo arc now in a position to appreciate the great success of the Tchornaya . The reports are at present extrvmely slight ; only such as the telegraph can transmit , and only in part uflicial . Tho facts appear to be these : —The Kussians approached in si force of AO . OOO or <> 0 , < Hi <> men , under our old friend Liimiandi , to attack tho position of tho French and Sardinians on the Tchernaya . Tho light lasted three hours , and then the enemy gave way , with a loss , it is rudely estimated , of some thousands of men , leaving sumo hundreds of prisoners in tho hands of the Allies . A reverse of this kind must bo far worse than the old repulses upon the same ground , or at

      Jhilaklava ; for the Russians have evidently been exhausting their resources , and we know that their confidence must be reduced to a low ebb . The effort , desperate as it was , shows that they are conscious of weakness . These events arc the preface to a yet greater movement : by a despatch from General Simpson , received last evening , we learn that the bombardment of Sebastopol was to recommence yesterday , and no doubt on a grand scale , with approaches pushed far closer than when the impatience oi' a too impetuous French General spoiled the last storming arrangement- ' . The " destruction" of Sweaborg remains to be explained . It may be truer than upon second thoughts we supposed , for second thoughts are not always so correct as the first . The position of the fortress is well known . As is so common on the Baltic coasts , a deep indentation is closed hv a chain of shoals and small islands ; towards the north-eastern corner of the outlet the islands are hig her , the channel is deeper ; and here , in fact , is the portal hy which alone ships can gain admittance . As the islands stretch to the south-west they become smaller , and the water more shallow ; and just within tho line is the town of llel . sinofors , which g ives its name to the hiirbuur . The fortress of Sweabnrg may be said to be placed upon several of the islands forming the portal . It consisted of cascmated batteries with outworks , arsenal , barracks , & c \ The English fleet approached near enough to pour a destructive fire into the fortifications without receiving fire in return . A conflagration began very soon , and it is reported that the whole of the arsenal and barracks have been destroyed , while the port has suffered very severely . ^ Such are the facts ; whether these results really amount to tho destruction of Sweaborg we have yet to learn . It is probable that tho fortress has been rendered unavailing , and if no further blow has been struck this season , invaluable would have been these two recent successes to adorn the royal speech . Hut it had to be delivered without them . The Sweaborg brilliancy came out twenty-four hours too lute ; the Tchernaya felicitations of l'Yiduy- evening were not available on Tuesday at noon , when Parliament was dismissed for tho recess by a royal speech in the third person , through tho mouth of a commissioner , praising noble Peers and faithful Commons for what they had done . We reviewed tho session lust week ,

      . and need not repeat our review now . The speech made its chief boast of those measures which we pointed at as fertile in future benefits—Limited Liability , the Metropolitan Government Bill , the Australian self-government Bills , & c , with a sturdy boast about the abolition of the Newspaper Stamp . The Speech , indeed , tells us that " the duty on newspapers" lias been abolished , forgetting that the heaviest of all duties which we have to undergo is the duty on the very paper upon which we print , and which newspapers consume much more largely than ordinary books . The Speech also boasted of the successes in the war , and of the French alliance ; it regretted the failure of the conferences at Vienna ; it thanked the Commons for their contributions to the war exchequer , and to the beneficial legislation of the country . It was silent , of course , i * especting tho recent exhibitions of our statesmen ; though if the Crown had any really supreme function , howjust mig ht have boon the censure upon the unfaithful servant of the Sovereign who went to Vienna to perform a set task , and let the adverse partv sec that he would have yielded what he was told not to yield ; while others , yet worse , after advising the Queen to enter upon a war , have made studied orations to encourage the enemy , dishearten their countrymen , an 1 embarrass the Government in mustering the means for warfare . The Commons and Lords have gone to the Moors , to the Exposition , to the Continent , au diiihle—that is , in the metaphorical senseleaving undone about as many of the things they attempted to do or as they really executed ;¦ and the public is half inclined to think that the recess is as valuable as the session . We always think so in August ; in February we incline to the opposite opinion . Before the House of Commons , however , wore summoned to the House of Lords in order to hear the speech , General Evans occupied the vacant minutes by a survey of the resources still unused which might increase the men at our command-He particularly recommended that reg iments oa colonial service should be sent to tho Crimea , and bo replaced either with militiamen , or m some ^^^^^ cases with detachments from the Indian army ^^ Q ^ Irregular Hindu cavalry , ho says , won d c %% «^ 4 ^^} / * the border of the Capo colony in South ^ WS ^ Pm 5 better than regular troops , and would s ° ^ f @ < f ^ li £ seven battalions of veteran * at the Capo ™* 3 J S ^ 5 ^ 3 g vice in the Crimea . He also recommended Jjpl ^^^ y ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 18, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18081855/page/1/