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      n . »» n . cuie » . * , » Execution of Emmanuel Barthe- Dark Deeds 85 Literary Fables . 91 NEWS OF THE WEEK— * ao » lemy _ 81 Postal Service in Australia 86 Tour Novels 93 Imperial Parliament 74 Melbourne 81 "A Stranger" in Parliament 86 ThoWar 75 The Crystal Palace 82 - « ,, * ,,. „ THE ARTSThe Crimean Medal ... 77 Mr . Lucas's Mission to Borne ... 82 OPcN COUNCIL- Olympic 92 Arrival of thei Retribution 77 The Public Health 82 Non mi Ricordo- 88 tossof Life in St . James ' s Park ... 77 'Varieties .... 82 Capital Punishment 88 — Diplomatic Notes 77 Miscellaneous 83 * . "The Four Points" .... 78 Postscript 83 LITERATURE— Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 92 Peace Soiree at Manchester 78 p ublic affairs— o , m . ~ , rq Continental Notes 79 ¦* " » " «*?*¦ , / , - » , w ^ « % 4 ^ w * A » 0 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSffi ^ = i m ^»^ = i k ™ £ ™ 5 : ¦ « w sbr ~ £ * , «

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      fllHE real session has scarcely commenced before JL the Aberdeen Ministry is run down under thB tragic honesty of Mr . Roebuck ; Lord John Russell assisting in the process , tripping up his colleagues behind . The track of events along the surface is pretty smooth , however dark and intricate the unseen workings may be . Simply narrated , the case is this . Parliament resumed its

      sittings on Tuesday , and everybody expected a series of slashing debates—except Lord John BussELt . It was on Tuesday that Mr . Roebuck . gave notice that on Thursday he should move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol r and the conduct of the departments whose duty it is to minister to the wants of the army . Lord Eixenborough , Mr . Dkummond , and Mr . Adaib gave similar

      notices . Lord John , who has shared hitherto ' all the doings of the Coalition , suddenly professed to feel dismayed ; his " civil valour" departed from him—or his uncivil astuteness got the better of it ; and he sent in his resignation . The next day Ministers took counc il , and Lord Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen . The process was repeated on Thursday ; while Mr . Hayteb in the House of Commons , and ' Duke of Newcastle in the House of Lords , officially announced that Lord John ' s resignation had been accepted by the

      Queen . There was nothing for i t but to adjourn ; and with an air of confidence , to request Mr . Roebuck to wait until Friday . But the Opposition , who had waited for the effect of Mr . Roebuck ' s bombshell , now struck in to master the situation . Lord Ltndhubst gave notice of a resolution , the terms of which amount to a heavy censure on the Government . Mr . Roebuck may truly say , Veni > vidi , vici . At the aspect of his motion the strong Russell resigns , and the Cabinet—shall we sayfalls to pieces .

      When made , Lord John ' s explanation amounted to this—that ho had disapproved of the conduct of the War Department , had wished to hand the Secretaryships of and at War to Lord Pax .-merston ; that he was shocked by the statements in the Times , and while soldiers in the Crimea were dying at the rate of ninety or a hundred a day , ho ctmld not conscientiously resist Mr . Roebuck ' s motion , and so he resigned . Which , on his present showing , observed Lord Palmbbbxqn , Lord Joun . ought to havo don © months ago . It

      is surmised that Lord John ' s idea will be adopted , and that some changes will take place within the Ministry , but that the defection of vthe noble member for London will not break up the Cabinet . Mr . Roebuck proceeds with his motion , but is arrested in limine by his own sad defection of health , and Ministers are left without their Lord President or their opponent ! The Jbills which _ Sir Marylebone Haxl introduced to amend the Health and Nuisance Acts look like an improvement . The Nuisance Act

      is rendered more stringent , in order to force local officers to do that in a ll parts of the country which Mr . John Simon has succeeded in doing in the City . The other bill continues the existing Board of Health . It abolishes the present mode of extending the jurisdiction of the Health Act by means of local acts obtained on petition from each district spontaneously ; substituting a simple vote of the inhabitants , in public meeting

      or at poU , for that cumbrous process pf annual legislation . And it leaves much more to the administration of the local bodies . Whether the people of this country have really made up their mind 3 to be corporately clean , we have 3 r et to ascertain . They refused to be so on the dictate of Edwin Cha » wick , C . B ., but possibly they may consent on the conciliatory showing of Sir Marylebone Haix .

      While the most conspicuous of our journals is declaring that the army in the Crimea is gradually decaying at such a rate , that " it will have ceased to exist by the 15 th of March , " the advices from the spot report the continual arrival of reinforcements , ammunitions , and stores . And while General Oanbobekt is said to have reported to his own Government that the disorganised English army , however gallant in spirit , is a burden rather

      than a support , he has issued to his own soldiers an address promising them that , in a short time , his body shall bo their flag to lead them to the breach of Sebastopol . Wo liavo already stated that Omar Pacha had been consulting with the French and English leaders apparently some combined plan of action , including the engagement of the external army as well as attacks upon the town . These few sentences constitute tho intelligence from tho Crimea .

      We acorn rapidly to be drifting to the day when tho Crimea will be only a secondary and subordinate part of tho field of war . All tho Powers have been , at diplomacy , and © very ono of them , except Prussia , writes in , a manner fatal to tho

      idea of renewed peace ; and we may say that the pacifies of Prussia are more fatal to peace than the most out-spoken arrogance of the Czar . The correspondence which is current in the papers this week , may be said to breathe a spirit of defiance ; even Prussia herself negatively takes that tone . We have already had the subject of these despatches so far as the feeble reflex of brave newsmongers could convey it ; but it is in the expression , in the tone of the whole , that the real force will lie . Austria calls upon Prussia to do her duty , if _ not under the Treaty of December 2 , under

      that of April 20 , an & 4 o stand prepared with her mobilised forces for the defence of territory pertaining to German Governments . M . MANXEurPET replies , that there is no danger of attack from Russia , who is sincere in the love of peace ; that the casus contemplated by the Treaty of April 20 has not arisen ; and that , excluded from the Conference to interpret the Four Points , Prussia ha s no interest or part in the existing stage of the Eastern Questionr addressed to the German Governments generally , calling upon them to do their duty , and showing that Prussia stood self-excluded from the

      Conference . The question thus raised will have to be decided by the meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine . Even if the entire Diet should not adopt the course proposed , constituent members of that body might do so ; but the present signs lead to the anticipation that a majority favourable to the mobilisation wi ll prevail in tho federal body . If the Mecklenburgs , much bepraised by Russia , faithfully adhere to tho policy of Prussia , Bavaria is already mobilising her guard , and others of the German States appear likely enough

      to follow tho example already set by Piedmont , who has so handsomely placed 15 , of her army at the disposal of the Allies . Russia herself raises her voice in that despatch to Baron Budbebg , tho Russian Minister at Berlin , in which the Mecklenburgs are praised : tho despatch proclaims that tho policy of Austria is ono calculated to involve the whole of Europe in tho struggle . And Franco makes her appearance on tho diplomatic stage by

      M . Dkouyn » e Liiuys , who may be said to put in hor answer to Prussia , convicting that important Power of self-oxclueion , and contrasting her mean and treacherous conduct with tho frank and straightforward conduct of Austria . Tho despatch of M . Dbouxn » e Lnuxa breathes nothing but war , and ho says that our Government is at one with thoso of Austria and FrAttce . ** War / war ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/1/