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      VOL . IV . No . 157 . 1 SATURDAY , MARCH 26 , 1853 . [ Price Sixpence

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      / CHRISTENDOM is now revenging on the \ J humble Turk the insults which the Saracen cast over Europe . Each potentate in succession sends his representative to kick the dying lion . The last of these official insulters has accomplished his mission with a studied elaboration that cannot be without a practical object . The Grand Vizier is surrounded by his officers in their most splendid costume ; he has already succumbed to the Frenchman and to the Austrian , and gorgeous robes and jewelled sabres glare and glitter in the fullness of Saracenic splendour . In the midst of

      the Council , announced by the shouts of a mob of mongrel Greeks , enters an old man in a paletot with a shabby round hat , and walking-stick , and an insolent disregard of the splendours which others affect : it is Menzschikoff come to tell the Sultan how he must treat his Christian subjects ; how the Emperor of Russia is their true protector . The officers of the Sultan are in trepidation ; his foreign Minister resigns ; he nsks the protection of the British" fleet , and the Charge d'Affaires , who is locnm tenens at the time for the Ambassador , sends to summon it , but it will not come . Admiral Dundas has not sufficient orders , and he

      keeps aloof .- The French fleet , however , is on its way , and Turkey is once more in the midst of that crisis which recurs so repeatedly , which grows so much more serious each time , and the repetition of which seems intended to familiarise Europe with the idea of Turkish ruin , until at last it shall be effected suddenly , yet without shock to the moral feeling of the world .

      Foreign affairs are almost without interest , except the attention concentrated on Turkey . France is singularly quiet , and for that reason perhaps we are the ' luiore inclined to note the camp at St . Omor , yrtlijfite several regiments will be stationed close to ' ^ e | gium , and will be easily augmented by the sollfiers who hang about that highly military district . We also mark the presence of Lord Malmesbury at a review , and at a tGte-a-tete dinner with the Emperor . Could their conversation have been overheard ! Was it all statesmanship V—or cookery V—or " life ?"

      In home affairs , too , the principal subject of attention turns upon a distant province of the empire—the empire province of India . Ministers , it is well known , have somewhat shifted their

      ground , and do not maintain that obstinate refusal to listen to claims for further time , which they seemed disposed to refuse , not long since . The East India House , indeed , does not appear at all impressed with the same sense of political necessity which has worked upon Ministers . The awakened public feeling in India , has found its representative , in the awakened public feeling of England ; we shall inevitably have an Indian discussion , and a measure more liberal than was intended a few weeks since ; but Sir James Weir Hogg , and the Honourable Court of Proprietors , are discussing the details of their present system , as if it were all to go on for ever , and only to be tinkered by themselves . Two new members will enter Parliament on its re-assembling . Bridgenorth has elected , not a butler of the Whitmore family , but a banker of the village , Mr . Pritchard , " a conservative in every sense of the word : " a phrase which may mean anything . And Blackburn rejecting Mr . Hornby— " a friend of the working-man , " was for short time , " and claimed to sit in Parliament on the score of the benefits which he had conferred , by promoting railways and work in the neighbourhood of the town—has elected , after a severe straggle and disgraceful rioting , a more tried friend , in one of the Fieldens ; thus obtaining a " short-time" member , without sacrificing political principle . The London Court of Common Council has appointed a Committee to prepare a Bill for extending the City franchise to a 10 / . occupancy . The Bill is simultaneous with very sweeping proceedings to compel the residents to take up their freedom and pay the 51 . fine . There is no reason to suppose that the citizens will succumb to this coercion any more readily than they have before , but it is probable that the interminable contest between the Corporation and its lieges will be superseded by the reform which the Council is now commencing . The rise of wages , although it is partially arrested in some trades by the effect which it has caused in cheeking sales , is extending in the different branches of working industry . The porters of Liverpool , the carpenters of Stonehouse , the agricultural labourers in Oxfordshire , lire imitating the labourers and carpenters of Wiltshire . In most places these strikes uro likely to succeed , except in trades where the recent prosperity is for a time arrested , as at

      Manchester , where the manufactories are now on short time , partly because of doubts as to the ultimate settlement of the price of raw cotton , impeded sales , and partly because the continued demands of the working hands will be conveniently met by a little " play . " The manufactories , however , no longer have the same supply of Irish labourers to fall back upon . The drain still continues increasing , from Ireland to America , as the emigration to Australia still continues from England . The manufacturer now has to struggle between the chaffering of the consumer and the claims of the working man . The railway managers have at last been obliged to attend to the suggestions for diminishing accidents , and at a general meeting they have selected one particular plan for preventing one particular class of accidents—those which arise from the want of communication between the guard and the driver . They have adopted a plan which will enable the guard to ring a bell near the driver , or to beat a drum . The new plan , of course , cannot be a panacea , but it is something to find that railway managers are really turning their attention to the uncommercial object of saving passengers' lives . The assizes have possessed fully the usual amount of interest . One trial in which several of our readers will feel anxiety , has ended favourably . The Frenchmen who were brought before an English jury for participation in a duel , which was chiefly provoked by the man who forfeited bis life , have been let off with what is really a very lenient sentence—two months imprisonment , besides the detention before trial . The proceedings at Kingston removed all doubt as to the fairness of the duel . Barthelerny and his fellow prisoners left the court without auiy stain on their character . The sudden flooding of the newspapers with terrible stories of murder and infanticide , impresses the mind with an idea that there is an unusual shadow of crime over the country at this moment . The crime is perennial ; its exhibition is periodical ; and because we see it with peculiar distinctness at this moment , we think that it is peculiarly excessive . We observe that in Somersetshire Mr . Miles announces with uncomfortable amazement , the unchecked progress of crime , but the statistics do not support his apprehensions . It is increased , and it has diminished ; it has perhaps changed in character . At the present day , undoubtedly , the

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      " The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of . f ^^ te ^ tions of'BelSon to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and bv setting aside gs ^ motions ° ^ * W ° ^ Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one greet object—the free development 01 om spiritual nature . "—JSumboldt's Cosmos .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— Another Glimpse of the Diggings ... 294 Abolitionist Kite-Flying " " 2 " PAGH Fire at Windsor Castle 295 The Bow-street Decision on the Un-Xetters from Paris 290 Journal of Railway " Accidents" ... 295 stamped Press 300 Continental Notes 291 The Bow-street Judgment 295 Oxford University Commission . IV . 300 ' Election Matters 292 Working of the Soup Kitchen 295 Working-Class Questions . 1 301 Manchester on Indian Government 292 Miscellaneous 296 Sunday Heform Petitions 301 The " Uncle Tom" Address 293 Health of London during the Week 296 Mr . Koebuck ' s Health 301 Tacts for Stafford House 293 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 296 OPEN COUNCIL ' KL : ! ^ .. * ^ ? . . * T 293 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Sunday Reform -.... 301 Abd-el-Kader and Lord London- Consequences of the Fall of Turkey 297 The Spirit-Rapping Phenomena 302 derry 294 , Practical Government 297 . A Test for the Spirit-Rappers 302 The Egham Duel .... ! .. 294 The Cratera of Society 298 >' . LITpRATURE _ ASadStory 294 The Friends of Christianity 298 "'"" ' "" ¦' «* . *• o / v * The Law of " Divorce : Suggested A Municipality for the Metropolis ... 299 Letters on Spontaneous Combustion 303 Change 3 . „ . 294 The Sunday Heform , Agitation 299 Books on our Table **>

      Alexander s . Foems <™» Publications and Republieation 3 ... 307 PORTFOLIOLetters of a Vagabond 308 The Abiding and the Fleeting 309 THE ARTSPassion Week Amusements 309 Birmingham to Ahmedabad 310 Burford ' s Panorama of Granada ... 310 The Royal Italian Opera—Seventh Season , 1853 310 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c 311-312

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1979/page/1/