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      TO OUR READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS . \ FIRE that destroyed the Office in which our -O . Journal was printed , explains the unusual appearance presented to our readers this week . The disaster happened early yesterday morningwithin twenty-four hours of our going to press ; and the work of thcjyeek , in the printing-office , has had to be accomplished in less than a day . We are-sure that not a word needs be added to obtain for any imperfections that may appear in the present number the indulgence of ' our-readers . It would indeed have been difficult for us to

      appear at all , if the disaster had not been for us an opportunity of testing the kindness and zeal of our mends . With a promptitude beyond mere trading considerations , our printers exerted themselves to prevent their calamity from becomingours , and they have been admirably seconded by their men . The same zeal in other -departments , animated by a hearty spirit of co-operation , has resulted in a combined effort , which compressed the labour of days into one .

      But our acknowledgments are most especially due to the Proprietor and the Editor of the Weekly News , who at once placed the news proofs of that journal completely at our disposal ; and if the discovery of copy happily rescued from the flames , of stray proofs , and of papers surviving in the short-hand , coupled with the reproduction of others totally lost , has enabled us to avoid encroaching far on the matter prepared for the columns of our contemporary , the unreserved generosity of the assistance tendered instantaneously does not merit less ample gratitude .

      We are confident that we shall not meet from our renders a less indulgent kindness than we have met on all hands under this sudden and severe calamity .

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      SEVERAL opportunities have occurred , by which , if they pleased , Ministers might havo niiulo the public understand the actual position of aifairs at Constantinople ; but the ° vul « nt desiro is to render aa meagre an account as possible , and to prevent the public * roin knowing more than it is absolutely impossible to conceal . The reason may bo that

      Ministers have very small intentions . " En # - Jan d , " saya Mr . Urquharfc , and it ia true , althoug h Mr . Urquhart saya it , " haw hmnonso power , and no policy ; ana her Ministers shrink . using her powor , and dread the responsibility of supplying her with a policy . " And lt may bo that their greatest anxiety is to conceal th « fact , that there is nothing to

      conceal . " He wishes to seem poor , " says Martial of the unhappy gentleman who affects poverty , " and he is poor . " It has been industriously represented , that the ships sent to Constantinople from the combined fleet at Besika bay are not half-a-dozen , but only four ; and that they are sent either to protect the Sultan against his subjects , or the British a , nd French subjects against outrage , or the Christians against the Mussulman population , which was expected to be very fanatical and furious , on the occasion of the Bairam . Certain

      students had been ardent in the manifestation of their Mussulman orthodoxy , and in petitioning for war ; that is the whole ground of the report , that the Mussulmans were about to revolt and depose the Suitan , in favour of his brother , the stirring Abd-ul-Assez . It has been discovered that the advance of four ships , although they are not six , and although they are not followed by the allied fleet , is regarded in Europe to have in reality a more

      energetic purpose , although they were only advanced to protect Christians , or some other limited interest . Europe cannot believe that England did not intend to signify that she would stand by her ally ; and the consequence is , that Europe gives England credit for an energy which her Ministers did not intend . She is decisive by mischance , and has the

      advantages of decision hy misadventure . — Writers who encourage an unnational spirit in the government and the people , exult over this good luck , which brings us the results of energy without the responsibilities ; and , it is said , that whatever may have been the motive in sending the four « hips , the result will bo to expedito negotiations and facilitate a conclusion .

      Certain of our Ministers havo been arrested in their autumnal tours by the ambitious town councillors , who pursue them with freedom of city or burgh , and with optimist addresses imputing to thorn the most patriotic principles at homo , and Cromwollian vigour abroad . It was expected probably , that by this eulogistic

      strain upon Ministers they might bo coorccd into accepting the praise , and in tho acceptance have at least implied Homo upocies of announcement on tho Bubjoct of tho day . No such luck . At Forth , Dingwall , and Invernesiv Mr . Gladstone oxpatiatos on froo-trado ; on the superseding of party by a combined Minietry , and tho calm condition of thia

      country ; on the general duty of England to protect the weak , who have not tile power to protect themselves ; but not a hint can hearer or reader gather from Mr . Gladstone ' s speech as to what Ministers are actually doing . He says , indeed , that Lord Aberdeen will always be found to have preserved peace , so far as it is consistent with honour ; a . general compliment which might be meant as much to pat Lord Aberdeen on the back ns U * inform

      the public . At Perth and Glasgow , the sturdy Scotch caught Lord Pahnerston , but caughfc him of course not sleeping ; for never was there : i Minister more wide awake . He replied in his usual unstudied manner , for a man of more unstudied eloquence never was found ; and yet never was there a , speaker who more perfectly knew all that

      passed his lips , all that remained within his teeth , and the effect of what he withheld as well as what he said . He expatiated with the utmost frankness on such subjects us Thames improvement ; lie put no reserve upon his discussion of foreign politics—at the time when he was Foreign Minister ; arid his audience must have gono away with tho idea that some how Lord Palmcrston had said

      something on tho state of foreign affairs ; and yet we defy them , or any reader of his speeches , to discover the faintest allusion to that subject which is exciting the most interest , and in which ho is tho most versed . At Cork the ardent Irish caught tho First Lord of tho Admiralty and his secretary , tho outspoken Sir Jam « s'Graham and elodashing and ingenious Ralph Osborn ; but not a word could they get from cithor as to instructions given to tho jfloet in Besika Bay or

      tho ships in tho Golden Horn . Lord Pahnerston com pliments LordClarondon , tho Foreign Minister , ' with all the diligence of a teacher bringing forward a timid pupil- Ho speak ** of him ' as an intelligent horseman addresses a timid horse , patting him on tho back and coaxing him . All that one can gathor from these ministerial allusions only serves to deepen tho obscurity which at present hangs over tho position of Minis to rs in tho liold of their mo . sk immediate action .

      The Emperor of Kuhsiii and tho Emporov of Austria havo mot at OliuiUz . Nor are they alone ; Lord Westmoreland has gono thoro in his capacity of knight in . somo Austrian order ; and thoao gttitoguiou havo nl « Q aasQiublod t <*

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      VOL . IV , No . 184 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 1 , 1853 T [ Peice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— / The Church ia Ipswich ........ 945 The Appeal against Cholera .... 949 Comte ' s Philosophy of the Sciences 951 j .-n "^ i . i . ooo / The Lawson Observatory ...... 945 Use of Nations to Statesmen .... 950 LordPalmerstonatPerth ^ ...... 9 ^ 8 The Birmingham Gaol Cruelties .. 945 The Graves of a City .......... 950 PORTFOLIOMr . Gladstone in the ^ North .... 939 A Convict Prison ,. ......... 945 Lord Clarendon believes in Spain The Black Philoeopher 955 The Lords of the Admiralty «» The « Working Classes .... 946 again ... ......... 950 ' Letters of a Vagabond . 95 s Cork ........ .............. 940 A Wife .... 946 General Haug ' s Australian Expe-Margaret Cumnnghame in Jail .. 940 Qreat pire __ Tj esfcruction of a dition .. T .. 951 THE ARTSletters from Paris ... . 940 Printing Office .............. 946 A Judge's Idea of a Judge 951 Brooke as Virginius . 957 Continental ^ otes ^ ............ ^ . y * i Criminal Record ........ 956 OPEN COUNCIL— The Discipline of Art . .... 95 * SSSSb 2 S 2 ?^?^ . ! S Miscellaneous ,... 947 The Mormonites in Somersetshire 951 India —The Cape —Australia— PUBLIC AFFAIRS- The Sunday Newspaper—its Uses Births , Marriages , and Deaths .. 953 China ..... ; .. ............ 943 Beports of a Split in the Cabinet 948 to the Workmen ............ 952 The Great Workshop of Dublin .. 943 Tho Protestant Alliance and the LITERATURE— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSTo New York in Six Days ...... 945 Friends of Italy .... . 94 S AlexanderPopo and tho 18 th Cen- City Intelligence ; Markets , Adver-The Government of the Priests .. 945 Secret Diplomacy .............. 949 | tury ........... ....... 953 tisernents , &c / 95 S-360

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity— the noble endeavour to throw dewn all the "barriers exacted 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 o " bject—the fxee development of our spiritual nature . "—ETumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2006/page/1/