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      LORD JOHN * RUSSELL has again taken his seat in Parliament as Meniber for the City of Licmdon , as Cabinet Minister , aad as leader of the House of Commons . Sir George Grey " has been gazetted as one of . her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; the Colonial Office has seen the departure of its late occupant a . nd the arrival of ita new one ; the Duke of Newcastle is enabled to concentrate his energies on "war business alone , aad the Ministerial crisis , we presume , is over .

      Lord John Russell met with no opposition at the electioa bn / Wlednesday . Mr . Urqahart had been rousing public attention to the appeia-ance of " connivance" with oar apparent enemy Russiafcliat old story which Mr . Urquhart has been trying to make the English people believe for eighteen years , and -which has been half adopted by the Tory Opposition , in OTder to bave something to say against Ministers . Mr . Urquhart , however .

      found few people to stand by him , excepting gentlemen belonging to an association intended , we imagine , for a totally different purpose . He was promised a proposer on the day of nomination , and he has written to > the papers to say tliat it was not he who caused the failure , —he was there on the platform ready to speak if he had had a right ; Imt his proposer had " levanted . " Lord John Russell ' s re-election , therefore , sank into a

      matter of form . He abstained , as Ha proposer and seconder did , from discussing those domestic questions of improvement , which , he said , " have been neglected rather than debated , and had been withdrawn in deference to general feeling rather than resisted by tlie Opposition . " Ho spoke solely of the war - but on this point he did toll something that may bo regarded as news . He stated his belief that the war against Russia has become one by the Five Powers , instead of tlio two or

      rather three Powers , and he declares that the war will be prosecuted until some cession 1 ms been obtained from Russia which will prevent her renewing invasion in future . The Times indicates that that cession might be not only tlio evacuation of the Principalities , but the dismantling of Sebaatopot , the surrender of the Mack Sea fleet , and the relinquishnacnt of the Crimea . Lord John Russell , however , distinctly affirmed that Ministers have not yet resoKcd , and if they had , would not state , what are the terms which they

      expect to make—terms which must be regulated lby the fortune of war , and by the concuff erica of fillies , especially of France . In all this Lord John aaid nothing more , and , we may say , nothing less , than quite consists with common sense . He could not be expected to make greater revelations , but . bis assurances are something towards the satisfaction of the public curiosity .

      There is one continually increasing guarantee for the honesty of Austria —namely , t ! ia , t her « nemy-ally is manifestly losing ground on the ? seat of war fare . We have reports from Silistria a . nd the surrounding region down to tb < j , 8 th of June ; at that time , not only did Silistria continue to hold out , but the sorties that have been

      obscurely reported by the electric telegraph , And which are , perhaps , in some degree exaggerated in the Turkish accounts , must , nevertheless , have been very successful . We may ' * allow for Oriental grandeur" in the numbers of the killed and wounded ; but it is evident that the Russians

      have been slaughtered by wholesale , —their mines filled up , counter-min . &s exploded , and their whole position rendered fatal , if not untenable . Twentytwo transports had arrived at Varna with the allied forces . On the left bank of the Danube the Turks had made good their advance a . s far * the Aluta , with signal victories of a skirmishing character : but the whole effect of these

      movements in advance is confessed in the retrograde movement of Prince Paskiewitsch , who , sick with Dobrudscba fever and disappointment , Tetires to Jassy , there establishing his head-quarters and fortifying the place . It was for a time supposed that this movement was made in deference to the < lem . and of Austria , and that it was preparatory to the evacuation of the Principalities ; but the mo > 3 t credible report is , that the Russian Government has actually refused compliance with tlio demand of Austria . This was to bo expected . To yield that which would

      satisfy the Western Powers , -would bo a a net of humiliation which Russia will not make , until she shall have learnt wisdom b _ y much more suffering than she has yet undergone . Perhaps Nicholas will never live to make that signal act of retractation . On the other hand , the Germain Powers are not likely to falter at present , since Turkey and her allies nre making such well-established advances , and Russia is showing such manifest si gns of woaknoss . After making themselves hated for their tyranny amongst the Moldavians and the Wallachians , the Russians nre now earning the

      contempt of those peoples by a leniency to which they have resorted as their stWng ^ -declines Austria will hare ho sympathy for the weakness © f Russia , whatever she might have ifel ^ for ihe success and vigour . 6 f her protecting 4 % V We lad always Tield that Austria would be honest la ^ proportion to the compulsion put jipou her , and -to the hartnbny of her interests with her honesty . At present yr ' z have all those guarantees which consist in , ' tte prospect of bringinV down fchedzai . consist in tie prospectIvf bringing' down the Qzblx

      . President Pierpe hak Jssued ¦ , ' ii proclamation against the contemplated' invasion of Cuba . ' It vrould be rery desirable to keep the progress of litigation in . regard to that island as : regular as possible . "We should hear with regret that it had at the present moment ) been invaded by unauthorised bands . The quarrel stajids very well' as it dbes , and if it proceed in , a perfectly regular manner , America may' be aide to take , . her , own from the impotent grasp of Spain by the willing adhesion of the Cuban citizens , without disturbing her relations with other countries . Those

      relations are at present' satisfactory , ' rumours about disputes at the Falkland Islands , and so fp ^ th , notwithstanding . We lave reason to entertain the most confident belief that the "official relations with our own country and America were n , eyer 6 n a footing of greater frankness dud mutual respect . More than one important subject has " been discussed in Parliament . The Ballot has had a

      debate not ending in a successful division , but still contributing greatly to the progress of that measure . Mr . Henry Berkeley threw novelty over the old arguments b y new illustrations ; Mr . John Bright showed how the existing Ballot band of 200 pledged members might compel Ministers to comply with their claim , if they wore to make their support of Ministers depend upon the compliance ; and Sir William Molesworth showed , by one of thus best speeches that the subject has yet had , not only that entrance into office has failed

      to effect any change in his opinions and conduct , but that a genuine Ballotrnan , uncorapromiaed , can find his way into the Cabinet . Lo > rd Palmerston ' s free-and-easy attacks upon the proposal , told for the hour , as his speeches are apt to do , bnt with sophism too unsubstantial to have any Teal influence on the question . We do nob overrate tho probable offect of the Ballot , but we cannot ; disguise from ourselves the fact that Lord Palmerston ' s sophistries will no more prevent its being passed , than hia dislike of Roform prevented that measure .

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      The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea , of Humanity- —the noble e ? . to throw down allth . e barnera erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and by Bettint ? a 3 ide tJie distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human " race as one brotherhood , kaving one great obje

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK- t ? k >« Parliament or the Week 5 S 4 The City Election 557 Opening of the Crystal Palace 5 SS The War 560 Continental Notes BSO . I > ouigs on the Circassian . Coast ... 581 Kossuth at Nottingham 681 1 hG Peninsular and Oriental Com-. pany B 62

      Six Children Murdered by their Mother 562 Miscellaneous 563 PUBUC AFFAJRST > he Silver Wedding 564 A . House of Accomplices 565 Ballot or National Franchise ... 565 The Church . Proposing io Moralise Trade &&I / k . "Stranger" in Parliament 567

      OPEM COUNCILItaliau Refugees 568 LITER / VTURESummary , „ .... 559 Sydaey Smith . ~ ... 569 Transcaucasia .... 570 Philip B *> 116 ..., 571 Irving and Mormon 571 ' ¦ ¦ I * :

      THE ARTJfcr- i . . . GrM in Lucrezia Borgia 572 * La Promise ; . ........ B 7 S -SunshineThrough the Clouds ... 578 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 573 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Aidvertis « menta , Ao ....... I ..... J .. ; .:. 578 < SfG

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 17, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2043/page/1/