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    altogether fec « ets th * vast proportion' of smokers wh © are at the same time tctive and'healthy in mind and body , and' even' distinguished for those very qualities which * he tells , us the use * of tobaeco desbroysv A for Hwwe beaithy and' sensible method of preserving health than that o £ " throwing away tobacco for ever" ( though we must not be understood to recommend the weed ) is that system of harmonious gymnastics taught aud practised ; by the Swedish poet and Athlete , Peter Henry Ling , whose Kfe and doctrine bis friend and follower , Augustus Georgie r lovingly com * memorat . es .

    Domestic Cookery is- one of the most useful of Messrs . Orr ' s Household Handbooks-. There- is a chapter on sauces which-we recommend to th-e attention , of the British housewife . Voltaire used to . say , " The English have a thousand and one religions' , and only one sauce—melted butter-. " We are getting out of that melancholy condition , but we are still some * - what liable to the imputation of knowing' only one method of cooking ou . r vegetables ^ - ^ iot w-aterv This Household Handbook is likely to render the domestic ^ cookery of the nation more palatable , and at the same time more economical . I * ifc ^ not the wif # s interest to bring her husband home to dinner ? Joints will' not . do thi ^ when the honeymoon has- subsided into butcher ' s bill * . ^

    Home-touristg arc multiplying now tfaat the continent , has been 'done 'for so many years , A Handbook fa ih&PeaJiicfDerbyshive and to the Use- of the JBuxton Mineral Watei-svfili no doubt fe acceptable to a . large class of travelleirs i * ^ rsuit of health , and rest , or of the pictuiesquey who may be disposed tv seek , tb ^ 4 n one of ^ ^ the loveliestiprovihces = of oar island . Messrs . Chamhers ' s Repository of Instructive and Amusing Zbraets ^ nourishes ¦ with ; uaSagging vigour and ; variety ., Tbte iastempnthiy part , contains , a-ptopds <> f the . waar , aMenooir ^ S *^ ro £ aSto ^ ¦ eonditioiv of : the Rixssian peasantry . ; ' - . - .- " : / - : .-K" V ^ - ¦ ¦¦ .- •; - ¦¦ ¦ , ' ' .- ¦'¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦'¦ _ /

    \ fltr : Edto «|^ ' ^ : ' -: X *!^\ 'iis < qibuntsf'in a smart aiid ^ lfuily comic style his jETadttctS t . ETdbiis ^ [ akd ^ . oguaintdnces . Animal spiritsi aid g ^ bd t ^ per- are always pleasing , "but "we . are coBfident Mr . ; Yatea-ca * do better ; tfimga than it revivalswhichhsas ? alt the inevitable weakness of an imitation .

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    A EUSSIAN" PAMPHLET * ' ¦ ¦¦ v ' - ; :.. ^ -: ' ¦ ¦ ¦ :: ' .. " ¦ ¦ ' - . . '» ' '¦ ' .. " ! 7 ^ ' - :. ¦ "' ' - ' ¦] " . ' ! ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ' : ' i . ' ¦ . ¦ jjFhe ; reader will understand thatthr ^^ 1 u > nt \ these ' iair&ie ^ lt ' 'iis .-the ' ' Ia ) utbii 3 nt'or *' G 6 ja- '' "tmeiitalvJEurope * ' who speaks . , W&da hatx-eppit . ] ; ^ Sugh ? was = the Eastern Question in 1840 ; From the events , of that year at Constantinople ^ xa jSyria , and in ,- Egypt , dates the : progressively invasive policy of Elbg la ^ . Gh ' urcTtes ^ ^ in ^ ^ E ^ pt . iefr ' tenj ' y ^ ars *' ' sy ^ pathy-for Mehemet A ^ doned by : France % and ^ supplanfced by England > At Constantinople nothing was / jeasntertiftaifc ^ Infidel : Museo ^^ arrested the traffic ua t ( um » H . flesh on the' Circassian cpasts—a traffic which Is uotoml ^ of prime-necessity tp' thei Turkish aristocracy , but , even avital

    condition of existence to ihe Ottoman Eriipire . This is the teterrirtid ¦ cdusa of the ^ rar . Npyir that the Herein can no longer be furnished with contingents from : Poland * Bjiingaryr iSicily , Italy , and Greece , his Highness : is condemned by the ^ fundamental lftw of his Empire to extinction , of his ra = ce if Russian cruisers and cordons succeed in suppressing ? the white slave-trade . He has but to choose between , perpetual celibacy and the pickings of tie bronzed beauties of Africa . As to the Turkish nai ion , it may console itself for the loss of a luxury in conscious impotence . The officious diplomacy of Pera took pains to convince the Turks that Russia , in preventing $ he e ^ pi'tsbtion of Circassian and Georgian * produce , ' was pursuing the extraction of the-dynast y of Ottoman by the simple prbcess of . * stopping tlie supplies , " And the officious- diplomacy never forgot to add , the Power that sought-Jo dry up tlie very 3 ife-blopd of ¦ the race aisidi dynasty of Othman was itself a seller-of men . The legalised sale of land with the serfs in Russia is the idle pretext for this trumped-up accusation . Western Europe may

    smile at these s causes and conclusions , bub all the diplomatic iaubourg of Pera will eonfirnat their importance . Without dwelling top particularly on the host of critical questions raised at Constantinople between the Porte and the Russian Embassy from 1840 to 1853—anch as the sullen persecution of the Greek Church—the censorship imposed upon the religious books of the- Sclave populations—the base avidity of the authorities at Jerusalem who pocketed the subscriptions of pioHs Christiana in the North for the lighting of the lamps in the Holy Sepulchre- < -the . brigandage on the Asian border , and the uncertain delimitation ' < of that border- —the long * standing settlement of the Turco-Per ^ Tifroniier---tRt } intrigues ofthe Pushas in Stervia—^ the qaarrelfl of the Bojg . rs and lipsppdars m the Danubian iPrincipaflilbies ^ -we ( the " Inhabitant off .-Continental Europe'' ) 'will simply note an UTrdeniable fact , the persietent hostility of the British Embassy at Constantinople to-Russia , and its ceaseless resistance to the diplomatic action of Rnssta .

    Ate \ ery step this intervention was-ifelt , measured and cautious enough , confiding in the moderation 1 of Russia , bo long as Turkey was not in a situa * tion to have * recourse , to awns . Franco , in spite of the entente cordiale , was not disposed to lend her active aid . After the Spanish marriages-, tbat unfortunate dream of another epoch bo f&tiaX to Louis Philippe , the Eastern diplomRcy of England wnsi for a while , more temperate and conciliatory represented by Lord Cowley . Lord Stratford cKe- RedcUffe ' a personal hostility to the Emperor ptf Russia ia notorious ; it dates from tho refusal of the Grorernment at St . Peteraburff to receive him as amhasaador •; a refusal frankly bapredi on the personal character and parliamentary speeches of that diplomatiat . Lord Stratford has avenged himself by laying 1 down the princi p le that Russia must never be permitted to stand too well , nor too ill , with Turkey : this principle , elaborated for ten yeaTS , dominates the present var .

    The " Inhabitant" now glances at the anarchical activity of English diplomacy in ' 47 , everywhere busy in lighting the torch of revolution . In that year it seems a grand continental alliance was on the point of formation for the purpose of restraining these continual conspiracies of England against the repose of Europe . The religious and political complications of the Sonderbuud , and the revolutionary mission of Lord Minto , suggested to Ausibia negotiations for this alliance . But in ' 4 & came the Revolution like a flood sweeping ; away thrones and shaking Europe to its , base . Even Old England felt the rebound of the shack this time . She had thought to make experiments ; at the expense of others , and was struck herself . On the tenth , of April the Conservative instinct of the nation saved the British Government , at little cosfc . But the Chartist movement cevealed & deep moral agitation , menacing the future repose of Old England . You cannot always set fire to your neighbour's house- without danger to . yourself

    , and the sea that surrounds you is not always wide or deep enough to serve as ah impassable rampart to the ideas whose intermittent inundation overwhelms from time to time the moral , and material prosperity of nations . Although the English Government ,, in the first months of ' 48 ,. moderated its activity against Russia in the East , and against social order in Europe , it , nevertheless ^ applauded the revolution , in the hope of disturbances abroad w . hichvwould favour its material interests . It fraternised with every successive fa . ction . in France , in or dec to justify to the French nationits alternate cozening and'bullying of the dynasty of July- As soon as the , Gltartist storan blew over , dtbegan . intriguing again in Europe and in the East : —in the affair of the refugees , it dictated a refusal to the demands of Russia and Austria ; defied its cosigners of the treaty of ' ^ Lby sending its fleet into the . ; X ) arda > nelles , and the cosigners of- ' .-the ; tfeoty : ; bf-. ' 27 : '' 1 >^ th ^ - ' : P ^ ili < c »' p ^ ra ^ , i : tha 6 indelible blot ^^ ^ in , the ^^ annals of Great Britain . It was , then that Lord Palr

    naerston launched his celebratedi Ciuis i ? o >»( st » ws sum ip . behalf of a Porjuguesa Jew who dein ^ nded W ^' Xoii insult the Ro ^ in . their annals ! the ^ ^ ^ justincatibn of ' an actrather worthy of Punic faith . Rome had well-nigh conquered the world when > she dared to < affirm a principle which _ ypu affect tO ; pronounce in the face of iadependent , states who sufter your intrigues , ilitassiiredhjdo not fear your c 0-nis .. ' Yet Russia , all this time , ^ insulted at the PirseuSr and defied in the Dardanelles ^ held her hand , wasting her influence , and allowing : E tage ¦ .. ;•• ¦ pf ^ her ^ pderatioii : — -at s »> time , too , when ! there -was no Continental Power at liberty to step between , her just anger and the infatuation of thePorte . : VV ¦ .. ' '¦ <¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦' , ¦ ¦ -.. .- '¦ ''' ' : ' . ¦ •¦ ¦¦ . ¦'¦¦¦' .. ¦ ' ¦ " , ¦ . ¦"¦ ' . ¦ ""¦ r . ¦ ,. ¦ : ¦ : " ' ¦ ¦ ¦

    The Gvup& ' etdt of the 2 nd of December opened a iifew era to Firance . After a series of democratic experiments , that country , destined to be the theatre , of . all theories , inaugurated the most complete expression of personal gpvernnaent the vrorld has : ever seen . Dynasties are attached to their traditions , and to the ^^^ principles ; . which are the essence or the prestige of heredifcary authority . Representative ( Governments are nothing but emanations , more , or less sincere ,, of a mass of interests and instincts whicn absorb the , personality of the .-throne . Men . like Napoleon 1 ., who . seize despotic power , n ^ yer can shake off their antecedents , and remain always the persbnificatiprl of their epoch . Thus was Napoleon I ., from first to lasfy a Crowned soldier ;; Napoleon III .,, whose merits and capacity \ ve ( the Inhabitant ) are very far from disputing , owes his marvellous destiny to . an historical souvehir and not to his merits or his capacity . Yet he felt himself

    so completely master of the situation that he was able to declare the Empire to mean peace , and to avow in public and in private liis sympathies for England . He knew that France , excepting -a- few hot-brjuned Bonapaxfcists , desired repose rather than glory . Lord Palmerston was accused of committing an clourde ? 'ia in precipitately expressing his satisfaction at the events of December . It was only another proof of the extreme perspicacityof that statesman who has all his life deserved the honour of being considered the most faithful expression of the contemporary tendencies of hia country . He lias been called a firebrand ; , we shall not contest , the . justice of the epithet , but we maintain that his incendiarism has always served liis country ., If his country ' s interests are opposed to those , of the continent of Europe , is he to he made personally responsible for his fidelity to those interests ? Cet hommc d'jEtat , aoant d ' etre homme est Anqlais :

    The British Government , determined , aa usual , to make the moat out of events in France , took advantage of the instinctive national dread of a Bonapartist restoration to organise the national defences and increase its armaments . The Government had really no apprehensions « t all ; it knew well enough , that all Europe would coalesce against any infi'action of the treaties of 18161 still it foresaw the possible eventualities of the hazardous policy upon which it , was entering with France , and the immense difference between the auBceptibUitieSi © f a personal and of ) a . parliamentary government , oetween ' 40 and ' 51 . It was in . the East , on the classic soil of all anomalies the grand design of England was ' to be carried out—the alliance with France against Russia .

    We have observed England rigorously consistent tlxroughowt with the policy commanded by her selfish mercantile interests . Consult bev tables of imports and exports since ' 48 . Let us examine the atate of the continent with respect to England and the Eastern question . Louis Philippe expiated his triumph in 1830 , by his isolation among the European thrones ; he expiated his docility to England by the catastrophe of ' 48 . In Louis Nwpoleon the European sovereigns saw ratlier an instrument of Providence than a fortunate adventurer . If their attitude towards him was at first reserved , it was never unfriendly , not even mistrustful .

    Prance misht have taken her place in the European concert , cemented her natural nlVuinceB , and remained faithful to her pacific programme . She had but to follow the Napoleonic traditions , by "which we are far from meaning -the traditions of war and conquest nna hatred of England ; but the grand tradition of the Empire to which tee could liave wished to see the successor of' that empire attach hiimelf ia a judicious system of continental alliances , for the purpose qf preserving Europe from the aqcjrandwng influence of Great Britain . The whole conduct of England Binco 1815 has shown the farreacliing sagacity of the first Emperor in that direction . His sucocjssor haa

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    * La Gnerr © dJQrionfc . Sea Onuses et aoa Consdquencoo . Par Un Habitant da VEurope GontitmttMtoi JtewuA lo * , J . 854 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 810, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2053/page/18/