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    rriHE news of the week may be put thus :: It is JL probable that Sebastopol is taken , and it is certain that Lord Aberdeen lias not resigned . The question of policy raised by Our success at Sebastopol must now be discussed by the public , as well as by the Cabinet . For the present , it may be regarded by large classes , wlio have been oddly misled with , respect to the character of the wisest and most conscientious of our public men , as a hopeful sign for the future of the war , that Lord Aberdeen , about whom there have been strange rumours the last few days , holds

    his post while Sebastopol is being besieged , and while Cronstadt is being pointed to as the next doomed fortress . It is the leading journal which has begun to talk of Cronstadt . But we are not excited by that emphatic reference , because the leading journal is , as usual in that portion of the recess when official news is scarce , elaborately attempting the " popular '—in the same day in which it hailed for Cronstadt it sneered at the Austrian alliance—and

    because , also , the leading journal is , at pi'csent , rather incoherent . Judging from this sentence , which occurs in a literary review , it is competing by an occidental vagary with Mr . Disraeli ' s A . sian mystery : — " Tho conclusion arrived at is tho conclusion to which wg are brought by all intelligent writers upon tho coming destiny of nations , whether they bo tourists , or historians , men of science qr men of the world . If toe would

    nourish a hope of a brighter future , toe must follow the sun and look stilt- westward . " Then our stupendous contemporary is weak in his gossip about tho divisions among the generals who havo gone to Sebastopol ; for if ho knows of a coward and a fool—and his remarks point to some " distinguished officer" who is Imth—among our generals of division—surely he has the courage to name the man ?

    Tho groat , event in tho Crimea fills tho weuk ; und diplomacy , entirely dependent on it , ia suspended ; so thnt , at least in England , wo havo tho timo nail opportunity to decide for oiirriolvuH on the turn our diplomacy is next to take . Tho King of Belgium ia certainl y moving about ; but that is a matter of course- —he was always a commis-vuyageur in liia way . Everywhere there in obsorvnblo a dooklod pauso . Wo disbelieve nil tho stories of Prussian tind Austrian

    approximation : botli are waiting and wateiing . So in the Baltic : the Scandinavian States are neutral to an agonizing point—to themselves . Holland is proclaiming through her Icing ' s address to the States General that she is neutral—a communication parallel in importance to that of King Soulinique ' s to the same effect . Holland ' s neutrality in all politics is not temporary—it is historic . Nearly the whole of the King ' s address 5 s occupied with details of happy material improvements . The apparence of pause , as a characteristic of the time

    15 observable in States altogether detached from the immediate European war . Sardinia , for instance , appears this week on the stage , but only in connection with an intention—an intention to enter on an intensely serious struggle with " the Church "—Rome herself pausing for a jubilee . Even on the other side of the Atlantic there is a re- " internal . " The States have no more actual public work on hand than to cheer the " progress , " great as Kossuth ' s or as Meaghor ' s , of Grisi and Mario ; their real work is

    prospective—Thanksgiving altogether , and it would scarcely strike the pious , were the Pope ' s comprehensive Jubilee imitated , were we to be called upon to thank Providence for both heat and cold—the c old , as far as the cliolera is concerned , beins necessary to counteract the baleful effects in towns of tlie extreme heat . The Positive Philosophy is not yet in the ascendant : and Thanksgivings arelikely to last so long as peers , like Lord Derby , do not blush to announce at scientific meetings such as the oen this week at Liverpool , that they know

    nothing of science ; or so long , indeed , as a ' scientific Congress is converted , as was this at Liverpool , into a meeting for vulgar enjoyment ( Liverpool is the most provincial town in England ) of the sight of " unscientific" peers . We do not remember anything for a long time so degrading to this country as the scene at Liverpool—tho business being that of the British Association—when Lord Derby proposed thanks to Lord Plarrowby , when Lord Harrowby thanked Lord Derby , and when the public present , great merchants and their wives—vulgar and dull- ^ - " cheered . "

    We find in one or two official papers some ofli - cial news . We gather , from the guarded Globe , that the Perry Case has had its moral effect on thj Horse Guards : the organisation , of the Courts Martial is to he modified into some nearer rcscm blance to a common sense process . From another statement in the same paper , we infer that tlu Duke of Newcastle has been compelled , probably by the objections of his elder colleagues , who were backed by the odd opposition of some ' liberal *' papers , to resign his great scheme to revolutionise 1 the civil service . The Duke of Newcastle doe . ) not confine his communications to tho Government papers ; the despatch I'cceivod by tho Government , with respect to the landing in tho Crimea , was sent from tho oilice of the Minister of War to all tho morning papers . Very proper ; but if tho Cabinet thus condescends to break through the routine of secret diplomatic rosurvf , why not givo us uU tho news it go Id ? And if a purveyor of news , why not havo a newspaper ? Why not a daily gazette in war timo V Tho inoHt important of tliosu Govonmieu ; . hints to it * " orgiiiia" in that rolomn « to the rumours that our dovummonl was forced to consent to the cxjxiililiun iigmiiHl tho U-iiih-u . A . tru » todor « aH H : iyi » : —tho order lor the expedition wont direct from tho two courts . Xufc St . A maud may Uo entitled to tho credit of vigour and bolunctis—and the 'limes should really be asked : " Who is tho coward among our iron orals ?"

    they are preparing for the elections . These elections turn apparently on points of subordinate influence on the world , and , therefore , perplexing everywhere beyond the States , even to the Americans in Europe , as the " American" who last week instructed the lending journal fully testifies . Know-Nothingism , the Nebraska Bill , and tho Maine Law , are tho points . As we havo n Sabbatical Maine : Liquor Law of our own , wo may endeavour to comprehend tho last point , and apply to our own country tho moral . An

    interesting contrast might bo made between , these American " reforms , " with analogous reforms of our own—wo being the champions of civilization- — and tho reforms decreed by the last Turkish hattischcriff . Contrast Know-nothingism with the appointment to tho Turkish Commission of an Armenian and a Jew . Contrast , generally , tho enlightenment visible in tho Sultan ' s decree with

    tho enlightenment of our gazetted " Thanksgiving . " What iu the history of Eastern delusions can surpass tho follies of the English people in undergoing varieties of euros —such as the castor-oil poison—for tho cholera of I 6 ! i-i' f What in the history of Turkish barbarism can exceed tho idiotcy of tho English people in leaving their great civilised towns so peouliurly built , sowcrod , and inhabited , as to tempt , to create , cho'em ?

    Tho Thanksgiving for a good harvest ought now to bo connected with national gratitude for tho subsidence of cholera : thoro is illogicality in tho

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    VOL . V . No . 235 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 3 1854 . [ Pbice Sixpence .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2057/page/1/