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      • 'The one Idea which . History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected 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 object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—HumboldVs Cosmos . .

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      VOL . VI . No . 253 . ] SATURDAY , JANUARY 27 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      fTlHE real session has scarcely commenced before JL the Aberdeen Ministry is run down under the tragic honesty of Mr . Roebuck ; Lord John Russeix assisting in the process , tripping up his colleagues behind . The track of events along the surface _ is pretty smooth , however darkand intricate the unseen workings may be . Simply narrated , the case is this . Parliament resumed its sittings on Tuesday , and everybody expected a . series of slashing debates—except Lord John Russell . It was on Tuesday that Mr . Roebuck gave notice that on Thursday he should move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol , and the conduct of the departments whose duty it is to minister to the wants of the army . Lord Ejxenborough , Mr . Dkummond , and Mr . Adaih gave similar notices . Lord John , who has shared hitherto-all . the doings of the Coalition , suddenly professed to feel dismayed ; his " civil valour" departed from him—or his uncivil astuteness got the better of it ; and he sent in his resignation . The next day Ministers took council , and Lord Aberdeen had an audience of the Qubkn . The process was repeated on Thursday ; while Mr . Hatter in the House of Commons , and the Duke of Newcastle in the House of Lords , officially announced that Lord John ' s resignation had been accepted by the Queen . There was nothing for it but to adjourn ; and with an air of confidence , to request Mr . Roebuck to wait until Friday . But the Opposition , who had waited for the effect of Mr . Roebuck ' s bombshell , now struck in to master the situation . Lord Ltndhubst gave notice of a resolution , the terms of which amount to a heavy censure on the Government . Mr . Roebuck may truly say , Vent , vidiyvici . At the aspect of his motion the strong Russell resigns , and the Cabinet—shall we sayfalls to pieces . When made , Lord John ' s explanation amounted to this—that he had disapproved of the conduct of the War Department , had wished to hand the Secretaryships of and at War to Lord Palmeuston ; that ho was shocked by the statements in the Times , an . d while soldiers in the Crimea wore dying at the rqto of ninety or a hundred a day , ho ctould not conjscieAtioualy resist Mr . Rokbuck's motion , and 69 he resigned . Which , on his present showing , observed Lord Pax . mjj ! dstqn , Lord Joutf ought to have done months ago . It

      is surmised that Lord John ' s idea will be adopted , and that some changes will take place within the Ministry , but that the defectio n of the noble member for London will not break up the Cabinet . Mr . Roebuck proceeds with his motion , but is arrested in limine by Jbis own sad defection of health , and Ministers are left without their Lord President or their opponent ! The bills which Sir Marylebone Hall introduced to amend the Health and Nuisance Acts look like an improvement . The Nuisance Act is rendered more stringent , in order to force local officers to do that in all parts of the - country which Mr . John Simon has succeeded in doing in the City . The other bill continues the existing Board of Health . It abolishes the present mode of extending the jurisdiction of the Health Act by means of local acts obt ained on petition from each district spontaneously ; substituting a simple vote of the inhabitants , in public meeting or at poll , for that cumbrous process of annual legislation . And it leaves much more to the" administration of the local bodies . Whether the people of this country have really made up their minds to be corporately clean , we have yet to ascertain . They refused to be so on the dictate of Edwin Chai > wick , C . B ., but possibly they may consent on the conciliatory showing of Sir Marylebone Hall . While the most conspicuous of our journals is declaring that the army in the Crimea is gradually decaying at such a rate , that " it will have ceased to exist by the 15 th of March , " the advices from the spot report the continual arrival of reinforcements , ammunitions , and stores . And while General Canbobert is said to have reported to his own Government that the disorganised English army , however gallant in spirit , is a burden rather than a support , he has issued to his own soldiers an address promising them that , in a short time , his body shall be their flag to lead them to tho breach of Sebastopol . We have already stated that Omar Pacha had been consulting with the French and English leaders apparently some combined plan of action , including the engagement of the external army aa well as attacks upon the town . Thcso few sentences constitute tho intelligence from the Crimea . We acem rapidly to be drifting to tho day when tho Crimea will be only a secondary and subordinate part of the field of war . All tho Powers have bcea at diplomacy , and every one of them , except Prussia , writes in a manner fatal to tho

      idea of renewed peace ; and we may say that the pacifies of Prussia are more fatal to peace than the most out-spoken arrogance of the Czar . The correspondence which is current in the papers this week , may be said to breathe a spirit of defiance ; even Prussia herself negatively takes that tone . We have already had the subject of these despatches so far as the feeble reflex of brave news- ~ mongers could convey it ; but it is in the expression , in the tone of the whole , that the real force will lie . Austria calls upon Prussia to do her duty , if not under the Treaty of December 2 , under that of April 20 , and to ^ tand _ prepared with her in obilised forces , for the defence of territory pertaining to German Governments . M . Manteuffet replies , that there is no danger of attack from Russia , who is sincere in the love of peace ; that the casus contemplated by the Treaty of April 20 has not arisen ; and that , excluded from the Conference to interpret the Four Points , Prussia ha s no interest or part in the existing stage of the Eastern'Question . The rejoinder of Count Buouis addressed to the German Governments generally , calling upon them to do their duty , and showing that Prussia stood self-excluded from the Conference . The question thus raised will have to be decided by the meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine . Even if the entire Diet should not adopt the course proposed , constituent members of that body might do so ; but the present signs lead to the anticipation that a majority favourable to the mobilisation will prevail in the federal body . If the Mecklenburgs , much bepraised by Russia , faithfully adhere to tho policy of Prussia , Bavaria is already mobilising her guard , and others of the German States appear likely enough to follow the example already set by Piedmont , who has so handsomely placed 15 , 000 of her army at tho disposal of the Allies . Russia herself raises her voice in that despatch to Baron Budbebg , tho Russian Minister at Berlin , in which tho Mecklenburgs are praised : the despatch proclaims that the policy of Austria is one calculated to involve tho whole of Europe in the struggle . And France makes her appearance on tho diplomatic stage by M . DaouYN djs Luuys , who her answer to Prussia , Power of self-excluaion , and and treacherous conduct straightforward condupt of of M . -Duouvw i > e Lnuva war , and ho says that our with thoso of Austria and ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2075/page/1/