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      VTEVER was there a press of business more im-JN portant or more various than that which will fall with accumulated weight upon Lord Pai < - merston next w-eek . There is the Empebob or the French to be provided with a state reception of cordial welcome , and- a route for avoiding any unpleasant de monstrations that might salute him by the way . There is the Congress at Vienna , whither a Dkouyn » e Lhtjys has gone to make up for the deficient representation of the Western

      Powers , where Turkey shows so strong a disposition to call even her allies in question , and where Kussia is so gratuitously obstinate . There is the Crimea with the disclosures of the armistice , during which we have discovered that the Russians and their fortifications are in prime condition . With a war on hand threatening to increase " to"fiv& : fbrd ~ its present dimensions * there is the War-Office bare of its chief , who lingers on

      the couch of gouty sickness . There is the Budget to get ready , and the newly-announced Loan to arrange with " the City . " And there is the House of Commons about to reassemble with all the bickerings of all the factions , new combinations threatened against the Minister who was actually nominated by the majority of the House , nnd new difficulties in getting through public business without any Easter recess to break the strain . Here , certainly , is enough of business for

      one man ! Wo do not know how Ministors have been employing the recess to strengthen themselves against the renewed labours of the week ; for profession and fact are as little in harmony as the profession and fact of our great public . Then there is some mystery at head-quarters which wo have yet to penetrate . The people of this country professing to bo Christians kept Good Friday as a gay holiday , a first burst of spring festivity ; Avhilo the

      the Easter Sunday , which should be greatest festival of the Church , fell comparatively flat upon British Christians . If a people professing pure Christianity , and comporting itself with so little reference to that creed , is governed by a Ministry whose acts are equally inconsistent with its professions , wo may indeed a nticipate some startling eventualities in Vienna , in the Crimea , and perhaps in other scenes . There are reports to which at present wo attach little hoed , of all sorts of compromises . The only evidence that ' we can

      descry in support of these rumours lies in the excessively belligerent language ascribed to Ministers and their underlings . We must confess , however , that appearances in the north-east of Europe as well as iu the southeast , run strongly against peace . The final instructions are still withheld from the-Russian plenipotentiaries . Now it is true that the real decision of peace lay with the Emperor Alexxsder . "There are certain" essentials to be

      conceded without which there can be no-guarantee for peace ; and the only question was , whether in general terms he was " prepared to make those essential concessions . Whence , then , these tedious deliberations ? Evidently he has not yet made up his mind ; and the nature of his position is such , that if he should continue in the same mood he will probably at the last moment send hasty instructions telling the Plenipotentiaries to persevere in a course that cannot terminate in peace .

      In the -meanwhile , the instructions given by Turkey to her ambassador have been published . The document , indeed , has not been formally authenticated , but there is no reason to doubt its authenticity . In these instructions the Turkish Ambassador is told to guard the sovereignty and independence of the Porte against any encroachments through the administration of the Principalities , the regulation of the Dardanelles , or the security given for the Christian subjects . The Porte also demands that any project for the

      settlement of the Four Points shall be submitted to it , and discussed with the Allies before it is offered to the acceptance of Russia ; and in all cases the Ambassador is to refer to his own Government . Turkey , therefore , gives no carte blanche to Congress , and in some respects claims a place of consideration before Russia—all very properly ; but it is very likely to exasperate the son of that Czar who was so excessively irritated because the proposition of the Allied Powers in the first instance was submitted to the Porte simultaneously with himself .

      Wo can then have no expectation that Russia will amend her position towards the other powers ; nor ostensibly has the position of any of those powers altered . Prussia is still coquetting through diplomatic missions to Paris and by correspondence . Saxony has through its ministers boon throwing out a hint to the Gorman Governments , that they should exorcise independence of Austria in the controji and use of the federal army ; a new ruse by the ally of Prussia for securing Prussian ,

      and therefore Russian , objects . Bavaria is said to have proposed to Austria that , satisfied with the concessions on the two first points , which concern Tier , she should proceed no further with the Western Powers , but be neutral as to the rest . And Austria , it has been reported , signified her acquiescence in that proposal . But the report stands as absolutely without a shadow of evidence . fof its basis as any that have gone before . As to ~ the French Government , it is

      contemplating some new move , but as yet has given us no sign what that move is to be . The Emperor rs preparing for his -visit to this country in imperial magnificence , which is in itself an important state proceeding . He has also permitted the publication in the Monitenr of a Memoir , explaining the progress of the War down to the present point . Ostensibly , this Memoir has the appearance of a simple narrative , admitting many things , sucli as the part which the Emperor took in instructing his own generals for their course first of all in Turkey , and subsequently in"the Crimea ; the

      change of plans which took place from time to time , and the comparative failure of the expedition . The Report , however , is almost as significant in its omissions as in its direct statements ; and the true use to be made of it— the force and meaning of the whole representation and course of action in which it forms only a fragmentary part—will not be understood until we have the diplomatic sequel already promised , and the course of action with which the Emperor may design to follow it up . It is recorded for a purpose ; and we shall understand the purpose when we know its author ' s mind .

      It is possible that the attention absorbed by the Imperial visit , the demand that it will make on the time of the officers of State , and the generally distracted condition of the public mind , may stave off some of the questions that would otherwise encounter Ministers at the reopening of Parliament . Mr . Bouvkiiik , who has been reelected for Kilmalrnock , after his appointment as Vice-President of tho Board of Trade , might b ~ < 5

      asked to expluin how it comos that ., if , us he showed in tho Scotch town , ho so thoroughly understands- . / the reasons for tho bad working of our publici ^ o »\ . " partmonts , ho should consent to take a place itttflofc . ; , Government without a thorough pulling ^ W and reconstruction . of tho whole systeita ? . Xowt .- ; Pai . meiiston pointed out that tho syWom hwdbroken down jn those departments whicil ^ ^ yo , ; officered by tho middle class . The commissamrt 11 " *

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humamty-the noble endeavour to throw down all tie barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by getting aside the distanctions 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 . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . ^______ '¦ :

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— "ob The War 338 The French Official Explanat : -ns of the Eastern Expedition 340 Tho "Vienna Conferences 340 Turkish Reforms 341 America 341 Continental Notes 341 The Hopwood Will Case 342 The Case of Mrs . Rainsbottiam ... 343 Trial and Condemnation of Buranelli . » 343 /• Our Civilisation S 4 S Speeches of Public Men 344

      -Naval and Military News 344 The Halfpenny Newspaper Stamp 345 State of Trade , Labour , and the Poor 345 Health of London during the Week 345 The Visit of the French Emperor and Empress 345 Miscellaneous 345 Postscript 347 PUBLIC AFFAIRSAre we to have an Aristocracy ? 347

      Tho Imperial Visit 348 Exclusion of the Middle Classes 349 The " Moniteur " on the War ... 350 Our Families Again 350 Thanet Union Industrial Farm . 351 The Tories and the Peelites 351 War and Peace 352 OPEN COUNCILObservance of the Sabbath 352 Have we a Rule of Faith ? 352 LITER ATU RESummary 353 Whitelocke ' s Swedish Embassy 354

      Handbook of Painting 355 North and South 356 Books on our Table 356 THE ARTSTho Amateur Pantomime 357 Royal Italian Opera 357 Tho Easter Pieces 357 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 357 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c 857-3 G 0

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      VOIi . VI . No . 264 . 1 SATURDAY , APRIL 14 , 1855 . ^ [ Price Sixpence .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2086/page/1/