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      fTTHIS week has been a crescendo upon last week , A with the same objects of public attention presented in a present and intense aspect . From a speculation , the Imperial-visit has become a reality ; there is a diplomatic crisis in Vienna ; a military crisis in Sevastopol , with the renewed bombardment ; a crisis in our money market with the Loan = and the Budget ; and a crisis certainly in the overexcited state of the metropolis , and no inconsiderable part of the country .

      An event like the visit of the Emperor and Emprkss of the French must necessarily have absorbed the attention of the multitude ; but besides the impressions always produced by the sight of power concentrated in individuals , —besides the vulgar adulation of exalted rank , —there were special reasons why England should give something more than a cordial welcome even to the man whom , personally they would repel with execration . There was common curiosity ; the

      week has been infinitely more gratifying to public curiosity than a visit to Madame Tussaud ' s . There was the embodiment of the French alliance , so gratifying to the people of both countries . There was also the spirit of hospitality , excited by the arrival of such a visitor , and afterwards self-excited by its own indulgence . John Bum , invites a friend to take a glass of wine with him , and finishes with an orgy , because his own hospitality has fired his own brain ; and so it has

      been from Monday till Saturday . Louis Napoleon was lost in the crowned Emperor , and the pebple gave the chief of thu pageant a round of applause throughout the whole winding lino of his tour . lie landed at Dover on Monday , under a cloud ; for the shores were veiled in an ominous fog which kept him late ; but Dover was thronged with soa-sido holiday-makers and sightseers ; the corporation vied with the landlord of the Lord

      Warden in the fervour of their obscennousness ; the Piunce C 0 N 8 OKT came down specially to meet the Elected of December ; and the short journey from the inn to tho railway-station , —the whole line of the milway where tho people could collect to see tho royal party flash by , —the Bi'iclclnyers ' Arms , tho impromptu procession of the travelling carriages and escort through Charing-cross to tho Groat Western station , —were ended by passing under a " triumphal ' arch" at Windsor—a trophy

      to commemorate the hero of a day , and then to be consigned to the lumber warehouse . The Emperor—formerly Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte—and the Empress—not long since a . Spanish young lady familiar to our society—were guests for whom a part of the royal Castle of Windsor had been specially prepared ; the-whole week was arranged for their delight and entertainment ; there was a royal hunt on Tuesday , only the Emperor was too-tired to join it ; a review and installation of the—Garter-on

      " Wednesday ; the presentation of the City address , the State visit to the Opera House , on Thursday ; the Crystal Palace on Friday ; departure on Saturday . The main thoroughfare of the metropolis on Thursday , during the visit to the City and the return , forcibly recalled to mind the last occasion when a great throng lined that road—the funeral of the Duke of Wellington . The next to follow the Hero of Waterloo along that path , so prepared , was the nephew of the man whom heiiadsent toSt . Helena : - -

      While the Emperor was here , rather startling intelligence arrived from the seat of negotiations . The real state of the case at Vienna has not yet been publicly explained . The reports that , have ilocked to this country , from that capital , from Berlin , and from Paris , are so mingled with manifest fabrications , that no one deserves much attention ! Yet taking them altogether , and coupling their purport with the silence of Ministerial organs both in Paris and London , it seems to be evident that something has occurred unfavourable to the

      position of the Western Powers . It cannot be the refusal of llussia ; for that has not yot been formally delivered , and has long been anticipated with certainty . The assertion is , that Austria is drawing back ; and the worst evidence in support of that assertion is , that it lias not yet met with any direct contradiction . Whatever has happened , it seems to have been notified to the Western Powers while the Emperor Napoleon was in England ; and it may have been earnestly discussed in the intervals of Stntc festivities .

      Tho news from tho seat of war is . scarcely less stirring , and scarcely less uncurtain . The bombardment of Sobnstopol recommenced on the 9 th instant ; it was continuing on the 14 th ; it was then reported that Omau Pacha had received a requisition to send n picked body of men to Kamicsch Bay ; two breaches had already been mado in tho walls ; tho cannon of tho Allies , it is said , px'ovod immensely to outweigh those of tho

      Russians ; the approaches had got so close , that the regular day ' s work began to assume the fashion of fighting in the field ; and the as .-jav . lt appeared to be impending . The anticipation created by this announcement , however , only serves to arouse , and not to satisfy , anxiety . If the southern side be taken , what will the Allies do Avith it ? Highly probable descriptions of the fortress make it unlikely that the south could be held while the north side is still in the hands of the defenders ; ^ and the" attempt at occupation would only expose the invaders to still greater slaughter than they have yet incurred .

      The Loan is already a mailer of history , although the money has not yet come in . The City men met the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday , and heard his proposal . lie told them that he wanted 16 , 000 , 000 of money , that for that ho would give them 16 , 000 , 000 of stock ut three per cent . ; and since no City men would give 100 Z . in full for 100 Z . Three per Cent . Stockj with prices scarcely-above , 90 , _ he added as an inducement a " terminable annuity" to last for thirty years . The questions of the money men seemed to place the Chancellor or the Exchequer in some difficulty . At all events , his manners indicated no confidence , and City men

      did not display greater confidence . Did he intend to admit bidders for small portions ? Sir Corn'ewall Lewis rather thought so ; but when tho City men demurred , he consulted his chief , Lord Palmerston , nnd gave way . Catechisings about possible subsidies to foreign nations , cross-questionings about the inconvenient nature of the terminable annuity tacked on to the perpetual annuity , reiterated inquiries about the s . ilo of Stock on Savings Bank account , and a doubt wiioilicr the declaration of a Government intention was to be regarded as a pledge , were incidents which showed an uneasy , almost mistrustful fueling among the City men ; and Sir Corskwakl

      Lewis ' s manner was not calculated to run \ > ve that mistrust . He did not seem to bo at home . However , the City men wont away , leaving an impression that the money would be had ; 11 ml fie funds in the City began to go up and down inulur tho alternate inlluonco of endeavours to < U'pre . ss them , in order to got tho better terms from Government , and the purchases of the undisciplined public . Tho terminable annuity is regarded as an unfair pretext for using that popular name , and as a paltry innovation not worth tlia inconvenience and disturbance which it creates hi the

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      "The one Idea which History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the , Ideaof Humamby-the > noUe endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prej udice and one-sided views ; and by setting . asidethe distmctions 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- **¦<** Imperial Parliament 362 The Sevastopol Committee 303 The War 303 The " Moniteur " on the War 305 The Vienna Conferences 366 Tho Imperial Visit 366 Honi Soit Qui Mai y Pense 368 The Paris Exhibition 368 The Loan . 309 India , SGSL ^ r America 369 Testimonial to the late Lord Dudley Stuart- 369

      Our Civilisation 370 Health of London during the Week 370 State of Trade , Labour , and the Poor 370 Continental Notes 371 Naval and Military News 371 Miscellaneous ..., 372 Postscript 373 ^ . - PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe Reception 374 What of Austria ? 374 The Non-National Loan ; . 375

      Middle-Class Statesmen and the Army 7 " . 375 The Cambridge Bill 376 The Sanitary and Medical Conduct of the War 377 " N . V . " —A Problem 377 Religious Arrests in Sardinia ... 377 LITERATURESummary 378 Law Reports 378 My Courtship and its Consequences 379

      A Batch of American Books 370 Books on our Table 3 S 0 THE ARTSThe British Artists 3 S 0 The National Institution 3 ^ 0 Royal Italian Opera 3 S 1 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 3 S 2 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , &c 332-381

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      VOL . VI . No . 265 . ] SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2087/page/1/