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      LeaJ ) KB Oi * Fi&E , Satiiriidyj'Kbdh . SW 6 ESSF 0 L ENGAOEMENT BEFORE MBlSt b ^ Ml We rifle Mrs taken : The following intelligence reached Lord Panmuie late -yesterdfly ^—"' Aa ^' & ^^ eM aOTt toQfcplace on thefeigntdf the 1 st qfiSffty in front and'left attack . The whole of the Russian rifle pits were taken , eight light mortars , and 200 prisoners . The whole affair was brilixcuit fbr ^ flie Allies . "

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      eOlOTTOATION OF THE COFTEST . ! ( By Submarine Telegraph . ) The 2 Wrify iVetri has the' following ttc B 4 lbie Sevastopol , " Friday Morning , May , 4 . «( h tie night of ^ vredriesday last , May 2 , the French under- General j ? eiissier having taken up a position before the Quarantine Bastion , advanced brisHyupbn the Bastion No . 4 , attacked the adranced " works which the Russians had raised to jrotect that Bastion , and carried them at the point > f the bayonet .

      «« In this attack tfee French took twelve mortars ' fronrthe enemy . The Engineers immediately occupied the ground , and began to carry on a flying sap . At daybreak they had succeeded in establishing themselves in the conquered works . " East night ( Thursday ) the Eussians made a general'sortie / wlth the object of retaking the lost ground . After a sanguinary combat , they were driven back into the place . " Our losses have been great , but bear no proportion to ; those of the enemy , nor to the advantages

      gained . " This (^ Fr iday ) morning , the Russians have neither a man nor a gun outside the regular enclosure of the place . "

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      EfSURRECTION IN THE UKRAINE . Pbttaxk letters from St . Petersburg ( says the Daily News ) confirm the telegraphic announcement of the insurrection of the peasants in the Ukraine , and state further that it has already extended to the governments of Poltawa , Tchernigoff , and Kharkoff . Great cruelties have been committed . At St . Petersburg , every article is at famine price .

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      Gbexong aito MELBOunnnE Railway . —Thia . line , the pioneer of the railway system in Australia , is in course of rapid construction , and by the last advicfc the opening of the Harbour branch and a portion of the line was expected to take place early in June next .

      Prase * : Lucikn Bonajpartk . — On Saturday last , Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte mot -with a serious ' accident at bis residence in Westboume-grove West . He was ascending some steps in his library to reach a book , when , accidentally" slipjjing , he fell and broke his leg . He is going on well . Alarm of Firk at Ducky-lank TracATitE . —During the performance of La 8 onnambula on Wednesday night at Drury-lane Theatre , an alarm of ilro was caused by a gentleman in the boxes , who fancied ho saw amoko

      arising from a part of the proscenium . A # rcat many of the audience rushed out of the theatre , and the crush ' at the doors * y ^ aa so great , that it was feared some fatal " result Would have occurred from the pressure ; but fortunately no accidents happened , and the alarm proved a false one . Mr . Stirling , the stage-mnnnger came forwartl oh the stage , and assured those who remained that "there was no" cause to '; be alarmed ; and 'Mr . Smith , the * 1 eiwfee ;~ gavetho Htfmd- « aailrance frDm too of thtf private ^ Soddes . Order was in'cxmse < Jtience ' Wlt <) r a short ^ into'restored , and the performance proceeded .

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      THE FALLING SICKNESS OF THE NATION . We are engaged , and wellnigh worsted , in a vast war , of which , so far from seeing the end , we do not even know the object . Officially it is the integrity and independence of an empire which we all know very well we intend ultimately to partition , and which we do-not and never shall allow to have a will of its own . According to some , it is the promotion of the interests of civilisation , a noble object , but somewhat extensive and scarcely military . In the eyes of the mass of the

      people it is a crusade against despotism , in which we are embarked with the despot of Turkey and the liberticide of France for our actual allies , and the absolute Emperor of Austria , the would-be Autocrat of Prussia , and the Shah of Persia , if we can get them . "We have lost one army . " We are in a fair way to lose another . AVe have become the vassals , not of France ( we would it were of France ) but of the French adventurer , of whom his most intimate confederates and

      most abject sycophants were telling us the other day that he was , in the new slang of political roguery , " Master of the Situation ;" and who is most earnestly recommended to our absolute confidence by those who owe him a peace-offering for having treated him as a wolf . Our national name has passed away like a dream ; we are sinking deeper into the mire of debt ; our military resources and levies

      seem exhausted ; and wo have every prospect that a spring drought can give of a wet summer and a bad harvest . And what does this situation evoke among our statesmen ? Greatness or resource equal to the emergenc y ? Not even serious apprehension of it . Not even a manly senBO oi tho dangers of the country . ' Nothing but Byzantine

      rhetoric and Byzantine intrigue . * Between the shallowncss of public men and tho giddiness of tho people , very few—very few indeed—have eyes to see , or hearts to fool , tho horrible position into which wo arc drifting . The . onaost promising thing visible '> is the movement against aristocratic incompetence in high places . But even this movement is carried on with a miserable narrowness of

      scope "and - a minevahle bliiiulneBs tortho . real Bource of the < rvil . - ' Its ' loaders"areY » iactnrd , 'but ' ehdrt-flighted atftl Utoisy "men . 'without

      greatness * df purpose or ¦ high , "morals , * who nai ^ ttw'theii ^ e ttow ^ to ^ e ^ ty- # J ** oiiati % ies , and who , wh ' eii they " are £ r 6 Yecl ' wrtfng in those personalities , hare not the sense ttmd 'XnsnlraeBs ^ not to « ay the honesty , ( to retract . The followers « re , ft ** the 'Most "part , men quite as changeable with the inefficiency of our public men as the aristocracy themselves . G ? hey r are'City'merchants , mho never send to ' BBHrliament ; atiy f but or very rich

      man . They are constituencies of « mall renal boroughs who send to ' Parliament ' any aristocratic or * moneyed blockhead who will buy them . They are 'fanatics Tvho ' decimate tho ability of Tafliameht in the interest of their fanaticism . The merchants of Liverpool are very forward in the crusade against nepotism ; but did they not turn out Mr . Caedwell , one of our most valuable and upright public servants , and put some nameless respectability

      in his place Dccause he would not degrade himself to the level of their bigotry about Roman Catholics and Maynooth ? There is a general want of political virtue . There is levity , sycophancy , cupidity , bigotry , indifference in the people , as well as incompetence and frivolity in the rulers . "What sort of Ministers does a nation deserve or expect whicli elected the present llouse of Commons ?

      We have met with reverses , and under the guidance of our Imperial patron we shall meet with more . And how will this nation bear them ? We are not like those republics which had soldiers as long as they had men , and the simple lives of wnose citizens placed all their wealth at the disposal of the State . Physical courage we still have , and our noble soldiers have displayed it in as high a degree as ever it was displayed by man : their

      valour , appreciated by our ally , is a surer protection to our coasts than his caresses . But as a nation , we are luxurious and effeminate ; -we all live up to the very utmost of our means , and feel every penny of increased taxation . We have already come to loans . "We went swaggering into tho war , with tho T ^ imes blustering at our head ; but we do not swagger now . flow will it be if we find ourselves alone in Europe , without an army , and with all the world our enemies ? It is as

      well to be prepared even for that situation . Wo are tired of crying exoriarc aliqids ! IVhat is not in the House of Commons cannot come out of it . -if theip had been a great man there , he vronld have shown himself "long before this . ITe would have come forward to define , with authority , the real object of the war , and to take its conduct into his own hands . We repeat , with the we * m-

      ness of despair , the roll of too familiar names . Mr . Bright and Mr . Cojjden might help us if they were not Quakers . Mr . Gladstone might help us , if he were not checked by Puseyite casuistries and Conservative qualms . They have all their ifs . They have all their personalities , their connexions , ami tlioir hitches . Tho whole political world is iuU oi intrigues—Whigs jobbing for their clique , and Tories shamming democracy to trip up tho Whigs , and restore the glorious reign oi promotion by merit and political integrity m aammiH

      tho persons of tho old Dorbyito . rution . A dissolution would bo mi appeal to Mio people to send up some good men , it tney have any ; and they would probably respond to that appeal by sending up a largo imvjoriiv of eons of peers and directors of jomt-tstocic companies , pledged to support Mr . SroortrBR on" tho question of Mnyfltooth .

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      ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMEKb . The men of tho middle cIuhh who have taken up . tho , task of roibrmiug- the . JkdnunMtimtMJM , wall , find tbo « w * rk 'as do wand toiisoiwo vas tho'siogp'df'a strotig town . Tho enonrtyw

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      SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IS THE WAR PRISON AT LEWES . Ybstbrdat , ' the Rnssian prisoners refused to pnmp water from the wells , and were deprived of some of their meals nntir they shonld become more orderly . They then drew forth ' knives , and attacked the guard of pensioners . The Sussex militia were sent for , and arrived by special train . Ultimately , the prisoners' wete disarmed of their weapons , and about a dozen were placed under restraint .

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      it SATUItDAY , MAY 5 , 1855 .

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      Ttiere is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the 3 trai& to keep things fixed when all the tvorldT . a by the very law oi its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Absold

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2089/page/14/