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    VULiqAB IMPATIENCE OF ADULTERA TlOuST

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    iother light ; than that of a serious diversion ; iinlly aware at the same time , that if he found dti-convenient , 0-eneral Moubaviefp , who -fought his way through these countries with ithe victorious army of Paskiewitoh thirty * reix years ago , would strike as heavy a blow as he could .

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    -id : THE WAR IN THE NORTH . 1 ^ SVPPiiBMSKTAii war-estimate has been laid Ibefore Parliament in addition to the votes , -reaching to something like 20 , 000 , 000 / . and ithe loan of 16 , 000 * 0002 . on war account . < 5 ? he addition is not very agreeable , but it is ^ enough to make the tar-paying public ask -fcfhether at last JLord Pax . siebston ' s G-overn-Qtbent has determined * upon it course of action -which is calculated to attain the objects of itho war in the shortest time . Hitherto his

    c € h ? vemment has suffered from equivocal eonoduet as well as language , and we want Ian--guage as well as conduct that is wwequivocal c § ir WixtiAM Moii ^ swoBTH spoke stoutly on the subject of the war , and gave his valuruble Toucher for Lord Pjllmebstow ' s sin-Ajer ity and energy . A correspondent of the -dDtoTy News calls to mind that in June , 1854 , ^ Ld rd John Rtjssei , ! . spoke grandiloquently i ' atidrildhall of making no insufficient ]> eace , Xand then in April last , when he was drifting

    into approval of the Austrian equipoise , he £ Was acting in favour of a peace which Lord 3 ? AiiMEBSTON' pronounced to be neither safe . nor honourable . In the same way , Mr . Glajd-~ 8 ? TOitE , when in and out of office , may be > 5 eontrasted : in office he was for the vigorous J wrpaecution of the war , out of office he sneered tiatthe dislike of the equipoise plan . Lord ¦ John Russei / l was in favour of the equipoise in Vienna , against it in Downing-street ; Mr . ' Gladstone was against the equipoise in

    Downing-street , in favour of it below the gangway . Are there anymore of these incompatibilities to be discovered ? Lord Pai ,-MEBBton ' s Cabinet has had its greatest -weakness in embodied vacillation , which made ( the Cabinet appear to oscillate between -Uussellism , Gladstoneism , and Clarendonism ^ i ! -Pa . i . meb 8 TON Premier over them all . We " Shall know that the Government has adopted £ ft positive course—that the incompatibilities \ jbave been absolutely weeded out—when we

    * 8 ee that its conduct is in harmony with its -words . How far , then , is the Government ~ $ fflftnared to act upon the larger opportunities < 4 md necessities that call for a new course , r > and a new declaration of that course ? o « iJ " Wo have several times had occasion to - 'faiake a survey of the Continent with refer--iOnce to tho alliances available in lieu of that -which we have , perhaps , happily lost—the ^ Austrian alliance . The resources that exist

    " for us , however , are no longer a matter oi 'i nference to those that watch closely , but they efflare upon tho most careless reader of every Kaaily paper . To say nothing of Hungary or * the provinces included in Austria proper , or * fche provinces moat closely annexed to the -Austrian Crown , Italy , German )' , and the ' Scandinavian kingdoms offer material ground std work upon , much of it quite ready for { ^ Statesmen ' s handling . od

    Tho state of Italy is familiar to our rcadj « te f but before wo proceed further , wo must Prefer to the eloquent letter by Joseph oUCazzini , which has been published in tho illtotfy JVcios . Mazzini renews his complaint < th 9 jb the King of Sardinia was bent on tho 'C reation of a Piedmontese kingdom of the f north and not on tho creation of an Italian * nation . Tho whole drift of his letter is , that the policy now should bo to constitute Italy : 4 republic one and indivisible . Many of those 'Who have acted with MjlZssini , and who 'flrtaUl retain , as we do , sincere respect for his character and affection for his person ,

    protest in word and act ; as we do ; against his endeavour to anticipate the revolution of Italy , and to reject the possible in favour of that which , if not impossible , is out of sight . The kingdom of Piedmont is established on bases that have secured the independence of that limited realm against powerful foreign neighbours ; the people have been called out to take a large share in the government , and have placed the liberties of the 'nation in a course for rapid—very rapid—and steady development . Blessed , we say , would be every part of Italy if it could be placed upon

    a level with that half of the north . What , then , is the actual state of the other provinces ? Naples sympathising with Russia , avowing her resolve to follow Austria , causing her police to arrest her own soldiers , refuses to the British export of grain to the Crimea . In other words , she arrays herself on the side of Russia and of Austria against the " Western Power , her own people , and her own army . The state of Rome is anarchy . Tuscany waits upon Austria , and oppresses her own subjects , who find refuge and livelihood in Piedmont . In Austrian

    Italy the Government is summoning the Central Congregations , a body which possesses consultative powers for the communication between the people and the Government , and some functions in the distribution of the taxes demanded by the Imperial authority . The summoning of the body is nothing more than to assist harassed Baron Behck in raising money , and to conciliate the Lombardo-Venetians . The

    Lombardo-Venetian railway scheme proves a failure . At that very time the Milanese Government is sequestrating the property of Milanese now residing and naturalised in Piedmont , to make good balances removed from the Imperial chest during the revolution ; a spoliation in breach of a treaty by which Sardinia stipulates to pay 3 , 000 , 000 ? . sterling for damage inflicted by the war on Austria .

    The disaffection in Germany is not so irritated , but perhaps it is more formidable . The Germans are a soberer people , but they are acting on convictions firmly established before 1848 . The people of Hanover resist the retraction of liberties conceded to them by their Government during the disturbances of that season ; the people of Wurtemberg are urging their Government to claim the constitution for all the German States which was promised in 1 S 48 . There is no prospect that these claims will be conceded . In the

    meanw hile , the German Governments canuot conceal their weakness . They truckle to Prussia , they truckle to Austria ; they promise to obey the dictates of the two German Powers , that they snail keep their forces in a state of preparation for war , and nevertheless , they are disoanding those forces in order to recruit local industry and to save expense . Tho minor Governments confess by their nets that they have not a firm hold over their own resources , and that they cannot fulfil

    their obedience to the two great Powers whom they dare not openly disobey . The sentiments of the Prussian people we know ; tho Schloswig-llolsteiuers are recovering the hopes which were crushed by tho action of our Government in 18 * 9 ; " we need not call to mind Hesse-CaaBel ; we need Bay nothing about the state of feeling in Bohemia or tho Saxon States ; we need not say much

    about the sympathy of the Danes tor constitutional freedom if their national jealousies could bo assuaged . Tho Swedes are with us though the Gov . ornment vacillates . The refusal of an American ship to pay the State duos claimed by Hanover on tho Elbe , ia only the prelude to carrying out tho notiiioation which Denmark has already received , that tho United States will no longer pay

    the S ^ mM ^^ f ^^ pWx& ^^ i ^ i no money to spare , is ^ asking- ^ Russia to procure from her some compensation ; for the loss of a revenue secured to heir under the European system . p Or Denmark cannot fight the American republic ^ and Russia will not declare war against President ? Pjeboe for the sake of the Sound dues . Denmark can have

    no claim upon the "Western Powers , and she must subnn > to see her exactions reduced , confessing that there is no power to sustain her authority . The German Governments are combining together as mucV againBt their own peoples as against tW Western Powers . They are allying themselves with Russia , leaving their own peoples to be the allies of the West if the West choose .

    Our Government has entered upon some new activity of a nature not yet explained . The outward signs , however , are such as to command attention . In the House of Commons , the tinder-Secretary for War has stated that the Government has abandoned- its former intention of not admitting Italians to the Foreign Legion , and that Italians will be so admitted . Poles and natives of Northern Germany have never been excluded . The dep&t is oil the island of Heligoland , which is about to be fortified—at once the Malta

    and Gibraltar of the German Ocean . It is not certain that the destination of all the corps thus formed witt 4 ) e the Crimea . jN " otv these preparations might be' •¦" made , there might be this expenditure in recruiting men , in bui $ 3 ingf ; fortifications ^ and in parading camps , ^ fleets ; and castlesf only to satisfy-the public mind . All the preparations might be employed by some Gladstone of the Cabinet only for a " moral" purpose , to extort from Russia exactly what Russia is willing to give ; or a John EosfSELi might use the fleets and force as the material means

    tor establishing the equipoise which has been talked of j or the new engines may "be intended for use . Is it so , or not ? If they are intended for use , upon what field ? The danger to Europe lies , not only in the preponderance of Russia m the Black Sea , but m her preponderance in the Baltic , and 011 the land frontier . We have natural allies as much in one part as in the other . If the engines are intended for use ,-we must see them employed before very long ; but , even before that day , the Government might anticipate some of the advantages to be calculated from the use

    of the engines , by declaring the purpose to which they are destined ; might , at all events , call out all the confidence of a nation only anxious to give credit to its executh'e . It might instantly realise those great advantages by the simple declaration that , after the conduct of its German allies , it will henceforward , in the formation of its alliances , be bound by military considerations alone .

    Vuliqab Impatience Of Adultera Tloust

    VULGAR IMPATIENCE OF ADULTERA TION .

    Just a year ago the subject of adulteration was rife iu public notice . We then had had tho Lancet performing its invaluable services by exposing the actual quality of gooda sold and used for food , drinks and medicaments , &e . We then pointed out how the worst adulteration was not that limited to jellies and picklea , apices aiid preserjos , the disease must

    but that the very body of bo found in society itself . In nine cases out of ten , we then said , * the customer aim adulterates ; the butcher , the baker of society , the whole round of tradesmen—the J * " »'» tailor , apothecary , ploughboy , thief , each dealing with tho rest , ^ ch adn \ tor ^ ^ each in his turn purchase * adulterated goods . It is a division of emp loyment m violation of

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    • Leader , Juty 16 » 1861 *

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2101/page/9/