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      11 TF anything could corroborate the popular de-L A sire for a winter session , it would be the f movements on the Continent , which have so much t . the aspect of new combinations , but which are 11 reported and , explained , in . a manner bo distr ^ ea-- | « ngly imperfect . Fails b becoming the raftre r " from which the campaign * diplomatic as well as [ military , is directed . The visit of Queen Vic-I £ tojua . was not the first that the Emperor Napo-I jjson has received , though by far the most im-I portant ; it promises not to be the last ; and I amongst the crowned Leads who licive actually I consulted the reigning Emperor op the Fkesch , I or are to follow , we may enumerate the King or I the Belgians , the Kino of Portogax ., Queen I Victoria , the King of Sardinia , the King of I Bavaria , and the Kino of Wcbtemdkrg . To I the list we may add the Queen or Spain ; for I although her Majesty has not come , her position I is such as would make her readily enter into Any ! future congress of Paris for the settlement of the I Continent . I Dilatory as the conduct of the war may have I been in all quarters , it is not to be denied that the I Russians are losing ground . This is rendered 1 certain by their own reports as well as by the a reports of the Allies . Every fresh account from 1 the Tehernaya proves not only that the last en-I gagement was of much greater importance than I we at first imagined , but that the defeat was yet I more important . "Wo have already explained the general nature of the attempt , and our interpretation is confirmed by the plan discovered on the body of General Rkad ; only that the design was yet larger than we supposed it to bo , and the failure , therefore , proportionate . The plan was r to make a sortie from the town on the extreme I loft , another on the extreme right , with the broad v attack across the Tchorn ay a on the right flank ; and if those simultaneous attacks succeeded , to [ advaneo upon the rear , take possession of 13 ala-\ t' klavn , enclose the Allied forces , drive them into It the sea , and raiso the fiege , —or pack up the Allies as prisoners for exportation , with a royalty I on the export . The plan was not carried out : the sorties from the town wore not made , but I Gohtschakoff ' s army for the attack across the I Tohornaya was strengthened by mnvly- 'U ' rived I reinforcements , mingled with the pick of tho I troops nlreRdy in the Russian camp ; the men wore

      primed with brandy , and with superstitious expectations ; they were led with , great valour , and they could only be repulsed by a still greater valour , with the strength that the Allies derived from a higher discipline and morale . The Russians were driven back three timc 3 before they retreated , and even then their overwhelming numbers prevented the Allies from following them . . It-isi clear , therefore , that the Allies are in no state toiake possession of the Crimea ; but it is equally clear that the Russians , for some reason or other , no longer retain the strength to bide their time ; and still more evident that they want either the command , the morale , the discipline , the skill , the supplies , or all these things , to maintain an effective equality with the besiegers . It is very much the same in the Baltic . The report of General De Bekg on the bombardment of Sweaborg is clearly intended to m : ike light of that continued attack ; and as we know how false are his accounts of destruction to English ships , we may imagine that his accounts of immunity for Russian stores are equally inaccurate . We also know how to estimate the " one Cossack , " who i .- -, as usual , killed on these occasions . But General Dk Bkru admits great destruction ; and the report that more Russian war-ships are to appear at some period not yet iixed , for the purposes of assailing the Allied fleet , must be taken as a symptom that the Russians grow uneasy under the protracted cSorts of non-action . The exactly opposite policy in Asia appears now to be equally unsuccessful . Gencr ; d Mol'Ravieff , endeavouring to be strong on too many points , has succeeded upon none . Russia , therefore , we may regard as decidedly losing ground . Even the satisfaction expressed in Stockholm and Copenhagen is another sign , and a very satisfactory sign , that Russian shares are falling in the market . The Aftonhladt does not scruple to come out with a declaration that tho Swedes rejoice at the success of the Allies before Sweaborg f the Ficdrclaml gives a very similar expression to Danish feeling ; and there is a talk of a Scandinavian alliance : \ gainst the tyrant of the Baltic ! If Russia is losing ground , so is that power whom wo are beginning to regard as her last convert , her ally—Austria . The Government at Vienna has boon thrown into a doubly minister and apologetical position , at the same time that il is detected in movements quite inconsistent with tho friendly expressions towards tho Western Powers . Not that it has abandoned its claim as

      our ally ; on the contrary , explanations have been used to draw forth from the English Government assurances that nothing hostile is intended by the formation of the Anglo-Italian Legion in Piedmont—assurances , we shouldhAvethought , qijute Unnecessary . : Ytk ^ a ; in ^ ft ^ Js ^^^ BSSfe * protection in passiigiacripsg ) af ^ 0 g & ! v ^ Sp ^ y » side aixj asjfes j ^ i ^ ^^ aniati ^ JrT ^^ wears" a show ant 4 l * ep » £ ed- r ^ ta ^ af ^^ -f ^ wfe ^ P ^ d make suspicion recoil up ^ n ;^ e : in ^ r % ^ . j ^< £ " so it is with-Austria . If she doubts the motwjgspof forming an Anglo-Italian Legion , we have a right to doubt why she is arming Verona , Pola , and other places which equally menace Piedmont , the Adriatic , the Milanese , and the Venetian territory . Her attitude is that of a state who regards the forces in Piedmont , Italian or English , the people in the Sardinian States , the vessels sailing on the Adriatic , the inhabitants of Venice , and the people of the Milanese , as her enemies . Before we leave the question of threatening aspects we must glance at the new insurrection iu India . Not that we join our contemporaries iu hastening to presume that it is the outburst of a Russian conspiracy . The S : \ ntals who inhabit a hill district of Bengal have risen in thousands under a divine mission to expel the invaders , British , and wo may suppose Mussulman and Hindoo , and to re-establish some ancient regime , about two hundred miles from the capital of the British Presidency . These Santala belong to a race supposed to be primitive ; its origin not being known , but being' apparently anterior to that of tho Ilindoos and Saracens . They have by great exertions of British " reformers" been settled down upon the land , the British reformers in most cases being the head collectors of thut revenue which partakes of the nature botli of rent and taxation . Iu other words , the Santals might say that they have been inveigled to abandon their manly nomadic existence in order that they might bind themselves to the land , and be taxed by alien invaders . Perhaps some recent o . Teiioe * have stirred them up . Labourers on tlie railway which is forming through their district , iu ' s said , have meddled with their women ; which is likely enough , as tho Hill men of our own lhuinr could testify . Hence they have mustered , as tho U&nux men di . l in tho Reform Bill day ? , , n" « l other-times of tumult ; but the Indiana are armed with battle axes , bows , and arrow * . They have na iled

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      VOL . VI . No . 284 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 1 , 1655 . Price { £%£ *;; ggggj § t

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      I NEWS OF THE WEEK- ' »«¦ I The War 830 II The Last of tho P 6 tos 831 I Tho Italian Nightmare 832 I I Continental Notes 832 I Our Civilisation 833 I A Reverend Magistrate 834 I Naval and Military News 834 I Obituary 83-1 I Miscellaneous 834 I Postscript 835 i I , PUBLIC AFFAIRSli ' Tho Perils of the Nation 835

      Tho Promotion of Labour 830 I Archdeacon Denison £ 42 The Battle of the Tchernaya ...... S 37 Prince Albert ^ 2 Eximiiiatioii Tests 837 Sunday Trading once more Sfcl Disraeli and Bolingbroke SJS , __ Victrix Victoria Victa 839 LITE * ATUREThe Last of Young Ireland ...... 839 Summary M 3 Marshal Radctzki and Lord John Heine's Poems $ « ltussell 810 Reed on English Literature 84-i General Pepc 841 The History of Napoleon Bonaparte 8 « OPEN COUNCIL— The Bulgarian the Turk , and Italy for tho Italians 841 thoUerman ... 846 Miss Nightingale 843 A Batch of Books M *>

      1 Horace Greeley ,: i 847 - i Addenda ^ 848 Boots on our Table 848 THE ARTS" Eli" at the Birmingham Fesi tival „ 849 j Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 830 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , Advertisements , & . c 800- % 52

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      / «• The . one Idea which Historv exhibit * as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness tb the Ideai of Humanity—the noble eSmrourS ^ hrow down aU Aes barrier * erected between men by prejudice aad one-suied . viewra ; and by setting asxde tne dutanetaon ; [ I o ? Re \ i £ on , CcnmtV ^ and Colour , to treat the whole Sumaa race as one brota ^ rHoQ * . imvijig one great object-tho free development ' of our spiritualnature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos . ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2104/page/1/