Guardian (Newspaper) - October 24, 1855, London, Middlesex No. 516.] THE Sir E. Lyons has been prompt and successful in making up for bis long spoil of compulsory The capture of the forts oh the Kinburn speedily followed by the blowing up of tho works at is a judicious operation ably stretches across the mouth of a long shallow at of which stands behind an archipelago of amongst which the Dnieper lazily worms its way to the About up the bay another long channel opens to the leading to at the mouth of the river called by geographers the in these politer X military road runs from Kinburn to where it strikes the great between and both according to the soundings given in Mr. are practicable for vessels of light but tho shores are lined with batteries and the channels sinuous and The value therefore of the achievement cannot as yet be must depend in part on the accessibility by water of those great dockyards and magazines since the full of it has become our principal object to but it gives us at any rate where we may fortify from which we may approach them by and whence we can take in the We in at a and a more critical the great line of communication by which draws his On this we shall soon know Odessa invites attack by of its now batteries and but the appearance of the fleet in that quarter seems to have been no more than a and the Admirals account for their day's stay thereby adverse From the Crimea itself we have nothing new except that it has been deemed necessary to destroy Taman and two small places on an island at the mouth of the Sea of for the purpose of depriving the Russian troops in that neighbourhood of the shelter they and the stores they General Simpson comes it is has accepted a resignation dictated by his physical incapacity ftf and he is to be succeeded by a younger Some journals have given prominence to tho unlikely name of the choice of the the not the superior were the probably fall on The waste and pressure of a great war begin to pinch us As winter second winter we have been fairly embarked in have wheat at 12s. a at 86--the Bank demanding six and seven the discount of good commercial and failures in the crowds in st no great distance a ten per cent. Mid another These are the ordinary and inevitable incidents and consequences of a contest such as that in which we are and he must have been very short-sighted or very sanguine on whom they come Nor js it amiss that we should feel On the great mass of us the horrors and miseries we read of it may be in reality but a slight The effect they leave is put to flight by a movement of or a flush of national and yields in a moment to considerations of State policy which we take on trust and do not give ourselves the trouble to even of the most unselfish among are conscious how little at the bottom of their hearts they are affected by which do not touch them It is not amiss thon that a for which we are responsible and which involves so much that is horrible and calamitous to should be attended with some sensible inconvenience to At St. Petersburg these things will be magnified by the eager credulity of and a Government which not permit its own difficulties to will doubtless build unduly upon like everything we exaggerate than this if it undertaken with will be maintained with obstinacy as long as we feel sure that we are Mr. Bright is mistaken have not got stuff in us for and can hardly be as to have suffered anything at It is not till we are no longer sure of being in the right we shall see arguments for peace in heavy high and hard The imaginary of peacemakers vanished into thin people are little ashamed having given any credit to so improbable a nothing remains of the nest but the remembrance the nervous alarm which it excited in the more Rotates of together with a certain sensation of itself in several as to of opinion on the subject really is. i the which a few months ago it was a sufficient condei OCTOBER 24, 1855. recently taken up with a persistence and courage it is not a mete but a course deliberately adopted by those whom it avowedly Is Mr. Disraeli likely to throw himself into a position which would isolate him from the bulk of his Has that difference of opinion merly manifested itself among the become greater or less by of time do men think exactly as they did P And in which direction are inquiry and reflection carrying them Each person has some materials in himself and his own circle for an answer to these and no one has enough to enable him to answer them to his own complete We are told that we must not talk of these there is really no difference of opinion at so But the difference finds and will not and need not be There are two parties amongst one of not at patching up a hasty but at persuading men to define for themselves honestly tho objects and scope of the the other at dissuading them from doing and it is more natural than reasonable that the latter should wish to impose silence on the In Sir W. who expired last Monday after a short we lose a man of considerable cut off in the prime of but his death is principally felt as removing from the stage of publio affairs one who occupied a position peculiar to literary and philosophical Radical of fortune and Radical Cabinet When next we want a Radical in the shall we find one who is and who moves in the society from which Ministers are who is neither dangerous in opposition nor troublesome in place P Meanwhile who takes the Colonial Office P Lord Elgin P Lord Harrowby Mr. as the rising man of the finds some The post is a legitimate object of ambition for but he is hardly ripe yet for so sudden and considerable a fvp K t0 the tht aim ef the and that The fate of certain French who have made themselves conspicuous by setting up a blasphemous and seditious journal in the Island of may be td that mixed multitude of homeless men doings we commonly exercise perhaps too little The public feeling which they were trying to exciter against others rose against and local authorities yielding to expelled them from the refuge they had One of these creatures struggles to publish through the press his disbelief in the justice of may he if he is in some mercy from A certain soreness exists between Austria and It is in the nature of that feeling to grow and aggravate and there are symptoms that this is likely to be the case in the present The conclusion by the Court of Vienna of a new if the outline of it in the publio papers be makes large concessions to is certainly no business of but a trumpery dispute between Tuscany and in which that Court is the prime threatens to occasion some As it is a very little cloud than that lately arose and dispersed at there is no reason why this should not vanish unless there is a decided disposition to our Oct. 22, 1855.- The news of the capture of Kinburn and the surrender of its garrison wore posted at the Bourse on and tho details of the attack and the result it led to published in a supplement to the of tho same Yesterday the accounts of the whole affair were placarded throughout the streets of and greedily read by the thousands who were enjoying the brilliant Sunshine and Sunday holiday in every quarter of the The tidings appeared to create unwonted the fair weather and the good news harmonised well and the comparatively cheap rate at which this signal success has been achieved has rendered the announcement of it doubly For the first - a Russian on her own sacred is neither defended to the burnt and up before it falls into the hands garrison capitulates to deliver up itself and all Its ' i safe and to its and which may prove dangerously contagious to similarly Ono cannot but wholly at variance with the customs of to be justified only in extreme cases flj that the struggle is pro arts el foots against a ewal been carried out in this and that up on honourable terms as a place tion of life and now sin objectless bombardment of directed instead against strong places of the enemy where armed garrisons only will be the chief by the Consuls at Odessa to the allied with the crowd of foreign subjects of their respective who inhabited the and to whom the larger portion of real and personal property within its walls shows how far such a proceeding would have been from inflicting injury on the enemy The despatches of Admiral dated the 17th of and to which I refer you for full particulars of this most important explain also the reason of the long delay which has taken place in the operations of tho and of the long trial of to which the public has in been unavoidably It appears that strong westerly gales kept the fleets in the Odessa roads from the 8tii to tho 14th, creating no doubt so heavy a swell on the opposite coast as to render all military or The samo heavy made the 16th also lost even after the troops had been landed and the fire partially whilst tho public was fretting and fuming for tho Admirals and fleets were struggling with rolling seas and bad and pining for and tho only they could possibly havo sent us would have been indeed for the that they were only waiting for a change of wind to come down upon him at Surely Such incidents and the explanation of them should cure us of that vulgar itch of wanting to things before their which seems to bo held up in some quarters as a high national principle and The object of the expedition appears to bo now clearly developing and to point to on the grand between and as the real aim of. the It is an expedition having the same object in view as that to the Sea of Azoff had Subordinate objects will be of course the cutting without the necessity oven of the presence of tho of all sea between Odessa and as well as of rendering yet more than the Russian navy has hitherto shown whatever ships may be in embryo at the latter We may every day hope of the capture of and with the mouths of the Bug Dnieper strongly fortified in our the Russian at will be worth no more than Robinson Crusoe's A note of the speaks of the captured fortress as in one the sole defence of mouth of tho is represented as sufficiently bad mounting a battery of nine heavy recently and enfilading the channel of but at a groat The previous to the chief articles of the Concordat between Rome and They amongst other the right of full and unrestrained liberty of in things spiritual and between Romo and the prelates and clergy of To the latter they grant the right of issuing such ordinances and instructions on ecclesiastical matters as seems suitable to to the Bishops to name their to grant or refuse the collection of erect change prescribe funeral convoke and publish the acts of &c. The Bishops are to direct the religious instruction in all and an ecclesiastical Inspector ib to be appointed to They have also the right to prohibit books contrary to religion and and tho civil Government promises to lend them to prevent the publication of Purely civil cases respecting ecclesiastics are to bo judged before as also criminal but in the latter case previous notice is to be given to the Tho Government has the right to present Bishops to the Pope for but for the choice ho must previously take the advice of the Bishop of tho In cathedral the Pope nominates the first the Emperor the The conventual bodies may communicate freely with their superiors at and tho latter may visit all religious The reception of novices and the formation of now convents by the Bishops is with the consent of The Univers appears highly satisfied with the result and declares the news to be the of all Germany and the joy of The it which the Concordat Holy See accords to his Majesty the in the eyes of angels and men the apostolical empire and the young We have an evidence of the labours of Mary the Immaculate for the pacification of a who always with a the august privilege of the Mother of May the example of the Emperor Francis Joseph riot be lost other Kings and ConsiderAble is port with as the period at and Pf n
