The Press. — London, England, 1853-06-04 00:00:00

- , P L k , • _3lr2fteot..' • . yrwgrwL,o,,e.,-TigVaGniariellnalkO.W.o".lll4,7l6l—" - a * 3f //60 • ) b .. ( -0 t rt,6s, No. S.—VoL. I. Ot rtss. I , LONDON, SATURD4I; JUNE 4, 1843. " ALL THE TALENTS" 111.1X0 only been in office five months, and in that brief space they have contrived terribly to disturb, and perhaps irremediably to destroy, the peace of Europe. They have so harassed and perplexed our finance, that our most esteemed public secu rities are at a discount ; and there is more than a probability that, before Parliament rises, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will have to propose a considerable loan to carry on the public service ; while that discreet and expe rienced tactician, the Leader of the House of C 011152034, has thought fit to select this moment of tranquillity and ease to *use a disruption in his motley ranks by a well digested Protestant manifesto. CentOdig all the venom of the Durham letter, mitigated* none of its convenient ambiguity. • Every day brings fresh 'evidence of • thokin cepacity, or the insincerity, oflord OWIMMON. We will not presume to-, gkre - iiit iliatiar • and time usy, ^pro ws t these MAMMA qualities ware ite to an complish the present embroilment. On the 25th of April last Lord CLARENDON, in the House of Lords, questioned by Lord CLARRI CAIDE as to the precise object of the Alwrscut son mission, stated that the Porte, " having uo " immediate concern in the matter," had made certain concessions to the French Government in regard to the Holy Shrines, which the Emperor of RUSSIA thought inconsistent with concessions previously made to him, and so he sent Prince MENSCHIKOFF " on a special mission " with a view of placing the question of the " Holy Shrines on a permanent footing." Observe well these words. Lord CLARENDON said then : Certainly considerable naval and military preparations were going on at the time Prince Menschikoff went to Constantinople, but they were greatly exaggerated by public rumour. The Emperor of Russia had practised no disguise whatever as to his intentions, and he (the Earl of Clarendon) viva prepared to answer any question on the subject that could be prudently proposed. Her Majesty's Govertnnent felt pre• cisely the same confidence which his noble friend professed to entertain in the honour and integrity of the Emperor of Russia, and when that Sovereign gave his word as to what he was going to do, and what he was not going to do, he believed that the people of this country, as well as their Government, would place full reliance on it. Such confident assertions from a Secretary of State tranquillised the public mind, and convinced the world that Colonel ROSE had been precipitate iu his appeal to Admiral DCNDAS, although it was noteworthy that, at the same time, the French Attabassador had required the presence of the French goet from Toulon, and that the French admiral had not followed the example of the English one, but had instantly repaired to the vicinity of the scene of action. Well, now it comes out that instead of the famous convention being proposed on the 3th of May, as the Aberdeen journals would have us believe, it had been offered to the Porte so early as the 29th of March, the only difference being that in the draught convention of the 29th March were included conditions still more humi- LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1853. Bating to the Porte, and more undisguisedly subversive of its authority, The convention of the sth May, indeed, is only a well-con sidered modification of the original project of the 29th March. Was Lord CLARENDON aware of the March proposal, or was he not ? In the latter ease, he must have been served by a very inefficient diplomacy. But he was served by Colonel ROSE, who, in consequence of his knowledge of these circumstances, made his hurried ap peal to the British admiral at Malta, and sent off, at the . same time, despatches to Lord CLARENDON. Lord CLARENDON, therefore, on the 25th April, when he spoke iu the House of Lords, was fully aware of all that had hap pened. And with this complete information, l with Lord ABERDEEN sitting by his side, he deliberately made a statement which misled the British Parliament. Aitor this, what faith can we repose in the denigration' of Ministers in both Houses a week ago, that the English and French AnAasee_ 40 4 Es an acting is concert at Con stantinopUß Fourand-twes_ ty _ hours liter *dee declarations were . dally mad% we hare rayon to believe • the ca :l ei relity to the question &the French As dor at this Court, whether England would eor illy and actively join with France in the ..accessary operations, had sot been given. II It yet *veal And why should it be givenl` , Having for nearly half a century entertibind and ex pressed, at least in private, his -*pinion that the Russians should possess Constantinople —having, to the best .of his abilities, actively laboured for that patriotic end when he was Secretary of State in 1828, as proved by the humiliating disclosures revealed in the secret despatches of the Russian Minister at this Court, which were plundered from the archives at Warsaw during the revolution of 1830, and published, for the shame of Lord ABERDEEN, by hiis present colleague, Lord PALMERSTON— why should Lord ABERDEEN, now that the Duke of BEDFORD has made him Prime Mi nister, prove false to these antecedents, or shrink from the accomplishment of his long cherished purpose? His mind, his education, his prejudices, are all of the Kremlin school. Now that he is placed in a prominent position, and forced to lead English gentlemen, instead of glozing and intriguing with foreign diplo matists, not a night passes that his language or his demeanour does not shock and jar upon the frank and genial spirit of our British Par liament. His manner, arrogant and yet timid —his words. insolent and yet obscure—offend even his political supporters. His hesitating speech. his contracted sympathies, his sneer, icy as Siberia, his sarcasms, drear and barren as the Steppes, are all characteristic of the bureau and the chancery, and not of popular and aristocratic assemblies animated by the spirit of honour and the pride of gentlemen. If war break out—and the present prospect ix, that var will break out—this dread calamity must be placed to the account of this man, and of this man alone. He was no sooner placed in office than he habitually and systematically declared that nu concert with the present ruler of France could be depended upon. He sighed tOr the cordial understanding of the Chfiteau d'En, and the buccaneering alliance of the aminwe JOINVILLE. The Emperor of all the IWSSIAS as ably represented at the Court of St. Jame s ' s. Baron Et RUNOW took the hint. All his intrigues PRICE SIXPENCE. and all his temptations to detach the Government of Lord Danny from Franee had failed, as the constalit malediction of Lord MAlNEsuonv by the journals under Russian influence proved. 01%' was the time. The period, watched with super natural vigilance for nearly a century, had arrived. The crisis had occurred, and occulted unexpectedly, which the prescient ambition of CATHERINE hail left Rh all imperial legacy to her successors. Had this country been go verned by either of the great parties. by Lord Joss Russxu. or by Lord Duttsv, pledged alike to uphold the great principles of our external policy, on which our power depends, the do• signs of RUSSIA would have been defeated. But neither Whig nor Tory, Liberal nor Cotner vative, rules now in England. Baron BRUNoW has shown himaelf equal to the occasion; be has seized the golden opportunity by the fore look. Lord MUMMA trembles. while he sees his lontinuttirsod theosk s ourted into effect Lord Cuintuses talks and erbinipers its but the THE GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR INDIA. IF the American criterion of eloquence be adopted, and the length of an address taken as a test of its merit, the palm of oratory is indisputa bly due to Sir CHARLES Woon. He has rivalled Mr. GLADSTONE, and beaten Mr. DiuuELl out of the field. From half-past five to half-past ten last night, the most fastidious of audiences was doomed to endure the infliction of the most monotonous of speakers. At first a densely-crowded House attested tho import ance of the subject, and stimulated the energies of the performer. Every bench was occupied ; all waited in hushed attention ; thronged gallery sat ready to admire, if not to applaud, the display of intellectual skill. Indian officers, retired civilians, anxious friends of Directors, members of Indian reform societies, cotton-manufacturers and merchants from the great trading boroughs, mixed con fusedly in the crowd : nor were swarthy faces and turbaned figures wanting to give some thing of dramatic efleet to the real and momentous interests of the scene. Hours passed ; and still the Minister spoke, and still his audience listened, with patience long undiminished, but with exceedingly Male either of profit or pleasure. To those who b o a not read Mr. kAve's work, or Mr. Camp- Btu's work, or the reviews, or the daily news- papers, Sir C. Weep's speech might possibly convey novel information. To those who knew anything of India it seemed like a stale re- rur i : 1 14 ru joiraly7nTigirlds—iiiid•-iliii ha. mews armies of Russia are rely moving tram the interior provinces to bauD ci thi =or. • a while the Browse of Paris and the Steck e l:schen. of London am bob- Wing Oat Russia cannot, and den not. AM the wlsols world' in arse\ it is dieerared that so p = the north of Gdamany ispqntal. Ra With IN secret understaillicas X ; that , the Scendinavias en . agitated with a que • _ touches their Dardanelles, and w • Wei bably occasion a revolution in Dinniait; dr ) r that the French and English Beets are ly* s idle and separate, because Lord AIUDIIIIN can- e not believe that the empire of Loos NAPOLZON t will last as long as the monarchy of Louis Pin. LIM.