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, e/ ( C f~~ r~ , /jam ,;,,-,,, ~- ;:o Ii t No. 22.—VoL. I. (Pt Vitss. LONDON, SATURD.IY, O TUBER 1, 1853. NEWK has arrived that Omen PACIIA is pre paring pontoons to be in a position to cross the Danube ; and that the remaining portion of the English and French fleets may be expected shortly to anchor iu the Darda nelles. The population of Constantinople was per fectly tranquil, though the news of the refusal of Russia to accept the modifications of the Porte had been received there. The fleets are entering the Dardanelles as a political consequence of the passage of the Pruth by Russia ; and, although this step has been deferred for negotiations hitherto fruitless, they are not now in a position to retire until Russia has made arrangements to evacuate the provinces. To obtain this result without a war either Turkey or Russia must recede from itti de mands. The requirements of Thr)iey hnve been endorsed by the four Powers, to whose interpretation of the Vienna note that of Russia is directly opposed. The task is to reconcile this most patent contnuliction. The influence of the Czar at the Ohniitz Conference has so far prevailed over the Emperor of AUSTRIA that the latter will renulin neuter in the event of a war ; and thus ends the boast of her Majesty's Ministers that by their delay they had secured his co-operation. In the meanwhile the Emperor, in a media torial capacity, is seeking for sonic further terms of aceonunodation, but at the date of our latest intelligence be had not yet found them. The fleets in the Dardanelles requiring further instructinns, I,ord Mu:ant:EN is at length It Cabinet which may be expected to be livid in the etutrse of the next %veil:. THE -4hlative speeches of 4• int' Nliiiisters in tiefit land have followed closely on the heels of the stitualittinv 111'SpiltdieS (11 fou n t Ni:ssr.i.itopt:. Peace is to be preserved at " any rot short of a ioieritire of 110114.1 w." The •oily fault 111 this satislat•tory atsstiraiiro is that it leaves iis ill 41101114 Milat 0111* peace owl what by ht,uour, it peaeo fur Itu,siti to hold military nen; pation of tbo LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 185;1. immense armies to congregate on either side, in preparation for a iktptTalte and bloody war? Is it peace for Frew.ll and ships of war to pass the Dardanelles, and drop their anchors in the %%liters of Constantinople, wh e n existing treaties expressly declare that the Sultan shall sa... in ‘r no ships of war to enter the Dardanelles so long us the l'orte remains at PRICE SIXPENCE. for war. as false its it would be to retire sent the maintenance of an army or deed as provawative of hostilities. Had Russia been warned that the passage of the Pratt' would be regarded lllslantlitlll of %%ill' against Turkey her allies, aittem allay 0114' suppose that she would have dared the alter native, or that the question at this 1111,11110114 would have worn the aspect it aloes? Peace really endangered, not by the counsels of those who have urged the adoption or an ill telligible and decided policy, but by the wealk . ness which hats encouraged Russian aggres sion by promising it impunity. As the Vicuna COlderelleo is 116'401%11d wr are now dependent on the young Emperoy of AUSTRIA as to whether further negotis tion will , , pe attempted, and, if so, ohm shape it o luky RSSUIIIe. But, meanwhile. the one premix which never (visaed while ail& matists debated is rapidly advancing. In credible exertions are being made to recruit the Russian forees on the Danube. and the Turkish army is enthusiamtie for battle. IA war come or not. and he its result what it ma). we turn with abhorrence front that policy which, instead of restraining the invatler lay an armed sand resolute attitude, baa done its best to engage in conflict two mighty armies, indamed by hereditary hate. and the fanaticism of hostile creeds, under the fah* prsteueu of preserving the .pstes of Europe. ~...Fiordo +ow ft! SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT CORK. IT is characteristic of bite 111111R11 GIRAMAX that he can never make any rhetorical alfort with. out suggesting to the hearer or reader of his speech the ambiguous antecedents of his pet plexed and contradictory career. One might suppose that he could have addressed the citizens of Cork without compelling them to recollect his vacillation ill policy, and that acrimony of tow, which he has shown on all sides of polities. " I feared," said he, " that " my premenee in Ireland might arouse bitt,r " feelings "—au extraordinary confession front the lips of a British statesman ! We aro thus compelled by himself to inquire, in what country were those angry emotions naturally to be apprehended? Wits it from the Roman Catholics, whom he told, ten years ago, " that conciliation with hellos(' had " reached its utmost limits," and whom he taught, upon Lowther occasion, " that Whig " principles consisted in jealousy of Popery as " nil inshuuiett of power"? Or was at front the Irish Protestants, whom he taunted in 1545 with their loss of political influence, and who read his defence of Cardinal Weir.mas's aggression, and his panegyrie on eonventutil estublishments'.' The First Lord of the Ail miralty could surely have addressed the g. oil natured " Paddies from ('ork " without thus reminding theta that he had inveighed at dif ferent times of his career against both the de nominations of Irishmen in whose preseneo he then found himself. The torrent of the Right Honourable litentlenoWs aftentlimor eloquence must have recalled to some of ills hearers the line in Sri:Nave's" FaCrie ()tepee," where the poet records of " the spreading L ee " that it "eneloseth Cork with its diroded flood," for the river whose !wandering course wait thus ii9tiesil hy the Elizabethan bard mi g ht, hi Ito nit " &Moil" viiiinnvls, he tit! peace ? Is it honour to pretend opposition to the de signs of Russia, and yet take no timely step to resist them,—to amuse Turkey with promises of support, yet suffer her territory to be invaded, —to threaten her with the responsibility of maintaining single-handed the rights we pro fessed to insure by our diplomacy, and yet, in contemplation of au opposite skunked*, to take meastio, ; the purport of which we have not the manhood to avow? If we are still at peace, it is peace accom panied with many of the evils of war, with interrntifion to ti..r trade, gloomy forebodings. liability to panic, and complete uncertainty of wh:►t to-morrow may bring forth. If wt. yet maintain our honour, it is trembling on the edge of an abyss of shame, into which the indeeisionof 'our Cabinet, much longer pro- trusted, will plunge it. When the intelligence first arrived that ships of the combined iNuadron were summoned to Constantinople it seemed doubtful with what (Neal our Oovernment was ACtiUg, qr. whether. indeed, it was acting at all. The French Ambas sador took the initiative in dema ding the presence of these ships ; it was the first seere tary to the French Embassy who conveyed the order for their arrival to Betake, Bay, in a French despatchboat ; and the whole force is now under the command of the French Admi ral, LE BARRIER DE TINAN, who has hoisted his flag on board the Gunter. So far from this step indicating a more decided policy on the part of our Government, it is certain that Lord STRATFORD DE REIWI.IFFE concurred in the proposal of the French Ambassador on his own responsibility. and without any direct in structions from home, We accept the statetneut in .k-sterday's Times as literally true, " that " this measure was nut dictated by any change " in the immediate relations of Bustin' with " the Western Powers." If taken advisedly, it has been taken in pursuance of a policy that has been suffered to remain in abeyance, that feebler counsels might be at liberty to produce an impotent result. There are persons so credulous as to expect that henceforth the emergency will be met by more suitable IIIeaSIIIVS. With a temper too sanguine to be chilled by disappointment, they look daily fin. 54,me evidence of sincerity from Lord A IiERIJEEN. and of vi gum. from Lord CLAKENnos. They expert that Lord Jous's brave words will be fol biwed by brave deeds, and that a Cabinet which throughout this question has manifested only the vacillation of tortuous weakness will at lint he roused to the necessity of manly and hontowahle action. The measures which a few days hence may be thrust. upon the Ca binet alre MA14'1110441, while their Oleo is neutralised by the timid. treacherous, but elall4 'rate representations which are daily made tot a rehietauee to 114111111 truth prOlelSSiOlkh of peace we 111 4 ' bacrititing its rurality to its l ag tt l u w It is 'imply falro to ropveimit arty . rally Onitietry Iln silinutrom .