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. . , . .. . .„...hr "1 40 ' , • • . . '. --- 0 '" ..4. • ' a • ' , • •' ' ..... . . A • s , . . . • . ,----, i ------....----- /•-- ONO (- + ___ _••________ _ - ____ No. 150.—VoL. IV. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15,1856. ST STAMPED .... STEPFNCE. UNAMPED..FIVEPENCE. g t Vress. the Reform Bill, must be given up, or England * But the representation is not correct. Be it must prepare to stand alone in the world. conceded that Lord STRATFORD DE REDC LUIZ The reply of Lord PALMERSTON last evening did not, in the first instance, attach to the is of the highest importance for another rea- mission of General WILLIAMS the importance son. He said that as Prussia had been no which that most brave and distinguished officer LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1858. party to the War, it could not he expected that considered it was entitled to, and that hence she should be invited to become a party to the some misunderstanding arose ; it must yet negotiation for Peace. The Conferences had be plain to every one who will impartially read LORD PALMERSTON reminds one of Moliere's now reached a point when she might be asked the correspondence, that the omission to rein- Le Mediein tnalgri lui. He is a Conservative to give her assent to matters already settled, force and supply the army of Kars, and the and to bear her part in those terms of the Set- consequent fall of the fortress, can in no statesman against his will. His " Diable em- tlement which related to the treaties of 1840 respect be chargeable on the British Ambits " Porte je le suis," at one moment, is followed and 1841, to which she was a ?arty. sador. His powers were limited. He could but by "He bien, oui, je suis medicin, jc suis me- It would he affectation to doubt the sub- press on the Porte the necessity of strength dicin," the next. We accept his last avowals, stantial meaning of this explanation It an- ening the Asian army in every possible treat him with all possible respect, and beg nounces that the principles and conditions of way, but he could not create those means . a definitive Treaty have been agreed to, and which the Government of the Sultan lacked. him to excuse any liberties we have taken in we feel that we may now, as regards all essen- He could not raise two thousand artillerymen compelling him to assume a part we think it tial points, congratulate our readers on THE in Constantinople by a stamp of his foot ;he necessary he should fulfil. CONCLUSION OF PEACE. They know that we could not with a word revolutionise the whole The Premier's answer to Mr. DISRAELI'S have never deceived them. We spoke the system of the Turkish Administration ; he question last night, whether Prussia had been truth at a moment when the country was could not breathe into the Turkish corn scarcely prepared to hear it ; and, firm in our menders the military genius they lacked ;he invited to take part in the Conferences at Paris, was in a very different tone to the conviction of the policy most consistent with could not at once change corruption to honesty, answer he had given to the same question the the true principles of Conservatism, with the and apathy to vigour. He could not compel night previously. Ho first treated the inquiry solid interests and real greatness of England, the Porte to avail itself of resources which did and with the welfare of the whole human not exist; make a bankrupt exchequer pro as an improper one. and sheltered his reserve under the plea that what passed at the Con- family, we did not hesitate to declare our eperous, organise an army of relief without ferenees must be kept strictly secret. Bat, conviction that a Settlement which would men or supplies, or send troops across the as Mr. DISRAELI observed last evening, there solve the questions out of which the War sea without means of transport. If it be was a broad, intelligible distinction between arose, could not be otherwise than satisfactory thought that he did not, in the first three ivhat passed within the Conference which to Europe, and honourable to the Western months of General WILLIAMS'S mission, afford could be kept secret, and what passed without Alliance. him all the countenance he might have done ; it which could not. For the Government of this If glory can be separated from the conquests if it be supposed even that he behaved to country to a ff ect reserve on a matter of - of distempered ambition—if it be consistent wards the Turkish Administration with more fact open to the observation of the whole with moderation of spirit, and with a merciful forbearance than they deserved — though such world would be construed as a proof of weak- and tender exercise of power—we do not doubt tenderness is little in accordance with his ness, and a symptom that it was adverse to that this Peace will hereafter he termed general character—let the charge be fairly the course of procedure adopted. Candidly glorious. We believe that it will be eminently made against him. But it shows enormous viewed, the invitation sent to Prussia was not beneficial, and that we have good reason to audacity to assert, and incredible simplicity to to be regarded with j ea l ous y or di s like, but congratulate our countrymen on its conclusion. believe, that his fault in the transaction , be it with cordial approval. It made Germany a It may he the more honourable for not being ever so gross, could have led in any appreciable party to the C on f erences , an d h e ld ou t the showy. To be truly great is to be useful. degree to that great disaster which has been promise of Eu ro p ean concor d. A s P ea ce is to There is no greatness apart from eminent use- the great blot of the war, and has sorely be concluded, and as a defi n itive settlement fulness, and it is not possible that the chit- tarnished the military reputation of England of the Eastern Q ues ti on , an d o th er ma tter s of meter of England can be otherwise than raised in the East. European import, are to be attempted, it is by the leading part she has borne in asserting What do we find in the very first page of surely better that all the g r eat P o we r s should great principles of international equity, and in the Blue-Book ? Why, the general instnic be parties to the terms of settlement, than promoting the work of European Pacification. tions addressed by Lord CLARENDON to that one of them, th roug h au unwor thy feeling General Wittisms on appointing him British of rese n t men t, s h ou ld b e exc l u d e d These THE KARS CORRESPONDENCE. Commissioner to the army at Kars : reasons, urged for some weeks past in THEYou will communicate to mz, for the information of her INGENIOUS attempts are made to disguise the Majesty's Government, all matters of political interest PRESS, have at l as t ga i ne d access t o L or d PALM ERSTON ' S m i n d . H e recogn i se d t h e i r f orce real issue raised by the publication of the which may come under you r ob servation, and y ou will n full informed of the operations in which the in his reply to 'lr. DISRAELI last evening ; and papers on the fall of Kars. A trifling episode Turk i sh arm y is engaged ackowledged that as Prussia was a party to in the story is represented as the story itself. You will send your despatches for this office under the treaties of 1840 end 1841, which would It is urged that the British Ambassador at king seal to her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople. have to be revised, it was necessary that she General WILLIAMS was the servant of the should b e i nv i te d to send representat i ves to Constantinople is the only party to blame, Foreign office. His principal was Lord CLL.- the Paris Conference. We think a some- and that it was through his jealousy of RENDON, and in all that concerned military what operations wider int er p re t a ti on ma y h e g i ven t o General WILLIAMS,Wittisms and neglect of his repre- he was instructed to serve under the Premier's words than their literal sentations, that no effectual measures were the orders, and obey the directions, of Lord meaning will bear. In practice it is .e army of ta ken Kars. to strengthen his hands, and to reinforce RAGLAN. It was the part of our Ambassador th a t th e great P owers of E urope are at Constantinople tn "to obtain from the bound together by a p o lity w hi c h canno t be " Turkish Government all possible facilities" sundered in one part without being sundered Were this representation correct, it would for the performance of his duties as British t alto r gether. Members o f a grea t f am ily in in- go a very little way to remove responsibility Commissioner ; but it was not Lord STRAT•• e national relationship, the rights and privi- FORD'S part to supply him with the means frcm her Majesty's Government. Lord leges of one are the rights and privileges of STRATFORD necessary to hold Kars against the Russia* all. How singular that it should have been DE REDCLIFFE was but their agent army, or to place him in a con di t i the main object of Lord PALM ERSTON'S life to at Constantinople. If he neglected his duty, AA .../OVRAVIEFF in the field. disturb that European Alliance which he is why was he permitted to retain a post of so The advocates of Lord CLiasissieilt-** -- now compelled to confess is essential to Euro- much importance? Ignorance of his proceed- fully and most unfairly takan' peen Peace. PolicyFroi our Foreignthis day a new epoch in ings cannot be pretended. as Lord CLA RE FDON Lord STRATFORD'S neglect of iiii: .' 1 ...;- s. .. v.: must commence, and that was kept fully informed of every circumstance in the fist instance—neglect, . ' .i„ ef, - ' . ‘ . . r ,.... v. Irr itating system of interference with the action that took place by General WILLIAMS himself, apparent than real—to th . '..kl ~.._ . 5. '""... of foreign Governments, which has been Lord and was made aware of his wants, his wishes, whole blame of that neglect' ' l. . .::., 4 ,,, . PALMERSTON'S sole title to the favour of the and of the measures he conceived it ueces- Government is chargeable. • f". $ __./." ° V Party of disturbance at home and abroad since sary should be taken. ' acted, but did not write ; •. - 77 I - ~..