The Press. — London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

Of>ip-k No. 127.—V0L. 111. LOND gly Vrtss. 7. 7 1 ~.. _4 ‘....., ..,. ~ ..„,,.,,,:, . . e i ,6l-t , b 1 _ _____—_.......--...5 ._ . iON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 1855 , . STAMPED .... ST SPENCE. UNAMPED.. F IX I V EPENCE. __ -- -- - -- - - - ---- repulsed. Her Government is reduced to a To wantonly continue the war longer will defensive attitude on its own territory. Feebly argue a purposeless er an aggressive policy. as the naval arm of this country has been While we struggled for a distinct and definite wielded, it has sufficed with the French end—the security of the Ottoman power—we alliance to banish the flag of Russia from might hope that every success would bring us every sea, and to inspire terror on every part nearer to our object. But if we abandon that of her coast. Our enemy is no longer a cause end, we may be sure that every step we ad- for alarm. Her strength has been tried and vance will not bring us nearer to peace, but proved ridiculously unequal to those schemes remove us further from it. The more our de- of universal conquest which have been mands on Russia increase, the more impos- vulgarly ascribed to her. She has been both Bible will it be for Russia to accede to them. repulsed and punished. The total destrue• The real point for all moderate and rational tion of her Euxine fleet and the fall of Sebes- men to consider is—that peace is prac- topol will live for ever in the memory of her ticable now because the original basis of the Government as a terrible warning against war is unchanged; but if we alter that basis aggressive warfare. —if we declare that, in place of being solely We have arrived at that point in the con- desirous to check the aggressions of Russia, test when the integrity of the Turkish em- we are resolved to dismember her empire— pire may be effectually secured from foreign and another campaign might, from the neees- aggression, and when the power of Russia in sities which follow in the train of war, in- the South may be limited in such manner as evitably compel that determination—the war to be no further cause of alarm to Europe. must then be a war of extremity, and Russia, We do not say that a pacific settlement can battling for her existence, would fight with her be secured on this basis, but that it may be life in her hand. secured; that all the elements for it exist; and Is England, with professions of justice and that moderato views on the part of the con- moderation on her lips, to continue the war tending powers, with adequate statesmanship, with the fiercest of democratic passions, the are alone required at this time to effect a just, lust of conquest, in her heart? The last year a satisfactory, and a lasting peace. has cost us forty thousand men, and forty ~ millions of money. Are we prepared for ten That the fall of Sebastopol was a great or twenty years of warfare on the same scale, turning-point in the contest will be evident . with objects continually shifting, alliances from this fact alone: that no ,son i wer was the c h ang i ng ' and t h e n i g h t- bi r d s o f revo l ut i on town in the hands of the allied ,soa r watching their opportunity to profit by the than Marshal PELISSITER promised his army a general convulsion, and to extend it by-duo/et speedy return to France, and preparations and torch? .... ~ • were made for the destruction of the great works if no choice be lift de, if from the necessity of the city. This act decisively proves that up to of. the situation the . war: must contiuue, :the that period the allied Commanders,were under Cati servativu 'party in this country wallow; , .. ' 1 7. an impression that the purpoae of. the expo, shrink.from the:efforts and saerifious requirs4 tlitoa would. be aecemplished with the tall Of, o. Win g'it to , ti • successful cisaue. ine. In. that e the. town, and, that, Ao •,permanent occupation our; ackoba lay etem of :government! crust -he of the , witetej's u territory was, contemplatqd: changed; and 'ours[ army •be placed on a dm,. Before they I aatnalli , begun . the , Work ,of der roughly* efficient footing. Our force 'must strnetion.,they,aodglat .ipatrnetions from their never. be • permittod to sinkto a mere coutin- P.nv4nreepts., , The q.nawer returned was, that gent , iii any war which we boar a principal AW 90KllIfft was not only to 'he ,retained, put, fait. '' . - . , : o, 11e, reete,red Ind .strengthened;. and, wit); . But those considerations of the , inutility that . enswer„ 0 shipment of: all .kinds •of 'of , Prosecuting hostilities heyond. a certain A..• steree ap,'d,tininuin'ition,. Which had previously : fiint,,Which weigh - so strongly avith thought. been suepended p: naa resumed with increased !ill minds in. this country, sea riot likely,to be ta:c4iYitY.., , -. : , 'it 4 I . ,• , .) 1 . 'without their influenee.in.Rusainotud me the , ; This clreumstanee 4.4g:itself sufficient to :Continent generally. 'Russian statesmen; from show,•thatNit is uow the e determination must by experience .of what has taken. place ,before taken,whethertheveliey,which .originated the !Sebastopol, must know what the gexseral for- ayer shall..be . maintained or, shall : be :tote* tune .ofithe•war will be. Her power will be obanged- .. Shath , we'still nip .0 seggra a PeacP 'beaten back; sloivly end ,with mighty .effiart, 1 te. preserve Turkey, or to prosecute war for the ; but; still surely,l at every point, where the ;destruetion_of Russia? Shall our aim be Con- contest is waged. .If the, struggle js 'to .be .. ~ servative or Destructive, directed to.. preserve determined ablast, not by. principles of.polica, :the politipal . equilibrium of Europe. or to,over but by capahitity.ofi inflicting) talflicring, itois garoicit„ with reckless and, blind . disregard .Russis. which • Must: succurabgliediretc. , . , .• otwltnt is to, follow ? , ~•,;;, I. •:: •. L 1 *Nature will soon enforce, ah, atanistitee in the . . •I:tit'iiiroarrow view of the Sebastiapedstruggle i Crimea, and time will ' bet afforded, ler tIXO . tai veigind it as little more than the attack and' 'action of policy and statesmanship .Will it ‘ _•capture , of a singlet town. In the 'year, thew ; the suffered to slip away. unimproved?, Wo ii avehbeen; -.coreplised all the incidents ;of ':know , .that there are nitta.of.suflicient real '!: ,*• lengthened* war,— many :desperate battles, .weight and influence in; this countxy teiinaist innunserahleiskirntiahes, and ,such *bombard., :on the adoption of a Moderate andmaciliatory 'amerite as' aneeed in 'magnitude the . fire .of aU I Toth*, -if the way for ,it i be : once Qpenc the siegesiihthe , Peninsular war; put together. acrins might soon be, attjusted if Russia, .Are'we *still.to•fighefor prestige ? . .What future frankly, abjuring all aggressive designs, were orictories•can anupass the immortal laurels cWOII :Ur show that she really desires lasting penoc, at Alma and Inkerniann ? If .ounpart , ine AM •ow the• basis of admitting Tu.vk ••40 i 14 4 4 dater acts 017. the war ' has been, loose glesicdat -European system, of 'guara ' , e• • • ,•,_! ~ I Ahan'ireits opening,'ones, it haa,bee,n only4llS- 1 iplete:.integritylof her power ' 4 1. , r74' , ~ , cause our soldiers were at fimto,singenerously,' .the:eo.untries of the.l3lack Se .. ,i , . prodigal' of: thi3ir t biood that lees , iwainkift i 4ePiti ,toifolOw out in psace that , co i1 .. y.:;-_*„47 4 „ . .-.. _it ; lk. to s h e d, .0 1 , 'id WW s • I 1,1'7 .P! ' ' :ProbPoritY lOW' is °Pe lll- ' 0 : c v 1 . - .. 7 10....4 I A ... a 44 , .1 . -t.....,. .L 4.11 141i$ L 6. i i .. ..J I . • * w ~„; , ,..i t W:6 '..; ::: .-, . •—• ~, , ... • b " . " ' t"I °AN . ' V ,',7* . INI r - , 4 • f • . - . .:. . • . . . ~ . . ..., 4 , 1 LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1855, THE course of the Journalist who resigns him self to the current of popular impulse is clear and easy. He can never be reproached with singularity of view. The present hour is all to him. He need neither look to the past nor to the future. He has nothing to do with either policy or principle. He is safe from the remonstrances of friends and the taunts of adversaries. With a little tact and much swagger he can maintain an appearance of in• fluence, and pretend to guide the opinion of which he is in reality the slave. THE Palms has a harder and higher duty. As an organ of the Conservative sentiment of England, it has to regard the Conservative aspect of great public questions as they arise, and wholly apart from the consideration of what is popular or unpopular at the moment, or of the opinions held by particular indivi duals, to frankly submit its views on .those leading lines of policy which must ultimately mark the boundaries of parties, and exercise a great and lasting influence on OA fortuoot3.4 the country. We are ret varies that • Tun Par,ss independen, secured agajniii tgiu that pr . cost of war understood Governmer crossed : the have .brcily3i plished by been . obtaini contemplat Those revoi freely put ' sign, )rior of the Cor renunciatii ative poliJy but to maint blot out itul reot her. - within its The 'prin6plL. A.§"ervatiN 'PI tion when the dial:Mtn bet Ween Russia and Turkey became serious, and, the. Government hesitated -what . course it ,should. pursue, was di sti nctlythis—that the: equililiriurn of'Enrope must be ' niaintaineil, 'n6t' only 'on `abstract grOunds of 'anstie4' . .l;int ' liecp.use ,that -equili brium was .fieceuss,ry. to the peace and,pro sperity of every independent State. .-.When the sword was once drawn, 'it was impossible to' think of peace except on terms which would ' , firmly secure the objects of the war, and which oald show moreover • that•the arms of the onservators of the , independence of • Europe 1 ere superier•to the arms or US Disturber. It is inditputable• that 'the • aggression of. Sala has:been' succtssfully and gloriously T. reminded by some of our contempo- no joureat wa4 mote e rifest than sin insisting ougfp prikc . le that the ;noe of the . Turkish cmpj must be 04. i wit foreign, aggression. ."o, i i np.in- p - inciple,was porth all the evil, i d r; and : if that truth ,had .1.) 1. earlier d aid., actcd cm by. Lord AB D . 14;14* )nt,, llussialk troops w.ould, ue rhay i e .e Wuth„ and hostitities ,woul snei;or ;en out; r o .. 7 :We . should have ecop- r niiiiral: influenee all that. ha . now ined ley, force of arms. , But we eviler ited,more than the security of 'T, rolutionary projects which are (nay u\ forward formed no part of .o de- j min they be favoured by oxy mem ers 1 mservative: body; without camp ete j ion of the. fir pt principles of Cons rv- i .iy Our ebject ,Nisi ' ntit i.to,, destrl?y, intain ,11}e_tiy,s' teni . Of 14:Orope 7 -not f.o lussia.frotuttltat.eysteek but to.cod aberrations, and keep her . power . sphere. Lail& of the - Conservatiire Opposi4