The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

THE

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1855.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
THE shortening days and lengthening nights—the coldwinds
and plashing rains, and, above all, the tradesmen's intimations,
give token that that period which locks the rural districts in
darkness and an icy seclusion, but which opens wide the portals
of metropolitan mirth, is rapidly approaching. The Court and
the courtly throng obey the influence which returns the
country's life-blood to its mighty heart, and London once more
reveals its myriad attractions to the thoughtless and the gay.
The QUEEN herself, forsaking the enchantments of the heathy
hillside and the " bosky dell," has arrived at her southern
from her northern home, and, in the quiet of regal retire-
ment, has established her family residence at Windsor. The
journey from Balmoral occupied the days of Tuesday and Wed-
nesday last, the intervening night being spent by the Royal
travellers in HER MAJESTY'S ancient and romantic palace of
Holyrood. Happily, the progress southward was effected
without any of those stirring incidents or startling occur-
rences which marked the northward route as one more fertile
in adventure than productive of delight. After leaving Edin-
burgh, nothing worthy of notice is reported to have occurred
till the cortege reached Darlington, where a Quaker deputa-
tion, headed by Mr. H. PEASE, one of the plenipotentiaries
from the Peace Society to the late CZAR, waited upon and
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presented an Address to Prince ALBERT on behalf of the
Darlington Polytechnic Exhibition. This bearer of peaceful
missions unfolded his present ambassadorial errand in the
shape of an intimation that the "Mechanics' Institute" of
Darlington, like many of its betters, is in debt, and is, more-
over, inclined to wipe off that burden through the charitable
aid of patronage, royal, regal, or autocratic. Whether the
mission was successful or not, the Court newsman does not
say ; but the idea of wrapping up the begging-box in a
loyal and patriotic address is now so stale a device, that its
practice on the present occasion leads strongly to the surmise
that the ingenuity of Darlington is exceedingly mechanical.
The return of the Court to the neighbourhood of London is, of
course, hailed as a joyful event by all classes, and the arrival
at the King's-cross Station of Her MAJESTY and her Royal
Consort and children was watched and welcomed by a large
assemblage of the people.
The gross breach of that hospitality and safe asylum which
the majesty of British institutions affords to all classes of poli-
tical exiles, by the ferocious Red Republicans, to which I re-
ferred last week, has called forth a storm of indignation from
every corner of the British kingdoms. The indignant burst of
condemnation which has everywhere greeted the knowledge of
the insolent ingratitude has nowhere found more practical ut-
terance than in Jersey, where the easy license accorded to the
press was taken advantage of ; and it was made the instru-
ment of publishing the scandalous rubbish. The obnoxious
and pestilent matter which has been so justly and so generally
condemned appeared in a democratic journal,named L'Homme,
edited and owned by members of the ultra-republican party;
_ aided by the most violent and democratic refugees of every
land, including Spaniards and Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and
Frenchmen. The article chiefly complained of, although others
are nearly as bad, was a letter addressed to the QUEEN of
ENGLAND, and signed by three refugees, FELIX PYAT,
ROUGEE, and G. JOURDIIN. The letter had been read in
London at a meeting of the Comit6( International, et de la
Comune Revolutionaire, held on the 22nd of last month; but,
happily for the world, it was buried in the obscurity of that moral
pest-house where it had been uttered, till it obtained the wider
circle of notoriety conferred on it by publication in the demo-
cratic journal of Jersey. It would be difficult to conjecture
anything more coarsely or grossly insulting than the air of in-
solent familiarity assumed by the authors of this letter. It
commenced, " Madam,—ln return for the hospitality which we
enjoy, under the laws of yak country, permit us to address to
-you some useful reflections on your recent journey." The pro-
ceedings of HER MAJESTY, on her late visit to France, are then re-
counted, the narrativebeing thickly interspersed with scurrilous
jests. The letter goes on to ask: "What does this visit mean ?
What do you really think of it ? What was your object in going
to see this man ?" It next launches into a most indecent string
of accusations against Lours NAPOLEON, whom it denounces
with the most unmeasured plenitude of abuse. Having gone
so far, and • swelling into a climax of audacious insolence, the
letter reminds HER MAJESTY that, surmounting her natural
antipathies, her legitimate repugnance, her contempt, and even
her horror for the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, she has placed
her hand in his hand, has permitted his cheek to touch her
cheek ; and having said thus much, goes on to say that in
doing so, she has sacrificed her dignity as a Queen, her scruples
as a woman, her pride as an aristocrat, her feelings as an
Englishwoman, her rank, her race, her sex—all even to her
modesty. It then makes ribald suggestions as the motives
and inferences such conduct is held open to in certain localities,
and among certain circles of society in Paris and elsewhere.
The attack on Lours NAPOLEON is conveyed in terms as
blasphemous and seditious as they are insolent and absurd. So
gross an outrage ou the general feelings of the country could
not be permitted to pass, and it has been vigorously repudiated
and denounced wherever it has been made known. In Jersey
a large and influential meeting was held in the Queen's Assem-
bly Rooms, St. Heliers, the Constable or Mayor presiding. At
this meeting, resolutions in the strongest terms condemnatory
of the publication, of its spirit, and sentiment, were passed; a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the Governor, request-
ing him to suppress the publication of the journal called
L'Homme, as a paper which " not only openly preaches infi-
delity, the suppression of Christianity, and the, propagation of
Socialism, but also the destruction of all thrones, including that
of the gracious Sovereign" under whose mild sway it has been
unfortunately permitted to be published. In obedience to this
request, and in compliance with the requirements of the law,
the proprietor, the editor, and the distributor of the dangerous
'journal were ordered to quit the island on or before Saturday
last. No subject has of late operated so completely as a means
'of amalgamating all classes of people, and all shades of political
opinion, in the metropolis and elsewhere, as the desire to put
a stop to the publications of such inflammatory and flagitious
audacity.
The hoax about the GLADSTONE, BRIGHT, and DISRAELI
coalition continues still in some degree to agitate the nervous
system Of those who are mainly dependent on the crumbs of
vial) gossip for political vitality. The metropolitan journals,
daily and weekly, having expended their stock of surmise, and
taxed their ingenuity to the utmost, in a vain attempt to ex-
pound the riddle, have resigned the task in despair. Probably
more skilled in the unearthing of vermin than their metro-
politan brethren, the provincial journalists have taken up the
task with vigour, and pursued it with discriminating vigilance,
most of them arriving at the conclusion that there is, indeed,
nothing in the affair beyond " a peace-at-any-price ruse, in
which the wish is made the father to the thought.' " The
GLADSTONE cum BRIGHT lot find themselves so thoroughly
" out at elbows" in the public estimation, that they are glad to
lay hold of anything to keep their heads above water. The
pretended coalition was too absurd to have ever been seriously
thought of by any one. Even the discomfited GLA.DSTONITES,
and the BRIGHT, STURGE, and PEASE rump of Russian sym-
pathisers must from the beginning have seen that the whole
matter was a burlesque. All classes, with the exception of
the two spoken of above, are united in the opinion that, how-
ever desirable it may be to secure peace, a truce which shall
be merely as brief as it would be hollow and illusory can never
be accepted as the termination of hostilities ; but that the war
must and shall be prosecuted with vigour, till the true end and
object of the war—a guarantee for the safe tranquility of
Europe—has been obtained. The allies, as a matter of course,
are at all times ready to listen to terms of peace, so soon as
these shall be propounded, and to accept them so soon as
honourable-and safe terms can be secured. Till these objects
are fully attained, ninety-nine out of every hundred of the
British people would disdain to think of peace.
From thoughts of coming peace, the mind reverts at once to
the conduct of the war as one of the means, or indeed the only
means by which the desired blessing of European tranquillity
can be brought about. Since the capture of Sebastopol, the
allies have been so far relieved that they are now enabled to
direct their attention and manoeuvre their forces upon different
points of the enemy's position and line of operations. This
fact alone renders it difficult to collect comprehensible intelli-
gence as to the movements of the Allied armies, or fully to
understand such information as is communicated. From the
scraps of news, however, with which the public is supplied, it

is no difficult matter to perceive that great advantages have
been already obtained over the enemy. The Allies are ob-
viously operating in a series of combined movements, having
for their object the selection of such points of attack as will
secure for them complete command of the Russian lines of
cOmmunication, cutting off their supplies, and circumscribing
their Means of retreat as well as of defence. The informatiOn,
as already said, is scanty which now reaches this country from
the Crimea, but the little with which we are favoured i.s_of
such' a nature as to show that in a prolongation of the contest
the Russians have little to look forward to beyond a succession
of defeats. The fleet also has been so far set at liberty, that
formidable squadrons of heavily-armed ships threaten the
northern shores of the Euxine, and have captured Kinburn at
the mouth of the Dnieper, about forty miles east of Odessa.
At Kinburn, the fleet succeeded, after a sharp bombardment,
in capturing the three forts, mounting seventy guns, and in
taking, according to one account, 1,500, and according to
another, 1,300 prisoners. The next movement of the fleet,