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

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, ^prows 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-