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London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1t443.

THE news of the rejeetion of the ultimatissi-
mum by the Porte reached St. Petersburg on
the 24th ult.

The Emperor of RUSSIA has made a personal
declaration to the English and French Ambas-
sadors, expressed in the strongest language.
He stated that even the destruction of his
fleets should not prevent his invading Turkey,
and obtaining the reparation which ho believed
to be his due.

The fourth division of the Russian army is
ordered to enter Moldavia.

The Russian force On the line of the Black
Sea amounts to MAO men.

The Emperor complains that the conduct of
Lord ABERDEEN is entirely at variance with the
private declarations of that Minister.

It is said that peremWory instructions have
been forwarded to M. de BRUNOW to cease his
habitual communications with the Premier,
and to confine himself, in future, to official
intercourse with the English Secretary of
State, whoever he may be.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1853.

Hu doubt, eollllllallibt a certain amount of par-
liamentary following, apart than the merits of
the. cause. Few persons au•e fully aware of the
vast amount of small patronage which is at the
disposal of ant English Minister. With dex
t•ous management and at good whipper-in,
even the " tentless pigs" may lac kept tram►
squeaking inopportunely ; and many a Radical
who bawls and blusters—by permission—about
ballot, short Pairliaments, and tenant-rights, is
all obedience and silence, oil the night of a
party division. But when to the influence of
Downing-street is added the influence of
Leaelenhall street ; above all, when that nest
of corruption is threatened over which Sir
JAMES Heee spreads his sheltering wings; it is
no nuuwel—to put the matter delicately—that
the preponderance of votes should not be
found on the same side as the prepondel•unee
of opinions. Other causes have doubtless
operated on the minds of Conservative gentle-
men. There are some who honestly believe
their party principle tA) consist in opposition
to all change, good Or bad, and who thus,
when two alternatives are offered them, prefer,
without farther discrimination, that which
seems to involve the least degree of departure
from things as they aa•e. Others, again, have
been misled by the cry, " Don't make India at
party question"—as though a Government did
not make every question at party question in
which its reputation is concerned—as though,
in Mr. DISRAELI'S phrase, 11. party question
must necessarily be ant improper question—as
though that were a party question in which
Mr. WAI.001.1.; and Mr. COBDEN, Mr. NAPIER and
Mr. BRIGHT, entered the same lobby against
nut equally heterogeneous asseutl►btge on the
other side ! These well-meaning gentlemen
have haul their wish. They have vindicated
their " principle" at the expense of their col-
leagues, and will 'no doubt receive it cordial
welcome from the Moi•uiiay Chronicle and Sir C.
Wow).

But the battle of Indian reform is not lost.
Far from it : the result of Thursday's division
will hardly neutralise that of the preceding
fiat'. nights debate. Tin nigh to many people the
subject be repulsive, partly from its novelty,
partly from the wilderness of detail into which
it finis out, yet, under the rigorous eriticisio of
" Young India," seareely one flaw in the
Company's administnition has passed wholly
untouched. A vast 111/04/4 of information has
been circulated, which will gnulually find its
way to the remotest parts of the country, and
to all classes of newspaper readers. 'the
English public no longer images to itself a
powerful and benevolent company, ruling a
conquered race without the aid of the sword,
diffusing education, opening roads, averting
famines by immigration, and protecting life
and property by the aid of an efficient police.
These delusions have vanished from the pub-
lic mind, not to return. Another picture is
now before us, of wars recklessly engaged in,
provinces annexed without justice us without
advantage, perpetual and profitless bloodshed.
finances showing yearly an increasing deficit,
men perishing by hundreds of thousands for
want of those supplies of water which nature
does not furnish, but which in Asia it is the
first duty of a wise Government to provide,
eionmerce wantonly impeded, education re-
fused, justice mocked by the ignonmee of
Englishmen, combined with the thirst for
gold of native subordinates. That " empire
of opinion "of which we are wont to boast is

PRICE SIXPENCE.

now demonstrated to rest, not On the opinion
of our benevolenee, but of our force—on the
terror of arms, the timidity of Orientals, the
want of chiefs, the diversity of mees, the
mutual distrust of those who, unitedonight
give its cause for tear. And looking at home,
we see men, obscure and unlivable for tho
most part, sitting in Seeeeey,
dents with the patronage whom) right distri-
bution is the very condition of our Indian
tenure, and weaning at their pleasure Clover-
nors-Ileneral appointed by the Crown. These
things needed only exposure to put an end to
them ; and, HOW that they are exposed, a
remedy will lie promptly found, despite of
the pseudf-'Toryism tries to ismeeal the
existenee of Olt evil, rather than be at the
trouble of providing its cure.

THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND BY
ITS PRIESTS.
Ima.Axo, according to the popular belief, has
been always governed by middlemen. The
rt icipat • in this process hitherto by
Protestants and gentlemen has invited a
flood of Radical obloquy. But the triumph
of the briekbat and shillelagh at the late Irish
elect ions has not changed the system : it has only
cheapened the instruments. As the price of
the activity which raised them to power,
Ministers are now, in the words of Lord Demur,
" trying that most dangerous of all dangerous
" experiments—to carry on the Government of
" Ireland through the Roman Catholic priests.**
The evidences of this policy are accumulating
on all sides, so that our chief difficulty at this
moment is to find spite(' to exhibit them in
anticipation of their el inmequenees.
Already, indeed, has the confidence in the
impartial administration of justice in Ireland
been shaken. The law has been made a ter-
ror only to the supporters of it. After the
mockery of legal proceetlinga which ft 'Bowed
the Six-mile-bridge affray, what soldier will not
feel disheartened in the presence of priest led
rioters, or what burly priest will not feel ii
sured that he may with impunity head " the
"boys" in the cause of Mother Church, und,
acting on the hint of her Majesty's present So
liciter-Genend for Ireland, add the terrors Of
a dark night and a heavy bludgeon to those of
spiritual denunciations from the altar?
We are not now going to restate the parti
eulars of this well-known affair. It is pant,
though it will long be remembered "for' the
" praise of evil-doers and lior the peafailinent of
" them that do well." Their reverences were
not prosecuted, though openly accused, at the
time and since, by a committee of the Homo)
of Commons, of instigating and leading a
riot ; but the soldiers were. Nor has any
satisfactory reason been assigned for this,
though demanded in the Parliament and by
the country. Even supposing that priest
iivaxx's mime on the Leek of the bill as a wit-
ness preserved him front prosecution—a doc-
trine monstrously absurd—there was no such
bar in the ease of priest \Musa. The ex-
planation offered by the head of the Govern-
ment is not uninstructive. The Cabinet, it
appears, decided that the priests were to be
proseeuted, and wrote to that effect to the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; but his lordship,
in the exerehe of his discretion, refused to

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carry out their decision. But we have some-
thing further to say with respect to Lord ST.
GIERMANR.

The originator of the present policy of ab-
dicating the authority of the Crown in favour
of the priests, for the sake of peace, has nut
been overlooked by those who have adopted
it. Mr. KIRWAN, a stipendiary magistrate, Sta
tioned at Mina, in the county of Mayo, was,
after an impartial investigation, found to have
liberated prisows taken in the act of rioting
in presence of the mob, "if not on any ex-
press contract, at least with the understanding
that the peace of the town was to be secured
by the influence of the Roman Catholic clergy."
For this (we may add proved) inefficiency
during the election, he was, by a very mild
sentence, suspended from his duties for six
months. by Lord EGLINTON. One of the first
acts, however, of Earl ST. GERMANS on his
arrival in Dublin was to remove the suspen-
sion and bid Mr. KIRWAN resume his autho-

rlty—uiuler the priests !
Again, the priests have been further elevated
by the convergence of patronage iu the hands
of their nominees. Within the last week
Land ST. GERMANS had to give away in one
district of the country over which he rules
three valuable places, the Clerkship of the
• Crown in Dublid, the Crown Solicitorship for
' the east riding of Cork, and the Postmaster-
ship of Cork, and in each case he nominated
Roman Catholics from that part of the island
which the late Cork petition against MURPHY
and FACAN has rendered famous or infamous.
In the ease of the Clerkship of the Crown, a
Dublin office in point of locality, which had
been held by Mr. PiEncm MAnosr, Liberal
Protestant," Mr. JAMES NAHLE, of the county
of Cork, has been appointed through the influ-
enee, said the Times, of Mr. URQUHART, M.P.
for Westmeath, and Mr. E. B. Room, M.P. for
the county of Cork. This statement, how-
ever, has been denied on the part of Mr.
URQUHART, but has been silently acs iiiesced in
on that of Mr. Mount:, of whom Mr. NAuLa was
the legal agent, as he had t4merly been the
.registration agent of the %mum Catholic party
in the county. On the promotion of Mr.
NAGLE a Vaellney occurred in the Crown
Stalieitorship for the euanty of Cork, which
was filled by Mr. Nome O'Cossima., as his
name implies, another Catholic, and, what is
more, also am electioneering agent to the
Roman Catholic interest in the county.
But two years since he had been,
for example, the most zealous employe
on behalf of Mr. VINCENT SeUI.LY,
in his contest with Mr. }'ERRAND. In the
third ease Lord ST. GERMANS has appointed to
the Postmastership of Cork a young gentle-
man—al Mr. BARRY—of about twenty four
years of age, and whose own electioneering ser-
vioes were therefore inconsidentble, but whose
father and family had taken an active part in
electioneering contests. Summarily, then, we
may say that in one spot, almost in one week,
public money to nearly two thousand a year
(for to this the three salaries amount) has
been employed to subsidise the Agitation in-
terest. These three posts, moreover, are
Crown offiees, and two of them directly con-
cerned in the prosecution of offenders. Mem-
bers of Parliament procured these offices ; the
priests procured the members ; and it is
evident that Lord ST. GERMANS is ready to go
all lengths to procure priests enough to boast
with Doctor (Mole in the farce, " Tis a
part of my system."
Another part of the same system, which the
length to which we have nut permits us only
to advert to, is the removal from the list of
books which may be read in common by
Roman Catholics and Protestants, under the
school system of Ireland, the only basaks which
bore a religious chanutter, viz., the Easy
Lesson on Christianity," and " Evidences of
Christianity," of Archbishop WHATELEY. A
fatal blow may thereby be struck, unless
averted, of which thieve is a prospect, at the
mixed system of education established by the
genius and wisdom of Lord DERBY. It would
be a proud day, possibly, to an EmoT or an
ARERDREN if they could destroy such a trophy
of thair great opponent, But we acquit them,
in this instance, of personal motives. They
must earn their wages. By the priests they
obtained their offices, and they must pay