The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

We are, as a people, fond of facts, and this
one fact is too significant to bo passed by
unnoticed. The: formation of the ADERDIEN
Ministry was the signal for the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg to commence its attack ou the in-
dependence of the Porte.
Thu policy of the Czar, however objeetion-
able on moral grounds, is natural to his posi-
and to the traditions of his race and
country. He haA inherited it with his crown.
as English Ministers, until AUERDEEN, in-
herited the duty of stubbornly opposing it.
If he now makes a daring t`tiort to snatch the
long-coveted prize of Russian statesmanship.
shall we blame him, or the Ministers whose
treachery has encouraged his daring?—their
treachery, even if we suppose then► well.
meaning, as weakness is treachery when na•
tional interests and honour are at stake.
If it should be asked what our flovernment
is doing while the Continent is heaving with
momentous events.the answer must be shortly
—nothing. No Cabinet Council has been held.
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is hospitably entertain-
ing—as we learn by the fashionable intelli-
gence—several members of the Russian Kris
toerary at his .seat in Wilts, Lord JOHN ROO.
SELL is nt Balmoral, Sir ,JAMEM GRAUAM an
Admiralty cruise to the Cove of Cork, and
other members of the Cibinet tire left to plea-
santly pursue their favourite erutehets, that
Lord ABERDEEN may be uninterrupted in his
friendly conferences with the Russian Ambet,e-
sador.

PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
THE authorities still continue to oppose the
cholera in a Chinese style. There are words
in plenty ; "notifications" of the Board of
Health which are binding on no one , anal pro-
clamations " given under our hands " by the
Chadwicks and Southwood smiths, which,
though they may be obligatory Enough, have
the accompanying drawback of bring unintel-
ligible. There seems to be an effort to get
up, under the influence of it panic, an univer
sal consentanrous action, which is W sup' ly
the place of a well-devised organisation. Ex-
cept in sudden and spontaneous revolutions,
such general evnibinations have never been
known to succeed, and they have generally
collapsed when the immediate excitement was
over.

While the prelitninariem are being settled on
paper, and while Loan tinarressuay on his
way buck from the Continent to pre4tde at the
Board of Health," the enemy is at the gates.—
nay, within the citadel. The death'. at New-
castle on the 20th instant amounted to the
enormous number of 118, of which 108 were
from cholera. The report of the 21st from
the same place is certainly a little more en-
couraging, inasmuch as the total of &JAIN is
84, of which 80 were from cholera ; but. 4,11 the
other hand, die gross mortality, since the cow
mencement of the disease, has been such u
to lead to the inference that, should it generally
spread, it will assume a form more virulent and
fatal than during its fi)Ellier visits. In Newcastle
alone there have been iu fifteen days 235
deaths, while in 18:11 :! there were obiy 155 !
From Gateshead the accounts are healed,. less
terrible. The total dentin during the first
fifteen days in 18314 was 125 ; durint; the same
period in 1555 they have II to :I'4l. Its