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

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1853.

Bating to the Porte, and more undisguisedly
subversive of its authority, The convention
of the sth May, indeed, is only a well-con-
sidered modification of the original project of
the 29th March.
Was Lord CLARENDON aware of the March
proposal, or was he not ? In the latter ease,
he must have been served by a very inefficient
diplomacy. But he was served by Colonel
ROSE, who, in consequence of his knowledge
of these circumstances, made his hurried ap-
peal to the British admiral at Malta, and sent
off, at the . same time, despatches to Lord
CLARENDON. Lord CLARENDON, therefore, on
the 25th April, when he spoke iu the House of
Lords, was fully aware of all that had hap-
pened. And with this complete information,l
with Lord ABERDEEN sitting by his side, he
deliberately made a statement which misled
the British Parliament.
Aitor this, what faith can we repose in the
denigration' of Ministers in both Houses a
week ago, that the English and French
AnAasee_ 404 Es an acting is concert at Con
stantinopUß Fourand-twes_ ty _ hours liter
*dee declarations were .dally mad% we
hare rayon to believe • the ca :lei
relity to the question &the French As
dor at this Court, whether England would eor
illy and actively join with France in the
..accessary operations, had sot been given. II
It yet *veal
And why should it be givenl` ,Having for
nearly half a century entertibind and ex
pressed, at least in private, his -*pinion that
the Russians should possess Constantinople
—having, to the best .of his abilities, actively
laboured for that patriotic end when he was
Secretary of State in 1828, as proved by the
humiliating disclosures revealed in the secret
despatches of the Russian Minister at this
Court, which were plundered from the archives
at Warsaw during the revolution of 1830, and
published, for the shame of Lord ABERDEEN,
by hiis present colleague, Lord PALMERSTON—
why should Lord ABERDEEN, now that the
Duke of BEDFORD has made him Prime Mi
nister, prove false to these antecedents, or
shrink from the accomplishment of his long-
cherished purpose? His mind, his education,
his prejudices, are all of the Kremlin school.
Now that he is placed in a prominent position,
and forced to lead English gentlemen, instead
of glozing and intriguing with foreign diplo-
matists, not a night passes that his language
or his demeanour does not shock and jar upon
the frank and genial spirit of our British Par-
liament. His manner, arrogant and yet timid
—his words. insolent and yet obscure—offend
even his political supporters. His hesitating
speech. his contracted sympathies, his sneer,
icy as Siberia, his sarcasms, drear and barren
as the Steppes, are all characteristic of the
bureau and the chancery, and not of popular
and aristocratic assemblies animated by the
spirit of honour and the pride of gentlemen.
If war break out—and the present prospect ix,
that var will break out—this dread calamity
must be placed to the account of this man, and
of this man alone. He was no sooner placed
in office than he habitually and systematically
declared that nu concert with the present ruler of
France could be depended upon. He sighed tOr
the cordial understanding of the Chfiteau d'En,
and the buccaneering alliance of the aminwe
JOINVILLE. The Emperor of all the IWSSIAS
as
ably represented at the Court of St. James's.
Baron Et RUNOW took the hint. All his intrigues

PRICE SIXPENCE.

and all his temptations to detach the
Government of Lord Danny from Franee
had failed, as the constalit malediction
of Lord MAlNEsuonv by the journals under
Russian influence proved. 01%' was the
time. The period, watched with super-
natural vigilance for nearly a century, had
arrived. The crisis had occurred, and occulted
unexpectedly, which the prescient ambition of
CATHERINE hail left Rh all imperial legacy to
her successors. Had this country been go-
verned by either of the great parties. by Lord
Joss Russxu. or by Lord Duttsv, pledged alike
to uphold the great principles of our external
policy, on which our power depends, the do•
signs of RUSSIA would have been defeated.
But neither Whig nor Tory, Liberal nor Cotner-
vative, rules now in England. Baron BRUNoW
has shown himaelf equal to the occasion; be
has seized the golden opportunity by the fore-
look. Lord MUMMA trembles. while he sees
his lontinuttirsod theosksourted into effect
Lord Cuintuses talks and erbinipers its
but the

THE GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR INDIA.
IF the American criterion of eloquence be
adopted, and the length of an address taken as a
test of its merit, the palm of oratory is indisputa-
bly due to Sir CHARLES Woon. He has rivalled
Mr. GLADSTONE, and beaten Mr. DiuuELl out
of the field. From half-past five to half-past
ten last night, the most fastidious of audiences
was doomed to endure the infliction of the
most monotonous of speakers. At first a
densely-crowded House attested tho import
ance of the subject, and stimulated the
energies of the performer. Every bench was
occupied ; all waited in hushed attention ;
thronged gallery sat ready to admire, if not to
applaud, the display of intellectual skill.
Indian officers, retired civilians, anxious friends
of Directors, members of Indian reform
societies, cotton-manufacturers and merchants
from the great trading boroughs, mixed con-
fusedly in the crowd : nor were swarthy faces
and turbaned figures wanting to give some-
thing of dramatic efleet to the real and
momentous interests of the scene. Hours
passed ; and still the Minister spoke, and
still his audience listened, with patience
long undiminished, but with exceedingly Male
either of profit or pleasure. To those who
boa not read Mr. kAve's work, or Mr. Camp-
Btu's work, or the reviews, or the daily news-
papers, Sir C. Weep's speech might possibly
convey novel information. To those who knew
anything of India it seemed like a stale re-

ruri: 114ru joiraly7nTigirlds—iiiid•-iliii ha.
mews armies of Russia are rely moving
tram the interior provinces tobauD
ci thi =or. • a while the Browse of Paris
and the Steckel:schen. of London am bob-
Wing Oat Russia cannot, and den not. AM
the wlsols world' in arse\ it is dieerared that
sop=
the north of Gdamany ispqntal. Ra With IN
secret understaillicas X ; that
, the Scendinavias en
. agitated with a que • _
touches their Dardanelles, and w • Wei
bably occasion a revolution in Dinniait; dr
)
r that the French and English Beets are ly*
s idle and separate, because Lord AIUDIIIIN can-
e
not believe that the empire of Loos NAPOLZON
t will last as long as the monarchy of Louis Pin.
LIM.