The Press.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

,THE PRESS.

majorities in affirmation of the sentiment that the
war, so long as it overlooks the cause of the oppressed
in Western Europe, is a mere delusion and a snare ;
and we have no hesitation in saying that, if Lord
Palmerston pursues his present policy a little
longer, there will be such an outburst of public
indignation as will make the ears of that incon-
sistent nobleman to tingle, and lead to conse-
quences of a serious character.—Wiltshire County
Mirror, Oct. 17.

From the thundering Times down to the squeaking
Penny Whistles we are dozed with remarks on a
prospective coalition, of which there is as great a
likelihood as of the Clyde joining the Forth, and for
which there is just as much authority as if any one
asserted that these opposite running streams were
about to coalesce and run into the same estuary.
The idea of a hodge-podge—of which the ingredients
are to be Bright, Gladstone, Graham, Disraeli—
could only have been cooked during the parliamen-
tary recess, when, prompted by the same laudable
desire to cater for the public appetite, provincial
papers chronicle overgrown pippens, obese turnips,
kittens with siz legs, and other lusi wawa, which
either do not occur or will not stand observation
during session time and when news is stirring.—
Scottish Press, Oct. 16.

The "leading journal," which often merits that
seemingly imposing title in virtue of its power as " a
blind leader of the blind," announced on Wednesday
that a new Coalition Opposition is on the point of
being formed, on the basis of the peace cry, by the
conjunction of Messrs. Disraeli, Bright, and Glad-
stone. It is stated that " they have long been ap-
proaching each other, and by the end of January
next, or perhaps sooner, if there is to be an autumn
session, will be brought so near that their mutual
attraction will carry them forward in one track." We
did not for a moment suppose that there was any
truth in this announcement, or that its promul-

gators believe there was ; and are, therefore, glad to
see that THE PRESS, the organ best entitled to speak
with authority on this point, contradicts the state-
ments of the Times.—Derby Mercury, Oct. 17.

The Conservative party will not permit the war to
be made either the plaything for Lord Palmerston,
or the mere instrument of retaining him in that
power be got so ill and has :used much worse. Lord
Palmerston was a leading member of a Cabinet that,
by its negligence, ignorance, or complicity, caused the
war. He has made out of the exigencies of the war
political capital, and has taken care it should be re-
corded how he watched, "ticker in hand," the casting
a segment of a traversing platform, and how he has
inspected Sheerness Dockyard, and viewed the pre-
paration of rhubarb and colocynth for military bowels
in order the people should be deluded. But this
will not pass—though the medicine may. Lord
Palmerston was a party to that " civility " which
brought the Czar across the Pruth—that hesitation
which detained the ships so long below the Darda-
nelles, and our men first at Malta, then at Scutari
and Gallipoli, then at Varna. For all faults, military
and diplomatic, Lord Palmerston was clearly
answerable. He was as little sincere in the war as
Lord Aberdeen's self. But, at last, he found the
war popular, and trimmed his sails to the wind, and
is now ready to carry on the war or drop it, exactly
as suits the popular taste. This is just that he
ought not to be permitted to do.—Plymouth Mail,
Oct. JO.

The editor of the Times assumes that the triumvi-
rate, whose existence he has fabricated, will urge
that, now that Sebastopol, the great object of the
war, is destroyed, the war is unnecessary. Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Bright will, doubtless, hold that
language; but Mr. Disraeli has too much discern•
ment to take up such an irrational position. Though
Sebastopol and the Russian fleet have been destroyed,
in a few years they may both of them be restored,
and rendered more formidable than ever. Mr.
Disraeli wia not consider any peace as satisfactory
which will provide for the safety of Turkey during
the brief space of five or six years. But many
politicians, besides Mr. Disraeli, may condemn the
conduct of the British Government, it it has enlarged
the nature of its demands, and prolonged the war by
insisting upon a curtailment of the Russian empire.
After the capture of Sebastopol we hold that it was
incumbent upon the allied Governments to intimate
to Russia their willingness to accept the same terms
which they offered at the Congress of Vienna, and to
be satisfied with a limitation of the Russian fleet in
the Black Sea. If, instead of doing this, they made
known to Austria their desire to compel Russia to
cede permanently the Crimea or Bessarabia, the
responsibility of having needlessly continued the war
will devolve upon them. If, on the contrary, they
can show that the Czar might have obtained the
conditions which were presented to him at the Con-
gress of Vienna, the criminality of perpetuating the
war will rest with him.—Livoinaliire Chronicle,
Oct, 19,