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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 28. 1853.

PRICE SIXPENCE.

No. 4.—VoL. I.

was a man of honour, loved England, he had
proved I) giving an Aseot ('up. and would
never do anything to dibturb the univermd

vast:ding the fairest countries; of Europe. TkA
daily expanding commove of the Levant, the
tradt► of this Adriatic, the Danube, and the
Black Sea—the main suppliem of ti►od for our
teeming millions—aro all at stake. Something
more—our power and our glory. The im-
pending war will not be an attar of ►t eau►-
paign or two ; and. at the end of that war,
where will be the beat of empire?

Ebt Vrtss.

Aunty.
Suddenly Colonel Ross, the Whir+li Minister
at Constantinople. a most able piddle servant.
and perfect master or his subject, despatches a
THE affairs of Turkey are grave ; they are
steamer to Malta for the British fleet, wally the
more than grave ;—they are big with discom- French Anil sissitdor sends to Toulon at t'.it• same
fiture and disgrace, and witlt severe injury. to mo
inmentextre. for the d
has French Squa
ieddta itsalli.!ron. Thets in its Porte
British interes. is mis, an appl
last despair. The French squadron arrives ; THE " LA.RGE MEASURE."
st
We have no time now to speculate On the but the English admiral, acting under instrue-
,. IF it be a wise thing in a statesman W foresee
future: let the public understand *; the per fm raed on the representations of M. the inevitable, and effect the necessary change
sent, and the causes which B
have occasioned all ituxow, declines to obey Colonel Ross. The
English Cabinet meets, and 1.014 CIARENDON, in the tranquil hour, it is equally the highest
this complication and peril. in concert with Lord ABERDEEN. eatTiPS, by a duty of the journalist s
ot to permi na
nd season
So long as a cordial understanding existed nutjority, that the, representations of C ' o,one.
I of prospoity to divert. the public i from
between England and France, danger to the Ross are to be disregarded—taut the Emperor the true position of piddle affairs. No or-
general tranquillity was impossible. England of RussiA is a luau of honour, anti entirely to .
and France are the two polieemen of Europe, be trusted,—and that his designs are as dinary mischief follows when a country is
'imocent as his plenipotentiary described taken by surprise and called upon to decide
and they can always keep the peace. Unfor- I
them. Lord Palmeeston resists tiers poliey, but upon subjects which had not been sufficiently
tunately, it has been alike the interest of a in rain. investigated mid discussed. At this moment
great power and of it discomfited faction, be- A month elapses : Lord STRATFORD, the Eug- the u •
United Kingdom is in a flourishing condi-
tween whom there can be, otherwise, no sym- lisb Ambassador at the Porte, long absent from •
tam, and the community is content, yet our
patty, alike to prevent this union—the ruler hi host, returns to Constantinople. Prince .in
nth
Is this striking anomaly—that our
of Russia and the faction of Orleans. MENsCHtKOFF has not yet departed :the "affair ""- ---.-':- . •
"of the shrines" is not yet arranged ; one attain are administered by a body of men who
The designs of Russia can never be Recoup are pledged, at a deferred and, comparatively
morning the Porte sends for Lord STRATFORD,
plished unless England be detached from and announces that its existence is at stake ; speaking, still distant period, to propose " a
France. The Orleans family have front the that it can no longer be concealed that the " large measure. of. change. in that portio.n of
our political institutions to the sagacious
first persisted in looking upon the French " affair of the shrines" is a pretext; and that
Emperor as their enemy, though he was guilt- Russia demands from the SULTAN a couven- agency of which they are perpetually assuring
us this success and satisfaction are mainly
lion which will transfer the allegiance of
less of their fall. Their efforts contributed to attributable.
almost all his subjects in European Turkey to
the expulsion of Lord PALMERsToN in —:.)1, be- the Cm. The demand, too, is in the form of Why a counnunity, successful and satisfied,
should undergo revolution; why, of all men in
cause, with his complete knowledge of modern un ultimatum, to be backed by a fleet and an
, the world, these public disturbers should be
politics, he was resolved to make friendship army of 100,000 men. What is to be dune;.
the Queen's Ministers ; why, if urgent, the
with France the keystone of his policy. Lord Lord STRATFORD is " without iustructions.
fulfilment of' their policy should be postponed ;
and Notwithstanding the representations of Colonel
MALHESBURY followed the same course, ! why, if not importunate, such agitating blur
Ross, Lord CLARENDON, under the cordial in • '
this teas the real cause of the outcry against_ poses should be announced ;are fair questions
fluence of Baron BRUNoW, "would not eon
of controversy, and, in our opinion, very pro.
fitable to be discussed•
that able statesman, raised by the journals .‘ template the contingency of Russia's trea-
under Russian and Orleanist influence. The -` chery." It seems now to be generally understood that
panic of invasion was the creation of Orlean- On Saturday last our Cabinet met. It sat these m ischievon le circumstances are to be at
ist intrigue , but, notwithstanding all this, for three hours and a half. It is understood buted to the conduct and influence of it single
Lord MAIMESBURY succeeded in all his under- that the meeting was not serene. It is under- individual. Ile is one who, throughout a long,
stood, also, that the French Government Intel a tortuou, and, on the whole, if not absolutely
takings, because, notwithstanding a thousand
pressed ours for a categorical answer to the
obstacles, he sincerely adhered to the French unsuccessful, an unsatisfactory career, has
question, whether or no England would act
alliance. with Fritnee in resisting this assault upon contrived to betray every statesman who was
his colleague. and to break up every Cabinet
When Lord ABERDEEN came into power he Turkey ? The question, it is understood. Wats of which be was a member. Born with all the
yielded himself entirely to the Orleanist in- directly brought before the Cabinet by our accide•nts which facilitate a career, a country
of Foreign Secretary. Even then he and Lord
spiration, and threw himself into the arms gentleman of ancient family and ample estate,
ABERDEEN hesitated. still murmured their con-
Russia. No doubt this was his natural ten- it would seem that a Ham of the industry and
fidence in the Empenott and M. Bnesow. 111141 ;1;t;
1
M.).....eS of Sir .Ississ (ittAIIASI need only to
deucy. His original politics are Kremlin their "belief that Prince Mensehikoff had ex have pursued a clear and straightforward path
politics ; and, if t' ey sul:sequenily ass mad au " ceeikd his instructions" ! But Lord PAt.sinits- to have obtained the full gratification of an
air of pseudo-Liberalism, it Was only Libe- TON, as we hear, took high ground. and !rug honourable ambition. But nature has endowed
ralism of t'le atmosphere of Chateau d'Eu. supported on this creasion by I,()i'd John Russell. him with such sinister qualities that his course
There was 1141 longer a majority for Loisl ABER
The journals under his influence prepared the has always been perverse. We believe, bow-
DEES, and it reitelies us that it was determined ever. that the malignity iind artifie•e for which
English mind to believe that it was impossible to support Turkey. But we have beard also i i
.ie .las become proveri,ial tire with him not so
to act in concert with France. since she had that, timid. perplexed. and foaling himself in- much miturAly predominant qualities an the
ceased to be a constitutional country. The volved in eircunist noes with which his small resources on which lie has drawn to compen-
Russian Minister at this Court communicated intrigues cannot cope, the Prime Minister still sate for the consequences of his singular want
doubts, and will not, even in the face of facts, of .
with o'lentatious secrecy that his Imperial judgment. There is no statesman of his
believe that the Emperor " meant to deceive rank and length of career who has been so
master took a deep interest in the welfare of 4, him: little in office, though lie is particularly qualified
the Government of ',Ora ABERDEEN. The Had Colonel ROSE been supported, and for administration, which has always been his
Molnenl. all Was arranged, and France and France and England acted in concert, the object. It is remarkable of Sir JAMES GRAHAM
Eie„tland were detached, Prince MEN/seems, present state could never have been brought that he has
sever changed his party and
tippeared at Constantinople. There was great about. Don't let the people of this country not his principle' the wrong moment. He
comprehend what is at stake. is pence their changed from a Radical into a Conservative
:time. "It is only an affair of the shrines:. object? The success of Russia will be the before the Reform Act had yielded its
said M. de BRUNOW. And then he went about signal for a general war, and by this time next
de. fruiO s, and wits
be then t consequently se
fromven a
yC on-
e
assuring the friends of Russia that his roaster year a million and a half of men will be in pposition changed ars

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