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London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 185;1.

immense armies to congregate on either side,
in preparation for a iktptTalte and bloody war?
Is it peace for Frew.ll and ships of
war to pass the Dardanelles, and drop their
anchors in the %%liters of Constantinople, when
existing treaties expressly declare that the
Sultan shall sa... in ‘r no ships of war to enter the
Dardanelles so long us the l'orte remains at

PRICE SIXPENCE.

for war. as false its it would be to retire
sent the maintenance of an army or deed
as provawative of hostilities. Had Russia
been warned that the passage of the Pratt'
would be regarded lllslantlitlll of %%ill'
against Turkey her allies, aittem allay 0114'
suppose that she would have dared the alter
native, or that the question at this 1111,11110114
would have worn the aspect it aloes? Peace
really endangered, not by the counsels of
those who have urged the adoption or an ill
telligible and decided policy, but by the wealk.
ness which hats encouraged Russian aggres-
sion by promising it impunity.
As the Vicuna COlderelleo is 116'401%11d wr
are now dependent on the young Emperoy
of AUSTRIA as to whether further negotis
tion will,
,pe attempted, and, if so, ohm
shape it oluky RSSUIIIe. But, meanwhile. the
one premix which never (visaed while ail&
matists debated is rapidly advancing. In
credible exertions are being made to recruit
the Russian forees on the Danube. and the
Turkish army is enthusiamtie for battle. IA
war come or not. and he its result what it ma).
we turn with abhorrence front that policy
which, instead of restraining the invatler lay
an armed sand resolute attitude, baa done its
best to engage in conflict two mighty armies,
indamed by hereditary hate. and the fanaticism
of hostile creeds, under the fah* prsteueu
of preserving the .pstes of Europe.

~...Fiordo +ow ft!

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT CORK.
IT is characteristic of bite 111111R11 GIRAMAX that
he can never make any rhetorical alfort with.
out suggesting to the hearer or reader of his
speech the ambiguous antecedents of his pet-
plexed and contradictory career. One might
suppose that he could have addressed the
citizens of Cork without compelling them to
recollect his vacillation ill policy, and that
acrimony of tow, which he has shown on all
sides of polities. " I feared," said he, " that
" my premenee in Ireland might arouse bitt,r
" feelings "—au extraordinary confession front
the lips of a British statesman !
We aro thus compelled by himself to inquire,
in what country were those angry emotions
naturally to be apprehended? Wits it from
the Roman Catholics, whom he told, ten years
ago, " that conciliation with hellos(' had
" reached its utmost limits," and whom he
taught, upon Lowther occasion, " that Whig
" principles consisted in jealousy of Popery as
" nil inshuuiett of power"? Or was at front
the Irish Protestants, whom he taunted in
1545 with their loss of political influence, and
who read his defence of Cardinal Weir.mas's
aggression, and his panegyrie on eonventutil
estublishments'.' The First Lord of the Ail-
miralty could surely have addressed the g. oil
natured " Paddies from ('ork " without thus
reminding theta that he had inveighed at dif-
ferent times of his career against both the de-
nominations of Irishmen in whose preseneo
he then found himself. The torrent of the
Right Honourable litentlenoWs aftentlimor
eloquence must have recalled to some of ills
hearers the line in Sri:Nave's" FaCrie ()tepee,"
where the poet records of " the spreading Lee"
that it "eneloseth Cork with its diroded flood,"
for the river whose !wandering course wait
thus ii9tiesil hy the Elizabethan bard might,
hi Ito nit " &Moil" viiiinnvls, he tit!