The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

troops on the line of the Danube. The Suhot
reviewing his levies at Unkiar Skelessi, and
with a manifesto of war, urgently appealing to
the counts and fanatieisnt of his people,
ready for publication, is not less °minima Hum
the military parade of Ooarsetuxorr and his
savage Proclamation, exhorting his soldiers to
annihilate Paganism, and those who would
oppose Russia in the sacred mission, with its
blasphemous rallying cry—" Long life to the
" Clod of the Russians !"
The meeting appointed between the Czar
NIVIIOLAS and the young Emperor Fit&NUM
on the 2:lrd inst., at Ohniitz, indicates the
contempt with which the former is disposed to
regard the proceedings of the Conferenee. Eng-
land is the party most interested in thwarting
his ambitious schemes ; but what can he care
for the representations of a Power which sinee
the commeneement of the ejitunTel has not
dared even to be consistent rn timidity, but
has manifested the extremes of weakness by
continual vacillation ?
When for the hundredth time we are puta-
tively assured that terms of settlement have
been agreed on, and that peace has been
secured, we shall lee startled from our dream
of repose by the announcement that a great
battle has effectually cut short the subtleties of
diplomatic negotiation. From the hour that
the Russian armies crossed the Pruth, war
had virtually commenced. Had England, iu
the conscioutmess of her magnificent strength.
forbade Hie aggression, and dared, even though
she stood alone, all consequenees of her
righteous act in a righteous cause, the peril
which now threatens the peace of Europe.
would have been checked in its origin. Tho
right moment for of mediation was lost,
and our Government, now trembling at the
magnitude of the danger which it hoped to
escape by concession, is solely intent On
tutoring Turkey into an attitude of submits.
Rion, while the eagle of the North is preparing
to pounce upon his prey.

LORD BROUGHAM'S LAW REFORMS.
Arrea a public career of more than half a
century, and upwards of forty years of stormy
parliamentary life, Lord BaorunAu finds him•
self, by the universal consent of hie most
distinguished contemporal•ies, entrusted with
the duty of carrying out a class of reforms
touching more closely than any others the
welfare of his countrymen. A republica-
tion by Rinuw,ty of two speeches by Lord
Baneothot in the House of Lords in July last
reminds us forcibly of his set Ylees as a Law
Reformer•. A quarter of a century ago he
zemt, hi., memorable speech on the abuses in
the administration of the law : he now finds
adopted nearly all the suggestions he then
made, and most of them he has had the
crowning satisfaction of passing into law. To
Lord BROUGHAM we owe the awakening of the
public mind to evils the existence of which
had been detected by philosophers, though
they had not then been exposed by publicists.
Still more are we indebted to him for the mar
venous energy and perseverance of his efforts
to eradicate those evils. hits war with the
abuses of Chaneery ; his changes ill the law
and practice of bankruptcy ; and generally his
successful efli►rts to simplify legal procedure,
—these, although they have produced results
as universal as they are beneficial. yield iu