The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON, SAT URD.II, Ni )1-EMBER :li, 0443.

WE eommunicate to our readers to-day in-
fiwination which we have every reason to
believe authentic, and the importance of
which all will acknowledge, though conflicting
interpretations may be placed upon its tenor.
The Austrian Gorerimient has appealed to her
M►jestys Government to make with it, as a
service to Russia, who lbws not heave?, choose to
originate the snyyestion, ($ joint proposition fi►r an
armistice between the Turkish and Russian forces
dieting the winter. There arc some who may
look upon this incident as the herald of a
peaceful solution of the startling difficulties
with which our foreign relations have become
involved under the Coalition Ministry. If by
a peaceful solution they mean an arrangement
in the spirit of the Vienna note, an arrange-
ment which will secure to Russia all that she
requires at present, and prepare fin• Russia all
that she intends to accomplish iu the future,
we doubt not difficulties to such a settlement
will not arise on the part of the Court of St.
Petersburg. But there will be no pacific
solution which involves any substantial devia-
tion from Russian policy, and the only result
of armistices and conferences will lie that
Russia will gain time, and at the cost of
Turkey.

It may be quite true that, when the able
Ruler of Russia took his first step, he dli►l not
contemplate the war that has broken out. Ile
u►ight well not have contemplate►l it. because

the assuranees and representat. s, the
opinions and the feelings, of Lord AHERUEEN
111114 have convinced him that all he /13, this
111101111ellt I.`tillill'il would have been obtained
without fore. The ulterior objects of the
Emperorof 111t..451A, when Prince MEN:44'IIIKM.,

was sent tAb kiliOWll to
AHLILI/LEN, alll4l had 'Well 101111.; kIi4)WII to
1.01'41 AIit:RM.:EN. It tility I.e very eonvenient.
for the tionee, to deny this statement, and
very easy to do so for such organs " those
whose shantele:s ineonsisteileies c beets
the wonder and laughing-stoek of Europe
the last six months. Tho,,e who tell
4)11 one day that " the lin:is:int soldiers are
dying like eoekronehes," and on the next that
Turkey, if it presumes to rebist this hobt o

Sennaeherib, will be swept front the vitro of
Europe, may, with equal audacity, and with as
authentic inNtrUctions. contradict our state-
ment ; but it is true, and its truth will in due
tune be acknowledged, even by those who
now with hysteric recklessness rush forward
to repudiate it. 'There are other people who
represent the Emp,eror of all the liusstAs
itt London and at besides M. de BRUNoW
and M. de liotst:LurF. This may mot be known
to everybody, but it is at least known to Lord
ABERDEEN.

M'e r•el►t'at, then, that the course pursued by
Russia at Constantinople in the spring wits one
long matured, had been communicated to Lord
ABERDEEN, had been sanctioned by his appro-
bation, hall been looked forward to as one of
the contributory means to the expulsion of the
Turks from l'airtgae—which in conversation, in
conkrenee, and in writiltg, l.t►rtl ABERut:EN, itt
various periods of his eilreer, 111141 not tautly al►-
proved, but encouraged. The Emperor of
llessu, therefore, with Lord ABERDEEN as
Prhne Minister, hail no reason to count upon
war, but, having encountered that emergency,
he will not la•ove uncapial to it.
Thew. is a great distinction tat be noted be-
tween the position tat' the Emperor Nteuta.mt
with reference to eat Tying taut the imperial
scheme of PETER the lilt EAT, and the
positions of CATHERINE Itlld ALEXANDER in
the same respect. Their means to obtain the
hereditary object were simply iso/itica/. Des-
potic power• was to direct colossal resources to
at vast result. lint the means of the present
Emperor of liessiA for the same end are far
more cumj►lieuted, anal fan• there efreetice and
euthu•ing. Instead of the were exercise of
absolute will, his system of action is founded
on three prineiples : kt. A rroeißeT ; 2nd.
ORTitoooxv ; NATIoNALITV. CATHERINE
Was it despot, but she affected to be all evrit
furl. Al.i.x.tsut:R was :1 despot. but he atli'a•teli
to be a Liberal ; '4ollll'l/Me, fOrMeigt;* like L.
IlAatct: ; sometime,, illotaine, like Mlle. de
kariat.NEß. NlaHtat..►s is: at despot, with the
ark aaf the 1111111 tat' the Iliassianq carried before
Ins hurl, anal that hest atm...anted millions of
:1 new and hontogenea tits rave. It is tat Ohtlitil
this la th.lll4lxy and this nationality thait ha. has
striekeu Paalatial, no! from the caprice tat' 11
raw . All has long preparing, through
the u►tited instrumentality at• the thn.e la•iuci-
ples, fur• the expansia tat Nlitset all, fur• a ful-
filment Ivltich will bring the 1 ;tad of the lilts
siati-: to the shores tar the -acne Se•a that washes
the Vatican, anal into a cit.) r, hick ,-neeeetled
to the empire of Home, and unity repeat the
salute
C►in this policy. whirls, if stteeessful, will
alter the aspect ad' the• whole Ivorld, be baffled
Anal it' s4l, lay what waits Not by those
practi:aell by her Nlajesty's 4 ilavernment during
the last ten months. First eneouragenient to
Russia, then panic as to her designs ; Warm.

vacillation, contrary orders. contrinlietory
StElletiolls. 601101111 y speaking, throughout
this period Turkey has been recommended to
surrender at diseretioll, iu order to relieve the
Coalition Ministry from present embarrass-
ment. And now that. Turkey ha, shown that
she is ISSCSheM 0f successful resist
ain't' her ettorts are to be paralysed, or bre
energies exhausted, by delay. An armistiee
will effect the first ; perhaps a Conference limy
sceure the second.

A firm and skilful Minister might have We -
%Mittel! the !dell of Turkey, or (Mayo it
for years. during whirls the resources of that
power might have been increased and strength
cued, or the elements of a new barrier to
northern aggression might have been de
veloped and prepared. lord A 111:1114: E N has
precipitated the convulsion, and is, at the
same time, alike unfit and unprepared to
control the storm. He has HO other resource
at present than, by diplomatic niamouvres,
by influenees less reputable, to induce the
Part,' virtually to eoneede the demand of
MENseniKorr. The alibi ir is to be " patched
up," as the octogenarian Prime Minifiter of
France patched up the French Monarchy at
the end of the last century. 'rho Marquis do
11Aelti:PAH, like Lord AaraingEs, had "one
foot in the grave ;" the thing " lasted his
time ;" but what occurred afterwards iN Stilt
yet forgotten. The future of the world de•
pools upon the conduct of England at thin
moment

THE LATE BOARD or ADMIRALTY
AND ITS AM EIIICA N CRITICS.

Pima NI r. Cum)Es ! Wr almost pity him.
plan of arbitration has been tried in the East •
ent ipiestion, and has, m.4.0'11114( to Mr. it.An
riTi)NE'm lIullUll of siowess---illuhtnite4l by Spain,
Belgium, and Syria—succeeded completely ;
its it. loss already resulted in a bloody war. To
thiatuoilietts soldiers, %Owns Mr. Colli)EN Wi)111(1
lire HMI loruperty lire, in Latteashire,
indebted for present security. Anil mow it up
pears that the ungrateful Allieriellll3. Ull4llll
he so 1111101 aillilires, ore alma to 111 Vest
I I hist, claims to his regard which
have hitherto been sii attrnetive in his rye-.
" Look at the navy of the I ;
Ili tVil Stales," ex •

elliilliti —4,IIIOEN, " and Nee %%bat it consists
"of!" This the Americans lune 154.11 doing
fur themselves ; hull they lia‘V 111..41.11.14A Oita
it CMS i of eleven khiltY 411 tile line,
razee, twelve huge frigates, two SVeltll4l
11114 i about tiorty Ml&Miler Ships. lint the feel
tug excited in the American mind by content.
plating their navy is., exactly the reverse
of that created in Mr. t'ouoi.;,i's, by the mule
delightful ohjeet. Mr. esisni:s is fired by en-
thusiastic admiration :Jonathan, our brother,
tilled with intense disgust ! The hi/iaxissilepi,"
says the .Vess, Fork Ilerahl,” is so badly firmed,
•' aud Ler su light, that itu

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" steamer, with only one large gun, could de-
" stroy her before her fire could take the
" slightest effect. What is this force, even as
a nucleus, to contend against the fleets of
" Great Britain or France? . Two or three
" English steamers, with guns of long range,
" could sink every ship and steamer in pos•
" session of the Government." Jonathan
looks not only at his fleet, but also at his
navy list, and on it he observes "old fogy cap-
tains " to such an alarming extent that, for
five frigate° which he names, fit captains could
not be found.

From this sad sight the writer mournfully
turns, and casts his eye over the eastern
waves, till it rests on England end the conti-
nent of Europe ; and there he sees " France
" and Russia actively engaged in increasing
" the numerical force of their navies." And
there, too, he sees, " at. Spithead, a fleet such
" as the world never saw " before ; and Eng-
land with a preponderance of strength on the
ocean that guards her shores and protects her
commerce " wherever her meteor flag is borne,
" and has compelled Cabinet after Cabinet,
" even in America, to tamely submit " to the
observance of treaties, these relating to the
fisheries for example.
The inference the American draws from all
this is that " the true way to maintain peace
" is to be prepared for war in pace ostendite
" ferrous," and concludes with an inquiry whe-
ther the moirit of WA!IIIINGTON. PATRICK HENRY,
and Awnnew JAexsos is extinct, on which
point, perhaps, Roarer OwEN may give him
some information. Thus, then, we have an
influential journal of New York, the capital of
Mr. COBDEN'S model republic, denouncing the
organisation of that braneh of the United
States service, which ham to him appeared to
be the emanation of absolute wisdom, and the
perfection of national naval efficiency. Is this
blow as much as Mr. COBDEN can bear?
Alas ! the American journalist is yet more
cruel ! Fle lands and holds up as an example
to the people of the United States the admi-
nistrative conduct of the late "Tory" Govern-
ment of Great Britain, and not only of the
" Tory" Government, but of that particular
portion of it against which Radical orators and
writers more especially delighted to discharge
their envenomed arrows of malignant false-
hood. Yes, it is to that powerful fleet which the
Duke of NORTIIEMBERLAND and the Board of
Admiralty of the Government of Lord Denny
called into existence, that the New York
Herald attributes the proud position which
England then maintained, and which she
might hold now, could the present Govern-
ment well and wisely wield the magnificent
weapon which their predecessors created and
bequeathed to them.