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done so for themselves in France. But this is
a contingency impossible to rely on ; what is
to be done, therefore, we must do ourselves.
That is, to show the princes and people of
India distinctly that if Great Britain has been
unjust to them, it was from inadvertence, and
not out of any disregard of their lawful rights
and claims. It will be in vain to try and
re-establish our authority on any basis but
that of justice and magnanimity. These
virtues may be hard of adoption while our
passions are so excited ; but they are
the only virtues through which we can attain
success. In our anger we may desolate India,
but in doing so we shall shiver to atoms the
brightest jewel in Queen VICTORIA'S crown.
The further we extend the circle of our ven-
geance the more shalt we unsettle the founda-
tions of our ride. If Russia were really at the
bottom of our troubles, we could not better
advance her interests than by engaging in the
wholesale crusade against the natives and their
sovereigns and their institutions, which many
of the leaders of public opinion here propose.

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE
PRINCIPALITIES.

THE question of the Danubian provinces is
becoming of practical and pressing importance.
The disgraceful intrigues of Austria and
England which have characterised the pro-

ceedings of the last three months have brought
about a crisis at Constantinople, in which the
peace of Europe can only be preserved by the
disgrace of England. M. DE THOUVENEL, the
Ambassador of France at Constantinople,
supported by Prussia, Russia, and Sardinia,
protesting against the discreditable intrigues
of Austria, England, and Turkey, in the
recent Danubian elections,lhas hauled down the
flag of his Embassy, and conditionally broken
off diplomatic relations with the Govern-
ment of the Porte. The policy Lord PAL-
mEnsToN's Government has pursued towards
the Principalities is as discreditable as it is
disingenuous. By the Treaty of Paris we
solemnly engaged ourselves to permit the
inhabitants of these provinces freely to express
their views as to their future form of Govern-
ment. The tendency of the popular will was
unmistakably in direction of a Union under
an hereditary Prince. In conjunction with
France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia, the
policy of England at that period was strongly
in favour of the Union, in favour of the estab-
lishment of a constitutional form of self-
Government, of a free press, of an independent
army ; ar.d solemn promises were made to
the Moldo-Wallachs that their wishes upon
these important points should be consulted
and followed. But suddenly the Liberal
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