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to our own days boasted that they were the
" emancipators " of the Papists. Four years
since the Peelites were the allies of Cardinal
WISEMAN in his aggression. The presence of
a Romanist "brigade" in the ranks of parlia-
mentary Liberalism," small sectarian jealou-
sies in seine quarters, the moral indifferentism
resulting from the merely commercial spirit in
other sections, all unite in rendering the sub
Sect of Protestantism utterly unmanageable by
a Liberal party with its incoherent aims, its
motley beliefs, and its idle strife of jarring
cliques.
It is to the Conservative party, therefore,
and to that alone, England must trust for the
defence of its priceless religious liberty ; for,
as Mr. DISRAELI truly said, our Protestant
Church is our guarantee for all the high privi•
leges we enjoy. To those privileges Popery
is essentially antagonistic, and we require
defence against its artfully-planned attacks.
The best means for that defence will on future
occasions be a subject for our consideration.
What we here desire to fix attention upon is
the fact that, before long, Protestantism must
certainly become one of the great political
questions of the time, demanding careful and
loyal statesmanship for its maintenance, as
distinguished from the system of that
Jesuitparty which in polities abuses the power
of free institutions to facilitate the gloomy
triumphs of the arch foe to the freedom of the
human mind.

A vote of thanks was passed some days ago to Mr.
Disraeli, by the Burnley Protestant Association, for
his speech in favour of Mr. Spooner. The following
is Mr. Disraeli's reply :
" Hughenden Manor, Sept. 7, 1554.
" Sir,-1 have the honour to acknowledge your letter of
the Ist inst., communicating to me the thanks of the
Burnley Protestant Association for some observations re-
cently made by me in the House of Commons.
" The power of a public man in England to effect
good depends on the confidence of his fellow-country-
men, and 1, therefore, vales this expression of feeling on
the part of the meeting of rhich you were the worthy
chairman."
THE MOST DISTINCT Nemo:now respecting the
future of the allied forces despatched to the great
siege comes from a captain of `one of the transport
steamers. About six miles to the north of Sebas-
topol is a plain reaching inland ; the approach from
seaward is clear, and the shore can be made bold till
within 500 yards. The troops are to be landed under
cover of the guns of the men-of-war; the greater
part of the fleet will prevent the Russians leaving
the harbour. On the northern bill is a fort over-
looking the entrsuice, strongly defended : this is to be
taken, and from this elevation they will shell the
fleet in the harbour.
ANOTHER SMALL DISASTER FOR THE GOVERNMENT•
Their new purchase the Himalaya steam-ship, which
is reported to have performed her journeys so admi-
rably, is affirmed to be strained, and much in want
of repair. Certain experienced authorities consider
that she rolls too heavily in rough weather to stand
much knocking about, and that the Peninsular and
Oriental Company are " well out of their property."
THE DEBENTURES FOR 300,0001. offered by the
Crystal Palace Company will not, it is expected, find
favour in the City. The magnates of the Stock
Exchange have viewed the enterprise from the first
with some little prejudice ; and, until the necessary
expenses for its maintenance are precisely deter-
mined, will probably, by their example, deter in-
vestors. Though the shares have fallen es low as
N., many of the large holders remain as sanguine as
ever of success, especially anxious for the completion
of the West End Branch Railway, which will obviate
the delays of progress through the City.
CARDINAL. ANGELO 31.+1 died on the 9th of Septem-
ber at Albano. The labours of this indefatigable
Man have restored to the learned world many
valuable fragments of antiquity that would have
been irreparably lost hut for his exertions. Al-
though the existence of palimpesta was, of course,
long known, no one hail attempted, or even believed
possible, the restoration of the erased matter till the
zeal and ingenuity of Mai came to the task. He
owed his elevation to the cardinalship entirely to his
literary labours. He bad but lately succeeded Car •
dinal Lambruschini in the important office of libra-
rian of the Vatican. His death was almost a sudden
one, at the age of seventy-two.
The Lord Mayor took his seat in the Court of
Common Pleas in the Guildball-yard, yesterday,
having determined not to sit again at the Mansion-
house d', ring the prevalence of the cholera. His
lordship lied several times during the week expressed
his indignation that a civic functionary should at this
dangerous time be exposed to smells scarcely to be
exceeded by those at Westminster-hall or the new
Houses.

THE PRESS.

THE WAR.

THE CRIMEA EXPEDITION.
All accounts from the East concur in stating that
the expedition has actually sailed. A letter from
Tberapia, dated the 7th instant, states that
the French and the Turkish divisions left Varna on
the sth instant. The English fleet was to join them
at Serpent Isle. The weather was fine.
The Moniteur gives some details of the provision
made for the subsistence and comforts of the French
army serving in the East, with the view of showing
the solicitude of the Government for its perfect effi-
ciency in the camp and in the field, and to correct
certain misapprehensions which appear to have got
abroad.
Despatches from Vienna give advice from Varna
to the sth. They state that the English and French
divisions left that day, and that the Turkish division
would follow.
No accident happened during the embarkation of
the expedition for the Crimea, and on the 3rd the
greater part of the fleet bad weighed anchor. The
whole army was in the highest spirits.
The Czar is not idle on his part. According to
the Presse of Vienna, the following preparations are
in progress. Forts are being built to protect the
coasts at a distance of four leagues from Sebastopol.
A mass of tire•ships are being prepared to be sent
against the vessels of the enemy. In addition to the
usual garrison at Sebastopol, there are 80,000 men
in camp established near the town, and reinforce-
ments are constantly arriving. The Russian fleet is
armed, and it appears that it will not remain inactive
during the operations. The best pilots are distri-
buted amongst the vessels. Prince Menschikoff
directs in person the measures of defence.
It is stated that the attack on the Crimea takes
place contrary to the advice of Prince Napoleon and
the Duke of Cambridge, and in consequence of the
decided opinion of Marshal St. Arnaud, who dreaded
a mutiny among his troops if nothing was done.
Prince Napoleon bas resumed his command,
without, however, being cured of his fever.
Having been informed by a despatch of the marshal
that the divisions which are to take part in the expe-
dition had received orders to leave Varna on the 20th
ult. for Baltschik, in order to embark, he left the
same evening for the Black Sea.

Another proclamation of Marshal de SL Arnaud to
his troops is published in the Moniteur. This ad-
dress was written in the full anticipation of an im-
mediate movement to a scene of action, and is pitched
in a tone of far higher confidence and enthusiasm
than the melancholy " general order" which we
printed in our last number. It produced, we are
told, a most inspiriting effect upon the forces. The
address runs as follows :

" Soldiers,—You have given a noble example of perse-
verance, calmness, and energy, iR the midst of painful cir •
cunistances, which must be forgotten. The hour has
come to combat and to conquer.
" The enemy has not awaited us on the banks of the
Danube. His armies, &moralised and destroyed by
disease, are retiring with difficulty, and Providence has,
perhaps, spared us the trial of these unhealthy regions. It
is Providence which now calls us to the Crimea, a healthy
country like your own, and to Sebastopol, the seat of
Russian power in these seas, where we go to seek the
guarantee of peace and of a return to our hearths.
"This enterprise is grand and worthy of you. We will re-
alise it with the aid of the moat formidable military and
naval preparations that were ever seen. The allied fleets,
with 3,01 0 guns and their 25,000 brave sailors, your
emulators and companions in arm., will carry to the Crimea
a British army whose great valour your fathers learnt to
respect, a chosen division of those Ottoman soldiers who
have just proved their velour before your eyes, and a French
force, which I have the right, and am proud. to call the
Rib of all our army.
" I see there more than a ►arantee for success—l see
success itself. Generals, colonels, and officers of all ranks
and all armies, you will participate and instil into the spirit
of your soldiers the confidence that inspires mine. We
will soon salute the three flags united and flying from the
ramparts of Sebastopol with our natural cry of The
l'Empereur!'
The Marshal Commander•in-Chief, ST. ARNAT:D.
" Head-quarters, Varna, Aug. 25."

A letter from Varna, dated August 24, says that
" all the world is very busy indeed : working parties,
carpenters, marines, and seamen are daily sent from
the ships, and gangboards and rafts for embarkation
and disembarkation are constantly progressing ; and
there is no doubt we shall be all off at four or five
days at the farthest. The French have already em-
barked their artillery. It is said their cavalry will
embark at Bourgas (south of this). The guns of
our army were embarked yesterday and this morn-
ing. It is hoped we shall start on the 29th ; in-
deed, the French are said to have stated that if the
English are not ready by that time the project must
be given up; but all will no doubt be duly com-
pleted. The cholera is abating considerably ; the
Britannia has lost about 150 men ; nearly all her
officers became sick nurses during the terrible time.

SATURDAY,

The Furious has lost 19 men, and here in the bay are
many desultory cases. Colonel Trevelyan, of the
Guards, died from cholera the night before last, and
a captain of the army this morning in a Bombay
transport. In a few weeks you will have some stir.
ring news of our proceedings. There are reports
that all the Sebastopol takers are to have the Legion
of Honour, and also double pay for the year."

The most vigorous measures will be taken by the
Russian authorities in the event of an attack upon
Odessa.
The military governor has issued a proclamation
prescribing the duties of the inhabitants in case of a
successful attack on the city by the allies. lie re-
minds them of the heroic devotedness of their ances-
tors when the sacred soil of Russia was last violated
by the enemy, and tolls them that the Emperor ex-
pects similar acts of patriotism from them. The in-
habitants are then strictly charged to fire the city,
and make of it another Moscow, rather than let it
fall into the power of the enemy.
The civil population is enjoined to retire in such a
case to Tiraspol. The severest punishments are
denounced against any unpatriotic and unorthodox
persons who may linger behind, or attempt to ex-
tinguish the fire. As a more reliable precaution, the
general has seized all the fire engines and buckets in
the city, and placed them under military guard. The
Russian general is not very happy in appealing to
the burning of Moscow as a precedent for burning
Odessa. Moscow, besides being the historical capi-
tal of the empire, was the property of those who set
fire to it. Odessa is a half-foreign town. The de-
struction of Moscow was the undoing of the French
army, because the latter was far from its simplies
and reserves ; the destruction of Odessa would not
affect the allied army on that score while our ships
hold the Black Sea.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The following are a few of the particulars of the
Austrian occupation of the principalities :
At eleven o'clock on the morning of the oth the
Austrian troops entered Bucharest. Omer Pasha
received them at the head of a Turkish division and
a detachment of the Wallachian militia, outside the
gate of Padu Mogoschoy, where the Catholic and
Greek clergy, the members of the Administration,
some of the Boyards, and a dense crowd of citizens
were assembled. Count Coronini, the commander of
the Austrian corps of occupation, and the Turkish
Sirdar rode at the head of the troops.
A Provisional Administrative Council, with Prince
Cantacuzeno at its head, had been established by
Dervishracha. On the 4th General Liiders removed
his head-quarters from Galatz to Reni. On the same
day the troops at Ibraila, after destroying the fortifi-
cations and strand batteries, fell back on Galatz,
where, finally, only a small detachment of Cossacks
and a battalion of jagers were left. All the vessels
in the haven of Ibraila and Galatz went on the 4th
to Reni. Gortacbakoffs bead-quarters are to he
shortly removed to Ismail. The Russians have not
destroyed Ibraila, as was reported to be their inten-
tion. The only injury suffered by the inhabitants
from the retreating Russians was from the thefts of
the camp-followers.
On the 30th ult. the Wallachian artillery battalion
returned to Bucharest. They were sent from Basco
to Ibraila, and there General Liiders put the ques-
tion to them whether they would follow the Russian
army. On both officers and soldiers declining, their
cannon were taken from them, and they were per-
mitted to return, only two officers remaining behind,
of whom one is a born Russian.
At Kolentina, on the night of the 31st ult., there
were seventy-one cases of cholera among the Turk-
ish troops. The sick were transported to Bucharest.
The sick left behind by the Russians at Bucharest
have been treated by the Turks with the greatest
humanity and care: thirty of them have recovered,
and have been sent after the Russian rearguard, to
be delivered to the general in command.
The postal communication between Bucharest,
Ibraila, and Galatz was reopened on the 4th inst.
The entry of the Austrian forces into Moldavia is
expected to take place about the 20th of the month,
by which time the principality will have been for the
most part evacuated by the Russians. General N
Pear is named military commandant in Moldavia,
with his head-quarters at Jassy.
THE BALTIC.
The most important news from the Baltic is the
rumour of the immediate return of the fleets SP.d
forces. Sir C. Napier, it is said, is expected in this
country. On this subject the Constitutionnel observes
that the Baltic squadron will probably soon return to
France. In concluding its first campaign it is entitled
to a tribute of eulogium and gratitude for the services
it has rendered, and for the manner in which it has
carried our flag. Improvised as it were—thanks to
the great intelligence of the Minister of Marine, and
the marked activity of the Administratiop--it Pd
from the first worthy to figure in the some
ranks as the magnificent fleet of our ally. Its
• the
Parseval Deschenes, immediately acqtured
chief,

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