The Press.
London, England, 1854-12-16 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Count Rossi, Prince Lichnowsky, and General Count
Latour, bear witness in death of the project to estab-
lish the principle of the absolute in blood and
anarchy. The Muscovite bided his time. Austria
solicited his aid; he accorded it, and became her
master. He incited Prussia to manceuvre for a pre-
ponderancein the Germanic Diet, and, having gained
his point in abasing Austria and strengthening
Prussia for his own future benefit, he then, and not
till then, extinguished republicanism throughout
central Europe. In revenge for the suppression of
anarchy, assassination, and commonalty, Mazzini,
Kossuth, and Ledru-Rollin now shout "Mort aux
Rois!"
Although she absolntely had triumphed over re-
publicanism, there was another power still greater,
and greater because its justice was in proportion to,
and linked with, its might, which had been consoli-
dated for centuries. This foe was vigilant, resolute,
brave, and virtuous. It was constitutionalism,
equally hostile to the tyranny of absolutism, and to
the tyranny of republicanism. All that is great and
good in this system, which is based upon popular
representation, is centred in England, and on this
account her place, by prescription and hereditary
right, has always been in the van of the allied
enemies to absolutism. These may do battle under
another name, they may nominally attribute an-
other cause, whether in support of Turk, Jew, or
Infidel, but the real warfare springs from a funda-
mental incompatibility and utter disunion with the
absolute and republican principles.
France, emerging from the pollution of democracy,
called to her assistance the imperial power to save
her from anarchy and the absolute of the guillotine.
The middle classes and owners of property, the
friends of order, were the foremost in the inter-
pollution of imperialism. Their confidence in the
man of their choice was proved to be well judged,
and led instantly to an intimate and cordial alliance
with England. But the latter country was not free
from the taint of the absolute.
Sir Robert Peel, in withdrawing from the aristo-
cratic party, and in constant opposition to the Whig,
formed a middle party upon the principle of Divide
et Impera. He died. Lord Aberdeen and his fol-
lowers, now universally designated by the name of
Peelites, compassed and seized the Ministerial rule.
Few in number, without possessing constitutionally
the confidence of the country, they carry on the
Government unconstitutionally by the mere accident
of position, and in themselves represent the abso-
lute in spirit, although not in appearance. The
High Church, and religionists of all classes, condemn
Sir William Molesworth and his clique, the Low
Church fear the Romanism of Mr. Gladstone, and
the merchant princes dread his financial adventures.
The Indian empire holds Sir Charles Wood in con-
tempt, the Duke of Newcastle is disliked by the
army for his cruel incompetency, and the navy do
hot believe or hold in estimation, for other reasons,
Sir James Graham. Lord John Russell is not trusted
by any, from his blind sacrifile of everything for a
vain and phantasmal sebserviency to the possible
praise of posterity; and Lord Palmerston laughs at
the joint stock company. Amongst the above, Sir
James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and the Duke of New.
castle, are the arch Peelites, with whom Lord Aber-
deen acts as the leader and the Minister. These
men, in fact, reign. Let not the truth be garbled.
These men, the representatives of the absolute, reign
against the will of the people. To preserve their
seizure of power, they have allied themselves to the
republicanism of England, and have amalgamated
with its leaders by stithying them into Ministeral
office. The chief of the Peel faction, and the
Minister, personally and officially acted in strict
accord with the Russo-champion of the absolute.
Then immediately proceeded, and with amicable
consent, the Muscovite aggression on Constanti-
nople, the first imperial sten to the entlimnisation of
the absolute in Europe. France, with the popular
and conetitntional voice of England, Palmerstonianly
expressed in Council, forced the unwilling Peel
Minister to declare war against Muscovite abso-
lutism. The Manchester Republicans joined the
Peel-peace and Russian party, and devised Frank-
Imperialism, but the national heart was sound at
core. It mistrusted the Peelites, individually and
collectively, and compelled the gang, despite of
Manchester Republicans, to act in accordance with
national will and national honour.
The constitutional principal of England, aided by
Imperial France, is doing battle with the absolute to
the death. Russia is virtually supported by the
good will of Prussia, and a large majority of the Kings
and Princes of Germany; Austria, in the secret
truth, not excepted. Prussia, the outpost of Russia,
occupies the identical position of extinct Poland,
and is utterly incapable of free action. On one side
appear the battalions of the Czar, whilst to the west
rise the phantoms of the warriors of Jena. The
dread of a French army is greater than that of
Russian guards. Austria, hating England as the
centralisation of the constitutional principle, holding
France in hereditary abhorrence, fearing the Czar,

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Lombardy, by whom the is regarded as the proto-
type of evil, seeks only to preserve, at any cost, her
disunited possessions. Every loss of the Anglo-
Frank army is to her a gain. She looks on quietly,
full of deceit and ill-will, and will afford no effectual
aid except under compulsion. Even her armed
assistance is not to be trusted. She belongs to the
absolute. Leagued in fellow-insincerity with Prussia,
she will oppose any arrangement that will tend to
increase the power of France and England. What-
ever compact, containing four or more conditions,
may be patched up by diplomatic device, care will
be taken that, in the articles of a just, honourable,
lasting, and Aberdeen-Peel peace, such an equivocal
wording shall exist as to enable the Eastern powers
at any moment to break ground against the objects
of their hatred—France and England. In the mean-
time the flunky of the absolute wields the Minis-
terial power of England.
STAZZA CAUINO.

Court anb fas4irs.

Her Neje:4y left Windsor for London on Monday,
and on the following day opened Parliament in state.
The Queen quitted town shortly after the ceremony,
and arrived at Windsor before seven o'clock in the

evening.
A Privy Council was held at Windsor on Monday,
at which nearly all the Ministers attended, when the
Royal Speech on the opening of Parliament was
arranged and agreed upon.
Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and
Wednesday last.
Lord John Russell, as Leader of the House of
Commons, gave a full dress dinner to a numerous
party of his colleagues on Monday evening at the
Foreign Office.
Letters from Vienna state that Lord Westmoreland
was received by the Emperor on the sth, to deliver
an autograph letter from Queen Victoria. Some days
before, Baron Bourqueney, French Ambassador at
Vienna, had also delivered an autograph letter from
his Sovereign to his Imperial Majesty.

The overland mail has brought the melancholy
intelligence of the death of Lord F. FITECLARENOt,
Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, and colonel of the
36th Regiment. The deceased was second eon of
King William IV. and Mrs. Jordan ; was born in
1799, and in 1821 married Lady Augusta Boyle,
daughter of the Earl of Glasgow. Lord Frederick
entered the army in 1814, and at his death hold tho
rank of lieutenant-general.


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TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."
Sir,—Your remarks on " The Campaign in the
East" are perfectly jnst, and you point out correctly
the two couttes which lay open for onr Government
to pursue. Had the firkt been adopted, and aim-
tually carried out, it would probably not have been
necessary for this country to tire a shot, and we should
have been spared the loss of that noble army which
has been sacrificed. But bow have our Government
acted? They beguiled the country by declaring a
blockade of the ports of Russia, and the consequence
has been a larger importation of the produce of that
country this year than usual. The enemy has been
allowed free intercourse with us in neutral ships, and
up to the present moment vessels continue to arrive
at London, laden with Ruasidn produce, direct from
Odessa and other ports of Russia. No wonder people
marvel, as, with all our boasting, we, jointly with France
and Turkey, have shown ourselves incapable of block-
ading the few ports of the Emperor ; but I suppose a
' blockade of the ports of the enemy and an endeavour
to cripple his commerce would be contrary to the
doctrine of " free trade."
The siege of Sebastopol is an exact type of the pre-
sent war. We are attacking one side of that city,
whilst the other sides are left perfectly open to the
resources of the enemy ; and, in the same way in the
general conduct of the war, we are making demon-
strations on a few points of his dominions, and leaving
the rest open to him to push out his vast productions
and obtain in return the sinews of war." I fancy the
Emperor of Russia is nothing the worse, and his
means are not crippled, by the returns for his produce
being made chiefly in our bullion instead of, as
hithetto, in manufactures, colonial goods, &e. Gold
is, indeed, better than all these things for a nation
resolved on a stout fight, and we have supplied it to
them this year to an unusual extent.
You have, more than any other journal, pointed
out the treasonable connivance of our Ministry in this
respect, and if the matter be not remedieil before
your next number appear I trust some strong remarks
on the subject will not be wanting therein.—l have
the honour to remain, sir, your moat obedient servant,
London, 11th Dee., 1854. B.