The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-25 00:00:00

cheater on a late occasion, when he (Mr. Gladstone) Ir.
on the Treasury bench, made an appeal to the go
and charged them with being not guiltless of the Zeeglilli4
,Nt an unneosseary war. He did not accept that challenge he
hi believed the war to be just of the class which wases4l4
on at a distance, that it might not be carried on at hems.
that wee waged in the Black Sea, that it might ael
be carried on in the Mediterranean; just as the gr
of the Greek orators called on his country to wage arse h,
Thessaly that it might not be waged in Attica, Bat idea
Russia had conceded so much, and when the state of
was such u to place those in the wrong who were foty
in the right, and those in the right who once were is tly
wrong, he should fail in his duty if he did not raise he
voice in entreaty to the house to pause. They bad on%
within the last few days some of the fainter traces of tie
many desolations that war entails in the forms of thee
heroic men who received from the hands of ite,
jesty, he would not say the rewards, but the torso
of acknowledgment of their valonrous deeds. Many daft
they were rejoiced t 3 see, with their noble forms again wid,
and with the elastic step of youth and health once eaasa
But would they say to the thousands of their counter's'
who sleep beneath the waves of the Boaphorus or the reeks
of Ballade's, would they say to the thousands of oar
gallant allies who died side by side with cur own mac,.
men, fighting the same battles
Sin et Trojanla cam motto gloria wenn
Sanguine; aunt Illis sac tuners, parqua per ornate
Tempest's : cur Inderome in bade. prima
Deficient'? oar ante tub.= tremor emoted anus?
The sword and disease had wrought ravages on theta w
well as on ourselves; and if we had lost 16,000 gighit
spirits, twice that number of gallant Frenchmen had palm
away also; and if that were so, four times as many Tune
slept for ever. Nor was it any consolation to him to lean
from statements in the Time. and elsewhere, that the lose
the Turks had been 150,000. If 16.000 Englishmen, 30.000
or 40,000 Frenchmen, and 150,000 Turks were numbered
with the dead, it was no consolation to him to think net
260,000 Hushing bad perished too; and thus that halt,
million of human beings had lost their lives in this son,
there being at the rate of 1,000 • day an n.
tiaguishment of the life of our fellow-craw
If we were now at war for a cause that would bear the gr.
estimation of our consciences and the eye of Gad, oar nelr
sciences must be cdntent to accept the hard necessity. BE
on the other hand, if that was not so, and the war was ow.
tied on for some trivial and petty object—and, worst deg,
for objects which we did not dare to avow in the lace of
mankind, and dare scarcely avow to our secret CClvit-
tione—let us, in God's name, do something towards the tut
step to putting an end to the prevalence and desolation
this awful scourge; let us, by the acceptance of terni est.
Lions arid honourable, like thou proposed by his tan
friend, do something to open to Christendom a hope an,
return of happiness and peace. (" Hear," and cheer.)

Lord J. RUSSELL said that the speech of his right ban.
friend was one with which he found it impossible to sgre,
yet he willingly gave him the tribute of saying that head
discussed the question in a manner worthy of it and of
himself, and had considered in a manlier dos le
its importance, the question of the cessation of the
wet, had placed fairly before the house the ergs.
matte which weighed his shied to the condone
at which he had arrived—a conclusion to which, if eta.
viand by his argument, any man in that house or the
country might nineribe. In so far as the spirit of the
speech of his right hon. friend was concerned, it we
totally different to that which characterised the speech of
the right hon. gentleman opposite (61r. Disraeli)—(beer,
hear)—who seemed to have lost sight almost entirely of ths
great question which ought to occupy the house ; who gen
them no dear account of why he wished to content.
the war, and who spoke, (to use a favourite
phrase of hie own) in ambiguous language on
that point, and donned the house for two hoop
and a half—(hear, hear)—by party attacks and ingeniou
sarcasms. (Loud cheers.) But before be (Lord J. Russell)
spoke of the right hon. gentleman, and attempted to &tend
himself against the attacks the right bon. geivieman had
made on his conduct as a member of the conference at
Vienna, he must remark, while yet they were fresh on the
arguments and topics brought forward by his right boa.
friend (Mr. Gladstone). His right hon. friend said most
truly that the terms which had been so decidedly rejected
by Russia went far beyond what was originally asked
by the allies at the commencement of the was.
But surely his right hon. friend ought to gin some weight
to the obvious consideration that such was the pteseetsate
of things, because princes and states, who were unwilling
to eachange a state of peace for war, and who might Wei
that it sufficed to put off the immediate danger, might a tee
tent with easy terms; but when once the Rubicon was pared,
and two Powers were in conflict, it then became them to
think not what would have been sufficient some time beton,
but how to obtain a peace which had is it the elements of
security and duration. (Hear, hear.) He could sot
therefore, attach the value which his right hon. fetal
attached to • change in the terms oa which peace was to be
concluded. That a great change had been effected is
Russia—that she felt the pressure of the allies as hap
rants and the preemie of Austria constantly increasing he
forces and threatening her with hostilities unless she gin
way, and that she felt the pressure even of that et
padition to the Crimea which had !en so sad
°ensured, there could be little doubt, and that thee
things had caused great changes in Russia. But the
immediate question was whether or not there was not sock
danger as to render it necessary in concluding • pesos
cause it to be such as would give security fur the fatter,
and tocousider in what that security was to consist. (Heat.)
There was one danger with regard to the Principshuu led
one point of the negotiations was adequate to the disposal et
that danger. The second point had no reference to sal
question between Turkey and Russia ; but the third pee
did contain a declaration that it was necessary,
the first place, to revise the treaty of 1841, is
order to attach Turkey to the balance of power
lin Europe, and neat to put an end to O.
pnponderance of Russia in the Black Sea and now
hie right hon. friend said that he saw in the term' proposed
by Russia the fulfilment of what was required by that point
ihdßaveienghiminadtheatththateprßopuiosiiatinonp,leoefieopcsurnetwiti was. not der-
led o
thinke
es. But the proposition was that Russia, bating twenty
sell of the line at Sebastopol, might, as was shown by the
great military authority of Marshal Merman, and by
others, though not of equal emineace, take advantage of
that fleet to sail for the Bosphorus, end lend se
army in its vicinity. What was said by Russia? She
said she would consent that the fleets of the other paten
should come into the Black Sea, provided that at any tie
the Russian fleet might be at liberty to go %Mali On_
Straits. The consequence of that would be that Beale'
and French fleets would in peace seldom go into the Bah
Sea, but the twenty sail of the line of Russia could at cal
time go to Constantinople, and at the gates ef
tM
Sultan's palates impose terms on him ('' bolt
hear," and cheers),—and thus what was forbidden
by the treaty of 1841 would now be easy, and that wen
what the Russian plenipotentiaries called a cornelnen
with the terms proposed. (Hear, hear.) After we en
left Vienna, another proposal was made, which alright
hon. friend seemed to think would afford a sufficientene
rity. That proposal was to leave the treaty of 1841 es
is
now was, the Sultan retaining the principle of the close
of the Straits ; but that when Turkey was menaced she
should have • right to call the fleets of the silicate her et.
sienna. He (Lord J. Russell) owned that he sew
or any security in that proposition. (Hear, heat) 1)
was true that Turkey might exercise the right of alai
her allies to her assistance, but, as Marshal Marnthet reit
everything in such a case consisted in priority, seat
e
fleets of the allies might be at • distance, and the flew
Russia being in the neighbourhood, it was
bable that any menace would be put into an'
tion before the Sultan could call up tie ""
of his allies. He owned that if such terms had Ing
insisted on, Turkey would have had a right to eat e•I.
there bad not been a pr per fulfilment of that teeeeer
third noint. He should say that if the third pone "
been fulfilled by terms so futile as those whiff Ro
offered, it would have been an attempt to deceive Bunn°,
a unworthy of France and Ragland. (Hear,lo°,:i
It would be better to say at oace that. we were acne
toat an end to thepreponderance of Russia is o,o_
Black Sea, and that that p
part of the security sought route
abandoned. But the niminution of the preponderate*
Russia in the Black Sea was one of the main eativiln
which we have tried to obtain by the war. If that len
_,A°
obtained, Turkey would be subjected to greater dear
to cause the war to cease without obtaintag a security erne.
that danger, would be to say that we had been defeeln
His right hon. friend spoke of the necessity of sulln4l
success. He agreed in what he said upon that sables'
one would say that, independently of any terms of patenat
the security of Turkey, it was necessary to have mill
sasses. lie agreed with his right hon. hind fee
, never had the valour of English soldiers been brighterin
did their powers of endurance and patience steed wft;
as in the present war. (Cheers.) Therefore the" eat
Intensity of military success. But, having failed is 0;
in satisfactory terms, to leave Sebastopol studios
withdraw their army, would in his opinion only seis74
the danger for the future. (Hear, hear.) If they wen;
only to relinquish the terms of pone they Profeend,_,;
were in addition to withdraw 150,000 or 200,000 Yee:
sad British soldiers from the Crimea withoel
at
seeding in their object, that would be a
.":j",
addition not only to the preponderance of Ine",,,
in the Black Sea, but all over the world.
He would now come to the question of the negouel_l.k
with which he was charged, and he must say the. (r.,
he thought the unease of these negotiations come w
ens
iry.,
the range of possibility, he did not think that success
manvery sod, that
he
et wwashevezyeetruheet, ashathhite2eritgedhttheedin.piromunt
and was more accustomed to parliamentary lire tei,
act have been the fittest person to oondact
aegonations. Bat when his noble friend Lore;):
random told him that he wished he would undertake tr..:
when his noble friend at the heed of the governmealw