The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-12 00:00:00

THE PRESS;

meat? Mr. GLADSTONE says there was none.
The verdict of the public will be against him.
Yesterday Mr. NIACARTNEY sought to elicit some
tit
information by 0 cides•tion to the Chief Secre
tary, but the Olitef kretary evaded it. No
one, we think, hi4idod t that the appointment
was iidal held* in :i4 din for services which
MT. O'FaHERTT, in eothithn with Mr. SADLEIR,
I.
and Ml. STONOI, 0.114 Mr. KEOGH, had ren-
Pere4,ost wed to der, to Government,
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factthe
EXCHEQUER was stadne,was
when lie declared that the cancelling of the
appointment had no reference to the frauds
and forgeries imputed to Mr. O'FLAHERTY.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
IT is remarkable that the Journal des Dibats of
yesterday takes a very different view from the
Times of the same day, as to the existing rela-
tions between Austria and Russia. While the
Times assumes that Austria " has shaken off
" that restraint and control whick Prussia had
" hitherto contrived to place on her most im-
" portant resolUtions ;" the Debats represents
the two German Courts as acting in perfect
concert, and states that the Emperor NICHOLAS,
in consenting to evacuate the principalities,
acceded to the urgent solicitations of the
Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia. We know
that the German Courts regarded the occupa-
tion of the principalities by the troops of
Russia as the great obstacle to negotiations
for peace, and we may be perfectly sure that
they will direct their exertions to that end
with more diligence than ever, now that the
obstacle is removed.
Whatever may be the character of the nego-
tiations which Austria has entered into with
France and England, we know her sentiments
too well to suppose that she would assume an
attitude of hostility to Russia, and separate
herself in policy and interest from the German
Courts at the moment when her wishes have
been acceded to, and the Danubian pro-
vinces are open to the reception of her troops.
The guarantees required by the German Courts
may be essentially different from those an-
ticipated by the people of this country.
The status quo which since the Russians
first crossed the Pruth it has been the
aim of Austrian diplomacy to restore is
now, in fact, attained. In any negotiations
with the Western Powers a treaty of peace
must be the object of Austria, and it would
only be consistent with the whole spirit and
tenor of Lord ABERDEEN'S Administration were
secret overtures for peace entertained at the
time when most show is made of hostile pre-
parations.
By the withdrawal of Russia behind the
Pruth, the only impediment which the German
Courts ever recognised to the establishment of
peace is removed, and that is the only fact on
which we can at present safely speculate.

A WORD TO OUR CENSORS.
WE are not surprised that supporters of the
Ministry of Lord ABERDEEN should assail an
organ which has exposed the vacillations and
impugned the policy of a Cabinet existing in
opposition to all the received traditions of
parliamentary government. As we were pre-
pared for opposition, we shall neither be
intimidated or irritated by the personali-
ties directed against ourselves by the most
faithful of the adherents to the Czar's friend
of forty years. How far such a style of
writing as that to which we refer is likely to
do credit to English journalism we need not
now inquire ; but our critic is certainly not
well qualified, after his recent escapades, to
assume the part of the censor of his literary
contemporaries. Our vituperative assailant
professes to have been " entertained " with
our lucubrations, and there is on our part a
cordial reciprocity of enjoyment. We were
never more heartily amused than by a special
account which we lately read in certain