The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

" nessing the commencement of a struggle
" full of perils, will find negotiations approach-
" iug to a successful close. Two days late'
it admitted to the public that " the negotia-
" dons for peace had been ruddy interrupted
"by operations of war." A day later we
were told that these interruptions were gone-
rally disregarded. Thus the conjurors of the
Cabinet dispose of events and play alternately
upon our hopes or apprehensions.
The conditional armistice agreed on at, Con
stantinople on the 21st should have been
known to OMER PAcHA on the 27th, when the
passage of the Danube is stated to have taken
place. Are the accredited organs able and
willing to inform us whether this movement
of 011101 DACHA was matte in ignorance or iu
open defiance of communications from the
Porte ? If, as is hinted, he acted in trans-
gression of orders, was the net voluntary or
involuntary, a concession to his soldiers, or an
independent impulse ? If voluntary, what is
the meaning of a mysterious hint that there
is no " insincerity on the part of the Turkish
Government" ! Is there insincerity elsewhere?
May we expect a second Gxoaoxy, or a second
Varna, and will complicity obtain its end by
ONIER's victory or defeat? Is a victor yto be
submitted to as an opportune excuse that the
Czar cannot recede with disgrace to his arms,
coupled with the dishonour to which ho is in
vited by negotiations ?

These suspicions are not ours, nor do we
endorse them. We have heard them else-
where, and their floating existence adds to
the vague impression that this Russian ques-
tion, to the extent to which it is opened
already, presents unsounded depths in which
Ministers are apprehensively seeking a safe
footing, but, failing toolitain it, are too wary to
give the public the assurance which *t all
events they profess to have in private. If,
indeed, they do not themselves share the un-
certainty they communicate, the contradictory
representations of their organs are a fraud, of
which, on the other hand, the Ministers are
absolved if their dubious communications cor-
respond with their doubts, and are only an
exact transcript of their perplexities.
It is a natural incident of this labyrinth that
it should conduct us again and again to a
point we have rested at before. In this Euro
pear antagonism England is hampered by a
Cabinet of compromise, and she vacillates at
every step. In physical resources the Czar
may be our inferior, but, though he points so
many homilies, he has the advantage in moral
efficiency. An inherited plan, and the combined
purpose of generations, more than his strong
will and the concurrence of his subjects, stIM•
thin him against a Cabinet which could wield
greater powers, but which, from the nature of
its constitution, is condemned to a palsied
action.

If the evil genius of England had been
eharged to select a Minister to debilitate still
further even this weakness, and inerease the
odds against his country, she could not have
improved upon Lord ABERDVEN as Premier.
His antecedents and intrigues have been
spoken of elsewhere; but, apart from his
Kremlin sympathies, he has a less obtrusive
Oahu to preside at the obse►luies of his
Country's honour and historical greatness. An
ex-President of the Anti►luaries, superannuated
even by that society of ancient virtuosos, be
cause he was too lethargic for their grave and
gentle parties, he is pitted agaiust the vigour