The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

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The astonished diplomatist naturally shrank, with feelings
somewhat akin to horror and dread, from such dangerous
advances. • • Lord John IZusiiell, and afirivartis Lord
Clarendon, rejected these overtures, but nut with the spirit
which might have beea expected from British statesmen
upon such au occasion. We detect in their somewhat
vague and indecisive replies Ike inthrence tf the head of
the (kat-eminent. Here was the first great error, one of the
principal causes of sU our subsequent difficulties and our
present embarrassments. It is of the conduct of the
British Government in this stage of the proceedings that
the Emperor of Russia has, we must admit, to a certain
extent, good cause to complain. Wo should then have
declared explicitly that England would not tolerate any
interferenoe in the atiaim of Turkey. • • Had such
language been held in a firm though friendly tone, who will
now question whether the Emperor would not have
avoided engaging in a contest which, if properly eon-
ducted, can only end in his own overthrow or humilia-
tion? We therefore repeat that the Emperor of Russia
Ana some grounds of complaint against. the British Goveru•
mint.
" How, we next ask, in the face of the indisputable
proofs of double dealing on the part of Russia which both
the secret and piddle despatches of Sir Hamilton Seymour
afford, anti with a full knowledge of the reliant) which had
been for years uppermost in the Emperor's mind, could
Ministers accept the assurances given last spring, so far
relying upon them as to neglect such ordinary precautions
as would have saved us at least from eotnmeneing a war at
a subsequent period under the most 1111111 i lest (haul vouttagee ?
And how, moreover, can Lord Clarendon juat,ifv his con-
duct iu declaring to the people of England thaehe had the
fullest confidence in the Emperor of Russia, and that there
was no cause whatever for alarm, when he was acquainted
with all these despatches, quoting in some instances, in
support of the opinion thus unhesitatingly delivered to the
British Parliament, documents which contained statements
directly opposed to his assertions? This is indeed a
serious charge against a British statesman—nothing less
than that of wilfully misleading the country."
The paper is one of the very ablest yet produced on
the great question of. our day, and we do not doubt
that it will be universally read and admired. The
writer is in every respect master of his subject, and
brings to its discussion clear and intimate knowledge
of the actual condition of Turkey, with penetrating
views and impartial judgment.

The Freemason? Quarterly 3fagasine. London
Routledge and Co.

A Goon number. The snide on St. Saviour's, South-
wark, is especially interesting. This church is cele-
brated for its architecture, the poetical dust it holds,
and its epitaphs—beautiful and ludicrous. Amongst
the latter is one on a famous quack who died in
Charles the Second's reign:—
His virtues and We pills so well are known,
That • • •
•
• • • We pilla embalm him safe
To fhtnre times without au epitaph.
Another is on one Garrett or Garrard, a member of
the Grocers' Company:—
Garrett some called him, but that was too hye,
Ills rune is Garrard who 11UW here dutli
• • • •
Weepe not fur hint since he is gene before
To Heaven, where gnreera there are many more.
Amongst the beautiful is one on a tomb which bears
no name, and the sex of the deal is unknown ; but
death occurred before the age of twenty, and the
lines are so sweet that wa think they can only mark
• woman's grave
Not twice ten yeeree of age,
A weary breath
lime I exchanged
For a happy death;
lily course s 4. short, -
The lower I.

longer is my resat
God,tAkes them sooovst .
Whom he lorelli hest ;
',arias that's home+ to-day,
, And died to-morrow,
Loseth some days of rest,
But more of sorrow.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Boma.
The Last Days of Potepsii. Routlatlge.
Liffrt4 dusti•al.o. Pueme by Caroline W. Leaky.
Bicker.' and Bush.
Sweet South, and other Pow, Eleanor Darby.
Hope and On
History of Kaplan(' in Rhyme.
lo edit of Naval Daring. E. Clifford. urray.
Alunette and Her Lorers. T. Uaytine.
Smith and F.lder.
The Lori we Lire in. Part 1. Orr and Co.
The Titans of Today. Hope and Co.
The Press: Its History and A,'euutagrs. 11. Morris.
Xing.

A DErRP.F. has been signed, conceding, for thirty
years, to M. Loubat, an omnibus railway similar to
that from the Place de la Concorde to the Barriere
de Fumy, and which is to run from Vincennes to
Sevres, with branch lines on St. Cloud and Berry,
and passing along all the quays of Paris. The rails
of M. Loubat have been fcr the last eighteen months
in use in the principal streets in New York, and have
not been found in any way to impede the circulation
of other carriages.