The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

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Tho Austrian c'orrevandersz liwn the following
CosINANTINUIUA, Dye. 0.--1 our leou li of Lilo
entollineil fleet-4 have `one Sinove tui,l C,uut% tit
informati+n►, hitt with inteifle intention•. They Wens
saluted by the Itoseieue on entering the black her.
The Turki have out taken the tot tr,s of AYALA, ;
they only uecupy thy' limo.
The Porte het prolotyTed the perml*,ion for Awl.
don trading-vettgele to pats the tlti a and Id► .
ditenst►ww for lt4ly-fi%il dsq% ; tirlowiirre tut oared
month+.

Pia Lennhorg mtviers have errivel rretn t tilevni
the boa Deeentbor. An kegliati tnerr'ienuniut wee
burnt la SiHopi% o.4usto Paella was bgevkire
wouu(10. The 'AAA of Smove w 3, wholly 41.,tvik$eY.
Aevonnta Alan Thh, 440. that Prince IVoronzoir
had pow recwvertstl from Ina tete tinilapoeltion.
The unihesey in 1•`111114 ye,slartilkY 1001,i% opt
athicee warranting the cout.twn.ai that thy couthiutai
fleas have now entered the Murk Sea, to prevent
further

0111.314 aiiritea. rtativotl M Itelgratte, *lnto that
the Ilassitait Wive attaelivtl tirkailk taatrtesuit-
Ilk Iltl at Kalafat.
lutellipateu tracbil r,,nounlinorte of a largo
col ps Cirtaisiaue matelliag arson 801.0114)%1111,
halal'.

The Bri4ak saasahaut vaaael li4be Imt• Maud
upon and erarched I.y tho nuesiuu4 near Trebizontl.
Ahdi ream 14 laying sieve to Alexandroisol.
A compirary against the Vleilike I. SS been die-
eovtroci iu Ilunt.negro. The aosvpmttoni ore
murnber4 of au) Seuutw. Pvlsowitsub oura al( m.
On thr plot being dkeovered they took to flight, and
sought refuge at Cutter°.

\fAi)rttp, 11.—Tho OPeld l7n!ette contains
b(Neral important deinees. Biz mambas of th•
Council have been (fistula/owl. li*sisral Jai& a* la
Coach& is derived of his place of Comitriani
Chief of (ha Cavalry, and General Itus de Ohm in
no longer Director of the Military Board ne Health.

A 'Ali.s4r.Nokat has been delptidebeel to grollond to
summon Lord ['manure (tua Shutt°, to London.

Yee MA.B64ry Wen folvaioubily i•leawti
past a Loot. • yi.itu. t., Mr. Atari'. A.
Walk, in .....ti4iileretion of the Services which he hei
renciercil to literMnre.

CITY, Two oteklek.
Consols, ; Mexico.Ut 24t I ; SPasisho aitti
ditto Deferred, 21 1; 'ivu per Cent 49
114 ; ditto Fottr-nnd a-half per Cents, 1)9 9; Bir-
mingham.), 1094 4; Law* 071 el I Midland, nut
41; tirtat Wymtern, s3l 4; Caledonian. V) $ ;
fork lire, tit 1 I ; Dover', 19 1 ; J;ortla of
35i; rent l'onr-and a hall per Cent', 014
:1 G premium.

1.4 M 4rt-rtai.ss tale of " thineviOve," wl' wleiti the
porvaaing sentioueat i that of t.iktarly affeetioa, iii-
tetr•itied to the highest piteb, has boeu dramatise,'
fur the Vaudeville Theatre. Ihe piece Is etotitleil
Lee Orplieltnee de retnettet. It is in three acts% awl
!Jai been perfectly successful.

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THE RESIGNATION SCENE.

(E.rchtsitely reported
.for the Pity's.)

Lord PALMRRRTON (lo the Cottneil): I have now, my. dear lords and
gentlemen, explained my chief reasons for objecting to this Reform
Bill. My objections, as you will have noted, are those of principle,
and may be summed up in two words. Your bill was not wanted by
the country, which demanded that existing corruptions should be
purged away, not that its constituencies should be swamped by a new-
fangled desire for throwing political power into the hands of a single
interest, to the exclusion of those who are above and beneath them.
Therefore I cant assent to the measure. To occupy you with objec-
tions to its details is unnecessary, but I may be excused for sayingthat
it is about as bungling a pieee of handiwork as was ever put together.
Lord .loin RESSELL : I deny that.
Lord PALMERSTON (SOSI/iMy): I retract, and beg to except your last
Reform Bill.

6 LAI/STONE : Levity is at all tittles objectionable, and the sub-
ject is now too momentous to be enlivened by a display of dialectic
pyrotechnics. Lord Palmerston, awakened, it is not tin• me to say by
what agency, to a sense of the advantages of Conservatism, opposes
this measure as too democratic.

Lord PALsumnsres : I oppose it mainly on the ground that it is
uncalled fin• and unnecessary, and legislation of that class al►pemo's to
inc to be the worst form of political quackery.
Sir C. Wool► : But, you see, my dear Palmerston, this is where the
shoe pinches. Russell p►romise►l, don't you see,
Two or three Voices (impatiently); Please, Wood, hold your tongue.
Lord PALmmocrox ; 1 do not know why Wood should be silenced.
He has hit the right nail on the head. You were in it MSS, and, in
your eagerness to extricate yourselves, Russell did promise to intro-
duce, at an early period of the session, an ample measure of reform. I
admit all that; and, remembering that you were under great difficulties
when you made the pledge, I have, contrary to my own feelings, endea-
voured to render your measure as little mischievous as I could. But
certain individuals here successfully opposed my view, and I cannot
be party to the derangement of our constitutional system in order to
redeem a pledge given simply to keep a Ministry in place.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM (mildly): I never impute motives, but I should
liko to know what advantage Pahnerston purposes to himself from
embarrassing us.
Lord PALMERSTON (quietly): Graham's way of putting things is so
truly charming and natural that it is impossible to quarrel with it.
Ho has first a reputation to lose, and then a reputation to gain ; and
the sooner both are done the better, as he is not precisely a boy. Now,
I have made a reputation which will quite answer my purpose, and I
can afford to serve the country according to my own ideas of honour.
don't often talk to you in this tone, but our dear Graham is a little
urgent for truth, so I give it to him.
Mr. GLADSTONE : Again we are diverging. I would entreat Pal-
merston's attention to one or two considerations. They arc not so
much connected with the measures as with the position of Govern-
ment. As regards the former, I admit that other courses were open to
us; and my own Conservative antecedents are evidence that I should
not, without necessity, sanction such a measure as that now proposed.
But I see no option if the Coalition Ministry is to stand. If we face
Parliament with a feeble measure, down we go. A tolerably good
strong one is our only chance. Do you see this, Pahnerston ?
Lord PALMERSTON : Perfectly, my dear Gladstone. Nobody can
put things more clearly than yourself when you choose. And sup-
posing that the great end of all things were the keeping the Coalition
in place, and supposing (slily) that, as certain friends of—somebody's—
do suppose, the end justifies the means, I should be prepared to keep
in office, by a bad measure, a Ministry which intends to introduce
others, and good ones.
Mr. GLADSTONE : I have convinced myself that such a Ministry as
ours is the only one which can benefit the country. (Applause) Yes,
but Ido not mean mere selfishness and self-assertion. The principle
of compromise is the only principle compatible with the interests of
society.
Lord PALMERSTON: I believe nothing of the kind. There are such
things as right and wrong.
Sir C. WOOD : Certainly. There's a right lobby and a wrong lobby.
stud that. I think. is about all a good supporter of Government need
remember.

Lord Join : The bill before us is by no n►ca►ts what I
desire.

Lord Am:nor:EN teageript : Nor I.
Duke of NrweAsm: (poiekly) : Nor 1.
Duke of Ancri.t. k ma/Tidily): Nor I ; nor could any bill be, unlei4s
I prepared it.
Sir W. Mott:swoarit rosiari/yi : Nor 1. for reabous which I need

SATURDAY,

Sir 3. GRAHAM (Madly): You need not. Now, for my part, I
think the bill a most admirable bill, and I intend to defend every line
and letter in it, all(1 contend for its plennry inspiration.
LORD PRRRIDENT (significant/y): We understand that.
Lord J. Ressram: The point I was going to urge on Palmerston
is this: I have said—you all have said—that none of u.s likes the bill
as a whole. I consider it damaged by every departure from my own
bill of last year. But if every one of us can waive his strong personal
objections to the measure, for the sake of a common object—

Lord PALM E nsrox : Common and unelcan ?

Lord J. 11,'ssi:i.i: Not at all I say that it argues great self-
sufficiency in Palmerston to stand out against the sense of his col-
leagues. What I myself can do, and Lord Aberdeen can do, and
others can do, in order to retain office, and servo the country, I think
Lord Palmerston might do.
Lord PALMERSTON : Lord Palmerston doesn't think so ; that's all ;
and happens to be able to afford to think for himself. But I will offer
no further obstsele—here—to the introduction of this great measure,
which is entitled, I hope, " An Act for Amending the Position of the
Present Cabinet."

Lord T. RUSSEI.I.: If you don't do it here, where can you do it?
Lord PALNIMMTON : In my place in Parliament.
Lord J. Russw.: What ! as Home Secretary?
Lord PALatEnsToN: No ! as member for Tiverton. Didn't you
know I was a member of Parliament?

Lord J. Russm.t. (terrified): You never mean that you will resign
office ?

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1.014 PALMERSTON : I see no other course. I leave you the means
of preserving the Ministry, as Gladstone says, and I also preserve my
own convictions and consistency.
Sir C. Woon (piteously): But, Palmerston, if you go out, the
country will say we are breaking up.
Lord PALMERSTON : My dear Wood, the country will soon say
that, whether I go out or not, I give you very few months, and I am
an old hand, and know the look of the political weather. (To Lord
Aberdeen): Dirty ahead, Captain !
Sir JAMES GRAHAM : And, believing the Cabinet in danger, you
resign, in order to escape the fall you consider inevitable.
Lord PALMERSTON : " Think so, if so thou art resolved to think,"
but I don't imagine that is the line which I have taught people in
general to accuse me of taking.
Lord ABERDEEN (uncomfortably) : The country will believe that you
go out on the Eastern question.
Lord PALMERSTON ; And I am afraid that, after the way you have
used your organ, the country will not be in a hurry to believe their
contradiction of the supposition. But I beg that you will give the
necessary instructions that, for once, the truth shall be told. Igo out
on the Reform Bill, and because some persons who term themselves
my Conservative colleagues are too decided Democrats, in the narrow-
est sense, for my (own predilections ; and, my dear lords and gentle-
men, you will do the same thing—only a little later.

(Singo)

Weep not for me, my colleagues dear,
The I no longer meet you here;
The game is played, as you may see,—
So, wait awhile, and follow me."

•
(Exit, jauntily.)
ALL : The ice is cracking !—wlutt's to be done ? (fn conster-
nation.)

SKETCHES OF RADICALS.
10.-THE RADICAL MAN OF LETTERS.

THE first remark which occurs to me in beginning the present paper is—
how badly, after all, Radicalism is represented in literature now ! The last
generation of Radical literati—the Godwins, Hazlitts, Holcrofts—wero
giants compared with their successors. They were the huge, brawny
children of the French Revolution. The " Liberals," to be sure, have
amongstthem fine slashing fellows enough ; but, then, the Liberals are
almost as much hated by the regular Radicals as the Tories are.
Even those of them who are past or passing—Mackintosh, Dr. Parr,
Charles Fox, Macaulay—Radicalism loveth them not. Macaulay
told the Radicals, apropos of DIVA, that it might be necessary to
" sacrifice liberty in order to preserve civilisation," with an air which
seemed to say, " Put that inyour pipe !" ; and a very disagreeable
drug they have found it. Besides, a " Liberal " talks about the
" vulgar," generally, with a gusto quite peculiar ; a Liberal glorifies a
historic family (if it happens to be a Whig one) : a Liberal historian
informs the masses that they have hospitals now, whereas centuries
ago no Liston existed for monarchs ; and that. therefore, everything
is improving, and will continue to do so, if " wise principles of reform
are acted up to—viz., if the Whigs are perpetually kept in, and
enabled to give rising young gentlemen ten thousand a year. The
sturdy British Radical is by no means satisfied with all this. He
remembers that the Whigs cheered the advanced age of Godwin with
a pension of 1001. per annum, and joined Peel to crush old Cobbett,
when that amusing and most readable old boy moved in the Commons
that the kick out of Sir Robert should be petitioned for ! In fact, the
Radicals, in my opinion, despise and dislike the Liberals rather more
than any other persons iu this realm. I much fear that if the first
step of that European recurrence to barbarism which Niehbuhr