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LATEST FROM ABROAD.

THE CRIMEA.

Jinn 15.

Priam Gortehakoff writes : " On the I Ith and
12th the are of the allies before Sebastopol was weak,
and the loam of the Russians very trifling. The
allies have formed no new works in the fielinghinak
and Volhynia redoubts on the east of Queening Bay
but they have re-constructed the Kamtschatka
(Marnelos) lunette.—Doily News.

Juki 12.

The Journal de St. Peter*frowsy coetaios an article
upon the circular in which Count Walewski reviewed
the late conferences and announced their elms.
Although the official writer controverts the Count's
polities, his tone is, upon the whole, pesosable, and
he gives it to be understood that further negotiations
far pesos may possibly ensue.
A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 6th, in the
Non of Hamburg, says " The Synod of St. Peters-
ber has presented an address to the Emperor,
eareestly regime him to chew himself more disposed
towed@ on/mese= of peace, in so far se the poli-
tical interests of the state would permit. It is
not known how the Emperor has received this
address."—Daily News.

THE BALTIC.
BIEL, Joxii 17.

Admiral Baynes's squadron hu arrived, and pro-
ceeds on Tuesday. The French frigate Iris ham
sailed.—Daily News.

COPENHAGEN, Jorqs 16.

The Riog has signed the ministerial draft of a
constitution for the collective ministry. The Diet le
convoked for Jane 26.—Deily Non.

FROM MERIT.

is one of the most distill-

guished writers of our time. He is one of the few men
who have shown that they possessed the originality
of thought requisite to form a peculiar and distinctive
style, with the flexibility of attention and sympathy
indispensable for the useful treatment of every-day
affairs. Unrivalled in the power of epigram, his
mind seems instinctively to seek out the portion of
every subject which, practically, most needs to be
lighted up by sparkling anecdote or humour. And
yet a sense of grave responsibility is ever present
to him; and his varied faculties of illus-
tration and sarcasm are habitually held sub-
ordinate to the Axed and earnest purpose
of a man who loves the truth, and woo
through life has ever been as ready to do battle
for it when unpopular, as in the noon-tide of success
and recognition. In a word Mr. FONBLANQUE is a
man of genuine worth as well as of genuine wit.
He has been the consistent and courageous advocate
of nearly every great measure of popular good for
which a serious struggle has been waged in this
country during the last thirty years; and the
chief cause why it is not easy to designate the
value of the services he has rendered to the public,
lies in the versatility of the talents that have been
in turn devoted to every object on the attainment of
which the people have set their hearts.

And this is the man whose appointment to an
aloe of 8001. a year our administrative doctrinaires
of the 01.criterottz and Tnavni.vart school would
Bogle out u an instance of what needs reformation
in our civil service! "The abilities of Mr. Fox-
Mancturt," Paid Sir S. NoarnooTs in Friday night's
debate, "I do not deny; but, being a total stranger
to the department into which he ma imported in
1847, his nomination may be taken u an example of
the' thoroughly vicious' system on which our public
offices ate constituted." Had a dictum so ineffably
presumptuous sad absurd fallen from other lips
in any other place, we should not have
deemed it deserving of notice. But, apart from
the circumstances to which we s about to refer, we

perceive without wooder but Dot %rithout regret,
that the folly and injustice of the sentiments dues
expressed, met with as mach of an approving response
when uttered, as the attesoated condition of the
Bosse during the boa. Baronet's speech could well
afford. The Widgets of resentment and aversion
towards one who, as a literary tribune of the people,
has often lashed the short-comings of oligarchy, both
in ibis sad in Parliament, may possibly be thought
eel, Wend. But we venture to suggest to the
gentlemen who joined by their cheers in the attack
thus made upon the rightful claims of men of letters
to a share in the Administration, that it would be

men prudent in them to adhere to the retrace of
fib play, and not needlessly to exasperate those
baling" of hostility that are daily growing up
botulism Parliament and the Press. Is it not enough
that these hereditary monopolists of power, and
dignity, and pay ribald hays systematically ignored,
with by and rare exceptions, the civil miaow, of
the elms who more than any other in the sow
amity govern opinion and iallesnes pulls Adze P
Or b it because, as edam, mend letters have newt
asearbd in this 'country tbe sewn of their
political rights, that whipsters at quality and
Treasury books sad the whole rank sad file of job-

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