The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1855.

MR. BRIGHT REBUKES THE FOLLY OF
THit NATION.

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earr4.
Mae el basis... is emmexion with the fie anthem
here, is which all the work to be dome wqg by flak
sad pea, by two or three darks, by ihrowlln
the pest, by stelae the deahn is maw fre =1
should like to know if there is any megelismee la
idaachester who would have goae about to fled a man *lose
spossensty ears of age, for the pantos of undertaking
that bum....? Now, there are some very abusive names
found for as, which I won't menthe, if we say anything
ageism them things, and we are considered impertinent
if we (Meet te appointments of this nature • but oar
goverment, in fen, appoints a num who is ;aid n
to have sommanded men in the field, and to hen bees
a secretary of the Duke of Welliagtos more than forty
years ago, a man who lost sa arm—of mane, his misfor-
tune—mad I am not in the slightest degree, in sayiag this,
intesdhg to reflect in any way arm the personal character
of the immesh, in chief of the forces in the East, but I
amp= new, apart from the questioa of the policy sr
ion She war, or to what the government should do,
waft, hs the true interests of the country, in the die-
cabin in whisk this smutty is placed. They pick oat a
man, demelbed to we the other day by a Mead of mine, who
saw him met his bens at the Hone Guards may • few
days before he left this smutty, end who lifted ap his hands,
thinking it pitiable that • men like that, so ageism! in
years, se plat the Seem* sad vigour of life, weeto be seat
oat tea amain thee* thousand miles distant, to a climate
so treashereta to an undertakiag so vast and so perilous • and
we 'abut 611 lie sere fifty or sixty thousand English eol-
dien, far the& is the number which has been sent oat glace
the war senalliallesa. Bat this was done ; and what was the
argument I head oily the other day by an eminent man,
whoa I was Widest to him about this) Way ha said, per-
then was sot another man that could hews got on so
wall with the Preach. Well, bat my answer was • very
simple ass. U there was no other man who could get
on well with the From* and if this one man wee not
a fit man to emus& your army, one of two things
should have happreed. You should not have gone
into the war at all, or you should not have gone
into the war in alliance with the French, whom
no man bat this man could work with. But there appears
to have been no sort of notion that It was a real war, be-
cause we know very weU that men of seventy, to be on
horseback many hours • day, thoasaads of men to superin-
tend, to have Use medical department, the coraminniat de-
partment, the transport dopartmeat, everything, in fact, to
come under his eye, and to be responsible to fellow all the
men—for be becomes, and ought to be, a despot over all who
are under him,—l say, tu appoint a man to all this difficult
Ind almost impossible labour who is verging upon seventy ,
yews of age, and not the meet robust men of that age, it is • 1
guilt on he part of government—(hear)—that it sacrifices
needlessly the lives of its subject., and it commits, I think, a
vile and unpardonable offenee, and ea issult to the common ,
sense and right feeling of the people. (Cheers.) Why is
it, now, that Lord Raglan has never been readied ? Not
that they are meddled with Lord Regime; bat he is the son
of a duke, the brother of a duke, and the uncle of a duke;
and being of that party which All. itself ommervative, in
all the fault which that party have found in the house
with regard to this war, they have cent said anything
against Lord Raglan, end of coarse on that side of the
how on which I sit, the ministers who appointed him are
not likely to say much against him, nor are those who are
their devoted partisans, and defend and consider everything
right which their leaders do. I have not said anything
about it, for the reason that I have abstained altogether
until this hoar from saying anything about the manage-
ment of the war ; it seemed to be exclusively my deity and
my place, so far se I could &mover it, to contest the
point as to the justice and necessity of the war. (Cheers.)
And I have preferred to leave questions of management to
those more mined in eseh matters, and who would not co-
operate in ~Lang in question the propriety of the war itself.
Now, what is the position of the English and French
armies in the Crimea ? There is talk in the papers that
something great is going to take place, and 1 am not
enough versed la these matters to my that it will sot;
but I believe that the universal opinion of military
authorities, both in England and Frame, is this, that
the hope of beaming rammer. of Sebastopol seems to I
be more faint from day to day, from week to week, and I
from month to mouth. Your armies, having gone
through the perils of a severe winter, are new approaching
the no smaller perils of • summer in that climate ; and my ,
besot opinion is, that there is not more unanimity in this
meeting at this moment with regard to the desire for pease, ,
for an armistice, that the men should oome back to their '
country—each as have survived the disasters of this
campaign—than there is amongst both officers and men
fighting, as they suppose, for the rights and interests
of England before the fortifieations of Sebastopol. Bat
there is another point to which very great interest is
attached at this moment, and that is the capital of the
Austrian empire ; and our government has mat oat there
a simossew who, as I believe, and Mr. Greg has said,
Is at least s• much responsible for this war as any other
mannennelmil with this country. I shall not go over the
stem in *Mk Lord John Russell has talked rubbish to
Adak ad mislead the people. (Cheers.) I have told him
in the Hewn of Commons, and it may be my duty to tell
him ar, hear)—that I believe there is no man
la the logien mere responsible for the terrible sufferings
of this war thus he is. (Hear, hear.) It was partly on that
account that I was glad that he undertook the mission to
Vienna, for before he *eat a change was observable In his
language, and I am not certain that he was wholly union-
scions of 'the part which he had had in the difficulties with
which his country was surrounded. He has gone to Vienna,
and I believe he has gone to Vienna in the honest hope of
signing a treaty of peace, and coming back to this country
with some repair to a reputation that has been rudely slut.
tared of late. (Hisr, hear.) Well, but about the four
point.. Lord Palmerston, the oth r night, in the House of
Commons, whoa somebody asked about the four pent., said
that of course everybody understands the four pinata—the
fast being that there is scarcely anybody that knows any.
thing about them. Now, the four points mean this, that
these principalities which the Russians entered when they
crossed the Froth, shall not es heretofore be under the
protection of Russia, but shall be Nader the joint protec-
tion of the different powers, the change beteg manly
this, that Russia takes I. several partners to the
torate. With regard to the woks of the Christians is
the Ottoman empire, it is intended—l gather these things
from the
Kuria,
the protectorate, or assumed protec-
torate of Kuria, shall mese as an exclusive right, and that
Russia shalt take in the other Europese powers as partners
in the protectorate for the futon. Ide not see myself that
that does melba the indepladeasest the Ottoman empire.
Bassi* mai Amalsia being ea the spat will necessarily exer-
cise a much grefar
_lailasses islTaehry, so far as the pro-
tectorate is leassillaid, than BagLai or France an de.
Bat Ramis, being, if muse in relation with the may
millions of ponces seeiusetad with the Greek church sad
religion in Turkey, will necessarily have a greater India.
sees in Turkey them Austria, or than any other of the
perm ; sad, therefore, I sea usable to me in either of these
points say kind of sempeasation for the vest calamities
widen Buena, Turkey sad this country have suffered from
this war. rens) Timm there is the gaieties of the river
Beaus, ew, I believe meet pimple think that the river
Dawdle is at up just as yea :Sint a leek in a asnai,
sad that mead up sad goes down escape by
the tunas in writing, some Remise officer.
II ii a, WI mall 11a4re to all thins who Investigate them
able, thifikw is "wady a_riete in Europe whose trade
has increased se atalliMsallsa tailleare as the trade
of the river Dmitri-41mm keer)—that meek go up and
dews la thousands, I PrianWe, in Ow comae et the year, and
that the let or hindrance, whatever it weed, tea matter re-
feeralis Ile Mylsefiedve dreamer, WWI /*cisme Ruda
had se diem In making said", I but to say time
the sesslisea OM waist of the Danube was a gentian to
~se• Suregisa war is m sw, that which wail be
smdejMg as ia My elhe; tountey is the world exempt this,
it would have been laughed at la this if the people
bed not bees early out of their tomes. But then we
ease to the mtasli.i point, which refers to the dolts:
sway whit wire is wiled the preponderance of Raids
in the Blade flea. Neer, I epee entirely with what Mr.
Greg boa said upon that poise If you take a map of
the Bleak fies, and everybody Is quite ea fait in the
geography of those parts of the world—which I believe
is the only good the eoustry will get of the war—you
will find the territory of Banda extends all aloes she
norther'', and a portion of the tasters shores of that sea. I
do not know the exact length, but it esteads to a shamed
miles. Turkey poesseess the madmen share of the BMA
Sea, and also possesses the strafes is width the skips some
fns the Black Sea Into the Usditerreasaa, and apes the
straits Ooestandnople is built. Now, if Turkey were a
vigorous empire—if It had a powerful government—U it had
as intelligent and neeesafal ruler—if it had a growing and
proepirOaS industri, there would be no preponderant power
of Buda in the Black Sea, bat Turkey and Russia, upon
some terms or other, would navigate that ma freely, both
with vessels- fir tide, end, it they disse,-with ?semis of war.
But sew I want to Mew how it is proposed this preponder-
um shonlo be abolished? Them are the different propoei-
time so we gather them from the newspapers. One is that,
Russia eMmli la More have waste than a certain limited 1
amber et ships of war la the Bleck Bea. fits said four or
dz. lat se it is six. I conversed with a gen- I
damn whir below hr thirty years a consul of Beglutd,
at
basss pen in the Bleak Sot, who is familiar with
Se
_, Mew the maser sad the op of the
ships ssels,and who has bees, Ibe eli on board
most of them. He told me that the Russian fleet in the
Bleak ilea before the war wee composed of 14 ships of the
lies sad of S frigates i bat be mid there were not more then
six se rum Ma rem seastarthy ; probably mare than six
=Colitis, joie Oat lie a intim ea • summer's day, bats.
to it slues la tbe Blasi Bea, or going out f
=war embisam, there were not more tit
JIM that were seaworthy. Well, we do a
to be way mask afraid of them ; aid if you limit .
or hurt II no Aps
an t wear to to me that will have
sasolloll- tewieg iipon the war. But ~
another' las Fees-stated in the paper to-day,
Mire shall be so ef was is thilMixima at all, v
ga au two ge three anew" el*Ps * pose,TAl't "el •
I limn keno see
Mt, 111" We are ell fa
of getting rid if lbws digs if WIN Ma am
(Laughter.) We-weal thus vast lisle be ,
item to a Meat polies twee. Bat what ear Eta& t,..
To the Mt pagelilmt Mays: l• I bays • tisoisaado,
of semi Wee t wiry is toy miters! right ef having as au
ships as I like te be Italia? Yea sad Yana have
its,
_whip ,any like la the Ileablitrelesels ; led
Regisad, as may es you like ea yealritmerisea ste
Why should not I have as may se I like
where the waters foe • Mutat miles wash the F

The usual weekly mating of the Pease Society
was hald IS Thursday evening, is the Masebestor Taws-
heU, sad was very fatly atteuded ; Kr. Garman Witsort
presided, sad tha meeting was addressed by the Chairs's,
Ms. aloud AaltworUt, Mr. R. H. Greg, sad the Rey.
Frauds Task*.

Mr. Baum, M.P., was then celled upon, and was re-
solved with loud applause. He said—Mr. Chairman, it has
been observed by more then one of the gentlemen who have
preceded no, that we have made some proems in getting'
out of • room somewhat small late this large and handsome
'podgiest. I am neyeoU of opinion that the change to be
notiaed in them weakly muting. is but a mark, • proof—
an ladication, at say rate—of the change which is taking
plan la this eity, and I believe is almost every part of the
Baited Kingdom. (Hear, boar.) There is, however, a
very streog feeling in the public mind ; nut exactly such us
was observable some twelve months ago, and such as wee
particularly hot about six months ego. (Hear, hear.)
Thee we had • rut deal of what I venture to describe
as nothing better than • frothy eentimentallim in favour
of the Turks ea the ono bend, or of the Poles or the Heap-
riae s on the other. Not that • sentiment in favour of any
people is to be styled 'frothy when it is boast, whoa it is
logical, when it same from an Intelligent comprehension of
the Interests of that people ; bat it wee in my opinion but a
frothy sentimentalism in this country, when it seemed to
have no definite object, and was to be gratified only by an
nuns hostility to on. country, and by plunging this nation
into the induseihable calamideset war. (Rear, hear.) There
is a feeling now prevalent, but it is of a very different
character. It sums to me one rather of shame, or denims
raged up with disgust ; and I think most sensible people in
thiseountry would be glad now, if they could obliterate,
wipe out literally, the records of the transactions la which
we have been engaged, diplomatisally and in military
affairs, during the lest two yean. (Hear bur.) I eon-
feuthat, for =pelf, I bow my head with shame when I
look book upon the follies and the crimes of which this
nation, of which I am a citizen, Das, to my mind, been
goal". (Hear hear.) And then, at this =meat, I feel
nomilistod, because we find ourselves in such • helpless
coadition ; for with this feeling of shame and disgust,
there appears to be nothing whatever done or doing oa the
past of the nation to bring .be government to a better course,
and to fattiest* ourselves from the difficulties into which
we have so passionately plunged ourselves. We have
a government, u we all know, of distinguished men,—
that is, distinguished, some of them, by lines
of ancestry—(laughter)—moreurrectly and exactly recorded
than anything of whin we, down here, pretend to boast of.
(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) We have a government, as we
have bed, for the last two years, made up almost exclusively
of lords—(bear, hear)—men who do not consider it neces-
sary for them, or becoming them, one or the other, to engage
in those avocations which, in Lancashire, are generally con-
sidered to be befitting to almost all men, and bonearable,
serial*, to all *he are engsged in them. (Hear, hear.)
We have a government of lords, of hereditary persons, who
kindly undertake to rale this great nation, charging us 5,000/.
a year for each of these persons,and they consider it very often
extremely impertinent if we make any comment whatsoever
epos the meaner is which we are governed. (Haas, hear.)
Now, I am one of those wbo believe, notwithstanding we
have been very foolish of late, that there is wisdom saougb,
manly strength enough, power of intellect enough, morality
enough, in this country, to afford us a very much better
government titan we have seen:of late—(cheers)—and that,
possibly, when we take matters • little more Into our own
hands, we may find the national affairs managed somewhat
better than they have been of recent years. Foreign affairs,
lest now, are those which nutty interest us, but yet we
know almost nothing about them. Your diplomatic system
is one which the people of England do not in the least cum
prebend. It is jut as much under ground to them as the
working of the moles in any of your fields; it is never
brought to daylight until it has done all the mischief of
which it is capable, and years after the time has pasted when
it was possible fir the nation to apply any remedy to the evils
whisk wen being produced. Now we know, as you know,
our ambassador at Constantinople—Lard Stratford de Rod-
cliffe—a man sent to Constintioople by the late government
I presume chiefly because he had bon then for many years
belore—(•. bear," and laughter)—but a man of whom two
things may be said, I believe, without any chann of antra
diction. The ono is that he is, perhaps, a man of the very
worst temper for transacting business along with other men
that could be found amongst the 27 millions of the people of
the United Hiogd ,in. (" Her,' and laughter.) And
farther, that he is a man baring, tette have one feeling more
predominant than another, a feeling of direct personal
hostility to the lea Emperor of Russia. Ho was appointed
many yews ago—neerly 20 years ego—to be amberisador to
Sc. Petersburg, and the Emperor of Russia refused to receive
him se ambassador. I conceive, then, taking into con-
sideration his notorious temper, and this peculiar disqualifi.
ratios, that if the late government had sought throughout
England to find amen particularly and especially disqualified
for bang ambassador to Constantinople, at thiscrisis, they
would, above all others, have picked out Lord do Ratcliffe.
Lord Stratford, duriag his whole time at Constantinople,
whilst these negotiations were going on, did his very
nunost,—and his utmost was meet sucoreeful—to deter,—by
coercing at one time and by threats at another,—the oltan
and the government of Turkey from making the slightest
concession that might have put an end to thus difficulties,
saved Europe from convulsion, this country from
war, and Turkey itself from that destruction
which war meet inevitably bring upon it. (Cheers.)
Well, but come to Visens, end you have there
another ambassador or minister, the Earl of Wuhan*.
lent I have nothing to say against his temper, nothing
against his disposition ; but everybody that I hive beard
speak of hies, who know him intimately, describe him as a
man 'Wig incompetent to take charge of the iatenets of
this menney, mid to soots extent the interests of Europe,
In deglssse segadatices like those whisk were taking pima
W then twe yam ups at Vienna, mid Which lesuello the
golobooted Vienna maw New, Ind main the mhos.
Mem at Visas& cosfseing Ploaor, esneuoting a note
which should be • Mamma* earths &We betimes Ruda
and Twiny, and sever aimittiog to their asaboosaa any
TUllak Widelaratelelsounlog is say way whatever
Inaba the emiesies to whisk they Greyed wee likely to
be aelisibeisey Is the Tarkbh gevement. You have, then,
a _es et the went temper pd the went qualifications for
his Ales at Onsteadeeple ; and you have a man old tined
halio, and ineampoteat, at Visana—lords both—(" heir,
hoer," Ml_ iseshter)--sed yes ken a government at leas
node up sinest ozolsolugy of Inds—(hear, beery—est
tot ppernives now, is the yeer 1866, se last year, M
a war the Wags of whisk seas of these men easongiola to
yes—(Mer, bear)—se geodes et which can they meow
with nes erase aft, mod the mid of whisk dhow en
sot able le pelat_ tet wish esey hips that it ea
the mallest eisid em Is toy bona bdog thus
tithe
(O_l
by
queletesk wine Winn.
wisedist by Ima his Mohan ea e sweat
sen:lea,llll% Pants Ilbsiner' and hes been es Ur more
thin two yens lie tees net spree, to have bed very
Mello spline of any kind. Ho toll us, In the freakiest
magmar—cksigk, ne doubt, his freaks= I. very man
slegiumil by himself and his eolleagese—Mat we wore drift.
WI Ids a war. Bat is that government ? (How he
Hes know what is meant by a ship that la drifting Hear,
eyes the reeks, &Mktg te tesereetles I sad with
repel to this, the goveruasst hes SWIM appsmei to have
se , se pest in view, se seamen ink as, se redder
Lie. misty to give the weed et eseusest, bet um
of essesis, ineyWdey se all Made t mid
the great sod sable ship, this UMW Lieg6we of Great
Briteda miles/wad. he ends teen eel the wuki, Me drifted
Into the ealmnirwefues sweilleg midi besiege sad sailer-
nes eyes seen' et Shumate of our samsnYner• and ha&
=staple !dud era* that we awn weave, to any
besets wWesseer. (Chun.) Well thee,
tend es into war, hew did they =asap the affair when
*will vs late id I hen sewer said meek sot this oulfoot,
far Ills mates : I would he so party to sesentratiag the
imilemillos at the pude epos- what is sailed the emir
asimposet of the war. (Bear, hear.) I admit the ado
semeguseas to Mkt bed as anybody &sone to say it is ;
bet--oeit I have this to members of that government
who hue ispiend the we, I. which !Ideas wore mia-
seamed in she Bad, set I have said, ' I past the mis-
t, but Ist it be bed as any ems chafe-me it,
r ilrrdegre as
n had and is exeerable es the galley date
government." (Roar, par.) You have mole woo is two
sese—is hot, la thus. In the Baltic /on
_:hew leg a NW—
twe fiesta, I. fast, as eel a Fruek of 11•0111111114
and unknown, one xanuM Moo est power. Oft gems-
mut sent out that lost ender the open and et se admiral
of great but of great age. I shall set say •
syllable aeafest Aibdral Rapier. (Hear, hear.) I am one
et these who think he hes bees butt, end *testy boded
by the Atestraity—tehesselp-bst I mg new wise I sad
whoa he wee ant eat, that II le ass bin Met is greet
Wiesen if thin es far es they we fanned is a
relallue, sin thivamide et mess es board, with hundreds
if lbseeese. and it may be sem selliiess of mosey
samested to the investment epee Met last—l asy
that ft is set Is ping _ that these vest weeleneldep, and
Tess latoreate, dwell be anodises d to mu who have
r:Zer en etWayesbig, lift de of liksehisit, aura
always hitiesiesie se that we should retire, not hos
vest 7 of that bilk but even fro.the more,
moderate of butane is whisk we ale no-
onset. (ileen.leso. BUSY* wait to the Bald, dad
they went ay the of Yklaad. sad they de rayed mimdartzradi
immense quatiey 'limber, wed they Redo a he this, I
sapper. omit berniese sees ter nosy Magee% et lee tar
that they haat Islam et three es
the Nees I ead they ism the tray tsar= EiZaligese-
shames bed pose sal Is seep ply eoetrade to the /ogle
Adminity, under the poseeese—a perienly fain pretense—
Out this tar mid this timber were, In soma weir other,
the peepers, etthelespeethelltessle. We. made a
Me sank apes a *es oiled Peneyeebsid, ism►
katebe—s piseotwlM lon quite sus owl*, alt our
bout oath we bead et this safertweste Mks but that
staid; legs osthalp sesesumfol. set the onableel tests
were Ores away—seatteaz ram, they failed 011111114;
Abe oitiest of their Them we kayo the
to the Bin*. Hoe. Well, they are Mon bowie
to se—all et se—thaa the dense in the Baltic, or the
d Polropanlovskl, hr we have had Wm is the
gaty months put. Now, - to take what wmg=
with regard ea ear army la the Liblf any visa la
Dissehester het bus desirous et out as to
to
OM se Ilebodepti, ekeew tea es the has
penbasell ass, to hoe mem gips kb bays a

isr empire ? It le a natural right whisk I mutat
to deprive myself of ; sad with regard to having no el
all In the Black Bee, although it Wilt set matter
sub whither we lad *es ev se‘sapieese I roped

should not her any shipsr of war in the Mediterranean ;
they ere just r users, or rust se neereary, in the or
as in the other." What Ruda says is thin: we wit'
tensest that our natural right as a nation shalt be
sad limited ; but to show yOll that we do net wish say I
peadereacre in the Bina See, you, Ragland, and yoa,
Frame, say, if you like, maintain ships of war and fleets
in the Black Iles, which shall keep watch upon ours la
Sebastopol, sad you may take care we do not engage in any
of those [Warr attempt upon Tarry which you charge
upon as, bet which we think show unjust saspicious on
your part. But France and England have a diMealty in
that ore• cannot got into the Bluth Sea wither
going through Bosphorus, and if they go through that,
they_ge close to the capital of the fialtaa's dominions, and
the Ss hea eassiden it absolutely neeessary, for the safety
ttf his capital, that those Waits should be clear
against all ships of war, and therefore Turkey
naturally objects to allow English and French
fleets to go into the Black Sea ; and it would
follow, as • necessary eOII4OIWOIII, that Russian fleets
should pass from the Black Sea sore llediterraren. Thee,
it is said, Russia is willing we should build fortifications at
Sinop*, on the south side of the Black Sas, with their frown-
ing battlements and bristling cannon, to face Sebastopol on
the north side of that sea. But would it be desirable for us,
who have pot • most useless but a most expensive foriflea-
tion at Gibraltar, which we filched from Spain, who have
got an rotator and impregnable fortification at Malta, and
who have been laying out vast same for fortifying Corfu, to
have gigantic fortifications in the Black Sea, sustained there
year after year, and for ever, at an enormous expense to this
country, and • groat fleet to prowl about that str!, just as our
fleets are—se many of them unneeemarily—pro erg about
the seas and mesas of the globe ? The fact is this ; so long
as Ranier is one united, powerful, growing country, nuder
a stable and intelligent government, and so long as Turkey
is llehontatedan, with • majority of its subjects Christian
and dbaffected, and when all principles of g averment
are either entirely unknown or neglected by the Marna-
audaasad thegeb::v.armaphicalent—inlisofteitiorthliTamg upitirtruretheilyasneswbseriae,
sone of these contrivances of diplomacy at Vienna
or elsewhere eta possibly y
destre the prepeaderance of
Russia in the Black Sea. Well, now„ when we get to that
point, we are driven back to this—What was ft we began
the war fort I ant in favour of the negotiations. I wish
that, the first and second points having been agreed to, the
third and the fourth should be arranged with equal facility.
lam not without hope that they will be arranged is some
manner or other. I cannot believe that the Foreign Minister
of the Emperor of the French—a gentleman whom I have
met, who has therputation of being a man of great ability,
and fully competent to manage affairs of this kind—should
en the part of France, go to Vienna ; that Lord John Ras-
sell should go on the part of this country, a man who
has been primp minister for assay year, who is one of her ,
Majesty's principal secretaries of state, who has himself
been, to a great extent, the author of this war—l cannot think
those two men should go to Vienna merely to mar the work
which they profess te have gone to manage, and 1 think that
so man can gain reputation by coming back front the arena
baMed diplomacy; and therefore, so far as England and
Ferraro °encored,' have strong hope that they will make
sash annamairs as are just and honourable, for I believe
ise Mb= will be required of them, end that, so far as they
seer saserned, peace is at leer possible. But then there is
maids, which the people of this country have a sort of
her ge of. It is the raw head and bloody bones. I suppose
ow that all children is our nurseries almost have forgotten
roes old horrors with which injudicious nurses used is
frighten them, and that the Ru-sisn Czar, in one of those
frightful pictures with which Punch has endeavoured to
civilise the people, is pat up to frighten these little ones,
when they contravene any of the rules and regulations of
their nurseries. The people of England fancy that all he-
arse entree is their own government, and that it may do so
I. the government of France, about which they were nut
very particular. some two yell* ago. You recollect what
they said of Louis Napoleon. Ile was to make • burglarious
entry hero some night, with 60,000 men. The militia
were to be called out. Lord Ellesmere was in • panic;
end la fact I believe a great many of the boarding-house
keepers at Brighton were constantly on the look-out
for his fleet. Bat all that was untrue. Louis Napo- ,
lion had no such intention; it never was his interest,
and that may be taken as the prime guide of his conduct. It
is not the interest of Easels to embroil herself with the na- I
tire of Europe. The treaties which Russia has made with
this country have been as faithfully kept as treaties generally I
an. There is no government an there is no people on the
fees of the earth that has been so universally friendly to the
English and to the English people, as the government and
the people of Eerie until this unfortunate war; and I warn
you against beimg influenoed by a press which has gate-
matically deceived or mislead you. (Cheers.) I warn you
from being misled with the belief that treaties with Russia
are of no va:ne. You may be at war for half a century, bit
your peace comes to you on a treaty at lust; and • treaty
now made before Sebastopol falls, if it ever should fall, is just
as likely to be adhered to as one that should be made
after the fall of that fortress ; end a treaty made now with
Russia is infinitely more likely to be adhered to than a
treaty made after you have, by stupendous sacrifices—if t 'lst
be possible, which I believe it is not—dismembered Russia,
and utterly destroyed her power and preponderance in the
Black See. (Cheers.) Now I come back to the objects
of the war. Thm were no objects of conquest,
it is said, and it Is said there were no objects of
glory or of revenge. The fact was that your med-
dling government, bevies raised a furor in favour of
war with Russia, through your ambassador at Constanti-
nople, and havlsg raised the devil of war in this country by
the iejadicions and rimier" speeches of several members of
the government In the dilemma between the frenzy here and
the turbulence at Conetantinople—your government drifted
and drifted till at last they plunged over the falls, and we
find onnelves in the miseries w bleb now all our countrymen
are deploring, and nobody seems able to extricate us tram.
(Cheers.) I have not the smallest doubt that five years
after that war is concluded, and much sooner than that,
bat certainly when any impartial historian, for whom
Lord John Russell prays so devoutly, should come to write
the narrative of these negotiations, and of this war, I have
not the slightest doubt but his conclusion must be that, with
all the follies of this country, we never went into a war where
we were less called by interest or by duty, and that we
concluded a pears from which we got less advantage
ta the country, or lees honour to its statesmanship. Now,
consider those men in the Crimea. You bear that the
health—morale—of the troops, it is said, is excellent.
It is wonderful. They are having nets, and dog
hoer, and I do not know what besid?s ; but that does no-
thing for those men whose remains are sleeping under the
soil of the Crimea. It does nothing for than who are lan-
guishing in the hospitals at Smyrna and Scutari. It does',
little for those who were mangled and maimed and injured
fair. It doss nothing for the homes which are desolate ;
it does nothing for all those myriads of our population who
day by day find the grip of poverty clotting more and more
open them. But if the people of this country could only
see the one picture and the other—what England might
have been, and certainly would have been, if she bad
maintained the principle of non• intervention in these
European affairs—(prolonged applause),—if they could re
this country, cultivated like a garden, every sober and in-
dustrious artisan living in comfort equal to the average
*entert of your middle cluses—if they could see every child
well educated, your poorhouses and your sari—buildings
for the most part not required—and then contrast with what
you are now with those twenty-eight million of debt iD.
warred, the largest portion of it fez that needle's war,
how that Is wrung from all craw, and not 111111 from
the poor, by the tugather ; and remember, also, that
this year nearly forty millions—an incredible sum—a
sum we cannot count in • lifetime—a sum tea lifetimes
could not make as comprehend is the good that it might do
for man—that those 40,000,0001. are voted is two or three
night in the Rouse of Commons this session to eery on this
war, 3,000 miles away from your homes, for objects which
your statesmen have never defined, and in • war which
threatens to leave us aMieted with many disasters, and
without having added one single laurel to our reputation,
end having done everything to damage us for etatasinansbip
and as a prettiest people among all the nations of the earth.
As to the quetion of trade, we never considered the Mors.
eheeterthisnikee an infallible estheticy es matters of politics.
We have seen it change very much. We have seen ft often
wrong. Some one man wrote that article who had probably
not exude. d this question nearly so math as many men in
this room. We know ourselves—it is not to be written off by
leading articles—we knew ourselves that trade doss suffer;
that it always did suffer in wet; that it always must Buffer.
Every man in business rows that profits are diminished ;
that the demand for otaufectures hasfallen off; and that
pauperism is refusing in his own parish, as It probably is
in almost all the parishes of the country. (Rear, hear.)
Well, what are we to do then ? We have home Its/ratios
at an end altogether. As regards the interests of
Eng.nad, parliament is a nonentity. Meer, hear.) Last
session there was nothing to do ; nobody would do any-1
thing ; everybody was asking the news from Verne or Glee-
where, where we really have so interest at all, except that
we have sent a vast number of oar unfortunate runup-
men there ; and this session the government have so little
to ear to parliament as Wittig of legislation that they
hass neat us away for • fortnight, just at this time of the
yea
r, when it is meet present le de wads. It would be far
to have the *War baronet in April. Par.
HINIMIIt is literally doing ark* at all, and yet all manner
Par-
of home garrets are jail es atier sa reality as they
wen at any fewer period woe the preen was craving for'
greet ansaersi of refers. end When meetings were
bore senß, to call U.S egleadon of gewersenent and Inv-
lamest to thi many awes whist east in ear administr•-
•—• Obi tierendkitielation. (Cheers.) W- "--
ma elk d'

which God has dose so much ; do test let us have it made by
our own follies, by oar own meddling with other countries,
by Otir own ethesee—tor they are no elm—a country where Englishness shalt not And hoses bat a corentry
which shell thrust its people oat from is bosom that they
map End a home sad a living at the furthest parts of the globe. (Load cheers.) Now, one word more. We are not
now in the expedition that we wore in a taw months ago.
Those who were timid then dare speak now; those who
shut their eyes to the truth, dare look at it now. Every
man and every woman In this audience will meet men
and women to-morrow. How much may be done
by every one of us--(hear, hear)—in talking on these subjects to others, in spreading whatever there has been of fact and
of truth, szplained and propounded at meetings like this.
It is now the mission of every men to endeavour to put out
the flame which is producing so much mischief to this
country. It is a noble, and it is an honourable labour, add
event( we should fail in putting as end to this war by the
influence of such public opinion as we can create, at least
we shall have this consolation, that we have not done one
single thing to stimulate the government to a course of policy
u diaisamitegease, I believe, to those whom we profess to
befriend, as it is dishoeourable and disadvantageous to the
true interests of this country. (Enthusiastic cheering.)
A vote of thanks to the speakers was moved by the Rev.
Dr. DAVIDSON, and seconded by Councillor FILMIC The
meeting gave it with acclamation.
The CSAINALN announced that in coneequence of the ee-
Genesee of Easter week, during which many gentlemen
would he out of town, no meeting would be held neat
Thundery, and they would re•assemble on Thursday week.

EASTER TO WIT.-SOME THINGS WORTH
LOOKING AT IN LONDON.

For two years consecutively we panned our play
hours in a beautiful garden, which, with the building which
servedas a school-house, bad been the pet property of a
wealthy Geneve... The tenement in question was situate
at a dilemma! throe miles fro& Geneva, and the grounds
overlooking a vineyard sloping dowa towards the hanks of
the bellowing Rhos*, commanded a magnificent view of the
Alps, Mont Blanc forming the grand central feature of those
sublime snowy barriers which nature has interposed between
Switzerland and Italy. Had any one inqaired of us if we
had seen Mont Blanc, we should hare felt entitled to answer
in the affirmative, having, as we thought, seen the said
mountain on various occasions during each day for the
period of fall two year,. The mountain monarch had been
presented to our view, but we bad not looked at it, and
therefore had not seen it. Of this we were one day made
sensible, by the lady of the house putting to us the question,
whether we had ever looked at Moat Blanc, and whether
we felt competent after two years companionship with the
mountain to describe its form and general effect to a
stranger. We confess we were taken aback; we had net
availed °undue of the ample opportunity afforded of eon-
umplating the glorious object alluded to. Now, said the
lady, you are on the eve of returning to England, and most
assuredly some who know you come front Switzerland will ask
you about the monarch of the Alps. Now look at it stead-
fastly, mark its towering form, its grand and well-dsfined
outline, and the beautiful and varied hues with which the
sun gilds its perpetual snows. We did so, and derived
pleasure from this intelligent exercise of our eyes, and have
ever retained a lively and beneficial recollection of one of
the grandest spectacles which nature offers.
_ -

Now, whether it be works of nature or of art, mono-
tains, plains, rivers, buildings, pictures, or stature, ear.
Mill it is that objects of the highest interest of on,
kind or the collar perpetually surround us, and will
yield an abundant store of profit and pleasure if we
do but make • moderate use of our perceptive facul-
ties. Although London is not a city of art strictly
speakirg, and although its atmosphere is daily polluted by a
fog of our own creating, making it difficult to breathe and
see, still does it contain some works !of art of surpassing
beauty, and presents points of view of an extremely grand
nod poetical character. As regards its artistic treasures, we
fear it is with the mass of Londoners as it was with us and
the mountain, before the good lady directed our mental
vision to the beauties of the Alpine monument. They—the
Londoners— pus thou treasures by unheeded. A va-
riety of reasons for this unseemly indifference to the crea-
tions of genius might undoubtedly be assigned ; nor would
such an laquiry be by any means a fruitless one ; but
this is not at present our cue. London is on the
eve of a holiday, when the hard-worked million take their
pleasure and look about them, and so we propose to glance
through the smoke at some of the marvels of art of home
manufacture, which are consequently legitimate objects of
national pride, and which should therefore be cherished by
the nation.

London bouts no mountain monarch, but presents a
building crowning a bill called Ludgate, which has,
architecturally speaking, no equal in the world. We speak
ezelusively of the exterior of St. Paul's Cathedral. We
speak not from books only, butirom experience gained in
the metropolis of art—eternal Rome. St. Peter's was built
before St. Paul's, is larger, and internally much more
magnificent then our cathedral ; but, in point of design, the
I exterior of St. Paul's eelipees the exterior of St. Peter's as
much as a sparkling diamond outshines a thing of paste. The
truth of the old homely adage, " too many cooks spoil the
broth," has been painfully realised in building up the out-
side of the Cathedral of Rome. A variety of architects
have only confused and marred Michel Angelo's
grand conception. Whereas, in the composition of
London's stately pile one majestic idea has been
skilfully developed under the inspired guidance of one
master mind. If Englishmen set comparatively little
value upon Sir C. Wren's masterpiece—an little that they
seem not to care whether the south-east view of the glorious
fabric be preserved or not—foreigners are not so blind to
British genius. We know more than one intelligent
foreigner who whenever they find themselves in the neigh-
bourhood of St. Paul's, and can command the time, never
fail to walk round the building; for well-ordered and pic-
turesque as the west treat is, it is not till the whole has been
surveyed that the imagination end judgment of the archi-
tect can be fully appreciated. Through the filthy state of
the atmosphere, more than half of the beauty of the fabric
is lest; for though the foliage and varied sculpture that
adorn the surface of the building are so designed as not to
obtrude upon the sight, thou momenta' details
would if not clogged and smeared with wet, fulfil
theintended aim, of greatly contributing to the
efeet of this architectural masterpiece. Sir C. Wren was
no doubt in great measure indebted for his correct and ex-
alted view of the art of building to the grand and successful
eff nts of his immediate predecessor, laigo Jonas, wLoise
fragment of • palace at Whitehall is as perfect a specimen
as the world offers of the palatial architecture of Italy;
while the entire building, of which this specimen is but a ,
small fragment, would, if executed, have been indeed the
wonder and admiration of the world. Old Bt. Paul's was
tottering to decay ; Charles I. was ambitious of restoring or
re-building the cathedral but of his own private us.
Cmitributiens for the repair of the old building came in but
slowly, and at left stopped. Ivies) Jones was entrusted with
the sum collected, about 20,0001 , and told to employ it as
he thought fit. He forthwith built at the west end of the
old church a stately Coriathiso portico of eight columns of
well chosen Portland stone, not as an adjunct to a gothic
bailding as some half-informed and cynical people have id,
but as a suitable approach to such a noble edifies as his ,
royal master and its himself contemplated. The
Londoners were highly pleased with Jones's work, and slab-
seriptione Awed in afresh, for anal—a " mighty zeal," us
Sir C. Wren in after years rensuked—ohareeterised the
Londoners of those days. Then came civil war, and then
tee fire, in the midst of which latter catastrophe the old
Gothic building, portico and all, disappeared. Then arose
at opportunit for our great architect to give proof of his
aaeqeelledtalents: and, indeed, under ordinary eircum-
stanou, nothing could possibly offer worthy of exercising
such extraordinary power., and Wren stood as a giant hav-
ing to cope with a pigmy. Nothing short, thee, of some
tufo, eseen event, attended with vast results, cr uld possibly
(Amish Sir Christopher Wren with the means of employing
the powerful talent which be had acquired. Under Provi-
dence, such an event we find 'did occur, in the annihilation
by fire of an extensive city, with means at haed to compass
ite renadtation, and thereby was opened an arena for the
display of skill into which our great architect leaped like
an athlet, armed oap.a.p.l. Therein he performed won-
ders, and it is a striking reflection, and one which readily
occurs, that he who way blessed in the highest degree with
Heaven's richest gift, intelligence, should have been enabled
to show forth his gratitude by erecting to the Deity the most
august temple in the land.
(To be unaided on Monday,)

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