The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-09 00:00:00

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LONDO.V, MONDAY, JANUABY 9.

Tun Circular of the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs may be frankly admitted to bee very respect-
able document. Judicious and dignified in its tone,
it conveys the assurance that the combined fleets are
at last to enter the Black Bee, and that they will not
permit any further aggressions by the Russians
either on the territory or the flag of Turkey. Con-
sidering the conventional reserve affected by diplo-
matists, perhaps nothing more explicit could be
expected. And, but for the previous irresolute and
procrastinatieg policy of the two Great Western
Governments, nothing more explicit could have been
wished for. But suspicion once aroused is not
easily lulled to sleep, and the remark is heard from
many quarters that the creditable missive of
M: DROITTN DE LIDITS is after all quite compa-
tible with lerseverence in the do-nothing policy
hitbertet pursued. The fleets are to enter the Black
Sea; they are to prevent collisions between the Rus-
sians end Turks: bat the Turks have been too well
warned to expose themselves to another Sinop'
blow; the Russians, for want of such a tempting op-
portunity, will have no great difficulty in abstaining
from another attack ; and thus the fleets may enter
the Black Sea only to do what they have been doing in
the Bosphorus—nothing. Mesawhile the farce of ne-
gotiating may be carried cia as glibly as ever, although
every post from the East brings intelligence of the
strain which the Emperor of RUSSIA is putting
upon his system of conscription. We do not
seen to insinuate that the Western Go-
vernments will persevere in letting Russia
have its own way unopposed. They have (however
tardily) taken up a ground from which they cannot
recede, and the arrogant obstinacy of the CZAR will
leave them no option but to advance farther than
they have yet gone, or perhaps are inclined to go.
Bat as the old proverbs say, "delays are dangerous,"
"post accost', cakes :" they are allowing valuable
time to escape, and may rue their dilatoriness here-
after. The Emperor of RUSSIA has blundered into a
position, to recede from which would be not merely
to confess but to enake himself weaker. On the
other hand, if the Western Powers do not avail I
themselves of his miscaleolition to make him rash,
they will allow him to gain an important step for-
ward. If by acting on the defensive in the Danubian
Principalities, and gaining time by indulging
the appetite of western diplomatists for nego-
tiation, the Emperor of RUSSIA can contrive to
retain these provinces for four or five years, the
shock thereby given to the cause of liberty and
national independence in Europe would be irre-
trievable. It would confirm the coward legitimates
of Germany in their belief that Russia is irresistible.
It would disseminate throughout the world—through
all ranks of society and all shades of opinion—an
obstinate, unassailable faith that in France, through
its frequent revolutions, and in England, through
the predominance of a mere huckstering temper,—like
that which spread a dry-rot through society in the
United Provinces, and preceded their overthrow,
—the spirit of nationality is extinct, and that
both must crouch and cower before the new

despotic arbiter of the destinies of nations. To come
triumphant out of the present dispute would invest
Roria with a prestige that would lay Europe pros-
trate at her feet. Even for Russia to escape *oath.
lam, to evade the punishment her lawless ambition
has provoked, would be pregnant with danger. The
simple evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by
Russia (for • time, and the renewal of old treaties,
and the substitution of new ones couched in language
carefully weighed lest some unlucky phrase should
give umbrage to the great northern Autocrat) would
leave the Russian Government with undimi-
nished strength, and only valid by its re-
ptiles into a fiercer and more obstinate
determination to carry its point at last.
Ramis must be taught that its mere phy-
sical power, however colossal, is unable to com-
pete with the power of Western civilisation ; and
this lemon Russia an only learn by being made to
cow maimed and halting oat of the affray. It will
beak! that the oust to Francs and England of reed-
its' it such a lesson would be enormous. Not so great
as is supposed: the armaments which them two
states will have to keep in readiness for years against
any emergency, if Russia is left in a condition to
resew the struggle when it will, would ultimately be
fur more costly than what is required by prompt and
energetic measures to incapacitate Ramie from giving
farther trouble. For two Powers possessing such
strength on the sea as England and France, the occu-
pation of St. Petersburg and Moscow from the north,
sad of the Crimea from the south, is no such Herculean
tads. It is only European Russia they have to deal
with; all its vast territory to the east of Orenburg
sad the Ural is more an incumbranw than a source
of strength; and with the seats of the thoroughly
centralised government of Russia in the hands of her
enemies, and the lucrative trade of the Baltic and

Black Sea withdrawo from its exaction, further re-

educe on its part would be impossible. Were this
ones effected, they might make their own terms with
the Russian Government. The kingdom of Poland—
forfeited by the CZAR in consequence of his violation
of the conditions upon which it was subjected to the
Home of Romasorr —with the addition of the

Ukraine, under a national government; the re-
storation to Turkey of the territory of which
Russia has robbed her up to the frontier of
the Ukraine ; the restoration of the Crimea to 11
Turkey, or its establishment as an independent
minor state—a Belgium of the East, under the gus-
rantee of the Great Powers; and the restoration of
Finland to Sweden; these arrangements would
create an efficient barrier to cheek all future attempts
of Ramie to extend her barbarous sway to the west.
Ultimately the people of Ruinia would be the great-'1
est gainers from the erection of such a frontier wall
to keep their rulers at home. Since the accession of
the House of ROMANOFF to the throne of Russia (in
1613) the country has not derived benefit as un- I
mingled from any of its Sovereigns as from the
first of the dynasty. And the reason ie, that,
elected by the Russians to retrieve them from,
anarchy at a time when, defeated and encroached
upon by all its neighbours, the Empire was incapable
of external aggression, that ruler confined himself
exclusively to the improvement of its organisation and I
administration. Similar circumstances will probably
lead to similar results. And in Russia there is an
ample and premixing field for the cultivation of a
really intelligent ruler. It has been well remarked
by an exiled Russian patriot that the civilisation
which dates from PkTElt I'VE Our hes been 00A•
fined exclusively to the employe class; that that
strange mixture of cleverness, sentimentalism, and
corruption, has placed a gulf between the
class
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them the germs of peculiar and excellent qualities. I
The singular success that has attended the pasties
among Russian labourers to associate themselves '
companies for carrying on combined Moser, indicates
1
a natural turn fur self-governorost ; Ilei enormous '
fortunes acquired by many who We act been?able
to extricate themselves from the fettirs of @Mame '
evince a talent for calculation, ambition, and perm-
venue.; the passive bravery of the Russian moldier
is very great ; and though not to be ranked with
the old Greek and Roman, or more recent Teutonic
races, still it is clear, from the way in which Finnish,
Tartars, and other tribes within the limits of the em-
pire bavegradually and insensibly becomeßusianised
is their habits, that the Russians are naturally one
of the dominant races. The real Russian, however,
is only to be forted in the central provinces, to which
few foreigners have access, and among those who
have no connexion with the Government. He is
poor, and ha. systematically been kept under. But
if the Remise Government, by driving it back into
its own proper territories, were compelled to find
exercise in developing their resources for the ener-
Sell which it ham hitherto wuted in appropriating
wMsr mikes than it could cultivate, the growth of
nallinned width would in time create a popular ,
spirit et leispeedsmss t self-exertion teaching self-
relisme wail pamisally educate the people, and
the power Optima and priest would be confined
within lam Medd limits. Russia would thus become
as soh mei pitiable a neighbour as France, Eng-
land, ar Ossumny, and would add a new and inte-
resting variety to the leading peoples of Europe.
Russians, equally with Turks, Frenchmen and
Englishmen, are interested in putting a check upon
the felonious aggressions of the CZAR.

trbe Court.
WINDSOR, JAN. 7.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchene
of lest, the Mertgeis of Lansdowne, the Lady in Waiting
to the Dasher ei Kent, Lady Frances Brute, Lady Caro-
line Berrington, the Earl arid Countess of Shalberse, Col.
the line. C. B. Phipps, and Sir Chules Eastlake.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle
hoer and played the following compoaitiona
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Mtrisimader tissue (Opera Cedlita) Duke or Cobotuu
Waddell
Inewertnow "
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tanliagoetes private band afterwards attended in the
mean red pseesneed the following selection :
trasimehnlkkallepaWeiber vas Wiojeor" Otto Nicola!
Anew= WILMS Ilod fbr e, " lbws= " Weadolesobn
ealindinu "mews. endow
The Qom re& Boyd Family were unable to leave the
Castle tide sesesies whet le the =favourable state of the
weather.
The Marna of Lansdowne, the Eerl and Counters of
Shelburne, and Sir Charles Eastlake left the Castle to-day.
JAN. 8.
Then was no addition to the royal dinner pasty yester-
day.
The Queen and Prince attended an early service this
=.1714is the Private Chapel of the Castle, and received
alleeentest, and werealso present at the afternoon
ord.& The ladles and gentlemen of the Court and the
dewed, lisweeheid attended. The lion. and Rev. G.
Wellesley Masted at the services.

The SsSailor-General had an interview with A. Chen'
cellar dun Exchequer on Saturday at his dicta reeigeoce
in DowniateGvet.
The Marquis of Lansdowne went to his seat, Bowood.
park, ea Saturday, from Windsor Castle.
The Chansiellor of the Exchequer gave a dinner on Satur-
day at his residence in Downing-surest to the following
party:—The Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell. the Right Hon.
H. ooulbiarn, Sir Alsaander Grant, Sir Freesia Doyle, the
Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Mr. Lichfield, Mr. Bonham, Mr.
Henry Taylor, Mr. Timm, and Mr. Arbuthnot.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office oa Satur-
day treat the Governor of New South Wales.

RESIGNATION OF A LORD OF THE TREASURY.—
Mr. John Sedleir, M.P., has ceased to be connected with
her Majesty's government. Lord Aberdeen has rceived the
resignation of hie office as one of the Junior Lords of the
Tressary.-06server.

APPOINTKENT3.—Mr. Edward Johnstone Manley
is appointed Colonial Auditor, Yen Diemen's Land. Mr.
John Forster is appointed Accountant of S'ores, Van Dm-
men's Land. Mr. Francis Smith is appoinled &Senor-
General, Van Diemen's Land. Kr. Edward Dl'Dowell is
appointed Crown Solicitor, Van Diemen'a Land.— Ob-
Sereer.

It is stated that Lord Harris, whose period of
service as Governor of Trinidad will shortly aspire, has
Man offered the Govemonhip of Madras. Captain Charles
Elliot, R.N., now Governor of Bermuda, is spoken of as
the new Governor of Trinidad.

The Rev. IL T. Charles Jenkins, M.A., has been
presented to the united rectory and vicarage of Lyminp
with Paddlesworth, in the county of Kint sad diocese of
Canterbury t patrons, George Thomas Jenkins, of Lin. Inn,
and Thos. Henry Hall, of the same place, Rigs. And the
Rev. Elehard Edward Formby, M.A., Ku been licensed to
the palpates' coney of Hythe, in the same county and
diocese ; patron, the Rector of Saltwood, Kent.