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London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER _3•

Tux lteal-life Drama of Politics on the Continent
becomes day by day more and more interesting.
In Portugal we see an unstable Regency, in Spain an
unpopular Government, both indicating troubles for
the Peninsula. Near Vienna the telegraph declares
that two branches of the exiled Bounnoss—despair.

ing each (as they well may) of their separate chances
of a crown—have come to terms and joined forces for
a new and combined attempt to get power in France.
The partisans of the Count de CHAMBORD and
the friends of the Count de PARIS, have it is said,
agreed that their best chance resides in making
common cause against Louis NAPOLEON, and hence
a charming Royal Fusion that is to combine the prin-
ciples which upset CHARLES THE TENTH with those
that expelled Louis PHILIPPE! Whilst this is
going on at Frohsdorf, we see Loris NAPOLEON
taking counsel with Count WALEwsEt, from London,
on matters, it is understood, concerning the alliance
between England and France in the Turkish diffi-
culty—that difficulty, meanwhile, needing no
more talk about whether the two countries
should do this or that, but requiring only
that both should cordially and at once be
doing their duty as by treaties bound to do
it. In Belgium we see the clever and success•
ful King LEOPOLD making up his book by closer
alliances with Austria—a sign that he thinks it wise
for a constitutional monarch to have au absolutist
ally or two, and that the future may render strong
friends needful for small kingdoms. And whilst
these by-plays arc in progress elsewhere, we see that
on the Danube the plot thickens. Dame PACHA,
withdrawing his men from the swamps about
°Benito*, is at the same time pouring new forces
into Wallachia higher up the stream, and entrench-
ing them strongly at Kalafat. Rations for 40,000
men are stated to be sent across daily from Widdin to
the forces of the Paths, who has also received the
moral support that must flow from the presence
in ►is camp of FuAD EFFENDI, the minister most
hated by the Russians for his opposition to NIENCIII.
and to Muscovite intrigues. His co-operation
with Omits PACUA will, in all probability, tend to
make the party of the SULTAN more confident that
peace can only be accepted on terms favourable to
Turkish independence. The two Paches may think
it their policy to maintain their position at Kalafat,
whilst their enemy brings more and more troops
into the Wallachian morasses, there to be
decimated by the diseases that always afflict
strangers on that bank of the Danube in the rainy
winter season. Ten thousand of the CZAR'S troops
arc stated to be already in the hospitals of Moldavia
and Wallachia, and bow many more may follow
them so one—until spring returns—man at all esti-

mute. 011 zit Picti.t, having given his enemy a
taste of the quality of the troops under his command,
can well afford to bide his time fur the taking of the
next wisest step. He is entrenched in the Principa-
lities—he has command of the passage of the Danube
near idd in —he has forces opposite Often it za, and ea'
at any time, if it suits him, worry his enemy by
feints across the river at many points along its
course. Thus favourably circumstanced, his prospects
are cheerful enough, and none the less so that 12,000
Bosnian* are on their way to his camp—that 10,000
more muskets are coming from Egypt—that a single
citizen of Aleppo has patriotically offered to raise and
equip .5,000 men for the service of his master the
Suur ‘m—and last, not host, that mere successes
have attended the Turkish arms in Asia.

We find the Austrian Government Oirrespondelit
announcing that the Russians, under General BARIA-
TINSAY, have been attacked, and beaten back with
considerable loss, by the Turks, at Gumri ; whilst even
the Journal of S€. Peteraisrg admits a story of the
terrible reverses of the Russians in Circassia. This
Muscovite confession will be found at length in an-
other column. So far, then, we find successive 'penes
of the political drama tending to • dimwit:meta in
favour of justice. Thus far the Russian aggressor has
been punished, and is in a fair way of being com-
pelled to withdraw from a position which he has ille-
gally assumed. But to aware this success, it is not
enough that the Turkish General should do his duty
actively and well. We have yet witnessed only
the opening scenes ; and there are other mem-
bers of the great dramatis persona equally
bound to be active, honest, clever, and deter-
mined, ere the curtain can fall—with applause.
All Om= PACUA' plans on the Danube—all
ADM PACRA*B successes in Asia, will be marred
if the plots of cliques and Cabinets are permitted
to prevail over justice and sound policy. Austrian
suggestions and BOURBON desires may indicate a
course of action for Eigland and France, which
would undo all that the Turks can effect for their
own freedom and for the future quietude and pro-
gress of Europe. For the play to end well it is as
needful to have straightforward honesty in the
action of England and France on the Butern ques-
tion, as to have courage, patriotism, and good general-
ship in the armies of the SULTAN. The soldiers of
Mimi-Maim', will bleed in vain for the integrity
of their native soil if the intrigues of the diploma-
tists are allowed at last to betray a cause they have
already done much to injure.

Until this whole drama has been played out to the
closing scene,it can neverbetoooften repeated that the
honest, hearty co-operation of England and France in
favour of freedom in Turkey can alone secure a
happy solution of the thief coutinental difficulty—con
alone put back the invading force of the CZAK, and
secure an honourable and certain peace. That pacifi-
cation secured, the minor plots of Kings and would-be
Kings may amuse the world, but mu scarcely long
disturb it. Every year of peace help', on the develop-
ment of the civilised peoples of Europe; and by
that development renders the safety and comfort of
the human family at large more and more indepen-
dent of royal at•empts at mischief. As nations grow
wiser and more inteliigent, Bot: itnON cabals,
Fmhticlort compact's, a Comeau; Or BRAOANZA al-
liances or deaths, become less and less matters of
serious import to those masses over whom the per-
sonal interests of dominant families have heretofore
exercised so potent a control.

is occupied with providing employment for the, people,
I% consequence of the extensive failure of the the utility of which may be doubted when the Govern-
hat vest in Europe. attention it very generally di- went cannot ensure them all either aikquate rewards
reefed to the supply of food. Our own jourrals. and or adequate subsistence; but, allowing the ioc lisis-
the journals of France, Belgium, and Germany. teent tencics to pass which show that the 'triter, or the
with articles on the subject. Almost every govern- Government, is not fully aware of the consequences
saint of k uropc which has hitherto maintained pro- of the principles laid down, the article, on the whole,
tecti't la A., ha. either suspended or abrogated them, is calculated to make a profound impression in favour
or adopted sonic measures to increase the supply of ,of Free Trade throughout Europe. The chief prin.
food. No ~sorer did the Belgian Parliament meet ciples of that theory it puts ins strong and practical
for work, thee a leading member, M. Dunineriut, I mint of view; and, enforcing doctrines already much
made an earnest appeal to the Government to pro. I taught, and recommended by much mimeo, it cannot
hibit the exportation of all kinds of cereals, which fail to influence the future policy of Europe.