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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26.

ir is now stated more confidently than ever, that the
temporary :ull in the conflict on the Danube has
been declare d by the Great Powers to be the fit occa-
sion for stepping in between the combatants. Shots
have been ex: singed; at present the injured party
has had the best of the encounter ; the aggressor has
been damaged, and the seconds would Warms a
few words. A Conference of Six—who will represent
England, F:anee, Prussia, Austria, and the two esm-
hatant»—to meet it is said in London—is the shape
tliat rumour assigns for the next step in the affair. It
is d.dieult to believe that " talking " can solve the
difficulty, and it certainly will not do so unless the
Governments of this country and of France are
honestly ready fur cordial co-operation, witlia view to
doing nothing less than the full justice which the
cue demands. If they are content really to do that
—if they join, and let their mode of proceeding be
hearty, open-spoken, and sincere—the difficulties of
the task, though great, may soon fade away.
If the Six Powers meet in Conference,
and England and France ars united, they would
with Turkey on their side at once be three to three,
and Prussia would scarcely then do other than act
with England. Against Turkey and justice there
would be then only Russia and her Imperial
banger-on, Austria. These two absolutist Powers go
of course together. They acted together against the
SULTAN iu the Montenegrin case—they have acted
together in this quarrel in the Principalities, and
will of course be found side by side in all future
stages of the business. It is idle to sup-
pose that Austria can ever again be anything
else than a Russian outpost—unless, indeed, the CZAR
should some day, by the force of European civilise.
tioo, be driven back into his Muscovite wilds. Until
some such event, Austria is, in fact, Russian, and it
is literally mere self-deception, or worse, to allow any
settlement of the Russo-Turkish war to be delayed
till Austria is satisfied, since nothing would satisfy
her short of what the AUTOCRAT wants—a partitioned
Turkish Empire,with an Austrian share of the spoils.
The other Powers, therefore, cannot be in earnest in
desiring a settlement, if they wait for FRANCIS
Josgen's acquiescence in the terms. If the war is
to be stopped, it mast be stopped in spite of both
Ramis and her ally. The terms on which it
must be ended have already been defined. England
and Frame have both declared that the Russian
invasion is an unjust infraction of treaties. They
have both affirmed that the integrity of the SuL-
TAM's Empire must be maintained, and having
done so they must plainly state that they mean to
let their actions justify their opinions. If the two
chief Western Powers earnestly unite in the opinions
they have both uttered, they can stop the fray at once.
They have only to declare that the Petah must be
repassed by the Muscovites, and to say it with an
openly avowed intention that it shall be done, and
they would doubtless have another ally at once.
Prussia would see that her interests are with Eng-
land, France, and Turkey, and a fourth Power hav-
ing spoken out, resistance by the other two would
be more hopeless than ever. How very hopeless it
needs but little reflection to show. A war of
resistance would be a very costly game. How are the
two despots Unmet it ? All the world knows that
FRANCIS JOSEPH'S finanoial condition is very
melancholy. Austria has borrowed and borrowed
until she can borrow no more. How,
then, could she standup against the other Powers—
the more especially as the moment she quarrelled
with France she would be kicked without ceremony
across Italy? Indeed, her very want of cash is so
notorious. that it might-in all probability form her
exams for not being an active open ally of Russia,
should the CZAR try to hold up against the openly de-
clared order of the other Powers that he should fall
beck to his own moil. With England, France, Turkey,
and Prussia, in hostile array on the one hand,Austria
penniless, incompetent (and perhaps in her heart not
disinclined to see Cear NICHOLAS in a serape), stand-
ing by to me the game played out—there would
be Russia in a minority of one. And how
could she alone hold her scandalous position ?
The Russian bravado about " Battalions of thou-
sands ready at all points," has gained for the CZAR
derision instead of victory. Where are these my-
riads of erased men ? We know that some are in
the hospitals of Wallachia, and that others have
smith Turkish gunpowder on the Danube. But all the
forces really known to be on the field might be dealt
with very satisfactorily by the Turks mar Ors
PACHA, if the English and French fleets backed Ida
at Odessa and Sebastopol Sebastopol and Odessa
indeed might be taken; and if, in addition to this,
the CaAi's ships of war were taken or sunk, it
is clear that Russia would soon be coerced into
honesty. For she is far from being in the enjoy.
meat of unbounded resoaroes. We all know that she
hasbeen very glad to borrow from the English or from
any one else who would give their gold in exchange
for her promises to pay. She is largely in debt to
the rest of Earope, and an occurrence made known
yesterday shows that she is already compelled to
draw in all she can get to meet her already urgent
needs. Knowing the superior safety of our Bank of
England it has long been understood that NICHOLAS
had stowed away in its safe cellars a considerable
amount of his resources. There the money has
been lying in the name of a diplomatic agent
well known in this metropolis. This money has
now been recalled, and no less a sum than about
half a million in gold has this week been sent away
to St. Petersburg, to be followed, says our City cor-
respondent, by the balance—►bout half as much
more. This cash is, of course, to be spent in
carrying out the Czaa's operations in the Princi-
palities. The gold collected by taxation from
the wretched serfs of the AUTOCRAT will before
ong be expended on powder and shot for the
destruction of the patriotic soldiers and sub-
jects of the SULTAN—a fraction of it being used
for the military executions by which Prince Goats-
CHAIOI7 distinguishes the Russian rule in Bucharest.
But three-quarters of a million will go but a very
short way in keeping up the campaign on the
Danube; and where is the next supply to
come from? Will English capitalists lend it ? If II
not, where else can the borrowing Atrrocasr fly to ?
Unless he can get money he can show no fight.
Look at the matter which way we will, it is cer-
tain that if in any Conference Eng:and and France
open the ball by demanding the immediate evacua-
tion of the Principalities—out Russia must and will

go. For her to pretend to defy the two great
Western Powers and Turkey combined, would be
simply madness. Let the Curt try the expezimeut,
and they could cripple him at once, and make him
accept with humiliation terms far less beneficial than
foes he may now be likely to obtain. The evacua-
tion it the Principalities, however, is not all that