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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29•

SCOTLAND has become for the nonce a kind of rural
\Vest-end. The Court is at Balmoral; the only
Ministers who show signs of sitality and make
themselves heard of are holding levees and dispensing
information in Greenock, Perth, and Glasgow. In
the tint-mentioned town Lord Jolts Itt•ssEtt came
off with a good deal of hit, but the PALMERSTON
displays in the two latter app. ar to have been still more
successful. Ilia Lordship condescended to play off
before the eyes of the admiring burgesses of the
good towns of St. John and St. Mungo all that
elegant addrees, all that pleasant mixture of playful
fraukuetoi arid good-nature which has made him so
successful in the House°, Commons. lie has hit the
Scotch electors between wind and water; they have
fairly struck their Hags to him ; and last night he re-
turned to London from his northern progress crowned
with the laurels of a successful speechmaker.

Perhaps Lord PAL3IERSTON felt that it would have
been indelicate in him to expatiate too much upon
the affairs of a department he no longer fills. But for
this we might have been disposed to complain that,
while taking credit to himself for hie steady, unvarying
attachment to the cause of constitutional government
on the Continent, his detailed expositions referred to
the past, not the present. True, he more then hinted
that now, as ever, he felt that it was the duty of an
English Government to show sympathy with the
friends of constitutional government abroad, and
that he would be a true friend of peace even when
showing he was not afraid of war. But on these
topics he was, as he and his colleagues have
all been since the commencement of the pre-

sent troubles, studiously vague and general.
His language was unexceptionable, but the time
has passed when words only—vague gene-
ralities, however cleverly expressed can satisfy
the public, who wish to know what has been,
or is being, done. Had this been hinted to Lord
AtsTUV, probably he would have said—and fairly
enough—that it would be improper for him to take
the words out of Lord CLARENDON'S month.

The course contemplated by the Western Powers,
and especially by our own Government, in the affairs
of Russia and Turkey, still remains shrouded in ob-
scurity. Two English and two French frigates are
sow in the Bosphorus—so much is certain. A well-
informed correspondent in Constantinople enures us
that the order which summoned them thither was
conveyed by the First Secretary of -the Freud;
Embassy. From the same source we learn that at a
diplomatic dinner on the 14th Lord STRATICTD DE
RELCLIFFE said much and in strong terms to the
effect that peace was certain to be maintained. We
may add to these items of Stamboul news -that
Admiral Dvatits hiss received instructions to rltsais:
to Constantinople. On the facts which we have now
recapitulated scarcely the shadow of a doubt rests;
but as indications of the intention of the French and
English Governments they are still equivocal.
It is also impossible to predict with any-
thing like confidence to what those move-
ments may lead. What service are the French
and English frigates sent to perform in the waters
of Stamboul? It is said by some that they were
called up simply to protect the French and English
residents in the event of any popular outburst under
appeals to Mahometan fanaticism during the feast of
Bairam. It may be so, but we confess our scepticism
as to any fears of such commotion■ being seriously
entertained at Constantinople. All our correspon-
dence from that quarter concurs in represent-
ing the accounts of popular excitement there,
which have been current with us in the West,
as grossly exaggerated. Indeed the slightest
reflection must convince any one that this is the case.
We have been told of crowds assembling before the
houses of the Turkish Ministers, though any one
who has been at Constantinople, or had fully petalled
the reports of travellers, must be aware that from
the position of those houses such assemblages are
literally impossible. Again we are gravely told that
the SULTAN'S police have detected "a monster peti-
tion in the course of signature by all classes of the
population." If so, education must have made won-
derful progress in Constantinople within these
few weeks. These exaggerations look very
like inventions to account for the sending
of the French and English frigates to the Bosphorus ;
and that Admiral DUNDAS should receive instruc-
tions to proceed to Constantinople. from the Ad-
miralty—rather than from Lord STRATIOILD—must
increase the suspicion. And what are to be the con-
sequences of this step? The Constantinople corre-
spondent, to whom we have already alluded, says—
"lt is impossible but that Russia must have
been informed of this step beforehand." Now,
looking to the past conduct of the Western
Powers in the Vienna negotiations, the impos-
sibility does not appear quite so indubitable.
They neglected to ascertain whether the Porte
would sign their note before they offered it
to Russia as an ultinsalum. May they not have for-
gotten to ask Ruda whether the appearance of
French and English men of war in the Bosphorus
would or would not be considered u a cases Ulu, or,
at the least, as a pretext for continuing the occupa-
tion of the Danubian Provinces? If Russia his not
been consulted beforehand, the anchoring of the
French and English frigates may be made by Rus-
sia a pretext for indefinitely prolonging a cavilling
inte, change of diplomatic notes, or it may lead to
active belligerent operations against Turkey. On
the other hand, if " Russia has been informed of this
step beforehand," and if it has been taken with the
consent of Russia—it is ominous of still more fatal
consequences. It would seem in that case only sus-
ceptible of being interpreted in one way—as a me-
nacing demonstration to intimidate the SULTAN and

his people into acquiescence in the arbitrary will of
the Cz.tn. Peace may be purchased in this way, but
what a peace ? Of ephemeral duration, and certain
to be followed by a war to which a greater complica-
tion of interests and passions would impart a more
ruthless and enduring character. Again we repeat,
that it is high time Ministers should speak
out, in order to quiet the national ap-
prehensions. Lord JOHN Husszu and Lord PAZ,
meitsto• apparently decline the task as not belong.
ing to their departments. Precedent certainly is in
favour of its being undertaken by Lord CLARENDON.
When a general uneasiness pervaded the public mind
as to the course which the Ministry of that day in-
tended to pursue with reference to the pretensions of
the Holy Alliance, and the recognition of the new
American republics, Mr. CANNING availed himself
of the opportunity of a meeting at Plymouth to ex-
plain his policy during the Parliamentary recess.
This precedent should have weight with the present
occupant of the Feceigweffiech

The cholera% prevalent nail heid atOdess. Ten
vowels from that port had, at tba die d bitadvioni,
arrived off Constantinople, mks* Ow *A pit into
quarantine.

TILE LAWSON OBSERVATORY.

Let us not lose the Lawson Observatory, when the
sacrifice required is so small. The committee have
been unremitting in their exertions, and ap to
Tuesday they had received as much as 7,700/. toward
the 10,0001. required by Mr. Lawson to be raised before
conferring his magnificent gift. Thereremsined,there-
fore, only 2,3001. to be collected in the last four days,
—the donor having specified Oct. 1 as the last day iu
which the offer would remain open. Prince Albert
has forwarded the liberal donation of 100 guineas,l
and there is little doubt that other contributors will
follow his example. We are glad to see even at the
last hour so much energy displayed in a matter of !
such importance to the nation. It is still more !
cheering to see that the subscriptions come from a
large number of contributors. It shows that a time
is approaching—too slowly indeed—when public
opinion alone will be sufficiently powerful to prevent
an opportunity like the present from being bat. It
is much more decisive of the improvement of a nation
that n great public benefit should be the re-
sult of united popular action than that it
should be a gift proceeding from an isolated ,
individual. Let science and art be no longer limited
in its selection of patrons to the great—let national
cultivation exact all those improvements and exten-
sion in these two directions which were formerly the
isolated achievements of government, and the ground
of progress is secured. What ono government does
another may undo, but what results from the
cultivation and civilisation of a nation it-
self seldom perishes, but remains as a seed
plot for the improvement of future generations.
When science and art become, as in some measure
they surely will, the possession of the masses, then
their development will be secured. They will then
be Identified with the progress of the nation itself.
We call on all the promoters of the extension of
science as a means of the elevation of the nation to
make use of the short remaining interval to place
whatever means they have at their disposal in the
hands of the committee who have laboured so well in
this good cause.

ADMIRAL Dr:tries—we are confidently informed—
has received orders from Lie Admiralty to move with
the English fleet from Boas Bay to Constantinople.

LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Bourse to-day, although not closing at its
lowest point, shows a further fall of per cent.,
making 1 per cent. in two days. Closing prices:
Three per Cent. Rages, 74.70; ditto Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 100.50. Bank Shares, 2,800.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sirr. 15.

The following steamers arrived yesterday from
the squadron at Baas Bay : French, Mogador and
Mageyan; English, Niger and Tiger. The French
=humidor, in his apprehensions of disturbances
during the Bairam, ordered that the officers should
be eonsigne with their crews. The ceremony, how-
ever, passed off in the greatest order, and nothing in
the appearance of the population could explain the
need of these precautions.
The question of a partial reconstruction of the
Cabinet is still on hand, but the bureaux of the Porte
are closed for four days during Bairam, and no
change has as yet been made.

CONST,

Slp?. 14.

Retribution, Furious, and Niger, at Constantinople.
The Comer, French war steamer, with rear admi-
ral's flag, and another war steamer, arrived at Buyuk-
dere to-day. Tke cause of their presence was appre-
hensions of disturbances at the Bairam after what
had taken place in the mosques. Placards were
exhibited calling upon the Sultan to dismiss his
present ministers, who were enemies to their coun-
try, and to draw his sword, which was stainless
when entrusted to him, or he would soon have no
throne to defend.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Szrr. 23.

Just before leaving for Olmuts Count Buol met the
representatives of France and England in confer-
ence. He stated to the Earl of Westmoreland and
M. Latour that after the declaration of the Western
cabinets, that they could not press the Vienna note
on the Porte for acceptance, it was impossible to draw
up a collective declaration in the form of a protocol.

The semi-official Correspondence states that the
most perfect understanding subsists between Austria
and Russia, especially concerning the Eastern queer
Lion. " Nothing is more likely than that the two
Emperors, when met at 01muts, will occupy them_
selves very seriously with the condition of the Chris.
bans of Turkey, as it is their duty so to do."

ATHENS, Si,?. 17.

The Hellenic government expresses, in the Mier-
vateur, its astonishment and painful regret that the
Porte should have withdrawn the ezeguatur from the
Greek consnl-general in Wallachia. The Hellenic
government will first complain to Turkey, and after-
wards do justice to itself, should this become ne-
°emery.