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London, England, 1856-01-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24.

AT the present crisis it is of infinite impsetanat
that the public mind should be directed to same &A-
-WN object. So completely has Ramis destroyed all
amildesce in her sincerity, that no single individual
ems bo foetid who is willing to hazard a prediction es
Lathe conclusion of the present perplexity. Every
stn fish thoroughly permadsd that the terms
which have boss embodied in the Austriaa pro-
peels are In themselves adequate, ovary use fools
thoroughly psrmaded that the details nessesary for
their complete development may readily he settled,
provided only use single onditice smote—a bona
lide intention on therm of Russia to be Wand by
her own tome, and to submit to any stipalations that
ars the logical and inevitable comispomso of the
general principles adopted in the Austrian proposal.
Bat the British public and the British Government
an naturally slow to believe in the asperity of the
Baran Government, and haw the present per-
plexity of the public sand. We know what we want
—we have the means of enforcing oar tiossande—the
spoiler is dews, and the pistol at his head ; and the
only question is whither wean sussed in so express-
bg oar wants that the terms used shall he such as
Mee as lap or Maio
To ban a doubt es."

Let us be firmly persuaded that we shall be out-
witted if it be passible to outwit as, sad let as take
sir masons sogordiagly. The mos to draw up this
betty are not men, like TALLITRAND, who use
agate for the perposo of eoessalieg their thoughts,
Ist area no the coanyasems of Ineols'elon and
this pleaders of the Temple, whose expem function
it is to us language utterly incapable el • double
iaterpretatios. The submission of the essay, such
is it is, has het wrong from him by torture. He
will palter with se is a double gems if he on ; we
have the thombeerew in our own hands, and if we
fill to hind him fast by our parchment bonds, instead
',pity, we shall meet with contempt. Let us therefore
he vigilant. AM is the »erase of this vigilance let
us sot bats one jot of our demands. The negotiations
should, therefore, occupy as short • time os possible,
and indeed, SUM both poetise, if sincere in their
preindons, are bent upon • 00111111011 object, there
am be so conceivable seesegity for prolooging them.
ihert however as is the period over which they must
Mead, even that period is of vital consonance, and
may be turned to great account.
It is clear that one of the grand results of the m-
ost struggle must be to render the Black Bes • sea
asseesible to the coarsens of the whole world.
If, therefore, peen is coookided, an ninon im-
petus will be gins to the tide, not only with
Mathes Russia and the oast of ?dispel* bat
with the pert ot Trained. Trobisond it the port
by which the larger portico of the commerce
el Lbstral Asia from Penis and the rich plains of
Mesopotamia lade its way to the markets of Europe.
Bs late m the year 1841, the shores of the Black Bon,
OS Mr. Layman tells On, were runty visited by a
Leap neosi, whereas in 11963 they were coasted by
Meamers belonging to three componies, which tea:led
Ready nobly at the principal porta, sad we are
eguntid the is traffic 'sough for more. The customs
duke levied at Trebisead would, of Donee, form
a mat valuable mares of renege to Turkey, sod,
Has Turkish empire is to survive as • power in
Ease, it is abseletely necessary that it should
bighead mid develop its commercial moues& Now,
the gnat road from Trebisoad to entail Asia passes
through Ersnoem, which is distant, sanding to
HAMILTON, 64 hour., or 169 English miles. But
the sonamenicatioa between these two places, instead
et being by a grand worlC such as that leading
Lea the Moan-bridge to Bhrewsbery, is sighing
bat a mentain track deep is mud, mow, or
dry according to the season of the year. The
bridges, we ere told—built when the main and
repair of public works were impend epos the local
priesen, and domed a sacred duty by the semi-
ludepeadeot families who ruled in the provinces as
Peaks or Derehheye—have long been pertained
to fall into decay, and commerce is frequently stopped
for days by the swollen torrent or the bedlam
stream. It is impossible, of course, within the eon
pass of an article to describe in detail the diScultise
of this road. Bet books ci travels thrcup this
district win the heads if every reader : nor indeed
is it necessary to say mire than this—that through a
tent of country destined to newt Europe with Asia
and all its wealth, there are mountain torrents
and deep ravines to be crossed without bridges;
steep descents down a Antis mass of broken reeks
through which, as the traveller looks back, it seems
impossible for the ingenuity of man to And a path ;
or at best a narrow, paved causeway, co out up by
keg trains of beasts et burden ea to be often im-
passable. If peace were declared tomorrow, the
nay Ant thing to which the Turkish Govern-
meat would direct their attention—the vary first
thing which oar Goverment would urge upon them
—weld be the remodelling of this road. The thing
his suet been attempted before. If Axis is to be
civilised, and the commerce of the Bast extended,
it must now begone a reality. But, on the other
hand, if the war is to sestinas, and we are to have
nether campaign, the making of this road to &se-
rous is meads! to the very existence of the Turkish
empire in Asia. As a general rule, no great armies
have over bees mond, or ever will be moved, with
nausea, except along great roads. At present it is
almost impossible to transport the necessary moni-
tions of war to the garrison. And indeed the fall of
Mare is to be attributed much more to want of the
means of »victualling the plow from the anent of
geed reeds thee to any other canes. If the Hessian
an to be resisted is Asia, &mown must be held at all
beards, for it is the key of the Turkish empire in
Asis, the portal to Persia and Bagdad. This is no
exaggeration. Boise pirsoas indeed have hastily
atesisded that an army loading in Mingrelia might
advisee through Kumla to Tiflis, but they forget
this is order to do this they would sot ooly be
obliged to take the strong brines ci Akhaltsik on
their right, but to force the enormously straw pass
lying between Buns and Tiflis. Othen again assume
that an army might be landed at Batons, sad
110 take the Russians advancing upon &MOM in
rear, bat they forget that the fevers which prevail in
the proposed stems of operations are so deadly that
the larger properties of the invadiag army would
sertsialy wish : is oddities to which it is well to
remember that that great officer, Ptunsvrnen.
abandoned the Batons Hoe is 1828 in mitssequenee
ef Ines very salladife. No : if the Itemians are to be
inked, or if the Rossini posoraricas la Georgia are