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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOIT.ILBER 11.

NtrttotAs the just, the humane, the pacific, has
spoken out. An Imperial Manifesto of the 21st alt.
has bcen published in the Se. Teteribury .I.olrnal,
and gives the world to know that the EMPEROR has
resolved there shall bn war. The war is to be a
religious one—. fur the defence of the orthodox faith
in the East." Russia, we are told, moreover, has
been " provoked to the combat ; " its demands have
been " moderate ;" its patience and forbearance sus-
exampled ; and it only has recourse to arms reluc-
tantly, in order to " compel the Ottoman Govern-
ment to respect existing treaties.' Never has
• more revolting, unmingled aggregation of
falsehood and hypocrisies been obtruded on
a shocked and nauseating world. The "or-
thodox faith in the East" has tot been
'mailed or endangered. The members—lay and
clerical—of the Greek Church in the Ottoman em-
pire make and have made no complaint of ill-treat-
ment by the Porte or any of its local subordinate
officers. No Russian subject has had cause of com-
plaint in Turkey. The questions raised in the
Mevrnneoe r notes and protocols related to miser-
able points of etiquette between Greek sad Latin
monks at Jerusalem, and a squabble between these
worthies as to which of them ought to be keepers of
the key of a deserted and uninhabited monas-
tery in the neighbourhood. The pretensiocs advanced
by the Russian Ambassador, in the name c: his
Sovereign, to dictate to the St LTV4 betrayed long
ago the real and ultimate object of the Cz.sr.—the
attainment of such a recognition of a right on his
part to judge between the SULTAN and his subject*
as his equally unscrupulous predecessor, CATUR.
lira 11., obtained from the Poles, and used, as all
the world now sees, to break up the Polish State, and
appropriate the largest portion of its territory and
subjects to Russia.
Russia has not been " provoked to the combat:.
Massie poured its rude, licentious, rapacious soldiery
into the territories of the SULTAN, while its own
monstrous demands were still under discussion.
Even if the consideration whether the Russians
or the Turks have justice on their side could
be left out of account, still it would be
unblushing impudence in the power which first
appealed to arms—which invaded the territory
of the other before the latter had even begun to
muster troops—to speak of being "provoked to the
combat." The appeal of Russia to existing treaties
is equally untenable. The NlENcntEuFr demands
can only be supported by strained interpretations et
casual phrases and words occurring in various treatise
which have from time to time been concluded between
the two

They are equally at variance
with the general tenor of the treaties referred to, and
the inalienable rights of independent states. The
plain English of the Imperial Russian Manifesto Is,
that the Cr is is determined his will shall be law
foe neighbouring states as well as is his own; and
that, to assert the predominance of his will, be is
ready to employ the extremities of brute force. The
Imperial Russian Manifesto is a declaration that
Russia, which has coveted the Danubian Provinces
since the time of PETER I. ; which has repeatedly
entered them with hostile parade, for the purpose of
appropriating them, and as often sneaked out again,
when asked by an army what it sought there ; be-
lieves that the time has arrived when it man
safely retain them, and ventures at last to try the
fortune of war. About the beginning of last cen-
tury Russia solicited the Danubian Provinces to
revolt from the SULTAN. Towards the close of hat
century Russia persuaded the Danubian Provinces
to accept of its mediation with the SULTAN. and re•
cognise it in some sort as a patron sod protector. And
now the CZAR invades and subjects to all the horror.
of war the Provinces that Russia has pledged itself
protect,—though they have committed no offence.
The present condition of these nnoffending Pro.
vinces is indeed most pitiable. A rode, rapacious
foreign soldiery swarms over the face of the country
whose commanders could not restrain it from the
commission of plunder and other outrages, even
though they were anxious so to do. The whole
revenues of the country have been sequestrated by
the Russian authorities; the pettiest local municipa-
lities have been compelled to yield up their scanty
treasure chests to the invader. A ridiculously low
prig, is fixed upon the provisions and other supplies
taken from the natives for the soldiers; and for any
attempt to obtain a better price, for any murmur or
remonstrance, the offender is beaten, bayonetted, or
shot. Two hostile armies are closing in combat in
Wallachia; villages will be attacked, defended, taken,
horned ; peasants with their waggons and oxen will
be forced to yield unremunerated services to
the combatants ; men, women, and children,
driven from their homes in the dead of winter
will find themselves enclosed between contend.
ing e9rps dartnee, and will be shot down and
gallopped over in the heat of conflict. These mise-
ries, in part already felt, in part impending, are
driving the people from their country. The principal
magistrates have already taken refuge on the Aus-
trian territory, and as many of the population ea
have any means of locomotion are following thou.
A simple, harmless, industrious people are thus sp.
pressed, because the Emperor of RUSSIA covets his
neighbour's territory,—has resolved to seize it by the
swoed. Yet all the time the lawless, greedy oppressor
prates about his piety, his long-suffering, his equity—
and pretends to think that Europe will listen
patiently!

It is consoling to reflect, that, at least as far es is
yet apparent, the wrong-doer and his brute instru-
ments ars likely to be the sufferers. If Austria re-
main true to its professions of neutrality, the Rus-
sians in Wallachia are caught like wolves in a trap,
We showed yesterday how they are closed in, in
front and on both flanks, by Turkish forces ; how
the Turks in their own country are in a condition to
receive constant npplies and reinforcements. We
added that the Russians are remote from both. It is
from Poland and Northern Russia that they must
look for either. To forward them by Odessa would
be as long and difficult a land journey as to Walla-
chia ; and besides, the Turks are too strong on the
south bank of the Danube to admit of their ascend-
ing from the sea. The only ingress or egress
into or from Wallachia left open to the
Russians is the narrow strip of country that inter-
venes between the bend of the Danube above Galata
and the termination of the mountain chain which
forms the northern boundary sr Wallachia• To the
west of the latter point the Austrian territory of
Transylvania intervenes between the Russians and
Wallachia, and for Austria to permit the transport
of Russian troops or stores acme this country would
►e to violate the neutrality it professes. The Hus-
ain:is in Wallachia will soon exhaust the supplies of
the Province ; the population, already inimical to
them, rendered desperate by privations, will become