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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4.

Soma days back the public were positively armed
that instructions were sent off as the 19th ult. for the
combined fleets to enter the Black Sr'. It is now
MO confidently stated that this, like every piece of
news that imputed a show of sagacious determina-
tion to the great Western Powers in the affairs of the
East, wee premature. The accredited story now is,
that the order sent off for the" combined fleets to
enter the Black Sea " required. in diplomatio slang,
" to be developed in its object ;"—that explanatory
despatches were requisite, of which the latest
edition that our Minister and Admirals at
Constantinople will hate t wait for, " will
be carried out by the packet about to
leave Marseilles." Thaw despatches, it is
said, " will leave no room for doubt in the
interpretation of them." Seeing is believing, ac-
cording to au old proverb. We will believe that
the combined fiats have been instructed to act es
the honour and interest of Franco and England re-
quire, when we learn that they have so acted. Bat
after so many broken prism on this some a mode-
rate degree of seepticiams is pardonable, seeing that
the Times has already begun to ageless and promul-
gate palliatives against the day when it shall be
discovered that the scandalous and disgraceful inn-
tion of the combined fleet is still to continue.
"Whatever may be the policy of ,the Cabinets of
London and Paris," said the Ran organ yesom-
day, "and the desire of the Ambeseadors to give
effect to the orders they receive, it meat rest
with the naval authorities to termine what
measures can be taken with safety to the fleets ander
their command." Theo follows a long lid of dangers
to be apprehended, which the Tree and Its instructms
are prepared to receive as excuses from "the naval
authorities" for disobeying orders. Of these it may
be sufficient to specify one—" They (the said ' naval
authorities!) have to encounter, not the .Russians
only, but a climate of extreme rigour in the worst
sera of the year." Is this sentence the rams and
its patrons venture to insult our seamen and their
Miens by assuming that they will shrink from perils
(tithe winds and waves which are insufficient to pre-
vent the Russians from patting to sea The Ames
encourages our naval commander' to disobey orders,
sod suggests cowardice in excuse. The Russians did
not let the winds and waves prevent them from sailing
to Sinope ! Are English seamen not equal to Russians
The public are already alive to the systematically
dishonest and un-English tamper in which the contest
between Russia and Turkey has all along been dis-
credits the Times. Lord ABUDEIN, by his dilatory
and pusillanimous policy—the Timm, by its advocacy
or palliation of that policy, and by its exaggerate'
accounts of Reign power sad Turkish weakness'
are the authors of that war which even tAey now
admit to be ieevitable. Lord ABERDEEN, by his pal.
tering and tergiversation, has gained time for the
Russian Government to mature its schemes,
strengthen its petitions, destroy the Turkish squa-
dron at Sinope, and intercept the communication by
sea between Constantinople and the Armenian fron-
tier. The Times for months after the insolent and
outrageous proceedings of Prince MENCHIKOIT at
Constantinople, and the lawless invasion of the
Danubian Principalities by the Russians, continued
to put forth, day after day, statements tending to
disseminate through Europe and America the most
exaggerated notions of the irresistible power of
Russia, and statements tending to persuade Russia
itself, as well as other Powers, that Turkey, effete and
rotten, must inevitably crumble in its grasp.
The object of this magmatic and pertinacious repe-
tition of untruths unsurpassed even in the menda-
cious columns of the Vines, was on the one hand to
strengthen and confirm the obstinate self-will of the
(fax, on the other to deter all other governments or
nations from affording aid to Turkey. While con-
tinuing to hold such language, the Taxes was
playing the part, not of an English, but of a Russian
journal, and of an uncommonly servile and unscru-
pulous Russian Xenia', too. The instinctive com-
mon sense of the English public revolted at this
barefaced pandering to the arrogance and injustice
of Russia; and luckily oar sources of information en-
abled us to meet and expose every new figment of the
Cossack organ as soon se it was published. The
Times, with its wonted quicker to detect • rising
sense of indignation in the public, and, with its
wonted unblushing facility, turned round on
another tack. It affected huge indignation at the
duplicity and rapacity of Russia, and waxed
valiantly bellicose. But even after this change no
opportunity was allowed to escape by which the
Times could unsuspeetedly do a service to its old
liege lord the Casa. Frequent attempts were made
to preach up in its columns a dismemberment of the
Turkish Empire, by the erection of independent
Sclavonic or liellenie States—visions more fitting
Dome precocious DISRAELI on the lower forms
at Eton than of rational full-grown men ;
—u often as the necessity of taking the
Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire
under a protectorate of the Great Powers of Europe
WWI insisted upon. The writers who ventured to com-
promise themselves by such pnerilities knew well
what they were about. They calculated upon being
able, perhaps, to promote the dismemberment of
Turkey, or to persuade men the Ports is, even in our
day, a persecuting Government: or, failing in this,
attempt to escape suspicion of dishonesty, under an
appearance of nia 'aerie. They acted, in fact, the
name part as the jester of a Ring of France, in a
modern French drama, who, under the cloak of folly,
successfully carries out schemes of atrocious villany.
Openly at first, covertly of late, the limas has been
indefatigable in its labours to thwart and paralyse
the national policy recommended to the people of
England by its prudence, equity, and regard for na-
tional honour. And now following up its on-English,
or anti-English game, the Timm is venturing upon
a course more pregnant still with danger to the
country. Admitting that war with Russia is inevi-
table, recognising in the frank, cordial, and intimate
union of France and England, the great and only
safeguard of Russian murpation, the rates is
theleas insidiously attempting to sow discord and
distrust between the French and English Govern •
meats and nations. First it threw out insinuation s
against the policy of the Emperor of FRANCE,
which were promptly and explicitly repelled; and
now it is endeavouring to persuade the Eoglish
public that the IMPIROR cannot caleabb
upon the support of the French people k
his resistance to Ramie ;—that the Frei
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