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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 11.

TUE Austrian policy regarding the Eastern ques-
tion is said to have prevailed; and the Coalition
Cabinet have for the present resolved to leave Turkey
to her tate. After encouraging the SULIAN during
the last three months to stand tenaciously on his
rights, and advising him to brace the wrath of Rus-
sia, inasmuch as he might rely with confidence on
French and English support--and, after proclaiming
to the world that France and England were
thoroughly united in the policy of maintaining
treaties or precent;ng their infraction, Lord ABER-
DEEN and a majority of his colleagues have, it
appears, resolved upon doing nothing ; and the
moment when action is most imperatively
required, and the insolence of the aggressor most
oudly calls for rebuke, the British Government
notifies to that of France that it does not consider
the invasion of the Danubian Provinces an act of
war, and that in point of fact it would much rather
not interfere. At the same time, through the daily
organ of the Treasury, the British people are lectured
upon the cost of keeping their word, and the im-
prudence of resenting a blow, and the disagreeable-
ness of rssisting to save an ally from being
robbed and mutilated before their eyes in open day-
And this is called policy and statesmanship, and the
courtly and aristocratic view of the question. All
this it may be, but sure we are that it is
not manly, and that the English people will not
willingly assent to it. The people of this country
detest and despise Austrian principles and Austrian
practices. They feel that they are dishonouring to
the country and ruinous to its interests. They feel
that it was not by cringing and truckling to Abso-
lutism that the national name has in former days
been made renowned. They feel that it is not by
suffering the lesser States of the Continent, with
whom four-fifths of our European commerce
lief, to be devoured by the great mili-
tary monarchies, English trade can hope
for permanence of extension. The independence
and integrity of Turkey is not alone a question of the
faith of treaties and the protection of a Liberal State
against a despotic one, but it is also a home ques-
tion with the English manufacturer, the English
merchant, and the English artisan. Thousands
of English families are now directly dependent
for work and wages upon the growing commerce of
the Danube. Russia has long been labouring undis-
guisediy to cripple our trade with those populous
and prolific regions. And as we have repeatedly
shown, she bas done so with but too much
moms. Those to the north of the river are already
occupied by her armies, and Lord ABERDEEN and his
supporters avow themselves afraid to interfere. What
is to prevent Russia from crossing the Danube and
occupying Bulgaria also ? This is the policy of
Austria, and, in the temporary absence of Lord J.
Russzt.t. from the Cabinet, this, it is said, has been
decided to be the policy of Lord ABERDEEN.
Bat England is not alone concerned in this. Surely
FROM has nothing to gain by succumbing to the
CZAR, or to his imperial vassal at Vienna. The
people of France feel as the people of England
do,—dislike for the Russian Barbarian, and de-
testation of his tyrannical sway. Happily for
them in this instance the French Government sym-
pathises with the French people, and the moat
popular Paris journals approve all that the Minis-
ters of LOUD, NAPOLEON have said and done in the
matter, as far as it has been made public. If Lord
BTRATPORD DE REDCLITYR is forbidden by his
new instructions to give the SVLT.tN the only advice
that is consonant with his ultimate safety and honour
as an independent sovereign, M. DE LA Cora
may probably be placed under no such disability;
and that the Ministers of ABDUL MEDJID will per-
ceive and comprehend the advantages as well as the
dangers of their position seems clear. If, upon the ad-
vice of either of the Ambassadors, or if acting upon
their own responsibility as counsellors of an injured and
insulted Prince, they declare the empire to be in
danger, denounce the invasion of its Danubian pro-
vinces as an act of open war, and call upon
the representatives of the Great Powers to protect
the capital by the presence of their fleets, the territory
of the SULTAN may yet be saved. The Ambassadors
have and can have no discretion under such cir-

cumstances; and if they had, the announcement of
such a demand, and the effect which such an appeal
would have on the public mind of Western Europe
would speedily tell them what their duty was, and
that they must perform it.
But there is another power of whom little has
hitherto been said or thought in refer-
ence to this momentous question. The United
States has recently evinced a disposition to
sympathise with the nations whose interests and
aspirations are alike opposed to aristocratic and
dynastic oppression. Between Russia and America
there have heretofore been few occasions for the open
manifestation of that antagonism which is instinctive
and ineradicable in their opposing systems of reli-
gious and political life. America is the land of
religious equality ; Russia of sectarian intole-
rance and persecution. America is the home
of democratic freedom ; Russia of military
aristocracy captained by military despotism. Ame.
rice is rapidly adopting in her commercial inter.
course the principles of Free Trade ; Russia labours
incessantly to destroy, wherever her withering in-
fluenee extends, every germ of competition. Turkey
has already given proofs of her earnest desire to
liberalise her commercial and religious policy ; and
the Cabinet of Washington will undoubtedly be sus-
tained by the cheering approval of the whole Anglo-
Saxon race on both sides of the Atlantic, if at this
critical juncture they prove themselves worthy of
our common origin.

()sr. of the most valuable of the Government mea-
sures now helmet Parliament is certainly the Chari-
table Treats Bill ; and, being a measure full of cx.
cellent *visions for the improvement and good
management of Trusts, those who actually are,
and those who suppose themselves to be, concerned
in the present administration of certain Charities
have, it is understood, united to see if they cannot
coerce Ministers into its postponement until next
session, by threats of vigorous and factious
opposition. Happily, however, for the frustration
of their design, the Bill in question (which
is infinitely suprior to any of its predeces-
sors, and their name has been Legion) is so far
advanced in legislative progress, and has received so
authoritative a recommendation from the Upper
House of Parliament, that, for any delay in its enact-
ment this session, its authors and friends will, under
the circumstances, be far more responsible than its
opponents, for, whilst its supporters are strong, its
enemies are weak. Government will, therefore, it is
to be hoped, push the measure through We year.