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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9.

O► course something most be said about Mr.
COBDEN'S Pamphlets, ISMS', it is Mr. COBDEN'S.
Had it beeo anonymous, no one would have deemed
it worthy of a remark—no one would have taken the
trouble to toil through its forty-eight closely printed
pips of irrelevant statistics, self•contradictioos, and
cooclastoos which have nothing to do with their
premises. But so Mr. COBDEN'S VMS IS on the title-
page people will talk about it, and will insist upon
being told what others think of it. We will attempt
to describe it. More we cannot pretend to do. It is
one of those rambling, incoherent, misty productions,
which convince nobody, and yet cannot be an-
swered, because they present nothing tangible to lay
hold of.

Mr. COBDEN begins by declaring that he will
leave out of view altogether the objects of the
war. "In the following remarks all allusion
to the original cause of the war with Russia has
been studiously avoided, and I therefore venture
to hope that the most strenuous supporters of the war
and the most ardent advocates of peace may meet on
common ground to discuss the probabilities of the
future." It would certainly be convenient for Mr.
COBDEN if he could penuade the supporters of the
war to agree to this proposal. Ilia aim is to show
that to coerce Russia is a difficult and dangerous
undertaking. This nobody denies; though few think
it quite so difficult and dangerous as Mr. COBDEN pro-
fesses to do. Now the only valid reason men can have
for engaging in any dangerous or difficult enterprise
Is the importance of the ohjectssonglit to be attained.
When Mr. COBDEN, therefore, invites the supporters
of the war to leave its objects out of consideration,
hecoolly invites them to take part in a one-sided de-
bate, is which he shall be at liberty to bring forward
all his arguments and they shall not be allowed to
stare theirs.

With singular inconsequence, Mr. COBDEN, after
declaring that he will leave out of view the objects of
the war, proceeds to declare in the very next page
that "the war entered into by Frame and England
must be carried on without intermission until peace
is concluded with Turkey." This axiom be follows
up by what is meant to be a demonstration that
France and Ragland cannot compel Russia to make
peace with Turkey. What is this but to argue that
the war ought to be abandoned became its ob-
ject is unattainable P And this is what Mr.
COBDEN calls "'tediously avoiding all allusion
to the original cause of the war." The attempt to
demonstrate that the object of the war is anattaio-
able is quite worthy of this dagrant inconsistency.
Mr. Coupe" maintains that Russia cannot be com-
pelled to come to terms, "oleos by the occupation of
Its metropolis or the blockade of its ports. Its nestro-
polis, be maintains, is unassailable, because "the
example and fate of NAPOLEON will for ever forbid
an invasion of the interior of Russia," and " Peters-
burg stands twenty miles above Cronstadt, on
a shallow river." The blockade of its ports, Mr.
COBDEN declare, Will be perfectly inefficient. because
the protectionist policy of Russia has »adored it in-
dependent of .a-borne commerce. Before making
this assertion Mr. COBDEN ought to have
taken the trouble to inquire what proportion
the Customs duties of Russia bear to the whole
revalue of the empire, and what proportion the
Customs duties levied in the ports bear to the whole
revenue derived from Customs duties. On this point
be maintains a prudent silence. It is not without a
resson that he shirks this important part of the ques-
tion. He assumes that Russia eau protract the
struggle indefinitely, because it growl more than
enough of food to provision its armies. He leaves
eat of view, that even in Russia money meet be paid
he munitions of war, for the transport of soldiers and
military stores, and for other purposes; and that to
this sod the government meet have mosey as well sa
earn and beeves.

Is she dozen pages whisk Mr. COIDIIK devotes to a
dissertate. as the protestiosist polity of Rosela and
Re Items! Moe—which might net be altogether
valveless in a discussion os commercial policy, but
w►ich is rendered isepplicable to the question of
war or pesos by the uppremions we have poiated
out—e passers seem tee e►srseterWie to be passed
ever without notice. Anodise to sem writers who
kayo published remarks ea Russia, he says, sneer-
hotly :—" Theo gunman have. I doubt sot, tra-
velled locger sod further is Hasse than toyed,.
My ally advantage has been, that I hod possibly as
eye and ear more ores to the sommersial mousiest'
sad the economical resources of the °poetry." Mr.
Comes likes to I.st down an antagonist. when de-
bating about any lanais motry, by declaring he has
seen it with his own eyes. la this he reminds ,
of • Scotch humorist of oar aequintaase, who
on the strength of his baring sus mused
the Tweed, sod spent half-an-hue in Eaglasol, took
upon him to lay down the law on all questions re-
garding English prossuciatios. What our deceased
friend did is jest Mr. CenDIN is continually doing is
bed earnest. He has visited several foreign coun-
tries, bat has not resided is any one keg enough to
know it from personal observation. His dying visit
to Russia was cassias] enough. Hodes not musk or
uuderetaad yes wed of the language. His departure
from Berlin was telegvapbed to St. Petensbarg. He
was taken possession of at the frontier by a govern.
meet °Meal amounted to receive him ; and passed
from the hands done °Seel to another, like a baled
goods, till he left the onstly. He saw nothing but
what they were pleased be .boded see ; everything he
was told wee interpreted to him by them. He spent
one foreman at the fair of Nisbasi•Nevgerod, and re-
mained in sash of the other please he visited a esere-
speeding Writ of time. He prooseded straight
from the Preemies frostier to Moscow sad
Niebaet-
Novgorod, and theses to St. Petersburg. In sheet,
he saw as Enoch of Russia, and had as good oppoetu.
aides of making observations while is it, as Lord
MACAMET and ►is snits esioyed in ChM ea their
mission to Patio. Asd ea the strength of this he
presumes to pass off his plentiful leek of ksowledge
on the public u irrefragable wisdom.
Mr. CODDIN hit proud' to dismal ea the
patriotism and love of country of the Rushee, sad
the ds•ssse of Rusk. He seareely shakos as
esorrties that is sot sestradiated by well-ksown
fasts, or by himself in ems sabseqnset page,
or that doss net rest upon confessedly un-
reliable evidence. "Then is no greater &leeks
in the world than t►at which attributes to the Hes-
sian people a desire toover-ran and occupy, like Ste
Cloths and Hese. any pert of Waters Europa." To
I West Next sad Nnt t Dp Richard Cehics,
MP. Luau ISMS Ridgway. ISM.