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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOrE.VBER 2:P.

WwlLar rumour is busily circulating reports
detrimental to Turkish prospects—saying one day
that Russia has crossed the Danube, and on the next
that Austria and Prussia have withdrawn their Am-
bassadors from Constantinople—the Tur ks themselves
seem to be holding their own both courageously and
Successfully. They are still in force on the
spot where they tint crossed the Danube opposite
Widdin, and whatever the friends of Russia may say
to the contrary, it is certain that the Wallachians
are full of sympathy fur their Moslem fellow-subjects,
and lull of hatred to the Russians. This is com-
pletely shown by the fact of Prince GORTSCUAKOIF
having declared Wallachia in a state of siege. It is
not necessary to put a friendly people under martial
law, and the leader of the CZAEI'i army admits
that the feeling of the Principality is against him
when he substitutes the law of musket and bayonet
Lee the law of the land. The latest step he is said to
have taken is not likely to reader the unhappy peo-
ple he coerces more fond of his rule. He has ordered
ont the Wallachian militia, and has brigaded them
with his Cossack hordes, intending to use them
against their own countrymen should any " sympa-
thising" sign be shown, and in any case
to make than fight against the Turks. Em-
bodied originally for occasional service is na-
tional defentsfs, these Wallachian militiamen are now
sompelled into regular military service on behalf of
an invader. Their arms are turned thus against
themselves—and a force established to maintain
Wallachian independence is used as an additional
instrument of NVallachian subjugation. All such
extreme measures tend only to reaction, which—
when the moment for it arrives—is sure to appear.
That events will hasten that time, is most probable,
for whilst Ott ax PACIIA is quite able to hold his posi-
tion in Wallachia the Russians seem to be losing
theirs in Asia. More than one account goes to con.
firm the statement that a force of about 6,000 of the
(,%tit's troops have been repulsed near the town of
Nicolai, at a time when some ships of war engaged
in carrying Russian soldiers met with a disaster
near the same spot. The next good news may tell
of more Muscovite checks afloat, for a second
Turkish naval division has entered the Black
Bea, and there can be no doubt of the
superiority of the gunnery of the Osmanli when
compared with that of his northern foe. Indeed, if
diplomacy is not used to give (under false pretences)
the Russians time for recruiting their forces, and if
England and France will but act with promptitude,
we may soon see a sudden termination put to this
Rossini aggression in the East, and a thriving state
of peace substituted fur a wasteful and miserable
war.

But a telegraphic rumour declares that the Austrian
sad Prussian Ambassadors have been withdrawn
front Constantinople. If this could be believed, we
might reasonably suppose that Russia had gained an
open and unmistakeable mastery in the Cabinets of
Berlin and of Vienna, and that King and Emperor
had both decided upon an undisguised al-
liance with the CUR. Austria, as all the world
know., dare nut ity in the fare of St. Peter.-
burg. Having borrowed Cossacks to coerce Hungrily,
she dare not go into open opposition to NICUULAS.
But though thus in political leading-strings, it is so
raaoifest ly her true policy not to allow Russia to grow
stronger, that nothing short of lunacy could induce
FRANCIS JOSEPH to eolist avowedly and willingly
under the Muscovite banner to secure more dominion
to Nteitio.ss. Hence one source of the strung doubt
with which this last telegraphic statement must be
received. Nor is the rumour less open to suspicion
an other grounds. For Prussia to call home M.
Vittneeßßl'CK would be even more absurd. If Aus-
tria commits herself to the CZAR, Prussia is not bound
to follow on the same foolish path. Indeed, Prussian
interests would be served by a false step on the part of
Austria; and in proportion to the likelihood of such
a step on the part of her neighbour, in like proportion
is her own need for care. In the event of any real in-
volvement of France against Russia, if Prussia sided
with the Autocrat, Louts NAPOLEON would have the
door open for his passage to the Rhine whenever he
pleased, and in any such contingency how could Eng-
land frame objections ? If Prussia is a renegade to the
faith of civilisation she must take the consequences.
The real interests of the civilised Western States of
Europe are as one. Their only safe policy is to
promote internal progress—to improve their people,
to extend their commerce, to ameliorate their laws,
and to render the intenhange of products of thought
one amongst another more and more free. Their fo-
reign policy is to make common cause against the un-
mitigated despotisms of Russia and Austria, and to
keep those despotisms at arm's length until the
populations that languish under the CZAR and the
Ziarestoa have, in spite of the tyranny oppressing
them, gleaned enough of civilisation to make them
strive for improved governments. The sympathies
of • free people will always be with other nations
struggling to be free; the arms of a free nation
should always be ready to prevent barbarous
hordes from swamping that which has outgrown
barbarism. Hence Prussia, as a really cultivated
nation, should naturally be found on the side
of England and France—and in the present case of
Turkey also—as against Russia and its output
Austria. More than ore sign, however, indicates
that King Fatoutte• WILLIAM is unequal to the
comprehension of the true requirements of hie country
and time; and stranger things under his rule may
prove true than that the Prussian Ambassador has
really been recalled flora Constantinople. At
present, however, we will not believe that
any such step has been taken. The Prus-
sian Chambers were opened yesterday by a .
speech read by the President of the Ministry, in
which it was said : " l'hut their deliberations cora-
" menced at a period of great anxiety as regarded ex.
" ternal affairs,and at a time when the peace 01 Europe
et might be disturbed by complications in 'he East.
The government nei•her could nor would conceal
" the fact that this aoxic-ty was founded on facts, but
"still it was prepared to look with confidence on the
" future. Prussia, suppoi tell by her own strength, and
fully conscious of her own power, would continue, as
" heretofore, her efforts in every direction to maintain
" peace. and would hold in the cause of peace and
" moderation an independent and impartial tone
" throughout the whole of this difficult question." It
the King will do what is here promised—will "bold
in the cruse of peace and moderation an indepen-
dent and impartial tone'. in the Eastern Q 'claim), he
may come well through a difficulty, otherwise• almost
ay full of clanger to him as to Austri h. But to be
independent and imp 1014 is not to lean towards
Roues.

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