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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 19.

LORD CLAREVDON, our Foreign Secretary, stated
formally in the House of Peers last night that a
reply to the second note of Count NESSELRODE has
been sent by the English Cabinet to St. Petersburg
—and that such answer " was in entire conformity
with the note of the French Government." This
step, so far as it goes, seems quite what it should be,
and the response of the CZAR to Lord ABERDEEN
may probably indicate how the Eastern difficulty is
likely to be solved. Lord CLARENDON thinks "a
very few days will be sufficient to show whether
the negotiations which are on foot will succeed or
not." Everybody will be glad to find this expecta-
tion realised. The present state of secret negotia-
tion, and national suspense, has lasted quite long

enough.
A twofold answer has been published by the
French Gorcrnment to this second note of Count
DIE•sELRODL. A circular note, in set diplomatic form,
has been addressed to all the ministers of Franco at

foreign courts; and a long and elaborate article in
the Pays, the confidential journal of St. Cloud, has
been put forth upon the same subject. The one is
from the pen of the Minister for Foreign Affairs ; the
other is understood to be inspired by the EMPEROR.

The former recalls undeniable facts, and exposes
unworthy falsehoods: the latter is addressed to the
feelings and sentiments of the French people on the
one hand, and to those of the CZAR on the other.
Both in t heir way deserve notice for the tact and
skill which they display, although in a very different
manner, and with very different claims to the
regard of Europe.
The main object, as will be remembered, of Count
NEASELBODe3 second note, was to fix on France
and England the responsibility of having provoked
by their naval demonstrations in the Greek waters,
the passage of the l'ruth by the Russian army. The
Cabinet of St. I'eterburg, conscious that the opinion
of all Europe condemned the recklessness and vio-
lence of this manifest act of war, at • time when
offers of mediation, and loud remonstrances were

proceeding from all quarters—cunningly bethought
them of a pretext, which, had it been well founded,
might for the moment have entitled them to say
that Russia wholly acted in eastainment of her dig-
nity, and to show she would not yield to the armed
mews of the Western Powers. They hoped, no

doubt, by this subterfuge, to retain the character for
Russia of being the great conservator of legality
and order among the States of Europe, and to miti-
gate, if not wholly to efface, the disgust and
contempt which the fanatical Manifesto of
the Casa was sure to create amongst all citi-
fied nations. But M. DROUTN DE Lucas detects
the impudent sleight of hand, and nails it to the cross
of public scorn with a few pitiless strokes, of which
the echo will be heard amid the laughter of all who
relish the punishment of insolent imposture. "On
the :flat of May, when it was impossible to know at
St. Petersburg, where the news only arrived on the
17th of June, the resolution that might be adopted
by France and England, Count NESSELRODE sent to
the Porte, in the form of a letter to RYJICHID
Peen, a final ultimatum, with a brief delay, and
which contained a very clearly expressed threat of
an approaching occupation of the Danubian Princi-
palities; when, by a Manifesto, dated June 11, the
Emperor Ntcnotsa caused his resolution to be an-
nounced to Europe, as if to render its execution more
irrevocable, oar squadron was yet at Salamis, and
that of England had not left the port of Malta.
The mere comparison of dates suffices to show
hew mb,;t quarter proceeded that initiative now
sought to be espied, while the responsibility of it is
thrown upon Francs and England : it is also suffi-
cient to prove that between the communication made
to Paris and London of the proposition made directly
to Constantinople by Count NESsi'LRoDg, and the
rejection of that ultimatum, time was wanting for
France and England to exercise their influenua at
Constantinople one way or the other."
Equally clear is the statement of M. DROUTN DE
I.nr vs regarding the attempt of Count NESSELLODE
to fabricate an analogy between the presence of the
allied fleets in Betas Bay, and the presence of a
Russian corps darmfle in Moldavia and Wallachia.
The French and English squadrons have confessedly
a right to anchor on the shores of the ancient Troy
whenever they please. They violate no treaty, they
encroach upon no ally by floating there. By the
written law of Europe every portion of the Levan-
tine waters south of the Dardanelles is free to the
ships of every recognised flag. As for the sea-board
of Asia Minor it belongs, admittedly to the SULTAN;
yet it was at the instance and request of ABDUL!
MEDJID that the allied squadrons assembled there.
The pretexts of Count NEhSELRODE are thus as
hollow and untenable in point of topography as in
point of time.
The observations in the Pays, attributed to Louts
NAPOLEON, seem to have had fur their object rather
a justification of what France has not done than of
what she has. It pooh-poohs the shallow subtleties
with an air of superlative contempt, and in a multi-
tude of word, tells the Russian Minister of Foreign
Affairs that there is not time just now for talking
nonsense. The real meaning of Count Nt.sSELRODE'S
second circular is politely described to be under the
semblance of continued bullying to find a way of sneak-
ing out of the affair. If France owes any apology to the
world, it is because her moderation has been so great.
But cordially united throughout her entire proceed-
ings with the only power whom she recognises as her
true aqua!, France need not fear being misunderstood
on this head. Should war unexpectedly arise out of
the misconduct of Russia, France and England in-
tend to do their duty; and should the invader deem
it more prudent to temporise and to retire, France

will have the satisfaction of feeling that by the
timely firmness of her interposition, she has mainly I
contributed to preserve the peace of the world,
There is something, however, in the personal
tone of this production which somewhat de-
tracts from its value. Not only is the ex-
clusive merit of the resolution to resist
the lawless schemes of Russian aggrandisement
claimed for France, but the undivided wisdom
and courage of the policy of France appears
to be monopolised by Louis NAPOLEON. Both as-
sumptions
are unfounded. It was the unmistakeable
manifestation of national feeling, both in England
and France, against Russian aggression that gave
strength to the Allied Governments, and first caused
perplexity and doubt in the councils of the Invader.
The Cabinet of St. Petersburg, as is well known,
counted upon precisely the opposite state of feeling.
Its spies had told that there was jealousy and dis-
trust between the Courts of Windsor and St. Cloud;
and the organs in its interest on both sides of the Chan nel
had duped it into the belief that the two nations re.
garded each other with sentiments of hatred and
aversion. The Ministers of the CZAR were likewise
deluded into believing that the people of this
country bad token a vow stalest defensive as well
as against offensive war, and that no provocation or
outrage could stir us to a sense of active indigna-
tion. These delusions, however, must ere this have
been well nigh dispelled; and if the uplifted hand
of ruthless violence and rapine be now withdrawn
it will be mainly because the people of England and
France honestly denounced the burglary of the
CZAR, and let the Governments of Europe see they
were intent upon justice being done to their ally
the SULTAN.

TIIERE is a Holy War raging in London. Bald-
win's-gardens is the battlefield. The locus of the
new crusade is removed from the real Holy Land of
the East, and transferred to Gray's-inn-lane and
Hatton-garden. Edema and Jerusalem are no longer
the scenes of the deeds of orthodox believers, proving
their faith by the hardness of their blows. Portpool-
lane, Leather-lane, and Fox-court are destined to
figure in history as the spots hallowed by the deeds
of the modern crusaders. GODFREY of BOUILLON and
TANcnED are succeeded by JAMES NEALE and Joni(
CARROLL. If any feeling of the ludicrous is excited by•
the comparison between the old and the new cro-
wds., it may possibly vanish before the considera-
tion of the sanguinary realities of the latter, the
circumstances of which are briefly told. An Italian
colony of refugees reside peacefully enough in the
neighbourhood just mentioned. Sufferers for free-
dom, they are hostile to the despotism under which
the Papal States are groaning. Friends of MAZZINI,
they are disliked by the friends of the POPE. The
latter, it is sad, anxious to discover the nature of
the sentiments and operations of the refugees,
sent over a missionary, who resides in the house
of the priest who has charge of the district in
which the riots took place. The advent of the mission•
ary has, it seems, been followed by continual alterca-
tions between the Italians and the Irish who
reside in the neighbourhood. The Italians have
been preached at from the Altar, and denounced as
traitors to the PONTIFF. More than a week ago so
Italian had been shouldered, whether accidentally or
not it does not appear, by an Irish priest as he was
standing talking with his companions. On asking
for an explanation he was called a low blackguards
and other insulting observations were addressed to hiss.
A disturbance followed ; the Irish, taking the part el
the priest, whose hands and feet they kissed, rushed
into battle on his behalf. The end of the contest
was signalised by various injuries inflicted upon
the combatants, and the demolition of the house
of an Italian restaurateur, where his coun-
tryman had taken refuge. Thus terminated
the first eamp,,ign in the dray's-inn " Holy
Wen* The second crusade commenced on Sun-
day evening last. Large bodies of the Cel-
tie Crusaders were seen pouring down from
Whitecbapel, St. Giles's, Lambeth, and the Borough,
land converging in the direction of Gray's-inn-lane.
Thin Isms to have been as much bigotry, as melt
deterudnation, amongst them as amongst the indwell
sepias of Jerusalem, but we are unable to add that
there was 'stanch chivalry. The first passage of arms
we. an odd one, and would be rather unmanageable
in a chivalric ballad, even though :entrusted to the
ears of Mr. ATTOCN, the poet-laureate of the Times.
The hero in the combat was an Irish enter-
nosier named NEALE, who, taking a snug
pukka in the rear of an Italian pedestrian, dis-
sharged a heavy paving-stone at his head, and
followed up this gallant demonstration by staking
• rapid and discreet retreat to a house, where he
barred himself in. The brave fellow was unfortu-
nately tracked by the Italian, who, in company
with several of the police, invested the house inform,
Nwx, great in attack, showed himself no lees a
master of defence. He showered down all kinds of
dudes upon the heads of the besiegers—amongst
admen. an iron-mounted plasterer's hammer. The
misdlss being exhausted, he had recourse to boiling
water, a kettleful of which be poured over the sow
dablaa In spite of these efforts, NEALE was at last
avapawered, and, together withacompanion-in-anuss
IMO in custody. The services of 400 constables were
called into requisition on this memorable occasion ; the
homes of quiet people being left without protections
that a few unoffendiog Italians might be protected
against the murderous attacks of an ignorant popu-
lace, excited ,to riot by had advisers. This is the
great feature of the case : the ferocious populace,
whose pinions were inflamed to the highest pitch,
knew probably no more of the nature of the diffe-
rences existing between the PorE and his subjects,
than of the Differential Calculus; they must have
been instructed by educated persons. They could
not hold converse with the Italians in a
language which they did not understand ;
they must have received their impressions of them
from a third party. The case is, so far,
precisely similar to the riots in Canada.
In both cases the assailants could have known of
their own individual cognisance nothing of the true
merits of the question at issue. In both cases this
knowledge must have come from without. The Irish
in Canada who half-murdered GAVAZZI, and those who
have banded together to murder the friends of MAZ-
ZINI, did so apparently without any true perception
of the causes which influenced those who instigated
them to their deeds of persecution. The Irish, so
often declaring themselves an oppressed race, would
surely, if left to themselves, have felt much more
sympathy with the Italians than with the Austrians
who have banished them. Bat, bound hand and
foot by ignorance, the Irish aro easily incited to
attack the very men for whom they should natu-
rally have the greatest sympathy.
In the meantime who suffers? The natives of the
sister isle are so much accustomed to broken heads,
that one more or less can scarcely be looked upon in
the light of a national evil. The Italians must
find the tender mercies of an Irish neighbour-
hood, if not a paradise, at least a mild pur-
gatory, when compared with the inflexible des-
potism exercised in the land of their holy Spiritual
Father, from which they are compelled to flee. There
is not one of the unhappy Italians living in
the neighbourhood of Portpool-lane, and habits
at any given moment to a shower of paving stones
from his Irish brothers in the faith, who would not,
probably, much rather endure this state of uncer-
tainty, than place himself within stone's throw of

St: Peter's, where be would be sure to become •
victim to the despotism under which his noble
country groans. It is England, then, which is the
great sufferer in these Holy Riots. We have our ter-
ritory outraged by its being made the field of
strife of two parties with whose quarrels we have
not the slightest possible concern. The peace of
our cities is violated by the persecutions which men,
acting, it is said, under directions from foreigners,
, choose to exercise against their opponents. The
homes of peace-loving Englishmen are left
unprotected, because the police must be drawn
off to arbitrate violently between contending
parties who are settling political and religious dis-
putes in our streets. Whether the instigators of
these quarrels are Roman Catholics, or members of
the Greek Church, or subjects of the Dalai Lama,we
care not. It is a violation of hospitality to make our
shores the scene of contests between rival parties. A
prince, whether spiritual or terrestrial, who cannot
manage his subjects at home, has no right to organise
a persecution against them here, and disturb the
peace of this country. The affair is doubtless utterly
beyond legislation, but public opinion ought to be
expressed strongly upon the matter, and the Irish
priests who make use of their altars as a vantage
ground to utter fulminations against men whose only
crimo is devotion towards their country, and who stir
up the bad passions- of ignorant men, persuading
them to join in unholy crusades, should be held up to
public reproach as perverters of the truth and dis-
turbers of the quiet of society.