The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-29 00:00:00

and openly sacrificed
and commercial, and

)st, even to the lif

blood and
the most

iped his night-robe has taken
Enzlish empire or Turkish safety;

" It has vent its time in trashy and
with which the Czar ha..
nn crinnln stem

awling " notes

and is now in the position to be drawn into au endless
series of false mools and destructive compulsionl
" It has called itself the strongest state in Chri,stendom,
yet it has sheltered its own inaction behind the fears and
trepidations of kingdoms which no One could expect to take

in interests."
a, which adhere to England,
old to Prussia by English hands. Those

the lead in opposition to Rus

are day bir di

which' d

„Ive any signs or disin-clination to b,ccOnr
RussiAu—are doubly sold and doubly purchased by Eats=
and England in conjunction.”
"It is now evident that -nothing will wake the sleeping
English PEOPLE but the occupation of Constantinople (no
one know how soon that event may arrive), and then it
wili be TOO LATE !

We do not concur in all that is here said. But
we have not the smallest doubt in the world, that

these passages are, in the main, a true representa-
tion of European opinion, and that the unanimity
of its expression has, as we have said, forced the
British Cabinet to " pluck up." We could not,
however, have anticipated, before we read the above

passage from the Times, that they were waiting for
one of their own agents to arrive at a decision for

them

THE GRAND DUKE 01? TUSCANY is again acting a
part in the drama of Despotism, before the eyes of
civilized Europe. Scarcely has the remembrance

of one tyrannical deed of his passed from the pub-
lic mind than he perpetrates another, hardly less

odious in character, and, certainly, not less unjus
tifiable in principle, than that-which immediately
preceded it. This modern CALIGULA has, evidently,
a peculiar penchant for torturing poor, weak, inno-
cent, and inoffensive women, and upon very flimsy
pretences. In this revolting particular he resembles
his illustrious contemporary, NICHOLAS 1., of neither
"pious, glorious," or "immortal memory !" and the
brutal flogging of the Basilian Nuns, as well as the
incarceration and petty persecution of the MADIAI
and Miss MARGARET etTIi!iINGHA3IE, will long be re-
membered together as unparalleled examples of
modern barbarity in the persons of the Muscovite
CZAR, and his Florentine Brother. Par nobile
fratrunt !

In this extraordinary age of printing, and rail-
roads, and electric telegraphs—this age of realized
Utopias !—when thought is transmitted with the
rapidity of the lightning-flash ; and when the gen-
tle humanity of our laws provides even against the
infliction of cruelty to animals—such deeds as
those to which we advert, may, indeed, fill us with
wonder and concern. They too forcibly remind
us of an era in the world's history—from the con-
templation of which every sensitive and cultivated
mind turns away aghast !---When the race was im-
sed in the slough of barbarism, and when, with
ss and keenness of the blood-hound.

all the swift'

Who would not instinctively shrink from the
presence of a spectre ? BELSHAZZAR trembled when

he beheld the hand-writing on the wall! MACBETH

nerved

! And shall

creep up from its slimy charnel
house, and once again stalk abroad in the golden

cerement

sunlight of European civilization, and fling its
tainted odours in the pure face of Heaven, and not

fill us with horror and alarm ?

tentatE

to aver th

he is bound to conform to the

letter of some municipal requirement

and that in