The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

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with regard to our Allies—the Sur

(El:Hans and Turks—how are we to treat them in a
final adjustment of peace? A three years' war
will leave Turkey in a prostrate condition, with
fully 10,000,0001. of debt, and Sardinia, with a
twelve months' alliance with the Western Powers,
fully 2,000,0001. debt and minus the flower of her
army. And in all we have heard respecting the
Austrian propositions, we have not been able to
detect cne word about the restoration of the Prin-
cipalities to their lawful Sovereign, the SULTAN ;
nor has FRANCIS JOSEPH given Europe any
assurance that he will not, on any pretext, fall
upon Piedmont in :he interest of Rome, in accor-
dance with the spirit of the Concordat obtained
from the Holy See. As the war is one
specially directed against lawless aggression the
peace which succeeds it should place a well-defined
limit to the pretensions and war-fermenting
encroachments of Austria as well as Russia. One
of the chief objects for which England took up
arms was to preserve the sovereignty of the Otto.
man dominions : and what will the world say to
the perfidy of the Western Powers if they allow
Austria to continue her military occupation of the
richest portion of the Turkish territory, and leave
Sardinia to the mercy of the malice and fanaticism
of Vienna? Such a line of policy cannot be
pursued with impunity. It would throw us back
among those rocks and shoals, which a war,
vigorously prosecuted, would have swept away by
placing in our hands the means of exacting from
other States those terms which we know to be
essential to the future peace and well-being of
Europe. If any portion of Italy should again be
internally convulsed, or assailed from without, who
once
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will pretend to say that the Continent will not be
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to gain ascendency at Rome, but she has now the
propaganda on her side, and • -
is hailed as a guardian
angel whose assistance, with sword d
be invoked at any moment and fire, may
against the POPE'S
lieges and heretical Piedmont.
But, looking at the wide field of
jealousies and difficulties which the war dormanthas
up, we have little confidence in the durabilb
ritoken
any peace that may be brought
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as a simple matter of mutual accommoda-
tion. Every nation in Europe has hoped to gain
something by the present conflict, and great will
be their consternation when they find peace has
been concluded where the contest ought to have
commenced. That negotiations will take place

now appears certain ; and should no miscarriage
befal the CZAR in his own capital some sort of an
understanding may be come to in which it is pro-
bable that England will be mulcted a second
time of the whole cost of a war which
is European in its objects. But the
national voice of this country ought to
protest most solemnly against an armistice of
three months being granted for any such purpose.
What can there be in the Austrian propositions,
which half-a-dozen honest and sincere men could
not discuss in one and twenty days ? After the
tragical bloodshed we have witnessed, are we to
have a three months' interlude, to make the world
laugh at our innocent credulity ? Is not Russia
obtaining money on her bonds in illamburg, and
through her Dutch agents, in every other capital in
Europe ? She can want nothing more than time, to
enable her to prolong the contest ; and, in three
months, she could make entirely new dispositions
of her troops, and fortify all those points now left
open to invasion. The length of time which it is
said Russia seeks for negotiation, is the surest
sign she has yet given, that she intends to play the
knave. Still, the bare whisper of the restoration of
peace,will be a grand ministerial card for the open-
ing of the Session. To commence the memorable
1856, with a bloodless triumph, will paralyse
the tongue of the peace-man ; and, opening
a conference to discuss terms which ought to have
been enforced at the cannon's mouth will, it is
hoped, leave those who were for war little to say
Politically, such

to influence public opinion

intrigues frequently succeed ; but morally; they
invariably fail. The country in three months
suspense will suffer greater injury than if we were
to have all the battles and losses of 1854-5 to
endure. The public mind will be kept in that
state of incessant excitement which leaves England

open to the

grossest plundering by all those who

know how to t

e advantage of o

market

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gambler in the shape of a millionaire will be ready
to seize upon the national uneasiness, and
we repeat that we shall lose more by a three
months' suspension of hostilities than by a whole
year's determined prosecution of the war in the
field.

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