The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

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SATURDAY

JUG UST 16, 1856

THE DAY'S NEWS

to th©

island

The arrival of the Persia, from New York

occurred yesterday, after the quickest passage on
record—eight days and some hours. She brings
five days later news than the Canada, with 172
passengers, and 1,034,634 dollars in specie. The
news she brings is of a varied character, but more
interesting than important, the election of General
Walker to the Presidency of Nicaragua by
"an overwhelming majority," being the most

striking item

The London and North Western Railway Com-
pany have held their usual half-yearly general
meeting. The Chairman announced that the
dispute with the Northern Company was at an
end, and the meeting declared a dividend at the
rate of five per cent. per annum.
The news by the Overland Mail is given in
another column. It is without any very decided
feature.

A statement is circulating after a Prussian
journftl, affirming that a Russian array has not
been heard of which had been sent out on a Persian
aampalgn during the siege of Sebastopol. General
Chemieff, its commander-in-chief, was sent, it is
affirmed, to the frontiers of Persia, where he
appears to have advanced too far into the hostile
territory. Cut off from all communication with
his own countrymen, and threatened on his flank
by innumerable hordes of Circassians and Kurds,
. he found himself obliged to make a retreat across
boundless wastes of the inhospitable sand steppes,
and as nothing has hitherto been heard of him,
great fears are entertained for the safety of the

general acid his whole army. The story, which
looks like a " hum," must be taken for what it is

worth

An interesting ease of breach of promise, and
an atrocity of a rape, which could hardly have
occurred among savages, form the staple of our

day's assize reports.
The Times in its second edition of yesterday,

gives an intersting account of the Marianne orga-
nisation. It seems to have immeshed nearly the
whole labouring and rural population, and there
are instances where every inhabitant of a parish or
commune, including the authorities, have gon
through the tests,tatten the oaths, and sworn to stand

upon mutual defence, whatever the cause of attack,
As every member is sworn to kill the Emperor on

am his confederates, we may surmise
the fragility of that splendid edifice on which the

an order f

Imperial Court is resting. The belauded Louis
Napoleon is but the, mark at which millions of men
or their chosen deputies are to fire at—if their very
in peace the
numbers fail of themselves to sap

pedestal on which he stands. Well, indeed, as the
public gossip of Paris already presumes to
Announce, may " one small head" sink under con-
tingencies so fearful, added to complications so

weighty.

The new County Court Act is now come into

force, and removes the chance of those collisions
between different jurisdictions, which arose under
the " protection" orders of the higher Courts.which

are now made valid in every case.
The Pacha of Erzeroum, Governor of Turkish
Armenia, has been ordered to go and receive

Kars from the hands of the Russian authorities, I
and to instal in their place a provisional Governor.

Russians have

also relinquished the pretensions
ossession of any part of the Serpent

The mercantile community of Bucharest had
held a demonstration in favour of the union with
Moldavia.

Sir Archibald Alison has again been holding out
on the war—this time at Seaham. He reminds us
of the philosopher who, having the exiled Han-
nibal for an auditor, gave a lecture on the art of
war. According to the Scotch Seer, if Sebastopol
had been taken quickly the war might have lasted
twenty years.

THE Russians were still in possession of the Isle
of Serpents according to our last advices from
Constantinople, notwithstanding the assurances
put forward by the foreign telegraphs to the con-
trary., France and Turkey have no ships to send to
the mouth of the Danube to aid the British
It is true that there may be only eight
r ten Russians on the Island in question, but
there are hundreds of thousands of Muscovites

steamers

on the main land, and close to the spot illegally
occupied. The vessels sunk in the harbour of
Sebastopol have been raised, are being repaired, and
may put to sea on a sudden. Kars may have been
evacuated by the CZAR'S troops, but the deception,
quibbling, and insolence respecting Bolgard, have
still to be met in a becoming spirit. To be without
a strong naval force in the Black Sea under such
circumstances is most awkward. Yet there is no

immediate danger. It will take a generation or
two to build a second Cronstadt at the mouth of
the Turkish river, and some months ere the fleet
of Sebastopol can be made ready to re-enact the
massacre of Sinope. We may, therefore, find
time to muster a flotilla in the Euxine which
will be equal to the work before it, even
if the Russian steamers, which recently
sailed from the 03altic, should reach the
Black Sea before it is generally anticipated.
Whether the Emperor NAPOLEON is prepared to
continue his alliance with England must be very
soon made known, and once the popular doubts in
France and England have been solved on this
most vital point, the diplomacy of the war, the
peace, and its violation, will be at once unmasked.

Great Britain will see her way, and every heart
and hand will be ready for the work. Honest
enthusiasm is never wholly out of place. It is
easily laid aside when it is not required, and we
may be pardoned for giving expression to the real
patriotic feelings of the country at a moment when
great danger is hanging over the nation's head.
It is a national habit to view trifles with disdain,
but it was a trifle which led to the war in
the East. We did not rush head foremost into
the waste of blood and treasure which ensued•
We " drifted " into it as gently as possible. No
one would believe the Russians meant to do any-
thing to outrage humanity, or to subvert the
rights of any country by the extension of their
conquests. Some people laughed at the idea
of our sending a fleet to the Bosphorous
or an army to Turkey, or that an open
declaration of war would be forced on us. But our
habitual dubiousness deceived those who scoffed
at probabilities, and gave the Russians credit for
clear foresight, honest intentions, and great mode-
ration ; and being warned by the past, it behoves
us to be on the alert, and ready to meet our wily

enemy at a moment's notice
Diplomatic intrigue was never more rife, and
whether it looks for spoils on our public stock
and produce markets, or the attainment of political
ends by forcing us into a false position in finance,
by compelling us to keep up large armaments, the
designs of the diplomatic world must be
unshrouded, and the difficulties we have
to meet, or the repose we are to be
allowed to enjoy, made clearly manifest to the
whole community. As a commercial people, we
need tranquility. We have no season of profit but
that of unbroken peace. The bare mention of war
robs us in our markets, jeopardises the value of
our reserves of necessaries, and shakes confidence
in our real and immovable property. And that
Great Britain should be dragged through such an
ordeal, after the noble sacrifices of blood, money'
and opinion she has just made in the cause of
humanity and good order, by a perfidious despot
and tyrannical autocracy, is a little more than her
people have been led to expect. Let us, then, not
wait to be completely engulfed in the whirlpool
before us. Let us throw off our usual apathy, and
look the impending difficulties full in the face.
Our national stocks must not be suffered to
fall by encouraging a morbid timidity. Our
Money market must not be paralised by a present
dread of distant adversities. Our traders and
merchants must not suffer themselves to be cou•
founded by little fears, the offspring of crotchets,
and loins of the trickish alarmists.
Great Britain must meet the trials of the age in
which the glory of her career shines brightest, as
becomes an enlightened and valorous people. If
Russia will prove a traitor—if she will not respect
her obligations—if she is bent on forcing us into
positions from which we cannot escape without
suffering some social injury—if she is bent on
entangling us in a petty or general war, and if she
should succeed in turning all the courts of Europe
against us—a simple change of policy, the
mere act of raising " the right man to
the right place" will foil her designs, and
restore that peace to the world which it never will
enjoy whilst she is treated with the respect
shown to civilised Powers. There may be no
truth in the rumours respecting the inability of the
French and Turkish authorities at Constantinople
not being able to succour their Allies in the Black
Sea, but the Russians are trespassers on the Isle
of Serpents, and until they have withdrawn from
its unlawful occupation, an accident may give rise
to a collision, and we ought to show that we are
alive to the danger of such an event, and that we
are prepared, as far as the popular spirit is con-
cerned, to meet whatever time and treachery may
' bring upon our country.