The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-28 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1853

RUSSIA is again marching troops into the Princi-
palities. The Russian force now within the
Turkish frontier, amounts to two hundred and
fifty thousand men ; and yet England is passive,
and France remains inactive. We are not skilled
in necromantic diplomacy. We lament this the more
as we are unable to give anything like a reasonable
interpretation to the silence and inactivity of the
" allied" Cabinets.
In the absence of the peculiar diplomatic know-
ledge required at the present moment, we feel no
small concern for the vast commercial interests at
stake. Our Money-market convulsed ; our national
Securities depreciated to a greater extent than
they were by the death of millions of our fellow-
beings by pestilence and famine ; the most staple
branches of our trade and commerce rendered both
speculative and hazardous; and the ordinary ac
commodation of business and requirements of
production crippled, and, for the most part, wholly
withdrawn. Suffering from all these—the worst
effects of a protacted and actual state of warfare—
is it possible that we can be at peace ? Are we
to be prostrated and plundered before a blow has
been struck, or are we suffered to know who are
our actual enemies? Does HER MAJESTY'S
Ministers think that this state of things can be
tolerated, while they have betaken themselves to
the Moors, to destroy the reputation of a Manton,
or a Truelock, and to throw away upon grouse the
menaces they have addressed in vain to the Russian
eagles ?

Every mail and telegraphic despatch reports
some further concentration of force, and some fresh
act of daring aggression, on the part of the Ann-
MUT. Such monsters may live and batten on the
wrongs and injuries they inflict on other nations,
and those who sympathize with them may
stand unmoved at the mischief done. But we tell
our Minister that, there is danger, in the highest
office, in submission. A weak obeisance to a
demon spirit was the original sin of man, and it is
rather too much, to expect of England in the Nine-
teenth century, a repetition of the mother crime.
" England can have no little war" is the axiom
propounded by our highest military authority. The
hero who spoke these words knew not the small-

Hess of the men who were to fill his place in the
great councils of the State. As he breathed the
memorable warning, he was measiu•ing in his
mighty mind the power of the different nations
of the earth as compared with England, but did
not bestow a thought on the flimsy attributes, and
paltry comprehension, of those who were so soon
to come after him, and that too, at a crisis which
gives the full force of truth in Mc worag.

England in her wars,has been taught to estimate
the value of her military exploits, by the actual cost
of her conquests; and if we pursue the same course
in the present instance, the public will be astounded
at the disclosure of our losses, caused by the
rumours of war in this age of peace. When red re-
publicanism, was rampant in France—when pestil-
ence and famine were devastating our sister
kingdom—when England had to meet unprece
dented drafts upon her bullion for food—and
when she was threatened with internal tumults
and foreign war—the depreciation in her national
securities did not exceed 8 per cent., whereas they
have fallen 10 per cent. in value, owing to the AUTO-
CRAT'S violation of the confirmed law of nations.
The loss to England from a reduction of 10 per
cent. in the marketable value of her £800,000,000 of
stock, is greater in amount, than the Russian trea-
sury could re-fund in a quarter of a century.
War then, with such a nation, poor and hopeless,
excepting in buccaneering, surely cannot be as alarm-

ing as the public seem to think ; unless, indeed,
the Russian tyrant be again fondled, nursed, and
Succoured by England herself, from whose'tender
sympathies she drew the funds to, prolong the
siege, and enter the gates of, Warsaw in 1829, and
through whose parental fondness she found in
1851 a sum of £4,500,000, to repair her losses in
the Hungarian war.
Despotism is shameless. Again we find
NICHOLAS asking England, the mother of
his former strength, to pardon his tyranny,
to forgive his intrusions, to forget his cruel-
ties, and to aid him against the unoffending

"Pagans," whom he undertakes to annihilate
with the utmost dispatch. Surely if this be
conceded, we have more to fear from mono-

mania than from the Cholera itself.

The political hirelings on the London press,
have their feelers out on behalf of the needy dis-
turber of European peace. It therefore behoves

our government to take some immediate steps to
prevent subsidies being furnished to a Foreign
state, with which we are virtually, if not actually at
war. The urgency of such a step need's no
precedent.

Ix one of its usual able articles, the London
Times of Monday recurs to a subject, noticed in
its columns some short time ago, of paramount
interest in connection with the war, which, we
fear, if not commenced, is all but inevitable. The
system of privateering by letters of marque, so gene-
rally, and so disastrously for many who should have
been exempted from its necessary consequences,
Will, it cannot be doubted, be renewed, or sought to
be renewed, from the moment that war is de-
clared. This is, indeed, a topic of very deep
interest ; but to all concerned in the port of
Liverpool, in the shipping that congregate in its
docks, from every quarter of the globe, manned by
sailors of all nations, it is one of overwhelming
importance. In commenting on this subject, our
contemporary deals principally with America; and,
after showing how glad Russia would necessarily
be to avail herself of such aid, expresses well-
grounded doubts of the ability of the Government
of the United States to control the adventurous
cupidity of some of its citizens. It seems, how-
ever, that the misgivings previously expressed by
the Times on this point had attracted the notice of
the Ape4ican press, and are regarded by it as
wholly gr4uitous. A long passage is quoted from
the New York Courier, which has, we are told, been
transferred with approbation into the various
columns ofthe principal journals throughout
the Union.' This article not. only repudiates
the idea of American citizens serving on board
a Russian privateer, but emphatically adds that

"the American who is found on board such
will be hung at the yard-arm by his captor, with
the full approval of every just minded Ame-
rican. - He would justly forfeit all claim to
the protection of his country, and receive, and
richly merit, the fate of a pirate." " Certainly,"
adds the Tinges, "it will be a great step in civi-
lization, when the privateer and the pirate are
placed under one common ban, and equally ex-
cluded from the rights of lawful war. Great will
be the glory of the nation which puts down the
practice, and not less the shame reflected on the
annals of those naval powers which endured it so
long." Is not this plain truth ? and is it not a sub-
j ect on which the members of the Peace Society, may,
without Quixotism, most usefully and humanely
exert-their energies ? No question is here brought
forward for impossible arbitration ; no enquiry into
the conflicting claims of Empires, or of M ight versus