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

" The simple facts are, that :
tarally have occurred even to

Admiral Dundas
order Lord Stratford de Redeliffe might
Stratford, on his side, has had powers to mak(

been in read

ss to at

ive him, and Lora

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tion that might appear to him -justified by the eng
the case on his own responsibility."

noes of

To use the the Times' own expression, " it might

matters
there is

and an agent ;

that there is a wide difference be

road acting

on his own re

tween a Minister al
sponsibility," and his acting upon " full powers

sent to him by the government at home

c.k.n am.

bassador is but the servant of his government, ap-
pointed to carry out their wishes if he can ; but
the boldest perhaps that our diplomacy has ever

pro duc

iettl e u.Lu rosponsiouity ot mat war resting upon
Himself. We are inclined to think there has been
a little shuffling between the principal and the

agent on this very matter

has comp(

the government to arrive at the de

cision implied by the orders for part of the screw
fleet to proceed northwards—a fact of which the

same difference betwe•2n Lord Stratford acting upon

tions from home, as there would be if the Master
of the Exchange Newsroom, in the exercise of his

discretion, were to turn out the subscribers at any
time he pleased, or a resolution of the committee
to that effect. Every body can understand the

difference of responsibility incurred by a police-eon-

stable effecting a capture with or without a warrant,
upon a mob with or
sanction of civil authority. Lord
STRATFORD'S position is exactly analogous. He is

or by
without the

a military officer firing

invested with a certain amount of authority, for
the exercise of which he is responsible ; but receiv-

ing specific instructions from his superiors to do a
certain act he is no longer responsible

It is. tht

government who send him these instructions. l'h(
Times does not draw this distinction whilst assum

ing to co

that it states

Lord STRATFORD to be responsible for

every movement to be made by Admiral Dundas's

ittt Iv

the I

istinctly said was

that government had sent

full powers to act more

e:iergetically in support of the Turks," meaning
the •eby that the fleet should enter the Dardanelles.
Is it st
possible, therefore, that the Herald may be
strictly co.rrect, and the " simple facts " of the Times
be two or three months old ? The present state of

general opinion., which is no mean criterion, leads
us to think so. We believe that the government
have been driven by the com:fion voice of Europe

to make a demonstra*A of which they would have
been glad to shift the responsibility to the shoul-
ders of their ambassabor; but Lord STRATFORD has
proved too subtle to fall into the net.
We say we believe that the Government have

been driven to make the intended demonstration

by the unanimous voice of Europ

There is no

doubt that in our country the majority .of th

people aro convinced that we have been dallying
with this question in a manner unworthy of the
power and spirit of Englishmen; and, from a letter
we received the other day from an English resi.

dent in Denmark, who well knows public feeling

on this question all over Europe, we are sure tha

what is general conviction here amounts to fiery
indignation there. Our correspondent, it will be
perceived, speaks with some warmth.
" Public opinion here (I relate facts
ions) is in a flame at the

not my• own opin

state of the Abercteen Cabinet

If a the four Lords " are not now impeached, tnen there is
no crime of which an English minister can possibly be
guilty, which can call down upon him the just retribution

of his indignant country."
" Our Cabinet has trampled upon all principle and public

right."

" It has
_equally

every English in- lerest, monetary
political."

and the I
"It ha

barefaced conip.
which history cl

how any exarni