The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-31 00:00:00

e have millions of men

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f warfa:

in every imaginable

ver and anon, for aggres-

sion and defence, bloodshed must be their motive,
and other nations must be prepared for self-

preservation. Our object in the present con-
test has been, from the first, to secure peace on
a just and enduring basis. The Allied Govern-
ments have stated, with unusual candour, tha t
the war was not undertaken to re-establish down-
trodden nationalities, or to extend the area of con-
stitutional freedom. In this candour the strength
of the two Cabinets lies for the moment,
and it is only Mr. BRIGHT and his followers who
would venture to say there has been any duplicity
played off on the country on this head. With
regard to the free navigation of the Danube, Mr.
BRIGHT was particularly luminous. He tells us
that the navigation of that river is free, and the
traffic upon it has increased immensely within
the last ten years. He alludes probably to the
enterprise of the Danubian Steam Navigation
Company established ten or twelve years-
back. He does not mean to say that
that noble stream is as free as the
Thames, the Mersey, or the Mississippi. He will
not pretend to assert that ships are not stopped
and searched by Russian on the Lower Danube,
and by Austrian police on the frontiers of every
province through which they pass from Belgrade
to Buda, and that its navigation may not be inter-
dicted, at any moment, by a single scratch of the
AIITOCRAT'S or FRANCIS JOST.PH'S pen. We enjoy
on the Danube the same rights as pirates do on
the Canton river in the absence of British men-of-
war. We may trade, if we can, after paying
Russian exactions, and satisfying Austrian extor-
tions,and pocketing in turn the insulting arrogance
of one, and the refined tyranny of the other. Mr.
BRIGHT has, probably, never been on the Danube,
and only speaks from hearsay, and what he has
gleaned from books and that Newspaper Press
which he was pleased to say " could not writs a
" sentence of English." Manchester men are apt
to make such remarks, but they are the last in the
world who ought to quarrel with those who make
them intelligible speakers, and something like
rational beings, when they appear in type,
We can,
however, afford to make room in our rubbish bas-
ket for Mr. BRIGHT'S opinion on this subject, as
well as a variety of other emanations we receive
from equally captious reviewers.

Meanwhile, the Peace Party must bear in mind
that the object of the war is peace, and that our
motive in continuing it embraces all those disturb-
ing causes which must be removed before we can
secure the return of tranquillity, on anything like
an enduring foundation. It is perfectly childish
to say that the " Four Points" might have been
obtained from Russia at the Vienna Conference.
It was because Russia refused them that the strug-
gle was continued. She only accepted them as the

basis of negotiation, just as the Emperor ALEXANDER
has assented to the Austrian propositions, to gain
time, or, probably, to give the Peace Party
of this country an opportunity of dividing the
public mind, and giving a fresh impetus to that
bloodshed which they are so anxious to arrest. If
the Peace-at-any-price men are satisfied with the
Vienna proposals, it is not unlikely that their
acceptance by ALEX.tNDER will not only prove

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atal: to his throne, but will lead to the over- ventional necessity ; the habits of military life as
throw of what is vulgarly called the " Romanoff manly, and not wholly objectionable; and, with
The true Russian and rampant these glove-like qualifications of what they con-
war party are all-powerful at St. Petersburg. sider to be immutable law, the world is deluged
The serfs are ready to shake off their with evil-doing.
taskmasters, and the Poles only require The inevitable result of all this, however, is
a Russian convulsion to regain their placed conspicuously before us; and, since
independence. Would the CZAR encounter all those classes who have yet the power of
these dangers, and enter upon a course, with any carrying forward the sacred work of man's social
sincerity, which would involve him in inextricable regeneration are really bestirring themselves with
difficulties ? Peace orators may gull the public extraordinary zeal, we do not despair of
with assurances that Russia would have accepted seeing immense good done at home and
peace last April, and that she is now quite ready to among the benighted races in other parts of
grant all the Western Powers can ask in reason. the world. Of our own reformatory establish-
But with peace comes the CZAR'S trial, and his ments, we can scarcely venture to speak, until they
mpires dismemberment. His people have suf- have been brought into full operation. The
red bitterly by their rulers' love of war, and they project is a good one, and ought to be encouraged,
11 naturally look for some solid return, to make if it should only save a few among the thousands
,d their losses. Had they gained all Turkey of the neglected. But we have yet to provide
something rational, to draw men off from their
irrational habit_s, and to supply those vacuums
which, though harmless in themselves, lead to
The schoolmaster, and the religious
instructor, have an herculean task before
them, not only in the humbler walks of
life, but in the very highest circles,
Truth is all we can rely upon in the work we have
commenced, and it must be told boldly at the
foot of thrones, as well as upon the hearth of
the poorest of our citizens. It must be taught
at home as well as in the wilds of India,
Africa and America; and until men entrusted
with the great secrets of Christianity Proclaim
them aloud, in whatever position they may be
placed, the most praiseworthy efforts of a few
benevolent men can do comparatively little to
stay that extraordinary mortality, which can only
be ascribed to the infliction of those penalties
which follow the disregard of the warnings we
have received.

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LATES INTELLIGENCE.

SECOND EDITION.
♦
TURKEY.

A despatch from Constantinople, dated the 21st
instant, announces that Baron Prokesch had noti
fled to the Porte the acceptation by Russia of the
Austrian ultimatum.