The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

hear, 1:

Lx, forward

? _ 3to him an act of impertinence for the
party who put Mr. Mann forward to use that cry, and if
that party had the control and management of the affairs of
the country, without any interference, they soon should have
neither ships, colonies nor commerce. (Cheers and laughter.)
Everything that party_ had done for the last 50 years had
been to restrain and restrict commerce, while everything
which the party to which Mr. Smith belonged had been to
give it the widest expansion. (Cheers.) Me would give
them a phrase, which would be a much more appropriate
watchword, and serve much better to characterise the in-
fluence which their party exercised upon public affairs—
" tubs, flats, and drays." (Laughter.) For if they had
the control of the country ships would not be used at all, be-
fore long tubs, drays, and fiats would be sufficient.
(Laughter.)
The meeting was then addressed in a few words by Mr.
Williams, Mr. Doran, Mr. M'Kenna, and Mr. Steele.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the proceed-
ings terminated.

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TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF

RUSSIA

" By the grace of God, we, Nicholas 1., Emperor
and Autocrat of All the Russias, &c., make known
as follows :

By our manifesto of the 14th (26

) of June of

the present year, we made known to our faithful
and dearly beloved subjects the motives which had
placed us under the obligation of demanding from
the Ottoman Porte inviolable guarantees in favour
of the sacred rights of the Orthodox Church.
"We also announced to them that all our efforts
to recall the Porte, by means of amicable persua-
sion, to sentiments of equity, and to the faithful
observance of treaties, had remained unfruitful,
tnd that we had consequently deemed it indispen-
tble to cause our troops to advance into the
bian Principalities; but, in taking this step,
still entertained the hope that the Porte would
s wrong doings, and would decide

Danu

acknowledge it

Hui; to our just demands

Our expectation has been deceived

chief Powers of Europe have sought
sn vain by their exhortations to shake the blind ob-
stinacy of the Ottoman Government. It is by a
declaration of war, by a proclamation filled with
lying accusations against Russia, that it has re-
sponded to the pacific efforts of Europe, as well as
to our spirit of long-suffering. At last, enrolling
in the ranks of its army revolutionary exiles
from all countries, the Porte has just com-
menced hostilities on the Danube. Russia is
challenged to the combat, and she has no
other course left her than, putting her trust
in God, to have recourse to force of arms,
1 the Ottoman government to res-
pect treaties, and to obtain reparation for the in-
sults with which it has responded to our most
moderate demands, and to our legitimate solici-
tude for the defence of the Orthodox faith in the
East, professed also by the people of Russia.
" We are firmly convinced that our faithful sub-
jects will join their prayers to those which we ad-
dress to the Almighty, beseeching Him to bless
with His hand our arms in this just and holy
cause, which has always found ardent defenders
in our ancestors. In to Domine speravi, non eon-
runtlar in ceternum_
" Done at Tzar "-1^ 41 20th day of Octo-

and so to comp€

ber (Ist of Nove

.oe Selo, the
nber), in the year of Grace, 1853,

nd the 28th of our reign

PARIS, Friday morning.—The Moniteur says—
Advices from Constantinople announce, that the
French and English squadrons anchored on the
2nd November in the Bosphorus. Admirals
Hamelin and Dundas are at Constantinople.
Hostilities have commenced on the Asiatic frontier
as well as on the Danube. The Turks have had