The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-25 00:00:00

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These being the views of the great bulk of the
British public, diplomatists must not be surprised
to hear that Great Britain does not place any great

reliance on Russia's acceptance of peace on terms
which would satisfy the popular mind of either
England or France. The Western Powers have
united their strength for the purpose of settling,
once and for all, the landmarks of free navigation,
unrestricted commercial intercourse, and inter-
national rights and interests in Eastern Europe
and on the-Asiatic shores of the Black Sea. And no
French or British Government can withdraw from
the present contest until these questions are
definitely settled, and guarantees are given by the
CZAR for the observance of those conditions for
which they took up arms, and expended such
immense quantities of blood and treasure Time
has verified the aphorism—we can have no little
war ; and it follows, as a natural consequence, we
can have no little peace. When we have a malady to
overcome, it is necessary that thevirtues of the spe-
cific should preponderate over the virulence of the
complaint. In organic diseases, such as those which
have lacerated, distracted, and tortured the East
for the last three quarters of a century, we should
see that no quack is suffered to interfere, and no
paltry Charlatan allowed to tamper with the re-
maining hopes, constitution, and life of a
patient, in whose prolonged existence Europe
has so deep an interest. That Russia would
gladly accept peace we have no doubt
—but on what terms ? She knows full well
the limit popular opinion will suffer the Cabinets
of France and England to go. If Russian states-
men could induce NAPOLEON, or the PALMERSTON
administration, to accept terms which would lead
to universal discontent, and plunge them into
internal dissensions which might lead to the over-
throw of their power, and place peace-men and
Russian sympathisers in the ascendant, the Czar
might then hope to accomplish all he now has in
view, by the pen instead of the sword. In calcu •
lating the forces with which Russia has to contend,
we may be sure her crafty diplomatists have not
overlooked the position of party, and the political
condition of the Allied countries. A change of
Ministry in England would secure Russia many
advantages ; and any popular excitement in France,
no matter how trivial, would be duly appreciated,
not only at St. Petersburg, but at Vienna and
Berlin. And, we would have the Governments of
both nations beware how they accept terms of
peace likely to shake the public confidence in
their patriotism, and loyalty in the cause they have

espoused.
The interests involved in the present contest
are purely of a material character, and these are of
sufficient magnitude to make themselves felt
instantaneously. If the vigorous prosecution of
the war leads to the establishment of the free
navigation of the Danube, and reducing the
Black Sea to a commercial lake, all Europe
will instantly feel its beneficial effects.
Should the conditions of peace defeat
these aims, the Austrian proposals will prove
an imposture, and the dead weight thrown
on the West by the contest will render the
dastardly sham intolerable. We have now a great
war on our hands, and we can see pretty clearly
the worst that can befal us. But give us an empty
truce, which would deprive us of regaining, by
our trade and industry, those weighty losses we

have endured by the war, and ignominy will over

,ake those who, for the sake of self or party,
could sanction its ratification. The British pub-

lic, but more particularly the mercantile classes,
have fixed their minds on securing for themselves
the independence of their Ottoman customers, the
free navigation of the Danube, and the full
enjoyment of free and unrestricted trade with the
independent nations on the Asiatic shores of the

conditions

No ultinzatunv which slurs over these
, and no " formulation" which can

iefeat this unalterable resolve of Great Britain

a accepted by any Government of this

try without exposing themselves to immediate
rnd the certainty of speedy loss of office.

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