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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1853

WE are still without any official information fi

our Government as to the real position of affairs ir
the East. It is universally acknowledged that
from what has transpired between Russia and Tur
key, we are bound to oppose Russia by force

and that steps have been taken by our Fleet in th
East, which amounts to a commencement of hot:
tilities. Beyond this we really know nothing. Th
London Times indeed says what Count NESSELRODE
Prince MENSCHIKOFF, and a thousand others say
The Morning Chronicle tells us what the TELEGRAPH;
say. The Daily News repeats what its own "Cor
respondents" say. The Morning Herald knows more
than it will venture to say. Now we do not be

lieve, that anything they state comes within th 4
widest approximation to the truth. All we pre
tend to know is, that all the saying and unsayint
of the London press has produced a panic in thh

country.
While hostilities are pending, civilised Europe
may, indeed, be said to be on her trial. And, as m
brute force has been used, the conflict is one o
feeling, in which England shows mercy to her nev
foe, and justice towards an ally. Thus, with he:
mighty power of destruction, bound and held bacl
f'rom the bloody deeds of war, how great, how glo
rious the captivity. Peace has, indeed, taught u.
her value by heaping on us her fruits.

These sentiments will pass for nought, only wit
the fool and the knave; but we care not for the]
combined scoffing or disregard of facts. The tru
honour and growing greatness of our country sha

find a space in our columns, as well as the reeorc
of that wide-spread diableism, on which every rigl
mind must look with horror and dismay.

Our objettiu these

ight digressions from tl

record of dry events, or empty rumours, is to give
to war those photographic touches of light and
shade, which exalts all true patriotism, while it
checks the march of brutish thought.
When we speak of war, we know too well the
terrible woes that consummate the victor's glory
or seal a nation's fall. And should it be our lot
to record the victory of our arms over the hordes
of benighted Russian serfs, now threatening the
peace of Europe, we shall discharge our duty with
feelings of regret. Still we cannot let one thought
be lost, which may add to our safety and success,
particularly at a moment when the pen and the
sword are required to guide and guard the country
through her perils.
In a war with Russia we have more to fear at
home than in the field. A pusilanimous spirit
which can claim no kinship with the manly virtue
of this age, and knows no sympathy but that which
aids a Despot in his worst designs, requires to be

held in that wholesome terror which an enlightened
Press alone can make a traitor or an evil-doer feel.
In the absence, then, of any official information on
this all-important subject, the public should be ten-
fold more vigilant ; while, in the meantime, should
a blow be struck, we will labour to raise a spirit of
national indignation, which shall hold up to scorn
the Englishman who is seen without his musket
and his belts, until the key of the Holy Sepulchre

is wrested from the iron grasp of the Russian
fanatic, and deposited by the "Pagan" in stronger
if not purer hands.
This would be war ; and nothing short of the
possession of the sacred relic will crown the suc-

cess of our arms, or satisfy the ends of our diplo-
It was the refusal on the part-of Turkey to
surrender up the sacred key to the guardianship of
the AUTOCRAT, which was urged by him as his rea
son for marching troops into the Turkish territory,
This fact is known to every schoolboy ; and we ar€
told, forsooth, by the London Times of 3
" That the designs of Russia to take the direction of
the Ottoman Empire is perfectly notorious, and that
it is the imperative duty of Europe to arrest those
designs is acknowledged with equal unanimity. The
whether what the EMPEROR of

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