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suicide, and woe to the party who seeks such
dangerous Allies. They at least have cast aside
the mask. They have exhibited the treachery
that prevailed in our own camp, and proved that
none of the party can be trusted—from the Semi-
Russian HERBERT, who saved Odessa, to the
wily First Lord, who prevented energetic move-
ments in the Baltic until too late—and then
strove to force on what could scarcely be success-
ful operations. We say nothing of the chief
conspirator, who " starved the war," and
endeavoured to accumulate such burdens
on the people as would render them discontented
with the contest and willing to accept any terms
which would free them from the intolerable op-
pression. He has uttered his own condemnation.
Nothing can purify his forfeited reputation, or
restore the confidence which was so grossly abused.
A shoit time since he was indispensable ; no Go-
vernment could do without him. Now he would
be the Jonah, that would insure its destruction,
however eligible in other respects, and however
advanced its opinions on the great questions of
the day.

Chancery, sufficiently account for the confidence
reposed in him by the daughters, who appear to
have regarded and consulted him as the family
friend and adviser. Of any criminal connection
on the part of the Marquis with Mrs. HANDCOCK
there is no proof whatever—the evidence indeed
leading to a precisely opposite conclusion. The
charge of cruelty and unwarrantable control by
the mother falls to the ground. The young ladies
are shown to have been quite independent of her,
both in thought and action ; and so far from
accusing her, or betraying animosity towards her,
or fear, appear to have regarded her with affec-
tion, without, however, placing implicit confidence
in the wisdom of her recommendations, or im-
plicitly following them. The allegations that the
boy DELACOUR was Mrs. HANDCOCK'S son, and
illegitimate, are not countenanced by any evidence
whatever—the presumption from that given being
that he was neither. Throughout the whole
affair nothing has been adduced, so far as we can
see, incompatible with the Marquis's innocence ;
and while we think a little more promptitude in
rebutting the charge in the first instance would
have been politic, we lay down the pamphlet with
the conviction that the license of the Irish bar
never ran further riot, or grave accusation was
based on more paltry grounds.

The Conference is finally closed. The shadow
that so long clouded our prospects is dispersed.
We are no longer bound by the injudicious an-
nouncements that we would not seek the reclama-
tion of any part of the stolen territory of Russia.
She has contumeliously rejected every moderate
proposal—has earned for herself a real humilia-
tion, and that she will doubtless receive, to an
extent that may possibly astonish those who
reckoned too much on the good offices of the excel-
lent ABERDEEN and his Peelite followers, or the ridi_
culous twaddle of the members of the Peace Society.
The Western Powers have been compelled to
throw away the scabbard. Heretofore they merely
sought to defeat the nefarious designs of the
Northern despot, to rescue his intended victim
from his grasp. Now they see the necessity of
insisting on his being deprived of the power of
doing further mischief, of the fangs being ex-
tracted and the claws closely pared.
The capture of Kertch, Yenikale, and Genitchi,
and our complete mastery of the Sea of Azoff,
must be followed by the complete overthrow of Rus-
sian influence on the Asiatic coasts of the Euxine
and in the Caucasian districts. Already Soujak
Kaleh has been ♦oluntarily abandoned, the prin-
cipal buildings destroyed, and sixty guns and
six mortars first rendered useless and then relin-
quished. The Governor did not wait for the
attack, which they knew could not be long de-
ferred, but forthwith commenced the process of
evacuation, and fled before the onslaught could
be commenced. If these successes be duly fol-
lowed up, if the whole of the Caucasian territories
be freed from the invaders, a new and almost in-
superable barrier will be created against Russian
aggressions from that quarter.

The Sea of Azoff itself is truly an important
acquisition. The ample supplies that could be
obtained from Taganrog and Mariopol, and the
districts watered by the Don, are now almost
completely cut off. A long and tedious land con-
veyance will now be indispensable, and if our suc-
cesses be duly followed up, as, doubtless, they
will be, the military road across the Putrid Sea
will also be blocked up and rendered impassable.
Perekop, then, will remain the only available mode
of communication, and even that may be seriously
impeded, and the isolation cf the Crimean army
rendered complete.
We have a right also to demand that Odessa
shall no longer remain a standing disgrace to
British vacillation—that Nicolaieff, on the llong,
shall no longer maintain its mysterious grandeur
—that the mouth of the Dnieper, in the vicinity
of Kherson, should be • effectually blockaded.
These' matters, which can all be effected by the
naval squadron, will be productive of the most
important results, and prepare matters for the
occupation and eventual resumption of Bessarabia
by Turkey, and its restoration to its ancient al,

LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1855.

The debate this evening on the three amend-
ments before the House will probably be diver-
sified by a fourth proposition, emanating from
Ministers, and based on all the remaining pro-
tocols relating to the Vienna Conferences up to
their termination. The PALMERSTON Cabinet will
thus endeavour to make tardy amends for their
previous culpable remissness—to take credit to
themselves for submitting to the consideration of
Parliament that which it had already taken for
itself. It is, however, as we have already stated,
too late to save them from the general censure
which their long mystery and silence have brought
down on their heads. They may possibly still
save their places—the chief matter in their esti-
mation—but they cannot retrieve their damaged
reputations; or be looked on as they were but a
few short months ago.

Something may, however, be done in this re-
spect if they at length shake off the oCicial
reserve, and explain their intentions .and objects
clearly and unequivocally. The people wia no
longer be hoodwinked. They have seen the dan-
gers of secret diplomacy, that it has seen s•dely
through the reckless audacity and outrecuidance
of Russia that they have been saved from a dis-
honourable and transitory peace—a peace by
which all our sacrifices in men and money would
be utterly thrown away, by which the Ottoman
Empire would inevitably be overthrown at no very
distant day, and Russia enabled to achieve her
nefarious designs to the fullest extent. They,
therefore, require to know exactly what is to be done,
to receive the assurance that the Allies will no
louger remain contented with the Four Points,
but that other and more stringent conditions will
be added and rigidly enforced.

legiance.

But while thus active in the East there should
be equal vigour displayed in the West. Our
triumphs in the Ruin() should not load to in-
activity in the Baltic. There. are plundered pro-
vince in its vicinity which must also be restored
to their legitimate possessors. Finland, Estho-
nia, Livonia, Courland, must be dealt with. St.
Petersburg itself stands on stolen ground, and its
so-called owner must be taught the danger of dis-
turbing the settlements that have been for some time
acquiesced in. The intended plunderer will receive
no pity if the weapons to which he so wantonly
resorted should be turned against himself, and if he
should be severely castigated by the cudgel he has
himsel# supplied.
Admiral DIINDAS may now avail himself of the
experience derived during the past year, and the
country will expect some energetic and dashing
exploits, such as, might have been achieved if Old
CIIARLEY had not been curbed and restrained
until too late by orders from home. There is an
ample field for distinction, and we confidently
hope that the new Admiral wilL not suffer it to be
wasted or misapplied.

It is also essential that " Her Majesty's Oppo-
sition" should speak out clearly and unequivo-
cally; that their bidding for office should be
decided and intelligible. Mr. DISRAELI was good
so far ct 3 he went. Mr. WHITESIDE was admi-
rable. Every point of his brilliant oration was
strictly in accordance with popular opinion, and
his kern and unsparing exposure of the Glad-
stonian fallacies was everything that could be
desired by the mDst strenuous asserter of British
honour ; but, unfortunately, others were not
equally decided. The pro-Russian speeches of the
Marquis of GRAN BY, Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON,
and Sir STAFFORD NOB.THCOTE, the doubtful ad-
dresses of others on the Opposition side, but, be-
yond all, the sinister approbation of the Peelite,
and some of the Peace-at-any-price party, have,
however, engendered doubts that must be removed
before the confidence of the people can be be-
stowed on any side or party.

As yet the proposition of Mr. Lowe seems
most in accordance with popular feeling. But
even that may be greatly improved. Should no-
thing better offer we must perforce accept it, but
we would gladly see a better offer. There is
nothing, in fact, in that notice which the Govern-
ment may not now adopt, and it is by no means
impossible that such may be the case. For the
Conferences having been closed, there can be no
reason to question that the failure has been occa-
sioned by the refusal of Russia to limit her
naval force in the Euxine, and that " the means
of obtaining Peace were thereby exhausted."
But we look to the future as well as to the past.
We ask for definite pledges—for a departure from
diplomatic slang—for a declaration that there shall
be no peace while Sebastopol remains a standing
menace to Constantinople and to Europe, or without,
at least, a pecuniary indemnification for the ex-
penses of the War. Who will go to this extent,
not merely in a speech, but by a resolution,
bind-
ing the representative branch of the Legislature
and the future Government, of whatsoever party
it may be composed ? That is the price at which
popular support can be obtained. We care not
for the men. We want a display of energy and
determination that will encourage our own people,
and at the same time convince the would-be neu-
trals that the contest must be continued until a
decisive result has been attained.
It is also very desirable that divisions may
b 5 taken on each of the substantive propositions
now before the House, that
the country may be
enabled to discriminate between the various
phases of opinion, and know who may again be
trusted. The l'eelitee have cor tted patiCah

As yet we have said but little of Poland. But
it is not, and cannot be, absent from our memory.
The course of events is favourable to the procla-
mation of its freedom—of its complete and per-
fect independence. It is fortunate that we are
not fettered by German assistance, or prevented
from doing that which may be alike just and
expedient through any necessity for acting with
Austria or Prussia. Let us then avail ourselves
of every opening, and prove that, although so long
apathetic, we are determined henceforward to act
with vigour and energy, to profit by our past
experience, and not any longer to suffer our-
selves to be cajoled or bamboozled by pre-
tended friends, or bullied by avowed enemies.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, or his friends
for him, have done well by the publication of the
pamphlet entitled "An Inquiry into the Accusa-
tions made against the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
in the cause of HANDCOCK v. DELACOUR." A
vindication of 'the Noble Lord's character was cer-
tainly not uncalled for. The public mind had
been shocked, and the aristocracy as a body had
been lowered in general estimation, by the quasi
revelations in this cause. Conduct that might
brand a swindler with infamy was openly attri-
buted or inferentially attached to the Noble. Lord
—conduct so disreputable, immoral, and criminal
that its parallel was sought elsewhere than in the
United Kingdom ; and the general voice pro-
nounced the supposed perpetrator unfit to asso-
ciate with British Peers in Parliament, or with
any assembly of honest men. A vindication, if
possible, from a charge of this sort was not only
necessary, but could not come a moment too soon.
And we are happy to state that a perusal of the
PaniPhlet has convinced us that the Noble Marquis
is a deeply-injuredbility, individual. Whatever culpa
if an ".7 —and there is no proof of any—may
attach to him, it is impossible for us to resist the
conclusion that of the turpitude in question he is
entirely guiltless, and that his position, painful as
preferable to that of his
it is and has been, is
unscrupulously-imaginative accUsers. The long
acquaintance of the Noble Lord with the father,
and his appointment as guardian by the
Court of

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BER MAJESTY'S APPROBATION OF THE
TROOPS.

The following has been published to the troops, and
refers to the attack already described at length in The
Sun :

GENERAL ORDER.

Head-quarters, before Sebastopol, May 21, 1855.
The Commander of the Forces has the highest satisfaction
in lyblishing to the army a despatch which he has received
from the Minister of War, expressing the Queen's most
gracious approbation of the conduct of the troops engaged
in the attack and subsequent defence of the rifle pits in front
of the advanced trench, right attack, on the night of the
19th and morning of the 20th April; her Majesty's deep
concern at the loss thatwas sustained ; and at the death of
that distinguished officer, Col. Egerton, 77th Regiment ;
and the deep sympathy which her Majesty feels in the suf-
ferings of the brave officers and soldiers who were wounded
on the occasion ; and which Lord Raglan takes this public
mode of communicating to them.

" No. 114. War Department, May 7, 1855.
"My Lord,—l have received and have laid before the
Queen your lordship's despatch, No. 260, of the 21st April,
and I have received her Majesty's commands to express to
you her gratification at the manner in which the Rifle Pits
in front of the approach from the advance of the trenches
on the extreme right were attacked and carried by assault
on the night of the 19th ultimo by a detachment of the
77th Regiment under the command of Colonel Egerton.
" Her Majesty regrets to learn that this gallant exploit
was not accomplished without the loss of a considerable
number of her brave troops ; and I am especially to express
the sorrow with which her Majesty has received the intel-
ligence of the loss which her service has sustained in the
death of Colonel Ecerton, to whose distinguished bravery
and ability Your lordship bears so high a testimony.
" Her Majesty has received with high satisfaction your
lordship's report of the gallantry of those of her officers
and men who were engaged on this occasion, and I have it
further in command, to desire that your lordship will con-
vey to those of her officers and men who were unfortuately
wounded her deep sympathy with their sufferings.—l have
the honour to be, my lord,
" Your lordship's obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " PANMIIRE.
"Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8., &c."
By Order,
(Signed) J. SnarsoN, Chief of the Staff.