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over again warned the Government that Kertch and your to place the Government in the hands of a man
Anapa were the strategic points, as their occupation of some honesty, patriotism, and ability. Such a man,
would cut off communication between the European and uniting Moldavia and Wallachia into one State, woul.l
Asiatic armies of the Czar, and would prevent all reinforce- in five years have rendered them wealthy enough to de-
men and materiel from reaching the one, and nearly all fend their interests against intrigue, and strong enough
resources and provisions from reaching the other. In to resist invasion. That, after all, is the territorial
proof of this we ask, who offered the stoutest re- harrier to which we must look to oppose the incursions
sistance to our men upon the bloody heights of Alma ? of Russia on Turkey in Europe, and the Porte or its
We answer, the ex-garrison of Anapa, brought across allies can adopt no more effectual means of defence for
the straits without interruption from our cruisers, when Turkey than to give the principalities a vital interest is
the very first announcement made by a contemporary, the preservation of its independence,
on the part of the Cabinet, that the expedition to the
Crimea was about to take place. On the other hand,
we spared Odessa ; and we ask, who headed the attacks
at Inkerman and Balaklava ? We answer, the corps of
Osten-Sacken and Liprandi, brought through that very
town of Odessa, and supported from it, having been re-
leased for that purpose by the treasonable arrangement
made with Austria for the occupation of the Principali-
ties, and the withdrawal of the Turkish army to embark
for Eupatoria.
By the way, we may observe, en passant, that those
double external lines, of which Eupatoria formed the
base of one, were totally contrary to the rules of war,
and we now find that some slight returning,* dawn of
sense has induced our leaders, at last, to withdraw the
great mass of Omer Pashas army from that point, in
order to reinforce what mast now be the main attack,
that upon the height above the Tcbernaya. This by the
Wew
We pointed out some days ago, and must now repeat,
that the great sufferings of our army during the winter
months, when our men lived upon rations of raw pork
and unroasted coffee, and were left totally nnsupplied
with fuel to convert either of those materials to proper
food for human beings, and when consequently. our hope-
less invalids, sent from Balaklava to Scutari, amounted
to the frightful number of 1.000 per week, exclusive of
those, perhaps, more fortunate soldiers who were buried'
where their tents stood—all this, we repeat, was occa-
sioned by the successful operation by which Liprandi,
on the 25th October, seized on the command of the
Woronzow-road, and threw us back from our only line of
communication upon the hills and valleys of mud which
intervened between the trenches and the harbour.
Now, we assert that that army of Liprandi could
never have held the ground—so useful to Russia,
so fatal to us—for a single month, had the means of
procuring supplies from the Sea of Azoff been cut off,
as, according to all ordinary strategy, they should have
been, anterior to the arrival of the expedition before
Sebastopol. In fact, the whole of our misfortunes,
and the whole power of the Russians to sustain the
siege for eight months, is attributable entirely to this
fatal omission. •
We have been induced to enter upon this long resume,
in order to point out to our readers who are the parties
that should be held accountable for all this calamity.
We say that the blood of our soldiers cries from the
ground, and must have satisfaction. We proceed to
point out how this satisfaction is to be procured.
As each and every one of the operations which
we have detailed as essentially necessary must have
been performed by the agency of, the fleet, it is
obvious that the channel of communication between
the Cabinet and the admiral must have been the
First Lord of the Admiralty. We say the Cabinet, be-
cause the omissions we refer to were fully as much the
omissions of Lard John Russell' and Lord Palmerston
as they were the omissions of the Duke of Newcastle
and Lori Aberdeen ; and the measure which should be
meted to the one should be meted to the others. Be-
fore Mr. Roebuck's committee Sir James Graham
stated that the First Lord of the Admiralty possessed
the power—apparently irresponsible—of superseding the
public instructions given to the admirals of our fleets by
private letters ; that those private letters were impera-
tive, but that in no case was the admiral to be permit-
ted to produce those private communications in his own
defence, although bound to obey them. Now, we say
that neither King nor Kaiser ever possessed a greater
or more objectionable authority than this, and the exer-
cise of it by the late Cabinet through the First Lori
should be probed to the bottom. Unless this be done
we shall never arrive at the truth. An opportunity of
doing so existed during the Sebastopol committee, and
Admiral Dundas admitted that he was in possession
of despatches of a secret nature, and it was in the
power of the committee to bane had them bad they so
chosen. True, however, to their instincts and habits as
"independent members" in the present Parliament
(those instincts and habits being always to come to the
rescue of a so-called " Liberal" Government, howevbr
unconstitutional their proceedings), the managers of that
committee, upon consideration with closed doors, decided
against availing themselves of the only possible mode of
examining into that inquiry— which they were appointed
and expected by the public to investigate thoroughly.
We verily believe that these secret despatches from
the First Lord to our admirals contain the whole of
, those treasonable arcana by means- of which our fleets
have been baffled in the Baltic, while millions of money
and thousands of men have been sacrificed in the Black
Sea.

LITERATURE.

The Newcomes. No. XXI. By W. M. Thackeray.
Another instalment of " The Newcomer" will
bring its readers within a month from the time of its
completion, by that double number which com-
prises not only the concluding chapters of the serial
novels of our day, but with those chapters gives us
also, in a bnuch together, frontispiece, title-page,
preface, inelex, and dedication. Although we hat e
arrived at so brief a distance from the inevitable
end of Mr. Thackeray's last magnum, opus, *r,
must still acknowledge ourselves altogether at fault
as to any reasonable conjectures about the denoue-
ment. We cannot call to mind any fiction in which
the ultimate fate of the principal character is more
completely hidden, not only from view, but from
the mere possibility of anticipation. After reading
twenty-one numbers of the work, we approach thu
close of the second volume without the Eintest no-
tion of what may be the purpose of the novelist as
to the secretly blended, but apparently dissevered,
destinies_ of his hero and heroine. We know per-
fectly well, that the last day of this present month
o
I June must bring us number xxii., and that
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labyrinth. -
A very considerable advance has been here made
by our author in the development of his story of
The Newcomes, as may be readily understood after

the enumeration of the following circumstances—
circumstances related in the four chapters now

offered to our examination.

It will be found from

the present number that Rosey has presented a
ittle son to Clive ; that the Bundlecund Bank is at
ast seriously rumoured to be in jeopardy; that

The house meets again to-day to investigate these
matters ; and we ask, has no man the courage and pa-
triotism to demand that the admirals be called to the
bar, and their secret instructions read publicly to the
representatives of the nation ? Until some such step be
taken the public will vainly demand the punishment of
the real offenders—those who ordered the immunity of
Odessa and prohibited the occupation of the Sea of Azoff.

(From the Times of this day.)
Although the conference at Vienna has now been
brought to a formal termination, and the propositions'
which have been discussed there by the plenipotentiaries
of Europe, with more or less success, must be comi-
dared altogether in abeyance, we see no reason to desist
from the opinion we have more than once expressed,
that it is both just and expedient to take such mg/sures
as may be in the power of the Allies to restore &littled
and permanent form of government in the Principalities
of the Danube. The war may last an indefinite period,
and may lead in other respects to results we cannot at
this time foresee, but it is monstrous to act as if two
vast dependencies of the Ottoman empire, peopled by
four millions of inhabitants, and enjoying every element
of prosperity except peace and good government, should
be left in this deplorable condition, outraged by
foreign occupation, and oppressed by the most venal
of governments, until the Western Powers and the
Czar have settled the;r disputes. Russia has been
driven from the Principalities, and they are nomi-
nally restored to the authority of the Porte,
which is represented at Bucharest by the Hos-
podar, Prince Stirbey. We really are at a loss to
discover the motive which led to the restoration of this
personage at the very time when the influence of the
Western Courts ought to have had some weight at Con-
stantinople. Upon Stirbey's return to Bucharest he
retained in office the very men who had most actively
served the Russian party during their occupation. He
expelled several members of the national party without
cause from the country, and every kind of abuse con-
tinues to be committed under his authority. The
Porte, urged by the British Government, sent a Pasha
to report on the condition of Wallachia ; at the same
time, delegates of the provinces were sent to Constanti-
nople to represent the grievances of the population. The
report of the Commissioner was highly unfavourable,
and an order was given to remove Prince Stirbey, but
means have been found to defeat this measure, and he
still continues to retain his power. The Russian party
among the Boyards of Wallachia is influential, but by
no means numerous. The injuries inflicted by Russian
invasion on the country are too recent and too painful
to be bought off by a few decorations and bribes. The
Principalities have learnt to regard the Russians as their
worst enemies, because they know that the origin of
these incessant inroads and occupations lies at St.
Petersburg. Nevertheless, the reigning Hospodar,
even after his restoration by the Porte, is entirely in
the interests of Russia, the newspapers o : Bucharest
are not allowed to contain an illusion hostile to Russia,
and even the recent articles in the Moniteur on the con-
duct and objects of the war were not suffered to appear
in Wallachia. The other day one of the Boyards, who
had been appointed to investigate certain charges of
corruption against the administration of the Prince, was
disgraced for having presumed to comment on the fraudu-
lent entries in the public accounts. It is notorious that
large sums of money voted for the construction of roads,
for the maintenance of schools and hospitals, and other
public improvements, have been appropriated to very
different purposes. Meanwhile, the condition of the
country continues to be deplorable. Hopes had been
entertained that the exportation of corn by the Danube
,in neutral ships would be permitted, but we have recent
intelligence that the whole trading flotilla of the Greek
merchants which had been sent up the river for this pur-
pose has been stopped by the Rusasian batteries on the
Bessarabian shore. So much for the Russian promise
to Germany to adhere to the second point, which secured
the free navigation of the Danube I The Austrian occu-
pation is, in fact, a protracted subversion of legal autho-
rity in the country, for the only military objects it could
serve have been long since accomplished, and the troops
remain there, not for the protection of Turkey, but for
the oppression of their fellow-Christians by means which
cause even the Mahomedan yoke to be regretted.
We say that this is a state of things which need not
continue, and which ought not to continue. Its existence
can only serve the purposes of the Russian or the revolu-
tionary party, but every other Power has a common in-
terest with the people of the country in the restoration
of a permanent and respectable form of internal govern-
ment. We do not believe that the undertaking would
be as difficult as has been supposed ; and it ought to be
the more readily performed, as the agents of Russia have
no ostensible right to interfere at all in the matter. The
treaties which gave Russia that right of intervention are
by common consent, and by the effect of war, at an end.
It becomes the duty of the Porte, as the suzerain of these
provinces, to provide suitable and permanent means for
carrying on the government, both with a view to rid the
country of the burden of a foreign occupation, now alto-
gether superfluous, and to maintain that authority to
which the provinces look for theprotection of their inde-
pendence. It is undoubtedly true that, but for the tie
which connects these States with the Ottoman empire,
they would long since have been absorbed by Russia or
ben a s traetveer reverted o
f d for
by Austria. That is the best justification of their some-
what anomalous connection with the Porte, for it gives
them the security of a large empire for the defence of
their territory, while they have the advantages of a small
State for the purposes of self-government.
The prospect of a fresh invasion of the principalities
by Russia is extremely remote and improbable. It will
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Fred Bayham comes out rather magnificently as a
mob-orator ; that the hero and heroine meet one
fine morning at old Mrs. Mason's ; that Sir Barnes
is ignominiously rejected (after a severe contest) by
his quondam constituency—his fortunate rival, the
chosen colleague of Mr. Bunco in the representa-
tion of the borough of Newcome, being no other
than our dear old paragon the Colonel. The in-
cident of the number, however, has yet to
be mentioned. The reconciliation, that is, of
Clive and his father after a miserable interval
of estrangement. During all which interval
they have scarcely dared to speak to each
other—both of them growing, meanwhile, at
heart, and at last, in appearance, more and more
distressed at the other's wretchedness. Their re-
conciliation is effected this wise :—the Colonel,
hipp'd and lonely, is smoking his cheroot sorrow-
fully late one night before an expiring fire at his
Inn in Newcome—on the table at his elbow a glass
of cold negus and the ashes of his tobacco—think-
ing in his sadness that his cup must be wellnigh at
th dregs. When Clive, candle in hand, comes into
the sitting-room, and both start—each seeing in the
other's face a look so very sad, and worn, and pale.
" God bless me, my boy," cries the Colonel, "bow
ill you look ! come and warm yceirself—look, the
fire's out ! Have something, Clive ?" " For
months past," says the narrator, " they had not
had really a kind word. The tender old voice
smote upon Clive, and he burst into sudden tears.
They rained upon his father's trembling old brown
hand as he stooped down and kissed it. You look
very ill, too, father,' says Clive. ' 11l ? Not I!'
cries the father, still keeping the boy's hand
under both his own on the mantelpiece. Such
a battered old fellow as I am has a right to
look the worse for wear ; lut you, boy, why do you
look so pale ? " I have seen a ghost, father,' Clive
answered. Thomas, however, looked alarmed and
inquisitive as though the boy was wandering in his
mind. The ghost of my youth, father, the ghost
of my happiness, and the best days of my life,'
groaned out the young man. ' I saw Ethel to-
day.' " And so they pour out their hearts to each
other, with all their secret burthen of regrets and
unuttered sympathies. Till Clive, speaking of
Ethel and his destiny, cries out—" There was my
Fate. Praise be to Allah. It is over." And the
old man, in anguish, wrings the hand of his sou
and says " Mashallah ! Clive, my boy—What is
done is done." And so we leave them again, those
manly and gentle hearts—father and son—united
as of old—when they part for the night at the
doors of their adjoining bedrooms. Every word i
this scene—simple and true throughout—brims our
eyes with a pathos exquisitely beautiful. But
the humorous in its turn is not wanting withal
in the present number of The Newcomes.
For example—when in the postscript of a letter
from Ethel to Laura, the former writes, by the
way, "They have put up a dreadful caricature of
B. in Newcome : and my brother says he did it,
but I hope not"—Arthur Pendennis, laying down
the letter (which he is reading) exclaims in amaze-
ment, "He says he did it ! Barnes Newcome
would hardly caricature himself, my dear." "He
often means—means Clive—l think," says Mrs.
Pendennis, in an off-hand manner. " 0 ! he means
Clive, does he, Laura ?" " Yes—and you mean
goose, Mr. Pendennis !" that saucy lady replies.
There, indeed, lies the secret of our bewilderment
as to the denouement—the love being the same as
of old with Ethel and Clive, so that the only escape
for them both seems to be through the fortunate
accident of little Rosey's death some day ! How-
ever, let us leave the happiness of both, with impli-
cit credence, in the hands of Mr. Thackeray—
looking forward yet, through good and evil to
some joyful close to The Newcomes.

BATH AliD WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SO-
CIETY.—TIVERTON, Tuesday.—The exhibition of this
association opened with the trial of implements, which
commenced on Monday and terminated this evening.
There are more implements exhibited this year than on
any former occasion. The trial of the ploughs on the
light and heavy lands was as successful as the weather
(which was exceedingly wet) would permit. The imple-
ment yard will be opened to the public to-morrow, and
so also will the cattle yard, which is well stocked with
prime cattle from the western counties.
THE PENSIONS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.—The finance
accounts, just published, gives the following as the "an"
nuities" of various Royal personages charged on the
Consolidated Fund of the -United Kingdom, viz :—That
of the Duchess of Gloucester, 16,090/. • the King of the
Belgians, 50,000/. ; the Duchess of 'Kent, 30,000/. ;
Prince Albert, 30,0001. ; the Duke of Cambridge,
12,000/. ; Princess Mary of Cambridge, 3,0001. ; the
Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, 6,000/. ; and the Prin-
cess Augusta of Cambridge, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, 3,0001.
DOVER SAILORS' HOME.—The foundation-stone of an
appropriate building destined as an asylum for sailors,
was laid yesterday at Dover by the Right Hon. E. Boos
verie, M.P.; Vice-president of the Board of Trade. The
ceremony, which was well attended by influential per-
sons in the locality, went off very satisfactorily. Mr.
Bonverie took the opportunity of remarking upon the
great dangers to which sailors are exposed on shore, and
alluded to the valve of such institutions as this in coun-
teracting them. In the report of the directors mention
is made of the exertions of the Rev. W. Yate in origi-
nating the institution. The building is to be erected on
a freehold, presented by the Harbour Commissioners.z
Two-thirds of the amount required for its erection have
been obtained, and the directors appeal to the public to
make up the remainder. A bazaar for the sale of ladies'
useful and ornamental work in aid of the funds now
raising for building the home will be held in the autumn.
The Duchess of Norfolk, Countess Cowper, Countess of
Hardwicke, Countess Talbot, Countess of Winchelsea,
Viscountess Chelsea, Dowager Viscountess Torrington,
with many others, have
kindly consented to become
patronesses of the bazaar.
FUNERAL OF JOHN Bnoomm.
this once celebrated member The mortal remains of
mb
yesterday deposited in er of the sporting world were
their final resting place at Nor-
wood Cemetery. The melancholy cortege moved from St.
Martin's-lane at two o'clock, the friends of the deceased
assembling in large numbers ; some well-known gentle-
men from his native town of Birmingham; Messrs. Wat-
ling and
Ellis,
of London • sporting gentlemen from
Leicester,
and many of the Provincial towns were in the
procession. Connected with his early profession might
be seen Ward, Caunt, Richard Cain, Dismore, Harry
Adams, &c., and as the coffin was lowered into its final
resting place, there were not many dry eyes for one
who in life had many friends, and whose abrupt and
mournful departure disarmed all prejudices and created
an intense feeling. He rests in the ground purchased
by his brother (Henry Broome), whose manly sorry
awoke deep sympathy ; it is opposite the tomb of the
late Tom Spring, who was the first to recognise the
qualities of the deceased, A monument, ,isrorthitof
character in the ring and high social qualities, WAS 1100.1,a.
mously resolved upon.