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at Kingston Lacy, Wiznbonrn Min-
ster, Octavias Elizabeth Banker, youngest daughter
oft
Hon. Geo. Bankes, M.P., aged 2?
On hnD h .
inst., at Eaton-square, Charles De Laet
eOrt: the Right
reiglelht64t, ht
ha inst.,
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Waldo Sibthorpc, Esq., of Canwick House, in the county
of Lincoln, and Pottrells, Hertfordshire, Colonel of the
Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, and for nearly 30 yearn
0130 of tho representatives in Parliameat for the city of
Lincoln, aged 73.
On the 17th inst., Thomas Greenslade Whitmore, Esq.,
seymour.place, Wandsworth-road, aged 56.
On the 17th inst., at South Hackney, Mr. Richd. Rogers,
aged 56.
On the 16th inst., at Hastings, Captain Richard Turner,
R.M., aged 77.
On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Miss Emma Curoton,
aged 30.

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LAST FEW DAYS.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
c ffects.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
teasing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the visitors no ono can be positive that he sees any
One thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the eom-
I any ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of

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the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability. -
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged an .1
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
las been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
las at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
"effected skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every elime ; secondly, that he has
tpared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
'who honour him with their presence, he has not forgetten that
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjurer's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.

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ON TRUE c FALSE SPERMATORRU(EA,
with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
Heal Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wde-spread
Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From 'he German
of Dr. PICKFO}tD. With an Introinction by the Editor, containing
a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued
by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are
credulous enough to seek their aid.

The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
lessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
heatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
Ittend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and
I.is illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
I ose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
ler Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
Communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, ho would least have expected to have
leen converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Evers
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions o
sphit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th _
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
nblic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to We
multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
names of the great and learned of the land should
I ave been made to figure in the documents emanatine
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
Nat Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
thoroughly nonplussed. Both of those noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
F olution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
s ial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of tho
above, has recently left England, and the following account of
who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
I,e bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
said honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 2e), an or-
'than, and in very had health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
leis life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
lie inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--does spiriterapping gain or lose b}
this accession to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse
went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more
to be negotiated I Professor Anderson would believe not ;
hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
it swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev. N; J. Godfrey) positively assorts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
diforning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
33avid Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day
however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
'who was present when ho and Lord Brougham had their
s4ance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship'.
light hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
*subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
bas actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall.
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual
lets of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
ugglers.
In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
'visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
abort a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
'mg, the programme being continually changed. Grand
:fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, December 22, at
'2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
he air.
Act 2. The Aqua-A.vial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
-of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
complex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies: or, Puck's Own
Pocket Bock, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; or, tho Casket of Creesus. Into
'which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
a Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; sr, the Novel Wine
and Spirit Store. An improvement upon. the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, ruin, whisky,
noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally
proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-raPpiug table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Es g
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will be produced.
cot. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shestest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. lie. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; galkvy, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, mules the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Raturday, December 22, at 2 o'clock. Doors opus
at Lalf•past 1.

" Dr. tic uoru 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi-
sed contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
-me, he informs as, that ho has addressed himself to the noa-medi-
sal reader. We trnst this may not be the last, if he shah ,etect ens
do..ir equally. flocrant evil which ft may be his p .her to cor-
rect." —London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet sympathieers,'
trul ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book
amid find its wv Into the hands of those who sall,o- from the com-
siaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that miiny hundreds would
oe saved mach needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
.555 Importence, though it is that which the iituclts most prize-
much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
mottles.] system of treating Spermatorchna, and ,o place the treat-
moat upon a more rational and physiological basis. it is, therefore.,
likely to do much good."
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The transport Diligence, with stores from Pembroke,
and the merchant ship Reaper, leaky, from Newcastle,
with coal for Constantinople' arrived at Plymouth on
Monday. The Vixen and Rhadamanthus, both fur
Woolwich, sailed therefrom on the same day.
The Queen of the South steam transport, Capt. Beale,
will embark detachments of troops to the number of 800
and upwards at Portsmouth this morning for Malta.
On her last voyage she took out a great quantity of 13-
inch shell and shot, which she brought home again—
why has not been explained. She carries out to Malta
a good store of warm clothing for the troops there.
The Hydaspes steam transport, Capt. Buller, will go
into Portsmouth harbour this morning to land invalids
and stores. This ship also took out from England on her
last voyage a great quantity of shell and shot (amount-
ing, it is said, to 600 tons) for the Crimea which was
never landed, but, after straining her very much, she de-
posited it at Malta on her return home.
The Zebra steam transport, Capt. Betts, left Ports-
mouth early yesterday morning for Deptford.
The Conflict, 8, Commander Brown, left Spithead
yesterday for Plymouth.
The William Hammond, convict ship sailed yesterday
morning from Portsmouth for Swan River, and was to
touch at Plymouth.
The Colossus, 81, Capt. Robinson, in the basin at
Portsmouth, was paid wages yesterday, and her crew
granted leave.
The Charger gun-boat, launched from the yard of
Messrs. Pitcher, of Northfleet, has arrived at Woolwich,
and will be immediately placed under the hands of the
riggers. The gun-boats Sandfly, Lieut. B. G. W. Ni-
colas ; Plover, Lieut. Stewart ; and Seagull, Lieut. Mon-
tagu O'Reilly are now ready for service in the outer
basin, and will leave Woolwich during the week for
Sheerness.

The Ist battalion of the Swiss Legion arrived in the
Great Britain at Smyrna on the 2d cf December, but,
as it was Sunday, they did not land ; Monday was a
pouring day, ansi so they continued oa board till Tues-
day. They are a fine looking set of men, mostly Ger
man Swiss. The Colonel (Dickson) is a fine, young,
active man, and familiar with all the three languages
spoken b his corps- French, German, and Italian.
The old Turkish hospital is given up to the sick of the
Legion, and one or two cases of smallpox occurred
among them before they landed. On the 7th inst. the
line-of-battle ships Princess Royal. Hannibal, Jean
::'Acre, and two steamers, the Sidon and the Sphinx,
anchored in the bay, being part of the Black Sea fleet oo
their v. ay t England.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Cominander J. F. C. Hamilton, to the
Calcutta ; Lieut. G. W. Carter, to the Ariel ; F. R. 11.
Yorke, naval cadet, to the Colossus ; C. S. W. Willis,
naval cadet, to the Duke of Wellington.
Orders have been received at Pembroke dockyard,
from the Admiralty, for the immediate construction of
tour more gun-boats. They are to be built with all pos
bible despatch, and as many men as can well be employs('
upon them will be at once set to work. The Ist of March
ha-, been fixed for their completion ; and, in order to
finish them within the three months, the mechanics have
comutencet working the long hours. The boats are to be
100 feet in length, 22 feet in width, and 6ir feet in depth,
and about 200 tons burden and their draught will be
very slight. Tee Flying Fish gun-boat is the first of
those new building to be sent afloat.
Each of the captains selected to command the gun-
beat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's cam-
paign will have a line-of-battle ship armed en flute, as a
store and depot ship attached to his squadron.
The new plan iron mortar-boat, which lately was towed
to Portsmouth from Birkenhead, has undergone a series of
effective trials within the last few days at Spithead which
have developed its warlike properties. 150 rounds were
fired with 201 b. charges, and many of the rounds in rapid
succession, less than three minutes intervening between
each discharge. The vessel is quite free from any injury
beyond the bulwarks and some of the light framed wood
work on deck. The mortar-bed was considered to be
rather too elastic, and some of the elastic material is now
being removed, and another trial will then take place.
The usual arrivals at Woolwich Arsenal of numbers of
Ordnance craft and barges with shot and shell from the
Government contractor's foundries continue. Among the
several freights landed there are numerous mortars and
heavy guns of various calibre from the Lowmoor and
other works. The monster 42-inch shells have also been
lauded in considerable quantities. A formidable-looking
row of these shells is standing under the wall of the long
storeroom, to the number of no less than 40. The ordi-
nary proof of guns and mortars daily takes place at the
Royal proof butt, and, with the exception of the trans-
port department, there is no diminution in the warlike
preparations in the Royal Arsenal which were carried
out before the capture of Sebastopol. The transport Ilan
binger, No. 186, passed Woolwich yesterday morning,
laden with military stores for the East.

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We have recently Oh several occasions drawn
attention to the dangerous position which Russia
occupies in the north of Europe. In proportion
as the south is more effectually secured against her
arms the other obstacles which oppose themselves
to the pent-up torrent require to be strengthened.
From the supineness of our War Minister, and
possibly from the jealousy of our diplomatists,
Russia has obtained in the capture of Kars an
advantage which ought never to have been per-
mitted to her, and the loss of which must be re-
trieved, at whatever cost of men or money. We
cannot permit the Power which we have so jea-
lously excluded from the sea road to Constantinople
to obtain an equivalent advantage by land, and to
turn the flank of our fleet by a march through
Asia Minor just when the last vessels of her own
ha-ce disappeared for ever under the waters of the
Euxine.

But, while vigilance has thus unaccountably
slept in the south, we are happy to think that
much greater prudence and foresight have been
exercised with reference to the plans of aggran-
disement Russia has so long cherished in the
north. While the White Sea and the coasts of
that district of Lapland which belongs to Russia
are encumbered with ice before mid-autumn,
that portion of Norway which is within the
Polar Circle is, by a carious caprice of
nature, free from ice during the whole of the
year. The immense depth-of the long fiords which
cleave the coast of this -wild region is, doubtless,
one cause of the phenomenon. The influence of
the Gulf Stream, the waters of which do not wholly
lose their tropical warmth after communicating to
the western side of the British Isles a temperature
so perceptibly higher than that of the eastern, is
undoubtedly another. Be the cause what it may,
it happens that while Archangel is locked up for
eight months of the year in thick-ribbed ice, and
the ports of the Sea of Okhotsk are for the same
period inaccessible, the town of Hammerfest, situ-
ated within the Polar Circle, has an open harbour
all the year round, and the inhabitants, instead of
yielding to the lazy influences of an Arctic winter,
employ the long night in fishing and in hunting.
The harbours of this region are, as we have said,
enormous. Compared with them the mighty bay
of Sebastopol itself is a paltry creek ; a long barrier
reef of islands protects the navigation to the south,
and a voyage—we are afraid to say of how few days
—might transport a fleet from these vast harbours
to the shores of theßritish Islands. It is wonderful
that Russia, while devoting such enormous expense
to the formation of an arsenal and fortress in the
south, should have submitted so long to be
cooped up within the narrow and shallow
waters of the Baltic, and to suffer a blockade
in which ice relieves the efforts of a hostile fleet.
Of late years Russia has awoke to the full import-
ance Of this oversight ; all that the most dexterous
intrigues, the most cautious encroachments,—all
that threats and blandishments could effect, has
been tried on the United Kingdoms of Sweden and
Norway to induce them to cede only so much ap-
parently worthless territory as would bring Russia
within reach of this precious strip of coast. A
fishing station on the Bay of Varanger was all her
modest desire. The Bay of Varanger is forty miles
long by six miles wide, and protected by the Island
of Skogeso, where a few batteries could defy a
numerous enemy. It has two outlets, is only fifty
miles from the present Russian boundary, there is
in depth from five to fifteen fathoms, it abounds in
fish, and affords on its southern side a secure an-
chorage for any number of vessels. It is easy to
imagine how soon the mere fishing station which
Russia so modestly demands would grow into a
naval station, the naval station into a fortified har-
bour, the fortified harbour into a fortress of the
first class, and the fortress of the first class into a
military and natal arsenal, calculated to overawe
Norway and to menace the shores of Western
Europe.
We have great pleasure in announcing that all
these schemes of grasping ambition have, so far
as human foresight can effect it, been completely
frustrated, and as impassible barrier imposed be-
tween the aggressive designs of Russia and her
lodgment on the seaboard of the North Atlantic,
which she has so ardently de-sired.- A treaty has
been entered into between the Western Powers
and the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway,
by which Sweden and Norway undertake, on the
one hand, that they will not cede any portion of
their territory to Russia, and the Western Powers
promise, on the other, that they will guarantee
the Scandinavian kingdoms their present bounda-
ries, and neither permit Russia to encroach upon
them to the _North, nor to sieze, as it is very pro-
bable she might wish to do, the large and impor-
tant island of Gothland. Thus, it may be hoped,
we have succeeded in drawing a line beyond which
Russian ambition shall not penetrate, and limiting
at last that gradual and constant encroachment
which has been for the last hundred years oblite-
rating province after province from the map of
Europe, and transferring them from the domain of
civilisation and progress to that of brutal tyranny
and retrograde barbarism.
In such negotiations as these, based on the
strong foundation of mutual expedience, and en-
tered into for the clear and well-defined purpose
of promoting an end thoroughly understood by
both parties, we can place confidence, because they
are founded on the mutual understanding of the
common interest, and the determination to preserve
that interest whole and inviolate. How different
are such leagues from those to which we have been
lately accustomed, where a hollow proposition has
been put forward without sincerity or earnestness,
only for the purpose of being rejected, and only
with the prospect of bringing forward something
that may occupy for a moment the attention of
diplomatic circles ! We know not whether this
proposal may be followed up by any more exten-
sive form of alliance, whether it will be deemed ad-
visable by the Western and Scandinavian States
to unite in arms against the common enemy, and
seek to terminate the war by one great and con-
centrated effort on the fortifications of Cronstadt
and St. Petersburg—of this we know nothing ;
but, at any rate, much has been gained by inducing
these States to assume a firm and self-respecting
attitude towards Russia, and by placing what we
may fairly hope is an insurmountable obstacle be-
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of its fondest desire—an access to the Atlantic
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(From, the Morning Post of this day.)
The Western Powers have entered on their
alliance—have gathered their forces--have won
their battles—have seized Sebastopol—have dis-
armed it of its terrors—with certain objects which
England has declared, not diplomatically, but
plainly and straightforwardly, to Austria. It is
Austria, not France nor England, that urges peace.
The terms which those nations have shown that
they are able to win by force—to compel from their
enemy—they are not likely to stoop to solicit from
a foe which has brought on itself as a punishment
of the grossest duplicity the disasters under which
it now suffers. Much less are England and France,
strong as they are in the feeling of their peopleh
and in their resources—flushed
of success—likely to wait on the char=
which has
depend from the course of a Government
ties of truth
fairly shown itself to be free. fromonthe conscience of
and principle usually biilibneg
pushed on with the
empires. The
war willquarter where war is pos-
utmost vigour in every
the less will be launched
Bible. Not a gun-boat
has left for St. Peters-
with thethtraitummpay
silent from its busy
hammer will be
burg not a
"on of the result of his mission.
work in expectation
ourselves in anticipation of the
Far froth crippling
t *an intervention, we shall
beneficial effects of Austrian because Prince
t the preparations now actively
push to the utmost
attacking the enemy by land and by
in fort© for
irresistibly, so soon as the spring shall set us
sea,
free.
Our Baltic fleet, much as, it has done for the
Ester hazy
ruin of Russia, has hitherto done little to satisfy
the country. The Russian fleet has declined the
dangerous honour of meeting our English ships.
Secure under the shelter of enormous batteries, it
has preferred to boast the inglorious security of its
position to daring a trial with the successors to the
place of Nelson and Collingwood. Cronstadt and
Sweaborg are reported to be impregnable. The re-
port may be true, but an early period of next year
will probably let us know more of the fact. All
this winter while Russia is agitated, if report speak
truly, with clamours for peace, with distaste for
war, and with dread of its effects—while its
over the falsities which it is forced to .use—while
com-
merce laments over its ruin—while its trade groans
an
the mass of its people open their eye's slowlY
sadly to the misery to which a mistaken ambition
condemns them—England and France will be
strong and active in preparation. We shall have a
fleet of gun-boats such as the world has never seen
those strong forts
yet—a fleet such as will command

in which Russia has gathered up her strength, and
in
trust,aherament that
which in conjunction
has,
just returned
from the Baltic, will leave the Russians, that as-
pired to the name of a naval Power, an empire with-
witwhhitclhiatsh neopbulets armament
with-
out a ship—a nation whose fleet had neither courage
to meet the enemy on the seas, nor skill and
strength to skulk under the walls of her batteries
to avoid them in safety. To destroy the Russian
fleet utterly will be our next year's business, and
no exertion will be spared, no nerve will be relaxed
in our preparation for doing this entirely and effec-
tually. The whispers of peace will not again para-
lyse our arms and defeat our purpose. We have
stated the objects that we are determined to gain.
If Austria now obtain the sincere concession from
Russia of those objects, we, at least, shall not quar-
rel with the result. We have no desire to press
heavily on a Power already fallen far below the
limits of her arrogant pretensions—we have no
wish to do more than is enough to secure Europe
against the effects of her inordinate ambition.
We have spoken of Russia hitherto as of a Power
bent on a resistance, desperate to the last—carinc,
little for its cost—little for its hopelessness ; trust-
ing to the distant chance that may arise from the
medley, to save something of its reputation—some
vestige of its dreams of ambition. We may be, we
hope that we are wrong in thus looking on the
future—we hope that a less gloomy prospect may
be nearer the truth—that Russia may have
counsellors with sense and courage enough to ac-
knowledge and to recognise the true condition of
affairs—to see the wisdom of bending at once be-
fore a storm which she has roused, and which she
cannot possibly face, Let the result of this question
be what it may—let us have Peace or War—let
Russi. yield to reason, or resist with folly and
desperation, it is at least a matter of congratulation
to this country to know that no false hopes will
weaken our efforts—that no delusive prospects of
peace will blind our eyes to the necessary exertion
for war. If Russia continue her resistance another
year that date will see her stripped and ruined—
broken probably externally and internally. With
the alliance already formed against her there is uo
chance of contention. She must retreat from the
strides that she has put forward ; she must reline
quish her foreign ambition; she must addict herself
to the domestic improvement of her Empire. With
her forces more or less worsted—with her power
more or less dismembered—now, or a year hence,
such is the fate of Russia.

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