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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1855.

Of the guilty complicity of Austria with Russia
probably no one now entertains a shadow of
doubt. The thanks of Count NESSELRODE to
Count BuoL must have dispelled all the dreams
of Lord CLARENDON, and almost have made Lord
JOHN regret his easy diplomatic virtue. His
superlatively silly pretext for not telling the Hcuse
of Commons of the intention of Austria not to
fight—as if Russia did not know that long before
Lord JOHN did, or as if every man not blinded by
office did not know it without telling—we should
think he can now hardly remember without a
blush. Even the Times actually sees at last what
we proved and prophesied from the beginning of
the war ; and, indeed, before it broke out. Surely
Lord PALMERSTON, and Prince ALBERT himself, are
by this time satisfied of our whereabouts with
Austria. Worthy Lord CLARENDON, whose de-
spatches are so much bepraised, who must be kept
in the Government come what would, because he
alone had the clue "to the admirably conducted
negotiations with Austria "—he, too, must see, if
not blinded with German dust, that ho has been
completely befooled. Two years of much lauded
protocolling what have they ended in ?—in
leaving Austria and Russia billing and cooing
before the European
Public, and Austria's armies
occupying and oppressing the provinces, where
OMER PACHA and his Turks, with
a few legions
of Poles, ought to have been holding the Russians
in cheek, or threatening them in Bessarabia.
Russia declares herself well-pleased to have
Austria in the Principalities ! declares she would
have accepted the terms which Austria and Lord
JOHN would have forced on this country:—(What
then have we escaped !)—and assures Austria
that a Russian army never could have marched
against her, but may again have to march to her
aid Lord CLARENDON'S glorious diplomacy has
issued in rendering almost futile two costly cam-
paigns, and in converting Austria from the secret
into the open ally of Russia. Let, then, Lord
PALMERSTON and the Foreign Secretary confess
their position. Let them openly allow, or at
least acknowledge by their actions, that they have

been imposed upon, either by German influence
at home, or by the duplicity of the Government
at Vi:un Le., them mike _„ c..au brcv,t of it,
and we shall acccept it as the omen of au altered
policy. Every one of our political prophesies in
regard to the conduct of the war have been veri-
fied ; they were scorned by the magnates of the
press and the Legislature at first, were visions,
dreams, revolution, and all that ; they are not
scorned, but adopted now. Few will now have
the hardihood to defend our first supplications to
Prussia, our admission of Austria into the Prin-
cipalities, and our effeminate yielding to her self-
evident wiles. Never were DELILAri and SAMP-
SON better enacted in the political world. Twice
already, while England was reposing in the lap of
Austria, has she bid the Russians be upon us; once
at Inkerman, and once at Vienna. Well for us if we
do not betray to her the secret of our strength,
and find ourselves made to grind at last in sub-
servience to Russian ambition.
We will once more remind our readers of the
true cause of all our disappointments. It is, as
we have ever contended, not so much an Admi-
nistrative as a political one. Efficient Adminis-
tration would have been quickly secured, had the
political aims been honest and earnest. The truth
is, Our Court and our Cabinets have played the
country false. The people went to war to humble
Russia, and to rescue the oppressed nations from
her cruel and enslaving gripe. They were out of all
patience with her everlasting perfidy and her ever-
active ambition ; and they wanted to see Circas-
sia, the Black Sea coasts, the Danubian terri-
tories, and above all Poland, restored to liberty
again. They hated the Russian despot, and any
other despot, but our Cabinet felt very tenderly
for Czars and absolute Emperors, and loathed the
idea of restored nationalities. A mean, a paltry,
a concealed, an unrighteous, political end has
guided all our Governments. To uphold on their
thrones the perjured beings whose existence
challenges the vengeance of HEAVEN itself, and to
prevent the nations groaning beneath their merce-
nary soldiers from breathing the air of freedom
—this was their real aim. They found it neces-
sary not to let the Tartar despot swallow up the
Teutonic-despots, and reduce England and France
to insignificance ; but they wanted still to pre-
serve what they called the honour and dignity of
the CZAR, and of his subordinates ! to let down
the Lord of the Calmucs and Cossacks very gently;
and to keep unhappy Poland well crushed under
him, and Hungary and Lombardy becomingly
trodden beneath the feet of the boy of Hapsburg.
We do not, therefore, and we cannot, trust our
Court and Cabinet. They wickedly refuse to in-
scribe the righteous cause on their banners, and
therefore debar themselves from the energetic ac-
tion and the efficient means which would have
settled the business before now, and which
even now would settle it ten years sooner than it
would otherwise be settled. Consideration for
guilty crowned heads, which had better have
rolled in the dust ten times over than the bodies
of our noble and innocent soldiers, will protract
the war for ever. Consideration of the rights of
Poland, Hungary, and Lombardy would compel
the despots to yield a peace on any terms, or the
result would be a war which would send them to
political perdition, if to no other ; and who among
us would not rejoice to see it ? Europe, since
1815, has been arranged on a system of such
villanous disregard of human rights that nothing
but a political thunderstorm can clear the political
atmosphere. Nations were treated like so much
property, and exchanged and bartered amongst a
set of creatures who talked of rights in the said
property as if nations were made for the aggran-
dizement and pleasure of a few families of
mortals, and mortals who, to say the very
best of them, were no better than their
fellows. They have continued to disgust all
the unfortunate nations they thus appro-
priated, to drive them ever and anon to an
assertion of their liberties (called by Lords J.
IlussELL and PALMERSTON rebellion), and b this
hour, after forty years' opportunity, the rulers of
Austria, Russia, and Prussia are cordially and
bitterly hated by a very large portion of their
subjects.
This hatred is our strength. To use it would
he a simple act of justice to the oppressed. It
would be worth more than hundreds of millions
of money, and would save thousands of French
and English lives. We shall soon now see
~vhether Government is cajoling us or not. Sir
WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S talk of striking a body-
blow at Russia, and the summons hither
of Count LAMOYSKI, ought to mean some-
thing. A short time will prove whether all this
is done to hoax this country or to un-Gerinanise
our policy, and to strike a blow at Russia which
ought to have been one of the first, but which
even now would give our Government such
strength at home as none has had for many a
long year, and such strength abroad as would
make all the despots from the Rhine to the Volga
tremble for their very existence. Of one thing
we are confident—the enthusiasm infused into the
war by declaring for a great and righteous prin-
ciple, the cordiality it would create between our
Government and the people, the inspiration it
would impart to the generals and our Ministers,
would make them all new men. There seems,
hitherto, to have been a wonderful lack of genius,
but if there be one thing which can supply its
Place, one thing which has a hundred times over
in the world's history created it, that thing is a
high, a holy, and a righteous cause. Battle for
the liberty of the crushed would regenerate all.

The " Modern Babylon" exhibits many phases
of roguery. Those who do not mince matters,
and call things
bynaiing
their right names, speak of
"theft" or
swindling"—_others o
mere
follow
rethe
euphreis-
tically term it "appro
precedent of the immortal
" Convey, the Wicsaeticitiecnalt;,who said—
They all, however, are applicable to the same
proceedings—to the various modes by which in-
genious, but not very moral, persons
purses at the expense of their fill their
innocent neigh-
bours, who chance to have more money than wit,
and offer themselves as willing victims to the
spoilers. Ring-dropping and other time-honoured
forms of " appropriation" prevail, notwithstand-
ing the unsparing denunciations of the pub-
lic journalists. We still hear of " yokels" who
yield implicit credence to the benevolent-looking
man who is desirous of applying his loose
cash to tli9 best purposes, and wishes to ob-
tain the valuable services of his "verdant"
friend as an agent in the distribution. Some
" security" is, however, necessary, and the kind-
hearted man so far resembles the late AUTOCRAT
as to prefer a "material guarantee"—a, bond fide
deposit of hard cash—as the test of respectability !
We shall not speak of " skittle sharps," or of
other talented "conveyancers." Even the higher
flights of "banking" genius shall remain unnoticed.
We aim at the very highest of all—at a Govern-
ment (Gon save
first-class the mark !) represented by a
firm,--one that would have nothing to
do with anything less than six places of figures,
in which " hundreds of thousands," if not mil-
lions, of pounds were involved. Buenos Ayres
cannot be brought up before a " worthy Magis-