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London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

may get off before our troops get to the scratch.
A single day's delay may impose the necessity of
sending troops to the Tcheterlik, where the fugi-
tives could easily be intercepted, every road to
the Isthmus being commanded, there is a glorious
opportunity for the Generals to show the stuff of
which they are mad•, and t• render the conster-
nation of Russia decisive. We hope it may not
be- neglected or misapplied.

The hour of success is also the hour of danger.
We do not, indeed, fear imprudence on the part
of our Generals; they have hitherto rather shrunk
from heavy risks. The danger is at home. If our
Generals aid Admirals recei►e orders to clear the
Crimea of Russians from Balaklava to Perekop
before winter, we believe they will do it ; but
our fear is for the effect of ►ictory on the people;
if it lead them to relax their vigilance over their
own Government they may lose in an evil hour
the fruits of all their blood and treasure. While
exulting in the first grand success, the first achieve-
ment to which the Alma, and Balaklava, and In-
kerman, and the Tchernaya were but preparatory
steps ;—while soothed by the retribution which
has overtaken the savage pirates of Sinope, driven
to naval suicide by remorse and cowardice—we
must yet keep our heads cool, and not suffer the
reins to fall from our hands.

Hitherto we have proved true, because honest,
prophets. We take no other credit to ourselves
for having foreseen so frequently and so correctly
the diplomatic and political issues of things than
is due to the instinct of straightforward advocacy
of the nation's views on the War, and the most
rooted hatred to the Germanising and Russia-
sparing policy of our public men. With the vast
majority of the nation, a majority which ought
rather to be called unanimity, we have held that
Russia ought to be humbled and reduced without
mercy. From the beginning our argument has
been that mercy to Russia was cruelty to our
soldiers, cruelty to all Europe, cruelty t• our-
selves at home. For every house spared at
Odessa, for instance, and elsewhere, we main-
tain that scores of English and French lives have
been sacrificed, for the lenity evinced in takiug
the now scouted Four Points into consideration
our army suffered in the slackness of the siege
operations, and in the opportunity gained by
Russia to liberate her troops from Poland. But,
worse than all, there have been traitors in our
camp from the time of ABERDEEN, GLADSTONE,
and GRAHAM to this hour. Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
or his principles on this question, have been and
will be, unless the nation forbids, the curse of
the War. He might have been more willing
than Lord ABERDEEN to frighten Russia, if she
bad not been far too cunning not to see through
masquerade war, but his leading and avowed
principle is as disgraceful to a war statesman as
it has been ruinous to our army and costly to our
finances.

The territory and the dignity of Russia have
been Lord JOHN'S avowed care from the beginning
of the War till his great Vienna downfall. All
the GREYS andßusszus, with their alines, have
shared the folly, and, we must say, the political
turpitude, of their leader ; at least so far as we
can gather from their doings and their not-doings,
their sayings and their not-sayings. The whole
influence of the old family clique, backed, we fear,
by the despotic affinities of the Court, has been
directed to conducting the War on the mad prin-
ciple of sparing Russia, so far as the English
people would permit. Think of a MARLE•ROUGH,
or a WELLINGTON, a RODNEY or a NELSON, au
ALFRED or a CROMWELL attempting their campaigns
on such a drawing-I-nom t England's great,
men hitherto have gone to war with but one
idea, that of sparing the enemy nowhere when
they could light upon him. They let him know
that he continued war at the peril of losing
more and more, and losing it irrecoverably, each
year. We believe it to be the height of wicked-
ness t• draw the sword on any other condition.
The bloodshed of war for mere victory, but war not
intended to disable the enemy permanently from
renewing his aggressions, is, we believe, greater
than that of a war which aims by every means at
the latter.

We suspect a Cabinet which dabbled with the
Four Points, and a Cabinet which avows no sym-
pathy with the rights of the nations which Russia
has absorbed, and by absorbing which she has
become formidable. We suspect a Cabinet which
has ignominiously courted the Austrian Alliance,
and sacrificed to it not only Poland but a Polish
legion also. We suspect a Cabinet which has
scoured Europe for foreign soldiers, but has re-
fused the only foreign soldiers whose very name
and banners would have struck Russia with dis-
may. Above all, we suspect a Cabinet in which
Sir CHARLIE WOOD follows Sir JAMES GRAWA.M,
and under whose management the 1311 tic Fleet
has doubled our Income Tax to do next to nothing.
The relative of Earl GREY, the long associate of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a man, too, of confessedly
mediocre ability, could never occupy his all-im-
portant post at the Admiralty but as the fitting
implement for not doing too much. We think
it is now demonstrated that it was not intended
to be too successful in the Baltic. The NAPIER
correspondence has, at least, proved one thing—
that even Sir CHARLES 'WOOD knew how to lay
Sweaborg, Helsingfors, and Cronstadt in ruins,
and has not done it. The autumn exploit at
Sweaborg proved also what could have been done,
had it been wished, at any time this summer.
The requisite means were known, the requisite
means could have been provided in any one of
half-a-dozen iron works in England, but the re-
quisite means were not forthcoming ! The reader
must draw his conclusion ; he may, perhaps,
waver between a verdict of incapacity, or of
design. We ourselves can feel no hesitation.
Whig and Peehte politics; throughout the whole
War forbid us to doubt.

We implore our fellow-countrymen to watch
their Government. Influences from Whig and
Peelite Aristocracy at home, and from despotic
connexions abroad, will spare the great culprit if
possible. Even now that war is throwing its
weight into the scale of justice it will be attempted
to save Russian territory and Russian dignity to
the last. Vienna gave Russia the means in 1814
to attack the liberties of Europe; Vienna will aim
to perpetuate that wickedness. English States-
men are not to be relied on in Germany. The
War must now be pushed till a Peace Congress he
held at London or Paris, or, bettor still, at
WARSAW. Russia must send her Plenipotentiaries
to the capitals of the Allies, or to the capital of
reconstituted Poland ; she must be fined to the
amount of the interest of the debt she
has created in four countries, and of a sink-
ing fund to redeem it. Her revenues must,
after a peace, be employed, not in training her
slaves for fresh aggression, but in remedying the
pecuniary losses caused by her late one. Above
all, her dangerous territory must be taken from
her. The
Crimea, of course, is all but gone
.
already, Bessarabia and eaevceonastssimr uost.
follow ; and ifthiae w
WOOD dares not
deny that Finland must be re-
united to Sweden, and Poland fulfil the duty
which all common sense allots to it.

Sebastopol teaches, one great lesson. That by

throwing her strength into her frontiers Russia
has given up her most terrible defence. CHARLES
X 1 I. and NAPOLEON alike found that her inte-
rior was their ruin. It may be hard work to re-
duce her Crimean, her Polish, and her Baltic for•
tresses, but to carry war successfully into her in-
terior would be the more fatal undertaking.
Sebastopol, Warsaw, and Cronstadt may threaten
Europe, but they also enable Euroge to wear out
and to chastise Russia.

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE AAPOLEON
BO v APA RTE.

Cowls, Sept. 11.—His Imperial Majesty's steam yacht
Ariel arrived here this afternoon when the Prince and
his suite landed.

The Earl of Burlington and Lady Louisa Cavendish
have returned to Holkar-hall, near Milnethorpe, from
♦isiting the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
Lord and Lady Lindsay have arrived at Dunecht-
house, N. 8., from the Earl of Crawford and Ealcarres's
seat, Haigh-hall, Lancashire.

Lord and Lady Cardross, we regret to learn, have
sustained a domestic bereavement by the death of their
youngest son, which took place a few days ago at
Edinburgh.

Lady Mary Wood and the Hon. Frederick Grey, who
came to town on Monday, from Hickleton-hall, York-
shire, left town yesterday morning, for Paris. The
Countess (Dowager) Grey and Lady Georgiana Grey,
who had been staying with her ladyship at Hickleton-
hall, leave there to-day for the north.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the First Lord,
and Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F. Berkeley and
Admiral Richards, Junior Lords, left the Admiralty
yesterday forenoon, by the Great Western Railway, for
Plymouth, Devonport, and an inspection of the naval
establishments in the two districts. Sir Charles and the
other Lords of the Admiralty return to town early in
the ensuing week.

Sir Charlee Morgan, Bart., and family have returned
to Tredegar, near Newport, from a tour of viiiti in
Scotland.

It is understood that a matrimonial alliance will
shortly take place between the Hon. Francis Stonor,
second son of Lord Camoys, and Miss Peel, daughter
of the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel.
Lord Panmure is to pay a visit to the Royal Arsenal,
'at Woolwich, this evening.
The Deke of Somerset has arrived in town from a
cruise in the Baltic. His grace was unable to attend
the obsequies of his father, not having received intelli-
gence of the late duke's demise until he reached the
north coast of ScotTand.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and family are
staying at Buchanan Castle, N. 8., and do not return to
the south until the second week in next month.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly are enter-
taining a select party at Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The noble marquis and marchioness, with their youthful
family, were present to receive the Queen at Aboyne, on
Friday last, when her Majesty passed through, en route
for Balmoral.

The Earl of Carnarvon, the Countess of Carnarvon,
and Lady Gwendoleen Herbert have joined the select
party •t Eggersford, Devon, visiting the Earl and Coun-
tess of Portsmouth.

The Earl and Countess of Roue, we regret to learn,
are plunged into grief by the death of their second son,
the Hon. Wm. Wilmer Parsons, whick took place on
Friday last, at Brighton, after a long illness.
The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith attended the
Cabinet Council on Monday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Inchiquin has returned to Dromoland frogs:
Brussels, after a visit to his brother, William Smith
O'Brien, Esq.

CRYSTAL PALACIL—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tuesday,
Sept. 11.—Admissions on payment, 10,656 ; ditto by
season tickets, 623 ; total, 11,284 ; corresponding day
last year, 8,759.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days
ending September B.—Number admitted, including sea-
son ticket bolder,,, 52,899. Amount received for ad-
missions, 2,9381. lls. 3d.

The Minister of State, as a special favour, has allowed
M. FeHelen David to cause some of his musical works
to be executed at the Conservatoire. The first perform-
ance is to take place on Friday.
The greatest activity prevails in the dockyard at Roch-
fort in the construction of the Redoubtable and Intro-
pide, screw 90-gun ships. The former will probably be
launched in October next.

THE ITALIAN VINTAGH. The satisfactory appear.
ance of the vineyards in the province of Asti and Ales-
sandria has lately led to a reduction of 30 per cent, in
the price of wine, and the glapes themselves are sold at
a low price.
PAPAL DIPLOMACY AT A DISCOUNT.—The Venice
Gazdte observes that the Papal See has no nuncios at
present in Spain, Sardinia, Switzerland, Brazil, and
New Grenada.

Senior Surgeon Chisholm, of the Royal Artillery, has
been appointed to take medical charge of the York dis-
trict. He is now the only remaining Waterloo officer
in the Army and Ordnance Medical Department, and
was on the platform, alone, with the other otFieep on
-
Thur,day 14,,t, co receive the Queen on her _Majesty's
arrival at York, en route to Balmoral,—Yorkshire Ga-
zette.

Mr. Nicholson, organ builder, of Macclesfield, has
met a singular death. He was in the act of " voicing "
or "sounding " a pipe, and applied his ear to it, when
from some cause or other, a splinter flaw out, entered
his ear, and gradually penetrated to the brain ; after
three weeks' illness he expired, suffering great agony.
MILITARY BARRACKS AT DUNFERRLINE.—Robertson's
factory has been leased by Government, and is to be
fitted up as a barrack. The place, which is walled in
all round, and at a distance has rather a military look,
would, including mill, weaving shops, and hackling
shops, be capable of lodging a whole regiment, and_
cou!d be turned into the purposes intended at very little
cost.—Ediabitrgh Courant.
THE HON. F. H. BERKELEY.—We regret to learn that
our respected representative, the Hon. F. H. Berkeley,
has met with an accident which deprives him for a time
of the power of writing. While in the act of raising a
window the pulleys gave way, and the sash descended
with such violence as to fracture the bone of his right
thumb. Medical aid was immediately summoned, and
two surgeons attended the honourable gentleman and set
the bone. The pain and irritation, however, consequent
upon the accident, we are sorry to add, brought on a fit
of gout —Bristol Mercury.
Tne Spa of Buxton is at present full of company. Or
Sunday afternoon the Rev. Dr. M'Neil, of Liverpool,
preached in the open air. The rev. gentleman took his
stand in the colonnade of the Crescent, and preached a
powerful and eloquent sermon to a large and attentive
audience.

THE WILL OF THR LATH ABBOTT LAWRENCIL—BeItidO3
numerous private gifts, the will of the late Abbott Law-
rence bequeaths 130,000 dollars for public benevolence,
as follows :—The Lawrence Scientific School, 50,000
dols. ; for building model lodging-houses, 50,000 dols. ;
Bi,ston Public Library, 10,000 dole. ; Franklin Library
in the city of Lawrence, 5,000 dole. ; American Bible
Society, 5,000 dole.; American Tract Society, 5,000 dole,;
and Home Missionary Society, 5,000 dole. One-half of
the net rents of the lodging-houses is to be annually di.-
tributed to various charitable institutions in Boston, and
the other half is to accumulate in order to constitute a
fund for keeping the lodging-isouses in order.
Lieut. A. Campbell, of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
eldest son of Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blythswood,
at present serving with his regiment in the Crimea, was
wounded on the 22d ult. by a piece of shell which struck
him in the face. The wound, we understand, is not of a
serious description, and his parents have had the sati-,
faction of receivingaletter from the young officer, written
by hi. own hand, assuring them that such is the case.
FIUNGARY.--Fieid-Mar-bal Count Nugent was attacked
on the 23th ult. with cholera, while at his country house
of Susika, and on the following day he received the last
'acraments. Letters from Fiume, the Hungarian port
in the Adriatic, however, state that he afterwards ral-
lied, and that his physicians now declare him to be out
of danger.

The Peninsular and Oriental Royal West India Mail
and General Screw Companies have arranged with the
Electric Telegraph Company codes of night signals, by
xhich the arrival of their different steamers is commu-
nicated to the Telegraph Station at Hurst Castle, situated
at the entrance of the Solent Sea, and by that means
intelligence of these steamers is conveyed to London and
Southampton in the dead of the night, two hours before
the arrival of the ships at the latter port. When a
steamer arrives off Hurst Telegraph Station in the night
a gun is fired from it, which awakens the telegraph clerk.
Lights, differtntly arranged, according to what corn-
' pany the steamer belong., are then hoisted on board the
steamer, and as soon as the telegraph clerk has recog-
nised them he hoists a light which informs the captain
that his signal has been seen ant understood. The sig-
nal is hoisted on board and understood on shore while
the steamer is in motion.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
at
to
gold, gives
80
about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the
Lon-
don. aErndglish Mint price of 31.175. 101 d. per ounce for stand-
:exchange
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which,
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P 011 London at short being 25.19' it follows that
ambune the price of gold is
the English Mint price of 31.
17s. Aid. per ounce
xcohr standard gold, gives an exchange
short being 13.4,
it
follows
at Hamburg on London at
dearer in Hamburg thanorne that gold is 0 59 per cent.
at New York on
LondonL ()on. The course of ex-
changesight is 110 per cent. ; and,t for bills at 60 days'
England and America being 10e 19r230-f4exchange between
23-40 per cent,, it fol-
lows that the exchange is nominally
favour of England ;and,
after making
0.42 per cent. in
ng allowance for
interest, charges of transport and difference of
the pre-
sent rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold
from the United States.
NEW FOREST.—Ten thousand acres of land in various
parts of the New Forest are about to be planted. About
70 acres of the New Forest were sold last week bet the
Government, and fetched about 231. 10s. an acre. The
land sold is on the outskirts of the forest, and is covered
with furze. It bas to be fenced by the purchasers.
Among the numerous inventions which are being
shown at the French Exhibition, the portable press of
M. Racrueneau has particularly attracted the attention
of the Emperor, who has watched the working of the
machine with much interest; and on his last visit with
the Queen of England their Majesties both expressed
their satisfaction at witnessing the process by which any
one can produce as many copies as he pleases of writings,
circulars, musio, drawings, &c., with the greatest
facility.