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London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

THIS EVENING,

The grand irppodramatic Snectacle called, ENGLAND and
FRANCE In the DAYS of CHIVALRY; or, the Brothers In Arms.
Real arm our, ponderous material, des 'crate encounters in the Tour-
ney. Ring and ,tage combined in one !

After v: hick those matchless entertainments invented and ar•
ranged by Mr. William Cooke, the ACTS in the CIRCLE.
Box••odice (Ten trom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting %Inna-zer. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, inn.

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57—:owest this morning and during the night.
73 —this day, at noon.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1855.

DAVID said " in his haste that all men were
liars," but our Government officials pronounce all
Administrative Reformers liars, not in haste, but
after ample time for inquiry, and after being
fully equipped with documents by their PETER
DICKS. The latter genus, however they may
prefer a trip to Greenwich to their official duty to
an English merchant, work willingly enough, no
doubt, to help their masters to prove the new Re-
formers liars. A clever dodge this "liar" one, to
be sure. Set a man down for a liar in England,
and we are happy to say his influence is gone. Irish
blarney, GLADSTONE Jesuitry, JOHN BULL heat,
and professional special pleading, all manage to
elude the fatal condemnation, or to obtain forgive-
ness ; but—and may it never be otherwise—the
conscious and convicted liar may as well hang himself
at once for all the comfort and reputation he is ever
likely to enjoy again. Brand, then, these plaguey re-
formers for liars—so thought the officials, the
Colonels, and the Admirals—and we have done
for them. The office scribes and Pharisees went
gladly to their work ; never was anything done
more con, amore in Downing-street for years. We
verily believe that even overtime was most cheer-
fully given by the gentlemen of the quill, and
many au hour substracted from the study of the
Times, or from whistling and spirting the ink
about, to write Messrs. LAYARD and LINDSAY
liars.

It was, too, no doubt, with lightsome steps that
Messrs. PEEL and WOOD (names happily signifi-
cant of the depth and intelligence of the performers)
tripped into the House of Commons on successive
evenings to perform their grateful task. We
can see them gleefully showing the red-tape
packages to the eager Treasury-benchers—" Liars,
gentlemen—these l ow Administrative Reformers—
liars all of them ! in an hour or two we will hang
these MORDECAIS higher than HAmAN himself,
on their own gibbet." First, then, the PEEL with-
out the WOOD tried its strength. Mr. LAYARD,
however, was no slier easy subject for the execu-
tioner. Every speaker was compelled to admit
his main case to be thoroughly proved, and even
to adopt the Austrian policy of siding in words
with the cause they hated, in order to get Reform
(like the Principalities) into really hostile hands,
under pretence of embracing it. Air T
.uAYARD's
great lie, too, was proved to be a great truth, ac-
companied by an insignificant and unavoidable mis-
take. It turned out that Mr. LAYARD was
merely ignorant of a written, not a printed regu-
lation, and one of which half the army itself was
ignorant, in virtue of which Lord lIARDI2fGeS son
got his last promotion for nothing, in accordance
with unknown rule. But it turned out that the
son of the General Commanding-in-Chief had re-'
ceived his two former promotions in defiance of
known and printed regulations. That the nepo-
tism of Lord RARDING; in fact, strained out I

Mr. LAYARD'S gnat, but swallowed his own
camel !

PEEL having failed in everything but illustrat- i
ing the difference between a genius and a bore, 1
between honest substantial truth and the carpings
of red-tape, on Friday last—WooD, the proper
representative of the wooden walls of Old Eng-
land, had his benefit. He performed on Drury-
lane, though in the House of Commons. Mr.
LINDSAY had told great lies in the renowned
theatre—he had desecrated the sacred temple
of fiction—he had caught the genius of the
place when there on an object foreign to
it—he went to tell hard facts—but he in-
dulged his fancy in a new comedy—" the
Admiralty." Of course comedy was all right
enough in Drury-lane, but to act so well that the
Admiralty by LINDSAY was taken for a picture of
reality—this no doubt well deserved the hottest
wrath of Admiral BERKELEY and his AJAX. In
its wonted numbers, when the spree of baiting are-
former is to come on, the House assembled ; LIND-
SAY was to be dubbed liar for ever; inconveniently
for WooD, in each case admitting such proof, the
documentaryand other evidence was unassailable.
It could not after all be said that LINDSAY lied.
Well, the next best thing must be done ; all the
absurdities laid to the charge of the Admiralty
must be shown to be only seeming absurdities. He
was a gross ignoramus or a liar, which of the two
he of the Admiralty cared not, and Mr. LINDSAY
also must be further hauled over the coals about
his management of his private business, and his
commercial integrity.
The First Lord of the Admiralty seemed for the
night almost to have gained his point. Mr.
LINDSAY, by the laws of the debate, could not
reply ; but for the remembrance of the mistake
about baiting LAYARD, no doubt LINDSAY would
have enjoyed a large share of the well-bred cour-
tesies in store for those who venture an exposure
of official incompetence or nepotism. To this day
Mr. LINDSAY has not been able to make a breach
through the forms of the House where he can
reply to his opponent. Unable to do this, he (un-
like some other combatants) takes the field, and,
by a letter to the daily press, gives a sample of
the rejoinder he has in store for Sir CHARLES
WooD. We do not like to ask, " Who is the
liar now ?" But we are entitled to say
that Sir CHARLES WooD has, in the language
of Dean SWIFT'S islanders, most undeniably said,
" the thing which is not." He did say that " the
European" was rejected by the Government, not
for any of the unhusiness-like reasons assigned by
Mr. LINDSAY, but because she had not the Go-
vernment requirement of 'fft. 6in. between decks.
Mr. LAYARD, supported by a letter from her
owners, proves that her height in the 'tween decks
is 'i-ft. bin. ! While the Oneida to which Sir C.
WooD referred in contrast, and which was actually
employed by the Government was 6ft. 4in. !
Here then the country now asks, in a case which
can be measured by a foot rule, which of these
two Honourable Members is guilty of saying " the
thing which is not ?" Within the same
category is Sir C. WOOD'S assertion that the
Columbia refused to come to Deptford "to be
fitted." It is proved to the comprehension of a child
that the owner could not have, nor had he, any
objection to that, as his ship would be on pay if
accepted, and he could feel no concern whatever
in the question where she was to be fitted. The
owner objected, he himself says, to spending a
thousand pounds in bringing her to Deptford,
there perhaps to be rejected for some such valid
reason as caused the rejection of the European.
Hero again, beyond all controversy, " the thing
which is" was salt' by Mr. LINDSAY in Drury-
lane, and " the thing which is not " by Sir C.
Wools in the House of Commons. Other similar
things we leave for the present. Sir C. WOOD is
yet to hear them to his face.
As to the disgraceful pendant to this dis- I
graceful affair—the attack on Mr. LIND-
SAY'S management of his private business,
begun in the saturnalias licence allowed to
Mr. DRUMMOND, and tediously but malig-
nantly expanded by Sir C. WOOD—setting
aside the probable untruth, we think the whole
country will join in reprobating such—we must
call it—wickedness. At the hustings the candi-
date expects to hear such gibes from the lowest of
the low ; but the member of Parliament hitherto
has supposed himself secure against such low per-
sonality in the House of Commons. Let our
family Cabinets take care. Two can play at this
game. If they encourage, and indeed lead attacks
of this kind on public opponents, their own pri-
vate transactions may become also a part of the
reported debates in Parliament, and perhaps aris-
tocratic members would come off but second best
in a conflict with middle-class members, in which
their respective morality and private business
management were the weapons selected. We
only ask, in conclusion, whether any of the family
compact would have been driven from the house
to the press for want of an opportunity for vin-
dication.

There is a manifest desire in many quarters to
shield Austria' from the natural consequences of
her paltry quibbling, contemptible evasions, and,
in the desire to tall things by their right names,
we will add disgraceful mendacity. It was with
such a feeling that the veteran LYNDHURST
" spared the rod" which he might have applied
with so mush effect, administering only a lenient
parental castigation quite inadequate to the mis-
conduct of the offender—and that Lord CLAREN-
DON deprecated any condemnation, declaring that
the " proceedings with Austria do not justify
censure !" It is time that he qualified this opi-
nion by the rather unnecessary addition, " nor
can they occasion praise !"—a truism that cannot
be controverted in any country in the world, more
especially in Great Britain, whose Ministers have
been so completely overreached and scandalously
deceived by that wily Power.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that there is
some concealed influence in operation, some mys-
terious protection accorded to Austria, which has
produced this extraordinary and inopportune
sensitiveness. The simple facts so lucidly de-
tailed by Lord LYNDHURST, and which could not
for a moment be denied by the Foreign Secretary,
would have warranted the strongest remonstrances
—nay, more, the most emphatic reproaches for
the base duplicity or shameful vacillation—to use
the mildest terms—of Austria. Lord CLARENDON
admits that the English Cabinet was completely
hoodwinked by that of Vienna. He said—" We
certainly thought that the negotiations at Vienna
would either lead to the restoration of peace or
secure for us the active • co-operation of
Austria." The one-sided treaty of the 2d De-
cember could not receive any other interpretation
from any persons who reposed the slightest con-
fldeince in her professions or promises. We were
not of the number ; and, from the very moment
of the publication of the terms of the much-
vaunted compact, we cautioned Ministers, Parlia-
ment, and the people against forming hopes that
would never be realised. But neither the
ABERD RZN nor the PALMERSTON Administrations
formed, so accurate an estimate of Austrian dupli-
city z Ind insincerity. They anticipated either
" the restoration of peace, or the active co-opera-

tion of Austria." They have obtained neither
the one nor the other. On the contrary, the
negotiations have proved abortive, on account of
the obstinate refusal of Russia to entertain pro-
posals of which Austria approved, and
which, according to Count BuoL, at the last
Conference but one, "contained a com-
plete and efficacious system." Yet Austria
wriggled out of her solemn undertaking, and did
not think herself bound to take an active part in
the war ! Of this Lord CLARENDON declares that
he need hardly say that such was not his view of
the engagements which were entered into by Aus-
tria, or of the fulfilment of the treaty. He thus
admits that she has violated the word of promise,
if not to the ear, at least to the hope, and yet he
does not consider that her " proceedings justify
censure !" Nor does he appear disposed to adopt
any measures to obtain the removal of her troops
from the Principalities, into which they obtained
an uncontested admission by false and fraudulent
pretences, and which she should not be permitted
to retain a single hour after her declaration of neu-
trality and the disbanding of her troops, so as
to leave Russia at liberty to concentrate
all her resources in the Crimea, to destroy
if possible the Allied troops now stationed before
Sebastopol. If she is to maintain a neutrality,
let it becomplete and unequivocal, without any
partial violation connived at by Russia for her
own purposes. Let not any excuse be afforded for
her after calling upon France and England to
take up arms in behalf of a Power whose selfish
meanness they heartily despise, and whose dis-
graceful mendacity they unequivocally condemn.
The 1, ery excuses put forward on behalf of
Austria only serve to render her the more con-
temptible. They may be briefly summed up as
follows :—That because her territories were con-
terminous with Russia, and, because she was of
all others the most interested in repelling the
Muscovite aggressions, to which, if continued,
she would be one of the earliest, if not the earliest
victims, she should, therefore, let others fight
the battle essential to her own security, and not
draw the sword unless obtaining large subsidies
in men and money from the Western Powers : or,
2dly. That she hoped before she could be
called on to redeem her pledges that sufficient
progress would have been made by the Allies to
render her assistance uncalled for ! If she pos-
sesses not the power she alleges, if oven when
supported by France and England she dares not
brave the wrath of Russia—let her abandon her
untenable and arrogant pretensions and sink into
a safe insignificance, and let her withdraw from
the position which she has been suffered to as-
sume under a very different state of affairs.
As to the Second Point, that her expectations as
to the successes of the Allies in the Crimea
have not been verified, affords no apology
for her breach of the contract she entered into
for good or for evil, and should, if she hoped
to retain any portion of reputation, fully carry
into practical effect.

One conclusion may safely be drawn from these
premises—that we should cultivate our friendly
relations with France and Sardinia, and at once
and for ever shake off the leaven of Germanism,
nor look further to Powers from whom no real
aid can be obtained so long as it may be in any
degree useful or entail the slightest amount of
risk or inconvenience on the nation from which it
is required.