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SPORTING INTRTLIGENOM

TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY.

In the early part of the afternoon business was re-
markably dull. Towards the close the backers of the
favourites for the Queen's Vase stimulated it into con-
siderable activity. For this event 2to 1 wag taken and
offered about Rataplan, 5 to 2 taken freely about Ouls-
ton, and 3tol to some hundreds about Chicken. The
Tumbler opened at 4 to 1 taken, but 6 to 1 was easily
obtained afterwards.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(Fom the Times of this day.)
The unfinished debate has been resumed under cir-
cumstances which at first sight offer an unwonted de-
gree of novelty in the elements of the question. For
nearly a twelvemonth, whatever the phases of a nego-
tiation which the public at large scarcely followed, the
war has presented an almost unvaried tenour of unpa-
ralleled preparation, difficulty, and sacrifice. All at
once we seem to be reaping the fruit of our long exer-
tions. The mist seems to be vanishing from our eyes,
and we discover how much we have been befooled by a
crafty foe. We enter the Sea of Azoff, we discover it
to be navigable, and we capture or destroy immense
stores collected on the faith of our Western stupidity.
We march up and across the Tchernaya, and find neither
entrenched armies nor clouds of Cossacks, but an open
country before us. Other obstacles have yielded to our
courage and perseverance, and it is now evident that
the Black Sea and the whole region about it, are quite
at our mercy. Dues this, however, make any real dif-
ference in the question ? Not to us. The Russians
may take what view of it they think fit. They may, if
they so please, now submit from a naked necessity to
conditions which a month ago would have had some
shadow of grace. They may, if they choose, now avert
an impending catastrophe which a rnointh ago was! at
least distant. The case of the Allies, however, is not
materially changed, for they have long shown that pre-
sent success, or the absence of it, does not affect their
stern determination. They have made it their business
to secure at any cost the liberty of Europe, and they
will not desist, either for ill success or good success,
until that object is effectually attained.
But, though there is nothing in the changed aspect of
the war to affect the tone of the British Legislature,
for the cause of truth and the honour of our country
we are gratified to notice one improvement in the de-
bate. Even those who spoke in favour of Sir W.
Heathcote's amendment last night did not follow
Mr. Gladstone's example in selling the honour of two
noble nations, the argument of Christian charity, and
every great consideration that could be dragged into
the debate, for the mere purpose of assailing a Minis-
terial position. Lord Elcho, one of Mr. Gladstone's
usual supporters, thought it necessary to express the
great pain he felt at the tone of that gentleman's speech,
as diametrically opposed to the universal feeling of the
country, which hie lordship himself expressed briefly by
saying that the shortest way to peace lay through the
breach of Sebastopol. In this country we tolerate much
licence and forgive many excesses in the political de-
bater. A year hence, perhaps earlier, it will be for-
gotten that Mr. Disraeli availed himself of the question
of peace or war to lampoon the diplomatic career of
Lord John Russell. But we doubt whether the singular
line Mr. Gladstone has selected will be so easily for-
gotten, or regarded as anything else than an unmitigated
scandal. In the face of all Europe, with the knowledge
that in a few hours his words would be reported to
every hostile or wavering Court, and that the more pre-
cious grains would be picked out from the alluvial de-
posit of his harangue, lid deliberately reversed all the
characters of the quarrel. He assigned to Russia the
pacific and conciliatory part. He pronounced the proper
objects of the war attained, and our present prosecution
of it unjust, wanton, aggressive, vainglorious, immoral,
inhuman, anti-Christian, alike guilty and unwise,
tempting the justice of the Almighty and provoking the
wrath of Heaven. Russia having, as he said, done all,
and even more than could be expected from her—
having now, with great sagacity and great wisdom,
from the sound application of the principles of common
sense, and, in this case, he hoped also of Christianity,
surrendered all her ulterior claims—he proclaimed that
we are now merely playing the game of brag, fight-
ing for prestige, insisting that more blood must be
shed, more human souls dismissed from the light of day,
more desolation be carried through Christian families
and Christian lands, in order to satisfy the demands of
military fame. He affirmed that England and France
had violated the received maxims of justice, and com-
mitted a downright dishonesty, by flying, as he said
they had, from tha terms they originally proposed to
Russia, and meeting her concessions with outrageously
insulting, and humiliating demands. He threw upon
them henceforth all the responsibilities of the war.
Twice he attempted to sow the seeds of distrust between
us and our allies, first by intimating that we may be
driven to a war of nationalities—in which case, he said,
we should have to fight alone—and then by a bitter al-
lusion to the French occupation of Rome, which, to say
the least, cannot be more disagreeable to Englishmen
than Austrian domination. Thus, according to Mr.
Gladstone, the Western Powers of to-day are the Russia
of yesterday—as violent, fraudful, unscrupulous, domi-
neering, dangerous to the peace of the world, and liable
to the vengeance of Heaven ; while Russia is now a
meek, submissive, contented, rational, humble-minded
Christian State.

Of course, it is not to be denied that a case might pos-
sibly arise to justify such expressions. A man might,
unfortunately, belong to a country as utterly lost to all
sense of humanity and justice as Mr. Gladstone describes
England and France at this moment • and in that. case,
of course, he would do well to take warning from
Mr. Gladstone's prophetic denunciations, and t'o fly
out of the object of mankind's just abhorrence, and of
Heaven's gathering indignation. Every man may
have to say, "I love my country, but C love truth
more," even though few will be quick to think
that time near. What "hideous" national crime,
then, has imposed on us the terrible necessity of
denouncing our own country to its enemies and
rivals, warning off her possible friends and abettors, se-
parating her Allies, and marking her out alone, un-
friended, hated, and accursed even by her own children,
for the vengeance of Heaven ? Happily for the patience
of our readers, we are not to go back very far for this.
We are not to go back to the origin of the war, nor yet
to the sailing of the expedition, nor to the entrance into
the Black Sea, nor the landing in the Crimea, nor the
siege of Sebastopol, nor the instructions to our plenipo-
tentiary, nor the first of the Four Points, nor the se-
cond ; for in all these matters Mr. Gladstone not only
stood by, but also took part Nor was it a crime agamet
man and God to insist that Russia shou'd submit to such
a limitation of her power in the Black Sea as should be
necessary for the independence of Turkey. In all this
Mr. Gladstone assented and assisted. Where, then, do
we arrive at the point where everything changes, and
Russia stands at the right hand eff Heavenly justice, and
we at the left ? We proposed an appiication of the prin-
ciple simple and obvious enough ; indeed, to most minds,
a natural consequence of admitting the principle of
limitation at all. However, Russia rejected it. She
then proposed her applications, both of which would
have left her at liberty to maintain a fleet of any force.,
in the Black Sea, constantly overawing the Turkish do-
minions on its shores, and ready at any moment to
pounce down on Constantinople, with no other qualifi-
cation of this substantial power than that Turkey
might have a treaty right to protest against the Russian
fleet entering the Bosphorus, or, as that was not ap-
preciated, England and France might keep as many
ships as they liked in the Black Sea. As'to the former
of these securities, the power of saying "No" would be
but poor artillery against twenty sail of the line ; and
as to the, latter, we were not likely to keep a fleet
of that force always standing sentry over Russia
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tremendous
themas Mr. Gladstone lately lau;:nhed against his coun-
try and her allies. Because we ditnot straightway
acquiesce in that sensible arrangement, accept it as a
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all that is odious in the eyes of man, and abominaiple in
the sight of Heaven. Therefore, all the miseries of the
war will now rest on our shoulders.
It is possible Mr. Gladstone and some of his more
zealous supporters may feel all this, and believe all this.
out for:, we are
ourrhere
It is_ possible that this paroxysm of indignation against
his country and all the enemies of Russia may have
arisen naturally, and without any other exciting cause,
out of his surprise and grief at our rejection of the very
gracious terms offered to us by the clemency of the
Czar. It is possible that the accident of Mr. Gladstone
having been in office at the time the Four Points were
constructed, and out of office when the Russian applica-
tions of the third point were declined, may have nothing
to do with the present ebullition. The people of Eng-
land, however, we are persuaded, will reason that, even
supposing Mr. Gladstone to entertain a conscientious
conviction that Turkey would continue quite safe and
independent with 20 Russian sail of the line in the Black
Sea, and 200,000 men within a day's march of the Prin-
cipalities—even supposing this, that gentleman must
have his patriotic, or rather anti-patriotic emotions, and
his moral and religious sensibilities very much at com-
mand,
the
if he can raise such a storm of them against
his former colleagues for feeling rather nervous for
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Judgment our ministers have deemed a Russian proposal
insufficient which might have proved sufficient, Russia
herself is to blame for the discredit, and suspicion, and
misgiving, and dread with which her proposals are re-
garded. Who else has made the prejudice that surrounds
her ? But we are quite sure that the people of England
and their representatives in Parliament, even if theygive
Mr. Gladstone credit for a conscientious difference of
opinion, will have no sympathy, no respect for the tem-
pest of objurgations and imprecations he raised against
the very cause of which a few months since he was one
of the constitutional leaders. They will set it down as
something between the rant of the fanatic and the trick
of the stage actor, or simply as a very bad attempt to
" bear" the political market, and they will be prepared
td Vaiscount" rather heavily any future exhibitions of
the kind,

(Pro,:? the Times of this day.)
If there be one poaitjon more thoroughly ridiculous
than another at the present moment it is that of a respec-
table patriotic German. A great contest is actually going
on, if not on the eve of decision, in which Germany is far
more deeply interested than any other country, and yet
from that contest every German State stands aloof.
France and Engand are threatened, as it were, from a
, distance, but Germany is the Cossack's next meal. If
we may venture to continue a very common-place meta-
.

phor for a sentence further, we would say that the cloth
is already spread, and the great northern epicure is ready
to take his place at the table. The only reason why
grace has not been said—grace is always very emphati-
cally said upon occasions of this kind—is that Herr
Hermann's two next door neighbours object to the pro-
ceeding, a little on poor Hermann's account, but far
more upon their own. It is true we are fighting the battle
of Germany, but the conduct of the very metaphysical
and slow-moving inhabitants of that country •has not
been such as to inspireus with any particular enthusiasm
in their cause. How can you feel respect for grown men,
with ample beards, who sit at home in blessed security,
smoking indifferent tobacco over their stoves, while the
blood of other nations is poured ont like water in a
struggle in which they are primarily concerned ? They
may save their skins, they may live to smoke infinite
tobacco, and to absorb infinite Liebfrauen milch, and
Bavarian beer ; but they have foresworn the dignity of
manhood. In their case, at least, Russian aggression is
no dream. The German Courts rule the German people
with a rod of iron. The Russian Court rules the German
Courts with a rod of gold, which will soon pass into one
of steel. It is idle to say that the political action of the
country is only the action of the Governments, and that.

the liver of every true German turns white within him
as he thinks of the degradation which such Sovereigns
as the King of Prussia have brought upon the German
name. The Governments are those which the nations of
Germany prefer or tolerate--they are the acknowledged
representatives in the eyes of Europe of the various
States, and by their action must the character of the
people be judged. Of what profit is it to the world that
young and enthusiastio members of the Hurschen interest
roar out catches upon the liubjeot of " Freikeit," that
grave professors exhaust their ingenuity in long treatises
and historical abstractions, that in all questions of art
the Germans are a highly cultivated race—what is all
this to men who are engaged in a death grapple, in which
the Germans should have taken their share, and from
which they have most meanly abstained?
The very argument which has been so repeatedly..
urged by tho German Courts in favour of their nensrality
is the very one which tells againstthem with the greatest
force. Why should they engage in a war ? Why should
they add to the number of the combatants, and contri-
bute their quota to a general conflagration ? The
answer is obvious. Had the great German Courts
from the first thrown their weight into the scale
in favour of that cause which they themselves had
acknowledged to be just and right, there would
have been no war at all. The Czar would have
drawn back before the armies and fleets of Europe.
Nothing less would have averted a contest. A Quad-
ruple Alliance would have saved the effusion of a single
drop of blood or the burning of a single cartridge. The
Russian ruler was better acquainted than we were with
the nature of his interest at the various German Courts,
especially at that one which has served him with such
desperate tenacity of purpose to the last. The Russian
has been well served at the German Courts ; he has not
thrown a rouble or a diamond snuffbox away. Again,
by a series of dexterous matrimonial alliances he has
converted Germany into a kind of nursery-barrack for
the Romanoff family. The Grand Duchy of Peruke-
heim cannot be stirred into action because the interest.
ing Grand Duchess Marie Feodorowna is a "scion" of
the Imperial House. Is not the Dowager Empress a
sister of that King of men who reckons the Great
Frederick among his ancestors? Can you enter any
little trumpery German kingdom or duchy without
stumbling against a Petrowitz or Paulowitz ? The
unctuous Chamberlain, and the sly "Legation's Coun-
cillor," who endeavour to pump your very thoughts out
of your brain, are mere valets of the Russian Chancery.
The police agents have been carefully secured in the
Russian interest. In fact, turn where you will in Ger-
many, the wind blows everffrom the East. Either by
well-conceived marriages, or by bribes and intrigues
with the Ministers, or by courtesies and favours showered
upon the leading families, the Czar attains his end, which
is to paralyse the action of the German people, and to
convert them into the blind instruments of his will. So,
let them wait until his schemes are further developed
and the frontier can be advanced nearer to the Rhine.

All this is humiliating enough, but, in strict justice,
it should only be applied to the governing caste and their
agents. The blame which properly attaches to the
middle and humbler classes is, that their influence upon
the action of their rulers is so feeble that they can-
not compel them to save the national honour.
In 1848-49 they could meet in noisy conclave at Frank-
fort, rave about Schleswig-Holstein, and throw away the
game of liberty, while their bands were filled with trump
cards. When it comes, however, to any rational scheme
for bettering their political condition, they are as tame
and dull as so many flocks of sheep. One would have
supposed that such a point as the destruction of Russian
influence throughout Germany, and the restoration of a
native policy, was one worthy of an honest struggle.
One would think that a man endowed with any reason-
able degree of foresight might have predicted the conse-
quences of such a change upon the growth of political
liberty throughout Germany. Had it not been for the
terrible weight with which St. Petersbil `as pressed
upon every German capital, the stipulatioNin favour of
German liberty attached to the treaties of 1815 would
not have remained a dead letter. As it is, the Russians
—if we are not much mistaken—will ere long be de-
prived of everything they sought to retain, save their
authority at the German Courts. Why should we seek
to benefit men who will neither help us nor themselves?
The Germans have left us to bear the evil day alone, and
now the best thing the Allies can do is to leave them in
quiet fruition of their Olympian repose. The only por-
tion of the population for which we retain much sym-
pathy is the peasantry. The best advice we can give
them is to escape with all convenient speed from a
country in which it is vain to look for liberty, prosperity,
or honour. In the ranks of the allied armies they may
fight the battle of their country, and fulfil a nobler des-
tiny than playing the tedious game of soldiering in a
horns garrison, or assisting to swell the pomp of a review
for the amusement of their despots. Is the once warlike
youth of Germany never to leave the parade-ground, but
to grow old, generation after generation, in practising
mimic war, in preparation for a mighty blow which its
rulers will one day strike, but only at the remaining
liberties of their people ?

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE 4.

The vacant Trinity Scholarship was this day awarded
to Mr. Hamilton Sabine Pasley (fourth son of Sir Thos.
Pasley, captain in the Royal Navy), from Cheltenham
College. At the same time the Hampshire Exhibition
was assigned to Mr. Edward Saxon Richards, from St.
Peter's College, Radley.
The principal alterations in the Free Statute to be
promulgated afresh in Congregation on Wednesday next
are tbe reduction of the fee on the B. A. degree from
81. to 71.
,10x., a modification in the fee for the M.A.
degree, when taken by the present Bachelors of Civil
Law ; a reduction of the fee on the Degree -by Diploma
from 211. to 101. 10s. ; a reduction of the composition
for keeping the name on the books, together with a pro-
vision that such composition shall take place through
the College, and an insertion of a clause reserving the
rights of the registrar and the clerk of the schools. The
only alteration in the statute for conferring degrees on
persons in the colonies is a distinct requisition that the
exercises required shall be the composition of the person
transmitting them.
The Vice• Chancellor has given notice that a Congrega-
tion will be holden on Saturday next, the 9th inst., at
2 o'clock, for the election of a Head of a House to be a
member of the Hebdomadal Council, the voting for
whom will commence at 2 o'clock and will terminate at
3 o'clock. Forms of papers for voting will be supplied
to each college, and may be obtained on the day of elec-
tion in the Apodyterium.