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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1855.

It is said that the Mother of the AUTOCRAT
has recently addressed a very urgent letter to the
Mother of the German EMPEROR, reminding her
of the assistance afforded by Russia during the
hour of Austria's trial, and imploring that she
will in return make " Austria continue to main-
tain the propositions already proposed by her at
the Conferences of Vienna, and approved, accepted,
and defended by the English and French
Plenipotentiaries." There •is a verisimilitude
about th©
rumour that induces us to
yield it
an easy credence. It seems to be consi-
lered by despotic rulers that the interests of the
nations are matters of secondary consideration,
and quite subordinate to the wishes and feelings
of the members of the
reigning families. Royal
marriages are contracted solely with this view.
We have seen already some of the results in the
conduct of Prussia, where a decisive and straight-
forward course on the part of pimmit
ICK WILLIAM
would have brought the War to a speedy conclu- I
sion, and restored peace and tran • •
quillity to
Europe. But although " nations may
have
cousins," despotic monarchs are differentl no
y cir-
cumstanced, and " the good Clicquot," the
Angel of Peace," as the person whose va •
ating
imbecility occasioned the destruction of myri •
ads
of human beings, and protracted all the miseries
of war was irreverently termed, preferred sacri-
ficing the honour and ' •
position of his country to
thwarting the imperious will of his brother-in-
law, or preventing his nephew from pursuing the
footsteps of PETER and CATHERINE, Of ALEXANDER
and of NICHOLAS, and carrying out the traditional
aggressive policy of Russia.
Thu curtain has now risen on a second act of
the drama. We see one elderly lady writing to

another resp acting a subject of the most vital im-
portance to humanity, on which the very stability
of the Austrian empire may depend, as if it were
a mere village question, only affecting the
neighbouring squires, and in which the garru-
lous old women of the respective families
might properly intermeddle. The Empress-
Mother of Russia would doubtless think it very
strange if the Austrian Archduchess should
reply that it was a subject on which she could not
possibly interfere, and that, however friendly
might be the private feelings of FRANCIS JOSEPH
to ALEXANDER, it could not affect a great ques-
tion of international and European interest, or
exonerate Austria from the performance of sacred
obligations which she had solemnly and delibe-
rately undertaken. In Russia the will of the
Monarch is supreme. It knows no limits. She
herself could assail her son with solicitations—to
which theAuTocßATmight yield if he thought proper,
and she sees no reason why the Archduchess should
not act in a similar manner ! Nor is there ! It
is one of the incidents of Germanic as well as
of Muscovite despotism, and we fear that other
and no less striking illustrations of the objection-
able system will yet be brought to light.
The request of the Empress-Mother contains
more than meets the eye at the first glance. It
is not merely for " neutrality"—that has already
been secured at the sacrifice of Austrian consist-
ency and Austrian faith. It seeks more—
something analogous to the aid supplied by Russia
in 1848—a direct and energetic demonstration,
supported by physical force ; and we confess that
we should not feel greatly surprised if it were
successful. Austria must feel that she has placed
herself in a false position—that she has earned
for herself the indignant contempt of every right-
minded man. She cannot, under the pecu-
liar circumstances of the case, maintain
neutrality ; and as she has broken with
the Western Powers, and as it is merely in accord-
ance with human nature to hate those who have
previously been wronged, we should not feel greatly
surprised if she openly joined Russia. And, we
confess, that we should not be greatly displeased
if such were the case, inasmuch as we believe
that her avowed enmity would be far less danger-
ous than her pretended friendship. She will
do so—if not restrained by timidity. We
have always felt and declared that we owed
much more to her fears than her good will,
and that were it not for the considerations ex-
cited by the talismanic words " Poland, Hungary,
Lombardy," we should long since have had to
encounter Austrian as well as Muscovite troops.
Wo have hinted that there may be a third act
of the drama, that " other and no less striking
illustrations of the objectionable system may yet
be brought to light." The third act may possibly
relate to " COBURGISM." We have seen that the
ULYSSES of the House of Coburg, who
owes everything to his connexion with
the Royal Family of England, has main-
tained a very suspicious reserve ; from which it
it is manifest that he thinks more of the existing
ties that connect him with Vienna than of those
with which ho is bound to England. If he were
really sincere, why might he not have acted in the
same manly and straightforward manner as the King
of SARDINIA ? He has not done so, although the
position of his Kingdom might have rendered it
DO less a matter of policy than it ought to be
of principle to do so. On the contrary, we have
had his visits, in which it is by no means impos-
sible that he may have been acting the part of
the Empress-Mother of Russia, in striving to per-
suade one closely connected with the Throne to
use unconstitutional influence in favour of Russia
and of Austria. Such things are possible ; and, if
brought to light, they may not be very favour-
ably received by the British nation.

In our impression of yesterday we alluded to a
rumour that the Black Sea Fleet is about to be
made available for active operations against Se-
bastopol, aid that the plan which we suggested
last as to a combined assault by sea and land is
at length to be carried into execution. We trust
that it may be so. From the very beginning we
indicated it as the mode by which a brilliant
triumph might be achieved. But little, if
anything, has yet been done. And since the first
day of the bombardment, more than nine months
ago, our magnificent fleet has, so far as Sebas-

topol is concerned, remained mere idle spec-
tators of the siege. It was always held by Lord
NELSON that where there was space for an enemy's
ship, there was always room alongside for an
English vessel ; and, we may add, that if there
be a way left for the Russian ships to get out,
there would also be a channel for the Allied
Fleets to get in !

Sir EDMUND LYONS is one who, if unfettered
by secret instructions from " My Lords," will
nobly and efficiently do his devoir. The gallant
sailor—and he is every inch a true British sailor
—must bitterly chafe at his forced inaction. He
already, on the Vith of October, afforded unequivo-
cal evidence of the stuff that was in him, and, we
believe, that in such a course as that above suggested
he would be enthusiastically followed by every officer
and man in the English, aye, and in the French
fleet. He got within a few hundred yards of the
chief forts, and he could, without greater danger or
greater loss, have got in and taken measures to
destroy the scanty remainder of the Russian fleet
in the harbour where they were skulking. Had
they done so there might have been a very
different result on the 18th of June. The
Russian
war-steamers could not have ma-
nceuvred with so much effect, or thrown in
so destructive a fire against the assailants
of the Malakhoff and the Redan ; and Sebasto-
might ere this have been in our hands ; and the
standing menace to Constantinople and to Europe
either completely demolished or held by the
Allies as " a material guarantee" against Russia.
At Bomarsund last year it was shown what a
combined operation by land and water could
effect ; and the great problem of wood v. granite
ceived a very decisive solution. -Why has not
the experiment been repeated ? If it were, we
are convinced that the result would be equally
satisfactory, that the resources of the garrison
being divided, there would be a victory at each
point, where either singly might fail.
It
is quite certain that the Russian ships
I could not, under such circumstances, direct
their fire against the assailado ntstobtyaklae rencda,thofatthm,
theye
would have quite enough to
selves without any diversion to the landward.

When this feasible attempt is made—when
Sir EDMUND LYONS is permitted to follow
the dictates of his own gallant heart—to seek for
" a Peerage or Westminster Abbey,"
we shall
be satisfied that the Government are determined
to carry on the War in earnest, and that there is
no longer any prospect of truckling to Austria or
of subserviently
yielding to the interference of
Coburgism or
Germanism. It is only surprising ,
that such a step
has
we are convincedthas t niot ti
sanl roetatdhye
fbaeuelnt 0 tfaokuernA.
dßmui
.t
ral. Let it nowbe taken. Let the course we indicated
nearly a year ago be followed, and we have but
little doubt that the result will be such as we
satisfactory to
lung since predicted, and entirely

every true-hearted Englishman and Frenchman—
every one, in faot, untainted by the pro-Russian

mania.

A place unmentionable to ears polite is said to
be paved with good intentions. The saying may
be true or false, but in the happy absence of ac-
quaintance with the topography of the locale in
question we may say, by way of confirmation of
its truth, that analogy would lead us to believe
it. With the best meaning in the world, there
are many individuals who, unintentionally, do
their best to annoy, impede, or render miserable
everybody about them. In the domestic circle,
in affairs of business, in the Church, and in the
State their virtuous intentions are hardly to be
gathered from the tendency of their actions. For-
tunately, however, it sometimes happens, by a
merciful dispensation of PROVIDENCE, that indivi-
, duals of this class while permitted to carry about
with them the bane, are compelled to dispense
along with it, the antidote. They cannot be dan-
gerously mischievous, because it is their fate to be
ridiculous.

How far these remarks are applicable to the
enlightened Legislator who objected to the Beer
Bill being read a first time last night we leave the
reader to determine for himself, simply remarking
that it is not necessary to our purpose that they
should closely dovetail with the particular facts.
The hon. gentleman to whom we refer has, it is
well known, a favourite hobby, to wit, a belief
that " to eat grass like a horse," ' drink nothing
but the ADAM'S specific, go to bed early and get
up with the lark, comprises a good deal of 'the
whole duty of man. Accordingly, he has taken
care every session to remind the House that "early
to bed and early to rise " is the way to make one
" healthy, wealthy, and wise," by pressing a mo-
tion binding it over not to persist in " not going
home till morning, till daylight does appear,"
and this without the remotest chance of success.
Had this been all, though under all the circum-
stances there might be fair occasion for blame,
considering the needless waste of valuable time it
causes, and the fact that hon. members generally
awake at about eleven in the evening to a capacity
for business, we might have been contented with
following the example of the House, to the extent
of laughing behind the curtain at the sexagena-
rian vegetarian, and pointing a moral for the
edification of young vegetarians from his fate.
This, however, is not all. We have some little
reason to think that his legislatorial dislikings have
now and then been disingenuously sought to be
subserved by an apparent indulgence of his hobby,
and we are apprehensive this was the case last
night. To desire the failure of a bill so impera-
tively called for as the Beer (Amendment) Bill
was foolish enough to raise doubts of a man's
sanity. Reasons of state, as well as consider-
ations of justice and mercy, preponderated-10
kicking the beam in favour of the measure being
rapidly passed. In the thick of a mighty contest,
and the interval between two Parliamentary ses,
sions, it was no minor duty to amend a law that
hebdomadally stimulated the industrial, popula-
tion to discontent by its infringements on their
liberties and comforts. Nor at any time could a
law be amended too soon that, instead of encou-
raging the people to temperance, goaded them to
dissipation. Not only, however, did the Hon.
Member desire this, but he took up also, if we are
not mistaken, the disingenuous step of opposing
the going of the bill being brought in because of
the lateness of the hour. Of course his opposition
failed, and he was laughed at ; but his want of
success, and the ridicule attaching to him do not
render it the less necessary to express disapproba-
tion of such conduct. It may not prove dan-
gerously mischievous when witnessed, but with
his high moral character the record of it, unac-
companied by rebuke, might.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 26.
(FROM OTIR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—ArrivaIs
July 18. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart.,
from Western Ports. 20. Gondola, cutter, Thos.
Hughan, Esq., Portsmouth. 24. Zara, schooner, Com-
modore the Earl of Wilton, Cowes Harbour ' • Wizard,
cutter, Wm. Delafield, Esq., Portsmouth. 25. Coral
Queen, schooner, Earl of Selkirk, Mediterranean. Sail-
ings—July 18. Titania, schooner, Robert Stephenson,
Esq., for Lowestoft ; Leda, schooner, Sir R. B. Bui-
keley, Bart., Eastward. 21. Laverock, cutter, Captain
C. H. Williams, R.N., Wales. 26. Wizard, cutter,
Wm. Delafield, Esq., coast of Norway. Yachts at and
about the station—Alarm, Resolution, Zara, Beatrix,
Gloriana, lone, Wildfire, Gem, Coral Queen, Dream,
Spidu, Caprice, Gondola, and Aurora. Royal Yachts
at Cowes—Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin
steamers.

Lady Caroline Morant has taken Rosetta Cottage ;
Lord Willoughby de Broke, the Ist Cottage ; J. Lind-
say, Esq., the 2d ; Mr. Mayor, the 3d ; J. Moxon,
Esq., Belmore House ; H. Thorold, Esq., Norfolk
House ; Lord Somerville, Cambridge House; the Hon.
Captain Denman, Clarence House ; F. Delna4 Radcliffe,
Hippesley House ; Spencer de Horsey, Esq., No. 3,
Solent Terrace ; Earl Fitzhardinge, Townsbend House.
The Earl of Glengall, the Earl of Chesterfield, Sir Bel-
lingham Graham, Bart., and several other fashionables,
are in treaty for houses.