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London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

Pt, LONDON, SA_TURDAY :EvEN-Ir-:e.-i DECEMBER 29,

whose rulers and peoples alike have never been
able to deny that a great European burglary, the
sequel of worse ones, was committed by Russia,
but who yet stood like dastards aloof from the
vindication of international law. Such long-
continued meanness, such selfish secession from
the duties of Europeans, will more than
disgust this country : it will produce a deep-seated
aversion to the race which defrauds liberty, inde-
pendence, and international law of the support
which it demands. It will by no means lessen
this hatred to believe, as the nation generally does,
that Russia and Germany make official use of the
purely German character of our Royal Family. It
has always been provoking that needy German re-
latives should become secret dependents of the
English Court, and prompt lucky princes who had
get good hold on the English Exchequer to bag,
for their benefit, every sinecure retained as the
rewards of distinguished service. This evil, how-
ever, is measurable in £s. d. Not so that of
the bias, unconscious it may be, of a training in the
school of petty German despotism, with all its
Russian leanings. The former evil may cost us,
or the brave men who should enjoy the emolu-
ments, some ten thousand a year. The latter, as
the great drag on the War, may have cost us
three or four campaigns when one might have
sufficed, with boundless military favouritism, mis-
management, and loss of life and money.
The above remarks have been suggested in part
by the attempt to wade through a pamphlet on
" The Formation of a National Party in Ger-
many, a Necessity of the Present Crisis." (JA3IES
RIDGWAY.) It is the production of a German,
GusTavus DIEZEL, who has personally experienced
th• petty despotism of " fatherland," and its object
is, what the title suggests, to show that German
unity and nationality, imbued with an Anti-
Russian spirit, are the great want of the crisis.
We freely acknowledge that much may be learned
from the pamphlet by all who have patience to
toil through the verbose pages of the German
politician. It will be, however, more in the way
of verifying impressions current enough here,
than in the acquisition of new views. We all
agree with the writer that Germany, if that motley
compound of states should be spoken of as a
country, ought to be Anti-Russian, and would
be, if she had a particle of self-respect. It may
also be true that this is not to be expected while
it is cut up into Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, and
Hesses this or that, dependent on Russia for
separate despotic existence ; and that nationality
is therefore the condition of German Anti-Rus-
sianism. This may all be true enough, we fear
it is ; but we must profess that Malt DIEZEL has
given us such a picture of his fellow Mein•Herrs
as removes to the distance of a political millenium
the probability of a German nation. A picture
like it of political little-mindedness we have hardly
seen elsewhere. An imaginary counterpart would
be to turn our counties into kingdoms, to give a
despot to each, a rival pair being allotted to the
Metropolis with its dependencies, and to the great
northern manufacturing districts ; to imagine
then each of these little kingdoms concerned
merely about its own local interests, and not even
having one daily or even Weekly English journal !
while all the petty rulers were guaranted in their
separate litte despotisms by a crafty French Emperor,
quite aware that their divisions were his strength.
If we imagine what it would be to make such
rulers and peoples Anti-French, we have a fair
idea of the task of making the little German States
Anti-Russian.

Intending to revert to the pamphlet again, we
would just remark that the writer has overlooked
a far more urgent necessity than German nation-

ality, and that is Polish nationality. The worth-
less Germans never will have courage to release
themselves from Russia till Poland stands free and
independent between them and the CzArs. All
Germany is not worth another conference or pro-
tocol. Poland would at once give a now phase
to the contest. It might mortify the Germans
to see a Sclavonic nation, which they had helped
to crush, and under whose rains they have buried
their Oirli liberties, regain its position first. That,
however, is the only practicable course. German
freedom and nationality depends on Polish free-
dom and nationality, and not vice versa ; while
the latter would soon double the army of the
Allies and decimate that of the Cztg.

Tl' NEW LORD AMPTLIILL.

The elevation of the Right Hon. Baron Parke
to the House of Peers by the title of Baron Ampt-
hill has been announced, and will probably be pub-
lished officially in the new Gazette. His lordship
is tho youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Parke,
of Highfield, near Liverpool, who, we believe, was
a merchant of that place, by a daughter of Mr.
William Preston. He was born in 1782, and in
1817 married Cecilia, daughter of Mr. Samuel F.
Barlow of Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. He was edu-
cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he
was elected a Scholar in 1800, and graduated B.A.
in 1803 as sth Wrangler and Senior Chancellor's
Medallist, in the same year with Professor Pryme,
the late Mr. Justice Coltman, and Dr. Davys, the
present Bishop of Peterborough. For some time
after taking his degree he remained in residence in
the University, and was elected Fellow of Trinity
in the following year. He was not called to the
bar until some 10 years later, his name appearing
among those called at the Inner Temple in Easter
Term, in 1813. His steady and persevering indus-
try here brought him early into notice, and business
flowed in upon him with sufficient rapidity to war-
rant him in vacating his fellowship at Trinity by
marriage, as we have said above, within four years
after be became a member of the bar. Henceforth
his rise was rapid. In 1828 we find him pro-
moted to the bench as one of the puisne judges of
the King's Bench, on the death of Sir George S.
Holroyd, from which he was transferred to the
Court of Exchequer in 1834, in the place of the
late Barn Taunton. It does not appear that Lord
Ampthill ever rose to the bench through the in-
termediate stops of King's Serjeant, or " one of
his Majesty's counsel, learned in the law." Ho
never held the office of Attorney-General or Soli-
citor-General, and never occupied a seat in Parlia-
ment. His lordship has long been the oldest judge
upon the bench, from which he might have retired
many years ago with the usual pension, had he
been less activelyland laboriously inclined. As it is
he has tho experience of 28 years on the judicial
bench to carry with him to the assistance of the
Law Lords in the Upper House, who are now only
five in number—viz., Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham,
Campbell, Cranworth, and St. Leonards—and to
whom his assistance will be peculiarly valuable.
The newly-created peer has no male issue, his lord-
ship's only surviving child being a daughter, who
is married and resides in Bedfordshire. The park
of Amptill belonged to the late Lord Carteret,
and is still the property of the Thynne family ;
and it is not a little singular that Baron Parke
should have chosen his title from a place with
which, though rich in historical associations as
tho residence of Queen Catherine, the first wife
of Henry VIII., he has, we believe, no more
permanent connexion than a temporary lease of
the mansion.--Times.

RAISING OF TIIE BLOCKADE IN THE

BALTIC.

(From the Gazette of last Evening.)
?OREIGN OFFICE, DEc. 28.

It is hereby notified that the Right Honourable the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the
Lords Cornmiss'onvs of the Admiralty, an official com-
munication, stating that is appears by a report from
Rear-Admiral BaineQ, dated "H M.'s steam-vessel Re-
tribution, Copenhagen, Dec. 12, 1855," that the block-
ade of all ports, roads, havens, and creeks, belonging to
the enemy in the Baltic, was entirely raised on the 10th
inst.

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