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the highest national responsibility ; and we will add, if
the national will be consulted, the result will be as

glorious as the adoption of a contrary policy must be
disgraceful. But we cannot suppose that Ministers
will make themselves the laughing-stock of Europe by
relinquishing the advantages which they have just
gained, when they must be aware of the answer which,
Parliament would make to an appeal to its patriotism
against the aggressive pretensions of Russia. With
the British Parliament and people to cheer them on,
the British Cabinet can have nothing to fear from

setting the AUTOCRAT at defiance, when such a step
is necessary to the maintenance of our national honour,
and the rights of our commercial intercourse with in-
dependent States in any part of the world. Besides,
Lord PALMERSTON must have known enough of the
policy of Russia to be prepared for an appeal to the
sword before signing Treaties which he well knew the
CZAR would move heaven and earth to render a dead
letter. His Lordship must have been sensible that
he was dealing a death-blow at the treacherous influ-
ence of Russia both in Austria and Turkey ; and he
must have been equally well aware that the Cabinet of
St. Petersburgh must either parry this blow, retort it,
or adopt a modification of system fatal to the principles
which are the props and pillars of the Autocracy.
With the abandonment of the Austrian and Tulkish
Commercial Treaties, or even with the waiving of the
shadow of an iota of a right which they give us, do
we abandon the East and West to the tender mercies
of the CZAR and his barbarian hordes. But this
cannot be. England roused from her lethargy will
nobly do her duty. Even at the eleventh hour the
humbling of Russia in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and
on the Danube, would cost us but a momentary effort.
Poland now prostrate, wallowing in her own blood,
would regain her feet with the first roar of British
cannon along the shores of the Black Sea, and even
Austria would stand more proudly erect at beholding her
frontier freed from the presence of an ally in whose good
faith she has never for a moment reposed confidence.
While we are writing upon the subject of the Aus-
strian Commercial Treaty, it may be as well to notice
a very material error to which a grave currency was
given in a long article which appeared a few days ago
in the Manchester Guardian—namely, that for
this treaty the country is indebted to the zeal of the
Right Honourable the President of the Board of
Trade. We are aware that Mr. POULETT
THONISON would gladly have it thought that every
popular measure originates with himself, how little
soecer he may have done to promote it ; and there-
fore we are not surprised that in his unscrupulousness,
he grasps at the merit of being the author of a Treaty
which found in him rather an opponent than
a supporter. Notwithstanding, then, the gravity
of the Right Honourable Gentleman's preten-
sions—set forth, no doubt, in an article of his own
manufacture—we can assert on the very best authority
that this country is not indebted to Mr. POULETT
THomsox for the Austrian Commercial Treaty, nor
for any other service more important, that we are aware
of, than is usually implied in the quarterly ac-
ceptance of an official salary. We know the
name of the gentleman who drew up the
Treaty, and are acquainted with the various steps
taken to render it palatable to the Austrian Cabi-
net ;—although at present we are not at liberty
to publish the details. As for Mr. POULETT
THOMSON, the very little be did. was to re-
tard a measure which he had not patriotism to
frame, although he has the littleness—now that it is
popular—to represent it as a sort of Board-of-Trade
behest to the nation.

Our readers will find in aiiothercolumn an article com-
municated by an intelligent Correspondent, on the merits
of the Commercial Treaty recently made between Great
Britain and Turkey. In giving it insertion, we do not
adopt the conclusions of the writer, which, upon several
points, are at issue with those at which we have arrived.
But it is a principle with us, in treating of questions of
national interest, to afford all the facilities in our power
to the expression of the opinions of every party. When
our Correspondent has communicated all that he pro-
poses to write upon this Treaty, we shall take occasion
to state explicitly the grounds upon which we differ
from him.

Mr. EasKINE is to be the new Judge. The Chief-
ship of the Court of Review will not be filled up. We
also understand that it is settled Mr. IVIAuLE shall
be raised to the Bench, and that Mr. Sergeant
WYLDE will be promoted.

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In a leading article in this Paper, which appeared
about ten weeks ago, we animadverted on the rhap-
sodies of the great Organ of the Protestant Church, the
Times NeWspaper, about Popish treason having
" scaled the Palace walls or burst the gates," and on
the inconsistency of the supporters of the Protestant
Church, who fear only O'CONNELL and the Popa,
and are " blind to the growing spirit of Popery which
rankles in the bosom of our own Church." We also
expressed our fiim belief that the time was not far dis-
tant when the meetings at Exeter-Hall would have a
more powerful enemy to contend with than either
PETER DENS or Father M'HALE, or any open.enemy
of the Protestant faith, and that " there could be no
security for the Protestant reformed religion, while
the sources whence Protestantism ought to be drawn
were polluted, and the teachers of youth at Oxford
were sloping their way backward to the Mother of
Harlots." Every passing day furnishes new proofs
of the truth of these assertions. The Oxford heretics,
or, more properly speaking, Romanists, advocate
openly some of the most dangerous doctrines of the
Church of Rome. They are teaching these doctrines
to the rising generation—to those who will one day
fill the sacred office of the Priesthood—to those who
will be the teachers of youth in our schools, academies,
and universities, and to those who in a few years will
be Legislators in our great National Assemby. The
danger has become so imminent, and the desire to ac-
knowledge the POPE as the Head of the Church has
been so openly avowed by men of learning and ability
_by Doctors of Divinity, and by Members of Par-
liament professing the Protestant and Reformed Reli-
gion, that all true believers begin to tremble
like men placed over a volcano, and even
the avowed, the determined, and the least
scrupulous advocates of the High Church party,
for the sake of consistency, are compelled to
raise their voices against these dang,erous innovations
in the heart of the Established Church. The Journal
that for some time liss been exercising the functions
of " Defender of the Faith," abusing the Prime Mi-
nister for encouraging Popery, and not sparing even
Royalty, has at last proclaimed that tire Church is in
danger, not so much from open enemies, as from per-
jured Protestants, pretending friends, and conceal, d
enemies. The Times, after raging for four years
against the Popish designs of O'CONNELL and the
Whig Ministry, and even praising latterly the writings
of Mr. GLADSTONE, who seems thoroughly im-
bued with the Oxford heresies, last week made a
new tack, and opened all its religious artillery against
this gentleman and the teachers of our young
Aristocracy, and many who, till now, had been
considered the very bulwarks of the Protestant
faith. " The dangers of Romanism," it boldly
asserts " sink into insignificance, when com-
pared with the extensive and systematic conspiracy,
now in actual operation in Great Britain, for re-esta-