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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1854.

Our Cabinet must obey very strictly the pre,-
cept not to let the left hand know what the right
hand is doing. It can never be tha t our brace
fellows in the Baltic are apprised that their co 1-
leagues in the Black Sea will have the honour
of attacking the Gibralar of those waters, whle
they are to be put off with the blowing up of
Bomarsund. It would almost raise a mutiny.
They have just been allowed to show the sort of
metal both they and their guns are made of ;
and now, as the story goes, they and their NAPIER
are to slip off quietly home ! What can it mean ?
The very " times" rise up in real or affeet:;ed
wrath. The country cries open shame, thus to
squander its money, and its military opportuni-
ties. What our brave tars will say when they
meet their fellow-countrymen we can hardly sur-
mise. Is NAPIER or ABERDEEN at fault ? will
be the question, and who can hesitate as to the
answer. Surely he of Sidon and Beyrout is not
the man to quail with a fully proportionate force
before Sweaborg or even Cronstadt. Surely Ad-
miral CHADS himself, after his trial of the Edin-
burgh's broadsides on Bomarsund, must long to
blow the casemates of Cronstadt also, three or
four of them into one. No, verily, it is not that
our Admirals fear for their vessels ; it is the Mas-
ter'of the Admirals, left in power by an obsequi-
ous Parliament who fears for Russia. Compelled
by the dread of popular execration, by the fear of
baying no vouchers wherewith to meet the honest
feir in Parliament next February, by reluctance
to stand charged with spending 10,000,0001. of
hard-earned English gold in blockading
merely, and in keeping the troops from
action ; urged by these necessities of a
constitutional Government, they will strike a
severe blow on the lower extremities of the enemy,
knowing well that, with Austria's help in the pro-
vinces, they will be able to salve the wound nicely
in due time ; but the head of the despot—his
military head—they treacherously spare. It is
alleged that we could never reach the heart of
Russia ; we do not want ; the despot's helmet
was knocked off at Bomarsund, and a part as
vital as his heart lay bare for the next stroke--
yet, can it be true, the sword is sheathed ! St.
Petersburg is spared. By all the laws of war
and common sense, why ? There can be but one
answer. A peace made there must have been more
righteous and exacting, to save appearances with
this country, than a peace negotiated with Sebes-
tePel alone in our hands. It is heartless policy
tO EtireTe thus to spare its wanton disturber ;
Pre."king Policy to this country, thus to accept
its lianodna,dilnionu
dare i and to do as little for them as they ,
_ring policy to our brave navy
thus to tie its
hailda
it could use th when it had just shown how
We have several times
ueto German
denounced all this as
Germanism, and d
influence. But
we owe an apology to Germany- It is not she,
but her scores of little and
people
we mean. The German. great despots whom
would use
as sound-
hearted as the English.
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words, lie we well could, than thoseucs:; exacter
custom.
What the rulers of a country do should,
o
be the deed of their country, pactB f
revenuers:ll
this. There is not a little or a large German
State which would not vote its troops to the
Russian frontiers if it could ; but there is not
a little or a big ruler who would ob-
ject to call Russian soldiers to his own
frontiers to crush his subjects' liberties.
Never in all history was the divorce between
princes and subjects so complete. Till 1848 the
litter regarded all their rulers as faithless liars,
who had broken every promise of granting con-
stitutions; by which the people had been induced
to expel the French from their father-land. Since
that time they have held them for perjured des-
pots, perjured by the help of that very Russia
who enabled Austria first to butcher and enslave
her own subjects, and then to aid the lesser des-
pots to do the like. And this detested Austria it
is—saved from utter ruin by English subsidies in
the last French war--saved from liberal institu-
tions by Russian hordes in 1849—this Austria,
and at least equally Russianised Prussia, which
imbue all Germany with their
mean and tyran-
lial spirit. Again. we muss apologias for 1, 4

exigencies of language. We mean that the des-
pots who reign at Berlin and Vienna, while con-
tending with each other who shall influence most
of the other petty despots, both agree that all the
latter must be taught to look to Russia as the only
Saviour from their peoples. Could the people or
peoples of Germany influence France and England,
Russia before now would have been begging ear-
nestly for peace ; Poland would have arisen again
among the nations ; Hungary would have stood
as the bulwark of the south-east, and Europe
would have adored the two Western Powers as
the restorers of European nationality and life. It
is not German influence then in its literal sense,
or Germanism, which we dread, but Cousin•-Ger-
Inanism ; the cousin-hood of despots allied against
all liberty, and fearing for the Great Despot of
the Eastern Steppes, by whose favour they are
what they are. There is one ruler on a Euro-
pean throne, no cousin of these tyrants--one
whom they would not indeed allow to enter the
circle of hereditary cousins. A happy thing for
him. May it prove a happy thing for Europe !
It threw hini.on his people ; made him what DE
TOCQUEVILLE might term a democratic Autocrat !
Perhaps the issue may be that the Cousins will
have to reign by the grace of the people instead
of the grace of Russia.

Already the unfortunate Wallachians have
learned, by sad experience, that they will profit
but little by the change of occupancy of their
Principality. The Austrians put forward as un.
reasonable demands and exhibit as great a degree
of overbearing insolence as the Russians—indeed,
in one respect, they are even worse, for the Mus-
covites had been partially gorged with plunder,
while the others come into the field yearning for
spoil. It is like the substitution of fresh and
hungry leeches for others nearly, if not altogether,
satiated. It is almost needless to say that the
new set of blood-suckers will be keener and more
exhausting in their attacks than those they have
replaced. The old movement, " from the frying-
pan into the fire," affords the correct notion of
the so-called advantages of the change.
While at Vienna the specious pretexts are still
maintained, that it is only " a friendly occupa-
tion" (!) undertaken entirely for the benefit of
Turkey, the brutal soldiery, and their scarcely
less brutal officers, do not think it worth while to
assume a disguise. They already treat it as a
conquered country, which they have acquired by
rizht of conquest, and which they have deter-
mined to retain against all corners, whether Mos-
lems or Muscovites. The proclamation of Baron
HESS, already referred to in our columns, offered
a gratuitous and wanton insult to the gallant men
who had stood to their colours under circum-
stances of no ordinary difficulty—whose resolute
and unflinching valour and indomitable energy
had caused the retreat of the Russians from the
soil they had so unjustifiably invaded. Scarcely
had the Austrian protectorate (!) commenced
when a demand was made for the evacuation of
the Principalities, not by the intruders, but by
the rightful owners !—not by the Russian, but
by the Turkish troops ! ! This was, however,
going a little too far. A prompt and indignant
refusal was the result of the unwarrantable de-
mand, and then, forsooth, the propriety of the
refusal was recognised, and the letter to the
Turkish Commander withdrawn.
It would have been well for the interests of
AED-lIL-MEDJID, and for the reputation of OMER
PA CHA, if other requisitions had been met with
equal firmness. The first step indicative of the
disposition of the quasi protectors was the arrest
of the political refugees, who, even during the
Russian occupation, had found shelter in Walla-
chia. These men have been delivered over to
their persecutors with scarcely a show of remon-
strance. If any resistance was anticipated, a
criminal charge was trumped up to show that it
was not merely for " opinion sake" that they were
sought after. Any pretext was eagerly caught
at to get rid of the embarrassed, and the unfor-
tunate victims were delivered over to their would-
be butchers.

But this was not by any means the most cis-
reputable feature in the very disreputable trans-
action. It was not merely " claimants" upon
Turkish hospitality who were so readily sacrificed
by those holding high office under a Monarch who
had won golden opinions from men of all creeds
and nations for his unflinching and determined
refusal to surrender Kossuth and his fellow-suffer-
ers in the cause of Magyar independence. Many
of these gallant men had accepted commissions in
the Turkish service, and well had they repaid the
benefits accorded. " The quality of mercy," in
that case was, indeed, " twice blessed." It was
mainly owing to the indefatigable zeal and proved
efficiency of these men, that the great success of
the Turkish troops in the recent campaign might
be attributed. No less than eight of the " aides-
de-camp" of OMER PACHA were selected from his
own countrymen, at least so far as being Austrian
subjects tmight justify the designation. The
value of their services may be fairly estimated from
the fact that they had, in almost every instance,
nobly earned high-class decorations in the SUL-
TAN'S army.

The first demand made by the Austrians was,
that no political refugees should be employed in
the Turkish army near the Austrian frontiers.
This insidious proposition was unfortunately acceded
to, and the corollary speedily followed. The dis-
missal of those who had previously been employed
by Turkey was demanded, and this extraordinary
application was also granted. Many tried and
faithful officers--including no less than eight of
the personal staff of OMER PACHA—wero ordered
to Monastir, there to remain in inglorious inac-
tivity, or else to render, in Asia, the assistance
which has been so ungratefully recompensed in
Bosnia and Bulgaria. We should scarcely feel
surprised if the next demand was for the removal
of the General himself—for he, also, owed fealty
to FRANCIS JOSEPH.

These matters afford conclusive evidence of the
real animus of Austria, notwithstanding its plau-
sible assertions. They show how completely our
diplomatists have been jockeyed, and that those
who have so anxiously endeavoured to weaken the
Turkish Army in the point where it most required
strengthening are but pretended friends—that
their real wishes are in favour of Russia. As we
have already stated, the advantages already gained
have been more than neutralised by the culpable
weakness of our diplomatists. And there are
reasons to dread their negligence in other matters.
It is more than hinted that the expedition against
the Crimea and Sebastopol is altogether owing to
Marshal St. ARNAUD, who would not tamely bear
the reproaches to which, if he yielded to the sug-
gestions of the civilians, he would have been ex-
posed. We only hope that his vigorous and ener-
getic proceedings, albeit protracted until the
elevend hour, may be completely successful, and
that the negotiations—when the allies are in pos-
session of Sebastopol—may be conducted with
greater decision than those at Vienna. Notwith-
standing the doubts as to the result expressed by
some Government organs in France and England
we can only anticipate a triumphant result. When
brought face to face with the enemy, the troops of
France and England will not be found wanting.
Victory will, as in days of yore, attend their ban-
ners, and the glorious conclusion will make ample
amends for the apathy and inactivity of the com-
mencement of the war in 1854.

Som© yepaerrasesnince there resided in the South of
Ireland a
of bland demeanour and inoffen-
sive habits, If
f questioned on any topic—save
one—his
answers
pt in his attentions,
pressing were extremely courteous ; in
fact, he was rather
too
anyallusion to which inflamed
and carried his anxiety
serve rather too far.
But there was one forbiddeno subject--one
matter
c rosit
the
strictly "tabooed,"
him to a state of frenzy, ment
he was manifestly startled—exhibill "a cat," and
t
an
as to "its weight," and he became exceedingly
u
irate ; but inquire as to the party
who
tried
weighed texperimhe -- put the simple question, cc Who
eat?" and he forthwith got beside
himself with rage, and would—to use his own
expreagion-..." rush on you if you woo another

GOLIATH of Gath," and at least endeavour to
knock you down.
The cause of this strange excitement was as
follows :—ln the house wherein poor " DAVID
DANIEL" resided, there was kept a very extraor-
dinary specimen of the feline race—an animal of
almost miraculous voracity. Nothing was safe
against its depredations. The steak or chop pro-
cured for dinner almost invariably vanished, and
milk and butter shared a similar fate. Nay, more,
it occasionally apparently indulged in " a raking
pot of tea," for the fragrant Souchong often
vanished in company with the steak. The inflic-
tion was for some time submitted to patiently ;
at least the victim was contented with verbal
remonstrances to landlady and attendant. Two
circumstances, however, excited his suspicion.
First, that the cat aforesaid was of a decidedly
religious disposition, for it never consumed
any meat on Fridays or other fast-days pre-
scribed by the Church ; secondly, that on days
when a beef steak had vanished the kitchen
was usually pervaded by a savoury odour of fried
onions, and the culinary nymph afforded un-
equivocal evidence that she had partaken of that
dainty, devouring the onions while the cat was
eating the steak. The accused animal also con-
tinued of leau and famished aspect, very unlike
one who had a good dinner of "prime sirloin
steak," at least three or four times per week.
" DAVID DANIEL" hesitated. He did not like
to punish an animal that might be altogether in-
nocent, and he determined to administer a test
that would prove conclusive to his own mind at
least. Accordingly, one morning before pro-
ceeding to market, he procured a scale, and ac-
curately ascertained and recorded the weight of
the quasi delinquent. He returned with a mag-
nificent steak, exactly weighing three quarters of
a pound. He deposited it in the usual place, and
went forth for a short time. His first act on
returning was again to weigh the cat, which he
found had neither gained nor lost during the
interval. Thus assured, lie confidently rung for
dinner. But, alas ! again he was distracted with
the intelligence that the cat had eaten the steak.
He did not, however, receive it so patiently as
before. Narrating his experiment, he demanded
how it was possible, and boldly asserted that it
was a " two-legged cat" that had been in the
habit of purloining his provisions. The statement
of Lieutenant PERRY inculpating his brother
officers was not received with greater scorn and
incredulity, and the consequences were nearly as
damaging. The " Maid of all-work" fled at him
like a tigress, fixed her nails in his countenance,
which she scored from top to bottom, and then
charged him with an assault. He was brought
before the sitting Magistrates, and his defence
proved effectual. He was dismissed from Court
with compliments on his ingenious mode of clear-
ing the character of poor puss. But, alas ! his
peace of mind was for ever sacrificed. On his next
appearance he was greeted by the Gamins of the
" beautiful city" with the question which he ever
afterwards so bitterly resented. He adopted every
course but one to abate the nuisance. He sum-
moned the parties, and was told that "no legal
offence had been committed"—=took them into
custody himself, and had to defend sundry actions
for false imprisonment—chastised them summa-
rily on the spot, and was convicted and punished
for an assault. It was by no means an uncommon
spectacle to see three or four urchins running
away, closely pursued by poor " DAVID DANIEL,"
while if there appeared any prospect of his over-
taking one of the fugitives, a diversion was
created by " popping the question" from another
quarter, which had the same effect on his excite-
able disposition that the waving of a scarlet mantle
had on a bull pressing too hard on the adven-
turous " tauridor."

What " the weighing of a cat" was to poor
" DAVID DANIEL," any allusion to the faculty of
memory appears to be to some of the gallant
officers of the 46th. A few days since Major
MAXWELL and Adjutant WALISTER were to be
seen in full chase after a lad named THOMAS
Simms, in the town of Windsor. As, however,
they " hunted in couples," and had an orderly in
attendance, they succeeded in capturing the fugi-
tive, who was forthwith consigned to durance vile
at the police-station. He was subsequently bailed
out, and on the following day appeared to ansrer
the charge. It then appeared that the " head r.rid
front of his offending" consisted of saying, while
passing these officers, " You don't recollect,
do you ?" This was sufficient to excite their
wrath, and to lead to the rather ludicrous
proceedings subsequently adopted. The smart
chase by gentlemen in full regimentals, and the
accusation before the Mayor of the Borough for
so trifling a cause—" Tantcene animis ccelestibus
irce"--we should suggest to Major MAXWELL and
his brother officers that the less they allow the
subject of the recent courts-martial to be venti-
lated the better for themselves. There is a strong
impression on the public mind that some one, at
least, of the many witnesses examined might have
taxed his memory a leettle more than he tried to
do—that such unparalleled forgetfulness was, to
say the least of it, "passing strange." If, then,
they take every one into custody that speaks of
" failing recollection" they will have ample oc-
cupation on their hands. Had poor " DAVID
DANIEL" received the interrogations respecting the
cat with indifference, he would, after a few days,
have been let alone. It was his wrath that stimu-
lated his persecutors. Major MAXWELL should
profit by the hint. He must know that, great a
man as he is, he has no right to take the law into
his own hand; and that it is rather an unseemly
spectacle to exhibit to the gaping multitude—a
field officer, and, of course, a gentleman, chasing
ragged boys, and on the qui rive to catch at any
hint which his excited imagination can torture
into an insult. It would be far better to inocu-
late with the obliviousness for which himself and
fellow-officers were so greatly distinguished than
to endeavour to keep open the case that has so
palpably been established. We suppose it would
now be regarded as a mortal offence to send one
of these officers' witnesses a copy of "the Pleasures
of Memory ; " while DICKENS' " Haunted Man"
would be equally objectionable, because it con-
tains a prayer "to keep the memory green."
Major MAXWELL may be assured that it will be
greatly to his, own advantage, and that of his
regiment, at least to appear to be less " thin-
skinned" on the subject, and to smother any
manifestations of wrath on all similar occasions
henceforward and for ever.

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sLEonitdz ocniartVehileacnweeeh,
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yingthe Ambassador's
in Ger-
bassador's
Court, St. James's, on a tour of visits.
The :rLarl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe have
sailed. from Plymouth, on a cruise, in his lordship's yacht
the Elvira.
The Duchess of Wellington arrived in Upper Belgrave-
street yesterday, from Osborne, Isle of Wight, where her
Grace has been in attendance on the Queen. The
youthful ladies Ramsay, nieces to the duchess, are staying
with her Grace until the arrival of the Marquis of Dal-
housie from India.
Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Blair, the member for Ayrshire,
who is at present residing at Blairquhan Castle, proceeds
immediately to join his regiment, the Scots Fusilier
Guards, in Turkey.—Scottish Guardian.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has kindly
sent 101. towards the almost exhausted funds of the
Soho Dispensary, Gerrard-street.
The Earl of Aberdeen and his son, Lord Iladdo, with
Lady Haddo, arrived at Southampton yesterday from
London by rail, and alighted at Matcham's Hotel. Lord
Haddo is going to Alexandria, in the Egyptian frigate
yacht Feid Gehaad, which leaves Southampton this day.
His lordship being in ill health, and about to proceed to
the East, the State apartments on board the yacht were
placed at his service during the passage to Alexandria.
ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Lord J.
Russell having consented to preside at the approaching
inauguration of the newly-erected Bristol Athenaeum, it
has been determined to invite his lordship to a grand
corporate entertainment. The banquet, it is understood,
will be upon a scale of magnificence worthy of the ancient
renown of Bristol.
CRYSTAL PALACE, WEDNESDAY.—SHILLING DAY.—
Admission at the doors, 6,496 ; admission by season
tickets, 477 ; total, 6,973.
THE HORSE GUARDS.—TRO Military Secretary had a
levee on Tuesday last, which was numerously attended.
He holds his lev6es every Tuesday. The Adjutant-
General holds his lev6es on Thursday. Every officer is
now obliged, according to the late regulations, to put
down in writing the precise nature of his application
(a considerable difference between the present system
and that of Lord Hill.)
M. ROGERS, THE POET.—We are happy to state
that this eminent poet is much better. Yesterday he
took cirriago airings