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London, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1854.

A " material guarantee" is at length recognised
as the only honourable basis, as the all-essential
preliminary of a Pacification. A " material gua-
rantee," given, not by Turkey to Russia, but by
the AUTOCRAT to the great powers of Christendom.
Yesterday afternoon, in these columns, we de-
clared in so many words that the one condition of
peace was—this "material guarantee." Yester-
day evening, in the House of Peers, Lord LYND-
HURST proclaimed his belief that France and Eng-
land could never terminate the war with honour
to themselves without having first extorted from
the offending CZAR, in security for his future good
faith, this 'same "material guarantee." It was
in reference to this, as the paramount requisite,
as the condition of a pacific arrangement, that in
our last impression we travestied GRATIANO'S ex-
clamation—speaking of the " material guarantee"
.as an expression borrowed from the Emperor Nicno-
LAS, and adding "I thankthee, CZAR, for teaching
me that phrase ! " Scarcely were the damp copies
of our journal distributed among the newsvendors,
when the Noble and Learned Lord the ex-Chancellor
was speaking thus•in the House of Peers—" But
a new phrase has been introduced into diplomacy
by the Russians, it is `material guarantee.' If
Russia will give us what she calls a `material
guarantee'.—that is, a pledge or mortgage upon
something so valuable that she would not like to
risk the loss of it if she violated her faith—then
that might be of some use. As for her moral
guarantee, her faith, her honour, or her
• Word, they are one and all valueless." Yes,
the mot of the crisis has been uttered. The
clue through the labyrinth of difficulties has
been discovered. The key to the solution
of the problem. The " verb" of the whole
movement. It comes to the CZAR, moreover,
with tho bitterness of an ironical echo to his own
haughty demand—the recalcitration of that haughty
demand by Europe—the demand no longer upon
Turkey, but actually in behalf of Turkey upon
Russia, of—a " material guarantee." The moral
guarantee of Russia, as Lord LYNDHURST has well
said, her faith, her honour, or her word, are one
and all valueless. They
are not only valueless—
they are literally bywords
of derision—as when
we talk of the courage of a PAROLLES, or of the
• . honesty of a mA.c.AaRE
.or of the modest wisdom
of a PocoouRANTI.
No---itger is obvious to every
one that Russia can no longer
be bound down by
the wording of treaties, or by the tone of proto-
cols, or by the purport.of the verbal promise of her,e
be relied upon,
Sovereign, even when made upon his " parole d
gentleman !"The only security that
can
henceforth, in his iegardpoisssidbily
coverable in, what he himself was the first to ins--
dicate—a ‘c material guarantee." Adopting that
as its basis, England and France might realise the
aspiration of Lord
, JOHN RUSSELL, by effecting a
solid, durable, and honourable pacification. _ Xot
otherwise !
Thanks to the really masterly oration in which
Lord LYNDHURST, while analysing last evening in
the House of Lords the Protocolt
recently
e Fu
osr i g
Powersne d by
the diplomatic representatives of the
at Vienna, protested in words of burning and in-
dignant eloquence against the ignominy-, or rather
we should say against the infamy, of those Four
' Powers consenting to a Peace with Russia founded
upon the status quo ante bellum principle—thanks
to the brilliant speech delivered in the Upper
' Rouse yesterday by the Noble and Learned ex-
. Chancellor—a candid and explicit avowal of the
policy of her MAJESTY'S Government was at last
- extorted from the Foreign Secretary. If
acted upon, that policy as explained to
the country through the House of Peers
...last exening by the Earl of CLARENDON, will be
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A:4 3,lorlit t\t) empire, creditable to the valour of
kr://i/4 ~,,,t9.1". iiia, i'l-tild armies, and honourable to the pa-
'2 1 ' #--- . iii` 49spur administrators. If abandoned,
t \ % wig' crialslEed, it can only cover the names
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