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London, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

LON DON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUN E 27 1854.

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LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms,
(Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, Onsiow-house, Fulham•road),
The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR TIIE SEASON.
Ind will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
i'F,LEBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, Sultan Polka,
Fair Star Wa tz, and Overhaul Mail Galop, by D' Albert; also, by H.
Laurent , the following Waltzes - La belle Frangaise, Leonora, Villi-
kins and his Dinah, ALIIIIISSIOII, IS: Doors open at half-past
S.
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OVAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
11, Under the Patronage of ILR.II. -PRI NCI; ALBERT.
The Pub lc is respectfully informed that this Establishment is now
placed UNDER, EN I'IRELY NEW SEAN GEMENT, and that
alterations and imtfrovem,nts are in progre a in all its departments,
which it is hoped will rs der it even more worthy of the patronage
'of the public than it has hitherto been.
All c mmunicamons in future should be addressed to J. H. Pepper,
Es 1., the Reshleat Dtrec' or.
All the bECTI RES; OPTICAL and other EXHIBITION'S, are
continued ss usual.
()pen daily from Eleven till Five, and every Edt:ning except Satur-
day from seven ti 1 Wen.
. Adininsion, Is.: r•ettools stud children under ten years of age,
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ORIENTAL AND TURKISH MUSEUN,
HYDE-PARK CORSEE.
rHE Public are respectfully informed that, early
I_ in July next, there will be Opened, at ST GEORGE'S GAL-
LERY, rlyde park-corner, l'ic...adilly, an ORIENTAL MU• EUNt. or
a Grand Exhibition of Turkish Curiosities, consi-ting of the richest
and most varied costumes, both ancient and modern, displayed on
wax figures, life size, executed in the finest style, anti illustrative of
not only the abolished in-titutiou or the far-famt d Janissaries, the
renowned militia of the Turk'sh empire. with their anclant Uniform
and arn, ur, but alro of the various modes o! the present day of the
Osmanlts The figures ire highly characteristic, and the materials
of the costumes selected from the richest Oriental fabrics, with the
strictest adaptation to the habits and castes of the people which they
are designed to represent
No expense or tabour has been spared to erider this Exhibition
worthy of the attention and patronage of the British public, and we
have been assured by persons of the greatest distinction, that a more
accurate and satisfactory Impre,ston of the true Oriental taste aid
style, b th of former times, as well as of the present day, may be
obtained by an hour passed in this Ntuseu.n, than is usually gained
by many miles of ti ava. The moot implicit trathfulness has b en
maintAned is all the arragements and In ins items which would be
curious even to the native inhabitants of stainbotil, are here given
to the world in all their primitive originality. Tre gorgeous cos-
tumes of bs gone days, the days of the turbaned and robed Osmanli.
remembered only in the past, are now revived and displayed in all
their natural and exquisite beauty.
Apart trom a'l intrinsic tin pit, it fahoped that the great sympathy
now felt be' the British public for the Turkish nation will insure the
success of this molt interesting and truly unique Turkish Exhibition.
The under-igned being the hole managers of this Oriental museum,
alt• matters relating to the. Exhiiiition will be transacted by them,
and all communications nutst be addressed to them conjohitly.-
C. OSCA N Y A N, 1 managers.
S. AZN AVOUR,

Jane 10, 1854,

ONE HUNDRED RIGHTS. of CHOICE on
the E TATE 4 ot the CONSERV A.rivE LAND SOCIETY.—
On Wednesday, the 28ih of June, at Three o'clock, at the Seventh
Quarterly General Meeting of the Members, in Freemasons' Hall,—
Viscount RA.NELAGII in the Chair;
the NtcETEEN ra PUB' IC DRXWING will take place, for One
Hun.ired Bights of Choice, and Flay Shares will be added to the
Book of Cons,ilidated Ri4hts, by salvo, ity.
BRi GOT° N• ESTATE, EAST Susszk.—The allotment of valu-
able Round-hill Park Estate (second portion) will take place at the
offices, 33, Norfolk street. Strand, London, on Wednesday. th e 6th
of July. Plano of the Estate, price 6d., or 10d. if sent by post, and
prospeetuses may he hod of
CHARLES LEWIS OaUNEI3EN, Secretary,
At the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street. strand, Lon&n.

CONTRACT FOR BUILDING A VESSEL.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, June 26, .854.—The Principal Officers
01 er Majesty's Ordnance do hereby g.ve Notice, that they will
be ready to re :dye Se tied Tenders for building a Coasting Vessel
of Ninety-three Tons, according t. a Plan And Section whiLh may
be s en on application ..t the Ordnance ()dice, Pall Me I, win-re
speclflcati ns may be obtained. The said Vessel to be completed
within Four Months from the date of the Contract, an.t the pa),
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Ist. When the tram-i is corn leted.
21. hen the V,ssel is completed.
And th • remaind_r Six-Months atter;
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dice, Pall Mall. addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ord-
nance, Pall Mall, on r,r before the 4th day of -July, 1854, and
masked in the corner "Tender for Building a
wVessel."
. JQ oup, Secretary.

EXTRAORDINARY MECHANICAL MODELS.
MR. BECK, Dentist, begs to call attention to
his Anatomical Models for developing the structure of Arti-
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articulation), fixed from one tooth to a complete set, as exhibited at
the Paris Exlxisl,ion.
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THE EARL OF ABERDEEN'S DEFENCE..

,
(From the Times.) • .
On one point we agree with a remark of Lord Clam-
Garde. When the duties of the Secretary of State for
War were dividad from those of he Colonial-office, the
head of the Government had it i his power to give the
country a pledge of the sincerity ind energy of his own
policy by imparting the-utmost efficiency to that arrange-
ment„ and by placing at the
_head,of the War Ministry
the statesman whom the country believes to be most able
to conduct it. For the Credit of the Cabinet, as well as
for the advantage of the public service, we deeply regret
that this course !KAI not taken ; for, as we have re-
peatedl observed, it is by superiority of military admi-
nistration that success in this war can most speedily be
secured. Lord Aberdeen assures us that he has been at
least as zealous as any of his colleagues is promoting the
necessary. preparations, and in urging the advance of the
allied armies to unite with Omer Pasha, to.relieve Sills-
tria, and to --repel an enemy who, as it now turns out,
has alre;dy rail-, d from the scene of action. But what-
ever his personi4 exertions may have been in this "hard
necessity," he cannot be ignorant of the fact that the
name and presence of another statesman in the War
Department would have inspired' greater confidence at
home, and greater apprehension in.our enemies. .That
fact alone ought to have determined the choice of the
member of the Government most conipetent and efficient-
for the conduct of the war.
As to ulterior measures, Lord Aberdeen well stated
that it was utterly impossible for any man living to
declare beforehand on• what terms peace should be ne-.
gotiated. One thing alone 'is certain,—that the only
• way to obtain a sure and honourable peace is to acquire
a position which may command it; and to gain such a
position every nerve and sinew of the empire should be
strained. The pickpocket who robs us is not to be let
off 'because he, offers to restore' our purse ; and the
plunderer of provinces, the 'disturber of the peace of
nations, the squanderer of the life and. treasure of half
the civilised world, must pay a somewhat heavier penalty
than the restitution of his unjust spoils before the
Nemesis which he has provoked can be appeased. - . "

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Lord 'Aberdeen's speech of last night will remove
much uneasiness at home, and many misapprehensions
abroad. The value of his statement would have been

materially diminished if he had retracted or disavowed
any of the language which he held a week ago; for it
might have been argued that unpremeditated phrases
were probably as sincere as a more deliberate manifesto;
and the complaints; just or unjult, called forth by his
former speech, would have been tilought a sufficient ex-
planation of a more palatable declaration of opinion.
But the Prime Minister is not a man to retract.
He may have been charged with an imprudent dis-
regard' of popular judgment, but he has never been
accused 'of a servile disposition to truckle to any ma-
jori y. It is because the sentiments avowed last night
are consistent with those which, not without the fault
of the speaker, had occasioned so much anxiety within
the last few days, that the country will place full con-
fidence in the good faith with which Lord Aberdeen—
while appealing to his colleagues to testify to the
zeal with which he has uniformly urged forward the
rreparations for the war—aonounces his determination
to carry on hostilities with vigour,
No speaker or writer has dealt more clearly or more
vigorously than Lord Aberle'en, in his speech of last
_night, with the question of restoring the status quo ante.
Austria and Prussia, he says, who are still at peace
with Russia, may, if they think fit, consent to abstain
from hostilities on the condition of the evacuation of the
Principalities. • All Europe, indeed, and even the Porte
itself, would, up to the very eve of the war, have con-
sented to the same solution of the quarrel. "We
thought that it was quite as much as the Emperor of
Russia could expect us to offer, and much more than he
bad any right to expect. But, my lords, we proposed it
in the hove that we should be able to preserve the state
of peaCe.' But the Prime Minister distinctly states that,
with the declaration of war, the status quo ante was ipso
facto at an end. "The instant war was declared, the
state of the question was entirely altered. From that
moment everything depended upon the war itself, and
we are left free to exercise our own judgment—to do
that which we think will best suit our own interests and
policy in framing the terms of peace." Too little atten-
tion was, perhaps, given to the remark which his lordship
made in:his former speech, that a peace concluded with
the Russians at Constantinople would differ widely from
that which might be enforced by an allied army occupy-
ing St. Petersburg. Lord Aberdeen sees that both the
time and the nature of the treaty to be made hereafter
must be determined by the events of the war ; and it is
for this reason thit, as we have already seen, he has
been foremost in urging the immediate advance of the
auxiliary armies to join the gallant force commanded by
Omer Pacha. The knowledge that the most devoted
adherent of peace is the strenuous advocate of active
hostilities, will tend greatly to strengthen. the confi-
dence of the country in the Government.
The Ministerial declaration of last night lays down
with perfect precision the position of all the European
Powers. Austria and Prussia are at liberty, if they
think fit, to accept the reported evacuation of the
Principalities as an inducement to prolong their neu-
trality, and, if possible, to negotiate a peace. England
and France are, on the othershand, equally free to put
forward and to enforce theirown more stringent demands.
The Russian fiction, that a project of Prince Metternich's
had already been received with approbation in England,
is proved to be a deliberate falsehood.- The only coma'
munication which Lord Aberdeen has had with the ex-
Chancellor of the. Empire since his own accession to
office, was stated- to the House of Lords with humorous
candour and solemnity. A lady told the Premier that
she was writing to the Prince, and asked if his lordship
had any message to send. The reply was,l" Pray, pre-
sent to your correspondent my very best remembrances,'

The much-talked•of despatch on the Treaty of Adria

nople will be read with historical interest, rather than
with any immediate anxiety. 'Lord Aberdeen admits
that he bad underrated the power and resources of
Turkey, and that we have 'now had proof of the vigour,
of the energy, and of the courage and perseverance with
which the troops of that empire have maintained
the integrity and independence of their country.
But it certainly does not appear that he believed in the
moderation of Russia ; and he unhesitatingly charac-
terizes the treaty in question as "unfortunate," "disas-
trous," and "in the highest degree dangerous and pre-
judicial to the interests of Europe." ThiS is not the
time for raking up the reasons which deterred the Duke
of Wellington and his colleagues from joining in that
armed resistance to the invasion of Turkey which was
proposed by Prince Metternich. The attitude of the
French Court may have had something to do with a
backwardness which has never, perhaps, been sufficiently
explained ; and, at all events, Lord Clatiricarde is ab-
surdly wrong in attributing to Charles X. and Prince
Polignac that cordial understanding between France and
England which Lord Aberdeen established, at a later
period, with the Parliamentary Monarchy of Louis
Philippe. The Bourbons were, on the very eve of their
fall, intriguing with the Czar against this country, and
the Duke of Wellington may have thought that a
Russo-French alliance would be precipitated by our
armed interference in Turkey. The affairs of the pre-
sent day are, however, far more interesting than these
historical speculations ; and the most important state-
ment relative to the Treaty of Adrianople is the Prime
MiniSter's assurance that the British Government will
not sanction its renewal. .

great a part in all French social novels. He has passed
a long life under misinterpretation. He has been be-
lieved—wrongfully believed, if we are to believe him,
to have been, and to be, the advocate of the supremacy
of the Austrian and Russian Powers in the European
system, especially as compared with that of Fiance and
England. He has been understood to say that, as re-
gards Europe, he cannot ersnceive there is anything to
to be apprehended from Russian aggression ; that 25
years of peace was purchased not amiss by the concession
of the Treaty of Adrianople ; that in the framing of that
treaty Russia exhibited an extraordinary forbearance
and generosity which entitles her especially to confidence
now ; that he has always Strong hopes of peace on some
terms, but what those terms are to be, or what is the
precise object for the attainment of which we are at war,
nobody on earth, not even Lord Aberdeen, can tell.
This is altogether a mistake, and these suppositions
entirely erroneous. We have for it the authority of
Lord Aberdeen, against whom, as himself assures us,
there are conspiracies as bitter and ill-intentioned as
they are ludicrous.
At the same time it can scarcely be expected that we
should be content to accept the profession of faith of a
proclaimed proselyte without some examination. To
what, then, does the new Aberdonian creed amount I
Lord Aberdeen believes that the policy of Russia has
undergone a complete change since the time of the Em-
press Catharine. He believes that she no longer seeks
territorial aggrandisement, but has regard the rather to
augmentation of political influence in European Courts.
He believes that there is no danger to Europe from
Russian aggression, because he believes that Russia has
no purely territorial design upon Turkey. He believes
that it is impossible for himself or any man to say what
shall be the basis of the peace which we are warring to
obtain ; and therefore it is no less impossible than im-
politic for the Crown or its Prime Minister to declare
what are the objects with which we have levied armies,
despatched navies, borrowed monies, and doubled taxa-
tion. Still, says the noble earl, "I am for carrying on
the war, now that we are in it, with the utmost vigour
till we get something, I won't commit myself by saying
exactly what, begging only the nation never to forget
that we are engaged in a war strictly and exclusively
defensive, and that, therefore, we ought to refrain, as
much as possible, from aggressive movements." We
leave it to any man of common sonse, even though he
should never have read the treaties of Adrianople or
Unkior Skelessi, or even the secret correspondence,
whether a statesman with such a political faith is a de-
sirable or safe Premier for England at such a crisis as
the present. We believe that, although the mode of its
development may undergo some modification, the policy
of Russia is the same as it was in the time of the Em-
press Catharine.

(Front the Daily Ni'ws.)
Last night was presented in the House of Lords the
edifying spectacle of Lord Aberdeen eatin!, a leek. The
magnanimous Gordon is ready to do anything to retain
office ; he will eat his own words ; he will rant like Ta-
merlane, in the old tragedy. Or rather he will rant like
another leek-eating hero—Ancient Pistol—who, when
Sir John Falstaff told him he would be quiet, and begged
the Ancient to quit the room, vowed to his fellow Bar-
dolph he could murder Doll Tearsheet's ruff. Dr.
Johnson calls the last chapter of his "Rasselas " " the
conclusion, in which nothing is concluded." Lord Aber-
deen's speech last night may be called, " the explana-
tion, in which nothing is explained."
Lord Aberdeen is the recognised Prime Minister,
though at the head of a coalition Cabinet ; he will not
pretend that his Whig allies have been More lukewarm
in the cause of Turkey than his own partisans ; or if
they were, lie has stuffed two of his own retainers into
the Nar Department, placed another at the head of the
Admiralty, and entrusted the keeping of the national
purse to another. Thus firmly seated, could lie do nothing
but "exhort" ?—only beg and pray his colleagues and
generals to have the goodness to be as active as pos-
sible ? If he had really been in earnest, he would have
commanded instead of merely exhorting. But that he
has not done so is clear from the fact that so much of the
summer has elapsed, and not one of the western troops
has crossed weapons with the enemy north of the Balkan.
The Turks have compelled the Russians to abandon the
siege of Silistria—as they formerly drove them back
from Kalafat—before one man of the allied troops has
come up to their aid. With this fact staring us in the
face, for Lord Aberdeen to vapour and boast about his
urgency to have the allied troops close up on the north
of the Balkan, is mere empty rhodomontade. He is
speaking big in the House of Lords to keep his place ;
but he has not acted with the energy and promptitude
that were required to lend Turkey efficient aid.
This is the real question—Has Lord Aberdeen pushed
on the war with due energy 1 or have we anything be-
yond equivocal words to warrant a hope that he will now
push it on with energy and a satisfactory conclusion 1
The symptoms of a predetermination in certain quar-
ters, under pretence of assisting Turkey, to hold its arms
and prevent it from hitting the Czar too hard, are be-
coming more alarming. The Russians have been com-
pelled, by unaided Turkish valour, to retreat from
before Silistria ; and immediately the Russian organ in
the English press publishes a statement that the Czar
has consented to " evacuate the Danubian Provinces"
out of pure deference to Austria. After so flattering a
compliment, Austria cannot deal severely with its po-
lite northern neighbour : and Austria, we are told, is
about to occupy the Danubian Provinces . To what
end ? The lands which the Sultan's army has rescued
for him from the grasp of the invader, the Sultan's army
can hold for their master without Austrian aid. If
Austria advances into the Principalities when the Rus-
sians quit them, it can only be to place its soldiery be-
' ween the Turks and Russians in order to shield the
)eaten party."