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TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

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PUPLIC MEETING IN THE TOWER HAMLETS.
A public meeting of the inhabitants, of the Tower
Hamlets was held last evening -at the Beaumont Institu-
tion, Beamont-square, for the purpose of giving expres-
sion to public opinion, with respect to the aggressions of
Russia, and considering the steps which ought to be
taken by Government and the country. The meeting
was well attended, the large room being full. On the
motion of Mr. Newton, Captain Mayne Reid was called
to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN observed that he need not inform them
what was the object of that meeting, for there was
not a man in the room whose heart did not tell him
that he was there as a friend of Turkey. He might urge
numerous reasons why they should have that sentiment in
their heart. They were thereby supporting the material
interests of this country. Even now, the threatening
attitude held by the Czar had produced a commercial
stagnation that was felt in England, and the present
high price of bread was the result of that stagnation.
What were the designs of the first Czar of Russia ?
The mastery of Europe. It was plainly written in his
testament, which had been discovered and published.
What said Alexander ? " Constantinople is the key of
my house ;" but he did not mean that his house should
be Russia. He intended to make it a house of many
mansions. Europe was the house to which he referred.
And what said the present Czar? Did they think he
intended to go back from the testament left him by his
predecessor ? No, since the first history of Russia none
of its Czars had shown the same energy and determine-
tion to carry out the designs of Peter the Great. What
he wanted was an ocean in which to float his shiPs, and
if he got that he would in a few years create both the
ships and the men, and then the material interest of
England would suffer, for Russia would become the
mistress of the seas. They had further to think on the
ciliation of international law and of English honour,
and if they allowed the Czar of Russia, when he pleased,
to enter a weak country and say he should interfere
because the population were not contented, from that
moment the Emperor of Russia, or any other despot,
might, whenever he pleased, despoil the weaker neigh-
bour. The gallant captain then went on to speak of
Mr. Cobden and the peace party. He characterised the
opinions of Mr. Cobden on this question as solemn ab-
surdities. Mr. Cobden said he did not see on the plat-
forms at these meetings men who were the recognised
representatives of public opinion. lid (Captain Mayne
Reid) replied that the people were there, and they were
unanimous in their condemnation of the Czar. If there
were any recreants it was these representatives of public
opinion.
Mr. W. NEWTON then read the following letters,
which had been received in reply to invitations to attend
the meeting :

"6, Stratford-place, Oxford-street, Oct. 24.
• "Sir,—ln reply to your note of this date, inviting
me, in the name of the Tower Hamlets Committee, to a
• meeting on the Eastern question, to be held in the
Beaumont Institution, Beaumont-square, on Wednesday
evening next, the 26th, I have to express my regret that
an engagement of very long standing makes it impossible
; for me to attend.
"Public meetings on this question, if properly got up
and judiciously managed, appear to me calculated to do
a great deal of good. But if care be not taken to consult
influential persons as to the resolutions to be proposed,
their effect will be impaired ; and if topics not connected
directly with the main subject have an undue prominence
given to them, they will do absolute harm. If war
should beco me necessary, and if the result of that war
should (as very likely it may) be the restoration of inde-
pendence to Poland, to Hungary, and to Italy, and the
extension of liberty all over the world, no man will re-
joice at it more than myself. At the same time the
object of these meetings is not to ,produce that result,
but simply to induce the Government, by resisting the
unjustifiable and iniquitous aggressions of Russia upon
Turkey, to vindicate the good faith and defend the in-
terests of our own country. If therefore the enthusiasm
of the persons assembled is directed to any other objects,
however good in themselves, the demonstration will have
a diminished effect, for it will be a demonstration in
favour of a different purpose from the one proposed.
The letter on the Eastern question addressed to me by
Lord (Beaumont, from Geneva, and published in the
morning papers, contains some excellent remarks on the
subject of such meetings. I have the honour to be, sir,
yours faithfully,
"To Mr. Newton." "DUDLEY COUTTS STUART.
Letters were also read from Mr. Chas. S. Butler,
M.P., and Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P., who expressed
their regret that they could not attend. Sir W. Clay,
he said, had also been written to, but no answer had
been received from him.
Mr. NEWTON then moved a resolution, declaring the
invasion of the Danubian Principalities by the Emperor
of Russia, a wanton and unjustifiable aggression on the
territories of Turkey, and a violation of international
law, calculated to endanger the interests and imperil the
liberties of Western Europe ; and also declaring that it
is the duty of this country to afford effectual assistance
to enable Turkey fe repel this aggression, and to ab-
stain from diplomatic intercourse with Russia until
satisfactory -reparation has been made. Mr. Newton
argued that we were bound to Turkey, because when
the demands on her were made by Russia, the advice
of England to Turkey was not to submit to them.
Mr. Cobden said the Turkish nation was effete, but
the Turkish Government was more tolerant than that
of Russia. The Greek Christians in Turkey did not
want the protectorate of Russia. The people of this
country would all agree with Mr. Cobden and the peace
party that war was an evil. They did not like war, but
they liked despotism less.
Mr. MOONEY supported the resolution.
Mr. D. URQUHART said the conduct of the Govern-
ment had been universally condemned by the people of
this country, and yet the people had not the power to
change either the men or the measures. It was to dis-
cuss that question that had brought him there. He
contended that Russia had not a victim that was not
their victim. He considered it was a delusion to talk of
falling nations. Look at Spain. It was overrun by half a
million French soldiers, under able generals, but they could
not subdue the Spanish people. The Spanish peasants
drove the French soldiers out of the country. And so it
would be with Turkey and the Russian soldiers. He
pointed to the fact that at the recent grand council in
Turkey the persons composing it, not having power to
impose a tax on the people, voluntarily raised amongst
themselves and their friends a sum equal to two thirds
of the annual revenue. He did not agree in the opinion
that our Government had committed a blunder in this
matter. What they had done was intentional. The fl eet
was ordered to pass the Dardanelles to support the Sultan
against his people if he accepted the Vienna )
He was glad of the interruption.
note. No, our
Government did not act blindly.
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wisdom of the Czar turned into
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then put. and. carried unanimously.
havelf
rowasposed a resolution characterising the
ministers as deficient in energy, and declaring
foreign relations will be administered with
that the people of this country. .cannot have.. any confi-
dence that the
conduct 3Tihre. HOWELLr
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that good faith and energy the occasion demands, so
long as they are under the uncontrolled guidance of the
Present Cabinet.
Mr. MATTHIAS seconded the resolution.
Mr. CAEDOE proposed an amendment that the posi-
tion now occupied by Russia could only have been
brought about by collusion with the English Govern-
ment.

The amendment Was added to the resolution, which
then passed.
Another resolution was then proposed by Mr. BEARD,
and seconded by Captain HAMPTON, and also agreed to,
to the effect that it is time that the foreign affairs of a
great nation like England were conducted straightfor-
wardly and openly, and not through the tortuous chan-
nels of secret diplomacy.
The meeting then separated.

A SAD STORY.—A boatman on returning to Fatoe,
in Sleswig, on the sth inst., reported that he had sighted
a vessel at sea capsized ; boats were sent out in search,
and 0.1 approaching. the hull a tapping was heard. A
hole was made in the bottom, and a young Englishman
discovered in a most delirious state, standing up to his
chest in water. He was taken to Nordby, and carefully
tended, but died there on the Bth inst. In his wander-
ings he continually repeated the inscription of a medal
he wore, "Let every man do his duty." It is supposed
that the vessel had been bound from Hull to Hamburg,
and was lost in the storm of the night of the 26th Sep-
tember, in which case our hapless fellow-countryman
had been in that pitiable position 11 days before ho was
extricated.
THE Loss OF THE ANNIE JANE.—The following
names of sufferers lost in the Annie Jane are to be
added to the lists which have already appeared
Mrs. Jessie 111'Neclinie, and her five children, Cathe.
tine, Mary, Jessie, Eliza, and Malcolm, from Paisley.