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London, England, 1853-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1853.

CAminkro's knife-grinder last evening addressed
the House of Commons in the person of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. " Story, GOD bless you ! I have
none to tell, sir," might have been the Noble
Lord's candid avowal to Mr. SPEAKER, in lieu of
his elaborate but meaningless and most uns9,tisfac-
jory explanation. For, stripping his speech of
all its superfluous phraseology, the so-called dis-
closure made by the Leader of that branch of the
Legislature amounts, in point of fact, to no reve-
lation whatsoever. It concludes, indeed, with the
.kpression of a hope that before any considerable
'lapse of time these difficulties in regard to Turk-
fsh independence may be brought to something like
a satisfactory settlement. But circumstances, we
conceive, required from a British Minister at this
moment rather more than the utterance of an
empty aspiration. It might have been reasonably
calculated at least that the country would have
learnt something positive in reference to the pro-
bable issue of recent negotiations—instead of
being left quite as much in a state of uncertainty
as ever on the very eve of the Prorogation of
Parliament. We might not unreasonably at any
rate have conjectured that for once the tim-
orous silence of the ARERDEEN Coalition might
have been broken ; that for once its pusillanimously
interrupted recensions might have been full, or,
at least as far as they went, explicit ; that for
°nee the la
have been
in
employed in its name might
dignity,
then all essential respects worthy of the
British c4overesolution, and the authority of a
thus characterine-nt. Instead, however, of being
in the House
nreel, the speech delivered yesterday
:mons by Lord -T
was remarkable OHN RUSSELL,
most
unwarrantable
its surprising and, all
things considered
tions. Everything announced
nawarrmitable reserva-
Lord last evening by the Noble
was Qualneed
perfectly well
known to the great mass of rtheaedy
'-'option. No-
thing at all was added by lina
and
drecise situa-
popular intelligence relating to
to the sum of
o tion of affairs between the SULTAN
CRA T. It was absolutely notorious,
for example,
AUTO-
example,
that the proposals forwarded from Vienna
in the
name of the Four Powers were generally under
Stood to have been accepted by the CZAR, accord:
ing to the latest advices received from St. Peters-
burg. What it was desirable should be learnt
was—not the rumour of that acceptance—but the
nature of those propositions. Withholding
from us in the name of diplomatic expediency,
the information that could alone be viewed as of
any importance, the Cabinet of Lord ADERDEEN
imparts to the public, succinctly enough, a variety
of particulars with which the majority were al-
ready acquainted. England is still expected to
repose a blind and implicit confidence in the po-
licy of the Coalition Government, although the
Leaders of that Administration persist in with-
holding facts from the country such as ought
moat assuredly to constitute at this hour its only
rational justification. It is under these auspices,
moreover, that the Legislative Session is brought
to the
time when botCHouses are to be prorogued.
parliament in fore i
,other words, is about to separate, be-
anythin
% whateverthe has been positively con-
cluded between
negotiating Cabinets of Europe
before anythingenunciated by the w'at:ever has been distinctly
of Coalitionmanlya, Ministry in the way
of uncertain Planthe
Yet, at this juncture
ty, natild is e xPeetel to
complete and unconditional
reliancea
cer;ty of the pacific views in the sin-
.Emperort .bthe
.Emperor NICHOLAS, as well as tin 11-te4 to :the
patriotic policy of the Earl of ABERD andwise
Nis
most
mysterious Administration.

Credit is to be attached to the pacific views of

the AUTOCRAT—after the duplicity with which he

treated the Powers of the Continent in the mat-

ter of the Holy Places—after the arrogance with
which he insulted the Sublime Porte, for the pur-

poses of intimidation—after the insolent words
of MENSCHIKOFF, and the aggressive acts of
GORTZSCHAKOFE—nay, after the passage of the
Pruth and the usurpation of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities !
Reliance is to be placed in the foreign policy of
the ABERDEEN Coalition—when it is known that
that policy prompted the Divan to permit the
seizure of the Moldavian and Wallachian pro-
vinces by Russia, without the faintest effort at
retaliation—when it is seen that that policy
tolerated, with little more than an impotent mur-
mur, the Muscovite interference with the rights
of the Hospodar at Jassy—when it is understood,
moreover, that that policy is so arranging recent
differences between the Powers at St. Petersburg
and Constantinople that the SULTAN will concili-
ate the CZAR by more concessions than were ever
demanded by the Russian Government !
Entirely, though -reluctantly, do we find our-
selves compelled to acknowledge the justice of the
condemnation pronounced last night, by the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman the member for Ayles-
bury, upon the members of the Coalition Govern-
ment. Cordially do we sympathise in the indigna-
tion with which Mr. LAYARD declared that, in the
management of this affair at Constantinople, Eng-
Iland had been degraded to the position of a second-
rate, and Russia elevated to the position of a first-
rate, Power in Christendom. Yes! the melan-
choly truth glares through all this veil of pretended
victory—through all this haze and mist of minis-
terial self-glorification. Ruglandhas consented to a
disgraceful compromise, and is striving to con-
sole herself by calling it a triumph of diplomacy.
She has permitted Russia to commit the most
flagrant acts of injustice with impunity to herself,
but with loss of dignity to the rest of the nations
of Christendom, and with a virtual loss of inde-
pendence to Turkey. And all these degrading
results of our policy are to be compensated by the
maintenance of international tranquillity—a peace
purchased by the most ignominious concessions made
to the lawless pride of the AUTOCRAT. No wonder
that a policy such as that elicits the eulogium of
those politic poltroons who are always running
a-muck after the Will-o'-the-wisp of Arbitration.

Any sentiments more disgraceful to the House
of Commons were, perhaps, never uttered within
the walls of that assembly than by the Hon. Gen-
tleman the Member for the West Riding
of Yorkshire, towards the close of yester-
day's discussion ! Sentiments derogatory to
the honour of Great Britain, and (from being
strictly in accordance with the acts of her Minis-
ters) injurious to her influence, and destructive of
the glory and the majesty of her reputation. Mr.
CARLYLE once spoke of Mr. COBDEN as a " politi-
cal bagman." It is deeply to be regretted that a
man of his eminent abilities should ever have
given that vulgar soubriquet the shadow of a sem-
blance of its applicability. If ever the sneer of
the Scotch Dreamer was justified, it was assuredly
upon the occasion of that speech delivered by
Mr. COBDEN in the House of Commons yesterday.
Talk, forsooth, of crumpling up the Russian Em-
pire like a sheet of paper ! Rather talk in future
of our cringing like stricken hounds before the
brandished knout of his Imperial Majesty the
AUTOCRAT !

Let it be observed that Mr. COBDEN closed his
most un-English remarks of last evening with a
panegyric upon, the " peaceful policy" of the Coali-
tion. Praise such as that was rather too bitter a pill
to be swallowed with anything like complacency by
Lord PALMERSTON. Accordingly we find him rising
on the instant to protest in words that burnt with
something of the warmth of his ancient fervour,
that encomiums like those lavished upon the
Ministry by the Member for the West Riding,
were, at least by one of them, promptly, loudly,
and indignantly repudiated. Alas ! the force of
that noble but impotent protest—noble in origin,
but impotent in influence—goes at this hour for
absolutely nothing. Mr. COBDEN is only too well
justified in commending as he has done what
he delights to designate the " pacific policy" of
the Coalition GLvernmen t. The eulcgium may be
instinctively recoiled from, it is true—but it must
also be officially endured—by Lor 1 PALMERSTON.
After refusing to eat humble pie upon a memor-

able occasion, when the seals of the Foreign-office

were thrown aside like the veriest bagatelle—it
must be terrible to nibble, with a smiling face, at
the leek of a FLUE-GLEN.

It cannot be supposed that the reformers of the
landlord and tenant code will be prepared to yield
submissively to the spirit displayed by certain
hereditary legislators in opposition to the land
bills, and to the very great want of spirit exhi-
bited by the Premier on the same subject, to
which we directed the public attention last week.
Lord ABERDEEN apparently thought that he had
achieved a signal triumph when he persuaded the
dissentient Peers to abstain from a very striking'
demonstration by utterly rejecting measures, the
fruits of constant labour for many years, and
which, if found practically operative, would have
done more to effect the complete tranquillisation,
and with it the regeneration, of Ireland, than all

he statutes that have been enacted since the
great measure for the removal of the civil and re-
ligious disabilities of our Roman Catholic brethren
received the Royal assent. He entreated with
humility, almost equal to that with which he would
have supplicated an Envoy from the CzAR, that
they should not be ignominiously kicked out of
the House—surrendering at the first appearance
of opposition all that was really in dispute, by
consenting to the withdrawal of all the bills for
the present session. He freely and willingly
pledged himself that if the several bills were read
a second time, it should be on the understanding
that they should proceed no further for the time
being. The enemy should be fierce indeed who
would refuse to assent to these conditions—
who would not allow a strong antagonist
to • march out with all the honours of war
on surrendering possession of a still tenable for-
tress. What, in fact, more beneficial to the
cause of landlordism could they have accom-
plished than the withdrawal of the bills ? The
hereditary legislators are not desirous of coming
into collision with the representatives of the
people on trivial or insufficient grounds ; they
are too well aware that they must eventually
retire from such a contest, and a reckless deter-
mination to precipitate the crisis would only have
been injurious to themselves, not to their oppo-
nents. That which is gained by diplomacy is
far better than a similar acquisition by open
force, and the malcontents must have hugged
themselves with. joy when they found the proposi-
tion emanating from the " excellent ABERDEEN,"
that all the measures should be tranquilly shelved
for the
for an indefinite period. As there was nothing
in such
a course binding them to any future pro-
ceeding, it was, of course, assented to ; and thus,
of the
upresent, stands the all-important question
relations between the owners and
the occupiers of
of the soil in the sister kingdom.
We confess
unexpected termianra,Yt
feeling of temptehrat, although we cannot help a
disappointment at this very
have been so ably andnlld. of the proceedings that
since last November, it is
carried on
con-
viction that the postponementstill our firm
fic
will be bene-
ial to the good cause,
anci
of the actual occupiersthat the rights
of the soil will be
more clearly and better defined under the
new legislation; that is inevitable, and that at a
very
early period, -Li tan under the measures thus shelved
for the time he ing. The popular cause is invari-
ably benefited by procrastination. A. spirit is
excited among the disappointed suitors who have
justice on their side, which astonishes their op_
in the first in-
Fon nts, and sp e edily leads to even more extensive
con ssions than tvere de ;nanded.
stan_ e. The Fybi books was
found el on ll iY
a. ' thoroughtliof the
knowledge of human
llustrated in the
seen the prlncip.le powerfully
nature ; and ever 1 within our own times we have
extraordinaLT impetus given to the demand for a
large and c om prehensive measure of reform, by
the conteraptu ous refusal to confer the Elective
Franchise on i some of the more important inanu-
facturing tows
in lieu of petty boroughs, by

whose systematic corruption it had been justly
forftiked. Had the members been given to Bir-
mingham, on the disfranchisement of East Ret-
ford, the modern Magna Charta (the Reform Bill)
would not have been so speedily carried, or by
any means so extensive in its operation. The ad-
vocates of " Tenant Right," in its due significa-
tion, such as that which has been in ope-
ration in certain districts of Ulster since
before the Commonwealth, may console them-
selves with this reflection. The justice and
expediency of their demand has been recog-
nised
by men of all parties in both Houses of Par-
liament. It has found its way into the inmost
recesses of Downing-street under the DERBY Go-
vernment, and under the Joint-Stock Administra-
tion. The Attorney-General of Lord DERBY has
been zealously and .efficiently seconded by the
Solicitor-General of Lord ABERDEEN ; KEOGH has
sustained and supported NAPIFX, ; and whatever
doubts may be entertained as to the ardour of
either Cabinet, there can be none as to the enthu-
siasm, the efficiency, and the honesty of the Irish
Law Officers of the Crown on the great question
of Landlord and Tenant Reform. We rejoice to
find that justice has been done to these Right

Hon. Gentlemen by the northern deputation, and
that a well-merited tribute of praise has been
accorded to KEOGH and NAPIER for their inva-

luable exertions in promoting the industrial rights
of their countrymen. Whatever differences may
exist on minor points, or on the details between

these Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, both are ani-
mated by an equally zealous and honest determi-
nation to prove that if " property has its duties
as well as its rights," industry likewise has " its
rights as well as its duties"—that legislation must
no longer be one-sided, but must look to the inte-
rests of the occupiers as well as of the owners—of
the cultivators, as well as of the proprietors of the
soil.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, AUG. 16.

The Queen and Prince, the Princess Helena, and the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the
Hon. Mary Seymour, and the Hon. Captain de Ros,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

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A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walter Westrup, the
inventor of the new system of grinding wheat, Dr. Dun-
das Thomson, F.R.S.E., the eminent millwright, Mr.
Middleton, Mr. W. Pairtt, miller, the Solicitors and
others, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell at the Board of Trade, to support the peti-
tion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex, Lord Port-
man, C. P. Villiers, M.P., R. A. Christopher, M.P.,
Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., C. Hadley, M.P., W.
A. Mackinnon, M.P., J. B. Carter, M.P., and B. B.
Cabbell, F.R.S., M.P., for a Royal Charter of Incorpo-
ration of the " Royal Conical Flour Mill Company." In
the unavoidable absence of Lord Beaumont, Mr. North-
house, the Parliamentary manager of the petitions, in-
troduced the deputation, and argued the case.
Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial.
office to the Governors of the West India Islands.
Dispatches were received yesterday from the Gover-
nors of the West Coast of Africa.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Platt.)

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR

OF THE FRENCH.

Edouard Baynaud, 36, described as a tailor, was in-
dicted for unlawfully attempting to conspire with others
to kill and murder Louis Napoleon the Emperor of the
French.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson conducted the prose-
cution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Wollett.
The trial excited a good deal of interest, and the court
was very much crowded. Prince de Joinville occupied
a seat on the bench, and was attended by his secretary.
The whole particulars of the case have already been
published in detail, and it will only be necessary to re-
capitulate some of the main facts. The prisoner, who
is a tailor by trade, lived at 4, Gerrard-place, Golden-
square, and he was charged with sending three letters
to Prince de Joinvillo offering to assassinate Louis Na-
poleon, the Emperor of the French, for the sum of 201.
On receiving these letters, his Highness handed them
to Sir Richard Mayne, the Commissioner of Police, who
set an inquiry on foot, and the prisoner was traced to
Southampton, and apprehended. On being taken into
custody he expressed his regret at having sent the let-
ters, and said he wrote them while labouring under an
affection of the head, for which he had been under treat-
ment at the hospital at Southampton. The present pro-
secution was instituted against him by the direction of
the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Prince de Joinville was the first witness called. He was
examined through an interpreter, and deposed to re-
ceiving the letters, but said lie knew nothing of the pri-
soner, and saw him for the first time at Bow-street. He
added, in cross-examination, that he was in the habit of
receiving many applications from exiles for money.
A Russian, named Lemiot, identified the handwriting
of the prisoner, and said he had frequently gone with
him in search of work. Sometimes they were unsuccess-
ful, and on these occasions he was very much upset and
depressed, and seemed troubled in his mind.
John Saunders, of the detective force, said he arrested
the prisoner at Southampton, and that he expressed
his regret at having sent the letters to the Prince.
The letters, and a literal translation of them, were
then put in and read.
This concluded the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Wollett objected to the prosecution on the ground
that Claremont, where the letters were received, was
beyond the jurisdiction of this Court.
Mr. Baron Platt over-ruled the objection.
Mr. Wollett then addressed the jury on the part of
the prisoner. He contended that the prisoner had no
intention of carrying out the threat contained in his
insane letters, andthat his only object was to get money.
If he really had any serious thought of assassinating
the Emperor, he would have made some preparation,
but no evidence was adduced to show that he had in
his possession any infernal machine, knife, pistol, or
other weapon, with which to commit the deed. Under
these circumstances he did not think the jury would be
justified in finding him guilty of the serious offence
alleged in the indictment.
Mr. Baron Phtt then summed up the case, and said
the only question for the consideration of the jury was
whether the prisoner intended to induce Prince de Join-
ville to join in the conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor.
If they believed that to be his object, they would find
him guilty ; if not, they would return a verdict of ac-
quittal.
The jury then retired, and after an absence of about
twenty minutes, they returned into court, when the fore-
man announced that they had agreed to a verdict of
not guilty, intimating that they thought the only object
of the prisoner was to extort money from Prince de
Joinville.

SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE SOUTH EASTERN RAIL-
WAY.—Last evening, a fearful collision, attended with
numerous personal injuries and a great loss of railway
property, occurred on the South-Eastern Railway, near
the Croydon station. The express train which left
Dover at 7.20 with a long line of carriages, was pro-
ceeding with its usual rapidity when, on nearing the
Croydon station, it dashed into a cattle-box which was
attached to an engine and tender that was proceeding
on the same line. The engine-driver and stoker of the
latter instantly jumped off and fortunately escaped.
Many of the passengers were severely wounded. The
officials instantly procured surgical aid, and had two or
three cases that presented rather a serious aspect re-
moved to the surgery of the nearest medical gentleman.
Dr. Bryant, of Bristol, accompanied by his lady and
daughter, occupied the third carriage from the engine-
The doctor, who is in a very delicate state of health,
suffered severely by the shock, while his lady was sorely
wounded about the head, and his daughter had one of
her teeth knocked out. All the passengers were knocked
off their seats and dashed with great violence against
each other. As soon as the passengers had recovered
from the fright and shock, they were transferred to an-
other train, which conveyed them to the London Bridge
terminus, where they arrived an hour after their usual
time.
A YOUNG FEMALE BURNT TO DEATH AT TOTTENHAM
HIGH-CROSS GRAMMAR-SCHOOL—This morning, Mr.
Payne, the City Coroner, received information of the
following frightful occurrence, which resulted in the
almost immediate death of Maria Knight, aged sixteen
years. It appears that the unfortunate young woman
who was employed at the Grammar-school, Tottenham,
High-cross, was engaged at the kitchen-fire last evening,
when by some accident a portion of her dress became
ignited, and in affright she ran screaming into the yard,
where the wind made the flames spread rapidly, and be-
fore assistance arrived her clothes were burnt to tinder,
on removing which, portions of the flesh adhered. A
surgeon was called in who recommended her removal to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and she was conveyed to
London by the half-past 6 o'clock train vid the Eastern
Counties Railway. On her arrival with the matron at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, she was immediately taken
under the care of Mr. Archer, resident surgeon in Har-
ley's ward, but the injuries were so extensive, her chest
being completely denuded of flesh, that she expired in a
very short time after admission.
opera-
tions '
PRODUCE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the
b
little d
Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets state that
htiuoousnivnse evssehsro,hweaeoddanairoi:tlieglici been very
tendency
rysuac ttoiorytee.d,Caonfidee someantld
eossupegerrai
par,:
advance. The •
AMERICAN ALiOnEt
in nee were not
. numerous, but holders manifested
aesiereatto press sales. Purchases of indigo had
ibnegenhZhct
prices,
improvement ; dried fruits were bring-
firmness. es, and the quotations for tea exhibited
ALOE.--A beautiful specimen of this plant
Earl of Mount Ed bloom in the Italian garden of the
courrnbe, at Plymouth. It is now
is now bursting
nearly as high as theg
feetge conservatory,hen but it is
The plant is said to be aboutw 100 years ise
ex-
pected to reach aboutaartsitosixl'ulalngdrowth.
ssom.there
s are about 30 spikes of flowers comingy into blossom.