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when once the_people are convinced that such ig the object
-of theitrulers, are really too fearful to Contemplate with-
ont.diSmay. Such a struggle would, we verily believe, '-`44:1
upheave the very foundations of society. Lard Aber- 4Z,
deen, as has been often stated commenced his career as
a ptrpiNif Metternich, the statesmen, par eolo4llence, of . '
the Holy Alliance; and by the traditions oat asso-
ciation the whole political life of the Premier has been
guided.
It is useless to refer to theevidence; which must have
long since had its, effect upon the public mind, of the in-
timate' connection of•the Czar and the Preinier as far
back as Adrianople in 1829, and the conferences of Lon-
, don in 1844, or to the fact that the Emperor Nicholas
resumed his designs within twelve days after -his " old
friend's " instalment in office. We pass over 'alio the 12
months of purposely prolonged negociations' the sicken-
ing catastrophe of Siiaope, the delays of Malta, Besika,
Beycos, and the variops checks which we have imposed
upon the Turk; and our hindrances of their acting
with energy at the proper time. All these topics are
familiar to our readers, and we come to the,present state
of things.
In the first place, the Russians have crossed the
Danube in force, and our auxiliary env of infantry is
'on the high seas, with a Miserable force of artillisry, and
not a single cavalry soldier. •That army will not be fit
to move out of its cantonments -at -Gallipoli before
August.

That army, as we told our readers in the autumn of
last year, should now be in.activity st Varna, where
' the presence of an Anglo-French fOrce of 'BO,OOO men
would Probably turn the scale of battle, and perhaps
finish the. war. - But-to have been at Varna iiithe early
spring, such an auxiliary• army should have been orga-
nised, in the winter.. It was not so organised, and if
sent to the Danube in the sintutnn it willle lost. Now
' England must /yap the titter.fruits of being unprepared.
Up ..to the very latest moment the Coalition thought
that they could avoid the war ; and even now they ima-
gine that it will never become a serious conflict. We
ar& not going to cast censu're upon any officer employed
by the Crown, in any delay which has taken place ;
however we may lament dilatory- proceedings, we are
sure that they are acting, wider orders... Soldiers are
never independent until absOlutely in the field. Often
.—too often—not then. It has been openly asserted
-that Lord Raglan makei no secret' of his opinion that
" that there will be no serious -fighting in Turkey."
We not believe that the noble chief of thellistern ex-
pedition ever did make such an. asilertion ; but we do
believe that he expressed an- opinion " that there would
be none this year." We fear that in so doing his lord-
ship only enunciated a self-evident fact. Her Majesty's
Ministers have taken good care, that unless the Turks
are totally- defeated on the -Danube, and early in the
year, that there shall be none. To send English or - French troops to Varna in driblets,'we assert, is to throw
away their lives ; and no large body can possibly take
the field before the fever commences in July. We are,
therefore, to have another year of fruitless • negotiations
—another year of exhausting expense to Turkey—an-
other year of machinations on the part of Russia to
rouse the slave populations—another yeir for 'Austria to
find out that Thessaly and Macedonia require her fos-
tering care as well as Servia and Bosnia, and to see the
necessity of occupying them, always in the interests of
the Ottoman Porte—another year for the Czar to at-
tempt to sow dissensions between England and France.
Where, we ask, does it appear that the Coalition is now.
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Again,' referring to the Turkish news, wufind, "the
new Mufti has been insulted." Who has done this ? We
answer 'Lord Aberdeen ; he it is who has thrown the
apple of discord between the Sultan and the fanetic Mus-
sulman population. Why was this done, if not in the
interests of Russia ? The fleet was kept at Beicos Bay
to coerce the population of the capital, and now that it
has taken its departure even the Times sees the danger.
So, characteristically, does the servile weekly ,organ of
the Peelites, the once respected Spectator=it now finds
out that "Turkish reforms may become an item in the
accounts of 'the English Chancellor oft. the Exche-
quer." Russian interests, however, required that these
disturbing questions should be thrown into the already
seething cauldron, and Lord Clarendon . did his
duty. The secret despatches and the St. Peter.lbourg
,'Journal have' shown that the Czar always held that the
introduction of those questions at a critical period was
the surest lever for breaking up the OttOman empire ;
and the Coalition took the hint. Most assuredly had he
been really consulted, each is the advice he would have
given.' We' say again, .Lord Aberdeen does not calcu-
late on a war. Let us look at hbme and see what pre-
parations are making for carryizwit on.. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer has made no sign of monetary prepare-
tion, except a small addition to the income tax. Surely
even the authtir of the abortive attempt to pay off the
South Sea Bonds does not imagine that a conflict with
the hugest military power in the world can be carried on
out of the current revenue,of the country. But if we
are not providing money, perhaps we are prepiring sol-
diers. We do not believe -that that great warrior, the
Colonial Secretary, can fancy that 25,000 men will° suf-
fice for so great is via-IC—Where, then, are the militia,
from which the army is to draft its supplies ? It is
exactly where Lord Derby's Government left its : 50,000
men have'been enrolled, out of the 80,000 promised for
this year, and the magniloquent announcement: that the
Scotch and Irish contingents were to be called% out has
passed_ to the winds.
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- With these facts before them; we fancy-few *ill agree
witu the Globe that. Mr. Urquhart
`earnest
insane ?ivhen he
Us' erts that the Coalition are not in earnest in
.support-
ing the Turkish empire.