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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1853.

It remains to be seen whether the Earl of
CLARENDON and the Earl of ABERDEEN may not,
ere long, be solemnly impeached before the High
Court of Parliament. It remains to be seen
whether they will not have to be arraigned on the
aggregate charge of having .compromised the dig-
nity of the British Crown—of having jeopardised
the tranquillity of Europe—of having slighted
France and neglected Turkey—of having deceived
and infuriated the Russian AUTOCRAT. A brief
interval will acquaint the people of these islands
with the accuracy or the falsehood of these most
formidable and momentous accusations. The truth
must, indeed, within a few hours, be elicited from
Ministers in one or other, or, more likely, iu both
Houses of the Imperil Legislature. It will then
be learnt whether the extraordinary statements
recently put forward by the Press of Saturday,
and by the Herald of this morning, are actually
correct, or simply supposititious. Those state-
ments, it must be confessed, are as bold as they
are categorical. They are to the effect that,
early in the spring of this year, the demands
then about to be made upon the Sublime Porte
by the AUTOCRAT were formally submitted by
Baron BRUNOW, the Russian Ambassador at the
Court of St. James's, to the Earl of CLARENDON,
her Britannic MAJESTY'S principal Foreign Secre-
tary. It is added, by the political organs
alreatly specified, that the object of the CZAR in
making this communication through his represen-
tative, was to ascertain, biiereband, the views
entertained upon these subjects by the English
Government. Lord CLARENDON is stated to have
raised no objection to the demands then submitted
to his consideration, to have obstructed them, in-
deed, with no manner of discouragement what-
soever ! It is observed, moreover, that although
the Earl of ABERDEEN was, the Cabinet collec-
tively was not, consulted by • the Chief of the
Foreign Department and that only afterwards,
the course pursued in the name of the Coalition
was reversed, on the folly of Lord CLARENDON'S
proceedings being explained by Lord PALMERSTON
to the assembled Administration. Assertions like
. these, assertions so grave in theirnature and so posi-
tive in their utterance, must perforce be brought
forthwith under the scrutiny of Parliament. It must
be at once decided whether there is the slighest
particle of truth in these terrible charges, put for-
ward against the Ministry by the weekly and
daily organs of the OppOsition.
Until all this be cleared up, it must be allowed
that there is considerable show of probability in
the declarations above mentioned, however start-
• ling and unprecedented. The furious conduct of the
Emperor IsTreuoras--hitherto notoriously a man
of calm and wily calculation—remains otherwise
altogether inexplicable. So also continues that
unaccountable order sent
Admiral DUNDAS to weeks since to
abstain from proceeding at
once—as the French fleet did—to the entrance
of the Dardanelles. Happily but a brief period is
now requisite before the whole of these bewilder-.
ilidoubts,and difficulties may be removed by the
promptitude olta parliamentary explanation.
Simultaneous with the receipt of these as-
tounding• t two important
ChargeS Members
`to' the Coalition— oainst the Prime Minister and
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the Foreign Se —there reaches us the
iumour esterday revr rY
alent in the French Capi-
y
taltikhat, the Austrian Cabin
et is undecided
thrown into the AWE,
whe-
ther its inituence should be