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LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J UNE 27, 1854.

THE EABL OF ABERDEEN'S DEFENCE.

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 France and
England. He has been understood to say that, as re-
-garde Europe, he cannot conceive 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 genero=ity 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
Lard 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 ?
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.

(From, the Times.)

On one point we agree with a remark of Lord Clanri-
carde. When the duties of the Secretary of State for
War were divided from those of the Colonial-office, the
head of the Government had it in'his poWet; to give the,
country a pledge of the sincerity and 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 was not taken ;' for, as we have re-
peatedly observed, it is by superiority of military admi=
nistration that success in this war can most speedily be
secured. Lord Aberdeen assures us that lie has been at
least as zealous as any of his colleagues is promoting the
necessary preparations, and in uroing the advance of the
allied armies to unite with Omer Pasha, to relieve Silis-
tria, and to repel an enemy who, as it now turns out,
has already rutir,d from the scene of 'action. But what-
ever his personal 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 competent 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, flier/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.

(Front the Daily News.)
Last night was presented in the House of Lords the
edifying spectacle of Lord Aberdeen eating 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, he has stuffed two of his own retainers into
the War Department, placed another at the head of the
Admiralty, and entrusted the keeping of the national
purse to another. Thus firmly seated, could he 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 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 bard, 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 bold 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-
tween the Turks and Russians in order to shield the
beaten party."

THE WAR.

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
We regret to learn that Admiral Sir William Parker,
Bart., G.C.8., the commander in chief at Devonport, has
been very unwell since Friday last.
Advices were received yesterday, under date " Elsi-
nore, June 21," that four more. Russian ships, taken by
her Majesty's cruisers, had passed for the port of Lou'
don 'in charge of prize crews —namely, the Una, Brown
Master, the Norman, Dahl master, the Franc:sea,
Mukehien master, and the Stun Bille schooner.
The Russian bark cut out from Eckness by the Arro-
gant and Hecla arrived at Sheerness on Sunday 1a.4, in
charge of Mr. Arthur L. Galbrieth, mate of the Arro-
gant, and her prize crew. She was built at New Karlebv,
in the Gulf of Bothnia, in 1848: is laden with salt, and
is reported to be the Augusta, of New Karleby ; she
.carries about 800 tons of cargo at present, and was
stripped of her stores and abandoned by her crew.
By command of the High Court of Admiralty, the sale
of the Russian prize ships is appointed to _ commence at
Lloyd's on Friday, the 7th of July.
The Humber Dock officers of Customi have seized a
Russian bark called the Odessa. She was provided with
papers to make her appear a Tuscan vessel, but the
officers found concealed on board papers leaving no doubt
that she is bona fide Russian property.
Yesterday the French war steamer Brandon arrived
in the Downs froth Brest, en route to join the allied fleet
in the Baltic.
The Star, 8-gun sloop, arrived at Sheerness yesterday
morning from Chatham.
The Wolverine, 12-gun sloop, Commander John Cor-
bett, will swing ship for•the adjustment of her compasses
to-day, and proceed to the Nore to-morrow. The crew
will there be paid advance previous to her departure.
The Colossus, 80, screw, Captain Robinson, fitting
at Portsmouth, received her marine detachment yester-
day, and is progressing rapidly with her outfit.
The Rhadamanthus, paddlewheel steam store ship,
Master Commander John Belem, arrived on Sunday
morning at Woolwich, from Portsmouth, having brought
round a 'quantity of stores and parcels for the Baltic
fleet. They are to be put on board the Hannibal, 91,
for immediate despatch to the Baltic. She was taken
into the basin at Woolwich to day, and when she has
discharged her stores will commence taking on board
the machinery of the Curacoa, 30, screw steam frigate,
for conveyance to Portsmouth, as the Curacoa is to be
fitted at that port.
Rear-Admiral Maurice F. F. Berkeley, and. Captain
Sir Baldwin Walker arrived at Sheerness yesterday, in
the Black Eagle steam-yacht, Master-Commander John
E. Pettey, from Chatham. They visited the Dauntless,
32-gun steam frigate, on their passage down, and after-
wards proceeded to several departments in the yard, at-
tended by Captain-Superintendent Christopher Wyvill,
and Mr. Jonathan Aylen, Master-Attendant. The
Black Eagle took them back in the evening to Wool-
wich.
The Royal Albert, 131 guns, new screw steam-ship.—
Commander Alexander Little arrived at Sheerness yes-
terday afternoon to commission this ship. Mr, W.
Rumble, who has been doing duty as chief engineer, has
had his appointment confirmed to this ship.
The Algiers, 90, screw' Captain Talbot, went out of
Devonport Harbour on Saturday, and saluted the flag
of Admiral Sir William Parker, which was answered by
the Impregnable. She has been paid advance by Rear-
Admiral Superintendent Stopford. She is runny short
of her complement as yet. She has drawn charts for
the Channel only—consequently her final destination is
not publicly known.
Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty gave notice at
Lloyd's that ships were required to convey 590 tons of
provisions for the use of the navy in the Black Sea • also
to convey 862 tons of ammunition, shot, and shells to
Malta from Woolwich and Plymouth, and 100 tons of
ordnance sores to the Cape of Good Hope and Buffalo
River.

The Kangaroo, hired steatn-transport, went into
Portsmouth harbour yesterday, from Deptford, and is
being fitted up fur the conveyance of troops to Varna.
She was surveyed by the dockyard officers yesterday,
and is taking in a large supply of coals for her voyage.
The Vulcan, steam troop transport, Commander Von
Donop, is also coaling at Portsmouth fur the convey-
ance of troops to the East, which are expected to em-
bark to-day or to-morrow. A fatigue party of the 34th
were employed in stowing the baggage in the latter
vessel yesterday.