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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUN .E 26, 1854.

NO. 19,2671

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LORD ABERDEEN'S IMPEACHMENT ?

(From the Daily Seim)
Mr. Layard's notice of motion has " fluttered the
Volscians" to some purpose. A bomb-shell descending
among them could not have caused more of panic-
stricken gesticulation and exclamation among the
Aberdeenites. Every device that men at their wits'
end from extremity of terror can devise will be tried to
divert Mr. Layard from his purpose. He is already
taunted with merely wishing to make a speech ; he is
told that his motion is "inadmissible, unprecedented,
unconstitutional." Having thus attempted to bully
Mr. Layard, the Aberdeenite organs next adopt a
coaxing tone, and suggest to him excuses for withdraw-
ing his motion. The " irregular" motion, it is insinu-
ated, may become " unnecessary," after the explana.
tions that Lord Aberdeen is to give this evening.
Mr. Layard is in a " parlous" predicament ; threat-
ened and wheedled by turns, his resolution may give
way. If it does, his career as a statesman may be con-
sidered as closed. He has more than once backed out
of brave protestations when the hour for action came ;
this was pardoned in a young, inexperienced, and un-
supported member ; but these considerations will not
avail him now. He has done enough' to incur the last-
ing hatred and vengeance of the whole tribe of Tapers
and Tadpoles ; his only chance in his being able to per-
suade the public that he is no rash undertaker of in-
considerate feats ; and that when he promises to do, he
has the courage to perform, even though he may stand
alone with every conventionally-dubbed " influential
person" scowling upon him: He is feresrarned that
formal objections may be raised to the reception of his
motion as shaped by him. on Friday ; these he can easily
avoid by modifying its terms. Lord J. Russell promised
to give precedence on Thursday to a motion that would
raise a discussion on the foreign policy of the Govern-
ment; and Lord John is too brave to back out of such a
pledge on so shuffling a pretext, as that Mr. Layard has
changed the phraseology of his motion, in order to put
aside a mere formal objection to it.
That this evening's proceedings in the House of Lords
will render Mr. Layard's motion unnecessary is ex-
tremely improbable. It appears, from the order book of
the Lords, that " Viscount Gordon " is to move for
the production of a despatch on the subject of the treaty
of Adrianople, addressed by "Lord Aberdeen " to the
English Minister at St. Petersburg, at the time the
treaty was concluded. From this despatch the world
may learn what Lord Aberdeen alias Viscount Gordon
(of the English Peerage) thought or said of the treaty of
Adrianople twenty-five years ago. That, however, is
now a matter of not the slightest moment. The
really practical question—the question in which the
people of England are interested—is what Viscount
Gordon, alias the Earl of Aberdeen, thinks and says of
the treaty of Adrianople now. What Lord Aberdeen
said about that treaty this day se'nnight, as Premier, in
the House of Lords, with the fear of reporters and
the newspapers before his eyes, is much more likely
to be a faithful exponent of his present sentiments than
a despatch writteis twenty-five years ago, and kept " pri-
vate and confidential" ever since. Twenty-five years
ago Lord Aberdeen may have railed in good set terms
at the ambition of Russia ; but seven days ago Lord
Aberdeen made the amends honorable to Russia. by
publicly professing that he believed his old suspicions of
its ambition had done it injustice. He admitted that
the "conditions" imposed upon Turkey by the Treaty
of Adrianople were "disastrous and onerous ;" but he
hastened to salvo this admission by adding that the
treaty was not followed up by any acquisition of Turkish
territory on the part of Russia. This is merely saying
that Russia was wise enough to "bide its time ;" for the
intolerable concessions attempted to be extorted from
the Porte by Prince Menschikoff were demanded on the
ground of the Treaty of Adrianople along with other
treaties. But it is not true that Russia has waited 25years
before it has sought to avail itself of the Treaty of Adria-
nople. The murmurs of the house compelled Lord Aber-
deen to modify his unqualified assertion that Russia had
made no acquisition of Turkish territory since the Treaty
of Adrianople, by the admission that it acquired "two
or three small ports in Asia." His qualified assertion
that Russia had acquired no Turkish territory in Europe
provoked a cry of " the Danube—reminding his audi-
tors of Russia's acquisition of the delta of that river ; of
Russia's systematic obstruction of the navigation of the
Danube ; of Russia's violation of its solemn compact not
to erect any fortifications on the delta of the Danube.
But the most audacious of Lord Aberdeen's falsifications
of history, for the purpose of concealing Russian ambi-
tion, was left uncontradictei by his auditors, tired pro-
bably of cutting off the hydra heads of his misrepresen-
tations only to see others sprout up in their stead. " The
only interference," said Lord Aberdeen, " that Russia
has had with Turkey since the Treaty of Adrianople has
been to save the Turkish empire by sending an army to
Constantinople to protect it against Egyptian invasion."
Common honesty ought to have led his lordship to
add that Russia availed itself of the presence of this
army to extort from the Sultan the treaty of Unkiar-
Skelessi, by which the Dardanelles was closed against
the ships of war of all other nations, and the Black Sea
transformed into a Russian lake. When Lord Aberdeen
is found publicly perverting and falsifying history at this
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Austria will not concur with the Allies in exacting more
from Russia than the simple evacuation of the Danubian
provinces ; unless Austria concur, the Allies cannot
compel Russia to any greater concession than the simple
evacuation of the Danubian provinces ; and therefore
the efforts of the Allies ought to be limited to the eva-
cuation of the Danubian provinces. All Lord Aber-
deen's artillery of arguments, sneers, and personalities,
was brought into play, to blow this conclusion into the
convictions of his hearers. A more disgraceful exhibi-
tion than this falsification of history, pointless sarcasms
against great principles of national policy, and paltry
personalities, all vented by an English Premier in order
to save from the penalties of his crimes an inveterate
and unscrupulous enemy of England, is not to be met
with in our annals.
But, it may be urged, Lord Aberdeen's object in his
to-night's motion may be to obtain an opportunity of
explaining away what was censurable in his speech of
last Monday. It is too late. His last Monday's speech
was too obviously the exponent of what he wishes the
world to think he believes ; and it was, moreover, in
exact harmony with all his speeches since the commence-
ment of these discussions. Even though he were to re-
cant it all to-night, nobody would have faith in his re-
cantation ; it would—and justly —be attributed to fear
of Mr. Layard's impending motion—to a desire to retain
office, without which Lord Aberdeen cannot help his
friend the Czar. There is only one way for Lord Aber-
deen so far to parry the force of Mr. Layard's motion as
to save the Cabinet Lord Aberdeen has formed, and
that is by resigning. No one can have confidence in
that Cabinet while the war lasts and Lord Aberdeen pre-
sides over it. It is not merely that as Premier he re-
tains a casting vote in all matters relating to the war;
he has taken care that in the distribution of office all the
departments which bear most immediately on the con-
duct of the war should be manned by his own retainers.
An Aberdeenite is Minister of War; an Aberdeenite
is Secretary at War ; an Aberdeenite is at the head of
the navy ; an Aberdeenite, as Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, provides the sinews of war. Lord Aberdeen has
evinced such anxiety to keep in his own hands the entire
control and direction of the war, and such a determina-
tion to check the country's thunder in order to spare the
Czar, that nothing short of his resignation can restore
the country's confidence in the only Government that
stands bet Ween us and the Derby-Disraeli faction.
There are some men who doubt whether even Lord
Aberdeen's resignation will not come too late ; this,
however, is to be too despondent. It is true that there
prevails what placemen call "a mutinous spirit" among
the Liberal members. Nor could it well be otherwise
after the lamentable exhibitions of Thursday and Friday
nights. The talents, the accomplishments, of the mem-
bers of the present Cabinet, taken individually, cannot
be doubted ; but as a body they have shown themselves
incapable of understanding the views and feelings of the
composite party they have undertaken to lead. The
ism weansouresapthpeayrehnati: hesaevleectebdeetno ssuubehmiatstothPeayrlicaonuiled notnt,it
bring their supporters as a body to approve of. And
they have clapped the crown on their indiscretion by
refusing even such a trifling concession to their liberal
and dissenting adherents as to place the bye-laws of Ox-
ford in respect of liberality on a footing with those of
Cambridge, There is no doubt that the patience of the

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Ministerialists in Parliament has been tried beyond what
it can bear; but members of Parliament -are as dependent
on the public voice as Ministers are on their votes; and, as
the public is now exclusively engrossed with the great
question of the war, Ministers, by setting themselves right
with the public on this point, may oblige the most muti-
nous of their adherents to follow submissively in their
wake.

(From the Times.)
The notice of motion given by Lord Aberdeen for this
evening is an acknowledgment on the part of the First
Minister of the Crown that the observations made by
him in the course of the debate on Tuesday last stand in
need of explanation ; and we hope that in producing the
despatch describing the policy pursued by the British
Government at the time of the Treaty of Adrianople in
1829 Lord Aberdeen will find means to dispel the dis-
trust which his last speech in the House of Lords has
unhappily awakened. The debate in which that speech
was delivered was, in all other respects, the most satis-
factory we have yet had the good fortune to listen to
since the commencement of the war. The veteran Lord
Lyndhurst traced out with the mind of a statesman, and
the grasp of an orator, the duties of this country and
the political interests of Europe. Lord Clarendon fol-
lowed, and assured the house, with somewhat more
of official reser'e, as befits his position, that he
concurred in the opinions which had just been so
forcibly expressed, and that, whatever might be the
results of the war, it was not for an insignificant object
that this contest had been begun, nor by any in-
significant concessions or by a hollow pacification that
it would be concluded. Even Lord Derby gave a pa-
triotic adhesion to these views, which are undoubtedly
those of nine-tenths of the people of England ; and there
was every reason to rejoice in their display of the spirit
and union of the Government, of Parliament, and of the
country, when Lord Aberdeen intervened in the debate,
and gave utterance to sentiments widely different from
those which the House of Lords had just listened to
with unanimous applause, and equally at variance, we
venture to affirm, with the convictions of the country
and the policy of his own colleagues. Language more
inappropriate or indefensible, considering that this coun-
try is now at war with Russia, and that the speaker is
the Prime Minister of this country, has seldom been
uttered in Parliament, and, in every circle of political
and social life, whether friendly or hostile to the pre-
sent Government, it has been severely condemned.
Notice was immediately given in the House of Com-
mons of a motion conveying a direct censure on the First
Minister, and we understand that public meetings
are likely to be held to express the strong dissatisfac-
tion excited by these remarks. Lord Aberdeen will
therefore take the earliest opportunity this evening
to remove an impression which is not only personally
injurious to himself, but fatal to the union of the Cabi-
net, and derogatory to the dignity of the country. In
explaining the occurrences of 1829 Lord Aberdeen will
probably be able to show that the policy pursued by him-
self and the Duke of Wellington at that period was more
energetic than is commonly supposed; but the practical
question now before Parliament and the country is not
what was done at the Treaty of Adrianople, but what is
to be done now. The circumstances are widely different.
In that war we were not engaged, and our intervention
was of a mediatorial character. Turkey was defeated,
and all we could hope to do was to rescue her from per-
dition. We are now, on the contrary, engaged in the
war as auxiliaries and as principals. Turkey, supported
by England and France, is not defeated, but victorious;
and we have bound ourselves by treaty to take effectual
measures to place these dangerous and embarrassing
questions for the future on a more secure and dura-
ble basis. It is certain- that Russia will not surrender
what we demand of her until she is compelled to do
so by force of arms ; but nothing is more futile
or mischievous than to hold language tending to
ower the tone of this country in the opinion of