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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1853.

Another Russian Manifesto. Another of those
specious documents in which the CZAR endeavours
to justify his occupation of the Danubian pro-
vinces, his wanton aggression on a friendly terri-
tory, his deliberate violation of the treaty of
1841, to which he was a party. The present
missive comes in the form.of a circular letter from
Count NESSELRODE to the diplomatic agents of
Russia at the different European Courts, and it is,
if possible, more insolent in its assumptions, more
illogical in its reasoning, and more glaringly fallacious
in its assertions, than any of those by which it was
preceded. The AUTOCRAT still manifestly conceives
that bullying will prove efficacious, and that the most
impudent falsehoods will be received as truth, if
promulgated with the requisite amount of bluiter-
ing and swagger. That he " reckons without his
host" in this respect, will be easily understood by
those who are acquainted with the almost unani-
mous feelings of the PEOPLE of France and Eng-
land. We say emphatically the " PEOPLE," for,
however Ministers may vacillate and temporise_
or public journals may tergiversate—the PEOPLE
Will still compel any Government to obey the
popular will in some matters, and any so-called
" director of public opinion" to follow that opinion
which it can longer lead or direct. His mistake
may, however, be attributable partly to the fact,
that the " excellent ABERDEEN" occupied the chief
position in the British Cabinet, and that the antics
of the Peace Society were thought to express the
views and feelings of at least a considerable por-
tion of the English community, and his eyes will
not be opened until he finds the clear and un-
questionable expression of clear and unflinching
determination on the part of the Western Powers.
Be still thinks, as we have already stated, that
bullying will prove effective, and under that erro-
neous view of the case he may be led into other
proceedings calculated still further to complicate
matters already sufficiently complicated, and to
materially lessen the prospects of a pacific solution
of the difficulty.
It is with such views that he has sanctioned
the circular now under notice, in which, while he
reiterates his hypocritical expressions of modera-
tion, declaring that he requires no new conces-
sion, makes no demand for the extension of rights
and privileges, but simply demands a confirma-
tion of what he had long possessed; and he again
puts forward the course of action which he in-
tends to pursue, in consequence of the wilful and
deliberate infraction of the rights which he has so
long enjoyed (!) namely, the protectorate" of his
co-religionists in the East—it may possibly hereafter
be extended to the entire globe--and the restoration
of the status quo, " the privileges which they pos-
sessed ab antiquo under the aegis of their Sove-
reign." From this protectorate he does not deny
that there may result to Russia what may be pro-
perly termed a " religious patronage." But this,
he repeats, he has at all times exercised in the
East ; and he inquires, "If hitherto the indepen-
dence and the sovereignty of Turkey have been
able to reconcile themselves to the exercise of this
patronage, why should not both be able to endure
it for the future, from the moment that our pre-
tensions are reduced to what, after all, is only a
simple confirmation i" It will thus be seen that
his assumption is something analogous to that
Pkw .ch the POPE put forward with respect to the
'1-
man Catholic population of other countries ;
4
that he goes much further, for he claims
Atemporal sovereignty over all 4 professors
,1;•ii the Greek religion, wherever the
•eary may
,9g situated, in the East. This is clear
ly est,a_
"."blished, by his assertion of the "privileges which
they (his co-religionists) possessed ab antique
UNDER THE IEGIS OF THEIR SOVEREIGN."

But it is not merely so far as the Porte is con-
cerned that he carries his blustering. He ad-
dresses the Western Powers for the first time, if