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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1853.

It is earnestly to be hoped that Lord ABERDEEN
may at length be satisfied—satisfied, we mean, in
paltering with the honour of England so far as to
concede both leisure and opportunity to the arro-
gant ambition of the Russian Government. Con-
sistent to this extent in upholding his ancient
policy, the Noble Earl has hitherto contrived to
delay, by every imaginable subterfuge, the repa-
ration which must inevitably be made by the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh for the extraordinary
and warlike measures adopted by it against the
unaggressive councils at Constantinople. Infected
by the timidity of the " dear " and " excellent "
Under-Secretary of M. GUIZOT, the British Min-
istry has been all this while parleying with the repre-
sentatives of the CZAR, when energetic efforts ought
to have been made atthe cannon's mouth and at the
sword's point, to vindicate the outraged rights of
Turkey, the insulted laws of Europe, the inde-
pendence of nations, the force of treaties, the
pride, the glory, and the dignity of entire Chris-
tendom. Every one by this time can perceive the
consequences. Every one can at last behold how
far the reluctant and hesitating course pursued by
the Coalition has enabled the AUTOCRAT to proceed
without encountering any serious or resolute ob-
struction. Hitherto, in fact, up to this very mo-
ment, the winning game has been in the hands of
The attempt to render railway directors and
the Russian EMPEROR. Hitherto he has advanced
railway officials criminally responsible for every
steadily towards the accomplishment of his law- unfortunate accident that happened on the lines
less enterprise—whether by the diplomatic me- with which they chanced to be connected, has
dium of MIINSCHISOFF, or by the Ministerial in- received a heavy blow and great discouragement.
terposition of NESSELRODE, or by the march of the The Lord Chief Baron in a forcible address to
northern troops across the Pruth and the occupa-
the jury, on the trial of the Honourable FRANCIStion of the Danubian Principalities. Every- SCOTT, the Chairman, and Mr. BEATTIE, the
of locomotives on the South-
where throughout these transactions it has Superintendent Western Railway, clearly and unequivocally ex-
been impossible to close our eyes against the fact posed the folly and absurdity of the course re-
that the practical advantages have always been commended by some journalists, who have at all
secured to the CzAß—and this exclusively because times exhibited a rancorous and unreasoning hos-
of the timorous influence exercised by Lord ABER-
tility against all persons connected with railways,
BEEN over the councils of the Coalition Government. and adopted by coroners' juries whom self-suffi-
It is this sinister and most lamentable influence which ciency rendered insensible to the well-merited
castigation, which they might subsequently re-
has palsied the arm of JOHN BULL, as "some undone
olive from the judges presiding at the trials
widow" did that of Sir GILES OVERREACH. It is which their ridiculous and unwarranted verdicts
this which, at a juncture of vast importance, has had rendered necessary. If these sagacious and
glued the sword of England to the scabbard more intelligent personages had their way, it would be
effectually than the " orphan's tears" celebrated in vain to expect that any gentleman of indepen-
could be induced to accept a seat at a railway
dent means, and respectable position in society,
the drama of MASSINGER. Whether Lord ABER-
DEEN, by thus interposing his weakness between Board, or to assume the onerous and responsible
the Russian outrage and its inevitable expiation, duties of the situation. The magnificent iron net-
has deteriorated the character, sullied the honour, work with which our land is intersected, no longer
or tarnished the reputation of that great coun- available for purposes of traffic or intercommuni-
try, the conduct of whose affairs was, un.. cation, would remain gigantic monuments of the
happily, some time since, entrusted to him criminal folly of those who, exhibiting gross in-
by his
~ Sovereign"—must already, we fear, be re- gratitude to men who ought to be looked on as
girded a fact alto gether too lamentably ap-
national benefactors, tried to convert the law into
parent, gad as
an instrument of oppression, and summoned to
Lord PALMERSTON, on the con- the bar of a criminal tribunal to answer an aceu-
trary, been
acting at this period as Prime sation which, if well founded, would warrant their
Minister, or simply inhis former capacity as perpetual banishment, gentlemen of character and
there is scarcely an intelligent
Foreign Secretary, responsibility, against whom even the counsel for
man amongst us but must feel perfectly conscious the prosecution could not venture to prefer a charge
that the result of our negotiations must, per-
involving the slightest moral delinquency. With
force, by this time been ll wh •
0 Y different 'in chi- such an example before our eyes, we should no
ratter. France would not then have longer feel surprised at the conduct of the Turkish
been re- Cadi, who, in order to appease popular clamour,
tarded in her generous anxiety to bring
matters should condemn to the bastinado, or even to
at once (and chivalrously, as because ao powerful death, an ill-fated baker, because the price of
an ally of Turkey) to a conclusion.
,Admiral bread was something higher than " his majesty
DuzinAs would never have been instructed to the people" deemed expedient at the moment
loiter irresolutely at Malta, while Admiral LA —or of those who deliberately sacrificed the
SIISSE was vigorously
pushing on to the vicinity unfortunate BYNG in the middle of the last cen-
tury, in order to direct into another channel the
of the Dardanelles. If any demonstration censures which they had themselves most richly
with a laudable anxiety to improve
were requisite in order to convince us that Eng. merited. .
land, under the guidance of Lord ABERDEEN, has The facts of the case were very simple. The
ected
held back, while France has been eager to push defendants,the -werki
a speedy and desirable settlement of ng
onwards to were tonne o
the important line with which they
these Turkish difficulties, that demonstration facility to the , and to afford every possible
a Special train not for *vate ur oses
traffic of the district, had, in May
might easily be given from first to last, by a last, taken
line, to see that it Was i
and to ascertain its capabilities pleasure, but • pri
P P
n
simply to survey the
cursory and even superficial. glance at the pro- of business or
proper working order,
gress made by both countries in the management
of the still-pending negotiations.. Why, let us
Unfortunately, there was to the utmost.
• ci al security pos- no tele,- aphis corn-
simply ask—What is the prints al munication along the branch line to
1.
of England, was particularlydesirable to • Alton which it
sassed at this moment by the people
this signals were, however, exhibited
that their rulers are acting towards Turkey in at the station
British and it was the duty of the deceased
emergency in a manner becoming the (a porter at
the intermediate station of Farnham)
Government ? What, let us ask, is this chief to
have
security ? 'Why the reiterated declaration taken notice of these signals, and to have avoided
made by her MAJESTY'S Ministers in both any danger that might be occasioned by the ap_
hof the special train. Through his own
proac
. Houses, that they are acting in this matter carelessness and neglect the melancholy accident
in perfect accord with the Cabinet of the occurred. He disregarded the signals to which
Tuileries ! Upon that solemn and reiterated he should have attended ; and mistaking the
passenger train, rock-
assurance, we repeat, mainly rests up to the i special for the ordinary
ilif SYN.t..4O- present hour whatever confidence the English -
I lesslv rushed to meet it, and thus met his lament-
to be
oi t., attempted
:=.- -.ll‘ onle have that the C • •
- Art. L- Coalition presided I._ able fate. It was,
should
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/ -;
_-_-;:, ---,,-.,-'' -.ls\ cl ABERDEEN is not playing. f 1 • argued that the persons engagin, .
__, Ilk ase with the le for the accidcnt
fr.,ll'ilbrf,-/--. "I' . kish and truckling to the Russian Govern_ :be held criminally responsible
f;' --4.,, '-;;;,,-....-- ' ally occasioned by the reek-
-40;- -,--',4 'II : t. A melancholy consideration ! That we 1
lwhichss was re
all
' and disobedience of the sufferer. And the
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ould count principally upon the integrity of the ' c by
..... s oroner's Jury, emulous of the fame achieved
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as

tion of the folly of previous concessions and pro-
crastination, the Earl of CLARENDON, last evening,
avowed in the Upper House, that the Cabinet
has at length been driven to the necessity of
forwarding instructions to the British Ambassador
at St. Petersburgh, to demand explanations forth-
with from the Government of the AUTOCRAT.
Lookingback over the sad perspective of these mon-
strous events, and of these most dilatory negotia-
tions, and remembering that the noble lord the
member for Tiverton is at this critical time in the
Home Office, instead of at the head of the Foreign
Department, we may with reason exclaim from our
heart of hearts, " 0 for one hour"—not "of
blind, old DANDOLO," but—of PALMERSTON!