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London, England, 1854-04-27 00:00:00

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munity upon this head have not been disregarded.
It is anticipated that some very decided recom•
mendations will be made in accordance with the
bulk of the evidence of the Commissioners.
It is also expected that a recommendation will
be made to mitigate the severity of some of the
penal clauses of the Consolidation Act, which it
must be admitted, especially as regards speculating
in Consols, &c., are unreasonably severe, and,
indeed, by their excessive severity, like other
harsh laws, defeat their own object.
We have been informed that the report contain
a recommendation that there be a very decided
reduction in the fees and charges of the Court of
Bankruptcy, as well as a diminution of the staff.
If this be so, the Commissioners will have done
good service ; for, if the Courts of Bankruptcy are
to be maintained at all, it cannot be as they ars
now constituted. So far as expense is concerned,
it is in many respects much worse than the Court
of Chancery now is.
As to the bankrupt's "balance-sheet," and the
charges of a class of persons termed accountants,
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The court broker, we trust, for sake of propriety
as well as economy, will be sent about his business ;
and we shall be much disappointed if the Commis-
sioners have not made some very energetic remon-
strances regarding the emoluments of messengers,
and the mode in which they are remunerated.
As regards the commissioners, the ConsolidatioS
Act provides that, in London, no vacancy be filled
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five. Three would be smrdy adequate to discharge
even more than the work done in Basinghall-street.
recommendation on this head we cannot say, but
as to the country commissioners, it is admitted
upon all heads that half the number would do the
business. Here, too, we anticipate the commis.
sioners have directed the pruning-knife.
It is needless to extend our speculations or an.
ticipations further at 'Present. Much is expected--
justly expected—by the mercantile community from
the able men of whom the commission is composed.
We believe and trust they will not be disappointed.
.111onting Post.

[PRICE SD.

siblefprocedure of the Coalition with regard to the
Eastern question. People could not understand
why the Autocrat was permitted to perpetrate the
unparalleled piece of savagery which will render
the name of Sinope remarkable in the page of his-
tory, without any retaliation having been inflicted
on him. They will comprehend it now. They
will also understand how it happened that our
fleet in the East, after having been a few days in
the Black Sea, returned to Beicos, and there com-
fortably remained in profound repose for four
months. It was for fear that Nicholas should in
any way, by some accident or other, receive some
" harm." In the same fact, too, we have an ex-
planation of the delays which have taken place in
sending out our armies to the East, and keeping
back the officers even after the men had arrived.
It is all out of a tender consideration for the Czar
—all for fear lest he might be " harmed," or, if not
absolutely injured, be "humbled." He must be
neither. Come what may to our " fame," he must
not suffer. Perish the " fame" of Great Britain a
thousand times over, rather than that the Auto-
crat should be "harmed" or "humbled."
After the articles in yesterday's Times, we shall
feel surprised if one solitary individual, of average
intelligence, shall be found in this country, who will
not adopt the opinion we have expressed throughout
that the great object of the
tuhpetoiltlttohmais
nhoemurp,
ihrase,
Coalition is to save Rlig-
but we have interposed to prevent the Turks from
sbieagroetnTdurerkedeybyNthoisaccotunualtrayidto,
,
towards the end of last autumn, from following
fighting their own battles. Through our
wasprevented Ambas-
dor at Constantinople, Omer Pacha
of the Danube, by attacking Bucharest and expel-
allachia ;
V
up the brilliant successes he achieved on the banks
ling the Russians from Moldavia and \
for it is the opinion of the most experienced mili-
tary men, that the Turkish Commander-in-Chief
could, at that time, have destroyed, or driven hack
to their own frontiers, every Muscovite soldier in
the Principalities. But that would have been, in
the view of the Coalition, too great a punishment
of the Czar. It would have mortified him too
much.
And so it has been ever since. We would not
destroy a single ship of the Czar's in the Black
Sea, nor allow the Turkish squadron to do it.
We have, in fact, while rendering no assistance
whatever to the Ottomans, acted as an incubus on
their own efforts in every way. The result has
been, that the Turks have become exceedingly
weakened and discouraged. Their enthusiasm is
fast dying away, while their material resources
are nearly exhausted. In a word, this country
—for France is entirely guided by England—
is most surely, and manifestly from design,
preparing Turkey for a speedy and easy dismem-
berment. We are doing the work of Russia. We
are, in reality, the ally of the Czar, not of the
Sultan. We have no objection to see the Turks
massacred in thousands, as at Sinope, by savage
Cossacks ; but we take the most scrupulous care
that no " harm" shall befall the Czar. We will be
tender in the extreme even of his feelings. Not
only will we not diminish his power, but we will not
be the means of causing him the slightest sense of
humiliation. What more could he desire t What
stronger inducement could he have to persist in his
lawless aggression ? If he triumph, he will, of
course, have everything his own way. If he be
vanquished, he will neither suffer harm, nor be
subjected to humiliation. Thrice happy Czar.
Surely even he will, at last, feel some emotion of
gratitude to his " friend of forty years' standing,"
and to the Coalition generally, who, whatever they
may be in theory, are no less, collectively, his
friends in practice.