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London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1858.

Whatever be the course ultimately pursueci by
the Czar NICHOLAS, in reference to Turkey, there
cannot, happily, be any further doubt as to the
Eastern policy of the French or of the English
Government. It has been proclaimed too recently
and too explicitly, on both sides of the Channel,
to be longer matter of the smallest uncertainty.
Amongst ourselves it has been avowed boldly by.
Ministers of the Crown in either House of Parlia-
ment. Amongst our neighbours it has been pro-
claimed in a different manner, but quite as autho-
ritatively, through the columns of the Pays, in
an elaborate article signed by the Viscount DE LA
GUERRONNIERE, and generally understood to express
the real sentiments of the Imperial Government.
Whether we turn for information to the announce-
ments made in that official organ of the Councils of
the Tuileries, or to the speeches delivered in the
British Lords and Commons by influential mem-
bers of the Coalition Cabinet, we discover in any
case the entire coincidence of the views entertained
in regard to the Sublime Porte by the rulers of
France and Great Britain. The identity of those
opinions at the present critical juncture must be
considered as auguring admirably for the rapid
settlement of the difficulty now agitating the op-
posite extremities of Christendom.

The AUTOCRAT may be ambitious, may be
audacious, may be resolute in carrying out
the grand scheme of territorial absorption
upon which he has adventured—but it is
quite certain that he is also a man of
indisputable sagacity. Against the united
forces of France and England he would never
plunge rashly into the perils of European warfare.
We cannot for an instant suppose that he, no
longer in the heyday of youth, no longer in the
flush of early manhood, no longer liable to be
hurried by momentary passion into the temerity
of inexperience—we cannot for one moment sup-
pose that the astute and powerful intellect of the
Emperor NICHOLAS can be blinded to the formid-
able odds in favour of his numerous antagonists in
the event of a conflict arising out of recent cir-
cumstances. Reflection must bring vividly
before him the certainty that, in a struggle
thus provoked, he would have to contend
single-handed against the arms of all the more
powerful sovereigns, his contemporaries. It
would be a battle not between Russia and
Turkey, but between the Cossack Legions and
the patriotic valour of the Osmanlis—a valour
inflamed to the highest pitch by a sense of wrong
and by the inspiriting knowledge that the mili-
tary genius of 03IIR PACHA would be aided by
the State craft of RESCHID PACHA, by the Royal
ardour of the Sultan ABD-UL-MEDJID, and by the
maritime armaments dispatched by Queen Vic-
TORIA. and the Emperor NAPOLEON to the mouth
of the Dardanelles. Added to all this, the CZAR
cannot fail to perceive that France and
England, in thus sustaining the rights
of Turkey against the illegality of his
daring and unprovoked aggression, would
command the sympathies at least, if not the actual
co-operation, of the rest of the chief Powers of
Europe. Prussia would find it requisite to side
with the opponents of the despotic Cabinet of
Petersburgh. Belgium, and Spain, and Por-
ugal, and the different States both of Italy and
C4ermany would look on at the righteous course
pursued in this emergency by the Courts
of St. James's and the Tuileries with cor-
dial and undisguised complacency. Even
Austria, infected with Russian sentiments and
hungering after Montenegro, and thirsting for ven-
geance against the defender of the fugitive leaders
of Hungary, even Austria swayed by a HAPSBURG,
influenced by a NESSELRODE, and incited by the
net-yet-extinct policy of a METTERNICH--would
be compelled in decency, in honour, nay, in simple
Prudence, to support the united efforts made at
uonatantinople to withstand the insolent, lawless,
and flagitious attempt
political made. by the CZAR at
"Poliatifonan territorial aggrandisement.
The Coucil,
little longer with° St.
.Petersburgh may bluster a
The AuToc-a.A.T may 7.167 to keep up appearances.
cidedly his resolut3irounittimate
.more and more de-
cce:vcolt?tain at all hazards and
by any means the
Protectorate. But
before the authoritativeunioendof the great Powers of
Europe the instigations of his ambition must yield
e CZAR.
to the dictates of his prudence—
and th must
sooner or later postpone his sinister desigus upon
Constantinople.

The chief feature of the Indian Bill now before
the House of Commons—the principle of Sir
CHARLES WOOD'S proposition—is the retention oi rf
the existing system met government, modi-
fied, it is true, in so rifling degree, but sub-
stantially the same, and liable to all the numerous
and weighty objections that have been put for-