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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1853.

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It is certainly 'rather strange that Ministers
should, in the present unsettled state of the poli-
tical atmosphere, receive their earliest intelligence
respecting important transactions from the public
joulnals ; and, still more so, that they should not
even avail themselves of the opportunities thereby
afforded for obtaining the information that should
have been acquired through other and more legi-
timate channels. But so it is. On Monday
evening Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in his place in the
House of Commons, declared that there was no
official information as to the circular dispatch of
Count IVESSELRODE—a document of such vital im-
portance to the best interests of the nation, and
imperatively requiring the most prompt and
vigorous action on the part of the Bri-
tish Government—that "in the last dispatch
which he had seen front the British Minister
at St. Petersburgh, Sir HENRY SEY34tOUR said
that he had not then seen the dispatch that is
allowed to have been written by Count NESSE',
RODE ;" at the same time admitting that " the cir-
cular dispatch" which had been published in the
" an authentic
public journals was " substantially"
document." The Noble Lord then procee to
give his interpretation of the passage in that ex-
traordinary document—which, according to his
own admission, he believed to be " substantially
accurate" which intimated that the Russian
troops would not retire from the Principalities
until complete satisfaction had been obtained
from the Turkish Government, and until it,
" the Turkish Government," had taken order
to remove the pressure exercised by the
attitude of the two Maritime Powers. This
the Ministerial Leader in the representative
branch of the Legislature could not understand,
from his reading of the document, as containing
any declaration that the matters pending between
Russia and Turkey could not be arranged " until
the English and French fleets should have left the
Turkish waters." Although how such a doubt
could be expressed by any person of ordinary ca-
pacity who had read the contest with common
attention is beyond our comprehension. We are
bound to give the Noble Lord credit for
veracity in de7ivering that opinion. We only
refer to the circumstances to show the care-
lessness and intunmerence of some Members
of the Cabinet to the questions that are ex-
citing intense interest
absence of full and in other quarters, the '
through the re unquestionoble information
gular channels, and the reckless
haste with which matters of such vital importance
were spoken of by the mouthpiece of the Go-
vernment, the exponent of its views and feelings
in the Commons House of Parliament T+
• has
even since transpired that at the time when the
Noble Lord was assuming the duty of answering
the interrogatories of the Right Hon. Gentle
man
the Member for Buckinghamshire, of speaking
authoritatively, almost ex cathedra on the subject,
be had not even read the admirable and conclu-
sive answer forwarded by the French Government