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for all the other states,
" It is at
any kind to be established, a common action exer-
acispeldedbgyetohfe Fueeoeorr Pt
yo w
ande r s i
impartiality.,
present impossible to say with what enemies the
Czar may have to contend in the field, should the
present struggle be protracted ; but, in the contest
of diplomacy, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg must
remain as it is, isolated and unsupported. As re-
gards the merits of the quarrel, the Courts of
Vienna and Berlin are as directly and as com-
pletely opposed to Russia as those of Paris and
London. The Four Powers have never ceased to
protest against her aggressive policy, as alike un-
just in itself and dangerous to the liberties of Eu-
rope ; and even if some of the Governments repre-
sented at, the Vienna Couferenee should be unpre-
pared, when the time for action has arrived, to
participate in the ulterior measures to which they
have virtually pledged themselves, still, litera
scripta mallet, and the unanimous opinion of the
States principally interested in maintaining the
balance of power remains irrevocably on record.
The allusion made by the Russian declaration to
the " maintenance of equilibrium" is too suggestive
to be dismissed without further comment. It may
be that,, o far as the people of England are con-
cerned, the balance of power is, under ordinary
circumstances, one of those abstractions which we
willingly leave to be dealt with and diplomatised
upon by statesmen at their pleasure. But when
religion is made the cloak for ambitious designs
of aggrandisement, the national mind revolts
at the profanation ; and when a flagrant
outrage is committed upon an unoffending State,
because it is supposed to be incapable of effec-
tual resistance, English sympathies go with the
-.weaker side.' When,- moreover-,- we see an Em-
pire which has, within a very recent period,
steadily advanced its frontiers—a hundred miles
in one direction, five hundred in another, and a
thousand in a third—aiming at the subjugation of
an extensive and fertile territory which commands
the sole practicable approach to vast portions of
Europe and Asia, we cannot avoid giving a new
signification to the " balance of power ; and a
phrase which we had long regarded as a vague
abstraction becomes-a serious reality.
The audacity of the Russian pretence that the
Ottoman Government was the first to declare war
has no parallel except in the celebrated conference
between the wolf and the lamb, iu which the for-
mer so pathetically remonstrated against the aggres-
sive pertinacity of its victim. " The parts cannot,"
as the French manifesto observes, "be more
strangely inverted. The invasion of the two Pro-
vinces was, in the eyes of the whole world, an act
of war ;" and nothing which has since happened
has deprived the Porte of the right which it origi-
nally possessed to regard it in that point of view..
The only ground on which the prolonged forbear-
ance of Turkey and her Allies can be justified is
stated by the French Minister in terms which con-
vey the severest reproach to the aggressor. "It
was still hoped that there would be, on the part of
that Power, a return to moderation and equity ;"
and if this hope has turned out to have been un-
founded, Russia, at all events, cannot be permitted
to take advantage of her own wrong by casting on
the Sultan the responsibility of initiating the war.
Equally futile, as M. Drouyn de Lhuys clearly
shows, is the pretext that Turkey has 'purchased
the support of the Western Powers by concessions
as degrading as those which Russia sought to exact.
The condition that a belligerent Power shall not
make peace without the concurrence of its allies is
dictated, not only by common sense, but by pre-
cedent ; and a similar stipulation is inserted in the
treaty which has just been concluded between
Great Britain and France.

THE WAR IN. THE EAST.
( Prom the Times.)
The Eastern question is every day drifting ',ur-
ther away from the calm regions of argument and
expostulation. Like men engaged in earnest ;on-
versation, who take no note of what is..pasing
around them, and start to find the clear sky o'er-
spread with clouds, or the night crept m won
them unawares, we have continued to tialk and
write till we find ourselves arrived at a period
when talking and writing are no longer neiessary.
A few days more, and action will have sUccseded
expectation, and we shall know something of the
issue of a cause which both sides, if they are fo be
believed, intrust with equal confidence te the
arbitrament of the God of battles.
It is for this reason that we have pertiseil the
last declaration of the Emperor of Russia, and the
spirited and dignified reply in the Moniletiri with
less interest than the literary merit of the loon-
ments and the weight of the questions of which
they treat might seem to justify. Not merely is
the question of the rights and wrongs of the Wes-
tern. Powers and Russia so completely exhausted
that no human ingenuity can add to it another
argument or place it in a new point of view, but the
cause itself is removed to another and higher tribu-
nal, where such controversies are unmeaning and
superfluous. We have no longer to see who is
right, but whether we can enforce our claims upon
the attention of Russia by something stronger than
those appeals to truth and justice which have been
proffered to her in vain. We are not among those
who believe that in this work-might alwaylffollows
right—the history of Russia terself is a Memorable'
instance to the contrary ; bat we are convinced
that the arms of this country are able to vindicate
the principles her diplomacy has laid down, and
that in appealing to the last resource of nations,
though we are shifting the field of conflict, we
shall retain the same overpowering superiority as
before.

For the last time, then, as we hope, we approach
the consideration of the grounds which have led to
the war just commencing. When next we have to
deal with the respective rights of the belligerents,
we trust it will be to aid in the establishment of an
honourable and durable peace. Russia demands by
what right England and France pretend to exact
from her the evacuation of the Principalities, and
no one can deny the truth of the French Govern-
ment's answer, that we do this under the faith of
treaties, and with the approbation of the Powers of
Europe in Congress assembled. Russia asserts that
she could not evacuate the Principalities until the
conditions she annexed to the evacuation had been
complied with. France replies that those conditions
were unjust, and condemned by the judgment of
Europe ; to which we may add that a wrong is not
made a right by annexing to it conditions on the
performance of which only the wrong is to cease.
Russia asserts that Turkey was the first to declare
war ; but the answer is plain, that if Turkey was
the first to declare war, Russia was the first to make
war, and that Russia is not in a better position
because she invaded the territories of her ally in
time of peace than she would have been in had
she prefaced that act of war with the usual decla-
ration of hostilities. Russia complains that the in-
vasion of the Principalities did not arrest the course
of negotiation, and need not have prevented its con-
tinuance. It is not, we apprehend, for her to
complain that we have been slow to repel force
by force, and have exhausted every means of ob-
taining a pacific settlement before we have recourse
to arms. Had we been more prompt, would Russia
have less to complain of ? To the assertion that we
have changed the basis of negotiation the French
Government answers, with force and truth, that
it was when Russia, by an authentic declaration,
declared that she understood the Note agreed to
by the Congress of Vienna in a sense entirely dif-
ferent from that which she well knew it was in-
tended to bear, that she herself changed the basis
of negotiation by a miserable quibble, substituted
for it another basis of her own, and thus forced us
to seek for other grounds of agreement, if we did
not wish to be tricked with words. Russia com-
plains of the peremptory summons addressed to
her fleet after the catastrophe of Siuope ; but here
again she had been beforehand with us, and our
words were only the sequence of her deeds. Con-
trary to her assurances that the war would be de-
fensive, her fleet crossed over to the Turkish ter-
ritory and destroyed the Turkish navy by an over-
powering force. Few people, we apprehend, now
consider that we erred on the side of rashness and
violence in confining ourselves to a verbal sum-
mons, instead of using the means at our disposal
immediately to chastise the aggression. Russia
accuses us of exaggerating the object of the
war. If the object of the war be so slight as
is contended, how awful must be the responsibility
before God and man of a Power, which, for slight
causes, committed such an outrage on the public
peace as the invasion of the Principalities, and
such a violation of good faith and humanity as the
slaughter of Sinope ! Russia complains that the
Porte is not to make peace without the consent of
her allies. Would it be reasonable that we should
employ our fleets and armies at such a distance in
the defence of a Power at liberty to make terms
for herself with the common enemy, the more ad-
vantageous in proportion to the greatness of our
efforts in her aid ? We have forced the Porte,
says Russia, to concede equality to its Christian
subjects. The precise contrary is the fact. Russia
strove to force the Porte to concede certain privi-
leges to her Christian subjects, and failed. Where
she failed we have succeeded, precisely because we
did not rely on force, but on persuasion—not on
the Sultan's fears, but on his interest. Europe
must judge, says the Russian manifesto, whether
its equilibrium be more endangered by the prepon-
derance of Russia or by the dictation exerted by
united France and England. The French Govern-
ment answers, with truth, that Europe has judged
already, and that her judgment is in our favour.
We have tried our cause before a tribunal preju-
diced against us, and won it triumphantly. Aus-
tria and Prussia look coldly upon France and Eng-
land as the source of revolutionary ideas, and of
a spirit of dangerous innovation. A Russian
Princess shares the throne of the one, and a Rus-
sian army only five years ago re-established the
tottering fortunes of the other. Yet these Powers
have solemnly and emphatically declared that we
were right—right in demanding the evacuation of
the Principalities, right in rejecting the Vienna
Note, and right in declaring war. The Emperor
of Russia must not hope to gain from authority
that support which he cannot derive from reason ;
ho stands without a friend, without an ally, be-
cause there is no Power in Europe at once base and
bold enough to avow his principles or justify his
actions.
Therefore, in full confidence that our cause will
be approved by the verdict of posterity as well as
the voice of our contemporaries, with all the calm-
ness of strength reposing on justice, we advance
to this contest, and trust before long to make our
antagonist as weary of war as h© has shown him-
self impatient and intolerant of peace.

In no respect has the independence of the Porte
been compromised in its recent arrangement with
the Western Governments ; and the assertion that
"it will be forced to subscribe to an engagement
which would extend to all its subjects equality of
civil and political rights," is simply an untruth.
England and France have never for a moment
thought of requirino. from Turkey any such engage-
ment, either in the form of a treaty or of a note.
They have made, from time to time, such repre-
sentations with reference to the Sultan's Christian
subjects as have appeared expedient ; and it may
added that, in some important points, their sug-
gestions have been received with wise and ready
acquiescence. It is, indeed, the misfortune of all
Governments, and particularly of those constituted
on oriental principles, that the beneficial measures
designed by enlightenedstatezmen are often thwarted
or delayed in their operation by the ignorance or
corruption of subordinate officials ; yet we cannot
doubt that the concessions recently made will, at
no distant date, be productive of all the advantages
which the best friends of Turkey anticipate. It is
certainly singular that so accomplished a diploma-
tist as M. de Nesselrode should feel that perplexity
which he expresses in his late circular to the foreign
agents of Russia with reference to the Greek insur-
rection, when he says—" By a contradiction, which
those who pretend to protect against us the power
of the Crescent and the rights of the Sultan can
alone explain, these same Powers who declare war
to us for the sole motive that we wished to main-
tain the religious immunities of the Ciiristains of
Turkey, say that they are disposed to obtain in
their favour the same civil and political rights as are
enjoyed by the Mussulmans." Perhaps, however,
under any other circumstances, he would easily find
a satisfactory solution for the difficulty. " Good
offices" are not generally understood to be syno-
nymous with an ultimatissimunz, ; nor are friendly
counsels to an independent potentate identical with
the armed occupation of his territories. We may
add that the very terms of the incendiary docu-
ment, to which we have just alluded, may suffice to
relieve the Russian Minister from the difficulty
which he professes to experience in discriminating
between the acts of England and France and those
of his Imperial master. There is a sufficiently wide
distinction between amicable representations to a
Government on behalf of a portion of its subjects,
and the open encouragement of armed revolt ; and
Europe will, perhaps, find no " contradictions"
half so startlino, as that which exhibits the " Great
Conservative Power" in the light of au emissary of
sedition and insurrection.
We cannot conclude without again expressing
our earnest hope—a hope which recent events en-
courage us to entertain with increasing confidence
—that Austria will assume, in the present struggle,
that position which suits both her ancient renown
and her present strength. The nuptials of her
Sovereign have been wisely and gracefully signal-
ised by measures calculated to convert provinces
hitherto dissatisfied into attached supporters of the
Imperial Crown. We mentioned a few days ago
that the state of siege in Hungary, Gallicia, and
other eastern districts, would be raised on the Ist
of next month, and we have since learned that the
same concession will be extended, without reserve,
to Lombardy and the Venetian provinces. It fur-
ther appears that a complete or conditional pardon
will be granted to a large number of political pri-
soners, whilst a general amnesty for offences against
the State will also be conceded. By this prudent
and conciliatory policy, Austria places herself in a
position to employ her vast force in the guardian-
ship of those European rights and interests which
she is especially concerned to maintain and pro-
tect ; and there is, we trust, little doubt that the
power thus derived from measures of justice and
clemency at home will be actively exerted abroad
in a manner worthy of her resources and her his-
torical reputation.

(Prom the Morning Chronicle.)
We published yesterday, in our second edition,
the clear and forcible reply of the French Govern-
ment to the recent Russian Declaration ; and it
will be seen that M. Drouyn de Lhuys most feli-
citously disposes of the principal points on which
the Court of St. Petersburg has attempted to rest
its justification. It may, perhaps, be recollected
that, according to the latter document, the Czar
and his advisers are labouring under the most pain-
ful anxiety as to the balance of power in Europe ;
and, indeed, they leave it to be inferred that, in
all the proceedings which have led to the present
war, their efforts have been solely directed to the
maintenance of the existing political equilibrium.
They are it seems, seriously apprehensive that it
will be disturbed, if they are not allowed quietly
to accomplish their designs upon Turkey ; and they,
therefore, address an almost plaintive appeal to
neutral Powers against the proceedings of England
and France, who, unable to appreciate the bene-
ficence of Russia's intentions, have avowed their
determination to resist her equitable adjustment of
the Sultan's territories and rights of sovereignty.
Austria is pathetically reminded of efforts " con-
secrated to the maintenance of equilibrium," mo-
rally in Lombardy, and materially in Hungary ;
and the Cabinet of St. Petersburg condescends
even to invoke the sympathies of Greece, Sicily,
Naples, and Tuscany, in the hope of escaping the
isolation with which it is so unjustifiably threatened.
M. Drouyn do Lhuys has, however, little diffi-
culty in reducing the Imperial complaints and
protestations to their true value. He urges, with
irresistible force, the fact that, throughout the
protracted negotiations which have taken place,
there has been the most cordial agreement, not
only between France and England, but among the
four Great Powers of Western and Central Eu-
rope. The Russian Government, he observes, for-
gets that " no one of these Powers aims, like it, at
exclusive advantages, or wants to act by itself
t alone. Far from permitttrig a preponderance of