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SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(From the Times.)

Some doubts having been expressed as to the
conduct the Northern Courts of Sweden and Den-
mark may think fit to adopt in the event of an
extension of the hostilities which have commenced
on the Danube and the Black Sea, those Powers
have recently determined to establish a strict union
of their policy, and a formal declaration of their
intentions has just been addressed by their Mini-
sters, in. identical terms, to all the Cabinets of
Europe. Whatever may be the result of the diffe-
rences which have occurred between Russia and
Turkey, and which threaten to extend to the mari-
time Powers, Sweden and Denmark are desirous
of maintaining their friendly relations with all the
States now at amity with them, and, accordingly,
they propose to observe in the contest which may
now be impending over the world a strict neutra-
lity, by abstaining from every direct or indirect
measure calculated to favour or assist either of the
contending parties. For this purpose they propose
to admit, without distinction, to their ports the
merchant vessels and vessels of war belonging to
the belligerents on either side, with the solo excep-
tion of privateers, which are to be prohibited from
entering Swedish and Danish harbours. The only
exception to this free access in the case of Denmark
is the port of Christiansoe, which is used as a State
prison; and in the case of Sweden, foreign vessels of
war are not to enter the principal harbours within the
line of certain forts. They further propose to con-
cede to both parties full liberty of trading and ob-
taining supplies, with the exception of articles con-
traband of war ; but they lay it down as a rule of
their neutrality that, except under pressure of
weather, no maritime prizes are to be taken in,
condemned, or sold in their ports, or in their Courts
of Admiralty. Lastly, they assert for themselves
the right to carry on their own mercantilo_and
other relations with the States which may be
engaged in this war, subject to existing laws, and,
of course, to such conditions, as the state of war
may impose.
As several months must still clause before the
Baltic ports are open either to the prosecution of
trade or to operations of war, the Northern Courts
might, without practical inconvenience to navi-
gation, have deferred this declaration some time
longer, or till war between the maritime Powers
is actually commenced. But they have taken a
more politic as well as a more decided course,
and this announcement of neutrality was the
proper answer for them to give to the im-
putation of Russian influence. Confused and
exaggerated statements of the position of these
Governments towards Russia were already cur-
rent, and had obtained circulation in the
west of Europe. But later information from
Sweden contradicts the statement that Russia had
made any direct attempt to obtain from the Baltic
States a measure of so hostile a character as the
closing of their ports against French or English
vessels in the event of war, and in the meantime
these Governments were engaged in a negotiation
of which the maritime Powers of Western Europe
have no right to complain. The idea of an armed
neutrality has also been mentioned, probably from
some indistinct reminiscence of the maritime- con-
vention concluded by the Baltic States with Russia
in 1780 ; but nothing of the kind is to be found
in the present declaration. The neutrality of
these States means their independence, and it
secures us against the only danger we could ap-
prehend in the Baltic from the ascendancy Russia
might have attempted to exercise in ports not
belonging to her empire. The Emperor Nicholas
will find that, under these present circumstances,
the alliance of the Baltic States altogether fails
him ; and, if he should make auy attempt to urge
them to depart from the line of policy they have
adopted, we have no doubt that the spirit of the
people and the interests of the two Crowns would
lead them to resist every attempt at foreign dicta-
tion. It is a mistake to suppose that the Scandina-
vian kingdoms are under Russian influence ; and
the promptitude with which they have declared
themselves on this occasion is a distinct refutation
of the charge sometimes brought against them.
Sweden is too near St. Petersburg, and has
already lost too much important territory on the
side of the Russian frontier, to render her a very
confiding neighbour ; and the policy of both the
Courts is, very wisely, to make the Baltic a free
and open sea, both in peace and in war.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIEi OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.

DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
ioetor of Medicine, and Matriculated 'Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
_ .

c,iety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.
mAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenilerirregularities and excesses, which have pro-
toted more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
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in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
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existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri-
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endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.

It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
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Incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
In an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
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of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, Assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
or their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
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While these arrangements have been completed
in the North and communicated to the other Euro-
pean Powers, it must be borne in mind that two
communications of an opposite character are on
their way from different parts of the continent.
According, to the latest accounts which have been
received and published by the French Government
and its organs, it was not until the 26th of Decem-
ber that the Turkish Ministry had made up its
mind to adopt the propositions transmitted from
Vienna, and it was not until the 29th ult. that the
formal answer of the Porte to that communication
would be placed in the hands of the four Envoys at
Constantinople. It may consequently reach Vienna
about the Bth inst., and will then be forwarded to
St. Petersburg. Some discussion has taken place
as to the mode in which such a communication
ought to be transmitted to the Russian Court,
and it would seem that an impression exists at
Vienna that the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets
are to tender their good offices in this part of
the negotiation in preference to France and
England. It can hardly be conceived that
such a pretension will seriously be maintained,
for the very essence of the proposition rests
on the combined action of the Four Powers.
If there be one principle more plain than
another throughout this transaction, it is that we
are contending for the joint action of all the great
European Powers in the affairs of the East, and
the instructions adopted in common at Vienna ex-
pressly provide that Turkey and Russia are to be
invited to negotiate for peace, not alone, but with
esnot,o
the concurrence of the Four Powers. On that
ground Turkey has acceded to the project, and on
similar grounds only can it be tendered to Russia.
The point which the Emperor Nicholas will first
have to decide is, whether he does or does not re-
cognise this collective action of the mediating
Powers in the East, which he has hitherto affected
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.„.ussia might attempt to send into it, we under-
stand that they forwarded to St. Petersburgh a dis-
tinct notice of their intention, and apprized the
Russian Cabinet of the means they proposed to
employ for the prevention of hostilities. The an-
swer of the Russian, Cabinet to such an intimation
will very likely determine for the present the na-
ture of our relations with that empire. The Czar
may think fit to donsider such an occupation of the
Black Sea as an act of hostility which he will in-
struct his cruisers to resist, or he may testify a de-
sire for peace he has not hitherto shown by sub-
mitting to the representations of the mediating
Powers. But in either case it is probable that an-
other week will elapse before the effect of this com-
munication can be known to us in Western Europe.
The propositions of negotiation from COnstantinople
and Vienna cannot arrive at. St. Petersburgh till
some considerable time later, although the sub-
stance of them must already be perfectly well
known to the Emperor Nicholas, as in faCt it is to
the public, and he may therefore have determined
beforehand on the course he intends to pursue.
But, until we learn his determination on one at
least of these communications, nothing can be con-
jectured with confidence as to the course of events,
which must now very speedily be determined.

( Prom, the Morning Chronicle.)
The Russians undoubtedly possess sufficient in-
fluence to interpose considerable obstacles in the
way of the transmission of intelligence from the
Danube westward ; -but, whaiever advantage they
may derive from this circumstance, it is at least
counterbalanced by the fact that the mews which is
intercepted almost always proves to have been fa-
vourable to Turkey. The official account even of
the easy triumph of Sinope was grossly falsified, by
the omission to acknowledge the loss of a ninety-
gun ship ; and there is reason to hope that correc-
tions of at least equal importance will hereafter be
applied to the bombastic bulletins which, purporting
to proceed from the Russian commanders in Georgia,
are doubtless submitted to a judicious cense;eshive at
St. Petersburg. The object of influencing European
opinion in favour of the Czar , after all, but in-
sufficiently attained. Tbn world has discovered
that, as respects the hostilities on the Danube, "no
news is good news ;" while the admission of any
check experienced by the invader generally indi-
cates a serious defeat. It must not be forgotten
that the affair of Oltenitza is as yet only known, to
those who are confined to Russian sources of infor-
mation, as an engagement in which GeneralDannen-
berg totally defeated the enemy, although, for some
inexplicable reason, he abstained from driving the
Turkish force into the river. The reports of an
English officer, our own special correspondent, have
proved that no foundation ever existed for the
statements of Prince Gortschakoff's bulletin. It is
riot, therefore, surprising that the slight official
mention of the combat at Matschin should have
concealed the failure of a serious demonstration on
the right bank of the river.
Our correspondence from Galatz, published yes-
terday, contained a full and accurate account of
the repulse of the Russian troops on the occasion
referred to. The Turkish fort of Matschin is situated
nearly opposite Ibraila, within a few miles of the
Russian frontier, which reaches to the confluence
of the Pruth with the Danube. On the 13th of
December, General Luders, whose early arrival at
Bucharest was announced some months since, em-
barked 5,000 men from the garrisons in the vici-
nity on board a flotilla—probably the same which
commenced the war by firing on the neighbouring
town of Isaktcha. The steamers on the river at-
tacked the batteries of Matschin, while the troops
advanced along the shore until they were within
reach of the musketry from the walls. Both
assaults were effectually repulsed ' • and it is said
that the Russians lost from 400 to 500 men. A
much less important success than that gained by
the Turks in this affair would, if achieved by the
invading army, have brought a shower of decora-
tions and silver roubles to the fortunate victors,.
with an autograph letter of compliment from the
Emperor to the commanding officer. In the ab-
sence of any opportunity for boasting, the alterna-
tive is the suppression of the whole story, until
there is time for the truth to be communicated by
the circuitous route of Constantinople.
It was probably after the date of the affair of
Matschin that another division of General Luders'
corps was recalled from Wallachia, and ordered to
retrace its steps by forced marches to Bessarabia.
The Turks had, it appeared, collected a strong force
at Isaktcha ; and whether they intended to carry
the war into the enemy's country, or only to make a
demonstration, it may have been equally necessary
to collect a sufficient force to watch their move-
ments. In Bessarabia, as in all the other con-
quered provinces which form the Russian frontier,
general disaffection prevails. Every new acqui-
sition of the great Northern Empire is, indeed,
gradually reduced to the state of moral and
political degradation which prevails throughout
the Imperial dominions ; but so long as the me-
mory of happier times is still cherished, any foreign
ally who offers a hope of escape is welcomed with
eager sympathy. Although the Ottoman forces
may not at present be strong enough to reta-
liate the invasion of the Sultan's territory, their
commanders have the means of effecting an impor-
tant diversion, by threatening the enemy's commu-
nications from the Lower Danube. At the other
extremity of his line, Omer Pacha is still strength-
ening his position at Kalafat ; and it is not impro-
bable that he may have already threatened the
Russian vanguard at Krajova from Nicopoli and
Turna. The Turkish troops are so much better
cared for than the Russians, that it is not unlikely
that the severity of the weather gives them a rela-
tive advantage. Our Special Correspondent says,
in his description of the entrenched camp at
Shumla, that the Ottoman soldier is better lodged
and better fed than the private of any European
army. On the other hand, it is known that, in
consequence of the corruption of the officials, the
Russian commissariat has always been found in-
efficient in a foreign campaign.
The fact that the fortune of war is still so equally
balanced, while as yet only the original belligerents
are in the field, might well suggest grave reflections
to the aggressor. In Asia, even according to
Russian statements, Prince Woronzow has effected
no more than the recovery of the territory through
which the Ottoman forces had advanced. Not
even au official bulletin has yet announced that the
fort of St. Nicholas has been retaken ; and it is
highly improbable that, with the mountaineers
in arms, the Governor-General of Georgia can ven-
ture to attack the Turkish" provinces. The unfor-
nate squadron which was destroyed at Sinope had
Previously succeeded in landing enormous supplies
of guns and ammunition on the Circassian coast, so
that the war which has continued so obstinately for
a quarter of a century will now be carried on with
additional spirit and vigour. The Government of
St. Petersburgh can scarcely hope that, even if
Turkey were abandoned to her own resources,
England would allow the Shah of Persia to use
with impunity against the Porte a force which is
ultimately destined to threaten the Indian frontier.
The worst enemies of our Government will at least
give it credit for a determination to protect its own
territories in all parts of the world.
On the Danube, the fortune of war has con-
fessedly been favourable to the Turks. They have
defeated the enemy
in two considerable combats—
they have disquieted him, successively or simul-
taneously, at every point of his line---and they have
taken up a permanent position on the left bank of
the river. It has been repeatedly announced that
innumerable hosts were about to sweep the Otto-
man army from its positions ; and even at this
moment, the Russians in the different European
capitals are instructed to boast of the in-'
tended march to Constantinople in the spring.
In the meantime, however, :the invading army
- has not gained a foot of ground, nor even made
preparations for investing one of the many for-
tresses which n' ust he taken before the Balkan can
be crossed. General Osten-Sackett's vanguard has
entered Moldavia long after his main body had
been expected in Wallachia ; and of General Lu-
ders' reserves, it is known that one detachment has
been required for Georgia, whilst another has re-
treated on Bessarabia. There is reason to believe
that not a man can be spared from Poland ; and
circumstances may soon occur which will demand
an increase of the garrisons in Finland. The
Turkish Government, which nobly defied the plau-
sible menaces of Prince Menschikoff, would indeed
be pusillanimous if, after proving its strength, it
shrunk from the paper forces with which it is
threatened for the ensuing campaign. Up to the
present moment, the Western Powers have main-
tained a strict neutrality ; and Russia has probably
calculated on prolonging their inaction for an inde-
finite period. It is difficult, however, to imagine
that any new device can be discovered for the post-