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to the community. We do not, however, propose
a private subscription to remedy these lathes.
The Government should do its own work ; and
there is no reason why the communications may
not be materially expedited—first, by more fre-
quent telegraphic despatches ; and, secondly, by
placing a number of steamers, such as the Vivid,
I &c., on the line between Constantinople and Mar-
seilles, so as to have arrivals, during the continu-
ance of the war, at least twice a week at the
latter port, without any delays during the passage.
The present advices have been received per the
Pharamond, which left Constantinople on the
10th, and reached Marseilles yesterday. We hear
from Balaklava to the Bth instant. At that
time " the siege works were fully protected by
entrenchments against attacks, and that the ma-
teriel amounted to 400 guns." No offensive
movement had been made during the interval
by Prince MENSCHIKOFF. It was expected that
the firing would shortly commence, and that a
breach would be effected within 48 hours. Bl-
laklava had been completely fortified, and our
position was so strong that it could be maintained
against any possible attack that could be made,
even if the Russian forces were quadrupled.
The arrangements are said to be so perfect as
o leave no possible doubt of speedy and coal-

plete success.
The defenders of Sebastopol are said to
be completely disheartened since their un-
expected defeat on the Alma, where, it is
said, they have lost between 7,000 and 8,000
men. Should anything be accomplished worthy
of a telegraphic communication, in the opinion of
Lord STRATFORD, we may have tidings in another
day or two. The present intelligence was twelve
(lays coming, and experience has shown that it
might be received in seven, or at the farthest
eight, days.

But for the all-absorbing military struggle in
which we are now engaged, the political one in
amunark would have most deeply interested the
English public. And even now, while we await
in breathless suspense the next authentic tidings
from Sebastopol, we by no means forget the battle
of another kind at Copenhag;ni. They ar© indeed
pxrts of one great whole. The Danish King and
the traitors by whom he has surrounded hirris'M
tre but fighting in another form the Russian

b tttle. Thr...ir object is to Secure a reversion to

:he great Northern BArbarian of the state whicl
[s the key almost of the Baltic, and also to sub,

vert its liberties all ready to the hand of a Czar,

MENSCIIIKOFF in the Crimea and OERSTED in Don.

mark are almost equally the tools of Nicno

LAS. The • chief difference is that the one

s working openly for him, tho other covertly ;

one would have secured for him, by violence as

well as' by intrigue, the substantial power in

Turkey ; the other, with his Monarch, is aiming,
by a coup d'etat and the illegal subversion of a

constitution, to place ultimately th©. free and

brave Danes at the feet of the CZAR of Russia.
We trust that the unworthy Monarch and his
advisers have overshot the mark in their attempt
to subvert the constitution of 1848 ; a constitu-
tion as moderate as any Tory in this country could
desire. Probably all will depend upon the mili-
tary. The whole civil population axe unanimous
against the illegal edict of July, which proposed

to do away with the House of Representatives,
and to bestow upon a biennial council of notables
very limited political powers. Public demon-
strations of several kinds, some even threatening
to the hypocritical King himself, have fully re-
vealed to the Cabinet that they have not the
slightest chance with the population ; that should
they dismiss the present Parliament they would
have one even more unanimous in determination
to eject them from office. It is stated that the
military are being concentrated around the seat
of deliberations, but there is not the slightest j
symptom at present of the representatives being
overawed. We trust this arises not only from
courageand a sense of duty to their country, but
also froth a knowledge that the soldiers share with
the people the Danish love of liberty, and that
though they might be relied on to protect the
person of the SOVEREIGN from popular violence,
yet the* may be equally relied on to do no vio-
lence tlJemselves to the constitutional representa-
tives of their father-land.
The Parliament itself has taken a noble and
decided stand. With not one dissenting voice it
carried a proposition to appoint a commission to
draw up an indictment against the Ministry. The
more eminent clergy, many of whom had been
elected as members, were unanimous in condem-
nation of the illegal and demoralising conduct of the
Ministry ; the speech of Bishop MoNRAD, a man
of great influence, who had been driven from his
bishopric for anti-Ministerial conduct last year,
was received with loud and even tumultuous
cheering. The address to the KING, which was
very moderate in tone, for the Danish Commons,
like ours in their dealings with CHARLES 1., seem
able to combine formal deference to Royalty,
with a firm determination to assert their rights,
was carried with one dissentient, and he opposed
it only as being of too negative a cha-
racter. But it was on the 14th that
the grand struggle took place, and, as our
readers will have seen, most 'decisive was the
victory of the Danish and constitutional party.
The second and final reading of the motion came
on, to appoint a council of nine to draw up articles
of impeachment against the Ministry for issuing
the illegal ordinance of July, and for financial
delinquencies, and it was carried by 80 to 6,
although, of course, the whole power of the Go-
yeluic.nt was unscrupulously employed to obtain
a different result. If things can only take their
legal course, the Ministry must of course be driven
ignominiously from office, and, it is to be hoped,
driven into banishment also, or confined to a
prison. Men who will lend themselves to the
subversion of a nation's liberties, and abet
the illegal schemes of a Monarch aiming at
despotic power ought, for example's sake, to suffer
the milder punishment which the advancing civi-
lisation of the North and West has substituted for
the scaffold.
The Danes, whose blood England so largely
shares, are a race naturally destined for free in-
stitutions, and all free countries must sympathise
with them in the present crisis ; but in addition
to this, the independence of the little kingdom is
a subject of European concern. The Sound dues,
about which so much has been said, are, in fact,
but a tribute to its weakness. It were probably
better that a tax paid as a kind of charity, by
Powers who could so easily refuse it, should be
done away. It is pauperising to Denmark, and a
burden on the Baltic trade. The chief concern
Of Europe is that the inlet to the great
Scandinavian Sea should belong neither
to Sweden, Russia, Germany, nor Denmark,
but to all the commercial world, and this
is best secured by the thorough independ-
ence of all the Baltic States. If Sweden trembles
before the CZAR, if Prussia embraces him) if
Denmark bows to him, he will ere long. have
power to make the whole of that inland sea one
vast Sebastopol. We hope the news is on its way
from this latter place, which will materially affect

the position of all the Scandinavian States. Sebas-