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London, England, 1853-09-01 00:00:00

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Powers, transmitted to him from Vienna by their
representatives. But such is by no means the
case with the Divan, as might at the first blush
have been confidently anticipated. Instead of
I receiving gladly and eagerly, as we were assured
it would, the terms vouchsafed by the Four
Powers with a view to the conciliation of the
AUTOCRAT—tiIe Divan has expressed its willing-
ness to yield to the suggestion of its allies as
embodied in the Viennese proposition only in the
event of that document being altered in five dif-
ferent points thereupon plainly particularised.
It is eagerly insisted by those who were lately
the loudest in offering their congratulations to
the public upon what they declared to be the
satisfactory conclusion of the "Eastern difficulty—
that the changes required by the Divan are in
all essential respects unimportant. Important or
unimportant in themselves, those changes are five in
number, and must consequently be regarded by
every man of common sense as rather formidable
in the aggregate. It must be remembered that
certain proposals are offered in the first in-
stance to the CZAR, and that those proposals
are by him forthwith accepted—accepted, too,
frankly and unconditionally.lt must then
be borne in recollection that the same pro-
posals are proferred to the Sublime Porte, and
that the Divan then intimates, after due reflection
and deliberation, its readiness to accept the docu-
ment upon certain conditions those condi-
tions being no less than five separate changes
or modifications. Therefore, of course, a fresh
communication with the CZAR becomes at once
inevitable, and a new opportunity is thereby
presented to him of withdrawing from his
present pacific position on the plea of be-
ing trifled with in the conduct of these fresh
negotiations. Instead, therefore, of matters
having been satisfactorily arranged, as we have
been told over and over again in language at once
exultant and congratulatory—nothing, absolutely
nothing, has yet been accomplished ; and the al-
ternative of peace or war remains up to this mo-
ment in a state of alarming uncertainty.
Apart from every other consideration, the dif-
ferent conduct of Russia and Turkey in reference
to the proposal of the Four Powers, must, we con-
ceive, be regarded as tolerably significant of its gene-
ral tendency and character. It has amused us to ob-
serve the mingled surprise and indignation expressed
by some of the more infatuated admirers of the
ABERDEEN Coalition, at the totally opposite man-
ner in which that proposal has been received at St.
Petersburg and Constantinople. The CZAR has
been eulogised for its ready acceptance, while the
SULTAN has been condemned for his acceptance of

it, being only, as we have seen, conditional. The
latter has been called shuffling, and the former,
magnanimous. Why, of course, the reception of
this wretched proposal has been precisely of this
diametrically opposite character at St. Petersburg
and at Constantinople. Why, of course, the AUTO-
CRAT is all eagerness to aid in bringing matters to a
conlusion in a manner to him so eminently con-
venient and satisfactory. And, of course, on the
other hand, the Divan hesitates to welcome at
once terms so detrimental to the interests, and
degrading to the dignity, and injurious to the
rights of the Turkish Sovereign. In this,
also, we have been only too lamentably
justified. For events have already proved
as we long ago maintained they must inevitably,
that the pacification of which we were assured was
very far from having been effected, and that the
Proposal sent by the Four Powers from Vienna
to St. Petersburg and Constantinople was (whether
accepted or refused) in the highest degree unsatis-
factory. Meanwhile the troops of the ATJTOCRAT
continue to hold undisputed possession of the
Danubian Principalities.