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London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

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THE WEITHER—Snr OFFICE, MARCH 13.
THERMOMETER; IN THE SHADE.
44 —highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
41 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.00—rising again.
WIND, E.—Fresh, with bitter, bright, clear, frosty
iveather.

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§II3X,

L3NDON, THURSDAY, INIA.ItCiiI- 13, 1856

" It has been definitively settled that Prussia
shall be admitted to the Conferences !" This
startling intelligence has arrived almost simul-
taneously from Berlin and from Paris, and there
seems to be too great reason to FEAR that it may
be authentic. We have never entertained much
hope of satisfactory results from the pending
negotiations. The preliminaries did not afford
reasonable ground for auspicious anticipations.
But any favourable expectations must be com-
pletely shattered by the foregoing announcement
Germanism has again triumphed, and we must
once mere witness the forfeiture by the pen of
what has been gained by the sword.
What claims can Prussia, the Muscovite satel-
lite, put forward for such a privilege ? From
the very commencement of the Eastern difficulty
she has deliberately and carefully avoided the
position which she once held as one of the
" Great Powers." She has refused to consider
questions of European, interest, looking only
to matters in which Germany was concerned,
and by a spurious and pretended neutrality ac-
quired large profits for herself at the expense of
every magnanimous and honourable principle.
Had Prussia acted fairly, peace would long since
have been proclaimed. It was her tacit conniv-
ance that encouraged the CZAR, and occasioned
and protracted the War ; and the admission of her
representative to the salon of Count WALZWSKI
Will be merely giving an additional vote to Russia,
so that it may evade its just responsibilities and
escape with comparative impunity from the con-
sequences of its atrocious guilt.

The policy of " Clicquot" has succeeded. "The
Angel of Peace" has triumphed ! And why ?
Because, by the provisions of the Royal Marriage
Act, it is important to find an eligible (!) Ger2nan
applicant for the hand of the Princess Royal !
The interests of our children and their offspring
are to be sacrificed to multiply the alliances of the
fortunate house of Coburg—to forge an additional
link in the dynastic chain, and strengthen the
prospects of a Thuringian kingdom being created
out of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
A heavy price has been paid for the anticipated
aggrandisement, and, as in many former instances,
JOHN BULL is the victim.

The Prince Consort leads a very happy life.
He is not oppressed by the burdens that paralyse
the energies of many patres farni2iarunt. The
Income Tax presses lightly on the accumulations of
hie handsome annuity and numerous and lucrative
sinecures. *The model farmer and " ranger," who
. feeds his cattle at the expense of the nation, might
well be contented with the unalloyed " spoon "
that has fallen to his lot. Let him pull the wires
of the puppet at the Horse Guards, and virtually
control the military affairs of the nation ! Surely
that might satisfy his " laudable (!) ambition,"
as it is termed, without any necessity for inter-
ference in foreign affairs, or the sacrifice of British
interests to German idols.

A specious pretext has bean discovered for an
ill-omened visit. Uncle LEOPOLD 15' to attend at
the confirmation of qhe future Queen of Prussia,
and to instil his notions into quarters where the
Se • d may produce very deleterious fruit. He
has also a very good thing to fall back on, in the
shape of a Royal Palace and 50,0001. per annum,
and it might be prudent on his part to abstain
from intrigues that may lead to the forfeiture of
such unequivocal advantages. It is said that a
" word to the wise" is always sufficient. We

trust that this rather significant hint will not be
misapplied to the parvenu Monarch.
Hitherto the country has yielded an implicit
reliance to the PILMIRSTON Government. Lord
CLARENDON has especially obtained the confidence
which he has well merited. The nature of the
influences by which they are assailed are now
perceptible. Let them be stedfastly resisted,
and the parties who do so, and sustain the popu-
lar cause in the almost inevitable struggle, will
be energetically supported. Never, perhaps, in
the national history has there occurred a more
glorious opportunity for the achievement of im-
perishable fame by a patriotic statesman. Lot it
not be wasted or misapplied, and a monument
more enduring than either brass or marble way be
acquired. The difficulties are great, but the
honour will be proportionate. The watchword
may be "England for the English, and for no
others." We are not as yet reduced to the con-
dition of seeking a "King Loci" or a " King
STORK," but can make a reasonable attempt at
self-government without German aid."

Joviality, selfishness, and short-sighted hu-
manity are equally liable to throw overboard care

for the future. The first, like HORACE or BURNS, is
boo merry to think of it ; selfishness deliberately

absorbs itself in present gains ; while, wel

meaning benevolence relieves present sorrow., un

willing to weigh the natural results of its conduct
upon after years. All these influences may just now
combine to perpetrate a gross iniquity at the
Peace Conferences. Selfishness in the shape of
political expediency, and benevolence regarding
only the horrors of war, are likely to condone the
most infernal of all European crimes, and to sow
the seeds of the most bloody revolutions for the
next half century.

If ever Sovereign or people did a damnable
deed, it was that of the ambitious harlot CATHE-
RINE, carried on by the hypocrite ALEXANDER,
and completed by the demon NICHOLAS—the
deed which first parted, then wholly acquired, and
then denationalised Poland. We have written
somewhat strongly before, but it arouses every
feeling of attachment to national existence and
liberties to know that the murderers of Poland
are now engaged in burying their victim, and
that the witnesses of the murder and feeble pro-

testers against it are now aiding at the funeral.
Hitherto, if we may prolong the most obvious of
figures, the body of that noble nation has lain
unburied ; indeed it has been deeply wounded
rather than dead ; capable of restoration to life

if England and France were but united and
resolute ; there it lay, the reproach of despots
bad enough for anything, who did the deed—
and the reproach of the two great nations who
only faintly cried murder, but who have acted
as yet the part of the Priest and the Levite.
Instead of pouring oil and wine into the wounds,
Lord CLARENDON and M. WALEWSKI—a Pole, too,
he—are probably aiding Counts ORLOFF and BUOL
to shovel the earth on the half-dead body, and to
aggravate the cruelties of the past by consigning
political helplessness to a living grave.
As far as despots can insure anything, the in-
terment of Poland, with nothing but the tomb-
stelae of history to tell us of its existence, will
now be completed. It is possible, indeed, not
improbable, that nothing will be said about it—
nothing, at least, in the formal sittings. But
silence itself in such a matter is deliberate ac-
tion. The object of the Conference is a peace
"in the interests of Europe," or comprising pro-
visions in her interest. If Poland be not men-
tioned, it can only mean that she no longer exists
to have any European interests, or that it is not
for the interest of Europe that she should have
an existence. It means, in truth, both. Even
the former, scarcely audible, pretests of the Allies
against the devilry of Russia in that unhappy
county); will ' be nullified by the Conference
of all the powers concerned in the spoliation
with the two great ones who objected. If Russia
lose the coasts of the Black' Sea, and be barred off
from Waranger Bay, she will gain, by the peace
of Paris and Kars, eternal indemnity for her Polish
villanies. History will record that at Paris,
1856, Poland breathed her last. Till the year
when the Western Powers had brought Russia to
their feet—when she was not, as at Vienna, a
conqueror among conquerors, but a vanquished
suppliant for mercy, Poland was not indisputably
Russian. But then, and when " a lasting Euro-
pean peace" was the object, one admitted element
of the peace is that the vanquished thief should
retain his prey !
It will, in fact, be a peace of despots, not of
nations—an agreement to hold each other as
harmless as they can. Every nation concerned is
earnestly desirous that Poland should be free.
Turkey wishes it as the best guarantee against the
treachery and insolence both of Austria and Rus-
sia, and even Austria herself would be secured on
her Russian frontier. France and England wish
it, from early, long, and deep sympathy with the
oppressed, and hatred of the oppressor. Sardinia
nobly shares in the feelings of her Allies. But
not only is the Russian CZAR, as arch-despot of
Europe, to be tenderly dealt with by brother
despots, but the base, perjured vermin who infest
central Europe are the sworn and intermarried
satraps of Russia, and yet can dominate in the
Courts of the great nations at war with her.
Why, even now we are told that, in spite of the
national detestation of, Prussia, a scion of the
shabby HOHENZOLLERNS is to renew, and for
a much longer period, his visit to the Princess-
Royal ! We trust and believe it to be a scandal.
Repeal rather the wicked Marriage Act of that
German tyrant, GEORGE the Third, and let
not our national interests be wedded to
the meanest and most deeply-perjured of Royal-
ties, that of Austria not excepted. Whence
this ignominious courting of Germany t Even the
powerful mind which now rules France sought an
Empress first in Germany. Austria forbade the
banns. Is it the happy domestic results, or is it
the interests of absolute power, which leads Lours
NAPOLEON to be so over gracions with the power
which denied him a German wife. To all ap-
pearance he is as much cajoled by Germany as if
he had married a Conuno. Be all this as it may,
it is chiefly German despotism, self-esteem, and
malignity, to which Poland owes it that she is now
to be lost for ever.
Let not, however, our peacemakers be too con-
fident in an unrighteous compromise for the sake
of present ease. It was a stipulation of this sort
which plunged Germany into the cruel thirty
years' war. It was the miserable subterfuge of
tolerating slavery under a feigned name in the
American deed of independence which has in-
flicted its greatest degradation on their Republic:,
and which threatens it with civil war. An
evasion of political expediency in the hope that
slavery would die out, has resulted in branding
all the Free States with a fugitive-slave law, in
filling the Southern States with a slavery unheard
of for brutality and atrocity, and in a feud
which shakes " the Union" of the wicked to its
centre.

We do not pretend, like Mr. COBDEN, to
prophecy. PROVIDENCE has not revealed
plans to us ; but it will be no more than the
usual course of things if the selfish policy of