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1 the two ietters,wiu ich I have seen uo particulars of the
; cause of the corlisic n are given, only the excitement pre-
trailing on both sides is described as Vey/ great.
Officers 4rriyed yesterday from liert.th say that
the apprehensiOrk of a Russian attack. has n,.t alto
'gether übsidefl: The health of th troops is unpa-
ralleled ; in one division of the Titrizi-h: Contingent,
i numbering 4; HO- men, only 21 are in hospita.l. Trie ice
effei.s no impediment to the cotnmunication with the
wasels, which :u
.lying on the edge of it, and are
ap-
,proached by slerAges.
Pressed' Orient contains several le.tters .fioth Kin -
frbourn:up to the gtlt of this month. As at Kertclt,
are expecting art attack there. From 25,0.10 to :.0,040
Russians ale said to lie cnicentrated in. :_.)•zal(off and
-Cherson, and pre;,aring to attack the Wiens,. In can,e• •
clittenct., of these, rumours the French General of Argil-
Jury, Le'retuf, bats been sent there by Matshal' Pelissier
with reinforcements, and several ve•sels with arurnu&-
two ; the tiotilLa has likewise been augmented by seve-
ral siteanierg, which are -placed so as t sweep the ap-
proaches from tee land side. Tao Rnssian soldiers have
been taken in a, sortie while ascertaining the thickres
of the ice. They agree about the intended attack, and
s:ay that the guns have been put on sledges, ;,..nd the
soldier.' shoes provided yith pointed nails, to he able t 3
walk on the ice... Hitherto nothing but some recon-
naissances have taken place, and those always at a dis-
Lance. On the .27th of Jastinoritlt 50 or tio horsemen,
e,corting the slec'ges, approached the lines, but soma
F'mlis and the bails of the rifimen soon drove them
away.

HALF-rAST 3 P.M.
The French razil, which has been overdui -since t•!a-
turday, has just come in.

LORD STRATFORD DE' REDCLIFFE.

(From, the Exanzincr.)
Attacks upon Lord. Stratford de Redolitre have
been rife of late, and the Quarterly Review con-
firms and reiterates statements put forth with much
power by the 'Times. We have more than once
defended Lord Stratford Is a. valuable public ser-
vant. But the ea3e of General Williams deserves
and must receive tborOugh scrutiny. If it be true
that the supply of K4rs with ammunition, provi-
sions, and other means of relief, depended upon an
effort of the English ambassador which he withheld
on the ground solely- of a personal dislike to Gen.
Williams, such dereliction of duty, if it be fairly
pro -Ted, or even if the allegations respecting it be
not boldly and. frankly met, will admit of no de-
fence.

But we do not believe that Lord Stratford is
unable to vueet this charge ; and, until we hear
further, we shall continue to think him incapable
of so forgetting his country and the duty it de-
manded of him. We entreat attention, meanwhile,
to the following, extract from the letter of the cor-
respondent of the Times at Constantinople, which
appeared in that Journal on Tuesday last. The
question of course cannot rest here.
" General Wil:ierns's letters about the wretched state in
which Kars and in:
~e.eneral the defences on the Anato-
iiau frontiers were to,:ind left nodreibt that the invested
town could not bold o,11", or repulse single-handed the
Russian army. Lord Stratford proposed, therefore, to
General Vivian that he sho:11'1 go there with the Con-
tingent. The General willine.lY acceded to the proposi-
tion, anxious, as he was, to sho,'v by a success that the
task which he had undertaken —the formation of the
Turkish Contingent—was feasible ; bQt before he could
make any arrangements it was necessary to have some
knowledge of the ground on which he Was to operate ;
he sent, therefore, General Smith, late Of the Bashi-
Ilazouks, to lcok at it. The report of this latter was
that the force which the Contingent then numbered—
viz., 3,000 men or so—no successful diversion for the
relief of Kars could be made. General Vivian therefore
applied to Lord Stratford to have the number of the
Contingent raised to 10,000 men, and said that then he
was ready to undertake the task. The Turkish Govern-
ment, to whom the proposition was submitted, made
some difficulties about the completion of the Contin-
gent, but expressed its readiness to place other troops
under the command of General Vivian, or any other
General, so as to make up the number to 35,000 or
40,000 men. This proposation was likewise accepted
by Lord Stratford and General Vivian ; the proposal
was sent home, and repeately urged, but the answer of
the English Government arrived, which was to stop all
proceedings in the matter. Through what influence this
answer was returned we don't know here, but that it
was the English Government from whom the refusal
procrded I believe to be a fact. '

The position of an ambassador at Constantinople,
let us add, is not always clearly understood. He is
entrusted with large powers, and is something of a
despot necessarily. Before Lord Stratford's last
return to England, he was sorely perplexed
by the obstinate refusal of the consul-general
of Egypt to adopt his policy or follow his ad-
vice. The masequence was that British influence
pulled two different ways at Constantinople and at
Alexandria, and the most serious inconveniences
resulted. Having regard to this and other
similar instances, Lord Stratford, we have heard,
refused to return to Constantinople without powers
which he deemed necessary for the maintenance of
his position at Constantinople, and the duo per-
formance of its duties. Whether he had reason to
complain of the appointment of a military commis-
sioner to the Asiatic army of Turkey, we are not
aware. But in any case it will not do to strengthen
an ambassador with one hand and to weaken him
with the other. British interests at Kars or at Tre-
bizond will most unquestionably be better directed
and cared for by one strong and experienced diplo-
matist at Constantinople than by a dozen at so
great a distance as London. Care should above
all things be taken not to multiply independent
authorities. These are the jarrings which led to
such disasters at Sebastopol last year, and to the
disaster we have now to deplore at liars.
The article in the Quarterly has for its subject
the Results and Prospects of the War. But both
results and prospects have received important mo-
dification even in the brief time that has elapsed
since the publication of the article. The writer
maintains throughout, for example, that Russia
will not stoop to a ce:siou of territory, or to any
real neutralisation of the Black Sea. He may be
right, but it would be hardly civil just now to say
so, and we shall do best perhaps to avoid the gene-
ral and return to the personal question.
The reviewer having summarilyswept Lord Strat-
ford from his post, declares Sir H. Bulwer unwor-
thy to succeed him, on the ground that he is defi-
cient in an intimate knowledge of the country,
its population, laws, and polity. Undoubtedly
the list of diplomatists who can pretend to such
a post with any claim to such knowledge is ex-
tremely limited ; but with what reason does the
Quarterly exclude Sir Henry Bulwer from it ? Is
it not the fact that the only very great change im-
portant to Turkey effected in our time, was, after
repeated failures, accomplished by Sir Henry Bul-
wer when Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople
in 1838 ? Before the negotiation of the treaty to
which we allude, English commerce was not only
in all respects at a serious disadvantage, but the
Turkish itself was ruined by mcnopolies and vexa-
tious internal duties. From what but an intimate
knowledge and study of the country (a knowledge
Which must have been confirmed and extended by
the duty which subsequently fell to the same diplo-
matist of conducting in Paris the correspondence in
the Eastern dispute), means of effecting such a
change, adopted since by every European power,
have been obtained by Sir Henry Bulwer. We
doubt if the Quarterly would be disposed to recom-
mend any extension of the experiment of appoint-
ing non dipiomatists to diplomatic posts. With
submission we may perhaps add that the few poli-
ticians in the Tory ranks pretending to a knowledge
of foreign affairs and countries, do not appear to
inspire much confidence or to have many claims to
consideration. If we apply ostracism, thou, to
those liberal men who have risen in their profes-
sion by their merit, we shall have no alternative
to fall back into the old aristocratic rut. The
•. •-• the Quarterly Reuiew is far too intelligent
and or
able to a —ove of any such course.

THE .NEWS OF PEACE .7 FRAY
CE AND
.N
IN ENGLAND.

(From the Examiner.'
parleissprivunowv;i2
good criterion certainly,
To judge by the tone ofuttlithea
side
eai gbtheh b:ur s
Channelare tenraptured at t
dis-
playt e
Ftorneencohf
and it is made a subject of
tors is the same), our
supposed approach of
reproof to us on thissisasm.
There '-
are, °Troyer, a great
absence of so much arciotir of ex-
maaytheexcsuasmese
for the
ex-
pectation on our side ; just as there are a great marry
undeniable reasons that should fairly render pence at the
present moment, and under the conditions proposed,
more acceptable to the French than to us.
The French have immensely gained by the present war.
We say it in no spirit of envy, but as a matter of honest
congratulation. Before the war began French influence
had not much weight in the Levant, nor in the eyes of
Eastern nations did France take the rank which was
was really her due. Orientals judgeonly by events which
have passed in their latitudes, and in this respect our
friends and allies had been at some disadvantage. But
this is no longer the case. France has sent 100,000 men
through the Bosphorus. Their crowded legions have
shown themselves in rapid succession in the port or on
the hills of Constantinople itself. To them has mainly
fallen the glory of the successful storming of Sebastopol.
There is n 1 longer the fear that in any negotiations
affecting national interests in Syria, Egypt, or else-
where, the Turks can ever hereafter be indifferent to the
power and the friendship of the French.
We say all this without grudgin to that great pie