The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

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that those afflicted with such a grievous complaint
may have their persons and property placed in safe
custody ; but it would be difficult to find an inmate
of any Lunatic -Asylum who is subject to more
melancholy aberrations of intellect than the believers
in this wretched imposture of our Lady of La
Salette.

THE protracted dispute between Russia and
Turkey, of which the excitement had long since
been worn out, has received a new impetus
within the last few days, owing to the positive
refusal of the EMPEROR of Russii to accept the
modifications proposed by Turkey in the note
agreed to by the Conference at Vienna. This
refusal is based on the intelligible ground that the
question having been submitted to arbitration, and
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justified in refusing to accede to alterations pro-
posed by the other principal in the affair

Russia

has so far acted in an evident spirit of justice,
whatever may be her ulterior designs ; but the
refusal of Turkey to accept the note, as proposed
by the Conference, has rendered the question far
more difficult of settlement, inasmuch as it would be
impossible to show Russia to be the aggressor, the
occupation of the Danubian provinces having been
condoned by the consent to mediate for their
evacuation.

In estimating the position which England ought
to assume, in the event of a resort to hostilities,

much erroneous opinion exists in this country,
owing to the difficulty of understanding the exact
cause of quarrel, and the manner in which the
subject has been overlaid by the many extraneous
circumstances which have been imported into it,
and the numerous conflicting reports which have
been published. We shall, therefore, give a brief
recapitulation of the leading facts, so that our
readers may be able to form something like a
correct opinion on the question at issue, which
even now threatens to involve the East of Europe
in war, with the probability of extending it to the
West.

The relics of Christianity in Palestine, comprising
the alleged sepulchre of OUR SAVIOUR, and fami-
liarly known as the Holy Places, are in the
dominions of the SULTAN of TURKEY, but are in
the possession of members of the Greek Church, to
whom the custody was guaranteed by treaties
between Russia and Turkey—the Latin Monks,
who claimed an interest in the relics, being allowed
a subordinate position, in having the keys of one of
the shrines. Last year, when Louis NAPOLEON
was preparing for his assumption of the title of
Emperor of France, he was solicitous to gain the
especial favour of Pops Pius IX., in order to
obtain his personal assistance at his coronation.
He, therefore, assumed the empty title of Protector
of the Holy Places ; and, to give a colour of pre-
tence to his claim, despatched the MARQUIS of
LANALETTE to Constantinople, to cajole the SULTAN
Out of a concession to the Latin Monks in Jeru-
salem. The SULTAN, as a Mohammedan, thought
little, and cared less, as to who had the keys of the
sepulchre, for which he himself had not the
slightest reverence ; and, being willing to oblige
his brother of France in such a seeming trifle, con-
ceded the finnan, by which the Latin Monks were
allowed equal privileges with the Greeks. The