The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

the Duke of W

but that of his count

in name, at the head

in fact, made ti

pressed

has willingness t

discussion of the motion of condemnation

confidently expected that the House of Commons
would, on Thursday, formally declare its want of
confidence in the Premier. On Tuesday, Mr.
LAYIED, who had dubbed himself the champion of
outraged public feeling, withdrew the motion
which he had given notice, and

gular in its way

We could have comprehe
'his 'motive, had he frankly assert

d that he

given the notice w

thout consideration, and had

since 'been informed that by-the rul

s of Parlia

ment and the privileges of h

e discussion, it was

incompetent for one House to debate on anything
said in the other nous(

and that therefore his

motion was informal. He, however, stated that
he withdrew it because the explanation of Lord
ABERDEEN was so satisfactory as to render it un-
necessary. Satisfactory to whom It could only
have been to Mr. LAYARD, and to The Times
which has taken up the unique position of the
Premier's .apologist, for we are convinced that to
any one else the pretended ex

ion was any-

thing but satisfactory. For years past the policy
of Russia has been agressive in every possible way,
so far as ambition for territorial acquisition could be
gratified Without exposing it to actual:conflict with
the great powers of Europe. Slowly, and insidi-
ously, but not-the less surely, it has extended its
frontier, and seized the possessions of :its near
neighbours West, 'South, and East. The 'Swedes,
the Poles, the. Turks in Europe and Asia, ,the Cir-
cassians and the Tartars have been its victims.
This course was indignantly remonstrated against
even in the dispatch to which Lord ABERDEEN
appeals for his justification, and yet he pretends to
see no danger to the peace of Europe, nor any ne-
cessity for demanding guarantees against future
agressions, although the next step, had the Em-
peror NICHOLAS been successful, would have been
to put himself in possession of Constantinople, and
with it the key to all Asia, including our East
Indian dominions, with such an overwhelming
force in Europe, that we could only have looked
forward to another avalanche of Tartar hordes,
once wore to sacrifice civilisation, learning, science,
and the arts, as a holocaust to Northern ambition.
It is fortunate for the interests of humanity that the
CZLE made his false step when England and
France, forgetful of all former differences, could
unite to-oppose force by force; and the duty will be
but half performed, if, listening to the treacherous
counsels of Lord ABERDEEN, any overtures of
peace should be received until Sevastopol has been
destroyed, and the Black Sea, including the mouths
of the. Danube, be rendered free from Russian in-
fluence. All experience has proved that no pro-
fessions made by Russia as to her peaceful inten-
tions are entitled to the slightest reliance ; and now
that we have the ball in our hands, the military
spirit of England and her allies fairly aroused, the
Russian fleet in the Baltic shut in by an effective
blockade, and an equally powerful force in the
Black Sea, it would be insane folly to surrender
the advantage without taking the most effectual
'precautions for securing the future peace of Europe
and the world against the designs of such an un-
scrupulous foe. SUccess, however, must be assured
by fidelity in councils at home; but this will not be
the case, nor can there be any confidence, until
Lord ABERDEEN has been removed from the po-
sition which he occupies, and if the House of
Commons refuse to perform the duty, the country
should petition HER MAJESTY to remove him, for
reasons which QUEEN VICTORIA will readily admit
to be intelligible and unanswerable.
We quote the following from Bell's Weekly
Messenger

"As some clue to recent political mysteries and move-
ments, we may just glance at an on dit now going the
round of select political circles. Her Majesty, it is slid,

was sounded by. Lord John Russell, as to her views of a
reconstruction of the Cabinet, in case Lord Aberdeen
retired from the post of Premier. Her Majesty is under.
stood to have intimated, that she would have none of the
Old mat

t throughout, with new men, '.Would be -insisted
upon, Lord Aberdeen is reported 0 have intimated to