The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-27
,,,vrspoNpEHCE OF THE NATIONAL ERA
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
LONDON, OCT. 7, 1853.

p.rhaps the news from England most inter-
..rg to America and its important COM
80 will be that which speaks of our har-
-, and the prospect Of importations of grain.
r'non comparing accounts from every part of
,he country, not relying on public reports, but
Sericed from personal research and resting on
.,od private information, we think we may
ss.felv state that the wheat harvest in these
LANDS will not produce much over half an
srerlge supply. We are thus fully confirmed
!, The opinions offered in preceding letters. In
oats and barley the deficiency is not 80 great
Lnt upon the whole, the certainty of an ad-
r.nee in prices opens but gloomy view Tor
%o winter months. From Canada, we are as
'a,sJ very little can be expected The Baltic
~s.t soon he shut by frost, if not by war, and
10 BLACK Sea supplies are already intercepted
e.yond these drawbacks on plenty, there Is the
a,,,ret;t,on of other countries to meet; and to
tbe breadstuffs of America we look with no
sTnou degree of anxiety. AS in cholera, so IN
nrnvision, Mr. Bull rarely thinks of boiling the
sdtable door, till the steed has been stolen. He
: nor all alive for railroads in India, and
counting on the varieties of rice, millet, and
other cereals, he may import from that vast ter
ritory-but he cannot count upon half an extra
ounce for the close Of 1853, and up to the
harvest of 1854
The rise upon the interest of money is an
other striking feature of the times, with a mo-
mentous hearing on national affairs. Higher
rr;ces of the necessaries of life endorse the
claims for higher wages, on which the doctrine
and rractice Of the strikes are based whilst
The increased difficulty If borrowing except at
& or 6 or more per cent is sufficient cause
s,r resisting or rather rendering it impossible
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straitening therefore, and probable increase of
antagonism, are very unsatisfactory conditions;
and If the test of scarcity is disturbing to the
caritalist and operative classes it is still more
irving TO the possessors of fixed and limited in
,imes, which can neither alter nor expand
with the occasion.
Nevertheless, it will be seen from the
speeches of our peripatetlc ministers, that pros
perity is still the boast and no apprehension of
evil has been expressed Much IF the second
sight has naturally been furnished from Scot
land. the locality of that singular gift. Lord
John Russell at Grcenock, Lord Palmerston at
Perth and Glasgow, and Mr. Gladstone at Ding.
wall and Inverness, have all vaticinated, with
out it must be confessed, adding great deal
to our intelligence; though when events follow
in due course Of time, they may be allowed to
have fpreseen with as much prescience as the
seers to whose prophetic powers we have al.
luiei Ireland, not to be quite behindhand
has been Illuminated after fashion by Sir
James Graham at Cork and the Lord Lieuten-
ant at Limerick and the fleet has sailed from
Queenstown, and the Tenant Cogners have
met and had sort of faction fight only with
tonuues-,astead of shilelahs between the Ro-
nlish and Presbyterian divisions. Aboutthirteen
NJ Ps and twenty priests were there to fight
the good fight and elimination and recrimi-
ton with the lie circumstantial and direct,
presented another of those melancholy exhibit
tons which have so long perplexed and grev-
ed every lover of this unfortunate land OF all
the phrases ever invented in the world, the
phrase of United lrshmen seems to be the most
preposterous. To agree to disagree is the only
sense in which it bears any relation to truth
Would they but consider this, what differ.
ence it would make to them
The clmacteric gravity Of the Eastern dis
pue has at lehglorbrought the Cabinet togeth-
er, to take counsel in London on the state at
which affairs have arrived, and the course that
ought TO he pursued 1t is curious to observe
that now, as in every critical turn of the Turk
ish question, there is doubt as to which way
the balance Will turn, aud two distinct modes
VI REPRESENTING CIRCUMSTANCES, Win tnelr ike
ly results. From what we have previously
written respecting the press it may be conclu-
ded that this potent instrument has not been
neglected on any side but, on the contrary, the
utmost influence employed to secure its ser
vices. Here, then, we have had nearly three
days the funds and the opinions of the people
thrown into similar state of perturbation by
an electric telegraph message to the effect
that the Sultan had declared war against Rus
sra According to the antecedents, this was
probable, but 1t was not true at the date speci-
he'd and if you took the trouble to trace the
statement to It's source you discovered that
the momentOus announcement was received by
Greek mercantile house of little faith, and
evidently circulated for its own objects Yet
the "cdndrd" affects for a season every rela-
ton and interest of society. But that the way
mas been paved to measure of this decisive
sort, Is certain. A numerous meeting of the
Chef pers0nages of the Turkish Empire, in
church and State, having been convened by
The sovereign, have advised that she should
abide Russian invasion and evasion no longer
Nut resort to war, as an alternative preferable
u The existing position of things, entaling all
the expenditure and risk of actual conflict
whist amused by hollow tergversation and
The false pretences Of lawless ambition. There
sno doubt, but that the assemblagc Of her
various forces around ConstantinOple has
brought Turkey to that eliminating point at
Which war must be more polite than peace
and therefore, that immediate war is nevita-
bic unless the Emperor Nicholas consents to
modify and define his demands And this is
'he olher side Of the matter, now asserted by
tle Russian partisans. They affirm that at the
omu'z conference the Gar expressed his
feailncss, after u manner, to eat the leek of
Ne>erode's arrogant Interpretation of the
VIENNA note, and to dsclaim any wish to in
teriere with the internal government of the
sultan Why, then, does he not openly and
mlan'aly set the quarrel at rest, by accepting
InS solution of it in formal international
ueed II he meant fairly, this is his obvious
course bat his fathlessness throughout has
po'en that guile, and not fairness, is in his
neat-puts him out of the pale of trust or-
tune'' upon honor-and demonstrates that, but
~ The terrible force arrayed in the combined
aOu'ude OF France and England, he would per-
H' 10 the last in the base attempt 30 insdi-
'a'iy and 50 insolently undertaken
Al Warsaw, the three crowned heads are to |
meet again, like the witches in Macbeth and
% their political incantations,
DOublc, double,
Toll and trouble
man to be developed On their heads rests
auIem responsibility for the sake of mankind
QUO on their heads will the retribution fall, if |
Sry iall IN their allegiance to our common
TTr,Ilanlty' it may be only a short Russian and
a. 1'Ash contest; but even that has overturned |
MIN NV International condolences of Europe and it |
my DC that It will lead to universal confla- |
"on' Then wo be to the despotism which
mo. provoked the arm of constitutional govern. |
man "n NO. outraged the inalienable rights of
hhna,a" WAT the end must be, God must have
fr the o Mem not to perceive and were it not
inc Tho, cans OF blood to be shed before reach |
done aa;. Jl1InSammation, ait were well it were
Dard,n1, vents, the western fleets pass the
"u'nelles, and eea lie pr,n,yy mas ous 1ooie