The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-10

Government have aided the designs OF Rus
sia, either through direct connivance or cub
pable creduity--had secretly favored 'he
Cars aggressions, or else suffered the Gar
to impose upon their innocence, Lord Pai.
merston, with an air of infantile candor. re-
marks Mr.. Mitchell, said:
When npsitive assurances were made by Gov
eminent OF a great country like Russia, the Gov
ernment OF this country were entitled to believe
them fHear, hear.l II 10 said mere were the mil
itarv armaments OF Russia But the armaments
we were always assured were only to counteract
the menacing language which had been held by the
representative of France on the Holy Places. tits
said there secret treaty negotiating, but we
were told that Russia only demanded new treaty
by reason of the disregard of pledges with respect
to the Holy Places and In order to compose the mr.
mans already issued by the Sultan. There never,
sir was the slightest intimation given that there
was any other question than that to be settled And
when Count NEssELRopE asserted that the Govern
ment of this country had been from the beginning
informed of the demands of Russia. he stated schat
,cas utterly untrue. Sensation. Sir, 1t is painful
to have to speak of Government like that OF Rus
STA ia such terms of condemnation; but must say,
in vindication of the Government Of her Majesty
that through the whole course OF those negotiations
Russia exhausted by all her agents and by every
means, every modification Of untruth, concealment
and quivocation-eRding in the assertion of utter
yGtStHOOu. lSousiuei doiC cChoobioh'J
This speech was made fortnight before
the ST. Petersburg disclosures reached Lon
don. Lord Palmerston, Mr.. Mitchell con
cedes, was not in Office at the time of the ne
gotiations, but he must have been aware Of
all, and, at any rate, the other British minis
tiers allowed him to tell falsehood and did
not contradict him.
Mr.. Mitchell concludes that if there is to be
any war in Europe at all, it will be for who
shall have the greatest share in the spoil of
Turkey. He again invokes his countrymen,
by the memory of their. exterminated fathers,
and their desolate hearthstones not to enlist
under the British banner.
PoLITIcs IN NEW YoRK-The politics of
the Empire State seem to be in a peculiarly
mixed up, perplexing and provoking condi-
ton. Hard Shells and Soft Shells among the
Democrats Sewardites and conservatives
among the Wings; liquor lew and anti-liquor
law men; the Freesoil party proper; the
Know Nothings-eight parties and factions
will do their best to puzzle the calculations
of the shrewdest politicians. The little ma
gician'' himself would find New York politics
of the present day an inexplicable riddle to
him.
A Mr. Thatcher sued Horace Greeley and others
to recover damages for alleged bellous puoilca-
ton, which appeared in The Tribune as a tele-
graphic communication from Boston, and the case
came before the sheriff and jury some days ago.
The defendant suffered Judgment to go by default
and the sheriff g jury assessed the damages at Six
hundred and fifty dollars.
DISTRESSING AFFAIR.-A young man named
Hes accidentally shot his sister last week, near
Georgetown Cross Roads, Maryland, whilst trifing
with his gun. He had the weapon in bis hands,
and pointed it at her, when she and he pursued
her, and just she went TO close the door of the
house, the gun accidentally went off, and the load
entered her side. Her physician thinks she cannot
recoyer-R1H Sam