The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-20

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guare miles Of fine agricultural land, there were
only three clergymen and not one church. People,
be said. were ready TO come forward with monev to
aid the Oregon mission, but men were wanted aud
could not be found for the work. A collection was
afterwards taken up.
Rev. DR.. Kenneday, pastor Of the Washington
street Methodist Ep scopal church Of Brooklyn, last
yening delivered discourse on the character OF
the late venerable Joseph Moser, who had been q
resident Of Brooklyn for seventy-one years, and
member Of the church seventy-three years. The
deceased was member OF the first Board Of Trus.
tees in Brooklyn, and has ever since a,ted Q con-
spicuous part in the history OF that city. He had
seen that place increase from little village Of two
or three hundred inhabitants to city Of one hundred
and twenty thousand, and the population of our
country run up from three millions to twenty-four
millions. He was born in Stamford, Conn, in l776.
The reader is referred to another column for later
intelligence from Mexico. The news, though inter
estipg, presents no features Of special importance.
As usoal, our paper contains many columns of
interesting and importan. matter, to which We have
no room to refer particularly. A glance at the
headings will tend TO enlighten the reader as to
the contents Of the different articles
The European Wharf.-The Debates In tho
b itish Parliament : II ussO American Pri-
vateers.
The mails Of the Canada bring us the reports
in ertenso of the debates in the English Par
lament on that passage Of the Queens speech
which refers to the affairs of the East, and also
the diplomatic correspondence by which the
later stages of the negotiations have been car
ried on since the destruction of the Turkish
fleet at Sinope. A careful perusal of these
documents only confirms the conclusion, over
and over again maintained in this journal, that
if the English Cabinet had assumed bold and
gave unequivocal evidence of her designs by
the occupation of the Principalities the dan
gers that now menace the peace OF Europe might
have been averted.
Nothing can be feebler OF more equivocal
than the arguments used by Lord Aber-
deem and his colleagues in defence of their
polcy-except, perhaps, that policy ITSELF and
they fully bear out the impressions to which
we have so frequently had occasion to give ex-
preston. 1t is clear that up to the entry of the
allied fleets into the Black Sea, the hesitating
and vacillatipg conduct of the British Cabinet
exhaust every means of negotiation and induce
the Porte to make almost any sacrifices
sooner than allow Europe to be dragged
into general war. He had reasonable
grounds for indulging in this expectation.
He saw that Lord Aberdeen and his colleagues,
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interests which were certainly not compatible
with the honor and public feeling of England,
were willing to be duped by assurances that
deceived no Or else, and which were continu-
ally belied u acts. 1t is useless for them
to ground defence upon their faith in those
assurances, u upon late discovery of the
Interior nature of his designs. Previous to the
mission Of Prince Menschikoff,it was known to the
other European Courts and, indeed, public atten-
ton was called to the fact by the English press,
that q concentration Of troops was taking place
on the southern frontier of Russia, preparatory
to some demand of an extensive and dangerous
character being made on the Sultan. Since
then each successive step taken by Russia has
been in itself significant warning that more
serious objects were contemplated than were
developed in the demands of the Russian en-
voy. Wilfully blind, the English government
not only disregarded the advice given them by
their own agents, but prevented France from
taking that decisive course which the bold and
policy Of the Emperor dictated
AS soon as the intelligence forwarded to the
English Cabinet by Colonel Rose was commune
Gated to Louis Napoleon, he at once ordered
out his fleet; and we have it on the authority
Of the Marquis of Clanricarde, who happened to
be in Paris at the time, that so far from cooper
ating with the French government, and acting
cordially with it, the British Ambassador
was directed to use every art Of persuasion,
and urge every entreaty, to prevent the
French feet from going to the East; and it was
in consequence Of his efforts that the feet
did not proceed beyond certain distance.
The motives assigned by the Earl of Claren-
don and his colleagues for their policy of hest
tation and delay, although to some degree borne
out by fortunate concurrence Of events are
not in reality those that influenced them. The
neutrality or cooperation of Austria and Prus-
STA would have been decided as easily at an
earlier stage of the question as it is now.
Either of those lines of conduct depends upon
entirely irrespective of any new
features which the more recent acts of the Car
may have developed. In late article, we had
occasion to show that there were no real
grounds for apprehension as to the course those
powers would take. The very existence Of
Austria depends, if not upon its cordial union
with the maritime Powers, at least upon u strict
neutrality between them and Russia. The in
terests, as well as the feelings of the King and
people Of Prussia, point to the same policy
As to the alleged object of giving time
to the Sultan to prepare for the struggle,
we attach the came value to it as
to the other pretence. The question was
not then, any more than it is now,
to be decided by the arms of the Porte; and we