The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-03-02
DUB LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.
LONDON, Feb. 10, 1853.

LONDON, REQ III, 1898.
To the Editor of the National Era:
The failure of Count Orloff's insidious mis-
sion is the best sign of the times Opthalmia
could not avoid seeing through the dust he tried
to throw, and the unanimous rejection of his
overtures must produce very grave effect upon
the statesmen of st. Petersburgh, and middle
classes of the empire. Are they committed
past all recall, or can a few headlong plunges
more be ventured, for the chance of soothing
wounded pride and disappointed ambition
An immediate retreat would be the wigest,
and, on the whole, the most graceful policy
but it will be hard to bring the stubborn heart
of the Emperor to that humiliation. Other
devices may be resorted to, but all the devices
in the world can never restore to Nicholas the
character he has thrown away nor blind the
other nations of Europe to the vile hypocrisy
with which Russia endeavors to conceal and
advance her overreaching and never-abandoned
designs The veil has been torn off, and the
sham exposed in its true colors. Those who
could be blinded after this, would deserve the
sufferings prepared for them. France and
England will not be hoodwinked, and both
Austria and Prussia are awake to the fate
which must follow their connivance in the ex-
tension of the empire Of the Romanoffs.
Among the Vaccinations to which we have
alluded, the endeavor to excite a Greek insur-
rection along the European frontier of Turkey
may be specified. A conspiracy for this pur-
pose is stated to have been detected, and many
arrests to have taken place. Another consists
in the attempt to make tool of Bavaria, by
the promise to raise that Government to a
higher scale in the German system, and at
the expense of Prussia, should that become ex-
pedient; as well as by the formation of con-
glomerate, or union, of some of the smaller
German States, under the protectorate of Rus
STA.
There is no turn to which the crooked and
willy policy of the Car has not resorted; and
whether Count Orloff's propositions were more
insidious or arrogant, it is impossible to deter.
mine He is now on his return to his master,
with their rejection, whatever they were, as
the four Powers declined to insult the Sultan
by sending them to Constantnople At once
they were pronounced inadmissible; and as the
Russian ambassadors, Brunow and Kissileff,
have migrated from London and Paris and
Seymour and Castelbaiac arc recalled from st.
Petersburgh, it needs but shot on the Black
Sea, whilst conveying Turkish transports to
Varna or Batoum, to supersede formal decla-
ration of war on either side.
Meanwhile, energetic exertions are making
to be ready for the Baltic in April or May as
the weather may deal with the ice; and also
10 organizing large bodies Of military force
both Frcneh and English, to proceed to the
seat Of war ia the East, as circumstances may
require The recruiting in England is going
on most successfully and the hint we gave in
our last letter, about means adopted to raise a
sufficient number Of able seamen, at a very
short notice, to man the feet, has already par
TALLY transpired, by the act of calling out a
of tha R,.S
the measure goes much farther than that, as
will be seen in due time, in case of necessity.
The latest accounts received relate to a
change in the Turkish Ministry, where the
Seraskier and Capudan Pasha have been su
perseded by less warlike individuals. We are
convinced that this has been effected by anoth
er of the Russian intrigues; the consequences
are yet an nubibus, but as Redchid Pasha still
remains at the head of the Divan, and OmeI
Pasha at the head of the army, we may hope
that the change will have no injurious opera
ton on the policy Of the Grand Seignior. Va
rious rumOrs of actions on the Danube have
been floating about for some days; and they
seem to resolve Themselves into dashing ex
plot across the river at Giur Geyo when the
Turks drove back the Russian posts and ad
vance, and after q smart and sanguinary fgh,
with the main force, retired, as before, unmo
Tested
The British Parliament has a pretty plenti
full bill of fare presented to it for the passing
session; and among the items are a number
which promise to be of great utility Of the
forthcoming scheme of Parliamentary reform
Ito be brought forward tonight, February 1 o.
we are not yet called upon to speak and but
for the party struggle to be anticipated from
it, and its discussion, we really consider the
bill for regulating burial societies of greater
Importance to the community. The murder
GUS worship of Moloch, under the temptations
of these horrid associations, are enough to bring
down the Judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah
upon the country.
The new mercantile marine code, admitting
foreigners to free participation in our coast
ing trade, is another move of very considerable
consequence, and ought to tend to cheapness
in very essential branches of trade.
Lord John Russelps bill to modify Parlia-
mentary oaths or, in other words, to admit
Jews to seats in the Legislature, by side wind,
is also constitutional change of some interest,
but certainly of much less now thap it ever
has been since the children of Israel used to be
prosecuted and plundered ad iib, by violence
or law
Opening the civil services of the State to
abuses of favoritism, may also be reckoned a
step of significant promise How the plan can
be framed, and how it will act it is difficult to
surmise. The intent, however, is laudable, and
it is to be hoped that the working of the ma
chinery may be equal to the desired effect. The