Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-19
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
or ruE NATIONAL ERA


LONDON, December 80, 1853.
On the grand scena, act after act succeeds,
and tho denouement is ut hand. Russia, by her
bulletins, has demonstrated that she means q
crusade their language bears no other con-
structiop. The Greek inhabitants of Sinopc
are exceptionally mentioned, and, as we have
observed, Servia is stirred and Montenegro, in
like manner, tried for q religious diversion.
Everything this correspondence has stated re-
speeding Russian bribery and intrigue, being
more depended upon than even Russian armies,
is in every despatch becoming more and more
evident and, we are sorry to add, more and
more generally successful A treaty, offensive
and defensive, with Persia, is a great stroke Of
policy, and must have important bearings on
the Asiatic war But, in truth, the aggressor
has been permitted to get the start in every
quarter, and his treacherous professions still
seem to cover his determined purpose, and par
alyze opposition, by the medium Of delay,
while he natures his plans and operates Of
tensively wherever his interest suggests sur
prise or a massacre. A Russian steamer has
burnt two villages on the Turkish coast Of the
Black sea. AT Sinope, the Turks themselves
confess to 1000 slain. Bravo! What next?
The ice has closed the Baltic, and probably
given Denmark and Sweden respite from the
immediate pressure Of declaring for their too
potent neighbor; and here also the deepest in
trigues are ut work; and if war breaks ont,
both these countries and Prussia must, in the
early spring take side
At present the main question is, how far
will Austria 60 with France and England
Their united fleets are, it is presumed, in the
Euxne with firm resolution to allow no more
fighting on it's waves; but its waves are them
selves belligerent and destructive. Eighty mer.
chantmen have been wrecked by storms, and
corn has doubled its price and it is possible
that worse remains behind, for the shores Of
that sea are so dangerous that nothing but
steam power can protect even ships Of war
from peril and wreck.
The slight CLEAN Of hope is, that the Porte
has agreed to 90 to conference with the four
Powers, and upon the aye or no of Nicholas
depends the only frail chance Of peace. But
he must not be farther allowed to play the do
luder in words and the oppressor in acts He
has already gained too much by the soft saw
der of Sam Slick and surely no blindness can
remain AZ to the falsehood Of his game and the
unscrupulousncss of his means. The whole is
so replete with infamy, that it exciies loath-
ing in every honest breast, and we trust it will
meet with punishment commensurate to it's
wickedness.
The Palmerston cross has been patched in q
very unlooked-for manner, and his lordship has
resumed the Seals Of the Home Office; most
probably under similar influence 10 that Iela-
ted in our preceding letter, by which he was
induced to join the coalition. The truth is,
that Lord Palmcrston has been in the habit Of
employing the resignation Of Office as a politi
cal means to a political end. We can vouch
for the fact, that in Lord Melbournes time he
threatened to quit the Ministry several times
within twelve months; and the good humored
Premier had more trouble in keeping him in the
team than he had with oil his other colleagues
put together. What the operating cause in the
present instance was, has not been made pub
lie, amid the Cabinet revelations now 80 habit
ually lin spite of the oath to the contrary
communicated through the newspapers.
Stigmatized in the first announcement Of the
split, in tho Times, as hypocritical Tory, and
enemy to all reform and progress the same
journal now congratulates the country on the
return of such statesman-like and most impor-
tant abilities to the administration. No Satyr
ever blew cold and hot so closely together with
the same breath: and the only deduction to be
drawn is, that the truth, tho whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, has not been let out !;
and that, in the event OF war; the Reform qucs-
ton will be sbclved for Ammo Domini 1854
As it il, the proof of difference Of opinion in
the Ministry has had bad effect The belief
in It's unanimity, and consequent strength, is
impaired, and no arguments in the newspapers
can bring people to confidence in the Tinker's
argument, that the kettle, when riveted and
mended, sseundum artem viii be stouter than
when it was now.