The Northern Daily Times. — 1853-12-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ABER. DEEN Administration has enjoyed through a long season of almost unprecedented public anxiety• His official presence at the Court of St. James has materially helped to keep despotism in check, and to give confidence and stability to the consti itional governments of Europe. And looking at _ _  the definite shape and intelligible course the Eastern question_ is now beginning to assume• Lord PALMERSTON'S presence in her Majesty's councils is perfectly indispensible.  If the declaration of war by Russia against the Turks be true, the CZAR'S object becomes unmistakeable at once. His views are to provoke a con=  inental war, and to draw succour from the East,  thus opposing despotism and barbarism to the civilisation of mankind. This, to Lord ABERDEEN'S mind, appears nothin g more than a natural sequence. In his high philosophic thought all things probable are possible, and there is no rule by which he can understand that a thing that has been once done cannot be repeated. Such men, we say it with much sober sadness, are only fit to preside over the destinies of Pompeii. The law of earthquakes is a delightful study for a scientific mind, but a war which threatens civilization is a matter-of-fact  emergency, which leaves no time for long.research, but calls aloud, and at once, for the application of those positive powers, which are only of real service when promptly applied. The designs of the AUTOCRAT are now before the world, and the Constitutional States of Europe may be said to be on their trial. It is not enough that France and England should take the field. Bel. glum, Spain, Portugal, ah ! and Rome herself must  throw the shield round humanity. To suffer the land of the KORAN to be given up to the Buddist  and Hindoo, is not the course best suited to the  spread of true religion, or rational freedom. In spiritual as well as temporal dominion, the AUTO  CRAT of Russia disputes the right of ascendency with the world. The rights of spiritual sovereignty _ _  he claims for himself, and the doctrne of infalli  bility he bestows on the Russian Eagle. His march  is therefore, directed against the law and order of all Europe. How far he may progress in his work  of blood depends on the earnestness with which we  view the impending danger, and the alacrity with  which constitutioual Europe moves in her own  The slaughter of four thousand unoffending Turks is a foul plot on the history of that policy  which has restrained all expression of the manly and religious feeling of this and other countries, whose very existence is threatened by Russian successes. We were the first among the few  British nespapers thati have ventured to expose  the political recklessness, and the absence of all sound morality in dealing with the murderous details of this impious war. Already upwards of ten thousand souls have been blown into eternity  by the slaves of a monster, who goes forth like a  robber and a murderer in the night to slaughter, rob, and...spread desolation among a nation whose existence retards the accomplishment of his  dreams of still more revolting bloodshed. It may be premature to predict the fate of such workers of destruction ; but those whose minds are  mpressed with the justice of a mercy-loving GOD  HEAD, must look with feelings bordering on confi  denco, that the race of the destroyers of mankind  will draw down upon their own heads the fearfu  retribution their deeds invoke. If Lord PALMERSTON should take the helm once more, we believe the  AUTOCRAT will have but little reason, to rejoice at such a change in the Cabinet of Great Britain.  [