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‘ ° i mamsiinagmcol * - - 5 ope east — sm ” ——_ ealled for. His object, however, seems to have been to | appeal to the loyalty, to the chivalrous character of the those I have referred to would befit the House of Com- | ‘That statement was repeated on the 30th of Ap Til, when argument the relative conditions of the two nations—the | mind on the subject, and the mind of the Em of siete | Retain ranceied at tras : “ - ia, Atthesame ™mons to adopt in this grave and arduous crisis. In and force of Russia on the one hand, as it had | Russia was, that the Emperor of the French vmiltoa nform the whole French population that he had recourse | young Emperor, to the interests of Austria, At ps Kz ved or ae beep collected, aie a anny vane een 4 kepplente petinws og ot © war only a8@ last resource. His adopted watchword, | time that he expresses confidence, great precautionary { apres taken place, | wish og ‘as little as pos- | about half a-million of men kept aa mstantly ander arma, | which bad tee ey cal eat = he (the | Constantinople pari noth saree fost whch you will remember, was “L’Empire c'est la pair!’ Ilis | measures will be taken to anticipate the worst. Austria sible to particular documents, and will endeavor to con- | trained with the greatest skill and diligence, and the po- | Emperor of Ruasia,) could call the Emperor of the | bad been already made known to itish Minister a letter has been posted up at the corners of all the prin. | is collecting a powerful army on the Servian frontier fine myself to » general outline of the course of those | sition of Turkey on the other hand, as we well know it to | French his brother. (Laughter.) The Emperor of the | £t. Petersburg, and by the Russian Minister at the Court attr hes been posted up etithe corners of all the prin- | USS Ns Se tt cganeeeiniheh negotiations. My honorable friend, the member for | be, weak in the state of her finances, in the composition | French had too much good sense to attach any very of St. James’ to the h nt. (Hear, hear.) eipal streets in Paris and in the departmants Fancy the eventuality , men, reganted as | 4 viesbury, saya, and says truly enough, that as as | of her , and in the disaffection which she m: | importance to whether he was called emg gone ? friends, suddenly joining the Russians ata critical ino- it was a | me But it In the H cht, Disraeli inquired question between France and Rus- | have tofear from the setivity of Russian emissaries. Un- | or ‘‘my brother.” (Laughter and cheers. ¢ $e phon cet Haan a eine hal any | ment, asthe Russians joined the Austrians when Georzy + Sit respecting the Holy Places, It did not concern our | der these circumstances, fore, we could not con. | understood that the Fomieeet Germany, one apd at aie the government 40 hich they “are made fen y's governmen her aie | sunrealtsd'te taka =H Y" Government to ascertain who was right or who was | ceal from ourselves that if Turkey unprepared were | sired their representatives to wait at Paris, and not to |* place confidence in them. (Hear, hear.) It is said that knowledge of that letter, and whether it was authentic, | sur lungarian war. It is tobe hoped, Fring: but as soou as a.menace of force was heard, and | to rush into that war, it could not but be # very wun- recognise the Emperor of the French until they were | we heard of military preparations on the part of Russia, and if so whether any previous communication had taken nevertheless, that Austria means well. preparations began to be made for calling fleets and | equal contest. Lord Stratford de Redeliffe the | assured that the unusual form of recognition of Em- | and we ought to have a from this that some other ni ding ft Letween the British and French gov Tn consequence of the exportation of arms and amuni- Armies into requisition, the matter beeame one of inter- | same view. | Knowing the position of Turkey as ghe then | peror of Russia, ads been received, 90 that if the Empe; | demands were on foot. We were told by the Russian go; pherrepeeting, 1% vetween the } ‘don. by. catia = est to the government of Great Britain, But, if any cen- | was, he said that for two pur first of endeavoring | ror of the French hadgchosen to say, as he had a Vernment itself that such tions were But ernments. | tion by certain parties, a proclamation has been issued sure js merited in reference to this point, it ought to fall | to negotiate a peace, and second place for the pur- | right, “I will stand upon established forms, and | we were also told by the peed teak teat Lond John Russel! said, in reply, that he bad every | by the Queen, forbidding the exportation of every article rather upon the government of Lord Derby and the | pose of preparing her forees—it was advisable for Turkey | I will not have those forms departed from | sole object was to counteract Tmenacing language reason to believe that the document was authentic. The | of a nature to be serviceable to an enemy. The wording foreign Spero of Lord Balceosbery poss nace. arte aes eae noon theca 4 hha Betien tooo ol one of Shoae Powers of Germany, wee wee al patch bad poceeat gine and that they bore Britidh government hiad been informed by that of France | of the proclamation might lead to the supposition that SEPT yu g¢ eal eerecthg ovidoat teat when: ey ustmes® | only allies in the ease, who were not exposed to the dan. | French, and were, moreover: ready to call him thelr bro- (Hear.) We were told alot it is ‘quite true, that Russie that they thoughf it desirable that an effort should be | the probibition extended to all countries. In reply tom bury was at the Foreign office threats of force were used, | ger of Turkey—to advise her to expose herself to those | ther—not one of those Rowers would have recognized him, | required some roof of confidence, an well as some | -ans of an autograph letter from the | i indeed, that th rations of Russia were found- | dangers when her best friends thought it unadvisable? | I say, sir, that that shows a state of Germany not so in- | ation from Turkey, for offences which she made, by means of an autograph Jétter ri hense 8 oe = dp..the. reste ae — by ee and, indeed, that the Preparations ohdor ef France ad | Such, we conceived, was a sufficient declaration that, not | dependent as one would wish. (Hear, hear.) eannot | in connection wits slings Ue ee of the French to the Russian Emperor, to procure a ter- | it was, in the name of the government, exp! it threatened to have recourse to force in order to compel | immediately proc! ing that we could precipitate hos- | but think—and there are growing symptoms of it every | the question of the Holy Places, and that the security mination of the disputes which had so long subsisted. | the proclamation referred only to Russia. the Sultan to agree to demands which Ruasia said were | tilities, we should warn Russia that war must immedi- | day—that this violent attempt on the part of Russia— | was to be in the form of a treat Sonfuming the Sultan's e English governme in possessi : o arti i b ts into which the Sultan’| ately follow if she did not recede. It is easy to say, with | that these acts in violation of all right and justicé—have | firmans for the settlement of that q: ‘But The English government, when in possession of the nua: | | The article in the New Yous Hanatn, that the United incompatile wih engagements into whion te Sul | eds to any part of thene negotiations, that. if you had | at length aroused, bath in Austria gd in ra dutta aecase | had never any intimation thst any such testy aus ‘e ture of the letter, replied that they had no objection to | States intended taking part in the Eastern question, has ctratford de Redcliffe, in answer to a question I put | taken a different course—if you had told the Emperor of | that they must consider the welfare of Europe before | apply to’ other matters. (Hear, ne) When, there- such astep being taken, and suggested certain modid- | been extensively copied into the English journals. It is to bim, that M. Lavalette had declared that unless | Russia that you would at once go to war if be occupied | consulting the will of the Em) of Russia. belief | fore, Count Neaselrode asserted, at a period, that his requisitions were complied with he would im- | the Principalities, he would have hesitated before doing | is, therefore, we have no ent with | government had known from the outset what were the cations, which had been substantially adopted. Whilst | said that Mr. Spence, whose arrival on board the Saranac , ‘ h to enforce them. | so. Nothing is’ more easy than to say that if you | them, and! state it ‘to the House, that they are | whole demands of Russia upon Turkey, he asserted perfectly agreeing with the general contents of the letter, | at the Goklen Horn T already informed you of, will offer a Win" qan' rook re heehee) ou it pecame a ques. | had done a0 and 50, #aGh tial stiah s soverelga! would | nat binnd to aeto-reatee te wigrtanttiee’ tie nota oF ‘ag- | that—I am bound to say ft—which was utterly at they would not say that every particular word or phrase | loan to Turkey. It was on the 2d February that Mr. Car- tion whethengthe English ought to seek for an expla- | have done so and so; but nobody has attempted fteicn on the part of , still, my belief is that | variance with the fact. (Hear.) It is painful to speak of was such as they would have proposed, They entirely | roll Spence arrived at Constantinople. The same evening nation from France. I am ‘vound to’ say that the | togive any proof that such would have been the th those nations, consti the great empire of Ger- | a government like Russia in terms of censure or M a “eh i 4 vg French government met us in-the fairest and handsomest | case, or to show that the Emperor of Russia, in | many, divided as Germany is into separate sovereignties, | tion, ut I am bound to say, on behalf of the ped approved the step taken, as a most laudable endeavor to | the Hungarian and Italian refugees repaired: to his hotel 5, (Hear, hear.), It desisted from pretensions | the position of his great power, would not have consid- | will be too much impressed with the growing | ernment, that the Russian ite prevent the outbreak of war. | and gave him serenade. Mr. Spence appeared on the whic it declared to be founded on treaties and in jus- | ered this such an it that he would at ‘once have en- | importance and position of that empire, of its thiry-five | agents, has, throughout transactions, exhausted ” ee te un! id er- tice, but which th ht bring into play opposite | tered into war without further delay. Then came the miliion of inhabitants, of, its enlightenment, of its | every modification of untruth, concealment and evasion, Pratt: Pe Mee rt et * fall: eet, Se Seren ee ree of thanks to the per- ee evans on ihe partof Hussia, and thus endanger tho | negotiations after the entrance into the Principalitios; | civilization, and of the, finportance, of uniting itz | and zaded with assertions. of positive falsehood. arly 134 per cent, We are, in fact, drifting very | cons assembled. ce of Europe, if voluntarily abandoned. (Hear, hear.) | anc here I must say a word with regard to that | independence—not to take care that the aggrandize- | hear.) Iask, however, has anything beep lost by the for- fast towards war. The Saranac and Levant, the latter asloop of the United Ruch was the state of the ease when Lord Aberdeen enter- | yo ~ Note, which ey ond ea the member for meni of eatin Se does sna _ begorse oF formidable, as to bearaneo with which the , governepeers ba petetenas ii e ee; eck- | State r] 1 3 af * ¥ uh had written a private letter lesbury says everybody’ ami re. eaten the great ic Power. | qu Bay, e summer a a Tamme aR met Feuer as: bebn wreck | Rtatee sare Mar Denngen Of. Custer vete eee Se ane ete ataarliae ‘hie serious attention toshese | Lam'not going to defend’ the phraseology of the Vienna | I believe, therefore, that in undertaking this contest, | Deen taken by us which would have brought matters then ear Sebastopol, and, having Turkish troops on board, | mer, will shortly proceed on a cruise in the * circumstances. I took the same course. On the very | Note, (hear;) as my right hon. friend near me has sai even though we should not have the immediate assist- | to the it at which they now are—if we had found our- has been declared a good prize by the Russians. It is | The firman for the passage through the Bosphorus bas day on which I accepted the seals of the Foreign office I | it was no of ours; but with respect to the spirit of | ance of those two great German Powers, yet that they | selves in June or July last on the point of a rupture with ) Bail ler | already bes 7 ° . te to Lord Cowley, calling his serious attention to the | that Vienna Note, and the intention in which it was | would look on wit! ‘a view, not to aid Russia—not toen- | Russia—our position would not have been such as if is now. po PN apa agi ss ha 3 seem eps " gyi rot s aoe ee pre ly of the Czar subject. Pett that one of the frat, if not the first thing | framed, Iam quife ready to defend both. To take an gage themselves to Russia—but, og the contrary, to use | (Hear.) It may be said, Sedoed tat, te present result , property of some English com m receipt of the news of the negative reply of the {eee Sone. was to induce France to desist from her pre- | illustrat ou have a friend of your own, of no very | all their influence, and, if necessary, their arms to stop | would never have arisen—that would have given pany. to Louis Napoleon’s letter. the funds here declined { per tensions, Because, if France and Russia had gone to war | great means, about to énter on an ‘expensive lawsuit | her in her attem; progress of conquest and of lawless | way if we had shown greater vigor at first. -) ‘The question of the dress of the representatives of the | c nt. In Paris the fall was 23. The Chronicle corres- on the question of the Holy Places, not only would the | With # man of £50,000 or £100,000 a year, I might very | force. (Cheers. Lhave said that we have an engage- | That is a plausible Sm one which a por. United States at foreign courts scems of a nature to lead | pendent thus describes the effect on Monday :— peace of Europe have been broken, but the indepandonce | Well say to him—I see your rights; you very possibly may | ment with France, We have now proposed to make an | fon may be jeans ; but, after all, it is of Turkey would have been at an’ end. Well, as Ihave | be able to show that you are right; but it is pos- | engagement with Turkey, by which we shall be sure, be- | but an opinion, and bad matters taken the to explanations at Washington, and to some decided step ppearance of the Paris Bourse to-day, in conse- already said, the French government behaved with the | sible that while your opponent has the means of rides other things which are necessary on such occasions, | I have assumed, and turned out R if the article in the Moniteur, was most extraor~ jreatest fairness. ‘They felt that thetr-ambassador had | on the contest you may be ruined; and, therefore that Turkey will not agree to any peace with Russia, | instead of submission, urged us on then to the point for their appearing in an official costume. 1) ph etipendanr lh yi a “ 3 y wremendous, and at certain pe- intended—that he had exceeded | should advise you to make some concession of your abso- | while we are giving our aid and assistance, without our | at which we now stand—we should have been jusi mentioned the voluntary absence of the American iuls uf Che day the crush of ‘the parties entering and | Kone, further than was intendestrmelf in a. manner | lute and strict rights in order tocome to some nt. | consent and concurrence, (Loud cheers.)' That ¢ chargeable with a grave political mistake. (Hear, hoary ter at the opening of Parliament in London, on the 31st | coing out was so great that fears wore entertained of se- | yhich was oppressive and alarming to the Sultan— | That vas the spirit of the advice of the Vienna Note, and, | ment with Turkey has not yet been formed; hiya we | There were a it many reasons why forbearance hich the affairs ° question has led | "ous accidents. More than once the guardians and gen- ney withdrew their ambassador, and | for my part, I say, looking to the dangers to which Tur- | no doubt that, considering the manner in w! was desirable. ; It was of the utmost im nee, in a Dit, and it now appears that the seme question has ind | darmes aere obliged to interfere, and endeavor to regu: | Shstained trom jtiiey witnare ie retensions, aud. in | key wasexpoved it was good and wise advice that she | of Turkey have been lately conducted, she will wil- | matter affecting the great interests of jpeg od to the resignation of Mr. Sanford, the secretary of the | jgte tie encountering tides of human beings; and this | Shmsequences, the question of the Holy places was very | should consent 'to those terms which she was not abso- | I'ngly accept the aid and assistance which England and | though En and have been from the outee United States legation at Paris. The following is the ac- | they could not effect without the greatest difficulty. — <oon settled in a way which left no party any ground of | lutely obli to Fen (Hear, hear.) But, sir, from | France can give her upon the condition I have stated. oe ,, heartily, entirely and count given by the correspondent of the Morning Chroni- | Outside, under the pillars, a dense mass of persons | complaint. From that moment we gained this great | the moment that Connt Nesselrode had fixed the meaning | And, sir, I bog here to say that, in entering upon that shou freer eg ages ala | were likewise collected, and the greatest agitation ,qyantage, that we acted with France in the cause of | of that note—from the moment he showed that | contest we shall have the greatest confidence in and Prussia. (Hear, hear.) We know that these two bee a , prevailed, "In fact, such a crowd has not been seen | Turkey.” (Hear, hear.) Do not let my honorable friend | if the Vienna Note had been signed it would | and reliance upon our French ally. (Loud cheers.) | countries have interests in this matter far more direct In the midst of the many grave subjects which for | ut the Bourse since 1848. Two parts of the interior imagine that this isa matter of no importance. Let me | have been considered equivalent to that note | The conduct of the Emperor of the French duri than those of and France. To Prussia and months past have preoccupied the public, an incidenthas | of the vast hall were in particular thronged all day— | again state what had been and’ was the case when we | which was presented at Constantinople by the | the whole of these transactions, in our repeated and al- Austria it is a matter of vital existence, because, if Russia occurred here which, though not of great importance in one close to the enclosed space where the agens de change | entered office. It was this:—France had claims on Tur- | Russian ambassador—from that moment we not only | most daily intercommunications, has been s0 oJ ‘30 | were either to appropriate any large portion of Turkish itself, is Ukely to create a sensation among our American transact business, and the other in the vicinity of the | key in respect to a treaty made in 1740; and, although | ceased to press upon Turkey that she should agree tothat | frank, and so straightforward, that it is impossible not |‘ territory, or even to reduce Turkey to the condition of neighbors. Mr. Sanford, the well-known and popular se- | pillar where the quotations of the English funds are he theepresent hour—that those | note, but we fook the more vigorous step of supporti to place the utmost reliance in him and his government. | State merely dependent upon Russia, it is manifest—no cretary of the United States. legation in Paris, and wo, fosted ‘up twice during the course of business. From | Glaims wore aoe eet on” that dreaty ‘and in justice, we | by force the ircependenee of the Sultan,’ (Heag'hear | (Great cheering.) With respect to the exertions it may | man can doubt who casts at the map of since the withdrawal of Mr. Rives, the late Minister, has some unexplained reason, however, the English prices | found it impossible to abet France in enforcing these ‘The fleet was crdared 10 go to the Bosphorus, and on the | be necessary for us to make, without at present speaking | and looks at the tion of those two Powers acted as Cl 4’Affaires, has suddenly tendered hisre- — were kept back, and up to the end of business the anxiety | claims, and therefore we felt it to be of the utmost im- | 8th of Cctober orders'were given that the feet should | of the efforts that we may hereafter be called upon to | with to Russia and Turkey—that such an immense signation, and now holds office merely till his successor — of the public, so natural on such an occasion, remained | portance that the question of the holy places should be | protect the coasts of Turkey on the Black Sea, on the Euro- | use, but confining m to what, at the very | appropriation of )hical power on the of Russia, aia pe punainted. It appears that Mr. Sanford’s ro- | unsatisfied. Rentes, railroad shares and foreign funds, | settled immediately, in order that England and France | pean and Asiatic coasts. {hark now, sir, tothe next | of this struggle it will be incumbent on us to adopt, I | must be fatal to the action of Austria and signation Siaat we shall think it necessary, in the esti- | Prussia, (Hear, hear.) Wel 8 arisen out of no more important a question were all offered, and the fall has been universal. The de ther. I am bound to declare— | step in these negotiations, or, rather, in these transac- | to state it was of great importance than that of dress—a question, by the by, which, as we cline in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents has been 23¢f., and Ae area canes it over and over again—that for | tions; 1 teetet meriredhartas bith Horners, | aie the year, to add no leas a sum than £8,000,000 | to get these two Powers with us as far as it was possible have lately seen, from the series of duels which took in the Three per Cents upwards of 2f. Railroad sliares | {he settlement of this question we are greatly indebted to | Sinope. The orders given to the ambassador were what I | of money to the amount that was asked for last year. It | to obtain their counsel and advice; but neither of then poe. at Madrid in consequence of Madame Soule exhibit have fallen from 35f. to 80f. each, and, from the opening, | Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who, having a perfect know- | have peg and the ambassadors thought it advisable | may be said that this isa increase of our naval and | could be expected to risk lightly a rupture with their g e1 O1 h the Russian government made to | ment ople, hich they are aceredited, in the costume in which letter of the Emperor of the French was presented to the | allegations, switch 0, eaeatn for yeveral monte | and had seat another, Gon, Baraguay d’Hilliers, Under | Yote, and place the fon of the resources of they present themselves when they appear in presence | Czar. The following communication gives some details the allegations which it made to SirG. Seymour—the | these circumstances the French admiral declined to take | empire in’ more skilful. and abler hands. But if | was natural that she should be un of the chtef of their own government. On other occa- which are not uninteresting:— | Allegations which it made to Lord Clarendon—the allega- | the order of an ambassador who was leaving Constantino- | you do not take that course, and you confide | Russia as long as sions—such as court balls, &c.,—a certain latitude is al ‘The reply of the Emperor of the French arrived at St. Po- | tions which it made to the noble lord at the head of the | ple, and the ambassador who followed did not think it ad- waste us, then we shall expect your confidence in al- | arranged by any lowed them. Mr. Sanford, while acti tersliurg on the 6th instant, M.de Castelbajac immediately — povernment were to this effect—namely, that the con- | Viable to take the course which the English ambassador | lowing us to ‘on these tions according to | seeing that England and France were matters faires, complied strictly with this or¢ typrised Count Nessclrodo that he wished to present alet- EOUCCHN TGS to prance by the Sultan were at variance | had desired tohave carried out. This wasamisfortune,and | the best of our judgment, without which confidence no | on, and precipitating a war when she (Austria) thought on all official occasions in plain evening dress; and he ter to the Cear from the Emperor of the French. Although | Sy CO) ao nents ‘Yetween Russia and Turkey | weknow thatships were left at Sinopeand that they were | success can possibly take place. (Hear, hear.) Recol- | that by more forbearance, by her influence at St. Peters- even attended the balls in the same dress, on the ground | it's contrary to Russian, Court etiquette, to, spoak to. she | with scl Camwrith the plighted word of the Sultan, | in consequence exposed to that dreadful calamity which | lect that success in war depends upon. secrecy—de burg, and by diplomacy, negotiations might have been that there was no costume or uniform peculiar to the the afternoon, Count Messelrode apprise de Castelbajac | and such as Russia could not allow to take effect. Russia, | befell them. But I do not think that, under the cireum- | upon combination, depends upon rapidity, aay that it is | carried on, and war avoided, England and Franee, under diplomatic service of his country, and that he would not — that he might present himself at the pi hough the | therefore, said that she required things to be placed in | stances which took place, there was any party much to | inconsistent with success to explal ur operations. | those circumstances, would not have been entitled to ex- assume a fancy dress. On the part of the authorities at | Emperor was suffering from the gout, bajac | satu quo, as they existed afew years before, and to ob- | blame in the affair, because I do not believe it would | (Cheers.) Iam not asking too much, Eoretore, when I Fgeabege Sree co-operation in the war. (Hear, hear.) the Tuileries no objection was made, and the repu conseyuently delivered the letter on the nftornoon of the | fii! Deity that the status quo should not be again dis. | have been possible to provide against every occurrence ask you to adopt one or the other, of those alternatives, it was therefore of great importance to avail ourselves as can Minister has ever since appeared in his simplicity | Oth. |The Crar appeared to be Datntalty etaned a 'Russiane | turbed. During the whole of this time—during several | which mi Et take place in that siate of affairs, It would | and-either place the government of the war inother | much as we could of that influence which Austria pos- amidst the qplendors which distinguish Napoleon’s | 4). U4than hea toe Manet understand, ‘He recovered | months which elapsed—Russia never at any time sug- | not have been consistent with the safety of the fleet to hands, or, if not, then to give to us that confidence which | sessed, or imagined she possessed, at the Court of Bt. court, and, in consequence of his very plain- | his composure almost immediately, | gested, or gave us reason to suppose, that it was her | have diay it in various parts of the Black Sea; for, | is necessary successfully to carry it on. (Hear, hear.) It Petersburg, and to convince Austria that we consulted ness,’ has never ceased to be one of the most that be would return an answer in | object and intention to gain anytl ing in respect to the | if it had been so sent out, some attack might have been | is not to be forgotten t war brings with it increased | her ition as well as our 0’ and that we were willing tria, we know, was under great obligations to Russis. Tt to break with ing herself in a quaint costume, has turned out rather the proceedings of the day were without a reaction. irs of Turkey—havinj at influence | thata certain number of ships should go into the Black | army establishments. But, I say again, as the Right | greatand powerful neighbor. The reasons which might an unluely one for American diplomatists, Some time | ° 7" HOSTS will he Turnish goverament tnd great power, the resut | Sea; that they should visit Varna and the mouths of the | Hon’ gentleman has said, and which Valeo stated in the | fead Prussia not fo wish to risk such « rupture— ia) Oi ee Event of the Cates “Rese . 1 7 | rie ine nent abjiities, of enforcing his opinions, aided | Danube in order that they should take means of obsery- | beginning of my speech, that these resources are neces- | the reasons, I would rather say, why those who wished sued an order that the representatives of that THE CZAR'S REPLY TO NAPOLEON. fnost materially in bringing about the desired result. | ing what wasgoing forward in the Black Sea. It so hap- | sary: Dut at the sume time, if you think that the direc | well to Prussla—her well- alligs—would not country should present theinselves, when en- There are several verisons of the manner in which the J now come to consider the conduct of Russia, The peceds benetas) at that moment, that the French govern- | tion to be given to them can be better confided to other | have wished to press her forward , are obvious to in official business in the courts to displaced their ambassador at Cor | } | hands, declare that to be your opinion by pone 0 any man who looks at fhe map of Seat be (Hear.) Aus- willing remarked persons in the brilliant assemblage. Mr. | From the Paris Moniteur (official) Feb. 20. tection of the Greck aubjects of Turkey— | made at Varna. It was a matter for the exercise of the. | burdens. (Hear, hear.) Let no man suppose that we | to give every ible of ity for an amicable settle- ane apse, Suieeinen, SERIES 7 Ee Te aie) We tered yesterday that the Em; eon te la are seid that abe ‘meant ® yrequire_ anytti ~ alaeretion of the ambassador, and I. do not. believe that can enter Cees fos with the, Bunj Russia mest of the erence ay nee aN See ee ei ee ee ern ey a Meerenton, | o22 letter from St. Petersburg. "In his letter to the Em. | further than sedurity ia :respect to the questionof the: “he. was Ii face in bot Tnisting upon his ordera when in support of a Power comparatively fee ni] od. (CHear.) I believe dm not oversts io faote Dis cxetyatiats;-in the ordi Ratt « guatiodion meses eters discusses ae bringer pe Yen iment | Holy Places. The whole BS er conduct was, no fea ey faded to chtain the conpnerenon a he rene a making conaiderable Sore and wi thon selling apes iz me ee ee anwand ae but he thinks that the Ame ation should appear | ich Lad been proposed to him, and declares that he | » deception... (Cheers.) There were conceament and | Sinope was one that must have alfected every man in had to sustain during a time when wo were at peace | by Austria and Prussia, ond thet whereas, if war Bt court balla, &c., incourt costume. He has accordingly | sae ee ee ech leeeenu longer wekenos | ceceptvon on the part of ustie vonve eredif to the as: | this country with the most painful feeling.” (Hear, | with all the world. “(icar, hear.) It ‘are not | had been entered into and carried on in the course decked himself out in an embroidered coat, cocked hat of a pacific solution, and France must prepare herself to | oT dacioueet the Ruse n government, we were not blind hear.) Sir, must say I was tly a eee Ao pared to bear those burdens, et them not enter | of last summer, we might have had no reason Severna had ee ete ae aay maintain by more efficacious me the cause to settle | to the possibility that it might’ be deceiving ws. (A |. oe congratulations ‘dareed yy the Raaperoe, ot eA Tite ‘this war; but let Sem, if Shag tp ener into this and nig a to oi aya Se-aperetions ous that thaneesecited teemata novenitieen bak aii e the persevering efforts of diplomacy were of no | laugh) Under those circumstances I wrote a despatch ee: of ea ie Cae ay upon See receip' te war, endeavor to carry it to a success! ame. (Genre) peeve pit eee ae So, ie racy Soaatizgs nad Lie \gsgtoctination line besa ona |. Ta, | $9 Colbah Rese setiely setae a ee er eniite tvictacy(Sueernca Ringoiyty pars Af mot unexpectedly” the Einperor |- End Prussia will be differcat, sow to. what 1t would have seed ng Unalileratio that he tins deemed it hie dutyte | aie defending more energetically the rights of Turkey, | what purpose cannot understand—charging him to give 80~ ‘ vi righ, {coer —8 Victory of some si rel, seven of Russia should recede from his former demands, and Jor rae dea mente wi hg . Sites his rau Died Whisk. haaiabeartingly heat eost ow the Emperor counts upon the patriotism of the country, | immediate intelligence to the government if Russia | large ine of battle ships over, six or seven friga very | at the sight of all Europe disapproving his conduct, and —— ee pow pamaraprg! pre eta . $e le govetament’- "This ia the versian of (che eae eee se a ee ee re etargs | argu advines: tomsrta th SeaerertGemeielee aboaid pane Pe MC a 2 pre nigger optien Sige ake Per yoghurt -beag he Fare eae | cramiant ix nok Viaguable althee upon tie groued of ee Which reached mea, if correct ae | fave reason | anata cor Te ee er a ee et re acre iis | of generoulty shown’ (cheers) that the advantage | Shecid ackoowiedge the independeago dnd integrity ofthe sipltation oF upon the ground of Too much forbearance. Be | et a Sapa ad i Bom oto ee psd 5 sired a ponaintely, * 7" RS do pontnintn a reer of more stringent instructions as to the course ~ rs to eA po ap ore pore ie ‘that wee in a ae in Porte in mS only manner in which it could be - sf mer The House, I ms al pare rained’ cers object of States D0 Surope, | ve ssians menacii asion ussians, reason congratu- shall ‘peace hich tiicient servant, and Paris society of one of its most }ivendtheidependence of the Olvoman empire. “No | taksinihe event of The Prince Menschikofs, mission, | istions of a sovereign to his rubjects, docs, Town, ‘alllct tay Soctasna aia tarhon of o7 Gheliot?” (IDar) Woes.) offarbearance short of the sacrifice of those in- popular members. other question is engaged in the contest (dans le debat.) | \hile it was pret@pded to be a mission, having for its ob- | me with a feeling of the greatest disgust. (Cheers.) ut, if that is not to be, and if peace is no consis- | crests which it was our duty to maintain. But it may _ | ‘Attention is turned towards Austria, whose | ject the petticreat of the question of the holy places, | Sir, that event was as deeply felt in France as it was felt tent with our duty to Eng! with our dut; Europe, e eaid, “Is rma ae for which you are asking Loxpox, Tuesday, Feb. 21,1854. | position calls upon her ean ve and | and while it was stated over and over again, y | here, uence - | and with our w e ambition of this | he cou 3 . positi Ms her to tak acti a | and both b; here, and, in conseq: orders were given to the am- | erd with duty to the the tic f thi: he country now to war—is the object one of suffi- ‘The War—Interesting Particulars—The Position of the important part. Austria has always pronounced | Count Nesselrode at St. Petersburg and Brunow | bersadors at Constantinople that the English and French | enormous Power has got to such s pitch that even its | jent de to justify the efforts w you require 7 i herself wi great firmness in favor of the | here, to bea conciliatory mission, it was in fact, as after- | fleets should take the command of the Black Sea; that moderation is more ambitious than the ambition of other | the country to make?” I might answer that ean, Powers—Reply of the Czar to Louis Napoleon. points established in the protocol of the Conference | wards appeared, a mission to endeavor, by some means | they should not only protect the coast of carter, that state:—if Russia will not be contented with anything saying that the o of the that the If any doubts still exist in the minds of any of your | of Vienna of the 5th December last. We place fullcon- | cr other, to give Russia complete supremacy over Tur- | they should not only protect the flag of Turkey, but that | 1.ss than the subjugation of the whole empire of Turkey | object is worthy of those efforts is an fidence in the loyalty and ehivalrous character of the key, and to make Turkey for the future the vassal of they should likewise prevent reinforcements ‘being sent and the possession of Constantinople itself—if such are | by France, by Austria, and by Pru: t all these readers as to peace or war the present mail will dispel y, ung Emperor of Austria, We find, moreover, a gua- | ., ‘ you a . “d (He ys en the Emperor of Russia | from one Russian to another, and that wherever her feelings and such are her objecte—then we can onl, Powers have recognized, in the most solemn and distinct them. You are alr@ady acquainted with the autograph | Tantee of the dispositions of his goverament in his peo- | t's, Saito eer must it is not the policy of Russia | they found s Ruselay ship of war they should send it endcavor to enter into this contest. with a stout heart, | manner, that the independence and in of the Turkish letter addressed by Louis Napoleon tothe Emperor o — ple’s interests—interests which are identical with our | to destroy the integrity of Turkey, I believe that | back tofebastopol or to the nearest port. Itisimpos- (Chcers.) May God defend the right; and for my part, I | empire is an essential condition for the continuance of “ Sean ta thas 1k 1 Own in the general circumstances of Euro} policy. declaration to be sincere to this extent—that the | sible to deny that those orders amounted as near to | shall wi ly share the burden and the serpeestonl ty. he peace of Europe, that it is an essential element in Russia. ‘An answer has been received to that letter, an France, strong in her loyal and disinforested inten- object of Rusein has been not at. present to force on | wutlike preparations as possible. (Hear, hear.) There (The Roble lord resumed hig seat amid loud cheers from | he balance of power, and that it would bea calamity to as was expected, it is negative. The Czar declines all | tions, has nothing to fear from the struggle which is | the conquest and partition of Turkey, tut rather | have been in the course of the last twenty years inEu- | both sides of the house.) Furope if any attempt were made to destroy that integ- i i q z ed the | preparing; she knows, moreover, that she can count upon jh: t and partition, and to endeavor in | rope transactions somewhat resembling t! —— rity and inde mee. (Hear, hear.) Why, even ree aS eae een os trees hd a the | UTC energy at Well as tipon the wisdom of the Kraperor. traelezent your tb degrade Turkey sul more than she | the blockade of tho Texel and of Antwerp, the Freuch | ¢. ,,. STEBCH OF LORD PALMERSTON. | | Russia, while she is pursuing a course which {s acknow- portan e French pu e m the Paris Pays, Feb. 19.] has been before degraded by successive wars and treaties | occupation of Ancona, the battle of Navarino, and e ult. Mr. Cobden renewed the le- | edged by all the Powers except herself to be fatal to that equivalent to a ‘declaration of war. I enclose you the | aut goubt, fhemis at en end) A deaf car has been | on the part of Russia, and it was hoped that by means of | Various other transactions carried on without a deola. | ate in the House of Commons, and was followed by Sir | inde ce and that integrity—even Rus:ix does not . article from the Moniteur, which isa most important | turned to the last appeal in favor of . Russia is | force, or of costly and lavish diplomacy, to obtain terms.| ration of war; but from the nature of the orders Sydney Her rt, Mr. Disraeli, + Butt. venture to deny the principle that the indepca lence and document, equalled only in importance by the statement resolved on War. Be it so; lot the destiny of things be | from the Sultan which would render com ly sub- | given by the French and jh governments, no one Lord Palmerston tar Wipe ee nis ted with cheers | integrity of the{Ottoman empire is an esscntial element 4 4 accomplished, and, as Lord John Russell said eloquently | ject to Russia, so that if at any time he should attempt to | bere 3 surprised that the peror of Russia should _ from the ministerial side. noble lord said:—Late as | in the condition and welfare of Europe. Wh, made by Lord John Russell in the House of Commonson 1, the House of Commons, “May God defend the right.”’ | throw off his chains, his rate and helpless | withdraw both from London and Paris his ambassa- the hour is to which this debate has been protracted, manifest that if Russia were to Friday night last. The debate was in all respects an in Hesitation is no longer pessible in nce of this haugh- | would make the ert of the country an easy task. | dors. And this leads me to our present situation, should feel that I was not discharging the duty which I | these territories which .now li teresting one. It was opened by Layard, the Assyrian ty refusal given to the most straightforward of proposi- | (Hear, hear.) Svfeh I believe to have been the of | which has been justly described as being on the brink owe to this House and to the crown Bod ed ss Sultan she would become a power too pita sie i¢ ‘ aoe tions. Moderation has exhausted all its pacific com! | {asetd, but when Prince Menschikoff endeavored to | of awar. Ihave stated as shortly as I could, withoutar- the debate to close without some in | tic for the safety of the other States traveller, in an able speech. He blamed the government | 1i5)4° patience has exhausted all its delays. It is proved | that policy into effect, we had sent to the scene of | Rost and without quotations, the general course which | reply to, and in consequence of, the speech of the right | If she were to bestride the continent from for a want of, energy and blindness to the real objects of | in the face of the whole world that the Czar is not ac- _ operations the person best qualified in all Europe tomoet | the Britis! ernment has pursued. We have now honorable gentleman. Iam ready to admit that we are Remsessing large naval Power both in the Prince Menschikoff’s mission, which were quite clear to | cessible to any sentiment of conciliation, and that, led | such ions and counteract such efforts. We had | to consider the prospect before and what remainsto met here on one of the most im} it and solemn occa- leditcrranean, envelo) the whole of Germany, com- ! ‘thought fi away by his blind passion, he intends carrying out sent the nobleman to whom I have already alluded—Lord | bedone. With regard to diplomatic correspondence re- sions upon which it can fall to the lot of Parlinment to | manding regions full of every natural everybody long before the government thought ft to act Ti,'tash projects to the end. Be it sol He will Gnd | Stratford de. Redeliffe—to Constantinople, (hear;) and, | specting terms of peace, there were. terms proposed by deliberate. The country, by the sdmlasion of the respon: ulation ‘of enormous extent, to prevent them. He concluded by saying that, under the | before him France and England, more united than ever let me observe, that if we had meant to be subservient | em! dors of the four Powers at ple— sible advisers of the is, T am afraid | must =; ingerous to the liberties present circumstances, the opposition would support the | in action, as they have been in negotiation. It is | to Russia, and to compliment away the independence of | terms very nearly assented to, at least assented to insuch upon the verge of war. lear, hear.) The House power would be fatal to the if th 4 h vi Lord Joh: ¢ | impossible that sooner or later he will not behold the | Turkey, as my honorable friend seems to suppose—if a manner at Constantinople as to be sent to Vienna by e country have a right to what has been the con- | other States. (Cheers.) I say, there! government if they acted with vigor. Lord John went | (tit reat States of Europe, deeply wounded in their de- | we had intended to defor to what might ultimately be the conference of the four Powers. Sir, it does not ap- duct of government, and what has been the course which | duty of the other countries of Europe over the whole ground once more, defending the policy of | sire for order and in their conservative interests, arise the will of Russia, we should not have sent to | pear tome that those terms were derogatory to the has led us to this position. We have laid before Parlia- | enormous aggrandizement as that the government, and, in his speech, severely handled the | against him. The German Powers may, as some journals | Constantinople s nol who was disti hed be- | nity of Turkey, nor were they such as were atallunbefit- ment the papers, which show what the conduct of gov- | from such a po ee Em, f Russi Having declared that an exchange | “2nounce, observe at first a strict neutrality; ‘but will yond all other for his attachment to the cause of | ting the Emperor of Russia to accept. Yet what course ernment has been, and we have produced these papers | likely, ‘Yes, but don’t want peror of ssia. wing declared exchange | not the various events and phases of the inevitable e independence of Turkey; who had always gtven | did the Emperor of Russia take? Beit remarked that he for the express purpose that Parliament have | ritory; she don’t pretend or profess to take of notes had taken place between England and France, | struggle which is being prepared change their resolution _ her the wisest. counsels, and endeavored to impart is reported to have said at Olmute that he had been the opportunity of considering and of con- | possession of any that belongs to promising to co-operate in giving assistance to Turkey, | in modifying their position? But if Prussia and Aus- | to her that internal stre which would enable her | to to the Vienna note; that poe eed reg | duct and of its opinion thereon. hear.) | she merely holds these Pri trina depart from the reserved attitude, which per- | to rescue herself from the state of dependence on Russia | Turkey herself did not agree to it; that he thoughtit un- | But, I must confess, T'did not expect from for concessions which she requires to be made—conces to hear any besa eine dbeh-eghe ththrhahes tech h jonoral eT iication sugneste, to | to which foregone clreumstances had reduced her. Well, | reasonable to put him in such’ a position, and that he | member of thts House that which has just fallen from the | sions which she says are essen fish interest, no increase of territory or power was sought, | HADt ere See a Seeasiwil: be to ‘sup: sir evente took the course which, from the character of | hoped when the next terms of pence were proposed, they right honorable member who has just sat down, (hear, | honor.” What the [this elicited immense cheering,] Lord John ssid: “We | port ‘with the Western Powers the cause of Euro- | Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, might have been expected, © would be such as Turkey herself would oped to. The hear;) because, 1 think, thas ifI were to be of jon | true statement of the danger. had, further, to maintain the peace of Europe, of which | peen right against the ambition which compromises Prince Menschikoff made one demand after another, al- | four great Powers had exerted themselves in order toob- that a governmen' direction of its public duty, in | ter that Turkey should have a bs - a Le Pe; it—the cause of German interest against the influ- ways, as he states, softening those demands, and tain peace, and I must say that consi those Powers consideration of great and important negotiations w) son should be slowly but surely infused into her wi the Russian Emperor was the wanton disturber, | enee which desires to dominate over it—and the | them less stringent, in order to obtain the acceptance of | =England, France, Austria, and oa matters involving not only the interests of this count ry, Body corparste which would surely soon destroy her en- to throw back on his head the consequences which he | cnuse of Austrian independence against the moralsuze- | them by the ¢. But, at last, without doing that | all the great Powers of Europe, and that the terms but the peace welfare of Europe, had been just! ay and lay her ite at the foot of her powerful had s0 violently,and, he believed, so imprudently invoked. tainty which wants to bring it under subservience. In which, 1 think, he was bound todo towards Turkey— | they proj were pro) with a view to pre- = le either with credulity or connivance, I thi neighbor. lear, hear.) That which Russia demanded isk BAS 4 P y * every ease Eusope, as regards principles, is at present di- | without saying these are the stipulations which we shall | yent ® bloody and ey war, all over | that if I felt those were the only alternatives on which | was nothing less than the sovereignty over 12,000,000 of ‘On the uprightness and loyalty of the Emperor of the \id¢i into two camps, completely ‘separated. ‘There may | be glad to have from you, but we have no right toquar- | the world, the course adopted by the Emperor of tho House could be called upon ‘to pronounce its judg- | Turkish subjects, because the Power which was to pro- French he placed tho fullest reliance.” As regards the _ be hesitation to act, but there is none to proclaim the | rel with you if you refuse them, if you consider that | Russia showed a total disregard of the peace of Europe — ment, I certainly think I should feel there could be no ‘tect them in all the affairs of life, both religious German Powors, he observed:—‘ We have the satisfac. | Tight of Turkey and the injustice of Russia?and the most | they trench upon your independence, and we have no | (hear, hear,)—an utter contempt of the opinion of | other course open to me and to the House than to with- | civil, would have been the power to which those 12,000,- i . irresolute will soon, by the force of things, be obliged to right to demand the concession of them—instead of that | Europe, and a disi of those sovereigns with whom | hold from that government the confidence of Parliament. | 000 persons would have Koked, and the Sultan tion of knowing that Austria and Prussia would look on. ake an open declaration. However that may be, since | respect which not only all men of other nations, but | he had been allied. (Hear, hear.) Instead of the ac- | (Hear, hear.) Yet we are told that the government, in | have been no longer any but the nominal ruler of those not in an attitude of aversion, but ready to use all their their duty and their ity impose on France and Eng- | even, I believe, many Russians think it would have been | ceptance of those propositions ¢ sepsis were relation to which this House has only the alternative of | subjects. (Hear, hear.) 1 say, therefore, that that con- nfluenoe, and if necessary their ari 6 check Russia in | and the necessity of action, they will yield to the exigen- | more right to evince towards Turkey, Prince Menschikoff | sent to Vienna, whic! shortly be laid upon the table condemnation for credulity or condemnation for | cession was one which the sovereign of Turkey was justi- 3 +f ; cy of a crisis which they have not created. They are determined to break off his relations with the Porte, and | of the House, containing very much » repetition of the connivance, is to receive the confidence of Parlia- | fied in refusing, and which every other Power—which her attempted career of conquest.’’ The debate, which ready for resistance, as they Were long ready for peace; | to go back to the Russian territory. But it has been said ‘1 demands, and the addit of other terms, one of ment by the bee fon op may be bye a <7 | Toit ari tet eentated eth and Prussia—united to declare 0 ify adjourned, was resumed again last night, but only they have only tomarch resolutely in the way into which most strangely that when this took place, when the Em- | which was, that the refugees in Turkey of different na- | on the war; # tlemen who si ted without an abandonment of the in- Reena ye eae ee nthe natin that cy they have. besn forced. in apite of themselves, and the | peror of Rusia threatened to occupy the prinetpalities, | fons be expelled from that country. ‘That article | aro ready to entruat to auch a government the fortune of | dependent sovereignty ofthe Stan. (Hear) Well Taay, ree y more rapid and energetic will be their combined action, | no protest was made against it by the British government. | was intended, no doubt, to as it would the war. #, hear.) Well, then, a government standing | then, that the ol for which we are Cobden, who promises to be as unpopular as he was ¢),6 more will public opinion support them, and the more Bu, sir, not only was there test—not only was | have been a perpetual source of continued remonstrance, in the in which we stand has a right to ex) | one which a due regard for the interests of this country, once popular. He deprecated the idea of going to war — will private interests be reassured. | there a demand made for e: planation in the very gt 4 moment ais | that its conduct will be scratinized to the bottom. | anda due regard to the welfare of Europe and to 5 and would have occasioned , able despatch of my noble frietd Lord Clarendon-—but | might think ft. Count Buol, Hear, hear.) There are many charges that mizht be | peace of the world, justifies us in cont for. for the Turk; he denied that there was any danger to —— | there wea that which was of ten times the value, namely, communicating those, terms to the conference, declared | rough agatast win rst place, we might be ac- | (Cheers.) We are told; however, that, setting the Europe from Russian aggression ; it little mattered to THE WAR QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. that within s weok, or rather within ten ‘aye ‘atleast from | ©) ly that he did not recommend them for ado; | ew and without due | abstract principle of preserving the balance of power— 5 of tly, us whether the Russians were at Constantinople or not. SPEECHES OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND LORD | the day when Prince Menschikoff left hear.) I was asked yest whether a letter, _ regard to the heavy res lities which weighed upon | which some gentlemen profess to treat with great oon- ‘The other speech was that of Palmerston. = said that PALMERSTON. there was an order to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe to 3 | represented ‘to have been sent by Emperor of the | us, brought the country to the condition of ng | tem; yt, as a matter wholly the care and at- 4 “t The adjourned debate upon the affairs of the East and | at his disposal, for the purpose of ‘up to the | French to the Em; of Russia, was a genuine docu- | obliged to draw the sword and rush into war. (Hear. tent of statesmen—we are told ¥ that England and France had armed in a noble and generous the war with Russia was resumed in the House of Com- | ntighborhood of the Dardanelles, the British eet, and ment. No doubt it letter isa genuine letter, and it | That charge no one has made against us. That charge | sside, there is something in the condition of the cause, to maintain right against might and justice against mons. on the 17th of Fevcnaty. by-Mr. Layard. When bens) Eo id Ge! hed the a par to xa. hae a Ao by the we maha er te Reps ne | youn jeed, ori Peas tah ol and, if be ghod | mi than, atten unworthy of our, | ° miral Dun fo the ni hood the Dardanelles. adc France | against as, wou re manifested us as deserving because such an advanced wrong. The noble Viscount was loudly cheered. Mr. Roebuck concluded, Lord John Russell spoke. My hon, friend the pe nelet bor ‘Aylesbury has talked ins | Of Russia to reconsider the course he has adopted, | severest condemnation of the country. Hear, hear.) | civilisation as this county, it ought therefore to be 4 In my last letter I quoted an extract from Prince Met- | LORD JOHN RUSSBLL’S SPEECH. part of his speech as if there was ® pretence made that | to evacuate the Principalities, which he has ly oc- | That charge, however, no man has as yet ited coul quered by Russia and as an independent na- Pi ho the pol Dy ‘that Russia would find her auxili- | 27, after the very generous and I must say, the very Titis Sleet wan sent to protect British interests, ‘and not to | cupied, and to draw up articles with a Turkish plenipo- | be alleged against the conduct of the government. | jon from the face arene. I was seked iby the honor- raich, wise speech of the honorable member for Sheffield, Lean | protect the Sultan; but the purpose for which the fleet | tentiary which shall be submitted to the con- | Well, another charge might be that by delay, by credau- | sble member for the W: (Mr. Cobden) whether ariea in the Christian subjects of Turkey. Now that the have no henitation in rising to give the house that infor- | was sent are very ¢ set forth in the despatch .of | ference of the Four Powers. For my own part, I say | lity. by absence of sufficient vigor at the proper time, | still maintained the assertion I made last session, that mask is thrown away, the first symptoms of a Christian ware bey %0 Cd supers soanedeann to - | Lord Clarendon, of the a ts May:— thet, at all hang vad poco to —— . the | we Lad allowed matters to come to a pass at ee they | ‘here - hardly any beats which -had, in the same " . (Hear, hear. ver, with rospec' _ ition thus made. _I will no - | wor ferent tim terial Tising begin to manifest themselves. | tomy right hon. friend the Tirit Lond of the "Admiralty, | towed by tus cutis eselan maledon tem thet ty eesit at "Ras sezede'$0 | compen tiloens hoanyt See T Guedutatie St'pe slate as Taner pte) such grave im ce, the military i The Christians (Greeks) are rising in Macedonia, Ep- 404 the statement whieh the hon. member supposes him + is a hope that the Emperor of will accede to . (Bear, hear.) Now, I think that neither is this | nal its _as Turkey has . Sir, parations of Russia | that Propenton, o that he wil aban from enforcing, 2 einige: which aa be. Fight brought against the that assertion, ‘Cheers from both sides of the of such vast with all por le dema: Scotrary, fom ready to to have made relative to our position, I think the hon. frontier are npon a va A wer of Russia, those unjustifiable Wernment; and, on the i Tam satisfied that man Who looks into the condition irus, Theasaly, end in AJbanis. The insurgents muster | member has faflen into an error, becarise it was not my nivindlaponseble te teke aaaze | which he has hitherto’ made. CBase,) | What, Traintain that the moderation aid forbearance by | of Turkey now, and compares it with what it was at the already 40,000 strong. Yanina, and other towns, are | bo hon. friend, but the hon. member for Aylesbury ‘4 to aid his Highness in | Must be our course? There can be but one, and t which our conduct has been characterised, are | time referred to, will admit the truth and justice of my said to have risen, and Montenegro, and all those sem'- | mistook our position. The events which have taken mi de upon his tory. | must be upon the side of Turkey, defe her against | such sa to enable us to st well in the | sssertion. It is quite true that Turkey is now far dependent, mountainous distriets will probably rise | place secm to have hastened us toward war, and we ask ly to inform your Excolloncy that, by Her | the power of Russia. If I am asked further, before i of the country. eu, hear.) If it is said | behind England and France; but we are not on P y | you to assist us in our preparations for the same, but at ands, the flect_now stationed at ‘weiee te we enter upon the Committee of Supply, what are the | that we have foreborne the last moment, that we | this account to forget bow much further ad- against the Porte. It ishigh time that the European | nt do not ask you to vote the estimates. (Hear, roy nog Bs ape “ my: Cid means we look to, and, in the terms of the honorable | have exhausted every means of negotiation, that we | vanced it is now than it was in the time of auxiliary forces were there. | ear.) There appears to me, at the period at which wo | tions he may receive from yor ‘to. repair tri Mace | member for Inverness, (Mr. Baillie,) what tions | have clung to every hope of terminating the disputes | Sultan Mahmoud. Any man who knows anything a __» | have arrived, to be three courses which the House may | as you may direct in the eve our considering the pre. | We Propose to make, I should say, in the first , that | which threatened the peace of Europe by amicable ad- | of Turkey will know that in respeot to internal naviga- A telegraphic despatch announces that seven Turkish | adopt with propriety, according to its particular dis: sence of @ British force absolutely essential to the safety of | there has been an exchange of notes between England | justm that we have trusted those who were not de- | tion, in to her army, her navy, and justice or vessels have been sunk by the Russians, but I think this | sition or inclination. It may say, first—war is im- | the Turkish empire. and France, promising to co-operate in giving assistance | serving of our trust, that we have bolieved assurances {ical administration, great and immense has requires confirmation; also that Batoum has been bom- ponding, but you, Her jesty’s present minis- |-Now, sir, could any ‘written despatch have protested in | to Turkey, and declaring on the part of both Powers Which events have shown were untrue, that we have Foe that heer} Gat ‘Tur- i i ters, ‘have committed so many errors that we | moré eloquent words, or with greater firmness and decl- | that no selfish interests and no increase of territory or | postponed to the last moment the deciston which it may d_ does not desire barded. The Ambassadorsand the Admirals do not pull cannot allow you any longer to have the | sion, than the transmission of such orders to Lord Strat- power is sought for. (Chasers. ) Such is the nature of | now a ‘we must come tp, these aro not, in my opin- well together; Ishould not wonder if Admiral Dundas | conduct of affairs apon so momentous s question. The ford de Redeliffe and to the British Admiralty? I stated position in wi the two great rs now | ion, cl against the rernment, but rather as a was recalled. Lord Raglan goes out as Commander-in- second course is to say—as I understood the honorable | at the time to the House thai the fleet was sent tothe | stand. They feel that the cause is one, in the first place, roof that we have done all in our power, and up to the | . member for Sheffield to say—‘‘There may be errors in | neighborhood of the Dardanelles, in order to prove the | of the inde; nce of Turkey—a Power which has been Intent hour, to avoid war, will induce the Lio iat to chief of the 20,000 British troops ordered to Tarkey. | the none scr tave pared, Wo think thatat one | interest which Her Majesty's goverument tool in taain. | ‘ost cruelty outraged (loud ‘cheers)--a Power which has | rally; an ode maa, round the government, secing that | The Duke of Cambridge will command a division. The | point you should have aeted with more decision, or that | taining the integrity of the Turkish empire. It was, | resisted wi wy tay and 9 great ability, the | war, if war comes, is & necessity which could not be | therefore, clear to Russia, as it was clear to all the world, | unjust de of the diplomatic Ministers of Ruasia, and | avoided; and to make every sacrifice which the war, so | greatest enthusiasm prevails, and recruits pour infor ***nother you should have made more sure alliances; | but these are questions of difficulty, u| which it is not | that in case Russia persisted in her unjustifiable deman Power which hag resisted with courage and skill in the | foreed ite our utmost endeavors to avert it, both army and navy, 40,000 French and 20,000 English, | onay tocome th'a decision. We will wave considerations | and in enforcing them by her armies, ‘England in com, | Seldvthe nited of Russia. (Laud cheers.) But, | must inevitably ean (faiear, hear) ‘We are accu with the combined fleets to support them, will be no | of thie and vote further estimates which you ask | junction with meant to oppose such persiatance, | air, the cause is more, It is to mankind the peace of credulity; I'say that patches in these volumes small help to the Turks, who have hitherto coped single. | {0%"” Th@¥hird course is to, say, without entering into } and to repel such force. (Hear, hear.) I must add to | Europe, of which the Empegor of Russia is the wanton | jastify us in having for ® consi/erable period reposed orcas haan 4 is the question of the negotiations at all, ‘We will look | this that, when this took place, so far was the Russian | disturber iecers) and it is for mankind to throw w ‘confidence in the assertions of the Kussian government. Persons are trying to get up an anti-war | entirely forward; we will give our confidence to the | court from thinking that we were acting in complete | the head of that disturber the consequences which he (Hear, bear.) The right honorsble gentleman has feeling here on religious grounds; now, as [have beforeob. government, but we will watch their proceedings, | blindness with regard to their designs, that they com- | so flagrantly, and, I believe, so impredently evoked. | accused my noble friend, the Secretary of Forel is not a reli and if they enter upon war we will seo that it is | plained in a cireylar transmitted throughout that | (Cheers.) And it is to mankind the independence not only | Affairs, having misled Parliament, on the 25th perved, this igious question at all, It is one a, ‘ : the tenance of the bal: 3 carried on with all the vigor and judgment necessary | We had made a threatening demonstration by the move- } of Turkey but of Germany, and of all European nations. | of April, by declaring, at that time, that the of the main lance of power in Europe— | to bring it to @ successful conclusion. Any one of | mentof the fleets to the neighborhood of the ‘The state of Germany for the last few years has been one | Russian ment asked for nothing but the | whichthe ‘Hear of preventing @ strong robber pilfering a wonk neighbor, | these three courses the House might take, and any | thereby showing that they clearly understood at least | if not absolutely of dependence upon the Emperor of | settlement of the question of the Holy Paces, whereas, hear, and laughter.) I fancy that in those days, when thia with a view to still greater robberies. Thoro is no doubt, | 0M¢ Would be fitting for the occasion. But my that movement, and, though they had applied most | Russia, at least one in which independence has not been | says the right hon. ae at that very time Prince | country ars eminent in all matters of will endea loubt, honorable friend the member for Aylesbury has | unjustifialty and most untruly the argument derived | very loudly asserted. (Hear, hear.) I could not but | Menschikof had left Constantinople, ond the English literature and science, they would have heen very much however, tat the Cear vor to makea Holy War | taken a course which I must shy, {f not satisfactory | from it, they proved most undoubtedly that they | think, on reading the transeetions that took place last | government knew perfectly well that he had been urging | fu if they had been told that they were a set of an fo the government, I think can’ hardly be satiafac- | understood the intentions of the British government. | year at Paris, that there was too much acquiescence on the | certain treaty on the Porte. What are the facta? Prince rans, and deserved to be conquered by France tm ‘We now soon expect to hear of & neal engagement, | tory to the House, because, after stating certain facts | (Hear.) The next question that arose was, whether the | part of the Powers in the unjustifiable preten. | Menschikoff did not leave Constantinople till the 224 of | order that the Catholics should be put upon the same goment. | which, he maintains, prove the government to be en- | ¢ntry of Russian troops into the Principalition should be | sions of Russia, (Loud cheers.) This House is aware, | May, (hear, hear;) and as to the latest declaration which, Tomine of the Protestants in this country. (Cheers and It is sald that the instructions to the fleets will be to | tirely in error, he says: pon ‘case of war, and acted apon as such by | and I have had occasion to relate it with that com: | on the 26th of April, Lord Clarendon had received from | Inughter.) Well, Tsay then, that the condition of the take Sebastopol, in the Black Sea, and Cronstadt, in the | cnse, I will, in my may malty, excuse you; Iwill par. | Turkey and r aflies? Well, sir, upon that question we | mendation which I thought was Ges, that, when the | the Russian authorities, its date was the 28th of March, | Christians is no reason whatever why, upon great politi- don yor . | can have no better authority, aa T conceive, than the | Farl of Malmesbury fou that the Emperor of | on which day, in reply to a question from Sir Hamilton | cal ids, this country and France—-ay, and Austria ae aaas aa ae Thea | Seen ae re oe dene Til cine Sins | authority cf Lord Stradford le edelide, We thought here | {he French meant to be faithful. $0. the ents of | Seymour, ‘whether the aeilement of the question aa to | and Prustia’ too—should not eombine ta’ maintain the correspondence relative to the neutrality mark to take the votes for ‘estimates.”’ That course can | that if Turkey unprepared was at once to provoke hosti- | country over whieh he was called to reign, and that | the Holy Places would arrange everything between Russia | Turkish em in its pent geographical posite. and Norway and Sweden is published. I enclose it. As hardly be deetned satisfactory. I say, with my right hon- | lities with Russia, and to use her undoubted rights to de- | hh ‘was to maintain the peace of E , on the | and Turkey, Count Nessel ‘with his own lips assured | (Cheers.) I believe that the internal reas Ww hae regards Austria, all mon are satisfied with her intentions, Fable friend, let us know whether you censure us or | clare that the entry into the Principaltion was a casus | art of this country, We willing resagaition of the homey ae Cet cee eee Bom es ng Sonne | Onnteas ST ieeranled nattooes vill and on fi ‘these coarses thoug] ne of , . | after would remai Louis Napoleon alludes, in somewhat ambiguous terms,in R.\",u1 {00r, full confidence, | One of these courses we | leli—we thought, I my ter, (Hear, hear.) . Powers of Germany thought It advisable | Lut some petty points connected with the chancery, | same footing of equality. Lean assure the House ‘se artigle in the Monitewr, to that Power. Be makes an | any particular course, bat Tuer iar took ang. con not conceal from oureelyes ai to walt until the ‘of Russia had declared gis | wholly unimportant and ynconsequential. (Hear, hear.) ' it has been the anzjous object of the government to ;

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