London Mail (Newspaper) - July 25, 1853, London, Middlesex MON JULY PRICE ONE JULY SOME time ago the Prince of in the usual took the and hardly was he cured when the disease fastened on Prince had barely recovered when the Queen had determined to visit in the Isle of sickened for the measles did not keep her at home like a true and brave woman as she her Majesty went forthwith to the Isle of There she has undergone the happily for her she has come out But it would appear that the measles have a prevailing taste for blood The Crown Prince of Hanover and the Grand Duchess of Coburg actually carried away the Neither have suffered Add to that the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders the two promising sons of the King of the Belgians have also hhd the measles and the reader will feel convinced that measles are highly We have to record an eventful fortnight in Eastern War has not broken simply and solely because the statesmen of Western and Central Europe have acted with an almost cowardly The best preparation for war is to exhaust the means of says Lord John Russell and on that laudable principle the Governments of France and Eng land have acted to the fullest The utmost they have done has been to send their fleets to Besika Russia has been per mitted to enter and occupy and fortify the Prin as ever was still France yielding to have seen good reasons to put up with this act of the and have continued Lord John tells us that negotiations have only just But what a position to ne in Russian sentries spying across the Danube Russian guns pointed at the Turkish forces opposite Bucharest the winter coming when neither will the anchorage at Besika be nor the Black Sea Not only In addition to the imperious mani festo of Count Nesselrode has issued another of those peculiar so congenial to the cause and with which Europe has The Russian Chancellor has written in language deliberately He declares that the Emperor desires no more today than he hast in the past to subvert the Ottoman or to aggrandise himself at its Could such a subterfuge deceive a child he expresses an earnest desire to maintain a good understanding with France and England and with Turkey but at the same time he accuses the Western Powers ol taking the and exerting a pressure on Russia by the maritime occupation of the Turkish waters within sight of the This is contrary to Besika Bay is without the straits and upwards of a hundred miles from Constantinople maritime he led to That the invasion of the Danubian Count Nesselrode avers that the Russians enter the Principalities not to make offensive war on the Porte but simply to take a material guarantee as a substitute for the obstinate refusal of the Turks to concede what the Emperor Nicholas had a right to the Openly charging the Sultan with the violation of his he implies that the affair of the Holy Places is still a matter of negotiation a wily attempt to conceal the unjust political demands of the Sultan under the religious question of the Holy Places when Count Nesselrode by the admission of his own been happily To this Drouyn de the French has He reproaches the Russian with rendering the issue of negotiations more at the very time when the Western Powers had given such testimony of their The firmans issued by the Sultan in 1853 have taken away the only grievance of Russia in regard to the Holy Places and he proves that in told him in Paris that he affair of the Holy Places bad been to a happy So that the su quent demands of Prince no relation to those previously made se lad ys In Drouyn de lih does not hesitate to say that those quent demands took the representatives of and Austria by And when the demands were those representa ives felt that they touched so seriously on the of the that they left him o decide for He defends the occupa ion of Besika Bay as justified by the vast mili tary preparations in Bessarabia and he con victs Nesselrode of by showing on the 31st of he menaced the Porte with the occupation of the Principalities seven een days before the news of the anchoring of the fleet in Besika Bay reached And when the Emperor put forth his and menacing manifesto on the of the fleets were still at Salamis and Thus the responsibility of taking the first overt action is fairly cast on the Emperor of The English and French by their presence outside the do not in any way outrage existing The occupation of and Moldavia on the a manifest violation of those same That of which determines the conditions of the protectorate of lays down implicitly the case in which it would be permitted to that Power to interfere in he principalities it would be if their privileges were interfered with by the In when these provinces were occupied oy the they were the prey of a revolutionary agitation which threatened equally their hat of the Sovereign and that of the pro The convention of has admitted if similar events should be renewed within seven Hussia and Turkey should take in common the most proper measures to reestablish Are the privileges of Moldavia and Wal lachia threatened Have revolutionary troubles broken out in their of themselves that there is for the application either of the treaty of Adrianople or of the convention of By what have the Russian troops passed the it be not by the right of of a I of which people do hot wish to the true but which is derived from a new fruitful in disastrous conse which people are astonished to see prac for by a Conservative Power of the European order of a degree so eminent as and which not tend to anything less than the in the midst of of the feeble states by the stronger states who are their neighbours The general of the world is opposed to the admission of and the Porte in particular has the incontestable right to consider as an act of war the invasion of two provinces whatever may be their special are an integral part of its It would therefore not any more than the powers which should come to its the treaty of July if it de clared the straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bos open to the squadrons of France and The opinion of the Government of his Imperial Majesty is formal in that Since this circular no other docu ments have been But some kind of negotiations have been set on their purport studiously Of course the Opposition has done all it conscientiously could to make this a party Had they been bought by Russian they could not have acted more in Russian Apart with all their other Disraeli and Lord Malmesbury have tried to make political capital out of the dangers of pre tending great anxiety for the honour of the country and the interests of they have done all they could to sow dissension between France and whose unity is the only pledge of opposition to Their journals have not scrupled to invent to throw abroad to do all in their power to weaken the confidence of the country in the by weakening public confidence in Lord We feel as much as any one the seeming laggard and timid policy of the Cabinet but we should hesitate not to accord it and should to lend any small influence we may possess to propagate political But for the present they have failed nor has the disappointed earnestness oi Layard fared The House recog the fact that discussion during negotia tion would be fatal but it distinctly holds over the head of Ministers a rod in case of any failure disastrous to British On them is the responsibility of negotiation on them the responsibility of If they so manage matters that the are obliged either to enter the Dardanelles for the and a pretext for crossing the or if they are compelled to return to Malta and Salamis by the rough winds of the hen popular feeling will break and Ministers will be Ministers no For the the people of Petersburg are described as frantic with delight at the prospect of a Holy Austria is gradually occupying the Bosnia and Slavonian She has also committed the illegal act of kid napping a Hungarian at lately returned thither from exile in the United For an American corvette came into port the captain heard the and demanded the The Austrians refused the Yankee brought his guns to bear on the Austrian brig of war the refugee was placed in the care of the Prussian Austria will repent if she engage in war with America should she attempt will have seen the last of her mercantile The Turks are The old Turkish burning for has shown and even effected the dismissal of Pasha for a few A conspiracy against the Sultan Russian emissaries in all quarters and a tre mendous outbreak not Such is the condition of the Russia has fortified her in front of and all other posts of Te Deum has been sung in all the villages of the two pro Provisions have been contracted for nine months Everything indicates a long Yet one indispensable pro vision of peace must be the instant evacuation of Moldavia and By the next mail we may have something more definite to com Russia is playing the Fabian game and a resolute perfectly fearless of alone can counteract The session of 1853 is now drawing to a bit of Parliament to the characteristic of both Houses has been business aa opposed to talk and there has been more criticism of measures which might be modified but could not be than debate tending to their But there has been one Succession In the House of the opposition of the Baronets was carried on with great and they did not flinch from their although constantly On the third reading of the last they came to the relentless as and were beaten as On the final that the be now read Ministers carried their motion by a majority of Arrived in the House of Lord Derby attacked the with great Asperity on the second reading and showed by expending a good deal of ironical praise on the of in whom Pitt shone again with redoubled He contrary to parliamentary if he did not divide the House against the assent to its Virulent as was envious as he showed himself of the success of his language and conduct were tame and dignified compared with those of Lord The friend of Louis Napoleon declared that the was and absurd and he pictured the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a rapacious vulture on the look out for dead insinuating also that Gladstone was unfit for good Lord Derby and his dandy friend would pot tempt the dangers of a not incur the risk of rejecting the and initiating a conflict with the So it passed the second reading with the fiery protest of this brace of This debate forms almost the only exception to the general remark made In com there have been serious clause after clause of the India has been disputed with much Bright alone carrying off the laurels of On the Merchant Shipping there was sharp con on the two main abolishing the restrictions to the employment of foreign seamen in British and that regulating The former was carried by a large showing that more men have been employed since the repeal of the navigation laws than before and that more able Beamen are available for the The Jatter aleo The interest was divided some for making salvage payable out of the Consolidated and others for things as they with Government has at last and carried through the the measure neces sary to accomplish the change on abolishing colonial transportation and substituting penal industry for criminals sentenced to secondary The main features of the plan to continue transportation to Western Au stralia to the extent of eight hundred or more yearly a project which violates an assurance 2jiven by the Duke of and is certain to end in mischief and discontent in Australia to employ about 2500 annually sen in public works at the appointed depots and to grant tickets of leave for men re formed in permitting them to seek free employment within certain under police This last provision creates much One grand source whence the supply of the criminal population is kept is the multitude of children whom or desti tute parents leave to get a living in the and thus graduate to become full criminals and it is proposed to deal with this source pre Lord Shaftesbury has introduced a by which children taken up for vagrancy or minor larceny may be sentenced to school at the union and their parents com to pay towards the expense a since limited to the Adderley has introduced a Similar and more comprehensive authorising the committal of juvenile of fenders to reformatory or to local re under Government super And the Lord Chancellor has announced a Government of a similar next session till no both the other bills will stand but brief notice in this next we will give a full account of it We allude to a brought in by the Archbishop of Can for the purpose of enabling the and laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in her fo reign and colonial possessions to provide for the regulation of the affairs of the said church in such of includes India and is pregnant with immense conse quences both to the mother country and the Gladstone has abandoned the advertise ment duty it was not worth con tending for but he will not give up the duty on Lord Robert Gros venor fought steadfastly for when it was too late and was deservedly beaten by a ma of The minor financial measures of the Government are gradually becoming Gladstone seen reason to postpone the giving a Government gua rantee to the Savings Bank Sir James Grahams bills for the manning of the and the formation ofa body of coast guard have not been Last week the Massacre of the and several bills brought in by inde pendent members were There is rather a serious difference of opinion in the Irish Administration on the subject of national The has worked j excellently notwithstanding the decline of the population to the extent of nearly since the number in the schools has con a little under half a until last when it exceeded that The education is excellent in quality a solid liberal such few of the English middle class A few works on in prose and were used in model but not compelled in These books were without sectarian dogmatic points and they had been revised by the two shops of Protestant and Whately and The Roman Ca of the more bigoted order hate a system which is teaching the Irish people and the succession of Cullen who while at a publication that teaches how the sun goes round the earth on the death of offered an The aided by the put a pressure on the Irish which is only too anxious to conciliate all parties m old hitherto dug up and used by i tho of on w whool fm
