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the Vienna plan with «the ?plan adapted ...
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¦ . NOTICES TO . COsBBESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever Is inteaded'tor insertion most be authenticated bythe n » a » e andaddr « B 8 < 4 ) f the writor ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good'faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . . Their insertion is often delayed ,, ovring to ai press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reason » quite independent of" the merits of the - communication . "We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . During the Session- of -Parliament ifr is often impossible to finH vr \ nm fevr *» nrroanonriftnce . even the briefest .
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¦ ¦ ?—There is nothdng so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the 3 train to keep things fixed when all the -world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Assou >
The Vienna Plan With «The ?Plan Adapted ...
the Vienna plan with « the ? plan adapted « t Paris , repeated liond Majjmesbujby '< s "; no confidence" in r Count Obioff ' s promises os to Nicholaieff and the Eastern ports , prophesied endless disputes and differences on the political organization of iWallachia and Moldavia , and ended by declaring , that a truce , not a peace , had been concluded . But / what was Lnrrl rDTOTiTtVTjnfl-nar-ed trvdrt ?
policy . He blamed Lord 'GiiAjb & nbor for signing Count l ^ Axrawasa's false recapitulation ofthe views : elicited by bis escapade on the f-Beigian press , rand he expressed the general opinion < of honest . liberals on the subjeet . ofiltalian interventions . Lord John Ki 7 SBEiii > ,. traversing the same ground , spoke more faintly , than in ; the Kara debate , but insisted that " it would be most abhorrent to the
Was > he prepared to -shed the blood of new armies , to load the Treasury with new loans , to hold commercial enterprise in suspense , to promote immoral and morbid passions by a third campaign , simply for the sake of these diplomatic trivialities ? He accepts the settlement " reluctantly ; " but does-any statesman believe that Lord Deebt would have removed the war to a broader basis , and fought for principles , instead of a set of " points" agreed upon at Vienna ? The Earl of Abebdeen whispered a fine sarcasm on political parties
feelings of an English Minister to interfere with the press of a foreigntcountry . " ' The press , he thinks , is , as it ever-was , a chartered ibertine , which may be true ; but what of the libertinism of arbitrary power ? To this topic Mr . Sidney Herbert did not advert , exeept to blame the plenipotentiaries for being seduced by Count Waubwski into an irrelevant discussion . Mr . Gladstone , however , summarily dimissed the Treaty , and discussed the later protocols at large . His explanation of the press laws of Belm -1 . 1 ^ 1 ' ¦ " ¦* seemedto taf xlouso
¦ ¦¦ ? THE PEACE DEBATES . TflE Q-overnment , in the debates on the Treaty of Paris , encountered a feeble and desultory opposition . In the Lords , the Earl of Dbebt eonfined himself to technicalities and points of detail . In the Commons , Mr . Diseaeli did not feel the ground Strong enough for an attack . The Tory criticisms of the Peace seem to have been half-sincere and experimental . In reply to the elegant and scholarly speech of Lord EiiXESMBBE , Lord MAijarESBTXBY desired only to qualify the language of the Address , indicating certain minutiae of objection , which by no -means amounted to a contrast of nrilimr TiR +. wftfin the Government and the
and on the public when he said that Lord Pai . mebston ' s warlike reputation " had rendered it possible to make a peace wise and honourable in itself , but which if it had been made under his ( Lord Aberdeen ' s ) auspices -might have produced discontent , and , perhaps , serious reprehension . " The truth is , that there was . no " serious reprehension" of the Paris Treaty . It was felt that the positive objects of the war had been obtained ; and that , if the Peace eonfers no securities on civilization or liberty , it is because -liberty and civilization have not been the objects in . view . In the House of Commons the spirit of the Opposition was identical -with that in the House of Lords . Only some third-rate Tories spoke . Lord John Mannebs discussed the position of the Turks in Asia , contended that the independence of Circassia should have been secured , mis-stated the entire case , and .
gium , ce Dy surprise a of Commons accustomed to look upon free journalism as a necessary evil , for which Lord Clarendon was evidently inclined to apologise to the superb plenipotentiaries of the arbitrary powers . This point was eluded by Lord Paxmerston , when he defended the reticence of the Foreign Minister , who might , he said , have declared his principles " in a more flaming and violent sentence , which would have brought down thunders of applause from every hustings , " but who , " in firm and courteous language , " declared that " the Government would be no ; party to any interference with the view of dictating to an independent nation the steps she . should take to gag the press . " Yet the instigator of this . scheme of violence is the man whom both of the leading parties in the British Legislature delight to exalt and flatter . Every speech from the orators uujj wj
Tories . He cavilled over the stipulations relating to Kars , suggested doubts in the construction of the clauses applying to Sebastopol and to the neutralization of the Black Sea , complained that the independence of Circassia had -not been guaranteed , and that the Bessarabian frontier had not been rectified in the sense of the Vienna preliminaries , and delivered himself of the oration he had prepared in support of his stifled motion on the sacrifice of the Anatolian army . It was in this narrow sense that the Foreign Secretary of Lord Derby ' s Cabinet impeached the peace . Lord Clarendon , denying that the surrender of KarB had modified the spirit of the plenipotentiaries , diverged in defence , not of the Treaty , but of the conduct of the war , and , before he returned to the stipulations of the peace , recapitulated the case of TTn-KCf TTamirnnra ^ -fli nt :: 'fchfl TJliRRinTl
HeclarOturned off briskly to a lively comment on Lord CiiAbendon ' s manner of dealing with the proposal of the French Government " to gag and fetter the press of one of the only free countries now left upon the Continent . " This , from Lord John Mannebs , was more explicit than anything said by a Whig in the course of the Peace debates . Mr . Monokton MiiiNES , hesitating an ep icurean censure on Lord CiiABENDON ' s faint apology for a free press , summarized with pointed brevity the scope and the result of the war . By the Allied Governments , he said , "ithad been regarded solely as political , bearing upon certain distinct political objects . " " By the people of this country it had been associated with far other hopes , far other desires , far other expectations , " none i of which had been fulfilled . But Mr . MifcNEs forgot to say , that these hopes had been flattered by the
Govern-. Whig ana ± ory nas oeen . w . u . veu . raise ^ a pedestal for Loui s Napoleon . Our statesmen . seem bewildered by that adventurer ' s success . He dazzles their conscience blind , and his " great qualities" extolled as if all the bloodshed of the last two years had been cheaply spent to procure such an ally for England , and to establish such a dictator in France . And this is the end of the Russian war . It was for this that the Government and the governing classes abused the public mind by " flaming and violent sentences" iu behalf of the liberties of Europe . Grossly cajoled as the nation has been , it cannot be said that the offence belongs to the Administration alono . What is the value of that morality which permits statesmen to falsify their words , and to excite enthusiasm iu favour of one object when they design it to promote another totally ainerenxr i / iie ^ iuiuwj ) *
tions with regard < to JSTicholaieff and Kherson were satisfactory and binding , that the adoption of a now frontier on the Danube was a reasonable concession on the part of Buasia , that the Circassians had established no claim ito the political support of the Western Powers , that the forts on the eastern coast of the Black Sea wore not to bo destroyed , and that the general effect of the Paris negotiations had been to instil new life into the ^ Ottoman Empire , and to establish the law of nations . In the same breath , be lauded the constitutional progress of Sardinia and the single-handed supremacy of Louis Napo-T . 'wnvr wV » r » « n /» r » inYif >!« n nrfiflt T ) Ositioil , which
ment—that Ministers had unscrupulously traded upon the liberal sympathies of the British nation—thflt the half-generous , halfblind pugnacity of " the people" had been bewildered by an official mirage of a crusade against despotism—and that the mon who profited by these illusions , fostored them to the latest hour , and can only satisfy their consciences by deriding thoir dupes . The duped nation , meanwhile , evinces neither jealousy nor joy ; drifts into peace as it drifted into war , convinced of its own capacity for self- government , yet totally averse from assuming the initiative , or acting an independent or decisive rpart . jau
juei repiy uu wua . <»»» , is clear : —that the Kussiau war , besides establishing certain diplomatic points with reference to the Ottoman Empire , has mainly resulted in the creation for the Fbenoii Emperor of a European position which ho could not have gained for himself . This is the work of England . This is the moral of a war conducted by an aristocracy in the cause of a free nation which displays neither intellect nor will , but , impatient of its constitutional rights at home , suffers its policy abroad to bo confounded with that ol the Holy Alliance . Wo pay the coat of immense armaments which are employed with-^ ,,+ * pp * h W innnnjihle Ministers . We
-preho has made for himself , and which ho do- serves , because it is founded upon strict confidence in his honour and fidelity . " What was the criticism of Lord Deiiby upon this apology for the treaty of Paris ? He , too , had conceived a speech on the fall of Kars , 'which ho was unwilling should die Without utterance Ho then dissected the now ¦ political map of Bossarabia to comparo
Lot us do justice to Mr . JLAYAnD . alone , in the House of CommonB , depicted the true course of the French alliance . Ho said that , from the beginning , wo had placed ourselves in an equivocal relation towards France , that wo had gratuitously bowed to the control of the French Ernporor . Thoroforo it was , that throughout tho war , limg-| -lish -principles had Leon absorbed by French
tend to do battle for tho independence ot Europe , and our ignorant strength is devoted to tho service of a Government , in ovory Benao as treacherous as that of Austria . In this day of diplomatic reconciliation France is ruled by a silent- terrorism unequalled in liuBain , aud by an inquisitorial police that oata like a poison into society . The " groat
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10051856/page/11/
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