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defence of the Empire . The British and French fleets remain at Besika Bay , where they will remain , perhaps , till the equinoctial gales > f W [ Ve them out , and then the question mAp ariiBj Snail they make a retrograde movement , or , if | ne Principalities be not evacuated , shall they enter the Dardanelles ? WillFrance and Engfapd recede before Russia , or will theft venture | ft take that step which would be strictly parallel to the occupation of the Principalities which Russia has already so long enjoyed with impunity ?
Some of the reports from India are studiously intended to remove the impression that anything is to be apprehended from Russian movements in that quarter . We have no great fear of Russia in India ; it is somewhat too far for her as yet . But we have a considerable suspicion that the Burmese have succeeded in " doing" Lord Dalhousie . They have persuaded him to suspend hostilities without making any decided cession of Pegu , or without defining a boundary ; thoiigh dne has been provisionally made by the British .
The British army remains upon sufferance m occupation , and friendly relations are established between the two Powers . The Burmese desire that trade shall not be impeded , as it would be very inconvenient to have war when they are wanting provisions , and when their merchants are usually somewhat busily engaged . There is an expectation that the army in possession may be reduced ; and it is to be observed that in these arrangements , thus expressed , there is nothing to preclude the Burmese from renewing their hostilities when their desire for peace is over .
To come nearer home , the prognostics of the week are pleasing and peaceful . The Emperor of the French has celebrated his name-day— -the 15 th —the anniversary of " Saint Napoleon ; " and he has done so in a peculiar manner . On Sunday , an enormous display of troops ; on Monday , scarcely a soldier to be seen , the Emperor riding
thirty paces in front of his escort ; Paris amused with pageants during the day- —and blazing with lamps at night ; the theatres , the boat races , all open gratuitously , without " any reserved seats , " —without distinction of class . Louis Philippe was a constitutional monarch surrounded by republican institutions ; " Louis Napoleon is an absolute Emperor leaning upon a democracy .
In London , one of the most remarkable events has been a lecture , delivered by Lieutenant Maury , to a number of shipowners , in Lloyd ' s committeeroom , explaining to them the manner in which he had been impressed with the necessity of studying the winds and waves of the sea , recording them on charts , and acquiring an accurate knowledge of
their general prevalence , distribution , and tendency . He is aided by a thousand volunteers of captains and masters , and by the Government of the United States ; and he offers from that Government , to English captains and masters , complete sets of chart books and instructions , on condition that each one who receives the documents will repay the gift by sending in his log-book to be used as raw material for continuing the process . Of all rapprochements between the two countries , this friendly union for the benefit of mankind is one of the most interesting , one of the least empirical , one of the least depending upon parchments and secret compacts , one which must engage the respect even of those who are not partics to the alliance .
Another curious incident is the issue of a report by the tenant right deputation from the North of Ireland , explaining why the Government bills have been put off to next session , and certifying * JT VVSl'aVi- ^ Bi * ' * Patriotic conduct of Mr . Keogh , Mr . ^ - ¦¦ - ' . — - - ¦ ;^ " ^ picr , Sir John Young , and the present Govcrn-/ SI ' ' * ' . ] ' / ' ' x ^ wyMrt- The Irish have seldom had from amongst //¦'' ¦ ' : \ ¦¦ - ; . . . , , \ , \ iheftWlves a more plain and useful lesson to teach ¦ /'' . . '¦ ; ' i " ' /• jthcu-uth of public acts , or to show the benefit of k- v . ' ' «< H < V |> criitkm . As it . comes upon them at a time Y ' "'' . '\ x i Wtycn their harvest prospects are improving , when / ,.,,. , JP ^ g are rising ; when their Crystal Palace by iJUii :.. Ci ' i A its unparallellcd success—18 , 000 visiting on
Monday last—attests ike surpassing prosperity which Ireland is sharing with England , their hearts are fikely to be Opened to the lesson . They are indeed rapidly maiking up lee way in improved ments . Not long' hence , the electric telegraph witi be expanded ovfey the whole country '; it will noUfy to Cork and feelfast the Queen ' s arrival at Kingstown , whett she visits ine Crystal Palace ; by the 1 st of October it will unite every Irish city to London .
Our own Crystal Palace has been the scene of a fearful accident— -twelve working-mep , sacrificed to some unaccountable defect in the machinery for raising a part of the structure . The railway accidents continue , and the latest one may take its place in the class of these disasters to which we are habituated . Woman again figures conspicuously in the annals of the law . The working of Mr . Fitzroy ' s Act seems to have awakened a new attention to
the class of subjects . In some cases , however , justice can accommodate itself to particular views . Theresa Kenny , Kirwan ' s mistress , to whom he had given some property , has been dispossessed of that property in favour of the Crown , on the grounds of certain flaws not more considerable than might be found in innumerable title deeds upon which
families depend . Her accountof the mode m which she became possessed of the property was quite consistent with the known facts ; but the fact of her relations with the murderer appears likely to'be a reason why these flaws in her title swelled into a charge of fraud and perjury . The charge at all events is as yet unsustained by proof .
A case however infinitely more conspicuous and painful , is the case of the Hon . Caroline Norton in the County Court , as a witness against her husband , on the score of a debt owing by herself . Her story is as yet quite exparte . It would appear that , suspecting she had received some aid from Lord Melbourne , her husband has endeavoured to extort an admission of the fact by withholding the allowance which he had undertaken to make to her ; and it is on the strength of that abstention that she regarded him as liable for her debts . The
machinery of the case , however , is less important than its spirit . Nothing could be more distressing than the spectacle of a woman in Mrs . Norton ' s position forced to the publicity of a law tribunal , and appealing from ill-usage to the audience of a county court . That was painful ; but there was something infinitely more so in the spectacle of a man withholding means from his wife , -and pursuing her through the technicalities of law , on a charge which ought long since to have been laid at rest .
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THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT . 31 US 8 IA : MINISTERIAL STATEMENT . The expected Ministerial account of the present state of the Eastern quarrel was given on Tuesday afternoon by Lord John RitsheM .. Ho made some preliminary observations , thanking the House for its " forbearance" hitherto shown , and justifying , by precedents , the withholding of the documents of negotiations until the negotiations are concluded . He rapidly recounted the rise of the question touching the Holy Places , the consequent mission of Prince MenschikoiF relating thereto , the " slight" shown by Prince MensehikoH" to Fund Kflendi , tho inquisition of Colonel Rose for tho Malta ileet , tho change in the question by new demands , and the retirement of Prince Menaehikoil " on tho refusal of tho Sultan to accede- to those demands . He stated the then situation of both parties , and the concerted movement of the French and English fleets to . Itasika Bay . ' " Hiv , tho next step that wan taken by tho Rusflia ' n Govornment was a direction to tho army of Russia to occupy tho . Principalities , with a declaration at tho sumo timo that il ; w « h not to bo considered as n hostilo invasion of tho Principalities , or as an act ; of war , hut that it was
intnndori to occupy the Principalities as a material guarantee for peace , and as a moans of pressure upon t | u > Turkish Government , in order to obtain those moral securities for peace which tho " Russian Government had constantly sought by negotiation . It wan considered by tho English and French GnvorinnontN , as well as by tho Turkish Government , that in default , of any communication cither with Great Britain or Franco , ' it was desirable , seeing what grout intoroats wore at stake , to forego tho clear and
undoubted ri ^ ht ° ? Turkey to consider this proceeding aa a case of war , and to enter into further negotiations , by which the ends ^ oug ijit for might be attained . No actual hostilities , thereForei further than the occupation of those provinces by the Riissian forces , have hitherto taken place Sir , it was the opinion of her Majesty's Government that " whilst they placed the fleet of Great Britain in conjure ' tion with the fleet of France & t th 0 disposal of the ambaasadors of the two Powers in Constantinople ^ to be called lip to ConBt ^ nttnbple in case of emergency , it was at t he same time desirable to gather up the broken threads of the negotiations , and to attempt to arrive at some arrange , ment by which the . question might be settled . The diffo .
rent Powers considered of various means for its settle . ment ; but more especially the Minister for Forei gn Affairs of France—a person whose talents , moderation , and jud gment , it is i mpossible not to estimate highl y—drew up a note , which we considered omitted the objectionable part of the demands of Prince Menschikoff , and those parts of the Turkish note which the Russian Government might think inadmissible , and endeavoured to frame a note to which the two parties might agree . At this time , the Austrian Government had , as I have stated on a forme r occasion t o the House , declined the proposal—previousl y to this time , I should say , it had declined the proposal of her Majesty ' s Government to enter into any conference
on these important circumstances . But when the Russian Governmenthadoccup iedthePrincipalitieSjAustriachanged her view of the subject , and she declared that , in conformity with the spirit of the treaty of 1841 , it was absolutely necessary for the representatives of the various Powers meet in conference , and to endeavour to obtain some ami . cable solution of differences which might otherwise imperil the peace of Europe . The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria took the proposition of the French Government as the groundwork of the proposition which he made to the conference . I have already stated ; on a former occasion , that it was an Austrian proposition , but it came orimnall v from France . That proposition was submitted
for consideration about the 24 th July , and no doubt information was immediatel y conveyed to St . Petersburg of the intentions of the Austrian Government . Her Majesty ' s Government requested to see the note as it was proposed , with such modifications as the Austrian Government might think it necessary to introduce . That , of course , led to explanations and further communications ; and it was not till the 31 st—that is , a week after the first conferencethat the final conference was held , in which the form of the note was completely arranged and settled to the satis . faction of the representatives of the four Powers , and to the satisfaction of the Government of Turkey . The House has already heard , and that intelligence has been confirmed hy
subsequent information , that the Emperor of Russia has given his adhesion to the note of the four Powers , therefore , so far as that original cause of dissension is concerned , and so far as the Emperor of Russia had a demand to make , in that respect the Emperor of Russia no longer insists upon the exact form of Prince Menschikoff ' s note , which , according to some of the state papers that have been published , would appear to have been the case , but considers that his objects will bo attained and that his honour will be saved , if the note as thus prepared be agreed to by the Turkish Government . I have stated already that i t was
upon the 2 nd August that this note was sent to Constantinople . There has not been hitherto any communication from Constantinople with respect to the reception of that note ; but this I can state , that upon tho 23 rd of last month tho Turkish Ministers were prepared to scud to Vienna , and subsequently to St . Petersburg , a communication based upon tho former note in its mode of meeting tho demands of Russia , and in respect to whicli I think that , having agreed to tho former note , they would bind themselves to agree to the note which has met the assent of tho four Powers . Sir , supposing , what , however , is quite unsettled— supposing that note to bo finally agreed upon as
tho communication which shall bo made by Turkey , which will bo satisfactory to Russia , there will still remain tho evacuation of tho Principalities . ( Cries of 'Hear , hear . ' ) Sir , it is quito evident that no settlement can be satisfactory which does not include , or immediately lead to , the evacuation of those Principalities . ( Cheers . ) According to tho declarations which have been made by tho ge n 0 " ral commanding tho Russian forces—Prince GortsohttKOir , that ovacuation ought immediately to follow upon satisfaction being given to tho Emperor of Russia . 1 will oniv sav further , that it is an obicct which her Majestya to i
Government consider essential ; but with fesppet mode in which that object is to bo attained I must ask permission of Parliament to say nothing further upon 11 head , but to leave tho means of attaining tho end in hands of tho executive- Government . With rospect to " ^ question which has boon raised regarding tho flee England and Franco , that , of course , cannot bo mml 0 . Jj condition , because- wo ought to have it in our p owor times , supposing Turkey to bo in any danger , to sen Hoot to tho neighbourhood of tho Dardanelles , m orrt ^ ] # bo ready to assist Turkey in caso sho should bo attn ^ * r PI W-O'ftf ' j » IV » lvn fMITlill ^ f J > A » u / lf \ f J /' . u » ir « 11 » 1 ' » IT 1 ( r *» nlCnt " ' ..
it may bo stipulated that tho advance of tho / loots to neighbourhood of tho Dardanelles shall l > o conHl . . , equivalent to tho actual invasion of tho Turkish provi - j With respect to anything furthor , if these question * ^^ havo been settled , if pence is secured , Bosika ' , ^ 1 ycrnntation which would bo of any advantage to tho ^ ment either of England or of Franco . I , c "" ' ^ OJ thai , whilst I regret not to bo ablo to efato that Jlici' '' | ] Cr 0 thoflo transactions aro terminated , yot I do think in a ^ is now a fair prospect that , without involving ¦ ltjl , , J )( Oy , hostilities , tho independence and integrity ot ; ' j ^ y s which from tho beginning of tho session I | lftXr .: ( . flty '« stated to bo tho main object of tho policy of «»* iv » y ^ ^ Government in reference to tho affairs of the jl * H ' this secured , and that in no very long poriod . I ft " . jf . Mouse will fool—I know that this country icolH—* ^ that object can bo scoured by negotiation , w . " "" ^ sul * ing Europo in tho calamities of war , it wul v
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 20, 1853, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20081853/page/2/
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