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Satttbbat , September 10 . « The situation is still thes $ me . " Europe waits , on the Emperor Nicholas . At Vienna arid at Constantinople , expectation is on tiptoe for his final reply . It gbould have reached Vienna to-day . The Vienna despatch of September 5 th says : — « The Russian Cabinet is not likely to object to any of these modifications , excepting the one referring to the treaties of Kainardji and Adrianople . To prevent further complications , the Austrian Government ,
supported by the Ambassadors of the Great Powers ^ has proposed the opening of direct negotiations on the points in dispute . These negotiations are to be conducted by the Count Nesselrode and the Ottoman Ambassador , who is to be sent to St . Petersburg . This proposal , it is thought , will be accepted by the litigant parties . The Russian Ambassador asserts that the evacuation of the Principalities will shortly commence , and that in any case the Russians will not pass the winter in those provinces . "
The Turkish preparations for war proceed , and the troops are still marching on Varna . " It is said that the Sultan has considered the representations of the Hospodars of the Danubian Principalities , inasmuch as he will confine himself to the protest he has made in support of his rights . He will not insist on the recall of the two Princes , and he has not pronounced against them a sentence of suspension . "
The Times of this morning resumes its old tone . Its " league , offensive / ' with Russia , is carried out by hearty abuse of the Emperor ' s foe : — " The policy of England and of the Great Powers of Europe with whom she has acted , and is acting , on this question , is not to lie governed by the turbulent passions of the Turkish Divan , nor are vfe to be plunged into difficulties of which we do not see the end , merely because the Ottoman army is eager for war on the banks of the Danube . "
Austria still rules her people with an iron rod . The Wiener Zeitung of the 6 th inst . contains a list of eight unfortunates condemned to two or three weeks' imprisonment , some with , some without irons , or beating with a stick , for offences which London policemen would have passed over without notice . Among the delinquents is a female—the wife of a journeyman combmaker , Mrs . Anna Schwarz . Mrs . Schwarz's offence is not specified , but her punishment is fourteen days' imprisonment in the House of Correction " in chains . "
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The cholera in Norway makes way . At Christiania the cholera seerhs neither to spare age , sex , or condition , nor is it confined to any one quarter of the city or suburbs . The number" of victims is not very numerous , but the disease is most severe , death ensuing after a few hours' illness . From the 25 th July to the 31 st August the total number attacked has been 393 ; deaths , 250 .
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The Queen stays quietly at Balmoral , her family circle increased by her mother , who has dined with her more than onco this week . The nnnual exhibition of the Bast Suffolk Agricultural Association took place on Thursday . At a dinner in the evening , Lord Stradbroko and Sir Pitzroy Kelly spoke—hinting a memory of Protection , but urging on the farmer a manly self-reliance and a dependence on tlioir own energies and skill . Lord St . Leonards and Sir E . Gooch was also present .
Wo understand that Lord Elphinstono has been appointed Governor of Bombay ; nnd Mr . Thomson , late governor of the North-west Provinces , has been appointed to tho Government of Madras . —Standard , Sept . 9 . Sergeant Murphy reiterates his charge against Mr . John Francis Maguire . " Mr . Mnguiro requested mo to wave the interference of Mr . Ilnytor , and authorized mo to unsure him that ho would not oppose tho Government . " This scorns to settle tho question .
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TURKEY DESERTED BY HER ALLIES . With the best disposition to regard the policy of our Ministers as the substitution of national for party objects ^ we cannot reconcile it with public virtue . While Prince MenzchikofF was in Turkey , calling on the Sultan to recognise the Russian Emperor as the protector of the Christian subjects of Turkey , and intriguing as well as negotiating to obtain a special recognition of the '" Orthodox Greek" Christians ; and while Lord Stratford de Redeliffe , supported by his colleagues at home , was sustaining Turkey in refusing acquiescence to Prince Menzchikoff ' s demands , the policy of this country was sufficiently intelligible . There have been long-continued negotiations ; Austria and Prussia have laid their heads together with the representatives of France and England , and an accession of heads ought to have introduced an accession of » wisdom into the council . But not knowing what happened in that conclave , the result only renders the position of our Ministry the more unintelligible . Precisely that thing which Lord Stratford de RedclifTe and M . de la Cour did support , the Sultan in refusing —recognition of tho Russian protectorate , or of any special claims of the Porte of the orthodox Greek ( that is Russian ) Christians in Turkey —• instead of being refused by tho Vienna note is positively conceded by that note , and the Sultan is asked to sign , by the Four Powers , that which France and Great Britain had advised him to
refuse . It cannot bo that English Ministers felt the support of tho country giving way under them . Nothing could be more distinct than their position at home in the former attitude of the affair . There was indeed at first something resembling a reluctance at tho idea of engaging in war , and wo heard much of the folly of entering into hostilities with this or that power for tho maintenance of a decrepid empire like that of Turkey ; but objections of this sort were only sufficient to test their own inability to obtain a hold of tho English
mind . Tho English public refused to admit as a proved fact tho total disorganization of tho Turkish empire . The English public supported thoopinion that thoillogal encroachment of Russia must bo resisted . Tho English public foil ; that tho law of Europe was at stake , and when English Ministers undertook tho responsible office of recommending Turkey to mako a stand on behalf of tho public law of Europe , —instead of animadversion—instead of mistrust at tho idea of going i , o war—there was a univornal declaration of confidence in M " misters who had taken a course so
deoisive , Who hud pledged tho country to tho support of justice , and who had at last shown their reliance on tin ? old npirit ; of the English people . If tho . 1 * 0 * 1150 parly came forward with its technical objections , iu tho person of Mr . Cobden , or any other stray member , it was only to declare tho conviction that tho principles entertained by that membor and that party were no unpopular that any attempt to put them to tho test of a voto in Parliament , <> i * alniOHt of a public meeting , would Imvo boon an . extravagant hazard to tho interests oi' tho party , and the ultimate interests
of the doctrine . Public support , therefore , was universally in favour of Ministers . The dogmatic objections of the Peace party did not venture to assert themselves . On the Continent of Europe ^ English influence wa 8 rising as it asserted itself in the cause of justice , and in the cause of its own . dignity . On English grounds , therefore , Sis well as on continental grounds , there was nothing to obstruct a triumphant course for Ministers .
They encountered no difficulties on the Continent . Austria , a Power which had at first refused to join the Conference ^ at last became so impressed with the hazard that would be brought on the whole continental system by admitting the pretensions of Russia to dictate to the other States , that she joined the Conference . Be it observed , that the nucleus of the Conference consisted of France and England , who had already laid down the basis of a policy sanctioned by justice and supported by the peoples of the two
States , which , when united , can . dictate to Europe . If any English Minister , had thoroughly appreciated the opportunity which he had for making the T ) ower of his country felt , recognised , and acknowledged , by every State in Europe , he would have known that at this point the English view might have been made to become the view of every power acceding to the alliance . Austria had no help for herself ; she must be Russian , or Turkish , or European . If Russian , she must risk whatever her opponents pleased to do in the
way of rousing against her Government her own people . If Turkish , she committed herself to a war with . Russia . If European , she was safe ; but then , if the English Minister had pleased , England , with France , might have dictated the policy of Europe , and Austria might have been English . Prussia had placed herself out of court , and there was nothing in the path of England , if it was not something called up by an English Minister . What , then , was it ?
When any man has entered upon a course which is just and laudable ; when he has received public approval ; when the course is open before him , and at every step he acquires new powers for his career ; when under such circumstances he stops , it is impossible to suppose that he could have intended from the first to accomplish that career , or that the obstacle which arrests him is
other than the motion of some insincerity in his own mind . The stopping of the English Ministers in an uninterrupted course , where triumph was before them , must be received at the present moment almost as a confession that from the first , when they were winning the popular applause , they were insincere ; in short , that they arc traitors to that triumph for which we were
applauding them by anticipation . Throughout tlie whole of these complicated negotiations , these disputes with other powerful States possessing immense arms and resources , there is one State that has remained stedfast to its principles and its word . That State is not llussia , which has the largest armies in Europe , and which invaded the territory of an ally under a false pretext , and promised to withdraw under a false assurance . Nor is it England , which piques itself upon its frankness , and has tho
power , not only by its arms , not only by its navy , but by its influence , to shako every Stato in Europe . Tho Stato romaining firm to itsolf is Turkey , whoso position is precarious , whoso armies arc uncertain , whose very oxistonco is a question . Turkey declared from the first that she would yield everything to justice , but would retain her national independence , and her sovereignty . She has strictly abided by her word . All that was duo to good faith with allies , to tolerance of alien religions ,
to equal justice for her subjects , l , o express stipulations even in favour of small sectarian pretensions in her remote provinces , ehe has fulfilled ; but her national independence she still sustains against threat of attacks by hor inveterate foe , of desertion by her still more powerful allies , of defection amongst her own subjects , of destruction to her whole empire . There havo destructionto her whole empire . IJiere liavo
, been times in the history of England when her governors and people have staked tho national honour in troubles us perplexing , have ndvuncod the national flag ' amidst dangers morp thicken * ing ; but it has been rosorved for our time to find Ministers who havo courage to abandon & hel p less ally , to forfeit ; tho national 'faith , and to leave another nation as tho Bole champion of independence and honour in tho circle of tUo nations . Would that Una melancholy aspect wero
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SeptembsSi 10 ; 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 875
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress .- —De . Abitolij .
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f SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 10 , 1853 .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . . ¦¦ „ . - ¦¦ No notice can be taken pf anonymous ebmjnunications . ¦ "Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by . tho . name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . ¦ . ' ' " VVe cannot undertake to Teturii rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 875, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2003/page/11/
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