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      only to be met and turned back by the vigorous armed interference of the "Western Powers , and he pressed on the House the necessity and the importance of leaving the mere quibbling on words in which they were now engaged , to unite in supporting those who were resolved to carry on the war with resolution and vigour . Sir F . Thesiger commented on what he said was the real question before the House , namely , the conduct of the negotiations , which had ended so unsatisfactorily , a result entirely owing to the unhappy choice of Lord John Russell as the negotiator . Mr . LiLoyd Davey and Mr . Bektinck having 6 poken ,

      Mr . Cardwell earnestly deprecated the tone of the Attorney-General ' s speech , and defended himself and his ex-colleagues from the attacks made on them . He objected to all the amendments except that of Sir F . Baring , contending that tlie others tended to fetter the Executive , while that of Sir F . Baring only gave the Crown a general assurance of support at this critical juncture . Mr . Walpole inveighed against the ambiguity in the language and the conduct of ministers , whose policy seemed to be always " drifting , " whether it was towards war or peace , and he called on them to

      declare the terms on which peace would be accepted , the object being the vindication of justice in the case of Turkey . He then examined the proceedings of the Vienna Conferences , and contended that the Russian proposal by which tlie Sultan was to be allowed to summon his allies into the Bosphorus when he was menaced by Russia , offered a solution of all difficulties , and should have been accepted . But as the negotiations were broken off , the question had assumed a new feature , and as regarded the present state of affairs all of the amendments were extravagant and unmeaning .

      Mr . Hobsman followed with a defence of the Government , but his speech was cut short by the impatience of the House . Mr . Disraeli then rose , and commenced by combating the notion which he had heard prevailed , that this was a dull and wearisome debate , declaring that it was one of the most important and best instanced of any he had heard since he had a seat in the House . He then proceeded to vindicate the course he took in bringing in his motion a fortnight ago , saj'ing that he did so on the ground that it was generally believed that the Government was on the point of concluding an inglorious and i gnominious peace . He then elaborately argued that the negotiations at Vienna had failed under the conduct of Lord John Russell .

      Lord Palmerston defended at length the conduct of the Government , and declared his intention of vigorously prosecuting the war . The amendments of Mr . Phili , imore and Mr . Lowe were first severally withdrawn . The motion of Sir F . Baring was then put . Mr . Walpole rose and declined that it was so desirable that on an occasion like this the House should be unanimous , that he should vote for Sir F .

      Baring ' s motion . Mr . Gladstone , said that though he agreed with the words of the motion , it was on different grounds to that on which it was proposed . He did not think the motion worthy of the occasion , but having only a choice of difficulties he felt compelled to vote for it . Sir F . Baring ' s motion was then agreed to without a division . The House adjourned at half-past two .

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      THE FLEET BEFORE CltONSTADT . Dantzic , Thursday . To-day her Majesty ' s ship Bulldog , Capt . Gordon , arrived with mails from the fleet . The British and French fleets were on the 4 th instant close to Cronstadt . The Russian ships were nearly all dismantled in harbour ; only three steamers were servieeahle . Admiral Suunders Dundas has been in the Merlin to get a nearer view of the fortifications and to satisfy himself as to the propriety of an attack ; it is said that ho thinks it impracticable . New works have been added since last year . Sixteen Russian merchantmen , most of them loaded with timber , have been captured and destroyed near Cronstadt , and others run ashore and burned .

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      THE CRIMEA .. Private despatches from the camp of the 4 th , transmitted by telegraph from Varnn , state that new rcconnoisanccs had been mado , and a further advanoo was expected .

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      Madrid , Juno G . Espartoro has gone to lay before the Queen the resignations of Mudoz , Lugan , Luzuriugo , Aguirrc , and Santa Cruz . Their supposed successors are Bruil , Martinez , Zabalu , Fucntrandrcs , and Huelvas .

      THE CAMP AT ALDEBSHOT . It is stated to be the intention of the Queen to visit the camp at Aldershot to-day , on which occasion her Majesty will inspect the four regiments already stationed there .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . W . R recommends middle-class administrative reformers to commence the change at home by voting honestly . He has no faith in the disinterestedness of the middle classes . G . A . P . thinks we do the counties scant justice in saying that the boroughs send all the good men we have to Parliament . We did not mean to be taken quite literally . But in the list which G . A-. P . has been so good as to draw up for us , the chief ones , those of the West Riding and Middlesex , are obviously exceptions which prove the rule . Mr . Sidney Herbert ' s seat for Wiltshire nas been precarious ever since he emancipated himself from the tyranny of class interests , and he will probably lose it next election . Sir Bulwer Lytton bought his seat for Hertfordshire by a disgraceful desertion of the cause which he had advocated in his more generous hour . Mr-Disraeli ( whom our correspondent does not mention ) bought his seat for Bucks by becoming the sycophant of the Most Noble the Duke of Buckingham , and basely betraying justice and the people to his aristocratic patrons . The state of the rotten county representation is , to our minds , the best answer to those who are disposed to regret the loss of the rotten boroughs on the ground that they afforded openings for men of talent .

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      THE WAR DEBATE . The result of the War Debate on our minds is this : we are now in the crisis of a campaign , and all considerations but that of victory are out of place . But the crisis will pass , and the nation must ask itself in earnest what are the real objects of the war . The Ceccuettt case cornea to show us , if anything was needed to show us , that we are not fighting for the liberty and civilisation of the world . Safe under tlie protection of our allies , Ultramontanism in Tuscany commits an act of the most outrageous religious tyranny before our face , and addresses to us the most insolent defiance . We leave the . Evangelical Alliance and the Bible Societies to their own

      reflections on this occasion . Let them consider what their Protestant chivalry is worth . It is enough for xis to note the light which this case throws on the European situation . " What , then , are we fighting for ? Is it to prevent Kussia from swallowing up all the great monarchies of Europe and attaining to universal empire ? The results of Alma and Inkermnn have pretty well dissipated this fear , which , in truth , yysxs always illusory . Those whoso imaginations are full of the old invasion of the Barbarians , confuse the

      migration of a horde with the extension of an empire . A horde may march without limit whore it finds no resistance . An empire cannot be indefinitely extended . Even with the help of railroads tho same sovereign could not reign long at St . Petersburg and Constantinople , much less at St . Petersburg and Paris . Kussia can only advance in tho East . Thero she has sympathies to aid her : in the West she has none . The Russian armies which conquered Hungary retreated immediately , though the country they had

      conquered was mainly Slavonic , and might therefore seem easier of absorption . We cannot annul the affinity between the Greek Churches of Byzantium and Moscow , nor the political consequences of that affinity . But the league of Greek priests is incomparably less formidable to us than the league of Roman priests , which in fact it serves to counterbalance . Whatever else we may be fighting for , there can be no doubt that we are fighting in the cause of the Pope .

      Suppose the Turkish dominion thrown off by the Greeks , with the aid of Russia . A Greek empire , not a Russian empire , would rise at Constantinople . The Greeks , we are told , are rogues . Perhaps so . Most slaves are . But they are not Ultramontanists . They are very commercial , and commerce , in the long run , is the parent of liberal ideas . The power

      of their priesthood over them even now is not great . The revival of their ancient tongue , or of the study of that tongue , must familiarise their educated classes with a great Republican literature . Brought within a fortnight or less of London and Paris by steam , they would be open to the full light and heat of Western civilisation . If Russia ,

      with her Protectorates and Hetseriae , had anything to do with the formation of such an empire , she would have to sing sic vos non vobis . As to the intrigues of Russia with the servile despots of Western Europe , they are infamous ; and there are two ways of abolishing them . The one is to destroy Russia . The other is to destroy the despots , and raise in their stead national governments too strong in public opinion to need support from without , and too patriotic to seek it . We are

      doing nothing towards this . We are attacking a despotism which is a social necessity to a half-barbaric people . We are strengthening despotisms which are a conspiracy against the free development of civilised nations . Europe is hurling itself against Cronstadt and Sebastopol , in order that the tyranny of Emperors and Popes may not be encroached on by Czars and Patriarchs . JSTAPOiiEON said that Europe must be either Republican or Cossack . Cossack or JSTapoleonist is much the same . Republican is another thing .

      The Russian despotism we say is a social necessity . It is the object of sincere , though slavish affection to the Tartar populations . It has organised an empire , repressed the Boyards , and diminished serfage . If it fell , Boyardism alone would profit by its fall . It has replaced nothing better ; it excludes nothing better ; and therefore in itself it is no wrong . Its crime and its folly is to be propagandist . The offence which it is now expiating in our eyes is the invasion of Hungary . This aggression at least will hardly be repeated . We commend this reflection to those of our

      Liberal friends who are inclined to sympathise with Russia , and who , wo admit , would otherwise have nothing to chooso between Mensohikojff and St . Aenaud . Then comes Lord John , with the destiny of nations in his hands , and tells us that men arc being killed nfc the rate of half a million per annum , because bobaatopol is a standing menace to Constantinop le In eighteen hours , shrieks Ins Lordship the gar-• ° r « ,. K ., uf « ,, nl mnv bo under the walla rison of Sobwtopol majr bo unc er " ««»

      . . of tho Turkish capital . Then let the links man tho walls . If they cannot , , t is becnuae they arc not a nation , and all the protocolhug about their independence and integrity area fatal hypocrisy , to which it is " ^ nd to think we are committed . As to standin- menaces" in tho abstract , if they are to ho a cause of war , why do not wo go and dismantle tho French fortresses , or lortity and occupy Brnasela ?

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      A tremendous conflagration took place on Friday morning 1 , about one o ' clock . a . m ., on the premises of Messrs . Brockelbank , tallow merchants and melters , Aldersgate-street , City . The flames spread with alarming swiftness , and were not got under until the tallow warehouses were destroyed , and several adjoining edifices were severely injured . The cause of the fire is unknown . No lives were lost .

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      SATURDAY , JUNE 9 , 1855 .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law o ( its creation in eternal progress . — Dk . Arnold

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 9, 1855, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2094/page/13/