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     a military aggressor on the Conti- 
     
     nent she is comparatively powerless. And 
     
     in this, to our minds, consistf her great ad- 
     
     vantage. She has no business on the Con- 
     
     tinent; in Involving herself in Continental 
     
     disputes, she has every thing to lose, and 
     
     nothingito gain.—Powerful in her means 
     
     of naval offence, and invulnerable to attack. 
     
     Great Britain has need neither to court 
     
     nor to fear foreign! alliances, nor fo- 
     
     reign feuds. Should it be imperatively ne- 
     
     cessary for the national safety, or the na- 
     
     tional honor, that this country should en- 
     
     gage in war, there is no nation in Europe 
     
     that possesses more ample means of offence 
     
     against her neighbours, and of defence to 
     
     herself, than Great Britain. We depre- 
     
     cate war—we consider that if the conflict- 
     
     ing claims of two petty States of Europe, 
     
     for a citadel, should involve the continent 
     
     in war, it would be a foul disgrace to the 
     
     civilizedage we live in. But, if come it 
     
     must, Great Britain is still in a condition to 
     
     maintain the proud pre-eminence to which 
     
     she raised herself,when the whole ofEurope, 
     
     in slavish subservience to Napoleon, was 
     
     leagued against her. But. it is not by truck- 
     
     Iing, and‘by petty submissign that she can 
     
     escape it; a bold attitude, and an unequi- 
     
     vocal display. of determination, may pre- 
     
     serve peace-show of vaeillation, or of hesi- 
     
     tating weakness, assuredly, would not be 
     
     be the means of avoiding wan—London 
     
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     THE RUSSKAN GAME or Pomncs.—A 
     
     semi barbarous nation appears to foil and 
     
     more than counteract the diplomacy and 
     
     “icy, oi'France and England combined. 
     
    

    
     e ostensible and ultimate aim of Rus- 
     
     sia can no longer be disguised, can no lon- 
     
     ger be mistaken or misunderstood. Enve- 
     
     loped in schemes of low cunning, so con- 
     
     geneial to a bargarous mind. Russia bared 
     
    

    
     er arm to strike its victim at Navarino. 
     
     In violation to plighted faith, the blow was 
     
     followed up at the Balken Mountains, and 
     
     lastly, under the mask of frienship, it is in 
     
     siduously preying on the vitals of its victim 
     
     by introducing into the heart ofthe Otto- 
     
     man empire, its fleets and its armies. An 
     
     eminent writer, on the subject, makes the 
     
     following observation:— 
     
    

    
     “ The Ottoman government being super- 
     
     stious ignorant, and barbarous, is naturally 
     
     suspicious, timid. and easily deceived. The 
     
     Ottoman Government perceiving that the 
     
     conditions offered to the Viceroy of Egypt 
     
     by Admiral Rousin have been rejected, 
     
     has no longer any confidence in the French 
     
     Ambassador, or the Governor which he re- 
     
     presents. ‘The Ottoman government, being 
     
     in a state of debt and ruin, perceives with 
     
     horror the advance of Ibrahim in Carame- 
     
     nia, the occupation of Smyrna by Egyptian 
     
     - g—the anchoring of the Egyptian 
     
    
   
   
    
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     sels or the threats of Admiral Roussin. And 
     
     the Ottoman government, feeling that Mus- 
     
    
   
   
    
     selmen are themselves wearied both of ,the‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sultan and the Divan, and that an insur- 
     
     rection in the palace or in the streets may 
     
     each hour arrive, dares not take any ener- 
     
     getic measures of its own accord; but per- 
     
     ceiving that a Russian fleet is there—and 
     
     that no one else except belplesss and isola- 
     
     ted Ambassadors are really there to help it, 
     
     has thrown itself into the arms of Russia, 
     
     has pressed to its bosom its bitterest ene- 
     
     my—and, to escape from momentary dan- 
     
     ger, has secured the utter fall of the Turk- 
     
     ish empire!” 
     
    

    
     The English and French Governments 
     
     now perceiVe their mistake—now discover 
     
     the perfidy and duplicity of Russia, and all 
     
     is hustle and confusion; now they are ar- 
     
     ming—now they are preparing to dictate to 
     
     the wily savage, who has, in the meantime, 
     
     snugly ensconsed himselfwithin the citadels 
     
     and fortresses ofthe Porte. The Journals 
     
     of the day long since told Palmerston the 
     
     consequences, that are now inevitable; 
     
     while he, in the wisdom of official diploma- 
     
     cy, asserted that the affairs of the East 
     
     were settled. It was also urged by the 
     
     politicians of England and France, that 
     
     Russia should be categorically and distinct- 
     
     lyintorrogated as to her views respecting 
     
     Turkey. Neither Lord Palmerston nor the 
     
     Duke de Broglie thought the case an ur- 
     
     gemt one. Thus Turkey left without pro- 
     
     tection from either England or France, is 
     
     compelled, under existing circumstances, 
     
     to throw herselfinto the arms of her bit- 
     
     terest foe for protection, and to place ex- 
     
     clusive confidence in a Russian fleet, a Rus- 
     
     sian Admiral, a Russian Ambassador, and 
     
     in a Russian Government and Emperor. 
     
     And now at the eleventh hour, the enlighte- 
     
     ned statesmen of France and England would 
     
     give their heads and hands to have both 
     
     French and English fleets in the Bosphorus. 
     
     The great arbitrators seems at fault. Nor, 
     
     do we think the Grey administration, or 
     
     the ministers of Louis Philiippe, will act 
     
     with sufficient prouiptitude to save Tur- 
     
     key from ruin. It may not yet be too 
     
     late with a French Army and a British 
     
     Navy: let the proud flag of the Autocrat 
     
     be humbled—Let his army be halted, and 
     
     driven back within their own boundary, 
     
     and while the allies are on the business of 
     
     rectifying, let Greece be acknowledged; 
     
     let the injuries of Eygypt and Syria be re- 
     
     compensed for; let Poland, that land of the 
     
     brave, be regenerated and her wrongs be 
     
     redressed, let the autocrat be so humbled 
     
     and confined within his legitimate bounda- 
     
     ry as never more to hope beyond it. Then 
     
     shall England and France restore civil 
     
     right and liberty to the whole continents 
     
     of EurOpe anal ~\sia, and their deeds shall 
     
     emblazon a page In History, whose splen- 
     
     dor shall eclipse the brightest on universal 
     
     record. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
     The est Indian Question—The meetin 
     
     ommittee of the West India body 
     
     which was to have taken place on Satin-i. 
     
     day, for the purpose of receiving the mea— 
     
     sures of the government respecting the he- 
     
     gro emancipation, is postponed till Wed- 
     
     nesday. 
     
    

    
     A courier who arrived at Vienna on the 
     
     27th oprril from Constantinople, brought 
     
     intelligence of the conclusion of peace be- 
     
     tween Mehemet Ali and the Sultan, h 
     
     which the latter has ceded to Mehemet the 
     
     pachalicks of Damascus and Aleppo. 
     
    

    
     0’ .‘onnell’s Lelter.—-True bills of indict- 
     
     ment were found by the term grand jury, 
     
     on Thursday, against Richard Barrett, Esq. 
     
     proprietor of the Pilot, at the instance of 
     
     the Crown, for the publication of Mr. 
     
     O’Connell’s first letter to the people of Ire- 
     
     land, inserted in that J0urnal.—-Dublin 
     
     Warder. 
     
    

    
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     In the Lords, last night, the Bishop of 
     
     Bristol presented a petition against the 
     
     Irish Church Temporalities’ Bill, and hoped 
     
     the measure would not fail to experience 
     
     the most mature consideration of Parlia- 
     
     ment. 
     
    

    
     The Duke of Sussex presented a petition1 
     
     from the city of London, for the adoption 
     
     of poor laws in Ireland. His Royal High- 
     
     ness said that, as this important question 
     
     had been mooted elsewhere, he would not, 
     
     at present, make any observations that were 
     
     calculated to provoke discussion. The 
     
     Duke of Hamilton declared that some mea- 
     
     sure were requisite, as regarded the Irish 
     
     poor in Scotland. The Earl of Wicklow 
     
     admitted that there was cause ofcomplaint; 
     
     but still poor laws for Ireland would fail. 
     
    

    
     In the Commons, at the morning sitting, 
     
     Mr. Alderman Wood gave notice (for Sir 
     
     Samuel Whalley) ofanother motion for the 
     
     15th inst. for the repeal of the house and 
     
     window duties; and, in the evening,- Mr. 
     
     Tennyson intimated that he would take an 
     
     early opportunity of moving, as an amend- 
     
     ment, the repeal of the house and window 
     
     dufies ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     This being the day fixed for the West- 
     
     minster election, little time has been lost 
     
     by Sir John Ilobhouse and his friends in 
     
     reclaiming that seat which he so recentlyj 
     
     made a merit of sacrificing to a sense 0' 
     
     duty. Ifhe should be re-elected the wor- 
     
     thy Baronet will return to Parliament with 
     
     the conscious satisfaction of having, by an 
     
     ingenious contrivance, avoided the dis- 
     
     agreeable alternative of voting against Mi- 
     
     nisters on the question of the assessed tax- 
     
     es. while be disqualified himself (we must 
     
     call it a pledge) to his constituents, who 
     
     ought now to be well acquainted with the 
     
     immense advanta es which result from ha- 
     
     ving a patriot 'p'laceinaa as a Representa- 
     
     tive. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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