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      stated that , although he atilLheld his former opinion * ifith regard to meeting the expenses of the war by taxation raised in tbe current year , and objected ; to toandj-yeijhejflras aware that doctrine must have its limits , and he was prepared to accede to a loan .. A discussion , followed of no great interest , aK&tlie resolutions trete . agreed , to . . The Hpusei ad « HjrnecL at . eleven tfclock . The House of Lords sat for a very short time , and nothing of . importance came ' before them .

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      DESPAfrtSH rbOMLOBD RAGLAN . The Gazette of yesterday evening contains the annexed despatch , from Lord Eaglan : — "Before Sevastopol , April 7 . " TJLx Lokd , —Some interchange of troops has taken place since I . addressed your Lordship on the 31 st ult . ' ^ Battalions and considerable convoys have entered the town , and other bodies of troops have been seen to leave the north side . The garrison has been constantly engaged in adding to the works , and particularly in connecting the rifle pits in the immediate front of our right attack ; and , as we have pushed forward , the fire upon our advance has occasioned more loss , I deeply regret to say , than we have sustained since the sortie of the 23 rd of March .

      " Lieutenant Bairibriage , of « ie Royal Engineers , was I lament to have to add , killed on the morning of the 4 th April , whilst in the execution of his duty , by the bursting of a shell . "He was a young officer of much promise , and though he had not long been here , he had acquired the esteem and good opinion of his brother officers , and his loss ia greatly deplored by all . " I inclose the return of casualties up to the 5 th inst . "I have , &c , " Baglan . " The LordPanmure , &c ., &c . "

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      HE WAR .- TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES Marseilles , April U 8 . The navigation of the Danube is now free . The Russians permit all ships to pass . Ships . are being taken up at Constantinople for cargoes of corn . There have been violent storms in the Black Sea . Six brigs , Turkish and Wallachian , have been wrecked even in the roadstead of Varna . Yienna , April 1 18 . The new instructions received from St Petersburg by Prince GortschakofFdo not admit of the acceptance of the Third Point as interpreted by the Allied Powers .

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      The Glasgow , screw-steamer , from Marseilles to the Crimea , has put into Zante , with 130 horses dead . No further particulars .

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      THE IMPERIAL VISIT TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE . The Emperor and Empress of the French , accompanied by her Majesty and Prince Albert , visited the Crystal Palaco yesterday . They reached the Palace about half-past twelve , and were received by the Directors . The holders of tickets for the day , and of season tickets , were excluded from the palaco while the Royal andlmperial party visited the building from end to end . A procession was formed , headed by tho Empress of the French with Prince Albert , the Queen with the Emperor , the French Ambassador , and the Countess "Walewska , and the Royal and Imperial suites , followed by tho chief officers of tho Crystal ' Palace . As each court was visited tho Chief of .

      that department was called forward and presented to the Emperor and Empress by the Queen . The attention of the Empress was naturally attracted by the Alhambra Court , so exquisitely reproduced by Mr . Owen Jones , and she expressed her pleasure with unaffected vivacity . A sort of allegorical construction in the transept had been erected in honour of the event , but it did not contribute very succoasfally to the decorations of the Palace , which was never seen to more advantage . Tho park was

      thronged by " guinea-ticket" visitors , who cheered vociferously when tho imperial and royal party of four appeared on tho balcony which had been specially erected by Sir Charles Fox to contain tlint sacred number . Tho Emperor and Empress , with tho Queen and Prince Albert , left tho Pqlaco on thoir return to town ' so « n after tlireo o ' clock , when the public were admitted ; Tlho Emperor and Princo Albert were dressed- * n bourgeois . The Queen looked remarkably well ; waditho Empress Eugeuio , exquisitely dro&Bod , won « U hearts hy her « raoe » aud her smiles .

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      During the Session of Parliament it is often ^ impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as > a guarantee of his goodfaith . Communications should always be legibly writtenv and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the ditn-© ulfcyoffinding-space fou them . . We oatinot undertake to returnrcjected communications .

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      THE RECEPTION . The Emperor of the French came to a country which the Times placards as the home of immoral ambition to receive the worship due to his success . That , worship has been enthusiastically paid . Court , aristocracy , statesmen , municipalities , literature , journalism , mobs have been , alike at his feet .

      His progress was one vast acclamation as he moved towards the temple of English aristocracy at Windsor to receive the order which was worn by " WELi-rN-GTON . He received it at the same moment that Cantii ,: lo : n- received hisr ~ E 5 ai ' In the midst of that - splendid triumph over morality and honour he may well have said in his heart " There is no

      God . " To the reception at "Windsor nothing was wanting but the blood of English peasants , which our aristocracy shed like water , and the millions which they wrung from the toil of peasant hands to put down Bonapartism in the person of Napoleon I ., and to restore legitimacy in the person of Louis XVIII . If the aristocrats and clergy of England would be JSTapoleonist with a clear honour and a good conscience , they must first make restitution . Then tliey may offer incense with clear hands at the altar of lawless

      ambition . But we must bo just to the mass of our people . They see in Louis Napoleon only the representative of ' . France and of the French alliance . To them , who read and reflect but little , the coup d ' etat is long past , and Cayenne far distant . [ From Franco they hear no murmur of discontent . They see in the Emperor the only Trench ruler who has had the sense , and perhaps the magnanimity ,

      firmly to grasp the hand of England , po long held out , bo often way wardly and jealously repulsed . Let French constitutional statesmen , who have traded in Anglophobia mark tho lesson , and moralise on tho past . Let nil Frenchmen mark that while a part of this homage is rendered by Tories to lawloss despotism , or by courtiers to power , by far tho greater part is rondercd by the English people to tho name aaid friendship of Franco . Let reason prolong that connexion , so

      precious to humanity , which the necessities of ambition have commenced . Let "Waterloo be fbrgotten > : the Bo-napaute who planne d the expedition to the Crkae % and extorted the barter ft > r himself ^ has « ufficien % avenged that day . One word on our journalists . "We do not wish , to waste indignation on the Times , which is generally excellent as a commercial speculation in opinion , though it wants aft in its transitions . But Europe must not think

      that it represents our morality , or even our endurance . The principles which , to cover its own conduct , it puts forth as national , are revolting to a nation not always true to reason , but always true to law and duty . And when , breaking through the silence which it might easily have preserved as an independent journal , leaving behind even the language of

      official compliment , it lays at the feet of a great criminal a sophistical justification for his crimes , written by the hand which once furiously denounced them , there is no English heart , however Bonapartist , which does not answer with disgust . Louis Napoleon has reason to scorn all mankind ; but even lie may feel especial scorn for the adulation of the Times .

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      WHAT OF AUSTRIA ? To all appearances , the Cabinet of Vienna hesitates to fulfil the responsibilities of tlie Western alliance against Russia . In fact Austria can scarcely be said to have concurred in the object for which the diplomatists of Great Britain and France contended at

      Vienna . While , therefore , the attitude of so great a power remains a matter of uncertainty , it is impossible to measure the future developments of the war , or to indicate in what direction it may next be carried . In the serious discussion of politics , however , proper weight must be allowed to the reasons which have induced our statesmen to make sacrifices

      in order to secure this alliance . Austria is a first-rate power , occupying a geographical position of the highest importance , and maintaining an army of five hundred thousand men . Such an empire will have its influence in peace or war ; it can . neither be . ignored nor despised . Consequently , the Allied Governments have , to some extent , been guided in their general policy by the necessities of their connexion with Austria , and

      they have thus , indubitably , lost time , opportunity , and reputation . But whatever course the ministers of Francis Joseph adopt , the result must seriously affect the . issue of the contest now in suspense . It has been agreed by statesmen to make this a political war , and not a conflict of principles . Bepresenting the political system of Europe , they could not determine otherwise . Therefore their policy was to

      harmonise the action of the several powers , so as to prevent new elements from coming upon the scene . Could Austria bo secured the plan might bo successful ; even her neutrality , if possible , would diminish tho perils of contingent revolution ; and it was perfectly fair for statesmen , avowing their hostility to such a change in the spirit ol tlio war , to exhaust precautions against it . tion ot

      But , on tho other hand , tho posi Austria is difficult . It must be admitted that her Governmont has n right to regard the ¦' importunities ' of France and England , as well as those of Eussia , from a selfish point of view , —and " selfish" in such a enso means " patriotic . ' While , therefore , the Ironch and English Governments have an important stake in tho war , Austria could not ontor upon it without hazarding her very existence . Wo , as a nation , know pretty well the extent of our . risk . She , on the contrary , would hoc incalculable forces-in motion , and commit ivoi

      The Imperial Visit To The Crystal Palace.

      TERMS OF 3 HBSCRIFTTOW TO " SF 3 >* SsaUet . " roraHalfrTear —v * ° » ° • ' fro he remitted in advance . iSSf Money Orders should be drawn upon the SMiANTJ BranchOifice , and be made payable to Mr . Axbbed E gIm ^ tSno . 7 , Wellington Street , Strand .

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      NOfclCESl'O CO ^ BESEONDENTS . EBJfcAZTTm in our last : —In the article : " The Imperial Visit , ? ' page 3 S 8 » , column 1 , an important typogrpahical omission destroyed the . sense of a passage . For " no ruler has died during ; a century , " read " no ruler has died tmdistnrbed during a century . "

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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 . —Dji . Arnold

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      V / V ^ i / f SATURDAY , APBIL 2 . 1 , 1855 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2087/page/14/