INDICATION'S.

Wiles last we toueltial upon the question or the Eat, We eNpreSSed.

With 1.0rd PAI.N11•31ST4 (ICC:Ian:thin that no English igents 11..:1 been employ, cd to stir up the insurrection in 'We belieVe that no man of his Lordship's rank in English soelet v would directly say the tiling that was 110t—nialte

lilt it'iic,uI 'I' idull might expose him to a fiat contradiction. Some ugly circuit stance; lit ovever, have transpired since the date of the Foreign Secretary's negative of the charge of incendiary proceed- ings in :\ limit Lebanon. In the first place, Al r. 'Wow), Lord PossoNny's Secretary. who resided there for a long time some years ago, having. been °a:tensility despatched to collect information re- garding the state el' Mount Lebanon, is said ou landing to have avoided all communication with the Egyptian authorities, and to have thrown himself among the insurgent mountaineers. In the second place, before Ali. W000's arrival, the insurgents had been making representations to the Egyptian Governi»ent, through the medium of Emir Ilesein "—I. his family ; and the name of the Sultan had never been !petitioned in the dispute. Not long after Air. Wotan's arrival, the party of insurgents in the vicinity of Bey- ruth hoisted the rehl flag, and declared they were in arms to assert the sovereignty of the Sultan over the disc hedient Pasha of Egypt. Lastly., we read ill Thursday's aliToraing ler,adeta-

" It will he seen by our corresptoolent from Malta, that 5,1100 muslielS ill all, with :numunition and stores of various kInds, bave Leen received from the Go- vernment stores by :54.1111C of the ships of WM' Adliell haVe 'Sailed from tliat island

to the coast of Syria. 77ie des, not;oa of flu ill rosily conjectured." Lord PaemmisTox may be quite secure from a literal contradic- tion ; but if there is truth in the stiitements We IlaVe 110W referred to, he will thud it difficult to eltiar himself 11.0111 the charge of having tampered with the domestic concerns of an independeot state to an extent intolerable in any foreign government, and of having misled the British public by an assertion is hick isis true in words but false in meaning.

Again our readers have probably not yet forgotten the valorous declaration made by Sir Joux Hommesn at a City banquet, at a rather lob, h,,or iii th, (Telling, about great conquests by British arms whieh we might soon hear of They ids() remember the mag- nificent reveries about Oriental conquests, the overthrow of Tartar dynasties, and the restoration of the ,Icavs, with which the Globe not long ago thymic:A us under the It ,osely -worn cloak of " a cora- respondent." These dreams are now openly announced through the editorial column. The Globe of Thursday evening indulges its it comment upon .11. L.tmARTINE'S IleW plan of " preserving the ;llfr.:.4rily of the Ott :mum empire- by partitioning it into four proteeturates,—Constantinople and tic Black Sea under Russia, Egypt under England, the shores of the Adriatic under Austria, anal Syria under France. The Globe does not venture to :tpprove explicitly of this project ; but neither does it " Mean to sneer in-

discriminately at .11. nit illu;c4, after the fashion of some of our Parisian contemporaries." It adds- , e ccrtaittly too much imagination in thvin for practical guidance;

i dl, e o..,111 o wh,,h o•, coo !min insiyht nr; E0,/, r:, 4,1 i intaSozative 111,rhts of M. tie La-

• martin, leo', hien !it teast taken from nat ern grimml, and fimmled upon

LICA It) VI, Ile ITS is, it, 'la-ps. chiefly ill po:jurlinri his views IGO

• '1,'•,J c!.• pno.l.'1,!:ty if yf' ctimi,ort /,.// neeeS •

• ;/ i-ccl:/ le■iel. ,rdt from tic' c,cu'ie •• o' i•• ••• • prOCCC■IS-

• " i,I nubell only au Mijournment of the Ete,tern pies! iii that is attainable.

Vae:anil illtCre:t of aggrandisement involv,,I in that question. But she ■ •\•,.yi in opposing irrivolur 1:/' orvromris,inent oll the part of The indulge:ire of such vicws over any portion of these regions can 111Tlinir 111 V. scrmohie for the spoil of the Turkish empire. Eng- no wish fucuatit :-tudire ; twri.oh.ry Ito' intirrst, which S'i bieukioy-up :f the :Nydria as long as awl to open the peaceful Intcreourse of the East with the Western

t,,'■1."

SWF& light is thrown upon the rather vague phrase "as long as possht.,., bv flue concluding sentences attic Globe's remarks- .. :dela:met .‘ fl with all los atcilit.. is rt serw-harbarian tyrant : the addresses from Mount Letemon, whiell appeared exelniatvely in our columns or yester- his love for Hero—" Like the old tale, my Lord, it is not so, nor 'twas not so ; but indeed God forbid it should be so." The mean- ing is plain : it is the schoolboy joining in an orchard-robbery be- cause the apples must be stolen at any rate; or the Cornish parson, after adjuring his parishioners from the pulpit not to plunder a vessel which was drifting on their coast, contriving to get first to the church-door, exclaiming, " Well, if you will do it let us at least all start fair."

Our object at present is merely to direct attention to these indi- cations of' the animas of Ministers and their organs of' the press. Parliamentary neglect of duty allowed Lord PA i.nvitsroN to shuffle off for another year all explanations of Ministeri.11 policy. The unauthentieated and contradictory nature of the accounts of foreign affairs which are published, renders rational conjecture as to the future impossible. All that can he dime, under such circum- stances, is to watch carefully the sayings and doings of "Ministers and their mouthpieces. In those to which we have at present directed at there are indications of a visionary policy com- bined with dishonest equivocation. We Seeni to read the effusions of' some one who has engrafted Captain Crowe's power Of esti- mating the realities of life upon the morality of MAentAyin.i.i. It is hard to say whether the childishness or the dishonesty prepon- derates.