Sir Charles Mice addressed his constituents on Tuesday at 'Chelsea,
and there was a perceptible reversion in it to the anti- Russian animus of a year ago. He was severe on anything like "foolish confidence in the Liberal sympathies of a Power absolutely autocratic, eaten up with pecuniary corruption, ;Iliac- • quainted with real liberty of conscience, and which had crushed the Poles under the present reign, with every circumstance of atrocity." Now we have never met with any one who confided much in the "Liberal sympathies" of Russia. But "Liberal sympathies" are hardly wanted, to render the lot of a Slavonic people more tolerable under a Slavonic empire than under a bar- barous Mahommedan caste ; and what we want Sir Charles Dilke to explain is this,—whether protection for honour, life, and pro- perty, without "Liberal sympathies," is not better than the in- -convertible paper of "Liberal sympathies "and nothing else, which is all that England, Austria, and France, on whom he relies, are disposed to give. Sir Charles Dilke is a little too much inclined to bark-back to the attitude of prejudice with which he first approached this questioe,—especially perhaps when the Russian military ability seems to flag.
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