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 IX THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. •war-going Goverunient, and ]Mr Cobden and jIr chap. Bright being disqualified for useful debate by the 1_ nature of their opinions, no stand could be made. By these steps, then, the English people passed from a seeming approval of the doctrines of tlio Peace Party to a state of warlike ardour; and it ■was plain that, if the Queen should send down to the Houses of Parliament a message importing war, the lioyal appeal would be joyfully answered by an almost unanimous people.