The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1855, Page 2

‘Rewie’s; power in’ the Bisck Sea; and enly s few days Since the Russian autecrat declared that he would lose ‘Bie lavt man and his {ast penny sooner than give in. Is ‘he really alarmed at last when be finds that Austria will ‘eally act with the Westcrs Powers against him’ Or does ‘he only wish to gain time to concentrate his troops on ‘the Austrian frontier? His sigcerity is not believed ‘either here or at Paris. The London papers openly de- velare their disbelief, the Peris journals are silent, but ‘Beth countries are renewing their efforts to send out more men and ammunition to the Crimea. Se vis > Pacem para pellum seems to be their motto, and I be- Weve they are not wrong. Louis Napoleon has just sent out a detechmentof the Imperial Guard, and on ‘their departure from Paris, notwithstanding the an- @ouncement that the Czar was willing to negotiate for peace, you will see that his address upon the occasion is + ae warlike as ever. ‘There are many versions of what took place at Vienna im the conference of the 28th of December. The foliow- ‘amg version is, I believe, pretty correct:— In the conference ef the 28th of December, the repre- “Bentatives of the Powers who igned the treaty of the 2d ‘ebDnetmier chtee to an ‘ing uy the inter- pretation of the four guarantee points which had been ‘aid down im a note-drawn up by M. de Bourqueney, and yanicated to Priuce Gortschakoff. After listening . , Prince Gortachakoff asked Count Buol if the Austrian Cabinet accepted that interpretation. ‘In all »? replied the Minister, Prince Gortschakoff then sve to take a copy of it, to send it to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, “not having (he is said to have add- ed) the necessary instructions for such a case.” Two days afterwards, Prince Gortachakoff put in demands to provoke a ference, but he failed, aa the repre- sentatives of the Western Powers gave a formal refusal, ‘and declared that they would not enter into needless lers om the note in question, and thatall tt from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg wai “No.? Whether Prince Gortschakoif said this, or saia that, Mttle matters. He has received instructions to accept the four points as basis for negotiation, and wo shall probably again be plunged into a‘chaos of notes, proto- els and conventions. It is really to be hoped that Se- 4 Dastopel will be taken before February. ‘The coalition against Russia is becoming formidaliy. Sardinia has now joined the Western Powers. This bold aet on the part of the Italian State has led to a modifica- : tion of the Sardinian ministry. General Dabormida has resigned, and Count Cavour accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs. Sardinia ia a plucky little kingdom, and $e assuming a position in Europe not held by an Italian State since the fall of Venice, She will now have a voice im the affairs of Europe. She has taken, morever, just ew a bold step in another direction. Piedmont is over- wan with convents, monasteries, and other rehgious es- tablishments, the revenues of which are enormous, whilst the government is actually obliged in some pa- xishes to pay subventions to the poor clergy. A bill has ‘been brought in, in the Sardinian Parliament, to abolish the greater mumber of these establishments. This isa beld step for acountry which, not many years ago, was priest ridden, and it is not unlikely the Pope will anathe- matize the government. The discussion commenced on ‘the Oth inst, amd is looked forward to with great in. terest. Austria has called upon Prussia,.in virtue of an addi- tional article of the treaty of the 20th April, to mobilize, «4d eat., to put on a war footing the greater portion of her army. Prussia has declined to do so just yet, and the lesser kingdoms of Germany: have done likewise. A separate convention between Russia and Prussia is spoken of, but requires confirmation. Austria is arm- ing on en immense scale; so is Russia. Omer Pacha has landed at Eupatoria, and it is ex- ; peeted will do good service with his 40,000 Turks. A great battle is expected in the Crimea, The Duxe of Cambridge has arrived at Malta, and Prince Napoleon returns to France. ‘The Pacific which has arrived, brought the news of a proposal for Amorican mediation, and nearly all the Lonéon papers have leaders on the subject. The English Ministry is very shaky. They are ac- cused of want ofenergy. The Times attacks them as well as Lord Raglan. ‘this treaty with Sardinia may save them at the opening of the session, as the treaty with Austria raved them before Christmas. The fall of Sebastopol would be a God-send to them. The change, if it takes place, will lead to the withdrawal of Newcastle, Sidney Herbert, amd Gladstone Palmerston would come ‘m, probably Lord Panmure, and Lord John, who trims Bie sail toevery wind, would remain, Lord Joho has \ been, and is still at Paris. He hada private interview with Louis Nopoleon on Wednesday, and dined with him yesterday. The military glory of France and England fe too much at stake to allow them to withdraw from the zimea without taking Sebastopol. It would be tanta- ‘mount to more than a defeat for Louis Napoleon. ‘The Eng'irh authorities seem fond of getting into messes. 1' ¢ first sbip full of wounded soldiers from the Bast was aliowes to land her gallant, though sad freight, without any preparations having been made to receive them. Great indignation has been the consequence. AN this will tell against the ministry when Parliament meets. London is dull. We bave had no winter weather yet. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Jan, 8,.1855. Brother Jonathan and Mynheer at the Tuileries—Ameri- can Minister at the Hague, and “the American’? at Paris—Untidden Guests—Presentation of Americans at Court— What a Court Dress Costs—The ‘ Train’ of the Empress—A Monarch’s Household in Ante-Revolu- tionary Times—How the King Shaved the People and Row his Barber Shaved Him—Court Gossip—Nini- ‘Charpomania—Queen Pomaré-—The Nabob—The As- twachan—Lord John 2ussell—The Princess de Lieven, vde., de. At the opening of the Legislative Session the Ameri- am Minister was accompanied to the Tuileries by the Secretary of Legation, who had not been previously pro- awented to the Emperor. Indeed, it is not probable that the was presented then, for the order of the day scarcely s@mitted.of this minor ceremony. At all events, Mr. Patt taled on his court dress, and learned the way to the #taircase by which the diplomatic corps are privileged to ‘spproach the imperial presence, So he was not at a loss, when unexpectedly informed on the first of January that im the absence of Mr. Mason, on account of iliness, he -aoust again repair to the Tuileries. Nor, in spite of his swant of f ity with Court usages (and be it added to his credit, his plentiful lack of respect for them, ) did ‘he fool at any loss about where he was to stand; for ho Aistinetly remembered having heard the Minister apoak of always standing close to the Netherlands Minister on similar occasions. Now Mr. Piatt came to replace ‘Mr. Mason, for the nonce, aud must, therefore, he argued Jogically enough, stand where he stood. Taking good sim, therefore, at his Dutch Excellency, our worthy Seeretary, with a brace of attachés, Mr. Wilber aad Mr. Kirby, at bis hoels, made a bee line towards him, and valiantly took up his position, all unconscious of the stified wrath of the Hollander at having even a Westera Dudge, whom be knew as but a Secretary of Legation, or, fat the best an Charge 4’Affairs, thus irreverentially “tread on his corns and ministerial privileges. An attaché to.ane of the legations here, who is a bit of a wag, and Knows by experience something of the republican sim- plicity of our White House receptions at Washington, qesounts this incident with great glee, declaring that ‘nothing was fo ludicrous as the solemn assurance of the American Secretary, except the offended dignity of the Dutch Minister, who looked as impotently wrathful as if the devil, or Captain Gibson himself, were bearing down ‘pon bim ander full sail, The Emperor, however, did not 'takeapy offence; doubtless his Majesty was not sur- prised at Gnding the representatives of the Amorican Jegation near the head, instead of near the tail, of the @iplomatic line. As for Mynheer, he had to summon aly his patience, and, mindful of Dutch canals, to dam up the shuices of his wrath. Apropos of Dutchmen, T am reminded here of a recent ‘Raracteriatic correspondence between the Minister who bas been sent from the United States to the Hagae, (although, to be sure, that sinister iseather » Austrian than ® Dutchman,) and an ex-Consul f the United States at Stutgardt, well known for this scientific attainments and his long connection with The Patent Office at Washington, who has lately founded a journal, the ‘‘ American,” at Paris. A recent mtimber of this journal contained fall and interesting in- ormation relative to the approaching exhibition at Paris. Mr. James Swaim, Chairman of the Central Commit- tee of American Commissioners at Paris, caused several copies of it to be sent gratuitously to the various Ameri- oan Legations and Consulates throughout Earope, as well ae to certain addresses in the United States. Now, the received by Mr. Belmont unaccountably elicited him not precisely an outburst of patriotism upon ‘that an American j val been founded may do special good service to American in- uring the exbibition, but's disclaimer, to prvcpiant rough of any intention to nut aint He hastens to ‘ preseat his com- ) Bleiech: tions out of the contingent fund of his legation for am pe pers whatsoever—Austrian, Du rig nrg ie express rprise But he doubtless thinks that Mr. Belmont was somewhat over hasty in refusing to subscribe for the American before having beem asked te subscribe, and that he would extremely regret it if the title of the American had wounded the susceptibilities of the quondam Aus- trian Consul General. To return to the Tuileries, where I left Judge Piatt cheek by jow! with the Netherlands Minister. The Judge did not reappear there on the evening of the 24, when four score or more of American citizens and citize who had previously been presented at the Imperial Court, had ex; ‘to be received. But owing, perhaps, in part to the 46 of Side, Rasen, Wats resepncn Wee indefinitely tponed. ‘ag they were duly informed by notes from te rican Legat Nota few of these transatlantic republicans, (some of whom easily leave their republicanism om the other side of e At. lantic, while others ge to Court just as they would go to the Garden of Plants to see the hippopotamua, - elsewhere to see any other sight), were thus grievous! disappoiated. Several founda ey, had id too dearly tor a whistle that woulda’t blow, in spending from 60 to 2,500 francs for hiring or buying court suits and dresses, The ladies were particu vexed, inasmuch as the manteaue de cour are worn but twice a year—at New Years and on the 15th of August—and the same manteau de cour will not serve twize, unless economicall: ripped up and skilfully made up in another style. Five hun. dred dollars for a court dress that you can’t wear now, and perbaps won't be here next August to wear, no wonder Mrs. Potiphar was vexed, A few of her friends, with a real Yankee indisporition to lose their money’s worth, isted, 1am told, 4 gine where they had been informed poll ely enough 5 ‘that they were not invited to ceme. In ‘the absence of Mr, Mason and Mr. Piatt, there was of course no one to show them in, ex- cept one or two good-natured ushers, who charitabl, took it for granted that they had not duty received their potes of non invitation, after leaving them awkward = waiting in the antechamber for half an hour, showed em in, or rather up. Their ‘feelinks”” might be im- agined ‘as not having becn very delightful while tremblingly uncertain whether they would not be un- ceremoniously shown out. But uninvited guests of this cort cannot be suspected of having a keener sense of ridicule than of propriety. Seventy-one Americans ex, to be received at the next presentation. Meanwhile, the Secretary of Legation himeelf, with Mrs. Piatt and her sister, will doubtless be received at a special presentation, which had been fixed a previous to the unfortunate illness of the Minister. erwise the Secretary, presenting Fevent a triots, without having been presented himself, would offer a spectacle. not very alarming, indeed, to the peace of the work, but ufficiently anomalous tn the history of court etiquette. It would remind one of the sigu ofa vil'age tailor on which the “artist” had forgotten to paint the floor, and which thus represented the tailor and a customer he was measuring, one holding the other up, and both standing on nothing. At the reception on tho 2d instant, the ‘train’? of the Fmprees Eugenie was borne by two Princesses, tbe Prin- cess d’Essling and the Princess de Bassano. It is said that their imperial Majesties begin to find that the service of their respective households is too limited. To outsiders, at least, the list of their household officers seems already by no means short. It iv not, indeed, so long as that of “the king’s household,” euppressed on the 9th of May, 1789. Without transcribing I can give you an idea of its length by stating that the total amount of the annual a of the king’s houses. ld officers was 3,760,000 livres. The barber in ordi- Bary received 60,000: four other barbers recetveil 39,000 each. Thus the king’s beard alone cost the good French prov'e 180,000 livres a year. At that price, was it the in gor the prople that was shaved? 36,000 livres a year were shared by two porte-chaises d’affaires. The Dic- tionary of the Academy will inform you what a chavse Woffaires is, and the Duc de Saint Rimon’s account of M. de Vendome’s reception of the Bishop of Parma, and afterwards of Alberoni, a more complaisant envoy, will further enlighten you.’ Let us not agitate this matter. One of the ladies of honor of the Empress, Madame : Ferey, daughter of the late Marshal Bugeaud, and wife of General Ferey, now in the Crimea, who made two hundred representatives of the peuple get up in prison vans on the 24 of December, 1851, has resigned her place in the imperial housebold. Is the son-in-law of Bogeaud jealous of Gen. Canrobert? He has not, in- deed, been so richly rewarded for the concours devoue— the devoted aid which he rendered on the memorable 24, and which has caused even an obscure clerk in the Min- istry of the Interior to be crucified among those new members of the Legion of Honor whose names filled thi teen columns of the Moniteur at New Year’s. thanks to the cholera, the cross of the Legion of Honor found a legion of candidates this year, At the official ceremonies of New Year's, the Emperor appeared on one occasion, it is said, leaning on a cane. ¢ Was suffering from rheumatism. And so much fati- gued was he by those tedious ceremonies that he fairly took to bed for a dey or two after they were over. He was unable to give his usualfamily dinner. -Thia, ther fore, was undertaken by uncle Jerome, at the Pali oyal, A baker's dozen of Ronapartes, and a half dozen of Murats, were present, They drank the hoalth of the hero of the family, who, with his *‘sword of Egypt,” was absent—although not at Sebastopol. Poor Prince! He must learn that sometimes painful duty of the solcier— obedience. The Commander-in Chief positively refuses, for the sake of his heaith, to permit him to return to the Crimea, and on the other hand, the Emperor positively orders him, for the sake of hia health, to retura to France. £0, “between two stools,” as the Seoteh proverb sayx, he still tai at Constaptinople, But the doc tors bave deciled and formally announced that he 8 now afflicted, not with the diarrhea, but the gout, His cousin, the Emperor, suffers, as I have in- timated, from the rheumatism. Dampness is bad for the rheumatism, but there will probaly be sufficient time for th ter and paper to dry at Windsor Vasile, where. say the journals, great preparations are being made for the reception of their imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Fmpress of the French, and where they are expected ‘‘as soon as the Eastern war shall take a smere tavorable aspect.”? Before quitting the Palace of the Tuileries, where I bave lingered so much longer than usual to-day, I must complete my budget of important court gossip, by adding, on the. authority of one more familiar with imperial ante- chambers than Iam ambitious of being, that there is notruth in the rumor that his Majesty the Emperor, in moments of familiarity and tenderness, has been heard to call her be ne Empress, Nini. He often calls her by her name, Eugenie, but you may rest assured, if you are anxious about it, thay he has not boon heard to cail her Nini! Imay add.also that the Empress Eugenie, who is as charitable as she is lovely, cantiaues to set the example -of daily preparing lint for the wounued soldiers in the Fast. So that.charpomanic, or lint-mania, is now fashionable as thet other mania, Polechomanie, few-months ag? in Paris, and is now, perhaps in San Francisco, and at the Sandwich Islands: PP Queen Pamars, it is announced, is coming to Paris to see the Exhibition—herrelf ‘“‘one of the foremost sights she comes to see,” She is to land at Bordeaux, like the grest East Indian nabob, who lately pelted with capsthe staring Bordelaisians, who took it asa capital joke The pabob ls.now in Paria, enjeying the carnival. ‘The Aa, rachan, wi igh poin it. face and lon, black beard, has ee “ey . There.was pot room, perhaps, forthe mabob and hi Lard Palmerston’s visit to Paris is to be follow thas of Lord John hustell, who is expected to-day morrow. “One, at least, of the motiver of the visit of Lord John Russell is atlorded, unfortunately, by. the se- rious illness of bis nleoe, Mise Kitt, The Princess de Lieven, to whom, as the Egeria of M. Guisot, so much influence in the councils of Louis Philippe used to be ar has reosived permission trom the Czar to pass a short time at Paris on her way to Nice. The fact that this Princess, as well as the late Russian Minister to Paris, have renewed the leases of their respective hotels inthis capital, has occasioned & Variety of conjectures, expecially on the part of persons who “hope against hope” that & pacific solution may reauit from the fresh tions of which the astern auertion ia vow the subject. Their “bump of hope’? must be largely developed. FIGARO. Pants, Jan, 11, 1855. The Csar's Reported Acceptance of the Four Points a Bombshell amongst the French Politicians—General Incredulity with Regard to his Sincerity—Its Object— To Gain Time—Public Feeling in England against Anything Short of the Destruction of Sebastopol—Re- view of the Imperial Guard, and Speech of the Em- peror—Touching Emotion of the Empress upon the Occaston—The National Loan—The French Industrial Exhibition, dc. Perhaps the French capital since the actual breaking out of the war has never been in so great a ferment as at the present moment. The many-headed Cvar has delivered a shot whieh is felt to be a greater ‘poser’? than any which his very able artillery has yet fired. Every man is in a brown study; grave thinkers are rabbing their eyes as if suddenly pulled out of bed; every politician looks like a chess player, who at one sweep sees hin knight, his bishop and his castle carried away, and that by a Jess cunning head than his own. What can be the meaning of it all? The Czar has accepted the four points. | All recurities have shot up like an India rubber ball. | The four points, whieh we had better briefly repeat, comprite:— 1, The discontinuance of the Emperor of Russia’s exclusive protectorate of the Principalities. 2. The establishment of the free navigation of the Danube. 3. The revision of the treaty of the 13th of July, 1541. 4. The relinquishment by Kuasia of ite dlaims to pro- tect the Sultan’s subjects who profess the Greek faith. But since these have been laid down France and Eng- | land have declared that the revision of the treaty of Kutehak-Kainardji must be ‘in the sense of a limitation | of the power of Russia in the Black Sea,’? and this ient- | ation ds the core of the apple, without which all the rest ia a pitcher of water with a hole in the bottom. I have made it my duty, as your correspondent, to take particular pains in order to ascertain whether there were any solid grounds for the peculiar excitement which the Crar’s reported acceptance of such important con- ditions had given rise to. [have for the last three nights attended four ministerial soirees, among others, that of M.Drouyn de Hays, Minister of Forreign Affairs, and Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War. That the Emperor of Russia has desired his Minister to enter into negotiations on the basis of the four points does not admit of a doubt, but that he has done so with any view to bona fide peace, I And is believed among ali persens whose opinions are entitled to respect, to admit of w great deal; and I bave come te the conclusion that though thie proceeding, on his part—rudden ani ‘most unforseen aa it isp—may, for the moment, resemble oug- ip | the inert action of @ straw which ® roguinh schoolboy et meee has thrown across the pathway of a colony of ants working and toiling in their peculiar vocation, and may temporarily distract and puzzle them, tne labor will be as strenuously prosecuted as ever. First Of alf, it is remarked it is necessary to ascertain what is the precise sense given to these propositions which Russis accepts. Those which regard the exclusive protectorate of Turkish subjects who are Christians, and the free ravigation of the Danube, Russia has some time ago expressed her willingness to accede to; but there can be no real limitation of the naval power of Russia in the Black Sea, without the destruction of her great naval fortress—that fortress which she has gallantly held thus far against three nations who have brought to bear on it all the wealth, wit, enterprise, valor and endurance they cam summon to their aid. Such @ sacrifice she would never bear of; but time, im the meanwhile, is to her of the last importance. Negotiations will not stop actaal hostili- ties, it is true; but notwithstanding all that Austria has done, and the lengths she has already gono—the Legion of Honor in her button bole and a regiment of her braves thrown at the feet of Napoleon the Third, so much pre- vious vacillation is not without encouragement for the Czar. Prussia, it is observed, ia playing the same game, and with her apparent halting between two opinions, is all the while greatly serving the cause of the Autocrat, Time, time, time, is the Czar’s object throughout; it is the very nature of coalitions to dissolve before it, and it # argued that spite of the hullabaloo that is made, the ¥wperor of Russia in looking back on the past, evideat- y unprepared as in some degree he was, has nothing to be ashamed of. Yes, he has done enough for his honor, say some persons, he hss manfully defied the armien of the most powerful coalition the world ever saw, he has not ceded an inch, and if he laid down his arms to-mer- row he will have left an impression on Europe which will make it for a century become chary of repeating the experiment of 1854. ‘es, but al 8 supposes a usipossidelis—a mu- tual tetention of what each party has obtained ; it is clear that the allion have mot yet got Sebas: topol, and though we hear of great things comin off of a canconade that is to shiver. that, formi able fortress to atoms—of an array of guns, Minie rifles, Lancasters and gigantic thirteen inch mortars, that wake us dread whether we shan’t ourselves be blown from our chair as we write—yet, it cunnot be denied, we have heard exactly the same tale before, and the besieged. if so they may be called, may be #0 often thrashed @hat they will learn the art of doing the same thing 1 Ives. For these and other reasons, which it would be tres- passing too much upon your columns to repeat, I have no hesitation in saying, that whatever speculations ths detour cf the Czar may give rise to, the opinions of men who have great opportunities of forming a sound judg- ment is dead against its affecting the main questioa, that ia, stopping the war, That there may be a party in the English ministry who will be disposed to think evovgh has been done—that in pushing Russia to ex- tremities France is only being unduly strengthened—I ¢o not fora moment doubt, but in the present excited state of England, the constituencies would tear the House of Commons to pieces rather than listen to any terms short of the destruction of Bebastopol. |The free and full discussions of the press have fully ealightened them cn the seope and object of the war; the manses even of the intelligent class know littlewf France, and since the peace, have » secret opinion that the priconer of St. Helena was a very ill-used individual, aud are heart and soul for success of hia present re- presentative, ‘That representative, too, {s well informed of all this, and fully intends to make use of it. He has not thrown himself into an alliance with a nation that was formerly the unceasing and bitter enemy of his dy- nasty, to throw it up or let Russia divide it with him for such a bagatelle as these “four points; and it may be safely premised that till a great many changes have taken place in the map of Europe, he, for hia part, has no intention of recalling those legions to whom every day he ix more and. more endearing himself. His care of the trvope in the Crimea, his attention nut only to necessa- ries but to the little luxuries of home, contrasted na it 1s by the senseless conduct of the English government to- wares their soldiery, is winning him golden opinions, the fruit of which is daily manitest in the increasing warmth of his reception in public. Femarking the dead silence which pervaded the hosts of guzers, as, about to inaugurate a new empire, he rode at the head of a magtificent military cavalcade through the Boulevards on hir return from Strasburg, he saad, “Ab, it was always 80; but ] will make them speak loud exough before I have done,” and certainly there are growing symptoms of this foresight. He mever moves in the Champa Elyseés—those Champs Elyseés that we have again and again seen him traverse curity to the English in their Indian way? Teach our grandmother to suck eggs! So far from the proba- ity of peace, the beginning of the end is only just de- veloping itself. y, accompanied by his minister of ee one is, majesty reviewed in front of the my Oo! 1c grab pam ist and poe of grena- ‘r8, from the lst and 2d regiments of vo! us alt battalion of foot chasseurs,.and two batteries of horse artillery. The Emperor went into the centre and de- livered one of those addresses which delight the French people, snd in which it mast be confessed, he has attained ‘a singular fel city. 1 was myself within earshot of him when his address was delivered, and marked the countenances of these noble looking soldiers as they listened, and it was im- possible to doubt that the true chord was touched io their hearts when it audibly vibrated to the long exalt- ing and enthusiastic acclammation of rive I’ Hmpereur ! But the zeally touching part was to come, when the Em- eror, having alighted from his horse and delivered with ‘is own hand the colors to the two colonels commanding the Grenadiers and Voltigeurs, was joined by the Km- prers, mbo. from the balcony of the Pavilion de 1"Horloge, -had been intently watching the eoremony. Leaning upon her busband’s arm, this beautifal, bat, alns, fra- r woman moved from rank to rank among 8e men, armed to the teeth, and bearded like the . In a few “mar they were to be on the high #eas on their road to that grim fortress where #0 many bad gone before in the of life, the fush of man- ood, and the pomp of war, and where so few were alive to return once more to their homes amene thoughts were evidently uppermost in that bosom, for as Napokon ever and aoon addresed a hind word to this ‘or that roldier, and she herself made some sympathetic inquiry, teare ‘gushed to her eyes avd rolled u down those cheeks where the lily outvies the faintly tS spectacle and the toroag of sere without such a spectacle, @ throng of ir at the iron ballustrade, were electrified By wceaten sbout beginning at the left flank of the assembled troops and taken up by the centre, right and rear, till the ground seemed to tremble with the chalareuse vibration. As by magic, the cause was soon known, and the many thou- sands outeide caught the infection, and vive U’ Impera- trice resounded througbout the Place du Carousal till the Emperor was again and again obliged to bow ‘hia nc- knowledgments. The porte is not a eeycorge she bas none of the cunning wiles of courts which t beau- tiul daughter of » West Indian planter knew better, more wisely, and more gracefully how to play than any crowned head that had ever been born in the purple; but she 18 afterall true woman, and her honest and good heart may serve Napoleon the Third as well as more in- triguing qualities. But all this does not look very much like peace and the four points. In fact, up to to-day, the Moniteur has not w'dbs watignal losalle-eogrom national progressing raj and, as I stated in a former letter, the fear of Beptak en italiste obtaining too large a slice of it, keeps the would bani ticipators pe on the qui vive. That in Eng! it uld be ats premium of more than two per cent has given the most lively satisfaction to all connected with the court here, and nothing that has happened mace the revival of the empire bas caused so much confidence in the existing state of things. The ‘ will it last?’ is answered by an een pa meetion as far as Napo- leon himeelf is concerned, but there is # spell upon bim who stands nearcst the throne, which foreshadows the fate ef Richard Cromwell. It is observed that success in not a leaf which can be found among his laurels, whether as Prince of the biountain, as High Ambassador and Plenipotentiary at the court of Macrid, ax gallant cava- ler among the festal throng, or soldier commanding the armies whose eagles bis great ancestor carried to the confines of ‘nc lene Napoleon Bonaparte has been found wanting; and now, stricken by fever, and trem- bl with ue, this broad shouldered youth who rolled into a bed of roses without hav- ing pricked bin fingers, is busy wending his homeward steps toturn his sword into a distaff. is, perbaps, fortunate for him that the It Dake of Cambridge is obliged to do the same, but he, at all events, has perilled life and limb in very unmistakable manner. Letters from 8 evident that, at in are full of uneasiness, and it is ragossa Vallad t discontent aa far as the government is concerned, 8 the heavier portion still ‘sppointment is in proportion to the previous con: lation. The depu seem determined to hold t! ters up to a bona fi i counts, and there prevails a astro udice against permit "f, Queen Isabella to have rte on the laws which the Cortes may pase. All one cannot help comparing the present state of Spain to that of France, w ngaged with ita Constituent As- sembly about a constitution which no soul alive believed would be worth the it is written on, when passed, The opera of “Il Trovatore,’’ with its artistes, MMes, Freesolini and Borghe Mamo, and MM. Baucarde, Graziani ana Gassier, has lost nothing of its pristege, and continues to fill the house from parterre to ceiling. We have at length beautiful weather, after one of the wettest and dirtiest winters ever remembered. It is to be ne that at Sebastotol they are faring as well; though what is sauce for the reoee ls also for the gander. ‘The Kussians have likewise roads over which ions and yb dea be peared oud though we don’t much about it, doubtless © mud has not bee the aide of the allies. Lord John Russell is here, and has been twice closeted wee ae oe than two hours. He w nota great favory is Majesty's, and no very important results are looked for from these interviews. The Commission of the Exhibition, to which public at- tention in becoming daily more attracted, haa decreed that the works of foreign artista, which cannot be re- ceived after the 15th of March, must be thus ¢ “M. le Comminsaire General cl doled te | Rxporition Universelle des Beaux Arts, Avenue Mon- ae ty galeeamee from the frontier { Paris and back at the expense of the Freneh TME WAR. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. ‘The following is the latest official document published by the British government :— ‘To mas GRAS ES AVES oF MaweLneie, pat cn ze a) and to-day it iv 5 The Y days ‘above mi tioned have, Rete, ren- da dered the communication more difficult, and mat in the 8d and 4th di- portion of the warm clothing has been Erateful'to er Mojesty's goverment for having provid: ra "8 ment for st for them what conduces So ensentially to their com- fort. I have the honer to transmit returns of the casual. ties between the lith and 16th. RAGLAN. Dec. 23, 1854, Brrors Sxvastoro! My Lorp Duxe—A great deal of rain has fallen in the last forty-eight hours, and the weather has again become ver, inclement. The only occurrence in the sage operations bas Doon 8 sortie made by the enemy on both our right and left attack during the tof the 2uth, the one being conducted il , the other withdrums beating aud shoutiag, the first being probably the real object of the advance, as nearer to tbe Inkerman neighis. ‘Owing to the extreme darkness of the night, the enemy were enubled to come very near the rightattack without being ived, and, having made a sudden rush upon the moet forward liel, t2ey compelled the men oc- cupying it to withdraw until reinforced by a party under Major Welstord, of the 07th Regiment, when it waa Te. gained possession of, and the Russians retired, not, how- ever, without occasioning some Joss in kill, wounded and missing, Lieut, Byron, of the Sth Regiment, being among ‘the latter. On the left attack the enemy were met with great of the 38th regiment, gallantry by Lieutenant Gordon, who, wi supported by the covering of th trenches, under Lieutenant Col. Waddy, of the 60th regi- ‘ment, succeeded in at once driving them back. Buthere, ioe, Eregeat to pen the Jone was still more severe; Major ller, of the 60 iment, fell rorially menncen, and Tam concerned to ia since dead, and tain Framp- ton and Lieutenant Clarke, beth of the 60th regiment, missing. Sir Richard ‘England speaks in high terms the gallantry and vigilance of the:e troops, and of the distinguished conduct of Lieutenant Col. Waddy. er enclose the return of casualties to the 20th in- jusive. Two regiments of French cavalry, under Gen, de Allon- ville, made @ reconpoisance on the 20th, towards the round recently occupied by the enemy in front ef Ba- fiitava, while tne 42d regiment, detachment of the Ritls Brigade, under Col. Cameron, 42d regiment, and a batta- lon of Zouaves, made a corresponding movement on the extreme right. ‘The latter saw only a picket of Cossacks, whieh retired upon their approach; the former exchanged shota with the enemy, and ascertained that they had scarcely any troops on the Jeft bank of the Tchernaya. . RAGLAN, Brvore SenasTorot, Dec. 26, 1854. My Lorp Duxm—I have nothing to report to your (Grace to-day. ‘The rain which prevailed on Saturday was succeeded by snow on Sunday, and it was almost the worst day I ever saw. At night it froze, ami the frost has continued ever since, without being severe, but it has notas yet tended to dry the ground, still in a lamentable state. Every effort is making, that the state of the roads will permit, to bring up ammunition and the materiale of and Gen, Cansobert is in this respect aiord- ing us-every possible agsistance. ve pails keeps up a beavy fire upon our trenches, 'suernttavef at night, and your Grace will regret to see yy the returns which I enclose that we daily sustain some casualties. RAGLAN. Brrors SxnasToror, Dec. 30, 1854. My Lorp Dvxr—Since I wrote to yoar Grace on the 26th the weather has been somewhat more propitious, but the state of the ground is hardly more satisfactory. The 18th regiment bas arrived, and I have likewise honor to inform you that we are daily receiving vast sup- plies of ammunition, warm clothing, and huts fer the army. The utmost efforts will be made to disembark all those stores, but the difficulty of effecting this de- sirable object is very great, owing to the limited extent of the harbor, ite crowded state, and the uarrow en- trance to the town and want of space on the beach; the rocks on the north side rising directly out of the water, and there being consequently no accommoda tion but on one side. The Russians continue to with- raw from the valley of the Tehernaya, whilst they bave constructed defensive works on the heights abo which would imply difficulty of maintaining their troops in the field. A reconnoisance was sent out this morning by General Canrobert towards tbe river, in co- operation with a portion of Major General Sir Colin Campbell’s 4th, on the extreme right of Balatlava, the result of which is not yet known. Tenclore a list of casualties from the 25th to the 28th. Ibave, &c. RAGLAN. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. Later accounts sre from rsh 9 md sources. Dxc. 20,—On the night of the the sortie (alread: a A telegraph) was made against the Brit Un' sepopile Portion of the 50th regiment of ttack was at first directed, were surprise, and were obliged to fly to the nearest Lattery for protection, which opened upon the advancing Russians with shot, shell and rockets. All the camp was called to arms, and French opened a cross fire on the Rassians, who were obliged to retire with con- siderable lors. The allied loss was about thirty killed. Dre. 22--Correszondence from the camp at Ba- la¥inva mentions that many of the stores and luxuries raised by subscription in England had arrived, and proved exceedingly acceptable. Most of the army was wutted, chiefly in apartments dug in the peso and roofed in with tent poles and canvass. Our Jettera de- scribe all sorts of changes in the weather—bitter cold followed by comparative heat, occasional “sunshine in the morning, ending usually in hail, and finally in heavy raios, Dre. 30.—The railway from Balaklava to the camp ia to be commenced at once. Sickness was on the increase, Under this date Prince Menschikoff writes that nothing important has taken place before Sebastopol. The fire of the allies was very feeble, and caused scarce- ly any damage. JAN, 2.—A despatch from §t. Peteraburg, of date the 10th, bas beem received fr ‘rince Measchikoff, dated Eebastopol, Ji “Nothing new has oc- curred. We continue to annoy enemy by night sor- ties. In one of these we made ten Zouaves iis The garrison are constructing a bridge of boats, which nect the city of Sebastopol with the forts on the report in Paris, on the 12th that Sebasto- pol had fallen, but it did not oe general belief. ‘the French’ army befor 1 will form two corps, under Generals Pelissier and uet. The first ute the siege, and the second is to act in the Gen. Carrobert will exercise the chief com- mand an heretofore. Turkish guns, horses and men are daily landed at Eupatoria, but advices of the Ist inst. say that the force would not be available for the field for a week or ten days to come. A date has been #o often fixed for the assault on Be- bast that it is Lay wearcely worthy of mention that the 6th or 6th January is considered day when the attack will certainly be made. A telegraphic line is now in operation between Vienna and ‘arest, and will soon be to Varna, and ique, of Lyons, thence by submarine to the A corr dent of the Salut Publ writing wi date of Dec, 23, states that since the twore- cent attacks the French have completed immense works, which will couble their means of action. The French batteries, which were only eleven in number, are now tripped and armed with guns of heavy calibre, a from France or lended from the fleet, line of i is nearly three leagues in extent. One hundred and sixty French guns were ready to open fre, and onl; waited until the English batteries should be completed. As the batteries of Sebastopol mount 460 pieces on the land side, it would seem that the allied 220 = gui capnot silence them without an as- sault. garrison had, for three weeks past, been constructing additional works of defence between the flag staff and quarantine bastions. Menschikoff has re- tired with the main body of his army between the right bank of the Tchernaya, the road of the Peninsula and the Balbeck, he endeavors to make good his position, and his communications with Sebastopol, b; covering hia army by immense defensive works erec along the banks of the Tchernays. His force at the present moment does not seem to exceed 60,000 men. As already stated, Gen Lipranai’s division, which threaten- ed Balaklava, bas joined the main body of the Russian army; but he has left from 6,000 to 6,000 men in the mountain passes from the Tchernaya to the hills before Balaklava. bry ome these troops is to watch the movements of the allies; the; separated by the plain of Balaklava from the allied line of circumvallation and from Gen. rep tot division. In addition to the “at works directed againet the city, the allied armies ave constructed strong defensive works on various points. Balaklava, is covered by many redoubts to pre vent attack. On the allied extreme left the ,tregches have been pushed to the far end of the Quarantine ‘Bat- uns of the fort. so as to insure direct ith the sea. Such is the ensemble of works of attack and defence, and the general dispo- sitions of the allied armies. Odessa letters of the 24th December, mention that for vome days there had been a dearth of supplies in Sebas- topol. governments of France and England announce officially that the blockade of the Danube and ports of the Black fea and Sea of Azof, will be resumed on the firat of February. ‘A general order har been issued, though Lord signllying the Queen’s approbation of the conduct troops at the battle of Inkermann, and announcing that a medal will be issued to all officers and soldiers who bave Ls aod In the Crimea. a ple, Provisions are becoming very scarce at Constantinople, from the immense requirements of the armies, An or- lan, the ized force ot polies, French and English, is don luty in Constan' ab consequence of repeat uar- rela and sennssina’ that have recently ocew has been another tempest in the k Sem, I~ ing some disasters. Two ships of the British fleet saf- fered damage, One account of the circumstance calls it an “ordinary ¢torm.”’ Omer Pacha embarked on the Ist for Balaklava, with a view to concert movements with the commanders-in- ebief of the allied armies, Omer has taken effective means to bring a force of 50,000 men Serine into the Crimes. Ten thousand Turks have la Colonel Dieu, the sn Rustem Pacha. He would return in eight or ten days. VEMENTS OF THE, sus ele Peet as the latest news from the Rus. sian army in the Crimea, says that Gen. Menschikoff, menaced at once by the bulk of the the force at Fopatoria, EF spied that important resolution, the Emperor thought Sy could mol, second tp. th cmiie part Totten than be? gam 4) communicate it to his allies, the Courts of 9 and London, in order to obtain a frank and fair solution of the four pointe, thus recognized as an indis- pensable preliminary to the re-establishment of general P These communications resulted ia the conference held He was to make known to the Russian Minister the inter- tion given by the three Courts of Paris, London and ‘enna to the four conditions laid down in the note of the 8th of August, and to place in his hands a copy of the protocol or memorandum eont ing this interpreta- tion, In reality, it was more especially to determine the sense and of the second und third conditions that ex; ‘tions were necesrary. The second condition dec! that the navigation of the Danube should be {reo from all hindrance, and subjected to > od Spplication of principles established by the acts of of Vienna. ‘The third declared the treaty of the 13th of July, 1841, should be revised in concert by the con- fracting Parsee witha Arogy Ad a ere feesnes ot nd nce of Euro) ‘ad of July, known as the Bera ‘Treaty,’ renews the old closing of the Black Sea, By its stipulations, entrance into the Black Sea is forbidden to vessels of war of all nations. The effect was that the naval forces of Turkey and Rus- sia could alone navigate that whilst the navy of Russia was not allowed to pass from thence into the Mediterranean. As far as regarded the free navigation of the mouths of the Danube, the protocol of the 28th of Desember pro- posed the formation cf a mixed commission appointed by the five courts, the powers and duties of which could be arranged in the course of the ne; ‘tions. As regarded vhe revision of the treaty of 1841, with a view to the maintenance of the balance of Europe, Nb ae stated that balance to have been disturbed by the pro- ponderance obtained by Russia, not only by the treaty of 1841, but also by many former treaties; all these treaties we be avnulled. ie ould be free, but the naval strength to be maintained or pro- vided for there by each Power would be determined en a prinerple of equality that would form s bass for future stipulations. The protocol of the 28th of December stated, also, that there was no intention of assailing the integrity of the Kussian empire, or of depriving it of auy province whatever, But the three Powers signing it re- served to them the right of profiting from what- ever advantages might from the existing war, wmbenever it was necessary to settle definitively the strength and extent of the naval and military establish- ments ‘hereafter to be allowed to Rusaia on the coasts of the Black 3ea. ‘The first of the four conditions of the note of the relates to the protectorate exercised by Russia over the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Servia, This protectorate was to cease. The lan- guage of the note of the 8th August was so precise that the portocol of the 28th December added nothing on that point. But the was explicit on the fourth point. This had for its object the final abolition of the special right of protectorate per ar at claimed by Russia ip favor of those subjects of the Sultan pro- fessing the Greek religion. all the treaties appealed to by Russia in support of this claim were to be annulled. For the exclusive protection of Russia, there was to be substituted the joint protection of the five Powers, who would engage to respect the rights of the Ottoman Porte, and to use their protectorate with the utmost delicacy, so as neither to alarm its susceptibility nor aveaken its independence. The portocol then recited the reeent decrees of the Sultan, whose sincerity was be- ond doubt. The signing Powers gusranteed the main- mance of these decrees, #0 favorable to the whole.of the Christian communities, and their impartial application. ihe meg. the protocol was followed by a warm discursion, which produced a clearer explanation of the advantages reserved as possibly to be derived from the actual results of the war prior to the signing of prelimi- naries, It would not, therefore, be impossible that the demolition of the fortress of Ismail, on the Danube, might be required, and the construction in its place of ® veutral fortress, the property of the five Powers, and under the guardianship of a mixed garrison. Possibly, also, there might be required the destruction of Sebas- topol, with the demolition of its forts and arsenals; and their rebuilding might be forever forbidden, as would also the establishment of any maval or military station that could threaten the independence of Turkey. This proviso was energetically opposed by Prince Gortach- off, who declared that he no power to accept auch conditions, He added that he would immodiately trans- mit the protocol or memorandum to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and request the orders of his sovereign. ‘The next day Prince Gortschakoff again had an inter- view with Count Buo), and showed himeelt disposed to accept a new version of the third condition, as to the porsible consequences of the war, not essentially differ- img txem that proposed to him on the previous evening. Count Buol, however, stood firm to the old rendering, apnoune ng that the reply would have to be plainly and simply in the negative or affirmative. But on the evening of the 6th instant Prince Gortscha- hoff received from the Emperor Nicholas an order to ac- cept the protocol of the 26th without reserve, as a basis for peaceful negotiations On the morning of the 7th, M. Buol was informed of this rasolve of the Court of St. Petersburg. which was immediately communicated to the representatives of France and Great Britain, who met together in the evening. The Russian minis‘er was present at this meeting. Other conferences have taken ed bee ‘the 7th cmeyr fect ad we ng ny rly ded legraphic despatches from Vienna, the Turkish am- Dassador has been invited to take part in them. We contine ourselves, here, to @ simple narrative of facts. ‘The fieldis open to wide conjecture, but at the a critical conjuncture of the negotiations it is ubtless wisest to wait the course of events. [From Vienna Letter, Jan. 7, in Independance Belge.] Permit me to rectify one or'two assertions, entirely et- roneous, that have been reriously made by some jour- nals. Times, amongst others, for instance, pretend. ed to say that on the 28:h of December, Prince ‘tcha- koff was not present at the conference held in the apart. ments of ‘Westmoreland, but that he was with the Belgian Ambaseador, Count ‘O'Sullivan de Grass, who lives in the same mansion occu by the English representative, and that Count, Buol. took’ to him’ the uestions and answers put or given by the ote tives of the allied Powers deliberating in Lord Westmore land’s room. Not to spesk of the singular part that our Minister of Foreign Adairs is mows {9 sey! this scene, one must have but a very sorry idea o! dignity felt by srepresentative of the Emperor Nic! to admit that he could up his mind to listen at doors. c the am! lives in the same building with the Befen ambassador, and by this innocent chance they want to prove that Princé Gortchahoff did not really take in the the co rence, and that be was not in partments of Earl of Westmoreland, bot in t! the Count 0’8ul- livan, What was the of this invention, and what R e did it serve? IT can’t say; but what I doknow is, that the assertion of the 7imes’ correspondent is false from beginning to end. It was the representatives of the allied Powers who in- yited Prince Gortchakolf to a conference that was to be held at the bouse of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where Lord Westmoreland, being indisposed, was to have deen represented by the First Secretary of the Embasay; whereupon Prince hak-M, ‘without hesitation, p-o- posed at this interview thould take plaee at the English mbassy, ® proposition most readily embraced by Lord Westmoreland. During this conference, which was rather a confiden- tial exchange of thoughts on either side, Prince Gorts- chakeff had communicated to him a kind of protocol, contaiming the interpretation given by the allied powers to the four guarastees, Nevertheless, this instrument wan viewed, as] told you at the time, not as an officia) one, but merely as a memento. It was immediately after thin sitting, and not st second conference, as certain parties have pretended, that Prince Gortschako replied in writing to the interpretation of the Powers by his counter-observations. ing invited to refer them to St. Petersburg within a given period, Prince Gortacha- koff replied that he could not accept the ultimatum, but that the minimum of the time requisite for the convey- ance of an anewer from St. Petersburg wae generally a fortnight and this period of time was conceded to him. Thave judged this rectification to be so much the more necessary, inasmuch as at that conference the form is pot devcid of a certain ciplomatic and political import- ance. Since I am dealing with fables, a word or two about a piece of news borrowed by La Presse (of Paris) from the Spener Garette, which dethrones the Hospodar Stirbey, on account o lections. There is not aayliable of truth in the state- ment THE CZAR’S ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOUR POINTS. [Brom the Paris Copstitutionnel, Jan hi On the 28th of December the interpretation of the four gesrestens such as they are understood at present by Austria, was read non-officially, rmation, to the Russian Ambas- y Count de Buol. Prince Gortehakoff took co- pious notes of the document thus communicated, but not handed to bint, He asked for and ebtained a fort- night to write to his government on the subject. It was clearly understood that on January 14 he was to declare by a “yen” ora ‘no’ whether Russia accepted or re- fused ‘the four guarantees, with their interpretation. No discussion was to be admitted on that interpretation, and in case of refusal on oo of Russia, the alliance of Austria with the Western Powers was to become offen- sive from the 14th ef January. Gortehakof, whilst transmitting ‘o his government the conditions of the Powers, declared them to be unreasonable. A week « that es them immediately. band that the f pe ‘tion given anteos ald ‘liffer ph ont ceremony | is Russian predi- | for ike TDEY CumPis ute awe -y 0) | -ance aniof her allies, a great moral success. It is an enormous. step to have bri tbs Buussla to accept substance these four guaran in which M. de Nesselrode had be- held the destruction of her power and the ruin of her honer. But the question which occupies every mind at. present isto know if we are nearer To that juesti man and he Fission ce'be elncere, if We declarations of hi sux. @arsador do not conceal any dupilelty, ifthe negociations ‘int vias Se ibiette the fa big tone per: iri’ sue 7 - ba dat Vienna, But is there not some anare in pul . The per- with the measures taken by Russia wince the signature of the treaty of Dec, 2, and the ote of @ contest with Aus will under- stand of what importance would be the delay of a month at presert to the Czar, It may be remembered that the concentration of the Austrian forces in serpents the Russian troops in s0 false a position 1! the or Nicholas was obliged to make up his mind to evacuate the Principalities. Russia now seeks to renier Austria what she has done to her. In order not to be taken in the rear by the large forces which Russia has aspembled in Poland, on the Pilics, and the Uj Vis- tula, the Austrian army has extended its le ond measure, and it was found necessary to create in the reatest haste the entrenched camps of Cracow and mberg, in order to protect Gallicis. With the impe- rial guard concentrated at Warsaw, the corps of Siewers , Paniutine, and the reserves which are in Livonia ‘ and Courland, Russia can, in fact, in a few days, throw 150,000 men into Gallicia on the road to Vienna, The great Vg now is to prevent the Austrian army which occupies the Principslities, and the centre of which is in Transylvania, from giving assistance to Gallicia, whilst leaving some divisions to hold firm against the Russian corps which guard Bessarabia and the basiks of the Pruth. Since December 2, Russia has been making every exertion to form, without stripping the Danube, » new army to menace the Up er Dniester, and the head- quarters of which are at Kiew. These two armies, the paged of Foland, intended to be marched from the north to the south, and the army of Podolia, intended to be marched from the east to the west, and which would so: place between two fires the Austrian army, are to be } er under the command of Prince Paskiewitach. jeneral Heas would be obliged to provide against both at the same time, anda battle gained or a march con- cealed would open to one of the two Russian armies the road to Vienna. What Russia wants in order to be able to strike this grand blow is to re assembled in Podolia rons who are acquainted sufficient forces; she has so completely stripped her army of the ibe to defend Se and Odessa, she has as yet been able to collect around Kiew not more thai men. She requires from 120,000 to , 150,000 to act efficiently. Did she hope, by nding to negotiate, to gain time fer the troops which are on their march from all sides to arrive in Podolia? It is for better informed persons to ray. ATTITUDE OF PRUSSIA. [From the London Times, Jan. 13.) We have as yet no reason to attach credit to the state- ment, which some of our cotemporaries have borrowed from the Vienna press, that Prussia has signified her ad- nesion to the treaty of the 2d of December, and resumed without further difficulty her former relations with the otber great Powers. No authentic intelligence to this ¢f- Sect has yet reached London, and the report to which we allude probably @ Russian source. If Prussia now ‘fees fe proceeded from the alliance of the three Powers it would be to the object of that agreement, and, if her voice were gain admitted to the European confer- ence, she would figure there ooly as the accomplice of Russia, The events of the last few days have, on the contrery, rendered the position of Prussia more perplex - ing and ancmalous than ever, and must convince even the Court of Berlin of the results of the policy it has hitherto pursued, After having sacrificed ever; to the hope of setting on foot a fresh negotiation for peace, the King of Prussia finds not only that » negotiation has been begun to which be is nota party, butthatevem Rus- sia has signified her assent to propositions which Prussia. has vot yet adopted. Prussia, having declined to join the treaty of the 2d December, is no party to ite or to the verbal note of the three other it Powers kg ia determi . eerie nine te f ‘ruse ‘ws a ol with the requis thousaai men military observation, or even to compl; sition of Austria to array one bund: upon ber eastern frontier, in obediesce to the military convention of the 20th of April, is not entitle’ to he con- sidered as a party to there transactions. She has thus entirely forsei r locus standi for the purposes of diplomacy or of war; and if, in the event of these nego- tiations ansuming a more serio vi the voice of Prussia be altogether at the disposal of the enemy, and only used to counteract the measures of the other courts. the conference would obviously Itis perhaps fortunate for us that Prussia has thus fee i! eet from A poepeospormr since gonad at whatever influence sl ve possessed wou! have been used inrt us. At the of Vienna in 1815 it wae mainly by the defection of Prussia that the Fmperor Alexander succeeded in arse om ea ag: the wishes of France, Austria and Great Bri tain; and we are not surprised to learn that Russia at tached so much importance to this partnership that ah ropored to the King to make his admission to the con- ference @ preliminary condition. The King hewev- , jufficient indepen tence of character to decline the nominee of Russia that position which he once filled asa great European Power. The result is, that Rustiais dealing single handed with the allied Courts, and that Prussia is altogether left eut of the ge, She has, in fact, entirely lost the confidence of other Powers, id, if her interest im the t questions now a Rong is so remote that she can tate refuge ina aelfish neutrality, she has no claim to be heard in a cause for which she has not made the test sacrifice. uch might be the result if the future condition of the Turkish empire and the definition of maritime in the Black Sea were the only matters under 5 But the present state of affairs has already rise to results upon the continent of Europe affect the whole condition of Germany, and may produce the most important consequences 46 Prussia: Bueh is more especially Fi an event 4 of the present generation, but winch renesy one of {ie Mont important ‘poltal,tomblaations o¢ the Nay realizes which bas frequently been entertained by the restent ptatesmen of ba these countries. Tor the forty years Austria and Prussia have belonged to ong and the same political system; t! acted in the Germanic Glateseiation®, they ‘sleered steadly to the com which been sealed by the battle of Leipsic; and, though differ- ences have sometimes arisen them, they have been settled by the tu itration of The vowel ot 1845 and 1849 to Rear co! their great Northern ally. rude shock forth the reprobation of all Europe. But this deviation of Prussia was in some degree accounted for by the revo- lutionary movement of the time, and it was severely ex- pistea by the check applied to {t both by Austria. an asin. The Easter juestion of 1864 has proved still more fatal to the Ni alliance. Rai hitherto been the moderating power, now the ageresror; the interests of Germany are not only severed fiom, but oppored to, those of her northern neighbor; the principles for which the Western Powers take up arms against Russia command and obtain the entire concurrence of Austria; and before the end of the year the Cabinet of Vienna formes an alliance with France, in which neither Ror any other portion of Germany is at incladed. The consequence of tifis important change in the general re. lations of Europe is that the two ing States of Ger- many are directing their policy in opposite direction: that the efforts which have been made with sincerity in the course of the last te secure the union of Germany have failed; and while the con- nretion with France is rapidly extending inf over the South, including Austria, Bavaria and Baden, the North of Germany will be reduced to the alternative of total isolation or @ Russian alliance. It is by the ressure of that alternative that the dominaat in Bevin hope svenspalig ¢ reduce the ccuntry te sul to the nouns, fe 7 and b; * jons of jealousy against Austria at it France. From the od} ‘more or less conjuncture by the men who surround the King to bind him more closely to Russian interests, although at this very moment aa eminent Prus sian diplomatict has beép sent to London -xplain the King’s intentions in a « We own sympathies and opimioas are known to be 3 re Mba pn. nee oe reas not anticipate a ‘sent year would pass it th Prursion army toenter upon sctive . de} it of the Tantees of peace. We do not dispute that blind instrument, and that it must o! command < sees it pete at it is impossibjae comment with non such @ eo which seems to denote that the heir peenaepeen cote the systematic intrigues He could « have inves acter of # mediator, but ieolated as the Cear of ae cap within z may be ex; via, after