The Press. — London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

1166 CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : My proposals will be a combina tion of both. HOME SECRETARY : Ah ! you will propose a loan in a speech which will be a tax upon patience. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : The air of St. Cloud is epigram matic, apparently. HOME SECRETARY : Yes ; it is very different from the air of St. Ste phen's, especially on budget nights. Well, tax or loan, once more ? Have you made up your mind ? Are you going to toss up for it ? That's the best way. Head, a tax—woman, a loan ! PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROL: Very ungallant, indeed, to let woman be alone. (Sir Charles Wood is abruptly extruded from the room). Lord CHANCELLOR (solemnly): I am far from certain that the course which the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home Department sug gests does not partake, or at all events savour, of the nature of gambling ; and with that uncertainty upon my mind I do not think that I ought to countenance the process. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER; I will let you all know at Christ mas what I mean to do. Meantime the more practical question is, how we are to get over the intermediate time ? Rely upon it that, even if the Opposition do not force matters to a crisis, you will all have plenty of work in the way of answering questions and objections. The PREMIER : I should'nt wonder. The SECRETARY at WAR • I have duly announced our course. " Reserve as to the past, silence as to the future." HOME SECRETARY : Capital, if practicable. But criminals who refused to plead used to be pressed to death. .. TERMS OF roe Ebe Vrecso: Per Annum .. • • • • .. £1 6 0 Half-Yearly .. .. .. .. 013 0 Quarterly .. .. .. .. 0 8 8 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a Remit tance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALTIISD PIE, 110, Strand, London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. Wo cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Cymmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If loug it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. ♦dvertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by remittance or a reference for payment in town. THE AUSTRIAN TREATY. Various reports, evidently originating in mere guess work, have been published respecting the tenor of the treaty just concluded between Austria and the two Western powers. A summary of its provi sions, purported to be derived from authentic sources, was, however, sent to the Chronicle by its Paris cor respondent yesterday to the following effect : The treaty commences by repeating and recording the declarations and the principal acts of the Conference of Vienna, as well as the declarations and engagements con tained in the notes exchanged on the Bth of August, 1854, between the high contracting parties. It maintains the four points of guarantee as the neces sary basis of peace, at the same time that it reserves and recognises to each of the powers the faculty of extend ing them by additional conditions. Austria binds herself to France and England, as she had already done to Turkey by the treaty of the 14th of June, 1854, to occupy the principalities for the purpose of repulsing the Russian troops if they attempted to re-enter them. ----- Austria proclaims the right, as justly belonging to Turkey and to the allies, of making all the movements which may suit them for the purpose of attacking either the Russian troops or the Russian territory. 7, - E1 consequence of her attitude in the principalities, or for any other cause, Austria should find herself at war with Russ ia, the alliance, offensive and defensive, between her, France, and England shall be established by the fact of the war. • lf, before the end of the present year, 1854, Russit should not have made propositions which are considered acceptible, and which ensure good and durable peace, the three powers will advise as to the means of obtaining that peace. The three high contracting powers bind themselves not to accept any proposition for the re-establishment of peace without having deliberated upon it in common. A telegraphic despatch received yesterday in Paris from Berlin announces that the new treaty between Austria and the Western powers bad been sent there, and, at a council held on the 6th by the King and his Ministers, the adhesion of Prussia to the treaty was determined on. This produced great surprise amongst the Russian party. The public has received this change most favourably, and the funds have risen greatly. The treaty is very shortly to be published. A note, addressed by Count Nesselrode to the Russian linister at Berlin about a month ago, has just been published, in which the Russian Cabinet signifies its consent to take part in negotiations for peace upon the basis of the four points, modified to suit the views of the Court of St. Petersburg. About ten days later, and after the result of the battle of Inkermann was known by the Czar, the Austrian Minister at St. Petersburg was informed that the Russian Government was disposed to accept the four points without these modifications. In both cases it is evident that the real object of the Russian Cabi net in making these declarations was to obtain from Germany " a neutrality supported with firmness and perseverance ;" but in both cases the manoeuvre seems to have failed, for even Prussia WWI not restrained from concluding the additional article to her treaty with Austria, and Austria proceeded without further delay to complete her treaty with the Western powers. It is evident, therefore, that the German States themselves regarded this qualified, Ytx 21t)roixi+ LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854. POSTSCRIPT. THE NEW AUSTRIAN TREATY. TIM terms of the treaty signed at Vienna on Satur day last are expected with impatierme, but may pro bly prove of less moment than is anticipated. On the oth of November Count NESSELRODE addressed a despatch to the Prussian Minister, expressly de claring that the Emperor, his master, was disposed, for the sake of preserving concord among the Ger man Powers, to enter into any negotiation for peace for which the four points previously laid down by the Western Powers, in conjunction with Austria, might serve as " a point of departure." Ten days later, it is stated that the Austrian Minister at St. Peters burg was informed that the Russian Government was disposed to accept the four points without modi. fications. As the result of these overtures, the re presentatives of the Three Powers at Vienna might feel called on to define the sense in which the four points were to be understood. Such definition might form the substance of a supplementary treaty, and might probably express conditions which Russia would refuse to accede to. Should the new tree prove to be of the purport here conjectured, it would have no other practical consequence than to render the prospect of ac( distant than before. with Russia more Tlit PRESS. SATURDAY, The PREMIER : Confound the press, whether spelt with a big P or a little one. FIRST LORD : Palmerston is troublesome. I never impute motives, but I cannot forget that the militia debate must, in great measure, be taken in hand by him. I don't say ho wants to evade his work, but— HOME SECRETARY : But you mean it. Thanks, St. lago. I can afford to say to you that I mean nothing of the kind; but that, as I see an impending storm, which will come down like the very deuce, it seems only friendly to recommend you all to have your umbrellas. Please yourselves. As for the militia question (laughs) it is rather— a—a—an awkward subject among us. Eh, Lord President? PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (with temper): I did not revive it, but Graham loses no opportunity of showing that graceful tact which makes him so dear to his friends. FOREIGN SECRETARY : I want to know one thing. Does Aberdeen go out before Christmas, or after. The PREMIER (sulkily): Not before. Ido not recommend further question on that subject. HOME SECRETARY (mischievously): The question is a good deal discussed in public places—as at the Horns, and elsewhere. As mere matter of taste, I am given to understand that people would much prefer the thing being done before Christmas ; but still they are reasonable, and if it is very soon after, why, it is a season of forgive ness, and—and — The PREMIER (fiercely): As Christmas has not come yet, and there are some things we do not forgive except when compelled, give me leave to tell you, my Lord Palmerston, that — (General interference, and, subsequently, rather hasty dispersion of the Council.) adoption of the four articles as an insincere or in sufficient concession, intended merely to disarm and divide them, without any substantial compliance with the just demands of the belligerent powers. THE WAR. The accounts from Paris speak of another division which is to be added to the army in the Crimea. It is to be formed principally of troops from Africa, and to be placed under the command of General Brunet. The army at Lyons is to be reconstituted, and is to consist of three divisions of infantry and one of cavalry. The troops are to winter in camp at Satory, under the orders of Marshal Castellene, after which they are to be prepared at a moment's notice to leave France for the purpose of taking part in the next campaign. The Patric states that there is reason to hopo that the Henri Quatre, which was driven ashore by the tempest of the 14th, will-be floated off again. The following despatch has arrived from Bucha rest, under date Dec. 6, but has not been confirmed by any other communication : Forty thousand Turks and 1(X) guns will be embarked at Baltschick and at Varna next week, for the Crimea. One regiment remains at Bucharest. Danisk Bey replaces Mushar Pacha as commandant of the town. Mushar Pacha superintends the embarkation. Omer Pacha will leave in a few days. I The Czar has ordered two more battalions to be I added to the regiments of the Finland army. lie has also ordered the formation of six battalion of rifles. •• --- An Odessa correspondent of the Frentden-Blatt writes, thit a train of several hundreds of waggons, laden with provisions and munitions for the Bussian troops at Baktchi Serai, was "surprised by frightful snowstorms in the steppes south of Perekop, and annihilated." THE political and fashionable circles in Paris have been much excited by a rumour, which is daily gift ing ground, to the effect that the Princess LIENEN is to be allowed to return to her apartments in that capital. It is stated that this favour has been ac cbrded to her in consequence of letters which the Princess wrote to both the Emperor and Empress of the FRENCH, entreating their permission to return, on the ground of her health, and disclaiming any wish or intention for the future to "se meler" in politics. Jrtzs JANIN, the well-known writer of dramatic criticisms in the Debate, is proud of his acquaintance with Shakspeare, and rarely misses an opportunity of letting his readers know it by the introduction of quotations or allusions testifying to the extent of his researches among the works of the English poet. The accuracy of his Shaksperian knowledge may, however, be guessed from a passage in the Janin feuelleton a few days since. Reviewing the one act play, Rosemonde, by M. Latour de St. Ybars, the critic has to relate how Count Dither murdered his gu est—a performance which he illustrates thus, out of Shakspeare :—" Enfln le jeune comte Dither agit tout A fait comme Macbeth quand le roi Lear sou hOte, eat couche dans l'appartement voisin 1." cmollillEWMlll 4