The Press. — London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

lortign torrtspnOtnct. FRANKFORT, JUNE 6. THE propriety of the Diet and the dignity of Austria have been disturbed by the following declaration in the authorised journal of Lord Palmerston : In the confidence that by the blessing of Providence ►ictory will declare for the right, we cannot doubt that the " material guarantees" which must then be exacted from Russia to an extent not hitherto contemplated, will render necessary such an adjustment of the balance of power in Europe as may make it advisable to call upon Austria for the cession of some of its fairest provinces. This confirms the long suspicions of Austria, and accounts for the procrastination of her equivocating policy. It has been said in these letters from the first that on either hand Austria was in imminent danger unless she pursued a straightforward and fearless course. On the side of Russia Austria is open to a ready march on her capital, and the Rus sians would find willing coadjutors in the Hun garians and the Sclave population. Taking part with the Russians, and against the Western powers, the Italian provinces are irrevocably lost. The war has established three primary powers—England, France, and Russia—Austria and Prussia follow as secondary powers, and then comes a long interval. The English papers, excepting THE PRESS, are all wrong on the effect of Mr. Disraeli's motion. You may be assured that it has had a prepotent effect on the Continent; it has advanced the cause of civilisation immensely from having unmasked all parties, and we now know friends from enemies, continentally. It has determined the question of an honest war or a dishonest peace. English matters are diligently conned over here in Germany. There is not a salon wherein the affairs of England are not daily discussed. There is not a " gasthairs," or a cigar -shop, where disrespect is not cast upon the Queen of England for having cor dially received the Emperor and Empress of the French. And these bacchanal and injurious taunts are permitted, if not encouraged, by the police. The nationality of central Germany partakes largely of a solid hatred of France. Heretofore England was considered the powerful and principal check upon the latter empire. This belief has been dispelled, and central Germany looks to Russia, and has accepted the terms of union brought by the Prince of Oldenburg, which will liberate the princes from the trammels of Austria and Prussia. The free action of Germany will ultimately entail the loss of the Rhineland to Prussia, and of the Lombardo- Veneto provinces to Austria. Come what may, the balance of European power will never be stable until this be completed. These are the words of a ducal representative at the Diet, upon a discussion on the manifesto of the Ministerial journal in Eng land, and after quoting a speech of Lord Palmerston to that effect, as regards Austria, delivered six years ago! The debates in the English Parliament have been studied, and the conduct of the leading men analysed without reserve. It is known that there was a secret "trams" stealthily working at Brussels and Berlin, to the which Lord John Russell was a tacit party, and which the Vienna Conferences served to mask. The dragging into light the act of darkness, and the gibbetting of Lord John Russell's reputation, is here held to be the work of Mr. Disraeli. The pro tocols were not to he made public to the Parliament ; such is said to have been the understanding, and M. de Buol has strongly animadverted on their publica tion to the several Courts of Germany, with sharp instruction that Austria will oppose their discussion in the Diet. The Nesselrode circular is not more approved, and the document of M. Walewski makes the Austrian Minister sick at heart. Without the determination and perseverance of Mr. Disraeli the protocols never would have been produced. In due course came the shuffle of Milner Gibson. But the motion of Mr. Disraeli cramped the Ministry, and the debate thereon has bad immediate results throughout Germany. It has been the cause of f esh dissension betwixt Austria and Prussia. M. di Buol has written a private and confidential pro t ist against the interference of Russia in Germany, and the celebrated ultimatum which was to have been sent to Russia, but which is now proved to have b!en concocted previously between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, with the cognisance of Lord J. Russell and others, is flung to the winds. This is the sole work of Mr. Disraeli, and for this the people of England ought to be beholden to him. In Germany the consternation has been extreme, for Wirtem berg, Bavaria, and Saxony cannot show clean hands towards Austria; the princes have been bought like sheep in a market, and the isolation of Austria has teem made palpable to the meanest intellect in Get.- THE PRESS. many. Her prestige is gone. Then follows, as a last blow, and after the fatal debate wherein Lord John Russell figured more prominently than was consistent with his personal respectability, the ominous leader of the Palmerston journal. The consequences are not doubtful throughout the Con federation. The princes care nothing for Italy or the Prussian Rhineland. They fear France and hate England, and these are their motives of action since they have become assured of the protection of Russia. Mr. Disraeli has the credit of having un ravelled a conspiracy that, if successful, would have been disastrous to the national honour of England; he has completely unmasked Austria, and he has been the means of enlightening her on the Germanic affection of the Czar; he has laid bare a Whig intrigue right worthy of the dregs of that family faction; he has foiled Prussia, unkennelled the kinglets of Germany, and struck terror to the soul of Russia. And this by simply appealing to the honour and patriotism of the English nation. J. E. L BRUSSELS, Thursday. AFTER the revolutions of 1848 and the defeat of the Red Republicans in Paris, the vanquished of every colour and shade betook themselves to places of safety. These were only to be found in Switzerland, Belgium, and England. Paris became, and remains still, the head-quarters of the Constitutionalists— Italian, Hungarian, and Polish—of those men, to use an apt French term, " gents senses," who refuse to pledge the touchstone toast of " Mort aux Rois !" and conceive that a representative Government offers a better security for the happiness of the million than any other. London, Brussels, and Geneva are the depots of revolutionary Europe; and the directors of Red Republican conscience, there installed, absolve the perpetrators of the most atro cious crimes upon the principle of the end justifying the means. The French police, a short time since, had become cognisant of a Red conspiracy hatching at Brussels. When the chain of intelligence was entire and as sured, the French authorities demanded the instant arrest of the Freres Jacquin, French manufacturers settled at Brussels. They were taken in December, 1851, their papers seized, and delivered over to the French authorities at Lille. It so happened that the "maitre ouvrier" of the Freres Jacquin was named Celestin Jacquin, and said not to be related to his masters. This man, it would appear, was the real person whom the French police desired to have safe, and, together with his employers, he was ar rested. It is not certain whether the Freres Jacquin participated in the acts of their foreman, but the papers found in their house, and consigned to the French police, fully confirmed the fact of the con spiracy, with its ramifications in London and else where, and numerous arrests on the French frontier took place in consequence. The detection and failure of the plot, however, was displeasing to the Russo-Belgians, and a representa tive brought the case officially before the Chambers on Friday last, complaining formally of the impropriety and injustice of having arrested the Freres Jacquin. He got nothing by his motion beyond the Ministerial assurance that the conspiracy of Red Republicans had positively existed, and that the arrests were strictly in order, " accordee en vertu de la loi Francaise de 1853, qui assimile l'assassinat du Souverain des Francais aun parricide." By these words, purposely and emphatically adopted, the honest Minister revealed the nature of the plot. This is not all that has been obtained. The private signs of the Red Republicans have been dis covered. That of a " Rouse sang tont pur," consists in a minute part of the cuff belonging to the left sleeve of the coat being carefully pinned back imme diately under the thumb, so tbat, on lifting the hand to take the cigar from the mouth, the head of the pin becomes visible. An ordinary pin marks the elite of the conspirators, but a black pin is only per mitted to those capable of " hautes d'couvres "—par example. The mode of buttoning the coat right or left, and having slashed pockets placed on one or the otber side, are signals varying according to weekly or monthly directions. These are now known to the police. E. R. prtign genial 3nttlittatt. FRANCE. It is reported upon good authority that the Em press Eugenie is enceinte. The Emperor held on Monday a grand review of the garrison of Paris, consisting of :10,000 men, at the Champ de Mars. The King of Portugal's pre sence in Paris suggestel this spectacle. The day was very fine, and thousands of persons collected to view the display. Tho Lord Mayor of London, Lady Moon, and a deputation of members of the Common Council, are now in Paris, where they have visited the Industrial Exhibition, and are entertained with much magni ficence by the civic authorities of the French capital, SATURDAY, The city of Paris is raising a loan of sixty millions of francs, payable finally after a period of forty years. The money is required for the purpose of completing the extensive public works of Paris, and which will render the city the most magnificent capi tal in Europe. The loan will be eagerly bought up. AUSTRIA. A ;ast sitting of the envoys of the five powers remaining in Vienna was held in that capital, on Monday last, when the Conferences were declared formally closed. At that meeting, however, a new Austrian proposition was made. Prince Gortschakoff asked if he might send it to St. Petersburg, but the French and English Ministers replied that they were not authorised to agree to such a step. The Austrian Government had previously published a new circular, dated May 25, declaring that if their last propositicns for the adjustment of peace were rejected, the policy of Austria would thenceforth be one of expectancy. PIEDMONT. The Convents Bill has received the royal assent, and has thus become the law of the land. The pro visions of the act will be immediately put in force to a number of convents. SPAIN. The Cortes, on the sth inst., approved the 12th basis of the constitution, which authorises the soverign to open and close the Parliament. The Government proposed to the Cortes on the 2nd, a forced loan for 200,000,000 reels. The Carlist bands in Arragon have been completely dispersed by General Gurrea. CIRCASSIA. Important intelligence has been received from Circassia. At a military council, held at Batoum on the 2nd inst., the Turkish commander•in-chief pro posed certain measures, which were unanimously accepted. It appears that the army of Batoum is to march along the coast of Circassia, and, after laying siege to Soujak Kale, to advance against Anapa, and from thence cross over to the Crimea. The head quarters of the army, consequently, had shifted to Sohumkale, where all the Abaza chiefs between Sotcha and Tchurookson had already arrived. The moun taineers pledge themselves to furnish a force of 40,000 men, to be actively employed when the army takes the field. RUSSIA. The Abeille of St. Petersburg gives the following version of the language lately used by the Czar at Cronstadt, and which was at first considered peaceful. The words now attributed to his Majesty appear, on the contrary, rather indicative of war : On the 9th the town of Cronstadt was honoured by a visit of the Emperor. The inhabitants presented their sovereign, according to ancient custom, with bread and salt. His Majesty received his subjects with kindness, and concluded his reply to them with the following words —" Pray to God for the repose of the soul of the late Em peror Nicholas I. He loved you, and so will I. Pray to God. We will not allow Cronstadt to fall into the power of the enemy. With the will of God peace will return, and then your commerce will again improve." After the de parture of our beloved monarch, we felt that our hearts were full of faith in Providence, of devotedness to the Czar, and of love for our country. Each of us now repeats the words of one of our celebrated Russian heroes—" We will not allow our country to be humiliated ; we will leave our bones here for our Czar and our hearths." Advices from St. Petersburg state that General Rudiger had given positive orders that no merchant vessel should put to sea from any of the Russian ports in the Baltic. The Austrian official journal affirms that Odessa is so strongly fortified as to bid defiance to any attack from the sea, while General Liiders guards the land by 56,000 men. This statement is most probably only the result of the promptings of the Russian Government. There is now a telegraphic communication between Sebastopol and Odessa. It is, however, not an elec tric telegraph, but a semaphore. AUSTRALIA. The Indian Queen has arrived with dates from Melbourne to the 13th and Hobart Town to the 17th of March. An open-air meeting was held at Melbourne on the 12th of March, for the purpose of considering the extraordinary conduct of Government in post poning the trials of the Ballarat rioters. Resolutions condemnatory of the course pursued by Government were passed, and a subscription entered into for the defence of the remaining prisoners. Another large nugget of gold, weighing 481b5., had been taken from a hole at Ballarat. The harvest in Van Diemen's Land had been com pleted and got in with little difficulty. For labour the wages generally paid had been 12s. per acre and rations. WEST INDIES. A West India mail has arrived, bringing dates from Jamaica of the 12th ult. The islands were healthy, with the exc,.eption of St. Thomas's, which was suf fering from yellow fever, but was confined princi pally to the shipping. At Jamaica eommercial affairs had censidetably improved.