The Press. — London, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

pathises with the Russian race. Where is that power, exclusively Austrian, that can pretend to wrestle with Russia for the possession of the Danube, or that can presume to claim a German affinity, so as at once to be the nominal protector and the real spoliator of the Gcrman nation ? J. E. L. 3 ortign and Colonial Suttlligentt. FRANCE. The entry into Paris of the Imperial Guard and the four regiments of the line lately returned from the Crimea was celebrated on Saturday last with great splendour. All Paris was out--thousands of persons had collected along the boulevards and the Place de la Bastile before daylight—the cafes re• mained open the previous night—by eight o'clock the streets were impassable, and but for the exer tions of the National Guard the " triumphal entry " would have been no entry at all, and the Guards who carried the Mumelon and Malakoff would have failed to make good their way from the Bastile to the Place de la VeridOme. As the morning advanced the streets appeared in holiday attire—trophies and emblems, with imperial eagles and clusters of flags, rich decorations and devices illustrative of the event, triumphal arches, gilt statues, flags and streamers, all tended to prepare the Parisians for the great ceremony of the day. At half-past eleven the Em peror, preceded by a squadron of the Cent Gardes, accompanied by a numerous and brilliant staff, in cluding Prince Napoleon, General Canrobert, &c., and followed by another detachment of the Cent Gerdes and two squadrons of the Cuirassiers of the Garde, left the Tuileries, and riding slowly in ad vance of the staff proceeded to the Place de la Bas tile, where the troops, about 4,000 in all, placing their kepis upon their bayonets, received him with the most enthusiastic shouts. ThiEmperor, accom panied by Marshal Magnan in command, rode slowly down the line, and returning to the centre of the Place spoke in the following words 7- Soblats,-3e viens an decant de vous comme antrefois le Senat Homain RNA aux portes de Rome au decant de ses legions victorieuses. Je viens vous dire que vous avez bein meritee de la patrie. Mon emoticn est grande, car au bonheur de vous revoir se melent de douloureux regrets pour cells qui ne sont plus, et un profond chagrin de n'avoir pu moi-meme vous conduire an combat. Sohlats de la garde, comme soldats de 14 ligne, soyez les bienvenus. Vous reprhentez tous cette armee d'Orient dont le courage et perseverance ont de nouveau illustre nos aigles et reconquis a la France le rang qui lui est di►. La patrie, attentive it tout ce qui s'acoomplit en Orient, vons accneille avec d'autant plus d'orgueil qu'elle me sure vos efforts it la resistance opiniatre de l'ennemi. Je you. ai rappeles, quoique la guerre ne soil pas ter minee, parse qu'll est juste de remplacer I leer tour les regimens qui out le plus souffert. Chactn► pourra ainsi upper premire an part de gloire, et le pays, qui entretient six cent mille aoldats, a intcri•t ce y ait maintenant en France tune armee notnbreuse et aguervie, prete a se porter ott le besoiu Gartlez done soignensement les liabitudea de la guerre, furtitiez•vons dans l'expetience acquise; tenez-vous prim repondre, all le fain, a mm n appel ; mais, en ce jour, oubliez les epreuves tle la vie du soldat ; remerciez Dieu de volts avoir epargues, et marchez Ilerement an milieu do vos freres (rarities et de vos concitoyens, dont lee acclama• Lions you. attendent. [ Tran Mali on.] Soldiers,--I meet you as of old the Roman Senate met their ♦ictorious legions at the gates of Rome. I am here to tell you that you have deserved well of your country. - . I feel deeply that, mixed with the joy of again seeing you, is sorrow for those that are no more, and the profound regret that I myself was unable to lead you to battle, Soldiers of the Guard, as well as soldiers of the line, be welcome ! You represent all that army of the East whose courage and perseverance have renewed the lustre of our eagles and regained for France that rank which is her due. The nation, attentive to all that is bring accomplished in the East, receives von with the more pride as she measures your efforts by the obstinate resistance of the enemy. Though the war be not finished, I have recalled you because it is just to relieve in turn those regiments that suffer most. All alike can thus go and partake in their share of glory ; and the country that maintains 600,000 soldiers is inter• ested that there should he now in France a numerous and veteran army ready to shuw ituelf where circumstances may demand. Preserve, then, religiously, the habits of war ; strengthen yourselves in the experience you have acquired ; be ready to answer, if it be necessary, at my call ; but this day forget the hard trials of a soldier. Thank God for having spared yon, and march proudly amid your comrades and fellow•citizens, whose acclamations await you. At the conclusion of the address the troops, who received it with the loudest cheers, were formed into three columns, and, preceded by the Emperor and staff, entered Paris. At the Place Vendome, where the Empress and her Court stood in the balcony of the hotel of the Minister of Justice, the Emperor THE PRESS. took his station opposite, with his back to the pillar, the troops defiling before their Majesties. At two p.m. the last columns defiled, and the Emperor and Empress returned to the Tuileries. In the evening the troops were entertained by the garrison of Paris, and the whole line of the boulevards brilliantly illu minated. _ _ ...... On the jour de l'an the Emperor and Empress held a levee at the Tuileries, which was attended by all the legislative and other authorities, the diplo matic corps, and the foreign ambassadors. The DAVR, speaking of Count Esterhazy's mis sion, states that Count Esterhazy has already tele graphed to his Government for fresh instructions, before taking a decisive and irrevocable part. The discovery of the writer of the "Pamphlet upon a Peace Congress," M. !lluvengrier, a journalist, had brought the publication into temporary discredit, though it was still believed that the pamphlet had been written " to order." AUSTRIA. The result of Count Esterhazy's communication to the Russian Government of the proposals he bore is the sole subject of surmise, comment, and expecta tion in the Viennese papers. On the 26th ult. Count Esterhazy reached St. Petersburg, on the 27th he delivered his proposals, and on the 28th Count Buol officially informed Prince Gortschakolf at Vienna of the terms on which the Western powers were willing to conclude peace. Those terms, according to the Frdrelnndt, contain the following proposals :- 1. The relinquishment of the Russian protectorate over the Danubian principalities, and the conditions essential to securing a new order of things there. This difficult point, which is already in process of being carried out, is drawn up so decisively and so clearly, that in ease of its acceptance every prejudicial influence on the part of Rns• sia, on the deliberations as to the regulation of the affairs of the principalities, is excluded at once. Russia is re• quired simply to give her assent to the am►ngements abort to be made, without participatiug in any deliberation or in any resolution on the subject. 2. Cession of a portion of Bessarabia, to such an extent that Russia would be not only removed from the delta of the Danube, but would have to give up her entire position on that river. The geographical line for the future Bus shin frontier is traced on a map appended to the papers, and according to that the Russian frontier would be con. siderably thrust back. 8. Neutralisation of the Black Sea, without any)Russian fortresses and arsenals on its coasts ; at the mouths of the Danube, however, there is to be a station fur vessels of war of small burden, for the purposes of marine police. 4. Common protection of the Christian subjects of the Porte. All the above points have been proposed by Austria. The following have been added by the Western powers : Admissions of consuls into the harbours of the Black Sea, and an undertaking on the part of Russia never for the future to erect any fortifications on the Aland isles. The term allowed to Russia by Count Esterhazy is very short, and in ten days the decision must be made. Should the proposals be rejected, the immediate breaking off of diplomatic relations between Russia and Austria would ensue. In support of these propositions the Emperor has forwarded autograph letters to the Kings of Prussia and Bavaria, and it is believed Saxony,calling upon them to influence the Court of St. Petersburg to accept the terms proposed. Should the condi tions of peace be refused by Russia, the Times Vienna correspondent writes on the 30th ult. that " Austria will immediately break otf her diplomatic relations with ltussia." The reported capturo of Herat by the Persians was regarded at Vienna as the forerunner of such new complications in Asia as must seriously operate against the restoration of peace. The Oat Deutsche Post remarks : If, then, there is no denying that England has under- taken the present war i;rincipally on account of the dangerous extent of power which Russia has gained in Asia, what are we to think of the prospects of realising the peace proposals which are ushered into the world at a mo ment when the dearest interests of England are far more sensibly wounded than they were, even at the beginning of the present war ? PRUSSIA. The reply of the King of Prussia to the request of the Emperor Francis Joseph, that the King would use his influence in snpporting Count Ester hazy's proposals to Russia, has not yet transpired. Colonel Manteuffel, with an autograph letter of the King to the Emperor, left Berlin on Monday for Vienna, taking Dresden in his way. On arriving at Dresden he immediately had an audience of the King, and finally set out VI- Vienna on the 2nd. The object of the visit to Dresden was to discover hcw far Saxony, in the person of Baron Seebach, was resolved upon the present question to deviate from her traditional policy. It is certain that Prussia, up to the departure of Colonel Manteuffel, had male no representation to Russia in support of Count Esterhazy's proposals. RUSSIA. The following analysis of the late " Russian Circular "of Dec. 22 has appeared in Le Nord : SATURDAY, THE RUSSIAN CIRCULAR. Point shall be solved (re t h e f o llowing combinations : ( Ez o pe ito ro b r y co n sen ts that the third 1. The closing of the Straits. '2. No military tlag whatever shall float in the Black Sea, with the etception of that of the forces which Russia and the Porte by a common consent may deem it neces sary to maintain there. 8. The amount of these forces shall be fixed by •.;. direct+ agreement between the two coasting powers, wicsout any ostensible participation of the other powers. The following is an exact analysis of the despatch itself:— The Imperial Cabinet first states, iriNkt the momentary interruption of hostilities in coneevence of the tad weather has necessarily aroused the general hope that ad. vantage would be taken of it for the establishment or peace, and declares that it was not the last tc, share the sentiment and to devote a just solicitude to it. It owns frankly that the desire expressed by the Emperor of the . French, at a public solemnity, in favour of a prompt andi durable peace, was at tltc same time, and still is, the clear est w ish of the Emperor Alexander. The elevated polioy which has been bequetkilied to this Sovereign by his predecessors makes it his duty to make, use of the power which God has placed in his hands oak? for the good of mankind, and consevently to. desire peace, not only in the interests of his own subjects, but iu those also of the whole of Europe. 'l'he Emperor Alexander has not waited for the present suoutent to endeavour to at tain that oliket. On his secession to the throne he ga% e his full and entire consent to the bases admitted by his august father. These bases, however, admit of different interpretations. The Emperor, without hesitation, gave them the most liberal interpretation (leur donna lee plus large. dercloppe• meals). As a proof thereof he can quote the frank mull loyal concurrence which he lent to the modifications to ho introduced into the political system of the East. *0 WI the collective guarantee which was to assure its iptlepen deuce. He even went so far as to sacrifice his,apeular mid glorious traditions. lie filially proved the s;;serity of his resolutions by the manner with which lief adopted the changes proposed fur the principalities c( the banube and, for the navigation of that river. If the conferences were broken', on the sulkjeet of the. third point, the responsibility tbereof• dues nut fall upon, the Imperial Cabinet, fur whlf•n the Austrian Cabinets brought forward the solution, which appeared to it most acceptable, it was the Itu i ssipn Plenipotentiary, who de. dared it susceptible of becoming the starting-point (Point depart) for an arrangement, and it was the Itlinisteni,q(,ll... adverse party who rejected it in consequence O s imteernal dissensions which had arisen. In the course of the grave events wlti,e ensued, N OW* torrents of blood flowed, and the two, hehigierent par:i were imposing immense sacrifices Pa themselves, lkiwev4. l . touch the heart of his imperial Majesty was. effected thereby, he was obliged to remain silent as long :we his enc.-.. mica appeared resolved tip, substitute the right of might to the spirit of justice and pf maciliation, which for nearly. half a century had presided over the destinies of Europe. But as sops as information reaches the Government of his Majesty which, assured him that his enemies were dis. posed to take up again (reprendre en sous-ourres) the nil- . gotiations of peace on the basis of the four points, such . they had been defined in the conferences, the imperial , Cabinet did not hesitate to come forward frankly to meet those peaceful dispositions, and to seek frankly a possiblo solution for the third point in the order of ideas which hkd, appeared in turn satisfactory to all parties. 'f he imperial Cabinet declares, in conclusion, " that, this resolution of the Emperor will give a new pledge of the sentiments of conciliation by which he is aid-. mated, and of the sacrifices he is ready to make for the. peace of the world. He puts his trust in the impartial, judgment of the powers which have remained strangers to, the struggle, and calmly and confidently awaits the decision, of his enemies." The exertions of Russia at this moment to prepare , for a renewal of the contest are immense. The want. of saltpetre is severely felt, but contracts for lead,. ordnance, and mortar carriages, were taken up, and a vast number of gun and mortar boats being built at Cronstadt. Proclamations have been issued to• the peasants of the Crown domains, calling:on them to raise corps of sharpshooters. A new copper coin-- age of three millions has been ordered, and the Baltic batteries are being placed in the most efficient state of defence. SWEDEN AND DENMARK. Letters from Stockholm state that greater activity has never prevailed than at present in the military arsenals and manufactories in Sweden. The com manding officers of regiments have received orders to hol.l themselves in readiness for service, to put their corps in the greatest possible state of efficiency,. and officers who applied for leave of absence have been refused without exception. It is clear from this that Sweden is preparing for eventualities which• may call for her utmost naval and military strength. Denmark, it is stated, has at length decided upon. joining the Western powers. A special envoy, it is said, is about to proceed to London, for the pur— pose of concluding a treaty guaranteeing is Den. WI