The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND THE TREATY OF 1856.

The Tinier (in a leader on Monday) remarks that any
one who remembers the etate of feeling in England at
the time of the Russian war will acknowledge how in.
accurate is the judiement that the contest was almost a
duel between the French Emperor and the Czar. Eng.
land, just as much as France, made the war, and the
Aberdeen Ministry, which desired to avoid it, was
urged forward by an irresistible movement of public
opinion. These things, however, are soon forgotten,
and it is natural that Russia should consider that her
humiliation was the work of the Power which sent the
largest armies to the Crimea, and which summoned
her representative to Paris to receive the terms of
Rllll6ll now mess her great antagonist wholly
overthrown ; the Weatern alliance is no more ; and
Russia seizes the opportunity. She demands the in li.
fication of the Treaty of Pane at the moment when the
city where it was eigned is in the last extremity. If
ehe has the assent f the victors of Sedan and Metz,
elle thinks that the other States of Europe can make
no effectual resistance. In this, The Times says,
we believe she will find herself mistake n. l'he pro-
virioes of the treaty were settled in the most solemn
manner by the great European Power., Prussia in.
eluded; they stipulated only what in the opinion of
the world was necessary for the European peace,
and it was generally hell that they were as fa-
vourable as Russia had any right to expect. That
England should anent to nullify them on a dee
mend which is obviously founded on the present
incapacity of France, we cannot tielieve. How far
they might be modified we can hardly at present say.
Minor matters mizht be reconsidered, but it is not
very likely that Russia is troubling herself about Ruch
small game. With respect to the future relations
between Russia and the rest of Europe, we know that
there are many apprehensions, but we cannot believe
that they have any real foundation. A certain friend-
liness exists between the Prussian and Russian Courts,
Mit between Germany as a nation and the Russian
Power there can scarcely be any real union. Ger-
many would be eventually the chief sufferer by Reis.
eian aegrandizement. While divided and weak she has
looked to Russia as a necessary ally against France; but
now that all fear if her Western neighbour has passed
away, she is likely to judge Russian ambition as
severely as the ‘Veetern nations have ever done. The
i ntereate of Germany, moreover, are not in accord with
a policy which shollhl give the Rus•iane free ac ion on
the Danube and Black Sea. The Danube may be called
a German river, and at the present moment its mouths
belong to a little State which is being very largely
Germanized, and is actually rued by a German prince.

CIIICTJLAR OF PRINCE GORTSCIIAKOFF.

ST PETERSBURG, Nov. 15.
The following is a summary of the Circular of Prince
Gortschakoff, dated the 19th (31st) October, addressed
to the foreign representatives of Russia —After draw-
ng attention to the successive modifications which the
compromises that he regards as the foundation of the
European balance of power and notably the Treaty
of 1866 have undergone, Prince Gortschakoff con.
tinues thus :

" The Empercr cannot admit the principle that treaties
Infringed in mental essential clauses should remain obliga-
tory upon Russia in thoee °lawns which affect the direct
interests of the Empire. The Government cannot allow
that the security of Russia should depend upon an arrange-
ment which has not stood the test of time, or that the
Empire should be placed in peril by its respect for
engagements which are not being observed in their
Integrity. The Emperor relying upon the same of equity
of tha Europe. Powers, orders you to declare that
he can no longer conelder himself bound by the obligations
of the Treaty of 1056 in o laces they restrict his rights of
sovereignty in the black Sea, and that he believes it to be •
right and a duty to give notice to the Sultan of withdrawal
Irons the .pecial additional convention of the said Treaty,
which axes the number sod dimension, of the war
ships which the Powers allow to enter the Black ries,.
The Sultan will be Informed that lie will enjoy
exactly the same rights as those elalmed by Russia.
The Emperor's only object is the security and dig-
nity Oi the Empire. It hwe never entered his thought. tin re-
vive the Emits-. question. Upon thl. point, as in every
other case, the Emperor has had no other wish than that of
preservation an I strength. ills Majesty completely mum-
talus the general principles of the Treaty of 1643, which fees
the position of Two k.las a member of the Earopean concert
of nations. The beef eror Is ready to come to an under-
standing with the signatory Powers upon a compromise
which shall substitute a new and equitable &monument
calculated to cicalae the European equilthrinm and the
peace of the Rut The Emperor is convinceil that these
desirable objects will possess • fee.h guarantee when they
are founded upon a more •oild bull than that which la
the result of a position of affoles that no great Power could
accept •• • normal condition of existence."

The Hampshire Telegraph states that the claim to
the earldom of Marowsbnry and Talbot Is about to be revived
by a gentleman formerly -connected with one of the Porte-
mouth banks, whoa. snit wu heard before the Lord Chan-
cellor some few years ago, great eyldeoce, it is mild, MU
recently been obtained.