The Press.
London, England, 1855-03-17 00:00:00

MARCH 17,1855.

cif or tign (forresponbtna.

FRANKFORT, March Ll.
Two expressions, lightly uttered, give a clue to the
spirit of passing events. The King of Prussia, in
allusion to an active co-operation of Austria with
the allies, remarked, " Elle n'ose pas." The Emperor
of the French, on hearing of the death of the Em-
peror Nicholas, said quietly, "men n'est change."
Both mots have a peremptory signification.
There is neither a king nor prince in "Deutschland"
that has not ascended untold degrees in the scale of
self-importance since the death of the Emperor
Nicholas. These worthies presume to affect a re
spectable independence, to the infinite amusement
of M. de Benckendorf at Berlin, and M. de
Bismarck at this place. A turf expression, "en
argot," not classical, is yet peculiarly applicable to
them—" They are potted." Painful is it to witness
a person of the standing of M. de Bismarck Slion-
batmen satisfied, nay boastful, of the deceit,
venality, and prostitution of his country. The mani-
festo of the Emperor Alexander 11. bas simply veri-
fied a foregone conclusion—that, however honest and
enlightened may be his private sentiments and
character, he is in the hands of a party who will
never recede from the policy of Peter, Catherine,
and Nicholas. In one respect he is more powerful
than was his father. Nicholas was feared, conse-
quently disliked; and although the German princes
were willing to act in accordance with his wishes for
a consideration, the severities of serfdom were not
always agreeable. The open regard of the Empress
Mother for her German compatriots is shared by
Alexander, and, without diminishing the Mongolian
arrogance of the Muscovite, a vast accession of
strength has been gained by Russia from this par-
tiality of Germany for the present Emperor. This
will be fruitful of result, and possibly change in
some degree the nature of the European war. It
will inevitably work adversely to Austria and France.
To consolidate this Germanic predilection for
Russia, a Muscovite journal is about to be estab-
lished at Berlin, with the consent of the King—it
might also be said under his very patronage—to be
called the Journal du Nord. The chief editor is M.
Joly, a person heretofore distinguished at Paris for
his support of the Jesuits. The two sub-editors
have been supplied from Brussels by M. de Chrep-
towich, the Russian Minister at that Court. It is not
a little singular that for the purpose of despotic propa-
gandism a Protestant king should lend his aid to a
Jesuit, the Jesuit take service under a heretic Greek,
and a Russian Minister seek for subservient
"familiars " in a country professing a devotion to
liberal institutions. " Frond nulls fides." M. de
Chreptowich has completely succeeded in Russianising
Brussels, and the heretic Greek has secured his
religious opponents, the Jesuits, to a man. He is
also in contact with a journal loudly proclaiming its
liberalism, and professedly opening its columns to
all parties, the meaning of which may be dealt with
in all its "largesse." The Liberal has been made
safe ; but something more of this may be said at a
future time. Betwixt Belgium and this place the
communication is immediate and constant, and the
Bisinarck clique become initiated into Brussels in-
trigues without any reference to the worthy and RC •
credited channels at that place that are above petti-
fogging and corrupting influences. The brochure
" De la Conduite de la Guerre d'Orient," concocted and
published at Brussels, was privately seen here in its
yellow envelope a fortnight before its appearance in
that capital. The author, or rather authors, are
known, and intimately so, by M. de Chreptowich.
Great pains were bestowed in collecting the mate-
rials, and a portion of the letters of Prince Napoleon
Jerome were bought from his faithful correspondent
for a large sum. Who provided the money? The
whole was compiled under the direction of an aulic
council, and sent to head-quarters to be " vue et
approuvee." It was beyond the power of Russian
cunning to conceal the manifest object. This was to
injure the prestige of the name of Napoleon with the
army of France, to sow dissension with England by
coupling the Duke of Cambridge and other general
officers with the Anti-Napoleonic party,. and to turn
the present indignation of England against the Aber-
deen Ministry to bear personally upon the Emperor
of the French. And the Bright and Cobden egotists
lend a helping hand. Further, it was to precipitate
the rupture betwixt France and Germany in such
manner as to detach Austria from French alliance,
to quicken again the revolutionary sympathies that
led to the battles of Lodi, Arcola, and Marengo, and
thus compel Austria in self-defence to withdraw from
France. The agents are Red Republicans put in
motion by Russian intrigue, and the plot was matured
at Brussels. It was not wise to give one of the gang
a Russian decoration. There is a becoming modesty
even among the R. R. It. " Tria juncta in uno."
gins separabit." J. E. L.

THE PRESS.

lortign 10 (Leonid eluttilignut.

RUSSIA.
The text of the first manifesto issued by the new
Czar to his subjects, of which we gave a telegraphic
summary last week, was published in the Journal of
St. Petersburg on the 3rd inst. It runs as follows
St. Petersburg, Feb. 18 (March 2).
By the grace of God, We, Alezander 11., Emperor and
Autocrat of All the Russias, King of Poland, &c.,
To all our faithful subjects make known:—

In His impenetrable ways it has pleased God to strike
us all with a blow as terrible as it was unexpected.
Following a brief but serious illness, which at its close
was developed with an unheard-of rapidity, our much-
loved father, the Emperor Nicholas Psvluviicb, has de-
parted lifts this day, the 18th Feb. (March 2). No lan-
guage can express our grief—which will also be the grief
of our faithful subjects. Submitting with resignation to
the impenetrable designs of Divine Providence, we seek
consolation but in Him, and wait from Him alone the ne-
cessary aid to entble us to sustain the burden which it has
pleased Him to impose upon us. Even as the much-loved
father, whom we mourn, consecrated all his efforts, every
moment of his life, to the labours and to the cares called
for by the well-being of his subjects—We, at this hour so
painful, but also so grave and so solemn, in ascending our
hereditary throne of the empire of Russia, as well as of
the kingdom of Poland, and of the Grand Duchy of Fin-
land, which are inseparable from it., take, in the face of the
invisible and ever present God, the sacred pledge, never
to have any other end but the prosperity of our country.
May Providence, who has called us to this high mission, so
aid us that, guided and protected by Him, we may be able
to strengthen Russia in the highest degree of power and
glory ; that by us may be accoinVished the views and the
desires of our illustrious predecessors, Peter, Catherine,
Alexander the much-loved, and our august father of im-
perishable memory.
By their well-proved zeal, by their prayers ardently
united with ours before the altars of the most high, our
dear subjects will come to our aid. We invite them to do
so, commanding them to take, at the same time, the oath
of fidelity both to us and to our heir, his Imperial High-
ness the Cesarewitch Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovi:ch
Given at St. Petersburg the 18th day of the month of
Feb. (March 2), of the year of grace 1835, and the first
year of our reign.
(Signed)

AI.EYLNDE/t.

Intelligence of the death of the Emperor Nicholas
reached Admiral Bruat, at Kamisch, on the 6th.
There were then no signs that the event had transpired
in Sebastopol.
The Emperor Alexander 11. has presented to the
Guards, the Cadet Corps, and to the Suwarrow Regi-
ments, the uniforms worn by Nicholas I.
The two Russian Grand Dukes are on their way
home from the Crimea.

Prince Menschikoff has gone to Moscow.

Accounts from St. Petersburg (says the Gazette de
France) speak of remonstrances which are said to have
been addressed to the new Czar by the body of nobles
against the arming of the serfs. It is well known that this
measure, comprised in the general armament ordered by
the Emperor Nicholas, had not met with au y opposition.
If, as it is said, its execution now meets with any remon-
strances on the part of the nobility, it is doubtless because
the resolution of ema‘cipating the serfs having been long
attributed to the heir presumptive, now become Emperor,
it is feared that the arming of that class will be a good
step towards that object.
FRANCE.

The Imperial yacht, La Reine Hortense, is being
fitted up at Cherbourg with elegant furniture and
decorations, as if intended for an early voyage, which
has given occasion for a revival of the report that the
Emperor is about to pay his promised visit to the
Crimea.
The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree pro-
mulgating the act of acceptation signed at Turin on
the 26th of January, 1855, on the accession of Lis
Majesty the King of Sardinia to the convention of
the 10th of April, 1854, between France and England.
The northern army of France is now divided into
two corps. The first is commanded by General Bars-
guay d'Hilliers, with General Guillon as chief of the
staff. The second is to be under the command of

General Guesvilliers.
'rhe Moniteur formally denies the report that a
French general (Forey) had been tampering with
the enemy. The Constitutionnel reads the Times a
severe lecture for circulating the calumnious report
alluded to.
A grand funeral service was celebrated on Tuesday,
at Notre Dame, by the Archbishop of Paris, for those
who were shipwrecked in the French frigate Sentil-
/ante. A letter from Corsica states that the body of
M. Jugau, commander of the frigate, had been washed
ashore, with those of sixty others, who were not re-
cognised.