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BRUSSELS, Thursday.
Le Nord has made its appearance since the let of
July. Temperate, and written with ability, the
danger to constitutionalism and public freedom is
the more prominent and sure. The liberty of the
press is turned against its very existence by an
advocacy of despotism repugnant to its nature, and
a Government is held at defiance simply Incense it
is true to the principle of national liberty. It is a
becoming justice to acknowledge frankly that the
Belgian Government exerted its powers to prevent
the issue of the journal, but, so long as the establish-
ment is conducted actually by Belgians, it is beyond
the province of the Minister to interdict its publica-
tion. In France the journal has been summarily
prohibited, and at the Belgian stations orders have
been peremptorily given to expel it from the railway
platform. This has been a hard and unpalatable
blow to the Creptowitoh party, since an extensive
sale had been counted upon, together with the im •
portant advantage of the " oonvoi" taking and dis-
seminating the several Russian manifestos into far
countries. The price of twenty cents, or twopence,
places it within the reach of the people.
The political news under headof Englani bear a cha-
racter purely Russian, of course synonymous with mis-
representation. For instance, the self-exposure of Lord
John Russell in the House of Commons, and his
confession that the possession of place was superior
in his judgment to the honourable duty of resigns
tion, is made to appear as if the question of peace
depended entirely upon Lord John Russell, and that
the breaking up of the Cabinet would be followed by
a peace Ministry, representing the pacific determi-
nation of the country, with Lord John Russell as
Premier. The Minister of the Colonies is thus cen-
sured :—" De reveres paroles tie bl&me, auxquelles
touts conscience eclairee et droite applaudirs, ont
ete infligees at Lord John par MM. Cobden et
Disraeli."

Here the designing Russian insinuates that Mr.
Disraeli, in opposition to Lord Palma-Mon, would, if
in office, endeavour to substantiate a peace de facto
disgraceful to the allies. Notwithstanding the efforts of
Lord John Russell to accomplish a Russian object by
Russian means, and after a Russian fashion, Le
Nord thus reviews his mode of action, and deduces
the moral :

II est desormais oonstate qua les Gouvernements de
France et d'Angleterre avaient cependant dans leur seiu
des hommoa a qui cette politique meurtriere repugnait ;
M. Drouyn de Lhu3s 1 Paris, Lord John Russell it
Londres. Seulement M. Drouyn de Lhaya a pris une
position nette, et 11 est an moms difßcite de comprendre
comment un homme d'honneur et d'intelligence a pu st
plier d prendre cello a laquelle Lora John Russell s'est
risigaa.
Even Russians appreciate the dereliction of public
duty at its proper value.
The position of Turkey is desctibed as aeplorable,
and dependant entirely on the tyrannical will of
Lord Stratford de Redc}iffe, who is vituperated for
being the cause of the war, and the main impedi-
ment to peace. To him solely is attributed the
Crimean expedition, and the disasters which have
followed. On the unhappy Turks Le Nord affirms
Lord Bedell& vents his ill humour, Your n'avoir
pu realiser he plus beau rove de toute la vie politique
du diplomate Anglais, l'expedition de la Crimea."
A specimen is here afforded of the precise spirit of
Le Nord, not openly offensive, but couched in terms
of flagrant duplicity, and employing falsehood with-
out reserve to establish its one grand point of
directing continental opinion against France and
England. The publication of this journal, with its
tendencies, with its wilful perversion of fact, with its
avowed hostility to the allies, and in defiance of the
Belgians, the Belgian Government, and of the King,
is a direct invasion of the principle of neutrality.
E. R.

FRANKFORT, July 12.
" C'EST done une conduite monstreuse que Lord
John Russell a tcnne. 11 a renie sa foi." Such is
the language emphatically used by an Austrian
employe at the Diet, in censure of the sentiments
expressed in the speech of the noble lord on Vri,lay
last. Common hour sty and common sense were
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and gime was, wherewithal, to be remarked in the

precatm tone or the miserable disclosure an utter

absence of high feeling which is the imperative con-
comitant of elevated and noble action. But the
worst feature was displayed in the profligate avowal
of the evil done and the evil doing, having for sole
excuse and purpose the maintenance of the five

Whig families in power. Such a disreputable
acknowledgment is without precedent in the annals
of politics. "Ca rejaillerait sur lui poor toujoure.
On ne se fleraitjamais plus sur tut hotume ausai
faux, taut pour les alum qua pour SS patrie. Sa
conduite est impossible aveo une parfaite imam a-
bilite, ce premier devoir d'un homme public." Thus
contemptuously remarked the head of a princely
house allied to Austria. The effect of the conduct
of Lord J. Russell has been crashing on the Conti-
nent, and its untoward influences cannot be exagge-
rated.

Austria and Prussia, already approaching slowly
towards a more favorable understanding, have had
their policies accelerated by this Ministerial confess
aion. On her part Austria stands more than justified
for the apparent equivocation of her conduct ; and
having been unfettered from the bond of the Deem-
her treaty, through the instrumentality of the English
plenipotentiary at the Vienna Conferences, she is
free to pursue the course most convenient for her
selfish interests. And in her present position she
may not unjustly urge a cause of complaint against
the English Ministry. One thing is certain, that the
Minister of England in the House of Commons and
the Minister plenipotentiary at Vienna held language
diametrically opposed to each other. lf the Minister
plenipotentiary pleads the right, as a Cabinet Minis-
ter, to express views isolated, peculiar, and contrary
to instruction, he betrays the trust of the plenipoten-
tiary national. Public honour is not invaded without
injury to the faith catholic of nations.
Austria is now, at all hazards, forcing on the Diet
the propriety of her conduct in dealing with the four
points as final, and is seeking to persuade the Con-
federation to adopt them Germanically with a view
to prevent a continental war, or, if not to be averted,
of declaring in self-defence and energetically against
the Western powers. in this scheme she is seconded
by Prussia and the princes in the pay of Russia.
Such, no doubt, will be openly, such has already
been secretly, the policy of the Diet. Looking at
the behaviour of the Minister plenipotentiary of
England at Vienna, the abandonment of public duty
for party advantage, cunning and unfaithful server it
be, yet based upon such an example, may find a
ready apology difficult of refusal. This part of the
policy of Austria, although favorable to Russia, does
not dispose the latter to give up its advantages over
Germany, bought by Prince Peter of Oldenburg
during his late mission; and con-equently the organ
of Russia thus cautions the Confederation, in-

timating that it will hold the princes to the very
letter of the bargain, and thus defies Austria and its
non-potential empire
L'Autriche ne tendrait a rien mins qu'it se placer en
heritiere presumptive de 'influence tpte la coalition aetaelle
a pour but d'eulever I la Itussie, et i se faire legitimer et
garantir sea pretensions par la Confediratioa elle-useme.
L'Autriche voudrait faire coneourir lee Otats de is coal.
&ration a l'agrandissement de son importance Earupiene,
luquelle aurait pour consequence d'accroitre son influence
en Allemagne ; ce qui vent dire, ea d'autres mots, que les
etas de In Confederation Germanique, et la I'russe ea par-
ticulier, devraieut de gaiele de cur et tout binevolement
paver de lows propres mains la vole I la preponderance
presque exclusive de l'Auiriche stir toute la Confederation.
—Le Nerd.
These be plain intentions in plain words, put forth
by authority. Who will now say that Austria is a
first rate rower? She is hound hand and foot, and
at every risk to be obedient to a Russian policy. No-
thing but a false courage, emanating from despair at
her debasement and dependence upon I'russia, would
induce her, and even then vainly, to pursue the path
of rectitude. She was, without doubt, " heritiere pre-
somptive" of German influence; that influence has
passed, via Prussia and the corrupted princes, to
Russia, and which she would fain "enlever a la Em-
ilie." Can her tribatary state be made more pal-
pable? The words quoted and the menace contained
came from St. Petersburg.
It has been communicated officially to Count Buol,
and by him to the Ge:inan princes, that the allies
will not be content to restrict their demands to Ow
four points—that the chances of war have made such
a basis of peace impossible of acceptance. 'lbis has
led to the pressure of Austria upon the Diet for an
approval of the four points &E on ultimatum of peace,
and has elicited the stinging reply of Russia. All
external and internal influences are bearing down
upon the Diet to effect the absolute disseverment of
the Diet from the Western powers.
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FRANCE.

The Emperor Napoleon received the Corps Legis-
tif on Friday, the Bth inst., when the projects of law
adopted at the sitting of the sth and Gth of July
were presented.
Count de Morny, President of tho Corps Legislatif,
said:—

I have the honour to place in the hands of your Majesty
the law allowing of a fresh loan, and the law thing the
army contingent for MO, which have been voted unani•
mously.

The Emperor replie 1 :

I thank thi Corps Le tislatif. I know how heavy war
impost is felt, but 1 hope it is only momentary ; and I
believe that the eourke a id patriotism of the country will
surmount all difficulties, and arrive at an honourablelpeace.
The terms of the new loan will be promulgated in
a few days.
The Moniteur states, as the result of the
documents received at the War-office, that the
number of military men who have fallen on the
field of battle, or who have died in the ambulances
and hospitals, in consequence of wounds, cholera, or
other diseases, amounts for the army in the East,
from its departure from France up to the Ist
Jane, 1855, that is to say during a period of thirteen
months, to 14,205 men, and that, according to re-
ports already received, the number of killed during
the recent combats in June may be estimated, at the
highest, at 2,300.