The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The Powers which signed the treaty of Paris
will address collectively a memorandum to the
Porte on the grievances of the Christians. The
Sultan will complain that the facts are -greatly

exaggerated, and will propose a commission of
inquiry. In the meantime a crisis will be pro-
duced by a general insurrection in the provinces
of Turkey in Europe, which certain ambitious
powers will direct to their own ends. Such, it is
presumed, in some official quarters, is the course
the eastern question will take.

A St. Petersbnrg letter says the Russian
journals are filled with letters complaining of
atrocities committed by the Turkish authorities.
The Russian public is thus wrought into excite-
ment, and the echo of their complaints reaches
the Emperor. The writer adds i—The relations
between Prince Gortschakoff and the French
Ambassador are becoming every day more cor-
dial. Everybody at St. Petersburg believes that
this good understanding is founded on the fact of
the two governments taking the same view of the
Eastern question.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, May 23.

Count Thun, the Austrian ambassador at St.
Petersburg, has arrived here. It is not true that
the Emperor will deliver a speech at the opening
of the Council of the Empire.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, May 23

The Prince Regent will proceed to-morrow via
Kreuznach and Saarbruck to Trier, to be present
at the opening of the Rhine, Nahe, Saarbruck,
and Trier railway.

According to the Kreitzzeitui?y, Marshal Mac-
mahon, Commander-in.-Chief of the camp at
Chalons, has received orders to welcome therrinee
Regent, in the name of the Emperor of the
French, on his arrival at the French frontier.

The Prussian Ambassador at Paris, Count
Pourtales, will also go to "Saarbruck to join the
the Prince Regent.

BERLIN, May 23.

It is asserted that the Ambassadors of the
Foreign Powers are about to demand explana-
tions respecting the speech of the Government
Councillor—Mathis—in the sitting of the 21st
instant, in which the councillor recommended an
intimate alliance between Prussia and England,
in consideration of the Franco-Russian alliance.

BERLIN, May 23,

The Prussian Chambers were closes to=day b 7
the Prince Regent, who, in his speech, said
Government is most seriously endeavouring to
bring about such solutions of the questions which
at present engage the attention of the European
etibnests #l.s will be adequate to the Maintenance

of the political equilibrium. The principles
which guide the Government in its relations with
the German Confederation and the German Diet,
in regard to the present highly important affairs,
have been explained during this session. The
Government, also, will in future adhere to these
principles, and will continue to regard
the maintenance of the recognised rights
of others as necessary for the main-
tenance of its own rights. Notwithstand-
ing the difference of opinion existing in
reference to important questions, in one feeling
all the German Governments as a people are
unanimous with myself and the Prussian people,
that is in unshaken fidelity to the common father-
land, and the strong conviction that the indepen-
dence of the nation ani the integrity of the
national territory are matters of importance
before which all internal affairs and dissensions
far recede. The continuation of his Royal
Highness's speech treated of questions respecting
the interior.

HANOVER, May 23.

It is said that the negotiations for the conclu-
sion of commercial treaties between France and
several other States will shortly be opened at
Paris.