The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-25 00:00:00

WAR I'RIZES.

(From last Mitt's Marne.)
lIT ion Ql/11.11.—A PROCLAMATION.
Victoria, R.—Whereas by our royal proclamation,
dated the 29th day of March, 1854, after 'steelier; to our
order in council, bearing date en the said 29th day of
March, 1854, whereby we ordered that general reprints be
granted against the ship, goods, and subjects of the Em-
peror of all the Russian, his subjeen, or others inhabiting
within any of his countries, territories, or dominions (save
and except any vessel to which our license had been or
might be granted, or which had bees directed to be released
from the embargo, and bad not sines arrived at any foreign
port), so that our fleets and ships abou.d sod might lawfully
seise all shim, vessels, aud goods belonging to the Emperor
of all the Raisin, or his subjects, or others inhabiting
within any of his countries, territories, or dominions, and
bring the same to judgment in soy of the Courts
of Admiralty within our dominions, duly authorised
sad required to take cognisance thereof, we did order
and direct that the net protium of ell such prizes taken
by any of our ships or vessels sat war (lave and except when
they should be acting on any conjunct expedition with our
army, la which case we reserved to ourselves the division
and dialsobwes. a al rim eat bsesy MINNA sad Alm IS"
end except a. thereinafter mentioned), should be for the
entire benefit and encouragement of our Sag ofilearr,
captains, commander*, and other commissioned officers in
oar pay, sad of all subordinate warrant, petty, and non-
sommissioned officers, and of the seamen, marines, and
soldiers on board oar said ships and vessels at the time of
the captor,, attar the same should have been to us finally
adjudged lawful prima. And whereas we think fit that offi-
erre and crews of any of our ships and vessels of war, who
shell be planed or men in charge of any ship or vessel
which shall be hereafter captured or detained by any of our
ships or vessels of war, shall shase in prises made daring
their absence by the ship or vessel on the books of which
they may then be borne : edo therefore hereby order
mid direct, that all officers and crews of say of oar ships end
vessels of war who shall be placed or sent in charge or any
ship or vessel which shall be hereafter captured or detained
by any of oar ships or vessel. of war, shall share in the prizes
captured during their absence, by the ship or veinal of war
on the books ot which they may be borae at the time of such
prises being captured, in all respects as if they bad been
aottially on board such ship or vessel at the time of suck
prima being captured by her.
Given at oar Comet, at Osborne-House. Isle of Wight,
this twenty-first day of July, in the tear of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fittysfivs, and in the nineteenth
year of oar reign.—God save the Queen,

ADMIRALTY, JULY 24. PROMOTION. --Lieut.
IL V. Hagdud (1846), promoted to V.* rank of commander.
Mate R. G. Hale (1863), promoted to the rank of Ileum.
nut.

APTOISTMBIgIII.—Lient. J. Irwin' sppointrel sea spat.
Psynaeter J. T. Spark* (1853), to the Dskir of Welling-
ton 181, screw steno ship, of 700. horse power, in the Baltl
rieentant-Surgeon C. Morton (1862), continued to the
Archer, 14, screw slam ship, of 202.00ree power, in the

Acting Second Master U. Hewitt, to the Victory, 101,
flag ship at Portsmouth.
Midshipman F. W. Egerton, to the Sanspareil, 70, screw
steam ship, of 360-horee„power, at Devonport.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 21.
The Sydney Hail, No. 146, Steam trausport, arrived at
tledthead this afternoon front the Qinee, wbitha she had moseyed
worse. She hams. Wulf& from the army.
The Vicomte sad Alberti royal yeah:, after her trials last night at
the messaged Who W ashes Bay and et Spithewl, cams in.° harbour
se ecol. The • sawed eldelned Is the trios reached to 17.31
haat prr impleted stealing, she want to COWS again
t 4 Alai thieallgroeso.
The legal Owego, balk to the lletarla sad Albert, was towed be
Cowes this allosese he the re of the afters sad orew of the latter
dewing bag sty them The Bays& Owego was the royal yacht of
Oemegelt MY& he went Ilestimml, be. ; end, though it was
degigdy NMI nolh b hem epos eeettast to the rola yacht of
Ste perm teeemeh 4me, At, l'he Is George la of about 350
laws mad the These% wed Mien of 'boat %too.

SOUTHAIITTON, JOLT 24.
Rio Majestra Mew .team transport Malatya, Captais
Priest, has sot yet lea thia port. Jibe is, however, quite reedy for
sea, sad will
Ashy
Iwo for Kingstown to-morrow evening. the
whole of the to tbis hoe slap. Meludinit the middles
of a sew mew hseellgsTgeted biro uoior 'be superintendeoos of
(tegedo K 41., Peninsular and Oriental Steam shipping
Omen,. will chip the requisite quuatity of bay for
the homes diets ID gamey to the Crimea previom to her departure
kom lisedwimplea.
The Pesfaseffm rind Oriestal Company's new screw steam ship.
Ave,tfleggis Head, attired at Southampton yesterday afternoon from
the rtygo. waling the actual pump in St boons. The Ara is built
assms. Tod and atavism, of Glasgow, add is of 1,613 tons bur.
show gad 330.hurse power, and is fitted with the latest Improvement'
istreiesitis to steam shipping. Tits fine 'steel wilt probably Is
to the Hart to moist In the autocross duties connected
frialltireldladis and thine mall ameba.
Ilse loyal Higbee= the Dualism of Kest, accompankd by Lady
Penny Howard end Cul. Cooper, landed at Southampton Docks yes.
terday attessoce tram the royal yacht Fairy, and proceeded by the
3 p.m. train to Prognsars, Saving visited her Majesty at Osborne.
'Uwe A. Paget, who aceurapsnind the royal party, returned to oa.
terse after their departure.

DUBLIN. JOLT H.
The appearance of a large steamer off Korgetown lad so
a report yesterday that the Himalaya hai arrived there. The stale.
mem was yernanare, but the arrival of tirst4lass troop 'hips fa
hourly expected, and the troops are held In :sadism to mobil* at
lament's notion

Amongst the implements now being exhibited:St
Carlisle is Boydell's locomotive or steam ermines angles foe
ploughs, Ike. The novelty of this engine coasiets in She
wheels being supplied with " a portable railway," as it is
smiled, consisting of a series of shoes or short hoes of rail-
, way, which an laid with the revolutions of the wheel, and
thee Matsui the gnus' progress. The ow with which
the engine worked appear, tolls,. given general satisfaction.
it belated that the " portable railway" IMO been lately ap-
plied to guipauriages, and is likely to have a very :material
nitnence on mill operating by the ease and facility
with which heavy cedeattee will be enabled to be removed
from ono paint to soother.

Dr.. gorlnenby in of opinion that " liquid mud,
with the maybe of two millions and a half of iadi-
" whisk is his desoriptisti St the Themes, may be
by filtration through charcoal, end moreover, that
Moe elsormal need not be renewed.
MALTirrEllo3l.llYancEs.—Every udtater, besides
paying a heavy llamas duty, is obliged, before he can ma-
Demure malt, to give sweritiss, himself and two other
partial, each in double the amount of the duty on the malt
which ha purposes to make in the year, being altogether
equal to mx times the amMat of the duty payable. But not-
diag this redundant amenity, neither the =Weer
am his bondsmen can sell any part of their estates 'abut*
permissive of the Beard of Bache, after payment of all
duties due, and certain heavy fire. bk. Ball, the member
fee Cambridgeshire,. oa Wednesday last, inquired of the
Chancellor of the Deettequer whether he had taken into
consideratioa the hardship of these requiretasnur—to which
the right honourable gentleman replied that he understood
the prettied grievance to be that when the bonds wets
registered, shimmers no cheep and easy means by which
the lability amid he removed altar the necessity for it hod
eismed. He @Mold be prepared to introduce into a bill be-
fore the hum the extension to these bonds of the regula-
tions fativolmed two years ago with regard to hoods give*
to the customs. This appears to bo en oilir of very partial
relief from the grievance complained of—which is not
merely that when the obligation km mimed, the cancelling
of the useless bonds cannot be obtained without a heavy
charge--in itself a vexatious regulation ; but that, while
the beads are in form, the entire property of the mastitis'
is made respoasible in such a mauler as to be a restraint
mti.abhis disposal of any proportion of their estates.—Bary
?foss WIER MURDER AT PADDIROTON.—
Yestuday the Dimity into the circumstances attending the
MGM of Sarah Width the wife of Henry Wotts' proprietor
et the Railway Ind, Paddington, was resumed before Mr.
Wilder, at the,Load of Hay Tavern, adjoining the Great
Weston Terminus. After a long inveatigattoo„ the jury
ZOara verdict of manslaughter against Henry Watts,
al then semmitted for trial at the Central Drachma
Moan.
.110ShInT AT HULL.—On Monday afternoon a
bevy of 3,ooodollan was discovered to hue taken place
at • slI, and two Bucks, who were suspected, were aseer-
Mbed to hate started to Manchester by she dowa express.
A deppription bt the Men wee telegraphed to Manchester,
and on the arrival of the train at the !canoe-reed Station,
la that city, themes were recognised Mt this informatioa,
mil were taken into custody by the plaice. Os one of theca
was found Sfie dollars in notes, 75 dollen Id cash, and 61. in
gold. ' The wee were detained by the pokes until further
Informative could be obtained.
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sei,doihEpiorobats7.:Fsw:
cangiagrass,bortlNelAjfilarmtYB
wytiEBCAirsi:trinigianthocrtfLoacensg—lifeciAa,
innhadyelfpothoniiiLtmencawg.7:lles inuldleilay.:Bpjaniniicaunat.:
evilest the door, the carriage being too lull to enable him
hi' alt down. Jest as the train lied pissed the Kingston
soma, the door suddenly flew open, and he fell out on the
• hoc His hat happily broke his fan to some extent; but
THZ MURDER AT ROCJIDALZeri°D Moodily after- the Sew he received on his head rendered him insensible
moon a man, answering the dozniaiiaa of the es/posed fee segue time. °armouring he found blotted able to gs:o
murderer, was apprehended at Newton-lit-Sands, near up, and though severely bruised he o,outiived to milli to
Fireman. Re was taken by the next tram to -Rochdale, Lewis to his lthele's ileum. where his wounds were dressed,
when a lam who was at the public-home 011 Elataftlay ma he Is now ettavatement. Neither the engine drireerior
night, at which the deceased slept, said he believed the the gaud huew of the aeeident till they were iottomod hy
rigour was the man who accompanied ben The prisoner the Partnagett on the arrival of the trim at Brighton. A.
add his same was William Martin, and that he was a tekiiraphie sewage was inusedistely dispatched to bowie,
plumber and gluier, from Darlingtoth roe inquest was. ,to know it he had returned, and men were tot on the line
to be 1104 lestarday mornisig. P to look for hie.—Byphkga Guardian,

The Carthamair. wrisiteMrt semniant, mowed that thereat,.
/neat, as sasit=B.sieciald be appr.ved and tdrealsted
soon the
The Boa. 3. Ross, it 'stomata( the matted, expressed
his regret that meetings of the Basilisk shareholders bad
aot been more frequent, bet at the same Was meld see no
necessity for ens even eon, bet that t desire had been ex-
pressed by • large amber of shareholders, and no goodthat
maid result beyond that of placing the statenseet ►eiere the
shareholders sad giving any informatioa that they might
desire, for taatil the lime was carried eat in its entirety they
mold net know the reel vales aid minim of Unit thrall-
meat.

Tito notice was agreed to; and • Tote of thanks to
the directors, and especially to Messn. Ross and Hinges
for ceasing from Canada to afford information to thi Eng-
lish shareholders, was canted » soolamation.
Tho CELIZZASS having returned ska•ks on behalf of the
English daemon, and Mr. Rosa on behalf or his Canadian
manages,, au protwedisp terminated.

elite expregici.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, J Cal' 25.

As a matter of fair play we will e *dim to abstain
from comment on the modest of the polies/mu
messily employed in Hyde-parl z oei the Id of July
until the witnesses for the ask we have boos folly
beard. Bet the monetress de cuing propounded by
Sir RICHARD Maims, when amantined before the

Hyde-park Commissieeers y eiserdey, mast be de.
Bounced and exposed wither at delay.
Sir RICHARD said that 1... e regarded the meeting as
held for the perpoessir in timidating the Legislature.
He added that, hawing a rrised at this conclusion, be
consulted with the Roma Department, and that the
Under-Secrecuy wed Om Legal Secretary sanctioned
his subsequent proceedings. Sir RICHARD there-
upon issued u. proclamation warning all people
to keep *wee from the meeting, and marshalled
his force to pat it down. Si RICHARD stated, as

cerroborativeef the view he took of the meeting, that
Lord Bonmat Otiose/mos withdrew his bill in coo-
apogees of it. This is not strictly accurate. Lord
Roam withdrew his bill, not because the meeting
had bees held, but os sccoust of the irritation ex-
cited by Sir RICHARD MATHS'S highly injudicious
inter...ewe, and the consequent collision. This,
however, is a secondary consideration: we take our
ground upon the abstract principle that the CHIRP
POLS= Conntsatostra's usurpation of authority was
Use y unwarrantable.
If the doctrine maintained by Sir RICHARD Maxi
is to bs received as sound constitutional law, the
Cu= Continuum= of Pouct in the metropolitan

remembrance of broken vows and of promises of
judos sad liberty forsworn comes back after
years of impunity, and oasts a chilling shadow
over the stability of re-action. In broad ice the
poignant of the assassin is aimed at and
apostolic breasts; and eves on the no confer
'ion of accomplices can be wrung Ohm deists
of revenge and despair. The wiatched inn- 'who
failed in his attempt upon the life of the vAn.....—DINAI,
SiscartaaT of STArt paid the forfeit of his crime a few
days since with calmness and constancy unmoved.
What a condition of things most it be in which popular
sympathy, so kr es it dares to show itself, sides with
the victim of the axe, and honours the fidelity that
is the hour of death refuses to reveal the least par&
cedar that may serve to allay the apprehensions of those
in power 1 What mutual hardening of the heart must
be mooed by the revival of scenes and sestissents
like them which were prevalent around the Veda=
when *Rossi fell ! Anointed absolutism nevertheless
totters onward, unchanged though not unmoved. Has
it trot a foreign garrison to resist any general motion
for going into a committee of privilegeson the part of
its subjects to whom all right of inquiry or account is
sow denied? And should the sword of this protec-
torate snap or fail, has it not built upon the ses shore
a fortress whither Divine Right may retire and
shelter itself until the next storm be overpaseed ?
In the adjacent realm of Naples, hereditary abso-
lutism in the last stage of senility is distracted by
doubts of the fidelity of its own body guard. It
dreamed that in the island prison—where Powo and
his companions in the attempt at constitutional re-
forms of 1848 dreg on existence like so many felons—
all hopes of political change lay stifled. Bat danger
in another and far more formidable shape has
latterly, it is said, presented itself. King
BONBA hates the name of popular rights,
but he fears far more the rival name of MURAT
—the shade of his chivalrous but unfortunate com-
petitor for the crown of the Two Sicilies still I aunts
him; and cowardice or conscience bids him halt
that the eon of JOACBIM, who as a child played in the
royal halls of Naples, may one day return thither, 0
avenge his father's death, and all the ills which
forty years of brutalising Bourbonism have inflicted
on Southern Italy. Wide-spread disaffection is sap
posed to prevail among the troops ; and Mantis,
amspiracies are said to have been detected (or be.
"sated) by the police. Several arrests of asses
astailly oa duty are reported to have taken place lest
multi and as there is no law to compel public trial or
Immediate accusation, them objects of despotic suspi-
cions" likely to be no further heard of for some time
to come. Meanwhile their disappearance, without
canoe assigned or explanation attainable, diffuses
among their comrades anger and apprehersiom
Whose turn will come next ? What inducement is
there to continuance in loyalty to a worthless sal
priest-ridden race ? All Europe is astir. Piedmont
sends its legions to the war; and the sympathies af
the upper and middle claws everywhere throughout
Italy are with the Allies. But so strong is the be.
finenos of Austria, and eo instinctively do the priesio
hood and the princes lean to the side of absolutism.
that in Naples the strictest surveillance is observed
over the press for the purpose of preventing all news
of a kind favourable to the Western Powers appose►
ing until long after it is known elsewhere, while
every event favourable to Russia is blazoned forth k
the servile and sacerdotal organs. We should hardly
be surprised at bearing any day of serious disturb•
ances in the Neapolitan dominions; and it osa hardly
be doubted that in such an event the unfurling
of the long faded, but unforgotten standard,
under which Mt:mar led Italian troops
to victory, would be hailed as an ensign of deliver-
ance by all except the ebirri, the Jesuits, and the
laszaroni. For constitutionalism, the prospect of

districts has the power to decide what public meet-
ings are legal and what are not. The Metropolitan
Police becomes, in this point of view, a lane
kept on foot to limit and restrict the right to hold
popular meetings. Sir RICHARD chose to regard the
Hgde•park Meeting as a demonstration to intimidate
the Legislature: be miry put the same construction
tomorrow upon any open air meeting to promote
parliamentary or any other reform. And he tells us
that this his opinion has received the sanction of
the Home Department in a Ministry whose
leading members were, during the year 1831, in
close confidential communication with all the in-

fleential movers of the innumerable open air meetings,
held in the course of that year to promote Lord
Reform Bill. If the People and Parliament
of England acquiesce without protest in the
monstrous doctrine of Sir RICHARD. they will place
their liberties at the mercy of a centralised political
plias. They will woo find the Chief Commissioner
of Metropolitan Polies an official functionary whose
powers are as dangerous and intolerable as those
of the Linglessang de Police under the old French
monarchy.

The proceedings in Hyde-park show clearly the
spirit in which such a functionary would act. All
the special pleading of Sir RICHARD MAINE fail to
make out that the gathering in Hyde-park was an
organised meeting, with recognised leaders and a
definite aim. A few went, it would appear, to tell
the frequenters of the drive on Sunday what they
thought of the restrictions imposed by the Legislature
on similar Sabbath recreation of the middle
and lower classes. But the immense majority
were mere curious spectators, most of them
attracted by Sir RICHARD'S own proclamation.
If there was any rioting it was provoked
by the uncalled-for interference of Sir RICHARD and
his myrmidons. Sir RICHARD had predetermined
that there should bee riot and rioters, and had given
orders that every noisy and mischievous vagaband
should be invested with the dignity of that charac-
ter. Is this, with all his energy, he signally failed.
The tkown Counsel, after sitting in deliberation till
near five o'clock on the Monday, could not find a single
case that would warrant such a stretch of the law ;
and the only fruit of Sir RICHARD'S amazing energy
was as intolerable, and illegal degree of hardship
imposed ea many respectable individuals, who were
refused te be admitted to bail on a pretext ultimately
given up as untenable.

We ism hew • glaring illustration of the danger
—of whisk we have often warned our readers—of a
ountralind polies placed at the disposal, not of the
local magistrates, but of the Imperial Government.
t can at say time be used as an instrument to pro-
voke collisions with the people, which may be made
the pretext al coseroachments an their liberties. The
business of fir RICHAAD Marys is to preserve the
public peace, to enforce the awards of the magis-
trates and the courts of law., and to protect honest
men from rows. But he has usurped the authority
of determining beforehand, when, wham for what
purposes, and in what numbers, the potpie of Eng-
land may assemble ; and to carry into efi'est his own
arbitrary laws. And he tells us he is booms out and
supported in the exercise of this uncenstitn.tisaal au-
thority by the Home Department.
An incidental admission made by Sir RICI UMW in
the course of his examination, warrants the belief
that this usurpation of authority has been earn 40
secretly end systematically for a considerable Oise.
He spoke in the highest terms of Superintend 'sof
Ht:oar.s, but on cross-examination he was obliged to
admit that this modal officer was, thirteen years ago,.
fined for entering a house without a warrant. The
Superintendent had then been eleven years in the
force and could not be ignorant of the law. Sir
RICHARD further stated that there is a regulation to
the effect that any policeman convicted before a
magistrate shall be dismissed the force, except in
special instances. Are we to understand that such
special instances are those, in which an °Stier
wantonly sets the restraints of law at defiance P

There appears to be only one means of wiping
host the danger of having the pollee force converted
into a political instrument that may suborn the
purposes of an arbitnvy Administratioa ; and that is
by returning immediately to the old mastitational
practice of placing the paid, of every district adder
the control of the local authorities. If Sir BENJAMIN
HALL'S Bill became law, this stip will be materially
facilitated. for that seems gross to institute twelve
Boards in the metropolis, upon whale the control of
the polies in their respestive distriets might with ad-
rootage be devolved. We might than have through-
set the whole of the metropolis an available Police
bine, as of cunt. and as free from ail saspidaa al
being a political instrument as that of Os City.

13Yttrrows of dioqototodo begin own nom to ma-
nifest themselves is Italy. The fees of absolutism
is troubled, for its heart is sick with fear. Beefy-
where save in Pisdmoot miegivinp sad ouspitions
-,vhte of thaw who bear rain. 114

such a cheap may be, inde-d, but a blank ; and there
are conaidentions, on which we need not dwell, which
would render the re-establishment in Italy of another

Bonapartean throne matter for grave reflection for the
other Governments of Europe. But, as far an the in-
terests of civilisation, trade, education and tolerance
are concerned, no disinterested man can desire the
prolongation of the dark and debasing system of mis-
rule that now prevails. As for the Government of Na-
ples it has shown itself, in everything but the ability
and courage, prepared to do us harm in our present
straggle with the Czas; and whatever may betide,
it deserves no sympathy at our hands. To the
lasting shams of England, it must be re-
membered that our Plenipotentiaries at the
Congress of Vienna, in 1815, surrendered unfor-
tunate Sicily—which had claimed, and obtained,
the guarantee of our protection—back to the Neapoli-
tan Bourbons. That was the act of Lord Cantu-
EZAGH. In 1848 Lord PALMERSTON re-enacted, in
all but the name, a similar part. Again Sicily was
free; again she sought and received assurances of
British sympathy and interposition on her behalf;
and again, when the tide turned in favour of legiti-
macy, priestcraft, and conservatism, she was aban-
doned to her fats and to FERDINAND. Wh
another opportunity of deliverance shall arise the
people of this country owe it to themselves to wipe
out the stain cast upon their land by the conduct of
those entrusted with the management of their foreign
affairs.

Nor is it in Rome or Naples only that there
are at present signs of perturbation in the powers
that ought not to be. Lombardy is occupied,
not governed. Austria having played out the
farce of a mock demonstration against Russia, and
having obtained all she wanted for her own special
purposes, hastens to repiessish her garrisons on the
southern side of the Alps, where she had already
begun to feel uneasy at the return of throbbing'
symptoms in the popular pulse, which she fondly
hoped was still in death. The old prescription is
once more to be resorted to: more blood must be
taken from the victim, lest, with recruited strength,
the fever of reviving hope should return. It was
but the other day that an officer of engineers was put
,`o death under a military sentence for participation
in the struggle of 1848. M. Cam had served
in the imperial army previous to the national
ape, sing of that year. In common with the beet
and I. "sweat of his countrymen who found themselves
aampe.iled to choose between professional rampancy
and pwrieide, he renounced the Austrian uniform,
OM ackn ()triaged the paramount claim of country to
en service of his sword. Throughout the contest he
aught with distinction in the insurgent mass; and
Mama it was irretrievably lost, he escaped beyond
4111 Moth of Me victors, and lived is security in
de as 111111111 Ni pears. Lured by the ioeztingoish-
tiYa a Ms unhappy land, he was induced to
%mare hack some months ago, and being detected
kr the weds at the Austrian police, he was arrested,
deg atm glagelaien letters were said to have been
amid upon rpm. Who knows—who now shall
seer wbine wl it were not baseness to believe
—what them papal wan, or whether there 1/11T11 any
such discovered in his possession. It matters not.
Under the repine of A estria there is no statute of
limitations pleadable in bar' of absolutist vesialam
Our faitipni ally, whose favors and friendship we
hays been these two years past cessPiag and Malting
to gain—Austria, never forgives. /IMO Find.
'UNDO CAM was eoadennted, for scatunmkon
Loyalty to his country, by one of the geo,'m tribenals
of Mantua, and pat to death accordingly. nen in
no snaky like that of tear.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1855.

TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL
EIDEN° TO VIENNA.
, -.
• Itirwr Oficial piper has been lewd Mk
c.f.s7
.ISk. Bad kof klbrenden to Lord Jobb Rosa.
e 46.044 ~ § Foreign date, Yob. 22.
illibaoses, hOWlog been plowed to mate to lost lord-
' slap, in senjanedoo with the Bari of Weetworiand, the ditty
of conduction on her Majesty's behalf the negotiations
shoat to be opened at Vistula, I hare received her Ma.
intrs osaussande to convoy to your lordship sash metal

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instructions for your gaidanee as may serve to place on re-
seed the view, of her Majesty's Goverament with reference
to this important crisis in the attain of Europe.
It is • duty of no ordinary character which her Majesty
has estnseted to your lordship. I. common with het Allies
her Majesty meet anatously desires to see pesos restored to
Europe la sub a meaner as to afford a reasoaable aussanes
that it will Wag remain uninterrupted; bat this cat call
be espessed if the conditions of that pesos are such as to
afford a sufficient guarantee for the future security of Tar.
key. If, however, suit a peace cannot be arrived at, it is
her Majesty's most earnest desire to see the Great Powers
of Europe arrayed La • combined effort against the spirit of
eactrouthsent and wren by which the councils of Runs
have been animated ; not only because such a league would
most probably lead to an early termination of the existing
mutest, but because an gannets, would thereby be ob.
tained that the termination of the war would place on a
solid and secure basis the general interests of ell Europe.
As regards the subjects to come under the consideration
of the Confereass, her Majesty's Government are of opinion
that they must be taken in the order in which they have
hitherto stood, notwithstanding that the third basis, the one,
the satisfactory development of which is likely to meet the
greatest obstructions; bat it will be in vain to stipulate that
the Danubian provinces shall be withdrawn from the sua-
sive protectorate of Ramis, or that the navigation of the
Danube shall be set free from the obstructions which im-
pede it, unless effectual preeautiess are taken to reader the
Turkish Respire an integral pan of the European system,
tied sefickat restraint be imposed upon the military and
naval power heretofore ezereised by Russia in the Black
Sea, and the overbearing influence which, by reason of that
power, she has acquired over the eoencils of the Porta.
But although much mey be urged in favour of making
the third basis the Ant for consideration, such a course
would ba open to objections of a serious nature, and her
Majesty's government have reason to believe that Austria
and France would both demur, although on different
grounds, to force into discussion at the outset the important
stipulations involved in the development of the third basis.
Nevertheless, it will be for your lordship to judge whether,
before entering into negotiation with the Russian Plesipo-
tannery or before the third basis °emulate &reunion in this
Conference, it would be expedient fat the three Powers to
come among themselves to some general understanding sub-
ject, indeed, to be modified by future circumstances as to the
form which that basis should ultimately assume. The end
I. view Is the formal recognition of the Turkish atropin in
its character as an independent and self-existent state, as
a member of the great European family, and as an on
tial element of the Wawa of power in Europe. One of the
means by which that end is to be accomplished Le the &bro•
gation of Russian supremacy in the Black Sea. How this
is to be effected with the least inconvenience to the Powers
of Europe, is the problem to he solved.
It might be brought about by a common agreement that
the maritime Powers should maintain in the Black Sea a
force adequate to counterbalance the naval forces which
Russia has heretofore maintained, and, if unoontrolled, may
again hereafter maintain in that sea. Bet this would be no-
thing more than an armed truce, liable to be interrupted at
every moment by chance collisions, and entailing on the ma-
ritime powers a perpetual expenditure to keep up, at a dis-
tance from their arsenals, an efficient force m the Black
Sea, while Runs, having bier arsenals at hand, and her har-
bours of refuge always open, would be relieved In • great
measure from the oasts to which the other powers would be
exposed. It may well be doubted whether, after a few
years, Gnat Britain would continue such en expenditure.
This object might be effected by a twofold prunes: by
redacing the maritime force of Runia in the Black Sea
within reasonable compass, and by opening that sea, with
the coasent of Turkey, to the maritime foram of other na-
tions. Her Majesty's government would much regret that
the Porte should be so impressed with • sense of its own
comparative weakness as to be prepared to abdicate its
power to defend the Turkish Empire against even • limited
display of hostile force. It would be better for the nations
of Europe that the Porte should be encouraged to rely on
its own resources, though left at liberty to call in the aid
of friendly powers to counteract the menaces of its powerful
neighbour ; but the reduction of the Russians navel force in
the Black Sea within such bounds as might, in co-operation'
with an equal Turkish force, suffice to provide adequate
protection for peaceful commerce, would have the further
indirect advantage of p ing, at any future petiod,
the marsh of Russian armies on Constantinople or
at all events of rendering any such operation one of extreme
hazard ; for, as far as present experience Intends, the sno-
t port of a powerful fleet, capable of co-operating with the
advance of armies, and affording the meau of providing
them with requisite supplies, is essential to the mouse of
any movement on the Turkish capital.
The imposition, therefore, of adequate restrictions ea the
naval power of Russia in the Black Sea, would give to
Turkey the material protection of which she stands in need;
while her en:lnanition as an essential element in the baleen
of power in Europe, would afford her a moral guarantee
under the safeguard of which she might fearlessly carry out
those plans of internal reform and asocial re-organisatiou
which have been so earnestly pressed upon the Ports for
many yeast.
Taking the bases in the order in which they stand, the
first point to be placed on record is Cie entire abrogation of
all former engagements between Aussie and the Poets, in
regard to the provinces of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Sonia.
Not that those provinces are again to be brought into Immo-
dist* subjection to the Porte, but that Russia shall no longer
have to plead special treaty engagements with herself as
justifying her single interference with the Sovereign Power,
in regard to the relations between that Power and the esta-
blished authorities in the province; and that those provinces
should not look to Russia as the arbitress of their destinies,
and pay that court and deference to her which should be
reserved for the Sultan alone. Then would be no occa-
sion to interfere, at lust in principle, with the system of
local *elf-government established in thou provinces, or to

place the;slan of the provinces in more dirrect dependinoe
on the sovereign power than they now are.
It may be a question for discussion whether the tribute
now paid by the provinces to the Treasury of the Porte
should be augmented. But the nomination of the Hospodars
and the attributes of sovereignty in the Prineipslities, as far
as other powers are concerned, would rest with the Sultan,
and the silents appointed by foreign powers to watch
over the commercial interest of their subjects would
still require the formal recognilion of the &titan for the
legal exercise of their several functions. Remaining thus
under the suserainets of the Sultan' the provinces would be
bound by the treaty obligations of the Porte with foreign
Powers, no less than the other portions of the Ottoman do-
minions and appeals for infraction of treaty rights would
be adore
ssed to the Porte, as they now are, by the represen-
tative of the aggrieved power at the Court of the Sultan,
who must therefore have authority to give ndrese.
Again, as regards the second bash, the abrogation of the
rights of Russia to interfere with the freedom of the navi-
gation of the Danube might be meet effectually secured by
the retrocession to Turkey, in the first instance, of the
territory at the mouths of the river which she renounced at
the treaty of Adrianople, subject to the condition that the
retroceded territory should be plated by the Porte under
the safeguard of the Great Powers of Europe, acting in eon-
cart with the Porte for the preservation of all the navigable
channels of the river from the exclusive domination of any
one Power, and for the removal of the obstructions which
now impede and have long threatened to render the channel
of the Danube altogether unserviceable for the purposes of
commerce. A mixed commissiee, in which England and
France should be regaisesnted, should be appointed to regu-
late all matters belonging to the navigation. But if Russia
eaters upon the discussion with a sincere desire to meet the

nameable wishes of the Powers most interested in the an-
vigatioa of the Danube, than may he ground to expect that
those questions will receive a favourable solution by the es-
tabliahment of a syadirete authority, invested with the ne-
cessary powers for the destructing of the obstacles new ex-
isting at the mouths of the deer, or which might hereafter
grow up thine.
The basis which remains a be ocodamied is gee peculiarly
calculated to sell into anise ibe Ompsdiloo of Christian
nations, and therefore likely to he alesedied with Ma. than
ordinary didleulti.e in the diseemleo end Battlement of it.
Fur the object is view is to r•••• 40 sad te bring in har-
mony for etivelar purposes the emegieting pastime and pre-
judices of Islamism and Christi's/Sy.
Then again, it it almost needier to remark, muck abne-
gation and self-eoatrol are required oo the part of the
Christian Powers in their dealings with the Porto in behalf
of the Christian subjects of the Sallee.
It wool,' tend greatly to the pesos of Turkey U the
Powers of Europe would mutually reaminiss all eastoriaa
prejudices as applied to the subjects of the Sultan, and look
upon all Christians, whatever ritual they may belong to, as
entitled to an equal share in the religious privileges sad
immensities which the Sultan may, at the instance of the
Great Powers of Europe, consent to accord to them.
It would seem desirable that the Sultan should by his owes
sot, abolish all legal sal slaw distinctions between his Ka-
ma:titan and Chriniesnageds, and formally communicate
to the powers of Europe 111111 lIMSSI by which this shall
hope been done.

h;•;, tii;oriedy toughed spa the several importantw
Do' which, if the Coalmines will sueoessively
6 brought ben the ansubbrit tieries.
The iotiotots setnaintawns wide! year lordship possesses
with the ea,:000 points to whisk l bare adverted, will sup.
post to you the &SW arguneenSe in support of the policy of
hit idsiestrs p overtimes; widen is to stators pesos to
Bumps is a sollt foundation. The blood and treasure
which have been KV freely expended in support of that'
policy would hi altos taker thrown away, if the only result
of oar efforts should Ix' • hollow trees. to ho broken whom-
ever a suitable opportun2/ should aril* for the attalassent
of the loop cherished ot,:insts of Bud= ambition—the
subjegatlea of the Ottoman weft* BoroPot sad the
eatkrooesteat of a Muds& peace lo the capital el Turkey.
Your lordship will soomosaiosts Me &opiate to Lord
Wostroodiad, fir Ids iastroods. a*4 Vadosoo.

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