The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-24 00:00:00

THE E7PRESS, SATURDAY RVENING, MARCH 24, 1855.

RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC

We have received, from Vienna, Count Nesselrode's
note to the ministers of Russia at foreign courts. It
profane to be a manifesto to Europe of the inten-
tions entertained by the new Emperor, and is the
Bret official paper which has appeared on the subject.
The following is a translation :

"ST. PETERSBURG, MARcaz,lo.
" My despatch, of the 2d inst., will have informed
you of the accession of his Majesty the Emperor
Alexander IL I also, at the same time, had the
honour of sending you the manifesto of our illustrious
sovereign, issued on the first day of his reign.
" This document expresses his Majesty's profound
sanss of the importance of the duties which he is
called to fulfil. Thoee duties have been imposed on
him by Divine Providence in the midst of severe
trials. Ascending the throne of his ancestors, he
beho.ds Russia involved in a war, the like of which
occurring in a new reign history cannot produce.
" Our illustrious Sovereign accepts these trials,
trusting in God, confiding securely in the unwavering
devotedness of his people, and filled with religious
reverence for the memory of his much-loved father.

" In a child-like spirit of piety he accepts u his
heritage two obligations, which, in his eyes, are
equally sacred. The first demands from his Majesty
the employment of all the power which the will of
God has placed in his hands for the defence of the
integrity and honour of Russia. The second imposes
on his Majesty the duty of steadily devoting his care
to the completion of that work of peace, the bases of
which were sanctioned by the Emperor Nicholas.
" Faithful to the ideas which predominated in the
last dispositions and arrangements of his illustrious,
father, the Emperor has renewed and confirmed the
instructions with which the Plenipotentiary of Resale
had been provided from December until the time when I
the Vienna Conference* were to have been opened.
In this way the intentions of the Emperor Nicholas
are certain to be fulfilled. Their aim was—

" To restore to Russia and Europe the bleesinp of

"To confirm the freedom of worship end the welfare
of the Christian peoples of the East, without distinc-
tion of rite.

"To place the immunities of the Principalities under
a collective guarantee.
" To secure the free navigation of the Danube in
favour of the trade of all nations.

" To put an end to the rivalries of the Great Powers
respecting the East, in such manner as to preclude
the return of new complications.
" Finally, to oome to an understanding with the
Great Powers respecting the revision of the treaties
by which they have recognised the principle of closing
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, and in this way
to arrive at an honourable settlement.

A peace concluded upon such a bailees this, since
it would terminate the calamities of war, would call
forth the blessings of all nations upon the new govern-
ment. Russia, however, feels deeply, and all Europe
must seknowledge the fact, that the hope of a ee.l
stored= of peat* would prove vain, if the conditions
of an adjustment should overpass that just limit
which a sense of the dignity of the Crown led our
august Lord to fix irrevocably.
a The Emperor will wait tranquillity until the cabi-
nets called to deliberate in common with Russia on
this question of universal interest for all Christendom
shall declare the views by Which their policy will be
guided.
a Oar august Lord will enter upon these important
deliberations in a sincere spirit of concord; this is the
declaration which I am expressly commissioned by
his Majesty to make to you in his name.

I. The general instructions with which you are pro-
vided prescribe to you the course which you are to
'motion to follow in your intercourse with the go-
vernments to which you are accredited. The Empe-
ror, in confirming you in the post to which you were
appointed by the grace of his illustrious father,
relies implicitly on your fidelity and zeal. It is his
desire that on all occasions your conduct and lan-
guage should beer witness to the loyalty with which
Russia regards obligations involving fidelity to
treaties ; to its constant desire to live on good terms
with all allied and friendly Powers; and, finally, to
its reverence for the inviolability of the rights of
every state, as well as its firm resolve to maintain
intact and make respected those rights which Divine
Providence has entrusted to the Emperor in making
him the protector of the honour of the nation.
" You are instructed to bring t►is to the knowledge
of the Court at which you had the honour to represent
the Emperor Nicholas of glorious and much-loved
memory. NESSELRODE. •

The Roma Prism remarks on the foregoing docu-
ment: "The Russian government here professes to
state in brief the views of the Emperor Nicholas, by
which it intends to be guided. Of all the points laid
down in this document there is not one which does
not require further definition before it can become •
true preliminary of pesos. Even that appvently
unequivocal concession of the fres navigation of the
Danube is, in its present form, of no value, since
Russia acknowledged the freedom of the river,
in principle, at the very time when she
allowed the Danube to silt up. The same indefinite-
ness belongs to all the Russian points. However
the congress which has to define them is now sitting,
and the publication of this note, if it give no impulse
to the work of the plenipotentiaries, will not at least

hinder it. It is impossible not to remark the oireum-
spectness with which Count Neeselrods avoids all
allusion to the limitation of Russian supremacy in the
Black Bea. The only concession at least bearing on
this subject is the promise to reconsider with the
other powers the treaties which relate to the exclu-
sion of war ships from the Bosphorus and Duda-
nags in time of peace. In other words, Rus-
sia consents to permit another war flag than
her own and that of Turkey to be seen
in the Elaine in time of peace, in return
for which she will doubtless demand that her
own war-ships shall pass the Dardanelles, and
her flag By in the Mediterranean-at the Pirsus, for
example. It is doubtful whether that could be
called a Russian concession, but certainly it would
not be a limitation of Russian power in the Black
Bea. Nor weld the Western Powers accept it as
such without confessiog that their expeditions to the
Crimea had most completely failed. We do not
believe that they will fail, and for that reseal we I
cannot look upon the diplomatic manifests, assuming
that it expresses the full measure of Russian copses-
, aims, Is a sign favourable to pease."

FREEDOM OF THE DANUBE.

The following statemet, dated Vines, Marsh 17.
we give as we lad it in the German Jowl of
Rotakyorg:
"The Mudd= Imperiel Contsiissioser in the Prin.
*panties. Berea de Boob, ben bad cooferencee
the IlLinidw of Foreign Affairs on the subject of a
treaty Boldly, to eannisreial relations with the Prin.
eipelidse and the hue navigation of the Danube. It
has been stated that the Ronda& commander at Beat
mostly pnbibited vessels from navigaPaag the Lower
Danube, bat allowed mix or sight which were at
Galata to leave. Coma Basle -Oen he received ie.

171-T, .) •

I formation of this proceeding. called on the cabinet of
St. Petersburg for explanations. We learn that
Prises Corti:bude a few days ago informed Count
Boa that the commander of Reoi bad been dis-
avowed, and that new orders should be immediately
seat to the Reagan Au:caw:arise on the Danube'