The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-14 00:00:00

BAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

The nasal halleyeerig snort or general meeting of thin'
eampany was held yesterday at the Dock-house 6, iiiillter4.mares•
6. easetterr, Esq., In the Mgr, for the election of eight, dues.
tors to the teem of those retiring, and thu deeiarir km Of a dividend/.
The report stated that the WPMn of the ec mien, present a eatisfarr.
eery appearance. bat the actual result of the • rear% prearelinga can
WS he shown at the weal time whcn the amounts are made op.
There bee been save diminution to the myelitis tonnage r:celvesi •
within the beets as compared with the first tis menthe el ififtr,bmg •
that dosemme is chiefly In grain vessel., the colonial shipping being
somewhat ta 'sorsa of ld 4. The stack of noa:. to the vittaehtvises
aside theelsok at the earrespoodiserpn led of kart 3 rar,and con, untidy
the raeasemsding rest amount is baser Von that of Pine, ILK
Ohms% there is a ens.ll destines to thu total amount of out/landing
aft .rese. The new works which the cornpacy hue 1110(1t4en ore
laddeppihmiddstseemptetfam, lend the directors anticipate thst at*/ "
Jimmy nesedeg they will beans position tep...oe beton the pi oprie.
tors the whole acconets, inelhdies those the In drantio machinery,
The &melon have succeeded to matart.hy improslr.s the labsur ace.
mm of the enabliehnient. They recatuoie.4 Met the Alae end be
cosithesad sit the mote rate of 3 per cent. fee the lasi bn!f year, free
idiom" tan, and made payable en elenday nest.
The emanne.h rein thee' that the report spoke for itself, ant Oki 4
not used any comment from him.
A Paormeron said ne thought their docks had great eleir.cnte
UMW In themselvee, the prioneal of which was the manta r.
of the • •
equal open which thi y had to divide in oomp.tieen oiM other view
pandas. Wits the Lemnos Desk., with their deb', gaol to (lief.: a upon
4,11111.01161.. sad the et. Katherme's with tale debt 7,30,041., the, •
Ohl EMI end West India, had colt a *.pital of :,003,00a,Boteink.
ellnliblig which their property had derlinct fa talcs. Ha hoped.
lallneeelle, they would tons pay a lame cr.vidend :tan that teem.
waded to the tenon, lot h. bad Itr.o d their refits rated outside et
Wcent., and hod been bid that t niettoo red! ,0 tt..lade .
it to that amount. He wished ler know whether the ch.ternain
bed received ear odkial notice to WA dime. . . .

The t. .ituue repted the, wittartgero to the alkged dectesse la
the "aloe of Wars, when the divickba was d.eremeil tut year of
came the .use of tho shares deehtel proporV.,n-tely ; Out, en*.
asu,rars_ith tamer years, he I Must.% he con.* eon. rmul,oe. thy poM,
lad epochal when He micupetition to which they were
upend wris comidssed—upon the position and propeas or the 00111.
play. It was true their copilot vie comptratteely *opt), b that
the Loadon Decks had preurraty advantages wt.ch they had not,
to remising about 40,0&4. a scar kr wino and totem*.
The Lem proprietor had ezpremed a hoer of receiving • bed!
dividend mom ; but he line chairman) ready Moped he c mild cot sic
deceive himself; for when Wan arm dock compact*, advertising to
do business at Su par cent bekar the.; he sto.sid bided( 114=
musk pleased tribe, could but beep up their div:dende at the
rate. (Dear, bear.) Be bad reormist no oltkail team; of amp motto*
to rates their dividend to It per mat., but irony ureprictor could shove
the, the war to do so, the ditectors would be very glad to adopt H.
(adiktot.)
Tee report was then adapted, upon the =Ake Of Mr. Toon. se:
goaded by Mr. Jaime; the misting dilate:es mw r••••• 1, and •
Me* .beaks to the &Ammo aM directors closed the prooceliega

LEITERS FOR THE FOREIGN LEGION IN LIELIO3O.
LAND.—GINIZZAL Poo/ cinema, Jus.u, 185&.—The Lords
Commissioners of her il-jesty's 'irea.ury Yule Donis pleated
by warrant to oireet that the earreepoodrne• of the Forclges
Legion in lielirlsod shall be plow: upon the dame ge,:erill
footing s+ the correspondence of her )Isjesty's forces the)
Black Rea and the &lee. The 'tam, %huddle, of ,
commissioned or non commissionid cincers, a. well
as those of soldiers in the Foreign Legion, +1;1 in into*
be liable to • combined British sad foreign rate d
postage of-3d. when not a sced.Ls god ; 61. when exceed-
ins 3 cs and not exceeding cad so on, increasing sd.
foe every quarter of an our.r.e. TLis 'restage owe. be paid
in advance. Letters tor lbe FOI4I/10 'Agree In Llcliclandl
will be despatched from this thruugb Posers aid
Hamburg •in the mail torwerdcil dei:7 ore °dead, bat
newspapers will not be sent by this route, se the torei
poster, to which thvy would be liaLl. cannot be coilect--d
User 1/•ited Kingdom—ROWLAND HILL. &mystery.
ROYAL COLLEGE OP 131.11t050118.-I'he annual eke-
ties of of loen to this restitution took place en the lift
last, when William Lawrence, 11. q., P.R 8., was element
president, and 13. njemin Teasels, a.s., end Bd. •
mug Stanley, Req., F. It 5, were elcoted vievpresidentsh
webeiriftehdeosen second nocrestbsir
aboonv.7nt.;.ch,dtl M4ettjuomurenlim.
At
mutetleg el the Court of Emanation on the 13th hut, Nter
following gentlemen were admitted members of the seller%
hawing previously undergone the neeettery examinations,
vs.: Messrs. Charles Domaine, Trinidad, Weet Indies;
Charles Seymour Than*, 506 am-terrace, Camden town;
Samuel Fuller, arm? ; William Isaac Spencer, York-plaw%
Farman-writer ; redrrick John Well. Victoria-rota,
P[mlioo; Lawrence Kiernan, Austrslia; lohn 11+11, Caress
Jim-place, Haventocla kill; Henry Frederick Holland,
%deleting, Surrey; Peter Vincent Timothy, Australia;
David Henry Ogden, &Lipton in Crosse; pdirbad je-ien
Oellender, Gretnaide, Durham; and William Sums, South-

•
I)OOOY&—AMSTERDAM, JULY 11.—Tho VrouW
.41
Maegrieta, Mieboer, from Meisel to tLe eat cant of Bog-
lead, was wrecked on dm Swedish cat preeit :I to Tile
July; aro saved. The NW,. from Noltewile to Ales:
swede, si:b emits, west ashore us touring the
potions to Al Joao, sad woo oat rotated to

lift Wril
SUt /A

Loan lows Russau her mellitett- 71110 PlAlid),
may possibly liars the fait with feelings of ear-
prim : they will lawn the saws with sentiments of
mingled astonishment.and disgust
When we noticed yesterday** ill-conseakd
that were makicg by a Mtuis motion of these wk.,
hate heretofore been Mimed lunoupt the fries&
and fellswees of Lord Jim*, to induce him to retire
on The it. of the coming struggle, waSessedly in
the hope that they mien thereby propitiate their as-
sailants and save themielves from party hmilladim
at die *Pan, We *Wasted oar disbelief in
the senses of a maneravre at ones so inieeeshls
and so mean. We cqu art persuade ourselves that
under the peculiar eireumetsaces of the ease, and with
the memorable want*, : afforded by the events
Nowt last. the sofas lord would voluotarily quit
his poet under fire. llfbr has the event falsified oar
seileipatiess as far as ha is concerned. Lord Joan
caveat is point of test. be said to have manifested es
the present occasion an" anxiety to shirk the segos-
sillily which he had incurred. He is truth hogged
himself in the belief (hat he had made a dexterous
and successful coup; and utterly anowasidoes of the
obloquy be had draws down upon hilliest?, fancied
thiit he could remelts the discrepancies and proveri-
°ideas of the last two menthe. At all meta he was
reedy to stand the bruit of the threatened smanit
sod toabids the coosequences. Not so the men by
whom be has been surrounded. Soared at
the nosed of the rising atom of popular
indignatiee. and solicitous only for the retention of
power, ma who six weeks ago were ready to 'aqui-
sece without hesitation in the proposal of fooproadae
with Rusk suggested by Count Boot., have not
been ashamed to join in forcing Lotd Jolt' to teader
lei resignation to the head of the Goverment.
Through every rank sad grade of the party, efforts
have bees made to further this design. The pride
of the I,IIOtETAILY for the OOLONI/3 having
bete slang into making the offer we have
mentioned, mod was had to the respect-
able and high-spirited device of a nomad robin
addressed to Lord Parixisrow, urging him to
accept the resignation. This document was
actually hawked about the precincts and pongee
of the !fosse of Commons for signature during
the sitting of the bouts yesterday, and while
the two stride lords oontinned to oceopy their venal
seats, side by side, upon the Tressory bench. We
are unwilling to state how many name, of seen call-
ing themselves Whip were appended to it ; but we
believe we may venture to my that the rebukes which
ate authors escouritered from the manly and Inds-
ipesdent mambo* who refused to act a part fit only for
sailors is a mutiny on shipboard,seeved to convince)
thin that their clumsy device is one too shame-
lea even for the present House of Commons.
Bat the leagthe and the depths to which Minis-
tete and their creatures are ready to go to elude
trial and condemnation are too plainly indicated by
the use of means such as that we Dave referred to.
ilYhat is to be said or thought of the men who,
hating in the Cabinet assented to the proposal re-
commesded by Lord loam, and who having
in parliament assented to his sudden repudiation
of that propoeition, are now, reedy to lend their
aid in beetling him out of Wiles, in the hope that when
tie is gate they will be suffered to remain there P
8o long as they believed it possible to patch up a
peens by agreeing to Austrian terms of attoommoda-
tioo, these worthies saw is the terms advocated
by Lord lons nothing that was not politic and sp-
proveable. When these terms got wind prematurely;
and national feeling began to menace all who
adopted them with condign censure, these men were
eager to concur with the ex-plenipotentiary in hie
hollow and insincere repudiation of all diplomatic
action and his appeal to the warhke spirit of the
country. The delusion thus practised upon
Pediment, with their concurrence, and amid their
exulting cheers, is exposed by the despatch of Count
Bum.; and what happens? Are these men ashamed P
Do they propose to resign? Do they attempt to
throw the blame on the Socarraite for the Cowries ?
Nothing of the sort; they continue indifferent and
unefftoted by the exposure, until a question is asked,
after an interval of three weeks, that elicits a full
avowal of the facts, and subsequently provokes a
motion for a vote of want of confidence. And then
these craven colleagues of apsorecklese Minister, cabal
ogether with their uodentige in office to throw
Lim overboard, in order to appease the storm.
Had these men one spark of manly feeling, their
duty was to have thrown up their offices, either
when the Austrian proposal for peace was over-
ruled or when they heard Lord Jowl mislead the
House of Common. into the belief that the Cabinet
were united on the necessity of prosecuting the war.
They did neither, because they were ready to become
abettors of both the betrayal of the country's honour
and the shabby disavowal of it. They obtained by
their duplicity a party majority, which they persuaded
themselves would render them secure for the rest of
the session ; and now, when the corm quencee of the
transaction are with retributive justice about to fall
torn their heads, they try to cheat their fate by
m Jung one man a scapegoat.
And finally, what shall be said of Lord lag,.'
at mutton, if it be true, as we are informed, that be
ll
lira advised the Quexs to accept Lord JOHN'S resig-
nation, is order that he and the rest of the Cabinet
may have a chance of retaining their places? Times
are strangely altered since 1850. Lnrd PALNiittrOX
air then a Secretary of State against whose official
mdse. a motion of censure was aimed. Lord Jot*
Sununu. wee then Primo Minister. Then, as now,
*ire were not wanting timid and time-serviso cono-
sellers ready to urge that the assailed Secretary
*saki be sacrificed, and party interests thereby con-
served. But Lord Joule was at least tree to his
yoltt-tellow in office, whatever he might be to his
owe princiniee. He determined to stand or fall with
Cat colleague. whose seta be had tacitly approved. The
positions of Laid PaUtalaTON and Lord Joan Aus-
tral. are now reversed. The noble member for London
la sew the Secretary assailed, arid the noble member
for Tiverton is now Premier. We have no pity for
Lad lons, but we have infinite contempt for hie
try-Alerting allies en aloe. We have no notion of
o eines being punished by other crimes and greater
criminate Lord PALIIIIISTON eatsuot escape from
rha consequences of personal and p
city in the mindemenoare of Lord Jon:, Ittla•XLL;
hat be can still further damage a shattered reputation
-• trying to sever the defence a; himself and his con-
'- -et that of Its who a few yams sum

The next general election will go far to determine
the future fate of England. In that election it will
be the existing electoral body of England that is
placed upon its trial. If it fails in the die-
oharp of its duty an immediate and sweepiog
change is its constitution will be inevitable. If
they are to discharge the duty they owe their amia-
bly aright, the electors cannot afford to wait with
folded hands till the election is upon them. A large
majority of the existing House of Cbeamons have
proved themselves utterly untrustworthy; bat, if the
electors are not prepared with candidates to oppose
them before the dissolution comes, it will then be too
late. The country will in that case witness a mea-
d= of the old disgraceful scenes—of constituencies
acquiescing in the re♦lection of men whom they
knew to be infirm of purpose or radically corrupt, be-
cause they have no better men torn in their place ; of
deputations blocking up the doors of our political
clubs, urgent to have candidates rsoommeaded to
them, and fobbed off with the very refuse of the old
political factions. If at the next election we are to
have any chance of an improvement in the compo-
sition of the House of Commons, each constituency
must without a moment's delay look out for candi-
dates whom the electors know of their own know-
ledge. Rank, wealth, even extensive kaowledgs—
all the usual reomumendations of a oandi-
date—must be disregarded. A great philosopher
said, more than a hundred years ago, that in a Minis-
ter of State lumieres were of much less consequence
than earactsre. This holds true of legislators. Men
of sound common souse, general honesty of purpose,
and indomitable firmness, are what we want at pre-
sent in the House of Commons. Lit men answering
this description besought oat forthwith by every con-
stituency, and put in nomination without a moment's
delay ; and let a strenuous canna. on their behalf be
carried on without intermission till the day of oleo-
tics corms—be that when it may.

Ransom of varying kinds have been afloat today.
At a ealbst mused Lord John Russell's resignation,
it is said, b king warmly diseased. The result wilt
probably be ommeneleated to her Majesty by Viscount
Palmerston is Meanwhile the members of
the Carlton pates to be confident of the return of
their party to power without the ordeal of a dissolu-
tion. Not so the friends of the ministry. With them
it is either the present Government or an appeal to
the *Autry. All parties, however, us in truth, in a
state alike of excitement and uatiertainty. A Game-
able gayeties at the moment is, supposing Ministers
decide to meet the storm—of the spplimbility of Sir
B. B. Lytton's motion, even after undergoing verbal
amendments, to the present state of affairs. Before
Mooday, however, this will have been set at rest.
Mr. &chuck, we hear. is determined to persevere
with his motion on Tuesday, in the event of the
withdrawal of the Kosbworth baronet's resolution.
Lord Derby returns to town to-day, and sseetioge
of his supporters are to be held. Sir W. bonito and
Lord H. Lennox, who act under the immediate
'aspiration of Mr. Disraeli. have been industriously
occupied throughout the day.

Int Court.

OSBORNE, Jinx IL
The Queen and Prime, acataapsnied by the Xing'
of the Bacteas, the Coast of Meade" Prisms Clserlaste
of Belgium, the Pd..... Boni, mad the Prises's. Alias
sad Massa, usbuked at Odours pier yesterday eftersaeo
far a anise I. the mew royal at Visaed. sad Albert. sad
I reamed at ltalflest seam reeler&

Ti. Deana of Lest, atteadad by Lady Paaay Housed,
left Londe& retarday twain at a visit to her Majesty at
Osborne, lola of Wight. els George Cooper stataded lee
Royal Meanie by the Loads's aid aped Wallets Bail-
er.y, sad afterwards reamed to towa.

Lady Faaay Seward has esseesiad Lady Lass Marls
D•waoa as the Lady is Waitiag to the Deals& of Kest

DNpte►w were ant last maim Mn taw 001•1111•141/111
,foe the ammo/ of Csuada.

Ma Fonsiox LiotoN.—We are very happy to
announce that his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridp is to be immediately appointed Clearral-
Malmo of the Foreign Legion.— United &roil* On-
es& of this day.

We hate authentic intelligens* that a detachment
of British ships bombarded Lovies, in Finland, on
the afternoon of the bth inst. The whole town has
been destroyed.

ODHIENTION WITH TURKEY.
The follawlag is a translation from an
d the Provisional Osiaention signed on • behalf of
Franca, Be_gland. and Turkey
Art. 'l. His Majesty the Barra of the French
engages, under the ratification of the Legislative
Corps of France, to guarantee, conjointly and in
mutual
td
with her Britannic Majesty,
and bpr the lausesret the United Kingdom
of Great Brf and Ireland segsges to recommend
to her Parliament to authorise her to guarantee,
conjointly and in mutual respeasibility with his
blarety the Bespeerrof the Fame, the interest of
a loan alive million pomade sterling to be contracted
by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan.
Art. 2. The interest payable on the sail loan of
five millions sterling shall be at the rate of 4 per
cent. per annum.
Moreover, the Sublime Porte engages to pay a sum
of 1 per sent. per annum on the whole capita of five
millions sterling, as a sinking fund.
Art. 8. The interest and the sinking fund of the
said loan will form a charge upon. the entire revenue
of the Ottoman empire, and sepecuilly on the annual
sum remaining as surplus from the Egyptian tribute,
after deducting that part of it set amide for paying off
the first loan, and moreover, the revenue resulting
from the customs at Smyrna and in Syria.
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan engages to canes
to be paid into the Bank of Ragland, on the 26th of
Jane and the 26th of December every year, or before
those days, the entire amount of a half-year's interest
and sinking fund for the whole amount of the said
loan to be contracted under the conjoint and binding
guarantee of his Majesty the Emperor of the French
and of her Britannic Majesty, or, for the part realised
of this loan, until the whole of the borrowed capital
shall have been repaid.
Art. 4. His Majesty the Emperor of the French,
and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, desirous of sparing the
Sublime Porte the expose* of collecting, consent to
engage to transmit to the Ottoman government the
sums proceeding from the said loan of five millions
sterling, to be contracted under the conjoint and
responsible guarantee of their Majesties.
For this end it is agreed that the contractors of the
said loan shall pay the sums proceeding from this loan
into the Bank of England to the credit of the Turkish
government, in order to be transmitted to the Sub-
lime Porte through the medium of the French and
English governments.
Art. 6. The present convention shall be ratified,
and the ratifications of it shall be exchanged at Con-
stantinoplese soon as partible.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed it and &filled to it their seals.
Done at London this 27th day of June, in the year
of our Lord, 1865.

(L. 8.) PESSIONT.
LS.) Cr.Asurox.
(L.a.) Mussuaus.

A WRONG LETTER DESPATCHED FROM THE
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF HOSPITALS IN
TBE CRIMEA.

JULY 14 1855. ser-,'

PROFOUTIONS FOR ADJUSTING THE THIRD
POINT.
k•
TRH OFFICIAL PAPERS PRESENTED TO PAR-
LIAMENT BY ORDER OF THE QUEEN.
A perusal of the whirled the official oorrespodenoe
published yesterday, the most interesting portion of
which appeared in last evening's Express, shows
that the difficulty of securing by pacific means
a limitation of the naval power of Enema arose very
early in the oourse of the conferenoss, and that the
system of cent!terpoiss offered by Austria as an equi-
valent was weighed and rejected as long ago as the
commencement of April last. At that date
also the governments of England and France
had been made aware that, in the words of
Lod Clarendon, " Austria would not adhere to the
treaty of December 2 if the Western Powers per-
gated in carrying the third basis into effect." In
the first of the published despatches Lord Clarendon
describes to Lord John Russell the expedients sug-
gested by Austria, through her minister in London,
for sparing Russia the necessity of reducing her
Black Sea fleet, and herself the unpleasantness of
fighting. IQ the mood despatch be seta forth the
alternative conditions upon which France and England
are prepared to insist. In the third paper Lord Rus-
sell reports the proceedings of a conference in which
Austria " attempted," to borrow this time the words
of Lord I. Russell," to induce the western powers to
relinquish their proposals on the third point." In
the fourth dispatch a similar conference I. re.
ported. In the firth, Lord Clarendon lays down
that if Russia will agree only to a peace unsafe
and dishonourable to Francs and England, the
COJUS balk for Austria will arise. In the sixth,
—which was amongst those given in yesterday's
Express—Lord John Ruse proposes a plan
which, under present circumstances, is one of
the most interesting disclosures of the present col-
lection. In the seventh paper, apparently a tele-
graphio message, Lord John Russell's plan is con-
demned by Lord Clarendon. In the ninth another
plan is propounded by Lord John Russell,
and recommended for acceptance, on condition
that Austria engage to present it to Russia
as an ultimatum. In the next paper a confer-
ence is reported. In despatch fourteen Lord Claren-
don discusses at considerable length two Austrian
proposals, made through Count Colloredo, and a more
developed form of the same as stated by Lord John
Russell. His lordship rejects all, and de-
clares that the time has arrived when Aus-
tria should fulfil her engagements. In the
fifteenth despatch the Austrian proposition is given
formally and in full, and in the sixteenth Lord
Clarendon exposes its futility. The despatch num-
bered seventeen is Count Buol's; it is an elaborate
statement of the Austrian case. In papers eighteen,
twenty, and twenty-one, Lord Clarendon establishes
and maintains the claim of England and France to
the active alliance of Austria. The intervening
papers do little more than give formal completeness
to the collection, and those which follow throw no
new light upon the question. We subjoin the papers
last mentioned:

No. 17.
Count Bad to Count Colloredo.—(Communicated to the
Earl of Clarendon by Count Colloredo.)
[ln this despatch, dated Vienna, May 20, the Autrian
Foreign Minister says:]
If Russia, being placed in a position to agree to one or
other of these propositions of the ultimatum, had rejected
both of them, we should thea have had proof that she will
decidedly not give her assistance to the complete realisation
of the third smarm lie, la so far as its ablest is to put an
end to Russian preponderaaes in the Black Bea. It being
impossible, therefore, to do else than eonsider as exhausted
the means of conciliation for bringing about sub a peace
as the interests of lit.rope, and oar own in particular, re-
quire, the Emperor our august muter decided to have re-
coarse to arms as a means of obtaining this peace, the want
of which is so generally felt, and which would &awry
under the resistance of one power alone. Oa the other hand,
so long as as absence of assistance on the part of oar allies
puts obstacles in the way of this last and decisive proof, our
impartial estimation doss not allow u to make the responsi-
bility of the failure of the negotiation fall exclusively upon
Russia.

Wren II ba Mo. It-.-------------o
JIMMIE? Ito Maw.
Their atajaptiss se awn° et
_Amorta. the lkiegewd ~ ead dm Clem et Moo thiled_mmemok et_dheet DM*
afteusamomaa abelamposamme al ...."
may" Magi
et Me umPliw. meg 1/#4l polleetlylk Mime
late lest Me Imptimmet stlemelel la the smog
the
emoholed ea Me between hang alaille %It
WhoPligadlataialLesatehted their full powers
men the to.lowlis wiles : 9 Mat op%
-et. t. The her lestraottog partial; wpm, la elm at Ma
wMelt make sad hats Is order to attain tin ~bint se la
art. L if, therefor, owe of the powers whisk *ad lii iii ~..._
of the wore to commit an orierevekva as tie moos —1 of a notate to ealaager one or other ot th• tlteedelakeeelt
la the preamble of the preemie treaty, the high
0a the appeal of the sultan, would proportioasUrimtS
that @lapin la a swam to be mataallp yo
As ezeseolve Immo of the earal broom of boakh
Emboli would be °moldered as aa act et matueloa isumg I, 44 apptladica et Article I mod 11. ,
Att. 4. Betlamtlem. - - -

:14
"maw IATICI" ----was
Arlielt 1. In the mat of Asada augmenting the animit mho
strength at her hard belll la the Maur .84, me se to reset tufa.,
lives assonnt at ties 1011menant a ths war, seeenitoo to tis
statement hereto aanezed, and if the remonstrating adhered ht
meow. to "nada, as well as the preaeoes or the sled been in Blasi Pea, were to prove fruitless, the high eaurscstag poretto., to 'sudsier this feet as giving rise to toe appheetios of too
artiste of the treaty of this day. Ooase!ra,,stiy they would mum"
I the edlinne at sulk elleedve term as a mut Milli, sei 'odd lift. did* wog* their hod and naval tomes in order to essewittag
I power
useesma a thisl Isiewslisrutaterest of Miro" Nab to Um, eoadatioas of egadtrium ed whal
1 Art. 1. Zatialadone.

No. 18.

The Earl of ClarendonCOJießeel of Weedier,lead.
My Lord, • Foreign-0M o, hue 2, lghh,
• • • •
I must also, I said (to Count Colloredo), express en,
regret that Count Buol should now be of opinion that th
proposal to limit the naval torus of Russia could only be
considered as one of the conditions weigh the belligerent
had expressly reserved to themselves the right of impute
beyond the four points, and which the continuities
hostilities might render necessary; ter his Bactlleacy,
the beet of my belief, had not regarded the proposal in this
light even when discussing it with tee plenipotentiaries's'
England and Prance, and he had enoported it in the taw
/arena, and had recommended it to the aceeptaaes of me
Manisa plenipotentiaries, as the best means for gists ,
effect to the thirebasis.
The object of the laird basis is to put as end to the
ponderance of Russia in the Black Sea; the limitation ;
the Ranieri fleet in that sea moue then strictly within that '
object, and is not a distinct std separate proposal apt
from the four bases, and such as the allies reserved a
themselves the right to Was forward, according u the
events of the war might make it necessary.
I requested Count Colloredo to assure Count Beal diet
we did not, as he supposed, exclude by seticipatios say
other project that would be equally efficacious, bat that Iry
declined, and must continue I. &Mire, all such mesas ea
are nasailestly ineffectual for the objects ere have is
new.
Count Colloredo observed that some sacrifice should be
made to secure the alliance of Austria.
I said I entirely agreed with him, and that we had Peen
all possible deferent* to Austria. It was solely out of des
fences to her that England and Prima bad agreed to the
four bosun and had consented to enter upon negotiation he
peace; It were to meet the views, and to enure the weepier
lion of Austria in a cause which might be toosidered 'sew
dally her own, that England and France adopted a coons
which they would not otherwise have pursued aetil tat
resents of war had more distinctly defined the relative pod-
Meant the belligerent powers.
Moat Colloredo then adverted to the great iatmesb
which Austria had at stake, and the risk she would incur by
going Pew with Russia without Ariel able to taloa spa
the material support of the Western Powers, while she
would have to fear the if not the hostility, of Pima
sad of scans of the German States.
I said that so far from questioning these 000sideratYay
her Majesty's government gave great %eights, them, saeeff .
failed to make allowance for the disadvantages seder
which Austria thought herself labouring. It was fa
Austria to decide between the considers ion alluded to by
Count Colleredo, and the engagements the bat satwel
into with the Western Powers ; bat whatever her daisies
might be, and whatever view Austria might take of ha .
own interests and obligations, no eff set on the part of be
Majesty's government would be wasting to militia *Ma-
paired the friendly relations that now existed between the
two countries.

On the other band, however, we meet claim to be the bat
guardians of our own honour and the best judges of our on
wanes, and Austria would have an just cause for mu-
plaint if we declined to accept conditions which we might
regard as inconsistent with our honour and ineffectual for
the objects that England and France bad pledged theme
selves to secure.—l am, Ito ,
(bigned) CLAZINDON.

No. 20.
The Earl of Clarendon to the Earl of Westotorelaud.
My Lord, F moiga-offloe Jane 12, 1865.
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