The Press.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

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CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : My proposals will be a combina-
tion of both.
HOME SECRETARY : Ah ! you will propose a loan in a speech which
will be a tax upon patience.
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : The air of St. Cloud is epigram-
matic, apparently.
HOME SECRETARY : Yes ; it is very different from the air of St. Ste-
phen's, especially on budget nights. Well, tax or loan, once more ?
Have you made up your mind ? Are you going to toss up for it ?
That's the best way. Head, a tax—woman, a loan !
PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROL: Very ungallant, indeed, to
let woman be alone. (Sir Charles Wood is abruptly extruded from the
room).
Lord CHANCELLOR (solemnly): I am far from certain that the course
which the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home Department sug-
gests does not partake, or at all events savour, of the nature of
gambling ; and with that uncertainty upon my mind I do not think
that I ought to countenance the process.
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER; I will let you all know at Christ-
mas what I mean to do. Meantime the more practical question is,
how we are to get over the intermediate time ? Rely upon it that, even
if the Opposition do not force matters to a crisis, you will all have
plenty of work in the way of answering questions and objections.
The PREMIER : I should'nt wonder.
The SECRETARY at WAR • I have duly announced our course.
" Reserve as to the past, silence as to the future."
HOME SECRETARY : Capital, if practicable. But criminals who
refused to plead used to be pressed to death.

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THE AUSTRIAN TREATY.

Various reports, evidently originating in mere
guess work, have been published respecting the
tenor of the treaty just concluded between Austria
and the two Western powers. A summary of its provi-
sions, purported to be derived from authentic sources,
was, however, sent to the Chronicle by its Paris cor-
respondent yesterday to the following effect :

The treaty commences by repeating and recording the
declarations and the principal acts of the Conference of
Vienna, as well as the declarations and engagements con-
tained in the notes exchanged on the Bth of August, 1854,
between the high contracting parties.
It maintains the four points of guarantee as the neces-
sary basis of peace, at the same time that it reserves
and recognises to each of the powers the faculty of extend-
ing them by additional conditions.
Austria binds herself to France and England, as she
had already done to Turkey by the treaty of the 14th of
June, 1854, to occupy the principalities for the purpose of
repulsing the Russian troops if they attempted to re-enter
them.

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Austria proclaims the right, as justly belonging to
Turkey and to the allies, of making all the movements
which may suit them for the purpose of attacking either
the Russian troops or the Russian territory.
7,-E1 consequence of her attitude in the principalities,
or for any other cause, Austria should find herself at war
with Russia, the alliance, offensive and defensive, between
her, France, and England shall be established by the fact
of the war.
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lf, before the end of the present year, 1854, Russit
should not have made propositions which are considered
acceptible, and which ensure good and durable peace, the
three powers will advise as to the means of obtaining that
peace.
The three high contracting powers bind themselves not
to accept any proposition for the re-establishment of peace
without having deliberated upon it in common.
A telegraphic despatch received yesterday in Paris
from Berlin announces that the new treaty between
Austria and the Western powers bad been sent there,
and, at a council held on the 6th by the King and
his Ministers, the adhesion of Prussia to the treaty
was determined on.
This produced great surprise amongst the Russian
party. The public has received this change most
favourably, and the funds have risen greatly.
The treaty is very shortly to be published.
A note, addressed by Count Nesselrode to the
Russian linister at Berlin about a month ago, has
just been published, in which the Russian Cabinet
signifies its consent to take part in negotiations for
peace upon the basis of the four points, modified to
suit the views of the Court of St. Petersburg. About
ten days later, and after the result of the battle of
Inkermann was known by the Czar, the Austrian
Minister at St. Petersburg was informed that the
Russian Government was disposed to accept the four
points without these modifications. In both cases
it is evident that the real object of the Russian Cabi
net in making these declarations was to obtain from
Germany " a neutrality supported with firmness and
perseverance ;" but in both cases the manoeuvre
seems to have failed, for even Prussia WWI not
restrained from concluding the additional article to
her treaty with Austria, and Austria proceeded
without further delay to complete her treaty with the
Western powers. It is evident, therefore, that the
German States themselves regarded this qualified,