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LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 23.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

Tuaszars.)
PARIS, Moinus.

Yesterday Baron Hubner delivered to the Emperor
Napoleon an autograph letter from the Emperor of
Aastria.

The yearly return of Customs and indirect tax a,
shows that 149,337,510 f. have been received in
1864 against 141,807,552 f. in 1863, and 139,883,666 f.
in 1852; thus giving an increase of 7,729,958 f. on
1853; and of 9,473,855 f. upon 1852.—Daily News.

VIENNA, JA2I. 21.

The Vienna cabinet has received despatches from
London and Paris announcing the determination of
the Western Powers not to relax their military
efforts on account of what transpired cm the 7th. A
despatch to the same effect has hien transmitted
from this court to London and Paris, respecting the
military preparations of Austria—Deify News.

WARSAW, Lug. 14.

Yesterday, the "Wean new year's day, the Ent-
peror's manifesto was read by the clergy in all the
churches—Daily Nom

RENEWAL OF BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK
BEA.

The following telegraphic despatch bee been re.
'sired at the Admiralty from Rear Admiral Sir
Sdinund Lyons :
" Being informed that considerable consignments
of munitions and contraband of war have taken place

teo• neutral ports of the Mediterranean to thine of
Odessa and Kertch, the Admirals of the English and
French squadrons have determined on establishing
ea effectual blockade of the principal Russian ports
la the BLck Sea, and to notify the strict enforcement
of this blockade from the lit of February, 1853.
Steps have been taken to *provide for an efficient
force being, prior to that date, stationed before the
principal ports which are to be blockaded, furnished
with due authority for the purpose in the names of
the two governments."

THE E

I'ARY CAMPAIGN.

Tus efforts which ought to be made in Parliament
toslicit fail and clear explanations from Ministers with
reference to the progress and prospects of the war
will be much facilitated by something of previous
concert among those who int end to question them.
The ends of inquiry cannot be more effectively
detested than by a simultaneous beret of a multitude
of questions, suggested by the peculiar views which
every individual member takes of the position of
Wain, or the suspicions he may, ea an individual,
Mersin. Ministers, if disposed to be reserved, and
to withhold full elneidatisns, may find, in the very
oultiplicity of questions, an excess for objecting to
one end another of them, and thus rais-
ing secondary irrelevant discussions, in which
tins must necessarily be wasted, and really
important inquiries evaded. A few well-weighed
interrogatories, going right to the root of
So evil, will render ell such bush-fighting
impoesible, and compel Ministers either to answer
directly, explicitly, and fully I or, by refusing to
answer, to condemn themselves.

Perhaps the beet way of opening the campaign
would be to revert to the position in which Parlia-
mentary action wu left at the close of the short
onion before Christmas. Ministers then asked and
obtained the sanction of Parliament to the measures
which they represented as the most urgently
NlClMNiry—as indispensable to enable them to carry
as the war with promptitude and vigour. One was
the Act by which they have been empowered to
mod Militia Regiments to undertake garrison
slaty in our dependencies abroad ; the other
was the Act empowering them to raise foreign levies,
sad bring a limited number of these recruits to Eng-
land to be organised and trained. What progress
have they made, since Parliament adjourned, in
availing themselves of the powers vested in them by
these Acts ? A oonsiderable number of Militia Regi-
ments have been embodied for permanent duty, and
nveral, it has been announced, are to be sent forth-
with to the Colonies. Upon what principles have
Ministers proceeded in selecting the regiments to be
embodied ? On looking over the list, we see regi-
ments enumerated, which have not, up to the present
time, been once assembled for drill and training;
and we see some left unenabodied which
have been repeatedly ssssmblsd for there
purposes!, and have been reported in an ad-
nimble state of efficiency. To the former slam
belong the tar greater part of the Blotch and Irish
Militia Regiments. As a specimen of the latter,. we
may select the Middlesex Raise. This regiment en-
lists, we believe, of ten companies, in a high state 111
training ; its arm is that which le the most eliding
and most needed in the present war. How sumo
it, then, that a regiment so well qualified to resew
effective service is left unembodied, while others
numerically weaker, and whose men have yet de be
made soldiers, are embodied ? Has there been fuourit.-
Ina in pl►y P Have the eager wishes of by fee the
greater part of the officers and men been
regarded—as is whispered in some quarters—
consult the convenience of the colonel ? or
to enable him to retain certain officers Owe
wealth and statue are supposed to give No. Add
to the corps, but whose business avocation;

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lender active envies

Again, with mud to the Fel
what steps have been taken to 1
German oorteependente t*e
has been so otterlytaletnanaWA

of it in that country, where numerous
ea
mama recruit told. Wow. time
obtained with ease. And it ia oonfdmtly

that little mon than a week ago parties
for infoiiiitioa at the Wevoillco were

that it had not yet been decided upon which
tion of the department the execution -'

law should devils's. Th. oireumstas
alluded to would seem to indicate.

Government bae lees losing time, and idly
with the rig imiesioNe which it iosis'ad
having piked in its heal. AB *airy into
Mies* allegations may sprietiewravor but a narrow
maw of the great field of the war management; bat
It will be a test of the sincerity and energy (or the
want of them) with which Ministers have been
urging on military operations since the Parliament
met in I/somber. At that time much of their past
indolence and inefficiency was condoned, in the hope
that the future would make amends. If it shall appear
that they have been going to work, sines that time,
as languidly and unsystematically as ever—that will
prove their premises of amendment to have been
hollow or insincere; will demonstrate that, oak.
from incapacity or want of goodwill to the week Iht
hand, the Ministry, as at present constituted, h
incompetent to the great task of carrying on the
war.

The inquiry neat in order is of * wider scope. It
embraces the whole operation of the naval campaign
in the Baltic. It is generally understood that Minis-
ters are seeing to throw the whole blame of its coin-
partitive Muse on Sir CHARLES Hanna; and that
Sir Cassias bitterly complains of having been
hampered by injudicious instructions, and of having
been inadequately provided and supported from home.
It is passible that • searching investigation may
show that both parties are in fault. It will be diffi-
cult to excuse an experienoed commander for having
accepted command upon terms that might or must
have rendered it impossible for him to perform his
duty. And it will be difficult for Ministers to show
that they are not reppousible for having employed,
and kept in office, an inefficient agent.
Lastly, full explanations must be exacted of the
causes of the chaotic and anarchical state which
appears, throughout the campaign, to have pervaded
every department of the army and navy in the
Black Sea. It will not be enough for Ministers to
show that they have betted orders for all things to
be done aright. Have they taken the most ordinary
precautions to enforce obedience to their orders ? or
have they, satisfied with issuing them, looked apathe-
tically on. while they were neglected or disobeyed?
This is too wide and complicated an inquiry to ad-
mit of our entering into its details now : but two simple
circumstances will serve to illustrate our meaning.
In a letter, from an able and respectable military
officer of high rank, now before us, it is confidently
affirmed that " it is well known that one of the
Cabinet Ministers wrote to Scutari to direct a pier
to be erected at that place for the landing of the
rick, and that it was not done for three months after."
A similar negligence in enforcing obedience to orders
is said to have resulted in the non•ereotion of a tem-
porary pier or piers for the embarking of the sick
and wounded at Balaklava. And we are also in-
formed that the military authorities in our army
before Sebastopol are prepared to thwart and ob-
struct the civil engineers sent out to con-
, struct a railroad from Balaklava to the camp.
The apathy with regard to the war, indicated by
these simple facts, appears to have pervaded all opera-
tions, from the greatest to the least. The truth of
the allegations on this head, so freely circulated,
must be ascertained or disproved; and if it is esta-
blished, the causer of the offence must be removed.

It cannot be too often insisted upon, that, to ensure
success, these investigations must be conducted with
all the sternness, but with all the calmness, of a judi-
cial inquiry. TALLEYRANIA favourite maxim, point
Ide tele, was never more applicable. A random,
irregular discharge of questions—every member rush-
ing forward singly, and without concert, to show
how zealous he is- can only perplex and bewilder,
and prevent the attainment of any amelioration In
the management of the war.—Daily News.

hoped,
Since then all is gate on pretty well.
v thing is arriving from CooeF
inal In the "
soldiers
pro-
mined, and the i
are
in tolerably comfortable winter clothing, great coats,
he. One item, however, is execrable—the boots. I
saw five hundred pairs the other day that had just
been brought from Constantinople, and for which the
government had paid eighteen francs a pair, which,
in badness of material, badness of make, badness in
every one point of view in which it is possible to
look at a boot, surpass anything it has ever been my
lot to witness. lam certain they cannot have
been made by a boottnaker, as a man trained
in the trade weld not by any possible effort so rid
himself of habits of long standing as to comet/net
anything so hideous and worthless. The leather is
about of the thickness and consistency of brown
paper, and any man of ordinary strength of arm
might drive Ins fist through any one of them in a
single blow; u to the shape, I shall only say that
they bear every mark of being adapted for any use
you ears conceive rather than for a covering for the
human foot—they might be taken for purees, water
bottles, anything but toots. Happily, however, there
is no man is the world more independent of his
'shamus than. the Turkish soldier. When he enters
his quarters he kicks it off whatever it may be, and
in the house or under covering luxuriates as much in
a barefoot as we do in bare heads. He knows how,
also, by the aid of a considerable quantity of cord,
Bulgarian cloth or flannel, and one or two
pieces of buffalo hide, untanned, to swathe
up his legs and feet in a manner which baffles
description, but which forms a perfect guarantee
against both wet and cold. The troops aro all in the
highest spirits, are delighted with the new clothing,
and are shipped off in great numbers nearly every
day for Eupatoria, cheering and singing very gaily,
and confident they are sailing to victory, plunder,
good pay, and what not. lam certain their morale
has n been better. They are pleased at being
relieved from their long inaction, and great numbers
particularly the Egyptians, are filled with the ides:
that once arrived in the Crimea they will be taken
into English pay, and consequently find their pockets
full of guineas and their knapsacks crammed with
Gabs and tobiooo, in an incredibly short space of
time. The fact is, Omer Pacha is taking with him
the beet of his troops, both cavalry and infantry, the
former in considerable force, and under the command
of Sir Stephen Darman. I refrain, for obvious
reasons, from giving any details as to numbers, and
artillery, Brc., but I must say it will be the largest,
bast equipped, and best led army that Turkey has
ewer seat to a foreign soil since the long gone days
et her glory. All the foreign officers in the Turkish
service will be of the expedition : the troops are full
of ardour. Omer Puha has a great reputation at
stake, a greater still to achieve; and, altogether, I
see every reason to believe that the army of the
Danube will show themselves worthy to fight side
by side with the heroes of Alma and Inkermano.
Omer Puha arrived here on Saturday, and was
received as usual with a salute of nineteen guns.
The authorities, home and foreign, went out to meet
him, and accompanied him to his quarters. On Sun-
day he started for the Crimea in the Nubia, with
Colonel Simmons, to concert doubtless with Lord
Raglan and General Canrobert upon a plan of opera-
tions, and inspect the Turkish position at Eupatoria.
Until his return nothing will be known, and even
conjectures would be melees. From the large Turkish
force which is being now daily disembarked at Rape-
toris, the Russians doubtless have been led to expect
a movement on their rear, and it is pretty confidently
stated here that Mentchikoff has taken up his old
position on the Alma, so as to prevent any Junction
hy that road between the Turkish and the Anglo-
French armies. I have this on tolerably good au-
thority, and place considerable, though necessarily
not absolute, reliance on it myself. The work of
embarkation goes on u yet very slowly, owing to
the refusal of the English and French to allot more
than two steamers for the work, and it is al-
leged that the sailing vessels are no longer
able to keep the sea. This display of stinginess as
regards the steamers can be accounted for in no other
way than by supposing that the allied leaders consi-
der the coming or going of the Turkish troops of
very little importance, and their aid of no great
value; but this is a piece of presumption the folly of
which is demonstrated by everything which has
occurred on the Danube during the last eighteen
months. The affair of Balaklava, about which there
has been so muoh talk, is just what might have been
expected from men led as the Turks were, placed es
they were, fed and treated as they were. I am
afraid they lead the lives of dogs, and very unfortu-
nate ones, in the Crimea, if I may judge from the
conduct of the French here at Varna, and from the
het that great numbers have deserted to the Ru-
shee at Sebastopol—a step which all who know the
Tube know they would never take if their suf.
helm were not very great indeed. It is a
serious instance of the injustice and fickleness of
some portion of the public, that though the
French have had their batteries carried and their
guns spiked three times in the very centre of their
ftl/2 not a word is said. The Turks are vile beyond
Eiseman because three hundred were driven out of
redoubts two miles from their supports.
Here the greatest ill-feeling prevails between them
and the French, whose conduct towards them has
certainly been anything but conciliatory, or even
civil. For a long time past a man has hardly been
able to make his appearance in the street with a fez
en his bead without being obliged to endure a shower
of insults, poured upon him by every French soldier
whom he meets. The result his been a series of
rows, more or less serious, which reached their cul-
minating point a few days before my arrival, when a
party of drunken Frenchmen attacked some Turkish
cavalry soldiers—drove them into the stable where
their horses were feeding, and then set fire to the
building, and burnt twenty horses and a large
quantity of forage. It was only owing to the
heroic exertions of Lieutenant M'Bean, an English
officer, that the Turks escaped with their lives, and
the Pacha has consequently recommended himi to
his government for the decoration of the medjidia.
Hardly a week passes in which riots do not occur,
in which both parties use their sidearms freely, and
between them contribute a very fair quota of wounded
to the hospitals, and which are invariably followed by
an exchange of notes between the pasha and the
French commandant, the correspondence seldom
having any better effect than that of convincing
each of theta that the right is all on his aide and the
wrong all on the other. Some stringent measures
have, however, been taken lately, such as the closing
of all wineshops and cabarets at seven o'clock in the
evening, and the result has been a greater amount
of quiet, and a lees amount of disturbance and scan-
daL But there is one unfortunate consequence of all
this ill-feeling which no polioe measures could either
remedy or prevent, and that is, a deep and cordial
detestation of the French in the minds of all classes
of the population. A Turk can now hardly speak of
a Frenchman without spitting out, the greatest mark
of hostility he can show. This is certainly greatly
to be regretted; but it is so notorious, and so com-
monlya talked of here, that I see no reason why I
pass it over in silence. All this is to be
ascribed in great part, I think, to the intolerance of
foreign usages And maandee based upon high ideas
of their own superiority by which our allies, with all
their good humour and *lug, are unquestionably
distinguished. For this, if for this only, they
never- hale been, and never will be, great
or suceessiful colonisers ; they have not the
good hummed iadelputie, the half pitying, bell
contemptuous hidifferenne with which Englishoieti
treat the weakness*. and oddities of races which they
look upon de istleris to heir owe. It will take many
, . I

The Odessa Correspondent of the Colore Gazette
writes, on the 7th inst. :—" To my former information
respecting the movements of troops towards the
Crimea, I can now add from an undoubted source
that eighteen battalions have already passed the
gate of Perekop. I had also mentioned that masses
of cavalry were moving in the same direction. In
fact, besides the reserves of the 10th division, which
had assembled at Kiew, 6,000 horsemen from the
Ukraine are on their march towards the Crimea.
Here every preparation is being made to undertake
a second and more skilful enterprise against the
, allies."

The Vienna Presu publishes a telegraphio despatch
announcing the signature, by Reschid Paths and the
ambassadors of the Allied Powers, of some diplo-
matic document, the object of which is to regulate
the future relations of the Danubian Principalities.

FRANCE.

ON 7U DAILY usws.)
PARIS, MONDAY SIIINING.
Letters from Bucharest state that the late Russian
invasion of the Dobrutecha was effected, not, as it
has been said, by General Laden, but by General
Pawloff, the commandant of one of the divisions of
Luders' army. According to these accounts the
Danube was crossed on January 8 by 3,000 Russians
—rather a large " detachment."
The general tenor of the news is very warlike.
The government journals proclaim that no hopes are
entertained of a pacific solution from the Vienna
negotiations. One letter says that for several days
put the Austrian minister has ceased to confer with
Prince Gortchakoff, feeling that no result is likely
to
.grow out of the ostensible acceptance of the four
points.
The military negotiations between France, Eng-
land, and Austria, are said to be actively going on
at Vienna. There was a report at Berlin on the
19th that the treaty of alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, had been actually signed; but this must be
premature.
The article in the London Tunes, touching the si-
tuation of the English army in the Crimea, was con-
sidered at the London Stook Exchange itself as
being written in order to precipitate the ministerial
crisis which has been talked of as probable for some
time past, and had but little effect upon Consols. At
the Bourse the two quotations arrived from Lon-
don with a fall of only. The Reate, after gra-
dully falling, with but little reaction, closed at the
lowest price of the day, 87fr. 80c., being a fall
of 900. Credit Mobilier rose sfr. Railways
were in fair demand at the opening, but with the
exception of Caen and Cherbourg, which rose 17fr. 50c.,
almost all the lines fell in the coarse of the day ; the
fall was from 2fr. 50c. to Mr. It was announced
that the negotiations of the Grand Central Company
with government for the Nevers line had not led to
any result, and that the general meeting advertised
for to-morrow had been postponed. In consequence
Grand Central shares, which at first were greatly
inquired for, fell of,.
The Siecle has a highly laudatory article on the
late adhesion of Piedmont to the Western alliance.
The Siecle " would rather that the Italian contingent
should have been added to the French troops than
placed under the orders of Lord Raglan, not assuredly
that it would find amongst them braver soldiers than
in the English army, for whom our admiration in-
'ceases every day on account of the sufferings which
they have so nobly supported; but the similitude of
organisation of arms, of character and of lan-
page, drew, it seemed to us, the Piedmontese
army closer to our own. There are no soldiers in
Europe who so much resemble the French soldiers.
The infantry of the Sardinian army, with the ex-
emption of some details in the uniform, would be
easily taken for oar infantry soldiers, and as to their
bersaglieri they are the equivalent reproduction of
oar Chasseurs de Vincennes—and to say that is not
te pay them a small compliment. Piedmontese and
Punch united would, we doubt not, live, manoeuvre
sad combat together, as the soldiers of one and the
ease army. Of that we have a guarantee, if one be
asesseary, in the most glorious bases of our modern
history. It will not be forgotten, for example, how
at Austerlitz the Piedmontese sharpshooters and
therms behaved; and we may also call to mind
that metier regiment of the same country, the 111th
of the Has, was one of those which the Emperor
Napoleon seat against the famous redoubts of Semo-
novski in the most critical moment of the battle of
Moscow."

Criox Taz

The reasons suggested by the Sleds why the
Piedmontese contingent is to be attached to the
English army rather than to the French one are the
numerical interiority of the English troops. Were
the Piedmontese forces united to the French, the
disproportion between the forces of the two Western
Powers would be still more marked, and a certain
disadvantage might result from it in the general con-
duct of the war. It is not intended, besides, that the
Piedmontese troops shall be incorporated with the
English army ; they are to be merely placed under
the supreme command of Lord Raglan, remaining at
the same time a perfectly distinct corps, preserving
their own nationality, and directed by their own
officers. The Piedmontese government 1111., in fact,
taken especial care to clearly characterise its inde-
pendence by not consenting to accept any subsidy
from England. If, therefore, Piedmont thinks fit to
engage in the war, she does so under her national
colours, and at her own expense. All that the Allied
Powers are to do in return is to facilitate the loan
which she will require for keeping up her army in
the Crimes.

Mr. Mason' the American minister, who has been
lately tedisposed, is now in a fair way of recovery.
The Moniteur gives the following account of the
presentation to the Emperor of the flags taken at
Tooggourt :—" The Minister of War, yesterday pre-
seated to the Emperor the Arab deputation, charged
to present to his Majesty the flags taken from the
enemy in the recent expedition of Tonggourt. One
of these flags is stained with the blood of the intrepid
soldier, who, after a hand-to-hand conflict, rue-
oeeded in wresting this trophy from the Arab who
carried it. The Emperor presented the Cross of
the Legion of Honour to Lieutenant Constant d'Yen-
ville, the first French officer who entered Touggonrt,
ea also to Ahmed Ben Amraoul, asharpehower of the
battalion of Constantine. This native, who was wounded
in 18.51, in Kabylia, took two of the flags from the
Cheikh of Touggonrt. Two othes Arabs, Khalet Ben
Dir, a soldier of the 3rd regiment of Bpahis, and
Ahmed Ben Zuursour' a soldier of the gown of the
Solaria, received the military medal from the hands
of hie Majesty. Each of them had taken a flag from
the Chad!'

A welder from the Minister of Commerce was on I
Saturday posted up at the Corn Market in Paris. It
is addressed to' the prefects, and announces that the
Minister of War has placed at the disposal of the
farmers a certain number of soldiers who under-
stand threshing, in order that the different oorn
markets may be more abundantly and promptly asp
plied.
In the Champs Elysees yesterday, an elegant
sledge, drawn by two large doge, was driven up and
down several times, and attracted great attention.
The dogs have bees breeght from the Crimea by an
oftioer on sick leave. They have long ears like the
Danish dog, and a sharp mauls. They carry the
head high, have large eyes full of fire, and seem very
intelligent. One of them is a male and the other a
tamale—the former is almost entirely white, and the
letter hes large brown spots,

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_'Prussia ought, In the first place, to
be molded by a previous understanding so to the Unit&
pies @flatting the eventual conditions of the convention is
ansentilon at the present moment. If this assisting* become
molly necessary, Prussia would be ready to give
It before the delay Seed. Prussia, besides, does not
whit to change the character of her obligations.
tits has not bound herself to Austria excepting
by a treaty purely defensive. Besides this, the thro
great German Powers ought, in the first place, to
sae efforts in common to obtain the adhesion of Ueda
the four points of guarantee, and in order to do that it
would be necessary that Prussia should participate in the
delleitive regulation of the basis of the peace. Prussia
adds, that whether the question be to consolidate the equi-
librium of Europe, or to modify the treaties which she has
signed, her right to participate in the coaferences on the
subjects of these matters is derived and belongs to her, not,
from her adhesion to such er such a particular convention,
bat from her rank es a groat Power. The King of Prussia
k resesquady determined to maintain that right. He
will mot resod, in order to have it recognised, before any
danger er egeileee, and the sacrifices in which he knows
that hie people will support him with all the energy of pa-
! Worthies.

Having thus sketched the Prussian case, as exhibited by
M. Menteuffel, IL. Drouyn de Lhitys thus proceeds to ex-
press the santiments of his goverumnot :
" The French government hes to observe that there are
in this statement two kinds of ideas—one concerning the
relations of Prussia and Austria, and the other relating to
the situations of Prussia in Europe. France will not make
any reference to the former, which belongs only to the Ger-
manic Confederation; but alto the second, she is disposed
to speak distinctly. France does not deny the rank of
Prussia as a grand power—the French cabinet itself has
often, during the last two years, reminded Prussia of the
obligations involved in that rank which she puts forward
with so just a pride. Rut the quality of great power is a
permanent matter, and cannot be abandoned one day,
because of its bnrdeas, to be resumed the day after, for the
sake of its conveniences. Its rights end its duties are cor-
relative, and cannot be separated.

"There are no reasons for supposing that England and
Austria take a view of these things different from that of
Austria; but be that as it may, it is very certain that
France will not admit that a power may of its own will
hold Itself aloof from great events while they are taking
place, and not maintain its pretension to regulate their
consequences. The gains of a war ate only for those who
have carried on that war, and the advantages derivable
from the present war—advantages essentially moral—will
be the right to participate in the deliberations which are
uadertakeu in the interest of Europe for the reiteration of
peace. What has Prussia done to have a right to such
participation ? She has refused to proclaim her neutra-
lity—a very honourable course no doubt—but on what aide
is she, and on what aide will she act, if the war continues ?
No one can say.
" Can Prussia complain of the great confidence which
Francs accords to Austria? The °unclad of the latter
power and that of Prussia are widely different.
"Russia evacuates the Principalities by a movement which
she declares to be purely strategical. Prussia at once de-
clares herself satisfied, whilst Austria immediately there-
upon exchanges the notes of the Bth of August. Prince
Gortchakoff adheres on Nov. 28 to the four points, Prussia
flatters herself that she has attained the object of her
efforts ; whilst Austria, en the contrary, signs the treaty of
Dec. 2 with the Western Powers. On Jan. 7 the ambas-
sador of Russia accepts the interpretation of the Allied
Posers. Prussia, completely satisfied, sends a refusal to
Austria to fulfil her military engagements resulting from
the treaty of April 20 ; Austria, on the contrary, writes the
next day to her allies that the re-establishment of peace not
having been assured, she has to propose to combine with
them her military plans, in ezecutioa of Art. 5 of the treaty
of Dec. 2.

" Will Prussia pretend that Austria finds in the alliance
advantages which she could not enjoy ? If so, what are
they ? Since she proposes to make a Prussian treaty by the
side of the Austrian one, she ought certainly to signify the
precise signification of that proposition. Is that the object
of M. Usedom's visit to London ? The mission of that
diplomatist has been carefully invested with so much
seeresy and so many confidential forms that, to the present
time, the secret has act come to the knowledge of the French
cabinet.

But the mare pains are taken for conualmeat the more
will be used for discovery. All, however, that the French
Cabinet knows of that mission is that Prussia hu been en-
deavouring to p the Allies from carrying the war to
the most vulnerable point of Russia, and to interdict the
passage of their troops across Germany. What did she
offer in compensation ? She offered to place a 'corps
d'arnsde on the frontier of Poland—that is to say, that
Prussia with one head should turn aside the sword of the
Allied Powers, and with the other hand cover the Russians
with a buckler. One would, in truth, 'imagine t►at M.
d'Usedom had several treaties In his portfolio, and that he
produced at London by mistake that which he ought to
have brought forward at St. Petersburg.

" The French government is very far from wishing to
wound the feelings of Prussia. It is in a loyal effasien of
feeling that it expresses itself Illus. It wishes that its
words should be listened to at Berlin, in order to make
Prussia escape from a situation in which it should have
been happy not to see her if its previous efforts bad suc-
ceeded."

neoesaity for it arises, by virtue of
'e, and consequently all Mathes
Le to a proper undentandiag ea
contracting parties.
be a doubt now, however, that the
mobilisation Is actually at band, in coo
prospect of ro-atablishing the
• term now very near, and ht.

the geld on her eastern Nutter
very short time, her forces, ein;
strike a vigorous blow at the
appearance at the Upper pistil,.
.res far leas time than Is reqnhig,
concentration of a Prussian arty
fulfilment of Prussia's engsgemaii
Austria from ell 'tusks
, under such circumstances, sores
rusea should have in readiness the
military forces required for the purpose of commondsfenee,
Baron Hem is decidedly of opinion that the moment hes
arrived when Prussia should commence the mobiliestias
of a part of her army according to the treaty. He dezum
that our forces stationed on the eastern frontier will net
seem, until joined by the 100,000 Prussian troops, for
enabling him to commence the contest with the prospect,.
certainty of success. (Mit der Asissieht au
f eimin
Sehtceren £rfolg den Rampf aufnehenenete tonnen.)
A more detailed discussion of the arrangement to be
made on this head ought therefore to be commenced with.
out delay. We are also ready to send again and at once*
this purpose a military commissioner to Berlin.
In the opinion of the Ordnance-blaster Baron Rem, le
ease these negotiations should be conducted not inertly ea
the basis of the April treaty, but also on that of Promia's
secession to the treaty of alliance of December 2, the ed.
!active force of Prussia's contingent, as stipulated is the
military convention of April 29, would suffice foe tits
present, and nothing further would be imperative save the
immediate and simultaneous mobilisation of this swimb
force of 200,000 men, which can be concentrated at Post
and Breslau.

With respect further to any military measures On the
put of the Band, we indulge in the hope, that Prussia wpl
be willing to co-operate with us at the diet for promptly
and vigorously calling out what was agreed on the 20th of
April, should form the minimum of the Diet's contingent.
Assuredly all the governments composing the Diet will
evince the greatest readiness in taking this step, when they
IWO the two great powers setting them the example by
placing their own armies on a war footing commensurate
with the occasion.

Together with the armies of Austria and Prude, by
virtue of the stipulations mentioned, the remaining states
shall hold the half of their contingents ready
for action. In so far as it is applicable in the
present instance, either four separate halt army-corm
could be formed, each with its own commander, to be noel.
nated according to the provisions of the military federal
statute, whilst each contingent half could be joined later by
its remaining half, so as, it required, to bring the four army
corps to their full normal strength; or two combined and
complete corps--a South German and a North German—
could be formed. In either case these federal corps would
have to effect a junction simultaneously with that of the
Austrian and Prussian armies. The forms to be used in
calling out and concentrating the federal troops may
be left to the option of the governments concerned
and the deliberations of the military committee. All
that in this respect need be attended to would be
to take care that no delay ensued through the difficulties,
perhaps, that might attend the mobilisation of the half
contingents respecting the formation of the smaller bodies
of troops in particular, since the chief object of the masers
is to have the federal troops ready for action, and in the
strength prescribed. The individual governments should
not be fettered while promoting this object, and after the
precedeit of partial levies on former occasions, the troop'
soonest ready would have to receive the route. The federal
adjustment of the burtheas by subsequent services, sr by
the payment of their equivalent to the diet could be settled
►fterwards.

Should Prnuia's accession to the alliance of Dec. 2 take
place later, the two Powers would doubtless be induced at
the same time to extend their joint motion in the Dist to the
calling onto( the whole grand contingent of the federal
army, in order to give to the military position of the entire
Germanic confederation a greater force, stringently needs
eery fur the offensive.

Your Excellency will easily conceive, that it u of imme-
diate and practical importance for Austria to be speedily and
fully made acquainted with Prussia's intentions relative to
the points I have been dwelling upon. Out
(nether measures in • military sense, and espe-
cially with respect to our sending • military commiuoner
to Berlin and instructions to Frankfort are connected with
the reply of the Prussian government to the present note.
In communicating this note therefore to the President of
the Ministry, your Excellency will express to him the very
great value we set on receiving information as speedily se
possible, and it is to he hoped in the sense desired, with
regard to Prussia's views and resolutions concerning the
mobilisation on the part of the German powers.
Receive, &c., (Signed) COUNT BUOL.

The following is the answer of the Prussian
Cabinet to the foregoing. It is in the form of in-
structions forwarded by M. Manteuffel to Count
Arnim, Prussian ambassador at Vienna :
BERLIN, JAN. 5.
Your Excellency will find enclosed a copy of a note
addressed on the 24th December, 1864, to Count Esterhaly,
in which the Imperial Austrian Cabinet mare cheely defines
the military measures which, in its opinion, Prussia and the
other German governments ought to take in virtue of the
treaty of April :20, and of the additional article of the
26th November. Count Buol very justly remarks that it it
necessary the contending parties should come to an under-
standing in respect to the exigency which presents itself,
and on which the of sey of the conditional military oblige.
tions into which Prussia has entered depend,. As your
Excellency will readily conceive, his Majesty has from the
same point of view uninterruptedly directed hi, attention
to the course of events, and long before this matter was
brought forward, in the way dons in tho despatch
of December 24, his Majesty had conscientiously taken
into consideration the obligations which he bad taken on
himself. It does not appear to be my duty now to eater
more fully into the dispositions made by his Majesty the
King, dispositions arising ae well from • regard to the in-
terests of his country and people, u from the undeviating
attention which he has paid to the gravity of the cireuni-
stances, in order with noiseless progress to effect an in.
creased preparation for war and a more speedy development
of force. By the measures taken, larger bodies of troops
can be ready for action within a much shorter period than that
conditionally appointed in the military convention of April
20, and we might therefore suppose that we should in some
degree be able to tranquillise Count Buol in regard to the
heavy blow of the Russian military force on . the Austrian
empire, could we share his opinion that Russia entertained
the idea of proceeding aggressively.
However, after having dispassionately examined the
g I state of affairs, we should be obliged to do violence
to oar own conviction before we could arrive at the concha.
aion that Russia will assume the offensive if she is not
attacked. I have more than once had occasion to direct
your excellency to make such confidential communications

to the imperial Austrian cabinet as in our opinion would
most positively refute any such supposition. Besides, oar
intelligens* respecting the movements of the Russian
troops is by ao means of a nature to justify the apprehen-
aims alluded to. I attach the greater importance to what
has above been said, as it appears to be the object of a put
of the pose to lead public opinion astray in this matter. Is-
deed, the meat conduct of Russia, in respect to the elides-
vows made to bring about negotiations for peace, is of such a
nature, that it would be difliealt for a dispassionate Ws
not to remark her sincere wish to come to an understandiag
Russia has unreservedly accepted the four points as they
were proposed to her. After the conclusion of the treaty
of Deo. 2, she not only did not retract her acceptation, but
she gave a fresh instance of her readiness to conclude a
peace by granting faller powers to Plaice Gortehakoff. ilia
.idefeety the King has the satisfactory consciousness of hair
lag always so employed his penonal and diplomatic influence
at St. Petersburg, that the Imperial Russian cabinet should
,declare itself ready to treat on the basis of the four points,
although this basis of peace goes beyond that which the
two contracting powers (Prussia and Austria) had consi-
dered the object of their alliance, when the treaty of the 20th
of April was concluded. A.eonfidential conference has already
been held, in order more nearly to specify the four points-
We do not lunar the result of that conference, and because
we do not :now it, and as long as we do not know it, we
shall tansider it an imperative duty to take the simple and

lisw:mistakeable conditions of the treaty, u our inviolable
,(rule
of action, and keep tke circle of our obligations free
from any extension which we cannot clearly overlook. It
respest to the military matters, witich are pointed put to us

.

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