The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-31 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Paris Montour of yesterday, in its non-
official columns, says :
Count de 800 l Schauenetein died at Vienne as the 28th.
It will be recollected that at the time of the war is the
East he directed the foreign policy of Alllafilk, andthat as
this accouot be was appointed by his sovereign to take
part as first plthip,tentiary in the labour, of the Cockier
of Paris. Seine years before, under the ministry of Prince
Schwarzenberg, be represented Austria at the conferences
at Breeden, the object of which was to terminate the serione
differences which arose after 1818 between Austria and
Prussia. Count de Bed Schanenatein was 68 years old.
The official journal adds that the Archduke
Charles Louis bass beau nominated Protector of the
Austrian Department at the Paris Exhibition of
all 1867.

BT. PETERSBURG. Ocr. 23.
The long silence that has been imposed upon me
by other occupations could not be broken at a
moment of greater interest than the present. The
death of Lord Palmerston occupies the attention
of Europe ; and in Russia, as well as in every
other country on the Continent, the event is con-
sidered an important crisis in the fortunes of Great
Britain. Our friends and our foes have long been
accustomed to look upon Lord Palmerston as the
pivot on which our little island and its policy re-
volved. The great Premier was the incar-
nation of British power wherever that power
was known. England and Palmerston were
synonymous terms. Your correspondents in
France will say bow the great statesman was loved
by those who were always his friends; but it is
for me to inform your readers what impression his
'death has made in &country towards which his policy
has been deemed move especially inimical. Lord
Palmerston's aarsion to orbs on the fall of the
Aberdeen 'triunity was received in humus' with a
positive howl of rage from Bt. Petersburg to
Kansschatka. Hs had been long known a the
larch-enemy of Russian influence.
"There was nodded," says the Moscow Gazette,
"in which the noble lord waa mare • coasietent,
determined, and unscrupulous in theses of means
than in his hostility towards Russia." The Dos Pa-
cifico affair had already stamped him as a greatanti-
Russian intriguer. The diplomatic correspondence
on thesubject of Poland in 1831 had already shown
his animus, as his combination with France marked
his adhesion to the :evolutionary principles so
much dreaded is the eountry governed by, Ni-
cholas. It was, however, only at the court f the
Tsar that he 'taxi in bad *dour potions te the
Crimean war. In those days the Russian people
were not allowed to hear much of " revolutionary
principles," far less perhaps of those •cenetitu-
timid institutions which Lord Palmerston has
been supposed to advocate • as generally', add it
is *wry doubtful whether sither•Lotd Pallnertton,
or "revolutionary principles," Would be even now
much known is Russia bad it not• been foi the
forced abdication of the Aberdeed Cabinet. Y said.
there was a howl of rage throughout Russia When
Lord Palmerston• took the direction of the war ;
there was more—ead I record it on good • idtho-
rity—there was a general exezration of his
name. The greater part of the present
canine esneratioa in Russia can 'trace their
descent from ancestors who were dubbed " Felber-
fame in 1855. The evil attributes and' pblttical
ekes of the Premier were held up for public 'con-
tumely in the most scurrilous rhymes this Russian
pens had aver 'produced. • Now, / ads not raking up
all these signs and events of the'tilues to'a` spirit
of reproach or unfriendliness to theltu:ssian pe9ple.
' The Crimean war is more than 'forgottek--It is
lashed Spun by a great Medan of the thinking
public as the greatest blessing. that Piovidesiceever . .
bestowed upon btusoovy. The reforms of Pete the •
rt
Great fade iato inainifsance vbs., opaspareal *ids - • • •
the reforms that followed the Crimean war. With
that almost utter oblivion and forgiveness of armed
conflict, the reputation of Lord Palmerston has
'grown daily in Roads. Ris great vioe—that of wishing
well to revolutionary and constitutional movements
—has since, indeed, become a shining virtue. Besides,
his lordship was a successful statesman, and that
always commands applause. All was going on
well when the Palmerstonian alliance with France
resulted in a second diplomatic campaign against
Russia in favour of the Polish insurgents. " The
Greek revolution of 1862," says the Moscow Gazette,
" was likewise the work of Lord Palmerston, and
had the same object " (that of weakening Russian
influence in the East) ; "nor are the symptoms
few that the Poles were incited from the same
quarter to rise in open arms against Russia in 1862
and 1863."

This palpable calumny shows how blinding is
animosity. At the same time there are none so
blind as those who will not see, and the
reputation of the editors of the Moscow
Gazette depends greatly on their assertion
that the Polish insurrection was an "intrigue "
on the part (the editors have always hitherto
been understood to say) of a certain prince who
resides at the Palais Royal. The theory of Lord
Palmerstou's direct incitement of the Poles is not,
so far as I can ascertain, shared by any other Russian
journal, nor has it ever been propounded by even
the least sensible of politicians in general circles.
On the contrary, England (and Lord Palmerston
was England) has always been considered a tool of
France in this little matter of the Polish outbreak,
and to her unwillingness to intervene by force of
arms has been generally attributed in Russia the
peace that has been happily preserved. But pro-
bably the old theories and denunciations of the
Moscow Gazette are losing ground with the Russian
public; and now that Lord Palmerston is dead
nothing is more convenient than to tax him with
persistent and active animosity to Russia on all
occasions, and especially on the last.
Every Russian I meet asks the same questions.
What will be the future policy of England What
will be the result of the coming conflict of parties—
whig and tory 1 The Gotos, with a certain amount
of inconsistency, asks whether the "republican
organization of England" may not now be
threatened, and the Queen likely to take a more
active part in public business. It is hinted that
the Prince of Wales will also be brought more pro-
minently forward, and there are various or her theories
quite inconsistent with untie—that one great man
begets another. The news of Earl Russell's suc-
cession to the premiership is, however, take /I as an
indication that, as regards foreign policy, there can
be no change iu the attitude of England. Her in •
terests remain the same, and they could not be en-
trusted to a more experienced statesman than the
earl, who, in representing England as truly as did
Lord Palmerston, must always ba equally rn'pected
i both at home and abroad.

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