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entry, either laden or in ballast, shall be
exempt from the payment of tonnage dues on
entering or leaving French parts. On coming
without cargoes from British ports they will be

bject, as heretofore, to • the Payment of lf. per

ton on their ,registered measurement

A decree in the Monitegr fixes the import duty
on sugar as follows :,--Sugar of a
,colour equal to
the present first-type' by. French vessels from the
French colonies beyond the Caps of Good Hope;
and NM:America, the present' duties ,• by. French
vessels from China; Cochin dliina, the' Philippines,
and Siam, 45fr. the 100 kilogrammes ; from other
parts of India, 47fr.'; froth other places out of
Europe, 50fr. ; from the Entrepots, (Mfr.; by•
foreign vessels, Oft% Sugar of a colour superiOr
to the present first type, the same duties as above-
mentioned, with an addition of 3fr. per 100
kilogrammes. ,

Another detachment from the Sappeur-Pompiers
(firemen) of Paris, composed of a lieutenant and
70 men, has just left for the East, to reinforce the
company of that corps now in that quarter.
The. Journal des Debats, contains an.article, by M.
de Lacy, on, the arrival of Count
,Esterhazy at St.
Petersburg, and the passible answer of Russia to
the Austrian communication. Count Esterhazy, it
appears, arrived at St. Petersburg on the 24th, and
on the 27th had an interview with Count Nessel
rode, at which he delivered to him the communica-
tion from the Court of Vienna:—M. de Nesselrode
listened to the propositions of M. de Esterhazy with-
nut showing any emotion, and did not. interrupt the
Austrian Minister; simply saying, '! I will take the
orders of the Emperor. Letters from Berlin state
that, according to•his instructions, Count Ester-
hazy Will wait eight days (that is until the 4th of
January—yesterday) for the Russian reply. If that
is not delivered by the 4th, Count• Esterhazy
send to Count :Nesselrode a note reminding him of
his communication of the 27th of December, and
urging upon him to declare the resolution -of the
Emperor Alexander, giving a fresh interval of ten
days for the reply;to this second communication
If the Russian governmentpersist in not replying;
'Count •Esterhazy•will, on the 15th of January, quit
St.' Petersburg and return to. Vienna, with all the
staff of the, Austrian Legation. But the Berlin
writers are persuaded that Russia will send a
reply before the 15th, and perhaps before
.the 4th
of January.

The Debats indicates that Russia " will consent
to the neutralisation of the Black Sea," but " with
conditions"—the conditions being those already
intimated in the Russian circular of the 22nd of
December ! The Debats gives the arguments of the
partisarisnf Russia, who hold that these conditions
are the same as those mentioned by M. Drouyn de
Lhuvs at the Vienna conferences, and afterwards
formulated by Austria, but points out, in reply, the
arguments which -rest, on the events of the war
since accomplished. Those events indicate the only
safe solution : " Military preparations must- dis-
appear; from the shores, of- the Black , Sea, -No
more military Tosts, no more arsenals, no more
fortifications, no more trenches, and above all,
consular agents to protect commerce and to watch
closely the- execution of new conventions." The
Debats says,,in conclusion, that th.e:'best autriori-
ties have .no hope of a successful issue to the nre-

t negociations

RUSSIA

The Nord, of Brussels,, publishes a Berlin cor-
respondence, which gives the following analysis of
the. Russian Circular of the 22nd December. It

commence by giving .you textually the an-
nouncement (notice) annexed to the despatch, and
which runs as follows

The Emperor Consents that: the third point
shall be solved (resodu) by the, followina combina-
tions:—

I. The closing of the Straits

2. No military flag whatever shall float in the
Black Sea, with the exception of the forces which
Russia and the Porte by a- common consent may
deem itneeessary to,maintain there.

3. The amount of those forces shall be fixed by
a direct agreement between the two coasting
Powers, without.any ostensible participation of the
other Powers.

The following is an exact analysis, I might almost
say, the reproduction, of the despatch itself. which
must actually be in the hands 'of all the Govern=
ments to which it is addressed :

The Imperial Cabinet first states that the mo-
mentary interruption of hostilities in consequence
of the bad weather has necessarily aroused the
general hope that advantage would be taken of it
for the establishment of peace, and decfares it
was not the last to share the sentiment and to
devote a just so!icitude to it. It owns frankly that
the desire expressed by the Emperor of the French
at a public solemnity, in favour of a prompt and
durable peace, was at .the same time, and still is
the dearest wish of the Emperor Alexander.

The elevated policy which has been bequeathed
to this Sovereign by his predecessors makes it his
duty to make use of the power which God has
placed in his hands only for the good of mankind,
and consequently to desire peace, not only in the
interests of his own subjects, but in those also of
the whole of Europe. The Emperor Alexander
has not waited for the present moment to endea-
vour to attain that object. On his accession to the
throne he gave his full and entire consent to the
bases admitted by his august father.

.These bases. however, admit of different inter.
pretations. The Emperor, without hesitation,
gave them the most liberal interpretation • (leur
donna les plus larges developenients). As a proof
thereof he can quote the frank and loyal concur-
rence which he lent to the modifications to be
introduced into the political system of the East,
and to the collective guarantee which was to assure
its . independence..' even went so far as to
sacrifice his secular and glorious traditions. He
finally proved the sincerity of his resolutions by
the .manner with which he adopted the changes
proposed for the Principalities of the Danube and
for the navigation of that river.
If the conferences were broken off on the subject
of the third point, the responsibility thereof does
not fall upon the Imperial Cabinet, for when the
Austrian Cabinet brought forward the solution
which appeared to it most acceptable, it was the
Russian Plenipotentiary who declared it suscep-
tible of becoming the starting point (point du depart)
for an .arrangement, and it was the Ministers: of
the adverse party who rejected it in consequence
of internal dissensions which had arisen.
In the course of the grave events which ensued,
while torrents of bllod flowed, and the two belli
sacrifices

:I thereby, he
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Lppeared resolv
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ite the right of mig

?irit of ju

tice and of conciliation, which

for nearly half a century, had presided over the
destinies of Europe.
But as soon as information reached the govern-
ment of his Majesty, which assured him that his
enemies were disposed to take up again (reprenclre
en sous-teuvreithe negotiations of peace on-the bases
of the four points, such as they.-had: been defined
in the Conferences, the Imperial Cabinet did not
hesitate to
.come forward frankly, to meet, those
peaceful . dispoSitions, and to seek, frankly, a pos-
sible solution for the third point the order
of-ideas which had appeared. satisfactory to all
parties.

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The tmpeiial Cabinet declares 'in cnclusion,
" that this resolution of the Em
new, pledge: Of the sentiments of concilia,tion. 1
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