The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-06 00:00:00

THE "FUSION."

• A correspondent of the Independqnce Beige writes
the following curious letter on the everlasting
subject of the " fusion :"
There has been much talk lately of a letter, said to have
been sent to the Count de Chambord by the Orleans
princes in answer to the one which the mint wrote to M.
Pageot, on the ocgasion of the death of M. de Salvandy.
I am assured, however, that the princes did not think it
necessary to reply to that letter, which was not
addressed to them ; but that, having subsequently
received a more direct communication from the Count
de Chambord, they have thought fit to taae steps
to show what is the real state of their relations with
their royal cousin. According to my information,
they have written a letter to the count in terms as firm as
respectful, reminding him that neither at the visit of the
Duke de Nemours to Nervi in 1856, nor at another visit
alluded to inithe letter, did anything take place iavolving
a political accord between him and the princes—the con-
ditions laid down by the princes for an understaudiug of
this nature net having been accepted, nor even discussed,
in conseq.uence:of the Count de Chambord having refused
to explain himself as to the most important condition
of all. When, therefore,' the Count de Chambord in
his letter to M. Pageot, and in his more recent communi
cation to one of his cousins, speaks of "reconciliation,"
ho is mistaken if he means to'say that the two branches
of the houso of Bourbon are “,politically" agreed. Such
an agreement is at this moment impossible. But the
consequences of this' impossibility aro not be laid to the
account of the Orleans princes, who have done .their
utmost to avert them, but to the fact that the refusal to
consider the Conditions proposed prevented any determi-
nation from being come to on the point. The princes
have written a letter to the head of their family to the
above effect. One of their friends has been commissioned
to:take the letter to Vienna, and no ono duubts that this
serious step will, to the great regret of those who
cherished the hope of a different result, put an end for th
present to the attempts at fusion which have been going
on for so many years between the two branches of the
house of Bourbon.

THE TREATY OF PARIS.

THE PROTOCOL,

Yesterday morning was issued, in the form of
parliamentary paper, the protocol signed at Paris
on the 6th of last month, for carrying out the
provisions of the treaty of March 30, 1856 This
document i$ accompanied by a fac-simile of the
two annexes to the protocol, showing the future
boundary of Russia, the Principalities, and Turkey.
We subjoin the English version of the protocol :

[Translation.]
PROTOCOL SIONtLi AT PARIS, JANUARY 6, 1857,

Present :—The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Groat
Britain, Prussia, Russia,' Sardinia, Turkey.
"The Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Austria,
France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and
Turkey, duly authorised, having assembled in Conference,
in order to devise the means of terminating the difficulties
which the Boundary Commission, charged with the
execution of Article XX. of the Treaty of Paris, has
encountered in consequence of the position of places,
have decided, after an examination of the Reports
of the Boundary Commissioners, that the said frontier
shall be definitively traced according to the Plan No.
1, initialled by the undersigned, and annexed to the present
Protocol ; that it shall, consequently, commence from the
Black Sea, at a point 2,936 metres to the east of Lake
Bourne Sola, marked on the said plan by the letter b, and
following a broken line shown by the letters c, d, e, 1, k ,j,
h, m, n, o, where it joins the Akerman road, which it
follows as far as the letter p; preceding from thence to the
Val de. Trajan by the letters g, r, a, t, u, v, x, y, d 1, e I,f 1,
g 1, i 1; following the Val de Trajan as far as the letterp 1;
again taking the Akerman road as far as the ravine of Ali
Aga, which it ascends as far as the letter t 1; passing thence
by the letters u 1, v 1, x 1, y 1; reaching from thence in a
straight line, the Val de Trajan at the point where it is inter-
sected by the River Karakourt from Koubey, and following
it is as far as the River Yalponk, the mid channel of which
it ascends to the mouth of the Kirsaou, to the north of
Kongas, and at the letter A; ascending this stream till the-
line meets the road from Komrat to Birogani, at the letter
A 1, which road it follows as far as the letter B, and thence
ascends the Lower Yatpougel as far as the letter C, and
proceeds as far as the letter D, where it meets the Saratsika,
which it ascends as far as the letter E ; proceeding from
thence towards the Pruth, by the line indicated by the
letters v 1, x 2, y 3, z 2, r 2, a 8, b 3, c 3, d 3, e 3, f 3,
g 3, h 3, i 3, j 3, and k 3.
" The Plenipotentiaries having agreed that the marking
out of the boundary, and the delivery of the territory to
Moldavia, shall be completed by the 30th of March next, at
the latest, it is understood that the Austrian troops shall
have evacuated the Principalitieet of Wallachia and Moldavia,
and that the. British squadron shall have gritted the Black
Sea and the Bosphorus, at latest, at the same dait;.
" The Convention of the Straits will, from that time,
come iuto force.

" The Plenipotentiaries agree that the islands included
between the differant branches of the Danube at its month,
and forming the Dalta of that river as shewn by the Pian
No. 2 hereunto annexed, and initialled, shall, instead of
being annexed to the Principality-of Moldavia, as stipulated
by Article XXI. of the Treaty of Paris, be replaced under
the immediate sovereignty of the Sublime Porte, of which
they formerly held.

The Plenipotentiaries agree, moreover, that the Treaty
of Paris having, like the Treaties previously concluded be
tureen Rassia and Turkey, been silent with regard to the
Isle of Serpents, that island is to be considered as an appen-
dage to the Delta of the Danabe, and must, in ors?quence,
follow its destination.

In the general interest of maritime COMMCFC3 the Otto-
man Government engages to maintain on that island a
lighthouse destined to render secure the navigation of
vessels procceding to the Danube and to the port of Olessa;
the River Commission, established by Article XVII. of the
Treaty of Pat is for the purpose of maintaining the mouths
of that river, and the neighbouring parts of the sea, in a
navigablo state, will see to the regular performance of the
service of such lighthouse.

The present Protocol shall have the same force and
validity as if it had assumed the form of a Convention ; but
it is understood that, when the Boundary Commission shall
have concluded its labours, a Convention shall be signed by
the High Contracting Parties, recording the frontier such
as it shall have been established by the Commissioners, and
the resolution taken on the subject of the Isle of Serpents
and the Delta of the Danube.

Signed —HUBNER, WALEWSKI, COWLEY, HATZFELDT,
BRUNNOW, VILLAMARINA, MEHEMMED,

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Moniteur contains an article on the question
of the union of the Danubian Principalities. The
Plenipotentiary of France at the Conference of
Vienna had stated it as his opinion that it was the
combination best suited to assure to those provinces
the strength necessary to become a bulwark for the
Ottoman Empire. The French government has
not ceased to profess the same opinion, and what
has recently taken place between it and the other
cabinets has only tended to confirm it in its
convictions. It does not despair of seeing them
prevail in the councils of the Powers, and that the
one most interested will admit that the union of the
Principalities has nothing which is not completely
in accordance with the rights of suzerainty of the
Sublime Porto with regard to the Danubian
Principalities.