The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-15 00:00:00

SHRMVSBURY RASES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TF,LEGRAPII.)
HANDICAP PLATE.

Octavia
Timotheus
Five ran.
SCURRY HANDICAP.
Dead heat between einem and Cherry Brandy.
WELTER CUP.

Eulogist
Speed the Plough
Eight ran.
COLUMN HANDICAP.

Lord Alfred
Claret

Gamekeeper
Chicken
22 ran. Won by half a length
£lOO PLATE.

Alfred
Assayer

Nine ran.
£5O PLATE.

Marl

Boer ...... .....

Seventeen ran.
COPELA.ND NURSERY HANDICAP.

Shadow
Byrsa
Elfida

Seventeen ran.
MONKMOOR PLATE.

L'Addio
Prince's Mixture

Fourteen ran.
BOROUGH PLATE.

Sandboy

Cineas..

Four ran.

Nothing doing at Tattersall's this evening.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

The following appointment was made at the Admi-
ralty this day :
Lieutenant C. Blrland to the Sanspariel.

CONDITION OF THE DANUB lAN PRIN-
CIPALITIES-AUST RI AN PERFID Y.

We believe the unea4pess occasioned to the Govern-
ment by the reports from Vienna and Constantinople,
as to the proceedings of the Austrian army in the Danu-
bian Provinces, has recently been much aggravated by
the occurrence of anticipated events, but especially by
the communieation of some extraordinary information
from non-official quarters. We believe the facts now in
their possession, ought to leave no doubt on the minds
of Ministers as to the real character in which that per-
fidious, but feeble Power, called an Empire—and for
whose alliance the Western Powers have sacrificed so
much—contrived to introduce an army into those un-
happy provinces.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, among others, has
lately conveyed his views to his former colleagues, in
no mistaken language. We understand that in a
lengthy and important communication, to which he
was prompted by the result of his observation and in-
quiries in the East, his Grace not only expresses the
most grave apprehensions on the subject of the Aus-
trian occupation, but the opinion—which we were not
slow to promulgate from the very first—as to the
honesty of Austria in the military arrangement vo-
lunteered to the Porte. It may appear patriotic in his
Grace, to have thus, under the light of a better expe-
rience, spontaneously acknowledged the evil conse-
quences of the policy to which he bad been a consenting
party. But the Duke of Newcastle must have learnt
wisdom in his generation, and it may have occurred to
him that a timely confession may partially shelter him
individually from the execration which the sanctioning
of an Austrian occupation of the Danubian Provinces is
destined to stamp the Ministry of which ho was a member.
Our readers may not be generally aware that, in the
understanding between the first Napoleon and the Em-
peror Alexander, which followed their famous interview
on the river Niemen, in 1807, it was proposed that Aus-
tria should participate in the gigantic territorial spolia-
tion which was then projected. Francis I. was to lend
his military forces to the accomplishment of the ambi-
tious objects of the two Emperors, and was to receive as
his reward those three provinces of European Turkey
which she long coveted, and which she is still determined
to acquire—the provinces of Bosnia, Servia, and Bul-
garia. Russia, among other territories, required the
Northern Danubian Provinces, the lonian Islands, the
Herzogovine and Montenegro ; while Austria would
cede Lombardy, Venice, and Illyria to the French
empire.
Butthe foresight of Napoleon warned him against
giving Russia any ports or naval position in the Medi-
terranean, add this great project for changing the poli-
tical and geographical divisions of Europe was abandoned
The Northern Colossus and the German Emperor nevar
relinquished designs which emanated from the very in-
stincts of a common traditionul policy aed a constant
political ambition. The present Emperor of Austria,
who, only a few years ago, was obliged to solicit the
aid of the Northern tyrant to suppress the struggles for
independence of his own subjects, actually cherishes the
same unhallowed ambition with as much ardour and con-
• fidence as his predecessors. . . .

We believe that, before the meeting of Parliament,
the views of Ministers will undergo a complete change
on the subject of the Austrian alliance, and that the
language of Lord Clarendon, if he is really dealing
honestly with the country, will be of a different character
and tone from that of the last two sessions. It will be
strange if Austria is at the same time found faithful to
the alliance and following the policy best calculated to
further the joint designs of Russia and her own ambiti-
ous views. Her pertinacity in opposing the entrance of
an Anglo-French force into the Danubian Provinces,
while, at the same time, the withdrawal of the Russian
garrisons of 'small, Reni, &c., on the Danube and on
the frontier of Gallicia, leaving many points of territory
unprotected, would justify the strongest suspicion that
Austria is holding the provinces for other purposes than
those of the alliance. It will be well if the consequences
do not result in a war with that Power.—Morming Ad-
vertiser.