The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-19 00:00:00

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(For Galigna 21.
The Paris journals are paitioqclikiertS
With the details of the mole than John Bull' hearti-
ness, the enthlisiasm, of the reception which has
greeted their Imperial Majesties from the roads of
Dover all the iv ay to Windsor. It may be said to
have been nloiost one prolonged hurrah of acclama-
i tons, fist stit.r;,iiig from the brave tars who swarmed
on the declis,nd'in:tn net' the shrouds of the gallant
fleet which, under the Coinnisna of Admiral Coch-
rane, nslwre i their Majesties from sea to shore--
'
taken up with lusty sp
I
ontaneous roverberations by
the luyriadsthronging Dover—continued along the
railway .stations by the men and women of Kent
complement of the -far-
with more than the usual
famed Kentish fire—re-e, hoed with tenfold deafen-
ing cheers along London is mass-encumbered streets
and roads--caught up by the throngs of merry
Windsrr, and accoinpany.ing the imperial cavalcade
even within the walls of the royal palace, where
serenely smiling stood the Sovereign Lady of Bri-
tain to ratify to . her, august guests her people's
glorious welcome with her oWn. The Debats .and
the _Pays, however, vary the uniformity of the
other journals with p'litical discussions. The
former indulges in some speculations on what may
lie the tone of opinion and possible resolves at St.
Petersburg as well as at Vienna. It observes
I that--

TBE FRENCH JOU
-VIENNA C! IN

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"It is not only at Vienna. it is also at St. Petersburg
that the con.litiens of the future peace have .provoked
long and animated discmaions. There is at St. Peters-
burg a War party as well as a peace party ; these, two
pa,ties have their representatives iu the councils of the
empire, and are' not without influence on the resolu-
ti,ms of the Government. The war party has the pre-
tension of being the national party par excellence, and
the must faithful representation of Russian nationality.
It shows itself singularly jealeus for the honour
and grandeur of Russia ; it is fall of respect and
devotion for the national religion, which it professes ex-
clusively, and as the masses have come to be persuaded
that the actual war is a, holy war, it is drawn towards
the war by the religious ardour of the population. The
peace party, more experienced than that of war, better
instructed in the affairs of Europe, and on that account
even more prudent, is more moderate and circumspect.
Its patriotism is sinez..re, but enlightened ; Russian na-
tionality is dear to it, but it desires not to compromise
it in unreflected enterprises ; it would not bear any
taint to the honour and dignity of the imperial crown,
baits opinion is that this honour and dignity would not
suffer because sacrifices painful and necessary, coun-
selled by the interests of the country, should be sub-
mitted to. The contest between the war party and the
peace party has been reanimated, as might be expected,
on occasion of the communications which . Prince
Gortschakoff and M. de Titaff have transmitted to their
Government in the recent deliberations of the Confer-

enee at Vienna, on demanding fresh instructions and
powers."

The I iebats proceeds to show that at St. Peters-
burg the great stumbling-block was still the third
condition of guarantee. Various combinations had
been proposed at Vienna for its solution, and dis-
cussed either officially in the Conference or offici-
ously iu the private reunions of its members, from
whence had resulted the one advantage at least of
a precise indication of the light in which that con-
dition is viewed and the real impressions under
which it was conceived. The question, aczording
to the bebats, was thus placed by the plenipoten-
tiaries of the allied powers i—
"To put an end to the preponderance of Russia-
in the Black Sea, it will not suffice that measures
should be taken, which would impose on Turkey
and her A:lies as active and incessant surveillance
and confirmed sacrifices. In the long run such
me :sures wou:d infallibly lose their efficacy ; they
would become impracticable on the day that the alliance
which is f ,rmed agiiinst Russia should be dissolved or
simply relaxed. That which we must have is a real,
notable, and direct west eniug in that sea, proceeding
from a reduction of her naval forces ; and a form of in-
terastional relations which (bay prevent Russia from
the clandestine restorationof her marine, :and preserve
Europe front a r.u,l‘leu and unforeseen irruption.—This
declaration so formal excluded all other systems pro-
posed. . . . It is precisely that which the Russian
pleniputentiarie4 hare in the first instance provisionally
repelled in the Conference, in demanding all the while
new instructions from St. Petersburg. This system
might equaliy cambine with the closure
.of the straits,
and with the abolition of this principle. . . . Eng-
land would not consent in any case to open to Russian
situps the way which would lead Um direct from the
Kick Sea to the Mediterranean. Such is, if we are
well informed, the truth of the situation which Prince
Gnrtschakoff and M de Titoff have laid before their
Court The last news we hare received
from St. Petersburg makes us fear that the Emperor
Alexander has replied by an absolute refusal to the
demands of the Allied Powers. The communications of
Prince Gort,chakoff and M. de Titoff have restored the
confidence of the war party, who, for three months, had
lost ground at St. Petersburg. Notwithstanding this
party, the Emperor Nicholas had accepted, without re-
striction, the protocol of the 28th December, and given
Prince Gottschakoff conciliatory instructions, with the
faculty of making in the bosom of the Conferences at
Vienna 'all such honourable concessions as might facili-
tate the adoption of the fir.t, second, and fourth con-
ditions of guarantee."
The Emperor Nicholas reserved the third condi-
tion for more complete explanations, but with
indications of a man compliant in mood, and a dis-
position to admit proposals of a tempering ten-
dency. The war party avail themselves of 'these
facts and statements for the justification of their
doctrines, and for securing their ascendancy over
the Emperor Alexander. They say, plausibly
and not unnaturally, also not without popular
effect :

"You see the concessions of the Emperor Nicholas do
not suffice. Russia has renounced her protectorate over
the Trincipalities, her rights over the Danube, her pro-
tectorate over the Christian subjects of the Porte, that
is to say, the political and religious authority which she
had acquired attet long anti sanguinary wars. It is all
over with her influence over the Greek populations of
Europe, who will learn that they must no longer count
upon her support. What she abandons to-day without
combat, in other times she would have defended to the
last extremity, at the loss of her last man, and the cost
of her last rouble. They exact from Rivisia the destruc-
tion by her own heeds of her fleet in the-Black Sea, so
necessary to her repose and security. Ifs is required
that she shall cease t . protect her ports and Cemineroe,
se:d interdict herself the meaesof continui geMriacionsly
the veer she has pursued fer so n::11.3 years in the
Caucasus. The Eiiip,r .r Nu. kolas would not have
tolerated even the discussion of such conditions. The
Fenperor A!netedir will no Nteke4l/Ter it, rare it only
from respect for the tneiiiefy of his father . . .
The pile teens of peace have not remained without
defence ; they 1, -tve recal:e' the powerful c*.nsiderations
which had iolltieticed the Einperior Nicholas, and deve-
loped w:tti ereat force those suggested by the actual
state of off .. ; Rtl*la engaged elope in a terrible war
sgaiest Eve :1, • rut perhiiple •`nccess-
fully to be ccnelede:l. Russia did not Wish ,for this
war, into wilph she has been !eel by the rash counsels
i of these who now repulse conditioes of peace. Those
1 c.iuditions are rut hunihiat•ng, whatever may he said;
they do not seriously affect the interests of Russia.
When the Emperor Nichoeis decided on abandoning the
proteet..rate ef the Princioalitte4, that of the Greek
Christian's, and his r:gets over the Danube, he was re-
nouncing edvanenes ill define], very contsstible, and in
every ca-e more eppin sot than real, iitc."
The Debats concludes that— -.JY.,
" Unliappify, as we are infurrned, it isdktopinion
which has i.revailed, and that the riser 'nett-notions of
I Prince Gortschak off prescribe to him the repu•se of every
' proposition tending to the reduction of the naval forces
of Russia in the Back Sea.
suade ourselves, however, that the cause of peace is not
irrevocably lost, and that at the last moment fresh efforts
will be made which shall not
has been remarked that as yet no ultimatum bamopfr
remitted, and that the most recent cleclaratino:salecr:
by OM e eon-
perhaps be fruitless._ •_i_
allied powers present to Russia more than 1
da and the
Itive. Is this not for reserving to thetfosta
i other the
ciliatory expedient r
recapitulation of the
The article of the Pays is a _ ~,
sfuerations which
possibility of an approxima
ation, but without any ape-
signalise the actual si ut
__,,__na,
either possible or
ked that—
culation upon results,: re"
leading circumstanc7 and °'''n
_eencre of Russian policy, which is
" We are the eeeq
.fr„re Constantinoe if not from the
, which we have beaten at
:nave encountered them ;
Wept conquerors of the '
Russian fleet, which
whole of .Ear° away
con-
ic
henceforth . . from the
hpernooblbrlteh.
chaltsealr3eh
Black Sea ;
qucr„rs of tkblea!tausasniaduTatirkmies
A.I Wan Ba•A I erman, by the tower of Male-
conquerors,
heal, wherever
finally', of the Russian territory, where we have planted
our fi4g, and from whence_ we i'efy our foes to expel us.
. . . For the rest,
what de we ask that we do not
already possess
without dispute 2 It is for
that
Russian diplomatists • . . .
moderation would be be-
coming, if not Humility,
for it is to conquerors they ad-
dress themmelve4, and to conquerors who can impose
laws rather than accept them. Russia has, it appears to
11!, 11(•1*
. y much more interest than the Western Powers
in the pronip, s-
re-establishment of peace."

DESTRUCTION OF CAPTAIN BARTLETT'S MANSION RT
FIRE AT .RlTE.—Yesterday morning a firo of a terrific
character, and attended with a considerable loss of pro-
perty, bapoened on the extensive premises in the owl.
pation of Captain B, rUett, situate at lioly-hill, Erith.
The mansion was of considerable extent, and the disco-
very was made by one of the domeStics, who lost no
time in alarznieg the other inmates, who fortunately
j effected a safe retreat, and they were ingrumental
' in swing a deal of valuable furniture al,d other
i
property. The local eogines promptly attended,
but in spite of all prsseitt the work of devasta-
tion continued, and floor after floor of the exten-
sivepile of premised became ignited, when at length
the building pro:acute(' one sheet of flame. The firemen,
however, kept to their work, and eventually succeeded
in extiugui-i,i,ig the tiqfirg,rittion, but not, however,
until the bililding was burnt to the ground. The total
cocß
lo,s is very n
iderAble, and will fall upon the Sun
Insurance Office. Trio o,i6in of the mitifoitune
veloped iu oUsuurity,

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