The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

THE VIENNA CONFERENCES.

The Moniteur publishes the following reply of
Count Walewski to the recent article in the Journal
de St. Petersbourg on the Vienna Conferences
" The official journal of St. Petersburg has just pub-
lished an article, emanating from the Russian Govern-
ment, in reply to the circular addressed, under date of
the 23d of May last, by Count Walewski to the agents
of France abroad. We should not have noticed the pub-
lication of this document if its only object had been a
reply to the circular of the 23d of May, especially as it
adds nothing to the argument. But the Journal de St.
Petersbourg-touches upon another subject, the rupture of
the Vienna Conferences, and 'endeavours to throw the
responsibility thereof upon us. We will pass rapidly
over the observations which Count Walewski's circular
suggested to examine this reproach.
"The Russian Government attaches great importance
to stating that the question of the Principalities is
settled, as also that of the navigation of the Danube. It
almost attributes to itself the initiative taken in that
respect ; at least, according to its own account, it had
always desired that which the Allied Powers believed it
had always hitherto refused to the wishes expressed by
Europe long since.
"It therefore first of all complacently points out the
advantages which the Moldo-Wallachians are presumed
to owe to the intervention of Russia. We shall not
draw a picture of the Danubian Principalities under the
protectorate of that Power in opposition to that damn
by the Journal de St. Petersbourg of their condition
under the old Ottoman administration ; we shall confine
ourselves simply to the question why, if Russia really
rendered every service to the Porte, and the Porte
caused all the evils enumerated by the journal in ques-
tion, the Principalities should now behold a support and
a protestion in the Suzerainty of the Porte, while they
approve of everything tending to relieve them of a Rus-
sian protectorate.

" As regards the navigation of the Danube—we are
happy to say it—the Cabinet of St. Petersburg acknow-
ledges the imperfection of the measures it has taken
hitherto for keeping open the mouths of the river, and
the insufficiency of the means employed by the local au-
thorities to obviate the accumulation of sand, which
often rendered them unnavigable ; it congratulates itself
upon the establishment of a commis-ion which will exer-
cise a supervision, the principle of which it admits. The
Journal de St. Petersbourg assures us that it will not be
necessary to shed the blood of France and England to
procure those results ; it was nevertheless necessary to
shed that blood to obtain them.

"The fourth point, it will be remembered, relates to
the very question which gave rise to the war ; we fear
that on this subject the Russian Government still per-
sists in its former errors. If, iu fact, the Journal de St.
Petersbourg talks to us of necessary formalities, to attri-
bute to the Sultanthe mcritof spontaneously originating
the measures to be taken in favour of his Christian sub-
jects, by a manifest contradiction it at the spme time ex•
presses the opinion that they ought to be on the side of
the Porte, the object of a European act which would be
tantamount to conferring upon the whole of Europe the
privilege claimed by Prince Menschikoff for the Court of
Russia.

" We do not dwell further upon opinions and theories
categorically refuted in the circular of the 28d of May.
We come to the reproach, addressed by the Russian
Government to, the Plenipotentiaries of Franca and
England, of having provoked the rupture of the Con-
ferences.

" We will readily admit that upon one of the two points
which constitute the third guarantee the Russian Cabi-
net has made an important concession to the allies ; it
has relinquished its old pretension to keep the Ottoman
empire beyond the pale of the public law of Europe. It
is willing to subscribe to an engagement b' which
every difference between the Porte and itself shall be
in future referred to the arbitration of Europe ; but,
while acknowledging the extent of that concession—
while congratulating the Cabinet of St. Petersburg upon
its adhesion at last to a prii.iciple which it openly repu-
diated before the war—we are at the same time obliged
to repeat that the admission of the Porte into the law of
public right in Europe does not entirely fulfil the object
of the third guarantee ; it does not put an end to the
preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea.
•' The allied Cabinets insisted, and ought to insist the
more upon that guarantee, as without it all the others
are illusory-7as without the reduction of the aggressive
forces of Russia in the Euxine the suppression of the
political or religious protectorate of that Power in Tur-
key and the free navigation of the Danube would be only
nominal.

"In subscribing to the formula which we had put to
it as a preliminary condition for any negotiation, and
which Count Buol repeated at the opening of the Con-
ferences, Russia admitted—at least, we fancy so—the
necessity of making a real sacrifice on this point. But
no sooner was the question raised than the-Russian
Plenipotentiaries, on the contrary, rejected in principle
and in practice, under any form whatever, any limitation
of forces. The only object of the counter-propositions
they brought forward was to elude the question—not to
solve it.

"It was in consequence of the absolute rejection of
the system of limitation proposed by us that the Con-
ferences were first superseded, and it was after the pub
lication of Count Nesselrode's circular of the 10th of
May, which renewed the declarations made in this re-
spect by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, that we were
called by Austria to a last Conference.
"It was therefore to be presumed that in this last
meeting the Plenipotentiaries of Russia would persist
in rejecting the principle which alone could serve as a
basis for a suitable arrangement. The Russian Plenipo-
tentiaries, however, apreciating the proposition made by
Count Buol,—a proposition based upon a principle of
limitation explicitly formulated,—omitted nothing to
make it understood that its examination did not depend
upon them. But this condescension, so contrary to their
former attitude on the same ground, had evidently no
other object than to turn to account the appearance of
a difference of opinion between Austria and us,
"Prince Gortschakoff would not express an opinion
until he had satisfactorily ascertained that the Plenipo•
tentiaries of France and England would not adhere com-
pletely to the Austrian proposition. Provoked finally
by M. de Bourqeuer to explain himself on the principle
of limitation, Prince Gortschakoff, with the frankness
for which we thank him, defined, in terms which could
not be more precise, all the objections he had formerly
urged against that principle.
" 'Prince Gortschakoff (says the protocol of the last
meeting) repeated that, both at the Conferences and out-
side them, and whenever the question was mooted, he
constantly declared that any limitation of power attempted
to be imposed upon Russia would be regarded by its
Plenipotentiaries as an attack upon the sovereign rights
of their master and as an insurmountable obstacle to
peace that he remained invariably true to that principle,
and that he again established it in that final setting.'
" Prince Gortschakoff therefore rejected at the close
of the negotiations, as he had done before, all system of
limitation. He rejected, in principle, the Austrian pro-
position as he had rejected ours, and thereby he took
upon himself to characterise his apparent moderation by
clearly proving'that his offer to refer to St. Petersburg
did not imply any idea of conciliation, as it at the same
time declared the mode proposed by the Vienna Cabinet
inadmissible. We are simply stating what the protocol
of the 4th of June demonstrates beyond a reply. it,•
" Russia therefore must bear the whole responsibility
of the rupture of the negotiations. It was her obstinacy
which paralysed the efforts nobly made by the allied
Powers to obtain a practical result.
"France and England brought to the Conferences
those sentiments of moderation with which they con-
stantly showed themselves animated in the different
phases of the crisis. Provoked to a war which we at-
tempted to prevent, and the initiative of which rests
entirely with Russia, we haVe excluded her flag from
every sea, and at little cost we could prevent its ever re-
appearing in the Euxine ; we offered to allow it to do
so on the condition of a limitation of her forces in that
sea. Limitation is a security which the general interests
demand. It is not our fault if Russia by a too long
policy of aggression has exposed herself to the demand
of such concessions, and those only are responsible for
the continuation of the war who, up to the last day of
the Vienna negotiations, obstinately refused to grant on
that point any serious guarantee to Europe." .

LEICESTER, June 21.—The prices of yarns during the
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THE EMPREO EUGENIE. —Without being by any means
the perfect beauty her flatterers declare her to be, the
Empress is certainly one of the very loveliest-looking
women that could be found. Her face is lighted up with
such an innocent, gentle, and vivacious expression, and
a smile of such exceeding sweetness, as render her per-
fectly charming. Her manner is at once graceful, dig-
nified, and gracious ; she looks absolutely radiant on a
public occasion, and performs her part so perfectly, and
with such a look of absolute'happiness, that. she seems
not only as though she had been born to the station to
which her singular fortune hag raised her, but appears,
beside her impassable and undemonstrative partner, as
though she was some sovereign in her own right, who
had espoused some man of humble rank, 'and sought
unconsciously to atone for his comparatively cold and
ungracious manner, by the overflowing of her own royal
and native courtesy. And yet, to see her small, sweet,
but pale and weary-looking face at other times, e
on
woulesay that she had already entered upon that des-
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COUNTRY MARKETS.

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HADDINGTON CORN MARKET----,Tvsi 22 •
WHEAT. BARLUY OATS. iii,"(i3
First
Second
Third
Total quantity of w677llsBsesssat°2°inada I're333ar'26B:Bke:66,dcld 3333324181 qr366dsati., 34441978185:1 1°c1:51
qrs., 196 g 0,11
.. barley ~ 219
oats f ; 165 qrs., 14E; 9,5, a
f, beant If 47 qrs., ti. 'l4
AVERAGES nR IMPERYAL QI7ARTER.
Wheat, 3/. 15 2 0-12ths I Barley, ...11. 6
7-1 16 -:121 0 I's
Oats, ... 11 13 3 2-12ths 1 Beans, 21. 6 8 1 25

If PP

DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Pm/ 21. ,i,
Qrs.
289 Wheat
430 Oats
178 Barley B73,sessst.olBc,
.......• ... coourrosos enodoti
..
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............................ modi if::
38s Od oos Od ......... 6 ~ i
46 Peas & beans 508 Od oos Od . . ....... 46

ABERDEEN—JUNE 22.
Lel
Potato oats 26s 'id to 27s 6(1 t ribs per bust
Common.oats 26s Od to 26s 6d )
Bere 31s Od to 32s Od 1531b$ '
Barley 31s Od t0.32s Od
Wheat, red (spring)64s Ocl to 68s Od 1 621bs ,1
~ white 75s Od to 78s OdOatmeal . 20s •,d to 20s 6d per boll.
Flour 54s Oct to 55s Od per seek'
RETAIL PRICES.
Flour
Oatmeal,l4lb 2s 9d to 2s 10d ,; dust, . ....... Os toOsi t,,i
Beremeal is 7d to is 81 lb ..
ltd
t°
Sti
c per .......
Os to Os
00s Od to 3s Qd Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 18_41',. ri
...••—........••
Peasemeal 2s 7d to 2s 8d Sas
4•lb. 10af...9d. 12-Ib. 10af...43d• '
40.
Cheese, per imperial stone, 3s 6d to
PROVISION' MARKET.
Mutton, per lb 6d to 8d Eggs, p 03". 9,s o.i to Os 11 A
Beef, per lb .. 6d to 9d Butter, p lb. Os •,--
Od to 3s i is
Veal, per lb. ...... .. 6d to 9d Hens, p pair as 3f' , )cl
Pork, per lb 5d to 6d Chickens,do.2o 6(1to
Os, xt
Salmon, per lb Os to Os Ducks, do Os Oct to ld
s' "0 Od tt.)°' IA
Grouse, per brace Os to Os Ducklings,do s to 53 '
Tallow, p stone, 4s9d to 5s Od Turkeys, each4s Oct 5n id
'1 4s Oct to vas
Potatoes, pr peck, 10d to .As Od tO ' -
Butter for exportation (present cure) per eso• v 5,1 to i-, ,11
Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen .•••• ..... ...... ".
5d to Os ..

DIJBLIN—JuNn 23. 43, 0 ;
430 cf. orapese,,,,
White wheat, 4..,9s Od to 44s Od ; red dittoic
barley, 165 Od to 20s Od ; oats, 14s 6d 01'17 jd ; 1731".Arh
00s Od to —5 Od per brl; oatmeal, 15s 0(1 to "Kss od to 54. v.'.
flour, 24s Od to 27s Od per cwt; luctiancora,
per 48 Olbs.