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

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(Front Galignant's Messenger.) •
The, Paris journals are in great part occupied
with the details of the mere than John Ball. heard-,
'less, the enthusiasm, of the reception which has
greeted their Imperial Majesties from the roads of
Dover all the way to Wiudsor. - It may be said to
have been alotost one prolonged hurrah of acclama-
tions, first starting from the bravetars who stirarnasa
on the decks and manned the shrouds of the gallant
fleet which, under the command of Admiral Coch-
rane, ushere I their Majesties from sea to shore—'
taken up with lusty spontaneous reverberations by
the myriads thronging Dover—continued along the
railway stations by the men and women of Kent
Iwith more than the usual complement of the far-
famed Kentish fire—re-e :hoed with tenfold deafen-
ing cheers along London's mass-encumbered streets
and roads—caught up by the throngs of merry
Windsor, and accompanying 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
y of the
glorious welcome with her own. The Debuts and
the Pays, however, vary the uniformity
other journals with political discussions. The
former indulges in some speculations on what may
be the tone of opinion and possible resolves at St.
Petersburg as well as at Vienna. It observes
that—
It is not only at Vienna, it is also at St. Petersburg
that the conditions of the future peace have provoked
long and animated discor-sions. There is at St. Peters.
burg a war party as well at a pea-ce party ; these two
parties have their representatives in the councils of the
empire, and are not without influence on the resole-
ti ,ns of the Government. The war patty has the pre-
tension of being the national party par excellence, and
the most fa thful representation of Russian nationality.
It shows itself singularly jea'eus for the honour
and grandeur of Russia ; it is full 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
peacew aprabryty,the religious i g
experiencedi ous ardour
tohfa
than
the h
apto pouf l awtiaorn,
ilentysietiripurnacttoreirdoet theiisnt is prudent,aiff acii7rren f.b7El
tmuerzodlpieger,haatt
ti finality is dear to it, but it desires
it in utireflected enterprises ; it would not hear any
taint to the honour and dignity of the imperial crown,
but its opinion is that this honour and dignity would not
euffer because sacrifices painful and necessary, coun-
, selled by the interests of the country, should be sub-
:: nod and
enlightened t dno; thatße ours:
parbon circumspect. accountnit Themar
;milted 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
Goreschakoff and M. do Tit iff have transmitted to their
Government iu the recent deliberations of the Confer.
ence at Vienna, on demanding fresh instructions and
powers.'
'Tie tfrebtits proceeds to show that at St. Peters-
burg the g. eat stumbling-block was still the third
condition oS guarantee. Various combinations had
been proposod at Vienna for its solution, and dis-
cussed either officially in the Conference, or offici-
vate reunions of its members, from
ously in the
whence had restin,d 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, according
to the Debats, was thus placed by the plenipoten-
tiaries of the allied powers :
"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 Allies an active and incessant surveillance
and confirmed saer:fices. In the long run such
rue osures would infallibly lose their efficacy ; they
would become impracticable on the day that the alliance
which is formed agLinst Russia should be dissolved or
simply relaxed. That which we must have is a real,
notable, and direct weakening in that sea, proceeding
from a reduction of her leaval forces ; and a form of in-
ternational relations which may prevent Russia from
the clandestine restoration of her marine, and preserve
Europe from a sudden and unforeseen irruption.—r-This
declaration so formal excluded all other system. pro-
posed. . . . It is precisely that which the Russian
plenipotentiaries have in the first instance provisionally
repelled in the Confereuce, in demanding all the while
new instructions from St. Petersburg. This system
might equally combine 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
ships the way which would lead them direct from the
Black Sea to the Mediterrant-an. Such is, if we are
well informed, the truth of the situation which Prince
Gortschakuff and M. de Titoff hive laid before their
Court. . . . . The last news we have received
from St. Pitershurg makes us fear that the Emperor
Atexaiider has replied by an absolute refusal to the
demands tif the Ailed Pewers. The cornmunictions of
Prince G. rt chaktiff and M. de 'Nail have restored the
coutlience of the ear patty, who, for three months, had
lust ground at St. Petetsburg. Notwithstanding this
party, the Emperor Nicholas ha 1 accepted, without re-
strictien, the protocol of the 28th December, and given
Prince Gett-cliakoff 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 first, second, and fourth con-
ditions of goara,nt,(.."
Toe Emperor Nicholas reserved the third condi-
tion for more complete explanations, but with
indications of a man compliant in mood, and a d:s-
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 Alexadider. They say, plausibly
and not unnaturally, also not without popular
effect :

"You see the concessions of the Emperor Nicholas do
not suffice. Russ'a, ha- renounced her pr ,teetorate over
the rrincipalitiee, ler rights over the Danube, her pro-
tectorate over the Christian subjects of the Porte, that
is to say, the pubtical and religious authority which she
had acquired Rite long and sanguinary wars. It is all
over with her ii flueece over the Greek populations of
Eur..pe, who will learn that they must no longer count
upon her support. What she abandons to-day without
combat, in other times she would haze defended to the
last extremity, at the loss of ler last man, and the cost
of her last rouble. l'hey exact from Russia the destruc-
tion by her own hands of her fleet in the Black Sea, so
necessaiy to her repose and security. It is required
that she shall cease to protect her ports and commerce,
and interdict herself the meansof continuir g efficaciously
the war she has pursued for so many years in the
Caucasus. The Emperor Nicholas would not have
tolerated even the discussion of such conditions. The
Emperor Alexander will no more suffer it, were it only
from respect for the memory of his father . . .
The partisans of peace have not remained without
defence ; they have recalled the powerful considerations
which had influenced the Emperor Nicholas, and deve-
loped with great force those suggested by the actual
state of affairs ; Russia engaged alone in a terrible war
against Europe
fully to be concluded. Russia did not wish, for this
war, into which she has been led by the rash counsels
of those who now repulse conditions of peace. Those
1 conditions are not humiliatng, whatever may be said;
x'lley do not seriously affect the interests of Russia.
vy :hen the Emperor Nicholas decided on abandoning the
protectorate of the Principalities, that of the Greek
Chris.' tans, and his rights over the Danube, he was re-
advantages ill defined, very contestible, And is
more apparent than real, &c."
The Debata concludes that—
: tozn; l
casex g
‘f u.o.;aprOy, as we are informed, it is the opinion
which ha s Prevailed, and that the new instructions of
Prince Go.rtschakoff prescribe to him the repulse of ever.,`
ewantiii "t:h I:bult any ape-
proposition tending to the reduction of the naval forces
•f Russia in i-he 28:ack Sea. . . . . We like to per.
of peace is not
1 irrevocably
coauir)l7 ourselves however,
bat at
atthtahtetihaestcmauosement
fresh efforts
I will be made which shall not perhaps be fruitless. It
has been remarked that as yet no ultimatum bsofte
remitted, and that the maet recent deciaratinea
Ds alotorus•
tion of the
some Goa.
ofe.saenr.vainpfooo7
i....tn:
t,,, Russia more
h theanifde and the
atil
five.
id powers
swtehriss 170etsfe.onrt r
either possible or
ciliatory expedient r
other the possibility
The article of the Pays is acorn'Werations which
leading circumstances air
culation upon resultseYi
d that--
Probable. It is remarkemes of Russian policy, la.
y, w 101 l is
" We are the conq
uConsta.ntiuopl •
.... ed kora e, if not from the
henceforth cha, .
signalise the actual sitatita_tiof,nn•Pi:
coneuerora of the R •
Russian fleet, which
whole ofElarial:ev;
__, away from the Black
is bencaforth u swept away
armies, . Sea enn-
ui. the us ia which we have beaten at
clu•r• "BAsaklava, and bikerman
Aiwa, , by the tower of Mala-
kbal. wherever we have encountered them • con erors
eeallvp of the Russian territory, we have where planted
our flag, and from whence we f
e y our foes to expel us.
• • • F.ir the re-t, what de we ask that we do not
already possesi without dispute It is for
Ru-sian diplomatists that moderation . : . .
coining, if nut humility, for it '
dress themselves, and to
\
laws rather than accept them" eration would be be-
cis to conquerors they ad-
qßu conquerors NhVahso i
tcaanppielps :cc:
us, very much more interest than the Western Powers
in the prompt re-establishment of "
peace.

DESTRUCTION OF CAPTAIN BARTLETT'S MANSION BY
FIRE AT ERlTll.—Ye4t,rday to ,ruing a fire of a terrific
ehai acter, aid attended with a considerable loss of pro-
perty, happened on the extensive premises in the occus,
piticn of Captain Bartlett, situate at Holy-billy Erie".
The mansion wa. of von,iilerable extent, and the disco.
very wai made by one of the domestics, who lost no
it time in alarming the other inmatss, who fortunately
effected a safe retreat, and they were instrumental
is saving a deal of valuable furniture and other
property. The local engines promptly attended,
tgonfitfiedatne., when at length
but in spite of all present the work of devasta.
tion continued, and floor after
floor cr the extol-
ts ihvee
building pile of premises became becanie
l i
one
sheet
The firemen,
however, kept to their work, and eventually succeeded
in extinguishing the conflagration, but not, however,
until the building was burnt to the ground. The total
loss is very considerable, and will fall upon the Slut
Insurance Office. The origin of the misfolttina
veloped in obscurity.