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TIMES.—We may presame that the list of an-
swers to the invitation of the Emperor to the Powers
to meet in Congress is now complete, since we have
received the answer of the meet remote of them
all. It is certainly rather startling to find that, by
virtue of the new position which has been allotted
her among the Powers of Europe, Turkey has a
seat and a voice in an assembly which, according
to the Emperor Napoleon, possesses the right to
arbitrate on whatever disputes may arise between
Christian Powers. To say truth, however, great
as this privilege may be, Turkey evinces no very
strong inclination to avail herself of it. She does
not meet the Emperor half way, with that bound-
ing step and those outstretched arms wtt h which the
smaller Powers meet the proposition to open a Court
before which every one may gain a hearing for any
claim however stale, and every griesance however
antiquated. Turkey is, as the Sultae pointedly ob-
serves, an "empire the interests and prosperity of
which depend in a great measure oa the mainten-
ance of peace ;" and we can well imsgine that her
wisest statesmen would wish to see that peace placed
on solid and durable foundations. It cannot well be
otherwise. Of all the nations of the earth Turkey
has probably the most to dread froth war, and the
most reason we should think to dislike the notion of
a European Congress. Tats Turkish 01We is made
up of a number of provinces, some more, some less
dependent on the central Government, from Egypt,
whose dependence is little more than nominal,
to the Asiatic and European provinces in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of Constantinople. It
may be compared to a tree whore fruit is in every
stage of ripeness, some advancing to maturity, some
ready to fall immediately, but all preparing sooner
or later for a separation from the parent stem. Ser-
via, Moldavia, and Wallachia are specimens of the
latter class; Candle, Epirus, and Thessaly, of the
former. It seems almost a mockery to ask the Go-
vernment of such a country whether it wishes to
enter into a conference in order to hear what the
Great Powers—the friends of its disaffected
provinces—have to show agaitst their remaining
any longer part of a Mahomsdan Empire, and
to argue the case before a jury of Powers all
its disaffected subjects,
professing the religion of
all entirely hostile to the religion of the dominant
also have not forgotten
race. The Turks probably
how narrowly in the course of the Congress at
the close of the Crimean war they escaped the
presence of Russia on the Danube, which the Go-
vernment of France exerted itsewlf so earnestly to
obtain for her. Nor can the ish of furkey to
enter a Congress be, we should think, in any way
increased by the information that in this Assembly
England, her only hearty and disinterested friend,
whose policy has been more Turkish than the Turks
themselves, will not have a eest or a voice. bull,
Turkey is not in a position in which she can afford
to make an enemy of so potent a protector as the
Emperor of the French, and she ought not to foa-
-1 get that she owes to him, in conjunction with Eng-
land, her deliverance from the standing menac! of
Sebastopol, even though by his rather hasty with-
drawal from the conflict he prevented the complete
humiliation of the Muscovite Empire, and the
consequent security of Turkey. We trace in the
manner in which the Sultan responded to the
invitation to join the European Congress the tactics
of a diplomacy long used to deal with Powers
to whom it was not advisable to give a direct
negative, and deeply versed in all the arts of eva-
sion and subterfuge. Any one who will carefully
read the written answer returned by the Sultan to
the question whether Turkey would be willing to
join a Congress of the European Powers to be assem-
bled at Paris will find, amid all the civilities and
amenities of the document, that this is precisely the
question to which it does not afford any answer.
The Sultan thanks the Emperor for his friendship,
assures him of the reciprocity of his feelings, and of
his earnest desire to prove the high value he attaches
to it. The prosperity of the Turkish Empire de-
pends on the maintenance of peace. As to the per
sonal opinion of the Sultan on the Emperor's pro-
position, he refers to his conversation with the
French Ambassador, and to such communi-
cations as may be made hereafter by the
Turkish Ambassador at Paris. The question thus
remains unanswered, in writing at least, and the
records of the French Foreign office will show no
official document declaring whether Turkey is or is
not ready to join in Congress with the other Euro-
pean Powers. We cannot believe that the Sultan,
or, at any rate, tt one who advise him, are so igno-
rant of the ordinary forms of public business as not
to be aware that the proper answer to such a ques-
tion, as it was proposed by the Emperor of the
French in writing, would be a written acceptance or
rejecion, not a string of empty compliments with a
reference to a former conversation and to another
which had not then taken place. We can only sup-
pose that this peculiar manner of meeting the question
was a bungling attempt to conciliate the demands of
civility with the unwillingness to give a positive and
binding answer, and that itwas thought that it might
be more easy to explain away the report of a con-
versation than a formal and deliberate statement in
writing. To know, then, whether the Sultan is
willing to join the Congress or no, or rather, as he
says, what, are his personal views, we must refer to
the version of the conversation between him and
the French Ambassador which is printed in the
Moniteur as the key, we presume, to an explana-
tion of the written answer, which explains nothing.
The Sultan, after compliments, says ho shall be very
happy to make the acquaintance of the Emperor,
and visit so fine a capital as Paris. But if he could
know beforehand the bases on which an under-
standing would be come to, that would, perhaps, be
better, since in that case he could act with a full
knowledge of the subject. The French Ambassador
assures him, in reply, that it is for the Congress, and
not for the Emperor, to decide on the points to be
treated on. The Sultan replies, with evident
anxiety, that his observation did not conceal any
sentiment of opposition ; he now understands the
known beforehand the subject
difficulty ydeeuliloterootf makingiomHe
therefore accepts the invitation,
but, as his presence alone in France would not be
sufficient, he will not go unless the other Sovereigns
go also. If the meeting take place, Turkey will
not be the last to make herself represented at it.
He dismisses the Ambassador with the assurance
that he is about to reply to the Emperor's letter,
and that the Emperor will be satisfied with his
answer on all points. The Sultan should have said
" on all points on which an answer is given," for,
as we have before shown, on the principal question
that was asked the reply gives no answer at all.
This
letter is certainly
the
a very strange proceeding. The
conversation, and the conversa-
tion refers to the letter, which almost seems to
refers
amount to a vicious circle, in which the letter is to
be interpreted with the assistance of itself. Never-
theless, we do not doubt that should a Congress ac-
tually be summoned—even a restricted Congress—
Turkey °I will not be the last to be represented
there." She, doubtless, does not wish the Congress
to meet ; but if it must meet, she will take care to
be represented there, in order to protect interests
which might otherwise be seriously imperilled. The
whole proceeding is an enigma, and we offer these
remarks as the best solution of it at which we have
been able to arrive.
POST.—The note of Sir Alexander Malet to the
Federal Diet at Fraukfort carries the Danish ques-
tion, to a certain extent, into a new phasis. While
it clearly explains the general views of the British
Government, on the leading points in dispute, it
announces the readiness of this country to enter
into a Conference both with the other signataries of
the Treaty of 1852, and with the Germanic Confe-
deration. Although it did not become the dignity
of all the non-German Powers who signed that
'treaty to make collectively such a concession to the
present prejudices of Germany, it is not difficult to
perceive that such a proposal as the present one is
practically equivalent to the formal proposal of a
Conference on the part of all of them. There can
be little doubt that Denmark has looked with satis-
faction on the suggestion of an expedient which
may result in her disembarrassment, by means of
general diplomacy, from the difficulties with which
she is at present surrounded. It would seem, also,
from the terms of the note of Sir Alexander Malet,
that France, Russia, and Sweden concur in the
moderating and conciliatory attitude which the
British Government has assumed in its present de-
spatch ; and therefore, by a fair construction, it is
to be assumed that the three greatest Powers of
Europe, and Sweden besides, are ready to see the
present Danish question brought within the limits
of a diplomatic settlement in a Conference. ludecd,
such an expedient would be peculiarly coasenta-
neous to the recorded policy of the Emperor of the
French, who may fairly regard it as offering, pro
hoe vice at least, some sort of substitute for the
general Congress to which he had wished to submit
the Danish question among the other contingent
difficulties of Europe. The same may be said also
of the Emperor of Russia and of the King of
Sweden, who, at the outset, looked on the pro-
posal of the Emperor Napoleon less unfavourably
than most of ti ' considerable Powers of Europe.
The King of Denmark, moreover, was so ex-
plicit a supporter of the scheme of a general

Congress, when it was propounded by France,
that a very great change must have come over his
views if he does not readily adopt the present sug-
gestion of England at a period of greater difficulty
in his own affairs than existed when his letter to
the Emperor of the French was written in Novem-
ber last. This, then, being so, the question next.
arises what view would be taken by Austria and
Prussia, and by the Germanic Confederation collec-
tively, now that a Conference is suggested by Great
Britain, with the almost certain concurrence of
France, Russia, and Sweden ? The knowledge that
these Powers are in accord on the D finish question
must necessarily exert immense influence on the
policy of Germany. Sir Alexander Malet points
out to the Federal Diet that England, France,
Russia, and Sweden were not only parties to the
Treaty of 1852, before the eventuality of King
Christian's accession occurred, but have actually
recognised King Christian since his accession, as
Sovereign of all the territories ruled by Frederic
VII. It may fairly be assumed that such an array
of European opinion would carry with it a weight
that must be irresistible, whatever were the real
wishes of Austria and Prussie. But the more im-
mediate question, is as to the answer which Austria,
Prussia, and the Diet would return. The Danish
Government would probably feel itself already sup-
ported by the consent of England, France, Russia,
and. Sweden._ In Mil an..Akvgut it seems literally
impossible to suppose that Austria and Prussia, the
two remaining signataries of the Treaty of 1852,
could do otherwise than agree to discuss the points
in dispute, as arising out of, or as affected by, that
treaty. And Austria and Prussia, it must be re-
membered, whatever may be the activity of the
minor Powers of Germany, are still essentially the
Germanic Confederation; for, whatever excesses
may have been committed by the agents
minor Powers in Holstein, no overt act of the
Federal Commissioners has yet appeared in ad-
vance of the policy declared by the Austria°
and Prussian Governments at Vienna and Berlin
respectively. We may, therefore, look forward with
some expectation to the result of such a propo-
sition for a Conference of the signataries of the
Treaty of 1852 ; inasmuch as the concurrence of
the majority would then doubtless be already had,
and the two remaining Powers could not decently
refuse. At the present moment, it would of course
be quite premature to discuss the particular manner
in which the present differences between Germany
and Denmark might be treated in a Conference.
We can readily imagine several modes of treatment
which would not be inconsistent with the dignity
and honour of either party. 'These, however, would
probably present themselves to the minds of those
who are acquainted with the bearing of the questions
at issue, and are conversant with the methods by
which diplomacy acts. In point of fact, but few
international differences which once go into a Con-
ference ever survive to come out again. Diploma-
tists rarely let their work be in vain. Some com-
promise is hit upon, some construction is framed
and adopted, which is felt to be infinitely preferable
to allowing the fire to smoulder anew, and perhaps
to break out in a flame, even if the construction be
not perfectly -Logical. Although the conduct of
Austria and Prussia themselves has been very far
from what we had a right to expect, we must still
clearly distinguish between their own sense of re-
sponsible action and such frantic dec'arations as
those of the Wurteraberg Minister of Foreign
Affairs, that the little Court of Stuttgardt had
receded from the Treaty of 1852—an announcement
which may be made with as much impunity as were
the wild ntterings of the little band of grand dukes
a few weeks ago. The attitude of the Federal
Commissioners in Holstein affords another evidence
that the Federal Diet is by no means animated with
the decided views of the petty princes; and the
evident antagonism between those commissioners
and the agents of such States as Saxony and
Hanover is probably a main cause of the inaction
which prevails in Holstein on the part of the
Federal authorities. The King of Denmark justly
stands upon his rights ; but he has .also suowu
himself to be a prince of a moderating and
conciliatory temper : and the position which he
will hold, coder the present suggestion of Great
Britain, with the support of France, Russia, and
Sweden, it will be morally impossible for Austria
and Prussia to withstand.