The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

THE PROPOSED HOLY ALLIANCI

We are enabled to publish the following authE ntic
correspondence on the subject of the prop:, sed
renewal of the Holy Alliance, which has recently
attracted so much public attention in this count? y :
THE BARON DE WERTHER TO M. DE BISMAP .Cll7.
VIENNA, June 13, 18i 34,

Aronsieur le President du Conseil,—l have tho
honour to announce to your excellency that I ,had,
previous to the departure of their Majesties for
Kissengen, an aEdieuce of the Emperor, and a l ong
conversation with the Count de Rechberg.• I has ten
to give you an account of it. Acting in conformity
with the instructions which your excellency gay e
me in the last despatch which you did me the lion -
our to address to me, I have profited by the oppor-
tunity whinq presents itself in order to sound ti ie
intentions of his Majesty the Emperor regardin,?,
the object of the interview at Kissengen with tht
Emperor Alexander.

His Majesty told me ho would be happy to see the
most intimate and coroiai agreement established
both between himself and the Czar, and between
the three Governmt nts, which agreement is, in the
present state of things, so necessary for the three
Powers. His Alajesty spoke to me as follows :
I am quite ready to adhere to every combination
of such a nature as to ensure the peace of Europe,
and to guarantee the reciprocal interests of the
three countries. It is in this sense that I explain
myself to the Emperor of Russia and to my royal
Illy, your august sovereign.

M. de Rschberg entered into more ample expla.
nations with me. He asked me, in the first place,
whether the Government of the King had
already come to any determination with regard
to the Russian proposal. According to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the proposal
is of too much importance to be decided upon
immediately. His excellency recognises almost
as much as Russia the necessity, in the pre-
sent state of things in Europe, of an intimate
mutual understanding between the three Powers ;
but would not each an understanding at this mo-
ment produce an intimate rapprochement between
France and England, and is it not at this time,
above all things, the interest of the two great Ger-
man Powers, and of Germany, to avoid this even.
tuality ?
What is the present object of Russia ? That the
three partitioning Powers of Poland may recipro-
cally guarantee to each other their Polish provinces.
But, his excellency went on to say, is this at' the
present moment a matter of urgent importance ?
The insurrection may be now regarded as completely
crushed, and foreign intervention as set aside. It
is tru© that eventualities may present themselves
which would revive the Polish question, but for the
present it no longer exists.

Moreover, continued M. de Rechberg, although
the interests of Austria are not opposed to an inti-
mate alliance with Russia, we could only adhere to
the Russian proposai on certain conditions. It will
be necessary that Russia should declare in an un-
equivocal manner that she will give har material
assistance to Prussia and Austria in the event of a
war with the Western Powers for the affairs of the
Duchies. And, from the Austrian point of view,
certain guarantees would be necessary which the
Minister believes it unnecessary to mention.
In a word, the Imperial Government is far from
repelling the Russian proposal, but it desires to
act with a kcowledge of the objects in view, and
after having received the assurances it thinks neces-
sary.

Such, Monsieur le President do Conseil, is the
summary of my conversation with M. de Rechberg,
who, as your excellency is already informed, is to
accompany their Majesties to-morrow to Kissengen.
(Signed) WERTHER.
M. DE BISMARCK TO THE COUNT DE GONTZ AT PARIS.
BERLIN, June 15, 1851.

Monsieur le Comte,—ln the last confidential communi-
cation which I had the honour to address to your excellency
I was enabled to inform you of the various important pro-
posals which have been made to us by the Cabinet el St
Petersburg in the question of the Duchies and the other
pending European questions, and I hasten, Monsieur le
Comta, to inform your excellency of the proposals which
have just been made to his Majesty the King, our august
Sovereign, by the Emperor Alexander in person, at the
time of the visit which. the Imperial family of Russia has
just made to our august Royal family.
Your excellency is already aware of the attitude which
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has just adopted in the ques-
tion of the Duchies, and which is so favourable to us in
every point of view. The renunciation by the Emperor
Alexander of his ulterior rights to the Duchies in avour of
the Grand Duke of o:denburg is an evident proof cf the
amicable and favourable disposition of the Court of Russia
towards Germany; and the Emperor Alexander has now
again given to our august Sovereign the most formal as-
surance that his efficacious and loyal concurrence is secured
to us in this question. The views of the Sovereign of Russia
differ from ours only on the question of the succession, His
Mejesty agrees entirely in our mode of thinking on the
frontiers of the new States, only he believes that it would
be our common interest to place it under the sovereignty of
the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Your excellency knows my
personal opinion on this subject, but in consequence of the
lively sympathy of our august Royal family tor the family
of Augustenburg, it is not very probable that this combina-
tion can prevail.
The important point is that in all these eventualities the
moral, and if necessary the material concurrence of Russia
is secured to our policy in this question. Russia only asks
tor a guarantee against a Scandinavian union, and I think,
Mons eur le Comte, that it would even be our interest to
combat Scandinavian tendencies.

As regards the other pending questions, the Emperor
Alexander and Prince Gortschakoff have explained the
subject in the clearest and most precise manner. The
Sovereign of Russia insisted above all on the necessity of a
mutual understanding between the three Powers of the
North in the present state of things in Europe. As all
treaties are, so to say, regarded as null, would it not be ad-
vantageous for the great Powers whose interests are in
many resprcts identical to form a league cgainst certain
tendencies and pretensions ? Would it not be necessary to
put an end, once for all, to the Polish agitations, and to
efface, once for all, the Polish question from the list of Eu.
ropean questions ? According to the view of the Emperor
Alexander, it would be the interest of the three partitioning
Powers to declare that they regard the affairs of Poland as
a matter exclusively internal, Sand thus take away every
pretext for foreign intervention.
His Majesty the Emperor Alexander has clearly made
our august Sovereign understand, as also has Prince Gorts-
chakoff, as regards myself, that it would be desirable from
every point of view to sign a treaty or convention between
the three Powers which should be based on the reciprocal
guarantee of the territory of each Power. Such is in effect
the proposal made by the Emperor Alexander to our august
King, the importance of which will certainly not escape
your Excellency. Although we agree in many points in
the views of the Czar, we have not as yet arrived at any
decisi n, but the bases which I have just indicated to your
Excellency will be the preliminaries of the future negotia-
tions on this subject.
The views of the Cabinet of Vienna in this matter arti
indicated in the confidential communication which I have
just received from the Baron de Werther, and which your
Excellency will find annexed.
In every case, I beg of you, M. le Comte, to give me
early information of the impression which has been made
by the interview of the three Sovereigns on the Cabinet of
the Tuileries.

(Signed) BISMARCK,

The Strength of the Hostile Fleets,

HAMBURG, June 29.

The Hamburg papers give the following as the
respective strength of the Danish and Ansto-
Prussian fleets in the North Ses, where a decisive
naval engagement is shortly expected :
_

The Austrian force consists of the screw ship-of.
the-line Kaiser, 91 guns ; the screw frigate Schwar-
zenberg, 50 guns; the ironclad frigate Don Jaan
d'Austri a, 16 guns ; the screw corvette Friederich,
22 guns ; the paddlewheel steamer Elisabeth, 6
guns ; and the screw gunboats Wall and Seehuod;
each carrying 4 guns. The Radetzky screw frigate,
35 guns, was at Borkum upon the 26th inst.
3 The Prussians have the paddlewheel steamer
Preussischcr Adler, 4 guns, and the screw gun-
boats Blitz and Basilisk, carrying guns each.
The Danish force is believed to consist of the
screw frigate Niels Joel, 42 guns the screw frigate
Sylland, 44 guns; the screw corvette Heimiva,,
16
guns; the screw ship-of-the-line Skiold, 64 guns;
end the ironclad corvette Dannebrog, 15 guns.
13f5hegufrnigs,awteil also
land, 44 guns, or the Tordenskjold,
probably be sent to the North
Sea, with other small craft.

TriE QUEENSBERRY FAMILY.—Lady Gertrude
!daughter of the Marehionem, has taken the white
new at the conveat at Hammersmith,—court
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SECOND EDITIO-ii.

SUN OFFICE, IfIALF-PAST 4 o'CLocii.

SP AIN.

The Madrid journals: announce that the Governs
meat has accepted the resignation of Al. Salazar y
Mazarredo.

THIRD F_..}DITIOIN

SUN OFFICE,, SIX O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,--This Day
CITY BETTING-- Tins DAY.

JULY ST- F 3 S.
6 to 4on the field (offer,Bl.)
GOODWOOD SI AKES.
9 to 1 agst Bally Edroori d (taken and cflered)
10 to 1 agst Blondin (take n)
12 to 1 agst Madcap (offen?d)
12 to 1 agat Daniel O'Rou rke colt
100 to 8 agat Thaleqris (off,!red)
20 to 1 agst Baktitchi Semi (taken)

THE DERBY Op 1865.
40 to 1 asst Archimedes (t aken)

The Duke of Somerset at Liverpool,

On Thursday, after distributing the prizfrs en
board the school frigate Conway, lying in the
Mersey, his Grace and party embarked or, board
the Satellite, which stemmed to tha ce iebrated
rams, His Grace went over El Towson, and made
a very minute inspection. A boat's crew; from the
Majestic worked one of the turrets, and showed the
repidity with which it may be dotte, his Grace be.
ing inside the turret at the tima. He was also
shown how the iron bulwarks are cmered for action.
Ile party next went to the M hjestie, which was
decorated with flags, and the 3•P :de of which were
manned as he went aboard. Ti icy were then enter-
tained at an elegant luncheon -by Captain Faynter.
A salute was fired as the par ry left. Their next
destination was the yard of I 4iessrs. Laird, where
his Grace inspected the new, ironclad Agincourt,
now in the course of cotti3tructi on.

In proceeding to view the at ip wh;ch is now far
advanced towards completion, the visitors were con-
ducted through the various departments in such a
manner as to reveal in a gre at measure the course
of proceeding in this great 111 dertaking.
The first visit was paid tc, the armour-plate shop
as it is called. This cccupiosi a very large space, and
is supplied with an irritnense number of pon-
derous and powerful m echanical implements de-
signed for effecting the different kinds of fitting
necessary to adapt the m assive armour-plates to the
places in the ship whic'a they are respectively in-
tended to occupy. The 'processes referred to may be
briefly stated to consist of so moulding and twisting
the armour-plates as to fir them with the utmost
nicety to the singular and beautifully modulated
curves presented by the different portions of the
graceful and flowing outlines of the vessel. The
difficulty of accomplishing tliis purpose may be in
some measure estimated from, the fact that each of
the armour-plates is of great size and thickness,
the principal portion of their number being siin.
in thickness, and the avers ge of them weighing
about five tons each. As these plates are rolled
perfectly flat and trimmed into exact parallelo-
grams before they are con'reyed to the building
yard, it becomes necessary 'that each of them shall
be moulded to fit the pl ace it is intended per-
manently to occupy, and :as this cannot be done
with safety without the aid of heat, the plates
are first placed in a furnace till they have acquired
a sufficient temperature to admit of being twisted
into any form without ris k of destroying their fibre;
they are then placed in rI. strong iron frame, which
is so fitted with ordinates as to present an exact
counterpart to the cure es intended to be produced.
By the application of wedges the heated plate is
then forced to assume the curves presented by the
powerful mould. This having been accomplished,
the moulded plate is removed and subjected to a
process of gradual cooling, by which the tenacity of
the iron is considerably increased. After cooling,
the final and more delicate modulations of the
curves are produced by subjecting the plate to the
action of a powerful dydraulic press. The next
process it undergoes is to have the holes
drilled into it by which it is to be finally
bolted on to the ship's side. In the armour-
plate shop, besides the furnace alluded to and its
bending frame, there are also two hydraulic bend-
ing presses, four planing and three drilling
machines, all of ponderous magnitude and great
power, and also an ingeniously contrived as well as
powerful machine for putting the screw threads on
the bolts and nuts by which the plates are securely
fastened to the ships side.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCR—This Day,

LONDON, July 2.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West; moderate breeze and fine weather,
NEWPORT, July I.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Louisa, for
New York. •

Muroun, July I.—Wind W.—Sailed—Dahotab, for
Havannah. •

FALmount, July I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Asternas,
from Porto Rico—Troy, from Havannah—Josquine, from
Terra Nova.

CLYDE, June 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Atrived—Ailea,
from Quebec.

GREENOCK, July I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Margaret
Pollock, from 2uebec.

HoLYHnAn, July I.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Sylph, for
Newfoundland.

SHIELDS, July I. Wind S.—Arrived—Margaret Jones,
from Huelva.

(EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, July I—Maddaleaa, from Boston—Orient and
Cinderella—both from Calcutta—Thisted, from Skive—
Christian August, from Gefle—Norge, from Demerara.
Arrtvcd, July 2—Plymouth Rocks, from New York.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Skimmer of the Waves, from London, fo
Cape of Good ilupe.
Passed—Sir John Lawrence, for Sydney, and Tally-ho,
for Malta—both from London—Augusta, from Liverpool,
for London.

A communication from Berlin states that the war
against Denmark has already cost Prussia 25
millions of thalers, not much short of 100 millions
of francs. A fresh credit of 13 millions of thalers
has been demanded by the Minister of War.

THE LONDON HOSPITAL.—This (SeturdaY)
morning the whole of the men employed in making prepa-
rations for the reception of the Prince and Princess of
Wales recommenced work at daybreak, in order to finish
the immense work, as to-morrow, of course, no work can
be carried on. Seats have been erected for the accommoda-
tion of 2.50 persons, who will be admitted by tickets of
different colours to various parts of the amphitheatre. Sir
Richard Mayne has published a code of regulations as to
the admission of the company and keeping the pavement
in front of the hospital clear of the populace. No one, it
should be stated, will be admitted without tickets. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is announced to
preside at the banquet. The most extensive preparations
and
the densely
auspicious populated neighbourhood to
event by decorating the
are being made by the inhabitants of the non-aristocratic
butgigive
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fronts of their houses with flags and other devices.
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THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HATANNAH, June
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Ba t foraer).,
weda.—Arrived, May 30, the steamer Pevensey, from Wil-
mington. Arrived, June 6, the brig Excelsior, from Wil-
mington; 9th, the steamers Index, Atlanta, and Marie
Celestia, from 'Wilmington, N.C.
---.DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A SHARIC..-4
gentleman writing from Macao on the 18th of April,
says : —I was witness to an extraordinary scene in the out-
ward harbour on Saturday last. Several boys from the
French Meseageriee Imperiales ship were bathing, when a
shark was observed making for them. They heard the cries
of their shipmates, and attempted to regain their vesssel,
distant half a mile. They would have been too late but
for an officer belonging to the celebrated Liverpool clipper
Black Seneca, Mr. Lamb, who, arming himself with a
sheath knife, sprang from the rail, and attacked the
monger in his own element. The shaik immediately
turned upon his antagonist, when occurred a scene more
easily imagined than described. Mr. Lamb dived again
and again, each time coming up beneath the monster, and
succeeded in inflicting several wounds. The sea was lite-
rally dyed with the blood of the shark. Several boats
having been put off, he was finally despatehed with a har-
poon, and hauled ashore on the beach. He proved wbe a
blue shark fully 15 feet long."

INPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening,

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at the usual hour.

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Anthony O'Reilly's Estate, Crieff and Methven Junction
and Branch Railway, Finchley, Wellesden, and Acton
Railway, and Londonderry Improvement.