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London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1863.

It is instructive to note the opinions expressed by
our Parisian contemporaries in regard to the last
Russian reply, penned, with many a rhetorical
flourish, by Prince GORTSCHAKOFF. The tone of
that reply we can all of us, both in France and
England, very readily appreciate. It is one (we
cannot but acknowledge this, bad as his cause is)
eminently well befitting the great Mirister of a
mighty Autocrat. It expresses an indignant re-
vulsion from the rebukes and the reproaches
addressed to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg
from without, such as none amongst all the
administrators in the world will better sympathise
with, than those connected with the Cabinets of St.
James's and the Tuileries. In this particular the
replies addressed by Prince GORTSCHAKOFF to
France and England are in a manner all but
identical. To Earl RUSSELL no less firmly than
to M. DROUYN DE L'HUYS does the Foreign Minis-
ter of the Autocrat intimate that he cannot, in the
name of his imperial master, accept in silence and
submission remonstrances such as, if so accepted,
could not by any possibility but derogate from
the dignity at once of the CZAR and of his Go7ern-
ment. What is said in the one instance is said in
the other. Rfferently, so far as relates to the mere
expressions in which the views of Prince GORTS
CEO-KOFF are indicated, but differently ogly thus
superficially. What is remarked, therefore, in re•
ference to the one note of reply from Russia is ap-
plicable, therefore, in a grut measure, to the
other. And it is for this reason that
we turn our attention with a twofold interest
to discover the sentiments with which our French
contemporaries regard the documents lately received
from St. Petersburg by the EMPEROR'S Foreign
Minister M. DROUYN DE L'HITYS.
T
"cam with the Journal des Deba's —" We cannot
be suspected," we find that organ remarking, " of
partiality towards the Cabinet of St. Petersburg,
and our suers will do us the honour of being well
convinced that, for many reasons, the conclusions
of such a docar4
nt cannot be ours. We should
however," the
writer adds, " transgress our
first rule, 'which is
to see and represent things
as they are, if we
ledge the skill did not freely acknow-
with which this State paper
is drawn up. Prince G
OWTSCUAKOFF has made
progress during the
some pro,,fr last two months. He
no longer indulges in legal quibbles and unmeaning
tirades against that incomprehensible monster
which certain journals, however reach they may
otherwise differ, agree in designating as
' Revolu-
tion' with a capital R. He El:mks and reasonslike
a real statesman. He seeks and finds the few argu
.
still worthy of dia
mints, more or less decisive, b"

cussion, which Russia can bring forward in favour
of the right of possession. Firmly, and with

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Spirit which does not offend us in foreigners, because

we should never think of speaking otherwise our•
"Ives, he says that which must find
an echo in the
heart of the Russian nation,
and he says nothing
more." So much for the Debats. According to the
opinion expressed by Le Pays, the country, that is
France, of course, knows, now that the Rus-
sian Replies have been duly published that those
dnerments are not of a. nature to justify the anxiety
with which they were expected. Enforcing the
necessity, or advisability let us call it, of maintain-
i.,,g, the Anglo-Franco-Austrian Alliance intact,
gnificantly (the italics
says, rather si
la France
..
AV e are tree ; we will not be re-
being its own), `'dloed to oize .
. ty The pride of Le Sieele appears to
be the most of all poignantly wounded by the
"grand" air with whi hirice GOLTiCILtzOI7
ch