The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-27 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN REPLY TO AUSTRIA.

Subjoined is the despatch sent by the Russian
Cabinet in answer to the Austrian Note on the state
of Poland. It is addressed to M. Balabine, Rus.
Sian Ambassador at Vienna :
" St. Petersburg, July 14.

" Sir,—From the commencement of the troubles"inthe
Kingdom of Poland we comprehended the just interest which
the Austrian Government ought to take in ac s which w
passing in its immediate neighbourhood, and which might
re
react on the tranquillity of its Polish provinces. Although
up to the present time the insurrection has concentrated all
its efforts within the Kingdom of Poland, and although it
was rather the elements of disorder found in the bordering
provinces belonging to other Powers which have flowed
back towards that centre of conflagration and supplied it
with fresh ailment, the most simple foresight sufficed to in-
dicate that those deplorable events could not receive any
solution which would not interest in an equal degree the
neighbouring States.
Accordingly we hastened to invite the Cabinet of Vienna
to an interchange of ideas. We beheld e ith a lively satis-
faction that it did not misunderstand that desire for a
friendly understanding founded on our common interests,
in face of eventualities foreseen by the abettors of the insur-
rection, and who, in spite of the transparent veil with which
they cover their proceedings, tend to consequences which
might affect in the end the integrity itself of the States of
his Austrian Majesty.
" The Count de Rechberg recommends to the considera-
tion of the Russian Cabinet some measures which, in his
()Onion, might lead to the pacification of the Kingdom of
Poland. His Excellency is too welt informed of the real
state of things in that country for me to direct his attention
to the fact that several of these measures exist already, and
that others involve general principles which are not con-
trary in their essential points to the development which our
august master has reserved to himself to give to the present
institutions of the kingdom whenever his Majesty may deem
that the proper moment has arrived.
" The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, besides,
himself admits that the greater part of those ideas enter the
the plan which the Emperor has traced out; but his Excel-
lency will, without doubt, also allow that they cannot be ap-
plied with any chance of success until material order has
been re-established. Count Rechberg will certainty com-
prehend that so long as that condition, indispensable to the
salutary action of the Government, shall not have been ful-
filled, all attempt at organisation in the kingdom will fail;
on the one hand, before the same obstacles which the pre-
sent disorders have hitherto opposed to it, and on the other,
before the moral encouragement which the hope of an active
intervention from abroad should necessarily bring to the
wildest aspirations of the insurrection.
" It depends much on the great Powers to dissipate those
illusions, to disappoint those calculations, and to accelerate
the termination of this situation in taking into serious con-
sideration that essential side of the question which, in our
opinion, makes it a danger to Europe.
" We shall always be disposed to exchange our ideas on
this subject with each of them in the course of our diplo-
matic relations, and with the sincere desire of arriving at an
understanding.
" As to deliberations at a conference in which the Powers
that signed the general treaty of Vienna on June 9, 1815,
should take part, we do not shut our eyes to the interest
which those Powers ought to take in the present situation
of that country, inasmuch as it can disturb the general re-
pose and equilibrium founded by the treaty in which they
took part; nor do we contest their right to interpret the
meaning of that act according to their own views; but we
cannot admit either the opportuneness or the practical utility
of submitting to their deliberation questions connected with
the most intimate details of the administration of the king-
dom. No great Power could ace, pt such a direct interference
in its internal affairs ; and, besides, it is not either in the
spirit or in the letter of existing treaties, and would only
have the effect of throwing back the pacification to which
the wishes and the efforts of the Powers are tending by in-
creasing the pretensions of the Polish agitators by all the
prestige which it would remove from the sovereign au-
thority.
" Count de Rechberg, in making his eventual adhesion
dependent on such a combination, on the prevtous consent
of the Russian Cabinet, bas foreseen, with a sentiment
of the dignity which our august master has fully appreci-
att d, the ipiposibility of our admitting it. We are gratified
to recognise in this reserve a new proof of the friendly dis-
positions of the Cabinet of Vienna, and an evidence of tne
justice with which Count de Rechberg judges the situation.
" The course which was followed in 1815 seems to us to
indicate clearly the deliberations which can be established on
questions affecting, on the one hand, a general interest, and
on the other administrative details in the Arclusivate
ti dome
-
main of the confining sovereign States th
a distinction was practically established between these two
categories of interests. The former were the object of se
parate negotiations on the part of the Courts of Russia,
Austria, and Pruseia, between which the traditions of his-
tory, permanent contact, and immediate neighbourhood
created a close solidarity. All the arrangements destined
to regulate the internal administration and mutual relsoions
of the Polish territories placed under their respective domi •
nation since the Congress of Vienna were embodied in se-
parate treaties, concluded directly between
Ithose
They
three
Courts on the 21st of April (Me 3d of May), 815.
were successfully completed by a series of special convein-
n-
tions, whenever circumstances required. The general pr
ciples mentioned in those treaties which could interest
Europe were alone inserted in the Act of the Congress
of Vienna, signed on the 27th of May (9th of June) by
all the Powers called to take part therein.
"At the present moment these general principles are, not
in question, but the administrative details and interne
raho-
rangements might be beneficially discussed between
of
three Powers, in order to place the respective posit
their Polish possessions, affected by the stipulations of the
treaties of 1815, in harmony with present
dngnecessitieslarssfthe
and
the progress of time. The Russian Cabinet ,
.ec I
ready to en, er at once into such an understa with
Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin.
" Our august master has too much confidence in the con-
ciliatory sentiments and views of the Emperor
theseA uhstriasesa
not to be persuaded that an understandings on
would lead to results equally satisfactory fo the common
interests of the three Courts, the prosperity of their Polish
subjects, and the general considerations which connect these
questions with the repose and equilibrium of Europe.
" You will please to read this letter tExcellency ao the Ministcopy.er of
Foreign Affairs of Austria, and leave his
" Accept, &c.,
" GORTSCRAKOFF."

THE HOITSE OF COMMONS.
--
Several changes have taken place in the House of
Commons during the session which is now drawing
to a close. A day or two after the assembly of
Parliament the Hon. Colonel Bernard, member for
Bandon, died, and was succeeded by Mr. Bernard,
his SOD ; on the 7th of February Captain Gladstone,
R N., the member for Devizes, died, and w
Inas suc-
ceeded by the Hon. W. W. Addington. onse-
quence of Sir Michael Seymour's retirement, Mr.
Ferrand was early in February returned for the
borough of De vonport. By the elevation of the
Hon. Mr. Monson to the peerage, a vacancy oc-
curred in the representation ot the borou
elected gh of R
Mr,
ei-
gate, and Mr. Leveson Gower .
Andrew Steuart resigned the representation of the
borough of Cambridge, and Mr. F. S. Powell was
elected. Shortly after the meeting of Parliament
Mr. Moody retired from the representation of West
Somerset, and Mr. Gore Langton was elected his
successor. For Lisburn Mr. Barbour was elected,
in the room of Mr. Richardson, but being unseated,
Mr. Verner was elected. In February Mr. H. W.
Freeland retired from the representation of the
borough of Chichester and was succeeded by Mr.
J. Abel Smith. On the 26th of May the representa-
tion of Thetford became vacant by the elevation of
the Earl of Easton to the dukedom of Grafton ;
Lord F. Fitzroy was elected in his place. The Hon.
General Upton, on succeeding to the Irish peerage
as Viscount Templetown, rendered vacant the re-
presentation of Antrim, and Mr. 0 Neill was elected.
By the death of Sir G. C. Lewis on the 14th of
April the representation of the Radnorshire
boroughs became vacant ; Mr. R. Green Price was
elected. Mr. Hamilton in April resigned the re-
presentation of the county of Dublin, and was sue
ceeded by his son, Mr. lon Hamilton. Early in
May Mr. O'Hagan, the Attorney-General for Ire-
land, was elected for Tralee, in the room of Mr.
Daniel O'Connell. By the death of Mr. Western
Wood, on the 17th of May, a vacancy took place
in the representation of the city of London, and Mr.
G. J. Goachen was elected. Late in May Mr. Tot-
tenham resigned the representation of New Ross,
and was succeeded by Colonel Tottenham. Early
in Juno Sir John Arnott retired from the represen-
tation of Kinsale, and was succeeded by Sir George
Culthurst. In the sathe month the representation
of Ber wick upon-Tweed became vacant by the death
of Captain Gordon ; Mr. W. W. Cargill was elected.
The representation of the county of Clare is at pre-
sent vacant by the death of Mr. F. M. Calcutt.

In the last sitting of the Frankfort Diet, the
Austrian Government declared itself prepared to
adopt in principle, with the reserve of the ratifica-
tion by the Reichsratb. the propositions of the com-
mittee relative to the introduction into the States
of the Confederation of a uniform system of weights
and measures; tile Austrian representative proposed
to have a bill ad hoc drawn up by a commission of
experts. The above declaration was referred to the
politio-eommercial committee.