The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

Our St. Petersburg correspondents (says the
Nord) sends us the following particulars respecting
Prince Gortschakoff's despatch and the memoran-
dum which accompanies it :—" In the best informed
circles of the capital more was known of the me.
morandum, which is very long, than of the despatch
which is very short. The Russian memorandum it,
an answer to that annexed to the last despatch of
M. Dronyn de Lhuys, but is a separate document,
and revewing all the phases
stirveeaityinignttehrenaqtnioesntairi
from a point of view exclu-
through which it has passed since the Congress of
Vienna. It carefully examines how far Russia is
bound by the treaties signed at that Congress, and
gives a full account of the whole proceedings of
theof
fe Poland u
aCotnogaoress itself. Its object is to prove that
h
,nityhe
alreadyap p lie a dueocnr eoefd
whichhas the
not been
suspended, but only impeded by the insurrection,
satisfies all the obligations which Russia had
Kingdom
con-
tracted towards Europe: However—and we espe-
cially note this declaration already made on
several
occasions by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg—the
elective provincial representation does not consti-
tute the whole of the Russian programme, As to
the contents of the despatch we are not so well in-
formed, but we know enough to indicate its tenour.
It maintains the point on which Russia has con-
stantly insisted, which is, the necessity of a durable
pacification as a condition of more extended reforms.
If the Russian Government does not enter into fur-
ther developments, it IS solely from a desire not to
envenom the debate. As to the six points, the
Russian Government admits that no
disagreement
exists respecting them, and Russia will do every-
thing in her power to solve a question which is a
source of misunderstanding between the Cabinets.
Such are the principal declarations contained in the
last despatch from Prince Gortschakoff."

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THE MEXICAN CROWN.
The Ost-Deutsch Pot contains the follow ing re-
marks on the offer of the
Mexican Crown to the
Archduke Maximilian :114 The Mexican deputation
will arrive in the course of next week at Miramare.
O
most singular questions which has ever
been
Austria will therefore be de-
cided in a few days. The history of the Imperial
House presents no analogous case. An Archduke
of Austria, the nearest agnate of the reigning
ne of
propounded t he
t o
Sovereign, is called upon to abandon his native land,
in which, cording to the domestic regulation of the
Imperial
Family, he possesses important rights and
hss;great duties to fulfil for the purpose of ascending in
a distant country athrone which has yet to be founded,y
which has been won b_
foreign arms, and to the
support of which Austria, with all her military
ac
absolute fact that the Emperor of the French is the
power, cannot in any way contribute. It is an
only serious protector of that throne. Nor is it less
certain that, whatever Prince may occupy it, he will
be obliged to
govern, to a certain extent, in con-
fcruny with
French interests. Protected by a
French garrison
it
and deriving his resources from a
French loan, what a position for a new Emperor !
From all these ecnsiderations, it is probable—%e
deputation will a
wish we could sas it is certain—that the Mexican
Et succeed in persuading an Aus-
trian Prince to go to Mexico."