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THE VIENNA PROTOCOL.

The protocol signed at Vienna on the 9th of
April, 1854, by the representatives of Austria,
France, Great Britain, and Prussia has been pre-
sented to both Houses of Parliament by order of
her Majesty. This document, which forms No.
VIII. of the Eastern Papers, is as follows :

THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON,

(Received April 18.)
Vienna, April 12, 1851.
My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose herewith a copy
of the protocol signed in Conference on the 9th inst., the
certified copy of the same being retained in the archives of
the mission.—l have, &c.,

(Signed) WESTMORLAND.

(Inclosure.)
PROTOCOL os' A CONFERENCE HELD AT VIENNA
APRIL 9, 1854.
(Translation.)
Present—The representatives of Austria, France, Grea'
Britain, and Prussia.

At the request of the plenipotentiaries of France and of
Great Britain, the Conference met to hear the documents
read which establish that the invitation addressed to the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg to evacuate the Moldo-Walla-
chian provinces within a fixed time having remained un-
answered, the state of war already declared between Rus-
sia and the Sublime Porte is in actual existence equally
between ittitsiip. oa-Ahc one side, and France and Great
Britain on the ent
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a fresh declare,
the ground of
December 5,
In eousequc >lemn mo-
ment declared united in
the double integrity
of the Otto) to evacua-
tion of the ;main one
of the essen, n an inte-
rest so muci •,j7 its of the
Sultan, and by every means compatible with his indepen-
dence and sovereignty, the civil and religious rights of the
Christian subjects of the Porte.
The territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire is and
remains the sine qua non condition of every transaction
having for its object the re-establishment of peace between
the belligerent Powers; and the Governments represented
by the undersigned engage to endeavour in common to dis-
cover the guarantees most likely to attach the existence of
that empire to the general equilibrium of Europe ; as they
also deciare themselves ready to deliberate and to come to
an understanding as to the employment of the means cal
culated to accomplish the object of their agreement.
Whatever event may arise in consequence of this agree-
ment, founded solely upon the general interests of Europe,
and of which the object can only be attained by the return
of a firm and lasting peace, the Governments represented
by the undersigned reciprocally engage not to enter into
any definitive arrangement with the Imperial Court of
Russia, or with any other power, which would be at vari-
ance with the principles above enunciated, without pre-
viously deliberating thereon in common.
(Signed) BUOL-SCHIIJENSTEIN.
BOURQUENKY.
WESTMORLAND.
ARNIM.

_R USSI A N COMMERCE.

ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 7.

The Minister of Finance has published the fol.
lowing notice in a supplement extraordinary to the
Gazette de Commerce of yesterday :

"In consequence of the receipt of the news that England
and France have declared war against Russia, the Minister
of Finance thinks it is his duty to acquaint the public with
the measures which havo been taken upon the occasion by
the Imperial Government in reference to English and
French subjects, and their commercial vessels and property.
Taking into consideration the declarations of the English
and French Governments, the Imperial Government, in its
sincere desire to avoid as much as possible the disastrous
consequences of war, has adopted the following regula-
tions :

" A delay of six weeks is granted to English and French
vessels now in our ports, to enable them to complete their
cargoes and sail without hindrance for a foreign destiva
tion. In the ports of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azoff, and
the Baltic Sea, this delay will be reckoned from the 25th
of April inst., and in the ports of the White Sea from the
date at which the navigation shall have been opened in
those ports. _ _ .

"As an exception, and from military considerations,
two English vessels, the Anna M'Allister and the William
Broderic—the former at Gronstadt and the latter at Revel
—will be temporarily detained. These vessels, however,
will not be confiscated, and they will be released as soon
as circumstances shall permit.
" French and English merchant vessels which, after
leaving our ports, may be met by our cruisers at sea, even
after the expiration of the delay named, will obtain per-
mission to continue their voyage as soon as the examination
of their papers shall have proved that their cargoes were
embarked before the expiration of the delay in question.
,
ou;:orhe property of English and French subjects embarked
ard of neutral ships will be considered as inviolable
bywheonurbeion cruisers. English, and French merchandise, even
hinarkifing to English and French subjects,
ont will, with-
their good.
iceot,l3:le admitted under a neutral flag to import
the tariff. Besiodur ports, under the general regulations of
es this, the property of neutral Powers
which may be
thfonnd on board of vessels of the enemy will
stood that the neeenturfiar
not be subject
ation. But it will be easily under-
stood
which, accordin flag cannot protect cargoes and ar-
ticles to the law of nations, are recognised
as contraband of
which contraband articlonsequently, vessels on board of
will be seized by our
prizes, conformably to the notice esof this nature may be found
cruisers, and condemned as lawful
er last.
published by the Minister
of Finance on the 27thcooftINTmoevireeeerl,
" In leaving all its
way make itselfa
rl t r
is
oovp:rnbneim toee
exposed
o,e merchant
vessels vessels of neutral nations the Imapelr
thelessa,
ncdaninnjoutryintoawnyhich such vessels may
responsible for da-
mage
t of war
the incidents of war.
~ In the month of October last, when, reportsi
were circulated, the Minister of Finance
the Emperor, declared to the English merchanZsntartadei 1
with St. Petersburg, that even in the case of war they
have nothing to fear either for their persons or their
property, property, and that they might rely upon the protection
which they had heretofore enjoyed. All English and
French subjects, to whatever class they may belong, who
devote themselves peaceably to their business, observe the
laws in force, and abstain from that which the laws forbid,
will fully enjoy in Russia the same protection and the
same security as well for their persons as their property.
" Several foreign journals, and particularly the Times,
in its number of the 11th of April, having asserted that
the furniture and effects left at St. Petersburg by Sir H.
Seymour, lately the English Minister in Russia, had been
confiscated by the Imperial Government, we are autho-
rised to give a formal contradictiox to the statement."

A DISGRACE To HIS COUNTRY.—The Emperor (of
Russia) has deigned, at his request, to order the admis-
sion among the number of Russian subjects of the Bri-
tish subject Nicholas Baird, who has resided in Russia
since 1320, and been constantly attached since 1323, in
the capacity of engineer, to the administration of the
navy, to give him the rank of mechanical engineer, and
the position of citizen by descent c f a high class, and to
continue him in the execution of his duties is the Port
of Cronstadt.—Journal debt,Petersboury.

kiE WEATHER.—Suit oYrice, APRIL 29.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
53 -highest since noon yesterday.
41 -lowest this morning and during the night.
54 -this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 21.73.
WIND, N.N.E.—Moderate breeze, and dull, cloudy
weather.

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,red that the . Governments remain
object aintaining the territorial
,man Embre, of which the fact of the
Danislan Principalities is and will rel
itial conditions; and of consolidating it
Lch in conformity with the sentiment