The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-24 00:00:00

t:ths

norrow. Great an

rill enthusiasm is manifest&l
,r, _

The. Emperor has granted an: amnesty. to 33G
Political prisoners, of wlic

45 rec

pardon;' tio sentences of the others are conimuted
into :various terms of imprisonm en t.

The state of siege in Lombardy and the Vene7
tian territory will be raised entirely after the Ist
fratr. -,;
L!4:11.4k-, .144weroir orderact :200;006; florriit tO
rt...
r';-ilistribli aniode tier'" pooi of 6'6 -fation
71jr6irinde
. •
rAide.avours are making to bring about a friendly
'-linder4andink between: Austria and Piedmont.
-.4.4:stria makes. it a condition of .renewed
'l4teroourse that.the PiedmonteseGovernment shall
ellounce its legislative propositions respecting the
Posseaions of the clergy,. conform to ;the wishes Of
Austriawith reaped to the reception and treatment
°f refugees, and enact a restrictive press law•

THE BLACK SEA.
, A. letter of the .6th from Odessa, in the Presse,
Zonn. s us that on the banks of the Dniester, below
tk.,13-ger, there are many hundred large rafts
nected in readiness for the purpose of conveying
re troops and cannon, which form as it were the
them cf Odessa, down-- the stream, and placing
~..."4elll at once at their station at: the scene of action,
Truett
the moment .of danger shall arrive. The
t2ritish and French declexatidn of war against
a, Was known at Odessa on the 4th. It had
proof
a very painful sensation, of which the first
vr°of was shown in a general movement of the
ioPle, who thought it was wise" to -get' out of
411123 way,

• " GREECE.
IN, April 23.—The ships bought from Russia,
J Greeks,
and now at anchor in the Adriatic,
are ntohed by the English steamer the Spitfire.
1,, .t.ll, Setnapluyre of Marseilles publishes the fol-
-Ing in a letter from Athens, 12th :
The,arrival of M. Metaxa at Athens has raised the
Sanity cf the court to a state of Paroxysm. The ex-
-7,oessador completely rules- the minds of ,he King
bad Queen, he presides at the council of ministers, and
Lee frequent conversatioug.withAlis public fact, he
7_ dictator at -Athens'. ' The late circular hed by
;liont Nesselrode, relative to the line of conduct to be
443°IlOweil by the RuSeinn agents abroad on the occasion
th-the insurrection in Thessaly and Epirus, has excited
the greatest enthusiasm in the public mind here ;
, are persons ..who imagine themselves already in
ii9l'session of the Ottoman Empire, and give way to a
gi"end acts of folly. 500 Greeks arrived here a few
since froth Smyrna. The Government is about to
ienu them off to the frontier, tue expenses of their
.:erney to be paid out of the privy purse of his Majesty.
tolt,,,bligh the number of the insurgents already amounts
""°4:11, theinsurrection makes no progress. A little
t °re energy on the part of the Porte would soon put an
and it would be immediately terminated if
1,27 t 'lee and England would send 5,000 or 6,000
t° occupy the country, for it would be wrong
ik,,.."magine that we: are all enthusiastic for the in-
ar;c`6ctictl. On the contrary, the ' great majority
Ish gull particularly merchants, capitalists, honest men
live by their. labour, and in general all those who
luta° abything to lose, are oppesed to it ; but what can
en- „,u° ? We are obliged to be silent, and even to speak
-
tarJ
to what we think out of regard to our pro-
ZrtYend our lives, bat let us be supported, and we will
part show that it is only fools and madmen who. i
take
in the inFarrection and support the cause of the n
mtlfgentA
461_ • It is folly to suppose. that representations,
Rh. and friendly proceedings. will check the torrent
tottie° carries away the government ; it is only by strong
k rare measures that the friends of Greece can save 1
-44 from destruction."

FRANCE.
LIANCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND
irk ENGLAND.
ix -46 Moniteur of yesterday publisheifthe follow-
ig •
•
DECREE FOR THE PROMULGATION OF THE
CONVENTION OF ALLIANCE - CONCLUDED BETWEEN
FRANCE
AND ENGLAND. ' •
11, Napoleon, by the grace' of God and the national will
llperor of the French; to all present and to come salut.
the report of our Minister, Secretary of State in
than (311 the
of Foreign Affairs, we have decreed and
as follows :
at 4‘
Art. 1. A convention of alliance having been signed
ndon on the 10th of the present month of April,
a'weer!' iranCe and England, with the object of support-
g the Ottoman empire against the aggression of the
tn,.:pire of Ru.sia ; this convention having been ratified
the two contracting Governments ; and the acts of
,7Pective ratification having
.been exchanged on the
15th of the same month of April, the said convention
4:/ Which, the tenor follows, will receive its full and en-
'tire execution. .
,„.

• "CONVENTION. •
"Their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the
,queen of the -United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, determined to lend their aid to his Majesty the
sultan Ahd-til-Medjid, Emperor, of the Ottoutags,.,in
the war Which be supports against the aggressions of
Russia, and foiced, besides, notwithstanding their sin-
°ere. and persevering efforts to maintain peace, to be-,
2,416 themselves belligerent parties in a war' which,.
'thout their active intervention, had threatened the
I,l4ence of the equilibrium of Europe, resolved to con-
,-,%11,1e a convection destined to determine the objects of
alliance, as well as the means to be employed in-
to fulfil them, and named to that effect .es
plenipotentiaries—
m "Uhl Maje-sty the'Emperor of the French the Sieur
• antler Colon na, Count Walewski, Grand Officer of the
titiPerial Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of
7Life Order of St. Janvier of tha TWo &allies Grand Cross
k the Order of Danebourg of Denmark, Grand Cross of
fie. Order of Merit of St. Joseph of Tuscany, &c., &c.,jee., otir ambassador to the'Colirt of her Britannic Ma-
d:t3r of nd her Majesty the Queen of the 'United King-
toGrgreeat Britain and Ireland; the Right Honour-
William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon,
klt°4, Ityde of ilindon, peer of the, United Kingdom.
P.fgwirl, Councillor of her Britannia 'Majesty in her
qa!Y council,. Knight of the very noble Order of the
%titter, IChight Grand Cross of the very honourable
parocall,y—
ttiter of the Bath, Principal Secretary of State to her
ree,' ant'ie Majesty for Foreign Affairs ; who, having
ve following
communicated their full powers, which were
tZeirl" g°0(1 and in due form, have determined and signed
articles." [Here fo.low the articles, which
have already published.]

REPLY
--'l'iLl. OP THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
rms"'o. THE DECLARATION OF RUSSIA.
bLue.itioniteur contains the following reply on the
'ol.'‘„ of the French Government to the declaration
tita.._ttussia, in answer to the summons. lately ad-
itgl7vee Li) that Power, and' to which it di not
tILTh„ e Russian Government has just published a de-
b® in answer to the summons addressed to it fur
Lk- '44 time by France and England, and to which it
111: not. " Consented to subscribe. We have not
the leteetion to enter into an examination of
Unlit
out
etrguoients refuted to satiety ; we will
tl4t ,ves to some observations on the new errors whichl
bye 4 ?.eclaration is endeavouring to get accredited. _
11 the first place the Russian Government demands
,at title England and France pretend to exact the
Nen" •is la tion of the principalities of the Danube. There
their °lle so ignorant as not to be aware how much
Nillo ellrnmoos is founded upon right. The Powers
. signed the acts of Vienna have themselves recog-
1118id th
act„,i —ern as such. The Cabinets of Paris and London
co I,' on this occasion in virtue of treaties, and their
Ilmilet Lai the approbation of other Governments.
eo„4l,ll°‘v (says the declaration of the Russian Cabinet)
111,Z' We evacuate the principalities, without even the
4,i44---13w
,of the conditions to which the Emperor had
foijellr ordinate the cessation of that occupation being
di i"ed hy the Ottoman Government? But these con-
t4briatcit;:‘choit peirtenocessia required were manifestly unjust;
that
of Vienna had formally confirmed on
~ point the jrdgment of Europe.
,_ The declaration adds that the Riissian armies could
',ot- evacuate the prineipalities in the midst of a war
dch tbe Ottoman Government
`shad been the first to
ecla.re."lle parts cannot be more s.rangely inter-
'?rt
empire was. in the e ed. The invasion of
the two provieces of the Tur-
f
iar, It the Porte h ash
yea of the whole world, an act
been recommended not to
tg
niake it a case of war, it was because, in spite of the
;,'g(11)*I ressive character of the acts of nussia, it was still
return(.that there would
to moderation and equity, be on the part of that Power a
the
Iris no 11 tier foundation for casting back on
ti e 4vvo mari:ime Powers the initiative of theprovoca-
°llk It is an affair already judged ; and sinCe the
a•binet of St. Peten-burg brings to our recollection on
tlli
4 , -"object thememorandum of the 18th of last February,
..411, in our turn, send it back
well
the. _whole of
b the
euments which in England as as in France, have.
se ~.. • ,
a iirnaPietely plac..d the question beyond a doubt, that
their of the two Governments' have thought it worth
this while to occupy themselves for one moment with
btf,, memorandum, which has frequently, been refuted
Nc,:re,ilanil. "The initiative of the acts of war, as far as
tonrli the Porte, as well as the provocations in matters
lz.„"itfg-thet maritime PoWers, belongs exclusively to t e.
41N" which. invaded the principalities of the Danube •
‘4l such is the opinion of all Europe. thhtlll., e. declaration of the Russian Cabinet remarks
stepl'ie:nectipation had not prevented the negotiation,'
eiiig openeC, and that they would not have
tud4).ed their beiog followed out, if the Powers had not
Nlilli4;111Y, and without:valid reasons, changed the bases
to
at.,t_hey had themselves given in the first note drawn
times v. I.erina. The Powers bad,
_in fact, laid down pm:
the diip:leb, loyally admitted, might then have solved
queiti,je enoe ; but the commentary which the note in
til4t_thri received froM th , Count de Nesselrode atte-ted
e RU`,'tan Cabinet did not accept them, except
tblea;tdtaelmlg to them a signification very different from
I, y Zea-of the conference of Vienna, as was admitted
It,i, ' the Governments represented in that conference.
of
t; the.refore, Russia herself which changed the bases
tse,ek..lf,ertian,etri:tili andß compelled the Great Powers to
eZaiirk (-) the detnaa which tisiatribGojetit:nment bitterly corn-.
,141°1.1 addressed' to the Commander
ints 9f Paris and.ot
siol4,rees at Seim toped in emeseq.f
e-;fCtliiiief of' it-.
but it' onlOpe. We admit that that demand watUaligngsureasl.
willi called for by a state of Q. b. b. '
. mg 4 NV lc wao nut
,