The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-09 00:00:00

We hare received the Paris papers of Monday.

There is a controversy going on among the Minis-
terial journals as to the wording of M. Cruszofs note
to the Northern Powers, on the Cracow affair. The
Presse stated a few days since that the note of M
GuizoT expressly declared that the violation of the
treaty of Vienna by the Northern Powers had placed
France at liberty to violate it whenever it should be
her interest so to do. The Portefeuille, on the con-
trary— which paper is the organ of the Foreign-office
—denies this statement, and says—

°°We are assured that M. Guizot, after directing at-
Gos; declared that the con
ernment was to watch
over their maintenar.ce ; that France has religiously re-
tention to the fact that the revolution of July was
effected in hatred of the treaties of 1815 ; that the most
energetic and the boldest portion of the victorious party
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srected them ; and that their violation on the part of
the three Courts is so much the less comprehensible that
it was not necessary to the security of their possessions.
But (adds M. Guizo9 France will not imitate the ex-
ample given to her ; her Government continues to re-
gard the treaty of Vienna as the basis of the balance of
power in Europe, and for her part, she was decided nut
in any way to infringe it."
The Esprit Public says that the note was originally
drawn up by M. GUIZOT as published by the Presse,
but hints that it 1,v,,s subsequently modified in com-
pliance with fears not shared in by the Minister
himself. - -

We find the following quoted by the Journal des
Debats from the Revue Diplontatique, on the subject
of the absence of the Foreign Ambassadors from the
fate given by M. Guizor to the Bey of TUNIS
" To prevent false conclusions being drawn from the
absence of the foreign Ambassadors from the late fate
given at the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it
is important to state fully the facts. When the King's
Government, on the Bth of August, 1830, entered into
the treaty of commerce with Hussein Bey, the title given
to him in it was Prince of the People, Chosen of the
Grandees, issue of blood Royal, brilliant from marks
the most brilliant, and for the most sublime virtues,
Hussein Bey, Master of the kingdom of Africa.' The
same titles have been acknowledged by Sardinia
and Belgium ; one, in a treaty of the 22d of February,
1832, and the other in a treaty of the 14th of Octo-
ber, 1831. Upon these precedents it was quite natural
that the Bey of Tunis, on arriving at Paris, should
be received at Court as a Sovereign Prince. Never-
theless, the Turkish Ambassador, on the day after
the reception of the Bey by the King of the
French, showed a disposition to demand his passports ;
but, reflecting on a step so serious, and which could not
be taken without express instructions, his Excellency
confined himself to delivering a verbal protest to M.
Guizot, reserving future proceedings till after he had re-
ferred to the Sultan. In the meantime, the Bey, having
intimated his intention to appoint a day for a reception
of the diplomatic corps, the Ambassadors, Lord Nor-
manby among the first, declared that, as Hussein Bey
was only the vassal of the Sultan, he was bound to make
the first visit to the Ambassadors. To comprehend the
full bearing of this expectation, it must be remembered
that Ambassadors represent the person of their sove-
reigns, and that upon this ground even Princes of
the Blood, when they arrive at a foreign Court, always
pay the first visits to Ambassadors. His Royal lligh-
ness the Prince of Salerno, father of the Duchess
d'Aumale, recently conformed to this rule of etiquette.
The Bey of Tunis, notwithstanding his desire to respect
the diplomatic etiquette of Europe, conceived it neces-
sary to refrain from a step which might be construed
into a renunciation of his claim to be an independent
Sovereign. This circumstance is the cause that, at all
Court entertainments, care has been taken that the Bey
should not come in contact with the diplomatic corps. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs wished in his turn to testify
to the Bey the esteem which the rare qualities of his High•
ness had so generally acquired in France. But the previous
announcement of the intended presence of the French
Princes at this fete appeared to the Ambassadors to be
an imperious reason for their confining themselves strictly
within the laws of etiquette, according to which they
would be bound to claim precedence of the Bey. To
avoid a dispute, which would have been so much to be
regretted, they deemed it would be prudent to abstain
from appearing at the entertainment. At the same time
to prove that their absence was imposed upon them by
their official duties, and not from any personal feelings
towards either the Bey or the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, they sent their wives and the other members of
their families. From all this it results, that the absence
of the Ambassadors had no other motive than the am-
biguity, in their eyes, of the political position of the Bcy
—whether he is to be considered as a Sovereign Prince,
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suspended his preparations for his journey to England."
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great anxiety in Paris. The price of corn is rapidly
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