The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA'S REPLY.

Le Nord, of yesterday, says that the Thissit
Government will have little trouble in rerbriog
Lord Granville. "In all that concerns future con3P'i
cations, it will be the business of Russia, o_l
the other Powers, to prevent them. In all that reg3l—._,
the diplomatic precedents of which Lord Granville fe':
the contagion, it will be observed that the precedent"'
are already created. The Treaty of Paris especial, I
offers on this subject the most characteristic exalni?l*
It may indeed be said that not one of the modificate'
diplomatically introduced into this Treaty is anythiljgg
else than the register of an accomplished fact and tu
legalisation of a premeditated infraction. Nothing hind
yet another Conference from assembling at Vienna
ratify and formulate the fact accomplished by the et
.e.
nunciation of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. It has .11:
fact declared itself ready to enter into this sub ect Wit"
the other Powers."

COUNT BEUST ON THE PARIS TREATY.

The following is the substance of the circular desPetchf
which Count Beust addressed to the diplomatic agents(),
Austria, on February, 3rd 1867, respecting the revision "'
the Treaty of Paris in 1856 :—" I have, " he °ill:
" submitted the subsequent reflections to W
preliminary consideration of the French Cabinet. After
having shewn the insufficiency of the means hitherto
employed to combat the isolated symptoms of an
which threatens to invade the whole surface of Turkey
Europe, we asked whether it would not be desirable to
consider if there were not some reason for revising the
stipulations of 1856 which have often been overstepped
in more than one respect without the Paris Conferenc!
being able to secure their claims being respected. `ll
revision, we thought, should have for its principal AOI
the amelioration of the condition of the Sultan's Chris'
tian subjects, which, in suite of repeated P.
mises, is still the cause of continual 02:
plaint. The different aspects under which the
several guaranteeing Powers regard this matter should be
i
discussed in a conference and the general results
to the acceptance of the Porte. It seems impossible that
all parties should arrive at a deliberate understanding' "13
these eastern questions without obtaining the concurrence'
through certain concessions, of the only power which may
be supposed to have an individual policy iu the East, the
is to say, of Russia. These concessions, in my opini°l3_,'
ought to bear on the restrictions imposed on that Polo'
by the Act of 1856, with the view of restricting its action
on the Turkish side. Whatever be the material 'OW
attached to these restrictions, regarding them as hostage°
given for the duration of the Ottoman Empire, it
indisputable that by the sole fact of the existence
of European engagements restraining in this point the
free action of a great State, that State feels naturally ng"
grieved. It aspires to be free from these fetters, and theif
removal would constitute an important concession
which would entitle the other Powers to expect
its loyal participation in the European concert. We don"'
doubt that if an analogous proposition was advanced 11
the other signatories to the Treaty of 1856, the Cabinet o
St. Petersburg would take it into serious consideration,
The reserve which has been evidenced by the recent
communications Las not altered our opinion. 11°
reserve only supports an argument which 111,,,
have been employing at Paris and London. We urge°,
that in reality those guarantees, which it was believed
were obtained by the neutralisation of the Black Sea'
would become illusory the day on which Russia, yield-ill
to the force of circumstances, would and could re-establie°
a war marine in a sea contiguous, to her territory. Count
Beust subsequently remarks that it might be desirable to
omit the Ottoman Government from the invitations to the
Conference."

The Birminghanz Gazette of yesterday says tiled
retail price of flour is this day advanced 2d. per peck, a°
bread id. per loaf.
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THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS ON THE OCCUPATIO'
of ROME.—We (Times) have been requested to pubi;st
the following protest of the Catholics of Gras©
Britain against the invasion of Rome :—" We, u•,
undersigned Catholics of Great Britain, have W 1 f
nessed with grief and indignation the invasion °f
the States of the Church, and the assault and car
ture of Rome by the army of King Victor Emmanne
We hold that to witness these events in silence,
would be to connive at a blow to those first instincts 0'
honour and justice, without which security and freed°
are impossible, whether for States or individuals. We Pr'
test against these acts. We protest against them in.,tre
interest of public order, of morality, and of religion. "
invite all good citizens to join us in condemning this great
crime against the law of nations. We invite all hones
men to join us in condemning this unjustifiable spoliatia:
We invite all faithful Catholics to join us in condemili°3
this act of sacrilege." The protest is signed by the Pa.f
of Norfolk, E.M., and Lords Bute, Denbigh,
borough, Kenmare, Beaumont, Stourton, Petre, Arundc"
of Wardour, Stafford, Herries, Lovat, Howard of Glos.
sop, Campden, and Walter Kerr, as well as by the great
body of the Catholic gentry.
PRUSSIAN POLITICS.—From the Berlin Daag
News correspondent on the 14th instant writes •
The date for the meeting of the Prussian , Landt°l
has not yet been fixed; but the official pa4,e,,"'
announce that the North German Imperial Diet will '-
convened on November 20. The rumour which, on all
strength of a statement of the Kreuz Zeitung, circulate'
for a time, that it was to meet at Versailles, was only
feeler put out by Bismarck, and directed agsinst refract
tory, hesitating, and vacillating Bavaria, which, fl
the last hour, refused to join the North German e°ll,l
federation. It would be an unwarranted innovation '"
call the Diet together, out of its territorial limits, to
foreign city, where it would have to debate under thea
protection of the army. If the King of Prussia a„°,'";
his Chancellor are prevented from coming to Berlin
for the present, they must wait until they c
return. Suppose the German army were for a few claYf
only driven out of Versailles, what would the members °f
the Diet do? They must of course take to flight if the/
do not want to be made prisoners. And now think °
about 360 grave men all running for their lives, with th°
enemy after them ! But Berlin, as heretofore, will °nee
more see the Diet within its walls. Its first duty will be,
to vote a war loan, which will be passed in
few days, and next to ratify the entrance of the Son.'
German States into the North German Confederatico
The official organ does not speak of all the South Gerra/,
States, as it cannot vouch for the application of Bavaiir"
under the fair terms offered to her. Baden has repeateo4,
applied; Wurtemburg has finally joined her • and 140
Darmstadt is of no account. Thus Bavaria
alone, with scarcely five millions of inhabitants',
fancies herself a great power, and thinks she can diet 4
terms to the rest of Germany. It is the State Itie
doctrine, by which she claims a diplomatic representati°!
independent of the Confederation, her own army orgari,l,;
nation, the release from contributing to the mainteual.l';
of a German fleet—in short, she does not want to Or
up any of her rights, and insists on remainil
as sovereign as she has been since the days of the Fi,,rea
Napoleon. Thus much, however, is certain, tt'il
the North German statesmen will not give up Rn
of the principles which form the basis of the prese°,
Confederation ; that, as obliging as they may be on rni.°43,,
points, they will not create an " imperium in imperlf.,'d
but will prefer entirely leaving out Bavaria to riski7
the durability of the new political structure. Never,
theless, the leading men at head-quarters do not give
the hope of finally conquering the resistance of Bavari'
but if they do not apply very strong means, I rat
doubt whether they will succeed. Bavaria, will
her large Catholic and uneducated agriculture
population, will add little strength to the Confeleratiolii
which even without her will be a great Power °Bl
about forty-two millions of inhabitants ; but the n3or„t
impression her accession will make is a more importa;..
consideration, for if Germany be not united by this het
she will be exposed to new schemes and new attacks of he
enemies.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Worth, the Lady]Anne Isabell3

Blunt, of a son. _
On the 17th inst., at Sydenham, Mrs. Edward Buriz6'
of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.]
On the 16th inst., at Birchanger, Essex, Sampson 11-14t5„;
ford Burch, Esq., of 239,Vauxhall-bridge-road, 5.111,4
Mary A., the eldest daughter of R. H. Robertson, -Ds"'
M.D., The Mount, Birchanger.
ViriP
On the 16th inst., at St. Michael's, Oakley-square, • of
Ham, second son of the late Michael James Webber,
Covent garden, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. J°'
Morgan, of Long-acre.

DEATHS.
On the 17th inst., at Eltham, Thomas M. Challis, eldest
son of Alderman Challis, aged 46.
On the 16th inst., Henry Robert Pearson, Esq., of 46'
Hyde-park-square, aged 81.

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Saturday, November 19, 1870,