The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

A LETTER FR0:11 RACHEL.

The following letter, from the pen of Mdlle. Rachel,
appears in the lndependance Beige. It reples to the
rumour that she was about to renounce the stage for
matritpony, but it wag not, our contemporary says,
" intended for publication." The great tragalirnue

writes :---
" I have heard many clover people say that it is botier
to be maltreated by the press than to subui t to its silence
and its neglect. I have, thou, to thank you once more for
the notice which you have given me in the . But,
why, my dear friend, have you occupied yourself for such
a length of time with nothing but fancies of marriage
which you have iavented iu order to. blame me, and why
suspect me again to-day of this inutility ?
resEighteenfifty
•`I have two sons whom I adore ; I have thirty-two
years upon my certificate of birth ; I have
finger—l will not say how many au te.
of passionate tirades upon the theatres ; hasty journeys to
the extent of every land ; Moscow winters : Rated. o
treacheiies ; the perfidious sea; the ingrate land—behold
things which soon age a little bit of a. woman like me !
But God protects the
.brave, and he seems to have created
expressly for me a little corner unknown to all the geo-
graphers, where I can forget my fatigues, my paini, my
premature old ago ;`
* '', and this 'though you fling
your villanous canard in the midst of the birds which
porch upon my branches, and which sing the songs of re-
turn—mice probably, and that of the spring I.
" If I had really died in America, you would have been,
oh, I'm quite sure of it, the first to devote to we (in a
manner worthy of your genius and heart) one of your
warmestfeuitletons. And because I am resuscitated in a
miraculous manner, because I hope to shake your hand
..gain like an old friend, you exclaim—` She lives ! that's
well ; and thank God for it. Now, let us tease her!'
Thou see y3u setting to work to irritate my too susceptible
nerves, and to WAIUSO people at the expense of poor little
Rachel I Is it thus you should act with a poor creature
who returns very truly from the other world? Go, be just
and kind, and accuse yourself of an inveterate love of
teasing, at my poor expense, and then I will pardon you,
especially as I hope to see you soon in Paris or in the
country.
" By Jupiter, it is very genteel of me toact
This letter thus, towards
you.
is certainly not written by ai great a
nds
oedienae,' but by a good child, who calls herseLf
' March 11, 1856." " RACHEL."

TEE ADMISSION OF PRUSgIA TO TRN
CONg.RES6.

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The Constitutipttuct ofyesterday publishes a let-
ter 'from its-correspondent at Vienna, dated the
15th, on the subset of tho- admission of Prussia
to the Congress. It s:ASs:— t

" The invitation which Count Walewski, as
organ of the Congress assembled. at 'Paris, has ad-
dressed to Prussia to take part in the deliberations
of the Congress, appears at first glance so unfore-
seen that we must not be surprised if it gives rise
to the most erroneous commentaries mid the most
hazardous suppositions. But a succinct account of
the facts which induced the Congress of Paris to
address that invitation to the Court of Berlin will
suffice toteduee the signification and bearing of it.
to its just value. The idea of associating Prussia
in the deliberations' of the Congress, in order to.
place the definitive treaty of peace under the
general guarantee of Europe, was brought forward
ly Austria as soon as the Court of St. Petersburg
had accepted purely and simply the Austrian ulti-
matum."

Iu proof that Austria did this, the letter quotes an
extract from a despatch addressed by Count Buell
to Count Etterhazy at Berlin, announcing his in-
tention of directing the Austrian Ministers at
Paris and London to recommend strongly;to the
WeStern Powers the admission of ,Prussia,. Ti.lo
letter then continues :

" Count Boni at the same time pressed the Ca-
binet of Berlin to fortify the efforts of Austria by
declaring immediatelfits own resolution to engage
itself to accept nn the same conditions as the other
powers the programme approved of by them. In
/act, in a despatch, dated Berlin, the 26th January,
Baron de Mauteuffel authorised Count Arnim to
reply to Count Duel that the Prussian Govern-
rnent will not heeitate to declare itself ready toeign
the preliminaries accepted by Russia, &tile other
power invite her to take Fart in determining in
C 04111.1011 the basis destined to serve as the conclu-
sion of peace.' PriiiSia, therefore, it will be seen,
whilst demanding that the Western Powers should
address to her the invitation to join them, reserved
the right of discussing in common the basis destined
to serve as the conclusion of peace; that is to say,
that she did not take the absolute engagement to
support in presence of Russia the interpretation
which the allies of the 2d December intended to
attach to the fifth point of the preliminaries. The
consequence was that the Congress of Paris assem-
bled on the 25th of February without the Prussian •
plenipotentiaries being invited to take part in its
deliberations. Austria did not the less persist in
representing to the Cabinets of Paris and Loudon
that Prussia, by supporting the Austrian proposi-
tions at St. Petersburg, and by favouring.the last
vote of the Diet of Fiankfort (21st February) had
efficaciously contributed to the conclusion of peace.
After numerous discussions, a sort of middle term
was arrived at, by which the entrance to the Euro-
pean concert was opened to Prussia without the
overthrow of the principle firmly proclaimed by .
the Cabinets of Paris and LOndon, that to sit in the
Congress it was necessary to possesa the title of- a
contracting power." . t
The letter then calf to mind that in the Confe-
rences of Vienne, in 1855 it e was' decided that
though Prussia could- not be admitted to them
"there was nothing to prevent her from according
in some form or other to the result of the negotia-
tioes." It then states that when in the Congress
at Paris the matters that could give rise tO aecsnee'
MU were settled without the particitettion of
Prussia—heeanee she was not a coutraeting power
—there was nothing to prevent her froth taking
part in. Oe..deiiburatibils; on the modifications of
the- treaty of the 13th July, 1841, in which she
was a contracting power. The same course was
accordingly pursued towards her as was followed
t mards France in 1841, after she had been ex-
cluded from the treaty of 1840 :

" As in 1841 Lord *Palmerston, as organ of the
conference of London; addressed to the Court of the
Tuileries the invitation to co-operate in the conclu-
sion of the convention of the 13th July, 1811, so
Count \Valewski, as organ of the co/tigress of Paris,
has addressed to the Prussian government a similar.-
invitation with the.object of modifyiug,,that same
convention, in conforrriity with the system of the
neutralisation of the Black 'sea Which is .to serve
as the basis .of, the realisation of, the third gua-
rantee. By the fact that Prussia will co-operate in;
modifying the convention of the 13th July, 1841, k,
she acquires the right of affixing her signature: to
the general treaty of peace, inasmuch as the special
protocol setting forth the adhesioii.of the Coqd>pf
Berlin to the m?difiCations of the preciteil con-
vention will annelted to the general treaty
of be --held to form .part of it.
In this manner Prussia will cover. by her formal
guarantee all the other stipulations of the treaty
of peace, although she has not participated in their
discussion, continiug herself to acceding subse-
quently to the result of the negotiations of the
other power:3. 'Thanks to this happy 4trangement
between. Prussia and the allies of the 2d Dec., the
European union will be again established, Vaud
will become the fundamental basis Of the length
and solidity of 'this much-desired peace, which; •
after the most raut)lentie accounts received from
Paris, is reallyli ,tthe pointof being-sigued.."

THE BLOCKADE IN TIIE BALTIC.

Captain Watson's advance squadron left Kiel on
the sth inst., and were off Moen Head on the fol-
lowing morning ; hut, as the wind blew hard from
the east, Captain Watson determinellon not wasting
coal by forcing the squadron against it. Her Ma •
jesty's ship Pylales, 21, Captain D'Eyncourt ;
Sampson, 6, Captain Hand ; Fil3oo ommander
Pullen ; and Ilarier, li, Comnt.' itnan, had
anchored under Moen Head the nigh:. ePfore, and
were compelled to get under way whop: the wind
shifted. On the Imperieuse, 51, Cri.pfaiti Watson,
C. 8., meeting these ships, they all steamed to the
northward, and anchored north-west of Falsterbo
Lighthouse, where they remained until the wind Of
abated, which it did in about three hours after they
anchored, when they all left, and, steering to the
eastward, passed Bornholme on Friday niorndtg,
reached the south end of Cleland about no* oil
which they passed through immense fieldslif loose
ice ; continuing on, they passed the south end of
Gothland at midnight, arrived at Faro on Satur-
day morning at 9, and found the inner harbour
completely frozen over, and great quantities of loose
ice in the outer. On tbe 12th the Euryalus, 51,
Capt. Ramsay, C. 8., joined them, last from Kiel ;
she arrived in a snowstorm, and anchored near the
Imperieuse, and only about 200 yards from her
Captain Ramsay was nearly half an hour in cutting
his way through the ice in one of his boats to report
his arrival. The squadron would weigh in a day
or two, and cruise further.

AUSTRALIAN SE3LI-MONTHLY MAILS...—. Liverpool,
March 19.—The semi-monthly mails for Australia will
be despatched from Liverpool for Melbourne on Sunday
morning next, the 23d iast., by the White Star Rr,rl
mail packet-ship Shalimar. Capt. Brown. The letter-box
will close at the Liverpool Post-office on Saturday night:
BURNING OF A FRENCH THEATRE. —A fire broke out
a few nights ago in the theatre of Bourges (Cher), by
which part of it was destroyed. As no performance had
taken place since the Sunday previous, the origin of the
fire is attended with some mystery. The fire broke out
at midnight. At the very commencement the flames
might the roof, and all hopes of saving the building were
abandoned. Attention was then turned to protecting
the offices of the commissariat, the Hotel de Jacqurs
Camr, which serves as the Mairie sad the Palaie de
Justice, and which are contiguous to the theatre. By
the exertions of the firemen, all the books in the dif-
ftrent offices were speedily removed. All the registers
of the Oetroi were, hemmer, destroyed. All that can be
co;-jectured as to the origin of the fire is that some
lighted coal must have been dropped in the room of the
artisteC, or that the lighted aches from a cigar must have
fallen, and that the fire had been smouldering until the
time when it broke out. The buildin6, was insured for
necessarylolA,OOvOgr.r.l,fsnatrusßiutNsiTn.rief far inferior
ns ~,Itermc t
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