The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

RUSSIAN NOTE ON THE REASSEMBLING OF

THE CONFERENCES.

The fiussidn dienintandnit Oh the V01gv.,,l NO Isle of
Serpents questions; wilith wa's mitde public last weak,
was originally communicated to ()mint Vcfalewski, the
Frendh Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by the
following nate, it which the French Government 'Pro
invited to promote the reassethbling of the conferencee
Monsieur le Ministre,—By order ol the Emperor,
my aligiist master, I had the honour of addirecsing to
your excellency a tote, under date of Sept. 19, repeating
the invitation already verbally given, that you would be
so good as to propose to all the cabinets that signed the
treaty of Paris to reassemble their representatives in
conference at Paris, for the purpose of definitively regu-
lating the questions which remain in suspense concerning
the execution of the treaty of March 30.
The Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, acceding to this request, did not fail to make it
known to all the courts which had signed the treaty of
Paris.

A month having since elapsed, is expectation without
any result, I have received orders to place before the
eyes of your excellency the enclo-ei memorandum, which
gives a complete summary of the sitnation of affairs. It
states anew the high importance which the court of Rus-
sia attaches to a prompt and complete solution of all the
points in dispute, explains the course this court has taken
in order to legally arrive at this conclusion, and points
out, lastly, the serious inconvenience which would result
from any further procrastination.
In fact, the demarcation of the new Aissarabian fron-
tier, defined in principle by a preliminary convention
signed on the 30th of August, awaits a final decision
only on two local difficulties that require solution, so as
to complete the task along the entire extent of a line
three-fourths of which are already traced. But it is not
only the execution of the 20th article of the treaty of
peace that has remained in suspense. This European
transaction remains unfulfilled in more than one of its
essential conditions. •

In virtue of the 11th article the Black Sea is neutra-
lised. Its waters and its ports are formally and for ever
closed against the milit rry flag, save the exceptions men-
tioned in the 11th and 19 articles.
The 10th article in the Convention of the Straits an-
nexed to the treaty maintains the ancient rule laid down
by the Ottoman Empire, whereby the Straits of the
Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus are closed against
foreign vessels of war so long as the Porte is at peace.
Tue additional and transitory article added to the
general treaty establishes that the stipulations of the
convention aforesaid shall not be applicable to the
vessels of war employed by the belligerent powers for
the evacuation by sea of the territories occupied by their
armies ; but it expressly declares that the said :tipula-
tions shall resume their entire effect; so soon as the
evacuation shall have been completed. Now, down to
this day, three months after the evacuation by sea has
been terminated, all these stipulations still remain
without effect.

Finally, the articles 23, 24, 2'l, and 27, relative to the
Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, remain un•
executed, by the fact that a foreign armed force is present
in the Danubian provinces—a military occupation which
is not in accordance with the regulations of the 31st
article, concerning the entire evacuation of the Ottoman
empire. The term of six months, before assigned for
the carrying out of this evacuation, dating from the day
when the ratifications should be exchanged, has expired.
The expiration of this term now reminds all the con-
tracting Powers of the obligation, imposed upon them
in common, to take care that the salutary work of a
general pacification shall be maintained, which has be-
come a new pledge of prosperity and repose for Europe.
The Emperor, my master, orders me to perform this
duty, and to appeal with confidence to the Government
of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, with the
view of hastening the moment when the representatives
of the Courts that signed the treaty, reassembled in
conference at Paris, shall have to deliberate with Com-
mon accord for the faithful carrying out of all the stipu-
lations in the treaty which have hitherto remained
unexecuted.—l have the honour, &c.,
(Signed) BRUNJO W.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—Dee 15,

EQUITY COURTS.
(Before the Lords Justices of Appeal,}'

AITCHESON V. LEE.-RE THE ROYAL BRITISH BANE.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly (with whom was Mr. W. D. Lewis)
read certain alternative proposals to be used in the
management of the estate in this case (according to the
result of their lordships' decision, to be given on Friday
next), which had been prepared by the official manager
to carry out a suggestion of the court, and to which it
was said all parties assented. The learned counsel re•
marked, however, that they could hardly be expected to
become applicable in a satisfactory manner to the cir-
cumstances of the case, prepared as they had been with-
out a certainty as to the decision their lordships would
come to upon the litigation which had been so recently
before them. He expressed a hope that their lordships
might be induced, out of the abundance of their know-
ledge and experience in both jurisdictions, to suggest
some satisfactory system of administering the assets and
calls in the way of corollary to their expected judgment.