The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

CIRCULAR OF M. WALEWSKI.

The following circular has been addressed to the
French diplomatic agents relative to the attitude
of Germany :

" PARIS, JUNE 20.
" Monsieur,—You know of the circular addressed
by the Russian Cabinet to its agents in Germany,
and you will have appreciated the justness of the
views which it submits therein so opportunely to
the consideration of the Federal Governments.
One does not know better how to define the respec-
tive positions of the powers in the affairs of Italy,
or to arrive at a more correct judgment on the
general situation. The Russian Government ren-
ders full justice to the sincerity of the assurances
which we have given to Germany from the com-
mencement of the war, and it sees therein with rea-
son sufficient motives for the Confederation to re-
gard with perfect confidence the development of the
struggle in which we are engaged in Italy.
"My intention is not to return to an expose of
which you will have easily conceived the object.
I point, nevertheless, your particular attention to
the considerations in this document which belong
more especially to the relations of the Confederation
with the pending. question. Not only in the
opinion of the Russian Government is there no oc-
casion for Germany to interfere, because neither
her interests nor her rights are in danger, but in
mixing herself up in the conflict she departs from
the position which treaties have assigned to her.
Not only is she unable to show in the existing
state of affairs the necessity of protecting
the European equili▪ brium, which is not
menaced, and which she herself compromises if she
pretends to say that she is necessarily interested
in a war undertaken by Austria as a European
power, and that the action of the tFederal body,
considered as such, ought to be exercised beyond
the limits of the Con federation. Such a doctrine
would be productive in
in effect of nothing less than
the complete incorporati▪
on of the non-German pro-
vinces of Austria the Federal Union, and in this
way it would be as much opposed to the real inte-
rests of the German states as to the spirit of the
European treaties which have agreed to the condi-
tions of their existence.

4, The organs of Austria object, we know, that
the possession of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom
in her hands would. be necessary for the security of
the Federal frontiers. _ _ _

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the members of the association who have
German possessions were called upon to name
of their provinces which they understood would
participate in the 'common charges and obligations.
Thus the proves verbal of the deliberations, dated
April 6, 1818, amply proves that Austria, after hav-
ing enumerated her German territories, spoke of
those of Italy, and declared in positive terms that
she in no way entered into the view of extending
beyond the Alps the line of defence of the Confe-
deration. It was under consideration, we repeat,
to fix the bases of the Germanic military system.
The discussion assumed at this moment all the im-
portance which belonged to it on a subject so closely
connected with the essential interests of Germany,
No voice was raised to assert that the Lombardo-
Venetian kingdom, nor yet the Po, nor yet its
affluents, nor even the Adige itself, were necessary
to the security of the Confederation ; it was at the
Alps, according to the proposition of Austria, that
the Diet ought to place the frontier and the line of
defence for Germany.
" I do not insist at greater length upon a fact
which replies with such authority to all o jsed bectio
fake
one would not wish to set up theses ba ona
appreciations and raised only by the pressure of
circumstances.
" The new military measures which have just
been adopted in Prussia do not inspire us, there-
fore, with inquietude. The Prussian Government,
in mobilising an important part of its army, de-
clares that it has no other object than to protect the
security of Germany, and to put itself in a state to
exercise a just influence in the ulterior arrange-
ments in accordance with the other great powers.
We cannot in this find any reason to dissent from
the Cabinet of Berlin. The Government of the
Emperor, which was desrious that the affairs of
Italy might be debated in Congress, very far from
refusing what all the powers concurred with it in
seeking—the regulation—didlwhen necessary, itself
call for their participation at an opportune moment.
" The circular of the Russian Government indi-
cates, in a manner sufficiently plain, in what manner
it shall not fail to act when the proper time arrives.
As this document recalls, and as I have myself in-
formed you, the English Government, at the com-
mencement of hostilities, tendered to the German
Governments the best advice, counselling them by
no means to make common:cause with the. Austrians
against us.
" Without yet having official information of the
disposition of the new British Ministry, we are
authorised to infer, from the debate which preceded
their coming into power, conclusions the most fa-
vourable to the independence of Italy ; and we are
under the firm persuasionthat the English Govern-
ment is, in its views as well as in the support of its
influence, favourable to the solution that we our
selves seek.

(Signed)

~ WALEWSKI."

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, July
3.---The above mails arrived last night per steam ship
Alhambra, Captain Steward, which left Lisbon on the 27th
of June, and Vigo the 29th, brought specie valued at
£7,000, in addition to the mails and a general cargo. The
Prince of Wales won golden ()Onions from the Portuguese
(luring his late visit, by his general affability and unassum-
mg manners. Lisbon Exchange on London, 90 days, 63d.;
30 days, 62d.

The Mars, 80 guns, --400-horse power ; the Tra-
falgar, 91 guns, 500-horse power ; the Edgar, 91
guns, 600-horse power ; the Scout, 21 guns, 400-
horse power ; the Scylla, 2.1 guns, 400-horse power;
the Clio, 21 guns, 400-horse power; and the Cos.-
kitek, 20 guns, 250-horse power—commissioned and
fitting.
The Majestic, 80 guns, 400-horse power—com-
plete.
The Queen, 86 guns, 500-horse power ; and the
Malacca, 17 guns, 200-horse power—fitting for the
pendant.
The Renard, 4 guns, 200-horse power ; and the
Snake, 4 guns, 160-horse power—complete.
The following ships and vessels are in the Sheer-,
ness division of the steam reserve, exclusive of the
ships, floating batteries, and vessels at moorings in
the upper division of the River Medway, and fit-
ting :—The Meeanee, 80 guns, 400-horse power ;
the Forte, 51 guns, 400-horse power; the Fawn, 17
guns, 100-horse power ; the Horatio, 12 guns
(mortar), 250-horse power; the Alacrity, 4 guns,
200-horse power ; the Icarus, 11 guns, 150-horse
power; the Dragon, 6 guns, 560 horse power ; the
Baracoutta, 6 guns, 300 horse power; the Fox-
hound, 4, 200 horse power ; the Eurotas, 12 guns
(mortar), 200 horse power ; the Challenger,'2l guns,
400 horse power ; the Hood, 90 guns, 600 horse
power (receiving her machinery) ; the Wrangler, 4
guns, 160 horse power ; the Phoenix, 6 guns, 260
horse power; end the Otter, 3 guns, 120 horse
power. -
The following is a list of steamships and vessels
commissioned, fitted ready for` the pendant, and
being fitted at Sheerness yard and in the River Med-
way, showing their number of guns and steam power
(nominal) :
Gunboats.—The Dwarf, 2 guns, 20 horse power ;
the Fly, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Fidget, 2 guns,
20 horse power; the Carnation, 3 guns, 60 horse
power ; the, Mayflower, 3 guns, 60 horse power ;
the Cochin, 3 guns, 60 horse power; the Bullfrog,
3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Hasty, 3 guns, 60
horse power; the Pelter, 3 guns, 60 horsepower;
the Lively, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Mistletoe,
3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Julia, 3 guns, 60 horse
power; the Tickler, 3 guns, 60 horse power; the
Griper, .3 guns, 60 horse power ' • the Herring, 3
guns, 60 horse power ; the Spey, 3 guns, 60 horse
power ; the Thistle, .3 guns, 60 horse power ; the
Sepoy, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Manly, 3 guns,
60 hosse power ; the Mastiff, 3 guns, 60 horse
power. _ _ .

Steamvessels undergoing repairs and making
good defects—The Salamander, 6 guns, 220 horse-
power ; the Miranda, 15 guns, 250 horse power ; the
Swallow, 9 guns, 60-horse power; the, Thrasher,
3 guns, 60-horse power. Flagships and Guardships
of Ordinary.—The Queen Charlotte, 104 guns ; the
Formidable, 84 guns, both sailing ships. For Har-
bour Duty and Tenders.—The African, the Myrtle,
the Wildfire, the Lizard, and the Fearless.
The total number of guns to be mounted on
board the foregoing ships and vessels is 1,115. The
total amount of nominal horse power is 10,520.
The Amphion, 36 guns, commissioned by Capt.
Miller, at Chatham, has arrived at Sheerness, oud
on Saturday last proceeded out on trial of her
machinery ; her greatest rate of speed was seven
knots and a half per hour, tested by tholmeasured
mile. In consequence of hot bearings the engines
had to be stopped for a considerable time. She
returned to moorings late in the evening.
Lieuts. Francis Hewson and John Wallace New-
port have taken up their commissions and. joined the
Queen Charlotte flagship at Sheernes....4 vice Lieut.
Angus P. Arkwright, promoted, at Lieut. Horatio
L. A. L. Maitland, appointed to 'Lite Scout.
The Trafalgar has been put out of the fitting
basin at Sheerness ; she will be ready for sea in
about 10 days.
The new screw steam-vessel Greyhound left Mil-
ford on Thursday morning for Plymouth, in charge
of Mr. Paul, Master-Attendant of Devonport dock-
yard. She was accompanied by the steamvessel
Lightning.

The crew of the screw steam-frigate Diadem, 31,1
Captain Moorsom, at Plymouth, were paid wages
on Friday.
The:screw steam-frigate Orlando,- 50, at Devon-
port was masted on Friday.
The lighter Rochester, from Chatham, arrived at
Plymouth on Friday.
the crew of the screw steamship Aboukir, 90,
Captain C. Schomberg, 'were mustered by Port
Admiral Sir B. Reynolds, K.C.8., in Plymouth
'for Liverpool.
Sound, on Saturds,y, preparatory to her departure

The screw-steam-frigate Topaze, 51, Captain the
Hon. C. Spencer, is receiving her guns at Devon-
port.
Thr:, screw steamship Caesar, 90, was placed in
Keyham basin on Friday, and docked on Saturday,
in order to have her valves overhauled. Her crew
were paid wages on Saturday.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Locust, 3, Lieut.-
Commander S. B. Field, was appointed to sail from
Plymouth on Saturday with supernumeraries for
Portsmouth and Sheerness, and probably for Port-
land;

The screw steam frigate Liffey, 50,
Capt. G. W.
Preedy, C. 8., at Plymouth, is ordered to prepare
for foreign service.
The Simoom screw troopship, Commander J. M.
Cooke, in the steam basin at Portsmouth, is in the
hands of the factory department to have the neces-
sary repairs carried out for her refitment for further
service. Her engines are in good condition, and
she will merely require placing in dock for the pur-
pose of being cleaned, and have some slight defects
made'good in her Kingston valves. Her boilers
will also require a slight overhaul. This vessel was
commissioned in January, 1857, by her present
commander, and sailed in the latter part of the
same month for the Cape and India, being the first
vessel to arrive out with assistance to our country-
men at the outbreak of the sepoy mutiny. She has
run over a total distance of 69,532 miles, of which
39,632 were under steam, with a consumption of
6,423 tons of coal, having carried during that time
4,912 troops, and 102 women and children. The
Simoom was originally designed with the Vulcan
and Megicra as armed frigates, but the experiments
at that time carried out from her Majesty's ship
Excellent led to an inference being drawn un-
favourable to the employment of iron ships of this
description in warlike operations, and caused their
conversion into troopships, as which they have ren-
dered good service, the Simoom, more especially,
since 1855 having proved herself a most efficiene
vessel for the purpose. The first five years of
the Simoom's career were most unfortu-
nate, as from the slight construction of her
engines she was constantly breaking down,
and hardly ever out of the hands of
the engineers. In 1855, on her return from
the Black Sea, it was determined by the Admiralty
to take out the engines which had been such a
constant source of trouble and expense, and have
them replaced by a pair of engines of the combined
power of 400 horse (nominal), designed and manu-
factured at the steam factory in Portsmouth dock-
yard, since which time the ship has been enabled
to perform her work in a most satisfactory manner.
During the 21 years she has been employed on the
Indian station she has never been detained a single
hour from the inefficiency of any part of her ma-
chinery, or cost the country a single shilling for
repairs. The Simoom's crew will be "paid down"
and granted leave of absence.
The Vulcan screw troopship was commissioned at
Portsmouth on Saturday by Commander C. Strode.
The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, Captain
Hon. J. Denman, was brought alongside the Sheer
jetty at Portsmouth yard on Friday to receive a
portion of her machinery, which had been under
repair at the factory, and afterwards returned to
her harbour moorings.
150 seamen volunteers for the navy have arrived
in Portsmouth during the last 10 days from various
ports.
The Hornet, 17, screw, Commander Viscount Gil-
ford, arrived at Spithead yesterday, at 1.30 p.m.
from China and the Cape of Good Hope. Her
news from the latter place has been anticipated by
the arrival of the last mail steamer. She has on
board a few naval invalids from the station, and
one man from her Majesty's ship Retribution, who
lost his leg from a round shot during the opera-
ticns up the Yang-tse-Kiang river. Three
deaths have occurred on the passage home, which
has been rather a long one. The Hornet has lost
her bowsprit, and had her entwater carried away
in a collision with the clipper ship Exodns, of Liver-
pool, off Portland, at midnight on Friday last,
when the latter ran into the Hornet with studding-
sails set, the Hornet being under canvas at the
time and close hauled. The Exodus, which ap-
peared to have sustained little or no damage from
the collision, kept on her course down Channel. On
evening, off Portland, a heavy thunder-
as met with, raining heavily, and the light-
ning exceedingly vivid. The Hornet was commis-
sioned on the 17th of May, 1854, and sailed from
Plymouth Sound for China on the Ist of October
sStaotrumr Saturday
following.anodti
Three commanders, Campbell, Forsyth,
Dawell, have successively received their pro-
motion from om this ship. Her present commander,

I.IIIIOIIIMIEI
Viscount Gilford, has lost the use of hire left NM
arm
from a wound received at the taking of Canton.
During the operations in China one of her crew has
been killed, and three officers and two men wounded
in action with the enemy. Prior to leaving the
station for England the forernas.i mainyard and
topsailyards were taken out of th ship and replaced
with new ones, owing to their defective state. The
remainder other spars are some of them fished and
rotten, as is some
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to sun and wet. The
}.lull and machinery are
also, as may be supposrA, from, her long period
of service, in a very defective condition. The
following vessels hs.,,ve been spoken with and
signalled during the latter part of the voyage
home :—On the 1,3 t of June, in lat. 5.30 N.,
long. 22.18 W., the English bark Ellen Baird.
June 9th. in lat. 20.7 N., long. 34.12 W., exchanged
long. with the English ship Belle, of Liver-
pool.
June
long., l3, ;in lat. 30.30 N. long. 39.1 W., ex-
changed with the English ship Gosforth, of
Liverpool. .3 my 22, in lat. 40.46 N., long. 27.16
W., exchanged signals with the outward bound
West India mail steamer; and the same day sig-
nalled the French ship Reine du Monde. Juno 29,
in lat. 48.42 N., long. 8.26 W., exchanged signals
with the English brig Souchay.
The Ordnance steam transport Lord Panmure,
from Marchwood, bound to Purfleet, put into Spit-
head on Saturday, with a portion of her machinery
out of order.

The Courrier de Marseilles published on Thurs-
day night an animated description of a ball given
by the officers of her Majesty's steamship Coquette
on the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation ; to
which were invited about 150 guests, including the
officers of the gunboat Chocal, the elite of the in-
habitants of Marseilles, the foreign Consuls, awl
several English residents in the town. The jour'aal
in question speaks in the highest terms of the cour-
teous and cordial hospitality displayed by 'the Bri-
tish officers, and of the admirable taste veitk which
the ship was decorated. The dancinr..,- commenced
at 7 o'clock and terminated at 3 the morning,
and nowhere was her Majesty's lxialth more enthu-
siastically drunk than on board her gun sloop in
Marseilles. The health of Mapoleon 111. was also
drunk immediately afterwards, and the Courrier
assures its readers that t, the guests will preserve
for a long time a ples'esing remembrance of a fete
perfectly well orderefl"
The Staff-Surgeon, of Sheerness yard, Mr. Alex-
ander Cross, took up his appointment, and com-
menced his dutie
geon Gunn, M.D., removed to Chatham
son Friday last, vice Staff-Sur-
yard ; Staff-Surgeon William Bruce, M.D., late ©f
Chatham yard, having been permitted to retire from
active service.

ThrJ following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the• Admiralty :—Captain T. H. Mason, to
the Coev,ar, vice Captain Charles Frederick, ap-
pointe,:i a Junior Lord of the Admiralty ; Captain
A. Phillimore, to the Curacoa, vice Mason ; Chas.
C. ick, Paymaster (additional) to the Edgar ; and
Francis M. Wright, Assistant Paymaster, to the
Wellesley.