Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-06-14
RUPTURE BETWEEN ENGLAND,
FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

London yesterday was in a state of the
most feve,ish excitement. 1t was known
on Thursday that the French ambassa-
dor, M. Drouyn de l'Huys, had left the
British metropolis for Paris, on day of
all Others when the courtesies of diplo-
macy were most strictly observed-name-
ly, the anniversary of the Queens birth
day; and it was also known by the papers
of The following morning that the Rus
sian ambassador was absent from the
dinner party which Lord Palmerston
gave to the ambassadors in honor of the
event. These two circumstances com
bined produced in political circles some
uneasiness, in consequence of the turn
which it wus feared the Greek dispute
had taken. Explanations in both hous-
es of Parliament were accordingly sought
for and given by Lord Lansdowne in the
Lords, and Lord Palmerton in the Com
mons. The former described the recall
of the French ambassador as IAN event of
Importance, but he subsequently, denied
that it was of grave importance, and in
timated that the French go, .rnment re-
quired his presence in the National AS
sembly, to give such explanation as the
case required. Lord Palmerston, iudg-
ing fron, the few sentences which fell
from him, seems to have treated the
affair less seriously. Il trust, said the
Noble Viscount, that nothing can arise
out Of these circumstances likely 10 dis
turb the friendly relations between Eng
land and France.
The Times of yesterday, which evin-
ces the same fondness for the Foreign
Secretary that q namclcss parsonage does
for holy water, showed in a leading arti.
Gle that matters were far more alarming
~ entangled than the explanations Of
the previous night would induce the pub
lie to suppose. 1t is needless to inquire
from whom the Times derives its infor-
nation, but it is evident that the Foreign
Office is infested with traitors, and it
seems to lis most discreditable that a pa
per which wears the ministerial livery,
and is literally, mall other respects, the
organ of the ministry, should, in its anx-
iety to stab member of that ministry,
who is obnoxious in its eyes, carry its vim
dictiveness to an extent which is really
calculated to embarrass tho relations be-
tween the two countries. The funds,
which are always the test Of public feel
ing on these occasions, experienced
decided shock. Consols which stood
the previous evening at 08 1-s, immedi-
ately declined, but they subsequently rail-
lied, and clos ed at 95 to 90 1.s,
The explanation which Lord John
Russell gave lastnight, in the House of
Commons, does not throw much light on
the matter; but as far it goes, it exhibits
the soreness which the. EHapch govern
ment feels at what is evidSlltiy regarded
as our cavalier treatment of its represen-
tativc, the Raron de Gros, at Athens.
Lord John stated that this would have
been fully aud satisfactorily cleared up if
the baron had remained at Athens three
days longer. 1t is also clear, from the
..dmission somewhat reluctantly wrung
from tho prime minister, that If Lord
Palmerston had not in his possession at
tho tinie he gave his explanation the pro-
yious evening the letter from the French
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, recalling
a. Drouyn do rHuys from London to
Paris, and assigning as reason the insult
pptupon the Fren,h government arising
out ofthe Greek dispute, that the letter