The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-25

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Streets and Lamps, relative to the contracts for
cleaning the streets, aud the manner in which the
work has been and is to be doae; religious, CONNER
| cial, political, and miscellaneous intelligence, &C.
Peace Prospects, The Imperial Game Mt
Chess--Checkmate.
Now that the London Times sees no further
danger attending the promul CATION" of the
details of the treaty between the four Western
Powers of Europe-that everybody talks of
peace as d thing certain-that calm is restored
| to the commercial world and stocks have
| rsen-we think our city contemporaries may
venture to place their readers in possession of
the last fortnights news. They will save them
selves some trouble by copying it bodily from
our columns; and we beg to place our files en-
tirely at their disposal for the purpose. 1t may
| take them some time to make up their lee
| way: but their readers can wait, and by the
| time they have copied from the HERALD the
| account Of the execution of the treaty at Lon
| don, of it's transmission to Paris and thence to
| Berlin and Vienna of the terms offered by the
| maritime Powers to Prussia and Austria, and of
| the arguments brought to bear on the two
| sovereigns, they may then safely extract from
| the news by the America and Hermann the i'm
| portant intelligence of the formation of the
| great anti-Russian alliance.
| The readers of this journal were prepared for
some such dfnoun,ent by the article we gave
| on the 18th inst in which we took occasion to
| observe -
Whatever reasons Austria and prnssia may have
for sympatnispg with Russia, it IS hardly possible
that they can decline the invitation rendered them
by France and England. If they do they do It at the
| risk of a war again 9! their own subjects, and
| general crusade by the masses OF central Europe
| against the established despotisms,
As we supposed, this risk was too formidable
to be voluntarily encountered by either Aus
| tria or Prussia. Within the seven days delay
| allowed by the convention of the 18th nit,
both sovereigns concurred in the proposals OF
Napoleon; and on or about the 4th Of December
| an alliance was formed between the four Wes
tern Powers by which they jointly and seve
rally bound themselves to guarantee Turkey
against Russian aggression. We are not yet
fully apprised of the details of the treaty, but
we know that the evacuation Of the Principal
tiles, and the withdrawal of the Russian de-
mands against Turkey. are among the points on
which The allies insist. We may also fairly
presume that the substantial aid thus offered to
| Turkey will not be entirely gratuitous. In re-
| turn for her rescue from imminent destruction
the least the Porte can do would be to abolish
all her existing laws which interfere with
Christian residents in Turkey, and to place her
saviours on footing of equality with her own
subjects. We have every assurance that this
| important concession will be peremptorily de-
manded by the allied Powers
These leading features Of the quadruple
treaty ascertained we are in a position to
speculate on its net results. What viii be the
next step? To our mind the chances seem de-
cdedly in favor of cessation of hostilities'
This we infer as we'll from our intelligence
from st. Petersburg. as from an independent
| scrutiny Of the Cars position. A single
| glance reveals the risk which Russia would run
were Nicholas to declare war upon the whole Of
Europe; and, unless it were forced upon him,
we can hardly give him credit for such folly
and rashness as it would imply. Again, we
| are told by writers who are entitled to
| belief that at this moment the Cars rage
knows no bounds-that he complains of having
| teen deceived on all slue5-tdlhs Vi udNlu9
Nenschikoff tried and, in short, like every
bafled bully, seeks furiously around him for
| some victim on whom to slake his rage. All
| this betokens reluctant compliance on his
| part in the terms of pacfcation to be proposed
| by the four Powers. He may hesitate, en-
deavor to protract the negotiation, require de-
| laws. and resort to all sorts Of stratagems to
| escape from his humiliating position; but how
| he can avoid succumbing at last we are at a
| loss to conceive. The Improvement of the tone
| of the markets, both on Friday and yesterday,
| goes to show that similar view has been taken
| by our mercantile community.
| Perhaps the most striking feature of the
whole of this Turkish dispute has been the skill
and tact with which Napoleon Ill has out-ma-
| nGuvred his imperial cousin, the Emperor Of all
the Russias. From beginning to last, Nicholas
has been duped, foiled, and trapped. 1t was
Napoleon who fostered his fallacious hope that
by insisting on his impudent demands upon
Turkey, he would at length realize the ambi-
tious dream of his ancestors. 1t was Napoleon
who encouraged his belief in the impossbility
of an alliance between England and France
Napoleon had, no doubt, much to do with the
formation of those opinions in the mind Of the
Gear which are now going to cost Menschiko6
his rank, and perhaps his head. 1t was Napo-
leon who laid every snare for him; and it is