The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-24
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
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The DETAILS By THE HERMAN.
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xhe Position Of the Russo Turkish
Question.
THE NEW NEGOTIATIONS.
Terrible Shipwrsek and Loss Of Over One
Hundred and Fifty Lives.
TIE CUAN0 RODUCT,

&c, &C., &c.
The United States mail steamship Hermann, Lieut.. e.
Higgins, o. 8. N commander, which left Bremen on the
- and Southampton the It'll inst arrived yesterday
morning We have received usual Dispatches and files
q london, Paris, Havre, and Liverpool papers
The West India mail steamship 0rinoco arrived 1t
so~fhampton ON the 4th the West Indies and
Guf Of Mexico with in specie The Ripon left
the same day with the outward India and China mail,
taking f2o4 900 sterling in specie of which S234 600
principally sver for India ana China and ESQ 600
In gold for Malta and Alexandria.
The Hermann had . narrow escape from being frozen
In when she left Bremen the ice fast closing in
the river wsssr
The loss of the steamship Marshall, from Hamburg,
housd to Hail. is confirmed Seventy lives were supposed
b have been lost
rhs American steamship Golden Age having com
ps ed repairs left Liverpool for Australia the 9th
Inst. One Of the Liverpool papers says
The steamship Golden Age her departure for Aus
aA O'Clock this aftsrnoon, after having under
ore SsnPss repair fns so. iron ook ' oa
huntred and sixty passengers, some OF whom have
her since the accident, which took place this day
roek and . large number Of letters and newspapers
,hich Captain Porter 10 conveying gratuitousiy :,
rest was her speed leaving the Merssy that tn
Nv moments. On examining her while ia the Huskssoa
lech beauty OF her model and the strength OF ne.
the lock with al GOALS stores So, board, not
wrinkle was psrosptibls on her copper
The racket ship E. 2 which sailed from Liverpool en-
ths 18th Nov for York. lad put back to that port
having encountered gale the Goth alt. which swept
the decks and washed vsrboard thirteen passengers and
I've Of the crew.
The London Ta Of the 5th inst semi officially denied
the reports which published the Sd inst BY
some Of the opposition journals, to the effect that
brief and conclusive had received from Russia
dec lining any further negotiations The Times says that
- such communication has been received BY the British
government, but that the latest accounts from st.
Petersburg represent the Emperor being greatly en-
hAAassd 10 appears to be alternately rritated AMI
deprsssed- annoyed by the evident failure Of his political
and military schemes-irresolute in the adoption Of
surss sufficiently decided to carry the grand
scale, to conclude lasting peace. Other accounts
on the Russian pita received in Paris mention that
the Car sppsAs at length to be really Of the awk
ward In which he has placed himself by the
invasion Of the P ncpan les and that he would willingly
he oou;d exricats himself from by the intervention
Of the neutral powers.
Accounts from Constantinople state that General Bar
cAguay dHilsrs had long interview with the Sultan
and Rsschid PashA The latter declared that recent
military events had not changed in any way the pacific
disposition Of the Porte and that he still ready to
accept any arrangement which oud leave Turkey its
sovereign rights The evacuation Of the Principalities
must be, therefore, sine quo of all negotiations.
The Ottoman government has officially declared that it
will net lend its countenAnce to p.ivateerng wiz
letters Of marque bs issued.
The Glasgow Stel gives the following Information
The Persia to be built by Mr. Robert Napier Of elias
gow for the Cunard Company to ply between liverpool
nd New York will be about 40 feet broad in the beam
900 The engines will be hundred inch cyln With
ten feet strobe Although no part Of this immense
ess and is believed Iii Il she viii be read, in twelve
aonths hence.
In Dublin on the 7th instant. tbs jury in tue Of
NNslly against the Great Southern and Western Rail-
way, found verdict for the plaptR OF $1,000 to tn
widow and fSsS each the three children Of the
ceased Nsly. making in all G., 500 Damages. 10 the
eass OF John Mohnu against ths same compasy, the
Jury gave ESQ dams ges for rures received his leg
the occasion Of the accident.
The Eastern Question.
Union or THE EUROPEAN POwKRs-rROBABLE TER
MINATIoN OF TIE KAsTERN WAR
From the London Times Dec
The definite concert ofthe four at Powers which has
Of the principal dangers attending its promugaon With
Great Britain France Austria and Prussia bined in
arm union for the regulation Of affairs upon
bases previously arranged, it is altogether improba Die
that the security Of Europe should DO materially
sastssn ma, be- oonspsd We hope to the dimensions
AwAachian campaign; nor Is 1t easy indeed to discern
the advantages Of hosdhties, the events OF which
oan ardly be expected to exercise much influence
the Of pacHe alton The conclusions OF the dis.
psnsng Powers win determined not by the accdental
relations of Russia and Turkey, and the plain require
ents Europe It in for the public interests OF Europe
susnoss are unf.vorsS. t. the prs.snslons OF Russia
they Will be chargeahls exclusively to is Own proceed
ngs. 1t Is the Czar himself who las forced upon the
world the alton of ths Eastern problem
hs complain occasion Of his own making is turned TO
the best account BY those who had no cOsosrn in
The evacuation of the Dnnubiau probabilities and the
Withdrawal Of the demands Preferred against tho SuAus
settlement a. hand but Il would BE- impoic the
eme to neglect the present opportunity OF placing the
whole system Of Eastern affairs footing more general
b conducive to the security and bens6t Of Europe In
this pest is not improbable that the traditional views
Of great cabinets may undergo considerable modi
esntrbutsd to the amb purposes of Russia BY
Ing the Porto In state Of plomad isolation and thus
throwing under the practical oontrol OF the Court OF st.
70 the barbaric Of the 0ttoman themselves
who neither sought desired admission TO the COM
monweah Of Christian nations. In more recent times,
the Difference accorded 10 Russia in confederation OF her
sxsrons during the last tended greatly TO promote
Turkey excluded from European aDgensats ques
tons Of public interest in connection with its gov
Russia alone. The maxim, 10 short Of Earopsaa
policy In the affairs Of tbs East vas rather that
Of = common abstipeDce than common intervention
Precautions adopted to prevent any ono Power fro
acquiring advantageous positions 10 those parts bu no
modify by rcertsd action the
intsrferencs natu rally pied powerful contsr
mnous onarchy Occasionally ct critical conf 1ncures
such the Greek instruction and the Eyy an reoeon
the authority of Europe exersd but the po
hey Of the Porte left in too respects to receive
it, bias from the Csar
After the results which this system has been found to
produces iz expectancy viii not improbaby be soon
cor sidered and may be yell worth dsbating whether
al good purposes would not be better served BY actat
g rather than crcumserbng the ntsrc urse OF Turkey
with the rest Of Europe Ths the Ottoman empire can be
maintained have always held to b an inpossi-
Iii bat the revolutions unAvoidaby impending over s
oecstuton and adminstraton may possibly be worked
cut Within ss and these operations may be both regu
kteA and promoted by such connections With Europe
should Substituted public and protector asfor
ehs slandssns intguss Of diplomatic rivalry CONSTANT
nops md II straits have hitherto been closed to al No
6on 70 open them to all nations might perhaps be .
md bsashcial course The Black Sea- by being sealed
. nGAAAst Al foreign nags Of has become Russian
hhs-e result clearly prsjudleia to Turkey than
~ wnish souM have occurred By establishing the ftss