The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-25

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Turkey ard the allied Powers will speedily b;
obtained by the surrender Of that "naseria
guarantee" wAich tie Emperor Nj holss i
unable to hold. Had this concession beer
the ,summons of the Western Powers, 1t would
Rave removed the vrincipal cause Of the war, and
Russia would have vcaped that series of failures
and reveIses which have { ,w equally compronaised
the reputation of her policy and the lustre Of her
ARMS But, at the pi esent moment, and In the
present state Of affairs there can be no doubt that
irsdeuuste satsfac.ion TO the belligerent Powers
that it affords no sufficient ss for the negotiation
of peace. and that II gives 70 security ior the n
ture. That these are the op. cions OF sne britlsn
from the Language OF her Ma iestys ministers in
Parliament but an official de ia ntion published BY
the Monifeur of yesterday erab tes % TO add WITH
certainty that the Austrian COVER Smsnt nas
| ly, anssince the evacuation Of u S rfinclpanue9
Was known at Vienna, expressed " concurrence
in the views entertained by France pd England as
to the conditions on which alone pc sce can De re-
stored. Diplomatic notes, constitutiL 3 aPrelini.
| nary engagement to this effect, were exchanged
between the Austrian British and Ffen, VI ministers
on the 9th inst nd the cabinet G Vie Una fdrtner
with the cabinet Of st. Petersburg until hose qua.
rsntees for tie future shall have been Cbtained
which ale regarded as indispensable byt oe three
Pow esi.
TIE allied governments bsvs wisely resist I'd the
pressure applied by unwise adhAreutS or by s1ialr
oppe nts 10 extost from them declaration o. the
conditions on which they conceive that peace nay
hereafter be made. The Only auswer to be given TO
euch questions is, that the conditions Of peace Ia
pend upon the fortune Of war, and must be reguasN
BY successes or defeats over which no human power
can pretend 10 exercise an absolute consrc. bas, @
terms on which peace may be mEued, LORD John
Russell and LORD Clarendon have very recently and
publicly informed Parliament and the world of two
or three points without which no negotiations can
be opened, and mo- peace is possible. These
conditions We take to be-Firss, the epAcua.
tion OF the Principalities, which we shall for
Secondly the abTogation Of the trestiesunder wsich
Russia exercised an exclusive pr0toct0rate over
M0ldavia, Wallachia and even Servin, and claimed
similar pr rotectorate over the whole Gssek poPuls-
tion Of the Ottoman empire so that henceforth the
institutions Of those provinces and the rights OF the
Christians in Turkey may be placed under the safe
guard Of the common law Of European treaAies, and
minion of any one State. Thirdly, the revision Of
the Convention Of the Straits, and the adoption Of
such measures as are necessary to reduce the naval
sscendarcy of Russia within limits less formidable
to the existence Of Turkey and the independence of
navigation, both on the waters Of the Eugine aud
at the mouth of the Danube. These obvious
and essential points may we think fai5 be
ministers; and in speaking OF the guarantees
required to preserve the Ottoman empire and the
rest of Europe from repetition Of these oalamites
assume that some material securities like those
we have here desc.ited are the very least that
would be exacted. The Austrian government is
of course, completely in possession Of the views of
the Cabinets of London and Paris on these
points, and must be aware that the objects
for whi b We are carrying. on this war cannot
in any case be satisfied with less than those
concessions on which Lord John Russell insisted
in his last speech to Parliament. Such being the
state Of the case, it ia remarkable and important
fact that, upon learning from the Russian Minister
that the elthe evacuation OF the PrnciPaities has
been finally resolved upon, and is already in course
Of execution the Austrian Cabinet does not
declare itself satisfied with that amount Of
concession, but announces, on the contrary, on
the following day, that Austria, "in common with
the Western Powers, continues to look steadily for
tie guarantees to be exacted from Russia to pre-
vent recurrence ofthe difficulties which have trou
when Russia may have hoped, by he- compulsory
retreat from the Danuban provn .es, to dsarm the
active hostility Of Austria, that State pledges itself
more distinctly and formally to france and England
to pursue and exact the same guarantees for which |
they are contending Such step is both important T
and opportune, and if the exchange Of these formal
assurances and explanations should be tho forerun.
ner Of more positive engagement between Austria |
and the Western Powers, 1t will efectually dspel
the uncertainty which has at times appeared to pre-
vail as to the real intentions of that court.
Another consideration of scarcely inferior i'm
portance is, that in this transaction Austria has for
the first time addressed herself directly to the
Western Powers, and given them further pledge
Of her designs without the concurrence or inter-
vention Of Prussia. Hitherto we have had to deal
with the Anglo French alliance on the one hand,
and with the Austro Prussian league on the other
two forces tending in the same direction, but by
different mears, and possibly for different objects.
We now see that Austria, shaking OF that
restraint and control which Prussia had hither.
to contrived to place on her most important
she looks steadily for the fulflment of those guaran
tees which the belligerent States require of Russia
In other words Austria has thus made c0nsidera-
ble step towards the ayowed policy Of the
departed from that ill-deflned position which
Prussia has labored not only to assume herself,
but to impose on her German confederates. This
declaration Of the Court of Vienna must be regard
ed, in relation to the internal politics Of Germany,
as the answer Of that empire to the intrigues by
which the King Of Prussia has contrived to put
himself at the head of the Bamberg conference;
and it indicates the choice Of the Emperor Francis
Joseph between the independent policy Of the great
States of Europe and the Russian policy Of the
secondary Powers: The effect Of this declaration
is therefore, to isolate Prussia, to separate her
from the conference Of the great Po wes, which she
had already practically abandoned, and to ding
her back on the minor German States, which
much depraved by Russian influence as the Court
of Berlin itself. When We remarked, some short
time ago, that the effect Of the policy pur-
sued by Prussia would be to forfeit her position
her the first Of the secondary States, anticipated
the speedy occurrence Of an event which shows
that, although the great Powers were desirous OF
without her The Difference shown to the court M Of
Berlin Ia exhausted and the consequence is, that ali
that portion Of Germany which lies under Prussisn
or Russian influence is neutralized in the present
contest. Except for the welfare and the dignity Of
Germany ITSELF we cannot affect to feel much sur.
prise regret at this result of the negotiations, Tor
Austria Is the only German Power whose geogrAr
pbica position Is Important, and whose policy can
be defred. The other German States still continue
to float in the limbo Of imperfect schemes, and we
only hope the day may not too speedily come when
they win learn that to forsake the alliance Of the
great Powers and the interests Of Europe in this
crisis is to betray their own.
From the Paris Moniteur, August 10.1
The Russian Envoy has announced TO the Cabinet
Of Vienna that the Emperor Nicholas had just
ordered the complete evacuation Of the Princpali
ties Of Wallachia and Moldavia Notwithstanding
this declaration, the Count dc Buol exchanged on
the 9Th inst. with Baron de Bourqueney and Lord
Westmoreland notes from which It results thst Aus