Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-05-09


to the res'ra, abundanty rigorous and and
appear 10 preclude the possibility Of collision aud NAL
practices. Nevertheless will at once DO evident to
those acquainted with tho habual corruption Of Spanish
ohei. that the DEGREES do not produce tho effect
aimed At the hitch will DO found hero. Tho registrars
should be scrupulousy chosen their probity should DO
made matter Of rigid investigation and their remunera-
tons should be sufficiently liberal to place them above
ordinary temptations Otherwise the DEGREES will have
been given In vaiu and the slave trade In Cuba may still
be far from its abolition.
The closing articles OF the decrecs order the Captain
General Of Cuba to put them into immediate execution
Professionally appointing registrars and fixing the amount
home government
committee of the Juu,a, after examining the .c-
counts Of the Bank Of San Ferdinand has reported tina,
the bank Is solvent.
On the 18th, the King and Queen went through the
usual ceremony of washing the feet of twelve aged
ana Twelve old women, aud OF afterwards serving them
at dinner crowd of the privileged assembled at the
palace to witness the singular scene.
Accounts from the scenes Of the late disturbances
not satisfactory, aud mischefis sti broodng BARGE
iona ana Sarsgossa Numerous incendiary fires had
CURED at tho former city, among other buildings calico
factory and the church OF San Francisco do Paula were
The leaders Of the late strike have issued
address to the operatives calling them to stand firm
IL said they well supplied with arms and renew
al OF the outbreak will almost certainly occur The au
thoies are so much ntmidatcd that they have liberated
all the prisoners except twelve-whom, however, the
workmen insist shall also be releaedand have pardoned
the soldiers implicated in the Saragosss affair, condi
ton that they volunteer abroad for eight years
Inc present movement is not political but IL continued,
II Will speedily become
IMPORTANT RUSSIAN MANIFESTOES
THE CARS RErLr TO rHk DECLARATION OF THE wxsr
xRS rowkRs-rnE OCCUPATION OF rnr PRISclrALIrixs
DEPENDED.
The following Declaration" is contained in the ST. Pc
tersburg Journal of the 3lst March (l3th of April y
france aud Great Britain have las,
DEPARTED from the system of concealed hostility which they
had previously adopted against Russia particularly by or
deIing their fleets to enter the Black Sea.
Inc tenor OF the explanations given by those Powers in
reference 10 mat proceeding such that the cessation
oil the mutual relations existing between them and the I'm
petia Cabinet became matter of course.
The latter result was shortly followed by a communities
ton in which the two Cabinets, through the medium oil
their respective eonsus invited the imperial government
to evscuate the Danubian Prucipaitics within given
term, which England fixed at the SOth of April and
rance still more peremporly, a: the 18th Of that
month.
BY what right did the Powers thus pretend to exact
everything from one of the bsgcrent parties with
out demanding anything from the Others THIS IL what
they have not thought t plain the Imperial Cabi-
net 10 e'aeuate the Principaites, without the
shadow OF uhlment BY the Ottoman government of the
conditions to which the Emperor made the cessation Of
that temporary occupation subordnate-o them
from the lear OF which the latter the first de
clare while 1t Is actively carrying offensive operations
when It's own troops occupy fortified point OF Russian
territory-was in itself condition nadmssible in sub
stance The two Powers placed the condition in such
shape that It became still more unacceptable They fixed
team OF six daysor the adhesion of the Imperial Cabinet
at the expiration of which refusal or the absence of any
reply whatever, was to be by them regarded equivalent
10 declaration of war.
Toa summons so partial in its tenor, practically in
excusabe as 1t was insulting in its terms silence the
only reply compatible with the dignity Of the Emperor
The consequence, however, Is, that the govern.
nents have just publicly made it known that Russa by
her refusal TO accede TO their demand has constituted her
sell towards them in state of war; the entire responsible
y oil which will rest upon her.
10 the presence OF such declaration it only remains for
nc Emperor TO accept the position which has been as.
signed TO him, reserving to himself to employ all the
means which Providence has placed in his hands to de.
END with energy aud constancy the honor the ndepen
ience, and the security OF his empire
Independently OF the message by which the Cabinet Of
london announces its resolution to the hou of Par
lament 1t has, in supplementary declaration explained
he motives which induce take up arms and has re
apuaed the origin aud the Incidents OF the question
The imperial governments thinks supeTuous 10 return
nents seem TO It to have exhausted the question The re-
sent memorandum of the 18th of February, published on
he occasion OF the rupture of diplomatic relations aud
which contains TO that point the whole historical expo-
on OF the question: will have suced den onstrate 10
Thom-Hhether to Russia the two maritime powers
belongs the initiative of the provocaons and by what
fatal chain OF circumstances the false position in which
their first steps placed the Cabinets led them on step
by step, TO take Others still provoking. Unpreudic
ed minds will have been able discover there all the sue
cessive concessions made by Russia for the maintenance
Of peace, before as well as after the Vienna note while
the increasing eIactons OF the two courts engaged them
daily more and more still further 10 the path OF a with
US.
The occupation of the Principaities which ia taken
now, alter the fact pretext for this war did not pre-
vent tho renewal Of negotiations Nor would il INV more
have prevented their continuation rather these nepo
tations would have led to result long since IL The
Powers had suddenly without apv good reason COM
peey changed the bases which they themselves laid
down in the first ut Vienna The obections
made by tue Forte to certain passages Of that
not sufficient to nuy the rest The essential substance
remained intact, and the imperial government had the
right TO regard all the points which the Ottoman Porte
bad not contested a. agreed previously to any Interior
Such not the case. An attempt was
made 20 impose entirely new conditions upon us; what
had hitherto been admitted declared nadmissble
the complaints OF Russia ignored as also any claim
on ts part to an equitable separation; and all its
propositions rejected without discussion At the same
time, measures contrary 10 its rights as bel eren,
power concient in the Black Sea with the conditions
transmitted from Vienna adopted as If 10 impress
character OF compulson TO any adhesion on its
FINALLY all honorable retreat peremptorily cut off
from II by an Dperous summons, such Russia never
before received within the whole period OF s history
az the time when cOnqueror, at the head of armed
Europe, invaded its territory
Not being able TO blind themselves the nsullicency
OF the motives Tor disastrous war; and upon the want of
proportion which exists between ts effects and ia cauz.
the two Powers are Obliged eHnggerate its object by
bringing the most vague accusations against Russia
They aege that their honor and material interests have
been attacked; projects side of
and conquest in Turkey; the independence OF the Port.
and even that of other States finally the balance of
er in Europe which, riding them is threatened by
our excessive preponderance
All these general impu.aons upon no foundation
whatever.
We have never attacked the honor of the two Courts
IL tha honor has been endangered Il has been done by
From the very onset they adopted system
oil intimidation, which failed matter Of course They
made II point OF honor to obige Russia TO bend ia
them and because Russia would not consent 10 her own
hunlation, they say that they hurt 10 their moral
dignity.
Materially, their interests hayclno been attacked by lis
either They can only he by tho war which they wish
gratuitousy 70 wage against On the contrary IL il
they who endanger interests much more seriously by
attacking US in the north and in the SOUTH ia our ports
ana on different points OF our coasts.
The policy Of aggrandzement and conquest which thew
attribute IN Rus's has been rcuted by all her acts since
1910 Of her neghbors in Germany and in the North 1.
here one Who during the last forty years has had to
plain OF an attack, OF an attempt at nm attack
upon the integrity Of his possessions?
win respect 10 Turkey, although we have been a,
With her, the peace Of AdFnnope cGsts to attest the mod
crate use have made Of success aud since then
wo intervals the Ottoman empire has been saved by "a
rom imminent ruin.
The desire Of possessing Conssntinope If that epire
mould fall, aud the intention Of forming permanent %
Enlistment there have been publicly too sol.mnlv
islvoWcd for any doubts 70 be entertained on th, sh
ect that do not originate in disrus which nothing can
cure.
The resus will shortly show whether the povor. NJ.