New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-17
lent Aberdeen Of Louis Philippe, the "estimsbIe


mon with his usual winnings for peace caused, dur
ing the principal part Of his performance, their lord
,hps to be convused with laughter, BY declaring
not On Russia, but ON The Press, London weekly
periodical. Lord Msmesbury reterted on the noble
Earl; Lord Brougharn, that "od, foolish womsn,"
be was styled by William Goblet discovered that the
contest which they were engaged was no easy"
one; Earl Grey who, in his Christian spirit, had
trved to make the British Colonies the most miserable
abodes Of the world reminded the Brsh people that
the tone and temper 10 which the war referred TO-
the feeling Of snmosity eyinced against the Car and
his Cossecks, not the spirit in which Christian
nation ought to enter upon war. The Earl OF
HaTowicke was Of opinion that England was weak ia
the means she possessed for dealing with the Russian
navy that they ought rot TO have less force in the
Baltic than 20 sail Of the line well armed snd well
manned, with disciplined crews, and not begin, as they
bad done, with mob Of newly raised men, mob in
line OF bate-fhip during action being the worst ofal
nobs The Marquis OF LansdOwne indicated the Gov
eminent and expressed hope as 10 the shortness aud
ultimate success Of the war; because land this is
characteristic mark Of the noble lords powers of con-
oeptiCn) it was dyuastic war such war involving
the largest consequences and which 1t was the most
difficult to put an end to-
After this agreeable oOnrersGziOHe in which every
body had given bis sentiment the address agreed
TO r6nine cOntYddio6nte.
All the new information 10 be gathered from this
rersoziOne 10 limited to some official declarations the
part Of Lord Clarendon and the history Of the secret
Memorandum Of lS44.
Lord Clarendon stated that at present the ogr.s-
mint Nth France consists simply Of exchange Of
noes containing arrangements with respect to mill.
"tary operatiCns Consequently there exists at this
moment no tyeafu between England and France. In
reference to AusrS and Prussia be stated that tie for
per would maintain az armed neutrality, and the
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other neutral neutrality; but ~, Hi'A euch "sr
as is now about to be waged upon the nOe.s :" !
bOtb countries it would be impossible for either /
hover TO preserve neutrality" Finally be de- |
clared that the peace to be brought about by the i'm
bending war, would only be glorious peace II they
" did secure equal rights aud immunites for the Christ
d" ian subjects Of TURKEY"
Now We know that the Sheik el-Islam has already I
been deposed for having refused to sanction BY fetya
The treaty granting this equalization of rights that
the greatest excitement exits on the part Of the old
TuItsh population at CCnstantinOpic and By tele-
graphic dispatch received to day We learn that the
Gar has declared to Prussia that he is willing with
draw his troops from the Prncpaties if the Western
Powers should succeed in imposing such treaty upon
the Porte All lie wants is to break the Osnan rule.
Ii the Western Powers propose to do IN his stead he,
Of course, is not the madnan to wage war with them
Now to the history Of the secret memorandum, which |
/ collect from the speeches of Derby, Aberdeen,
Manetbury and Granville Tie memorandum was
intended to be provisional, conditional and
raneement between Russia, Austria and England, TO
" make certain arrangements with respect to Turkey,
which France without any consent on her part, was
" to be obliged to concur in" This memorandum,
thus described in the words of Lord Malmesbury was
the result private conferences between the Gar the
J arl Of Aberdeen, the Duke OF Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel 1t was by the advice of Aberdeen that
the Gar addressed himself 10 the Duke and tISr Rob-
ert Peel ii remains matter Of controversy between
Lord Aberdeen and his opponents, whether the memo
landum drawn up by Count Nesselrode, on the re-
turn Of the Gar to St. Petersburg subsequently to his
visit to England in 1874, whether it drawn up
by the English Ministers Themselves record of the
con muncatiOns made BY the Emperor.
The connection of the Earl OfAbeTdeen with thisdo
ment was distinguished from that OF mere Minister
with official document as proved, according to the
statement of Malmesbury, by another paper not laid BE-
fore tic House The document was considered Of the
greatest in pOrtance, and such might not be
ncated TO the other powers, Notwithstanding Aber
deems that he had communicated the 81 sub
" stance" to France. The Gar, at all events, was
not aware Of such communication having been made
The document sanctioned and approved by the
Duke OF Wellington and Sir Robert Peel 1t was not |
brought under the cognzance and consideration OF the
Peel Cabinet, of which Lord Derby was at that time
member. 1t remained not with the ordinary papers of
the Foreign Office, but in the private custody Of .
each successive Secretary Of State, with no copy
of it whatever in the Foreign Office When Lord Der
by acceded to Office he knew nothing of 1t, although
himself member of the Peel Cabinet in l544. Vixen /
box to Lord Palmerston who handed the box of Pan
dora over to his successor, Earl Granville who as he
states himself at the request Of Baron Brunn0w the
Russian AMBASSADOR handed it 10 the Earl of /
Mamesbury on his accession TO the Foreign Office. |
But in the meantime, there appears to have been an
alteration rather classification in the original in
dOrsement of tine document since the Earl OF Gran
vile sent il TO the Earl of Mamesbury with note sta.
ting that il was memorandum drawn up BY Baron
BrunRo the result Of the conferences between the
Emperor of Russia, Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aber-
deem, the name OF the Duke Of Wellington not being
mentioned at all No other motive be- supposed for
this false allegation but the anxiety to conceal the i'm
pOTance of the memorandum by describing 1t mere
annexation of the ambassador, instead of official
document issued from the ChancellOry at st Peters
burgh.
Such was the importance Russia attached to this
document that As hours after Lord Malmesbury had
been in Office, Baron BrunnOw came and asked him
whether he had read it but Malmesbury had not then
done SO, il being not forwarded to him till few days
after Baron Brunnow urged on him the necessity of
reading this document, which he stated constituted the
kcp0t all oOlterenees cih Russia. From that moment
however he never mentioned the document again to
tie Derbyites, apparently judging the Tory Admins
Iation too powerless too ransory for carrying cut
the Russian policy. In December, 1852, the Derby
Government went out, and shortly after the intell-
gence of the formation of the Coalition reaching St
Petersburg, Jan. ii, the Car again opened this
quetion-s sufficient violence this that he thought the
cabinet of all the talents ready to act the basis of
this memorandum.
Here then we have the most compromising reyela-
items made in the House of Lords by the most ire
versbe Witnesses all of them having been Prime or
Foreign Ministers OF Great Britain. An eventual
" gagement"-the EXP resson used in the memorandum
lis secretly entered into with Russia by an English
Foreign Minister not only without the sanction of Par
lament but behind the backs OF his colleagues,
two OF them only having been initiated into the mys
IL teh old sha