The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-01

duct repetition Of the policy which inflicted on Ger
earlier years OF this century We can only hone that
this phase in her policy will prove to be Of short and
Setting aside the interest which Prussia NAV or ma,
not have the fate of the Ottoman empire she must be
totally blind not to perceive that the question has
The seat of WILL probably in <ew days be in the
Baltic well in the Black Sea, and our fleets will
be within sight of the Prussan coasts which are entire
" at the mercy of maritime power occupying those
waters. Her treaty Of 1881 with Russia If, indeed,
that is still in force, would bind her not only to
in all the principles Of the armed neutrality,
which Russia herself has since abandoned but to close
the Baltic altogether. These considerations however
are of secondary importance in comparison with the
effect Of the late determination Of Prussia on her
own internal condition, on her relations TO her
German confederates, and on her relations with
sin this change is signal triumph Of the reactionary
party which is identified with Russia, and, indeed,
relies on the support of that Power to retain Its
hold the Prussian people That party Is the
MUS of the Prussian monarchy The more liberal nsu
tons which had shaken its hold the government are
naturally the objects of detesaon for in endeavor
ing to defeat at all hazards the contingency of foreign
war; the statesmen of this school making further
step to exngush what remains of the Prusslan const
tuition and to overthrow the Minister who has remained
faithful to he Of national independence and Eu
ropean interests. We fear it must be acknowledged
sa is her rivalry of Austria, especially in connection
with the other Germanc States. The influence Of Rus
sa and the dread o. war are most lett IL the
1849 1850 She has seized this opportunity to strength
her connection with them, and to improve her inu
Identifies himself with the petty soveregns Of wurtem-
berg Hesse and Bavars he orts the confidence Of the
most intelligent and national classes Of the German
people, The immediate effect of his conduct at the most
critical moment of the late negotiations has undoubted
y been to weaken considerably the ties which united
him to England and France and to place his charac
ter in very Instantaneous point Of view We regard
that consequence of his policy serious evil for Prus
operation should be withdrawn from the active de-
fence Of q cause which she herself acknowledges to
TINT o. stse ans sn = stu TO BE
from the alliances which have connected her with the
most enlightened States of Europe Her long extended
territory at conterminous with the domnions of
Russia and with those of Franceher exposed centre
and her undefended coasts-give her paramount
interest in the maintenance Of the treaties on which
security for the permanence of those arrangements Is in
firm and active concurrence of all the Powers inter
ested in their preservation To lose sight of those OBJ
ects under the influence of an exaggerated dread hos
tlties with Russia s it to u.s. to mistake the
hoe ana ts .. he a
evasiye conduct Of the Prussan government can only
lead to discomfort at home, to division in the heart of
Germany, and to the injury Of its alliances with the
Western Powers
STATE OF SIEGE IN RUSSIA.
The Paris Aonttur of the 10TH under the date Of St.
Petersburg March 4 gives copies Of five official docu
mens declaring various ports Of the Russian domnions
Statc
Of an imperial ukase, dated March s.
The first states that under present circumstances his
Majesty thinks necessary to declare the of
Ekathernowsa and the ACCOMPLISHMENT of Taganrog to
be in state of SIEGE and places those localities under
the orders of the General of Cavalry, NJ KhomouloG,
with the privileges granted by the regulations issued on
the 9th December, 1916.
The second ukasc declares St Petersburg to be in
state Of siege and places the government under the au
nder in Chief Of the Guards and Grenaders with the
perogatves accorded to the Commander Chief Of the
Army
By the third ukase, the government of Esthonia and
Livona placed in state Of siege Esthona to be
under the orders Of General Camp Berg and Ii
Riga.
The next ukase declares the of Archange
to be in state Of SIEGE under the orders Of Vice Admiral
Boel, Military Governor of the place.
By the 9th nkase, the kingom of Poland and the gov
ernments Of Cortland Kowno wilma, Grodno Volhynia
and Podola, declared to be in state of SIEGE The
ukase also states that the Of Bessarba and
right bank Of the Bug, which were declared to be in
state of siege by the ukase of the 10th Of November
1853, to be now u similar position; and that all
these places are to be under the authority Of the Field
Marshal General Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewtsh
d'Erivan, Commander in Chief of the active army.
The ukase in addition states that the Emperor ordans
that the of Podoa the part Of the govern
ment Of Cherson situated the right bank of the Bug
and the province Of Bessaraba shall at the time be
placed under the authority Of Abide Camp General
Prince Gortschako commander of the troops of the 3d.
4th and 9Th Of infantry who s to have the prero
commanders
the ukase Of December 8, 1916.
The ukase then provides that the kingdom of Poland
and the governments of Cortland Kowno volhynia and
Grodno during the absence of the Field Marshal shall be
under the authority Of General de-Camp Count
Rudger and that Aide-de- Camp General Baron Osten
Sacken shall retain in and the government
of Cherson the granted to the commanders Of de-
tached corps by the ukase of November 10, 1858.
MARTIAL LAW IN RUssIA-THE WAR MOVEMENT.
From the London Standard March III
The Gar has declared the whole Of European Russia
in state Of siege The declaration is made piecemeal
but the whole European division Of the empire Is thus
proclaimed We suppose the expedent resorted to in
order evade the humlatng confession that the whole
Of great empire is placed in circumstances of unusual
the terms Of "a state Of ege can mean in Russia The
usual Interpretations greater or less suspension OF the
ordinary aws.cannot apply to country In which there
Russian declaration of estate Of siege" mean, what
we infer from it The memorandum of the Gar,
which appears in the st. Petersburg Journal of the Sd
inst may perhaps throw light upon that subject.
In that memorandum less considered than it ought to
be- the tyrant owns that the disorganzed condition of
the Turkish empire nseparabe from its present state of
transition, formed with him principal motive for inter
ference the process of transition would probably lead
to the prevalence of principles and opinions adverse to
the settled establishment of neighborng States In other
words Turkey advancing far in the Of European
civilization that horrible vision of constitutional gov
ernment perhaps of religious reform, in the
ure and therefore it necessary to interrupt her i'm
provement by an armed hand.
We believe in truth that the Gar has forced forward
that great crisis in the affairs of Europe that to
arrive ater-that crisis when the governments
of the continent must be reformedreformed prudenty
reformed hope by themselves from the recesses Of
their cabinets but, if not, reformed, to borrow Lord
Chatbsm's words, with vengeance from without"
The people Of Europe win not become Cossack-wil not
subject themselves to the universal state of siege,
Kings assured of this TRUTH look to their own inter-
ests Is resistance to Russian aggression sufficient,
that have confession that the aggression Is
merely q war against the principle of constitutional
liberty everywhere and anywhereS No it behoves every
state which chershes the principles of free government
of civil and religious liberty, not merely to resist the
aggressor but to disable him from future aggression
We shall not think the properly terminated II Russia
be compelled to dgorge all her robberes of the last
centuryFnand Bessarabia the Crimea the plumber of
Asiatic Turkey and above all, the kingdom Of Poland.
This would be really less than France Invested of in
1914 and OH how much for the benefit of mankind
If