New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-10
PRUSSIA AS MEDIATOR.


The Congress, or, as it is Practically termed,
the Conference Of Vienna has been formally
opened and Is now holding its sittings. Two of
the Four Points submitted for discussion hsvs
been agreed to by the peRipotentiaries deputed
by the Five Powers. The 6rst Of these two re.
fers to the joint protectorate of the Prlncipssies;
the second to the free navigation of the Danube.
Both of them were conceded year ago by Rus
sta. The third is the point on viii ,h the be or
not to be hinges. 1t fixes the question as to
whether, 10 word, Russia is to rule the Black
Sea, and through it Georgia, Persia, Circissia,
and the whole body of the East-or not. The
Allies propose to limit the Russian Navy to
stipulated number, and to transform the bristllng
front of Sevastopol into the tranquil face Of
commercial depot. This is really the breakeron
which peace may dash and fall back shivered.
Alexander II will never afix his name to so hui
initiating condition. Aud Louis Napoleon can
not recede from it's imposition without humis.
ton which would shake his Imperial throne.
To what extent England will sustain Louis Ma
pole on remains to be seen. With Gibraltar star
ing her in the face fortress planted on foreign
shore, and surreptitiously acquired in violation
of promise and of faith, it will Iced even more
than the wohted gay audacty of her present Pre-
Dier to insist upon Rlssias dismantlings fortress
like Sevastopol, gained by laborious lad honorable
war, and which stands upon soil that has been
for near century an integral portion of her ter
ritory.
The hopes Of peace are, therefore, slender.
Nat nf tka Mi a IL.
possesses such mastery over the threads, as to
disentange them from the present embodiment,
and weave them into cOncordant web. If
Alexander III declares for war, he will naturally
cause in England and France, and in some parts
of Germany, huge and passionate outburst. If
bis voice should be for peace on the terms
hitherto proposed by the Western Powers, he
will find his own nation arrsyed against him.
That feeling Of nationality which is the strongest
and 6ercest passion of such nation as Russia, 10
already reused, and, In such an event, would
swell into full and fearful ebullition. On the
other hand the Sultan becomes hourly more
alarmed at the despotic protection and rather
overbearing caress Of his too affections
Allies. BY the las: news, he places his veto on
establishment of any foreign pretectorate over
his Christian subjects He feels that in making
such concessions, he, in fact, cedes his sover-
eighty, and esteems this as paying somewhat too
high price for the honor of an introduction into
the family of European States.
Prussia, though she holds ne sea. in the Con-
gress, has constant access to its records and in
Huap Al. D.. l.
sires that she should take direc. part in the
conference, thereby giving proof Of it's conf.
debce that an honorable sense of equity and de-
sire for Just peace viii outweigh in the breast
Of Wilhelm Nv any unfair leauipgs toward Rus.
sia, which family ties would naturally create.
The Porte well remembers, that, unlike it. pres
en-: three sponsors, ever since the reign of Fred
eric III Prussia has proved herself, IN many try
ing moments, friendly and dsinteres.ed media
tor. And in the present juncture, nOtwithstand-
ING tie srose abuse which has been hesped upon
her name, her conduct has been marked by q
steady conslStency, which others might initiate
with advantage, and her policy ms pred BY q wise
regard for her ewn true interest, and that of the
Northern Germsnis States. Prussia, - the fifth
of the great Powers occupies strange
and striking position. hem,y be said, politically
and automatically, even more than geosraphi-
caly, to stand in the center Of the other Powers.
North and East of her lies Russia, with its sbso-
mfe despotisn. Northwest stands England,
watching with envious eye that progressive indus
trial development which, in more than one mar
ket of Europe, has successfully challenged En-.
en.h manufacturing monopoly. On the ives. Is
France, with its constant revolutions and un-
quenched appetite for the frontiers on the Rhine;
and along the southeast runs Austria, with her
old trsditionary hatred antasonIsm and envy.
Thus surrounded and naturally exposed to con-