Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-05-02
FOREIGN NEWS.

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The following communication to the N. Y.
Tribune, from its own correspondent at London,
furnishes intelligence of much interest to those
who are anxiously watching the course of events
in Europe 1t will be seen, by perusal, that
hopes of peace have almost ceased to be enter
tanned, and that the Vienna Conference will ut
terly fail to bring about that very desirable
event:
LONDON, April 6, 1855.
On the 10th inst, Napoleon is expected at
Windsor. The programme of his stay is not
yet hxed. There are some approximations that
French or Italian refugees may endanger his per-
sonal safety, and probably no public demonstra-
ton VIII greet him in England. The visit is to-
be Visit TO the Queen, not to the people. His
time will be spent principally inside of Bucking-
ham Palace, Windsor Castle and Osborne House.
No review, no great procession is to take place;
at least such is now the determination of the
Ministers. The visit has most important DO
ltical aim. The bad news from the Crimea. the
incapacity Of the Generals, the inactivity of the
armies, the successful operations of the Rus
SLAMS, who now are investing the Turks at Eu-
patoria and the Anglo-French armies on the
Heracleatic Cheronese,, could not fail to shake
Louis Napoleon's prestige in France. 1t became
important for him to give different direction to
these ideas, and to turn public attention to a
different quarter. Hence his fegned intention
to visit the Crimea. He seems to have studied
the conduct of the Emperor Tiberius as describ-
ed by Tacitus in the 47th chapter of Book of
his Annals. The Roman Emperor, when his
distant armies were dissatisfied, and on the verge
of mutiny, resolved that Rome should no longer
L. Il Al
AS Paris is now called by the French. Still,
as if on the eve of proceeding, he selected his
followers prepared for the journey, and had the
ships put in readiness, and thus he deceived first
the wise men, then the people, and last of all
the provinces. But the Crimean journey having
become stale, trip to England is to fill up the
time of inaction. The people of France must
have something 10 talk and to speculate upon,
lest the news from the seat of war should en-
gross all their thoughts A visit to Vienna may
soon follow the visit to England, and then comes
the Great Exhibition, with all the concomitant
hustle Of foreigners and revival of business
Still it is more than probable that the Exhibition
will fall much below the expectations of France,
and that the failure will seriously react on poll
tics. AS to the Vienna Conference all hopes of
peace are rapidly fading 1t has been ascertain
ed that even the second Point, the freedom of
the Danube, is not yet finally settled. Russia
refuses to disarm the fortress Of REM, which
commands the head of the Danube Delta, and
the counter-propositon offormipg great Turk
ish fortress at Galatch entails such expenditure
on Turkey, that the Turkish Penipotentiary Sc
riously objects to il. As to the third Point,
Russia has most decidedly refused to transform
Sevastopol into a commercial harbor, but pro-
poses the erection of an English and ola French
fortress on the Asiatic Turkish shores of the
Black Sea-in fact, a spoliation of Turkey
The Conferences have adjourned until new in
structions arrive from St. Petersburg; and, in
the meantime, Drouyn de rHuys has gone to vi
emma, in order either to settle matters at once,
or to break up the Conferences. BY the end of
next week the question of peace or the extension
OF the war must be decided.
The U. s. Mail steamer Nashville, from Liv-
erpool at II p. NJ on Saturday, the 7th inst, ar
rived here yesterday at noon.
The Nashville reports her own arrival at Lv-
erpool at 9 o'clock A. NJ, of Tuesday, the Sd
inst
The intelligence by this arrival, altho' some
what scanty, is interesting. The Vienna Con-
ference had adjourned until April the 9th, when
it was expected the disputed third Point would
be discussed and decided in the presence of the
French and Turkish Ministers Of Foreign AZ
fairs, Drouyn de l'Huys and Aa ali Pacha, who
had set out for Vienna. 1t is quite impossible
to divine what may be the result Of the Confer
ence, but it is certain that the public mind in
Britain is not sanguine as to peace.
a series of sanguinary conflicts had been
fought by the French before Sevastopol. The
latest reported of these battles is stated to have
put 5000 men hors du combat. We are yet
without detail Altho' these encounters were
saDguinary, they are said not to alter the face
ofatfairs. Both armies are employed in strength
ening their positions and preparing for the
grand operations of the spring campaign.
Another detachment of the Baltic fleet had
sailed from Spithead, and the flying squadron
had arrived out