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tee in common the strict OBJ

pre- and to guarantee in common the strict OBJ
srvance of this engagement.
Ga this point Prince Gortschakof at once refused
70 attach to this guarantee the signature of posi-
tive or active guarantee to the Turkish territories
"a most significant proof Of the real spirit with
which the Russians engaged in these negotiations
Pressed however at last to explain more fully the
views of the Court of s.. Petersburg, since it had
already rejected the proposed Tor the attain
ment of the third point, Prince Gortschakof read
paper on the 3lst of April to the Conference, IN
which he attempted to show that Turkey was ex-
posed to no danger from the naval forces OF Russia
and ended by declaring that Russia would not OBJ
ect TO revision of the treaty of lS4l for the pur
nose of opening to the military flags of all nations
the passage of the Bosphorus and Dardaneles
That is literally the only concession which Russia
announced her intention to make on this subject
a concession, indeed, made at the expense of Tur-
key rather than at their own.
1t was followed by another suggestion, of closing
the Straits at the pleasure Of the Porte but these
schemes were so obviously worthless and imprac-
ticable that nothing remained for the British and
French plenipotentiaries but to refuse to discuss
them, and TO declare that their powers and instruc
tons were exhausted. The Russian envoy, never
theess, continued to insist with extraordinary i'm
pu ience, that he had redeemed the pledge Of his
government by making several propositions for the
solution Of the difficulty but the only value of these
propositions in our and in the eyes OF Europe, IS
the demonstration they contain that Russia will
no., until she be compelled, consent to give any
guarantee for the territorial independence of Tur-
KEY, the breach of which would constitute an i'm
mediate casusbeh between herselfan all the other
great powers and that Russia will maintain as long
as she is physically able to do so, that aggressive
position in the Black Sea which has been the sole
cause of the present war
Count Buo terminated the conference, as he had
opened it, by declaring that, in the opinion of the
Court of Vienna, the plan proposed by M Drouyn
de L Hugs, and rejected by Russ Ia, was complete
and effectual but that the ounter-propositons OF
Russia were not so, and could not be considered as
embodying principles proper to be introduced into
complete and general system of policy. These
words leave no doubt as to the cause of the failure
of the negotiation, and throw the whole burden Of
the fresh rupture on the Russian Cabinet. Indeed
the chief value of this transaction is that it has laid
bare and demonstrated in the face of Europe the in
soent and aggressive character of the enemy we
have opposed to us, and shows that If the allied
powers are resolved to avert the peris and evils
which the prepondersnce of Russia threatens to in
fict on Europe, they only obtain the result by
the successful and united prosecution of the war.
THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND.-Perbap:
the most important intelligence brought by thi;
mail Is that which concerns the great popular move
ment in England The resolutions adopted at the
great meeting at the London Tavern, have already
been laid before our readers. The European Neto
speaks of the resolution as follows:
During the last twenty-five years we have seer
two conflicts of similar kind between the people
of England and the aristocracy, and the third, OF
which we are now entering, is no less important
than the others. The first was the struggle for or
improvement in the representation-for the Re
form Bu-whieh drove the nation to the verge o
| civil war We bad on that occasion the support O
the great Wing families, and the nominal aid o
an imbece monarch but the people owed thei
success to their oNn ardor and enthusiasm. TIL,
second was for the extinction of the infamous corr
law,-the sunihilation of all protection, as it wa
called and in that movement we had the coun
tenaSce of the Court and the Wing party. Thu
famine in Ireland accelerated that victory, just
the mishaps before Sebastopol will secure the tri
unph Of administrative reform. In the presen
contest the whole aristocracy Of the empire vii
| be opposed to the middle and the lower classes
and it is possible that before success crowns tn
requisite efforts considerable organic changes vii
be necessary,-s fact which was very significant,
| limited at by one of the speakers at the city Q
| London Tavern, who showed that third of tn
| present House of Commons is composed of tn
sons of peers and the relatives of peers and thes
persons it is needless to say, will be found fghtin
most determinedly in favor of system which Sc
cures the loaves and fishes for their kith and kim