New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-10
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

The Conferences at Vienna having failed to
settle the Eastern difficulties, the Western row.
ers at last begin to think of revision OF the
Danish Treaty of the 9Th of May, 1852, which
ovss the succession Of the Danish crown eyentu-
sIIv TO the Gar. The order of inheritance in
the house of Schleswig- IIolstein is therefore
once more to be discussed and to be defined;
and now again, as in 1852, without consulting
the people of Denmark and the Duchles 1hls
new scheme is nothing but new dodge,
in order to divert public attention from
the Crimean campaign. The politicians OF
Vienna are sure that the Western Powers
are ready to make the Principaities
Moldo- Wallachia over to Austria as the price
of her cooperation, and to give Turkey COM
pensstion in Asia by bestOwing the sovereignty
of Georgia up to the Caucasus upon her, as 1t
is believed that during the summer Trans
caucasia might easily be wrested from Rus
sin Such is the Austrian version OF the
policy of the Allies, of which people at
Paris and London do not know anything. l
must here remind your readers that the Danh-
bian principalities were not conquered by the
Turks. At the time of the tide of the Turkish
power the princes Of Moldavia and Wallachia,
soon after the capture of COnstantnople, sub
mitted by treaty of amity to the Sultan and
acknowledged the suzerain of the Porte
under the condition that no Turk should
ever permanently settle in the Principalities,
that no mosque should be built beyond the
Danube, that the Sultan and his Ministers never
should interfere with the civil administration OF
the country but allow it to be ruled by its own
laws. On the other side the Principalities pay
tribute Of 10000 ducats, their elected Princes
must be confirmed by the Turkish Government,
but can be removed after a fair trial by the Sui
tan. The treaty thus concluded bears as date
the year l46O, and it is worth noticing that for
four centuries the Turks have respected it, they
have not raised the stipulated tribute, though
the value of money has since considerably risen,
they have not encroached upon the admlnistra-
fion and the laws of the Principalities, in fact
they have behaved better than the Austrian
Princes toward Hungary, the Russian bears to-
ward the Baltic Provinces and Poland, the
Kings of Prussia toward their German subjects,
the English toward India, and the Emperor Ma
poleon toward France. All those Christian SOW
ereigns might take lesson from the Sultan
about the way in which treaties and solemn obi
cations are to be kept and fulfilled.
The Federal Diet at Frankfort has upon
complaint from some Hanoverian noblemen de-
clared that the Corporation of Hanover, now for
ls wears the fundamental law of the country,
encroaches upon the rights and privileges OF the
nobility and has intmated to the King that ne has
10 change the Constitution in conformity with
the views of Frankfort-threateDng him in case
of refusal with military execution. And all this
goes on while the English press presumptuously
says that the war against Russia is war IN de-
Tense Of German liberty. Poor Germans 1t is
indeed an insult to talk about their liberty.
The English begin to feel little ashamed OF
the way in which they received the Emperor OF
France While The Times amuses its readers
with clever article on the way in which the
breeches of the late Car were handed to the
care of a Prussian Cavalry Regiment, The
Court Journal of London records the
memorable fact with due emphasis that
Mr.. Eserberg had the great honor of cut
ting the cOrns of the Emperor Napoleon III
at buckingham Palace The French Imperial
lists will not fail to acknowledge that England,
represented by Mr.. Eiserberg, has tried to re-
heve her august ally of all that pinches him.
Napoleon returned to France after the English
ovation, but he was coldly received in his own
country and capital. On the LIST of May he is
open the Exhibition, though only pro tormd,
and in the first week of May he at last pre-. eds
to the Crimea to take the command, and to do
his best for the present campaign. 1t is said
that on his way he is TO visit his ally, Francis
Joseph. at Vienna, and TO get acquainted with
the Interior views of the Court of Schonbrunn
Depend upon it, Austria will remain neutral
and will not draw the sword against Russia
Her treacherous alliance with the Western
Powers has done better service to the Gar than
her open hostility against England and France
could have done.
The public is little satisfied with the events
before Sevsstopol. The bombardmenth has scarcely
advanced the operations of the Allies. The last
dispatches of Prince Gorchakoff tell us entirely
different tale from the contents of those
oil Gen. Csnrobert, and Lord Raglan is silent
about the bombardment and gives scarcely any
'hing else than his meteorological observations
ABOUT bad weather and fine. The Meteorologi-
eaiSoeie'y should send him diploma ofmember-
ship, since his dispatches are evidently written
ior them aud not for the War. Office and the pub
lie OF England. II we are to judge from the
published bulletins, both the Russian and allied
commanders are much satisfied with the result
Of the bombardment. The submarine telegram