New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-17

The Asia reached Sandy Hook on Thursday
night, and brief telegraphic summary of the
weeks news from Europe appeared in our columns
yesterday. The great point Of 1t is the decisive
defeat in the House of Commons of the motion to
censure Lord Palmsrston's Ministry for the fall of
Kars. On this occasion, after long and unusually
able debate, the Ministry got vote of 3O3 to 176
majority beyond their most sanguine expecta-
titDs. The reasons for this unexpected success are
very clearly stated by our London Correspondent
and, with him, we shall be greatly surprised if
similar result shall follow the debate on the Ameri-
can Enlistment question.
A part Of the protocols attached to the treaty of
peace are published in the European news. The
whole of them will make volume of much inter-
est to students of diplomatic history. So far as
we can Judge from the portions now before us,
there prevailed in all parties to the Conference
sincere desire to make peace, which, however, did
not prevent their discussions from sometimes be-
coming animated, and even bitter. This is plain,
notwithstanding the evident care of the trainers of
the protocols, the second Plenipotentaries of
each Power, to smooth away in their records
all asperty of ideas and language For instance, at
the sessions of April 8, a. and Is, when the evac-
uaton of Greece and Italy, and the liberty OF the
press in Belgium, were debated, there was sharp
passage between Count Buol and Count CavOur,
when the Austrian haughtily rebuked the Sar-
dinian representative for some observations
upon the Austrian occupation of Naples
in 1921. On the 14th, Count Walewski proposed
to establish, as general rule for all parties to the
settlement, the principle laid down in the eighth
article of the Treaty, according to which, in case
of Misunderstanding between the Porte and any
other Power arbitration is to be resOred to before
recourse is had to arms. To this proposal En-
gland assented in general terms, and 30 did
Prussia, while the Russian PleDipotentiaries re-
ferred the point TO their Government for decision
Austria, while admitting the soundness and good
ness of the idea protested against the binding the
free will Of an Independent power. But when
upon this Count Cavour made some remarks on
nonipteryention and treating with Governments
de taeto, Buol evidently becama greatly irrltated.
However, after some firing of hot words right ana
left the principle of arbitration was abandoned as
part of the treaty, though it still remains in the
protocol as sort of precedent and as possessing
moral obligation at least upon the partciPators
in the conferences.
Thus, after all, the treaty Of Paris marks q truly
progressive and humanized epoch in the history OF
international law 1t embodies great principles IN
relation to maritime warfare, and it embodles ana
recognizes, in some degree at least, the moral obi
cation of submitting disputes between nations to
arbitration. These two facts form magnificent
victory of the modern spirit over the old traditions
of brutal force and arbitrary WILL which, under the
barbarous name of Rights of War, still shed blot
upon the code of the worlds public law.