The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-18
THE FREN CHI AND RUSSIAN TREATY.

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| The following is the official letter of Prince
Gortschakotf to the British government az do
not deny that there may exist written engage
ment between France and Russia, but | can assure
! you, IN the most positive manner, that such ar
| rangement contains nothing that in the most dis
tant manner could be interpreted as constituting
hostile alliance against Europe. If Lord Malmes-
| bury should be questioned on the subject, he may
answer with confidence in the above sense, and |
give you my personal guarantee that the decara-
ton will not be falsfed by the facts
| From the London Post (Lord IaInerstons oryan)
Mdy g.
| Count Walewski has addressed a circular note
explanatory of the policy Of the French government
at the present crisis to the French representatives
at all the European Courts. The Minister for For
elgn Affairs at Paris had the best argument from
the beginning, and the precipitate declaration of
war by the Court of Vienna has since given NJ
de Walewskl an easy triumph. Every one con-
demned the Austrian manifesto of the 10Th ult.;
the supporters OF French policy were confirmed
IN their opininns; the ,waverers gave way and the
! partsans of the Austrian government were shaken
in their allegiance Nothing seemed wanting
to produce, in few weeks, the total alienation of
Europe from the cause of the house of Hapsburg.
Lord Derby, the best official friend of Austria
among the Prime Ministers of the day, had come
forward spontaneously to declare the policy of that
empire to be terminal" This revulsion of feel
ing appears to have been too sudden and too yio-
lent to be endured at Vienna. 1t happens at any
rate that simultaneously with the origin of this
hostile feeling towards the Austrian government,
a strange story got atoat in the circles of Vienna
regarding the formation of secret treaty having
for its object the partition of Austria and ultimately
| of Europe, between France and Russia. The origin
of this story in the Austrian capital and its conci
dence in time with the rise of the feeling which it
was calculated to allay render il eminently susni
cious. That it should have been disseminated from
an official source, without shadow of founda-
ton, would have been merely to have incurred the
certainty of its being Immediately dissipated. A
story therefore, was hit upon which possessed the
ADVANTAGE fy hat n oar
tain agreement upon certain general principles of
policy, during the war then virtually declared by
Austria against Sardinia, had been put into form
by the French and Russian governments
To minds, the fact of its date, three days sub
sequently to the Austrian declaration against Sar-
dinia if we accept the obvious inference that it
arrived at in consequence ofthat declaration, seems
to preclude the possibility OF its embracing any large
and comprehensive views. the mountain thus Ori-
ginally based on this molehll was eagerly magni-
fed by the partZans of fAustria and the opponents
! of France, unit! it grew into an Atlas or Mount
Blanc, and 1t Is now brulted about as the greatest
phenomenon around us. The object of this Wen
nese story-to counteract the anti-Austran effect
of the recent declaration against Sardinia-could
hardly have escaped even the most credulous
Count Waewski's circular is, therefore, very
well timed ltshows with great clearness and par
ticularity the manner in which Austria rudely in
terrupted negotiation just at the moment at which
it appeared to present the best chance of success
full issue. Nor is there the slightest reason to sup
pose that Austria was really actuated by
beliefin the existence ofhe secret treaty which her
partisans announce and condemn when she sent her
peremptory summons to Sardinia for if she had
been so, she would surely have entered such a CO.
gent argument into the manifesto which she put
forth the other day in the Vienna Gazette.
NEWS FROM THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
By the arrival of the bark James w Paige, Cap
tain William G.. Jones, at New York, we have in
teresting news from the West Coast, dated at Mon
rovia, Liberia, on the 18th of March.
President Benson, of Liberia, getting very
much out of favor.
An opposition semmonthly paper has just been
started at Monrovia, under the editorship of Mr.
Chestley, a colored gentleman from Boston, and its
March.
The schooner Antelope cleared March 18th
with about twenty tons Of sugar and molasses, the
product of LIBERIA the first shipment of any note
to the United States.
The molasses is equal to New Orleans, if not su-
perior.
Captain Jones makes the following important re-
port: In lat. l7o 90, long. 23o "a, discovered
rock, which | named Louisas Rock. 1t is one foot
surveying it. 1t is one hundred feet long, s. p.
and n. W., and about fifty feet wide. The rock is
of dark brown, or rather chocolate color. and
the water was very much discolored all around
The water was full of animalcula and sprios of
grass. No soundings with one hundred fathoms
around it. vessel might pass it even in daylight
and not see It, as the sea is generally very smooth
at all seasons of the year. We passed within thirty
feet OF 1T before we saw it. 1t very hazy at the
time, and it is always so in that parallel.
The Russian Litterateurs in Paris, in connec-
tion with some Frenchmen, announce the pubhca-
ton of a Selayonic Review