, 1863-12-25
FAHTS C1KRESksDNDEVCE.


PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. !, 1858.
The famous Congress of sovcreigns Ia dcad,
and it was Lord John Russell that killed it.
Or rather the Congress was always dead, and
it was Lord John that buried It Not that
tic. English Foreign Secretary discovered any
new arguments ugainst the Congress, Or said
anything that was not known By all the
world, but~bccause lie had the courage TO say
brutally on paper what the rest either shrank
from or covered up In such froth OF words
as to mystify the hest fntentioned readers.
Thus Prince GortschukoF accepts In reply
SO smotAered up with politeness, as to lsays
a doubt whether it is in fact an acceptaton,
or only q high flown attempt at irony. But
there y no humbug nbout Lord John, be
knew the thing was d Napoleonic ewindle,
and he said SO.
The frat effect Of this refusal at Paris lad
been to throw down the funds aud revive the
fright about a war. Franco has been insultcd
and france is d military power; therefore,
she must fight. That is the logic of the thing.
But Frnncc Inns no idea Of lighting Russia
alone, and Austria will not engage In my
conflict which will weaken her hold on Ven
ice. Therefore, France will try to keep friends
with Russia anu obtain from her By conccs-
sions, wllat will sayc her military honor, Pnd
the whole affair will end with the mutnalex-
c}amation, Ef1abrnsso1 suotss H11lepille!' N Only
the Polish revolution will be crushed out,
out Europe till the revolutionary party and
Garibaldi decree otherwise. And this wtll
not be long, il the Spring opens with a1l hope
crushed out Of any yielding on the part Of the
continental monarcl,s.
Tic reply Of Lord John Russell has lad this
further effect In France, that the friends Of
the present dynasty arc deeply vexcd. aud cry
out for the mil1ionth time sPcrfldious Al
blon!" "Nation Of unprincip1ed shopkeep-
ers" and 40 on-you know the song while
the enemies OF Napoleon are naturally delight
cd at his dcfeat-
But everybody says that since England de-
feated the Congress-, and is at the same time
the leading 1ibcral Government Of Eutops, It
Is her duty now to. find and support some
remedy for the alienation Of the sutIer{ng
nationa1fties Of the Continent But England
viii support nothing but peaceable renun-
citation By Russia and Austria Of their rights
over Poland and Vcnetia, and peaceable re-
come back then intalliby to this, that the
next thing to look for is a repetition Of 1a48,
but on much larger and surcr basis. For-
tunatelv this time there will be one Chief
whom Ill will obey, aud the movements Of
the revolution nay thus be combined in such
way as to strike more surely and fatally the
dcspoti1powcrs that rsfuseto yield to Justice
and reason.
A pamphlet which i,ns Just been published
here, entitled Napoleon III, and the Earo-
pean Congress-" and which was gaining
wide Influence by its supposed Imperial OH
gin, is disayoWed this morning officially in
the Monis.ur, aud thus falls to tho ground
power1ess. The pamphlet advocated war,
md was probably paid for out Of tho trcasu-
ry Of the Polish Committce--for that Ia tho
way all causes, good or bad, are backed up at
Paris.
Another Confederate cruiser, tho Kappa
hammock, has escapcd from an English port,
and come to q French port to take on board
her officers aud crew. Thcpapers publish all
the det2ils in regard to the movement Of this
Vessel that VIC have been able to obtain In
Frurce