The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-09-21

boat, much less smuggler's saucy craft.
Russia's Advocacy Of the European Eqni-
Iibriam--An Imperial Rebuile to Foreign
IntermeddIers and Dynastic Scribes.
The editors OF the leading journals OF ST.
Petersburg and Moscow are engaged In an
animated and independent canvass of the in
terests and diplomacy Of Russia as likely to be
affected and shaped by the issue Of the Ger
man war and the efforts of Prussia for terri
torial reconstruction and the unity OF Father
land. We have already Published extracts
from these papers which go to show that the
writers are permitted perfect freedom Of ex-
preston on subjects relating to the imperial
policy, and that they avail themselves Of 1t in
spirit Of healthy conservatism to assure both
their fellow subjects and neighbors thai while
the rights of the nation will BIO jealousy
guarded from the shores Of tho Baltic to the
Russo-German border, the advance Of the peo-
pies towards the attainment of their fran
chises will not be frowned on or impeded.
The Journal Of ST. Petersburg-the Cabinet
organ of the Czar-commsnting on the issue Of
the Prussian military mission of General Man
| teuffel to the Court says in words which we re-
print, that the Emperor Alexander proposed to
the envoy OF King William that the European
neutrsls should invoke a participation OF all the
Powers in common consultation Of 8" the ter
rtorial and political notifications of the equi-
| librium, based upon treaties which had been
signed by all the Powers in common" The
Journal goes on to inform its readers that the
other Cabinets did not support this proposition,
and that " the principle of European solidarity"
being ignored for time" by these Powers,
| the imperial government " reserved the judy
ment and rights Of Russia" and maintained
its action Free"
| This important announcement is accompa-
MED by digniied yet stern rebuke to "for-
eigu correspondence in ST. Petersburg who,
| in "glaring contradictions" and sentences "not
in conformity with truth" and when Snot
admitted to confidence" have ventured to
| towards Germany, and assert that she
has assented without reserve to the
aggrandizement Of Prussia" This wholesome
counterblast, inspired no doubt by royal
authority, reduces the statements Of the English
and French scribes who write of the home and
| foreign policy of Russia, in moment to their
proper standard value" not in conformity
with truth"-in the eyes of the people Of
Europe We cannot but hope that it will be
Immediately followed by one equally severe
and pointed to the correspondents from Lon
don and Paris who seek TO misrepresent the
intent, objects and feeling Of the perfected
alliance between Russia and the United States,
as expressed in the national oyations accorded
to our naval officers during their visit to the
empire.
| Fettered by the prejudices Of class, and
warped in their judgments by narrow dynastic
interests or the wild theories Of an experimental
imperio-democracy, the London Times, with
the other prominent newspapers both Of
England and France, has failed to COM
prehend the great mission intrusted in COM
mon to Russia and the United States
and is consequently unable to see the easy
reconcilement ofprinciples Of government, ap-
parently diverse and contradictory, when IN
dertaken for the good Of the peoples both in
the Old and New Worlds The English cor
respondents in st. Petersburg represent the
receptions given to the United States officers
by the Russians a. q series of international
junketings, accompanied with "idle talk" .
"display OF bunkum," an exhibition Of soon.
vivial proclivities" and ian amount of liquor
ing up unparalleled even in the United States"
The London Ne,os publishes letter from the
Russian capital, in which il is assumed that the
United States, having sympathized with "the
Russian doings in Poland, ;" Russia adhered to
the side of the Northerners" during the civil
war in America, and now permits an "anti-
British demonstration" in return for that made
| by the Russian squadron in American waters
three years SINCE"
Moved by this trash and crammed by one
sided statements forwarded by the antiquated
red tapists Of England serving near the Court
| Of Russia, the London Ne,os of last Wednesday,
as We are informed by the Atlantic cable,
pronounces that Russo American alliance
is impracticable." Having the wish father to
the thought in such direction, the arstocracy
Of England will, We doubt not, be considerably
consoled by this Wholesale declaration, even
although 1t proceeds from such q poor
authority as the Ne,os.
In such terms and by such differences Eng
land and France really give vent to their
chagrin and disappointment at the formal and
| open reunion Of the two young and giant
nations Of the world in bonds Of amity strong
enough to assure the perfection Of the grand
and ennobling objects which each have in
view
| The foreign correspondents who speak mot
in conformity with truth" will likely receive
another unpleasant ofhcial hint shortly in st.
Petersburg.