The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-17

and from other places report that the ad-
vance guard of the German first army, under
General Manteuffel, has arrived at scissors.
Odo Russell has informed Granville that
Bismarck says that Prussia has not been and
will not be party to the abrogation of the
treaty of 1856 by Russia; that Gortschakofs
circular took Bismarck by surprise, and that
no secret understanding exists between Prus-
STA and Russia Bismarck's protestations are
received with inoredulity by the best in
form ed circles here.
The whole London press tomorrow morn
ing will open cry against Russia and ap-
pealing to the Government to declare war
if she persists in her demand. The feeling
in the city is intense, and the excitement
almost unprecedented The Government
finds itself pressed forward to an attitude
which it had not designed at first to assume.
This feeling is 30 strong that the Governs
ment is convinced that it is unsafe to resist
it. Extraordinary activity prevails at the
Admiralty. Orders have been given to pre-
pare the entire feet, the work to go on day
and night at Portsmouth and other places.
Private letters received tonight from Yer
sailles, says the position of the Germans has
become extremely critical, and alarm prevails
among all who understand the situation. The
King would return Immediately to Berlin,
but it was not considered safe to permit him
to depart without a very large escort, which
could not be spared, as he would be captured
or shot by franc tireurs, who are swarming all
over the country. So great are Moltkes s ap-
prehensions of the consequences of attacks
by the army of Trochu, and asmultaneous
sault on the part of the Army of the Loire,
that lntrencbments are now being thrown up
in the rear and fanks of the German position
around Paris.
Officers high in rank at Versailles declare
the Germans find themselves besieged, and
other letters state that a transformation in
the scene has occurred-the French people
changing their depression and fear into con-
fdence and bravery. Immense supplies OF
Snyder rifles and Armstrong guns are in their
hands, and the numbers of their armies are
constantly increasing. In short, everything
promises a complete turning of the tables and
the utter annihiation of the invaders.
LONDON, Nov. 16.- Special to the New
York Tribune. There great excitement
but no panic to-day over the Russian news in
the stock exchange and elsewhere. The same
Russian step has been so long expected that
the public was partly prepared for it. 1t is
the form and peremptoriness of Russia's de-
claration which have created surprise rather
than the demand itself. There is nothing
| yet like talk about war, but the English eabi-
net is in no mood to be deferred by the pros
pect Of collision, in which, however, it does
| not believe. There is nobody who says that
England will in any case go to war. Both
here and perhaps still more in continental
cabinets sense of the impossibilty of per-
mitting open dictatiOn by Russia is upper
most.
| The following correspondence has passed:
| Earl Granville to Sir A. Buchanan, British
| Ambassador to Russia
| FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 10. --Sir:-Baron
| Brunnow made to me yesterday communi-
cation respecting the convention between the
| Emperor of Russia and the Sultan, limiting
their naval forces in the Black Sea. signed at
Paris, on the 3Oth of March, 1856, to which
| you allude in your telegram of yesterday
afternoon. In my despatch of yesterday I
! gave you an account of what passed between
us, and now propose to observe upon Prince
Gortschakoff's dispatches of the 10th and
| 20th ult., communicated to me by the Rus
sian ambassador.
On that occasion Prince Gottschakoff de-
clared, on the part of his Imperial Majesty,
| that the treaty of 1856 had been infringed in
various respects to the prejudice of Russia, and
were, especially in the case of the princpalities,
against the explicit protest of his representa-
| tiyes, and that, in consequence of these infrac-
tioDs, Russia is entitled to reuounce those stipu-
lations of the treaty which directly touch her
| interests. 1t is then announced that she will
| no longer be bound by treaties which restrict
| her rights of sovereignty in the Black Sea. We
| have here the allegation that certain facts have
occurred which, in the Judgment OF Russia,
| are at variance with certain stipulations of the
treaty, and the assumption is made that Russia,
| upon the strength of her own Judgment as to
the character of these facts is entitled to release
| herself from certain other stipulations of that
| instrument.
This assumption is limited in its practical
| application to some of the provisions of the
treaty, but the assumption of the right TO
nounce any one of its terms involves the
assumption of the right to renouncs the
whole. This statement is wholly independent
| of the reasonableness or unreasonableness on
its own merits of the desire of Russia TO be
released from the observance of the stipu-
lations of the treaty of 1856, respecting the
Black sea, for the question is in whose hand
lies the power of releasing one or mere of the
parties from all or any of these stipulations
1t has always been held that the right beloags
only to the governments who have been par
ties to the original instrument. The de-
| spatches of Prince Gortschakoff appear to
assume that any one of the powers who have
signed the engagement may allege that occur
rences have taken place which in its opinion
are at variance with the provisions of the
treaty, and although this view is not
shared nor admitted by the cosgna-
tary powers, We may found upon that
allegation, not request to those goY-
ernments for consideration of the
case, but the announcement to them that it
has emancipated itself or holds it self enanci-
pated from any stipulations of the treaty
which it thinks fit to disapprove. Yet it is
quite evident that the effect of such doctrine
and of any proceeding which, with or without
avowal, is founded upon it, is to bring the
entire authority and efficiency of treaties
under discretionary control of each one of the
powers who may have signed them, the result
of which would be the entire destruction of
treaties in their essence. Whereas the whole
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