The New York herald., 1871-09-16

approval OF the other sgnaory Powers OF the Treaty
OF 1855. Now, remarks the correspondent, scarcely
any combination OF circumstances is possible 10
which ono or three OF those Powers VIII not md IL
Its interest not 10 give its adhesion to any such step
won't do So because she is afraid, lest by taking
sw mose To PUsI',Vn % 10 tne houmanan Vnampers sne
re AIMS OH the Lower Danube NeItnrr win Austria,
because aIlv explosion IN koumania wound be not
unlikely TO drag Austria In, whether she liked or
not and, as for England, she Is ready to surrender
ANYTHING so as, to put Oh conlict in tho East.
France remains; and, as Prussia wants Turkish IN
tervenuon 1t Is easy to iner that France will Ii she
cam have nothing OF the Kind. Prussia can rely on
no support except on tnat Of Austria, and Austria
the piOtecti0n or Germans In Roumania and the
maintenance OF Prince Charles On the throne
r., r1,rs Who Owns Spizber7eDt
It would seem that the Swedish government has
not quite abapdoned It's pro ect OF annexing Spitz-
bergen, for its Ambassador at st. Petersburg, M.
Bjernstjerna has again raised the question in let
ter 10 the JOuydl d. 8. PeItrsbo,oy and the publ
cation of this letter bv the seml-ocial organ OF the
Russian Foreign office Is regarded as sign that
Prince Gortchakon has not yet made up his mind
on tllc subject. NJ B1ornstjerna points out IN adGt
ton to the arguments IN his first letter. that in 1908
Inc maps OF the Academy OF Sciences Of 81. Peters
burg represented SpltzDergen as Norwegian terri
tory and that the name OF Grulanda or Gralont,
which Is stated by Russian Journalists to be the
old russian name OF the Archipelago, Is, merely
q corruption OF the Gernano-Scandinaviah word
Gronland, which was given to Spltzbergen Dy ITS
first dlscoverers lBarents, IN 15oo, and HUDSON IN
1907, VINO ntstooK 1t tor part OF Greenland. From
nave re as e S9%
1t by o foreign name. II Colonization Is t0 be re-
garded as giving right to the possession OF the ter
fitory the Dutch, English ana HanburKers would
have ltetter chim 80 u than Russia. on the other
hand the Rrchonoe GG.eue Of 81. Petersburg and
tie JCurnal OF the same name which IS published ut
Moscow say there are UPWARD OF twenty ukascs OF
Peter the Great anu Cathe Inc II. In which Sptzber,
TO the opinion expressed in 1866 by Mr. Campbell,
the United states Ambassador at stockholm, In sup
Fort aner me taat ne roner osswe n
Russian national teeling."-ldH M1W Gazette.
The Position Of the Hahenwart Hlinistry.
In dssolving number Of the Provincial DieJs ana
the Reichsrath there can be no doubt that the Ho-
henwart Ministry has taken q decisive step, which
plainly shows IT'S intentions and brings the contest
between ITS policy and that OF the so-caied consttu
tiona or German party to crisis. The German
organs have not failed to remark that OF the eight
dissO!' ed Diets, one only-that OF Iyr0l-had ma
jorlty devoted to the Ministry the constutlonalsts
were in the ascendant In the remaining seven. 1t L.
inferred from the action Of the government that 1t
counts upon maJOrttes III the new Diets, and that
the discontinued natIonalilies Will send H. for the
nrSt tac Tor considerable peri0u thor representa-
&c. man majority, winch for 80 long period has
there had everything Its own way. Meantime
the German organs are vigorously sounding the
notes Of battle; and, while evidently attacking the
Ministry, earnestly eXh0rt the AustrO-Germans to
putiorth all their strength IN the coming electoral
struggle, "The views OF the Ministry" exciams
the fresse being perfectly ciear the course OF the
constitutional party has become quite plain. 1t can
not AFFORD TO dispute about electioneerng pro-
grammes or resolutions in reference to TINS or that
point OF the liberal Datf0rm 1t must solely attend
10 obtaining electoral returns, which will serve the
objects OF the party 'rne dissolution OF the Diets,
ana the intentions which nave prompted this stepy'
says the Waadere,, have changed the contest from
an internal one, as Il has hitherto been, INTO
contest ol natonalltles, in which every so-caied
comp omlse can Uniy be an arnisttce.' IN other
words the different nationalitles OF Austria are
now fairy at war; and, as reconcllement between
them out OF The question, Au5lla must eventually
break UP,