Year: 1863

PARIS, July zoJ looo.


Tbe tone &C warbke cling of which spoke SO strongly
in nv last communication grew only louder anu 'ouue
during the next few days, and, as lar us tns County
Ist yaa concerned seemed to be on the very Drihh
of actual bostites with Russia. know from the pest
sources that personal irritation OF the Emperor NaPo


n has scarcely ever been to rise to so high pitch
! case after the receipt of the despatch of Prince
GortcLakof of which gave you the chief head TO be


y mt aside altogether aud told that your profered
;terposou was neither needed would be accepted;
"a b acty accused at the time of secretly foment-
inc the very troubles you hypocncay pretended TO be
So anxious put end toal this was certainly not oil
nature to be paatable either to the French people or
their ruler and accordingly both nation and sovereign
have been literally boiling with wrath and indgnaon
Moreover these feelings aggravated especially as
regards the Imperial Government itself, by secr
that the accusations of Russia not al
together i'll founded and already the fact having been
brought home to it IN way which prevented all denial or
equvocaton the that the Cabinet OF st Peters
burph was fully gnizant of the dongs of France this
connexion If am rightly informed the Russian autho
rites have caused the fact to be brought to the very ears
of the Emperor himself that arms, ammunition and even
uniforms have passed the French frontiers and reached
the Polish insurgents through the direct connvance OF the
French Government Nothing is so Calling as to have
what we think we doing secretly brought home to us
openly ard hRc 9 ire which are said TO De devourlng
the NapoleOIic mind.


The most important aud alarming incident by far which
has occurred last wrote is the publication of Lord
Naprs notes Of his conversation with the French Ambas-
sador ard Prince Gorschako at ST. Peersburgh address
ed To Earl Russell One would really suspect that the
object of the British Government in laying such docu-
nent before Parliament to compel France to go for
ward exremtes by exposing the avowas therein made
by her ambass ador For when great Power Ike France
declares by the voice of her representative as the
Due dc Montebello does in his conversation with Lord
Mann at
ike Russia is oDy unsatisfactory but almost insult
ing and such produce posture and immediate rnp
fure when such language this has not only been uted
but pushed it il very difficult to draw back with honor
rec.de from having recourse to the ultima ratio OF
national dt rences To aggraVate the matter the Mon
publishes this morning Lord Napers despatch, with
ali compromising language in large type on its hrst
page though srous of openly proclaimng the IN
suits which its Government conceives itself to have re-
ceiyed and its determination to ayenge them specially


There at pre- the matter rests far facts
CONCERNED and need hardly tell you that the state of
public feeling under such circumstances still to the last
degree alarmed and excited For the magnitude OF the
threatened conflict if it should once break forth is
thing tremendous to contemplate and bids fair to wrap
all Europe u the flames of and desolaton. Not one
of what called the great Powers hope to remain
neutral and all which signed the old treaties OF VI nna OF
1915 will hold themselves entitled TO have voice and action
n the result You will practically by the state of the
money and share markets both here and in London how
overwhelming the influences of the pending crisis


must not omit to say, however, that in respects
there is to-day very slight diminution of public appre
heRsion this subject The faint shadow Of confidence
which has must doubt be attributed to the
markably firm attitude assumed by Austria, aud 10 her
prompt aud positive rejection of the Russse proposal


regards herself 1t said that the attitude thus assumed by
Austria has already induced the Cabinet of st Peters
burgh to modify considerably its views and sugges-
tons Hence the tendency to pacific feelings
which is at this moment developing itself


have left myself only to mention the deep grie
which the momentary enscng at New York have
raised in all American minds No doubt s felt that they
have by this time been put end to- The of the
surrender Of Port Hudson has also reached and the
general impression that the powers Of resistance of th
South are completely exhausted.