On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
out of the eighty-six , furnish an . abundant harvest . Facts like these it was impossible for any factitious fall to resist . At first , indeed , the system of authority was disposed ' to put down facts , aud to exercise autocracy over events ; but facts and events have put down autocrats and authorities ; or rather , the fire-eaters in authority have accelerated the very crisis they tried to put down . -By haying " informations , ( proces verbaux ) drawn up against the sellers at a rise , they drove away the dealers from the markets ; by prosecuting buyers who went to farms to purchase wheat in advance , they frightened away the . merchants ; lastly , by ordering
M . Darblay , the great corn-merchant of the Seine et Oise , to throw his supplies at a fixed price upon the Halle de Paris , they have disgusted him , for a long time to come , of every kind of enterprise . The upshot of all is , that the Paris corn-market is now in utter confusion . There has been a rise of from three to six francs a hectolitre in many parts of the country ,. and the price of bread is decidedly on the ri . se . In the provinces as yet there have been a few partial ententes , easily repressed , the Government declaring everywhere that prices would fall , and that all forestallers would be rigorously punished . But as the rise increases , and
the Government will soon have exhausted its promises of a fall , calamities may be looked for . Tn the presence of such an eventuality Bonaparte has resolved on a very simple plan . He knows well enough that it is above all things indispensable not to have any entente at Paris . ¦ " If the provinces revolt we will give them grape ( la mitraille ) to eat , " says Persigny . As the people of Paris have a tough digestion , and would infallibly reply to mitraille by a revolution , the Government has made up its mind to give them bread . Bread is to be sold at eight sous throughout the crisis . Our fire-eating governors fancy this policy is an act of
genius . They are mistaken ; they are only heaping up fuel for an explosion more certain and more terrible . Work will he at a stand-still in the provinces ; the workmen will rush to Paris , where bread is cheap . At Paris they will be in competition with their brethren of the capital , and wages will fall . Bread may still be cheap , but the labour market will be shrunk one half . The crisis , instead of affecting 300 , 000 working men will- strike 600 , 000 ; in other words , 300 , 000 from the provinces and 300 , 000 of Paris . The revolution will have an army of 600 , 000 men at lmnd . The Revolution thanks the Government for the
opportunity . To the bread crisis is supcradded another , to which I alluded in my last letter—the financial crisis . Not only docs the Government demand contributions in advance from the capitalists in Paris , but my letters from the provinces say , that the same demands arc made in the departments . The Ministers scarcely a fleet to dissemble their embarrassment . All the branches of the Administration have been surrendered to pillage of late . It seems to be understood , that the beginning of the end has come , and every one tries to get his share of the booty while he has his hand upon the public purse . Onl y Monday last , on the breaking up of the Council of Ministers , one of thorn is reported to have said , that " the Turks must be left to their fate , what with our want of money and our scarcity of bread . "
Meanwhile , Bonaparte has started upon his triumphal progress in the ndrfchern departments . No expense is spared in Jus service . I To takes forty horses from the Imperial stables , and eighty cooks in his suite —a degree of luxury forgotten in Franco , lie is accompanied by the Kinprcss . The towns on his passage have voted fabulous sums for his reception . Arras gives 80 , 000 francs ( 3200 / . ); Lille , 120 , 000 francs ; J ) ouai , 30 , 000 francs--with the . proviso , that these 30 , 000 irancH should be spent in succours to the indigent . At Lille all the functionaries of the
department , small and great , amounting to 20 , 000 persons , have been convoked to salute " their Majesties" on their passage . None but functionaries ciiu approach Bonaparte . These 20 , 000 men will represent the population . . In every town order * have been given to civet triumphal arches . A contribution of five francs for each house has been imposed . There will not be wanting English journals to report , that " the IOinperor wan received everywhere with enthusiasm . " Tell then ) , pmv . once for all , that this enthusiasm is ishnply —enthusiasm by order .
Nmnerotisum'sls haveb <> en prosecuted this week among the working-classes ; especially in the Faubourg > St Antoine and the Qtmrtier de Marais . A fortnight ago there were some tumultuous crowds { rassamblumnUs ) on account of the rise in ( lie price of bread . The men arrested were , it kccius , marked by the police in these crowds . . Besides arrests of working men there have been arrests of o / iicerH at Avesnes . Under the regime of authority now in force , the Government shuts en fen at it « good pleasure , if they incur it , s Nuspieion . Ho it wan
at Avesnes . A cafe to which the principal citizens resorted was closed . The next day a party of officers went to this cafe as usual , broke open the doors , and began smoking and drinking as if nothing had happened . Three officers of the 7 th Cuirassiers , with their cblonel , were among this band of insurgents disguised asrewylians . An hour after the sub-prefect arrived with a ^^ uet ^ 9 f-- « o 1 clieTs ^— The officers ,- with their colonel , rushetfon the soldiers , who thoroughly relished the jokeof being thrashed by their own officers in disguise . The soldiers , you may imagine , were routed , to their
own great delight , and to the fun of their officers and of the civilians of Avesnes , but to the disgrace of the sub-prefect . The prefect of Lille informed the General of division of the facts . The General replied that the colonel and officers had done quite right . The Prefect insisted ; the General pooh-poohed the Prefect ; the . Prefect rushed to Paris to lay his complaint before the minister , who placed the General in arrest at the citadel of Lille , and ordered General Thirion , second in command , to arrest the colonel and the officers of the 7 th Cuirassiers . A pretty specimen of our precious regime of " authority I" S .
Untitled Article
CONTINENTAL NOTES . THE KTTSSIAN QUESTION—IMPENDING- WAE . The following despatch from Count Nesselrode to Baron Meyendorf , at Vienna , is dated-St . Petersburg , Sept . 7 thj"We have just received , together with your Excellency's reports of the 16-28 th of August , the alterations which the Ottoman Porte has made in the draft of a note drawn up at Vienna . " Count Buol will only require to recal to mind the expressions of our communication of the 25 th of July , to form a clear , idea of the impression the . se alterations . have made en his Majesty the Emperor .
" When I , in His Majesty ' s name , accepted that draft of a note which Austria , after having previously procured it to be approved and accepted by the Courts of France and England , described to us as an ultimatum , that she intended to lay before the Porte , and on the acceptance of which , the continuance of her friendly offices was to depend , I added in a despatch which you , Baron , were instructed to communicate to the Austrian Cabinet , the following remarks and reservations : — " 'I consider it to be superfluous to remark to your
Excellency that , whilst we , in a spirit of conciliation , accept the proposal of accommodation agreed to at Vienna , and of sending a Turkish ambassador , we assume that we shall not have still further changes and fresh propositions to examine and to discuss , which may happen to be contrived at Constantinojile under the warlike inspiration which seems at present to influence the Sultan and the majority of his ministers ; and that , should the Ottoman Government also reject this last arrangement , wo should no longer hold ourselves by thp consent which we now give to it . '
" Expressions so precise as these could leave the Austrian Government no doubt as to our present decisions . "I will not at the present moment enter into the alteration of the wording which have been made at Constantinople . I have made them the subject of special remark in another despatch . I will , for the moment , confine rayeolf to asking whether the Emperor , after having for him-Eclf renounced tho power to change even a word in that draft of a note , which was drawn up without his participation , can allow tlic Ottoman Porte alone to reserve to itself that power , and whether lie can suffer Russia to bo thus placed in an inferior position vis-a-vis Turkey . We hold this to bo inconsistent Avith tho dignity of the Emperor . Let us rccal tho whole series of events , as they
took place . In tho place of tho Menschikojf note , tho acceptance of which without alteration wo had stipulated as the condition of our resuming our relations witk tho Porte , a different note was proposed to us . On this ground alono wo might have refused to take it ; into consideration . And even after entering upon it we might have found occasion to raise more than ono objection , io propose more ; than ono alteration in tins expressions . You know , Bnvon , that from tho moment wo consented to give up our ultimatum , no note of any form whatever was what wo desired —that wo should have preferred another plan , another form of agreement * - We did not insist on this plan : wo have laid it , entirely on ono side . Why ? Because , an . soon as wo should have made counter propositions , wo should have exposed ourselves to tho reproach of protracting matters
ol intentionally prolonging tho crisis which is disquieting Europe . Instead of thin , ns wo wished to put an end to tho crisiu as soon as ponsiblo , we sacrificed our objections both as regards ( he contents and tho form . On tho receipt of tho first draft of a noto , without ; waiting to learn if it had boon approved in London or in Paris , wo notiliod our accession to it by telegraph . Subsequently the draft was forwarded to us in il . s final form , and although it had boon altered in a direction which wo could not iniHiindorsl ' , wo did not . retract our consent , nor raise I he smallest diilieulty . Oould greater readiness or a more conciliatory spirit ho shown ? When we thus acted , we did no an a matter of courtio , on tho condition that , a draft ; which tho lOinporor accepted without discussion , should bo accepted by I ho Porte in a isimilar manner . We did ho under tho
conviction that Austria looked on it an an ultimatum , in which nothing was to ho changed , as the hint oll ' ort of her friendly mediation , which , should it , fail in consequence u ( tho pertinacity of the Porto , would thereby of itself eomo to an end . Wo regret that it wan not . no . ' Hut the Vienna Cabinet , will admit , that if wo had not to do with an ultimatum , but . with a new draft of a noto , in which eithor of the parties concerned wan at liberty to make changes , wo should thereby recover the right of which wo bad of our own accord deprived ournolvon , of proposing variation *)
on our part , of taking the proposal of arrangement ,- ? S ? £ 552 " * only changing the «* S 3 £ K } ^ ° ^^ ^^^^ t ^^^ accepting her drafts , have made it their common ? ? £ It is then : affair , to consider the delays X ? h Si 2 from this , or to inquire if it is for the interest nf V to cut them short . We see only one sing £ 52 . SSjP * an end to them . It is for Austria ancf t £ ™ Zlllt f S clare to the Porte , frankl y and firmly , that S J *' having in yam opened up to it the only road that < X lead to an immediate restoration of its relations Wf « T henceforth leave the task to itself alone . We believp H ^ l as soon as the Powers unanimously hold this WUai ?* tne tne will
jrorte , j . uncs yield to the advice of EmW and , instead of reckoning on her assistance in a struo- I ¦ with Russia , will accept the Note in its present form If 1 cease to compromise their position so seriously for th childish satisfaction of having altered a few expressionsA a document which we had accepted without discussion For of these two positions only one is possible ; either th « alterations which the Porte requires are important in which case it is very simple that we refuse to accede tn them ; or they are unimportant , and then the question arises , why should the Porte unnecessaril y make its ac cep ranee dependent on them ?
"To sum up succinctly what we have said : the ulti matum drawn up at Vienna is not ours : It is the work of Austria and the Powers , who , after having first of all agreed to it , then discussed it , >^ nd altered its original test have recognised it as such as the Porte could accept , without its interests or its honour being compromised ! "We " on our part have done everything that depended upon us to shorten unnecessary delays , inasmuch as when the arrangement was laid before us , we renounced all counterpropositions . JSTo one will refuse to bear this testimony to the loyaute of the Emperor . After our having Ion ? exhausted the measure of concessions , without the Porfce ' s having as yet made a single one , his Majesty can eo no
turther without compromising his own standing-, and without exposing himself to a resumption of his relations with Turkey under unfavourable auspices , which would deprive them for the future of all stability , and must inevitably produce a fresh and signal breach . Even now , further concessions with regard to the expressions of the JNote would be of no use , for we see by your despatch that the Ottoman Government is only waiting for our consent to the alterations made in the Vienna Note to make its si gnature , as well as its sending off an Ambassador to convey the latter hither , dependent on fresh conditions , and that it has already made inadmissible proposals with respect to the evacuation of the Principalities . As regards the latter point , we can only refer to the assurances and declarations contained in our despatch of the 10 th of August , and repeat , that the arrival of the Turkish Ambassador , bearing the Austrian Note without alterations , will suffice at St . Petersburg for the orders to be issued to our troops to retire over the frontier . "
Untitled Article
COUNT NESSELRODE S . INTERPBETATION OP THE VIENNA NOTE AND MODIFICATIONS . The Zeit of Berlin publishes a German version of Count Nesselrode's second despatch to M . Meyendorff . The following is a translation of the document , which was originally written in French ; and has therefore gone through two translations : —• " EXAMINATION OF TJIE THttEE MODIFICATIONS WHICH THE OTTOMAN POUTE 1 IAS INTUODUCBD INTO TUB AUSTRIAN NOTE . " 1 st ; . Tho projc . t of Vienna declares , ' If at all times tho Emperors of Russia have borne witness to their active solicitude for the maintenance of the nrivilcjrea and
immunities of the orthodox Greek Church in the Ottoman Empire , the Sultans have never refused to consecrate them again by solemn acts . ' This passage has been modified as follows : — ' If at all times tho Emperors of Russia havo borne witness to their active solicitude for the worship of the orthodox Greek Church , the Sultans have-never ceased to watch over tho maintenance of tho immunities and privileges of that worship and of that Church in . thoOttomon Empire , and to consecrate thorn again •' "These words , 'in the Ottoman Empire , ' and these . &c
the maintenance of tho immunities and privileges , , are suppressed in order to bo placed below , and to bo ftpplied exclusively to tho Sultans . This suppression takes away tho whole ' signification , and even tho entire flenso 01 tho mutilated passago ; for nobody denies to tho tf ° j ' roign . s of Russia their active solicitude for tho faith wJncn i . hey profosn themselves , and which in that of their miojects . That which it was wished not to recognise is , l' »^ at all Union Russia ban shown an uotivo nolk'itudo lor !¦• co-religionists in Turkey , and for tho maintenance their religious franchise , and that tho government w nsolved to adhoro to that nolioitude , and to preserve ni «»
privileges intact ; . " Tho turn given to tho phrase in so much the moro " ^ acceptable , because , by tho expressions which follow ' , ' in attributed to tho Sultann more than solicitude »•» y orhodox worship . It in allirmed that they J . lttV 0 J ^ j , ^ conned to watch over tho maintenanco of those imni ^ ^ and privileges , and to confirm them by nolomii aow- _ faoln are diametrically contrary to what in hero aim ^ and , considering what has taken p lace more ' j '' w ( , lately , and especially in tiio affair of the Holy'i " » ' iM > tf are forced to nook a remedy for them by requiring positive guarantor for the future . Oftow fln " . If we consent to acknowledge that i ^ _ ,,, ' j » tc-( Jovernmont ban never conned to watch over » j ^ ,,, tlul
nanco of the privilogen of tho Brook ( . ' j ''' i ,, Ht , it ? becomes of tho oomplaintn which wo ' havo 1 > ftlfl ' V" ™ . jv > We should be oui-hoIvoh admitting by it ! : l mt T' HOhilfoif substantial wrongs , that tho minnion ofJ'rineo J w jiioli wan without , motive , and , in iv word , that the X haw boon addressed to uo ifl itself muporiluoufl .
Untitled Article
916 THE LEADER . [ SATtrKPAY
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1853, page 916, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2005/page/4/
-