A further light has been thrown upon the animus of
Russia by the circular which she has addressed to foreign Governments on the subject of the Conferences at Vienna. The paper is signed by Count Nesselrode, and professes to give a summary of the proceed- ings of the Plenipotentiaries. It differs from the protocols, which were drawn up with great ability—concise, distinct, and appa- rently impartial. A test of their impartiality was supplied in the fact that they are signed by all the Plenipotentiaries, the two Russian Ministers included. Nevertheless, Russia thinks it ne- cessary or politic to give a totally different account—a Russianized version of the discussions and proceedings.
take advantage of the aid furnished by Peace or Tory auxiliaries. business on Monday, eager, as it seemed, to discuss Mr. Gibson's resolu- It is stated that when the Plenipotentiaries referred home for in- tions on the proceedings at the Vienna Conference.
The grand object is to make it appear that Russia has conceded, or rather acquired, all that was desirable for the interests of Ger- many, of the Principalities, and of the Porte ; and that the pro- positions which she offered to the Conference were better than those proposed by the Western Powers. We have shown re- peatedly that they amounted to nothing—were not only the status qua ante helium, but the status de facto, giving no immunity, no guarantee, that does not exist at this moment. Nevertheless, the words put together in this Russian paper are sufficiently skilful and plausible to deceive the unwary and uninitiated. If all the world were Moses Primrose, Russia would be a viotorious Senkinson. Thus, the result of the proceedings on the four points is summed up in a representation, on the first, that Russia has secured the local immunities and " prosperity" of the Princi- palities ; on the second, that she has given the Danube " to the free trade of all nations " ; on the third, that she was stopped only by the impossibility of sacrificing the national honour of Russia; and on the fourth—" a question touching religious liberty, civilization, and social order throughout Christendom "— that she was willing to place stipulations in the very front of a new treaty, but that the Western Powers refused to consider that Tuesday question of religious interest before the navigation of the Danube. Oh .(m) 12h 45m Some interesting matters of foot are, perhaps unintentionally, 7:=1,"' " 5h '76 3Ont Thursday 4h .(m) 1h 45m divulged in this cunning composition. An allusion to the proceed- Friday is .(m) 12h 45m Friday 4h . (m) Sh 15m lugs in England, as showing "the purpose that lurked behind the Sittings this Wek,
words of the English Plenipotentiaries," lets us know that Russia watches what we do at home, and can know, therefore, how to
their original instructions; a sutTicient evidence that the eighteen days' delay was nothing but a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. If, therefore, Russiaperseveres in the refusal of peace, determined to brave her fate in the field, she also perseveres in the arts of her widely-spread agency.
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