The preparations for war on the part of England and
France have not been without their effect. METTERNICH has taken the alarm, and has caused the following official article to be inserted in the German Papers, and forwarded by express to all the Courts in Europe. It is dated " Vienna, December 30th."
" The Oriental question had lately assumed a direction which tended to em- barrass still more the affairs of Europe, and endanger the peace which had been so carefully maintained. The treaty of the Porte with Russia had already ex- cited the apprehensions of England, whose policy is constantly guided by its commercial interests ; and France, which, since the Revolution of July, has taken so much pains to recover a part at least of the influence it formerly exer- cised in Foreign policy, was deprived by this treaty (which gave to Russia alone the protection of the Porte against domestic and foreign enemies) of that in- fluence at Constantinople which it hail gained by the energetic conduct of Ad- miral Roussiu. Hence the coldness which has latterly taken place between Russia on one side and France and England on the other. Hence the press in Paris, and still more in London, expressed itself with bitterness against Russia, in the journals which are known to be the organs of the Ministry. Tending to the same object, armaments took place iu the sea-ports of France and England, to reinforce their thvts, as a counterpoise to the extraordinary activity that was observed at Odessa, Sebastopol, &c. Like an avalanche, which increases in its fill, the first armaments led to greater ones ; and when the Powers, fully pre- pared for combat, arc opposed to each other, the course of negotiation becomes more difficult. In order to avert such a conflict, which is, indeed, remote, the Austrian Cabinet, whose powerful voice has been so effectually raised in the late times of agitation to preserve the existing relations and general peace, has applied to the Russian Court, with which, since the negotiations at Munchen- gratz, it has been on terms of confidential friendship, which call to mind the period of the deliverance from the domination of Napoleon,. and has received from that Court the most satisfactory assurances on this head. In consequence of this discussion, a treaty is said to have been concluded between the two Courts, by which ' the two Governments have guaranteed the continued existence of the Turkish Empire, even in case of the extinction of the reiguing dynasty, and to the exclusion of Mehemet Ali.' " To this article is appended a note, which states that Sir FREDE- RICK LAMB, when informed of the treaty, expressed his cordial approbation of it. If Sir FREDERICK is such a simpleton as to be wheedled by Prince METTERNICH into the belief' that this is a bond fide trans- action on the part of the Emperors of Russia and Austria, he
should be recalled- forthwith. But it is qui that this shallow trick should deceive any one,‘ Oland was preceded by such treaties as then- • 303d 3yers . the
Courier in thinking the whole affair ; - di- plomatic ruse as we ever heard of." secw.-st‘t _
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