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SATURDAY.
The Tenses continues those public services which Lord Derby would have arrested, by contributing a timely and interesting addition to the brief statement in the Mani/ear' that on the failure of the secret and con- fidential proposals addressed to England, the Emperor Nicholas addressed similar proposals to France, with a similar result. The Times intimates, that Nicholas included in the scheme, not only the dismemberment of the Turkish empire, but the aggrandizement of France by the annexation of the Rhine provinces. This is the man who, just before, grossly disparaging France, was offering to buy a special alliance with England by giving her Egypt and Candial—the man, too, who has so long been regarded as the grand conservator of Europe, the bolder of the balance, the sustainer of order, the resister of all change ! In these communications the Autocrat did not figure in person, but the propositions were communicated in con- versation by M. de Kisseleff, the Russian Minister in Paris' to the Emperor of the French. It is to the forbearance of France that the temporizing Ring of Prussia owes his safety.
There is no reason to attach credit to the report that a separate offensive and defensive alliance has been concluded between Prussia and Aus-
tria. The King of Prussia has just sent a confidential envoy, General Lindheim, to St. Petersburg.
A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, via Paris, states that, on Thursday. an English courier passed through Berlin "bearing to his Government the refusal of Russia to accede to the summons of the Western Powers." On the other hand, it is stated that Count Nesselrode has officially announ- ced that the Emperor will give no answer to the summons.
Russia is said to have acknowledged the neutrality of Sweden.
The Duke of Cambridge left London yesterday, for Paris, on his way to Constantinople. He will be a guest of the Emperor while in the French capital. General Brown has also departed for the East.
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