London has ceased to be cabless. Cabby parted with his system 
of passive resistance on Saturday last. Meanwhile Parliament 
continues to break down its great act of the session, removing step 
by step every casus belli between Cabby and the House of 
Commons. 

The India bill has passed on Friday through its last stage, after 
the Ministerial propositions for raising the Directors’ and Chair- 
men’s salaries had been rejected, and the latter reduced to £900 
and £1,000 respectively. The Special Court of East India 
Proprietors which met on Friday last, offered a most lugubrious 
‘spectacle, the desponding cries and speeches clearly betraying the 
apprehensions of the worthy proprietors, that the Indian Empire 
might have been their property for the better time. One right 
honorable gentleman gave notice of his intention to move 
resolutions in the House of Commons rejecting the present bill, 
and on the part of the Proprietors and Directors declining to 
accept the part assigned to them by the Ministerial measure. A 
strike of the honorable East India Proprietors and Directors. Very 
striking, indeed! The Abolition of the Company’s Salt-monopoly 
by the British House of Commons was the first step to bringing 
the finances of India under its direct management. 

The Naval Coast-Volunteers’ bill passed through Committee in 
yesterday’s sitting. The object of this measure is to form a body of 
10,000 men, to be trained during four weeks annually for the 
defense of the British Coasts. They are to receive a bounty of £6, 
as in the case of the militia. Their service is to be limited to five 
years in times of peace, and to six in time of danger. When called 
out, they will receive the pay of able seamen, with an additional 

two-pence per day during the last year. The men are not to be 
taken more than fifty leagues from the coasts in time of peace, 
and 100 in time of danger. 

The Irish Landlords’ and Tenants’ bill'™ likewise passed through 
the third reading yesterday night. One important amendment in 
favor of the Tenants was added, viz.: the prohibition of Landlords to 
seize and sell the standing crops of a Tenant. 

Mr. Cobden has published a pamphlet on the origin of the 
Burmese war. 

So great are the fears of a deficient harvest in France, that the 
Government of Louis Bonaparte has treated with the Syndicate of 
the Paris bakers for a slight reduction in the prices of bread 
during the first half of August, notwithstanding the steady rise in 
flour at the Halle aux blés* The bakers are to be indemnified by a 
subsequent augmentation of prices. 

“This,” says The Economist, “is a conspiracy on the part of the French 
Government t© cheat the people into a belief that the crops are not short, when 
they are.”? 

Day after day the columns of the Press are inundated with 
conflicting dispatches on the Eastern affairs, manufactured in 
Vienna and Berlin, partly by Russian agents, in order to deceive 
the French and British public as to the operations of Russia, and 
partly on orders sent expressly from Paris, for stockjobbing 
purposes. A declaration contained in to-day’s Morning Post would 
command consideration were it not that the Palmerstonian organ 
had quite abused such threats, which it only proffered one day in 
order to take them in again the day after. 

“By the 10th of August the whole matter will be terminated peaceably, or the 
combined fleets will be commanded to proceed to the Bosphorus, or perhaps to the 
Black Sea. Active measures will succeed patient negotiation, and the dread of 
danger will no longer prevent the strong means which may ensure safety. [...] If 
the Czar accept the proposal now made, [...] the first condition will be the immediate 
evacuation of the [...J Principalities.” 

The Morning Post then asserts, that on the 24th ult. the 
representatives of England, France, Austria and Prussia‘ convened 
on the terms of an ultimatum immediately forwarded to St. 
Petersburg.’ This assertion, however, is contradictory to the late 

declarations of Lord Clarendon and Lord John Russell, who spoke 
only of a joint note of France and England, and is altogether 
ignored by the French Press. Yet, be this as it may, it indicates at 
least, that the Palmerston party in the Cabinet has handed an 
ultimatum to the good Aberdeen, which the latter is to answer on 
the 10th of August. 

As though we had not yet enough of conferences at Vienna and 
Constantinople, we learn from the National-Zeitung, that other 
conferences are now to sit at Berlin too. The Emperor of Russia, 
to provide these conferences with the required “stuff,” has 
complacently declared, that, with all his willingness, to renounce 
the occupation of the Principalities as the material guaranty for his 
religious associations, he would now be obliged to hold them as a 
guaranty for the indemnification for his present expenses of 
occupying them. While Prince Gorchakoff announced in his 
proclamations that Russia pledged herself to abstain from all 
interference with the constituted authorities of the Principalities, 
the Czar issues a decree forbidding the Hospodars of Moldavia 
and Wallachia* to»pay any tribute to, or to hold any communica- 
tion with, the Government of Turkey. In consequence of this 
notification the Hospodar of Wallachia informed the Russian 
Consul at Bucharest, that he had already sent his tribute money to 
the Sultan,” to which the Consul replied: c’est de Uargent perdu,‘ as the 
Hospodar would have to pay it again to Russia. 

The Patrie of yesterday communicates the fact that three of the 
most influential Boyars of Moldavia had left Jassy for Petersburg, 
with the especial consent of the Hospodar, in order to remonstrate 
with the Czar on the conduct of the Russian soldiers, who, in 
violation of the solemn promise given to the Porte, treated the 
Danubian Provinces as a conquered country, and committed 
numberless extortions therein. The Russians can certainly not be 
accused of seeking to make propaganda by making themselves 
popular in the Principalities. 

Russia continues its armaments with the same ostentation as 
before. The Hamburger Nachrichten publishes the following Imperi- 
al manifesto, dated Petersburg, 23d July: 

“By the Grace of God, we, Nicholas I, by our manifesto of August Ist (13th), 

1834, have ordered that every year levies shall take place in certain parts of our 
Empire: to-day we order: 

1. For completing our forces, maritime as well as land, the tenth partial 
recrutement shall take place in the Eastern part of our Empire, at the rate of 7 men 
in every 1,000, the same as the recruitment which took place in 1852 in the 
Western portion of the Empire. 

2. Besides, a levy of 3 in every 1,000 shall take place in the Eastern Provinces of 
our Empire as completing the proportion of 6 in every 1,000, of which only one 
half had been levied by the previous recruitment. 

3. To the Districts of Pskov, Vitebsk, and Mogilev, which had been exempted in 
virtue of our manifesto of 31st Oct., 1845, and of 26th Sept., 1846, on account of 
the bad harvest, the recruitment for 1853 shall be proceeded with at the rate of 3 
in every 1,000. With regard to the Jews in the Districts of Vitebsk and Mogilev, the 
recruitment among them shall take place the same as in the other Districts, at the 
rate of 10 in every 1,000. 

4. The levy shall begin on 1st November and be completed on Ist December. 

Given at St. Petersburg. Nicholas I.” 

The manifesto is followed by two ukases, regulating the details 
of this new and extraordinary levy. Beside the above-mentioned 
districts, there shall take place, according to a second ukase, a 
recruitment among the odnodworzes' and inhabitants of towns 
in the districts of Kiev, Podolia, Volhynia, Minsk, Grodno, Wilno 
and Kovno. . 

The Hamburger correspondent reports as follows: 

“The armaments in the interior of the Empire continue without interruption. 
The reserve battalions of the 4th infantry corps are being concentrated near Tula. 
We learn from an order of the day that the guards and grenadiers still occupy 
their positions in the camps near Krasnoe Selo, and near Pudost, not far from 

Gatchina. The field-maneuvers of these two corps, amounting to 100,000 men, 
continue. 

The Post Zeitung of Stockholm, of July 16, announces that the 
Emperor of Russia had given orders for the arming and fitting 
out of the Baltic fleet, composed of 20 vessels of the line, and of 
15 frigates. The Kolnische Zeitung of 29th July, states: 

“The return of the Danish-Swedish fleet before the term fixed for its evolutions 

has taken place, in consequence of an order received by the commander to 
immediately repair to the Baltic.” 

Both the French journals and The Morning Chronicle, of to-day, 
contain a telegraphic dispatch from Vienna of the 3d of July, 
stating that America had offered the Porte money and active 
assistance. 

Kélnische Zeitung, July 31, 1853.— Ed. 

The impression produced on the Continental mind, by the 
threatening attitude of Russia, combined with the threatening 
prospect of the harvests, is most significantly reflected in the 
following words of The Economist: 

“The Czar has awakened into life and hope the revolutionary spirit of Europe, 
and we read of plots in Austria, plots in Italy, and plots in France; and there 

begins to be more alarm lest there should be fresh revolutionary disturbances, than 
that governments should go to war.” * 

A well informed Danish gentleman, who has very recently 
arrived here from fear of the cholera now raging in Copenhagen 
to such an extent that already 4,000 persons have been attacked 
with it, and that no less than 15,000 applications for passports to 
leave the Danish capital have been made, informs me that the 
Royal message concerning the succession was chiefly carried 
through the abstention from voting of a great number of 
Eydermen,'”’ who had hoped to avoid a crisis by their passive 
attitude. The crisis which they apprehended, however, has come 
upon them in the shape of the octroyed Constitution, and that 
Constitution is aimed especially against the “peasant’s 
friends” '**—party by whose support the Danish Crown has 
achieved its previous triumphs in the succession question. As I 
propose to recur to this subject in a special letter,” I will merely 
observe here, that the Danish Government has laid before the 
United Diet (the Landsting and the Folketing together), the 
notes exchanged with the Great Powers on the subject of its 
propositions. 

Of these documents the most interesting pieces are especially at 
this moment, the note of England and the note of Russia. The 
“silent” Clarendon not only approves of the Royal message, but 
distinctly hints to the Danish Government that it could not go on 
with the old Democratic Constitution, with Universal Suffrage, and 
with no House of Lords. The silent Clarendon therefore has taken 
the initiative, for the interests of Russia, to recommend and 
provoke the Danish coup d’état. The Russian note, addressed by 
Count Nesselrode to Baron Ungern-Sternberg, after having 
reviewed the articles of the Treaty of London, dated 8th of May, 
1852,'" concludes as follows: 

“The treaty of the 8th of May does not formally prescribe that the Lex Regia 200 
should be canceled; because such a disposition would not have been opportune in a 

treaty concluded between independent States. It would have been contrary to 
diplomatic usage, and still more to the respect due to the sovereign dignity of the 

“ “The Eastern Question”, The Economist, No. 518, July 30, 1853.— Ed. 

Danish crown. But the Powers in giving their assent to a retrocession destined to 
supplant the arrangements of the Lex Regia, where the necessity of employing it 
would occur, in promising their support, have naturally been obliged to leave to his 
Majesty the King of Denmark* the choice of the means adequate toward realizing 
the object by way of legislating. His Majesty, by making use of his Royal 
prerogative, has manifested his intention of establishing an order of succession, for 
all the States subject to his rule, by which, in case of the male descendants of 
Frederick IIIf becoming extinct, all claims arising from Articles 27 and 40 of the 
Lex Regia should be excluded, and Prince Christian of Glicksburg called upon the 
throne with a view of securing the Danish crown to him and his male descendants 
by his marriage with Princess Louise of Hesse. Such are the stipulations of the 
Royal Message of October 4, 1852. They express the views which, at least on the 
part of the Imperial Government, have served as the foundation of the present 
negotiations. They form in the eyes of the Imperial Cabinet, a whole and cannot be 
retrenched; for, it appears to us that the abrogation of Articles 27 and 40 of the 
Lex Regia is a necessary consequence and a condition sine qua not only of the 
stipulations which called Prince Christian of Gliicksburg and his descendants to the 
throne, but also of the principle established in the preambulum of the treaty; that a 
contingency by which the male descendants should be called to the succession of 
the throne, in the totality of the States now subjected to the sovereignty of 
Denmark, was the safest means for securing the integrity of that monarchy.... They 
declare in Article II of the treaty that they recognize in a permanent manner the 
principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy.... They have promptly made 
known their intention of preventing, combinedly, the return of the complications 
which have signaled in so unfortunate a manner the course of the last year... . The 
extinction of the male line of Prince Christian of Gliicksburg would revive, without 
contradiction, the eventual claims which His Majesty the Emperor has renounced ? 
in favor of that Prince. The initiative, however, expressly reserved to the King of 
Denmark, as well as the cooperation of the three Great Powers, in the aforesaid 
contingencies, when they shall happen, offer henceforth a guarantee to the Danish 
patriots against the ambitious plans and designs existing nowhere except in their 
own imagination.” 

Thus Russia gives to understand, that the temporary suppres- 
sion of the Lex Regia as agreed upon in the protocol of the 8th 
May must be interpreted as a permanent one, that the permanent 
resignation of the Emperor of Russia is only a temporary one, but 
that the Danish patriots may henceforth repose on the protection 
of their country’s integrity by the European Powers. Do they not 
witness how the integrity of Turkey has been protected since the 
treaty of 1841? 

Written on August 2, 1853 Reproduced from the newspaper 
Tribune, No. 3847, August 16, 1853 

Signed: Karl Marx