The presence of M.Mazzini in England is now, at last, 
confirmed by a quasi-official announcement in a London paper 
connected with him. 

The trial of the Messrs. Hale, on account of the ‘ ‘gunpowder- 
plot,”* will not be brought before the present assizes, but will take 
place in August next, the Coalition Government being anxious to 
let time and oblivion interpose between its “discoveries” and the 
judicial discussion of their value. 

Count Karnicky, the Austrian Chargé d’Affaires at Berne, 
received orders from his Government, on the 21st inst., to quit his 
post immediately, and return to Vienna, after notifying the 
President of the Helvetic Confederation” of the rupture of 
diplomatic relations between Austria and Switzerland. The Bund, 
of the 23d, states, however, that the Austrian Envoy had already 
previously received permission to take a discretionary congé when 
he should think proper. The ultimatum of Count Karnicky is 
declared by the same journal to be the answer of Austria to the 
note of the Bundesrath,‘ of May 4. That the ultimatum contained 
something beside a mere answer, may be inferred from the fact, 
that the Bundesrath has just called upon the Fribourg Govern- 
ment to account for their “extreme” measures recently taken 
against the defeated rebels. The English journals publish the 
following dispatch from Berne, dated May 23: 

“In consequence of the notification made by the Austrian Chargé d’Affaires to 
the President of the Helvetic Confederation of the rupture of diplomatic relations 

between Austria and Switzerland, the Federal Council has decided on putting an 
immediate end to the functions of the Swiss Envoy at Vienna.” 

The substance of this dispatch is, however, refuted by the 
following article in La Suisse, dated May 23: 

“We are about in the same situation as Piedmont.** The negotiations between 
the two countries are interrupted.... The Austrian Legation remains at Berne for 
the disposal of the ordinary current of business. The Bund says that the recall of 
the Swiss Chargé d’Affaires at Vienna was desirable, since he drily managed there 
his own affairs on pretext of transacting those of the nation, for he was merely 
engaged in the silk trade. Mr. Steiger is but a diplomatist of the second-hand 
order, and we happen to know that he understands a great deal more about silk- 
worms than about his official business. There was, then, no necessity for recalling 
such a diplomatist, since he had never been commissioned, but was already at 
Vienna on his own account.’ * 

Let nobody imagine, therefore, that the Swiss are recalling to 
their memory the celebrated motto with which Loustallot adorned, 
in 1789, his Révolutions de Paris: 

Les grands ne sont pas grands, 
Que parce que nous sommes a genoux. 
—Levons nous! 

The mystery of the Swiss courage is sufficiently explained by the 
presence of the Duke of Genoa‘ at Paris, and that of the King of 
Belgium? in Vienna and perhaps no less by an article in the 
French Moniteur of May 25th. 

“No other nation must ever interpose between France and Switzerland; all other 
considerations must subside before this fundamental condition.” 

The hopes of the Prussian King* for the recovery of Neuchatel, 
thus obtain no great encouragement. A rumor prevails, even of the 
formation of a French corps d’observation on the frontiers of 
Switzerland. Louis Napoleon, of course, would be but too glad of 
having an opportunity to revenge himself on the Emperors of Russia 
and Austria, and the Kings of Prussia and Belgium, for the contempt 
and ridicule with which they have loaded him during the latter 
months.” 

*“ La Suisse, No. 120, May 24, 1853.— Ed. 

The intelligence I transmitted to you in my last? of the rejection 
of the Russian ultimatum and of the formation of an anti-Russian 
Ministry at Constantinople has since been fully confirmed. The 
most recent dispatches are from Constantinople, of May 17. 

“On assuming office, Reshid Pasha requested from Prince Menchikoff a delay 
of six days. Menchikoff refused, declaring diplomatic relations broken off, and 
adding that he would remain at Constantinople three days more, to make the 
necessary preparations for his departure, and he exhorted the Porte to reflection 
and to profit by the short time he should be detained.” 

Under date of Constantinople, May 19, we further learn: 

“On the 17th, a meeting of the Divan was held, at the issue of which it was 
definitively resolved that the convention, as proposed by Prince Menchikoff, could 
not be accepted. Nevertheless, on this being notified to Prince Menchikoff, he did 
not quit Constantinople. On the contrary, he has opened new communications with 
Reshid Pasha. The day of the departure of the Russian Embassy is no longer fixed.” 

Contradictorily to the latter dispatch, the French Government 
evening organ, La Patrie, positively announces that the Govern- 
ment has received intelligence that Prince Menchikoff has taken 
his departure for Odessa, and that the occurrence had occasioned 
but little sensation at Constantinople. The Pays agrees with this 
statement, but is contradicted by the Presse.” Girardin adds, 
however, that if the news was correct, it might easily be accounted 
for. 

“If Prince Menchikoff really departed from Bujukdere for Odessa, the fact is 

that, having failed in his mission (manqué son effet), no alternative was left to him 
but to withdraw, from station to station.” 

Some papers assert that the fleet of Admiral Delasusse has 
passed the Dardanelles, and is now at anchor in the Golden Horn, 
but this assertion is contradicted by The Morning Post. The Triester 
Zeitung assures its readers that, before giving an answer to Prince 
Menchikoff, the Porte had asked Lord Redcliffe and M. De la 
Cour whether it could eventually count upon their support. To 
this The Times gives its solemn contradiction. 

I now give you a literal translation from the Paris Svecle, 
containing some curious details with respect to the negotiations 
from May 5 to 12th at Constantinople—an exposure of the 
ridiculous behaviour of Prince Menchikoff, who, in the whole of 
this transaction, has combined in a most disgusting style, Northern 

barbarity with Byzantine duplicity, and has succeeded in making 
Russia the laughing-stock of Europe. This “Grec du Bas-Empire”* 
presumed to conquer the sovereignty over a whole empire by 
mere theatrical performances. For Russia there remains no step 
from the sublime to the ridicule—a ridicule which can only be 
wiped out by blood. But these days of stockjobbing moneyocracy 
are not the days of chivalrous tournaments. The article in the 
Siécle> runs thus: — 

“On Thursday, the 5th of May, the day of departure of the French 
steam-packet, the Sublime Porte communicated copies of the firman resolving the 
question of the Holy Places to M. De la Cour and Prince Menchikoff. The day 
passed away without any declamation, without any démarche on the part of Prince 
Menchikoff, and all the ambassadors, thinking that question to be settled, profited 
by the departure of the French steamer, for the announcement of the happy turn 
of affairs to their respective governments. Prince Menchikoff, however, who had 
just accepted the firman respecting the Holy Places, dispatched, as soon as 
midnight had arrived, a common cavas, i.e. a gens’-d’arme, to the Minister of 
Foreign Affairs,° with an ultimatum in which he demanded a sened (treaty) 
containing the solution of the Holy Shrines’ question and the future guaranty of 
the privileges and immunities of the Greek Church, i.e. the most extensive 
protectorate of that Church for the benefit of Russia, such as would establish two 
distinct Emperors in Turkey—the Sultan for the Mussulmans, and the Czar for the 
Christians. For answering this ultimatum, the Prince allowed only four days to the 
Porte, requiring, besides, an immediate acknowledgment of the receipt of his 
ultimatum by a government officer. The Minister of Foreign Affairs returned him 
a kind of receipt by his aga, an inferior officer of the gendarmery. The Prince 
dispatched a steamer for Odessa in the course of the same night. On Friday, 6th, 
the Sultan,° having been informed of the presentation of the ultimatum by such an 
unusual proceeding, called together the Divan, and gave official notice to Lord 
Redcliffe and M. De la Cour of what had happened. Those two ambassadors 
immediately concerted measures for a common policy, advising the Porte to reject 
the ultimatum with the greatest moderation in language and terms. M. De la Cour, 
besides, is said to have most formally declared that France should oppose every 
Convention infringing the rights secured to her by the treaty of 1740, respecting 
the Holv Places. Prince Menchikoff, in the meantime, had retired to Bujukdere 
(like Achilles to his tent). Mr. Canning, on the 9th, there requested an interview 
with the Prince with a view of engaging him to a more moderate conduct. Refused. 
On the 10th the Ministers of War and of Foreign Affairs, were at the Grand 
Vizir’s, who had invited Prince Menchikoff to join him there for the purpose of 
attempting to arrive at a reasonable arrangement. Refused. Nevertheless, Prince 
Menchikoff had intimated to the Porte that he was inclined to grant a further delay 
of three davs. Then, however, the Sultan and his Ministers replied, that their 

timatum Russe”, Le Siécle, May 26, 1853.— Ed. 

resolutions were taken and that time would not modify them. This negative answer 
of the Porte was sent toward midnight on the 10th, to Bujukdere, where the whole 
of the Russian Embassy was collected, and where demonstrations for an 
approaching departure had been made for several days past. The Turkish 
Ministry, informed of this circumstance, was just about to yield, when the Sultan 
dismissed it and formed a new Administration.” 

I conclude my report on Turkish affairs by an excerpt from the 
Constitutionnel, showing the conduct of the Greek clergy during all 
these transactions. 

“The Greek clergy, so deeply interested in this question, had pronounced in 
favor of the status quo, i.e., in favor of the Porte. They are protesting en masse 
against the protectorate threatened to be imposed on them by the Emperor of 
Russia.” Generally speaking, the Greeks desire the support of Russia, but only on 
condition of not being subject to her direct domination. It is repulsive to their 
minds to think that the Oriental Church, which is the mother of the Russian 
Church, should ever become subordinate to the latter, a thing which of necessity 
would happen, if the designs of the Petersburg Cabinet should be accepted.”” 

Written on May 27, 1853 Reproduced from the New-York 

Tribune, No. 3791, June 10, 1853; re-