Among the arrests recently. made at Paris, the most important is 
that of M. Delescluze, private Secretary to M. Ledru-Rollin. He had 
been sent to Paris on a secret mission, and compromising papers, 
as is stated, have been seized upon him. One cannot understand 
M. Ledru-Rollin’s trusting to a man who has never cleared himself 
from the suspicion of having betrayed in 1848 the Belgian Legion 
in the famous affair of Risquons-Tout.*” 

At Copenhagen the consummation of the coup d’état seems 
imminent, as the Ministry will not yield, and as the Folketing has 
pronounced against the abolition of the existing Constitution, 
unless the Government submit to them its own project of a 
Constitution for the whole Danish monarchy. The two separate 
projects for the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein have ap- 
peared. They are poor imitations of the constitutions of the old 
Prussian Provincial Diets, distributing the representation among 
the several “orders,” making the right of election dependent on 
the holding of landed property, and limiting its exercise by the 
condition of “domicile” in the respective electoral districts. The 
most remarkable paragraphs in these constitutions are two, one of 
which deprives the courts of law of their ancient right of canceling 
administrative decrees, and the other excluding all individuals 
from the right of voting who compromised themselves in the 
revolutionary struggle from 1848-50, whether they have since 
been amnestied or not. 

I told you in my last letter that the Austrian decree reducing the 
army was intended merely to entrap the money-lenders*; and now 

that all chance of obtaining a loan has vanished—now that the 
Government declare they never intended to contract any loan— 
now that they have entered upon a fresh emission of paper, we 
are informed that 

“no arrangements are being made for carrying into execution the Imperial 
decree relative to the reduction of the army, and that, on the contrary, the generals 
who command in Lombardy, Hungary, and Croatia, have, all of them, demanded 
reenforcements on account of the state of the public mind in those countries.” * 

A Paris correspondent writes as follows to The Morning Post with 
reference to the proceedings of the Emperor of Russia during his 
late visits to Olmutz and Berlin: 

“The Czar’s? chief object was to make a new alliance between the Northern 
Powers.... To overcome the resistance of Prussia he used every argument—I may 
say every bribe; for he offered, in the event of his advancing into and holding 
Turkish territory, to yield the occupation of Warsaw and the military dominion of 
Poland to Prussia.” © 

As to the reported successes of the Russians over Shamy]l, letters 
have arrived at Paris which show them to be nothing but 
inventions, no engagement of any description having taken place 
in the Caucasus since the month of May, when the victory at 
Mendoh was gained by Shamyl, and the Russians were driven back 
from their attempts upon Malka. 

“We quite understand the popularity of a war with Russia on behalf of the 
Poles or the Hungarians, even if there was no ground of our interference except 
political sympathy.... We do not understand a war on behalf of the Turk.” 

Thus wrote The Times on Oct. 12. A week later we are told by 
the same paper: 

“The first collision between British and Russian armies would be a signal of 
revolution all over the Continent, and we think it by no means unlikely, nor, 
indeed, altogether objectionable, that such a consideration may have occasionally 
passed through the minds of our aristocratic, plutocratic, [...] despotic, and 
anything but democratic rulers.... We are deliberately to go to war with Russia, in 
defense of the Turkish nominal sovereignty over certain really independent 
provinces, because by so doing we shall provoke a rebellion in the Austrian 
Empire.”¢ 

“ The Morning Post, October 19, 1853.— Ed. 

“ The Times, No. 21563, October 19, 1853.— Ed. 

One day England is not to go to war with Russia, because by so 
doing it would defend the Turks, instead of the Poles and 
Hungarians; and the next day because any war in behalf of 
Turkey would be simultaneously a war in behalf of the Poles and 
the Hungarians. 

The Vienna Presse states that Abd-el-Kader has been asked by 
the Sultan to accept a military command in the case of a war with 
Russia. The negotiations were managed by the Sheikh-ul-Islam,* 
and the Emir declared his willingness to enter the service of 
Turkey on the condition that the advice of Bonaparte was 
previously asked. The command destined for him was that of the 
Asiatic army. 

Written on October 21, 1853 Reproduced from the New-York 
Tribune, No. 3917, November 5, 1853;