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A Congress at Vienna—The Austrian Loan- 
Proclamations of Dulce and O'Donnell— 
The Ministerial Crisis in Britain 

New-York Daily Tribune. 

Nr.4147, 3. August 1854 

From Our Own Correspondent. 

London, Tuesday, July 18, 1854. 

There was a Congress at Vienna on July 13, composed of rather different 
elements than the late famous Conferences. Count Buoi, the Austrian Pre- 
mier, gave a dinner on that day, in honor of Prince Gorchakoff, the Russian 
Envoy, whose task it is to cover the position of Prince Gorchakoff, the 
General Commanding in the Principalities. Besides the personnel of the 
Russian Legation, there were present Count Flemming, the representative 
of Prussia during the absence of Count Arnim; Gen. Mansbach, Embassador 
of Sweden; Count Bille-Brahe, Embassador of Denmark; M. de Heeckeren, 
Embassador of Holland; M. de Wendtland, the expelled Secretary of the 
King of Greece; lastly, Count O'Sullivan de Grass, Minister of Belgium 
and the senior of the corps diplomatique. Here you have the complete list 
of the persons openly sailing under the Russian flag. Bamberg, of course, 
was strongly represented, but the names of its great men have not been 
given. 

The official English press cannot suppress the uneasiness felt atthe Aus- 
trian order for the suspension of Count Coronini's advance into Wallachia, 
and about the dispatches forwarded to Paris and London, according to which 
Russia proposes to accede to the terms of the Protocol of 9th April, as a basis 
for negotiations of peace, but subject to conditions. The semi-official Aus- 
trian Correspondence thinks that, although the Russian propositions are not 
quite satisfactory, there is really something in them which deserves to be 
taken into consideration by the western powers. The Times, Morning Chron- 
icle, and Observer suggest as a sort of consolation, that it is all the fault of 
Prussia. If anything were still wanting to reinforce the impression produced 
by the dinner, the altered position of the Russian troops would be sufficient 
to prove how much Russia relies on the intentions of Austria. We read in 
the Neue Preussische Zeitung, the Russian Moniteur at Berlin, with respect 
to the latest movements of the Russian troops in the Principalities: 

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"In consequence of an order of Prince Gorchakoff, all that had been 
ordered some days ago has been countermanded. The retreat of the garrison, 
(of Bucharest,) the evacuation of Bucharest had been ordered; General 
Dannenberg was to leave that town under a few days with the gens d’armene, 
and to establish the headquarters of the rear guard at Fokschani. Now, in 
conformity with the new orders, the line of Oltenitza, Bucharest, Buseo and 
Fokschani is to be maintained." 

From other sources we learn that the Russian cavalry are again pushing 
forward on Slatina, to the left of the Aluta. How serious was the intention 
of evacuating Bucharest is evident from the severe measures taken for 
carrying off the archives in that town, which are said to contain some docu- 
ments extremely compromising for the court of Peterhoff. 

All these apparently whimsical and contradictory movements of the 
Russians receive their explanation from the inopportune interference of the 
Turkish army with the diplomatic arrangements. As the successive settle- 
ments of the diplomatists at Vienna were blown up by the Turkish exploits 
at Oltenitza, Tshetate and Silistria, so also have their last shams been dis- 
persed by the general advance of Omer Pasha's army. 

"The policy of these crafty swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten 
dry cheese, Nestor—and that same old dog-fox, Ulysses—is not proved worth 
a blackberry; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim barbarism, and 
policy grows into an ill opinion." 

If you had passed through the streets of London on Saturday, you would 
have heard all the newsvenders shouting their "great Anglo-Turko-Gallo 
victory over the Russians at Giurgevo, and capture of Bucharest by'the allied 
troops." The reason of these pompous announcements you will learn by-and- 
by, when I come to speak of the new Ministerial crisis. As to the cooperation 
of the Anglo-French forces in the battle of Giurgevo, we know by the regular 
post from Varna, with dates down to the 4thinst., that "no move" had taken 
place in the camps. According to the latest Vienna advices, on July 13, the 
auxiliary troops were in full march upon Puistschuk by way of Shumla, and 
on the 8th a division of French troops had arrived at Rustschuk, and onthe 
9th only a division of English troops arrived there. Now the battle of Giur- 
gevo ended at 4 A.M. on the 8th, having commenced at an early hour on the 
7th, and after an interruption of some hours at noon, being resumed and 
continued until the morning of the 8th. Thus it is impossible that any French 
or English troops can have participated init. The Turks found eight Russian 
guns spiked, and immediately threw up intrenchments around Giurgevo. The 
town did not suffer, notwithstanding the shells thrown by the Turks from 
Rustschuk and the islands. After the retreat of the Russians, Omer Pasha 

issued a proclamation calling upon the inhabitants to remain tranquil, as no 

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further danger menaced their towns. Giurgevo was only occupiedby afeeble 
detachment of regulars, the principal force of the Turks being encamped 
around the town and on the three islands ofthe Danube. Omer Pasharemains 
at Giurgevo, Said Pasha at Rustschuk. The Turks are masters of the road 
communicating between Giurgevo and Oltenitza on the left bank of the 
Danube. 

With regard to a second battle, which is asserted to have been followed 
by the capture of Bucharest, the French Moniteur itself limits itto a small 
defeat inflicted by the Turks on the Russian rear at Frateschti, on the road 

from Giurgevo to Bucharest. The Moniteur adds, that an Anglo-French corps 1 o 

of 25,000 men has joined the Turks, that the allied forces concentrated 
amount to about 60,000 men, that Prince Gorchakoff is at the head of a force 
nearly equal in numbers, and that a great battle might be expected, decisive 
of the fate of Bucharest. Frateschti is a small fortified place, about twelve 
miles from Giurgevo and thirty miles from Bucharest. According to the 
Moniteur, the battle at this place was fought on the 11th, but according to 
the Journal des Débats, on the 14th inst. The Russians are said to have had 
700 wounded in this affair, including two generals. 

The last Marseilles steamer from Constantinople reports the capture of 
the Sulina mouth of the Danube by the English steamer Terrible. It is said 
to have entered the Roads, to have destroyed the Russian fortifications, 
dispersed the garrison and captured its commander. The news appears to 
me to require more positive confirmation. 

A rumor circulated by English journals, which is, however, not repeated 
by any French paper, pretends that Admiral Lyons is cruising before Anapa 
with a view to support an expedition of Admiral Bruat, who is said to have 
on board 7,000 men for landing. 

Letters from Constantinople state that the Porte shows a disposition, on 
the representations of the English and French Ministers, to resume im- 
mediately commercial relations with Greece on the following conditions: 
1. That Greece engage herself to pay at convenient terms the expenses of 
the war and an indemnity for the pillage organized by the late insurrection- 
ists; and 2. That she sign, within two months, the commercial treaty hitherto 
declined. This treaty acknowledges the actual limits of the Turkish and Greek 
territories. 

No news from the Baltic. The Hamburger Correspondent describes the 
result of the English marauding expedition on the Finnish coast, inits effects 
on the mind of the Finlanders, as follows: 

"It is confirmed that the Russian Government, assured since the burning 
of Brahestad and Uleaborg, upon the sentiments of the Finnish population 
along the two gulfs, has ordered arms to be distributed among the able-bodied 

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men, with a view of enabling them to resist all fresh attempts of disem- 
barkment of the English squadrons. The immediate creation of two battalions 
of Finnish riflemen, of 1,000 men each, has been sanctioned, and the re- 
cruitment is to take place in the districts of Abo, Vasa, and Uleaborg. A 
greater number of these battalions is successively to be formed inthe other 
provinces." 

The Austrian loan turns out [to] be a forced contribution, as I predicted. 
The whole is no w to be distributed on the different crown lands of the empire ; 
for instance, Upper Austria has to take 115,000,000 of florins, Lower Austria 

15,000,000, Vienna 2,500,000, Hungary 70,000,000, etc., in proportion. If the 
Emperor of Russia has not obtained anything for himself, he has at least 
contrived to plunge all the other governments into a serious quarrel with their 
subjects about the question of cash. The Prussians will have to pay an in- 
creased income tax onthe 1stof August. Bonaparte, too, is said to be project- 

ing another loan of 500,000,000, the effect of which on France will not be 

diminished by the present prospects of the wine and corn harvest, and the 
stagnation of trade, especially at Lyons since the outbreak in Spain. An 
appeal to the English pockets is also contemplated by the Coalition Ministry, 
and expected f pr next week. 

The Spanish insurrection appears to assume a new aspect, as is evident 
from the proclamations of Dulce and O'Donnell, the former of whom is a 
partizan of Espartero, and the latter was a stout adherent of Narvaez and 
perhaps secretly of Queen Christina. O'Donnell having convinced himself 
that the Spanish towns are not to be set in motion this time by a mere palace- 
revolution, suddenly exhibits liberal principles. His proclamation is dated 
from Manzanares, a borough of the Mancha, not far from Ciudad Real. It 
says that his aim is to preserve the throne, but to remove the Camarilla; the 
rigorous observation of the fundamental laws; the amelioration of the elec- 
tion and press laws; the diminution of taxes; the advancement in the civil 
service according to merit; decentralization, and establishment of a national 
militia on a broad basis. It proposes provincial juntas and a general 
assembly of Cortes at Madrid, to be charged with the revision of the laws. 
The proclamation of Gen. Dulce is even more energetic. He says: 

"There are no longer Progresistas and Moderados; all of us are Spaniards, 
and imitators of the men of July 7th, 1822. Returnto the Constitution of 1837; 
maintenance of Isabella II; perpetual exile of the Queen Mother; destitution 
of the present Ministry; reéstablishment of peace in our country; suchis the 
end we pursue at every cost, as we shall show on the field of honor to the 
traitors whom we shall punish for their culpable folly." 

According to the Journal des Débats, papers and correspondence have 
been seized at Madrid which are said to prove beyond doubt that it is the 

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secret aim of the insurgents to declare the throne vacant, to reunite the 
Iberian Peninsula into one State, and to offer the crown to Don Pedro V, 
Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The tender interest taken by The Times in the 
Spanish insurrection, and the simultaneous presence of the said Don Pedro 
in England, appears indeed to indicate that some new Coburg dodge is afloat. 
The Court is evidently very uneasy, as all possible ministerial combinations 
have been tried, Isturiz [and] Martinez de la Rosa having been applied to in 
vain. The Messager de Bayonne asserts that the Count de Montemolin left 
Naples as soon as he received news of the insurrection. 

O'Donnell has entered Andalusia, having crossed the Sierra Morena in 
three columns, one marching by Carolina, the other by Pozo Blanco, and the 
third by Despefiaperros. The Gaceta confesses that Colonel Buceta succeed- 
ed in surprising Cuenca, by the possession of which place the insurgents have 
secured their communications with Valencia. In the latter province the rising 
now comprises about four or five towns, besides Alcira where the Govern- 
ment troops received a severe check. 

It is stated also that amovement had broken out at Reus in Catalonia, and 
the Messager de Bayonne adds that disturbances had taken place in 

Aragon. "Aimes-tu le front, sevére, 
Du sa(i)ge Napoléon? 
Aimes-tu que l'Angleterre, 

T'oppose Lord Palmerston?" 

With this apostrophic song, the embarkation of the Frenchtroops at Calais 
has been celebrated. In order to really oppose Lord Palmerston to the Czar, 
immense movements have shaken the town from Saturday to Monday, with 
a view to put him in the place of the Duke of Newcastle. Great agitation has 
prevailed once more in the ministerial, as well as in the opposition camp. It 
was known that the estimates for the new ministry of war were to be laid 
before the House on Monday night, and this occasion was to be seized to 
make a murderous onslaught on the Coalition, and to place the invincible 
Palmerston in the War Ministry. 

"On Saturday a Cabinet Council was summoned before two o'clock. 
Ministers did not assemble until three. They then met with the exception of 
the Foreign Secretary, who was detained by an audience with the Queen. 
Lord Clarendon joined his colleagues at four. Their deliberations then lasted 
until half past six, and immediately upon the breaking up of the Council Lord 
Aberdeen proceeded to the palace of Her Majesty." 

You may see from this excited narrative of The Morning Herald how 
greatly the hopes of the Tories were raised by these "important" moves. Lord 
John Russell summoned his adherents to Whitehall for Monday, and Mr. Dis- 

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raeli, in his turn, assembled the Opposition members. One hundred and 
seventy-nine gentlemen presented themselves at Whitehall, almost in hys- 
terics with the anticipation of the great revelations intended for them by 
Russell. They were most deplorably deceived by the Parliamentary Squeers, 
who drily told them thatthe vote of the war-estimate being a matter of course, 
he expected them to be quiet and behave: "The Cabinet would shortly want 
more money for carrying on the war, and so the question of confidence or 
no confidence in the Coalition would be taken next week, when such money 

vote would be presented to the House." Not being initiated in the secrets 

of Lord Clarendon, he could not give them any information on the state of 
foreign affairs. Well, the result was that Russell saved the whole Coalition 
for the present session; for, if the vote of confidence had been taken on the 
estimates of the War Ministry, a defeat would have been avictory of Palmer- 
ston over Newcastle, while on the general war estimates a vote of non- 
confidence would be a victory of the Tories over the combined Whig 
Peelites—an eventuality, of course, out of the question. 

Accordingly, the votes for the War Ministry were taken last nightin avery 
quiet House, nothing occurring but a delivery by Russell and Pakington of 
all the stale common-places on the present military administration. 

It is to be regretted that the obstinate resistance of the Queen keeps Lord 
Palmerston out of the War Office, as by his installation in that office the last 
false pretense under which the Radicals yet defend the foreign policy of 
England would fall to the ground. 

On the announcement of Mr. Otway in last Friday's sitting of the Com- 
mons, that he would bring the case of Dr.Peithman before them, Lord 
Palmerston rose und declared that he was ready to give every explanation, 
and that everything would be found to be "all right." Meanwhile, Dr. Peith- 
man has published a letter in The Morning Advertiser, which proves that if 
he never was insane in other respects, he continues to believe in the gener- 
osity of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, whom he petitions to let him go 
back to Germany—the very thing which they want. 

The mean servility of the so-called Radical press is exemplified by its 
absolute silence on this unexampled case, where a lettre de cachet buried 
a man for eighteen years, just because he had the misfortune to know some- 
thing of the royal and aristocratic relations with German maid-servants. 

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