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CONFLICTING COUNCILS AT ST. PETERSBURG.

The Paris Constitulionnel has a correspondence from St. Petersburg, which is certainly worth glancing at. The writer relates that, in the Russian capital, at this moment, are absolutely sitting and functioning two state councils of a diametrically opposite tendency. One provoked into existence, inspired and presided over by Count Nesselrode, and having peace for its avowed and well defined aim; and the other, composed of various generals, and presided over by the Czar himself, and whose object, if it be not the literal prosecution of the war as a political necessity and doctrine, pre-accepted and carried out, is, at all events, the best possible organisation of the war in detail. This council has, it seems, amongst its members, the three Grand Dukes, brothers of the Emperor, and the Grenerals-in-Ghief, Gortscliakoff, Berg, Grabbe, Severs, fludiger, and Paniuline, with the Admirals Sitkjf, Nowossilskv, and MikolF, and all the disposable aides-de-camp generals. Tlie immediate occupation of this council would, it appears, be the decision whether or not to abandon the Crimea, and the propriety of continuing the war upon that one particular point|of the territory; and the meeting, which is in all readiness to act, is to agree upon some conclusion, it is aflirmed, about the middle of this month (February). Now, the writer of the correspondence in question says, beforehand, that the majority of the council is of opinion that the Crimea should be preserved at all costs, and the war carried on, defeading the soil step

by step; while Prince Gortschakoff, on the contrary, who can best appreciate the difficulties and dangers of the contest, is quite of a mind to abandon the peninsula, and urges it upon his imperial master.

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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 369, 17 May 1856, Page 4

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CONFLICTING COUNCILS AT ST. PETERSBURG. Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 369, 17 May 1856, Page 4

CONFLICTING COUNCILS AT ST. PETERSBURG. Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 369, 17 May 1856, Page 4

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