LATEST NEWS FROM PARIS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 51, 5 May 1863, Page 3

LATEST NEWS FROM PARIS.

(From the Paris correspondent of the Semaphore de Marseilles.) Paris, 25th February. In the midst of the confused and contradictory rumors which be?r upon the present situation, I have no choice but to follow them and to transmit them to you without comment. I have already given you notice of the tendency of Austria to bring herself nearer to France and Egland upon the Polish question ; and I have detailed tho numerous difficulties that stand in the way of the triple alliance. These difficulties have not disappeared, but on the contrary, they seem to rise every day to the surface, as much in London as in Vienna When the French note -.vas sent to Berlin the agreement of the Powers (I'accord) was considered complete and definite ; but it was soon discovered that this was a mistake. In fact, on the morning of the 22nd, a very long conversation took place at Vienna, between the Count de Rechberg, the English ambassador, and M. de Gramont, our ammbassador. It was in this conversation that the differently directed views of the three Powers were first fully shown. The possibility of a demonstration on the Rhine, and the forcible possession of the left bank, was strongly opposed by tbe Count de Rechberg* ; Austria is a federal Power, and she could not lend her hand to a measure that would sanction an attempt upon German territory, without breaking with the German Confederation, and violating the constitution. This, in effect, is tho great and almost the only difficulty that stands in the way of the enterprise, and it is most likely that by this difficulty the intervention project of the three Powers will be prevented. However that may be, just now people are much less sombre than they were yesterday ; on different 6ides I hear pacific proposals spoken of, propose h coming both from St. Petersburg and London. But the most characteristic sigbt through all this is the attitude assumed by Prussia. Ostensibly she seems to be retracing her steps, and is perhaps upon the point of altogether disavowing tlie Convention of the Bth February. I will give you only one tact as an instance: — The Journal des Debats published yesterday a correspondence which had ostensibly come from Berlin, and which gave the tenor of the Prusso-Russian Convention. In that correspondence the Convention assumed a excessive inoffensive character, reducing itself to a | few stipulations only. I have learnt that this correspondence had a most suspicious origin. It was the Prussian ■ Embassy that furnished the manuscript to M. de Sacy. 1 may add also, that under another form it had also been furnished to other journals, which absolutely refused to publish it. Over and above this, the most positive information, allow me to tell you, that the clauses of the Convention authorise Prussian troops to advance upon Polish territory to the distance ot three German miles from the frontier. This stipulation has already become a very serious one. The news from the theatre ot war contains no new incident. I remark only two documents of any great interest. The first is a general order of General Langiewicz, issued after the battle of Stakow. This order, which verifies the check received by the Russians, is energetically written, and has, moreover, the advantage of answering decisively all the pessimist reports that had been reported with regard to this skilful general. The second document is a proclamation from the farm proprietors, the high nobility, addressed to the insurgents. In this they declare that they have throughout oppposed the insurrectionist projects, as they could only see in them an aggravation of the miserable lot of unfortunate Poland, but since the movement had taken place, since the insurrection had burst forth, they would, without reserve, give in their adherence to it, and were ready to serve it by every means in their power. The proclamation verifies the fact of the enthusiasm which seemed to force the youth of the land on to the field of battle, and it adds in a spirit of stern reslve, " After the sons the fathers !" Persons there who know Poland and the people, affirm that this declaration is one of the most important facts that could have been brought forward in favor of this movement. At Paris there always exists a lively excitement on the subject of the Poles. In opening a subscription list, the Steele and Pa-trie have touched a chord that only asks to vibrate. Unfortunately public liberality has been somewhat checked of late by the Rouen subscription, and it is to be feared that these papers will find but a feeble echo to their call. Paris, 26th February. The Constit utionnel continues, by its solemn intertangled yarns, to disconcert its readers. It makes a series of marches and counter-marches — a succession of rapid evolutions, in the midst of which the brain is bewildered. It is scarcely three days ago since the Constitntionnel announced to us that Russia sought to come to an understanding with England on the subject of Poland. But aot a word then about Austria. To-day, according to that paper, England, France? and Austria, have agreed, and all the world may go to rest in peace. I quiet agr e that the agreement of these three Powers, if it be real and serious, will assure the peace of Europe ; but the affectation with which this semi-official journal, speaking ot the panic on the Bourse, proves the amelioration of events, at once renders its article suspicious ; and I assure you lam not the only ono who thinks this. The article of the Constitutionnel teaches nothing, conceals nothing, but is simply a means tor forcing up the funds. Beyond this there was no possible necesity] for it. All my inquiries have led me to a very opposite conclusion to that of tho Constitutionnel — for though I believe in the first instance in the accord of the three Powers, I am not quite certain that they may not succeed in causing an explosion .