Alexandria Gazette

Russia and France.

The London Times states that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg lately communicated a message to the French Government, which gave considerable uneasiness to Louis Napoleon. It appears from this document that the Czar heartily approved of the French President's proceedings, so long as they tended to put down Republicanism. The coup d'etat met with the Emperor Nicholas's sympathy and approval, as causing the overthrow of the Republic. He regards it as a great step towards the restoration of monarchy, but he had no intention that such monarchy should be vested in Louis Napoleon. The latter was merely regarded as the temporary chief of the French Government—the head of a Government essentially provisional, and to last for a certain period and no longer. He refused to recognise either the President or the Government by any other title or in any other character. The subsequent acts of December, however, roused the suspicions of the Emperor and his Minister, Count Nesselrode, and hence this communication.—In this document it is plainly stated, in so many words, that the Czar will not admit the transformation of the title of President into that of Emperor, or the introduction into Europe of a new dynasty. The correspondent of the Times goes on to say:

"The President is understood to have complained that his intentions and his acts were misunderstood or misrepresented at St. Petersburg: that his decrees about the Imperial eagle, his own effigy on the coinage, and his residence at the Tuileries ought not to be distorted, nor their importance exaggerated; that they were merely regulations; that in reverting to the Constitution of the year VIII. he only meant to establish a strong authority in his hands; that the recollections of the Empire constituted his strength, and invested him with popularity amongst the masses; that there was nothing astonishing in the fact of his seeking in the institution of the Empire what was certain to re-establish authority in France: that he had no intention of re-establishing the Empire, or of making himself Emperor; that he did not want either for the accomplishment of the mission to which he had been called; that his title of President sufficed for him; that he had no reason to trouble himself about an imperial dynasty which has no existence; and that there was no reason for the Emperor Nicholas troubling himself about it. On all these points it is affirmed that the President made the most formal declarations."

Of course, we do not know what reliance is to be placed upon these, and similar disclosures, of the diplomatic intercourse between the European powers, which we see in the London papers. As a general rule, however, it may be said that the correspondents of the Times, are well informed persons, not apt to set afloat stories having no foundation in fact—as some of the "correspondents" of public journals in this country are wont to do.