The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

THE FIRST PEACE PRELIMINARY.
BERLIN, Thursday.
It is understood that a mere Protocol acknowledging the
willingness of the belligerent Powers to treat on the con-
ditions proposed is all that will be signed at Vienna.
The formal preliminaries of peace will not be signed till the
representatives of the various Powers meet at Paris.
IsTeither Sardinia nor Prussia will be parties to the Protocol.
Both will be admitted to the after negotiations.

PARIS, Thursday.
The Ambassadors of the Allies are expected to sign the
Protocol to-morrow, at Vienna.

THE EAST.

PARIS, Thursday.
Official despatches from Constantinople state that the war
preparations are carried on with the utmost activity.
Omar Pasha's suggestions have been approved of.
The same activity prevails at Stockholm.
Sweden will be prepared for offensive operations, if neces-
sary.
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THE ANCHORAGE AT NARGEN.
BERLIN, Thursday.

We have received intelligence here, that the Russians have
taken advantage of the late temporary thaw to sink immense
blocks of stone, at the anchorage off the Isle of Nargen.
Care will be taken before the navigation re-opens to render
the ground utterly impracticable; as an anchorage for ships of
the line.

The accounts we receive here of the commercial activity in
the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland since there has been a
prospect of peace are almost incredible.

TRIESTE, Jan. 30.
Accounts from Constantinople, of the 21st, state that, in
spite of the pacific news, General Shirley has sent orders to
Shumla to prepare quarters for the troops which are to proceed
there in the spring.
Ministerial changes are considered imminent at Constanti-
nople. Mehemed Ali will, it is said, be named minister of
war.

tIENNA, Jan. 30.
The Ost-Deutsche Post announces that Austria, in the
interest of Germany, will present a proposition to the Ger-
manic Diet, in order that the latter may adopt the points of
guarantee which are to serve as the preliminaries of peace,
and thus take an important part in the approaching con-
ferences.

VIENNA, Jan. 31.
The Turkish Embassy in this city has been empowered to
sign the protocol, if necessary.

THE PEACE CONFERENCES.

The Grand Vizier Aali Pasha has been appointed the Otto-
man Plenipotentiary to the conferences at Paris. He is to
embark at Constantinople on the 6th instant, and will arrive
by Marseilles on the 16th. It is thought that the conferences
will open on the 21st of February.
The Moniteur, of Saturday,contains the following announce-
ment :—" Russia has assented to the five propositions which
are to serve as preliminaries of peace, and which were presented
for her acceptance by Austria, with the assent of France and
England. This adhesion, without reserve, was formally stated
in a note addressed by Count Esterhazy, the Austrian mini-
ster at St. Petersburg, and also in a despatch communicated
to Count Buol by Prince Gortschakoff, Russian minister at Vi-
enna. In consequence of this the Russian Government proposed
the signature of a protocol at Vienna to record the adhesion of
the contracting parties to the propositions destined to serve
as bases of negotiation, and to settle that the plenipotentiaries
shall meet in three weeks, or sooner, if possible, for the object
of proceeding successively to the signature of the preliminaries,
the conclusion of an armistice, and the opening of general
negotiations. The British Government had already expressed
its desire that the negotiations should take place in Paris, and
the Austrian Government having, on its side, warmly acceded
to this arrangement, it is in the capital of this empire that the
plenipotentiaries, summoned to deliberate on the conditions of
peace, will meet. The protocol, stating the acceptance by all
parties, was signed at Vienna on Friday, February 1, at twelve
o'clock; and it has been settled that the plenipotentiaries of
the Powers who are to take part in the negotiations are to
come to Paris before the 20th of February."

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

By the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain
West, which arrived on Thursday, we have intelligence from
New York to the 19th ult. She brought 79 passengers.
The royal mail steam-ship America, hence at Boston 18th
ult. Up to the hour of the departure of the Atlantic, the
prospect of an organisation of the House of Representatives
appeared as distant as ever. On the 17th ult., the 11t6h ballot
for Speaker was taken, which resulted as follows :—Banks,
94 ; Richardson, 68 ; Fullen, 32 ; Pennington, 6 ; scattering,
3 ; necessary to a choice, 102. A proposition to elect a
Speaker by plurality vote, and one declaring Banks, (Repub-
lican), Speaker ; William Cullum (American), Clerk ; A. J.
Grosshenner, Sergeant-at-Arms ; Mr. John M. Johnston,
Postmaster, (both Democrats), offered on the 18th as a com-
promise, were both negatived.
The New York Legislature had at length been organised.
Mr. Orville Robinson, of Oswego (Democrat), having on the
15th ult., (ballot N0:49), been elected Speaker by a combina-
tion of Republicans and Democrats.
The emigrant ship St. Denis, from New York to Havre,
foundered at sea on the 6th ult., and the captain, second
mate, 20 of the crew, and 11 passengers drowned. The first
and third mates and 11 of the crew were picked up, after
drifting about in an open boat for 30 hours.