The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

K INBURN,

A letter from Kinburn, of the 27th ult., in the Presse
d'Orient, says—"We are busily occupied in putting our
quarters into comfortable condition for the winter, as the
cold begins to be pretty sharp. The sea is covered with float-
ing ice, and the vessels at anchor off Otchakoff have their
lower rigging and sides covered with icicles. When the five
or six buildings within the fort shall have undergone the
most ardent repairs, we shall be pretty well quartered. I
speak of the officers and employes of the administration ; as
to the soldiers, a number of them are lodged in the casemates ;
one battalion occupies the village, about ten minutes' distance
from the fort, and the remainder are under canvas. As, how-
ever, all are well supplied with warm clothing and camp equi-
pages of all kinds, those even who are the worst off will be
able to brave the rigours of the season. We are expecting
twenty wooden huts from Kamiesch, which will each contain
thirty men. Gulls, duck, and other water fowl are abundant
and are easily shot, but unfortunately many of them when
killed are lost for want of dogs to fetch them out of the water.
The gulls which are good for nothing in the Mediterranean
are very delicate eating here. I have them several times a

week. A good dog would be worth its weight in gold to us.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

TEE Morning Post of yesterday says :—We have received
the following from Vienna. Its accuracy may be relied on
" VIENNA, Dec. 16.

" Count Esterhazy leaves to-day for St. Petersburg. It is
!understood that he is the bearer of most important des-
patches, containing the propasals for a pacification, as finally
resolved on."

The Post says that the tenor of the contents of the Aus-
trian ultimatum is no secret. Annihilation of Russia's
' maritime supremacy in the Black Sea by the exclusion of all
-ships of war, by the dismantling of her fortresses on its coast,
and by the residence of consuls who certify that no purposes
'but those of legitimate commerce are ever attempted to be
•compassed, would free Turkey from all danger by sea, whilst
the utter renunciation of all rights of interference with the
Sultan's dominions or his subjects, together with the cession
of a portion of Bessarabia, comprising the month of the
Danube, would secure to the Porte the undoubted possession
of its European territorial rights. These conditions, when
*confirmed by material guaiantee, as well as by treaty, would
solve the Eastern question.
Other important terms, it is sure, are demanded, such as that
Bomarsund should not be rebuilt, but of these the Post does
not wish to say more than that all is exactly and finally laid
edown.

There are but two answers possible, namely, a positive re-
lusal or a positive acceptance. No evasive answer, no condi-
tional acceptance, and no counter propositions will be received.
It will probably take Count Esterhazy about five or six days
tto reach St. Petersburg, and, if we m ayjudge by precedent, some
114 days will be allowed the Emperor to consider his resolution
.and give his answer. If Russia can humble her pride, she
tmay say " Yes;" then immediately follows an armistice and
a settlement. If, however, she cannot entirely and at once ac-
, eept the bitter consequences of her own ambition and fool-
ishness, then she must face the extraordinary force which will
be brought to bear against her in the next campaign, and
which, under Heaven, will certainly reduce her to a state of
which the terrible necessities will make her yield to our terms.
The cabinet of St. Petersburg may not, however, see matters
in-this light.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have received files of papers from the Cape of Good
Hope to the Ist of October
Everything at the colony was going on satisfactorily.