The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR ON THE CON-

FEItENCEB.

The following circular has been sent to the diplo-
matic agents of Austria at the various courts of
Germany:

VIIINNA, May 25.
Your Excellency will have became aware, by an •rtiole
in the Oesterr. Corresp , that the Imperial (Austrian) Go-
vernment does not consider closed the negotiations with the
governments of France and England, respecting the plans
which it proposed for giving execution to the third
point of the guarantee. We have considered it advisable to
inform your Eicelleney of the true state of affairs, as
• guide to the language you will hold. If, since

the outbreak of hostillties, tiers was ant one moment

when more than at another the restoration of puce might
oonsidered probable it was the moment when Lord John
Russell end M. Drouyn de Lhuye left our capital, The
conferences, it is true, had only led to the rejection of the
propositions made by the belligerent powers, but upon both
sides it appeared to be admitted that those preposition
offered the elements of peace, and we were not only able to
declare without opposition that we believed ourselves espe-
cially celled to occupy ourselves in seeking out the mesas of
an approximation, but we also put forward a draught of an
shim .tum which wu to be sent to St. Petersburg, and which
we considered not inadmissible by Russia, since an imme-
di►te limitation of Russia's sovereign rights in
the Black Sea wu avoided, but which at the
tame time seemed so completely to satisfy the
object of the third stipulation, and put en end to Rus-
sian preponderance in the Black Sea, that the beforeauned
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=minim of France and England, in ecefidential interviews,
showed themselves decidedly inclined towards our proposal,
and undertook to recommend the mine to their govern-
ments with all their influence. This plan of:an ultimatum,
the rejection of which by Russia we declared ourselves ready
to make a rants belli, consisted of two distinct propositions,
of which the Russian government was to take its choice.
The first of these rested upon the principle of a reciprocal
limitation of their forms, to be agreed on by Russia and
Turkey, and established by treaty, originated with France.
The second alternative, offered by Austria, con-
sisted of a progressive system of guarantees against the de-
velopment of Russian power in the Earine, which were to
be incorporated with the general body of European interna-
tional law, partly by the treaty to be concluded between
Russia and Turkey, and partly by a treaty between Austria,
France, England, and Turkey. Lord John Russell, before
leaving Vienna, was made acquainted by verbal communi-
cation with them proposals. The French minister, K.
Drouyn de Lbuys, who left Vienna some days later, received
• written copy of eur plan, and undertook to submit it to
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the examination of his sovereign, and also to bring it before
the British government. It is unnecessary to speak here of
the regret with which very soon after, we received intelli-
gence, not of the hoped for acceptance of England and
France, but, instead, the opposition of the English ministers
to the views of their colleague, and of the resolution of the
1 Impale Napoleon to relinquish the services of the ministers
who had bet won the admiration and the confidence of the
Ameides Neel This, however, is certain, that both the
alreumatnasee under which the rejection of our proposition
took place, sad the grounds on which the cabinets of Lem,
don and Paris contested their value, could only maim
us la the conviction that those propositions deserved to be
admitted, and that each of the two Western cabinets would
40 very wrong indeed to allow a solution of an eventful
question, so honourable as that we offered, to nape them.
We are not at liberty to speak more fully of the language
held by Lord Clarendon and Count Walewski. minis Is
only confidentially before us. It is sere. Ob. asisedieg
to our firm conviction, neither inhume bee alliebsgy eon-
sidered the meaning and imgeelasse of ear pine übether
regarded u supplying the elengsee pesible sal mese sic.
tool guarantees spine OM erell4Meiglng policy of Soon
in the East, as is rabbi le Me sputa object of nine
nation of the pronallemne of ifeerb in be Black OM
His Majesty the Imam to fhb in balk conerning
the position methadon' for the Imperial ant under Oen
circumstances. It appeared at ems to is Majesty thee it
was his duty to furnish the Cabinets of Paris sad Luskin
with an opportunity of nods enninieg our proposition
oaths consequences to which the unexpected rejoins of
lbw would expose Europe. The assurances of panda
seatiments, communicated to us by Count Waisted.% Os
Inigent impression of being =dunked that has take glee
MOM of moderate men's minds in Frames and Ragbag ;
the reserve with which the English ministers have "gum
In parliament respecting the real* of the question. lag raw
eves appealed to the duration of the negotiation; perhaps
Its the seemingly intentional noes, with which the ingalili
of the Earl of Clarendon dwells en the absence of all said
sad direct communication frees Austria—all these guns-
straw have necessarily been an inducement torus to ed-
am Vs the powers, with which we are in alliance, a full
ontrollion of our plan together with its tontine, as well
in beinnaplete refutation of the objections raised again% it
Should this step not be attended with the neon desired, we
isnot dispute the right of the belligerent powers to heist on
more ample conditions in their tautest, but we meet ions
it to them to procure themselves for their dean& that
title which is expressly recognised by the protocol of Dee. 211,
which declares that the details of the bases to be obtained
will depend on the progress of military events. We, for
our part, would simply rely on the bags that we deem le
be obtained by the npgentsnts that have been entered data
We should firmly abide by the bans reesnised by ion the
conferences, and continue to protect the integrity
of the Terkish empire against a fresh attack. In
this attitude we should know how to await the
moment, when on the resumption of negotiation' be
peace, we might be able to reader oar indium available
for the adoption of the four guarantees in be sins we
attribute to them. Should an the other hand ear pregeni
for on ultimatum meet with the approval of the cabinets of
Paris and London, the final messes of the work of pears
would then solely dined on the lest rennin of the 110Ulls
of St. Petersburg. Year ezoalleney perceives, that the ant
communications from Paris sad London, will have to decide
on our further course of proceedings. Not till then shall
we be in a condition to make degaltive proposals to oar Ger-
man confederates with respect to the Mere action of the
Diet. Convinced that the line of policy which we have is.
variably pursued sine the bases of the four points MIN
list established, deserves the entire confidence of the Ow
man governments, we indulge is the hope, that the nee-
tares we shall have to make to oar federal allies in either of
Ike cues specified will meet with their ready anent, sad
that the opportunity for securing active unanimity on the
part of Germany will not be lest on this osession. The
correct appreciation which most of the German courts have
formed respecting the step lately taken at Frankfort by the
cabinet of St. Petersburg is wall calculated to sangria us la
this conticti,o,—Becetto,
COUNT 817010