The Press.
London, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The result of Count Esterhazy's communication to
the Russian Government of the proposals he bore is
the sole subject of surmise, comment, and expecta-
tion in the Viennese papers. On the 26th ult. Count
Esterhazy reached St. Petersburg, on the 27th he
delivered his proposals, and on the 28th Count Buol
officially informed Prince Gortschakolf at Vienna of
the terms on which the Western powers were willing
to conclude peace. Those terms, according to the
Frdrelnndt, contain the following proposals :-
1. The relinquishment of the Russian protectorate over
the Danubian principalities, and the conditions essential
to securing a new order of things there. This difficult
point, which is already in process of being carried out, is
drawn up so decisively and so clearly, that in ease of its
acceptance every prejudicial influence on the part of Rns•
sia, on the deliberations as to the regulation of the affairs
of the principalities, is excluded at once. Russia is re•
quired simply to give her assent to the am►ngements abort
to be made, without participatiug in any deliberation or in
any resolution on the subject.
2. Cession of a portion of Bessarabia, to such an extent
that Russia would be not only removed from the delta of
the Danube, but would have to give up her entire position
on that river. The geographical line for the future Bus-
shin frontier is traced on a map appended to the papers,
and according to that the Russian frontier would be con.
siderably thrust back.
8. Neutralisation of the Black Sea, without any)Russian
fortresses and arsenals on its coasts ; at the mouths of the
Danube, however, there is to be a station fur vessels of war
of small burden, for the purposes of marine police.
4. Common protection of the Christian subjects of the
Porte.

All the above points have been proposed by Austria.
The following have been added by the Western powers :
Admissions of consuls into the harbours of the Black Sea,
and an undertaking on the part of Russia never for the
future to erect any fortifications on the Aland isles.

The term allowed to Russia by Count Esterhazy is very
short, and in ten days the decision must be made.
Should the proposals be rejected, the immediate breaking
off of diplomatic relations between Russia and Austria
would ensue.

In support of these propositions the Emperor
has forwarded autograph letters to the Kings of
Prussia and Bavaria, and it is believed Saxony,calling
upon them to influence the Court of St. Petersburg
to accept the terms proposed. Should the condi-
tions of peace be refused by Russia, the Times
Vienna correspondent writes on the 30th ult. that
" Austria will immediately break otf her diplomatic
relations with ltussia."

The reported capturo of Herat by the Persians
was regarded at Vienna as the forerunner of such
new complications in Asia as must seriously operate
against the restoration of peace. The Oat Deutsche
Post remarks :

If, then, there is no denying that England has under-
taken the present war i;rincipally on account of the
dangerous extent of power which Russia has gained in
Asia, what are we to think of the prospects of realising the
peace proposals which are ushered into the world at a mo-
ment when the dearest interests of England are far more
sensibly wounded than they were, even at the beginning of
the present war ?