The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VIENNA.

The statements made in the following article, which
appears in the journal de Pre:Wort, will be found
worthy of serious attention :

Bhotil4 the instructions which Prince Gortchakoff has re-
ceived by the electric telegraph from Bt. Petersburg lead
to sallow negotiations for peace, it is to the efforts which
Austria has exerted with the Western Powers that such a
result will be due : it is the treaty of Dec. 2 that supplied
her with the means, and enabled her to make use of them.
Surely it is no small triumph to Austrian diplomacy that,
despite the warlike passions excited by events in the Crimea,
it has succeeded in obtaining from the cabinets of Paris and
London a favourable ear to the proposals for pesos made by
Austria, and that they should have declared themselves
still ready to negotiate on the bases fixed last August, but
rejected at that time by Russia.
Before commencing the negotiations of pesos the three
allies naturally had to some to an undentanding about a
common interpretation of the four points. Although Prince
Gortehakoff, to whom it was oonununioated on the 28th of

December by the representatives of the three potion, wy
not provided with sufficient full powers for sampling er
rejecting it, the telegraphic instructions he has received
from St. Petersburg prove nevertheless that, is the inter-
potation decided on between the three powers, the bounds
of moderation have not been transgressed.
A fact which shows how deeply them powers must have
been convinced that this interpretation would prove swept.
able to the court of Russia is the circumstance that they

postponed the opening of the deliberations upon which,
awarding to the fifth article in the treaty of Deo. 2, they
were to enter as to t►e fitting means for attaining the object
of that treaty, until after the expiration of the term granted
to Prince Gortehskoff to obtain further intructions.

We must, nevertheless, expect that the interpretation of
the four points, as agreed upon by the parties contracting
the treaty of December, will not be considered definitive,
nor be regarded us a fixed form, beyond which the pa-
rest's' springing out of the said points cannot go. If the
three powers had shaped out such a perms:lent form, the,
would have stated us much from the first or before the ne-
gotiations of peace, in which, besides Russia, Turkey, that
to say, the belligerent powers have also to take part.
Will they succeed in restoring peace? It would be rub to
form any supposition on the subject. What appears eer-
tain, however, is, that the Western Powers, if they
seriously desire peace, will have to give up their first inten-
tion of reducing the Russian naval power in the Black Sea
by a treaty, in other word., with the ointment of Russia, nor
will they be able to demand an indemnity for the expenses
of the war, for Russia by granting it would acknowledge her-
self vanquished. We believe the Western Powers will be
seriously desirous of peace, so soon as they can retire with
honour from before Sebastopol, an enterprise begun with-
out mature reflection. Au advantage obtaineckby the Anglo-
French in the Crimea would facilitate the work of peace.
Will the peace endure ? Russia has answered this ques-
tion beforehand in her note of Aug. 26, wherein she ex-
presses herself us follows on the four points—" which, if a
transitory pressure could ever constrain her to retie herself
to, far from insuring to Europe, as the Austrian government
seems to believe, a solid, and especially a lsstiag pesee,would
only serve to render that peace liable to perpetual eatangle•
silents."