The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

THE RECENT POLICY OF PRUSSIA.

The Dash of this day esters tato as Interesting
statement relative to the recent modest of Preemie :

"While M. de flesbaeh," says the Degbats," was
labeling' at St. Petersburg fee the re-establishment

of peso', the Bing at Prussia sent to Vienna a supe-
rior Afar entrusted with an important mission to
the Emperor Francis Joseph. Col. Manteoffel (say
our correspondents) wee charged to deliver to theEss-
peror an autograph letter from the Bing ; to
assertain if Austria !would fulfil the engagement
into which she entered with Prussia in the ant ar.
tittle of the treaty of alliance, offensive sod defen-
sive, signed at Berlin on the 20th of April, 1854,
aceoirdieg to which Austria would consider 'any attack
directed against the German and non-German tiorri-1
tidies of Prussia as • hostile enterprise against its
own territory ;' cassequently, U Prussia could count
upon the efficacious adios of Austria to protect its
rights and interests, already injured by the memos
of the blockade of its ports ;
NTo demand explanations cm the abject of a use-
nicesadom agreed to on the 28th of December, he-
twee. the Cabinets of Paris, Leedom, and Vienna,
which had eanied jest alarm at Berlin, hemmed
*seedling to one of the einem of this memorandum,
Prussia would be 'eluded from fonds segotistkes,
if she hesitated any longer to saltine her policy to
that of Austria—if she did sot formally support at
Bt. Petersburg the last prepositions of Austria, and
if she did sot hawk et diplomatic relations with
Rusk the very day epos which Asetria would retell
its representative 1

"To sake, is a wroeillatery wanner, some repre-
sentations to the Assisi= Cabinet relative to the
rigour of the 000ditioas proposed to Russia, bet to
desks* that although the Ling did not wish to w-
eep miliaria he world sot We exert himself with
the Emperor Alexander in the maw of the meets-
blishasest et pease 1
The Deals thou preeseds to state that Wesel
lleateudirl found Austria to be nom deeply tow.
peaked with the Waders Powers thee Lag
Proderisk Wiliam had say Hsi ofi a military au-

vendee securing the co-operation of the Austrian
army in the event of the refusal of the Austrian pro-
positions being is existence. This fact and the
serious natureof the projected campaign having been
oneemnaieetsd to the Leg, he at once hastened to
warmly advise the Emperor Alexander to accept the
Anitrian propositions without any restriction, de-
claring that the policy of Prussia would have to
undergo a change if be refused, and approach that of
the Western Powers. Two pressing let en are said
to have been written by the King, in this sense, to the
Emperor Alexander and the Grand Duke Constan-
I tine. These letters threw light upon the motives by
which Austria was actuated, and, together with the
advice of M. de Seebich and the representations of
M. de Nesselrods, carried conviction even to the
most decided partisans of the war, aid the Emperor
adhered with the unanimous assent, it is said, of the
council of the Empire, to those very conditions
which a few days before he had declared were unac-
ceptable.

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Bikini:MG, TIMIDLY EYINIPIO.

We learn from Vienna that the Austrian Govern-
ment ham steadfsetly set its face against a continua-
tics of the war. All the journals have been ordered
to expense their confidence that the negotiations will
lead to a treaty. The Donau, for expressing doubts
of their successful termination, has been seized and
confiscated.