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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

sustittteoN OF

BY RUSSIA •

Tllli NEGOTIATIONS.

Letters from Bt. Petersburg state that orders were
sent off on the 18th to General Gortchakoff to sus-
pend hostilities la the Crimea. The general was ex-
pected without delay at St. Petersburg, to be invested
1 with the functions of Governor of Poland.

The Paris Prow construes the above as evidence
of the honest intentions of Russia. "The effect of
the order," it says, "will not indeed be very great,
seeing that hostilities are nearly suspended de facto
by the weather; but, should the news be confirmed,
we must admit that this initiative of Russia looks like'
a proof of her sincere desire to enter upon a peaceful
course."

The Vienna correspondent of the ladependame
Beige asserts positively that Marshal Pelimier and
Omer Paella have received orders to abstain from
any offensive movement until "a line is drawn
which is not to be emend during the progress of the
negotiations.'
The Journal de CiL Peieraboterg of the 21st inst.
has the following:—" In consequence of the general
desire of Europe, the Ramekin Government has not
wished to delay the work of conciliation by entering
into negotiations of detail, trusting that her mode-
ration will be duly appreciated."

A Paris Boars; report is, that Lord Palmerston
signed the armistice at noon yesterday, but the In-
dependence Belle says that the signatures of the
Allies will not be attached even to the preliminaries
before the Ist or 2nd of the approaching month, as
the respective governments must receive the text of
the document. signed at St. Petersburg, beton in-
structing Sir Hamilton Seymour and M. de Boar-
gooney to sign.

The French papers reputed to be connected with
the government are amuming, in the most compla-
cent manner, that the four first of the Esterhazy
propositions expels all that Prance and England
demand of Ramis, and when not entirely ignoring
the fifth point, assuring their readers that the Allies,
or at any rate France, will not make use of it to
raise difiloulties about Banarsund. TheCbustitation-
owl of yesterday is very positive on this point, and
my' that " whatever relative important), the fifth
proposition may have, it cannot seriously embarrass
a negotiation so serious as the present." It then
proceeds to show that Bomareund having nothing to
do with the Eastern quetion, mild not have been
properly mentioned in as aldmatem designed to ter-
minate a war begun and carried on with reference to
that as an 'ed. The Osestitutimuiel here becomes
sublime and unintelligible, as it informs us that the
fifth point was framed because it might mem desirable
"to consecrate the soweenir of the &notions, of the Allies

in the Baltic,' and to give thereby " a solemn sanction
to the policy which the Anglo-French alliance in-
augurated in the north by its treaty with Sweden.'
Bat the writer hastens to explain that this Bomar-
sand claim is not one of the conditions upon which
the question of pesos or war was made to depend ;
in other words, Ramie bas only to refuse to admit
and it will be dropped.
The Belgian journals are fall of admiration of
such coarteey, which :entrusts so strongly with the
"bad taste" of the English rem
The .Tureal de Fieveefort, a paper of which the
Austrian chancery occasionally makes use, has an
article on the great subject of the day, commencing
as follows: " Reek has accepted the Aestrian pro-
positions purely and simply. Negotiations are about
to open, and to facilitate them reesurse will be ►ad to
new conferences. We do not believe that the diffi-
culties which lie in the way to a definite end are
smaller than they would have been if Russia bad
persisted is a conditional seeeptanes; bat the good
intention which that power has shown of bringing
back Europe lb the path of pesos is worth more than
the general renosesioas she has made." The writer,
who is evidently a eas►hardened diplomatist, has no-
thing to say about the objects of the war, bet evidently
thinks that a good time is coming for men of his
meter. It is to be hoped that by the foresight of the
Allies he will be disappointed, and that conformers
will not be opened unless with better guarantees of
sautes than be anticipates in the following presage
"Germany especially accepts the conduces:lion
of the Ramiaa government with all that satisfaction
she owes to a state that has, by so doing, preserved
her from the evUe of war. Bat she recognises also
the geserosity of the other belligerent parties, who
have due all they weld to make the path smooth for
Russia's entering iota negotiations. May these nego-
tiations be crowned with a favourable result I May
the spirit of the age, which is that of pesos and pro-
gress, bear it triumphantly over the imams* &Meal-
ties that will beset the conferences about to be opened-
We may have negotiations for pram we may even
obtain treaties of peace, bet that pease itself—a dur-
able peace—can be maintained, this is, when we look
at the complicated situation, interests, rivalries, and
wants, this is a something not easily guaranteed; for
if the spirit is willing, the flesh le weak."