The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN PEACE PROPOSALS

RUSSIA'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE PEACE
PROPOSITIONS.

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we have now gained a great point. The Austrian
proposals—all five—are accepted, and Russia is there-
fore implicitly bound by them. The public will learn
this with satisfaction. The funds rise with the hopes
of peace, and the next step is eagerly inquired after
and looked forward to. When and where are negoJia
tions to be secured, upon the 'basis now agreed to, is a
question universally asked. It is of much importance
that it should be rightly understood, that the pro-
ceedings which have had so happy an issua, by deter—
mining Russia to make large and important concessions,
is an Austrian proceeding, and that the five proposals,
as accented by Russia, do not contain on the face of
them all that the Western Powers deem necessary for
the safe entrance upon negotiations. When the
Cabinet of Vienna applied to Eim,land and France, to
know the terms upon which they would consent to
make peace with Russia, a direct and distinct reply was
given. Upon that reply Austria founded the proposals
which Russia has accepted, but she has not represented
to the Czar the full and exact tenor of our demands.
It would not be proper in us to enter upon a discussion,
before the preliminaries have been arranged so clearly
and unmistakeably, that Russia, on the one hand, may
not have it in her power to pretend that we entrapped
her into negotiations without making her fully aware
of their importance, nor we, on the oilier, be open to the
manoeuvres of the adroit diplomacy which has already,
in former instances, confused our diplomatists to our
disadvantage. In the Austrian proposals, the name of
the Aland Islands is never mentioned ; but, nevertheless,
we believe it will be found that Lord Clarendon had
emphatically stated to the Cabinet of Vienna, that we
must insist upon Russia's binding herself not to rebuild
Bomarsund. This resolve, justifiable on the ground of
military success, and requisite as a matter of high
import to the well-being of Europe, becomes impera-
tive, when it is remembered that we have only recently
concluded an alliance with Sweden, and that it is our
bounden duty not to leave our Ally at the mercy of
Russia, nor permit the re-erection of a large and
menacing fortress within 100 miles of Stockholm.
Under these circumstances, then, it will be the duty of
the belligerents, before negociations can be entered upon,
to signify their intentions to Russia, and to require her
acceptance of proposals totally free from the possibility
of misinterpretation. These proposals, we trust, will
have the support of Austria and the German Powers,
and will, we are confident, meet with acceptance at St.
Petersburg, if Russia be now really active to her own
interests, and anxious for the welfare of Europe. If
they are accepted, then negociations will follow, but
not at Vienna, nor Paris, nor London. All prelimi-
naries being once adjusted, some fit place will be
appointed for the conduct of the conference. In the
meanwhile, we must keep our energies braced up, and
relax not one iota of the prodigious exertions that are
being made for the spring campaign. This, we are
convinced, is the soul of successful negotiations.

The Times concludes a long article in the fol
lowing words :

Now, then, if ever in the course of the war, it is
necessary to push on those preparations which are re-
quired for the efficacy of our sea and land forces in the
next campaign: Never before was that necessity so
urgent—never would the effect of any remissness be so
immediately felt. We have the goal in sight, and that
ought to induce us rather to double than remit our
exertions. By observing this line of conduct, we shall
either have gained the noblest victory—a solid and last-
ing peaoe—or be in a position to inspire those who shall
have withheld it from us, with a still more durable
repentance.

WILLIAM PALMER, THE ALLEGED POISONER.-011 MOH-
day list an application was made to Mr. Justice Erie for
a writ of habeas corpus to bring the accusel Palmer from
Stafford gaol to the Court of Queen's Bench at Westmin-
ster. to appear as a vvitnesss on the trial of an action
brought by a person named Padmore against. Mrs. Palme*,
the mother of the accused, upon a bill of exchange for
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£lOOO. The bill is alleged to be a forgery. Palmer's
presence is required to prove the plea of forgery, it being
understood he will prove that plea. The habeas corpus
was issued upon the order of Mr. Justice Erle, and the
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Westminster Hall early on Monday morning to await the
trial, which has been specially appointed to be taken at
eleven o'clock on Monday morning, before Mr. Justice
Erle. The trial will take place in the Lord Chancellor's
Court at 'Westminster Hall. At the conclusion of his
evidence Palmer c ill be conveyed hack to Stafford. The
trial of Palmer will take place at Stafford in the first week
of April. It appears from the spring circuit of judges just
issued that he will he tried by the new jailge, Mr. Baron
Bramwell, as Mr. Justice Cresswell, vvho accompanies him
on the Oxford circuit, will take the nisi Arius cases at
Stafford.