The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

PRUSSIA,

From Berlin, under date of the 24th instant, we
learn that it has been determined, at a council at
which the King presided, that Prussia will make
no very open demonstration of her wish to be ad-
mitted to the Conferences. It is expected here
that the Conferences will soon resolve into 11,,•
general Congress, to which, of course Prig.‘,l6

would be summoned. Diplomatic relationS
between the representative of Russia and
those of the Western Powers have beer'
partially resumed, On their last meeting in
public, the Baron de Budberg and Lord Bloom-.
field were in conversation for a considerable time-
The news of the Russian acceptance has been
received very coldly in Sweden. The national
feeling there is greatly disappointed at the pros'
pects of peace.

A letter dated the 23rd instant, states, that a
number of statements are afloat, in what are canc.('
the well-informed circles, viz., that the Western
Powers take the Russian acceptance as a valid
acceptance ; that they have, accordingly, sent off
instructions to their Generals in the Crimea to
abstain from hostilities while a truce is being pro'
pared by the diplomates in Vienna, and every other
desirable thing that the imagination can build up
'he above-mentioned basis.

The official announcement of the telegraphic
information from St. Petersburg, that Russia had
accepted the Austrian proposals, left Vienna last
Friday. the 18th instant. On this the Western
Powers cannot take any formal step, whatever, butt
must wait for the official communication of the
Russian official despatch containing the accept-
ance of the Austrian four or five points. This
document cannot have reached Vienna before last
night, or this morning. Not until this written
despatch has been received and communicated.
can anything like a judgment be formed in whet
way Russia has accepted the proposals, and on
that will depend, in some degree, whether the
Western Powers will adopt the proposals as their
own, with or without the annexation of the con-
ditions which the Western Powers feel bound to
stipulate in the interest of Europe, but which
Austria felt impelled, in the interest of Austria, to
withhold.

As soon as Austria is in possession of Russia's
official acceptance, in black and white, and has
communicated it to the Western Powers, we mai
confidently expect that she will lay the matter
before the Bund, and bring in a motion op,
the subject, either with or without Prussia's
adhesion. The object of this motion will be to
get Germany to adopt the Four Points in her owo,
present version as a minimum. The application 4:0.
it when gained (if gained) will be to keep Russa'
from receding from the advances she has made ; to
restrain the Western Powers from making any fur'
ther demands not yet expressed; or if they do, t°,
prepare for herself an influential body to I falle
back upon when resisting the remonstrances c'
the Western Powers calling upon her to go further.
The fate of this motion may be easily foreseen; fit
far as the present Austrian version of the two firs'
points already adopted by the German Confoderw
tion improves them by more clearly defining there,
it will be adopted ; the other two points, 11°5
being recognised as German interests, will pro,'
bably not be accepted at all; and most certainly
will no obligations connected with the achieve"
ment of any of them be entered into by Prussia
and the rest of Germany.

PIEDMONT.
Advices dated Turin, January 20, inform us tli9
the unexpected intelligence promulgated by mean
of telegraph within the last two or three days nntS
fairly be said to have electrified the world, ati
caused speculations, both moral and material, 011,
the vital questions of peace or war, which ver-",
naturally supercedes every other topic here, as ti"
doubt it has in most other parts of EuroPe;
On the Bourse the usual effects of such news
immediately perceptible. To many in Italy, (/.6
course, the idea of peace at the present moment 10
apparently so ;
the shipwreck of long cherished hopes, at let's..
though, perhaps, as in most °the;
cases, the result may prove the shortsightednes
of their own views.
The Official Gazette of Verona and Milan, in dig;
cussing the substance of the despatches fr°
Vienna and Paris of the last two days, are hy
means inclined to place much faith in pe'l°4l,l
resulting immediately from the present Russi'd
acceptation of the Austro-Western proposals, as °lly
remind their readers of the unsatisfactory conoto
sion of similar negociations last year, and attril?geo
the conciliatory tone of the St. Petersburg
to the menacing attitude of that of Vienna now. 6.
The views of the Verona and Milan Gazettes u'.
generally shared by people of all political opilil°tio
as regards the uncertainty of peace, but as ,1,0
credit due to the Vienna Cabinet for its part in
transactions, a very wide difference exists.