The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

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A despatch, dated Hamburg, Tuesday evening,

has the following

"We learn from Vienna that the Austrian

Government has steadfastly set its face against a

continuation of the war

" All the journals have been ordered to express

their confidence that the negociations will lead to

a Treaty

The Danau, for expressing a doubt of their

successful termination, has been seized and con-

fiscated."

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THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING

At the termination of business at the Bourse to-

day the quotations stood as follows :—Four-and-a.
Half per Cents., 94f. ; Three per Cents., 67f. 90c.

THE

PEACE NEGOCIATIONS.

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We read the following, in a letter, dated Paris, Monday

evening :

Now that we are supposed, rightly or wrongly, to be
approaching the last stage of our troubles in the Russian
question, a desperate effort is being made to exalt the
merits of Prussia ; and if you believe her partisans, it is

to her decision and courage (! 1) that we owe the
pacific solution which, we are told, is imminent. It

is no 'doubt true that, at the last moment, when

the crisis was believed to be very close at hand,
which Prussia could neither retard nor hasten, her
Envoy at St. Petersburgh received instructions from his
Government to support M. Esterhazy ; to desist, in
fact, from the support and encouragement he had pre-
viously given to Russia. Prussia will try to squeeze
herself into the Conferences that will soon be opened; but
I doubt that she will succeed. It is not likely that a
Power which not; merely stood aloof from us in our
greatest difficulties and dangers, but encouraged our
enemy, and to a certain extent assisted him, should be
admitted to share in the important negociations because
she had received notice from Russia when the moment
came to stimulate a zeal she never really felt.
A correspondent writing from Vienna, Jan. 18, says
that, during the last two dlys the representatives of the
Wt stern Powers have had frequent and prolonged con-
ferences with the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and it is known that the foil

ng two questions aro now

under discussion :—.On what terms is the armistice to be
conclude:l, and how long is it to last? When, and where,
is the Peace Congress to meet.? Naturally no positive
information can be given on either subject, but it is
believed—as has already been stated—that the armistice
will last until the end of March or middle of April.
Either Brussels or Aachan (Mx-la-Chapelle) is likely to
be the seat of the future Peace Congress or Conference.
The propositions of the Allies, duly signed by the Rus-
sian GOvernment, are already on their way back to
Vienna.

Under date of the 21st inst. we learn from Berlin that
it is positive that the decision of the Russian Cabinet in
favour of peace was exceedingly sudden, and was unex-
pected in very high official quarters in St. Petersburg.
The Russian residents at Vienna, and the persons con-
nected with the Embassy there, had made every prepara-
tion for departure. There is every reason to believe that
Prussia will be invited by the Allies to join the next
Conferences. Prussia will have, however, to give her
adhesion to the Austrian propositions, and to lend her
assistance, to the same extent as Austria, to enforce them,
if the negociations should fail. If Russia should recede
now, we may look for a general coalition of the German
Powers against her. Count Benkendorff will bring the
confidential communication from the Czar, consequent on
the altered position of affairs.