The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Our advices from Berlin, to the date of the 20th,
state that it is said, that before the opening of the
Conferences, the Western Powers will demand from
Prussia that she shall adopt the propositions
accepted by Russia, and guarantee for
her co-operation in case peace should not
result from the Conferences. The most
strenuous efforts will be made by Prussia
to obtain a participation in the renewed
Conferences. Count Benkendorff will bring the
confidential communications from the Czar, conse-
quent on the altered position of affairs.
Under date of the evening of the 18th, we learn
that Count Lebanoff had arrived with despatches
from St. Petersburg. The participation of Prus
sia in the Conferences for peace was under dis-
cussion. Dresden was talked of as the place where
they are to be held. Russia had only accepted
the propositions of Austria with the reserve of
their being discussed at the Conferences. The
King had held a chapter of the order of the
Black Eagle. According to the most repent
accounts, the document signed by Count Nessel-
rode constitutes a real attestation that Russia
accepts without reserve the Austrian propositions,
and will suffice to authorisePrince Gortschakoff to
sign a preliminary treaty of peace. The signature
of that treaty is here considered to be imminent.

We learn from Madrid by advices dated the 18th inst.,
hat on the previous day the Cortes rejected the vote of

censure on the ministry by a majority of 152 to 57. The
Parliamentary Committee is favourable to the credit
establishment proposed by some Spanish capitalists.
Cape of Good Hope papers to the 25th of Nov. (nine
days later than those previously received) have come to

hand, which report the colony tranquil, and trade most
encouraging. The mercantile interest were in high
spirits upon the gratifying prospects before them. The
Kaffirs in British Kaffraria had been set to work on the
highways and in the fields, with which they appeared
much pleased; and their labour had been performed in a
very satisfactory manner.
REMNANTS OF THE GARRISON OF KARS.—Stragglers are
still coming in from Kars. I met some yesterday, toiling
over the snow-clad plain that lies between this and the
Euphrates. They showed weary and foot-sore, poor
fellows, but had not the wild hungry look of those who
had preceded them. They had probably been recruiting
at the villages on the road. But report states that no
less than 1,500 out of the 6000 Rediffs who were turned
outiof Kars have perished in the snows of the Siwanli-
dath.—Letter from Erseroum (Dec. 24.)
THE HEROES or KARS.—Letters have been received
from General Williams, and those who accompanied him.
They are quite well, arrived at Gumri on the Ist inst.,
and expected to leave on the 4th for St. Petersburg.
They were treated on the road with the greatest courtesy.
Every one in Constantinople is in hopes that the General
will be released, and take his old position in Anatolia
before next spring. It would be difficult to find another
man so calculated for this peculiar work. Gen. Kmety
has gone to Constantinople: It is to be hoped that he will
get it encl comuaawil_there. - _