The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

AUSTRIA

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VIENNA, DEC 29
oe
~
yesterday
eve The seePreichische Correspondent, of
articleng,
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contained the following semi official
endeai.
6: The English newspapers
avi'"lll.3 of the British and North American Ministers
say that the
be Eel' 'to arrange the Neuchatel difference failed,
eausc the representatives of the other States werel
tiot e
In
,empowered to agree to their proposition.
oruer that thing b operly understool,
floats s may e pr
explanatioa of the foregoing intelligence wi l
now be given.
." The Imperial Royal Cabinet fully shares the
Wish of the other Powers to prevent the conflict
Ivhieh Seems so Close at hand. The present state
°of
things has, however, been brought about by the
son tempt shown to the rights of a closely allied_
Lc::..ereign, which rights are secured by treaty, and
,' ,tention to the well-meant counsels given to the
vi ,
Governments.
A hs authorities by the different
4111E4,4 •
on
h;,Eit Is convinced of the conciliatory intenti s
(,:f11;h8 Alaiesty the King of Prussia, and she does.
bu she Is in her power to confirm him in them ,
li,L-e eones not consider that she has any legal
ro
1,11-", ' oter into engagements or to make
the
le l'es--either singly or collectively—by which
his
8 legs Sovereign would be induced to renounce
Swiss
I,(L,,,ereign rights over Neuchatel. If the
"kteral authorities '
should listen to the mil-meant
tri.„
the
in
...rid and counsel of the Powers, and quash .
ipdiettnents against those persons concerned in
.e recent occurrences in the canton of Neuchatel,
,InR Frederick William IV. may, if he should
Please to 'do so, take into consideration the
sl3l.tuati.on of his Neuchatel subjects and the general
_
leis ben of affairs in Europe and give a proof of
'lle benevolence and • •
politica wisdom ' 1 by a mag
banjo:lons act of high policy. From her point of
view A
;1;or--ustria is not at liberty to enter into any
al engagements which coull influence another
Power to renounce its legal rights. 1
This consideration was the determining
(ents h •
c eldend) cause of the refusal of the Represen
t.utive of the Imperial Royal Government at Bertl,
to
_Share in the project for effecting a compromise."
1 he reliable private information about to be given
and
-
the for ministerial explanation will en
able ,
3 ou to form a tolerably correct idea of the posi-
tion which Austria will occupy while the Neuchatel
pestion is under discussion. The use of the word
fdeternainine in the last paragraph of the article
0. the Oesterreichische Correspondent deserves
Particular notice, as it is a diplomatic way of saying
1: hs t Baron von Menssbengen, the Austrian minister
t Berne, had more than one reason for declining
P3sedo take any' share in pro of intervention pro-
bY M 08555. Gordon and Fay, the represen-
tatives of Great Britain and ef the 'United States.
Ti .
c Washington Government has repeatedly
chrli
- edthe right of any European State to meddle in
iiktnerican matters, and therefore Austria is unwill-
og to recognise the right of-the United Stabs to
11tterfere in a question Which concerns only those
wers that were parties to the treaties of 1815
1441 to the Protocol signed in London in 1852.