The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-17 00:00:00

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AUSTRIA.
A letter from, Vienna states that several oface.ra
of the French.navy are enuaged at present in visit:
ing and taking plans of the ports of Trehisond,
Swope, and Burgas, which circumstance has Pr°-
bably led to the report that the allies intend to ,
establish strong fortifications at one of these points,
but it ip said, on the other hand, that neither of
these places has been found suitable for a•
military
port.
A letter from Vienna of the 12th, in the post
Amt Gazette. of Frankfort, says Lord Jobs
Russell and Lord Westmoreland had the hoot!r
of dining with the Emperor yesterday. A contte
dential conversation between the representativo
the Allied Powers took place yesterday at the reo-
dente of Count Buol. A.carriage belongin. t° the
cor.rt has been placed at the disposal of M. DrouYl
do l'Huys during his stty here. He yesterday P3ll/1
a visit to Prific;de Metternich, in company, the
the French Ambassador, and remained with
Prince for two hours."

TAI E VIENNA CON 'ERE NC-L 1
VIENNA, April 13.—The Eastern question is 50-4.
progressing favourably. The representative but
°I
England, France, and Austria confer daily,
b
they have hot been able to .come to an under
standing, and, in my opinion, are bot verY
likely to do so. It is not my intention 01°1
err
,there is any danger of a serious misnn"
standing between Austria and the Western Pew
er,,t
but it does not admit of a doubt that a very gre;
difference of opinion at present prevails on t
Black Sea uestion.. The Western Powers 8,„11,1
Turkey agree. in thinking that the only effect of
way of putting 'an enil to the preponderance °.t
Russia in the Black Sea would be to declare
neutral, and to banish all vessels of, war frenl;lo
waters. Austria. does not take the saln,s:;:e
of things„.and displays great anxiety to
honour of Russia, or ratherlo prevent the -v.' of
peror Alexander being humiliated in the eYs said
his subjects. The Imperial Government is ith
to have stated exactly how far it n.
the Western Powers, and hints which have l'es.:d
dropped induce me to believe that if the latter
Sri
be satisfied to leave the Russian flees of its pre-
sent strength, and to keep consuls in all the w s
ports in the Black Sea, the active assistance ti
Austria. may be secured. Now France, Englabitt
and Turkey have no want of supple statesmen, nd
it is difficult to suppose that one could be foil,
who would be willing to patch up peace on sticb.„lnd
unsatisfactory basis. My attention has been eal'
to the fact, that if the Allies distrust Ril:gsia
could keep a fleet of steamers at Gallipoli or C°ell.
stantiu,ple ; but " safe bind safe find" is an,e„l,,cily
lent adage, and those States which are onlyeffee"—
deprived of the power a doing mischief are the t,O
ones which deserve implicit confidence. If 0,11.
Western Powers are resolved to irasiSS on the nie,o
trality of the Black Sea—and they can do Ll°ti~ r
—they must be fully prepared to continue the
without the assistance of Austria.

, PRUSSIA.
We have received our Berlin correspondence of
the 13th an 14th April., the
The prevailing opinion at Berlin was that
chances of peace were fast diMinishing• rePIY
The King of Prussia has written la
letter , the
to the autograph letter from the Emperor 01
French, but its contents have not transpired.
A letter of the 14th says :
" Travellers just returned from
2,000 men, partly convicts and
working most assiduously and uninterropte,,cl?aro
the fortifications of the Jiarbour ; new Avori“,',oo
being added to' those already in existenee.forutho
of heavy calibre are arriving every
are to arrive very shortly. A number, v
armament of these w4rks and additiloanYti_terll:
er -t
the
0, their
that had been freighted during
Dunanyfinde and Riga, in the hopeesn_i: being
getting off early in the springy ar. now of
parßtliygatrsotoaptes.--:thet
unloaded again, and their cargoes .1j
being conveyed' to the
less, there are at least 4-5,000 bales or 11 2'.
; • cr c°l"
weighing four cwt., lying there waLtinv -r,,tblSl3
mice, for the most part of Courland and
growth. There are still larger quantities •r•
e-
lyipg at Sb. Petersburg, and in pla,ceg itirtvontier
moved, the conveyance of which to the
has been math) all ltut impossible by tlw.
prices of carriage ; it islandintended, frontier
heelare-v,'leTirietah•
'fee:
spring,- to cause them to be conveyed inlalla -
the benefit of canal navigation.
r.
" A letter from Copenhagen mentions that I;
Buchanan, our Minister, had applied to the D 3019
Government with every success to permit all Ell?'
lish vessels of war and any vessel bearing a pent
nant to pass through the Danish waters withlos
payment of harbour and bridge dues. This see,,,
also to have been accorded in the last Baltic ca'

paign. • the
" The English steamers that are now lying le, r
harbour of Landscrona, waiting for the ice to cle?c
off somewhat before th proceed into the Baltie:
are the Amphion, 34, Key; Cossack, 21,-Fansba"l7: • ,
Esk, 21, Birch ; Tartar, 21, Dunlop; Archer,
ton,
Ileathcote ; Desperate, 8; and Arrogant, Yelver
"On the oth inst. the frigates Euryalna at
Imperieuse, and the corvette- Conflict, arrivnt),
Nyberg (about half-wayi through the Great f+ebey
and have taken in coals there ; it appears that, wrait
also had " . been compelled by the drift ice t
back, and had anchored at Reef Ness. nog'
"It is said that there are a number of A--
Finnish vessels now lying in Gothenburg
along the Swedish coast. in general, that sign
there after the raising of the Ells had
blockade, for the purpose Of fetching salt, 311-Thei,
been surprised and kept there by the ice. and
now run a fair chance _of being surprisedeeo
kept by our cruisers, whose early appearance 500S0
to have created no small astonishment in ulish'
waters. When the arrival of the first four
vessels were signaled to Elsinore by the celll,dio
der of the Cronborg a general. hail of tho
hallo ! Lugaus' (lookout), was addressed thak
skippers in the roads to the few Russian era'," the'
were wearily threading their way throng'
drifting ice."
The Madrid journals of the. 11th
have re,tioV
us. They gave additional details of the a&"-
which prevailed on the 9th in that city.