The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

It appears that the opening of the conferences at
Vienna was formally announced to the various
Austrian Ministers at the German Courts by a cir-
cular despatch of the 14th. According to the Post
Ampt Gazette of 'Frankfort, they have been charged
to express the confidence of the Imperial Cabinet in
the desired result—a confidence arising from the
fact, that all the members of the conference have
manifested conciliatory dispositions. But though
Austria thus intimates the opinion that her efforts
for peace will probably be crowned with success,
she isT not neglecting the preparations necessary
for a contrary eventuality. The Augsburg Gazette
speaks of a despatch sent to Count de Rochberg
charging in case the conferences should have
no satisfactory result, to submit 'immediately t)
the Diet a proposition for the mobilisation of the
Federal contingents, without waiting for new
orders. It says also that the, Austrian Cabinet has
declared to the Western Powers, by an obligatory
note, that if the Conferences should not result in
the re-establishment of peace, the case foreseen by
Art. 5 of the treaty. of the 2d December will be
acted on, namely, that Austria will declare war on
Russia.

A letter from Vienna of the 17th says :—" The
Austrian Imperial Commissioner in the Princi-
palities, Baron de Bach, has had conferences
with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the
subject of a treaty relative to commercial rela-
tions with the Principalities and the free navi-
gation of the Danube. It has been stated that
the Russian commander at Reni recently
prohibited vessels from navigating the Lower
Danube, but allowed six or eight. whieh•were at
Galatz to leave. Count Buol, when ,he received
information of this proceeding, called' on the
not of St. Petersburg for explanatior4. We learn
that Prince Gortschakoff a few days ago informed
Count Buol that the commander of Reni had been
disavowed, and that new orders should be imme-
diately sent to the Russian functionaries on the
Danube."

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A letter from Warsaw, in-the Augsburg .Gazotte,
says :—" We leara from. good authority that M.
de Nesselrode will proceed to Vienni,7l,d'erd4rta
be present at the Conferences, the Aa4d
of which has become more and more prObable. He
will not, however, arrive until about the middle of
the discussions, when an important- speech or
declaration may turn the scales to one side or the
other."
A letter from Vienna states that the Russian
negotiators, Prince G-ortschakoff, M. de Titoff, and
M. de Ironton, Councillor of the Russian Leg:ltion,
had a conference on the 17th, which lasted from
morning till evening ; that M. de Titoff afterwards
had a conference with Count Buol ; and that ho
subsequently sent off despatches in. cipher to Ber-
lin and St. Petersburg.
A letter from :Vienna of the 17th, in the Post
Ampt Gazette, says :—" Much attention has been
excited by a conference which took place on the 14th
at Count Buol's residence, and at which Lord
John Russell, the Earl of Westmoreland, Baron
de Bourqueney, Baron de Prokesch, the Bavarian
Ambassador, Count Lerchenfeld, and Barons And-
la,u and Drachenfells, the representatives of the
Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse, were present.
Neither Russia nor Turkey was represented at this
conference, as only German interests Were dis-
cussed at it."