The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN DESPATCH.

The following is a translation of the text of the
Prussian deipatch of the 19th December, addressed
td Lho Pruegiau. Ers.ro,a at Paris and London,
of which a summary has already appeared in our
columns :

" BERLIN, DEC. 19, 1851.
"Monsieur le Comte, —As I have had the honour of
informing your Excellency by telegraph, it was on the
evening of the 16th i❑st., that the envoys of France,
England, and Austria came to communicate to me offi-
cially the treaty which their Governments signed on the
2d of December at Vienna, and to express to me, con-
forinably to Article VI., the desire of seeing Prussia
adhere to it. I lost no time in submitting that impor-
tant communication to the King, our august master.
His Majesty fully appreciates its great importance, and
in making it the subject of a conscientious examination
he has been guided by the sincere desire of associating
himself, as much as his convictions and the interests of
his country permit him, to the common work of the re-
establishment of general peace on just and durable
bases.

" It is with satisfaction that the King saw the proto-
cols of Vienna referred to. His Majesty continues to
regard them as the expression of the concert of the four
Powers, and attaches a particular price to everything
which is of a nature to imitate (constatgr) the duration
of that accordance. It is true that Prussia did not par-
ticipate in the exchange of the notes of the Eth Au-
gust; the Government of the King did not think it ad-
visable in the then general situation of things to bind
himself in that respect by any engagement whatever;
but the language which, at various times, he has held
at St. Petersburg, and which has not remained without
effect, proves that he endeavoured to assure a practical
value to the guarantees formulated at Vienna, by in•
ducing the Imperial Russian Cabinet to adopt them.
"While on the one hand the diplomatic concurrence
of Prussia is then already acquired to the efforts of the
other Powers to fix the bases of a general peace, her
transactions with Austria prove no less, on the other,
that the Cabinet of the King, penetrated with the grav-
ity ed the interests compromised by a prolongation of
the menacing attitude of Russia, has, within the limit
of certain eventualities, engaged even its military co
operation.

" Under all these respect 3 the analogous attitude be-
tween Prussia and the Powers who signed the treaty
of the 2..1 of December already exists, and the King,
our august master, is too far from being under any
illusion on the incalculable dangers with which the
ulterior unchaining of warlike passions would threaten
all Europe, not to be disposed to cement, in the inte-
rest of a prompt and equitable peace and the real
equilibrium it is destined to guarante', by new
stipulations, an accordance the pacific weight of which
would be called upon to exercise a salutary and decisive
influence.

" Looking upon the treaty of the 2d of December in
this point of view, and recognising with satisfaction that
it contains the elements of the above indicated nature,
the King, our August Master, has, moreover, found in
most of its articles the impression, most natural it
is true, of its special destination, that is to say, of an
entente between the Western Powers and Austria. It
would follow—an I certainly the justness of this observa•
tion will not escape the just observation of the three
Courts who signed the Treaty—that Prussia, to adhere
eventually to the general tendency of that tansaction,
and to some of its particular stipulations, does not
find herself in a position (en mesure) to accede to a
treaty already concluded, but rather to conclude, if re-
quired (s'il y a, lieu), an analogous arrangement on her
part.
" With this object, and to fix clearly his eventual de-
cisions, our august Master has thought fit again to put
the question to himself, what sort of interpretation
is to be given to the four points agreed upon in the
month of August as the base of the negotiation be-
tween the Cabinets of Paris, London, and Vienna,
mentioned by then in their Treaty, supported by
Prussia at St. Petersburg, and now adopted, with-
out reserve, and in primitive draft, by Russia. It is
evident that the interpretation is destined to form,
so to say, a centre ruund which all measures to arrive
at the re-establishment of general peace will turn, and
from which, whether diplomatic or military, they will
borrow their real character.

"Moreover, the King, our August Master, appreciates
the high importance of the step taken by the Cabinets
who signed the treaty of 2d December by inviting
Prussia to adhere thereto, and the more desirous his
Majesty is to respond to the sentiments which dictated
that measure, the more reason have we to hope that con-
fidential explanations of the interpretation of the four
guarantees will enable us to judge of the bearing of the
engagements we should have to contract.

` Consequently, the King charges you, Monsieur le
Comte, to speak in this sense to M. Drouyn de l'Huys
(Lord Clarendon), giving to your language that character
of frankness and abandon, which is the best proof of a
sincere wish of coming to an understanding.—l am, &c.
" DE MANTEUFFEL."

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR OSBORNE.—Her
Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and his
RoyalUighnoss the Prince of Wales, left Windsor Castle
this morning, and proceeded by the Great-Western and
6outh-Western Railways to Osborne. The august party
was attended by a portion only of the rayal household.
It .
understood her Majesty will return to Windsor
..,aß,tle on Monday next.
The Duchess of Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll
visited the Gallery of the British School of Art, 121,
Pall Mall, yesterday.
The Earl of Aberdeen ari ived in town yesterday, from
a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CRIMEA.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
received from Vienna :

VIENNA, JAN. 4.

Prince Gortschakoff has had an audience of
the Emperor, which lasted an hour and three-
quarters, but his Majesty is not likely to make

any concession to Russia.

General Osten-Sacken is to act against Eupa-
toria with 45,000 men and 80 guns.
According to telegraphic despatches from
French head-quarters both armies are preparing
to attack the southern part of Sebastopol,

ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 2.

A new financial measure is promulgated, raising
the import duty on tea brought from China over-
land 100 per cent., from Jan. 1, 1855.

The following telegraphic despatch was received
in Paris last night :

TRIESTE, JAN. 3.
Accounts have been received from Constanti-
nople to the 25th.
Chekib Effendi, Minister of Justice, died cn
the 24th.

Admirals Duudas and Hamelin have returned.
The Allied armies, suffering from cold, have
no firewood.

The Allies have taken three Russian gun,.
General Liprandi still occupies his position
neat Balaklava.

Accounts from Trebizond of the 19th state that
the Russians have raised the forts of Dayazid,
and are closely watching the frontier of Persia.

The heavy falls of snow which have taken place
near Kars render-it very improbable that hostili-
ties can be resumed until the spring.
The Russian garrisons of Sehamkoi and Anapa
will be, it is said, marched to the Crimea.
At Athens, on the 29th, rumours were again
current of the resignation of the Ministers of
Justice and Marine.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM
THE ALLIED CAMP.

Marshal Valliant, French Minister of War, has
received the following report, dated Dec. 22, 1854,
from General Caurobert

" Monsieur le Marechal—The bad weather has
been prolonged until now, with rare and brief in=
tervals of improvement ; nevertheless we continue
as much as possible the work of enclosing the place
with our trenches, and although the rains make the
movement of vehicles difficult, all the siege works
are growing to completeness and consolidation.
" The two armies reciprocally assist each other.
To the English army I am indebted for the convey-
ance, by water, of nearly all the cavalry at my dis-
posal in the Crimea, and on my part I have placed
at Lord Raglan's disposal sumpter horses for re-
moving his sick to Balaklava, and teams for the
conveyance of his supplies. These exchanges con-
tribute to keep up excellent relations and perfect
cordiality between the two armies.
" Hardly a night passes in which our advanced
works are not attacked in a sortie of the enemy.
These attempts generally cost the assailants dear.
Yesterday, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the Russians,
after making a sortie against the third parallel of
the English, who vigorously repulsed them, made
a similar demonstration against the centre and left
of our works. Received with a very lively and
well-directed fire, they retired before our soldiers,
who pursued them with the bayonet. The enemy
left a great number of dead upon the field.
"In order to render the protection of the
trenches more efficient, I have organised a corps of
volunteers whose peculiar duty it is to reconnoitre
the approaches to our works during the night.
This institution completes that of the sharpshooters
(francs-tirenrs) organised at the commencement of
the siege, and who do duty by clay in our trenches
themselves. They have already done a great deal'
of harm to the enemy.

" As I have already announced to you, our
works now extend to the bottom of the Quarantine
bay. The enemy shows that he is not inattentive
to our progress on that side, and his guns hotly
dispute the ground with us, where we are obliged,
as we are nearly everywhere, to dig into the solid
rock. But our progress is not the less real, and we
remain in possession.
" I have already informed you that the enemy has
withdrawn his left, and evacuated those points in the
valley of Balaklava, where we had previously seen
him in large masses. The day before yesterday,
wishing to ascertain the situation he had taken up
in that direction, I sent out a force consisting of a
cavalry brigade, under the command of General
d'Allonville, to reconnoitre as far as the village of
Tchourgouna. Behind the village of Kamara they
fell in with a few hundred sharpshooters, whom
they drove back into the ravines. Some groups of
cavalry, accompanied by their artillery, and a few
battalions of infantry appeared on the flanks of the
party making the reconnaissance, but they did not
attempt to offer any opposition to the operation of
the latter, which was most successfully executed.
"At the same time, 1,000 foot soldiers, High-
landers and Zouaves, left Balaklava to the right
of our positions, and explored the heights that ex-
tend towards the valley of Baidari. They only met
a post of Cossacks.
"In fine, I think that on the left bank of the
Teliernaya the enemy has only a few soldiers posted
to observe ourpositions at a distance. A movement
has evidently been produced in the Russian army,
the probable cause of which is the debarkation of the
Turkish troops still going on at Eupatoria. I shall
soon receive positive information on this head.
" Although the number of the sick has slightly
increased, in consequence of the constant dampness
in which we live, the sanitary state of the army is
satisfactory, and the moral spirit of the troops is
perfect.
" Although the soldiers have been heavily in-
convenienced by the rains, there has yet been no
cold weather ; the snow, which for a long time past
has covered the, tops of the mountains in the in-
terior, has not appeared on the hill-plain we occupy,
and the thermometer has not once fallen below
general zero.,
These conditions are improved by the care
we take of our soldiers ; and, thanks to the pru-
dent foresight of the Emperor and his Government,
the army enjoys a relative degree of comfort that
makes it gaily support with a light heart its fatigues.
" The number of the sick in our military hospitals
at Constantinople amounts to 3,794, of whom 1,387
are wounded. Out of this total, 260 are Russians.
I have established a convalescent depot in the
Crimea, near the Bay of Karatch. Here the men
who leave the army ambulances, and who only re-
quire a little repose before they return to their
duty, will have their recovery promoted. This
measure will diminish our draughts to Constan-
tinople.
"H. I. H. Prince Napoleon, still detained at
Constantinople by the illness that compelled him
to leave the Crimea, wished to come and rejoin us.
I was bound to oppose this return, which compro-
mised the health of the Prince.
-in-Chief,
" Accept, &0., The General
(Signed) " CA.NROBERT."