The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

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A letter from Vienna of the 3d, in the Cy(i)i.4t104..i.-"WAI
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"-Baron de 'Bourqnoney, it is known, receive
nearly a week back :his. full powers for ti-C..von-,rAe:e...........„..,
ferences about to open. The Emperor Napoleon: .. !
has not adjoined to him' any other plenipotentiary.
Austria and Great Britain had, however, expressed
the desire to have one named, if only as a matter
of form, inasmuch as the other great powers were to
be represented in the Congress each by two preni- : j1:-.-
potentiaries. But as soon as it was understood . -
how flattering such an exception was for Baron de
Bourqueney, and that it was made by the express
order of his Sovereign, every one hastened toap- et
plaud it. The instructions-which accompany the
powers sent to
_Baron de Bourqueney aret it is
stated from Paris, preciselyllie same as those of
Lord John Russell. The Cabinets of France and
England have desired to prove thereby once more
their perfect understandinzin O-TeryThing that con-
cerns the arrangements for peace, not only as re-
gards principles, but also as to questions of detail.
These instructions are, it is said, very simple.' -T- 4.
They leave to the conscientious appreciation of the
French and English plenipotentiaries to ascertain
and decide whether or not Russia is animated
with the sincere desire to effect an honourable ancr
solid peace. It is not -necessary to state that
the protocol of the 28th December last, setting
forth the interpretation of the four guarantees,'
is to . serve as a touchstone for ascertaining
the sincerity of the pacific protestations of
Russia. If the plenipotentiaries of the Western.
Powers acquire the conviction that Raissiait diplo-
macy desires to elude
.the guarantees exacted by
the allies of 24 December, they are to cut short
an idle discussion and declare the negotiations
closed. It was this second alternative which before
the death of the Emperor Nicholas appeao:ed the
most probable, to which Lord. Palmerston rocently
alluded, when he said in the House of Commons
that the absence of Lerd. John Russell would not.
be of long duration. The Cabinet of Berlin having
neither adhered to the treaty of 21 December, nor
even accepted the protocol of 28th December, as
proposed by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, to pre-
pare the way for its entrance into the Congress, the
instructions of the English and French Plenipoben-
tiaries set forth that `the conferences shall open
apart from and without the 'co-operation of Prus-
sia,' France and England being firmly resolved not
t accord to that Power any participation in the
reg,tilations of peace, ' until it shall have placed
itself, with respect to the four guarantees, on
the same hue as time parties to the treaty of alliance
of the 21 December.' This declaration was, it is
said, made to General Wedell, by order of the
Emperor of the French, in such peremptory terms,
that the general deemed it indispensable to go to
Berlin to inform King Frederick William of the
: veritable state of things."

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