The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

THE GERMAN POWERS.

BERLIN, August 24.—The Correspondence an-
nounces the approaching conclusion of a treaty,
offensive and defensive, between Austria and the
Western Powers. The preliminaries are settled.
A letter from Munich, 23(1, in the Moniteur,
says It is positively stated that the Austrian
Government has shown itself very well satisfied
with the communications exchanged at Rustchuk
between Omer Paella and Colkalik. All the ques-
tions of administrative organisation will be arranged
in concert and in a conciliatory spirit between Der-
vitch Paella, the commissioner of the Porte, and M.
Bach, the brother of the Minister of the Emperor,
the Imperial commissioner. As to the question
of proper names raised by the approaching re-esta-
blishment of the national authority in the princi-
palities, it will only be solved conformably to the
conclusions come to after the inquiry which will
be instituted by the two Governments."
A letterfrom Vienna, 22d, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :

"On the 16th inst. Count Esterhazy, our ambassador
at St. Petersburg, communicated to Count Nesselrode
the Austrian note of the 9th, in which it recommends
the French propositions laid down by M. Drouyn de
l'Huys in his note of the 22d July, and states that
Austria not only find these conditions just in principle,
but that, in the present state of the question, she adopts
them completely, which is as much as saying that if
they are not now accepted more will be demanded here-
after. The Prussian note on the same subject was only
sent off to St. Petersburg on the 18th, when it was ac-
companied by a more secret and more confidential
despatch."
The Breslau Gazette has the following from
Vienna, dated the 21st :
"It is interesting to see how Russia gives evidence
of being more and more disposed to make concessions,
according as the attitude of Austria becomes more sig-
nificant. Count Demidoff, attache to the Russian em-
bassy, who arrived some days back, was the bearer
of several despatches in that sense. Prince Gortscha-
koff yesterday banded to Count Buol a note in which
Russia proposes a common protectorate of Austria and
Russia in the Danubian principalities, with the idea
that that step might facilitate a solution. It is not yet
known of what nature was the effect produced by this
apparent concession, but it is certain that the result will
be so much the less satisfactory to Russia that the com-
plete exclusion of Rus ian influence on the Lower
Danube i 4 in the contemplation, as well as to deprive
the Russian Cabinet of all inear.s of menacing Constan-
tinople. As to Prussia, no further co operation ist ex-
netted from her, and the return of Count Arnim from
Berlin has no longer the signification that it had some
days back. Declarations have arrived from several
German States, expressing their satisfaction at the policy
followed by Austria, arid promising to support it in the
Germanic Diet. Several Austrian officers of rank are
shortly to leave this place to be present at the ma-
noeuvres of the camp of Boulogne."
The Moniteur quotes the following private cor-
respondence from the Independance of Brussels :

I am able to make known to you with precise
details an act which has already justified the doubts
I have expressed as to the correctness of the accounts
which stated that Prussia was disposed to break, and,
according to some, had even decided on breaking with
the policy of the allied powers. You know that the
identical notes which Frahce, England, and Austria
exchanged at Vienna on the Bth, reproduced as the ne
cessary conditions of peace the four guarantees pointed
out in the despatch of M. Drouyn de l'Huys to M. de
Bourqueney. You are also aware that Austria ad-
dressed on her part to the Russian Cabinet, in reply to
the notification of the order given for the evacuation of
the Danubian principalities., a note which declares
that such evacuat►o❑ could not satisfy the powers
assembled at the Conference of Vienna to secure the
independence of the sovereignty of the Sultan, and
which mentions as indispensable the four guarantees.
Prussia had not been called on to sign the note ex-
changed between the three powers. Notwithstanding
that, as soon as she knew that Austria had addressed
a note to St. Petersburg, she a few days since sent
one strongly supporting it. Prussia in this document
does not confine herself to a vague and general recom-
mendation. She in her turn enumerates the four
guarantees : she explains and justifies them one by one,
and insists on their adoptio❑ by Russia, presenting
them to her as the only possible chance for the re-
establishment of peace. Whatever may be the private
hesitations of her Government, Prussia, influenced by
the position she assumed at the commencement of the
crisis, by the force of circumstances, and by public
opinion throughout all Germany, will not, I persist in
thinking, separate herself from her allies in the Con-
ference of Vienna."